General Biblical Prophecies:
1. Deception in the world concerning the rise of false Christs.
Christ means Messiah, the promised One from the Old Testament. It wasn’t the last name of Jesus. It was the title for Jesus. (i.e.- the Passion of THE Christ)
Matt 24:4-5
4 Jesus answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many.
2. Wars and rumors of wars.
Regarding His return to earth, Jesus Christ said
"And 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,
Matt 24:6-7
Violence is epidemic, and a study of wars since 500 BC shows a recent, dramatic increase of 82 world conflicts since just 1990.
And there have been more wars in the last 100 years than there were in the first 1900 years since the times of Christ.
3. Famines & Earthquakes increase
Christ warned that there would be famines that would be widespread and devastating, leading up to the final conflict of Armageddon. (MAT 24:7)
"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.
One of six people on earth today suffer from hunger.
A recent study shows a dramatic increase in worldwide earthquakes, just since the decade of Israel's rebirth as a nation.
Like increasing birth pangs, in the 1940's there were 51 earthquakes above 6.0 on the Richter scale; the 1950's, 475; the 1980's, 1,085; and in the 1990's there were about 1,540 (Matthew 24:7).
The Gospel of the Kingdom preached in all the world.
Jesus predicted in Matt 24:14
"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a witness to all the nations, and then the end shall come.
The sharing of the Gospel in the whole world has been made much more encompassing and rapid by the increase in travel and technology.
Technology and the Mark of the Beast
John prophesied through God the Holy Spirit that there would be a cashless society during the last 3 ½ years of the 7 year rule of the Anti-Christ.
Now what are the chances of that? A cashless society?
Well did you know that today more than 90% of purchases in the USA are done without cash?
And here is what is coming soon on this earth….
REV 13:16-18
16 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. 18 This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.
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REV 14:9-10
9 Then another angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, 10 he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
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What could this mark be? How can everyone buy and sell with this mark??
Credit cards
Fingerprint scanners
Eye scans
Verichip - computer chips under the skin!
An earthquake shall pass directly through the Mount of Olives. ZEC 14:4-5
Professor Bailey Willis of Leland Stanford University was an expert on earthquake activity. During a speech to the British Assoc. of Science for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Willis discussed the recent geological research that revealed a significant earthquake fault line passed directly through the Holy City of Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives.
Just coincidence? Or is everything lining up with the Bible as part of God’s Plan?
10. The Generation that sees these things will see the Lord’s return. MAT 24:34
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It is this same God that helped all these prophets write all these predictions that also tells us He loves us so much that He sent His only Son to die in our place.
By the way, if you’ve never believed in Jesus Christ, ask yourself a question:
What is your Truth? What proof do you have? What specific predictions do you have that prove a supernatural Author?
It is this same supernatural book, the Bible, that predicted all these events that are happening now, that also records the facts that Jesus Christ was God in heaven and voluntarily came down to earth to be a sacrifice for our sins, as a member of the human race.
It’s the same book that predicted 1000 years before Jesus was even born that the Messiah would have His hands and feet pierced.
PSA 22:16
What greater love is there than when someone is willing to suffer and die in your place?
This is the God of the universe, and the same Bible that predicts all these events we listed is the same Bible that says in Acts 16:31 “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you shall be saved.”
John 3:16-18
16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. 17 "For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him. 18 "He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
