Is Jesus returning soon?

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Stranger36147

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I use to think he was coming soon, but now I'm clueless.. I suspect he's vacationing and forgot about us?
Seriously. He's been gone for so long that some Christians probably wonder....What's the hold-up? What's taking him so long?
 
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UnderGrace

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No need to apologise - I forgive you.

But do you not believe the word "soon" to be a measure of time? If so, how can you believe that how God views time is not connected to what He means when He says He will be coming soon? :confused:
God is well aware of how time works since He created it, and I am sure that if He states soon "to" humans He means soon as we experience time, however God is not constrained by time like we are.
 

Poinsetta

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He’s making room cuz family getting big. 😂
 

Jackson123

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I use to think he was coming soon, but now I'm clueless.. I suspect he's vacationing and forgot about us?
Seriously. He's been gone for so long that some Christians probably wonder....What's the hold-up? What's taking him so long?

He give us clue. The antichrist will come and rule the world before His second coming.

So do not blame Him if He not come yet.

I was think He come soon, but after I read rev 13, I am not expect He come before the one world government.

When the one world government happen?

I do not know, but seem to me it happen after world war 3.
 

breno785au

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Jesus will return in this generation.

Matt 24:32-34

Fig tree - Nation of Israel

32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

Jer 24:2-6

Restoration of the nation of Israel. Israel was scattered in the world during the fall from Babylon.

1948 - nation of Israel was gathered together. (Fig tree putting forth its leaves)

Psalm 90:10

1 generation = 70/80 years

Gen 15:13,16

1 generation = 100 years

1948 + 80 = 2028
1948 + 100 = 2048

The end is near. Let's get to work and serve the Lord. We don't want to be left behind.
If your doing out of fear of being left behind, it's for the wrong reason.
 
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Only the op,in a later post,tied in heavens view of end times.
It is bride /groom based.
He is returning for his bride.
Mat 25 "....but the bridegroom tarried..."
The next major event is the rapture.
Ruth,Naomi,Boaz,
The kinsman redeemer,we see in revelation early on,in heaven. Rev 5.
Rev 5 is the kinsman redeemer.(Boaz)

1 thes 4,Ruth,rev 5,and mat 25.
Therin lies the next great event.
Why is it hidden?
Nobody is even talking about the next great event that preoccupies those in heaven.
"..and then 6 days before the passover Jesus returned to Jerusalem"
" go and prepare a place that we may eat the passover"
"You will find a man with a pitcher of water,he will show you an upper room"
"...And the Spirit and the BRIDE say come...."
"...I will not drink of the fruit of the cup again,till i drink it with you in heaven"
"...I go and prepare a place for you in my fathers house"
(The last supper is a vivid,vivid picture of Jewish wedding BETROTHAL.

End times without the bride/groom prism is end times without a cause.

The purpose of the gt is Jacobs/Israel's trouble.
The church is gentile. (Ruth)
Ruth=the gentile bride.
 
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When the one world government happen?
You don't already think we have a one-world government? The people you vote for aren't the ones who make the rules. Don't you think it strange that a whole heap of countries, with pupportedly different governments, are coming up with the same laws all the time? Rules about boarding planes, and what you're allowed to take on board, for example. All of a sudden, all over the world, those x-ray machines that could see through clothes were popping up, and everyone, even if "free" countries, had to essentially submit to be strip-searched to travel.
 
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Only the op,in a later post,tied in heavens view of end times.
It is bride /groom based.
He is returning for his bride.
Mat 25 "....but the bridegroom tarried..."
The next major event is the rapture.
Ruth,Naomi,Boaz,
The kinsman redeemer,we see in revelation early on,in heaven. Rev 5.
Rev 5 is the kinsman redeemer.(Boaz)

1 thes 4,Ruth,rev 5,and mat 25.
Therin lies the next great event.
Why is it hidden?
Nobody is even talking about the next great event that preoccupies those in heaven.
"..and then 6 days before the passover Jesus returned to Jerusalem"
" go and prepare a place that we may eat the passover"
"You will find a man with a pitcher of water,he will show you an upper room"
"...And the Spirit and the BRIDE say come...."
"...I will not drink of the fruit of the cup again,till i drink it with you in heaven"
"...I go and prepare a place for you in my fathers house"
(The last supper is a vivid,vivid picture of Jewish wedding BETROTHAL.

End times without the bride/groom prism is end times without a cause.

