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This Is the End of Days
By Terry James
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd

Time has arrived, I believe, to put together a postulation introspective on biblically prophesied things to come, in end of days scenario fashion–i.e., to offer, in a stream-of-consciousness way, based upon trends in today’s news, a possible course the world might take while we trudge through the end of days toward Armageddon and Christ’s Second Advent.

As always, when entertaining such thoughts in a public forum, I must state up front that these are nothing more or less than speculations on my part. However, the speculations are undertaken with considerable years of study, writing, and most of all, praying about matters foretold by Jesus and the Old and New Testament prophets. Although I have not received a “word of knowledge” or been given a vision or dream in the Old or New Testament sense, I do believe my thoughts are given here with Holy Spirit-directed thought and insight.

In The Beginning God Created The Heaven and The Earth

Well, maybe at the beginning, the moment when linear time seems to have been introduced for this marvelous story of God and Man to begin its run through history. I say it is good to begin at that point, because it is obvious to any student of Bible prophecy who is alert to present day goings-on come to the point that the very One who created time for mankind is now under satanic attack as a liar and/or a lunatic. Jesus, you see, is the Creator of this thing called time, of the being called Man, of all that is. The Scriptures say:
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Gen. 1:1).

Clear enough, right? God, not evolution, or any other method born of man’s sophistry, brought this world into existence.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men” (John 1:1-4).
About Jesus, the apostle Paul wrote: “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or d******ns, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist” (Col. 1:16-17).

Jesus himself said: “I am the way, the t***h, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John. 14:6).
The Bible says that Jesus Christ is God, Himself. He said that He and His Father are one. That is, they are the same. When the pious Jewish religious leaders asked Him if He was God, Jesus said: “Before Abraham was, I am” (John. 8:58). This refers to His being the God of His people of His promises, the Israelites, as seen in Exodus 3:6.

The world of entertainment, e.g., “The DaVinci Code” fiction, has been saying Jesus was a mere man who f**ed His crucifixion, living on to father a child with Mary Magdalene. Entertainment, under pseudo-archaeological auspices is now telling us that they have found the ossuaries and even the DNA of Jesus’ relatives, and possibly of Jesus Himself in a tomb near Jerusalem. Jesus addressed this matter in part when He said during His Olivet Discourse:
“Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be” (Matthew 24:25-27).

False Christs and False Prophets, Deity of Jesus Under Attack

Matthew 24:25-27 is, I realize, Jesus’ forewarning of false christs and false prophets that will deceive all but God’s elect during the Tribulation era. Just like in all other end-time signals of significance that are in view today. However, the lying–saying Jesus is not the soon returning God of Heaven–is already underway for setting up prophetic fulfillment to come.

The prominently observable fact that the deity of Jesus is under attack is, in other words, a profound signal that we are bumping up against the very end of this Age of Grace. The attack is scheduled, prophetically, to become even more h**eful as we degenerate toward the end of days. Having laid the groundwork for showing that Jesus Christ’s deity and God’s veracity are under attack from our great enemy, the devil, and his supernatural and human minions, we will examine the many developments and what they portend for the future (so far as concerns Bible prophecy). Next, we will begin looking at end-of-days matters that are in our daily, even hourly news–overlaid by God’s always one-hundred-percent accurate Word–the Bible.

Again, I state that the end-of-days scenarios I lay out in this essay are speculation–postulation based upon my years of prayer, study, observations, and thought. I’m sure there are many who view things to come in a much different way, even among we who hold to the pre-Mill, pre-Trib view. So, I present this for your consideration, as, in my view, a likely possibility, not as set in biblical stone.

Observe the World and the State of Man

First, let us look at the way the world is configured.
The United States of America is the world’s lone superpower. Whether looking at military, economic, societal, technological, or wh**ever category we want to look at, America stands alone at the top of the nation-heap. I use the word “heap” because this world is built upon garbage filth from the heart and mind of its father, the devil. Boy! I know how cynical that seems. But, God says there is none good but One: “And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God” (Mark 10:18).
Since sin entered the world, man is fallen. Mankind must have redemption found only in God, the Son. People must be born-again or they cannot even see the kingdom of God:
“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, “‘Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God'” (John 3:3).
Jesus’ words, here, have dual meaning to me: 1) Those who refuse Christ by rejecting their need for a new, spiritual, birth will not go to heaven upon death; and 2) They cannot even understand heaven and things of God without the new birth into God’s family. I base this latter assessment upon the following words of the apostle Paul:
“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Corinthians 2:14).

This is going to sound even more off-putting, but it is true nonetheless. Christians are the only “good” in this downward-spiraling world. Now, am I saying that I, in my fleshly efforts, am better than the one who does not claim Christ as Savior and Lord? No, absolutely not! I must say that in, one regard, I am like Paul. But it is not his lovely Christian side, rather is the other. Paul said:
“For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which is good I find not” (Romans 7:18).

Only through Christ is any Christian viewed as “good” in God’s sight. Only through Jesus does a person become fit to inherit an eternal home in heaven. All humanly born and humanly devised matters are due for God’s judgment and for eternity apart from God because He cannot abide sin. Sin must be dealt with, and Jesus is the way sin is forever eradicated.

