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• 5 Answers From Billy Graham on the End Times

By BGEA Admin   •   March 23, 2022   •   Topics: End Times

With so much chaos and confusion in the world today, many wonder if we are living in the End Times. Maybe you’ve heard predictions of when the world will end . Or perhaps you’re too afraid to even think about it. It’s true that the world is straying from God, and the Bible points to several warnings we can see all around us. But, in John 16:33, Jesus Christ says, “In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

By understanding what God says about the end of the world as we know it, there can be peace in our hearts. These 5 answers from Billy Graham explain more about the End Times and why we are to be watchful and prayerful rather than anxious and fearful:

Q: How bad is the world going to get before God finally steps in and Jesus comes back?

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Q: How is the world going to end?

Q: Why do people try to predict the end of the world?

Q: Why bother preparing for the future if there isn’t going to be any future?

Q: Could this prediction of Christ’s return be right?

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The Paradox of Time: Why It Can't Stop, But Must

For time to end seems both impossible and inevitable. Recent work in physics suggests a resolution to the paradox

By George Musser

In our experience, nothing ever really ends. When we die, our bodies decay and the material in them returns to the earth and the air, allowing for the creation of new life. We live on in what comes after. But will that always be the case? Might there come a point sometime in the future when there is no “after”? Depressingly, modern physics suggests the answer is yes. Time itself could end. All activity would cease, and there would be no renewal or recovery. The end of time would be the end of endings.

This grisly prospect was an unanticipated prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which provides our modern understanding of gravity. Before that theory, most physicists and philosophers thought time was a universal drumbeat, a steady rhythm that the cosmos marches to, never varying, wavering or stopping. Einstein showed that the universe is more like a big polyrhythmic jam session. Time can slow down, or stretch out, or let it rip. When we feel the force of gravity, we are feeling time’s rhythmic improvisation; falling objects are drawn to places where time passes more slowly. Time not only affects what matter does but also responds to what matter is doing, like drummers and dancers firing one another up into a rhythmic frenzy. When things get out of hand, though, time can go up in smoke like an overexcited drummer who spontaneously combusts.

The moments when that happens are known as singularities. The term actually refers to any boundary of time, be it beginning or end. The best known is the big bang, the instant 13.7 billion years ago when our universe—and, with it, time—burst into existence and began expanding. If the universe ever stops expanding and starts contracting again, it will go into something like the big bang in reverse—the big crunch—and bring time crashing to a halt.

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Time needn’t perish everywhere. Relativity says it expires inside black holes while carrying on in the universe at large. Black holes have a well-deserved reputation for destructiveness, but they are even worse than you might think. If you fell into one, you would not only be torn to shreds, but your remains would eventually hit a singularity at the center of the hole, and your timeline would end. No new life would emerge from your ashes; your molecules would not get recycled. Like a character reaching the last page of a novel, you would not suffer mere death but existential apocalypse.

It took physicists decades to accept that relativity theory would predict something so unsettling as death without rebirth. To this day, they aren’t quite sure what to make of it. Singularities are arguably the leading reason that physicists seek to create a unified theory of physics, which would merge Einstein’s brainchild with quantum mechanics to create a quantum theory of gravity. They do so partly in the hope they might explain singularities away. But you need to be careful what you wish for. Time’s end is hard to imagine, but time’s not ending may be equally paradoxical.

Edges of Time well before Albert Einstein came along, philosophers through the ages had debated whether time could be mortal. Immanuel Kant considered the issue to be an “antinomy”—something you could argue both ways, leaving you not knowing what to think.

My father-in-law found himself on one horn of this dilemma when he showed up at an airport one evening only to find that his flight had long since departed. The people at the check-in counter chided him, saying he should have known that the scheduled departure time of “12 a.m.” meant the first thing in the morning. Yet my father-in-law’s confusion was understandable. Officially there is no such time as “12 a.m.” Midnight is neither ante meridiem nor post meridiem. It is both the end of one day and start of the next. In 24-hour time notation, it is both 2400 and 0000.

Aristotle appealed to a similar principle when he argued that time can have neither beginning nor end. Every moment is both the end of an era and the start of something new; every event is both the outcome of something and the cause of something else. So how could time possibly end? What would prevent the last event in history from leading to another? Indeed, how would you even define the end of time when the very concept of “end” presupposes time? “It is not logically possible for time to have an end,” asserts University of Oxford philosopher Richard Swinburne. But if time cannot end, then the universe must be infinitely long-lived, and all the riddles posed by the notion of infinity come rushing in. Philosophers have thought it absurd that infinity could be anything but a mathematical idealization.

