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.
What I want to share with you today may or may not be a sign we are in the end times, but it is something fantastic that no one seems to be talking about.
Did you know that, worldwide, millions of Muslims are converting to Jesus Christ?
Listen to this excerpt from an article about Muslim refugees flooding into Europe:
Several media outlets are reporting that churches across Europe are seeing thousands of Middle Eastern refugees, most of them Muslims, turning to Christ.
Recently the Pastor of a Persian Church in Hamburg, Germany baptized 600 Muslims in one service, largely Afghans and Pakistanis. And it was done for all to see as a local TV station showed up with its cameras in tow to film the momentous event.
In the same city, Pentecostal Pastor Albert Babjan just baptized 80 former Muslims who had converted to Christ. So far this year, Babjan has baptized 196 Muslims and expects the number could reach 500 by December.
In an interview with the German newspaper Stern, Babjan said that many of the converts are turning to Christianity because of their disappointment in Islam.
The Pastor of a German Evangelical-Lutheran Church called the 1,200 Iranians and Afghans who have converted and joined his church over the past three years as “a gift from God.”
And this move of God among the Muslims is not limited to Germany. Churches in other European countries, such as Belgium and Holland, are witnessing a similar growth.
Did the Bible predict thousands of Muslims converting to Christ in Europe?
Joel Rosenberg is a solid evangelical Christian who has extensive contacts in the Middle East. He has written five novels about terrorism and how he feels that it relates to Bible prophecy. Rosenberg opened a political consultancy business which he ran until 2000, where he consulted for former Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharansky and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
On June 30th, he wrote this on his blog:
“Is there an unprecedented spiritual revival taking place in the Islamic world?”
I was recently asked this question during an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network. The answer, remarkably, is a resounding “Yes.”
Amidst the darkness of Radical and Apocalyptic Islam and the war, terrorism, widespread poverty, illiteracy, alcohol and drug abuse and other pathologies they produce, millions of Muslims have, in fact, been leaving Islam and turning to faith in Jesus Christ.
1960 to 2010, the number of Muslims that have converted to faith in Jesus Christ has grown from fewer than 200,000 to some 10 million people” Rosenberg said, citing the study.
Rosenberg says the increase of Muslims converts to Christ could correlate to the turmoil in the Middle East.
“A lot as happened in the last fifty years in the Middle East. There’s a lot of revolutions, war, turmoil, poverty, and what I think is happening, especially in the last 10-15 years, is many Muslims are deeply uncomfortable with the idea that ISIS, or Iran’s leadership, or Assad are the type of people that represent Islam.”
Many Muslims are finding their questions answered through dreams and visions about Christ.
“God is moving very powerfully using dreams and visions Muslims are having of the Man in white, of Jesus Himself,” Rosenberg says.
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In January, Rosenberg had this to say:
The violent, fanatical, and apocalyptic actions and rhetoric of the Iranian regime and the leadership of the Islamic State are causing millions of Muslims to rethink whether they want to be part of such a religion, and many of them are turning to faith in Jesus Christ.
This is the assessment of Dr. Hormoz Shariat, a former Muslim who came to faith in Christ himself in the early 1980s. Today, Dr. Shariat is one of the the most prominent Iranian Christian pastors and evangelists in the world.
https://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/2016/01/06/millions-of-muslims-are-leaving-islam-as-they-watch-the-extremism-of-iranian-isis-leaders-says-a-top-iranian-christian-leader/
I’m not sure how all this tracks with Bible prophecy, but I am sure that it is fantastic.
We might cite Joel – the very verses the apostle Peter cited on the Day of Pentecost:
Joe 2:28 “And it shall come to pass afterward That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions.”
God is working powerfully, miraculously, in what we know from many other signs is the Last Days.
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!