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Posted on 01/18/2026 4:43:32 AM PST by SaveFerris
The Rev. Franklin Graham issued an urgent call to prayer, encouraging Americans to come together at noon on January 14 to collectively seek God — a move he believes is essential for a nation he believes has turned its back on the Lord.
"Our nation is falling so far from God and His truth," Graham told CBN News.
The Samaritan's Purse CEO cited as evidence confusion he observed this week at the Supreme Court, where justices are currently weighing whether states can preclude biological men from participating in women's sports.
Graham said 10 years ago such an argument wouldn't have been entertained.
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And people who can't articulate what a "woman" is
Dr. Graham invites everyone to pray for our leaders including President Donald Trump
Video is 14:41 in length
He pushed the vax many times. Hard pass.
Notice the irony: Minneapolis is or was the location of the Billy Graham Evangelical Center.
Dang - wish he hadn’t done that
a nation he believes has turned its back on the Lord.
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Without a doubt that’s a fact. Just look at all the evidence.
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So did President Trump. Both were wrong.
It’s always going to be the end times. It was the end times in Paul’s day too.
Excellent point
Has he repented for being a barker for Big Pharma? If so I missed it.
And so because of that you will pass on praying for repentance and people seeking after God?
Thanks for pointing that out. End times speculation is a real yawner.
Never the less, he's right, we should pray for our Nation and President Trump. If Graham gave a call to pray to end the filibuster and win the civil war before the next midterms, his damaged reputation might start to heal.
Chapter 7: THE BIBLICAL LAST DAYS: As Defined by Scripture
Are you looking for current events to identify the “biblical last days” or “end times?” If so, you are reading your own presuppositions into the text. Theologians call that “eisegesis.” That’s an illegitimate methodology for biblical interpretation. Instead, we should be trying to glean the meaning intended by the biblical authors themselves―and the understanding held by the original audience, i.e. “exegesis.” Let’s avoid newspaper eschatology and let the Bible itself define the “last days” or “end times.”
The Bible never speaks about the end of the world―only about end of the AGE. The King James Version of the Bible has misled readers for 400 years. For example, in the book of Matthew in the KJV we see the phrase “end of the world” (Matthew 13:36-50; 24:2-3; 28:18-20). But the Greek word for “world” in these passages is not KOSMOS, but rather AION. AION is better translated as “age.” Most modern translations have corrected that error, rendering it “end of the age.” The END is about the close of the old covenant age, which ended in finality in AD 70 when Jerusalem fell and the temple was destroyed.
In the New Testament, there are 19 primary texts about the last days/end times (or end of the age). The writers of the New Testament spoke with one voice that THEY were living in the last days. Contrary to popular opinion, the setting and fulfillment of the last days can only be placed within the first century! Here are eight passages, which one can ignore, futurize, or try to explain away―but you cannot do that and deal honestly with the text:
• “The appointed time has grown VERY SHORT. . . . For the present form of the world IS PASSING AWAY.” (Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 7:29-31)
• “Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, ON WHOM THE END OF THE AGES HAS COME.” (Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 10:11)
• “Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in THESE LAST DAYS He has spoken to us by his Son. . . .” (Writer of Hebrews, Hebrews 1:1-2)
• “He has appeared once for all at THE END OF THE AGES to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.” (Writer of Hebrews, Hebrews 9:26)
• “YOU have laid up treasure IN THE LAST DAYS.” (James 5:3b)
• “He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but WAS MADE MANIFEST IN THE LAST TIMES for your sake.” (Apostle Peter, 1 Peter 1:20)
• “The END OF ALL THINGS is AT HAND.” (Apostle Peter, 1 Peter 4:7)
• “Children, IT IS THE LAST HOUR.” (Apostle John, 1 John 2:18)
Here are the other eleven passages, which you may want to look up and compare to the above: Matthew 13:38-42; 24:2-3; 13-16 (ref. v. 34); Acts 2:14-20; 1 Corinthians 1:8; 15:24; 1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Timothy 3:1-5; Hebrews 3:14; 1 Peter 1:5-7; Jude 17-23. Each of these passages, either by direct statement or implication, teach the same thing. It is clear. You cannot push the last days beyond the generation of men who were writing the New Testament without doing violence to the text.
There is only one logical conclusion. The last days are not about the end of the world. In fact, the Bible never speaks about the end of the physical universe, and teaches that the earth abides forever in some sense (Psalm 78:69; 104:5; 148:3-6; Ecclesiastes 1:4; Ephesians 3:21). They are not about a supposed end of the Christian age, which has no end (Daniel 2:44; 7:14; Isaiah 9:7; Luke 1:31-33; etc.). They are not about a future millennium. Rather, they marked the last days of the OLD COVENANT AGE, which came to a violent end in AD 70 at the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the temple.
This is confirmed by the writer of Hebrews who declared, “In speaking of a new covenant, He makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.” (Hebrews 8:13) So, what was coming to a close in the first century? The last days of what? The old covenant order!
Let’s put something else to bed. The last days did not just begin in the first century―and continue until now. That would make the end time longer than the period to which it was an end! That is, we have been in the new covenant era for 2,000 years, which is longer than the old covenant era which was 1,500 years, beginning with Moses and lasted till the first century (Hebrews 8:8-13).
The culmination of the last days/end times was in the near future of the New Testament writers, and was expected to occur during their lifetimes. “At hand” and “It is the last hour” cannot be 2,000 years later. The biblical last days were the END OF SOMETHING―NOT THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING.
Where do you suppose that these writers of the New Testament got such an idea? Well, from our Lord himself, of course, in such passages as in Matthew 21-24. In these and many other passages, Jesus placed the “end” at the time of the destruction of the temple, during his own generation (Matthew 24:1-3, 14, 34).
(This is Chapter 7 of my book Prophecy Primer. To see the Table of Contents of the book, at Amazon click on “Read Sample” at Amazon.)
Our civilization is definitely collapsing; but, that doesn’t mean its the Biblical “End Times”. Civilizations rise and fall. It seems to be a natural cycle.
Im passing on Franklin.
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