Originally posted by roigam
I would say that in the last month things in the world have gone from bad to worse.
As good as some people have it, millions+ have very bad circumstances.
It's true. Man has made some improvements through the many years lived but now it's all going down.
Why is that so?
It's simply because we are not living the way God intended.
He is going to make all t ...[text shortened]... adise and mankind to be perfect.
He will have His way. He is the true all powerful, loving God.
You read into circumstances what you want to see. There are a few million people seeking refuge from despots. Lets call it for grins, 7 million. Seems about right.
Now lets look at the world population. 7 BILLION.
Hmmm.
So it seems 1 person in one thousand is seeking refuge.
Pretty good odds if you ask me.
I don't see millions of Russians seeking refuge.
I don't see millions of people from Madagascar seeking refuge.
Only those trying to get the hell out of Syria and the surrounds.
When ISIS is wiped out there will be no new caliphate so those people suffering right now can be helped.
There have been some horribly bad decisions made in the past and we are suffering the consequences like Bush Jr not understanding what his daddy did: Don't conquer Iraq.
Did he hear that bit? No. The real president of that time, Dick Cheney, was the one who decided to attack Saddam.
We can all see how well THAT turned out.
If he had left Saddam alone, we would not be in the mess we are in now.
So now we are paying in the growth of Isis and Boko Haram and the like.
I assume you are a nice republican.
You only have yourselves to blame for electing such an assshole as bush Jr.
This is not end days material, much as you would love to morph all these events into the end of the world which you dearly lust for, it ain't gonna happen.
You can take that as MY personal prophecy.
Put that on your calendar. Mark it well. Then see how many years go by with no antichrist, no end days, the world goes on regardless of how many get killed in whatever disaster awaits humanity.
Even if some major super major disaster happens and a billion people die, I can assure you there will be lots of end days crap then too but the rest of humanity will go on with no end of the world, just humanity living on a lower level for a long time, maybe like the world events that followed the fall of the Roman empire. No end days happened there either in spite of the fact civilization took a tailspin and people in Europe didn't know not to piss in the streets, which the Romans knew full well a thousand years earlier.
So that led to the plague, killed 1/3 of the population and events like that led to the Crusades and such and still no end days.
I am quite sure THOSE times were a LOT worse than what is happening now, a few thousand killed by terrorists and if it had happened a hundred years ago, you would not even have known about it, not like today where an event happens and all of a sudden.
BRAKING NEWS, violence in the (insert name of target country).
On TV, tablets, cell phones. Everyone on the planet gets the story within hours.
THAT is why you think it is end days.
Publicity.
a thousand years ago, nobody would have even had a newspaper and all stories like this would have had to have passed from mouth to mouth.
Now, you think it's end days when some absolute insane couple shoots up their friends in San Bernardino. Of COURSE it's tragic. And I am in no way condoning such.
I am merely pointing to the press coverage that forces people to take sides all over the world, all at once.
These are not end days. These are NEW days. Never before has world wide communications been so rapid. THAT is why you think its end days.
Those fracturing headlines makes people think, wow, all that tragedy is coming HERE so I better be afraid, better be prepared, I think I will buy an AK47......
It doesn't matter if ALL those people kill each other, the world will go on and it STILL won't be end days.
And THAT would be because the whole useless edifice of religion is 100% man made.
That is why your god is made in man's image, not the other way around.
It is preposterous to think some being from outside our time and space is going to look like a human.
Just another sure sign of the man made nature of religion. Don't make your god look like a rock, it has to look like a REALLY pissed off dude with long hair.