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Today's episode is a response to all the believers using the conflict between Israel and Palestine as ammo for the apocalypse. We do not know when the end of the world is coming. We have never known. We are constantly wrong. These predictions are harmful and pointless. Let's talk about it.
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0:00 Intro
0:37 Why Are We Talking About This
0:54 Our Agenda
1:18 Quick Thoughts On Israel/Palestine/Hamas
2:25 Bible Verses For End Time Prophecy
8:35 Comparison With Other Sources Of Prophecy
9:35 Comparing The Past To The Present
12:14 Historical Examples Of Claims About The World Ending
13:07 Tangent On How Humans Believe
14:44 Back To The Historical Examples
25:26 We Don't Know!
26:43 Why Do Christians Want The End Of The World?
28:25 Final Thoughts
29:37 Patron Thanks!
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Literally one of my co workers brought up hamas an isreal just so he could go on about end times and bible prophocies. He sounded so giddy i was disgusted.
Right? I do cover towards the end why christians would even want this. Its pretty twisted to me.
I have a co-worker that is constantly going on about the 'end times' at the moment. I usually try and keep my personal beliefs private at work to avoid conflict as much as possible but it's becoming more and more difficult.
That's what I was brought up to believe. Lol.
He's probably happy that very soon he won't have to listen to all the crazy ass rules that Christianity forces you to follow. He's thinking, "Yes! Now it's all ending and I can finally be happy. Once I'm in the golden City, the third Jerusalem created by God after we're all revived, it'll be over and I won't have to feel pain anymore!"
understanding pronouns is just too much for me, pull the plug its over
It may or not be the end of the world, but i will say this:
The fact that we have billions of Christians and Muslims and millions of Jews cheering on and believing in these end times prophecies makes it 1000 times more likely to happen.
If we can't reign in these religions, they might try to fulfill their prophecies on purpose.
I do agree that the concern is from self fulfilling prophecy! Just more ammo for why religion is so harmful. Not because its claims are true, because the belief in them is.
Self-fulfilling prophecies are actual one of the most dangerous aspects. Think about it like this: What if you have religious leaders? Then they may actually actively WORK to create the "end times".
Or even if they dont actively try to push the big red button. Small policy changes that stop protecting this planet or thinking about the future accomplish the same thing
@MindShiftSkeptic Look up the "Samson option". Scary shit.
I just said the same thing to a friend! The end may come because of self fulfilling prophecies.
There's a certain amount of psychopathy in people who look at conflicts and civilians dying by the thousands and think 'Yes! My sky deity is about to come down and smite everyone. I cannot wait!'
Yes its quite ridiculous
This is off subject but as a child we learned about the "rapture".
Just picture driving your car or doing laundry and suddenly you're yanked in to the sky. 😅😅 I was like "when is that gonna happen cause I don't wanna be on this planet anymore!"
As someone with ASPD (the DSM-5 version of psychopathy) I gotta say even I find this mindset reprehensible
@@Chrismas815hey, thank you for sharing that. that was really brave, and it helps to stop demonizing people with mental illness
They are like saying, "oh, I'm so thrilled the End Time Is Near!"
Imagine being so egocentric you choose to interpret such a horrifying human tragedy as a validation of your religious beliefs
Yes! This is part of my biggest gripe!
@@MindShift-Brandonyou're an atheist 🤡
As someone who suffers from end times anxiety due to religious truama ive been utterly bed ridden for the past week due to the war in Israel. Like ive been literally shaking in fear even though ive been trying to think about it rationally. I honestly needed this video.
I am so glad to help. And if you were right, imagine the god that causes what you are going through because he wrote vague statements that have been abused for literally thousands of years.
@@MindShift-Brandon says: *I am so glad to help. And if you were right, imagine the god that causes what you are going through because he wrote vague statements that have been abused for literally thousands of years.*
Just because someone uses something the wrong way in order to be abusive with it doesn't mean that something would still be abusive if it was used the right way.
Bible prophecy is coming to pass and anyone that dismisses it instead of realizing that it proves the bible to be true is doing such a thing at their own risk.
It's all super scary and very sad. It's good you are here. I do miss the part of religion where you believed you were safe in God's hands no matter what happened. That's why we need each other. Go outside, smell the air, smile at a few people, bake cookies for your neighbor. Even without religion, we are essential for each other. My goal is to throw as much love around in this world that I can. Our purpose is just that. You're going to be okay....
@@danielblair4413 Jesus H Santa Claus you clearly didnt see this video or if you did, you wasted your time cuz you learned nothing.
@@danielblair4413
"Because if ya don't agree with me, muh Magical Invisible Dad will torture you forever in his Magical Invisible Torture Chamber."
A few years ago I had a conversation in a Christian book store with an employee who believed he would be raptured soon. I asked him if he would be sad if he were raptured while driving and his driverless car killed somebody as depicted in certain movies. His response was chilling. He said something like "Why should I care? I'll be with Jesus. Those people had their chance and they rejected salvation". Malignant narcissism at its finest.😮
Id expect nothing less. How awful!
Absolutely disgusting people! Christian’s are narcissistic delusional people
I think that sounds both disgusting, and consistent. I would think he believes all the people left are on an unavoidable path to eternal torture. So getting killed by a car is sort of trivial in comparison.
@@stevewebber707 That Christian book store is now closed but I recently recognized that guy in a store he owns in the neighboring town where I live. I want to ask him if he still stands by his angry comment. Or maybe the rapture happened and even Jesus didn't want him so he's stuck here 😁
@rboland2173it's not, but a lot of Christians are among the most egotistical, fear mongering people I know and I'm Christian myself
First time we started preparing for the Rapture was in 1988. 88 reasons why Jesus is returning in 1988. I have recently felt my fear return, which is why I'm here. A woman said to me when she voted for Trump the first time... "If anyone will bring in the apocalypse, it's Trump." So gross. It's sad that millions are missing out on living in today. I did for 30 years! I walked away from my faith 26 years ago and I can honestly say, it was the best thing that could have happened to me. I'm a loving wife and mother of 4, all but one lives peacefully without religion. My children are generous, kind, thoughtful, and quite amazing. I let them figure things out and just listened. Anyway, thank you again for being our voice of reason!
