The day before He delivered this speech, He had put a curse on a barren fig tree, causing it to wither (Matthew 21:18-19). He sent Jonah to warn the pagan city of Nineveh, and He sent Nahum to the same city 150 years later.Likewise, God is warning the world today that His Son is about to return. In fulfillment of this prophecy, early in the 20th Century the Jewish settlers began to reclaim the land. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.\"(Matthew 24:6,7a) Since World War II, many countries have been building up massive arsenals of conventional and nuclear weapons.
Lukewarm Christians and carnal Christians are being called to commit their lives to holiness: God is alerting believers of the soon return of His Son through what are called “signs of the times.” These are prophecies concerning world events that we are told to watch for, prophecies that will identify the season of the Lord’s return.The Bible is full of these signs. A person is under either the grace of God or the wrath of God. Jesus singled out this event as the one that would signal His soon return.His prophecy is contained in the fig tree parable (Matthew 24:32-35) which He presented in His Olivet Discourse. Have you committed your life to holiness? Romans 5:9 says that But, if you’re under God’s wrath because you haven’t ask for forgiveness of your sins and accepted Jesus as your Savior, you will stay behind and experience a wrath unlike anything you can even imagine. But, like ancient Judah, we became enamored with our wealth […]Our beloved nation is in the midst of what appears to be […]Jesus Christ is coming back to this Earth very soon.Now, Jesus Himself made it crystal clear that we cannot know the date of His return.
He is calling the world to repentance. Well, the key lies in why He is returning. I found myself sitting before an elderly lady I used to know there and was […] All Rights Reserved. He stated in Matthew 24:36, But, the Bible makes it equally clear that those who have the Holy Spirit living in them — that is, those who believe in Jesus as Savior — can understand the nature of the times that mark His return (1 Thessalonians 5:2-6).And folks, the season of the Lord’s return is now! Judeo-Christian values, once the foundation of Western Civilization, are now openly mocked, and those who still adhere to them are castigated as “intolerant fundamentalists” by the media.The positive spiritual signs include the proclamation of the Gospel to the whole world (Matthew 24:14), a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit (Joel 2:28-32), and spiritual illumination to understand prophecies that have been As with the negative signs, we are seeing these positive signs fulfilled in our day and time. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God…”“the Spirit explicitly says that in the latter times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons.”“The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine… and will turn aside to myths.”“And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come”“there will be great earthquakes, and in various places plagues and famines; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.”“God does not wish that any should perish but that all should be brought to repentance.”“we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.”“for His Son from heaven… who will deliver us from the wrath to come.”“God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.”“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.”“He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”“The time has come…the kingdom of God is near.