The triumph of the big bang theory and the discovery of black holes seemed to settle the question. The universe is shot through with singularities and could suffer a distressing variety of temporal cataclysms; even if it evades the big crunch, it might get done in by the big rip, the big freeze or the big brake. But then ask what singularities (big or otherwise) actually are, and the answer is no longer so clear. “The physics of singularities is up for grabs,” says Lawrence Sklar of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, a leading philosopher of physics.

The very theory that begat these monsters suggests they cannot really exist. At the big bang singularity, for example, relativity theory says that the precursors of every single galaxy we see were squashed into a single mathematical point—not just a tiny pinprick but a true point of zero size. Likewise, in a black hole, every single particle of a hapless astronaut gets compacted into an infinitesimal point. In both cases, calculating the density means dividing by zero volume, yielding infinity. Other types of singularities do not involve infinite density but an infinite something else.

Although modern physicists do not feel quite the same aversion to infinity that Aristotle and Kant did, they still take it as a sign they have pushed a theory too far. For example, consider the standard theory of ray optics taught in middle school. It beautifully explains eyeglass prescriptions and funhouse mirrors. But it also predicts that a lens focuses light from a distant source to a single mathematical point, producing a spot of infinite intensity. In reality, light gets focused not to a point but to a bull’s-eye pattern. Its intensity may be high but is always finite. Ray optics errs because light is not really a ray but a wave.

In a similar vein, nearly all physicists presume that cosmic singularities actually have a finite, if high, density. Relativity theory errs because it fails to capture some important aspect of gravity or matter that comes into play near singularities and keeps the density under control. “Most people would say that they signal that the theory is breaking down there,” says physicist James B. Hartle of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

To figure out what goes on will take a more encompassing theory, a quantum theory of gravity. Physicists are still working on such a theory, but they figure that it will incorporate the central insight of quantum mechanics: that matter, like light, has wavelike properties. These properties should smear the putative singularity into a small wad, rather than a point, and thereby banish the divide-by-zero error. If so, time may not, in fact, end.

Physicists argue it both ways. Some think time does end. The trouble with this option is that the known laws of physics operate within time and describe how things move and evolve. Time’s end points are off the reservation; they would have to be governed not just by a new law of physics but by a new type of law of physics, one that eschews temporal concepts such as motion and change in favor of timeless ones such as geometric elegance. In one proposal three years ago Brett McInnes of the National University of Singapore drew on ideas from the leading candidate for a quantum theory of gravity—string theory. He suggested that the primordial wad of a universe had the shape of a torus; because of mathematical theorems concerning tori, it had to be perfectly uniform and smooth. At the big crunch or a black hole singularity, however, the universe could have any shape whatsoever, and the same mathematical reasoning need not apply; the universe would in general be extremely raggedy. Such a geometric law of physics differs from the usual dynamical laws in a crucial sense: it is not symmetrical in time. The end wouldn’t just be the beginning played backward.

Other quantum gravity researchers think that time stretches on forever, with neither beginning nor end. In their view, the big bang was simply a dramatic transition in the eternal life of the universe. Perhaps the prebangian universe started to undergo a big crunch and turned around when the density got too high—a big bounce. Artifacts of this prehistory may even have made it through to the present day [see “ Follow the Bouncing Universe ,” by Martin Bojowald; Scientific American , October 2008]. By similar reasoning, the singular wad at the heart of a black hole would boil and burble like a miniaturized star. If you fell into a black hole, you would die a painful death, but at least your timeline would not end. Your particles would plop into the wad and leave a distinct imprint on it, one that future generations might see in the feeble glow of light the hole gives off.

By supposing that time marches on, proponents of this approach avoid the need to speculate about a new type of law of physics. Yet they, too, run into trouble. For instance, the universe gets steadily more disordered with time; if it has been around forever, why is it not in total disarray by now? As for a black hole, how would the light bearing your imprint possibly manage to escape the hole’s gravitational clutches?