Appreciate that. So glad to be helpful. You should never have to deal with that fear again
You seem happy and fulfilled. Om proud of you
88 Reasons was terrible
DONT LET THE DEVIL FOOL YOU THE WORLD IS ENDING 88 REASONS WAS JUST MISUNDERSTOOD JESUS SAID WHEN ISREAL IS BORN AS A NATION THAT GENERATION WILL SEE ALL SCRIPTURE FULFILLED 1948-1988 HE JUST WAS WRONG ABOUT THE TIMING OF A GENERATION BUT A GENERATION IS 70-80 YEARS BY LIFE ITS IN PSALMS WE ARE AT 76 YEARS NOW THAT WAS A WARNING TO PREPARE YOUR HEART AND GET RIGHT WITH JESUS WITHOUT JESUS YOU WILL BE LEFT BEHIND IN TRIBULATION THE BIBLE SAYS OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS AS FILTHY RAGS YOU CANT BE SAVED ON GOOD DEEDS OR BEING NICE ITS ABOUT THE BLOOD OF CHRIST TO PROTECT FROM THE WRATH OF GOD BECAUSE OF YOUR SIN FROM BIRTH DONT BE SCARED GET PREPARED GO TO A SPIRITUAL CHURCH AND REPENT 2025 WILL BE A DANGEROUS TIME ON EARTH
Literally two weeks ago I told my partner. "I wonder what's going to happen when Israel rebuilds the temple, and the second coming doesn't come."
Oh man, what a great question. The excuses and moving the target will be insane!
I think they will just move the goal post the same way they have been for the last 2000 years.
They will answer along the lines of: "it was the wrong interpretation", "needed a better context" .instead of just stating it is BS.
They'll say there is something wrong with it: the emplacement, the building materials, modern utilities, etc...
@@DJ5780Or they'll say how you forgot there is no year zero.
"You don't get to make more than one end time prediction". Comedy gold. Thanks Brandon for your research and rationality. I so appreciate you pointing out reality.
Ha. Thanks so much!
Let me ask you about reality: how did the universe begin if not by God?
@@20july1944
No, not by a God. The universe was designed and created by a Creator who is NOT a God at all. The God ideation is earthly, primitive, and man-made. The Creator does not require nor demand worship; does not need glory from man, is not out bragging and instilling fear and has no need to make a name for himself.
@@sos1691 OK, what is the Creator?
@@sos1691ignore randy, he's a desperate troll 'round these parts
He'll say anything at all if he thinks it'll shore up his beliefs
Hello all! This video is not to make light of the horrors going on in the middle east. It is to point out the additional harm that comes from believers using these events to justify their end-times hysteria. Thank you for being here!
I'm a Christian and don't think that, no hysteria.
@@anticalvinist4803
Ask your mom.
@@anticalvinist4803 it's just a few Christians and it's not because of the religion they have. Some people is just like that. Most people get the message of peace as it is, others just read maccabees and they believe they are soldiers of God and... 🤔 😬
Cheers
Great job Brandon, thank you!
Once again, I appreciate how deeply you analyze these topics, and this one is particularly pertinent. Don't apologize for the preaching at the end! This is the kind of preaching that the world needs, and I hope your religious audience heeds it.
As a kid, I used to have nightmares about being left behind after the rapture.
Nightmares about what the end of times are going to be.
Somewhere as a teenager in the '70s, I saw a documentary about the Amarna letters.
Those little clay tablets.
They had just found a trove of them quite recently and figured out how to translate the texts on them.
They were about 5,000 ish years old.
And they were basically someone's household junk.
There were butchers bills.
There was a birthday card invitation. It was to someone's sister, lamented how they hadn't seen them in some years and the hoped the children were well.
There was also a notice to a local authority complaining about the state of the streets.
The most heartbreaking one, was a letter to a much higher local authority complaining about his taxes, going to pay for a foreign war that had taken his beloved child.
He didn't understand why he should have to pay his taxes to finance foreign wars that kills children.
💔
It puts those latter day, end times, fear-mongering nonsense claims into perspective.
5000 years. People were talking about birthdays, paying their food bills, complaining to local politicians about the state of the streets, and complaints about paying taxes for foreign wars that kill children.
Some things never change.
❤️❤️ Great video Brandon!😊
Thank you. I was a kid during the left behind series of books and hysteria of y2k and then 9/11. It robbed me if planning and acting on my future for years and years. Thanks for sharing. It is all just so stupid and sad
@@MindShift-Brandon ❤️
As a kid I literally believed that the world would end before I reached adulthood. I lived for years under the assumption that I would have to live through the Tribulation [I never believed in the Rapture Doctrine]. I was prepped as a kid/teen for nuclear war, the end of civilization, and the worst period of human suffering imaginable. But there's the key word there: Imaginable. All that anxiety and worry for my non-christian friends, just over some imagined story. It really soured my entire childhood.
Soured indeed. I was the same. My mother didnt even help me prepare for college because she was so certain the end was so close. So i didnt go till later as an adult on my own. It quite literally threw off my entire life
Dude this hits home. I remember being scared that I wouldnt be old enough to drive or have a girlfriend because Jesus return was so close. Ridiculous. I’m 40 now.
@@MindShift-Brandon damn. That's so eerily relatable.
@@EZeasyET I literally couldn't even imagine myself as an adult because I was so certain that the end would come well before then.
Adventist are thought to leave the cities and live in the country, because when the tribulation comes and they pass the mark of the beast people that live in the cities will be the most affected.
I grew up hearing this nonsense and before I was about to go to college, I was told I was being selfish for wanting a future in this life and that I should be focused on making sure my heart and soul belonged to god. This was during the first Gulf War in the war 1990’s. I decided to leave Christianity back then and focus on a career. Here we are in 2023 and still alive and happy as an Atheist. And I have had a career and a long happy marriage too!
Love that!
Oh yeah I love the bits in the Bible where they say: "People will ridicule you for your faith, and this is proof that your faith is correct."
Like, okay, that is the most silly defense for the indefensible that I have ever heard.
The Martians are coming, and if you think that's silly, that PROVES that the Martian are coming.
I wouldn't be surprised if that writing came from a narcissist trying to cope from being mocked by so many people. XD
I remember when i was 14 and 15 crying and being downright depressed because i thought id never finish school, never start a family, never live to see the age of 30. I was so scared that I'd have to run and fight for my life because of the anticrhist and his anti-christian agenda. I was so scared and horrified but i was comforting myself by telling myself that god would protect me. I am SO GLAD to be free from that fucking insanity.
What sickens me is that innocent children on both sides are being murdered....meanwhile there are Christians in America, from the luxury & safety of their couch, with eyes as big as a kid in a candy shop, giddy & rejoicing, "Jesus is coming back!"
