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FULFILLMENT OF BIBLE PROPHECY
Newspaper, radio, and television news reports repeatedly show that ancient, centuries-old Bible prophecies are now being fulfilled. These prophecies proclaim one truth: JESUS THE CHRIST IS RETURNING FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIM! Read a sample of these prophecies and the news reports of events which pave the way for Jesus' return in our lifetime.
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| God has given us His plan for the end of the age of grace, and we now live in the last days of this age. All prophecies pointing to Jesus' return have been sufficiently fulfilled for His return. He can appear in the clouds to call His believers to join Him at any moment. In this Website, current news stories and ancient Bible prophecies are correlated to show that THE HOLY BIBLE IS TRUE, GOD IS REAL, and JESUS WILL RETURN SOON. The true significance of events reported daily in the news media can be understood only by studying Bible prophecy. It is impossible to read Bible prophecy with an open mind without coming away with an unshakable belief in God and His Son, Jesus Christ. Prepare to meet Jesus— the Savior of all mankind— in glory and reward, not in shame and punishment. Warn others you know to prepare for His return. Persons who receive salvation through your efforts will be your spiritual children for eternity.
"Remember this... I am God, and there is no other.... I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please." Isaiah 46:8-10 [Says God the LORD] "Behold the former things have come to pass, and the new things I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them." Isaiah 42:9 |
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WELCOME! Approximately twenty-eight percent (28%) of The Holy Bible is devoted to prophecy, and many of the prophetic verses deal with the end of the age in which we now live. Only a small sample of available prophecy references can be included in this site because of space limitations. Thousands of news items appear in newspapers, television, and magazines every day, and many of these items relate to conditions which will be present at the time of Jesus' return. Only a small sample of pertinent news articles can be included in this site. Prophecies of these events were written in The Holy Bible by men of God many centuries ago. News stories included in this site fulfill or create the background for fulfillment of the Bible's end-of-the-age prophecies. Presented is a link (underlined headline) to the article, with its news source and date of publication. Click on the underlined link to read the story. After reading, click on the return arrow at the top of the page and to be re-directed to this home page. God's timetable for man in this age is short. Now is the day for you to accept Jesus Christ as Savior, confess and repent of your sins (overcome your sins), and warn your family and friends. Whether you die or the Rapture occurs before your death, there may not be a tomorrow for you. |
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| BIBLE PROPHECY | CURRENT NEWS | BACKGROUND: Jesus prophesied a world filled with wars, rumors of wars, and terrorism prior to His return to Earth. In Jesus' teaching, the Greek word ethnos has been poorly translated as "nation." A better translation is "ethnic group" or "people." This term accurately describes terrorist groups— small groups of people with, at best, only loose connection with any recognized national government. Since World War II, there has not been a single day free of international war, civil war, or terrorism somewhere in the world. Islam now holds the nations of the Earth— especially the United States ("the great Satan") and Israel ("the little Satan")— in expectation of the next terrorist attack. The September 11, 2001 attack on the United States was a dramatic foretaste of the terrorism to be inflicted on America and Western countries. The unusually meticulous preparation of terrorists and the war on terrorism being conducted in the Middle East has likely delayed additional attacks on America. More likely, the lull in repeat terror attacks may represent God's pattern of judgment: warning, followed by a period of grace (to determine if repentance will occur), followed by judgment (if people do not repent). More terrorism attacks can be anticipated, and weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical, or biological) will surely be employed. See a Wars, Rumors of Wars, Terrorism e-newsletter archived elsewhere in this Website. REPRESENTATIVE SCRIPTURES: Matthew 24:6-7: [Jesus said] "You will hear or wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things will happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom...."Mark 13:7-8: [Jesus said] "When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom...." Luke 21:9-10: [Jesus said] "When you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away." Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom." Revelation 6:3-4: When the Lamb [Jesus] opened the second seal, I [John the Revelator] heard the second living creature say, "Come!" Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword [nuclear weapons?]. |
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BACKGROUND: All end-of-the-age prophecy revolves around:
Only Jews and Christians are in fellowship with God. Only Jews and Christians have a right to own Jerusalem and Israel. Others who claim Israel and Jerusalem, e.g., Muslims, have a counterfeit claim. The Arabs' inheritance is to land east of Israel, i.e., the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabs' gift from God is not His Covenant relationship, but His grace for salvation— a gift available to every person in the world. Amos 9:11-15: "In that day I will restore David's fallen tent [the nation of Israel], I will repair its broken places, restore its ruins, and build it as it used to be; so that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear my name," declares the LORD, who will do these things. "The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman and the planter by the one treading grapes. New wine will drip from the mountains and flow from the hills. I will bring back my exiled people Israel; they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them," says the LORD your God. EXPLANATION: Prior to 1948, present-day Israel was a sparsely populated, impoverished, unproductive wasteland. Since the Jews' return in 1948, the land has become a vibrant, productive, modern, democratic country, by the grace of God and in fulfillment of His promise to the Jews. Zechariah 12:2-4, 6: "I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah [Israel] will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves. On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness," declares the LORD. "I will keep a watchful eye over the house of Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations. | On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume right and left all the surrounding peoples, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place." EXPLANATION: God will not permit Israel to be defeated in battle after the Jews' final return (in 1948) to the Covenant Land. Nations of the world will turn against Israel and hate the Jews, but they cannot— they will not— defeat Israel because an all-powerful God will defend the Jews and defeat providentially all of the Jews' enemies! Psalm 83:2-8: See how your [God's] enemies are astir, how your foes raise their heads. With cunning they conspire against your people [the Jews]; they plot against those you cherish. "Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more." With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you— the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites, Gebal, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre. Even Assyria has joined them.... EXPLANATION: This list of ancient peoples is the same list of Arab/Muslim nations now fanatically desiring to push the Jews into the Mediterranean Sea, that the nation of Israel will never exist again. Ancient place names in which these enemies of Israel lived (live) and modern equivalents are:
Ezekiel, chapter 37: SUMMARY: The LORD gave Ezekiel a vision: He saw a valley littered with many dry bones. The LORD said He would restore the bones. They were joined together and were covered with flesh, as men and women, but they did not breathe. Then, breath came to them from the "four winds", and the assembled forms had the breath of life. The LORD said that these bones depicted the whole house of Israel. The LORD promised to bring His people back to the land of Israel. Ezekiel was then told to take two sticks of wood, writing "Belonging to Judah and the Israelites associated with him" on one and "Ephraim's stick belonging to Joseph and all of the house of Israel associated with him" on the other. Ezekiel was told to unite the two sticks into one because they will never again be divided. Then, "David" will be King over them and they will follow God's laws. COMMENT: This important prophecy, written nearly 2,600 years ago, surely was written for our time. In AD 70, Roman legions defeated the Jewish people, destroyed their Temple, and either slaughtered the Jews or carried them into captivity throughout the world— a nearly nineteen-century period known as "the Diaspora." The Jews remained dispersed until May 14, 1948, when they returned to re-establish Israel (the dry bones becoming flesh). Since 1948, the Jews have re-built Israel under one government (the two sticks joined as one), and God has promised they never again will be defeated. Jews from all parts of the world (the breath from the four winds— the four cardinal points of the world) have come to Israel. Rule under "David" will not occur until the Millennial Kingdom, when Jesus Christ will rule the world and all nations will know and worship God (Jesus was from the House of David— see Jesus' genealogy in the Gospels) and was sometimes called "Son of David.". Deuteronomy 30:1-5, 7: When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations, and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul... then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back. He will bring you back to the land that belonged to your fathers, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.... | The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you.... SUMMARY: As present-day events spiral out of control, one country and one people are and will remain at the center of the world's turmoil— exactly as foretold in The Holy Bible by the writings of prophets thousands of years ago. The descendants of Abraham's two sons— Isaac and Ishmael— will continue contending for the land given by God to Abraham and his son Isaac. As The Holy Bible clearly states:
The lineage of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (the Jews) are the rightful heirs of the Covenant Land (Israel) and God's Holy City in that Land (Jerusalem). This lineage continues through David and Jesus Christ, so that engrafted, or "adopted," Jews (Christians) are also the rightful heirs of the Covenant Land and Jerusalem. The lineage of Abraham and Hagar, of Ishmael, of Esau, of Lot, and sons of Abrahah and Keturah— present-day Muslims— are not the heirs of Israel and Jerusalem. The Holy Bible clearly informs that the struggle between Jews and Christians and their enemies will increase dramatically prior to the return of Jesus; that the conflict between followers of the God of Israel (Jehovah for Jews and Christians) and other gods (Allah for the Muslims and secular humanism for the Europeans) will take peace from the Earth; and that mankind will not achieve lasting peace until the return (the Second Coming) of Jesus the Messiah. Expect wars, rumors of wars, and violence to continue in the Middle East and elsewhere until the Lord Jesus Christ returns to bind Satan and stop the warring nature of man. Expect Jews to continue coming home to Israel from all parts of the world to fulfill prophecy of an aliyah (rising up to go home) of Jews in the last days. RELATED REFERENCE SITES: + The Mitchell Report (April 30, 2001)... Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-finding Committee Final Report. + The Tenet Plan (June 13, 2001)... The Tenet Plan: Israeli-Palestinian Ceasefire and Security Plan, Proposed by CIA Director George Tenet. + The Wye River Memorandum + UNISPAL... United Nations Information Site on the Question of Palestine. + The Palestinian National Charter + Peace in the Middle East: Senate floor statement by U.S. Senator James M. Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), March 4, 2002 + Zola Levitt Ministries— On the home page, click on "The History of Israel in a Nutshell" + The Search for Peace (The United States of America Embassy in Israel) + U.S. State Department: Middle East Peace Process + The Peace Process Reference Documents + CAMERA Media Report (The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America + Israel's Timeline + The Bible promises that the Jews will rebuild the Third Temple. The Western Wall is the only part of the Second Temple which remains at the present time. WISDOM AND TRUTH IN TWO SENTENCES: I cannot give credit where due because I do not remember who said the following two sentences, but they sum up the present powderkeg situation in Israel: If the Palestinians lay down their arms, there will be no more war.
