The Bible accurately foretells specific events – in precise detail – sometimes even centuries before they occur.
Approximately 2500 prophecies appear in the pages of the Bible. About 2000, or 80%, have already been fulfilled to the letter, with no errors.
Because we know that the remaining 500 or so prophecies will definitely be fulfilled, we look for news, and trends, that you’d expect to be taking place.
You might call them the signs of the times.
Students of Bible prophecy have long predicted that in the End Times there would be what is called the “explosion of knowledge.”
The observation is based on the words of Daniel 12:4, “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
“Many shall run to and fro” has been related to modern forms of transportation. It’s obvious, isn’t it, that it’s just been this last century out of the seven thousand years of recorded human history that swift and prevalent transportation has been possible?
Chuck Missler said,
In the days of David and Abraham we communicated with handwritten messages, we travelled at the speed of horseback, and we clothed ourselves with an agrarian economy. You can go all the way through history to George Washington who communicated with handwritten messages, travelled at the speed of horseback, and clothed himself with an agrarian economy.
Here in just a short time we now communicate at the speed of light, we travel at the speed of sound, and we create the very atoms and molecules that we desire for synthetic fabrics.
We want to concentrate on the phrase in Daniel 12:4, “knowledge shall increase.” The Hebrew word for “increase” (rabah) implies not only an addition of knowledge but also a multiplication – or a knowledge that is increasing exponentially.
The exponential explosion of knowledge is happening now. There is something called the Knowledge Doubling Curve. Buckminster Fuller created the Knowledge Doubling Curve. He noticed that until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II knowledge was doubling every 25 years.
Today things are not as simple, as different types of knowledge have different rates of growth. For example, nanotechnology knowledge is doubling every two years and clinical knowledge every 18 months. But on average human knowledge is doubling every 13 months. According to IBM, the build out of the “internet of things” will lead to the doubling of knowledge every 12 hours.
In 2013 IndustryTap.com said in an article,
A transition from the linear growth of human knowledge to the exponential growth of human knowledge has taken place. According to researchers, dealing with this information will necessitate the development of vastly more complex software, shareability, and artificial intelligence.
Author Clem Chambers, in a Forbes article… believes leading edge computer technology will be combined with artificial intelligence allowing collective problem-solving on a larger scale and the creation of vast amounts of data.
Knowledge Doubling Every 12 Months, Soon to be Every 12 Hours
Researchers demonstrate just how much knowledge there is by representing bytes of information using common objects. One megabyte can be represented by a tiny red ant. Today the annual production of human knowledge is measured by exabytes – with one exabyte being the diameter of our sun in comparison to a megabyte!
Daniel predicted the exponential growth of human knowledge and he let us know it was a very definite sign of the End Times.
While we look for signs of the times, there is one event that has no sign. It is presented as being imminent – meaning, it could occur at any moment.
Jesus will come and resurrect the dead believers, than snatch-away those who are alive. We call this the Rapture of the church.
Are you ready for the rapture? If not, get ready, stay ready, and keep looking up. Ready or not, Jesus is coming!