Prophesy: We ARE In The Last Days!!!
Prophesy can be overwhelming for many readers trying to understand what all the symbolism and interpretations can mean. Jesus had to speak in parables for things that weren’t fulfilled yet when he walked on the earth for He knew that the masses wouldn’t understand Him yet. But fulfillment of prophesy was one of God’s biggest revelations to show that He is the only true and living God. God stakes His claim that He being the true God, He will be able to know the future.
Isaiah 42:9 “Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.”
Other religions may get some lucky guesses or cold reads, but God made sure He’ll get it right every time, confirming to the unbeliever that there is no other but Him. And if He can tell the future, then everything else He says you can take to the bank. If you’re a curious unbeliever, hang on, you may get the confirmation you need that God is real and fully alive today, tomorrow, and forever. And if you’re a believer, you’ll get blessed with understanding of many obscure events that the Bible foretells and are coming to pass at a rapid rate today. We are truly witnessing the last days…
One third of the Bible is prophecy. The New Testament speaks more about the End Times than anything else but salvation. Why? Because more people will be lead to Jesus in the end times than ever before in the entire time the Kingdom of Heaven has been revealed on Earth.
The scriptures would be the handbook to showing believers and unbelievers alike that a Living God would know everything. God gave no way out for us not to believe, and His prophecy will be one of the strongest soul winning instruments when the end days make it very clear that the Bible was right on the money, and what is happening today, has been declared for thousands of years.
WE’LL BE DISCUSSING EVERYTHING FROM THE RAPTURE, ANTI-CHRIST, MARK OF THE BEAST, (It is here!) TO THE LAWLESSNESS OF TODAY AS WE CONTINUE IN THIS BLOG. WE’LL GO FROM WHAT’S GOING ON TODAY THAT FULFILLS PROPHECY – TO WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT IN THE NEAR FUTURE – AND HOW YOU CAN INTERPRET THE TIMES, like Jesus wanted us to:
Luke 12:56 (When talking to the Pharisees) “Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. How is that you don’t know how to interpret the present time?
And if you’re not saved, always ask ahead on that one – we’ll answer, so you can avoid this oncoming wrath. God gave an early exit strategy, and you’re not going to want to miss Air Force Heaven, trust me on that.
God even spoke that some prophecies would be sealed up until the end times, and now we can know what they mean. It is my purpose to aide all those who want to learn and watch the end times unfold before us… Praise be to God for His glorious Son Jesus Christ, with the wonderful counselor the Holy Spirit witnessing, Amen!
Q: Are We in the End Times?
A: Yes, we are in the end times.
Q: But, they’ve been saying that for hundreds of years. Why is it different today?
A: To sum up a few real quick prophecies before we get into the meat of the matter:
Prophecy 1: Israel had to become a nation again in the last days for a ton of reasons in Revelations: The third temple has to be built so the Anti-Christ will declare himself God in it. The Anti-Christ will get Israel to enter into a peace treaty with the Arab nations, etc… (We’ll discuss all this in detail in later blogs)
Israel becoming a nation again was prophesied by Isaiah when Israel was still a nation. It is stated in the first verse of the Book of Isaiah that he prophesied during the reigns of Uzziah . Uzziah reigned fifty-two years in the middle of the 8th century BC, and Isaiah must have begun his ministry a few years before Uzziah's death, probably in the 740s BC. So Israel was still a nation when Isaiah prophesied Israel would cease to be a nation, and God said it would be a nation again:
Isaiah 11:12 "He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the Earth."
Ezekiel 37:21 "Thus says the Lord God: ' Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own Land."
Jewish repatriates migrated from all corners of the earth; South America, North America, Russia, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia to fill up the tiny nation with the long lost tribes when it became a nation again. (We'll discuss the miraculous wars Israel's survived later on. All prophecy.)
PROPHECY 2: Israel would become a nation in one day. Quite a miracle if you ask me. But who asked me, right? Okay. On with the nuggets…
Isaiah 66:8-9 ‘Who has ever seen or heard of anything as strange as this? Has a nation ever been born in a single day? Has a country ever come forth in a mere moment? But by the time Jerusalem’s birth pains begin, the baby will be born; the nation will come forth. Would I ever bring this nation to the point of birth and then not deliver it?’ asks the Lord. ‘No! I would never keep this nation from being born,’ says your God.”
Take a look through history and see that all nations took time to be built – America fought for years for their independence. Rome wasn't built in a day. But Israel was voted on in the newly established U.N. and was declared to be a state on a date that Britain's mandate would end. Britain declared it's mandate over on May 14th at midnight in 1948. The same day, The Jewish People's council declared Israel to be a state. The Arabs came to fight, five nations on them, but Israel didn't lose, upholding their declaration of a state. I know you can say they fought there for many years in kibbutz battles -- but in one day regardless, they were established as a state and it stood despite the war.
There is another mind blowing prophecy that I won’t go into detail in this blog, because it’s prophecy for beginners – But God even foretold the exact date May 14th 1948. The calculations are extreme and I’ll provide the page upon request. It would take up a lot of room on our first blog. Let’s continue, doodaloo do…
Prophecy 3: The parable of the fig tree. Bear with me on this one. It is complicated!
Matthew 24:32-34 “Now learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near; so, you too, when you see all these things, recognize that He is near, right at the door. Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.
