Prophecy accounts for 25% of the Bible. That’s a lot, and it is why we reserve a few minutes to discuss current trends that you’d expect from reading Bible prophecy.
Much of it has been fulfilled, but there remain significant End Times predictions. For example, the Book of the Revelation is entirely a future prophecy from chapter four through the end.
Biometrics, Artificial Intelligence, cashless commerce, the manipulation of human DNA, global government, the exponential growth of human knowledge, and instantaneous communication are the major topics that we monitor.
The most significant prophetic topic is the nation of Israel.
Thinking about Israel and the future, we have seen, and we are seeing, prophecy being fulfilled as we say, ‘right before our very eyes.’
The word diaspora was coined to describe the migration of the Jews coming out of the Babylonian captivity. Since that initial dispersion, the Jewish people have faced many more upheavals and resettlements from the times of the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, and during World War II (at the hands of Hitler).
Regarding the diaspora, Jeremiah prophesied, “As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them. For I will bring them back to their own land that I gave to their fathers. Behold, I am sending for many fishers, declares the Lord, and they shall catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks” (Jeremiah 16).
Over 2,800 years ago, the prophet Ezekiel spoke these words about Israel:
“I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land” (36:24).
The first part of that was fulfilled on May 14, 1948. Isaiah made this wild claim: “Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion was in labor, She gave birth to her children” (66:8).
One day the Holy Land was under British control. The next day, they were a sovereign nation.
In Zechariah 12:3-4, God declares: “I will make Jerusalem like an intoxicating drink that makes the nearby nations stagger when they send their armies to besiege Jerusalem and Judah. On that day I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock. All the nations will gather against it to try to move it, but they will only hurt themselves.”
BTW, we support Israel. In May, Israel’s ambassador to the US, said this: “The hateful rhetoric spewed by public figures, the targeting of students on college campuses, and the outright attacks on Jewish persons and institutions across the country are expressions of a centuries-old hatred that has long sought to tear us down. The newest form of this ancient hatred has taken aim not only at the Jewish individual or the Jewish people, but also at the Jewish state, implying it has no right to exist. It is one thing to criticize certain Israeli policies. It is something totally different to question the very legitimacy of the Jewish State.”
These are remarkable, centuries old fulfilled prophecies.
We live in the Church Age. It began on the day of Pentecost fifty days after Jesus Christ rose from the dead. It precedes the Time of Jacob’s Trouble, more commonly known as the seven-year Great Tribulation.
The Tribulation will not begin until something fantastic happens. The Lord said He would return for us, the Church, raising the dead in Christ, then catching up (rapturing) believers who are alive when He comes. He promised His Church Age believers, “I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth” (Revelation 3:10).
The resurrection and rapture of the church is always imminent. It could happen any moment; nothing needs to happen before it. Are you ready for the rapture? If not, Get ready; Stay ready; Keep looking up.
Ready or not, Jesus is coming!