As Christians the sentence "the end is near" isn't new to us, we've heard people prophesy the end a reasonable number if times yet we are still here on the earth in this age,people have prophesied how the end will come, how it'll be through rapture and all that, personally for me I've been hearing this thinngs since i was born, even when I'd say am a Christian but then i knew i wasn't born again, I've aged and am still hearing this things,infact my age figure will change tomorrow,it simply means I'm growing old but then all these prophesies aren't coming to pass, doesn't that make God a lier if prophesies are revealed by God,else the people had a weong interpretation.
The prophesy of the end is scriptural, instead of frening ignorance at scriptures and seeking to say what isn't there let's fall back to scriptures, whoever might have said we will be raptured on so so date yet it didn't happen might have done that from a place of sincerity,for his/her love for God but then your love for God can make you walk in righteousness,the knowledge of who he is and what he has done for you will,Romans 10:2-3 Validates that,it says;
"[2] For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. [3] For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God."
What makes one live for God is the knowledge of Him and not Zeal.
How then will the end come and when?
The events that might happen on that day i don't know but i can tell that rapture won't be part of it, scriptures compare the end which is the second coming of Christ to the days of Noah, let's take a look at the Matthew 24:37,it says;
"[36] “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. [37] But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. [38] For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, [39] and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be."
In the days of Noah, people lived their life as normal as anyone would till the flood came taking away the unrighteous people away from the earth by destruction, the righteous remainded on the earth,if scriptures compare the events of the end to that of Noah's time then no believer will be raptured to live the earth rather the unrighteous will live which i don't know how but they will leave.
How we know the end has come is not because countries are in war,nor siblings and parents against each other or much evil on thew earth in general,the end will come only when every ear has heard the gospel of Christ, Matthew 24:14 affirms that,it says;
"[14] And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come."
Thanks for reading and hope i made a point.