The purpose of the gt is Jacobs/Israel's trouble.
The church is gentile. (Ruth)
Ruth=the gentile bride.
^^^^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^^^^
 

Jackson123

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You don't already think we have a one-world government? The people you vote for aren't the ones who make the rules. Don't you think it strange that a whole heap of countries, with pupportedly different governments, are coming up with the same laws all the time? Rules about boarding planes, and what you're allowed to take on board, for example. All of a sudden, all over the world, those x-ray machines that could see through clothes were popping up, and everyone, even if "free" countries, had to essentially submit to be strip-searched to travel.
Yep, we go to that direction. But it will worse to the point that every body must take the mark of the beast 666 or not able to buy or sale.
 
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At church there has been alot of preaching that jesus is coming back soon. I know that this has been preached for many many years now but alot of people are convinced that the time is very short. What do you think?
We are 7 years away from the second coming, because that will be the year 6000 from creation, the latest he would come, to thus begin the millennial Shabbath. Read my bible study regarding this http://www.wisdomofgod.us/2018/11/0...-yb-jubilees-and-the-12901335-days-of-daniel/ .
 
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Yep, we go to that direction. But it will worse to the point that every body must take the mark of the beast 666 or not able to buy or sale.
Well, pretty much everyone needs to be vaccinated today. It's already at the point where governments are denying money to people who won't take vaccines (can't buy without the mark), prohibit people who won't take vaccines from certain services (can't sell without the mark) and pretty much demonise them who don't take the mark (make them out to be the cause of many of the diseases the vaccines cause).

It would be pretty easy to put the mark of the beast into a vaccine needle, and even many Christians would be saying "Oooh, better get your vaccination. God didn't have it quite right when He designed man's immune system."
 

Jackson123

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Jackson123

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Well, pretty much everyone needs to be vaccinated today. It's already at the point where governments are denying money to people who won't take vaccines (can't buy without the mark), prohibit people who won't take vaccines from certain services (can't sell without the mark) and pretty much demonise them who don't take the mark (make them out to be the cause of many of the diseases the vaccines cause).

It would be pretty easy to put the mark of the beast into a vaccine needle, and even many Christians would be saying "Oooh, better get your vaccination. God didn't have it quite right when He designed man's immune system."
I believe in the 7 years tribulation the whole world must taking the mark, or can not buy or sale.

Now if you won't to apply for job, in Indonesia, vaccination is not the requirement
 
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If we are in the 7 years tribulation, than only the mark of the beast taker able to buy or sale
There is no "7 year tribulation", the last week of Daniel was already fulfilled, and the mark of the beast is already here, it is paper money and fiat currency, which is issued to everyone rich and poor great and small by which it is impossible to buy or sell without, which breaks the command of the Torah "you shall have righteous weights and quantities", because it has no value because it is only paper and is deliberately devalued by those who issue, thus "mark of the beast". Read my bible study regarding this http://www.wisdomofgod.us/2018/12/0...the-mark-of-the-beast-and-the-meaning-of-666/ .
 

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There is no "7 year tribulation", the last week of Daniel was already fulfilled, and the mark of the beast is already here, it is paper money and fiat currency, which is issued to everyone rich and poor great and small by which it is impossible to buy or sell without, which breaks the command of the Torah "you shall have righteous weights and quantities", because it has no value because it is only paper and is deliberately devalued by those who issue, thus "mark of the beast". Read my bible study regarding this http://www.wisdomofgod.us/2018/12/0...the-mark-of-the-beast-and-the-meaning-of-666/ .
Hmm that was an interesting bible study...you reckon 2026?

I guess only the Father knows exactly when ...all the gentiles have come in. And there a great many. God is not wanting anyone to perish.

The thing about buying gold...Jesus did say about buying gold, white robes and eye salve to one church so they could see. Revelation 3:18 You can buy gold...and you can buy white robes but what's this eye salve?

Where can you buy this? I hope everyone has a white robe somewhere in their wardrobe, if you dont, make sure you have one. You are going to need it.
 

Nebuchadnezzer

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At church there has been alot of preaching that jesus is coming back soon. I know that this has been preached for many many years now but alot of people are convinced that the time is very short. What do you think?
No one knows.
 

Nehemiah6

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There is no "7 year tribulation", the last week of Daniel was already fulfilled, and the mark of the beast is already here...
Recently only ISIS has been beheading non-Muslims. And ISIS is not the Antichrist. So you are totally mistaken.

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast [the Antichrist], neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (Rev 20:4)