Tim LaHaye once said, “People recognize something’s going to happen, and they’d better get ready.”
The ‘something’ he was talking about is revealed to us in the prophecies of the end times found in the Bible.
The Bible is about 30% prophecy. About 500 of those prophecies are yet-to-be fulfilled.
Consider the encouragement of the apostle Paul who said, “[know] the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed” (Romans 13:11).
Put all that together with the headlines in the news and you’ve got the reasons why we take five minutes or so each week to discuss trends in the world that you’d expect from reading the Bible.
The existence of the modern nation of Israel is a very definite fulfillment of Bible prophecy. God said He would bring His dispersed people back to their land in the end times – and He is.
Isa 11:11 It shall come to pass in that day That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time To recover the remnant of His people who are left, From Assyria and Egypt, From Pathros and Cush, From Elam and Shinar, From Hamath and the islands of the sea.
Isa 11:12 He will set up a banner for the nations, And will assemble the outcasts of Israel, And gather together the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth.
Israel is celebrating its 70th year as a modern nation. onenewsnow.com posted an article titled, Tens of thousands of Jews returning to Israel.
Excerpts:
After being spread throughout the world for 2,000 years – and just 70 years after the rebirth of Israel as a nation – tens of thousands of Jews are returning to their homeland, as prophesied in the Bible.
From around the globe, Jews are making aliyah – or returning to their ancient Holy Land – fulfilling Bible prophesy that marks the beginning of the End Times.
“They come from all over the world to a place many have never been,” CBN News reports. “Yet the Jewish people have longed to return to this land for thousands of years.”
Biblical prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, among others, all spoke of a time when God would bring the Jewish people back to the Land of Israel,” CBN News’ Julie Stahl explained before quoting Scripture. “Amos said they’ll never be dispersed again.”
“’I will also plant them on their land, and they will not again be rooted out from their land which I have given them,’ says the Lord your God,” (reads Amos 9:15).
https://www.onenewsnow.com/culture/2018/04/14/tens-of-thousands-of-jews-returning-to-israel
The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics published numbers as 2017 drew to a close: Israel has a population of nearly 9mil, of which 27,000 made aliyah in 2017.
Israel, as a nation, with dispersed Jews returning in large numbers, is the fulfillment of prophecy right before our eyes.
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!