Wdym?
@@ronaldpagar6513
Ykwim
I remember growing up Seventh Day Adventist, we believed we are living in the end times, so any major natural disaster or major conflict, or social unrest or some new disease was a sign that Jesus was soon to come. I'm 53 now, when i was in the church, i was almost certain the lord would come before I was 25. Adventist have been waiting almost 200 years now for the lord to return lol.
Lol! I was fully convinced id never have kids or marry. My mon told me i had till probably about 12
😂😂😂😂😂
All those end tims movies were scary, I don't know why I watched them
@@MindShift-Brandon Wow. I'm sure your mom had good intentions, but that is straight-up child abuse.
I used to be terrified that he would return whilst I was in the bath, I was 11 and made sure my bath was as quick as possible so I would not be caught naked by the Lord and the angels
As a Christian it always bothered me how we used certain events and certain things to justify “end times prophesy” or how simple, common things that happen everyday are somehow ordained by God and is a sign for us to “get it right with God”, like I never understood why we just can’t live the life God told us to live and enjoy the time God has given us, your videos are interesting, thank you.
Thanks for watching
"I never understood why we just can’t live the life God told us to live and enjoy the time God has given us"
easy. because the g0d never told anything. A b00k SAYS the g0d said stuff. And If you accept that b00k of mythology, then I really hope you cherry pick the right way. DO NOT stone your waiter on a "holy" day, for example. The g0d in that b00k "tells" us to do a lot of disgusting, criminal things.
the time part is easy, too. Basic (at this point, very basic) biology gave us the time we have. No g0d seen in the process. And it really cannot be seen. Ever. For you still have not presented any testable claim about the g0d or its magic.
and, as a non-christian, it always bothered me that you cannot show what the g0d even is. you (the religi0us of any faith) don't even try to present anything. You build a global scam on your rants and you have trained and paid LIARS (priests, pastors, etc) to run that scam.
these MORTALS rant about the AFTERLife, too. Since we all know that they cannot have any experience, any clue about those magical realms, afterlife claims should be outlawed with no exception. And mankind should grow up.
Your channel Is truly a gem. I'm a Nigerian and I find all these end times fretting to be really annoying. Keep up the good work...
Thank you very much!
Belief in the end times was probably the most damaging aspect of Christianity for me growing up. I was convinced it was going to happen in my lifetime, so much so that I didn't really think much about what I wanted to do with my life as an adult. But what really added to the fear was wondering if I was a good enough Christian to be raptured before all the real horrors began. I developed a lot of anxiety, constantly questioning myself and believing that God was judging every single thought and action of mine. However, those beliefs were the first I started to deconstruct as I reached adulthood. Not only did I question the absurdity of prophecy, but I came to a question that started to push me away from Christianity: why would any loving god want to instill so much fear and paranoia into a child?
"People will leave their house, and their thigh will speak to them concerning their family", "certain arabs will compete in the creation of tall towers", "sexual immorality will become prevalent and diseasea unheard of by their fathers will come about", "euphrates river will dry up", "women will dress in a way where they appear naked", "there will be an increase in knowledge and life expectancy", "israel will become a country, and ita neighboring countries will despise them", "people will lose their faith on an unheard of level", "the empire to come and take judea after the macedonians will be an empire of iron, greater than any empire previous, and will divide in two". These prophecies are found within the bible, quran, and hadiths, and while some are not to great on their own, the crazy thing is that all these END TIMES prophecies (post-macedonian roman empire prophecy not included) all happened within the last 76 years. An entire 1400 years and in some cases 2500 years of an open window of history for anything to happen, it just so happens to be the case that these prophecies are fulfilled in just 76 years? If this is a coincidence, its the greatest coincidence. If i were you, i would look into the quran 19 code, truth is christ TH-cam channel, and joel richardson's work. Also, tovia singer wouldnt hurt either if you do decide on looking into this more.
You are scared because you are not filled by the Holy Spirit… you don’t believe in Christ because your are scared of hell … Jesus dint say to believe in Him because of end times , the end will obviously come , and it’s closer than ever , you can easily see it’s not the same situation as it was in world war 2 , it’s even more dangerous because of nuclear bombs and the danger of someone using it is higher than ever … Jesus is coming soon , and your generation has not ended yet … if you are a believer in Christ and having a constant relation with him , there is nothing to fear .and I agree children should be taught about life rather than end times because we need to be ready in season and out of season ..
That was one of the scariest parts about the bible that was branded in my brain since I was a child....
Yeah, but my pastor told us back in the 1960s that Jesus was coming back within 10 years, because, hey, look what is happening in Israel. . . . .
Yup! I cover example after example of that kind of thing. My whole childhood was new end day dates
It's like the "amero." My friend's parents not long ago told him a rumor about how all North America was going to be forced to adopt a common currency, the amero-- and how this was going to happen within the next few months.
The thing is, I remember this same rumor 25-30 years ago, when it was also supposed to happen very soon.
Yeah, I remember the same thing. European Union! Antichrist! It never ends.
I’m very happy you made this video! I researched your channel this week looking specifically for end times, you did have a video on revelation but this is what I was looking for! I spent years in fear that each day could be the last day and I had to be right with God, confessing any thoughts that could even be considered “sinful”. I was part of a Calvary Chapel church and followed all the big name pastors on TH-cam. THINKING EACH DAY IS THE LAST DAY ISNT MENTALLY HEALTHY.
And fear that I had to save everyone around me!
@@nicki0346I'm glad you escaped that kind of fear 😊
Its beyond destructive. Mine was very similar. So happy we are both here now!
@@nicki0346 Same here. I always felt I was obligated to tell everyone around me the lord is coming soon. So glad I no longer carry that burden.
@@unknownx7252 You’re right! A huge burden. And yet unnecessary.
Children are traumatized in churches with this end times garbage. I sure was. Which is why I still watch videos like this one. That trauma runs deep. Also looking back it was brought up A LOT that we could die tomorrow so we’d better be sure we were all settled up with God. Children shouldn’t be thinking constantly about dying tomorrow 😮
Yes. I was in the same boat! Its hard to fully rid yourself of those thoughts. Thanks for watching!
I felt this way for years that the end of the world was upon us and these people seemed happy about it
You are gorgeous...it needed to be said
@@kyle9777 Or oblivious, in my case. The message wasn't so overt in my church, but it's part of the Bible stories we learned. So what I wondered was: why is everyone pretending everything's okay, when it clearly isn't?
