[quote]· Are we really living in the Last Days of life, as we know it, on Planet Earth?
· Is the current economic meltdown setting the stage for a new global currency?
· Is there a secret elite at work behind the scenes to usher in a new world order?
· How is this linked to the much-anticipated return of Jesus Christ to the earth?[/quote] ‘Are We Living in the Last Days?’ GOD TV Asks
The common expression whenever something unlikely or strange happens is, “This is one of the signs of the apocolypse.”
Does anybody know what the signs are, or if there really are any?
I’ve heard world government, world currency, colorful currency, rebuilding the temple, …
[quote]The seven seals is a concept of Christian eschatology, which comes from the Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible, where a book with seven seals is described in Revelation 5:1. The seven seals are opened by The Lamb (presumably Jesus), one by one. Each opening of a seal is followed by some event or series of events.
When each of the first four seals are opened, a horse and its rider appear and are described. These are commonly referred to as the four horsemen / four horses of the Apocalypse.
The opening of the fifth seal is followed by a vision of those that were “slain for the word of God” (Revelation 6:9)
When the sixth seal is opened, there is a “great earthquake,” and signs appear in heaven. (Revelation 6:12-6:14) Also, 144,000 servants of God are “sealed … in their foreheads” in Revelation 7.
When the seventh seal seal is opened, seven angels with trumpets begin to sound, one by one. The events of the seventh seal are further subdivided by the events following each angel sounding their trumpet. This seal is opened in Revelation 8, and the seventh angel does not sound until Revelation 11
Bible scholars associate the seven seals with the seven Spirits of God, and other Bible ‘sevens’. The seals contain symbols commonly interpreted as death, famine, world wars, martyrdom, earthquakes, and the Antichrist. It also states that there will be “seven trumpets” announcing aspects of the “End Times”: mankind being judged, seas turning to blood, sores on people’s bodies, plagues, infertility, and the introduction of “seven bowls” (in King James Version called “vials”). These bowls are a third each of the sea, humankind, water, animal life, ships, crops, and earth, all engulfed by an infinite abyss.[/quote]
Lots of fodder for action movies!
[quote]The seven seals is a concept of Christian eschatology, which comes from the Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible, where a book with seven seals is described in Revelation 5:1. The seven seals are opened by The Lamb (presumably Jesus), one by one. Each opening of a seal is followed by some event or series of events.
When each of the first four seals are opened, a horse and its rider appear and are described. These are commonly referred to as the four horsemen / four horses of the Apocalypse.
The opening of the fifth seal is followed by a vision of those that were “slain for the word of God” (Revelation 6:9)
When the sixth seal is opened, there is a “great earthquake,” and signs appear in heaven. (Revelation 6:12-6:14) Also, 144,000 servants of God are “sealed … in their foreheads” in Revelation 7.
When the seventh seal seal is opened, seven angels with trumpets begin to sound, one by one. The events of the seventh seal are further subdivided by the events following each angel sounding their trumpet. This seal is opened in Revelation 8, and the seventh angel does not sound until Revelation 11
Bible scholars associate the seven seals with the seven Spirits of God, and other Bible ‘sevens’. The seals contain symbols commonly interpreted as death, famine, world wars, martyrdom, earthquakes, and the Antichrist. It also states that there will be “seven trumpets” announcing aspects of the “End Times”: mankind being judged, seas turning to blood, sores on people’s bodies, plagues, infertility, and the introduction of “seven bowls” (in King James Version called “vials”). These bowls are a third each of the sea, humankind, water, animal life, ships, crops, and earth, all engulfed by an infinite abyss.[/quote]
Lots of fodder for action movies![/quote]
I keep hearing wildly divergent interpretations of Revelations.
I wonder if any of that is in those Left Behind movies?
But I thought IrishStu was Santa – I mean Jesus – I’ve been going around telling everybody to keep a potato tucked in their Y-fronts in case Jesus visits them.
