Is the End of the World Near? - WHAT WILL YOU DO?

Do you believe that we are living in the last days?  Many Bible prophecies about the last days are coming true.   Soon Jehovah will decide to stop the preaching of the good news and "the end" will come.  (Matthew 24:14)  What is the end?  It is Armageddon, when God will remove all wickedness.  Jehovah will use Jesus and his powerful angels to destroy anyone who refuses to obey Him and his Son. (Thessalonians 1:6-9)   After that, Satan and his demons will not mislead people.  And all those who want to obey God and accept the Kingdom will see every promise of  God come true. - REVELATION 20:1-3;; 21:3-5.

This world ruled by Satan will soon come to its end. So it is very important that we ask  ourselves, 'What do I need to do?  Jehovah wants you to learn as much as you can from the Bible.  You need to take your study lessons seriously.  (John 17:3)   Jehovah's Witnesses have meetings every week to help people understand the Bible.  Try to attend those meetings regularly.  (Read Hebrews 10:24, 25)   If you learn that you need to make changes, don't be afraid to make them. As you make them, your friendship with Jehovah will become stronger. - JAMES 4:8.

The apostle Paul explained that the destruction of the wicked will come when most people  don't expect it,"as a thief in the night."  (1 Thessalonians 5:2)   Jesus  prophesied that many would choose  to ignore the evidence that we're  living in the last days.  He said:  "Just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of an [or, the last days] will be .  For as they were in those days before the Flood, eating and drinking, men  marrying and women being given in marriage, until that day that Noah entered into the ark, and they took no note until the Flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be." - MATTHEW 24:37-39. 

Jesus warned that we should not become distracted "with overeating and heavy drinking and anxieties of life." He said that the end will come suddenly,  "as a snare."  He also said that "it will come upon all those dwelling on the face if the whole earth."  Then he added:  "Keep awake, then, all the time making supplication [or, praying very sincerely]that you may succeed in escaping all these things that must occur and in standing before the Son of man."  (Luke 21:34-36)  Why is it so important to listen to Jesus' warning?  Because very soon Satan's wicked world will be destroyed.  Only those who are approved by Jehovah and Jesus will survive the end and live forever in the new world. -JOHN 3:16; 2 PETER 3:13. 

Next time:  The Truth About the Angels

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