{"id":213037,"date":"2026-03-20T15:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/213037\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T15:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:45:06","slug":"are-the-end-times-coming-newsradio-740-ktrh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/213037\/","title":{"rendered":"Are The End Times Coming? | NewsRadio 740 KTRH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new survey from the University of British Columbia and the University of California, somewhere between 29 and 39 percent of all Americans believe we are in the end times and headed for some sort of doomsday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/studyfinds.com\/doomsday-believers-no-longer-fringe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The study<\/a> included people of various religious backgrounds, as well as atheists. While they might disagree on how the world might end, many agree that we are getting closer to the end.<\/p>\n<p>Religious leaders are now responding to this study, including Rabbi Brian Strauss with Beth Yeshurun Synagogue, who linked much of this to social media. \u201cYou see a video that promises the end times are here, and you\u2019re gonna get 20 more by the end of the day because you watched that video,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Shannon Holzer with Houston Christian University added that for Christians, the end times doesn\u2019t necessarily equate to doomsday, and we shouldn\u2019t spend all our time fretting about it. \u201cWe have a tendency to watch the sky,\u201d he said. \u201cAs Christians, we need to be prepared for him [Jesus Christ] to come back, but we need to live as though he\u2019s not coming back for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That sentiment seems to be shared by Pastor Aaron Wright at Grace Family Baptist Church, who said: \u201cWhatever difficulty we may experience in life, God will use it for good, and our call is to be faithful, not to fret and worry about things we see on the news.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a new survey from the University of British Columbia and the University of California, somewhere between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-213037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}