Ch 20 - End Times
"The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal." - Unknown
a. End Times
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"Not even the dog that pisses against the walls of Babylon shall escape this judgment." - Leroy 'Horsemouth' Wallace from Rockers 1978
"'Enjoy a book.' I can think of one, one that explains how this all ends. The Holy Bible. Is everything really falling apart? Or, is everything just falling into place?" - Unknown
"Please note: The Post-Apocalyptical Fiction section of the book store has been moved to Current Affairs." - Unknown
”I’m peaking. It’s my time now!” - The Devil’s Advocate
"And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:" - Acts 2:17 KJV
"Humans are good at making mistakes and bad at carrying out plots." - Unknown
"The system is not designed to work, it is designed to comfort you in an anthropogenic catastrophe." - Unknown
"I saw all of this staring into the foam of my beer mug a couple minutes ago just like Nostradamus. - The Quatrains of Michelob" - Unknown
“They have decided to burn it all down.” - Brian Williams
"If there is a God, and he did destroy Sodom and Gomorrah for the reasons written down in the bible, then America is going to see so much fire and brimstone that Hiroshima will look like a firecracker." - Unknown
"A recent poll found that four-in-ten Americans believe we are 'living in the end of times.’" - Unknown
"Yes. At the understanding that life is not going to take you back. You are the world you have created. And when you cease to exist, this world that you have created will also cease to exist. But for those with the understanding that they're living the last days of the world, death acquires a different meaning. The extinction of all reality is a concept no resignation can encompass. And then, all the grand designs and all the grand plans will be finally exposed and revealed for what they are." - Unknown
"And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer." - Revelation 6:1-2 KJV. The white horse is the first horseman of the apocalypse, and the rider is commonly referred to as Pestilence. John of Patmos, who wrote Revelation, originally wrote it in Greek. The Greek word for crown is στέμμα or _CORONA_ (this should scare the hell out of you!!!). The bow is symbolic because Greek gods used bows, and their arrows were poisoned so they could spread plagues on their enemies.
"The horseman on the white horse was clad in a showy and barbarous attire... While his horse continued galloping, he was bending his bow in order to spread pestilence abroad. At his back swung the brass quiver filled with poisoned arrows, containing the germs of all diseases." - Vicente Ibanez, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The first of the seven seals in God's book was broken in 2020. The year COVID came upon us.
"Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. But of that _day and hour_ knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." - Matthew 24:35-37 KJV
If you're awake, seeking truth, and listening, these words should speak to you. It clearly says we can't know the day and hour, but it says nothing about knowing the year or understanding we are living in the end times more generally.
"He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches." - Revelation 3:22 KJV
Revelation is clearly inviting us to listen. Those of us who know the Bible well should already be paying attention. Four times the beasts tell us to "come and see." And the Bible also cautions those who aren't watching or listening:
"Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee." - Revelation 3:3 KJV
"The ultimate crisis will occur when the situation is so thoroughly perverted that the defenders of the status quo can no longer resurrect confidence in the system" — Vincent LoCascio, Special Privilege: How the Monetary Elite Benefit at Your Expense
"We know that the pillars of civilization are cheap energy, meritocracy, Law and Order, and free speech and all four of those pillars are currently under attack." - Michael Shellenberger, author of "Apocalypse Never"
"Complex systems can only be maintained by a strict meritocracy. Anything else burns it all to the ground." - Unknown
"The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five." ― Carl Sagan
"All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance." – Edward Gibbon
"Never bet on the end of the world, because it only happens once." - Art Cashin
TEOTWAWKI - The End of the World as We Know It
"And now I am become death. The destroyer of worlds." -Vishnu
"The climax shakes a society to its roots, transforms its institutions, redirects its purposes, and marks its people (and its generations) for life. The climax can end in triumph, or tragedy, or some combination of both. Whatever the event and whatever the outcome, a society passes through a great gate of history, fundamentally altering the course of civilization." - Strauss & Howe – Fourth Turning
"The way of the Tao is reversal" - Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching
"Don't think it won't happen just because it hasn't happened yet." - Jackson Browne
"You will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension." - Tesla
"Slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon the Earth… "- HG Wells, The War of the Worlds
"It won't happen... ever. There will be no crash, there will be no Mad Max type times... Be careful of the theater that is all around you. Don't be distracted by it. All you can control is inside yourself. That is it. Be happy now. Be happy today. It is all you got. Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow never comes. The road to someday leads to a town called nowhere. Make today fantastic. It is all you have." - Unknown
"If it’s the apocalypse… then chase your dreams harder than ever. Let’s squeeze every drop." - Unknown
b. Eschatology
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"Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein: for the time is at hand." - Revelation 1:3 KJV
Definitions:
- a·poc·a·lypse - the complete final destruction of the world, as described in the biblical book of Revelation. Originates from Old French and ecclesiastical Latin from Greek apokaluptein meaning ‘uncover, reveal’, from apo- ‘un-’ + kaluptein ‘to cover’.
- Ar·ma·ged·don - (in the New Testament) the last battle between good and evil before the Day of Judgment. A biblical hill of Megiddo, an archaeological site on the plain of Esdraelon, south of present-day Haifa in Israel. The place where the last battle between good and evil will be fought.
- dooms·day - the day of the Last Judgment. Originates from Old English dōmesdæg meaning “Judgment Day”
- es·cha·tol·o·gy - the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.
- End Times - See Eschatology
- rap·ture - an end-time event when Christian believers rise in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air or a mystical union with God or for eternal life in Heaven. (according to some millenarian teaching) transport (a believer) from earth to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ. For example, "people will be raptured out of automobiles as they are driving along"
- The Second Coming of Jesus - The return of Jesus after his ascension to heaven two thousand years ago.
- trib·u·la·tion - A relatively short period of great hardship before the end of the world and the Second coming of Christ.
"Christian hope is concerned with eschatology, or the science of last things." - Unknown
"Very few people know that the original Greek translation of 'Apocalypse' means 'lifting of the veil' or 'revelation'. A disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era domained by falsehood and misconception. Far from being a horrible experience, Apocalypse represents the revealing of the true nature of things. It ushers in an era of forgotten freedoms and unprecedented clarity. This 'lifting of the veil' will set us free from the misery that has been the result of ignorance." - Unknown
"For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. - Thessalonians 4 16-17 KJV the basis for Christian Rapture
"In Case of Rapture, This Vehicle Will be Unmanned" - Printed on a Bumper Sticker
"Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil." - John 3:19 KJV
"But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." - Matthew 24:37 KJV
"God gave Noah the rainbow sign / no more water, the fire next time." - James Baldwin
"I always looked at the pre-tribulation/post-tribulation debate as a meaningless debate, kind of like how many angels can dance on the head of a needle... these days I'm starting to care…" - Unknown
"At this point, Jesus doesn't need to take the wheel, he needs to pull over an spank some of y'all with his flipflop." - Saints Report
"God made revelation vague to create a sense of urgency that it could happen anytime. The longer we can stave off the execution of the anti-Christ system, the more time we have to repent, do righteous works, and help others repent and accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour." - Unknown
"In spiritual warfare, death is not defeat. Martyrdom is victory. The tribulation will punish the non-believers and purify the believers. Those that keep the faith will be spared the greatest suffering that is to come." - Unknown
"Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also KEEP YOU FROM the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth." - Revelation 3:10 KJV
"The human soul/spirit is eternal. However, those who reject Christ now during the Age of Grace before the Tribulation starts will be forced to receive Christ during extremely extenuating circumstances and then have to be beheaded during the Tribulation for their faith. If they still reject Christ during the Tribulation, their soul will spend the next 1,000 years in damnation, a.k.a. Hell, to then be resurrected at the end of the 1,000 years to stand before the Great White Throne Judgment and be judged, i.e., destruction of the soul in the Lake of Fire." - Unknown
"And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." - Revelation 16:16 KJV
"Israel was created as the instrument to bring about the battle of Armageddon and the fulfillment of prophecy. A war that will be so terrible where nuclear weapons will be used so that the American citizens and the other people in the world would get down on their knees and beg for no more war and what is the answer to that? They're going to be told the only way we can guarantee no more war is if we destroy the sovereignty of nations and come together as one humanity in a One World Government. Now I'm telling you unless the American people wake up and stop it. Starting in about 1996 the battle of Armageddon will become a reality." - Bill Cooper on the role that Israel plays in the Middle East
"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." - Revelation 1:8 KJV
"And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth." - Revelation 6:1-8 KJV
"They will wage war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will triumph over them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings—and with him will be his called, chosen and faithful followers." - Revelation 17:14 KJV
"And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire" - Revelation 20:15 KJV
"the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen." - Matthew 22:14 KJV
"If you're like me, you've spent your life no matter where you are or who vou're amongst thinking, 'I'm not one of you.' It's times like these where I realize I was created this way for times like now, and I'm so grateful don't fit or belong to a world gone mad." - Unknown
