Have you noticed an increase in people who hope for nuclear holocaust, their souls sent up in the rapture?
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Yeah, I have heard about some christian groups wanting this; also wanting israel to invade areas in the middle east because some prophecies say that this is necessary in order to bring about the end of times.  These people are literally insane.
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Yes. If they ever take their proton packs into a church, all hell is gonna break loose. Literally!
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Yes ... visually, you'll see I'm much more present in life.  I've stopped asking for so much selfish stuff since I've started praying; however, I do still have many personal gifts I ask for like patience, understanding, wisdom, and forgivness. \n\nI now also ask for bigger stuff like WORLD PEACE and an end to Sexual Slavery/Human Trafficing ... Do I believe that my prayers for bigger stuff will happen?  Yes I do believe my prayers for the bigger stuff will happen.  My role modle is the "Our Lady of Fatima" children.  They had their vision of the Virgin Mary, and they did penance for us all to be saved from Hell and an end to Communist Russia their whole life; Russia fell and their prayers came true ... now that's a big prayer to fullfil, and God did it ... I believe World Peace and an end to Sexual Slavery and Human Trafficing follow God's plan, so he is working on these issues just like he did with the "Our Lady of Fatima Children".
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Maybe God has left the world and Satan has showed up. Does this mean Armageddon is here or at least the beginning of it.
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Yes.  The right-wingers of Jesus' time were the ones who plotted his death.  They couldn't stand that he hung around with tax gatherers and "sinners", that he rescued an adulteress from stoning, that he accused them of putting heavy loads on men's backs and not lifting a finger to help them carry those burdens.  Also, they couldn't stand that he claimed to be the Messiah.\n\nTime and again, when a new idea, such as a new religion or new philosophy, is given to the oppressed people to liberate them, you can guarantee that 1)the powers-that-be will appropriate that religion or philosophy and bend it to their own agendas, or 2) the children of the oppressed, who are freed by the new knowledge, will establish themselves and become comfortable, and a few generations down, will become the oppressors themselves.  It happened in ancient Israel.  It happened time and again in Christianity.  (The Puritans' descendents became the persecutors of the Salem Witch Trials.)  It even happened with Communism.\n\nThere's a Jewish saying: "If God came down to earth, people would break his windows."\n\nI've heard it say, a few decades ago, that if Jesus came today, we'd all be wearing little electric chairs around our necks.  Today, it would be little lethal injection syringes.
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The average Christian is a paradox. I wonder if they have faith in the rapture why are they so frightened by what's going on in the world right now? Many contradictory attitudes combined in one faith.
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most people want to believe a pre-trib rapture because they can't stand the idea of having to give up anything for who they are in CHRIST JESUS and they dont want any hardships...We are told as followers of JESUS CHRIST that we will no be partakers of the wrath of GOD...that wrath is nothing but hellfire...doesn't say that we won't go through tribulations though...we do that daily and it won't surprise me one bit when we get into the great tribulations and nobody has exited a big stage left.
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I know it's coming; the dead in Christ will rise first, then those who are alive will be caught up with Jesus.\nHe surely is.
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That people become one mind and realize that war and hatred and evil is not what God and nature intended for humanity.\n\nOn a more personal level, my wish is that my young son 11, has this cancer beat, and that it never rear it's ugly head again, and that we can all find some healing and understanding of why these horrible things have to happen at all.
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They are lost, and need to be saved.People act like they are going to live on earth forever. Its coming a time that everyone will die (unless) Jesus comes back first. There is a place called heaven, and a place called hell. Everyone will spend eternity in one of the two places. The devil has them blind, and fooled. I pray people will wake up, and be saved, while they still have a chance.
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You're probably right. Jesus said these thing would happen. Don't think it's right to speculate on when the end will come, after all, there are countries in the world where churches are burned down and Christians are killed for their beliefs, and these things have always happened. It's always felt like the end times to someone somewhere. As the Day approaches, satan knows he is running out of time so he steps up the pace. But read the end of the book, WE WIN! Keep the faith. Pray for your church.
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Yes. I believe so. These people don't know the real truth behind all of it that Jesus came down from Heaven to save us all from sin. I just hope that at one point they will come to realize that what they're doing is wrong and will come to the point of repentance and forgiveness.
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I'm a Christian, so hopefully if it happenned for real I'd be one of the ones raptured up.  If not, I'd go directly to my church, figuring I'd lost my salvation, and I would pray to accept Jesus again!
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An interesting qustion.  I'm assuming that you are saying that people who have religion, are doing it to have some sort of hope?\n\nThis would be true.  Faith in God, and our lives lived in service to Him, make us participants in salvation.  Thus we live our lives with hope.  Hope for an end to our suffering, and to at long last live in peace with Him.  It is hope that enables us to endure this life and its struggles and difficulties.  \nIf your suggestion was to say that people turn to religion cause they don't have any hope...hope that they could get somewhere else...then the answer would be no.  Its not.
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Lot's of people have.  They obviously don't think their lives are bad enough already that they are tempting God to send them straight to hell!\n\nI'm an Atheist and have nothing to do with the whole affair, if God exists then he surely admires my honesty and will send me straight up!
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Yes.  I do.  I think, however, that that phenomenon began years ago during 1960's.  As a child, the immediacy of television broadcast the riots in the streets of Watts and other locations, the death and destruction in Vietnam, the Soviet/Czech crisis in Czechosloviakia, the 1968 riots surrounding the Democratic Convention in Chicago, and the attacks on peaceful protestors in the South by dogs, police, and water hoses.  I saw all those things and even then, as a little girl, I knew that it would have a permanent effect on our society.\n\nI am dissapointed to say that it has.  As violence has increased in our contemporary culture to immeasurable proportions, there is almost a palpable apathy among people in general.  My belief is that this general indifference has led to the degradation of our current US society.  \n\nYou see, I remember how things were--at least in the United States--before that era.  There was a blissful ignorance, of sorts.  On the whole, families may not have had very much, but they were a lot more at peace and content than now.  Now that the media glorifies gore, not only through news, but in advertisements and entertainment, that time has come and gone.  Particularly after the events of September 11th, we'll never look at things in the same way.\n\nAs one who still values life, and still prays for people when they are missing or are feared to be or known to be dead, optimistically, I would like to say that it's possible for the tides to turn.  Realistically, however, I don't know how possible it is.  I believe it was Jesse Jackson's 1988 bid for the Presidency when he coined the phrase, "Keep hope alive!"  At this point, I believe a more realistic rallying cry would be, "Ressurect hope!"
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I certainly hope so. There seem to be a lot of signs these days. God says that the same way you see the green leaves appear on the trees and know spring is near will be true regarding the second coming. We will see the signs and know the time is near. Timothy tells us what God knows is coming...\n"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them."\n2 Timothy 3:1\nSounds kind of familiar, eh? Our world IS this way now but may have to get a lot worse before we see Him coming.\nRemember that no one knows the time except the Father.