Not necessarily.
Many are claiming that Iran's attempts at nuclearization, and the growth of Islam around the world are sure signs that Christ must return in our generation. I think Christ COULD return at anytime - but He doesn't necessarily have to return in our generation even if there is an Islamization of the world.
Approximately 500 years ago Africa was steeped in witchcraft. Much of Europe was under suni Islamic Ottoman rule. Western Europe was steeped in Catholicism. All of Asia, Australia, the Pacific and the Americas were steeped in witchcraft and idolatry. True Christians were being put to death everywhere, even in Western Europe. Even in England a man was ordered by the king to be burnt to death for the crime of translating the Bible into English! A third of the world's population died within 5 months, of the Black Death. Some of the world's worst ever earthquakes were recorded during that time. America didn't exist. Freedom didn't exist anywhere - not anywhere! But Christ didn't come back. Instead, a reformation movement was slowly rising. It required the blood of martyrs, but a change came.
God could do it again - God could revive society again - even if Islam takes over for several centuries. So God could wait several centuries and then raise up another reformation, another great awakening. It isn't a sign that He HAS TO come back just because things go back to what they were like 500 years ago.
Modern Israel isn't a sign that He must come back in our generation. He allowed Israel to be wiped out once before (in AD70), yet it wasn't the end. So even if Israel gets wiped out again, it COULD BE the end - but it might not be. There are still more Jews living outside of Israel than in Israel. So a few centuries later there could be another regathering. Or we could see the end in our generation. Nobody knows. Or, at least I don't know.
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