Dear Chaim -- This may be a bit out of your 'wheelhouse', as my question involves the New Testament (the Book of Revelation, no less) rather than the Torah, but I would appreciate your forbearance with this Gentile, asking your opinion about the following.
Like many of your posters, I'm disturbed to see the United States and my ancestral homeland in Europe being overrun by primitive third-world malcontents. And while I try to avoid getting consumed with what might be called 'newspaper eschatology', I cannot help but note that the once far-out claim that 'the end is near' (as often spouted by traditional conservative Christians) sounds ever more plausible.
With this in mind, I noted Revelation chapter 7 verse 9, speaking of a vision consisting of "all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the Lamb" (New King James translation). I would presume that John of Patmos (the writer of Revelation, suspected to be the same man as Saint John the Apostle) would have known from his travels and/or divine guidance from God what these various 'nations, tribes, peoples' (etc) looked like.
And now to my question: Given the plummeting numbers of Caucasians of European ancestry throughout the world (even in Europe), magnified by the loss of traditional Christian faith in nations that were once the bedrock of traditional Christian faith (again, mostly nations of European ancestry), vs. Revelation 7:9 above, I cannot help but wonder if this is yet another indicator that 'the end is near'. In other words, Christian Europe is dying fast, and thus if the end does not come soon, then that would presumably leave a major gap in John's observation in Revelation 7:9 that 'all nations, tribes, peoples' were present at the end times.
So, in your opinion, ?is this a reasonable indicator that, indeed, 'the end is near'?
My thanks for your consideration of this question.
Ithaca-37
Flyover, USA