Something Big Is About To Happen

Not many people want to believe that there is a God or look at what God has to say about the future. Humans like to be defying and refuse to accept Christian teachings from the bible. They make excuses that the bible was just written by men, that the bible is out of date, that what is written in the bible is full of violence, and or contradiction. And that religion is the cause of all problems on the planet, and if there is a God, why would he allow suffering.
It reminds me of children who make up excuses for misbehaving, never wanting to accept responsibility for their own actions. In fact God refers to us in that way.
This has gone on since the dawn of time. Many cultures have tried other gods and other beliefs all in vain, never resulting in that permanent euphoria, utopia, or everlasting peace. We have been the prodigal children that God waits for patiently because of His perfect Love for His creation.

The entire world is on edge because everyone senses that something big is about to happen. Christians know that either the Rapture of the Church or the battle described in Psalm 83 is about to occur. Many Muslims in the Islamic world think their Mahdi is about to return. Members of the New Age Movement look for the arrival of their Maitreya at any moment. The ancient Mayans, various tribes of American Indians, Nostradamus, the notorious 16th century soothsayer Mother Shipton, and Sir Isaac Newton have all predicted a series of cataclysmic worldwide disasters will occur around this time in history. Even the chief ju-ju bead counters who write for the supermarket tabloids are predicting the return of “The King” (Elvis). The Earth longs to be free of the curse it has suffered under ever since the original sin of Adam and Eve. Jesus told us in Matthew 24:7-8 that His return would be preceded by upheavals in nature which He likened to the birth pangs of a woman about to give birth, increasing in intensity and frequency as the moment of the arrival of the child draws ever closer. Has the frequency and intensity of earthquakes been increasing during the past decade? Absolutely. Has the frequency and intensity of violent and extreme weather been increasing? Yes. What about volcanic eruptions? Famines? Floods? Droughts? Not only is the answer to all of these questions definitely yes, but the increase in the frequency and intensity of all of these upheavals has been terrifyingly dramatic. Around this time last year I was totally convinced that all necessary prophecy regarding the Rapture of the Church had been fulfilled and that it would occur at any moment. At the same time I was a bit concerned that the final sequence of events leading to the Second Coming of our Lord was not quite ready to begin. After all, while Turkey and Israel were not exactly best friends forever, they were, nevertheless, still buddies. Ezekiel 38 tells us that Turkey and Israel are bitter enemies when the shooting starts in the Battle of Gog and Magog. Egypt and Israel were also on relatively friendly terms a year ago, so how was the conflict described in Psalm 83 going to take place? Besides, Israel did not have a great national treasure so why would Gog from the land of Magog invade Israel to capture spoil and seize plunder (Ezekiel 38:12)? That was before enormous reserves of natural gas and oil were discovered beneath the nation of Israel. And finally, about a year ago the Middle East was surprisingly peaceful considering all of the howling and the barking at the moon about war. Threats flowed like water but in the end each nation seemed to prefer peace to the shedding of their own blood. Where was the spark that would ignite the entire Middle East? If nobody was willing to commit an overt act that would start a war then only spontaneous combustion could trigger the detonation, and that did not seem to be very likely. That was a year ago. It is amazing how much the situation has changed.

