Where are we in Biblical prophecy, right now, today. And what's going on in the world that's leading up to the next event foretold by God?
Jesus said when we see these signs – This generation shall not pass away. So the generation alive when these signs appear will not grow old and die before the end of the world...
Earthquakes – doubled in last 30 years - quadrupled in the last 100 years
WAR – Wars and Rumors of wars - Wars in Africa, Middle East, India, Asia, Russia - WW3 looming on the horizon...
Famines
– Starving people all over the world – South America, Africa, Asia, India
Pestilences
– Aids epidemic, Flu's (SARS, H1N1, CoronaVirus (COVID-19), bird flu, swine flu, etc.), Resurgence of old plagues – The Plague, Mumps, Measles, Scarlet Fever, and diseases like Tuberculosis, Cancer, Brain diseases, etc.
There are several things that are in the works, and very close to fulfillment:
Things that are definitely happening right now:
The Great Falling Away; the apostacy of the church and abundance of false teachers - 2 Thess, 2 Peter, 2 Tim, Heb 10
The Great Lie of Satan; the rise of the false religion of Islam and its exactly opposite mirror of Biblical Prophecy - Revelation 6, Daniel 2, 7-12, Revelation 13 and 17
Things that are speculative, but likely happening right now:
2 Thess 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
The Bible warns of the deception and the apostacy of supposed "believers" in the last days:
There will be many false prophets and false teachers, and many will believe them!
2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts
2 Tim 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
1 Tim 4:1-2 ... in the latter times some shall depart from the faith
Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
2 Peter 2:20-22 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning ... But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Heb 10:38 ... if any man draw back ... unto perdition
Many will depart from the faith, professing to know God but becoming reprobates, turning away after escaping the pollutions of the world; by the knowledge they have of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and draw back unto perdition.
This is happening right now!
The Lord will return after this falling away, and after the Antichrist is revealed (by sitting in the temple claiming to be God, which is the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet)
Satan's Great Lie is going to fool the entire world (everyone who does not have the Holy Spirit to give them discernment of it)
This has been in progress for 1400 years since the creation of the false religion of Islam. The lie is that all religions worship the same God, and that Islam worships the God of Abraham.
And, the Islamic/Muslim prophecies are a parallel but opposite mirror of biblical prophecy concerning the End Time. The Muslim good guys are the Bible's bad guys.
The religion of the end time will be one where the false prophet will deceive the whole world and cause the world to worship the Antichrist by doing miracles such as pulling fire from the sky (Revelation 13).
The whole world will be fooled by the false prophet and the Antichrist, including the Muslims. The Muslims will believe it is their Mahdi, while the rest of the world will follow the interfaith movement into believing that being a Muslim is the same as Christianity in that we all worship the same God and therefore will enjoy the same salvation. The Catholic church has already included Islam as part of God's people and many Christian churches are following this belief. This means that everyone who is fooled by this will think it's perfectly ok to convert to Islam.
The birth of the Roman Catholic church was approximately 325 AD. The Seals are the long story (the spirits have been around a long time), the Trumpets are the median story (approximately the last 100 years), and the Vials are the very last and very short story (all seven of the Vials are poured out at the end of the Tribulation), all ending at the battle of Armageddon and the return of Jesus Christ. The seventh Seal ends the worldly governments and begins the Kingdom of God and the 1000 year reign.
The first four Seals – Revelation 6:1-8
First four seals are different types of events from the last three. They are spirits in the world: Zech 6.
The spirits of Catholicism, Capitalism, Communism and Islam are sent into the world (the first four seals). During the last 1700 years or so, these spirits have been working, starting with the "white" horse representing Catholicism. This is very important to understand. These spirits control the vast majority of the world today.
Like the first four seals, the first four trumpets are separated from the last three with significant events and a warning of the "three woes" which are the last three trumpets.
It's possible that in the last approximately 100 years we have seen some of the Trumpets sound! World War 1, World War 2, the Chernobyl nuclear accident
and the shortening of the days
(the first four trumpets).
There has been more death in the last 100 years than in the entire history of man, since the flood; due to wars, abortions, accidents like Chernobyl, etc.
Jesus warned of wars and rumors of wars in Matthew 24, and Zechariah 14 shows us a depiction of nuclear war; "Zech 14:12 Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet , and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth." This is exactly what happens if you get caught in a nuclear blast. Your flesh is burnt right off of you bones in an instant.
We don't know what governing body and its hidden agenda is responsible for the taking down of the kings of Egypt and Libya, but we know it's all about money, and establishing the New World Order, and there are many organizations (with mostly the same people running them) that are pursuing this with all they have, and pulling the strings of their puppets. The United States is not the only nation involved in these things, there are many nations including Muslim nations. And, and the king of Syria is about to go next...
It's possible we're witnessing this uprooting right now.
Dan 7:8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Dan 7:24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
The Antichrist won't be revealed until half way through the final seven years (Daniels 70th week), and the Bible tells us that he will be one of many orchestrating these things when the time comes. He is undoubtedly a person in a position of power somewhere and one of the many who are orchestrating the New World Order.
We won't know for sure until time proves it one way or another, but it very well could be what the Lord told us about in Daniel's vision.
The Sixth Trumpet in the Revelation 6 warns us of a war that will kill a third of mankind.
That means that over 2 BILLION people will die in this war!
The Bible shows us that there will be an army of 200 million. China boasts the ability to field an army of that size today. They have 200 million men of military age.
