Topic: end times soon
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Tue 04/21/09 12:32 AM

what do u guys think? for those of u paying attention about whats going on in the world.


John Piper says that he doesn't think that the second coming is any time soon.

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Tue 04/21/09 09:45 AM



Ecclesiastes 3:15

That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

What that means, is what has passed will return. So that rebuts your theory, Mirror..in my estimation.

Depending on which version of the Holy Bible, you use, the wording may be slightly different, but it means what it means.

Might i suggest a Strom's Concordance ? This Concordance breaks down every passage, and how it could be interpreted in both the Greek and Hebrew language..

Simply put, What was will be again..That is my interpretation.
flowerforyou Interesting Mark.bigsmile Thank you.bigsmile I will check that out.bigsmile


It's quite expensive, but a great tool. The most renowned Bible scholars, and study groups rely on the Strom's concordance. There is also the Quatrains of Nostradamus, one could spend a lifetime..and never really know when the end time will come.

My dad researched the Bible quite a bit. He had more knowledge concerning Parables..In other words, how one passage relates to others, how one event must occur, before another can..interesting stuff.
bigsmile I agree. bigsmile Interesting stuff drinker

7z3r05's photo
Tue 04/21/09 11:59 AM
god i hope. how exciting would that be?

MirrorMirror's photo
Tue 04/21/09 12:29 PM

:smile: We cannot just keep on going on doing whatever we want to do, and not taking responsibility for our actions, and expecting "Superman" to come flying down out of the sky and "save the world".:smile: The human race needs to grow up and take responsibility for our choices.:smile:"God" helps those that help themselves.:smile:We have the capacity to forgive and be forgiven.:heart: Each and every one of us.:heart: Jesus said so.flowerforyou Jesus showed us the way to make this world a better place.:heart:

MirrorMirror's photo
Tue 04/21/09 06:17 PM
It seems strange to have to lie,
About a world so bright.
And tell instead a made-up story,
From the world of night.

I wish, that I could really tell you,
All the things that happened to me
And all that I have seen,
A world full of people their hearts full of joy,
Cities of light with no fear of war,
And thousands of creatures with happier lives,
And dreams of a future with meaning and no need to lie,
No need to hate,
No need to hide.



:heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart:

MirrorMirror's photo
Tue 04/28/09 01:04 PM
bigsmile End-Timersflowerforyou




bigsmile Is the Swine Flu one of the plagues of Revelation?bigsmile

MirrorMirror's photo
Tue 04/28/09 03:28 PM
huh Why wont any of you people answer the question?huh



laugh Guess I was right about you "end timers"laugh


:smile: All talk and no substance:smile:

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Thu 04/30/09 07:11 PM
Actually the book of Daniel and various potions of the psalms contain end time prophecy as well.

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Thu 04/30/09 07:15 PM


In the last days there will be very difficult times.

People will love only themselves and their money.

They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful.

They will consider nothing sacred.

They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control.

They will be cruel and hate what is good.

They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God.

They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly.

Stay away from people like that!


2 Timothy 3:1-5 NLT


Sounds a lot like today.



It sounds like any day - even 100 years ago. Humans are not perfect and they have always acted that way.


100 years? Sounds like the history of the human race!

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Thu 04/30/09 07:18 PM

Actually the book of Daniel and various potions of the psalms contain end time prophecy as well.
bigsmile Is it happening now?bigsmileIf so,please provide me at least 3 points of evidence.flowerforyou

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Thu 04/30/09 07:24 PM


Actually the book of Daniel and various potions of the psalms contain end time prophecy as well.
bigsmile Is it happening now?bigsmileIf so,please provide me at least 3 points of evidence.flowerforyou


MM,
You are going to have a long wait.

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Thu 04/30/09 07:26 PM
Edited by MirrorMirror on Thu 04/30/09 07:38 PM



Actually the book of Daniel and various potions of the psalms contain end time prophecy as well.
bigsmile Is it happening now?bigsmileIf so,please provide me at least 3 points of evidence.flowerforyou


MM,
You are going to have a long wait.
laugh I've begun to notice that. happy I can't get a straight answer out of anyone.bigsmile They just say stuff like "The End is near" but won't backup anything they say with any evidence.bigsmile

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Thu 04/30/09 07:49 PM
Mirror, I find it interesting that the OP has already deactivated his account since he couldn't convince the non believers of his ideas. I guess his end of time on this site was here!

MirrorMirror's photo
Thu 04/30/09 08:12 PM

Mirror, I find it interesting that the OP has already deactivated his account since he couldn't convince the non believers of his ideas. I guess his end of time on this site was here!
bigsmile He was actually a pretty cool kid.bigsmileI am just asking for a direct answer from anyone that believes it is the "end of the world".flowerforyou Lots of people say that but no one can provide any evidence it seems.frown

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Thu 04/30/09 08:22 PM


Mirror, I find it interesting that the OP has already deactivated his account since he couldn't convince the non believers of his ideas. I guess his end of time on this site was here!
bigsmile He was actually a pretty cool kid.bigsmileI am just asking for a direct answer from anyone that believes it is the "end of the world".flowerforyou Lots of people say that but no one can provide any evidence it seems.frown


New Flash!!!

Mosquitoes are biting outside like crazy!

