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WATCH OUT! “Watch out! Don’t let that day catch you unaware!” Luke 21: 34

“End Times Prophecy”

“ 2 nd Coming Prophecy” � Not Scary. * “When these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your rescue is drawing near. ” Luke 21: 28 * Unless your hope is invested in “This Present Age”.

“ 2 nd Coming Prophecy” � � Not Scary. * God’s Word Verified I Don’t Believe Any of it! In the last days, mockers are going to have a heyday! Reducing everything to the level of their puny feelings, they'll mock, "So what's happened to the promise of his Coming? Everything's going on just as it has from the first day of creation. Nothing's changed. " 2 Peter 3: 3 -4 (The Message)

“ 2 nd Coming Prophecy” � � � Not Scary. * God’s Word Verified Becoming More Clear It’s so confusing! But you, Daniel, keep this prophecy a secret; seal up the book until the time of the end, when many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase. ” Daniel 12: 4

“ 2 nd Coming Prophecy” � � Not Scary. * God’s Word Verified Becoming More Clear Understand the Future! I Don’t LIKE It! “When you see these things happening, recognize that the kingdom of God is near. ” Luke 21: 31

How God’s Kingdom Conquers NOT BLOODY CONQUEST LOVING SACRIFICE And they sang a new song with these words: “your blood has ransomed peopleand for God from every tribe Then I looked again, I heard the voices of and peoplearound and nation. thousands andlanguage millions and of angels the Revelation throne and they sang in a 5: 9 mighty chorus: “Worthy is the Lamb who was slaughtered— to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. ” Revelation 5: 11 -12

When God’s Kingdom Conquers � Global Holocaust “There will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves, men fainting from fear and the expectation of the things which are coming upon the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. ” Luke 21: 25 -26 “For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will. Unless those days were cut short, no life would be saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. ” Matthew 24: 21 -22

When God’s Kingdom Conquers � Global Holocaust � Jerusalem at the Center 70 AD 1967 Israel will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Luke 21: 24

When God’s Kingdom Conquers � Global Holocaust � Jerusalem at the Center � Israel Invaded “Remotest…north” Iran, Libya, African Nations “I will take you up from the remotest parts of the north and bring you against the mountains of Israel…I will give you as food to every kind of predatory bird and beast of the field. ” Ezekiel 39: 2, 4

When God’s Kingdom Conquers � Global Holocaust “I will take you up from the remotest parts of the north and � Jerusalem at the Center bring you against the mountains of Israel…I will give you as food � Israel Invaded to every kind of predatory bird “Remotest…north” and beast of the field. ” "They will set apart men who will constantly pass through Iran, Libya, African Nations Ezekiel 39: 2, 4 the land, burying those left on the surface of the ground, in Cataclysmic Destruction order to cleanse it…if anyone sees a man's bone, then he will set up a marker by it until the buriers have buried it. Ezekiel 39: 14 -15

When God’s Kingdom Conquers � Global Holocaust � Jerusalem at the Center � Israel Invaded “Remotest…north” Iran, Libya, African Nations Cataclysmic Destruction Thus says the I will. Ezekiel gather 39: 17 -18 all the nations against And the four angels, who had been Lord GOD, “Speak to every kind Jerusalem to battle… prepared for the hour and day and bird beast the Nowofthis willand be to theevery plague withof which month year, were released, so field: and ‘Assemble the LORD will strike alland thecome! peoples that they would kill a third fromtoevery side of on the who. Gather have gone war against mankind. The number of the armies mountains Israel, can of Jerusalem; theirof flesh will so rotyou while the horsemen was twoblood. hundred flesh You theyeat stand onand theirdrink feet, and their million; eat I heardflesh the number of them. of mighty men eyeswill rot the in their sockets, and their Revelation 9: 15 -16 blood of the andwill drink tongue rotthe in their mouth. princes of the earth, as though Zechariah 14: 1 -2, 12 they were rams, lambs, goats and bulls…’”

When God’s Kingdom Conquers � Global Holocaust � Jerusalem at the Center � Israel Invaded “Remotest…north” Iran, Libya, African Nations Cataclysmic Destruction Thus says the I will. Ezekiel gather 39: 17 -18 all the nations against And the four angels, who had been Lord GOD, “Speak to every kind Jerusalem to battle… prepared for the hour and day and bird beast the Nowofthis willand be to theevery plague withof which month year, were released, so field: and ‘Assemble the LORD will strike alland thecome! peoples that they would kill a third fromtoevery side of on the who. Gather have gone war against mankind. The number of the armies mountains Israel, can of Jerusalem; theirof flesh will so rotyou while the horsemen was twoblood. hundred flesh You theyeat stand onand theirdrink feet, and their million; eat I heardflesh the number of them. of mighty men eyeswill rot the in their sockets, and their Revelation 9: 15 -16 blood of the andwill drink tongue rotthe in their mouth. princes of the earth, as though Zechariah 14: 1 -2, 12 they were rams, lambs, goats and bulls…’”

When God’s Kingdom Conquers � Global Holocaust � Jerusalem at the Center Volcano H-Bomb � Israel Invaded “Remotest…north” Then the third angel blew his Then the second angel blew his trumpet, and. Nations a great star fell from Iran, Libya, African trumpet, and a great mountain of the sky, burning like a torch…It Cataclysmic Destruction fire was thrown into the sea…onemade one-third of the water third of all things living in the sea bitter, and many people died from ICBM died. Revelation 8: 8 -9 drinking the bitter water. Revelation 8: 10 -11

