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Understanding Time and End Times Prophecies

The document discusses the concept of time, its definitions, and how it is measured according to the Western calendar. It outlines various historical predictions of the end of the world, highlighting numerous false prophecies and the reactions they incited among people. Additionally, it lists signs of the times based on biblical references, indicating a belief in an impending significant event or change.

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Understanding Time and End Times Prophecies

The document discusses the concept of time, its definitions, and how it is measured according to the Western calendar. It outlines various historical predictions of the end of the world, highlighting numerous false prophecies and the reactions they incited among people. Additionally, it lists signs of the times based on biblical references, indicating a belief in an impending significant event or change.

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Final Times.

What is Time?
Definition: (From Latin tempus).
1.m. Duration of things subject to change.
2.m. Physical magnitude that allows to order the sequence of events, establishing a
past, a present, and a future. Its unit in the International System is the second.
3.m. Part of this sequence.
4 a.m. The time during which someone lives or something happens.

According to our Western Calendar


Unit of Time Equivalence.
Era : Many millennia (without a fixed quantity)
Age: Several centuries (without a fixed amount)
Millennium: 1,000 years
Century: 100 years
Decade : 10 years
Mirror: 5 years
Year : 12 months, 365 days and 4 hours
Month: 28, 29, 30 or 31 days
Week: 7 days
Day : 24 hours
Hour: 60 minutes, 3600 seconds
Minute: 60 seconds

The Times of Man are characterized by being structured, recorded.


The Times of God Have No End. (Gen 1:1 – Rev 1:8)
There are 2 terms that define Time in the scriptures, the original Greek has the word
Chronos and Kairos.
Kronos: denotes a long or short (measurable) span of time, hence the term
Chronology, Stopwatch.
Kairos: era with characteristics (denotes the quality of those times) Acts 1:7

The End Times have had countless episodes throughout the History of mankind.
where many have claimed to have the accuracy of the time in which such will occur
events. But the scriptures point us to Mark 13:32 But of
that day and the hour no one knows, not even the Angels who are in heaven,
not the Son, but the Father.

Summary of some False Prophecies of the End.


90 AD. San Clemente predicted that the world would end in this year.

500 AD. A Roman priest and theologian predicted that the Second Coming would be in 500, based on
in the dimensions of the Ark of Noah.

1000 AD. This year is notable for being one of the years when the most groups became hysterical.
waiting for the return of Christ. Just as it happened in the second millennium, there was a great
popular hysteria waiting for the Lord. The Christians of that time must have known very well
that would not happen because it was clearly established in the Bible that many prophecies
they would have to be fulfilled, for example the rebirth of the state of Israel. During the
In the last months of 999 AD, everyone began to behave well, the best they could.
People began to sell their properties and give them to the poor, thousands of pilgrims
they began to arrive in Jerusalem, the plantations were neglected, etc. The year 1000 arrived and
nothing happened.

This year was marked because it was 1000 years since the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

The 'Letter from Toledo' warned people to hide in caves and in the mountains.
The world would be destroyed and only a few would be saved.

1186 (September 16): The Persian poet ANWARI chose this date as the final day,
after some astrological studies that predicted the grouping of five for that date
planets in the constellation of Libra. Nothing happened.

In 1499, the famous and respected German astrologer JOHANNES STOEFFER, professor of the
University of TUBINGA published 'Ephemerides', announcing that on February 20, 1524
It would be the end of the world due to the alignment of the planets in the sign of Pisces. Given the
the ascendancy of this 'sage' people took it seriously and the rich began to build
arks in the style of NOAH. The theologians of that university also joined the
apocalyptic prophecy and they began to discuss whether those who had boats were
morally obliged to admit those who did not have them. In fact, the eve, February 19
that year, it coincided with a great storm with torrential rain that caused
floods. Panic spread and people stormed the boats. There were shipwrecks and deaths due to
The excess of passage, after 24 hours of anguish, the 21st dawned a splendid day.

1524-1526 Muntzer, a German peasant leader, announced the return of Christ.


would happen in the near future. The wait even brought a confrontation with the troops of
government. Muntzer announced that he would disable the cannonballs of the government troops
with the sleeves of his shirt, as God had promised him. Muntzer and his followers
they were demolished by the authorities' cannons.

1650-1660 The men of the fifth monarchy held that Christ would come and establish a
Theocracy. They armed themselves and attempted to take over England by force. The movement failed and the
Monarchy was restored in 1660.

For the citizens of London, 1666 was not a year of progress. A plague
bubonic plague broke out and killed 100,000 and the Great Fire of London occurred the same year.
It seemed that the world would end for the Londoners. The return of Christ was announced.
would happen without fail especially due to the way the year ended, 1966, which
"represented" the seal of the Beast.

1736 The professor of astronomical geography at the University of Cambridge, WILLIAM


WHISTON, a friend of ISAAC NEWTON, seriously announced from his chair that in the
on the morning of February 14 of that year a comet would appear and, in three days, this world would already
it will not exist due to fire, earthquakes, and massacres. This incredible prophecy had some
credibility as at the announced time the impressive tail was seen for the first time
Halley's Comet. The banks did not open their doors and there was a general paralysis in
all of London. However, the ecclesiastical authorities, in a moment of clarity, refused to
open the doors of Westminster Cathedral for the 'final prayer'. Finally, it all happened
without any major news and WHISTON simply apologized saying that he had done wrong the
calculations, although it cost him the chair.
1941 In the middle of World War, no prophet was needed to enrich the pockets.
of the priests and preachers who took good advantage of coercion to scare their
parishioners and helping them with their belongings.

August 1944: The Chilean professor MUÑOZ FERRADAS announced the end of the world due to
collision of a comet with our satellite. There were escapes to caves, suicides, murders,
drunkenness...