When it comes to the future, all hinges upon the person and presence of Jesus Christ as Redeemer.
So, why all that, to get to the speculation of what will happen from here to eternity?
Because Christians are the key, in my stream-of-consciousness unfolding scenarios for the end of days. God’s final wrath and judgment will not begin falling until the only good there is in this world is removed. This Bible prophecy t***h is found in the words of the apostle Paul to the Thessalonians:
“For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thessalonians 5:9).

The Removal of Christians Will Bring Calamity to the World Order

When Christians are removed in the Rapture (read 1 Corinthians 15:51-55 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18), things on earth will change dramatically. We get a prophetic glimpse of that removal of Christians from the planet in Paul’s additional words to the Thessalonians:
“And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way” (2 Thessalonians 2:6-7).

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The word “he” in verse 7 refers to God the Holy Spirit removing from His office as He interacted with mankind during the age of grace (“Church Age”), which is this present dispensation. The Holy Spirit, resident in the church during this present dispensation, will, in the moment of the Rapture no longer work in exactly the same way as now. He will interact with the human creation much as He did during the time before the church was born at Pentecost (Acts, chapter 2). (I know some believe the church was born on the shores of Galilee earlier, when Christ called forth the first disciples. I disagree.)
God the Holy Spirit, living within Christians, is the only “good” to be found in people. The Rapture will take that “good” to be with Jesus Christ for eternity. All who are “born-again” (see John 3:3) will go to the heavenly homes (dwelling places) Jesus has been preparing for them since He ascended to the right hand of God the Father (read John 14:1-3). These will include everyone “dead and living–who have accepted Christ for salvation of their souls. There will be no good people left on the planet,” that is, none that are “good” in God’s holy view.

With the Holy Spirit no longer acting to influence the consciences of humans in as powerful ways as He does at present, mankind’s actions and reactions will be exponentially accelerated for the worse.

The rebelliousness of the creature called man is, in my view, manifest blatantly for the student of God’s t***h to discern in a recent news story. It involved media and the politically correct crowd’s uproar over the U.S. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff making the comment, when asked his personal opinion– that he thought members of the same sex in the military who engage in sex with each other are committing immoral acts was quite telling. The voracious feeding frenzy to start the drumbeat for having General Peter Pace removed from his position in the Pentagon has fueled new vitriolic invective against those who hold to such “unenlightened” prejudices.

God, incidentally, is obviously included in our ranks. His Word, the Bible, the instruction manual for the creature, mankind, whom he made from the dirt upon which we stand says this about homosexuality:
“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 [fitting]” (Romans 1:26-27).
The Creator’s Word against homosexuality is even more powerful in an Old Testament prescription for those who engage in that activity. (If it makes you angry, get mad at God, not me. I don’t make the rules. He does.)
“If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an a*********n: they shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] upon them” (Leviticus 20:13).

I know what will be one of the objections: This was for the Israelites, not today’s people. Really? Well, in giving the prescription for living, God hasn’t changed for any people at any time. Jesus, we have established, is Creator of all things, and by His power holds all things together. This is what God’s Word, says about the Lord of all creation:
“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever” (Hebrews 13:8).

The problem is, as we’ve seen this week with this one issue, fallen mankind will not have the God of heaven rule on planet Earth. Since the fall, man has determined to do what is right in his own eyes. This is an attitude for catastrophe. Human government is fatally flawed. These have tried to create a utopian earth for millennia. All efforts to do it their way “apart from God” have met with abject failure.

The earliest attempt of human government, which followed the flood of Noah’s antediluvian era, was Nimrod’s attempt to build the tower to heaven (read Genesis chapter 11). The Lord knew this would end in disaster for mankind, so He came down and separated the one-world builders by giving multiple languages, thus driving them to diverse places around the globe.

But man has spent millennia since that time circumventing God’s intervention. The one-world drive is again being pursued in a concerted effort by the powers “elite.” When things reach a certain point of depravity, God always has intervened. A prime example was when He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. (Read Genesis, chapter 19 to learn about both the depravity and the Lord’s intervention.) Which gets us to the thing about end-of-days scenarios I would like to explore. Part 2 to follow............

samtheyank

Everytime you turn around some Church, group or wh**ever is making some prediction or forecast about the end times. I am a Christian and I don't worry about it. The Lord wants us to live our lives for Him, get the Gospel out and do what we can to glorify Him. If my verse is correct it says in Matthew 24:36 "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of Heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. I ask you question, excuse my French, how in the hell do you know? The answer is you don't! I wish you would quit running your ignorant mouth. Be more concerned about getting people saved and getting the Word out about The Lord Jesus! This is Biblical and the T***h!

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Howdy Zig.

I didn't read your article.

The title alone is enough for me to respond to.

The end of the days of men is no new phenomena.

Because men have been dying since the beginning of mankind.

Every mans days are numbered, therefore every man reaches the end of his days.

So the end of days only applies to mortal men.

Because in reality, the days themselves will never end.

Only mens lives end.

Time will go on, days will continue and God will remain the Alpha and omega.

But just as a man has only a short span of a lifetime, so is it true of nations and empires.

America's lifespan is coming to it's end.

But the days my friend are like God.

For they are neverending.