We reserve a few minutes to discuss current trends that you’d expect from reading Bible prophecy.

We are futurists. We interpret all unfulfilled prophetic passages as future events that will occur in a literal, physical, apocalyptic, and global context.

Biometrics, Artificial Intelligence, cashless commerce, the manipulation of human DNA, global government, instantaneous global communication, and the exponential growth of human knowledge, are End Times phenomena the Bible predicts.

All of these are increasingly trending in the news.

By far the major subject in Bible prophecy is the nation of Israel.

• The Bible accurately predicted that the nation would be scattered all over the world.
• It accurately predicted that the Jews would be regathered to their homeland.
• It predicted Israel would be “born in a day,” which it was on May 14, 1948.
• It predicted Jerusalem would be a burden upon all the nations of the world, and it has been for 76yrs.
• Jesus told His followers there would constantly be wars & rumors of wars.

As Israel fights Hamas, Hezbollah, and eventually Iran, there is an intensifying supernatural war… for souls.

Journalist Michael Faust of crosswalk.com posted an article titled, 200 Muslims in Gaza Reportedly Accept Christ after Seeing Him in ‘Visions and Dreams.’

Taysir Saada, a Muslim-turned-Christian who authored the book Once an Arafat Man, recounted the incredible story in an interview with CBN, saying he believes God is on the move in Gaza amidst war with Israel. Saada once was an aide to Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat. Saada also was a sniper for the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization).

“About 200 Gazans gave their heart to Jesus in one lump sum because the Lord appeared to them in visions and dreams and they were hugging each other and, you know, rejoicing and realized that all of them had the same vision that each one of them had,” Saada told CBN.^[1]

Joel Rosenberg is a trustworthy resource. He reports that millions of Iranian Muslims are converting to Christianity.

The Middle East is not the only front in the spiritual war. There are counter-attacks. A Morocco World News headline read, Rate of Islam Conversion in Europe Up 400% Since Start of Israel’s Massacres on Gaza.

Researchers predict Muslims will become the majority in Sweden, France, and Greece within a century from now, with other European countries following suit by 2200.^[2]

Studies estimate about 30,000 converting to Islam annually in the United States. According to The New York Times, an estimated 25% of American Muslims are converts.

We live in the Church Age. It began on the day of Pentecost fifty days after Jesus Christ rose from the dead. It precedes the Time of Jacob’s Trouble, more commonly known as the seven-year Great Tribulation.

The Tribulation will not begin until something fantastic happens. The Lord said He would return for us, the Church, raising the dead in Christ, then catching up (rapturing) believers who are alive when He comes. He promised His Church Age believers, “I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth” (Revelation 3:10).

The resurrection and rapture of the church is always imminent. It could happen any moment; nothing needs to happen before it.

Are you ready for the rapture? If not, Get ready; Stay ready; Keep looking up.

Ready or not, Jesus is coming!