Features Of The Last Days

"Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom." (Matthew 24:7; Revelation 6:4) Writer Ernest Hemingway called World War I "the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth." According to the book The World in the Crucible -1914-1919, this was "a new scope of war, the first total war in the experience of mankind. Its duration, intensity and scale exceeded anthing previously known or generally expected." Then came World War II, which proved much more destructive than World War I. " the twentieth century," says professor of history Hugh Thomas, "has been dominated by the machine gun, the tank, the B-52, the nuclear bomb and finally, the missile. It has been marked by wars more bloody and destructive than those of any other age." True, much was said about disarmament after the Cold War ended. Still, one report estimates that after proposed reductions some 10,000 to 20,000 nuclear warheads will remain - more than 900 times the firepower used during World War II.

Some Features Of The Last Days

* Unprecedented warfare. - Matthew 24:7; Revelation 6:4.
* Famine. - Matthew 24:7; Revelation 6:5, 6, 8.
* Pestilences. - Luke 21:11; Revelation 6:8.
* Increasing lawlessness. - Matthew 24:12.
* Ruining of the earth. - Revelation 11:18.
* Earthquakes.- Matthew 24:7
* Critical times hard to deal with. - 2 Timothy 3:1.
* Inordinate love of money. - 2 Timothy 3:2.
* Disobedience to parents. - 2 Timothy 3:2.
* A lack of natural affection. - 2 Timothy 3:3.
* Loving pleasures rather than God. - 2 Timothy 3:4.
* A lack of self-control. - 2 Timothy 3:3.
* Without love of goodness. - 2 Timothy 3:3.
* Taking no note of the impending danger. - Matthew 24:39.
* Ridiculers reject proof of the last days. - 2 Peter 3:3, 4.
* Global preaching of God's Kingdom. - Matthew 24:14.


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