What signs indicate that the end times are approaching?
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What signs indicate that the end times are approaching? What signs can we expect to show that the end times are coming soon? What are the end times signs?
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- What signs indicate that the end times are approaching? Matthew 24, 5 -8 gives us some important clues for discerning the approach of the end times.
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- Many will come in my name, claiming I am the Christ, and will deceive many. You will hear of wars, and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed.
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- Such things must happen. But the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
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- There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.
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- An increase in false messiahs, an increase in warfare, and increases in famines, plagues, and natural disasters.
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- These are signs of the end times. In this passage though, we are given a warning. We are not to be deceived, because these events are only the beginning of birth pains.
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- The end is still to come. Some interpreters point to every earthquake, every political upheaval, and every attack on Israel as a sure sign that the end times are rapidly approaching.
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- While the events may signal the approach of the last days, they are not necessarily indicators that the end times have arrived.
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- The Apostle Paul warned that the last days would bring a marked increase in false teaching. The Spirit clearly says that in latter times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.
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- The last days are described as perilous times because of the increasingly evil character of man and people who actively oppose the truth.
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- Other possible signs would include a rebuilding of a Jewish temple in Jerusalem, increased hostility toward Israel, and advances toward a one world government.
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- The most prominent sign of the end times, however, is the nation of Israel. In 1948,
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- Israel was recognized as a sovereign state, essentially for the first time since AD 70.
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- God promised Abraham that his posterity would have Canaan as an everlasting possession. And Ezekiel prophesied a physical and spiritual resuscitation of Israel.
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- Having Israel as a nation in its own land is important in light of end times prophecy because of Israel's prominence in eschatology.
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- With these signs in mind, we can be wise in discerning in regard to the expectation of the end times.
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- We should not, however, interpret any of these singular events as a clear indication of the soon arrival of the end times.
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- God has given us enough information that we can be prepared, and that is what we are called to be as our hearts cry out,
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