What is the duration of the “Last Days”? When is the start date and end date?
What is the duration of the “Last Days”?
Because I have so many words…
Because I have so many words…
What is the duration of the “Last Days”? When is the start date and end date?
The problem: This is all cyclic.
I agree that everything is cyclic.
God has returned time and time again in His love for humanity (basically, His inability to abandon us) with covenants with mankind:
First, with Adam and Eve (couple); then Noah (family); then Abraham (tribe); then Moses (nation); then David (kingdom); and ultimately through Jesus (the entire world).
And since then, God has still saved society time and time again when all seemed lost.
We are at such a time now. I still think God will save society again. It’s not a blind hope but based on thin threads everywhere that, when bound together, make a strong rope. This is not the result of some blind optimism, as I am naturally a very pessimistic (apocalyptic) person.
We are on the cusp of a tremendous and life-changing renewal. That, or the end of the world is nigh.
There is no middle ground.
The Last Days are not the same as the tribulation. The tribulation is a reference to 7 years that constitute the wrath of God poured out on the earth. This is what the Book of Revelation speaks about. See Rev 6:17. However, the apostle Paul says this, “For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ…” 1 Thessalonians 5:9.
We are witnessing the setting up of the events leading to the tribulation . I am sure that in the Dark Age, when Rome was killing Christians, Jews and Catholics, that many thought that this was the tribulation. Nope. That was not the wrath of God. That was the wrath of Satan and the wrath of man who are gods of a sort, but not the God who made all things.