We reserve a few minutes to discuss current trends that you’d expect from reading Bible prophecy.

It is exciting to follow advances in biometrics & AI. They practically scream about the future fulfillment of the Bible’s prophecies of a sentient statue that will enforce, by threat of capital punishment, a global system of commerce utilizing a biometric ‘mark’ of some kind.

There are less dramatic, but no less important, prophecies to discover.

In the Book of Jeremiah, speaking to Israel, the LORD said, “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.” (Jeremiah 31:27, NASB).

It is a poetic way of saying that both people and livestock will again thrive in the land. It signals population growth, blessing, and restoration of normal life.

It is a Millennial scene but we can see the stage being set for its fulfillment now.

I read an article this week, Israel announces 22 new communities.

Excerpts:

During the past week Israel moved to establish 22 new communities in the area of Judea and Samaria, a move that furthers Israel’s sovereignty over the area. The Bible speaks of sowing Judea and Israel with the seed of men, and this move is further advancement of the angelic hand in bringing about God’s plan.

When French President Macron suggested that there must be a two-state solution, Defense Minister Israel Katz said, “they may recognize a Palestinian state on paper, but we are building the Jewish-Israeli state on the ground. That paper will be cast into the dustbin of history, while the State of Israel will flourish and thrive.”

“We made a historic decision for the settlement: 22 new communities in Judea and Samaria, renewing settlement in the north of Samaria and reinforcing the eastern axis of the State of Israel – the State of Israel’s defensive shield,” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Thursday.

Responding to the tsunami of anti-semitism all over the world, the message was, “Truly the time has come for all Jews to return to the land of Israel.”^[1]

Following the events of October 7, 2023, there was a notable increase in applications and arrivals, with over 31,000 new immigrants moving to Israel in the subsequent year.

Jeremiah predicted that Jews would return to their Promised Land in the Last Days.

By “Jews” we mean ethnic descendants of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob. There is no way to spiritualize or allegorize this to either include or be talking about the church.

Revelation 3:10 is foundational to what we believe about the church in the Last Days. Jesus wrote, “Because you have kept My command to persevere, 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.”

• “The hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world” is not just a time of intense persecution. It comes upon the “whole world” at once.
• It is “THE hour of trial, the Tribulation, predicted in the Bible.
• “Those who dwell on the earth” is not the way God would describe believers enduring the Great Tribulation. He doesn’t see us as one group.
• Each of the letters of the seven churches is for all the churches.

We are going to be gone before this hour of trial begins. Jesus will return the clouds, resurrect the dead in Christ from the church age, then we who are alive and remain, shall be changed, raptured to heaven in glorified bodies.

Are you ready for the rapture? If not, get ready stay ready keep looking up.

Ready or not Jesus is coming!