What is happening in the world?
Why is there so much chaos?
It seams like the fabric of society is being ripped apart.
We live in a world bound by fear and despair, suspicion and apprehension.
Anxiety is all around us.
Uncertainty and even hopelessness has become commonplace.
People are living in constant dread and have become distrustful and pessimistic about their future.
Social unrest is everywhere.
People are unsettled and unsure about their future.
There are some people that understand that these world events were predicted long ago in the Bible.
They know the signs of the times and discern that the world around them is beginning to resemble the "days of Noah."
Matthew 24:37,42 For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.
God has given a clear picture from scripture that in the last days, wickedness will increase.
Followers of Jesus look around them and are not surprised.
What is happening in the world is confirmation that God's holy word, the Bible, is true.
For thousands of years men have claimed to be
able to tell the future. While a few have made some
amazingly accurate predictions, only the Bible has
been 100% accurate.
Christians, are confident that God is not only in control, but that He is faithful and His word is true.
History is unfolding just like God said it would in the Bible.
This is confirmation that the Lord will also rescue His children from the wrath to come as the Bible says.
And thus, true Christians eagerly await their blessed hope, the Lord Jesus Christ.
You too can have this blessed hope and a peace that supasses all understanding.
You can live without fear of what the future holds.
Titus 2:13 looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus,
What does the Bible say about the future?
The Bible says that we will see an increase in the number and intensity of famines, earthquakes, and pestilence (diseases).
Luke 21:11 ...and there will be great earthquakes, and in various places plagues and famines; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
We know from the Bible "that in the last days difficult times will come."
2 Timothy 3:1-7 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
And we also know that wars will increase
Matthew 24:6-8 You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes. But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.
And then what?
Although many of the Old
Testament prophecies have been fulfilled by the
coming of Jesus Christ, there are more that remain to
be fulfilled and these will surely take place.
The Rapture
Most people are aware of the promise of Jesus
Christ to return to the Earth, but there is another
promised event less familiar which must come first.
The Rapture of the church is foretold in the following
Scriptures:
1 Corinthians 15:51-52 "Behold, I shew you a mystery;
We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall
be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 "For the Lord himself shall
descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of
the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the
dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive
and remain shall be caught up together with them in
the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we
ever be with the Lord."
One day, without warning, every born again
believer in Jesus Christ who is alive on the Earth will
suddenly disappear. They will join believers who have
died, and all will meet Jesus in the clouds. Those who
are left behind will face the worst time in human
history.
It will be a difficult time for those who
have heard the truth of Jesus Christ's death, burial,
and resurrection, and rejected it.
The Antichrist
After the Rapture, a man will rise to power as a
great peace-maker, but soon that will all change.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 "Let no man deceive you by
any means: for that day shall not come, except there
come a falling away first, and that man of sin be
revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and
exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is
worshipped..."
Daniel 9:27 "And he shall confirm the
covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of
the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation
to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations
he shall make it desolate..."
The Great Tribulation
Next, the Tribulation will
start as a time of peace but will end with destruction.
Matthew 24:21-22"For then shall be great tribulation,
such as was not since the beginning of the world to
this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days
should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved."
The Battle of Armageddon
The final war will come at the end of the Great
Tribulation as all the world's armies meet in the Valley
of Megiddo.
Revelation 16:13-16 "And I saw three
unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the
dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of
the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the
spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth
unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to
gather them to the battle of that great day of God
Almighty...And he gathered them together into a place
called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon."
The Second Coming of Jesus Christ
Matthew 24:29-30"Immediately after the tribulation
of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the
moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall
from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be
shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of
man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth
mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in
the clouds of heaven with power and great glory."
Are You Ready to face the future?
Jesus died on the cross to save you from sin and the wrath to come.
By placing you faith and trust in Jesus, you can be spared the tribulation that's coming.
Romans 5:9 "Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God."
Revelation 3:10 "Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth."
Hebrews 9:27-28 " And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him."
Receive Him as Lord and Savior today!
Romans 10:9-13"That if thou shalt confess with thy
mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart
that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt
be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made
unto salvation. For whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved."
Repent of your sins and place you hope and trust in God and God alone.
Jesus himself made it clear that repentance is key, urging people to turn to God to ask for forgiveness for their sins:
Matthew 4:17 "From that time on Jesus began to preach, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near."
Matthew 3:1-3 Like Jesus, John the Baptist also warned that the end was drawing nearer and that it was, thus, essential to repent:
"In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near."
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Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,
"Today if you hear His voice,Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me, As in the day of trial in the wilderness,
--- Hebrews 3:7-8
