50 Reasons We Are in the End Times

The following article is an excerpt from "50 Reasons We Are in the End Times" by Dr. David Reagan with Lion and Lamb Ministries.

Dr. Reagan: The Bible teaches that no one can know the date of the Lord’s return. But the Bible also clearly teaches that we can know the season of the Lord’s return. I am going to present you with 50 reasons why we are living in the season when Jesus is going to return. 

One hundred years ago in 1917 there was not one single, tangible, measurable sign that indicated we were living in the season of the Lord’s return. The first to appear was the Balfour Declaration which was issued by the British government later in that year, on November 2, 1917.

The declaration was prompted by the fact that during World War I the Turks sided with the Germans. And thus, when Germany lost the war, so did the Turks, and the victorious Allies decided to divide up both the German and Turkish empires. The Turkish territories, called the Ottoman Empire, contained the ancient homeland of the Jewish people, an area the Romans had named Palestine after the last Jewish revolt in 132 AD. Now, what most people do not realize is that in 1917 Palestine included all of modern day Israel and Jordan. And in the scheme the Allies concocted for dividing up the German and Turkish territories, Britain was allotted Palestine. This decision is what prompted the Balfour Declaration. In that document, Lord Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, declared that it was the intention of the British government to establish in Palestine quote, “a national home for the Jewish people.”

Since the time of the Balfour Declaration in 1917, we have witnessed throughout the 20th Century the appearance of sign after sign pointing to the Lord’s soon return. There are so many of these signs in fact, that one would have to be either biblically illiterate or spiritually blind not to realize that we are living on borrowed time.

Take Israel for example. All of the end time prophecy revolves around the nation of Israel. But how could those prophecies be understood as long as Israel did not exist and there was no prospect that the nation would ever exist again? This is the reason that Hal Lindsey’s book, “The Late Great Planet Earth” became such a phenomenal bestseller in the 1970’s. For the first time it explained the events prophesied in the book of Revelation in natural terms that people could easily understand.

Consider the prophecy in Revelation 11 about the two witnesses who will call the world to repentance during the first half of the Tribulation. When they are killed by the Antichrist, we are told that their bodies will lie in the streets of Jerusalem for three and a half days, and the whole world will look upon them. How could anyone understand such a prophecy before the development of satellite television in the 1960’s? Likewise, how could the Antichrist control all buying and selling worldwide without the aid of computer technology? Or how could the False Prophet create the illusion of giving life to a statue without the technology of holograms, virtual reality, and robotics? And how could an army of 200 million come out of the Far East before the population explosion that was produced by modern medical technology? How could the Gospel be proclaimed to all the world before the invention of motion pictures, radio, television, and the Internet? The list goes on and on.

Let me conclude now by specifically listing 50 of those prophecies:

1. Increasing instability of nature.
2. Increasing lawlessness and violence.
3. Increasing immorality.
4. Increasing materialism.
5. Increasing Hedonism.
6. Increasing influence of Humanism.
7. Depraved entertainment.
8. Calling evil good and good evil.
9. Increasing use of drugs.
10. Increasing blasphemy.
11. Increasing paganism.
12. Increasing despair.
13. Signs in the heavens.
14. Increasing knowledge.
15. Increasing travel.
16. The explosion of cults.
17. The proliferation of false christs.
18. Increasing apostasy in the Church.
19. Increasing attacks on Jesus.
20. Increasing attacks on the Bible.
21. Increasing persecution of Christians.
22. Increasing occultism.
23. Wars and rumors of wars.
24. Weapons of mass destruction.
25. Increasing famine.
26. Increasing pestilence.
27. Computer technology.
28. Television.
29. Satellite technology.
30. Virtual reality.
31. Unification of Europe.
32. Far Eastern military powers.
33. Movement toward world government.
34. Regathering of the Jews.
35. Re-establishment of Israel.
36. Reclamation of the land of Israel from desolation to abundance.
37. Revival of Biblical Hebrew.
38. Re-occupation of Jerusalem.
39. Resurgence of the Israeli military.
40. Re-focusing of world politics on Israel.
41. Russian threat to Israel.
42. Arab threat to Israel.
43. Denial of the Second Coming.
44. Denial of creation by God.
45. Outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
46. Translation of the Bible into many languages.
47. Preaching of the Gospel worldwide.
48. The revival of Messianic Judaism.
49. The revival of Davidic praise worship.
50. The understanding of Bible prophecy.

Folks, this list could be greatly expanded, but the 50 examples I’ve just given you should be sufficient to show that we are living in the season of the Lord’s return. The Bible clearly teaches that God never pours out His wrath without warning for He is a just and loving God who does not wish that any should perish. That’s why He has provided so many signs to alert us to the fact that we are living on the threshold of the Tribulation.

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50 Reasons We Are in the End Times