The bottom line is that physicists struggle with antinomy no less than philosophers have. The late John Archibald Wheeler, a pioneer of quantum gravity, wrote, “Einstein’s equation says ‘this is the end’ and physics says ‘there is no end.’ ” Faced with this dilemma, some people throw up their hands and conclude that science can never resolve whether time ends. For them, the boundaries of time are also the boundaries of reason and empirical observation. But others think the puzzle just requires some fresh thinking. “It is not outside the scope of physics,” says physicist Gary Horowitz of U.C. Santa Barbara. “Quantum gravity should be able to provide a definite answer.”

How Time Slips Away the hal 9000 may have been a computer, but he was probably the most human character in 2001: A Space Odyssey —expressive, resourceful, a bundle not just of wires but also of contradictions. Even his death was evocative of human death. It was not an event but a process. As Dave slowly pulled out his circuit boards, HAL lost his mental faculties one by one and described how it felt. He articulated the experience of regression in a way that people who die are often unable to. Human life is a complex feat of organization, the most complex known to science, and its emergence or submergence passes through the twilight between life and not life. Modern medicine shines a lantern into that twilight, as doctors save premature babies who once would have been lost and bring back people who have passed what was once a point of no return.

As physicists and philosophers struggle to grasp the end of time, many see parallels with the end of life. Just as life emerges out of lifeless molecules that organize themselves, time might emerge from some timeless stuff that brings itself to order [see “ Is Time an Illusion? ” by Craig Callender; Scientific American , June]. A temporal world is a highly structured one. Time tells us when events occur, for how long and in what order. Perhaps this structure was not imposed from the outside but arose from within. What can be made can be unmade. When the structure crumbles, time ends.

By this thinking, time’s demise is no more paradoxical than the disintegration of any other complex system. One by one, time loses its features and passes through the twilight from existence to nonexistence.

The first to go might be its unidirectionality—its “arrow” pointing from past to future. Physicists have recognized since the mid-19th century that the arrow is a property not of time per se but of matter. Time is inherently bidirectional; the arrow we perceive is simply the natural degeneration of matter from order to chaos, a syndrome that anyone who lives with pets or young children will recognize. (The original orderliness might owe itself to the geometric principles that McInnes conjectured.) If this trend keeps up, the universe will approach a state of equilibrium, or “heat death,” in which it cannot get possibly get any messier. Individual particles will continue to reshuffle themselves, but the universe as a whole will cease to change, any surviving clocks will jiggle in both directions and the future will become indistinguishable from the past [see “ The Cosmic Origins of Time’s Arrow ,” by Sean M. Carroll; Scientific American , June 2008]. A few physicists have speculated that the arrow might reverse, so that the universe sets about tidying itself up, but for mortal creatures whose very existence depends on a forward arrow of time, such a reversal would mark an end to time as surely as heat death would.

Losing Track of Time more recent research suggests that the arrow is not the only feature that time might lose as it suffers death by attrition. Another could be the concept of duration. Time as we know it comes in amounts: seconds, days, years. If it didn’t, we could tell that events occurred in chronological order but couldn’t tell how long they lasted. That scenario is what University of Oxford physicist Roger Penrose presents in a new book, Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe.

Throughout his career, Penrose really seems to have had it in for time. He and University of Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking showed in the 1960s that singularities do not arise only in special settings but should be everywhere. He has also argued that matter falling into a black hole has no afterlife and that time has no place in a truly fundamental theory of physics.

In his latest assault, Penrose begins with a basic observation about the very early universe. It was like a box of Legos that had just been dumped out on the floor and not yet assembled—a mishmash of quarks, electrons and other elementary particles. From them, structures such as atoms, molecules, stars and galaxies had to piece themselves together step by step. The first step was the creation of protons and neutrons, which consist of three quarks apiece and are about a femtometer (10 –15 meter) across. They came together about 10 microseconds after the big bang (or big bounce, or whatever it was).

Before then, there were no structures at all—nothing was made up of pieces that were bound together. So there was nothing that could act as a clock. The oscillations of a clock rely on a well-defined reference such as the length of a pendulum, the distance between two mirrors or the size of atomic orbitals. No such reference yet existed. Clumps of particles might have come together temporarily, but they could not tell time, because they had no fixed size. Individual quarks and electrons could not serve as a reference, because they have no size, either. No matter how closely particle physicists zoom in on one, all they see is a point. The only sizelike attribute these particles have is their so-called Compton wavelength, which sets the scale of quantum effects and is inversely proportional to mass. And they lacked even this rudimentary scale prior to a time of about 10 picoseconds after the big bang, when the process that endowed them with mass had not yet occurred.

