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The Signs of the Times. Jesus said we should discern the Signs of the Times, Mat.16:3-5. “The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would show them a sign from heaven”
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Jesus said we should discern the Signs of the Times, Mat.16:3-5 • “The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would show them a sign from heaven” • “He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, you say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.” • “And in the morning, It will be foul weather today: for the sky is red and threatening.” • “O you hypocrites, you can discern the face of the sky; but can you not discern the signs of the times?”
2Peter 3:3-4“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last daysscoffers saying, ‘Where is His coming? All things continue as they were’...“ St. Paul said: “You, brethren, are not (to be) in darkness” 1Thes.5:2,4
Dan 12:4“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end…” The prophet Daniel lived from about 610 BC til 520 BC during the Babylonian Empire in Babylon under King Nebuchadnezzar & King Belteshazzar, and during the Medo Persian Empire under King Cyrus. He had severalvisions and prophecies about the Endtime. God told him:
Dan 12:4“...and knowledge shall be increased.” 2Tim.3:1,7“Ever learning & never able to come to the knowledge of the truth”
Mat 24:3“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?”
Mat 24:4-5,11“And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, ‘I am Christ’, and shall deceive many.
Mat 24:6 Jesus told them:“And you shall hear of wars & rumors of war,… • See that you be not troubled • For all these things must come to pass, • but the end is not yet!
Mat 24:7Jesus told them:For nation shall rise against nation,…
Mat 24:7 …and pestilences,… • WEST NILE VIRUS • HEPATITIS • BSE • SARS • AIDS • EBOLA • MONKEY POX • KREUTZFELD JACOB DISEASE Pestilence = Disease
Unprecedented rate of heart attacks today Lk 21:26“Men's hearts failing them for fear”
There were a record number of disasters in 1999 About 70,000 people were killed in well over 700 disasters. Of these, about 20,000 people died in six serious earthquakes, with many thousands more left injured and homeless.(Munich Re, Insurers, and other sources)
Mat 24:12 And because iniquity (lawlessness) shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Love grows “cold” Rom 1:27 “And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.”
Matt 24:14 “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”
Mat 24:15“When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place,…FLEE!…”this will be explained more...
2Thes:2:3:“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there comes a falling away first…” Falling Away = departing from faith in Jesus
1Tim.4:1“Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits,”
1Tim.4:2,3 “And doctrines of devils,speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats”
Mat 24:11And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
Dan 8:23 “And in the latter time ... when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.”
2Thes:2:3: Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there comes a falling away first, … and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
Rev 13:16 “And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads”
Rev 13:17 “And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
666 Rv:13:18: Here is wisdom. Let him that has understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred sixty and six.
2 Thes 2:3, “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” 4: “Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.”
Mat 24:15 ”When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place,…FLEE!…”
Dan 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Dan 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the middle of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Dan 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,…
Mt 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Dan 8:25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: …
Dan 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.