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To get a better look at where we are along then timeline of the last days we need to take a look at the impending food crisis we are facing. Today 1 out of every 6 people on this planet goes to sleep each night without getting enough to eat and 34,000 people die each day from famine related causes. This is horrifying enough, but things are about to get a lot worse. China is the top producer of wheat in the world. The droughts and dust storms in 2010 have been the worst southwestern China has seen in a century. India is the second largest producer of wheat in the world and is suffering through a record heat wave and water crisis that has badly decimated their crops. Russia is the third largest wheat producer in the world and accounts for 10 percent of total world output. Last year massive wildfires stretched across 7 regions in Russia when temperatures reached their highest level since they started keeping records 130 years ago. France is the fourth largest producer of wheat in the world and just recently lowered their wheat crop forecasts due to cold weather and drought. Canada is the fifth largest wheat producer in the world and has suffered reduced grain production due to severe drought in their western provinces. The Ukraine is the sixth largest producer of wheat and the top producer of barley in the world. They have suffered from the same fires and drought that Russia has endured to the point they have suspended all of the grain exports for 2011. Australia is the seventh largest producer of wheat in the world. Flooding has covered an area in Australia equal in size to that of France and Germany combined, with water 30 feet deep in some places, destroying crops. Pakistan is the eighth largest producer in the world. In 2010 floods in Pakistan covered 17 million acres of their most fertile crop land and did not subside in time for farmers to meet the deadline for planting new seeds for the fall harvest. In addition, historic floods and droughts have destroyed crops in the major grain producing areas of South America. During the winter of 2010-2011 snow fell in 49 of our 50 states here in the US where massive numbers of crops were wiped out. While this was taking place South Korea destroyed millions of farm animals infected with hoof-and-mouth disease. Honeybees and bumble bees continue to die off across North America further reducing food production due to lack of adequate pollination. These are just some of the disasters that have recently occurred which will cause increased famines throughout the world starting right now. If major worldwide food shortages are a very real possibility this spring then it could very well mean that the third horseman of the apocalypse is, even now, placing the saddle on the black horse and is preparing to ride. If the book of Revelation is chronological, as I believe that it is, then the rider of the white horse (the anti-Christ) and the rider of the red horse, who brings war and destruction, are saddled up and preparing to ride out as well. No wonder the entire world is on edge. I find it difficult to describe, but it seems like there is a strong electric charge in the air that is causing anxiety around our planet. Uprisings are springing up in every corner of the world. People are spontaneously taking to the streets in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain, Algeria, Jordan, the Palestinian Territories, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Nigeria, Morocco, Mauritania, Sudan, Ivory Coast, Albania, Pakistan, Syria, Belgrade, Serbia, Croatia, and China. Western mainstream media has attempted to explain these spontaneous uprisings as a longing for freedom and democracy by the oppressed nations of the world, but this reasoning seems a bit hollow and empty. Something far more complex, and I believe supernatural, is taking place and it is incredibly powerful.

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The intangible fear of impending calamity has pushed the levels of violence all over the Earth to an all time high. Never in the history of the world has both the crying for peace and the screaming for war been so deafening. Gold is at an all time high because people no longer have any faith in the dollar. People are stockpiling food and they are buying guns out of fear for the future rather than fear of crime. For many months ammunition manufacturers have had a difficult time keeping up with demand. Something really big and really bad is about to happen and people all over the world can feel it coming. The world economy is far too deeply in debt to recover and is teetering on the brink of collapse. The world banking system is a house of cards that is being artificially propped up by its own bankrupt members. A collapse is long overdue and when it does finally come the result will be cataclysmic. On that day somebody will be standing in the wings who will pick up all of the broken pieces and will put them back together in a single worldwide system that everybody will be required to belong to in order to conduct even the simplest of transactions. Financial irresponsibility will be a thing of the past because each transaction, no matter how large or small, will be tracked in real time by one central system. Identity theft will no longer exist. Everyone will access the system using biometric identification in (or on) their own body. In the past atheists didn’t believe and didn’t care. Now they all seem to be rabidly obsessed on a mission to eliminate every trace of Christianity and Judaism, yet nobody seems to feel compelled to stamp out any other religion. Religious persecution has increased in frequency and intensity to the point where Christians are fleeing for their lives from the entire Middle East, as well as other parts of the world. Over the past few decades the Moslem world seemed to be relatively content to live and let live as long as Christians did not disparage Allah or Mohammad. Now it seems there is an ever increasing determination to kill every Christian and eliminate all traces of our history and even all traces of our very existence. The Islamic community at times almost appears to be frightened of us Christians and of what is about to happen in the world. When Paul told us that in the last days immorality would increase and that men would become lovers of men, he was not exaggerating. In the past immorality increased in a subtle, almost coy manner, like a cancer silently spreading through the body of its host. However, in recent years the intensity of immorality has multiplied itself many times over and with a shocking viciousness. Homosexuals, lesbians, and transsexuals are so proud of their sin that they march in the streets demanding to be recognized as a special, privileged class. We have actually reached the point where it is literally a crime to say (or even imply) that homosexuality is a mental disease or defect. The Bible tells us that in the last days good will be called evil and that evil will be called good. Is it just me, or has filthiness become the accepted norm in far too many places where just a short time ago it was not only considered vulgar, but also unacceptable as well? Even more disturbingly, has the viciousness of which these perversions are being forced upon us increased dramatically? I believe they have and I sense that something really big is about to happen because of it. All of the signs that we are in the last days and that the Second Coming of our Lord is near are not only here, but many of these signs have intensified immensely. In every direction we look we see the writing on the walls. So, what should we do about it? Stockpiling gold, food, and .44 magnum jacketed hollow point ammunition is not the answer. The first thing we should do – the most important thing we should do - is to be absolutely certain that our reservation has been make to be in heaven with our Lord and Savior for all eternity. This requires an admission that we are sinners, a faith in our Lord that He is the only path to God and that He is the one and only Savior of the World, and a request in which we must go to Jesus in prayer and ask Him to be our Savior. Nobody can ever get to heaven by being a good person and there are no good deeds that will get us there either. Missing out on such a wonderful gift would be incredibly tragic, especially when such a beautiful gift is free. Time is rapidly running out. At the instant of death our eternal fate is sealed. Our time here on this Earth is precious, but it is a gift. There is no guarantee that we will still possess life here on this Earth a moment from now. The second thing we should do is to use the time that we have remaining to make sure those around us will be going to heaven as well. Far too many people believe they will be saved because they consider themselves to be a good person and/or because they go to church on Sunday. Spending eternity in hell for this mistaken belief is so horribly tragic that it is beyond description. And finally, I believe that we desperately need to tell people that heaven is a real place that actually exists, and that hell is also a real place that actually exists. Salvation is a free gift and the opportunity to choose our fate ends at the moment of death. In the latter portion of 1999 the world was gripped with a paranoid fear that the computers of the world would somehow cause worldwide disasters when the calendar rolled over to the year 2000. We called it the Y2K event. Everyone felt a sickening dread that these disasters would be of Biblical proportions. Nothing happened. Now the intangible fear has returned and it is far stronger than it was before. What will be the final outcome this time around?