“There’s no sort of clock,” Penrose says. “Things don’t know how to keep track of time.” Without anything capable of marking out regular time intervals, either an attosecond or a femtosecond could pass, and it made no difference to particles in the primordial soup.

Penrose proposes that this situation describes not only the distant past but also the distant future. Long after all the stars wink out, the universe will be a grim stew of black holes and loose particles; then even the black holes will decay away and leave only the particles. Most of those particles will be massless ones such as photons, and again clocks will become impossible to build. In alternative futures where the universe gets snuffed out by, say, a big crunch, clocks don’t fare too well, either.

You might suppose that duration will continue to make sense in the abstract, even if nothing could measure it. But researchers question whether a quantity that cannot be measured even in principle really exists. To them, the inability to build a clock is a sign that time itself has been stripped of one of its defining features. “If time is what is measured on a clock and there are no clocks, then there is no time,” says philosopher of physics Henrik Zinkernagel of the University of Granada in Spain, who also has studied the disappearance of time in the early universe.

Despite its elegance, Penrose’s scenario does have its weak points. Not all the particles in the far future will be massless; at least some electrons will survive, and you should be able to build a clock out of them. Penrose speculates that the electrons will somehow go on a diet and shed their mass, but he admits he is on shaky ground. “That’s one of the more uncomfortable things about this theory,” he says. Also, if the early universe had no sense of scale, how was it able to expand, thin out and cool down?

If Penrose is on to something, however, it has a remarkable implication. Although the densely packed early universe and ever emptying far future seem like polar opposites, they are equally bereft of clocks and other measures of scale. “The big bang is very similar to the remote future,” Penrose says. He boldly surmises that they are actually the same stage of a grand cosmic cycle. When time ends, it will loop back around to a new big bang. Penrose, a man who has spent his career arguing that singularities mark the end of time, may have found a way to keep it going. The slayer of time has become its savior.

Time Stands Still even if duration becomes meaningless and the femtoseconds and attoseconds blur into one another, time isn’t dead quite yet. It still dictates that events unfold in a sequence of cause and effect. In this respect, time is different from space, which places few restrictions on how objects may be arranged within it. Two events that are adjacent within time—when I type on my keyboard, letters appear on my screen—are inextricably linked. But two objects that are adjacent within space—a keyboard and a Post-It note—might have nothing to do with each other. Spatial relations simply do not have the same inevitability that temporal ones do.

But under certain conditions, time could lose even this basic ordering function and become just another dimension of space. The idea goes back to the 1980s, when Hawking and Hartle sought to explain the big bang as the moment when time and space became differentiated. Three years ago Marc Mars of the University of Salamanca in Spain and José M. M. Senovilla and Raül Vera of the University of the Basque Country applied a similar idea not to time’s beginning but to its end.

They were inspired by string theory and its conjecture that our four-dimensional universe—three dimensions of space, one of time—might be a membrane, or simply a “brane,” floating in a higher-dimensional space like a leaf in the wind. We are trapped on the brane like a caterpillar clinging to the leaf. Ordinarily, we are free to roam around our 4-D prison. But if the brane is blown around fiercely enough, all we can do is hold on for dear life; we can no longer move. Specifically, we would have to go faster than the speed of light to make any headway moving along the brane, and we cannot do that. All processes involve some type of movement, so they all grind to a halt.

Seen from the outside, the timelines formed by successive moments in our lives do not end but merely get bent so that they are lines through space instead. The brane would still be 4-D, but all four dimensions would be space. Mars says that objects “are forced by the brane to move at speeds closer and closer to the speed of light, until eventually the trajectories tilt so much that they are in fact superluminal and there is no time. The key point is that they may be perfectly unaware that this is happening to them.”

Because all our clocks would slow down and stop, too, we would have no way to tell that time was morphing into space. All we would see is that objects such as galaxies seemed to be speeding up. Eerily, that is exactly what astronomers really do see and usually attribute to some unknown kind of “dark energy.” Could the acceleration instead be the swan song of time?

Your Time Is Up by this late stage, it might appear that time has faded to nothingness. But a shadow of time still lingers. Even if you cannot define duration or causal relations, you can still label events by the time they occurred and lay them out on a timeline. Several groups of string theorists have recently made progress on how time might be stripped of this last remaining feature. Emil J. Martinec and Savdeep S. Sethi of the University of Chicago and Daniel Robbins of Texas A&M University, as well as Horowitz, Eva Silverstein of Stanford University and Albion Lawrence of Brandeis University, among others, have studied what happens to time at black hole singularities using one of the most powerful ideas of string theory, known as the holographic principle.

