coming to an end?

Is the world coming to an end or what?? another earthquake has happened! In Turkey!! and the killing in Jos is still ongoing and ridiculous!! This is def. a sign forreal. Earthquake in Haiti,Taiwon,China, Chile,Turkey. Tsunami in Asia, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and several hurricanes in Haiti in '08. Somethings gotta give.


In Matthew 24:7, Jesus said, “There shall be famines, and pestilences [strange diseases], and earthquakes in diverse places.” Do we see famines today? Experts know that for many, chronic hunger is an ever present part of life and that 10,000 people a day, or more than 3.5 million people per year die of starvation. Do we see pestilences today, strange diseases running rampant? Some diseases are becoming resistant to antibiotics. And new diseases appear for which science has no cure, AIDS, Mad Cow disease, the Ebola virus. Do we see earth quakes today? Seismograph stations record 12,000 to 14,000 earthquakes per year or about 35 per day. Many earthquakes of disastrous magnitude peppered the century just closed. There’s a whole lot of shaking going on!- 



4. SIGNS in the world of SOCIETY:
No signs are more obvious than those in the social world. Jesus plainly predicted in Matthew 24:37: “As the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark.” In Noah’s day, God’s standards were no longer accepted. And how is society’s moral fabric today? Living together outside of marriage is commonplace. Out-of-wedlock babies account for 30.1% of all births in America. The divorce rate quadrupled, from 4.3 million in 1970 to 18.3 million in 1996.




5.SIGNS of out of control Sex:
Again, Jesus Christ said, “Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot…Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed” Luke 17:28, 30. What was it like in Lot’s day before God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah? Here’s the answer: “Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire” Jude 7. Thus “fornication” (sex outside of marriage), and “going after strange flesh” (homosexuality), were the primary sins of those ancient cities. It’s a no brainer that through television, Internet pornography, Playboy etc., our world is experiencing an unprecedented deluge of sexual perversion.




9. SIGNS in the world of POLITICS:
In Matthew 24:6-7, Jesus says, “You will hear of wars and rumors of wars ... For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.” The 20th Century saw World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Arab-Israeli Wars, the war in Bosnia, the Gulf War, Kosovo, southern and northern Ireland, wars all over Africa from Rwanda and Somalia to the Sudan and the Congo. One source estimates 180 million people have been killed in the last century; a total far greater than for any other century in history. Peace treaties, based on frail human promises, are signed one day and broken the next. Speaking of our time, the Apostle Paul declared in 1 Thessalonians 5:3, “When they say, ‘Peace and safety!’ then sudden destruction comes upon them ... And they shall not escape.”
Today the nuclear threat is greater than ever. Even though the U.S. has downsized our nuclear arsenal, Russia has not. In August of 1999, CBS’s 60 Minutes II aired a program about Russia’s Secret Cities continuing to produce plutonium—the key ingredient in nuclear weapons. When terrorists and rogue governments go to Russia seeking to buy plutonium to make nuclear bombs, scientists who have not been paid by Russia’s crumbling economy are sorely tempted to sell their precious commodity.
Revelation 11:18 puts it this way: “The nations were angry and Your wrath has come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged. And that You should reward your servants the prophets and the saints, ... and should destroy those who destroy the earth.” With unchecked nuclear weapons, we now have the capacity for self-destruction. This is certainly one of the greatest signs of Jesus’ Return, for never before in history has mankind had the capability to destroy all the earth.





8. SIGNS in the world of KNOWLEDGE:
The prophetic book of Daniel declares, “But you, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased” Daniel 12:4. This passage reveals planet Earth will enter its “time of the end” and then “knowledge shall be increased,” knowledge about Daniel’s prophecies and knowledge in general would increase. In our modern era, more than any time in recorded history, knowledge has increased beyond previous generations.
As you turn on your computer, remember; ours is an age truly exploding with knowledge. Looking to our daily newspaper for hope, we find only despair. Looking to the Bible in despair, we find hope. Fulfilled prophecies are all around us, Jesus is coming soon!





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