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After 2000, Chapter One by Elton E. Pearson Jr.
Project BookRead and Father Robert Aloysius Peter Darin have been given authorization to distribute and/or publish this by the author as listed in the first two lines of this text. This work may *NOT* be used for sale and/or redistrubition in any form/nature known or unknown at this time or in the furture without consent of the author. Project BookRead's authorization for this text does *NOT* extend to anyone person and/or company outside its bounds. This text may be shared as long as it is in its original unaltered form as listed in Project BookRead's stack. This text is solely copyrighten to the original author as listed above. Chapter One It seems like everywhere I go (in person or on the Internet) someone always seems to want to know what I think will happen with the turn of the century. There are those of course who would predict the end of the world just because it is going to be our races six thousandth year of existence. The theory is that God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh, and now He has worked with mankind for six thousand years and will rest during the next one thousand years. I do kind of like the theory, but it is all too hard to guess just how far off our calendars might be. So I therefore cannot place too much on any particular date. I do however believe the Bible, and all the prophecies found therein. There are many indications that make me believe that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is near. I do therefore have some guesses as to what might happen after the year two thousand. List:
Let us start out in the Bible book of Matthew and the twenty-fourth chapter. This is a rather famous chapter because it is here that Jesus makes much of His predictions about the future, and also because the prophecy that He starts out with has already come to fulfillment. As the chapter starts Jesus has not been having a good day, at least as far as tension is concerned. The Pharisees, the Sadducess, and the Herodians had all tried to entrap Him and He had managed to put them all to silence, for that day at least. Then He loaded up both barrels at let them have it in a verbal dressing down that few persons in history could have come close to equaling. He brought down woe, after woe on the Scribes and Pharisees, calling them blind guides, and hypocrites, serpents, vipers, those who devour the houses of widows, and fools. By the way, in case you don't happen to know it, the word woe is in affect a curse. Jesus (the Son of God) pronounced on these leaders of Jerusalem curse after curse and then ended lamenting over the city of Jerusalem in general, after which He began to leave the temple area. Now that is quite a mindset to be in. His disciples seem to me to be trying to calm Him down and they come to Him, (in my imagination they likely had to play catch-up) and in an effort to take His mind in another direction began to point out the great buildings of the temple. But Jesus mind was not directed off the course by this but rather caused to look more deeply into the future of Jerusalem. Jesus tells His disciples not to pay any attention to these things. His words from the King James Bible go this way: "See ye not all these things? Verily I say unto you, there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down." (Verse two) and after this they go over to the Mount of Olives and His disciples ask to be told more. This starts the portion of Matthew known as "The Olivet Discourse." Some have also called it "The Prophetic Discourse." Now I have gone through all this in order to give credence and weight to other things that Jesus had to say. You see; this prophecy has been fulfilled. In 70 AD the future Emperor of Rome Titus, came to Jerusalem and destroyed the city and did it with great slaughter and the Temple the disciples had been pointing out was burned. During that burning the gold of the Temple melted and ran down between the stones. The Roman soldiers wanting that gold had to take the Temple apart, stone by stone in order to obtain the gold and in doing so fulfilled the prophecy of Jesus whom their Empire had killed 40 years earlier. When the year two thousand comes along, or two thousand and one, I do not expect to see very much more happening then than is happening now. Oh, there will be celebrations all over the world, and as is usual there will be natural disasters, and maybe political disasters and conquests and maybe financial disasters, along with conquests, but for the most part in will all look very much ordinary to the general population. I do not expect Jesus to return during the very start of this new century. I expect that this will happen in part do to something that Jesus said during His Olivet Discourse. In verse forty-four Jesus said: "be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh." I could turn that around I think, and say, when you think that I am coming, I am won't. There are so many people thinking that Jesus will come at the turn of the century, or that the world will end that I don't believe that it will. But I will say this, I would expect to see Jesus back on earth by two thousand and twenty. In other words, I do not believe that it will be long after the turn of the century that Jesus will be returning. There is another passage in the Bible that brings me by another route to the same conclusion, that Jesus will not return right at the turn of the century. In Peter's second letter he makes comments about the last days and one of these comments is that scoffers will come who walk (or because of) their own lusts scoff at the idea of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. These folks are willingly ignorant of the Bible and its truthfulness and God's power and nature. (You can read what Peter had to say in chapter three.) From the time of the Age of enlightenment or, Age of Reason, the days of Voltaire 1694-1778, till now, and particularly sense the 19th century and the theory of evolution there have been scoffers of the prophecies found in the Bible. These are to my mind ordinary and not those whom Peter is speaking of. I believe that Peter is speaking of teachers within the church. These are folks who seem to be religious but are acting as such in order to seek, money, or power, or recognition, or groopies. Let me type out something that Paul wrote in his second letter to Timothy. "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, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts. Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." (From chapter three) You can see here that Paul speaking of the last days is in agreement with Peter. These folks of whom they speak have a form of godliness, or religion, but deny the power of God. These are the kind of folks I expect will come in the days and early years after the turn of the century. I could guess that President Bill Clinton is like one of these, claiming to be a Christian, (a Southern Baptist) and with a wife who is attending a Methodist church. Yet, he is clearly a socialist and a one-world supporter, and could not Monica Lewinsky be called a one time Clinton groopy. On behalf of Bill Clinton near onto one hundred folks have taken the fifth or left the country rather than testify in hearings that might point a condemning finger at him. Still I believe that the poor picture I have of Bill Clinton will pale in comparison to the men who are yet to come in the next century. Now, I said that because I believe that these kinds of folks are coming I would not place the Second Coming or the end of the earth or mankind at or to near the year two thousand. The coming and going of that time without anything to overwhelming happening will raise up these kinds and give them something to point at. "Everybody was calling for the end of the world and or the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Where is His coming? Everything continues as it always has. Nothing is changed!" I can almost hear them making their speeches. I believe that these kinds of men are coming and that they will be much worse than any right-winger believes Bill Clinton is now. I also believe that on a surface view at the beginning of the new century everything will seem to the general population normal. Want to use your Kindle 2? Shop by title or by author in Kindle format. 
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