Monday, 01 June 2009

• TEN SIGNS OF THE TIMES (HOW MANY DO WE NEED?)

  TEN SIGNS OF THE TIMES

   

  1. POST-MILLENNIAL SCOFFERS  2 PET. 3:3-4 SAYS “ THAT THERE SHALL COME IN THE LAST DAYS SCOFFERS, WALKING AFTER THEIR OWN LUSTS, AND SAYING, WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING? FOR SINCE THE FATHERS FELL ASLEEP, ALL THINGS CONTINUE AS THEY WERE FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION”.

  2. APOSTASY  2 THESS. 2:3 SAYS “ LET NO ONE IN ANY WAY DECEIVE YOU, FOR IT (THE 2^ND COMING) WILL NOT COME UNLESS THE APOSTASY COMES FIRST, AND THE MAN OF LAWLESSNESS IS REVEALED, THE SON OF DESTRUCTION,…”.

  EPH. 5:6 SAYS “LET NO ONE DECEIVE YOU WITH EMPTY WORDS, FOR BECAUSE OF THESE THINGS, THE WRATH OF GOD COMES UPON THE SONS OF DISOBEDIENCE”.

  3. FALSE TEACHERS  IN 2 PET. 2:1-2 WE ARE WARNED AGAINST “FALSE TEACHERS” WHO SHALL PRIVATELY BRING IN “DESTRUCTIVE HERESIES,” EVEN DENYING THE LORD THAT BOUGHT THEM; TIMOTHY (2 TIM 4:3-4) SAYING”THE TIME WILL COME WHEN THEY WILL NOT ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE; BUT WANTING TO HAVE THEIR EARS TICKLED, THEY WILL ACCUMULATE FOR THEMSELVES TEACHERS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR OWN DESIRES; AND WILL TURN AWAY THEIR EARS FROM THE TRUTH, AND WILL TURN ASIDE TO MYTHS.”

  4.  SPIRITUALISM  IN 1 TIM 4:1 WE ARE WARNED OF DEPARTURE FROM THE FAITH. THAT IN THE “LATTER TIMES” OR “THE LATER TIMES” (WHICH I BELIEVE IS DEFINED BY ISRAEL BECOMING A STATE IN 1948 THROUGH PRESENT), SOME SHALL DEPART FROM THE FAITH, PAYING ATTENTION TO DECEITFUL SPIRITS AND DOCTRINES OF DEMONS.”

  5.  PERILOUS TIMES  PAUL TOLD TIMOTHY.  “THIS KNOW ALSO, THAT IN THE ‘LAST DAYS’ PERILOUS TIMES SHALL COME.  FOR MEN SHALL BE LOVERS OF THEIR OWN SELVES, COVETOUS, BOASTERS, PROUD, BLASPHEMERS, DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS, UNTHANKFUL, UNHOLY, WITHOUT NATURAL AFFECTION (FOR THEIR OWN OFFSPRING), TRUCE BREAKERS, FALSE ACCUSERS, INCONTINENT, FIERCE, DESPISERS OF THOSE WHO ARE GOOD, TRAITORS, HEADY, HIGHMNDED, LOVERS OF PLEASURES MORE THAN LOVERS OF GOD; HAVING A FORM OF GODLINESS, BUT DENYING THE POWER THREOF.”  2 TIM. 3:1-5.

  6.  HEAPED UP TREASURE  IN JAMES 5:1-6, WE ARE TOLD THAT IN THE “LAST DAYS” THERE WHALL BE A CLASS OF “RICH MEN,” WHO SHALL HAVE “HEAPED TREASURE TOGETHER,” AND THAT BY “FRAUD” AND WHO SHALL USE THEIR ILL-GOTTEN GAIN IN THE PURSUIT OF “PLEASURE” AND “WANTONNESS,” AND THAT GOD WILL HEAR THE CRY OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN CHEATED OF THEIR JUST SHARE OF THE PROFITS, AND WILL SEND A SORE JUDGMENT UPON THE GUILTY. 

  7.  A LAODICEAN   CHURCH TO THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA (REV. 3:14-22) WE HAVE A DESCRIPTION OF THE LAST STAGE OF THE PROFESSING CHURCH ON EARTH.  IT IS DESCRIBED AS NEIGHER “HOT” NOR “COLD,” BUT NAUSEATINGLY LUKEWARM, SO THAT CHRIST SAYS HE WILL “SPUE IT OUT OF HIS MOUTH.”  IT BOASTINGLY WILL CLAIM TO BE “RICH” AND “INCREASED WITH GOODS,” AND TO HAVE “NEED OF NOTHING,” NOT EVEN OF CHRIST, FOR HE WILL BE EXCLUDED AND WILL HAVE TO KNOCK FOR ADMITTANCE, AND IT WILL BE IGNORANT OF ITS TRUE CONDITION, THAT IT IS WRETCHED, AND MISERABLE, AND POOR, AND BLIND,, AND NAKED. 

  8.  THE FIG-TREE SIGN  “TELL US, WHEN WHALL THESE THINGS BE? AND WHAT WHALL BE THE SIGN OF THY COMING, AND OF THE END OF THE WORLD (AGE)?”  (MATT. 24:1-3), JESUS GAVE AS A “SIGN” OF HIS COMING THE “FIG-TREE SIGN.”  THE “FIG-TREE” ALSO SYMBOLIZES THE NATION OF ISRAEL, AND ITS “BUDDING” THE REVIVAL OF ISRAEL AS A NATION. 

  9.  THE DISTRESS OF NATIONS  IN LUKE 21:24-27 JESUS TELLS US THAT AS THE “TIMES OF THE GENTILES” COME TO A CLOSE, “THERE SHALL BE SIGNS IN THE SUN, AND IN THE MOON, AND IN THE STARS; AND UPON THE EARTH DISTRESS OF NATIONS, WITH PERPLEXITY; THE SEA AND THE WAVES (THE PEOPLES OF THE EARTH) ROARING; MEN’S HEARTS FAILING THEM FOR FEAR, AND FOR LOOKING AFTER THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE COMING ON THE EARTH:  FOR THE ‘POWERS OF HEAVEN’ (THE PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS OF EVIL, EPH. 6:11-12), SHALL BE SHAKEN.  AND THEN SHALL THEY SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING IN A CLOUD WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY.”

   IN THE PROPHECY OF HAGGAI 2:6-7, WE READ:  “THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS; YET ONCE, IT IS A LITTLE WHILE, AND I WILL SHAKE THE HEAVENS, AND THE EARTH, AND THE SEA, AND THE DRY LAND; AND I WILL SHAKE ALL NATIONS, AND THE DESIRE (CHRIST) OF ALL NATIONS WILL COME.” 

  10.  NOAH DAYS  THE “SIGN” OF THE “NOAH DAYS.”  LUKE 17:26-30.  AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, THEY DID EAT, THEY DRANK, THEY MARRIED WIVES, THEY WERE GIVEN IN MARRIAGE, THEY BOUGHT, THEY SOLD, THEY PLANTED, THEY BUILDED, SO SHALL IT BE IN THE DAYS OF THE SON OF MAN.  PEOPLE FOCUSING ON LIFE WITHOUT GOD…

   

   

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