Is the End Near?

 

A PIVOTAL POINT IN WORLD HISTORY

Have you noticed that all four of the Bible's warning signals described in this article have been evident during your lifetime?  For over one hundred years, this magazine has been providing its readers with information about world events to help them personally verify that we are nearing the end. Of course, some skeptics disagree, asserting that facts and statistics are subjective and can be manipulated.  They also claim that since worldwide communication continues to increase, world conditions only appear to be worsening.  Nonethelless, there is ever-increasing evidence that we  are at the conculsion of a unique period in the history of humanity.

Some experts feel that we are approaching major changes to the earth.  For example, in 2014, The Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scienties warned the United Nations Security Council about major threats to the existence of mankind.  Those scientists testified: "A careful review of these threats leads us to conclude tha the risk of civilization-threatening technological catastrophe remains high."  Many people are increasingly convinced that we have reached a pivotal point in world history.  The publishers of this magazine and many of its readers  have no doubt that this unique period really is the last days and that the end is near. But rather than dreading the future, you can be happy about the outcome .  Why is that so? Because you can survive the end!

DOOMSDAY PROPHETS?

Jehovah's Witnesses are not doomsday prophets.  They have been sharing a positive message about the future over one hundred years.  For example, their 1958 convention talk, "God's Kingdom Ru;les-Is the World's End Near?" explained that "God's Kingdom  comes, not to destroy this earth but to destroy Satan's world.  God's Kingdom comes, not to burn up  the earth, but to bring to pass God's will here on earth as well as in heaven. For that reason the earth is worth preserving as God's creation; and God will preserve it for all eternituy." 

Next time:  IS THE END NEAR? - Many Will Survive the End-You Can Too

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