Eph 5:11:"…have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”.
Amos 3:7 “…God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.”
Why this post?
To describe the final Biblical events.
Introduction
It’s time to have a look at the last events that Daniel and Revelation reveal.
How well can God make His point?
Considering history and the various phases, it seems that God gave man every possible chance to do this on their own but none worked. He will have to intervene. Here’s the phases to date - and none is working:
Creation and Fall:
Adam and Eve walked with God in Eden
They disobeyed by eating the forbidden fruit
Result: Cast out of Eden, sin enters the world
Pre-Flood World:
Humanity multiplies and spreads
Wickedness increases greatly
Only Noah and his family remain faithful
Result: The Great Flood
Post-Flood Covenant:
God makes a covenant with Noah
Humanity spreads again, but soon turns to idolatry
Result: Tower of Babel, languages confused
Patriarchal Age:
God calls Abraham, promising a chosen people
Israel forms through Isaac and Jacob
Result: Israelites end up in Egyptian slavery
Exodus and Law:
God delivers Israel from Egypt through Moses
Gives the Law at Mount Sinai
People repeatedly rebel in the wilderness
Result: 40 years of wandering, older generation dies
Conquest and Judges:
Israel enters Promised Land under Joshua
Cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance under Judges
Result: People demand a king, rejecting God's direct rule
United and Divided Kingdoms:
Saul, David, and Solomon reign over united Israel
Kingdom splits, both Israel and Judah turn to idolatry
Result: Israel exiled by Assyria, Judah by Babylon
Exile and Return:
Some Jews return and rebuild Jerusalem
Spiritual reforms under Ezra and Nehemiah
Result: Gradual decline into legalism and political subjugation
Christ's First Coming:
Jesus arrives, fulfilling Old Testament prophecies
Preaches the Kingdom of God
Rejected by religious leaders, crucified
Result: Resurrection, but many still reject Him
Early Church Age:
Apostles spread the Gospel
Church grows despite persecution
Result: Gradual compromise with worldly systems
Church Age to Present:
Gospel spreads globally
Various revivals and reformations
But also increasing apostasy and secularization
Result: Prophesied end-times events approaching
Prophesied End Times:
Great apostasy and tribulation
Rise of Antichrist and false prophet
Result: Christ's Second Coming and final judgment
Clearly, NO system is working.
Where are we in time?
As a recap, this is a list of evidences that suggest we are in at the end of days:
Daniel’s visions made it clear that the fourth beast, the little horn and the ten toes is the last kingdom;
This period is the last of the 7 churches;
There is no more prophetic time past the 2300 days of Daniel;
We are seeing evidence that the King of the North’s final wave is building with the US supporting Papal power;
Papal Rome is establishing Ecumenism and JDDJ;
1888 already saw an attempt to allow for the image of the beast - which is Church and State combined;
At the bottom of a previous post I refer to technological means that can be used to prevent buying or selling at scale;
Based on the Biblical account there were roughly 2000 years to the flood, then 2000 years to Jesus and we are in the year 2024. There is a matter of elegance that man has been around for 6000 years and based on Revelation, the elect will be away for 1000 years. This time frame parallels well with the 6 and 1 rhythm of the creation week.
Why would Jesus come again?
I suspect many assume that the world be in a terrible mess for Jesus to return. That it would be obvious to detect it. There are several verses that contradicts this notion and that His return would be more similar to a thief in the night:
Matthew 24:42-44 (KJV) "…if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched…an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh."
1 Thessalonians 5:2 (KJV) "For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night."
2 Peter 3:10 (KJV) "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night..."
Matthew 25:1-13 (KJV) - the parable of the ten virgins: “Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.“
My take is that He would come again when the dark side has taken over and is at a point where His elect are forced to obey another god. I appreciate the typology with Israel in captivity. This does not mean the world is rife with chaos, suffering and war. The dark side knows all too well that it is in desperate times that people turn to God, so he has to tread skilfully so that everyone tolerates the way things are (apt, given the 7th church).
The issue at hand will be moral decay and the usurpation of worship. He’ll have to steal worship. He’ll deceive. There will be several false prophets and we’ve been warned about this several times: Matthew 7:15, Matthew 24:11, Matthew 24:24, Mark 13:22, Luke 6:26, 2 Peter 2:1, 1 John 4:1, Jeremiah 23:16, Deuteronomy 13:1-3, Ezekiel 13:9, Jeremiah 14:14, Micah 3:5, Zephaniah 3:4, Acts 20:29-30, 2 Corinthians 11:13-15, Galatians 1:8-9, 2 Timothy 4:3-4, Titus 1:10-11, 2 John 1:7, Revelation 19:20.
Given my previous post, we’ll reach a time where everyone will be forced to obey another god, and this is when God will draw the line.
The last prophetic events
This image captures the final events with detailed descriptions:
Timeline with events
Here is another timeline with events as per prophecy:
Clues as to the end
This is what we can expect:
The Pope will become more visible to unite all religions. Recently he visited the G7 for the first time;
Climate change narrative will proliferate and will become more draconian;
Governments will implement some mechanism or technology to prevent buying and selling (CBDC or crypto or Digital IDs) - the push for cashless;
The US will enforce religious laws and others will probably follow, but first a religious wave has to build; and
Several governments will issue a death decree for those that oppose.
This is pure speculation on my part:
It seems that ‘aliens’ (aka fallen angels) might feature as part of a counterfeit second coming of 2 Thess 2:3-12;
Literal Israel might rebuild the temple;
I suspect the Russian Orthodox church need to comply to Rome to resolve the differences in their cycles.
Last plagues vs Israel’s plagues
The gravity of the plagues is not commonly appreciated.
As always, a typology exists between the plagues that Israel suffered in Exodus verses those at the end. The point of the plagues was God’s vengeance to defend His people.
Lots of writings abound and I shall spend no further time on it.
whydoneit?
Why would God put an end to this time?
God is longsuffering (Ex 34:6, Num 14:18, Ps 86:15, Neh 9:17, Rom 2:4, 2 Pet 3:9, 1 Pet 3:20, 1 Tim 1:16), and as in the days of Noah, patiently waiting for us but, at some point, the dark side will take complete control, and then God will avenge his children.