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Finally a chance to share my thoughts on this. Apocalypse discussion can be really interesting as long as we keep in mind that only God knows the hour.
In my opinion, we're closer than ever before, but the world is still too fragmented. I don't think everything is lined up right but the seeds are in place.
>Give the third world time to catch up and connect to the internet like we have – and, like the West, give up on objective truth and faith. Look at the Great Awakening. Secularization is a portent of religious revival.
>Sexual degeneracy needs more time to become accepted. Porn becoming nearly universal is only one rung on this ladder. There's too much push back on trans, let alone the end game stages of beastiality/pedo/necro.
>Scientific abominations like test-tube babies/designer children/male uterine implants are still considered immoral because transhumanism is only just gaining acceptance in the public sphere.
>Global sea level rising/droughts are going to cause massive upheaval but both of these effects will take decades or more to be felt (we're only seeing the beginnings of this with the Seychelles and South Africa, respectively).
>Bioweapons are in development but (as far as we know) none of them have been released yet. Some governments likely have them or the research to make them, but it's all under lock and key. In a world of ~8 billion + with cosmopolitan travel, pandemic isn't a possibility but a conclusion if bioweapons are around.
>As the US wanes in power, give China's dystopic regime a while to flex the near-total control it's going to have over the economy and global society.
>Islam isn't powerful enough in the West yet to outright ban Christian expression on the state level, and isn't secularized enough to follow the Antichrist wholesale.
>Christianity as a whole is still very widespread, if publicly and socially mocked. The Church is still too big and there are too many voices of reason.
I suspect that if it doesn't happen when we're old men it will happen within the next 2 or 3 centuries. Humanity is more united now than at any point in history and that means conditions are ripe for a leader to take charge. But again, I admit freely that this is all guesswork and I'm only looking at trends based off how things are currently developing. No one in the 18th century could have envisioned the internet and how it would fundamentally change the world. Something insane might happen, society could be leveled, and we could still be thousands of years off.
I have a pet theory that the Yellowstone Volcano is going to go off when shit goes down.