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.
In His teaching about the future, Jesus said that the end times would be “as in the days of Noah.”
He said,
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,
The passage in the Book of Genesis that Jesus was referencing is the opening verses of chapter six. There was a very peculiar type of “marrying” going on. Fallen angels were marrying and mating with human females.
Gen 6:4 There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
These “mighty men” were called Nephilim. They are described throughout the Old Testament as giants – twelve to sixteen feet tall.
These weren’t just taller men; they were genetically altered hybrids. Extra-biblical literature from the Old Testament era describes their “eating and drinking” as cannibalism.
Somehow the fallen angels, in mating with humans, were altering the DNA of the human race. Preserving human DNA was a major reason God brought the flood – saving 8 souls to repopulate the planet.
You’d therefore expect the End Times to feature genetic tampering. It does.
NBC News posted an article titled, Why scientists created a human-chicken hybrid embryo.
Excerpts:
One of the biggest mysteries of human life is how we develop from a tiny ball of cells into a being with bones, muscle and organs.
The process starts inside the mother’s womb shortly after conception, but legal and regulatory restrictions on research involving human embryonic tissue have stymied scientists’ efforts to explain the process.
Now scientists have found a workaround. By transplanting human embryonic cells onto chicken embryos, researchers at Rockefeller University in New York City have created a hybrid embryo that they say will bring insights into fetal development – and perhaps lead to new cures for several diseases – without bumping up against the so-called “14-day rule” that prohibits research on human embryos more than two weeks old.
The popular media blasted the interspecies mash-up, with one headline reading “Half human-half chicken abomination created in US lab,” even though no one is talking about creating a race of human-chicken beings.
Not everyone is on board with the idea of mashing up cells in this way. “They seem to think this is a wonderful solution, but I think they are just creating a different problem,” says Arthur Caplan, a professor of bioethics at New York University. “While in their case they’re not making a half-man, half-chicken, many politicians will be unnerved that other people could take this and it could be turned into potential cross-species creatures. Engineering unnatural things with your genetic knowledge is touching one of people’s deepest fears. It’s like Frankenstein.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/why-scientists-created-human-chicken-hybrid-embryo-ncna880406
Before the Flood, fallen angels were manipulating DNA. Jesus said something similar would characterize the End Times – and we see it happening just as predicted.
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!