When Will This Happen?

That was the question asked by Jesus’ disciples. “What will be the sign of your coming and the end of the age?” Jesus spoke about this at length, but broadly speaking He kept His comments to four main categories:

. Religious apostasy - “Christian” churches will be teaching things directly in opposition to the teachings of Jesus.

. Persecution of the Christian Church along with the spreading of the Gospel of Jesus throughout the world.

. Continual conflict and wars around the world.

. Disturbances in the natural order; unnatural weather, earthquakes and strange ocean currents.

Paul speaks of an increased love of self and a lack of love for others as another indication of Christ’s impending arrival. Anti social and anti family attitudes will be ubiquitous. There will be much spirituality but little love for or adherence to Jesus' teaching.

We're also told that we can know Jesus arrival is just around the corner because, “People will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, they will gather around themselves teachers who tell them exactly what they want to hear.”

We're told that there will be a mass exodus from the Church that coincides with a huge rise in atheism that is matched by a huge rise in homosexuality.

With sardonic wit, Jesus points out that many can predict the weather by interpreting atmospheric signs but they can not predict His coming by watching the fulfilment of prophetic signs.

‘Be prepared. I will come suddenly, in the blink of an eye.’ 

Did God Really Say?

I saw this post a few days ago. It was all about the Bible “not” saying that marriage was between one man and one woman. The case was presented that because men in the Bible often had more than one wife, and God didn't strike them dead on the spot, obviously God does not mind homosexuality and same sex marriage. 

Obviously!

I've rarely seen a more persistent case of “Did God really say?”

In fact, I've only seen it more clearly once – In Genesis 3:1

Smile - Atheists Take Control

Well, not quite. 

But they can see their utopia in the distance. 

Or at least they're pretty sure it isn't a mirage. 

I wasn't going to comment on the rise of the religiously unaffiliated (atheists call them - um - atheists), but the material is just too good to ignore.

If PEW Research had some way of dredging the truth out of the numbers there is a good chance that the true numbers, including functional atheists (those who live as though God doesn't exist regardless of what they call themselves) I'd guess that the numbers would be something like 1 in 50 people in North America are Christians as opposed to 1 in 5 aren't.

Anyhow, that's not the point of this Post. The point of the Post is, The Bible, which atheists mock as being written by bronze-age goat herders (read stupider than any atheist), predicted long ago that there would be a HUGE falling away from Christianity. This falling away would take place, not in isolation, but in concert with an equally HUGE increase in atheism and simultaneous rise in homosexuality.

Now, if the irony of that doesn't make you smile, you simply have no sense of humour.