Animal
Anomalies "Therefore shall
the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth
therein shall languish, with the beasts of the
field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the
fishes of the sea also shall be taken away."
(Hosea 4:3)
"I
will utterly consume all things from off the
land, saith the LORD. I will consume man and
beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven,
and the fishes of the sea, and the
stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut
off man from off the land, saith the LORD."
(Zephaniah 1:2-3)
"And
I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name
that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with
him. And power was given unto them over the
fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and
with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts
of the earth." (Revelation 6:8)
Apostasy /
False Teachers / False Christians
"Let
no man deceive you by any means: for that day
shall not come, except there come a falling away
first..." (2 Thessalonians 2:3a)
"Having
a form of godliness, but denying the power
thereof: from such turn away." (2 Timothy
3:5)
"For
the time will come when they will not endure
sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall
they heap to themselves teachers, having itching
ears; And they shall turn away their ears from
the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."
(2 Timothy 4:3-4)
"They
profess that they know God; but in works they
deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and
unto every good work reprobate." (Titus
1:16)
"But
there were false prophets also among the people,
even as there shall be false teachers among you,
who privily shall bring in damnable heresies,
even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring
upon themselves swift destruction." (2 Peter
2:1)
"They
went out from us, but they were not of us; for if
they had been of us, they would no doubt have
continued with us: but they went out, that they
might be made manifest that they were not all of
us." (1 John 2:19)
Arab Threat To
Israel
Ezekiel
35 & 36
Attacking Jesus
"Who
is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the
Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father
and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same
hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth
the Son hath the Father also." (1 John
2:22-23)
Celestial /
Terrestrial Events
"And
there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon,
and in the stars..." (Luke 21:25a)
"For
thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a
little while, and I will shake the heavens, and
the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;"
(Haggai 2:6)
"And
great earthquakes shall be in divers
places..." (Luke 21:11a)
"...the
sea and the waves roaring;" (Luke 21:25c)
"For
we know that the whole creation groaneth and
travaileth in pain together until now."
(Romans 8:22)
Civil Unrest
"...and
upon the earth distress of nations, with
perplexity..." (Luke 21:25b)
Confounding
Right / Wrong
"Woe
unto them that call evil good, and good evil;
that put darkness for light, and light for
darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet
for bitter!" (Isaiah 5:20)
Drive For
Material Wealth
"Woe
unto them that join house to house, that lay
field to field, till there be no place, that they
may be placed alone in the midst of the
earth!" (Isaiah 5:8)
Drug Use
Increased
"Neither
repented they of their murders, nor of their
sorceries
(pharmakeia: drug use), nor
of their fornication, nor of their thefts."
(Revelation 9:21)
Economic
Upheaval
"Your
gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them
shall be a witness against you, and shall eat
your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped
treasure together for the last days." (James
5:3)
"And
I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts
say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three
measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt
not the oil and the wine." (Revelation 6:6)
Environmental
Radicalism
"Who
changed the truth of God into a lie, and
worshipped and served the creature more than the
Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen."
(Romans 1:25)
False christs
"For
many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ;
and shall deceive many." (Matthew 24:5)
"For
there shall arise false Christs, and false
prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders;
insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall
deceive the very elect." (Matthew 24:24)
Famine /
Pestilence
"...and
there shall be famines, and pestilences..."
(Matthew 24:7b)
Immorality /
Hedonism / Paganism
"But
as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming
of the Son of man be." (Matthew 24:37)
"For
men shall be lovers of their own selves,
covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false
accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those
that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded,
lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power
thereof: from such turn away." (2 Timothy
3:2-5)
Increased
Knowledge
"But
thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the
book, even to the time of the end: many shall run
to and fro, and knowledge shall be
increased." (Daniel 12:4)
Israel Returned
To Their Land
"And
it shall come to pass, when all these things are
come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which
I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them
to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD
thy God hath driven thee, And shalt return unto
the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice
according to all that I command thee this day,
thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and
with all thy soul; That then the LORD thy God
will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon
thee, and will return and gather thee from all
the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath
scattered thee." (Deuteronomy 30:1-3)
Thus
saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours,
that touch the inheritance which I have caused my
people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck
them out of their land, and pluck out the house
of Judah from among them. And it shall come to
pass, after that I have plucked them out I will
return, and have compassion on them, and will
bring them again, every man to his heritage, and
every man to his land." (Jeremiah 12:14-15)
"Now
learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch
is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know
that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye
shall see all these things, know that it is near,
even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This
generation shall not pass, till all these things
be fulfilled." (Matthew 24:32-34)
Lawlessness /
Violence
"And
because iniquity shall abound, the love of many
shall wax cold." (Matthew 24:12)
One-world
government / Unification of Europe
"And
I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast
rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and
ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and
upon his heads the name of blasphemy."
(Revelation 13:1)
Daniel
2 & 7
Persecution
"If
the world hate you, ye know that it hated me
before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the
world would love his own: but because ye are not
of the world, but I have chosen you out of the
world, therefore the world hateth you."
(John 15:18-19)
"Then
shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and
shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all
nations for my name's sake." (Matthew 24:9)
Russia Grows To
A Military Power
Ezekiel
38-39
Scoffers
"Knowing
this first, that there shall come in the last
days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And
saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for
since the fathers fell asleep, all things
continue as they were from the beginning of the
creation." (2 Peter 3:3-4)
Sexual
Perversion
"For
this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:
for even their women did change the natural use
into that which is against nature: And likewise
also the men, leaving the natural use of the
woman, burned in their lust one toward another;
men with men working that which is unseemly, and
receiving in themselves that recompence of their
error which was meet. And even as they did not
like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave
them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things
which are not convenient;" (Romans 1:26-28)
"Even
as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them
in like manner, giving themselves over to
fornication, and going after strange flesh, are
set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance
of eternal fire." (Jude 1:7)
Terrorism
"And
God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come
before me; for the earth is filled with
violence..." (Genesis 6:13a)
"But
as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming
of the Son of man be." (Matthew 24:37)
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