Yeah,
a tweak to Israel becoming a nation,
People have been talking about that for around a hundred years at least.
Fact:
*May, 1948: State of Israel was declared.
*The US and the Soviet Union were the first two nations to recognize it.
*The Arab League immediately declared war on it.
56 years to be exact.
The process started way before 1948.
a tweak to the whole world being able to see the 2 wittnesses lying on the street dead (TV)
That's been possible since the invention of the printing press.
Rev 11:9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
The slowness of newspapers cannot be overstated here. While papers could have made this possible, the likelyhood of Satillite TV seems to fit with better accuracy.
And I dare say whatever comes along in another 20 years time will seem to fit better than that.
a tweak to technology being avaible to mark or implant individulas, enabling them to make purchases, and be tracked by a world wide network.
You can find equivalents. I dare say people said the same when standardised passports were introduced, or when registers of births, deaths & marriages started to be centralised at Somerset House instead of just being kept in the parish church.
Not on the level we have today. The ease of a global network cannot be overstated again. Wireless transactions with a micro-chip under the skin. A world netword is in place that would enable one man for the first time to be able to track individuals world wide. Try as you may to find equivalents of past, they don't come close.
You miss the point completely. The point is, that the claims you are making could have been made at any point in the past, and (at the time) would have appeared equally convincing. In another 100 years time, your indicators will look equally pathetic against whatever is happening then.
a tweak to an age when many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Buying a ticket to fly anywhere in the world within a few hours, and knowledge and technology increasing on an unpresidented scale.
Trains revolutionised travel a couple of hundred years ago.
The introduction of the Boeing 707 in 1955 made inter-continental travel a reality (albeit for those in the upper income bracket). In 1970, the arrival of the Boeing 747 truly opened international travel to the masses. Aviation has come a long way from the humble flight of the Orville brothers.
While trains no doubt had their place in history as revolutionsing travel, doesn't even come close to powered flight. Consider how long men have been walking and riding horses. Then consider how quickly this changed when the train, car and planes came along. The last hundred years alone cannot be overstated in how technology has exponentially increased.
Rubbish. Canals and railways made possible the industrial revolution - they made at least as big a change to the world as electronic communications have, it just took a bit longer.
a tweak to the world being consumed with Israel's peace and security.
The world has been concerned with this since the setting up of a state of Israel was first mooted around ah hundred years ago.
56 years ago. And every news broadcast that we view, it is spoken of. No matter what happens in the world, even the war in Iraq...news always consisntantly turns all eyes towards Israel faithfully.
1. Thats a very american perspective - the rest of the world doesn't have America's obsession with Israel. Israel is only the focus
because people like you see it as
the issue. To use it as proof is, therefore, a circular argument.
2. Like I said before - the nationhood of israel was an issue
way before 1948.
a tweak to all the leaders speaking of globalization.
Like globalization is a new phenomenon - think about the Roman Empire, or the British Empire.
I doubt the Roman empire was too concerned about America's in their day.
And?? The Roman empire was "global" in terms relevent then, and the British empire really was global.
Note here, we've only talked about the MOST plausable of your "signs". The rest (earthquakes, wars, etc) really have been going on without cesation throughout history.
Here I must agree. But considering how far we have come in just the last 100 years, my critical thinking cannot overlook the obvious. Bible prophecy is deeper than it is wide. To misjudge the signs is to say...
2Pe 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
2Pe 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
2Pe 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
The signs of his coming are glaring. Being willingly ignorant of them is warned about in scripture.
People have been making identical predictions since the 1st century AD, based on exactly the same information. So far, the scoffers have been proved right.
Maranatha!
The only thing you've said that I can agree with.
