The End Times (or Last Days)

(Last revised 2/4/25)

For most of my Christian (& post-Christian) life I believed we were living in the “end times” (or last days) and there was a second coming of Christ yet to take place — because that is what I was taught in Christianity.

I was told that’s what the Bible said, and I read many passages in the Bible that seemed to support these ideas.

But then, after spending five to six years intensely studying the Old Testament on my own, seeking out the words found in the source text from which the King James Version was translated, learning their meanings, and then keeping all that I was reading in their proper context, I began studying the New Testament in like fashion.

Then, around 2018, I heard someone suggest the book of Revelation may have been penned prior to 70 AD and that the bulk of its contents was alluding to the Fall of Jerusalem.

And that idea, given all that I had already read & studied in other NT texts, resonated with me and caused me to reconsider not only my beliefs concerning Christ’s Second Coming, but my understanding as to when the end times (or last days) are or, more accurately, were.

And now, I firmly believe the expectation for the Son of Man coming in the clouds that people had in the first century came to pass in that same century. And it was those who were living between the time of Jesus’/Yeshua’s ministry in about 30 AD and the Fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD who were experiencing the end times (or last days) of that age.

I am currently in the midst of researching and studying the Old Testament again in addition to the New Testament concerning this particular subject matter, and I’m writing about it here and in my newsletter, Messyanic’s Findings.

Here are my end–times-related posts:

And newsletter articles: