The Last Days! Signs of the Times!

Note: This article has been edited to remove all references to the Antichrist as a single individual in the Endtime who arises 7 years before the coming of Christ, makes a covenant with the Jews, allows them to rebuild their temple of Solomon, stands in the Temple 3.5 years later proclaiming himself to be God, and sets up the image of the beast, the so called abomination of desolation. I don't believe the Bible teaches ANY of that anymore! It's a deception promoted by Cyrus Scofield who taught John Darby's dispensationalism – false teachings that originated from two Roman Catholic clergymen, a Jesuit priest by the name of Francisco Ribera and Cardinal Bellarmine during the late 16th. century. They intentionally misinterpreted Daniel 9:27 to say that the Antichrist will make a covenant with the Jews during the last 7 years of the rule of man on earth. They did that to get the Protestants' eyes off the Pope as the Antichrist! To a man, all of the Protestant reformers held the interpretation that Jesus Christ already fulfilled the Covenant during His Ministry to the Jews (the first 3.5 years) and His Apostles' ministry to the Jews the next 3.5 years. To a man, the early Protestants all believed that the papacy is the fulfillment of the Biblical Antichrist! The “Covenant” is really the covenant of grace God made with Abraham, the same covenant mentioned in verse 4 of Daniel 9! The Protestants of the 17th century rejected Ribera's interpretation of Daniel 9:27, but it found root in Protestantism from the time of John Darby, then Scofield, and then ultimately in the Dallas Theological Seminary.

David Berg himself was not sure about the interpretion of Daniel 9:27. He wrote: "Our teaching on this, which has been the same as most (contemporary) Bible prophecy students, has been that since the daily sacrifice is stopped by the Antichrist (Dan.9:27; 8:11), it must have been resumed some time previously. And our standard conclusion has been that therefore the Jews’ temple must have been rebuilt so they could begin having the daily sacrifice which the Antichrist stops when he breaks the Covenant. That’s a step-by-step logical interpretation. However, just because that’s the way it’s been interpreted by us & most Bible students, including Scofield & a lot of others, it does not mean that it’s necessarily going to happen that way! Again, I’m talking about the interpretation or theory that in order for the Antichrist to stop the daily sacrifices, the Jewish temple has to be rebuilt in order for their daily sacrifices to have been resumed. That is simply a theory.

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Here is a list of Bible verses which indicate that we are living in the days just before the return of Jesus Christ to earth! The references are given but not the entire verse. So if you want to look up the whole verse, get that Bible off your shelf, and dust it off!

The last days: Signs of the times:

A. We should discern the signs of the times:

B. Greatly increased learning:

C. Greatly increased natural disasters:

D. Greatly increased wickedness & wars:

E. Rampant homosexuality in the end time:

F. Great falling away from true faith:

G. Increased persecution of true Christians:

H. What all these fulfilled signs mean:

2. How to recognise the Antichrist world government:

3. The Antichrist & his rise:

B. Antichrist blasphemes, says he is God:

C. Much of the world worships him:

D. The mark, the image & enforced worship of the beast:

E. The false prophet:

F. The Antichrist's persecution of Christians:

G. Why God allows us to suffer tribulation:

H. Future Heavenly reward for enduring tribulation:

I. Christians overcome & survive despite persecution:

J. Protection & provision during tribulation:

K. Witnessing during the tribulation:

7. The second coming of Jesus Christ:

B. Jesus' coming will not be a secret event:

C. The tremendous signs of His coming:

8. The resurrection & rapture:

A. The living raptured, the dead resurrected:

B. Our powerful, immortal resurrection bodies:

9. The marriage supper of the Lamb:

10. The judgement seat of Christ:

A. Christians rewarded or punished for their works:

B. Jesus praises & rewards some, is ashamed of others:

C. The crown of life--A reward for faithful service:

11. The wrath of God upon the earth:

A. God's wrath upon the remaining unsaved:

B. The utter destruction of Babylon by fire:

12. The battle of Armageddon:

A. The Antichrist, his allies & eastern kings gather to fight:

B. The Lord & His armies destroy the Antichrist's forces:

C. The cleanup after the battle:

13. The millennium:

A. One thousand years of peace:

B. The saints rule with Jesus over all the earth:

C. His rule will be just & righteous:

D. Heavenly conditions of the millennium:

E. Men will live for centuries, like before the flood:

F. Peace on earth:

G. Everyone on earth will know about the Lord:

H. Some will disobey & be punished:

14. The battle of Gog & Magog:

15. Great white throne judgement:

16. New heaven & new earth:

A. The Heavenly city comes down to earth:

B. Description of the Heavenly city:

C. Only saved live in the city; unsaved nations outside:

D. Eternal life & happiness in Heaven forever:

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