End Times

I'm trying to get a grip on the sub-cultural fascination that has become so much of the mainstream in the last 6-8 years. With all the hoopla over the Pope, wars in the Middle East, etc. End Times: The Craze is at the highest point I can remember since the big Hal Lindsay days of the early '70's

For my Christian friends, how many of you view Revelations and Biblical prophecy as literal? Do you welcome the signs of the End Times? Do you wish the End Times to occur during your lifetime?

 

isn't there always somebody talking about the end times? the 1980 classic "the man who saw tomorrow" was huge when i was a kid. in the 1980's it might have shifted away from biblical destruction, but people were still very interested in the world ending. in the 90's people even freaked about computers ending the world when they couldn't figure out if it was 2000 or 1900.

 

End times are always big, but the Biblical stuff hits about every 30 years or so. Lindsay's Late Great Planet Earth was the first big Pop Culture hit for it that I can recall in my lifetime. Now the Tim Lahae series of books and Revelations on TV, etc, it seems that Biblical prophecy is again a big Pop Culture touchstone. I view it as different from the Nostradamus/y2k fads because of the deeper religions underpinnings.

 

I figure it's gonna happen reardless and nothing I do is gonna change it so why worry.

 

I'm surprised that the End Times craze is bigger now than it was before the turn of the millenium.

 

A pastor I know once told me he was a "Pan-Tribulationist" -- whatever happens, it'll all "pan out".

I'm with you, vp. It'd be nice to have a heads-up, but I don't plan to be around for it anyway. And if I am, I know what I'm supposed to do, so it's all good.

 

I would think a lot of it has to do with all the things you mentioned (plus a few more) happening in such close proximity. And Science's remark about the millenium probably was pretty close. I think that may have been one of the initial catalysts to the current ongoing discussions.

Personally, I think some of it is, some of it isn't. I think a lot of it may be figurative -- a way of compacting a lot of detail into a small amount of text. That's something found throughout the Bible.

The End Times will be terrible, and I wish they weren't going to happen at all. But I wish for the return of Christ every day. Sort of a Catch-22 thing.

 

Everybody wants to go to Heaven,but nobody wants to die to get there.

 

christians have been waiting for the end times since the beginning times, haven't they? so for 2000 years or so, christians have been saying "the end is near!" and so far, they've been wrong.

 

but one day...