i am starting to believe! reading revelation these days is like watching the news! we got false prophets , strong earthquakes in diverse places
strange weather, birds falling out of the sky! middle east turmoil, all in the bible, and i am sure i am missing a lot . star and flag ! should keep
it updated with current events that match scripture .

Something BIG is always about to happen....And you are correct..The bible is a work of fiction, Created by men with very active imaginations..Welcome to reality. THERE IS NO GOD! get use to it. Sorry.. The sooner you can accept this as fact..The better off you will be. Religion is nothing more then Brainwashing, propaganda..Created to control society.

Originally posted by TechVampyre
Something BIG is always about to happen..

..And you are correct..The bible is a work of fiction, Created by men with very active imaginations..Welcome to reality. THERE IS NO GOD! get use to it. Sorry..

Perfect answer.

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Pretty closed minded statement there isnt it? I mean the atheist always asks for proof of the existance of God, but never is able to disprove God's existance.

God is not real, therefore trusting anything said in the bible or any other religious doctrines would be misleading.

Don't rule out self-fulfilling prophecy. It may be a fact that people are actually working to carry out these prophecies thinking that they are doing the work of god. I believe whats in the bible is vague enough to apply to any time and keep the slaves screaming apocalypse. Where you may see love, I see fear.

Originally posted by TechVampyre
Something BIG is always about to happen..

..And you are correct..The bible is a work of fiction, Created by men with very active imaginations..Welcome to reality. THERE IS NO GOD! get use to it. Sorry..

Totally unnecessary and added absolutely no value to this thread. Your post should be modded. If you want to rant about there being no God, there is a Rant thread for that, so take your comments there.

OP - Good post. It blends together the relevant information about "signs of the times" from many different sources. I'd like to point out that there have been many times where the circumstances that you mentioned in the articles have been the same... where the Middle East was in chaos, wars, famine, etc.... these have happened before. That is the thing about this kind of prophecy is that it is based on a circumstance, which can occur many times and along with many other factors.

However... what has never happened is all of these prophecies seeming to align themselves together at once, which seems to be happening today. We have almost ALL of the pieces needed to fulfill many ancient prophecies, both religious and not. It is interesting times indeed.

S&F for you.

~Namaste

Originally posted by GullibleUnderlord
i am starting to believe! reading revelation these days is like watching the news! we got false prophets , strong earthquakes in diverse places
strange weather, birds falling out of the sky! middle east turmoil, all in the bible, and i am sure i am missing a lot . star and flag ! should keep
it updated with current events that match scripture .

You will find lots of prophetic writings in Daniel, Ezekiel, Zachariah, Isaiah, in the old testament and Matthew for that matter throughout the gospels in the new testament as well as Revelation.

Many people want to disregard what the bible has to say and offer, and they don't or won't realize the importance of the Holy Word of God. This is the most frequently lost clue to what lay ahead for mankind and for the soul.

To the previous posters: You've got the same amount of 'proof' of the non-existence of God, as there is of His existence. Still, we are lucky with scripture that backs up our believes. Used to control the masses? Indeed it happened, and in bad ways. Does that mean that the religion itself is full of # and spreading crazy messages? No.