Thank you for being a voice for reason. The online polti-sphere is spewing absolute nonsense, and garbage conspiratorial propaganda about these conflicts to generate more unnecessary paranoia, and strife within communities. It’s disgusting.
Thank you Brandon!
Thank you! Yes its sick out there
My family has been glued to Fox like I haven't seen in a long time. 100% salivating and making sure they're watching in case something "biblical" happens.
@@MindShift-Brandon You have no concept of the timing in which things are happening when it comes to the end times in order to even understand that we are clearly in the end times despite the wrongs that people had about it in the past.
Did you know that there was another version of the Revelation 12 sign that happened on September 23rd this year?
Signs are for the Jews and what happened not too long after this sign happened?
This war happens in Israel.
The last Revelation 12 sign that happened seven years ago in 2017 resulted in Israel acquiring Jerusalem as their capital and that was a benefit for Israel, so the end result of this war in Israel is very likely going to acquire a benefit for the nation of Israel as well that will more than likely lead to the rebuilding of the third temple which is a fulfillment of bible prophecy just like acquiring Jerusalem as the capital was also a fulfillment of bible prophecy.
This war is also happening on a Jubilee year in which land is usually restored to the nation of Israel.
A Jubilee year happens every fifty years and fifty years ago Israel was at war as well and they acquired land as a result of that war's end, so they will very likely acquire land at the end of this war as well because Israel is going to win the war because God is on their side.
These Revelation 12 signs never happened in the past when people have been wrong about the end times, but they are happening now, and I don't believe them to be just coincidences as you more than likely believe them to be.
We are in the end times and the rapture of the Church is going to happen very soon.
@@MindShift-Brandon Hey Brandon. You told me to send you an email, but I don't think I ever heard back from you.
I am way behind on emails. Please forgive me. Will still get to it.
Talk about ‘bondage!’ I’ve been deconverting for about two months and it’s incredibly freeing!!!
I’ve been a questioning, ‘born again, washed in the blood believer’ for about 50 years! Most of my life I’ve asked pastors a lot of these questions that you have been answering and make total sense! And every pastor I asked so many questions, just told me to, “not question my maker and focus only on Jesus!” Thank you for doing all you do!
My pleasure! Welcome to the truth!
As someone who wished the world to end back then because of personal issues, I can’t help but feel sorry fir some of the folks who talk of stuff like these, thank you for being a voice of reason in this ever increasing radicalized era of the internet
Appreciate that!
Thank you. I had a very disturbing moment yesterday, met my aunt and Ma in a store, and they were smiling saying how "it's awful but it means God's kingdom is closer" it was bone chilling, these are two good women but that thinking is evil imo. Thank you for challenging this thinking.
I was chilled just reading that
Par for the freaking course. Im so sick of this sickness
That was literally my late teen years to my early thirties, I would literally watch the news for the most horrible events because to me, at that time, it meant the Lord was about to come.
...and when the stars align, and the red moon rises...so shall R'leh rise from the sea, and the Old Ones shall return with their Lord and Father, Cthulhu! Now there's a prophesy for ya!
I'm in my 70s, but my grandmother filled me with End Times stories and predictions when I was very young I could quote the "wars and rumors of wars", "earth quakes and season changes", "plagues of various kinds " etc by the age of 5 or 6.She was a believer in the Rapure. She used a Bible verse that said something about 2 people would be working somewhere (possibly on a roof?) and suddenly one would VANISH (the "saved" one) etc
My Christian family gloats endlessly that they are saved as they rush past me on the way to the mall or football game. They really need to reel it in.
Growing up in the late 80s; I recall vividly how “current events”, back then supposedly “lined up perfectly” with the rapture happening in 1988.
And then before the first Gulf war started, preachers all over the country(a little exaggeration I’ll admit), were practically having orgasmic fits over the thought that once again, “current events were lining up and pointing to the rapture of the church”; sometime around 1993 or so.
My grandfather explained to me that the same crap happened during the Cuban misfile crises in the 60s.
Your observation about the christians who eagerly want the end times is correct. People who just WANT the end times to come are doing it largely out of negligence for our world
As Kanji Tatsumi told Tohru Idachi in Persona 4.
"If you want to disappear, that's fine! Stop dragging us into it!"
That's the energy I get from anyone who's gleeful of the concept of the end times.
@@michealforguson5317 didnt expect a Persona reference, but yeah thats correct haha
So many extremely giddy Christian’s on social media all joyously talking about these atrocities.
Its just awful
Fucking thank you.. I’ve been saying this in real life, and online.
Got you! These kind of claims only add to the harm being done!
So what?
I had conversation with a lovely, loving Christian friend during the height of COVID who was convinced the pandemic meant the Lord was coming soon. I could tell she was only half accepting what I was saying when I pointed out that there have been many times in history when it must have felt that way for people given the state of their immediate circumstances (e.g., I can easily imagine thinking the circumstances of WW1 and WW2 seeming to point to the imminent end had I been alive at that time). At least my friend had the decency to be apprehensive about it. The fact that some people are excited by the idea of an impending Armageddon is disheartening to say the least.
@@anticalvinist4803 Interesting religion you got there, if you don't care about harm being done.
My mother, a Christian, was born in 1924. Once I mentioned the end times. She said she had heard of wars and rumors of wars all her life. She didn’t believe in the signs of the end times. All during my life ( I’m 77), wars and rumors of wars and lots of conflict in the Middle East. People are still people with all their faults no matter what the date is.
20:47 "It definitely is going to happen in my lifetime. I'M the main character" 😂
Teachings about "the end of the world" were my VERY FIRST trauma. And I mean that, it was traumatic. It haunted me for decades the same way other traumas did. It's sad because my parents still believe the fervent, traumatic fearmongering they were fed as children 50 years ago. I can only assign them so much blame, but it has stunted so much of my life.
I hear you. I planned or lack of planned my life because i was truly convinced i wouldn’t reach adulthood.
Omg my sister yesterday 🤦🏼♀️
When I asked if she agreed that genocide is justified if it’s in gods name, she just laughed. But before that she said that genocide in Bible was ok because god knew the people were evil. I’m laugh but am horrified.
Gross. Its utter lunacy
As a Christian, its been a MAJOR red flag to me how there seem to be almost universally among different faith voices saying we're absolutely going to have the Apocalypse soon with the implication being within only a year or so. Certain people even claimed that Jesus told them in dreams he's coming soon. ANOTHER red flag, as Jesus himself is stated in the Bible to not know when his Second Coming will be. Thank you for this video.