A hologram is a special type of image that evokes a sense of depth. Though flat, the hologram is patterned to make it look as though a solid object is floating in front of you in 3-D space. The holographic principle holds that our entire universe is like a holographic projection. A complex system of interacting quantum particles can evoke a sense of depth—that is to say, a spatial dimension that does not exist in the original system.

But the converse is not true. Not every image is a hologram; it must be patterned in just the right way. If you scratch a hologram, you spoil the illusion. Likewise, not every particle system gives rise to a universe like ours; the system must be patterned just so. If the system initially lacks the necessary regularities and then develops them, the spatial dimension pops into existence. If the system reverts to disorder, the dimension disappears whence it came.

Imagine, then, the collapse of a star to a black hole. The star looks 3-D to us but corresponds to a pattern in some 2-D particle system. As its gravity intensifies, the corresponding planar system jiggles with increasing fervor. When a singularity forms, order breaks down completely. The process is analogous to the melting of an ice cube: the water molecules go from a regular crystalline arrangement to the disordered jumble of a liquid. So the third dimension literally melts away.

As it goes, so does time. If you fall into a black hole, the time on your watch depends on your distance from the center of the hole, which is defined within the melting spatial dimension. As that dimension disintegrates, your watch starts to spin uncontrollably, and it becomes impossible to say that events occur at specific times or objects reside in specific places. “The conventional geometric notion of spacetime has ended,” Martinec says.

What that means in practice is that space and time no longer give structure to the world. If you try to measure objects’ positions, you find that they appear to reside in more than one place. Spatial separation means nothing to them; they jump from one place to another without crossing the intervening distance. In fact, that is how the imprint of a hapless astronaut who passes the black hole’s point of no return, its event horizon, can get back out. “If space and time do not exist near a singularity, the event horizon is no longer well defined,” Horowitz says.

In other words, string theory does not just smear out the putative singularity, replacing the errant point with something more palatable while leaving the rest of the universe much the same. Instead it reveals a broader breakdown of the concepts of space and time, the effects of which persist far from the singularity itself. To be sure, the theory still requires a primal notion of time in the particle system. Scientists are still trying to develop a notion of dynamics that does not presuppose time at all. Until then, time clings stubbornly to life. It is so deeply engrained in physics that scientists have yet to imagine its final and total disappearance.

Science comprehends the incomprehensible by breaking it down, by showing that a daunting journey is nothing more than a succession of small steps. So it is with the end of time. And in thinking about time, we come to a better appreciation of our own place in the universe as mortal creatures. The features that time will progressively lose are prerequisites of our existence. We need time to be unidirectional for us to develop and evolve; we need a notion of duration and scale to be able to form complex structures; we need causal ordering for processes to be able to unfold; we need spatial separation so that our bodies can create a little pocket of order in the world. As these qualities melt away, so does our ability to survive. The end of time may be something we can imagine, but no one will ever experience it directly, any more than we can be conscious at the moment of our own death.

As our distant descendants approach time’s end, they will need to struggle for survival in an increasingly hostile universe, and their exertions will only hasten the inevitable. After all, we are not passive victims of time’s demise; we are perpetrators. As we live, we convert energy to waste heat and contribute to the degeneration of the universe. Time must die that we may live.

What Are Signs of the End Times and the Rapture?

What images come to your mind when you think of signs of the end times? Do you envision fire raining from the heavens, airplanes falling from the sky, chaos ruling in every corner, and life as we know it coming to an end?

If you are a follower of Christ, and you consider yourself to be an orthodox Christian who faithfully holds to the teaching of scriptures regarding all matters pertaining to life and death, then you are part of the untold number of Christians in every language and culture who believes that one day Jesus will come again to bring redemptive history and the world as we know it to one ultimate conclusion.

Despite the belief that Christ will come, there are great differences regarding the nature of his return and what is often referred to as the end times.

What images come to your mind when you think of the end times? Do you envision fire raining from the heavens, airplanes falling from the sky, chaos ruling in every corner, and life as we know it coming to an end?