"Everything about your lives is an indicator of our Father's remarkable respect that he recommended you for now when the when the stakes are so high. The day when his kingdom is being established never again to be taken from the Earth. The last leg of the relay when he needs his strongest runners. The simple fact is that our father did not recommend Eve or Moses or Nephi or countless other magnificent exemplars for this dispensation. He recommended you and me. Do you really think that God would have left the last days to chance by sending men and women he couldn't count on? A common theme of patriarchal blessings given to men and women your age is you were sent now because our Father's most trustworthy children would be needed in the final decisive battle for righteousness. That is who you are and it is who you have always been." - Sheri L. Dew, You Were Born to Lead, You Were Born for Glory, President and CEO of Deseret Book Company
c. Signs and Wonders
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"For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." - Mathew 24:24
"With the April eclipse and other spooky things on the horizon, here is a complete list of things you should fear:
1) God" - Unknown
1) Eclipses
"If the moon runs into the sun, won't all the cheese melt?" - Unknown
"When the light of Jesus shines on you there is no eclipse." - Unknown
"And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;" - Luke 21:25 KJV
Ramadan Double Eclipse Prophecy -> Ramadan 2024 Starts 3/10 / Ends 4/9
Lunar Eclipse - 3/25/2024 / Solar Eclipse - 4/8/2024
A dual eclipse shall occur during the Ramadaan of the year in which Imam Mahdi is scheduled to make his appearance: "Verily, for our Mahdi there are two signs which have never as yet concurred since the creation of the heavens and earth; first is the eclipse of the moon on the first night of Ramadan, and second is the eclipse of the sun during the middle of that same Ramadan. This (concurrence of a solar and lunar eclipse) has never happened since Allah created the heavens and earth." - Dar-e-Qutni vol.2 p.65
The Twelver Shia believe Muhammad ibn Hasan al-Mahdi is the last of the Twelve Imams and the eschatological Mahdi, who will emerge at the end of time to establish peace and justice and redeem Islam.
"The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come." - Acts 2:20 KJV
"And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;" - Revelation 6:12 KJV
“It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three, because the sun’s light failed,” - Luke 23:44 KJV on the crucifixion possibly occurring during a solar eclipse
American Solar Eclipses ->
8/21/2017 vs. 4/8/2024 (2,423 days apart)
2,423 is the 360th prime -> Lucifer = 360 in Reverse Satanic Germatria
"The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here." - Mathew 12:41 KJV
"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory." - Mathew 24:29-30
"U.S. to face extremely rare 'cicada-geddon' as two generations of over 100 trillion cicadas will emerge together for the first time since 1803, weeks after the April 8th solar eclipse." - Unknown
The path of the 2024 Solar Eclipse also coincides with several other exciting locations:
2) Devil's Comet—12P/Pons-Brooks—nicknamed Devil's Comet due to the presence of two horns, occurs every 71 years. It will start to be visible at the end of March. It will also be visible during the eclipse in Ohio. It will be brightest on 4/21/2024.
"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." - Mathew 24:29:31
3) Red Heifer Slaughtered - sacrificed and burned on mt of olives in East Jerusalem sometime between 3/29/2024 and 3/30/2024 in preparation for Passover.
"This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke" - Numbers 19:2
4) Dome of the Rock Destroyed - ? - Inside the Al-Aqsa mosque compound where Muslims believe Mohamed ascended to heaven accompanied by the angel Gabriel.
Jews believe it is where the creation of the world began and where Abraham prepared the sacrifice of his son Isaac. The foundation stone at the center of the dome is considered the holiest site in Judaism (it is the site of the Holy of Holies of the First and Second Temple). In the southeast corner of the stone is a hole that leads to a cavern known as the Well of Souls.
"As the navel is set in the centre of the human body,
so is the land of Israel the navel of the world...
situated in the centre of the world,
and Jerusalem in the centre of the land of Israel,
and the sanctuary in the centre of Jerusalem,
and the holy place in the centre of the sanctuary,
and the ark in the centre of the holy place,
and the Foundation Stone before the holy place,
because from it the world was founded." - Midrash Tanhuma
5) Solomon's 3rd Temple Rebuilt - ? - Prerequisite for Armageddon and the Second Coming of Jesus.
1st Temple - Solomon's Temple. Destroyed by Babylonian siege in 587 BC. Constructed 1000BC.
"Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had designated, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite." - 2 Chronicles 3:1
Rituals in Freemasonry refer to King Solomon and the building of his Temple.[108] Masonic buildings, where lodges and their members meet, are sometimes called "temples"; an allegoric reference to King Solomon's Temple.
2nd Temple - Herod's Temple. Destroyed by Roman seige in 70AD. Stood for 420 years.
"And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down." - Mark 13:2, Jesus predicted the second temple would be destroyed.
3rd Temple - Should occur in the era of the Jewish Messiah. The Talmud extensively discusses the coming of the Messiah (Sanhedrin 98a–99a, et al.) and describes a period of freedom and peace, which will be the time of ultimate goodness for the Jews.
"Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?" - 1 Corinthians 6:19, 3rd temple dwells inside of all of us according to scripture and is not a physical place
6) Anti-Christ Comes - ? -
7) Second Coming of Jesus - ? -
"So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation." - Hebrews 9:28
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