Both literal and figurative translations can be correct here. Jesus is saying that we’ll know the time of the end is near from the fig tree blossoming from fall/winter into summer by the leaves changing. You know when it’s fall, no leaves on the trees, and we know when it’s summer, leaves on the tree. So when you can see the seasons change into the full tree, it is near the end. Here we go into why the fig tree is symbolic of Israel…
Israel is the fig tree. Read the entire Chapter of Jeremiah 24. I’m not quoting it here for space reasons and readers with ADHD. But it’s in Jeremiah 24, Jeremiah 5:17, Hosea 2:12, and Amos 4:9 that Israel is stated as the fig tree. It’s also a God occurrence that Matthew 24 talks about the fig tree, and Jeremiah 24 talks about Israel as a fig tree. Wa- Wop!
Israel was born again in 1948. It put forth leaves in the summer (June), when it was mature (1967). How do we know that Israel was considered mature – it held its own in the Six Day War against a huge Arab Coalition in 1967. The average age of enlistment for the military is 18, most states the legal age. You are ready for war. The Six Day War occurred when Israel was 19 years old.
If you think about a generation, then the first born of Israel in 1948 are now in their 60’s, that doesn’t leave much time. “For this is the generation that will not pass away.” Now before you throw Bibles at me – I am not predicting an exact day and time. (See bottom page.) I am writing this with the help of the Holy Spirit in all that I do for the glory of God. I am no Bible scholar, I just go to the author of the book when I don’t understand anything. (See next post for the keys being unlocked.)
Psalms 90:10 The length of our days is seventy years--or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
Furthermore, an average fig tree, like the ones in the Middle East at max live to a hundred years old. Average 60-80 years. I’m not talking about the Rain Forest figs that live to be 500 years old. I’m talking the average fig tree seen in the Middle East. So figuratively or symbolically, both accounts of a real fig tree and Israel as the fig tree are correct.
And literally, the seasons are changing – via carbon monoxide, greenhouse effect, etc. Jesus gave us no way to misinterpret that one away!
Prophecy 4: When people first assumed in the first 100 years A.D. that the coming Kingdom was coming from Heaven, they misinterpreted what Jesus meant when he said the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand. The Kingdom of Heaven(His Church) was fulfilled when He died and rose from the dead. The church is the kingdom of Heaven on the Earth.
God cleared up a lot of things when He gave the vision of Revelations to John on Patmos. In the letters to the seven churches Rev Chapters 2 and 3. God told the churches they were not ready and some things had to be corrected and the church would not be ready until it is without blemish for the Bridegroom, Jesus. Ephesians 5:27
So in Revelations Chapters 2 and 3, God was expressing the rapture and end is not then, because the church had to be built and grow. (More on the Gospel having to be preached throughout the world in another blog. Since America wasn’t even discovered yet, there would be no end times back in the early church’s day. 33-1500 A.D.)
The church is going through a unifying process like no other today. More and more churches are springing up without a denominational title. The church was in its infancy in the beginning, where faith was outrageous because little kids didn’t get bogged down with all types of teaching that we have today. They believed in Santa Klaus, the tooth fairy, so when told they could heal the sick, cast out demons, and move mountains, they didn’t doubt a bit.
Now as the church is almost matured, the Spirit is pounding down divisions and unifying the body of Christ like never before, fulfilling what was written:
Ephesians 4:12-13 "to equip his people for works of service so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ."
You have Presbyterian preachers on fire like Pentecostal preachers were at the beginning of last century. You have Baptist preachers speaking in tongues. The foundation is built on Christ, and the Spirit is pouring out like in:
Acts 2:17 and Joel 2:28 In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.
Prophecy 5: When the world was saying Jesus was coming back in the early church days(100 A.D), there were only 240 million people worldwide. The prophecy of…
Revelations 9:16 Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them.
Verse 18: By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed—by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths.
What were babies and the elderly supposed to gear up in armor and kill one third of mankind? No, to do the math, if a 200 million man army is to kill one third of mankind not including themselves, the world would have to have at least 800 million. 200 million times three, plus the army itself. We didn’t even have 800 million people until around 1700 A.D. Now logically thinking, the world would have to be pretty populated like today to have an army come across the Euphrates number in the 200 million.
The Euphrates River wasn’t even dammed until 1953, which would even allow a massive army to cross over into the Middle East. Who could have a 200 million man army? China, but that’s another blog.
Prophecy 6: A prophecy of the last days is that people will actually scoff that it is the last days. How ironic that people will argue with us today and say, “They’ve been saying that forever that it’s the last days.
2 Peter 3: 3-4 “knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation."
SO IT’S EVEN A PROPHECY THAT PEOPLE WILL DENY IT’S THE END TIMES!!!
Jesus also says that about Christians in the Parable of the Ten Virgins: Matthew: 25:13. I would write it out, but it is a further we’ll discuss in recent months as we go through everything in detail.
Q: But the Bible says the hour and time are not known. How can you give an hour and time?
A: I’m not, just watching the seasons change and staying in prayer over this so I am one of the five virgins that isn’t just waiting, but watching. And don’t get Left Behind!
Matthew 24:36-4236 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.42 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.
Looks like a lot of partying going on to me. Marrying and giving up in marriage, every sex today. In Noah’s time, everyone was getting down on the farm with everyone else. So we will be able to know when the seasons change, and the fig tree is in a retirement home, because Israel is in it’s 60’s today, and will not die, because His coming will take place before the generation ends.If anyone claims an exact date and time, run from them, they are not prophets of God but false prophets.
Next blog we'll be discussing the world today and how it was prophesied to be like this thousands of years ago.
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