Prophecy Update #489 – Newbies

“The end is near!” used to be a warning associated with religious fanatics holding cardboard signs. Today it has become a theme in popular culture. You see it in movies, on TV, in advertising. Rarely does a day go by that some newscaster doesn’t use the word “apocalypse.”

Even the rapture – once an obscure biblical event – is mentioned in the media with little or no explanation.

It’s therefore a good time to see the signs of the times and be able to give an answer to folks about what is really going n, and going to occur.

500 end times Bible prophecies remain to be fulfilled. You’d therefore expect there to be news, and trends, that anticipate their fulfillment.

That’s why each week we present what we call a Prophecy Update. This is #489 in that series.

We’ve been teaching a series on the Days of Noah on Wednesday nights. I’d strongly encourage you to go to calvaryhanford.com, find those studies, and either watch, listen, or read them. About five of them are posted, and there will be two or three more. They are less than 25 minutes long; only a few pages of reading, if you choose the PDF.

https://www.calvaryhanford.com/bible-studies/the-days-of-noah/

They are pertinent to end times prophecy because Jesus pointed us back to the Days of Noah. He said,

Mat 24:37  But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Mat 24:38  For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,
Mat 24:39  and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

We’ve discovered in those studies that Jesus was describing a particular type of “marrying” that was occurring before the Flood. Fallen angels were marrying and mating with human women.
Their offspring were the Nephilim – a superhuman race of giants whose DNA was corrupted.

It is this corruption of human DNA to alter what it means to be human that Jesus seemed to be pointing to as something we could expect to characterize the end times.

Guess what? Corrupting human DNA is all the rage right now.
It’s like in the movies – but real. It’s as it was in the Days of Noah, except instead of fallen angels, it’s being done by fallen humans.

One article from this week was titled, Scientists build DNA from scratch to alter life’s blueprint.

Excerpts:

Scientists have long been able to make specific changes in the DNA code. Now, they’re taking the more radical step of starting over, and building redesigned life forms from scratch. Jef Boeke, a researcher at New York University, directs an international team of 11 labs on four continents working to “rewrite” the yeast genome, following a detailed plan they published in March.

Their work is part of a bold and controversial pursuit aimed at creating custom-made DNA codes to be inserted into living cells to change how they function, or even provide a treatment for diseases.

It could also someday help give scientists the profound and unsettling ability to create entirely new organisms.

The genome is the entire genetic code of a living thing. Learning how to make one from scratch, Boeke said, means “you really can construct something that’s completely new.”

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-07-scientists-dna-life-blueprint.html

The Nephilim were “completely new” organisms made by fallen angels somehow messing with DNA and what it means to be human on the most basic level. It is as it was in the Days of Noah.

There was one more frightening report on the MIT website, titled, First Human Embryos Edited In US.

Excerpts:

The first known attempt at creating genetically modified human embryos in the United States has been carried out by a team of researchers in Portland, Oregon, Technology Review has learned.
The effort, led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov of Oregon Health and Science University, involved changing the DNA of a large number of one-cell embryos with the gene-editing technique CRISPR, according to people familiar with the scientific results.

Until now, American scientists have watched with a combination of awe, envy, and some alarm as scientists elsewhere were first to explore the controversial practice. To date, three previous reports of editing human embryos were all published by scientists in China.

The U.S. intelligence community last year called CRISPR a potential “weapon of mass destruction.”

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608350/first-human-embryos-edited-in-us/

We are not looking for any particular sign, or prophecy to be fulfilled. Jesus promised He’d return to rapture His church – which entails the resurrection of the dead in Christ of the Church Age, then the translation from earth to Heaven of all living believers.

It is presented in the Bible as an imminent event.

Are you ready for the rapture? If not, get ready, stay ready, and keep looking up. Ready or not, Jesus is coming!