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50 Reasons Why We Are Living In The End Times: Part 1
Lamb and Lion Ministries Blog ^ | 13 JULY 2009 | Dr. David R. Reagan

Posted on 07/25/2009 2:40:04 AM PDT by Quix

The Bible says we cannot know the time of the Lord's return (Matthew 25:13). But the Scriptures make it equally clear that we can know the season of the Lord's return (1 Thessalonians 5:2-6):

"You yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night... But you brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief; for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night or darkness; so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober."

This passage asserts that Jesus is coming like "a thief in the night." But then it proceeds to make it clear that this will be true only for the pagan world and not for believers. His return should be no surprise to those who know Him and His Word, for they have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to give them understanding of the nature of the times.

Furthermore, the Scriptures give us signs to watch for — signs that will signal that Jesus is ready to return. The writer of the Hebrew letter referred to these signs when he proclaimed that believers should encourage one another when they see the day of judgment drawing near (Hebrews 10:25-27). Jesus also referred to the end time signs in His Olivet Discourse, given during the last week of His life (Matthew 24 and Luke 21). Speaking of a whole series of signs which He had given to His disciples, He said, "When you see all these things, recognize that He [the Son of Man — that is, Jesus] is near, right at the door" (Matthew 24:33).


A Personal Experience

Every time I think of "Signs of the Times," I am reminded of a great man of God named Elbert Peak. I had the privilege of participating with him in a Bible prophecy conference held in Orlando, Florida in the early 1990's. Mr. Peak was about 80 years old at the time.

He had been assigned the topic, "The Signs of the Times." He began his presentation by observing, "Sixty years ago when I first started preaching, you had to scratch around like a chicken to find one sign of the Lord's soon return."

He paused for a moment, and then added, "But today there are so many signs I'm no longer looking for them. Instead, I'm listening for a sound — the sound of a trumpet!"


The First Sign

One hundred years ago in 1907 there was not one single, tangible, measurable sign that indicated we were living in the season of the Lord's return. The first to appear was the Balfour Declaration which was issued by the British government on November 2, 1917.

This Declaration was prompted by the fact that during World War I the Turks sided with the Germans. Thus, when Germany lost the war, so did the Turks, and the victorious Allies decided to divide up both the German and Turkish empires.

The Turkish territories, called the Ottoman Empire, contained the ancient homeland of the Jewish people — an area the Romans had named Palestine after the last Jewish revolt in 132-135 AD.

In 1917 Palestine included all of modern day Israel and Jordan. In the scheme the Allies concocted for dividing up the German and Turkish territories, Britain was allotted Palestine, and this is what prompted the Balfour Declaration. In that document, Lord Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, declared that it was the intention of the British government to establish in Palestine "a national home for the Jewish people."

The leading Evangelical in England at the time was F. B. Meyer. He immediately recognized the prophetic significance of the Declaration, for he was well aware that the Scriptures prophesy that the Jewish people will be regathered to their homeland in unbelief right before the return of the Messiah (Isaiah 11:11-12).

Meyer sent out a letter to the Evangelical leaders of England asking them to gather in London in December to discuss the prophetic implications of the Balfour Declaration. In that letter, he stated, "The signs of the times point toward the close of the time of the Gentiles... and the return of Jesus can be expected any moment."

Before Meyer's meeting could be convened, another momentous event occurred. On December 11, 1917 General Edmund Allenby liberated the city of Jerusalem from 400 years of Turkish rule.

There is no doubt that these events in 1917 marked the beginning of the end times because they led to the worldwide regathering of the Jewish people to their homeland and the reestablishment of their state.


Since 1917

Since the time of the Balfour Declaration, we have witnessed throughout the 20th Century the appearance of sign after sign pointing to the Lord's soon return. There are so many of these signs today, in fact, that one would have to be either biblically illiterate or spiritually blind not to realize that we are living on borrowed time.

I have personally been searching the Bible for years in an effort to identify all the signs, and it has not been an easy task to get a hold on them. That's because there are so many of them, both in the Old and New Testaments.

I have found that the best way to deal with them is to put them in categories, and in doing that, I have come up with six categories of end time signs. We will explore these catetories beginning in Part 2 of this series.


TOPICS: Apologetics; Charismatic Christian; Current Events; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: dispensation; endtimes; era; hallindsey; prophecy
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To: Iscool

LOL...good grief.


