End Times Prophesies and Signs, Part 1
To anyone viewing it, it is apparent that this is a documentary that was not created to amuse or entertain but to show how end time prophesies may be recognized and/or fulfilled.
Jesus said, ""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.' Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times."
Many signs of the bible that refer to the end times are now appearing and have been appearing for many years. To sum up the end-time signs and prophesies, they are:
1. wars and rumors of wars
2. famine, plaques
3. earthquakes
4. traffic and accidents
5. rapid transportation
6. increased knowledge
7. violence
8. the occult
9. the Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations
10. the anti-Christ shall be born to seduce the nations
11. there will be solar and lunar eclipses only on Jewish feast days until the year 2015. I've gone into more detail below:
War:
"And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars...For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:" (Matthew 24:7) No period has witnessed the escalation of wars as has the 20th Century.
Famine:
"For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines..." (Matthew 24:7) The Gulf War alone cost the Allies a half billion dollars a day, or about $350,000 a minute. Famine causes millions of people, mostly children, to die every year even though there is an abundance of food in the world.
Plagues:
"... and pestilences...." (Matthew 24:7) The world recession, resulting in poverty and homelessness has devastated the health care systems of many countries and diseases once thought banished by modern science have made an alarming comeback.
Epidemics of typhoid, diphtheria, and even the Black Death, have afflicted areas of India and the former Soviet Union. Deadly new strains of Malaria, Tuberculosis and Cholera are becoming resistant to all known antibiotics and are killing millions of people.
Earthquakes:
" ... and earthquakes, in various places..." (Matthew 24:7) March 27th, 1964. Alaska is devastated by a massive earthquake measuring 8.4 on the Richter scale. Amazingly, in the 30 years since the great Alaska quake, there have been as many major earthquakes as in the entire previous 2000 years of world history! The World Almanac tells us that there were only 21 earthquakes of major strength between the years 1000 and 1800. But between 1800 and 1900 there were 18 major earthquakes. In the next 50 years, between 1900 and 1950, there were 33 major quakes, and between 1950 and 1991 there were 93 major earthquakes, almost tripling the number of the previous half century, and claiming the lives of 1.3 million people around the world. This dramatic increase of severe quakes has led many scientists to predict that we are entering a new period of great seismic disturbances. The Bible also clearly predicts that the Last Days will be a time of great seismic activity, with the earth reeling to and fro like a drunken man and the towers and the cities of the nations falling!
Traffic and Accidents:
2,600 years ago, the prophet Nahum foresaw that in the last days before Jesus returns... "The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings!" (Nahum 2:3,4).
Automobiles racing along in the night must have looked like lightning to him! And they certainly do jostle one another in the broad ways!--In an average year in the U.S. alone there are 19-1\2 million crashes, in which 4 million are injured and 45,000 killed.
Knowledge Increased:
"... knowledge shall be increased"! (Daniel 12:4)
Knowledge has certainly increased within this generation almost beyond imagination! In fact according to research studies, the total store of human knowledge is now doubling every eight years."
80% of all the scientists who have ever lived are alive today. Every minute they add 2000 pages to man's scientific knowledge, and the scientific material they produce every 24 hours would take one person 5 years to read. About a half-million new books are published every year.
The most basic building block of computer technology, the transistor, was invented at Bell Labs in 1948. In 1994 a computer chip could hold 3.1 million transistors, more than twice as many as the previous year's model. By the end of the decade, a chip contained more than a billion transistors. But have all these amazing scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs made mankind any happier or more civilized? It seems like the more gadgets and luxuries with which man tries to find happiness and satisfaction, the more discontented and miserable he becomes! In our day and age "knowledge" has certainly "increased". But although the so-called "developed" countries such as the U.S. claim to have the most "advanced" and expensive educational systems the world has ever known, they've been turning out the most confused, ignorant and violent children they've ever produced!
(continued in next post)