The Nature Boy said:
buddy good stuff. Although i disagree with you on this stuff.... for now anyway.
But one thing about the apocolypse... you say that there becomes a one world government. Why would a one world government start a nuclear war? wouldn't it be starting a war with itself?
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No problem. Your entitled to your opinion. If I didnt experience Christ first hand, Id be doubting alot too. But what clinched it for me, besides seeing God, was honest introspection and observing others. The whole ying yang thing.
Your questions.
To answer your question, look at things from a Biblical persepective. Without interpreting future events through a Christian paradigm, things dont make sense.
God in the begining created a whole bunch of angels. The king angel, Lucifer, became pridefull and turned away from God. he was cast out of heaven and sentanced to the physical realm until God decreed otherwise. Now whether Satan, formerlly Lucifer, is real or metaphorical, I do not know. I see good and evil within each person, so I assume we dont need a spiritual devil with a pitchfork whispering diabolical suggestions into our ear to do evil acts. Anyhow, throughout time, this real or metaphorical force of evil has plauged humanity with affliction, strife, deciet, all leading to wars ect....
The end times, or tribulation described in Revelations, suggests the real or metaphorical devil finds a *physical incarnation* and becomes leader of the one world government. At this point, whether Satan was imagined or not, comes into existence in a physical form. His name is the beast, or the Anti Christ. Together with the false prophet, his buddy, they turn everyone from traditional religions, especially Christianity ( because One World Government values unity above all else)
Once the 3 1/2 year period of peace elapses after the rapture (rapture - a debated future event prophsied in the NT where obediant living Christians are taking to heaven to escape the apocolypse), the leader of the One World Government, the Anti-Christ, or Satan incarnate, incites conflict between the territorial superpowers, and nuclear war enuses.
After God banished Satan from heaven, he vowed kill and destroy the one thing God cares most about - humans.
Which brings up the whole question of y God would allow Satan to come into existence anyway..... i dont have the answer to that.