STATISTICS FOR AMERICANS TO UNDERSTAND THE MAGNITUDE OF TERRORISM IN ISRAEL: (population numbers are close approximations)
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BACKGROUND: The Jewish prophet Daniel served as King Nebuchadnezzar's slave in Babylon. The King had a troubling dream about a magnificent statue. With guidance from God, Daniel was the only one who could interpret the dream. This interpretation is found in Daniel, chapter 2. Even though the Book of Daniel was written more than 2,500 years ago, the prophetic interpretation of the dream has been inerrant in predicting the great empires that would affect the Jews from Daniel's time to the present time. There is no reason to believe that the remaining portion of the prophecy will not be fulfilled in the future. The statue's parts and what the parts represented are:
But the dream continued. The legs of iron (representing the Roman Empire, which by now has passed into history) will sprout feet and toes made of iron and clay. Multiple toes represent multiple nations of the revived Roman Empire— the European Union (E.U.)— which will occupy the land previously ruled by Rome. The mixed composition will note a mixture of strong nations (iron) and weak nations (clay). As prophesied, the E.U. is a mixture of strong and weak nations, and blending these nations into a single united states of Europe has at times been difficult and controversial (just as clay and iron do not mix well together). But the dream still continued. A stone cut without hands (which is a Biblical metaphor for Jesus the Messiah) will crush the toes and, then, will become a mountain covering the Earth. This prophecy coincides with other prophecies that Jesus, at His Second Coming, will crush the armies at Armageddon (including the army of the E.U.) and will establish His Kingdom worldwide (the Millennial Kingdom). Fulfillment of the final part of Daniel's prophetic interpretation began in 1948— the same year the Jews were allowed to return to Israel to re-establish Israel after nineteen centuries of dispersion into other countries (the Diaspora) and the same year dozens of other end-of-the-age prophecies were fulfilled! European countries were weary of war (two world wars had been fought on their continent in three decades) and were frightened that they were sandwichewd between two nuclear powers. Three small countries— Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg— formed the Benelux federation, which has grown into a multi-national alliance of nations, the European Union. The E.U. now occupies much of the land formerly occupied by the Roman Empire. The E.U. now has a single monetary system (currency), which is the first time this has happened since the collapse of the Roman Empire many centuries ago. The E.U. is building an impressive military force, in an attempt to replace NATO and the United States in the "defense" of Europe. The E.U. is actively engaged in international affairs, in an attempt to replace American diplomacy and influence. The E.U. grows economically stronger each day. In addition to the preceding trappings of a world superpower, two other events are shaping the future E.U.: (1) Once strongly or nominally Christian nations are becoming apostate. The worship of God is irrelevant for many Europeans. Many European churches would be empty today, except that they remain favorite tourist attractions. In Europe, secular humanism has largely replaced Christianity. (2) Many European nations are gripped with anti-Semitism. Jews have long been hated in many parts of Europe (witness the Jewish Holocaust in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s), and countries such as France are intensely anti-Semitic. E.U. policies favor Palestine and the Arabs over Israel and the Jews. The situation thus described sets the stage for the Tribulation. A powerful people— with great military, technical, and economic might, not guided by the precepts of God and antagonistic toward Jews— will be led by a charismatic man, the Antichrist, to make war against God's people. REPRESENTATIVE SCRIPTURES: Daniel 2:41-43): [Daniel said] "Just as you [Nebuchadnezzar] saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay." COMMENT: Daniel in later life had other visions, foretelling more precisely the nature of the empires portrayed in Nebuchadnezzar's dream, including the role of the E.U. and the Antichrist. See Daniel 7:1-28; 8:1-27; 9:20-27; 11:36-45. RELATED REFERENCE SITES:
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