SIGNS OF THE END (GLOBAL)
1. Wars and Rumors of Wars
Mark 13:7, "And when you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be troubled. For it must happen, but the end shall not be yet."
Luke 21:9, "But when you hear of wars and disturbances, do not be terrified, for all these things must first occur, but the end is not at once."
2. Heart Failure
3. Immorality
Description:
- They ate.
- They drank.
- They bought.
- They sold.
- They planted.
- They built.
2 Timothy 3:2-5, "For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, unyielding, false accusers, without self-control, savage, despisers of good, traitors, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it."
Description:
- Self-lovers
- Money-lovers
- Proud
- Blasphemers
- Disobedient to parents
- Unthankful
- Unholy
- Without natural affection
- Unyielding
- False accusers
- Without self-control
- Savage
- Despisers of good
- Traitors
- Reckless
- Puffed up
- Lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God
- Having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it
4. Knowledge Increases
Knowledge has certainly increased within this generation almost beyond imagination! In fact according to research studies, the total store of human knowledge is now doubling every eight years.
80% of all the scientists who have ever lived are alive today. Every minute they add 2000 pages to man's scientific knowledge, and the scientific material they produce every 24 hours would take one person 5 years to read. About a half-million new books are published every year.
When Apollo 13 was lost in space, computers worked out in an hour & a half a way to bring it back. It's reported that it would have taken a scientist working with pencil & paper over a million years to figure out how to perform the same feat.
But even since 1970 computer technology has developed so fast that if the auto industry had developed at the same rate, you would today be able to buy a Rolls Royce for three dollars!...and you could fit eight them on the head of a pin! The most basic building block of computer technology, the transistor, was invented at Bell Labs in 1948. In 1994 a computer chip could hold 3.1 million transistors, more than twice as many as the previous year's model. By the end of the decade, a chip will contain more than a billion transistors. Machines today have become so complicated, only the most highly trained technicians can even understand them!
But have all these amazing scientific discoveries & technological breakthroughs made mankind any happier or more civilized? It seems like the more gadgets & luxuries with which man tries to find happiness & satisfaction, the more discontented & miserable he becomes!
In our day & age "knowledge" has certainly "increased". But although the so-called "developed" countries such as the U.S. claim to have the most "advanced" & expensive educational systems the world has ever known, yet they've been turning out the most confused, ignorant & violent children they've ever produced!
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5. Pleasure Seeking
6. Poverty, Famine, and Pestilence
Mark 13:8, "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there shall be earthquakes in different places, and there shall be famines and troubles. These things are the beginnings of sorrows."
Luke 21:11, "And great earthquakes shall be in different places, and famines and plagues. And there shall be terrors and great signs from Heaven."
7. Earthquake Increases
Mark 13:8, "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there shall be earthquakes in different places, and there shall be famines and troubles. These things are the beginnings of sorrows."
Luke 21:11, "And great earthquakes shall be in different places, and famines and plagues. And there shall be terrors and great signs from Heaven."
SIGNS OF THE END (RELIGION)
1. Apostasy and Worldliness
2 Thessalonians 2:3, "For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away…"
2 Timothy 4:3-4, "For a time will be when they will not endure sound doctrine, but they will heap up teachers to themselves according to their own lusts, tickling the ear. And they will turn away their ears from the truth and will be turned to myths."
Description:
- Iniquity shall abound
- The love of many will become cold
- Falling away
- Will not endure sound doctrine
- They will heap up teachers to themselves according to their own lusts
- Tickling the ear
- They will turn away their ears from the truth
- They will be turned to myths
2. Christians Persecuted
Mark 13:9-13, "9 But take heed to yourselves. For they shall deliver you up to sanhedrins, and in the synagogues you shall be beaten. And you shall be brought before rulers and kings for My sake, for a testimony against them. 10 And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all nations. 11 But whenever they lead you away and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what you should speak or think. But speak whatever shall be given to you in that hour. For it is not you who speaks, but the Holy Spirit. 12 And a brother will betray a brother to death, and a father his son. And children will rise up against their parents and will cause them to be put to death. 13 And you will be hated by all for My name's sake, but he enduring to the end, that one will be kept safe."
Luke 21:12-17, "12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for My name's sake. 13 And it shall return to you for a testimony. 14 Therefore settle it in your hearts not to meditate beforehand what you shall answer. 15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. 16 And you shall be betrayed also by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends. And they will cause some of you to be put to death. 17 And you shall be hated by all for My name's sake."
Description:
- They will deliver you up.
- You will be afflicted and persecuted.
- They will kill you.
- You will be hated of all nations for the name of Jesus.
- Many will be offended.
- They will betray one another, brother to brother, a father to his son, kinsmen, and friends.
- They will hate one another.
- Children will rise up against their parents.
3. False Christs and Cults
4. Witchcraft
5. Expansion and Revival
Mark 13:10, "And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all nations."
Act 2:17-18, "And it shall be in the last days, says God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. And in those days I will pour out My Spirit upon My slaves and My slave women, and they shall prophesy."
SIGNS OF THE END (ISRAEL)
Ezekiel 37:1-28; 36:33-35; Psalm 102:16
Psalm 102:16, "When Jehovah shall build up Zion, He shall appear in His glory."
Conflict of the Nations
Ezekiel 38, 39; Luke 21:20
Luk 21:20 And when you see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that its destruction has come.
A City Regained
Luke 21:24, "And they shall fall by the sword's edge. And shall be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the nations until the times of the nations is fulfilled."