"'When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.'" (Mark 13:7-8 TNIV)
"Not long after the 2004 tsunami that devastated Indonesia and neighboring countries, a document was circulating on the internet, purportedly showing a dramatic rise in earthquakes in recent years and using that to fuel fervor that Christ’s return was imminent. Now we have watched the horrific earthquake in Haiti, followed frighteningly closely by another in Chile, even stronger on the Richter scale. Less damage done was directly related to attempts in that country to build structures better able to withstand giant quakes, a caution virtually ignored in Haiti. Then this morning, there are reports that a 6.0 earthquake has hit eastern Turkey.
Doubtless somewhere people will again start to use such disasters as signs that we are living in the last days. Or to put it more accurately, since the New Testament consistently insists the last days began with Christ’s first coming, they will insist that we are living in the last days of the last days!
But wait...."
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1 comment:
Oh how often I have heard of the nearest of the end. Indeed it may be near and is nearer than it was yesterday. I remember hearing one speak of the end of the world in 2000. I didn´t happen, but still from those same ¨prophets¨ I hear that the world is coming to an end soon, and it may. But this makes sense, Christ will probably come again when the fervor dies down. But I still believe that there are thing that must happen before the second coming. I believe that I will just sit on a watchtower and see and be prepared as best as I am able trusting in God and not these "prophets" who have been so wrong for so long.
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