If you’re like me and you have any working knowledge of the Bible and the end times, it is possible that your mind is filled with images of death, destruction, and hopelessness that result when God and his archenemy, the devil, finally get together to duke it out in a “winner-takes-all” brawl.

Of course, no one would ever admit to such a perspective, but truthfully, many people think of the events of the last days in such terms.

Signs of the End Times in the Bible

When we look to the Bible to inform us of our end times’ perspectives, what we discover is that from the very earliest of times, the Bible fuels our hope that a day will come when the Creator will culminate His own purpose to make right all that sin has broken and destroyed.

Even in the garden, as the dark cloud of the curse was falling on paradise, God spoke life-giving hope in the face of death and rebellion. God promised,

“I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel” ( Genesis 3:15 , ESV).

And there it is. Before the dust from man’s mutiny settles, the divine announcement reverberated through the celestial air assuring us that it won’t always be this way.

From the earliest days of Israel’s history, the people of God clung to the hope that a day of reckoning would come, which would bring judgment and wrath for God’s enemies and blessings and renewal for God’s chosen.

The prophet Isaiah would proclaim, “It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest mountain and shall be lifted up above the hills” ( Isaiah 2:2 , ESV). And if that is not enough to indicate a radical future hope, Isaiah speaks with greater clarity in the following paragraph when he says, “The haughty looks of man shall be brought low and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day . For the LORD of hosts has a day against all that are proud and lofty . . . ( Isaiah 2:11-12 , ESV).

Signs of the End Times and the Day of the Lord

The way in which this future hope was spoken of is by the phrase, “The Day of LORD.” When Israel and Israel’s prophets used this phrase, they were invoking the hope that was first brought to life in the garden by a sovereign God.

The belief that our God will one day come is not some new contemporary teaching created by a hopeless people but rather an ancient one as old as the story of redemption itself. The prophets Joel, Amos, and Zechariah are just a few of the voices that proclaimed with great resolve the promise that God would one day act in the context of human history.

“The LORD, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with Him… And the LORD will be king over all the earth; in that day the LORD will be the only one, and His name the only one” ( Zechariah 14:5 ,9).

Israel’s hope was infused with the promise that one day God would write the last chapter of this story with the climax ushering in, not the end of the story, but the true beginning. This hope kept and sustained Israel through slavery, mockery, defeat, and waywardness. I wonder if this same hope grounds modern believers, as we oftentimes face similar struggles in desolate places.

The Day of the LORD is not a reference to a day as we understand a 24-hour period of time. The Day of the LORD refers to an event in which judgment and blessing are put into motion as one might understand the last scene in the last act of a play.

The Day of the LORD is the answer to the cry of the martyrs in Revelation 6:10 , “How long O Lord holy and true, will you refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

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Jesus Is the Sign of the End Times

As the risen Lord spoke his parting instructions to his followers in Acts 1 , they asked Him, “Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?” Though the disciples still did not fully understand Jesus’ ultimate purpose, they were, nevertheless, gripped by the hope that He would act decisively and victoriously on their behalf.

The Lord’s response still serves as a reminder to us today when He said, “It is not for you to know the times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority” ( Acts 1:8 ). Though we are not privy to the exact day and moment when the Lord will return, neither are we to be totally oblivious to the signs that the day is drawing near.

As they had done on numerous occasions, the Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus one day in an effort to trap Him into saying something that might indict Him as a lawbreaker. This particular day they tested Him by asking for a sign from heaven to be performed in much the same way a magician would amaze the crowd with a magic trick.

Jesus’ response forms the very basis for our hope and serves to place us at the very center of the redemptive story. Jesus replied, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and a sign will not be given it, except the sign of Jonah ” ( Matthew 16:4 ).

By Jesus’ own admission, the story of Jonah serves as a shadow of a much greater reality. The prophet’s three nights in the belly of the fish and subsequent resurrection from his watery tomb points to the very death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord.

Jesus speaks of Jonah’s ordeal as a “sign” so that we might “ discern the signs of the times ” ( Matthew 16:3 ). Unbelievable! Did Jesus just say what I think He said? The sign that God has given, which points to the fact that the end times are underway is the life of Christ. The very coming of the Messiah as a man to dwell among men is the unmistakable indication that the final act of the story has begun.

The writer of Hebrews affirms this when He writes, “God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son. . .” ( Hebrews 1:2 ).

Jesus ushered in the last days with His coming and will bring the last days to an end with His second coming. We are living in the last days and we have been for over 2,000 years.

