Evangelical leaders are cheering the bloodshed in Gaza, believing the Israel-Hamas war will lead to the second coming of Jesus Christ.
  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    431·
    11 months ago

    The rapture has been coming any day now for two thousand years. It’s funny too because the Bible states itself that nobody knows when the second coming will happen and yet these idiots still try to predict it

    Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

    • local_taxi_fix@lemmy.world
      191·
      11 months ago

      After talking about end times and signs of end times the bible literally says

      Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. (Matthew 24:34).

      Christians need to read their own book.

    • Minarble@aussie.zone
      151·
      11 months ago

      It’s already happened and nobody noticed.

      A couple of hippies disappeared no one else was worthy.

    • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works
      41·
      11 months ago

      I rarely chime in on these sorts of things, but maybe the bible was talking about AGI. ahahaha. We have no idea if it is really coming and at what hour. Might already be here. The Bible never said the Son of Man would be a human and AGI is our offspring.

        • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works
          11·
          11 months ago

          Right. I have been saying this all over the place when I see humans doing awful things. I am not worried about AGI or ASI as much as I am worried about humans destroying the planet one way or another. Just ask the rest of the animal kingdom who they rather have in change.

  • Chais@sh.itjust.works
    392·
    11 months ago

    Of course they do. It’s what they live for. All their focus is on the afterlife. Their actual life is just an annoyance that comes first.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
      11·
      11 months ago

      Nah man, if it was they’d be more well-behaved. Mortal life is where you discriminate against women and minorities.

  • frezik@midwest.social
    23·
    11 months ago

    When it doesn’t happen, I’m sure they’ll all realize their folly and drop religion. This is definitely how it will go down.

  • zaph@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    11 months ago

    They did that in the 90’s too. I remember the left behind series getting really popular because of it.

    • taiyang@lemmy.world
      5·
      11 months ago

      I heard a podcast making fun of those stupid movies. Were they actually popular? I’m too young to know.

      • comador @lemmy.world
        2·
        11 months ago

        I graduated in the early 90s and can say from my memory that while most people didn’t pay attention to them, there was a massive amount of “End of the World” cults like Heavens Gate all the way to even mainstream Christianity saying the end was neigh. There was as much “eye rolling” then as there is today on the subject.

  • molave@reddthat.com
    12·
    11 months ago

    21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

    Matthew 7

  • Drusas@kbin.social
    81·
    11 months ago

    If only we could all be so lucky that it is the end of the world for evangelicals.

  • GiddyGap@lemm.ee
    7·
    11 months ago

    This guy has made a lot of money for himself saying these things. Doesn’t make sense to stop now.

  • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
    62·
    11 months ago

    AFAIK for their end of the world Israel needs to be destroyed or something? Not gonna happen with the limp dicks in power in the Arab world, that’s for sure.

    • Fisk400@feddit.nu
      3·
      11 months ago

      First Israel needs to properly form and when it’s formed god will destroy it and kill all the Jews inside its borders. That will kick off the end of the world and all the evangelists will go directly heaven while the rest of the world suffers as the seas boil or something.