World War 3...the end times?

[Haven923]

reddy4nething

We can never be sure when the end times will be.Not even Jesus knows....only God.I do believe we're getting closer and closer though.World War 3 is going to be pretty bad though.....North and South Veitnam are already prepared with nueclear bombs.At least this is what my father told me.Doi not be afraid that today might be your last day on earth.Just think of every day being one step closer to God and Heaven.

I just have to point out one little mistake.... Jesus does know when the end times are coming. Jesus is God. There, just thought I'd clear that up >.<  

[Tarrou]

reddy4nething

North and South Veitnam are already prepared with nueclear bombs.

Vietnam was reunified in 1975 (meaning that North and South Vietnam no longer exist as separate nations) and it has never had a nuclear weapon. You maybe thinking about Pakistan and India, both of which have nuclear weapons of and neither of whom cares very much for the other. The only other nations that have nuclear weapons are the U.S., Russia, Great Britain, France and China. Israel and North Korea are suspected of having nuclear weapons, although Israel denies it and the North Koreans may be bluffing.  

[Etherealemblem]

Siren of Saturn

yeah..that was kind of interesting. Nothing even happened! It is interesting to see what is hapening with the war with Israel though. They say that China, Russia, France, North Korea, and Iran will all be together in the destroying of Israel. Hopefully..the united states will think and support the Lord's chosen people.

The united states will not be a world power in the end times, it has been fortold, I have a tome dicribing this, but she shall have helped before then, I know not where my country of Canada shall be in this, but I know that Russia shall begin the Final battle of Armageddon, for She is Magog, fortold in revelations, and the Antichrist shall arise from the ashes of the Roman empire, Europe, and shall seduce the nations with his charismatic and persausive tongue, then shall the end of all things begin.  

[Siren of Saturn]

Haven923

I don't really mind about the 'WWIII', I'm waiting to get a good seat for the war after that. The war vs. Heaven and Hell. That is going to be fun 3nodding

haha..i love that answer! ^_^ Very good!  

[Curium]

LRD_nick

And everyone was saying 6/6.06 was the end.
cool rolleyes

yeah, but that was only because people are stupid. If the world was going to end on a date 06/06/06 then why not in 1906 or 1806? But yeah, the end of the world, no matter how you look at it, is obviously getting closer. Even if you just believe a meteor will kill us all or that the sun will blow up. Obviously as each day moves onto the next, the end of the world nears.  

[Curium]

Siren of Saturn

Haven923

I don't really mind about the 'WWIII', I'm waiting to get a good seat for the war after that. The war vs. Heaven and Hell. That is going to be fun 3nodding

haha..i love that answer! ^_^ Very good!

Um...I'm a little lost. I thought it was the War of Heaven v. Anti-Christ. Which would be the armies of the world.  

[Curium]

Tangled Up In Blue

reddy4nething

North and South Veitnam are already prepared with nueclear bombs.

Vietnam was reunified in 1975 (meaning that North and South Vietnam no longer exist as separate nations) and it has never had a nuclear weapon. You maybe thinking about Pakistan and India, both of which have nuclear weapons of and neither of whom cares very much for the other. The only other nations that have nuclear weapons are the U.S., Russia, Great Britain, France and China. Israel and North Korea are suspected of having nuclear weapons, although Israel denies it and the North Koreans may be bluffing.

I think they might have meant Korea and not Vietnam.  

[tubbyflip]

i think there will be world war 3 manny but i cant tell if Jesus is coming back soon becouse no one nows for shure  

[Tarrou]

Curium

I think they might have meant Korea and not Vietnam.

Sounds fair, although South Korea still doesn't have the bomb.  

[Haven923]

Yah, whatever.... Heaven Vs. 'Them' Better? >.< Yah, and South Vietnam dosn't have any nukes and never will. SV is full of scared people. NV is the one we have to worry about. We actually have a treaty with SV (Get lost in the abbr.?)  

[`Kel`]

We are in the end of times. and Jesus is coming sooner than we think. So keep an eye out.  

[rockmanx]

Read this

Matthew 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.  

[Tarrou]

Haven923

Yah, whatever.... Heaven Vs. 'Them' Better? >.< Yah, and South Vietnam dosn't have any nukes and never will. SV is full of scared people. NV is the one we have to worry about. We actually have a treaty with SV (Get lost in the abbr.?)

As I've said, it's Korea, guys. Vietnam was reunified in 1975 when the NVA took control of Saigon. There hasn't been a South or North Vietnam for over 30 years, and the biggest threat that Vietnam poses to the United States is its cheap, cheap shrimp.  

