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LOL, you too my friend...by golly, I may wear a cross with my American flag shirt...that'll fix 'em!

I agree with in part you downward spiral scenario... and likewise agree we don't know the hour and day, but that doesn't mean we wont know the general week of its happening.. we are told to look for the sigsn of the times so to say... so why should look for such if there were no evidence of its approach? so yes it could be pour great grandkids looking back at our generations... but as the signs become clear things will quickly speed up at that point.... that’s how I kind of see that... we need to be prepare as if Christ return is soon and yet still live life as though we're going be here for some time haha

God's Blessings!!

My personal belief on the end-time scenarios is that the human race has been on a cycle of wickedness leading to reform, leading to faithfulness, leading to laziness, and then back to wickedness. The cycle has been repeating for millenia, though not so much in a circle, as much as in a downward spiral. Every time we go through the cycle, we get worse, and worse. Thus, the cycle of wickedness we are in now is worse than any of the ones previous to it. My point is that eventually, someday, the cycle will end (ie. when the cycle hits rock bottom), and Christ will return. It is also conceivable that we are very quickly approaching that rock bottom.

But for some reason, I look around, and I realize that while it's true that human beings have become very evil... I think that even now, things could certainly be worse. The political climate today suggests that we will face a full-blown third world war within the next decade, and that the church will be globally persecuted. But in the aftermath of possible nuclear war, we cannot predict where the current pattern (which rests on the system today) will turn, when the underlying system it rests on is wiped out. We may yet go through another full cycle, and perhaps even another after that.

Basically what I'm saying is that we very well might be in the "end-times". Then again, our great-grandchildren may look back on our generation and think we had it easy.

No one knows the day or moment
When the Bridegroom shall appear
Let us then be ever watchful
May our lamps be bright and clear.
Maranatha! Come Lord Jesus!
Thy great Day is drawing near.

~ Selection from a hymn by John Gross written in 1869

Thank you;)I have finished my exams and one important course has got a good remark~~~~~

Keep encouraged, Jehovah will make all things right in his time be bless