bfl, thank you and God (_od) bless.
In a nutshell, here’s how I see it.
1. Right now, I believe God is fulfilling Jude 3 in a worldwide move among his saints, the church, to restore the Gospel of the Grace of Christ to his people.
2. I believe in the next few decades, God will fulfill his prophetic parable in Luke 14:23 causing a final end-time worldwide in-gathering of souls to Jesus before the great catching up of his church to meet him in the clouds for his “Great Supper” in Heaven - the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
I believe the restoration of America’s Free Constitutional Republic will be a key component of shining the light of the gospel around the world in this end times move of God to save souls. I think the next few decades will generally be a preposterous time as portrayed by Jesus in Matt 24:38 just before He comes for His saints to take them out of this world.
3. I believe that before this century is done, Jesus will have come back for His church “as a thief in the night” for celebration in heaven and launching seven years of the most horrifying and astonishing time ever seen on earth. By the end of the seven years, everyone on earth is dead except for a remnant of Israel (one-third) hiding in the mountains (Matt 24:26) from the beast (in Petra I believe).
4. During this time (”Jacob’s trouble”) I believe all Israel will be saved as scripture prophesies (Rom 11:26; Rev Chapt. 7) and Israel will finally become the worldwide evangelists God always meant them to be fulfilling Matt 24:14, preaching the gospel to the whole world. After that, the “The End” (the last three and a half years of the Great Tribulation) will come (Id.) and all Christians will be killed by the beast except for a third of Israel who will escape to Petra until Jesus returns to earth and comes and gets them.
5. Before this century is out, Jesus will have been crowned King of Kings and Lord of lords to rule this world as the Prince of Peace for 1000 years more than eclipsing the seven years of hell and darkness.
The 21st Century will be the most amazing and astonishing century the world has ever seen.
Israel was first born in Peniel when Jacob out-wrestled the mystery man:
Genesis 32
28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
In 1948, the place Israel was born was named Palestine:
PALESTINE
(PENIEL)
The leftover letters spell SAT (Shabbos). The War of Independence began the following morning on SATurday, May 15th, when "nascent" Israel was forced to wrestle with multiple enemies. Apparently the attackers had flunked out of history class and had no idea with whom they were dealing.
"Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed."
Deuteronomy 25:19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance (memory) of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
This is a nice summary of many prophetic events being fulfilled. Thank you for taking the time as Im sure many will appreciate it. Dont mean to be needlessly controversial but there are other points of view concerning the end of the age. We are all looking forward to the blessed hope of Christs return and our gathering together to meet Him in the air. Paul, in II Thess. ch 2 seems to indicate that the remnant church will know who the antichrist is. Like the disciples didnt know Judas true character (Is it I Lord?) until Jesus told them, similarly, the remnant church will not know who Mr. 666 is until Jesus reveals it. The world certainly wont know the true character of this person and unbelieving Israel wont either. Let he who has wisdom count the number of his name If the believing church is gone who will have wisdom? We are not appointed to wrath but we are not exempt from tribulation. The world and the man of lawlessness will give us plenty of that - just like the world system does right now. If you are at all interested in another point of view, heres a couple very good videos that explains why some believe the remnant church will still be here for at least some of the bad times that are to come. Good to be prepared either way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtKUBcfjtHE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbEtimW3yxg
I believe in a latter rain, an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, one last time where Gods people will do things and have power just like the 2nd chapter of Acts - but we can all see that the darkness is getting stronger all around us. 60 million murdered babies and growing as we have seen just this last week. The party of death is ragging just like Psalm 2. We have a slight reprieve in Trump, but when hes gone the spirit of Obama will likely return. Its hard for me to see America returning to godliness. Possible? Yes. I would love to see it but I dont think it is likely. America has been an anomaly compared to the rest of the world when it comes to persecution. If didnt read Chinese pastor Wang Yis letter you should. I loved what he said. I dont think it will be long before the anti God crowd will endorse cutting heads off here just like happened and is still happening in the middle east. Persecution helps to purify the Church and will get her ready to met the Bridegroom because, if were honest, many are compromised. Only the true believers will be willing to endure that kind of persecution and not forsake the Lord - at least thats my take on it.
I believe that may of the biblical prophecies are being fulfilled and ALL must be fulfilled. With that in mind, I do not believe that the prophecy of the Burden of Damascus (Isaiah 17,1) has been yet fulfilled - getting close though.
There are many signs that we are living in the last days
and I will to me the chip in the hand and Israel being
restored in 1948 are the most visible.
Perer said that a day could be a thousand years, Jesus said
that he would raise the believers up at the last day.
So I do not think we need to look for every one who is saved
Going all of a sudden. If
End times ping
read this
bkmk for later study.
Ph.D in theology here, taught on the college-level, wrote many books on prophecy. From my earliest years I heard news of the imminent return of Christ. Senior citizen now, and still here. Even so come quickly Lord Jesus!