1,421 posted on 10/23/2009 8:49:21 AM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: Petronski

the trembling meant I was scared of youuuuuuuuuuuuu. Your imagination is way too vivid.


1,422 posted on 10/23/2009 8:49:43 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: Marysecretary

Are you saying that you are posting in such a way as to be offensive?


1,423 posted on 10/23/2009 8:50:15 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Marysecretary
When that poster stops saying things to me and others that are offensive to us, that would stop.

Your predations are retaliation for my responses correcting false information posted about the Catholic Church?

Just incredible.

1,424 posted on 10/23/2009 8:50:33 AM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: Petronski

LOL. right. Well, I’m happily married too and too darn old for anything else.


1,425 posted on 10/23/2009 8:51:07 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: Marysecretary
Well, I’m happily married too...

So act like it. Stop hitting on me.

1,426 posted on 10/23/2009 8:54:17 AM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: roamer_1

Good post, roamer. I’ve been a pentecostal/charismatic for over 25 years now. I AM a believer and I get it right. I’ll take what we have over any of the Catholic beliefs that are extra biblical. I think we get it right righter than they get it right, LOL.


1,427 posted on 10/23/2009 8:54:47 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: trisham

>>Are you saying that you are posting in such a way as to be offensive?<<

I’m shocked I tell ya.
Shocked!


1,428 posted on 10/23/2009 8:54:51 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: trisham
Are you saying that you are posting in such a way as to be offensive?

Sounds like the Scientology policy of "fair game."

1,429 posted on 10/23/2009 8:55:09 AM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: MarkBsnr

That’s your opinion.


1,430 posted on 10/23/2009 8:57:39 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: Iscool; Petronski; trisham; Judith Anne; netmilsmom
I just got done telling you Jesus compiled the canon and it ended with the book of Revelation...

When was this done? What language was it done in? Where might I find an early copy of this?

Oh and what books does that Catholic Bible contain that the KJV omits?

1,431 posted on 10/23/2009 8:57:57 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: netmilsmom
The term Fair Game is used to describe various aggressive policies and practices carried out by the Church of Scientology towards people and groups it perceives as its enemies.

When that poster stops saying things to me and others that are offensive to us, that would stop.

Things that make you go hmmmmm.

1,432 posted on 10/23/2009 8:58:47 AM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: roamer_1

These folks strain at gnats...


1,433 posted on 10/23/2009 9:00:57 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: Marysecretary; trisham; Petronski; Judith Anne; netmilsmom
When that poster stops saying things to me and others that are offensive to us, that would stop.

Who is "us" exactly?

Is it the group that thinks Jesus Christ wanted to make the Jews jealous?

Is it the group that believes UFOs are flying around with fallen angels?

Is it the Machenites who fabricate quotes and falsely attribute websites?

Or is "us" just a collective group that agrees on very little other than their hatred of the Catholic Church?

1,434 posted on 10/23/2009 9:00:58 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

Jesus and Satan have a discussion as to who is the better programmer. This goes on for a few hours until they come to an agreement to hold a contest, with God as the judge.

They sit themselves at their computers and begin. They type furiously, lines of code streaming up the screen, for several hours straight. Seconds before the end of the competition, a bolt of lightning strikes, taking out the electricity. Moments later, the power is restored, and God announces that the contest is over.

He asks Satan to show what he has come up with. Satan is visibly upset, and cries, “I have nothing. I lost it all when the power went out.”

“Very well, then,” says God, “let us see if Jesus fared any better.”

Jesus enters a command, and the screen comes to life in vivid display, the voices of an angelic choir pour forth from the speakers. Satan is astonished.

He stutters, “B-b-but how? I lost everything, yet Jesus’ program is intact. How did he do it?”

God smiled all-knowingly, “Jesus saves”

(Bet he was working on the cannon that then fell into Martin Luther’s lap)


1,435 posted on 10/23/2009 9:02:47 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: Petronski

Mmmmm. mmmmm. mmmmm.


1,436 posted on 10/23/2009 9:03:46 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: netmilsmom

LOL!


1,437 posted on 10/23/2009 9:04:08 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: wagglebee

He has made no such thing clear. It’s in your minds...


1,438 posted on 10/23/2009 9:05:20 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: wagglebee

Now if I were a betting woman.......


1,439 posted on 10/23/2009 9:05:57 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: Marysecretary; Iscool; Petronski; trisham; netmilsmom

What precisely does “I’ll take the side of the Nestorians...” mean?


1,440 posted on 10/23/2009 9:07:31 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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