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    Bible Prophecy: 22 Reasons Why Time May be Short
    Bible Prophecy: 22 Reasons Why Time May be Short
    Bible Prophecy: 22 Reasons Why Time May be Short
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    Bible Prophecy: 22 Reasons Why Time May be Short

    By Richie Cooley

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    This booklet examines the evidence that the days of eschatological realization may be fast approaching. It is designed to encourage believers and to cause people outside of Christianity to consider the Bible's amazing prophecies.

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    PublisherRichie Cooley
    Release dateOct 7, 2018
    ISBN9780463892305
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      Bible Prophecy - Richie Cooley

      Bible Prophecy:

      22 Reasons Why Time May be Short

      Licensed by:

      Richie Cooley (October, 2018) [edited: (December, 2018); (March, 2020)]

      Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 International

      Email: richieacooley@live.com

      Table of Contents

      I. Introduction

      II. Contemporary Trends

      III. The Nations

      IV. Politics and Religion

      V. Pending Disasters

      VI. Conclusion

      VII. Citations

      Before getting started, let’s review a few notes …

      *This work mostly uses British spelling, except for the quoted material, which often employs U.S. spelling.

      *Unless otherwise stated, Old Testament Scripture is taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE® (NASB), copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

      *Unless otherwise stated, New Testament Scripture is taken from the Analytical-Literal Translation of the New Testament: Third Edition (ALT3). Copyright © 2007 by Gary F. Zeolla of Darkness to Light ministry. Previously copyrighted © 1999, 2001, 2005 by Gary Zeolla.

      *The terms LORD, GOD, and Hashem are all ways to describe the personal name of God, often rendered as Yahweh or Jehovah.

      *The ALT3 distinguishes between singular and plural second-person pronouns by means of an asterisk (*).

      *Divine pronouns are normally not capitalized, unless they appear that way in Bible versions or other quotes.

      *As a general rule, words that appear in brackets within quotes are not found in the original texts, and were added by the translators or are my personal comments, etc.

      I. Introduction

      To believe in Bible prophecy is to label yourself immediately as one of the biggest idiots to have ever walked the planet. Christians who surmise that the end is nigh are often mocked by even very fervent peers. Yet, the ability to predict the future is the only thing that separates the Old and New Testaments from other conflicting books which claim divine authorship.

      Most religions of the world are frightfully similar to each other. Just read this selection from Dr. Valerie J. Roebuck, an expert in Eastern religions…

      The basis of Vedic religion was the sacrifice, which no doubt began as a way of nourishing and placating the gods, but expanded to become something of huge symbolic complexity, even to being seen as a means of keeping the cosmos in existence. The sacrificial enclosure and the altar within it, like the temple in later Hinduism, were interpreted as a kind of mandala [phonetic characters not reproduced] or diagram of the universe. Each part of it, every action performed within it, and all the equipment and offerings took on multiple layers of significance, of which the skilled priest was expected to be aware as he carried out his duties.¹

      That sounds a lot like the Old Testament and the ceremonialism instituted by Moses, doesn’t it? Yet Dr. Roebuck is describing religious practices stemming from the ancient Vedas—the writings which formed the backbone of Hinduism. Not only was ritual slaughter found among the Hebrews and among the ancient civilization near the Indus, but many hoary cultures featured very similar practices.

      Moreover, this old Varna system would one day be challenged by the rise of Buddhism. The original founder (Siddhartha Gautama) lived sometime in the fifth or sixth century B.C., and many popular forms of the Buddhist religion would slowly develop over the next few centuries. By the time the Christian era began, there was a real obvious comparison between the break of Buddhism from Hinduism which paralleled the break of Christianity from the Old Testament staples of Levitical sacrifice and priestly authority.

      So why can’t we just flake and form all religions together via common threads? Why can’t we recognize the influences of various world events upon the general philosophy of diverse communities throughout the centuries, and find grounds of peace within our mutual mores? There’s a simple answer to that. The Bible does not ultimately have a human origin. It was written by God, and can’t simply be explained away as an ignorant reaction to the march of progressive thought. Oh sure, you may say, but every religion says that. They all say there’s something special or sublime about their writings which separate them from the rest. Yes, but where is their hard-core, objective proof to such claims? The Bible provides objective proof. It comes through its long-term prophesying.

      Although in my mind I believe to have laid out a lot of compelling eschatological facts over the years; in reality, no one could possibly be expected to take the time to trove through all my amateurish writings to assemble a concise list of Biblical evidences. Thus, I thought it would be helpful to provide the list myself.

      So here is a string of bullet points, which not only substantiates that the Bible is from God via the perspicuity of its breath-taking prophecies, but also seeks to focus on those predictions which seem to be clearly coming to pass before our very eyes. I have gone through my past writings and tried to elucidate those prophetic passages that demonstrate we are living towards the end.

      Call me Chicken Little if you must, but the sky is indeed falling. Anyway, here’s the list. By the way, I tried to fit them into umbrella categories for ease of reference.

      II. Contemporary Trends

      1. The Cashless Society

      The mark of the beast is one of the most famous phrases from the book of Revelation. Many people have heard of some sort of strange number (666) in relation to the ultimate bogeyman–the Antichrist of the eschaton. However, the mark of the beast is not just some strange number that decodes the identity of the Antichrist, but it is also an ominous prophecy which foretells a malicious, slavish structure that will affect everyone on the planet…

      And it [the false prophet(s)] makes all [people], the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the freemen and the slaves, that they shall give to them marks on their right hand or on their forehead, and that no one is able to buy or to sell, except the one having the mark: the name of the beast or

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