When God’s Kingdom Conquers � Global Holocaust � Jerusalem at the Center � Israel Invaded “Remotest…north” Iran, Libya, African Nations Cataclysmic Destruction “So what's happened to the promise of his Coming? Everything's going on just as it has from the first day of creation. Nothing's changed!” Impossible! Israel Regathered “Remotest North…” armies allied with Islamic countries Armies with 200, 000 Mass death by “falling volcanoes” and “torches”

When God’s Kingdom Conquers � � Roman Empire Global Holocaust Peaceful Globalization Imagine if HE had NUKES! Napoleon Marx Stalin Hitler

When God’s Kingdom Conquers � � Global Holocaust Peaceful Globalization Who Gets to Lead? • The whole world marveled and gave allegiance to the beast… “Who is as great as the beast? ” they exclaimed. “Who is able to fight against him? ” Revelation 13: 3 -4

When God’s Kingdom Conquers � � Global Holocaust Peaceful Globalization � Population Pressures 9 Billion + !!!

When God’s Kingdom Conquers � � Global Holocaust Peaceful Globalization � Population Pressures Impact Food reserves at a 50 -year low By 2030, need 50% more food, 50% more energy, 30% more fresh water Will run out of seafood by 2048 (Post 11/3/06) Available crop land cut in half since 1970 (U. S. Census Bureau)

When God’s Kingdom Conquers � � Global Holocaust Peaceful Globalization It’s not clear that anyone, even national governments, could slow globalization if � Population Pressures “In its fiscal year ending 2005, Walthey wanted to. Of the Mart’s revenues were $285. 2 billion, � Economic Pressures largest economic largerworld’s than the 100 combined GDP of subentities, Saharan Africa. ”more than half are no longer countries but companies. Global Embrace, Henry Wendt

When God’s � � Some Economic Kingdom Conquers “International Globalization means that events in one part Frameworks” Global Holocaust Peaceful Globalization � Population Pressures � Economic Pressures “Old safety mechanisms, of the world have ripple effects elsewhere, as ideas and knowledge, goods and European Union designed to maintain services, and capital and people move more financial stability in a world easily across borders. …As the countries of relatively closed national Monetary Fund the of world become. International more closely integrated, theyeconomies, become more interdependent. Greater are as obsolete interdependence gives rise to a greater as the rust-belt. World world Bank they need for collective action to solve common were designed to protect. ” problems. Financial Stability Board Alvin Toffler, Work, Power Shift: Knowledge, Wealth, Making Globalization Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel Prize winning • Est. 2008 by G 20 economist, former chief economist of the World Bank, professor and Violence At the Edge of the 21 st Century • 85% World Economic Activity at Columbia)

When God’s Kingdom Conquers � � Global Holocaust Peaceful Globalization � Population Pressures � Economic Pressures � Global Technology Accelerants He required everyone—small and great, rich and poor, free and slave People todaya can make direct —to be given mark on the right contact with anyone in the world hand or on the forehead. And no one could buy or sell anything without thatismark, which was English now the trade language either the name the beast or of the of world the number representing his name. Revelation 13: 16 -17 Moore’s Law: Computing power doubles every 1. 5 years.

When God’s Kingdom Conquers � � � Global Holocaust Peaceful Globalization Political Entities Nations Dominating the Global Stage Israel United Europe Where’s America? Radical Islamic States Russia China

When God’s Kingdom Conquers � � Then He told them a parable: Global Holocaust “Behold the fig tree and all the Peaceful Globalization"And just trees; soon asinthey put forth as itas happened the days of Noah, seedays it and know be alsoyou in the of the Sonfor of � Population Pressures so it willleaves, Man: they were eating, were drinking, yourselves thatthey summer is now � Economic Pressures they were marrying, being near. So youthey also, were when yougiven see in untilthings the day that Noah entered these happening, recognize � Global Technology marriage, ark, andthat the flood came andofdestroyed them kingdom God is near. ” all. Luke 17: 26 -27 � Political Entities Luke 21: 29 -31

Two Kinds of “Believers” PHILADELPHIA “I know all the things you do, and I have opened a door for you that no one can close. You have little yetyour you obeyed "Be onstrength, guard, so that hearts will notmy be weighted down with not dissipation wordof and deny me. ” "This gospel the did kingdom shall beand drunkenness andwhole the worries ofalife, and preached in the world as testimony Revelation 3: 8 that day will not come on you suddenly LAODICEA “I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish that you were one or the other! But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth! You say, ‘I am rich. I have everything I “Look! I stand at need the door and knock. If you want. I don’t a thing!’ And you heardon’t my voice and open I will come realize that youthe aredoor, wretched to all the nations, and then the end will come. in, and will share a meal andwe miserable and poor together and blindas and like a trap; Luke 21: 34 Matthew 24: 14 friends. Revelation 3: 203: 15 -17 naked. Revelation

The “Olivette Discourse” � � Overlooking Jerusalem God’s Beachhead � His Kingdom launched One day the Pharisees asked Jesus, “When will the Kingdom of God come? ” Jesus replied, “The Kingdom of God can’t be detected by visible signs. You won’t be able to say, ‘Here it is!’ or ‘It’s over there!’ For the Kingdom of God is already among you. ” Luke 17: 20 -21

The “Olivette Discourse” � � Overlooking Jerusalem God’s Beachhead His Kingdom launched � His Kingdom established � In the same way, when you see all these things taking place, you can know that the Kingdom of God is near. Luke 21: 31

The “Olivette Discourse” � � Overlooking Jerusalem God’s Beachhead His Kingdom launched � His Kingdom established � (i. e. , the end of human kingdoms)