Events aligning with biblical prophecies of the end-times have been accelerating over the past few years. It’s time to open our eyes and be aware of the prophetic signs appearing daily.
The Acceleration of Prophetic Signs
Jesus rebuked the pharisees in His day for not being able to read the signs of the times. Just as they could not see that Jesus was fulfilling prophecy, we can miss seeing the prophetic signs of His return if we do not consider them diligently. (see my post Six Seals Revealed in the Olivet Discourse)
Always working against us, the world does not want us to see these signs. Most people of this world are completely unaware of the role of the spirit realm behind these events. Blind to the truth, and placing human reasoning above God, they assign natural or man-made causes to every disaster.
Seeing an acceleration of the times, I started tracking news articles that I believe are related to biblical prophecy in 2017. Back then I would find an article or two every few days. But now I find several articles every day.
2020 has been a year of significant change. Everything has stepped up, everything has heightened. To show this point, I took a snapshot of news articles, primarily from Israeli news sources back on February 10, 2020. Consider these headlines in reference to the prophetic signs Jesus gave us in Matthew 24 and Luke 21.
If you read the headlines you will see
- “wars and rumors of wars” (Iran),
- “famines” (locust plague in Africa),
- “pestilence” (China coronavirus, Brazilian virus), (see my post, Is the Coronavirus a Warning from God?)
- “false prophets” (Buttigieg),
- “earthquakes” (Turkey),
- “love growing cold” (antisemitism)
Not only that, but articles on
- the return of the Jews to Israel (Allyah – Ezekiel 11),
- Jerusalem being an immovable rock for all the nations (Zech. 12),
- the nations raging against Israel (Psalm 2),
- and the nations raging in Syria (Isaiah 17)
This is all in one day’s reporting! Has there ever been a time in history like this?
Discern the Prophetic Signs of the Times
I ask you to read the blog posts and links to news events appearing daily. Use you own judgement. Apply you own discernment. Are we in the end-times? Decide for yourself.
The Word
Matthew 24:4-7 – Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Luke 21:11 – There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.
Ezekiel 11:17 – “Therefore say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will gather you from the nations and bring you back from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you back the land of Israel again.’
Zechariah 12:2-3 – “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. 3 On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.
Psalm 2 – Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed,