What I Believe Part 1
Long Religious Post Warning.
I'm about to tell you what I really believe. This is going to be a religious post. I'm going to refer to the Bible. If you don't want to hear that please feel free to disregard. I won't be offended.
I believe we're living in The Last Days. The primary reason I believe that is because Paul says (Hebrews 9:26) Christ appeared once at the End of the Age. So the mere fact of the birth of Christ tells me that we're living at the end of the age.
Another reason that I believe that we're living in the end of the age is that from 70 AD to 1948 the nation of Israel has not existed. On May 14th 1948 the United Nations withdrew their mandate on Palestine and Isreal became a nation in one day(Isa. 66:8).
That is the only time in human history than a nation was formed in one day. Most of the Bible's end times prophecies concern Israel. So most of the Bible's prophecies couldn't have happened unless Israel was a nation.
I believe that within the next 5 years you will see Russia, Turkey, Syria, Iran and quite possibly Lebanon unite and attack Israel. I believe that they will be wiped out and that it will happen in such a way that there will be no question in anybody's mind that Israel was saved by Divine intervention.
I believe that shortly after this happens something will open the way for Israel to rebuild the Third Temple.
I believe that at some point either right before right after that we're going to see a worldwide economic collapse.