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Here’s how I see the next few decades.

• Now - The Holy Spirit renewing the unmixed Gospel of the Grace of Christ among believers around the world. Joseph Prince, New Creation Church in Singapore, and Grace Revolution Church is Dallas are major players.
o Fulfils Jude 3
• Very soon – A worldwide incoming of souls to Jesus. People are tired of the judgment and condemnation of the law which is not part of the New Covenant of grace (Romans 6:14) and will embrace the compassionate free gift of salvation Jesus offers.
o Fulfils Luke 14:22-23
• Next - The world’s ship of state, so to speak, will have been righted by the wholesale return to the Lord our God. Peace and prosperity will abound. A blessing for the saved, but a trap for those who have refused Jesus.
o Fulfils Matthew 24:38; 2 Peter 3:3-4
• Next (in a few decades IMO) – the first part of the second coming of Jesus his saints (the great “catching up” AKA the “rapture” for the church). I believe it might be as many as ½ of the world hinted by Matt. 24:40-41. The projected population of the earth in 2070 is around 9 billion. That could mean that around 4.5 billion go to Heaven and about 4.5 billion are left behind. The Holy Spirt also leaves earth.

Daniel’s 70th Week AKA the seven-year tribulation follows ending with Armageddon in the second part of Christ’s second coming followed by his coronation as King of kings and Lord of lords.

I believe this, the 21st Century, will be the most amazing century ever ending with Jesus Christ sitting on the throne in Jerusalem as Ruler over the whole world.

2070?

The Rapture?

Yes, at the Rapture the Holy Spirt will leave the earth.

Chaos will reign, and God will remove the fear of man from animals.

You sure left a lot out.

Why don’t you start a thread with all the gaps filled in?

I don’t agree with your dates or the numbers you use.

No one knows the days or times.

(But we are now in the season.)

Or the numbers of ppl Christians vs non believers.

And a lot of other things in your projection

Study to show yourself approved.

When tou start your thread, ping me to it.

AFTER the great departure / Rapture of ALL believers, John saw a number come up to Heaven so great he could not number them -but he could count to at least 200,000,000 when he saw the invading army attacking Israel! It is during the first half of the Tribulation that the greatest revival will happen, not before. There is a Dead Sea Scroll which expresses the notion that God uses the Rapture departure to convince the last doubters, to as it were give lingerers a last chance to ‘believe God and have it counted for them righteousness.’

Perhaps you have stumbled due to attributing Matthew 24 to the Church. It is directed to the Jew not the Church. There are three groups now on Earth: the church composed of ALL believers whom God has birthed from above (made up of both Jew and Gentile, making no distinction ), the Jews, and the non-Jews or Gentiles.

Prior to the beginning of the Tribulation -time of Jacob's Trouble- God removes ALL alive and dead Believers in Whom His Holy Spirit has been abiding (1 John 3:9) in an event known as the Departure, or Rapture removal. Literally hundreds of millions of Believers alive today will suddenly (in the twinkling of an eye) disappear from the planet.

This event, aside from creating world-wide chaos, will convince an uncountable (for John's counting abilities) number of 'fence sitters' to suddenly believe God and His provision for Adam's descendants, and it will be counted for them righteousness and as they are martyred for their belief they are immediately whisked to Heaven by the Holy Spirit and appear in John's vision 'under the throne of God pleading 'how long Oh Lord'.