HOW THE CHALLENGE WILL BE FULLY OVERCOME - WHEN WILL GOD'S KINGDOM COME"

 The Bible foretold a number of striking events that would signal that God's Kingdom is coming soon. Those events make up a composite "sign" that includes international warfare, famine, disease,  many earthquakes, and an increase of lawlessness. - MATTHEW 24:3, 7, 12; LUKE 21:11; REVELATION 6:2-8.

Another prophecy states: "In the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here.  For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, . . . disobedient to parents, ungrateful, disloyal. having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, . . . puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God." (1 Timothy 3:1-4) Traits such as these have always been manifest to some extent. But now they are commonplace.

Those prophecies began to be fulfilled in 1914.  Indeed, historians, statesmen, and writers have commented on how the world changed after that year.  For example, Danish historian Peter Munch wrote: "The outbreak of the war in 1914 is the great turning point in the history of humanity.  From a bright epoch of progress, , , , we entered an age of disaster, horror, and hatred, with insecurity everywhere.

On the positive side, those conditions are like a storm before the calm. They show that Kingdom rule over all the earth is near. In fact, Jesus included this positive element in his sign of the end.  "This good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come." -  MATTHEW 24:14. 

Note: Keep in mind that God's view of time is not our view of time. We are, though, in Revelation, so if you do not have God in your life, worship, work, trust, etc, in him, then you may be lost for sure. Because I can feel that the time is very close. For me, the sooner the better.😂

That good news is a central theme of the message of Jehovah's Witnesses. Indeed, their leading journal is entitled The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom. Now available in more than 338 languages, The Watchtower regularly discusses the wonderful things that God's Kingdom will  do for mankind and the earth.

Next time:  HOW THE CHALLENGE WILL BE FULLY OVERCOME - HOW WILL GOD'S KINGDOM TAKE CONTROL?

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