It really hurts me when people put a lot of time in a post based on a thousends of years old religion (there is proof that it's that old) and get a punch in the face as response. Let's don't talk about God/No God here, let's focus on the accurate observations the OP is presenting here.

Originally posted by SonOfTheLawOfOne

Originally posted by TechVampyre
Something BIG is always about to happen..

..And you are correct..The bible is a work of fiction, Created by men with very active imaginations..Welcome to reality. THERE IS NO GOD! get use to it. Sorry..

Totally unnecessary and added absolutely no value to this thread. Your post should be modded. If you want to rant about there being no God, there is a Rant thread for that, so take your comments there.

OP - Good post. It blends together the relevant information about "signs of the times" from many different sources. I'd like to point out that there have been many times where the circumstances that you mentioned in the articles have been the same... where the Middle East was in chaos, wars, famine, etc.... these have happened before. That is the thing about this kind of prophecy is that it is based on a circumstance, which can occur many times and along with many other factors.

However... what has never happened is all of these prophecies seeming to align themselves together at once, which seems to be happening today. We have almost ALL of the pieces needed to fulfill many ancient prophecies, both religious and not. It is interesting times indeed.

S&F for you.

~Namaste

Completely on topic..Maybe you need to go back and re-read my post.

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Vampyres are fictional.

You are only a bot.

Originally posted by Jefferton

Originally posted by TechVampyre
Something BIG is always about to happen..

..And you are correct..The bible is a work of fiction, Created by men with very active imaginations..Welcome to reality. THERE IS NO GOD! get use to it. Sorry..

Perfect answer.

Shame on you... you contribute to the lack of fortitude on these threads, just filling space hoping you'll get some stars for your "wit".

Way to go buddy.... that's contributing.

How about actually looking at the OP and commenting on that instead of your own personal OPINION about life and God?

Damn.... SO tired of these kinds of comments.... ATS would be like a super think-tank if people were a little more reserved and pointed in their comments, and actually used a grain of critical thinking and analysis before typing complete nonsense.

~Namaste

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Completely on topic..Maybe you need to go back and re-read my post.

Is that so? The thread is about something big going to happen based on ancient texts, not just religious ones.... take your own advice and re-read the OP. Now you are just derailing.

~Namaste

Originally posted by chr0naut
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Vampyres are fictional.

You are only a bot.

Indeed. vampires are fictional, I just like the name.. good call.

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Oh the confidence of ignorance. Your quite sure of this?

Originally posted by WeZet
To the previous posters: You've got the same amount of 'proof' of the non-existence of God, as there is of His existence. Still, we are lucky with scripture that backs up our believes. Used to control the masses? Indeed it happened, and in bad ways. Does that mean that the religion itself is full of # and spreading crazy messages? No.

It really hurts me when people put a lot of time in a post based on a thousends of years old religion (there is proof that it's that old) and get a punch in the face as response. Let's don't talk about God/No God here, let's focus on the accurate observations the OP is presenting here.

Absolutely. Very well said.

Star for you.

~Namaste

Originally posted by TechVampyre
Something BIG is always about to happen..

..And you are correct..The bible is a work of fiction, Created by men with very active imaginations..Welcome to reality. THERE IS NO GOD! get use to it. Sorry.. The sooner you can accept this as fact..The better off you will be. Religion is nothing more then Brainwashing, propaganda..Created to control society.

edit on 9-3-2011 by TechVampyre because: (no reason given)

This kind of view was expected, after all do we think that there aren't any who are lost and walk in darkness, of course not. Do we think that no doubter or one that wants to destroy will not enter in this place, of course not.
So go on, I welcome you to say what you will, it is after all expected of you to do so.
For there will be many that refuse to see with wide open eyes, and than there will be those that are willing to look and understand, they are the blessed ones, and those who refuse, have only cursed themselves. There is still hope for those though.

Originally posted by SonOfTheLawOfOne
reply to post by TechVampyre

 

Completely on topic..Maybe you need to go back and re-read my post.

Is that so? The thread is about something big going to happen based on ancient texts, not just religious ones.... take your own advice and re-read the OP. Now you are just derailing.

~Namaste

The fact of the matter is YOU are derailing this thread with your pointless accusations.. My answer is no different then the answer many other members would have giving.. And the fact of the matter is.. this was posted under religion..So yes it is a religious topic..Thank you very much, so there for my post is on topic. go harass someone who won't make you look like a fool.