Love2Smile Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 What is your take on Egypt? Do you feel we are "in" the end of times?? Like within a few years?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 I do not, no. If I were to pick a time where I thought Christ might come back within a few years, it would have been during the Holocaust. What is happening in Egypt has happened other places many times over in other countries. We just simply don't care as much as we do about Egypt because Egypt has something to offer us in this country. Dawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susankenny Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Well, it is almost 2012 & the world will end in December of that year. At least that what the internet says, so it must be true. Susan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love2Smile Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 Well, it is almost 2012 & the world will end in December of that year. At least that what the internet says, so it must be true. Susan LOL...Actually the whole 2012 means that an age of enlightenment or something like that will begin. Not the end of the world, but I know you were being sarcastic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gratia271 Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Well, it is almost 2012 & the world will end in December of that year. At least that what the internet says, so it must be true. Susan :lol::lol::lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommaduck Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Not in the Jerry Jenkins and Tim Lahaye sense of dispensationalism (drop the "p" and accent on sensationalism ;) ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Not in the way you mean. It's all "end times" and "last days" after the Resurrection, anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love2Smile Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 ......here we go again. Nope. Why is it that every time a disaster occurs, some call it as the end times. Isn't it true that only a very tiny minority of religious people take Revelations seriously? And if it is, and you're a literal believer, why worry? Perhaps it's time to party. I did not know that a small amount take Rev. seriously. I am not saying we are in the end of times, but it is going around on other boards I frequent. Sometimes this stuff is unsettling for me to read about. On the other hand I am very fearful in general and have screamed at my own shadow on occasion! LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuntieM Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 LOL...Actually the whole 2012 means that an age of enlightenment or something like that will begin. Not the end of the world, but I know you were being sarcastic! Well, if someone's going to turn on the lights, I hope they make it a heat lamp. It's 3 degrees here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love2Smile Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 Well, if someone's going to turn on the lights, I hope they make it a heat lamp. It's 3 degrees here! LMAO!:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Today is one of those days when I wish we were. :glare: ....after sipping some coffee...No. I think the more you study world history the more you see that violent acts have permeated history. I believe that the US has been fairly insulated and sanitized from many world atrocities that have happened in our lifetimes. It's not the end times, it's the ways of the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 We have been in the "end times" since Jesus went to heaven.:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineFarmMom Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 (edited) :) Edited February 9, 2011 by Texas T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommaduck Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 I did not know that a small amount take Rev. seriously. I wouldn't say that people don't take it seriously, but rather that not everyone interprets it in the manner of the dispensationalists. I used to be a dispy, believe me, I know the arguments forward and backward on that side. I also know the history of dispensationalism (and it's not what the Church historically believed). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love2Smile Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 I wouldn't say that people don't take it seriously, but rather that not everyone interprets it in the manner of the dispensationalists. I used to be a dispy, believe me, I know the arguments forward and backward on that side. I also know the history of dispensationalism (and it's not what the Church historically believed). Hate to sound dumb, but what did the Church historically believe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Here are some comparable ideas. I used to believe in the evangelical concept of end times. I am strongly considering delving a bit more into historical beliefs myself. http://www.religioustolerance.org/millenni.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommaduck Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Hate to sound dumb, but what did the Church historically believe? As Ellie stated, that the "end times" were since Christ's Ascension. Revelations also speaks to events that had already happened...not future events. They were things that were already fulfilled, but people keep trying to apply them to every single event presently. People were applying the same things to events a hundred years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love2Smile Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 Here are some comparable ideas. I used to believe in the evangelical concept of end times. I am strongly considering delving a bit more into historical beliefs myself. http://www.religioustolerance.org/millenni.htm Thanks for this link! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cindy in C-ville Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Not in the way you mean.It's all "end times" and "last days" after the Resurrection, anyway. Absolutely agree. Throughout history, people have wondered how much more suffering, evil, etc, this world could take before Christ returns. I believe we need a sense of this urgency and that every generation has had it. Paul did. If you read through his epistles chronologically, his view of the time of Christ's return transitions to a long-term waiting, watching, and working until His return. Technology has given us the ability to be so much more aware of the "wars and rumors of wars," and I believe, has upped the ante on the breadth and depth of evil that people can bring upon one another. I do think we need to be living in light of the reality that these are indeed "end times," but with a marathon view of pressing in and pressing on until Jesus returns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elfgivas Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 I did not know that a small amount take Rev. seriously. I am not saying we are in the end of times, but it is going around on other boards I frequent. Sometimes this stuff is unsettling for me to read about. On the other hand I am very fearful in general and have screamed at my own shadow on occasion! LOL fwiw, there's a big difference between taking something seriously and taking something literally. i take the story of the "boy who cried wolf" very seriously, but not at all literally; what it has to teach has little if anything to do with the details (ie. it doesn't need to be a boy, a wolf, sheep, etc... to be very, very True.) i really do think folks looking for the literal signs in revelation to be true are missing the big picture by a lot... the situation in egypt calls us to compassion, not to debate the end times. sadly, ann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love2Smile Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 fwiw, there's a big difference between taking something seriously and taking something literally. i take the story of the "boy who cried wolf" very seriously, but not at all literally; what it has to teach has little if anything to do with the details (ie. it doesn't need to be a boy, a wolf, sheep, etc... to be very, very True.) i really do think folks looking for the literal signs in revelation to be true are missing the big picture by a lot... the situation in egypt calls us to compassion, not to debate the end times. sadly, ann Very well said, thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trish Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Yes. It does not affect our day to day life however. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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