End times
Descriptions. Daniel, Joel 2, Matt.24:3-42, Mark 13, Luke 21:8-36, 23:29-31, Acts 2:17-21, 1Tim4:1-3, 2Tim.3
Sons & daughters prophesy & see visions, dream . Holy Spirit poured out. Wonders in heaven and signs on earth, blood, fire, smoke, sun turned to darkness, moon to blood. Acts 2:17-21
Scoffers will come walking in their own lusts, making joke of Christ’s coming, and forgetting the flood (in the time of Noah) 2nd Peter 3:3-6
Before Christ returns, there will be a reduction in faithful believers and the (anti-Christ) son of perdition will appear to oppose Christ and exalt himself as he sits in the temple trying to prove to himself that he is God. 2Thes.2:2-4
The influence of (Christ and the Holy Spirit) will be taken away (possibly by the removal of faithful believers) before the anti-Christ is revealed and then destroyed by God’s breath and the light of Christ’s coming. 2Thes.2:7-8
The (anti-Christ) lawless one has Satan’s power to produce miracles and lying wonders to deceive those who will perish because they did not love the truth (from Christ).
Because they did not desire the truth God sends a strong delusion which encourages them to believe lies. Their belief in the lies (of Satan) causes them to be condemned. 2Thes.2:9-12
Many anti-christs will have come (out of the church) already. 1st John 2:18-19 Jerusalem will not see Christ until they say, “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the
Lord!” Luke 13:35 Christ will be understood to be God’s son, a truth hidden from Jerusalem and the Jews while he was on earth. Luke 19:42 Christ had prophesied before his crucifixion that because Jerusalem did not know Him, the city would later be surrounded by enemies on all sides
Days of the son of man (the Rapture) described. Luke 17;26-36, 1Cor.15:51-54
Jerusalem (and those like Pharisees) will be surrounded & destroyed (because they were not aware that Christ had come and they rejected Him). Luke 19:43-44
All nations will gather to destroy Jerusalem, but Christ will return again to reign on earth (for a 1000 years. (Acts 1:11) When he touches the Mt. Of Olives, it will split from an earthquake, forming a great valley where living waters flow from Jerusalem East and West. (Zechariah 14:4) Jerusalem will then be at peace from war. Those who fought against Jerusalem will receive a plague causing them to dissolve immediately (like a nuclear explosion)(This might also be caused by a sudden burst of energy from the sun). People must also return yearly to honor Christ, again on earth, or they will receive no rain. Zechariah 14: 1-17
A battle is also described between God against Gog and the land of Magog,
invading from the North of Jerusalem. Russia, Persia (Iran), Ethiopia, Libya, Gomer and the house of Togarmah are listed as coming against Jerusalem on horseback.
These are defeated by God with a great earthquake and many people fighting with swords. (This sounds like the same battle that occurs when Christ returns with His
army (Ezekiel 38) except that Revelation 20:6-9 clearly places the battle after the 1000 year reign of Christ. Gog is described in 1 Chronicles 5:4 as a descendant of Ruben.
Ezekiel 38 and 39 chapters describe him as a prince of Rosh, Meshech & Tubal. The “Day of the Lord” battle, where Christ overcomes earthly evil, is described in Isaiah 2:10-22 and Revelation 19:11-21.
Christ returns the kingdom to God, the Father, and stops all earthly rulers and powers. He reigns till all enemies are conquered, including death. 1Cor.15:24-26
When Jesus returns to save the remnant of Israel, they will know their misconception about
Jesus as a lie. They will be so ashamed that they will kill their children if they try to speak for God as prophets. In effect, they will offer blood sacrifices of their children, and will be forgiven.
Zec 12:9 And it shall be in that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Zec 12:10 And I will pour on the house of David, and on the people of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of prayers. And they shall look on Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be bitter over Him, as the bitterness over the first-born.
Zec 13:3 And it shall be when any shall yet prophesy, his father and his mother who gave birth to him shall say to him then, You shall not live; for you speak lies in the name of Jehovah. And his father and his mother who gave him birth shall thrust him through when he prophesies.
Zec 13:4 And it shall be in that day, the prophets shall be ashamed, each one of his vision, when he prophesies. And they shall not wear a hairy garment to deceive.
Heaven and earth to be destroyed by heat with a great noise. 2nd Peter 3:10