With the wars in the Middle East, ISIS, Syria, Russian involvement, and China (the sleeping giant) who has stated it would not hesitate to use nuclear weapons against the United States if necessary; this war is very close to becoming a reality.
Don't forget, however, the Fifth Trumpet has almost certainly not sounded yet, so that will have to happen first!
The four beasts we discuss in the, "Modern Nations in the Bible" chapter become one beast. This is the final empire. The nations of the End Time unite to become one beast with many parts. This will be a union of the three nations along with the final beast; a union of Russia, two nations of the EU, and Islam.
The New World Order is the prophesied combined kings of the earth in the last days - Daniel 2, Daniel 7, Revelation 13 and 17
Rev 13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. 2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
The mouth of the lion is a true representation of the global language adopted as the universal language for the New World Order. Britain is the lion and English is the language of Britain.
You can’t really live in the world today and not know that the UN is fast becoming the government of the New World Order. We have a world bank, world court, world economics, world peace keeping force (world military), and a fast materializing world religion referred to as Interfaithism. Everything is falling into place for the Antichrist to take power. It is very likely that the Antichrist will be crowned “king” of the Holy Roman Empire by the reigning pope of that time, confirming the revival of Holy Roman Empire, and this same man will likely be considered by the Muslim world to be the Mahdi (the Muslim Messiah) which will revive the Ottoman Empire. He will wield the power of the UN, as well as the power of the ten state union that he arose from and will unite the world under the auspices of peace. He will also unite the world in a common religion.
The Confirmation of the Covenant (a seven year peace agreement) - Daniel 9:27
Dan 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
In this Old Testament verbiage, a week means a “week of years”, or seven years (Genesis 29:27). The confirmation of the covenant is this: there will be an international agreement to confirm the status of Jerusalem and the permanent borders of Israel. These things are being fought over right now with the Palestinians. The Antichrist will confirm the covenant along with many others. It may be hard to identify him at that time. In the midst of this “week” (three and one half years in), the Antichrist will cause the animal sacrifices being performed in the rebuilt temple to cease, and will cause the “abomination of desolation” by either claiming to be God or acting in the place of God. That is when we will definitely know who he is.
This is what we're waiting for right now!
The confirmation of the covenant is the event that marks the beginning of the final seven years. This confirmation has not happened yet. The Quartet, or the Big Four; the EU, UN, US and Russia, have met to confirm the “Roadmap for Peace” in the Middle East several times but can't make it stick yet. The plan includes all the necessary steps to confirm the covenant. Today the Arab League and the Quartet along with other entities (the Elites of the world - CFR, Bilderbergs, Trilateral Commision, etc.) are doing everything they can to establish a Palestinian state and bring an agreement together between Israel and Palestine. Israel leaders have even stated that they are willing to share sovereignty of the Temple Mount and give the West Bank (Judea) back to the Palestinians. There have been many meetings of all the powers I just mentioned in the last few years, that could very well lead to this event that God calls the Confirmation of the Covenant. If they decide on a plan and implement it and make it stick, where the borders of Israel are
drawn and the Temple Mount is shared, then it IS that event and that means that from that day, the day that it actually happens and they sign a treaty, there will only be 7 years remaining until the Battle of Armageddon and the return of Jesus Christ!
As shown above, and on our Islam in the Bible page, the Bible and Islam also mirror each other prophetically, but it is an exactly opposite mirror where the bad guys of the Bible are the good guys of Islam.
Bible: The Antichrist is said to make a peace treaty (with many) with Israel for seven years (the Confirmation of the Covenant). - Dan 9:27
Islam: The Mahdi is said to make a peace treaty through a Jew (specifically a Levite) for exactly seven years.
We can see that both religions show this same peace treaty, and how all of the Muslims of the world will be fooled by it!
Both of these men are undoubtedly alive and in positions of power today.
The religion of the end time will be one where the false prophet will deceive the whole world and cause the world to worship the Antichrist by doing miracles such as pulling fire from the sky (Revelation 13).
The ten kings of Daniel 2 (ten toes), 7 (ten horns), Revelation 13 (ten horns) and 17 (ten kings) will give their power to the Antichrist and he will take over the world militarily as well as religiously and economically.
He will come with promises of peace, probably in the aftermath of the Sixth Trumpet War (WW3).
The Third Temple - Daniel 9 and 11, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, Matthew 24:15, Revelation 11
Everything necessary for the end time to be upon us has happened or is happening now. Most people think it cannot happen because the
Jewish temple has not been rebuilt, but the temple does not have to be standing until half way through the final seven years (when the
abomination of desolation takes place), and you should know that an organization called the Sanhedrin, working with the Temple
Institute in Israel, is planning on rebuilding the temple off-site, just as the first temple was built, and when the temple mount
is shared (probably placed under UN security control) they will be able to put it together very quickly. All of the utensils,
furniture, clothing, etc., is completely finished and ready for use in the temple, and the blueprints and plans for the temple
itself are done (Temple Institute web page with blueprints).
When I visited Israel in 2007 I stood next to the corner stone they have ready to place as soon as they get permission to build the temple.
Many people also believe that the Muslim mosque will have to be torn down in order to rebuild the temple, but recent discoveries have shown
that the actual location for the Jewish Temple is over a place that is currently called the Dome of the Spirits, where there is adequate room
to build the temple. The temple mount will be shared, and we know this because John was told to measure the Temple in Rev 11:1-2 but was told to
leave out the outer court because it would be occupied by Gentiles for three and a half years. It will likely be policed by UN peacekeepers.