[Ginger Snapple]

Just thought I'd share this:

ELCA Lutheran Pastor

I definitely understand your concerns on the "end times" given all the recent
attention in the media on all the negative stuff going on in the world and the
attention the media evangelists give it and of course, the whole "Left Behind"
series. However, in my opinion (which is what you asked for) it is, to steal a
phrase from Shakespeare, "much ado about nothing." In other words, I don't
think the end times should merit as much attention as we give them. It is not
that I think they are unimportant, but that we really know so little about them,
that I don't think God really intends for us to think that much about it.

Our model for when people ask us about the end times I think should be Jesus in
Matthew 24. Basically, he is saying, "no one knows when but be ready for the
coming of the Son of Man." Well, we ARE ready, we have faith, so what more
needs to be done? And of all the words of Jesus recorded, this is the only time
he speaks to this extent of the end times, so if he didn't seem concerned about
it, why should we?

People also get very excited about what is going on in the world... Wars,
especially in and around Israel, global warming, global dimming, earthquakes,
tsunamis, hurricanes, and on and on. Well first of all, Israel has been in a
perpetual state of war since it was formed in 1947, and it probably will
continue to be--so I am not sure that is a real accurate measure of the end
times coming. As far as all the other problems of global proportions--they are
real, but I am not convinced that that is how the end of the world will come
about. I think God is big into surprises, just like he surprised the world by
sending the Messiah in the form of a simple carpenter's son, I think he may have
a surprise in store for us when it comes to the end. So while we are focused on
all these global problems, it may be something else entirely that brings about
the end times.

I think Jesus' real point when he described all the signs that will signal the
Son of Man coming is that it is going to be tough to continue to be faithful to
Christ while all this bad stuff happens. It was tough to be a Christian when
Rome was persecuting us in the first few centuries. It was tough to be
Christian when the Muslims were dominating the Crusades. It was tough to be
Christian in Nazi Germany, in many modern-day African Countries where Muslims
arbitrarily kill us. In a lot of ways, it is tough to be Christian in the US
with its largely secular society. On a more personal level, it is tough to be
Christian when bad stuff happens, when I lose my job, when my mom dies,
"whenever bad stuff happens to a good Christian like me." So in my mind we
could go crazy trying to tie these events to the end of the world. Yet some
people insist on doing so. And in most cases that is no big deal, but some
leaders really abuse the power they derive from talking about the e
nd times. Some leaders have convinced others that they know when the end of the
world will come, and have caused their followers to give up their lives both
figuratively and literally because of it.

It is ironic that this is precisely what I think Jesus is warning against in
Matthew 24:4-6, 10-13, 23-24. So the same chapter many leaders use to mislead
people contains a warning about such leaders that most people never catch or pay
attention to.

So far, I have said nothing about "The Rapture" specifically. And the reason
for that is that I think it is a MISinterpretation and very selective reading of
certain scripture. In other words, somebody pulled together certain scripture
from Matthew, Revelations, Daniel and maybe a few other places and came up with
the idea of the rapture. That idea caught on, and now it is almost doctrine in
certain churches. But if you take the whole scope of the Bible, the rapture
makes absolutely no sense.

Here is the bottom line about what I think about the end times--and specifically
about the rapture: The entire Bible taken as a whole says that God loves us,
and that as his redeemed people, we are invited to respond to that love as God
wants--by sharing that love that he first shows us by demonstrating our love for
others. Now if that is the case, why in the world would God REMOVE his faithful
from the earth in a rapture? God loves us, inspires us to love others, just so
he can remove us from those who do not share in that love? That is where the
whole idea of the Rapture falls apart.

I actually have a book which further explains some of what I am saying. It is
called "The Rapture Exposed." If you want to read it, I can send it to you.

I have found that most people simply accept the rapture as a major doctrine of
the Bible, but it is exactly the opposite. Somebody put together the idea of
the rapture from a bunch of verses that he took out of context, and it caught on
in popularity. So, now most people "know it is somewhere in the Bible," but it
ein't!

I also have to once again rely on Martin Luther when it comes to all this
excitement over the end times. He once said something like, "If I heard Christ
was coming again in glory tomorrow, I would go out and plant an apple tree
today." I think Luther probably meant that in 2 ways: First, since the Bible
says that no one really knows when the end is, Luther would put no faith in that
report, and would instead continue to live as if he would be around to eat the
apples of the apple tree he would plant tomorrow. Second, since Luther and all
Christians can be so secure in the fact that God has saved us through Jesus, we
don't need to do anything special to prepare for his coming. Just continue to
be faithful to his love and calling on our lives.

That about does it for my thoughts on the end times.

 

[Curium]

Tangled Up In Blue

Curium

I think they might have meant Korea and not Vietnam.

Sounds fair, although South Korea still doesn't have the bomb.

Yeah, I know, but it would still make a little more sense...maybe.