How could it be any different?

It will not be radically different: The events of the past will be replicated in the future, with similar results. The Bible does not say that Jesus will come and take the faithful--just the opposite. In Matt 24, Jesus compares his second coming to the days of Noah:

36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

The obvious reading here is that you do not want to be taken, but to be left. In Noah's day, the flood came and took away all the careless, worldly people to be drowned. The challenge for Christians is to obey Jesus' instructions so that they will be saved, which is to say, left alive in God's kingdom.

Cheers,

Bruce

>Shouldn't christians be incredibly hellbent on NOT believing its the end until after someone claims to be jesus?

I don't agree that Christians should be incredibly hellbent with respect to anything. Being the opposite is kind of the point.

As to the antichrist, I suspect nobody looking for one would have any trouble picking one out. The list of possible candidates, depending on your preferences, could include Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, Charlie Sheen, Sun Myung Moon, Dick Cheney, Lady Gaga, Hillary Clinton, Pope Benedict XVI, Ted Kaczynski, Jay Leno, Samuel Alito, Cher, etc., etc. (I'm not picking any of these as my nominee; I'm just pointing out that nobody is going to be short of candidates.)

>Do christians realize that this makes them EXACTLY like the jews?

I'm sorry, but I don't see in what way. If you mean the "chosen people" thing, with an expectation that God comes in and trashes everyone else, yes, millenarian Christianity has always had that tendency. But it's always been a small though attention-getting subset of Christianity as a whole.

>Does the bible saying that we can't predict it mean that this is assuredly NOT the end?

No. That argument approximates the Unexpected Hanging paradox (see source).

Saying we can't predict the end doesn't mean that all random, inaccurate guesses are necessarily wrong.

>Does having even one believer on the planet that predicts the end cause the end to be delayed?

For the reason pointed out in my previous answer, no, it doesn't. If it did, it would be possible to delay the end indefinitely by making such predictions. (And, for those of use who actually paid attention to what Jesus said, that would be a pretty good idea; he is pretty clear that it's not a good time to live.)

But this tactic amounts to trying to use Murphy's Law to one's own benefit--an attempt that is, by Murphy's Law, doomed to fail.

I believe in the bible and that Jesus died for us and that one day he will come again but not to take all the faithful ones to heaven "The righteous themselves will possess the earth and they will reside forever upon it". Ps 37:29 and also the bible says only God himself knows when the end will come and by end i don't the end of the world i just mean the end of wars, famines, death, sickness.