(the following are the notes from my End Times Prophecy Update, Dec 28th, 2014)
Prophecy
Update 2014
Mark 13
At Christmas we focus on Jesus FIRST coming, this
week we’re going to focus on His SECOND coming.
Once a construction worker that checked into a
hotel, and when he sat on the bed and took his boot off, it dropped to the
floor and made a huge “Thud.” Thinking to be sensitive to the person in the
room below, he slowly took off the other boot, and gently placed it on the
floor. About 30 minutes later a knock came at the door, and when he answered it
was the man from the room below… “would you please let the other shoe drop,
it’s driving me crazy!”
And so it is today, there are so many things
happening around the world, sometimes it feels like we’re waiting for the other
shoe to drop.
During an interview, Defense
Secretary Chuck Hagel, answering a question about Americas role in the world, stated
that "the world is experiencing 'historic defining times that will result
in a new world order'. Elaborating further Hagel said 'This is a time of global
transformation. We are essentially seeing a new world order evolving and being
built. I don't think we've seen such a time since right after World War II.”
1.
We’re seeing growing global chaos,
a. Financial crisis, where
entire regions are mired in debt, some countries many times their entire GDP.
b. Wars - almost every
continent has some conflict going on…
c. Religious conflict -
terrorism - persecution
d. Social unrest even here in
our own country
2.
...all of these things are indicators that we are
living in the last days.
3.
The last days will be days of apostasy: As time moves along,
Scripture warns there will be a growing universal revolt against God and
authority that will manifest itself in a humanism in which man (2 Thess. 2:3,
11; 2 Tim. 3:1).
4.
The last days will be days of globalism: Because of wars, rumors
of wars, and the threat of international crises that will build in preparation
for the scenario found in the Great Tribulation (Matt. 24 and Rev. 6-19),
a. More and more the human race
will look to a one-world international system to bring peace and safety (1
Thess. 5:3).
5.
The last days will be days of false messiahs: This hope and search for
some form of a one-world system will lead to the longing and search for someone
who can come on the scene of human history and mold the world into unity and
peace.
a. Such a person arises in
the form of the Antichrist, the Beast of the tribulation period (Matt. 24:5,
23-24; 2 Thess. 2:3b-4; Rev. 13:1f).