The Apocalypse is already happening look at all these fires lately. Not to mention the earthquakes and floods.
@@963freemethat’s due to climate change, which the religious right cares nothing about because they think the world will end soon. Self fulfilling prophecy.
Pastor Harold Camping 😂😂😂 I lived in Brooklyn at the time. He had people with signs on the subway and I took a photo of one of them. Right there on Atlantic Ave train station. I still have the photo with the guy holding the sign as my screen saver. Man! That was classic 😁
Peace.
Lol!
I’ve only recently started deconstructing, so it’s a weird experience not believing this stuff anymore, while still having the many of the same thought patterns running through the back of my mind. I mean come on! This is like the week before the Super Bowl for Christians.
Lol got me with that one. But i hear ya. Glad you are thinking through these things!
What's your evidence against God?
*gestures broadly around*
Same! Even though I don't believe this stuff anymore, part of me can't help but admit it looks convincing.
@@anticalvinist4803What is your evidence for God?.
Last end time was 2012. In my town there were billboards announcing the exact day and a big seal declaring "God guarantees it!" Smart people were selling insurance to these idiots to take care of their pets after they were raptured.
hey, my comment will probably get lost in the thousands that you have, but i want you to know that you have brought so much clarity and common sense into my life, after watching your videos and i feel like i've been freed from this "hell" that was injected into my brain as a child. thank you for saving me. i know you are bringing peace to many people.
I appreciate that very much. I dont always get to reply to every comment, but i try hard to read each one!
Dr. Scott Hahn had an interesting take on the apocalyptic literature found at the end of the NT. His argument basically boiled down to the Apocalypse being the process of processing the trauma of the second destruction of the Temple and the sacking of Jerusalem by the Romans. It was the authors' "end of the world" because Jewish civilization as they knew it had ended and their own people started to scatter in all directions of the winds.
Which makes sense when you consider that it was written AFTER the destruction of the temple.
That does make sense! Like the story of Noah being a flood of "all the world" -- which actually meant a local flood, which was the "world" to the people in it.
Currently undoing a decade of C-PTSD (I'm 31) due to my Mom believing the world was going to end in 2012. She was a stay-at-home mom with nothing but time and TH-cam to keep her occupied.
She watched a ton of Paul Begley, Alex Jones, and other conspiracy videos to the point where she isolated our family.
2008 was "the birthing pain" and tribulation was coming. Thousands of dollars wasted, years of prayer and fasting for God to choose our family within the 144,000. I escaped home at 19 and never looked back.
It's a scam and a hoax what these folks are pushing and all it does is perpetual pain and suffering.
So sorry to hear but so happy you made it out!
Thank you. Even though I left "the church" a long time ago, the drilling of the "end times" still left me nervous. You video and evidence has put my ming at ease.
So glad to hear it
I was literally terrified and overthinking about the end of the world since the war started, but now that i found this video i can finally let all those thoughts dissappear. People should do some research before believing what they hear. Thank you❤
Glad to help!
Dude thank you for this. I grew up with extreme religious trauma. Prepped as a child that I wasn’t gonna live until I was an adult and then on top of it no rapture and we gotta die for our faith 😂. Man I hate fear mongering
What's pathetic about this, is that Christians, Muslims and Jews are all praying to the same god for help. asking him to choose sides for a win... I'm so glad I walked away from this religious nonsense when I did...
You will come back from that buddy i promise
I use to be one of the believers that couldn't wait until the end times occurred. I was actually exited for it, and I subconsciously reasoned that if people had to die then it was because God pre ordained it and I was one of the blessed few to be saved and know what was really going on. How bizarre it feels to look back on that.
I get ya. That is what believing these myths forces one to believe.
I can so relate to this.
Well than you won't be save then. Just realize without Christ Jesus... It's death for non-believers, and the lake of fire.... Just to be clear. I used to be the kid that used to make fun of the End of the World people, and debate against Christian Classmates in High School. I was wrong, and they were right. Now after two years of Jesus Christ saving me, after repenting my sins, and reading the Holy Bible, I finally see and believe, and have recieved the Holy Spirit. So the tables can be turned the other way too Brother. By the way you are a stray sheep, and Jesus Christ is telling you to come back. The end days are near. Our world is ending soon. Even scientists say our world is ending (they say it's global warming), a Christian realizes it's the End Times; not global warming. It's Gods will. You can come back to him. Also when you do come back, and I pray it's before he comes down on a cloud in Jesus Name Amen.
@@davideastman979 How can you speak about it so factually? What did you experience that was so convincing?
@@davideastman979 your blind faith is showing.
What astonishes me the most, is that people still make predictions for the end times. Despite all the countless previous failures, and the bible itself saying it isn't predictable.
As far as I'm concerned, someone predicting the end date, is tossing their credibility in the trash.
Ah, but Jesus did predict the end. He was wrong. It's funny watching the mental gymnastics of Christians as they try to save Jesus and his false predictions.
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"Many passages attributed to Jesus have him predicting the end *within his generation* (“the time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Repent and believe the good news” (Mark 1:15); *“this generation will not pass away* until all these things take place” (Mark 13:30); *“truly I say to you, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes”* (Matthew 10:23); “Truly I say to you, *there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death* until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.” (Mark 9:1); "From now on, you shall see the *Son of Man* coming in the clouds..." (Matthew 26:64))."
Jesus as a failed apocalyptic prophet is the general consensus of critical scholarship, *even critical Christian scholars* like Dale Allison. The Son of Man (Jesus himself?) was supposed to be an end of the world arbiter, as Bart Ehrman points out in his lecture referenced below, and as the Bible states he was supposed to come *within the lifetime* of Jesus’s followers. *It didn't happen.*
Read the article from the former Christian apologist and Tim O'Neill (former Christian), who has been studying the scholarship and history for decades, referenced below as well.
*Jesus falsely prophesied his return in the 1st century*
“Truly I say to you, ***you will not finish going through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes”*** (Matthew 10:23);
For the *Son of man* shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; ***and then he shall reward every man according to his works.***
Truly I tell you, ***some who are standing here will not taste death*** before they see the *Son of Man* coming in his kingdom Matthew 16:27-28
Truly I tell you, ***some who are standing here*** will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God Luke 9:27
Truly I tell you, ***this generation will certainly not pass away*** until all these things have happened Mark 13:30
The sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
Then will appear the sign of the *Son of Man* in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the *Son of Man* coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
Truly I tell you, ***this generation will certainly not pass away*** until all these things have happened Matthew 24:29-34
There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. At that time they will see the *Son of Man* coming in a cloud with power and great glory. When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near. When you see these things happening, you know that the kingdom of God is near.