1945 (September 21): The Protestant pastor CHARLES LONG wrote a letter to everyone
the rulers of the world announcing to them the fateful date that a vision had indicated.

1954 By double chance. Large cracks appeared in the Coliseum that seemed
to announce for May 24 the imminent collapse of this monument that, according to
prophecy of the Sibyl the prophetess, would mark the end of the world. There were people asking to enter the
Vatican to await that end and others who preferred to end their days with tremendous
Parties: On the eve, Rome was a parade of drunks. The other prophecy was made by the doctor.
from Michigan State University CHARLES LAUGHEAD announced the message of some
'extraterrestrials' who predicted the end of the world for December 24 of that year. It can
to say that he was the first apocalyptic 'contactee' of the modern era as there have been afterwards
hundreds of imitators.

In 1960, Dr. ELIA BIANCA announced the end of the world due to great floods.
according to the fateful predictions of the 'good brothers of space'. He chose to ascend with some of
his followers to Mont Blanc, the highest peak in Europe, with ten large boats.
inflatable in case the waters rose to those heights.

When the City of Jerusalem was claimed by the Jews in 1967, many
"prophets" announced that the "Age of the Gentiles" had come to an end and that the Return
of Christ would happen within a matter of months.

1999 (July 4) the predictions of the 16th-century clairvoyant Nostradamus are denied
to die, despite his prognosis of an immense catastrophe, which his acolytes took for the
It went by without incidents.

According to the psychic Charles Criswell King, on August 18, 1999, the Second
Coming.

According to Windows, all computers would explode because of its Windows calendar
I did not count the years after 1999, so there would be a general reset to the
humanity. The world indeed ended at 00:00 on January 1, 2000.

Numerology: If you divide 2000 by 3, you will obtain the number


666.6666666666666. This incredible system was used to predict the occurrence of the Rapture.

In 2000 (May 5), the American Richard Noone predicted that an ice dislodgment
from the South Pole, it would cover the planet with trillions of tons of this material. After
seven years, the ice seems to only be melting.

2000-2001 Dr. Dale SumburËru was focused on March 22, 1997, when
according to him... "this date would be when all the dramatic events that would lead us to the great
"Tribulation and the return of Christ would begin" According to their calculations, the return would then be
around July 2001.

On June 6 of the same year, the world would cease to exist due to coincidence.
calendar of (06/06/06).

2012 (December 21) some believe that this 'final' date ([Link].0 in the calendar
Maya Long Count) is an announcement of the end. Others, which only contemplates the end of a world
and its replacement with another. It would be a shame if it overshadowed the Olympic Games.

2033: According to Pope XXIII, this would be the last year upon the completion of 'two millennia plus the age of'
salvador", meaning 2 Millennia years after the death of Jesus

2085 (June 11) some scientists calculated that comet Catalina has a
possibility of colliding with Earth in 300,000. It has a diameter of one kilometer.

3786Nostradamus continues to show an invincible gift. After nothing happened in 1999,


New readings of it assert that it will end in 3786. Or in 3797.

Today more than ever the Enemy of our souls is devising all kinds of strategies
so that the chosen may be lost, but the believer must not sleep for we do not ignore the
tricks, deceit, fraudulent truths, and all kinds of deceptions so that the Christian...
tumble and slide of the Rock which is our Lord Christ, therefore watch, persist in what
you have believed, encourage one another by building yourselves up in the word, study it and
You will avoid failing. Isaiah 5:13 Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they had no
knowledge; and her glory perished from hunger, and her multitude dried up from thirst.

FromtheseversesandotherpassagesintheNewTestament,wecangatherthefollowing
signsofthetimes

Increase of wars and rumors of war (Mt. 24:6,7).

2. Extreme materialism (2Tim. 3:1, 2).

3. Anarchy (Pr. 30:11-14).

4. Demographic explosion (Gn .6:1).

5. Increase in speed and knowledge (Dan. 12:4).

6. Apostasy from the Christian faith (2 Thess. 2:3; 1 Tim. 4:1, 3, 4; 2 Tim. 3:5; 4:3,4; 2 Pet. 3:3,4).

[Link](Gen.6:1-4;1Tim.4:1-3).

8. Unification of the religious, political, and economic systems of the world (Rev. 13:4-8,16,17;
17:1-18;18:1-24.

9. The rise of Russia as a world power (Ez.38—39).


10. The absence of talented leadership among nations (facilitating the takeover of power by
theAntichrist).

[Link](apossiblecatalystforthenecessaryunificationofcertainsystems
worldwide).

12. The universal use of drugs (Rev. 9:21) (the word "sorceries" here can also be
torefertodrugs).

[Link] sexual activity (Ro. 1:17-32; 2 P. 2:10, 14; 3:3; Jud. v. 1:18).

[Link](abortion).Thephrase"without
"natural affection" occurs twice in the New Testament (Rom. 1:31; 2 Tim. 3:3). The last one
It is definitely linked to the last days.

[Link] (GN.6:11,13;Ap.9:21).

[Link](2Tim.4:3,4;2Pet.3:3,4,16).

[Link](Ps.2:1-3).

18. Blasphemy (2Tim.3:2;2Pet.3:3;Judev.18).

[Link] (2 Timothy 3:2,4.

[Link] (1Tim.4:2).

[Link] (2 P. 2:3).

[Link] (Acts9:20;13:11-14).
[Link] (Mt. 24:5,11; 2P.2:1,2).

24. False claims of peace (1Thessalonians5:1-3)

25. Rapid advancements in technology (Gen. 4:22).

26. Major political and religious upheavals in the Holy Land (Mt.24:32-34).

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