This is not the end of the world, according to Christians who study the end of the world

[yortsed snacilbuper]

Chuck Pierce’s son was concerned, like a lot of other people looking out on a world of ransacked grocery stores and canceled sports seasons and eerie lines of people standing six feet apart from one another. So he asked his dad: “Is this the end of the world?”

That’s a question you can ask when you have a dad who calls himself an apostolic prophet and leads a prophetic ministry. “No,” said Pierce, who is based in Corinth, Tex. “The Lord’s shown me through 2026, so I know this isn’t the end of time.”

The worldwide upheaval caused by the fast-spreading novel coronavirus pandemic has many people reaching for their Bibles, and some starting to wonder: Could this be a sign of the apocalypse?

It sure might feel apocalyptic. But not if you ask Christian writers and pastors who have spent years focusing their message on the Book of Revelation — the New Testament’s final book. It lays out a lurid, poetic vision of the End Times, in which many evangelical leaders interpret it to mean that Jesus will return to Earth, believers will be raptured to heaven and those left behind will suffer seven dreadful years of calamities. Most of these Revelation-focused prophesiers don’t see coronavirus as heralding the Second Coming and the end of life on Earth as we know it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-is-not-the-end-of-the-world-according-to-christians-who-study-the-end-of-the-world/ar-BB11jYQm?ocid=msedgntp

[ZZenith]

1. Who gives a fuck what these nutcases think?

Seriously. MSN is a waste of electrons.

[mwooldri]

2. I thought it was a settled thing. No one knows the time or place. NT.

[dweller]

3. 2026 ?

you must be a very petty apostolic prophet .. that's like the day after yesterday
to the big time end is near prophetic apostles..
maybe a crash 40 days/nights self isolation is due for you ..
🙆🏽

✌🏼

[marble falls]

4. Now I am worried, ...

For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

1 Thessalonians 5:2


But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.

Matthew 24:36


Where are they getting their information???

[Girard442]

5. I grew up in an Evangelical family.

For as long as I can remember, the world was about to end just any day now. I'm just mildly amused by peole who think it might end, but I'm scared by people who think it's their duty to help it happen. They should take out their death wish on themselves and leave the rest of us out of it.

[dchill]

6. Jesus.

Lord knows.

Dear God, pass the Koolaid.

[SharonAnn]

7. Of course not. It would end their gravy train. Need more time to fleece the suckers.

[Caliman73]

8. Ridiculous.

Revelation was written about the Roman Empire by a guy who was high on ethylene gas.

Plus, if the idiots read their sacred text, they are explicitly commanded not to try to guess about the return of Christ but just to be good to each other in preparation for that event.

[VOX]

12. Precisely! The birth of Christianity was a reaction to Roman occupation and oppression.

And Revelations uses code words (“Babylon,” among many others) to represent ROME and to describe its downfall.

[Ferrets are Cool]

9. "They" wouldn't know what the "end of the world" looked like

even if the orangeanus was squatting over their prone body, shitting in their face.

Lord of the Rings was a MUCH better written fantasy novel.

[hatrack]

10. Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah BLAH

"Not to worry, son! I have it on good authority (wink wink) that it won't be for another 6 years."

Who the fuck cares what these assholes think?

This country has been self-medicating with magical thinking, manufactured substance-free images and wishful bullshit for decades, and what has it gotten us as reality kicks down the front door?

A bunch of ambulatory Thoughts And Prayers (TM) Pez dispensers like Trump, Pence, DeVos and Redfield, who couldn't manage a fucking laundromat.

[ret5hd]

11. What about people that study mermaids and unicorns?

[gibraltar72]

13. But Pence, Pompeo and Barr are trying.

[lindysalsagal]

14. What's the new date?

I missed the last bunch.

[sarisataka]

15. They should read it again

Then I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, "Come." I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.

— Revelation 6:1–2New American Standard Bible (NASB)

The first rider is often interpreted to be pestilence.