Truly I tell you, ***this generation will certainly not pass away*** until all these things have happened Luke 21:25-32
*Jesus promised to return over 2, 000 years ago and he still hasn’t.*
Jesus and the angels never appeared from Heaven, the stars never fell from the sky, none of these things happened. Nothing he prophesied happened.
***Apologists can try to spin this, but the simple fact is that Jesus was either wrong or misquoted.***
According to the Bible that makes Jesus a false prophet or misquoted (and if Jesus is misquoted than the Bible is not inerrant or the word of God)
How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord? If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken Deuteronomy 18:21-22
*Jesus falsely prophesied to the high priest and the Sanhedrin*
Jesus also falsely prophesied to the high priest and the Sanhedrin (assemblies of either twenty-three or seventy-one rabbis appointed to sit as a tribunal)
You will see the *Son of Man* sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and ***coming on the clouds of heaven*** Matthew 26:64 Mark 14:62
Except the high priest and the Sanhedrin never saw Jesus sitting at the right hand side of God, or coming on the clouds of heaven, or any such thing.
*Jesus falsely prophesied to Nathaniel*
Jesus also falsely prophesied to Nathanael when he declared, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel.”
Jesus said, You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You will see greater things than that. He then added, ***“Very truly I tell you, you will see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man*** John 1:50-51
*Nathanael never saw any such thing. Neither did anyone else.*
*"13x Jesus was wrong in the Bible - Life Lessons"*
The following quote from Stephen L. Harris, Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Religious Studies at California State University- Sacramento, completes this point with a devastating argument.
*Jesus did not accomplish what Israel’s prophets said the Messiah was commissioned to do:* He did not deliver the covenant people from their Gentile enemies, reassemble those scattered in the Diaspora, restore the Davidic kingdom, or establish universal peace (cf.Isa. 9:6-7; 11:7-12:16, etc.). Instead of freeing Jews from oppressors and thereby fulfilling God’s ancient promises-for land, nationhood, kingship, and blessing- *Jesus died a “shameful” death, defeated by the very political powers the Messiah was prophesied to overcome.* Indeed, the Hebrew prophets did not foresee that Israel’s savior would be executed as a common criminal by Gentiles, *making Jesus’ crucifixion a “stumbling block” to scripturally literate Jews.* (1 Cor.1:23)
Watch *Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet, Historical Lecture - Bart D. Ehrman*
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Also, look up the following.
*"End Times - Evil Bible .com"*
*"The End of All Things is At Hand - The Church Of Truth"*
*"ex-apologist: On One of the Main Reasons Why I Think Christianity is False (Reposted)"*
*"Jesus the Apocalyptic Prophet - History for Atheists"*
(Tim O'Neill is a former Christian and is familiar with most of the Biblical scholarship. He's been studying the scholarship and history for decades)
*"Jesus’ Failed Prophecy About His Return - Black Nonbelievers, Inc."*
Also, how cognitive dissonance possibly explains early Christianity.
*“The Rationalization Hypothesis: Is a Vision of Jesus Necessary for the Rise of the Resurrection Belief?”* - by Kris Komarnitsky | Κέλσος - Wordpress
*"February 2015 - Escaping Christian Fundamentalism"* - Isaiah 53
*"Jesus and the Messianic Prophecies - Did the Old Testament Point to Jesus? - The Bart Ehrman Blog"*
*"Jesus did not fulfill any messianic prophecies - Reductio Ad Absalom"*
*"Jesus Was Not the Only “Prophet” to Predict the Destruction of the Temple - Escaping Christian Fundamentalism"*
I really needed this video. I hate it when I am just minding my own business and when I scroll down there’s a video talking about how where living in the end times. It gives me so much anxiety, so this video helped me a lot. I’m gonna stop watching those kind of videos. Thank you❤
I love this video. It’s spot on!
I am a 80’s kid and I was consistently freaked out about the rapture and nuclear war with the Soviet Union. We all thought the end was near.
When I was a Christian I stopped believing in end time predictions when the Berlin Wall fell and when the Soviet Union collapsed.
Thank you!
It's selfish and it belies the shaky foundation of their faith that they think is hidden. They want to go to heaven but they don't want to die. Why should you fear death when you're so sure you're going to heaven?
Even if God is false, the people who believe are real. That is almost as equal a threat in life when their god wants you dead and they are tasked with carrying it out.
Congrats on 20K!! Thank you so much for making this video. Luckily (if you can call it that) my family holds on to the "we don't know the date or time" of the end of the world verse. But I recently wrote them a letter finally telling them for the first time that I've been doing Bible research and finding deeply upsetting things. Instead of them asking what those things were, they said "You live in a world where the Bible is being twisted by so many people, Jesus said this would happen, and it'l get worse" (Yea I think it's very easy to misinterpret a book composed of mostly unknown authors edited over time) They also said that us (me & my family) being separated by me not talking to them (because I needed some space) is "just what the devil wants, he hates families together. He's here to "rob, steal, and destroy" and I don't want him to have his way." But I just have to keep telling myself that if God was an all-loving God, he wouldn't have created evil or the devil. I'm really struggling with the family part of my deconstruction but I am setting boundaries and trying to prioritize my own mental health. Thank you again for your videos they are extremely helpful!
Thank you and i am so very sorry. Christians have a stupid answer for everything. Just some trite remark to allow them to keep being blind. I hate that for you. Good on you standing strong!
Hi Monica, I have called myself an Atheist since I was ten, over five decades ago, and I have heard every single lame argument offered by apologists and I have good logical arguments to every one of them so if you want to ask me any questions then please feel free.
I am very sorry for your family issues :( sending love your way!
I wish the rapture would truly happen for all religious people. Imagine a world with zero religious people. It would be amazing. The planet would finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Thats an interesting point. And i get your take but man it would still destroy the world. Families ripped apart and now all the nonbelievers would be convinced and the hysteria would be heightened ha.
I still see a lot of good in Christians. Charity work is amazing etc. I am not talking about american evangelicals rn but what I have seen in Europe during my short life. Shit is not so extreme and the people actually care about you. We have our wackos aswell but it is not so prevalent :)
@@FinHammer yeah but there should’ve been programs Or organizations that help people that don’t require any gods or religious beliefs involved unfortunately. I’m sure it would start to happen more down the line in the future but it needs to start right away. There’s people who don’t want to deal with theistic organizations or be around that.
