The Antichrist and current affairs, page 1

Originally posted by ohyouknow
Forgive me if this is in the wrong place but I thought, with the topic I'm about to discuss and it dealing with a Biblical topic that maybe it would go here.

Over the past few years I've found myself out of touch with my religion (I'd consider myself a non-practicing Mormon) due to life kicking my family when we're down time and a time again. It started when my father was let go from GM which spiraled out into loss of job after job and seventeen months of unemployment which branched off into homelessness. My family has kept their faith but I feel like I've completely lost mine.

This leads me to think of all the other people out there who feel just as hopeless as I do. Almost as if praying has lost its meaning and that we need something more to save us from what this world is becoming.

Natural disasters. Economic collapse. Governments we feel we can no longer trust. The fear of war, famine, the overall hardship that just doesn't seem to end. It's all leading up to something big.

When I was an active religious person I was always interested in Revolutions. I've been interested in the end of the world scenarios since I was younger but I've never in my life felt so close to those verses as I have now. I know the Bible states that the time of the end of days isn't something that will be known but the events that are happening day to day feel like we're being set up for something more. The game has been paid out, pawns ready to start we're just missing the rest of the players..

If anything if a charismatic leader were to show up now, with all the right words and the right ideas, the Antichrist, I could easily see the masses welcoming that with opened arms. Again, this is all said in the Bible on how things are suppose to go down but, still, it's just a feeling.

I hope I'm not the only one out there thinking this.

Thank you for reading.

Bear in mind that these passages were written in a symbolic fashion, which enables the perpetuators of these beleifs to convince those living at almost anytime, that the end is nigh! Imagine at the breaking of WW1 and WW2, or going back further in time even, with the plagues of the first few Christian centuries. These apocalyptic verses regarding end times are neither original to Christianity (See Persian Zoroastrianism and the Anti-Mithras) nor do they specify with any clarity the actual time when these events are supposed to unfold. They are built upon human fear, and written in such a manner that they can be effectively used to manipulate any believer living in any time, (Look at all of the end of the world prophecies that did not come to fruitiion i.e Lindsay).
We may also note a rather conspiratorial aspect of the whole apocalypse trap! It is always the ones who herald its coming that we are led to believe offer exclusive salvation from that impending doom which lay on the horizon. Is not that a little suspicious? How much more convincing would it be if a Christian were to say; God spoke to me and he said we must all hurry and convert to Hinduism! WoW! Now that guy would put the wind up me!! But no it is always, "We see blood and death on the horizon, it will come sooooon!!" "Ohh Father, how ever will we be saved from it?" "Join us or die horribly!!!" What a scam!