Armageddon..

Bibliography (What the abbreviations mean)
Thief = Thief in the Night by William Sears, George Ronald press, 1977
99R = 99 Reasons Why No One Knows When Christ Will Return by B.J. Oropeza, InterVarsity Press, 1994
SSA = Soothsayers of the Second Advent by William M. Alnor, Fleming H. Revell Company, 1989
Doom = Doomsday Delusions by C. Marvin Pate and Calvin B Haines, Jr., InterVarsity Press, 1995
TEOT = The End of Time by Damian Thompson, University Press of New England, 1996
Armada = The Armada by Garrett Mattingly, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959
DISP = Dispensational Truth by Clarence Larkin, Rev. Clarence Larkin Est - publisher, 1918
Apoc = Apocalypses by Eugen Weber, Harvard University Press, 1999
Bury = Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970
TSOR = The Sleep of Reason by Derek Jarrett, Harper and Row, 1989
TEOTW = The End of the World by Otto Friedrich, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1982
Hand = Handbook of Denominations in the United States - New Eighth Edition by Frank S. Mead, Abingdon Press, 1985
Brit = Encyclopaedia Brittanica
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Not exactly.

The phrase, "coming in his kingdom" has been interpreted by theologians as referring to the establishment of the evangelical movement beginning at Pentecost, when the apostles were the first to acknowledge Jesus' divine identity, and began to preach the Gospel. Below is a commentary from SearchGodsWord.org, a search engine and reference tool I use quite frequently:

 

Its that fucker in Iran. He's going to end it all.

 

Nah, he's the next to go.

 

Well, if I ever see him in a blue turban (if my memory of Nostrodamus serves), I'm hitting Best Buy with my credit card and not giving a damn.

 

i always thought it would be funny to write a story about how armageddon already happened and we missed it.

 

Bet that would go over real well in the churches.

 

King Abdullah II

 

Personally I do not worry or even think much about it. I have made my peace with God and I am ready for the end whenever it comes whether that is sometime later today in a car accident or that is sixty years from now in a nursing home or if the rapture happens during my lifetime. I have never really understood the facination some christians have with end of time prophecy. I think the bible says somewhere "no man knows the day or the hour of Christ's return" so why try to set a date.

I think most preachers who push the end of days message do it to scare people into getting right with God. I am not sure why that is effective though because we are all going to die eventually and we do not know when it will be.