Twenty-five quotes PLUS one BONUS QUOTE about the end times!
Most of the following quotes are by NON-BELIEVERS (the reader can decide for himself how much mind to pay them), BUT several are from the Word of God (the ONLY source of truth in today’s world).
Although the non-believer’s quotes are FACTUALLY wrong, they ARE interesting to read and think about–which is NOT the same thing as “correct.”
Twenty-five quotes PLUS one BONUS QUOTE about the end times!
“Physical and spiritual truths are parallel. We use the physical to understudy and understand the spiritual.”
—Mercy Okum
“The Kingdom of God is coming closer each year whether you believe it or not.”
—Aiyaz Uddin
“Even my Buddhist friends have been feeling despair and when they go bad, you know the end is nigh.”
—Anne Lamott
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.”
–1TIMOTHY 4:1-5
“Several have told me that Antichrist is already born. One puts him in Pennsylvania, another in Illinois, a third in Iraq; a fourth has informed me that he already has temples in the four corners of the earth, one corner being Chicago and another Los Angeles. Christ has said, “If they say, lo, here is Christ or there, go ye not out to look.” If I err not, this means we should not bother with these rumors. When Antichrist comes, the whole world will know him, the elect for what he is, the rest for what he is not.”
— R. Gerald Culleton
“The end will come with the return of Jesus Christ…That is why a Christian can be an optimist. That is why a Christian can smile in the midst of all that is happening…We know what the end will be: the triumph of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
—Billy Graham
“In this perilous times, we have more preachers of the Word than doers of the Word. In other words, Not all preachers are doers.
May God may you and I be doers of the Word.”
—Abegunde Sunday O.
“I can tell you my view of the end-times in one word: Kingdom.”
—J.A.Hardgrave
“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”
–2TIMOTHY 3:1-5
“Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.”
—Christopher Hitchens
“Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.”
—Nikolai Berdyaev
“The Bible tells us that the state of the world will grow darker as we near the end of the age.”
—Billy Graham
“The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of the peace. The disciples will be sorely tempted to desert their Lord. But the end is also near, and they must hold on and persevere until it comes. Only he will be blessed who remains loyal to Jesus and his word until the end.”
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
—Matthew McConaughey
“You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.”
—Brian Tracy
“Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.”
—Heinrich Heine
“There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.”
—Neil Gaiman
“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
—T.S. Eliot
“It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.”
—Hugh Howey
“Armageddon is, moreover, the ultimate problem-solver. A wrathful God doesn’t just purge Earth of its sinners but credit-card debt and dead-end jobs. For those of us who subscribe to a particular theology that the end will come sans horsemen, trumpeting angels, or Yoda vanishing acts, the apocalypse is also something that — if we’re delusional enough to believe in our own exceptionalism — can be survived. The smug satisfaction of knowing you were right about catastrophic climate change is great, but base anarchist fantasies are better. The zombie apocalypse isn’t about things that eat brains. It’s that school’s out forever.”
—Ben Guarino
“That’s the thing about the collapse of civilization … it never happens according to plan — there’s no slavering horde of zombies. No actinic flash of thermonuclear war. No Earth-shuddering asteroid. The end comes in unforeseen ways; the stock market collapses, and then the banks, and then there is no food in the supermarkets, or the communications system goes down completely and inevitably, and previously amiable co-workers find themselves wrestling over the last remaining cookie that someone brought in before all the madness began.”
—Marc A. Rayner
“And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.”
–Matthew 24:4-6
“You guys do realize it’s the good guys that get left behind, right?”
—J.A.Hardgrave
“I believe that this world, as we know it, will come to an end…This is not fanciful imagination but the clear and repeated testimony of the Bible.”
—Billy Graham
“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 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.”
–2PETER 3:3-4
BONUS QUOTE
“Any claim to tell from world events when the ‘second coming’ will occur is a claim to know more than Jesus himself (Mark 13.32). Jesus himself is the reason why people should turn from idolatry, injustice and all wickedness. The cross is where all the world’s sufferings and horrors have been heaped up and dealt with. The resurrection is the launch of God’s new creation, of his sovereign saving rule on earth – starting with the physical body of Jesus himself.”
—N.T. Wright
HAS the reader had his mind changed AT ALL about ANY of the points made in these quotes?
It is not YET too late–although time is surely running out: there is still a LITTLE time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.
DOES the reader believe he is saved?
Make Your Calling and Election Sure: End Times Survival
DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?
Time is Running Out: Today is the Day of Salvation
THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST
“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. ”
—1 Corinthians 15:1-8
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16
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[Portions of this piece appeared originally in End Times Prophecy Headlines: August 14, 2023.]
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