Our world is crazy and getting crazier by the minute. Just over the course of the last one hundred years there have been many doomsday prophets warning us of Messiah’s return and the judgements that will fall upon the world. Numerous books have been written about the subject. There are even plenty of end-of-days or doomsday movies. Speculation abounds! How would we even know that the end is soon? The Word of God gives us plenty of signs of the end.

Daniel 12:4 | “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end when many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”

MANY | The world’s population In 1994 reached the point that there were as many people alive at that time as had ever lived on the earth up to that time. The world’s population in 1994 was 6 billion. By 2022 the world population was 8 billion. It has been steadily increasing. There can be no argument that MANY defines the state of our planet

TO AND FRO | travel has become a global enterprise today. It is possible to go from one side of the world to the other in 24 hours or so. Travel has increased on a world wide scale. There are personal vehicles in abundance. People drive on a daily basis and often on lengthy trips. We have airplanes, trains, buses, ships, submarines. There are all kinds of vehicles to move us from continent to continent and even into outer space.

KNOWLEDGE SHALL INCREASE | From 1900 to 1958 the worlds knowledge began to double every ten years until 1995 when that rate increased explosively. The amount of knowledge doubled six times in 2010. That is the last year they had a printed volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica. The print version was discontinued in favor of an online version because new knowledge made the printed version obsolete before it could even be produced. At no other time in human history has so much been known of the world we live in and the heavens around us!

2 Peter 2:3 | knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lust….

SCOFFERS WILL COME | Every age has had its fair share of people who scoff; who mock those who warn of judgment. But in these days we are seeing more of those who make fun of or mock righteousness, wisdom and goodness. We see scoffers of good things, who call good evil and evil as if it were good. There are those in leadership as well as everyday people who choose their own lust and desires over and above anything else. They scoff or dismiss anyone who tries to hold them accountable.

Matthew 24:1-3, 12-14 | Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?… And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.

LAWLESSNESS WILL ABOUND | Look around you! The whole world is experiencing an explosion of violence and crime. Our cities have become fearful places. Random violence has become a normal occurance in today’s society. Looting, smash and grab and rioting that causes significant physical, financial and personal losses are reported daily by our news sources. Blatant disregard of our laws is seen in our judicial system allowing criminals the opportunity to repeat multiple offenses. and as a result-

THE LOVE OF MANY WILL GROW COLD | We see daily reports of unprovoked attacks, human trafficking, sex offenders. The overwhelming loss of human kindness toward one another that is a significant sign of the end-of--days.

PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD AS A WITNESS | In the last 150 years the gospel has indeed been preached through out the world. Many have received it joyfully. Many have rejected it. As it stands this day many have heard but the number of those who believe has rapidly declined as the world turns its back on the Creator of all creation. The coming tribulation will demonstrate that there is a God in heaven and that we are His witnesses that He is!

Isaiah 43:12-13 | It is I who have declared and saved and proclaimed, And there was no strange god among you; So you are My witnesses,” declares the Lord, “And I am God. Even from eternity I am He, And there is no one who can rescue from My hand; I act, and who can reverse it?”

Isaiah 66:8 | “Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion(Israel) travailed, she brought forth her children.”

THE REBIRTH OF ISRAEL | On May 14, 1948, Chairman David Ben-Gurion declared the re-establishment of the State of Israel, the first Jewish state in 2,000 years. In June of 1967, 19 years later, Islamic armies surrounded the newborn state of Israel and attacked from all sides. Greatly outnumbered by tens of thousands of arabic troops, the much smaller Israeli forces miraculously defended their nation, and recaptured the city of Jerusalem in six days! They retained all of the land they had reclaimed and regained more of their God appointed land from which they had been exiled for thousands of years! This fulfillment of biblical prophecy is very significant for the people of Israel as well as for Christians.

Revelation 13:2, 4-6 | Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority…. So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven.

IS THERE A PERSON in our world who could fit the description of the antichrist (the beast)? Someone whose heraldic coat of arms bears the above description? Someone whose investiture into the royal line included the dragon as the source of power? Yes!!!! For just one resource look at the book “The Antichrist and a Cup of Tea” by Tim Cohen. Search the web. The person who is most likely the antichrist is real and walks amongst us this day! (For more information on these signs see the additional references and websites below)

Matthew 24 | Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place”… For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened