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, the exponential growth of human knowledge, and the movement to rebuild a Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. These are predicted in the Bible and unfolding as never before.

We are also warned of a deliberate falling away from the faith.

One of the prophecy sites I use explains it this way:

The “great apostasy” is mentioned in Second Thessalonians 2:3. The KJV calls it the “falling away,” while the NIV and ESV call it “the rebellion.” And that’s what apostasy is: a rebellion, an abandonment of the truth. The End Times will include a wholesale rejection of God’s revelation, a further “falling away” of an already fallen world.

Arizona Christian University conducts an annual worldview survey among incoming freshmen and other respondents. The 2023 study documented significant declines among born-again Christians, indicating that a Biblical worldview does not inform their actions or decisions.

A few of the alarming survey results:

• Of American adult “born-again Christians,” only 13% hold a consistently Biblical worldview.
• While 22% of preteens’ parents are born-again Christians, only 8% of the teens themselves hold a Biblical worldview.
• About 1% of preteens have a Biblical worldview.
• Of young teens, only 36% believe God exists and is the all-knowing, all-powerful Creator of the universe.
• 61% either accept Jesus Christ sinned while He was on Earth or believe it’s possible.
• The majority think there are no absolute, objective truths, or can’t apply a Biblical worldview to their decisions.
• 21% of born-again teens believe they will live with God in eternity because of a personal decision to trust Christ, but nearly double that believe in reincarnation.
• Roughly 25% of parents of preteens relegate to their churches the responsibility of instilling a Christian worldview in their children.

• Only 51% of senior pastors have a consistently Biblical worldview.
• Less than 30% of associate pastors hold a consistently Biblical viewpoint.
• Only 13% of teaching pastors hold a Biblical worldview.
• Of youth pastors, only 12% have a consistently Biblical viewpoint.

The research shows churches, pastors, and youth leaders are increasingly unreliable for truly Biblical discipleship.^[1]

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.

Jesus 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!