“Everything has happened just as I said it would; now I will announce what will happen next”
(Isaiah 42:9 CEV)
Those are God’s words recorded by the prophet Isaiah.
- If we look back, we can verify that God’s former prophecies were 100% accurate.
- As we look forward, His unfulfilled Last Days prophecies will be 100% accurate.
We are approaching our 800th Prophecy Update. Never in all that time have so many of the things the Bible predicts been so obviously trending. We are going to talk about Israel, but let me give you one other trend.
The prophet Daniel was told, “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase” (12:4). We take it to mean there will be an exponential explosion of knowledge in the Last Days.
I am not exaggerating to say we are experiencing the exponential explosion of knowledge like never before. A big part of that is AI – Artificial Intelligence. But there are other advances as well. One headline I read was, Scientists accidentally create new material that could make computer chips 1 million times faster.
If that’s not ‘exponential, I’ll eat a bug.
Israel is at the heart of the Last Days prophecies:
- God prophesied that Israel would be scattered all over the world. That is fulfilled.
- God prophesied that Israel would be regathered to her land. That is fulfilled.
- God prophesied that Israel would be a nation again. That is fulfilled.
- God prophesied that Israel would be a source of trouble for all nations of the earth. We are seeing this right now.
In the wake of Israel’s retaliation against Hamas for their brutal massacre of innocents, we are witnessing world-wide hatred for the Jews. CNN reported, A new wave of antisemitism threatens to rock an already unstable world. The article focused on the US, where incidents of antisemitism are up 400%.
Quote: “There is a climate of growing fear. Jewish day schools have canceled classes. Synagogues have been locked. Social media has pulsated with hatred against Jews, leaving a community that can never escape its historic trauma yet again wondering where and when it can ever be safe.”
Reuters posted an article titled, Open hatred of Jews surges globally, inflamed by Gaza war. Quote: “In Los Angeles, a man screaming “kill Jews” attempted to break into a family’s home. In London, girls in a playground are told they are “stinking Jews” and should stay off the slide. In China, posts likening Jews to parasites, vampires or snakes proliferate on social media, attracting thousands of ‘likes.’ ”
Elsewhere…
- In Milan, Italy anti-Israel protesters shouted “Open the borders so we can kill the Jews.”
- In Toronto, Canada pro-Hamas protestors harassed diners at Jewish-owned Cafe Landwer and demanded a boycott of the “Zionist Cafe.”
- In Thessaloniki, Greece a mural at a Holocaust memorial was defaced with Jews = Nazis and “Free Palestine.”
- The Argentine Federal Police arrested an individual who posted on social media a threat to “go to a Jewish school and shoot as many kids as I can.”
- In France almost 80 Stars of David were painted on apartment buildings and banks in Paris and its suburbs.
- Protesters outside the Opera House in Sydney, Australia shouted, “Gas the Jews.”
- A crowd of people stormed an airport in Russia’s mostly Muslim region of Dagestan, where a flight from Israel arrived on Sunday, chanting, “There is no place for child-killers in Dagestan.”
This is Satanic; there is no other way to understand it.
We consider what is happening setting the stage for the antichrist to rise and make peace in the Middle East. He will sign a 7yr pact with Israel. That event is the start of the Great Tribulation.
We can’t know when that is going to happen. We may have to endure much hardship. Factor in that God may bring judgment upon the US for our national sins.
We can be certain the church will not be in the Great Tribulation.
Jesus promised His Church, “I… will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world [the Great Tribulation], to test those who dwell on the earth” (Revelation 3:10). He keeps us entirely out of those 7yrs by raising deceased Church Age saints, then rapturing “we who are alive and remain.”
The return of the Lord for us is imminent. It could happen any time. Nothing needs to occur before Jesus comes for us.
Are you ready for the rapture? If not, Get ready; Stay ready; Keep looking up.
Ready or not, Jesus is coming!