We Can KNOW The Year of The Rapture (and the Russian Attack That Goes With It) !!!

While we can't know the day or the hour of the Rapture (Russian Attack),  
we CAN know the year - based on the  fact that it is to come at the end of "THIS GENERATION".
 In other words, one generation after the starting point of "when these things begin to happen"(Luke 21.28).
Since the new beginning logically comes at the same time as an ending takes place,  
this leads us to the time that "the time of the Gentiles" comes to an end(Luke 21.24).
 
Gentile rule over Israel ended in 1948.
So we have the new beginning (as in "when these things BEGIN to happen.") Next we add a "generation" of time or "70 years"(Psalms 90.10).  
This brings us to when? 2018 !!!  
So while the "day or hour" is unattainable, it is WRONG to act like blind people.  
We CAN know we are in the time of the EndTime generation.
(Give or take a few years from 2018 -- if 2018 doesn't work).

Here's another way to KNOW we are in the "generation" Christ spoke of:  
The events that are to happen are:
 ONE, the Antichrist will "make war" and take over the world ("gain power over EVERY NATION") (Revelation 13.7) !!!  
In other words,  launch NUCLEAR WAR.
 
TWO, Russia can't launch WW3 while America retains an effective retaliatory arsenal.
 That would be SUICIDAL.  
So the obvious solution is for Russia to wait til stupid America DISARMS sufficiently.
So that it will be a totally ONE-SIDED war. Like Rev 13.3-7 indicates.  
When  nuclear war(Russian Attack) comes,  
the whole world will think Russia got wiped out along with the USA.  
For isn't nuclear war a matter of M.A.D., or "Mutual Assured Destruction."  
So when Russia emerges totally unscathed, "the world will be AMAZED, saying,'Who is like Russia, Who can make war with it"(Rev 13.3-4).  
Yes, a ONE-SIDED nuclear war is just what Bible Prophecy foretells !!!
But nobody notices it !!!
This onesided nuke war enables us to gauge just when the war (and the Rapture it facilitates) will happen.
All we have to do is find out how close we (America) is to totally DISARMING  
and that = the time in which Russia will finally attack us:  
our big cities and military bases.  
Since Russia has enuff ABMs to shoot down "1,200 - 1,300 incoming warheads,"  ("Russia As The World's Number One Nuclear Power," Washington Times, 1/30/1996),
this means that as soon as the USA has FEWER than 1,300 warheads on our missiles on the 8 submarines we have at sea,  
we automatically will have equivalent to ZERO warheads, zero retaliatory arsenal left!!!  
In effect we are totally disarmed,  totally vulnerable. Is that clear ??!!  
Well we are at that point ALREADY !!!
So the RA(Russian Attack) must be mere months away.
(And the Rapture that comes it !!!)  
Yes, "1948 + 70 years = 2018" really does seem to be the right formula for finding out the time of the Rapture (except for  "the day or hour," of course).

Finally, let me add something i forgot to include.
We can narrow the time down to "the present day and age" for one simple reason:  
What the Antichrist/Beast is supposed to do is what??!!  
Conquer the world ("gain power over every..nation" Revelation 13.7), ok??
Well that takes advanced technology like jet fighters, missiles, nuke bombs, electronic communications, computers, etc.
I mean world conquest wasn't feasible in the 1800s.  
(I should admit Hitler came close even without missiles, nukes.
And without the USA and Russia, he would have pulled it off.)  
Anyway, now that we have the technology, this tells us we really are in the age in which the Antichrist really can "do his thing" !!!  
My point is this: we really are in THE ENDTIME.
Not that the end of the world is near. (Earth will remain til we have colonized Mars, other planets, even some of the galaxy.
Then the sun overheats, killing our planet.
But by then we carry on the colonizing of the galaxy from the base of the new homes we have on solar systems,  
Far enuff from the sun that we survive the demise of the present solar system.
See Romans 8.18-24.
Yes, God is truly a long-range Planner/Thinker