The mainstream media is partly to blame, with their breathless coverage of these kinds of events, pushing a camera and microphone in front of traumatized and grieving families. When you see the horrible things people so callously do to each other, can you blame us for wishing this wicked world destroyed? The natural world certainly won’t miss humanity.
Humans are a plague to the earth ngl
Thank you for providing a grounding stance on the matter. It's incredibly interesting how far back the echoes of "The end times" bounds through history. As a former Catholic, the End Times is one of those things I've always been disconnected to. To discover Evangelicals and a number of other protestant denominations were essentially glorifying the end disturbs me in a way I have trouble putting into words. Talking to people over the years going through my own struggle in faith, it's put into perspective the reason so many people have religous trauma in the first place and it's over a lot of stuff I didn't even knew occurred in Christianity. One of my coworkers joked about the time in Youth Group the adults and teens all faked the rapture leaving the younger kids in the group to believe they were left behind... The completely and total lack of empathy had had recounting the story about summarizes how all the logic on the rapture really is. Those poor kids... I would even consider such a prank an extreme form of psychological abuse from how the fundamental churches (Which, if they interpret the bible literally, how can they believe in a pretribulation rapture??) treat the event. But even trying to explain to him how messed up such a prank was he couldn't seem to process that sort of thing likely traumatized those poor children. He just saw it as a funny joke which is beyond disturbing.
But back to my Catholic background, we were always taught Revelation was metaphorical and multilayered: not literal. Specifically in regards to Nero when the letters were written which fundamentalists appear to dismiss. Don't get me wrong, the Catholic Church has it's own slew of issues and trauma it inflicted on kids, but it's only been zooming out and seeing how other denominations interpret things does "Religous Trauma" make a lot more sense. I can't imagine growing up in a church where you are essentially waiting to die and constantly having to worry that you might not be good enough and have to face those grim intrusive thoughts of being decapitated if left behind...
What makes this fighting over God is that they (Christianity, Judaism, and Islamic) believe in the same God. Yet they call non-believers and skeptics "illogical." 🙋🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️
starting to watch, its good you covered this topic, considering what many feel about this issue
Thanks, man
Religious text is written in allegory and riddles, it can always be interpreted as whatever people imagination make up to be
Discovered your channel about a month ago! Has become one of my very favorite channels! Thanks!!
Thats so encouraging! Thank you so much for being here!
Hi Brandon, I have been watching your channel now the past 2 months. Amazing videos! Even though I am still on a tough journey of a total re-evaluation of my belief system which is a painful process .. this video was phenomenal. The first step I took to questioning was actually the rapture. I have always had a huge problem internally with the idea that God would leave billions of his children behind and I had multiple conversations with church leaders and I think what really sealed it for me was when I told people including leadership how I felt ..The response without even missing a beat was.. “why do you care we will be in heaven” I think that was the beginning of me re-evaluating my faith. The uncaring response to people being tortured was so shocking it literally knocked the wind out of me. I have 3 kids and numerous family members and friends that I have always thought if they don’t get raptured then I’d like to opt out and stay behind to be with them. I can’t wrap my mind around caring, loving, compassionate people being OK with billions including the possibility of their own family being tortured while the “Saints”
Watch.
I let the rapture belief and end times belief go about 6 months ago because it was so cruel. You would think with all the LOVE that Christians profess we would be praying all the time non stop for NO rapture OR at the very least “in our free will” to opt out of the rapture to be with those that don’t make it.
It still makes me feel ill when I hear grown men ( not that their lives are any less important) preach that billions of women and children will not make it and be Ok. Even typing this out I’m haunted that people can really believe this and then go have breakfast after church service ..It’s unacceptable as members of the human race.
Thanks for these videos!
Fantastic channel. You are a constant flow of reason and rationale.
Thanks so much, Adam!
The worst part is when religious predictions are proven wrong, believers still think of them as an honest, reliable source. They make up excuses and move on to the next end times event
Its like a childs father leaves one day and his mother keeps telling him daddy will be home soon. A year goes by and daddy isn't home yet. His mother keeps telling him ..dont worry daddy will be home soon. Years go by and still no daddy. Now he's 80 years old and still thinks daddy will be home soon . That would be called mental illness
I'm very glad you did this video, Brandon. You're a voice of reason when the Christians collectively lose their minds over fear and paranoia and yes, a selfish willingness to see the end. Thank you!
You nailed it. Fear and selfishness! Thanks, Barbara!
Sadly, not just the Christians. And, to be fair, not all Christians, either.
Great video. This has been on my mind lately, for obsious reasons. It has definitely caused me anxiety.
lol BRILLIANT video! You absolutely nailed this! Sad thing is many believers won't listen to this. Too afraid of the harsh reality of the universe, and the comfort we can offer to each other with simple compassion.
Thank you so much!
Luke 21:21 "when you see Jesrysalem being surrounded by armies you will know that it's desolation us near" ironically states the opposite of what is happening is Isreal/Palestinian. Jerusalem is not being "surrounded by armies." They have the backing of the U.S., the U.K. and the bulk of the EU. The U.S. is providing an insane amount of military aid. If any city is in the region being "surrounded by armies," It's Gaza. So shouldn't Christians reading this see it as sign that the end is actually not near?
That and I think they have forgotten all of the end time predictions throughout history
Also this already happened because it was written after Rome destroyed Jerusalem. So not only is it already fulfilled, but it wasn't even prophecy to begin with.
Thank you so so much for this video. I've been feeling my anxiety building watching this all play out, hearing my mother's voice in the back of my mind. Over the course of my childhood, she got more and more emphatic about Jesus' return, telling my sister and I that "it Could be this year". Every year that he doesn't come back is just part of His plan or whatever. I felt the pressure from her that I was supposed to be the one to bring my dad (who I would say is an existential/transcendentalist) to Jesus. She routinely watched more and more videos decoding the "secrets" of Daniel, what kingdoms were going to be the ones that fought in Revelation, and what people would suffer during the Tribulation. (She wasn't even sure herself if there was going to be a Rapture or if believers would be here and unharmed for those events so she would stockpile money and talk about the economic crash coming). Nearly all she watched was End Times related and pressed that my sister and I should be saved, (even though we technically had already declared he was Lord and had been baptized??)
