Events Prophesied.
The Bible tell us of a number of events that would take place immediately before Christ’s returns. Matthew 24:6-7
New King James Version (NKJV)
6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all[a] these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences,[b] and earthquakes in various places.
Earthquakes Biggest Killer
A UN-sponsored report finds that more people died from earthquakes in the past decade than from any other disaster.
Studies show more than 780,000 people were killed in nearly 4,000 disasters. These catastrophic events affected more than two billion other people and cost a minimum of $960 billion in economic losses.
Guha Sapir of the Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters said climate events affected far more people and the threats for these events are increasing.
"Most of the affected people are due to climate related events and the economic losses are largely due to floods and storms," Sapir told the AFP news agency.
"It is not clear that climate change itself is an important factor in this increase," he said. "There can be many other factors, bad political systems, weak infrastructure, bad organization policies, population increase, deforestation and global warming…And we do not have sufficient research to show what is the contribution of climate-related factors to the increase in climate-related disasters."Â
Storms accounted for 22 percent of the overall death toll while extreme temperatures claimed 11 percent of lives lost in 3,852 disasters over the period.
The most deadly disasters of the past 10 years were the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004, Cyclone Nargis in Burma and the Sichuan earthquake in China in 2008, followed by the earthquake in Pakistan in 2005 and heat waves in Europe in 2003.
The current decade has gotten off to an equally deadly start, with about 170,000 feared dead in the powerful and unprecedented earthquake that struck Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince and the surrounding area on January 12.
Although the number of disasters have increased over the years, the number of people affected by them has dropped dramatically.
Experts say earthquakes will continue to threaten millions of peoples’ lives because eight out of the 10 most-populous cities in the world are on earthquake fault-lines.
A sudden spurt of knowledge and vast increase in worldwide travel.
Daniel 12:4
New King James Version (NKJV)
4 “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
The Bible also predicts a time when it will be too late to search the scriptures.
"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. Amos 8:11-13
Men will be lovers of pleasure
2 Timothy 3 1-4
New International Version (NIV)
1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
It is happening.
Corruption.
Murders.
Disobedient Children
Rapes.
Adultery
Sex slaves
Cheating
Lying
Believers will fall away from the faith.
1 Timothy 4:1-3
New King James Version (NKJV)
The Great Apostasy
4 Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron
We see this too in our day with the wide proliferation of many cults to which many believers are falling prey.
The rebirth of the nation of Israel.
The rebirth of the nation of Israel.
The fig tree – a symbol of Israel –putting forth its leaves.
The Jew have been scattered since A.D. 70
They were scattered around the world.
The fig tree lay withered for nearly 19 centuries.
But 1948 the nation of Israel was born once again.
Jesus said that Jerusalem would be occupied by non-Jewish nations until the time of those nations are fulfilled(Luke 21:24)
In June 1967 Israel occupied the city of Jerusalem for the first time in 20 centuries.
Appearance of Red Heifer.
APPEARANCE OF THE RED HEIFER AFTER 2000 YEARS
Numbers 19:2-7 "This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded, saying, "Speak to the sons of Israel that they bring you an unblemished red heifer in which is no defect and on which a yoke has never been placed. "You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be brought outside the camp and be slaughtered in his presence. Next Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. "Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight; its hide and its flesh and its blood, with its refuse, shall be burned. "The priest shall then wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward come into the camp, but the priest shall be unclean until evening.“
A red heifer will be required to be used in the process of purification described in the book of Numbers. In May 1997 the first Red Heifer was born in 2000 years. Another red Heifer was born in Israel in March of 2002.
The signs of Bloody moon.
The prophet Joel claimed the sun will turn to darkness, and the moon will become like blood, before the arrival of the day of the Lord. He perceived a great significance in these signs, as both the sun and the moon were appointed for signs, seasons, days, and years in Genesis 1:14.
The sun turned to darkness.
The bloody moon.
Return of the Jews.
RETURN OF THE ETHIOPIAN JEWS TO ISRAEL
Zephaniah 3:10-11 "From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia My worshipers, My dispersed ones, will bring My offerings. In that day you will feel no shame because of all your deeds by which you have rebelled against Me; For then I will remove from your midst your proud, exulting ones, and you will never again be haughty on My holy mountain."
In 1984, Operation Moses saw the airlift of 15,000 Jews who had already fled to refugee camps in Sudan to escape starvation. In 1991, Operation Solomon flew 20,000 Jews to Israel from Ethiopia itself. A further airlift began in June of 1999, aimed at transporting the last 3,000 members of the Quara Jewish community from northeastern Ethiopia to Israel.
Watch and Pray always.
The Importance of Watching
34 “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. 35 For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy[c] to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