It has rained four out of the last five days!!

Our president is black!!!

It that good enough? What do I win if I was the only entrant?

MirrorMirror's photo
Thu 04/30/09 08:27 PM



Mirror, I find it interesting that the OP has already deactivated his account since he couldn't convince the non believers of his ideas. I guess his end of time on this site was here!
bigsmile He was actually a pretty cool kid.bigsmileI am just asking for a direct answer from anyone that believes it is the "end of the world".flowerforyou Lots of people say that but no one can provide any evidence it seems.frown


New Flash!!!

Mosquitoes are biting outside like crazy!

It has rained four out of the last five days!!

Our president is black!!!

It that good enough? What do I win if I was the only entrant?
laugh lollaugh



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Thu 04/30/09 08:41 PM
There actually are some serious events that are brewing. They may not happen but they have a lot of people worried.

The super volcano under Yellowstone is acting up. It blows every seventy thousand years or so (I think). The park has recently shifted several feet.

The thermal engine that powers the Gulfstream which distributes heat across the planet is powering down due to insufficient arctic ice melt.

The temperature of the oceans is rising; possibly enough to release the vast stores of methane hydrate. The methane release would increase global warming by a very very very large factor due to the fact that methane is a far more efficient greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

PBS has done some good programs on NOVA on these topics.

metalwing's photo
Thu 04/30/09 08:49 PM
Just for fun, here is some methane hydrate information. It is not a topic many people are much aware. The energy content could fuel the world if we could figger out how to collect it. Note it could have ended the ice age in about twenty years!! That's end of days kind of stuff!!

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Atmospheric Methane
Oceanic Burp Warmed Earth

Researchers have found evidence to support a theory that an abrupt warming of the Earth 55 million years ago was caused by the sudden release from the ocean of frozen deposits of methane.

Core samples and soundings taken off the east coast of Florida indicate that massive amounts of methane, stored as frozen hydrate in sediments on the ocean floor was feed at about the same time as a rapid warming of the global climate. The finding, published in the journal Science, supports a theory that the release of gas hydrates caused what is called the latest Paleocene thermal maxim. This was a period 55.5 million years ago when ocean temperatures soared by 7 to 14 degrees Fahrenheit within only about 1,000 years, a short period by geologic standards.

A warming trend on land opened migration routes for animals and led to a rapid evolution of more advanced species. The first primates, for instance, appeared during this period.

"This event allowed primitive mammals to both radiate and to evolve into more modern mammals", said Miriam Katz of Rutgers University, the first author of the paper.

But Katz said that while land animals thrived, there was a massive die-off of 55 percent of some deep-sea species. This has been blamed on changes in water temperature and chemistry.

"Nobody has been able to explain this sudden climate change, until the methane theory was proposed", she said.

Release of methane may have contributed to the rapid warming that ended the last ice age in less than 20 years about 13,000 years ago. Until recent studies of ice cores by scientists from the University of New Hampshire it was assumed that the melting of massive glaciers took place over a period of many hundreds of years.

Overall, methane levels have increased dramatically over the past 200 years, said Dr. David Etheridge of CSIRO's Division of Atmospheric Research. Its concentration in the atmosphere now averages 1,700 parts per billion, compared to 700 parts per billion 200 years ago. Methane levels were fairly stable up until the industrial revolution 200 years ago, said Dr. Etheridge. This suggests that human activities such as burning of biomass, fossil fuel exploration and distribution, rice farming, livestock and landfills were the main source of the increase.

Since 1970, the average arctic temperature has risen about 5 degrees. The permafrost now thaws enough each summer to release methane.

Atmospheric methane increased 135% during the 20th century


Additional Sources of Information:

* Methane hydrates could strongly amplify global warming
* U.S. in a Race to Unlock Methane Hydrates
* Don't forget methane, climate experts say

metalwing's photo
Thu 04/30/09 08:54 PM
More scary stuff.

YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANO GETTING READY TO BLOW ITS CORK

updated 1-5-09

compiled by Dee Finney

over 500 Earthquakes at Yellowstone in
the last week
18 earthquakes on January 2, 2009
12 earthquakes on January 1, 2009
58 earthquakes on December 31, 2008
23 Earthquakes on December 30, 2008
38 Earthquakes on December 29, 2008
103 Earthquakes on December 28, 2008



Posted by geologist Christopher C. Sanders on January 1, 2009.

"I am advising all State officials around Yellowstone National Park for a potential State of Emergency. In the last week over 252 earthquakes have been observed by the USGS. We have a 3D view on the movement of magma rising underground. We have all of the pre warning signs of a major eruption from a super volcano. - I want everyone to leave Yellowstone National Park and for 200 miles around the volcano caldera."

NEW YELLOWSTONE WEBCAM

RECENT QUAKES IN YELLOWSTONE

metalwing's photo
Thu 04/30/09 09:02 PM
Thirdly, we have the single event that stabilizes the world's weather.


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Gulf Stream Slowing - Europe Doomed


The Gulf Stream, which raises temperatures in Europe by 10C, and goes up past Greenland to Scandinavia, has slowed by 30% in the last twelve years, according to the article, and current itself has slowed by 6m tonnes of water per second over the same period.


MM,

Is this what you were looking for?