Recently, English podcaster Russell Brand asked this question on X.

Are we in the end times as we speak?

I remember some years ago there was this book written 88 reasons why the rapture will be in 1988.

It was this argument that, you know, Christ was coming back in 1988.

Here's a number of reasons why.

And over the years, many people have made similar claims about the end of the world.

We're there.

It's coming up.

It's right around the corner.

And especially when people turn on the news and think about the cultural degradation,

the wars and rumors of war, the stuff going on in the Middle East, they conclude, we must be living in the end times.

So, are we?

Beyond the shadow of a doubt, we are in fact living in the end times, and let me say one other

thing, we actually have been in the end times for about 2,000 years. This is really clear when

you read the New Testament. If we go to Acts chapter 2 in the day of Pentecost, for example,

listen to what Peter said, quoting the prophet

Joel. And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh.

Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men

shall dream dreams. Even on my male servants and female servants, in those days I will pour out

my spirit. And they shall prophesy, and I will show wonders in the heavens above, and signs on the earth

below, blood and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood

before the day of the Lord comes the great and magnificent day. And it shall come to pass that

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