... what does the New Testament say about
the last days? Second Peter 3, Verse 3 says, know this first of all. In the last
days scoffers will come, mockers, who will come with their scoffing, following after
their own lusts and saying, where is the promise of his coming?
Ever since the fathers were asleep all continues as it was from the beginning.
Saying that in the end times there will be evil. Men will be mockers, cynical, cynics.
It says in Second Timothy 3, the end times will be perilous times. Times of peril.
Matches up with what's in the Hebrew Scriptures. Times of evil.
Times of calamity. And then it says in Second Timothy, it says this. Listen. For men will be lovers of self.
Lovers of money. Boastful. Arrogant. Revilers. Disobedient to parents.
Ungrateful, unholy, unloving. Irreconcilable. Malicious gossips.
Without self-control. Brutal. Haters of good. Treacherous, reckless, conceited. Lovers of pleasure
rather than lovers of God. Boy I wouldn't want to live at that time, huh?
And ... I'm going to get into that in a moment. See how see how this matches up.
But again, evil times. Again that, that's also another part of it. People will be
sinful, materialistic. And then it says, what it says in the, in the Book of Acts,
on the day of Pentecost, Peter quotes from the Prophet Joel. And he says, in the last days,
same thing, last days, Aharit Hayamim, God says I will pour out my Spirit.
On all flesh. And your sons and daughters shall prophesy. And your young men will
see visions. And your old men will dream dreams. Even among the, the bondservants,
men and women, I will in those days pour out my Spirit. And they shall prophesy.
And I will grant wonders in the sky above. And signs on the earth beneath.
Blood and fire. Smoke. The sun will be darkened. The moon blood. But before
the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come. And everyone
who calls upon the Name shall be saved. When in the last days. In those last days.
So you've got the pouring of the Holy Spirit, comes into the picture. But also,
again, the distress and all those things. So, he's quoting the Book of Joel.
And the Book of Joel is also, it talks about repentance. It talks about, it describes
Israel repenting and coming back to the Lord. So, there's all this. It's like
a puzzle you put together. It's all consistent. But each one adds a little
bit more. What else do the scriptures say about the last days?
There will be a great falling away, Paul writes. There'll be a great ...
The Antichrist will not be revealed, the man of sin, until there's a great falling away.
A great, or in, or in, the word we, is often used, apostasy. So notice a great
falling away. So notice what you're seeing. You see not just bad. You see also good.
In the end times it's not just the trouble, tribulation.
It's also return to the Lord. And it's also the Spirit pouring out.
It's people falling away. But the Spirit pouring out. ... two things
happening at once. Polarization. Good and bad. And notice how
consistent it is. What else does it say? If you read, you read the Bible and you
read, even in Revelation or read, read what Messiah said, I'm not coming again
until the Jewish people say, say blessed is He. And we ... combine that with, with
Zechariah 12. In the last days all the nations will come against Israel,
Jerusalem. And look at Revelation. Armageddon. Nations coming against ...
It's all consistent. The Jewish people will be back in the world according to the Bible.
They'll be the center of controversy. The nations of the world will be against Israel.
It also talks about a one-world civilization. A one-world global state.
And the rise of one who the Bible calls the beast or the Antichrist.
At the same time the Gospel will be spread to every nation. It says also Gentiles will take
hold of a Jew and say, come let go with you. That also kind of goes into
the Kingdom. Jacob's trouble. The time of tribulation. Jacob's trouble, again.
That's all the way consistent way back to the Torah. So we just looked at what some of
the puzzle pieces the Bible gives from the beginning,
onward, about the end days. Let's put it together and see how it matches up
with what is happening now. One. It says that in order for all this to happen
the Jewish people have to survive. Now Moses says it over 3,000 years ago. And most
of the people who were around Moses, most of the Hittites, Amorites, Jebusites,
all the ... They're not here anymore. So there was no guarantee the Jewish
people are going to still be around three and a half thousand years later.
All these other people are gone. For these things to happen, God's Word to be true,
the Jewish people had to survive. And there is ... not just
it's against all odds, because all these other peoples, look at it. Look at the map.
They're gone. Even Egypt. It's not the same as Egypt was. It's not the same
people, basically. ... it's just they're, they're gone.
But the Jewish people are still alive, while all the others are gone.
The Babylonians are pretty much. You don't see Babylon. You don't see Assyria.
They're pretty much gone. But the Jewish people according to this have
to survive to go into the end times. And on top of that, it's not just that they were
people who shouldn't survive. But on top of that, they were also the most hated
people, the most crushed people, the most defenseless people. 2,000 years with no army.
Nothing. No police. No king .They're ... everywhere around the world
with, not in their own land. Hated. And, and destroyed, destroyed, destroyed.
All hell against them and yet, they survived. Why? Because God is true. And God said it.
The Jewish people have survived and they are central ... If they didn't survive,
there's no last days. If they didn't survive, God's Word wouldn't be true. But God said,
as long as the sun is in the sky, I'm paraphrasing, as long as all these things,
... all the stars, and as long as it's all there you're not going anywhere.
Because it's as long as they're there, they are a sign
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