See Signs Of End Times In Current Events

Not everything that the apostle Paul wrote belongs in the Bible; not every writing from ancient Hebrew times belonged in the collection of books that God chose, and His people recognized, as belonging to the inspired Scriptures. So, if it says that we are kings in heaven, then who do we reign over? First,we have no idea what God will do when this chapter of His plan of the ages is completed. I’m enthralled by the verse in the book of Revelation where, at the end of all that God has done, He says, “I make all things new.” I think we have very little comprehension of exactly what that newness of all things means.
During the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel captured all of Jerusalem, putting it fully under Jewish rule for the first time since the Roman destruction in 70ad. Jerusalem remained under Ottoman control for almost exactly four centuries. In 1917, during World War I, General Allenby and the British army defeated the Ottoman Turks and entered the city.



He will deceive not a few hundred people—like David Koresh and his Branch Davidians—but hundreds of millions! Yes, prophecy indicates that hundreds of millions of people will be deceived! That is exactly what will occur before Christ’s coming. God uses vicious leaders like the coming “king of the North” to punish His hypocritical people, who say they worship Him and print His name on their money , but do not do the things He commands. This future “Hitler” will execute God’s wrath, especially upon the peoples of America and the British countries, because as nations they have rejected God’s values and chosen sinful pleasures and conveniences. We do need to understand the momentous times in which we live.
The belly and thighs of bronze represented the Greco-Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great from 333 to 31bc. The two legs of iron represent the Roman Empire from 31bc to 476ad. Finally, the ten toes on two feet of iron mixed with ceramic clay represent a future revival of the Roman Empire.

Since men cannot live without fire they replace true love with the false fire of lust, and its inevitable consequence, hate. Watch those who feel they can, with impunity, step over the moral bounds of the past. Life becomes for them an increasing tangle of emptiness. Of course it includes the originators or propagators of all the false cults which have arisen throughout the course of the age, beginning with the first century.
Sometimes, if my house was especially quiet, I’d momentarily panic that everyone had been raptured up without me. And so, all of that hope for future deliverance and restoration is still yet to happen. As the Hebrew Bible comes to a close in the centuries after the exile, there's the sense that there's still another event that's yet to take place. There's still some final judgment, final separating of the faithful and the faithless among God's people, there'll be a new temple.
Michael served on the translation team of theHolman CSB Bibleand contributed to several other books and study Bibles. Michael also appeared in the Lee Stroebel videoThe Case for Christ. The Bible teaches that before Jesus returns to establish His kingdom on earth, there will be a 7-year period known as the Tribulation or the Day of the Lord. Some are concerned that we are now in that period of tribulation.

To a certain extent, my use of the term prophetic politics builds on Donald Dayton's discussion of pentecostal eschatology. By placing the return of Christ before the millennium,” marked their eschatology as apocalyptic. The late Christopher Hitchens called this attitude “a contempt for all things of this world” – an acceptable form of nihilism.
They will move against the stream, sometimes in blood and tears and terrible loneliness, but they will not succumb. But do you know what is the most tortuous century of all? The century in which more Christians have died for their faith than in any other is the 20th century! It is estimated that more Christians were tortured and slain in twelve months during World War II than died under Rome in all the early centuries. In the city of Seoul, Korea, ten thousand Christians have already suffered martyrdom for their faith. Some authorities claim that over fifteen million Christians have been slaughtered in Russia, Soviet-controlled Europe and other Communist countries.

"There are unchallenged, unspoken assumptions that the seasons come and go your whole life, until the seasons start to mix themselves up and records are broken," he said. "It's profoundly unsettling. But we've seen nothing yet." Solar climaxes occur in cycles and the next is expected in 2012, when some scientists predict its activity will be 30 to 50 times more intense than previous ones. Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma were "one of the stormiest periods on earth, and one of the stormiest on the sun," said Joseph. "People are starting to understand the Earth's relation to the sun." Scientists can predict major changes on the Earth by looking at its relationship to the sun, which has behaved "in more startling ways" in the last century, and more dramatically in the last three or four years.
According to the Marian apparition, the Great Warning is the illumination of conscience that comes shortly before the end times and everyone will personally experience an awareness of their own sinfulness. The person will be alone before God and that will be a kind of “wake-up call” to each human being. While this may sound intimidating, we should all be living our lives with a knowledge of our sinfulness and a constant effort to remedy our faults. When a Bible student sees Israel aligned with the West, and not the North or South or East, he or she is not surprised! We may one day witness the Antichrist taking control of a ten-nation confederacy in Europe by subduing three nations. The book of Daniel provides an overview of world events from the days of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon all the way to Christ's crucifixion, resurrection and subsequent millennial reign.

For the ancient Greeks, prediction, prophesy, and poetry were often intertwined. Prophecies were given in verse, and a word for poet in Latin is “vates” or prophet. Both poets and oracles claimed to be inspired by forces outside themselves. In ancient China, divination is regarded as the oldest Darkness Coming form of occult inquiry and was often expressed in verse. In contemporary Western cultures, theological revelation and poetry are typically seen as distinct and often even as opposed to each other. Yet the two still are often understood together as symbiotic in their origins, aims, and purposes.