Is the End Near?

 

1.WORLDWIDE UPHEAVALS  A prophecy recorded in Matthew chapter 24 lists events on the earth that would make up a composite sign. That sign would mark "the conclusion of the system of  things" and lead to the time when  "the end will come."  (Verses 3, 14)  These features include major wars, food shortages, earthquakes in one place after another, and increase of lawlessness,  a lack of love, and sly efforts by religious leaders to misleald people.  (Verses 6-26)  Of course, to some extent, such events have been taiking place for centuries.  However, as the end approaches, they would all occur in the same troubled era.  They would also accompany the next three warning signals.

2. THE ATTITUDES OF THE PEOPLE  The Bible sayts that "the last days" - the period leading to the end-would be marked by a major deterioration of people's attitudes.  We read: "Men would be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, disloyal, having no natural affection , not open to any aggreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God." (2 Timothy 3:1-4)  True disrespect for fellow humans is not new, but only  in "the last days" would that spirit reach such expremes that the era could rightly be described as "critical times hard to deal with." Have you noticed this downward trend in people's attitudes?

Next time: Is the End Near? 3. THE EARTH IS BEING RUINED

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