She thankfully moved off to Texas with her new husband, occasionally sending me an email relating to all that, but I thought being away from the church, I wouldn't be totally effected. Then I got a call from one of my friends who told me "Jesus is coming." We hung up and I instantly lay on the bed, caught between panic and shock. These recent events have only made it worse. This video was truly what I needed to remind me what this religion truly started as and hasn't been able to shake off over Centuries. A doomsday cult. You have been so helpful to unwind all the tangled web that my mother left me. Thank you.
A doomsday cult. You got it in three words.
Religious people are the only group of people I know who get so excited about the world ending, but they're reasonable😂
Oh man, I just remembered, I think it was near my birthday when I would technically go from "child" to "teen" I actually prayed for the world to end that night because I'd be for sure saved
I just now realised how selfish that was, SO much suffering just because I wanted to be sure I would be saved, and after my prayer, when it didn't happen, all I said was "as you wish" or something
Oh man. Its not just you. Its what is baked into this religion.
Thank you for acknowledging that. The selfishness of the whole thing just astounds me.
Back in the the 80s, I predicted that predictions about the end times will continue to have a 100% failure rate. So far my prophecy has been 100% accurate. I guess that means that all humans must bow to me now. 😃
You are the chosen one!
Welp, might as well start following you now XD
Yeah people been saying its the end of times since day 1 cause they keep watching too much negative news and are overwhelmed.
These are the reasons I had doubts, I couldn't just ignore the things in the Bible that didn't happen or line up. I chose to ignore them for years. No longer!
In a church i attended they had an "end times " drama...in which people dramatized the " horrors of hell". The dramatized concepts were...well...just awful. Teaching through terror was the idea i guess. The only thing that saved the evening was that the abilities of the "actors" to effect good drama were ...well....awful also.
Oh how i remember church drama teams. What a memory
Telling End time prophecy to kids is definitely abuse. Growing up Seventh Day Adventist we believed that other Christians would rise up and kill us because we wouldn't worship on Sunday. Terrified me as a little kid.
Yes, they kept reminding we had to be constantly prepared for that. The Christian would be killing and torture us because we would keep the Sabbath. Even our family and friends would betray us. They even prepare us Survival Camps for those days where we would be persecuted by the Catholic Church and other churches.
Amen! I have myself been a victim of second coming predictions and come later to find out that they are false predictions.Some are taking little things and making extreme predictions.
Thank you for this. A frantic phone call from my (very) religious aunt who tells me that this conflict means that Armageddon is imminent and that as agnostics both my husband and I are damned. I needed this video. Thanks again.
My pleasure
So apparently she's got the faith and hope, but not the charity.
@@sundayoliver3147 She's never really had the charity...so I don't associate with that side of my family any longer...
Religion and Governments are at the root of all this.
Millions will be dying for nothing! No one is coming down!!!
Congratulations on 20K man! I'm very happy I found your channel when you first started and really love your content. Keep it up.
Thanks for being here for it all!!
Same 🙌🏻
Regardless of "prophecy", if you feel happy deep down inside when learning of people dying? You "might be" in a death cult.
So simply said. So true
I was crossing my fingers that someone would cover this. I have honestly been nervous about what it means, I'm excited to watch this
Hope it helps!
What a my issues with end times theology is if you believe that there going to be an Endtime and you're looking for signs then you'll see those signs where there are none.
But the scariest part is how many believed in the end times we'll take conscious and unconscious action to mold social situations to fit into their belief...
Fully agree!
Everytime someone says "biblical prophecy is unfolding before our eyes" I reply "so by extent you are admitting the Holocaust was apart of God's plan?"
You said exactly what I was thinking in the video. Why are these religious folk so obsessed and eager for the 'End Times' Can't they just enjoy life? I cannot imagine living in so much fear that their special book promotes gleefully. And those who do enjoy the prospect thousands of innocents burning for eternity is utterly ghoulish.
Congrats on 20K Brandon.. been here since 6K.
Appreciate that so much!
you have no idea how much I needed this. thank you so much!! as someone who has religious trauma mostly due to listening to my church and family always talking about the end of times since i was little I developed terrible and debilitating anxiety to the level that I could not leave my house or watch the news. and now that I was getting better at deconstructing my christian upbringing (im an atheist) this war has made most of my anxiety to come back and my logical thinking to stop and. anyways this is a long way of saying thank you and to all the people with this type of trauma you are loved you are safe. and the end of times is just a weird mass hysteria
Congrats on ur freedom brother
Appreciate that and so glad to have been helpful!
One thing about the Euphrates river drying up - this is the 6th bowl that angels spill, two bowls before that are actually more curious:
"The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was allowed to scorch people with fire."
"The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness."
Those two verses can be easily interpreted as death of the Sun.
I'm sure that the Sun still has a lot of fuel to go by before the end times come xD
Not to mention it's out of order.
My mother also talked about Israel and Hamas fighting and went about her spiel about the end times, apocalypse and sounded giddy, crazy, hell, insane, not crazy, she's such a fanatic and i just look at her with disgust... cause why the hell would you want your children to have their future ruined?! Fanatics... i just want them to stop...
Preach it bro❤
On it!
Thank you so much for covering this topic. I don't know many people that can clearly see the loss of innocent life of both sides while also addressing some of the major roots that cause events like these to occur.
I appreciate that very much. Thank you for being here!
@@MindShift-Brandon love it here! Thank you as well!
I’m really loving your videos! My hope is that the world will start to see that there is no god. Only then can we truly live in harmony.
thank you very much for that!
@@MindShift-Brandon keep up the great content. I love how you get to the point and explain things. My deconstruction is very intense after 43 years of believing. There are many like me who benefit from channels like yours. Thanks!
Happy 20k
🎉 thank you!
Read Matthew 23 and 24 closely - its prophesying the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD.
Maaaaan, I love this channel. Great video. I have a lot of thoughts about this topic, because as I'm still in the process of deconstructing (always will be, I think), the one thing that I keep circling back to is how absolutely evil and destructive the End-times doctrine is. From useless wars being fought in the name of a deity, to the environmental impact from teaching that the Earth is here just to be used up and thrown away, it makes me feel no small amount of sadness. What a fricken waste of life, religion is.
You said it. Thanks so much for being here!
Never hurts a prophet to be too vague.
Ha! True!
What kills me about so many of these predictions is that they designate a specific date when even a non-scholar like me knows that Jesus said no one will know the day or hour.
Right? Setting a date should instantly disqualify it. In fact that was the loophole i thought i found when i was little. I was so terrified of it that every day i would purposely think. Today is the day so that it would not be the day.