The End is Near

  There have been many predictions as to when the world would end. Every generation since the resurrection of Christ has believed it was living in the end times, many using scripture to support their belief.
 
 Tyconius, 370 – 390, predicted Christ’s return based on Christ’s time in the tomb. He equated each day that Christ spent in the grave to 100 years, so since Christ spent three and a half days in the tomb He said Christ would Return 350 years after His Resurrection, in 381. He would outlive his prediction without Christ’s return.

  Joachim of Fiore, 1135-1202, Said that three ages would define God’s Reign each lasting 1260 years (Using 1260 days or 42 months, numbers found in Revelation 11:3, 12:6 to equal 1260 years.). The age of the Father (Old Testament), The Age of the Son (New Testament), and The age of the Spirit (Millennial Reign). Even though He never set a time for the Millennial Reign of Christ, his followers believed it would begin in 1260 marking the “End of Days”.

  Melchior Hoffman, 1500-1543 Predicted the year 1533 William Miller, 1782-1849, Predicted 1843. Charles Taze Russell, 1852-1916, Predicted 1914 A.D. His followers not wanting to admit that he was wrong stated that Jesus had established an invisible reign and would later make Himself visible in 1975 A.D. That Year Came and went and still Jesus hadn’t come. World's End Predicted in 1992, 1998, and as early as the year 2000 with the Y2K scare and the end of the world. All of theses dates have come and gone but Still Jesus Hasn’t Returned. In Matthew 24 Jesus said “
 
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  For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.