We focus on prophecy each week for about five-minutes.
Approximately 25% of the Bible is prophetic, with somewhere around 500 prophecies regarding the Last Days that are yet to be fulfilled.
We ought to be able to identify trends in the world that are to be expected in light of those prophecies.
For example: The Bible indicates that by the time the future Great Tribulation begins, the economies of the world will be cashless. This will allow the world leader we commonly call the Antichrist to control everyone’s ability to buy and sell.
There should therefore be a trend towards cashless economies; and there is.
The most recent article I read was titled, UAE: The Future Is Cashless.
(UAE is the United Arab Emirates).
Excerpts:
Across the world, nations are engaged in a race to move to a cashless economy.
“The UAE ranks foremost among regional economies most rapidly moving away from cash,” says Eyad Al Kourdi, General Manager of Southern Gulf, and Middle East and North Africa MasterCard Advisor.
“Consumer confidence in using them has also increased. It is taking us to a place where what was technically difficult and was a dream can now be made possible.”
According to the 2017 World Payments Report, non-cash transactions increased by almost 11% in recent years. Countries like Sweden are paving the way to making cashless societies a reality. Only 19% of Swedish payments are now made using cash.
In 2015, more than half of the Swedish population was using Swish, a mobile payment app that allows safe, free and instant digital transactions. This trend has also been observed in Kenya, where a mobile transfer service, M-Pesa, is used by more than 30 million people for international transfers, loans and health provision.
Read the Bible and this is the kind of Last Days trend you’d expect.
As believers, we expect that Jesus could return at any moment.
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 (any-moment) event.
Are you ready for the rapture? If not, get ready, stay ready, and keep looking up. Ready or not, Jesus is coming!