Meaning of Christ and the Signs of the End Times

All of the New Testament writers are in unison in their belief that the appearance of Christ was the sign that God was acting in time and space to set things right. Jesus’ own miracles and exorcisms of demons become the visible evidence that the restoration of God’s good world is underway.

Peter connected the events of Pentecost with the prophecy of Joel which begins, “And it shall be in the last days , that I will pour out my Spirit on all mankind. . .” ( Acts 2:16 ). In Peter’s own estimation, the last days had begun.

As the story of redemption draws to a close and the last pages are written, you and I have the extraordinary opportunity not only to witness it but to participate in it.

Knowing that we are players on our Maker’s stage and the final curtain will soon close should ignite our hope and focus our vision as nothing can. May this firm hope lead us all to be an encouragement to those around us “and all the more as you see the day drawing near” ( Hebrews 10:25 ).

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Dr. Rick Kirby , along with his wife and children, lives in Anderson, South Carolina. Rick serves as a corporate chaplain in the upstate of South Carolina, in addition to shepherding micro-church movements, which he does in partnership with the Evangelical Free Church in America and the Creo Collective. Rick has written as a freelance writer for organizations such as The INJOY Group, InTouch Ministries, and Walk Through the Bible. Rick holds a Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degree from Erskine Theological Seminary. Through the years, Rick’s family has been deeply engaged in discipling efforts globally in India, Romania, Brazil, Ecuador and most recently in Puerto Rico. Among the many things Rick enjoys are woodworking in his woodshop and roasting (and drinking) coffee .  You can find other works by Kirby at www.rickkirby.org .

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The Bible says, "In the last days there will be very difficult times" (1 Timothy 3:1, NLT ). Jesus Christ told his followers there will be "wars and threats of wars ... famines and earthquakes in many parts of the world. ... You will be arrested, persecuted, and killed. You will be hated all over the world because you are my followers. And many will turn away from me and betray and hate each other. And many false prophets will appear and will deceive many people. Sin will be rampant everywhere, and the love of many will grow cold" (Matthew 24:6–14, NLT).

These Bible verses give us a brief snapshot of what will happen at the end of days. They only scratch the surface of a fascinating theological branch known as eschatology. Although a challenging area of study, eschatology helps believers understand prophetic passages of Scripture and how to live the Christian life in preparation for end times.

Eschatology Definition

Eschatology is the branch of Christian theology dealing with the biblical study of end times prophecies and the events of the last days. Some of these events include the Rapture , the Second Coming of Christ, the Tribulation, the Millennial Kingdom and the Future Judgments. The primary books of the Bible pertaining to end times prophecy are the book of Daniel, the book of Ezekiel, and the book of Revelation.

What Is the Rapture?

Although the term "rapture" is not found in the Bible, the theory is based on Scripture. The rapture describes a future, end-times event when all true believers who are still alive before the end of the world will be taken from the earth by God into heaven. Not all branches and denominations of Christianity accept the rapture theory.

• What Is the Tribulation?

The Tribulation , as taught by many Bible scholars, encompasses a future seven-year period when God will complete his discipline of Israel and final judgment upon the unbelieving citizens of the world. Those who accept a Pre-Tribulation Rapture theory believe that Christians who have trusted Christ as Lord and Savior will escape the Tribulation.

Who Is the Antichrist?

The name "antichrist" is only found four times in the Bible. A study of these verses shows that many antichrists (false teachers) will appear between the time of Christ's first and Second Coming , but there will be one great antichrist who will rise to power during the end times, or "last hour," as 1 John phrases it. He will deny that Jesus is the Christ. He will deny both God the Father and God the Son . He will be a liar and a deceiver.

The Rapture and the Second Coming

According to scholars, the Bible speaks of two separate and distinct events—the Rapture of the church and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. The Rapture will occur when Jesus Christ returns for his church . The Second Coming will happen when Jesus Christ returns with the church to defeat the antichrist, overthrow evil and then establish his thousand-year reign.

The Battle of Armageddon

This epic end times clash, predicted by the apostle John in the book of Revelation, will pit Jesus Christ against the forces of evil. The outcome is a victory for Jesus Christ and his followers.

The Judgment Seat of Christ

At the Judgment Seat of Christ, Christians will appear before Jesus, to be rewarded for their works that were done in his name while they were on earth. It is a serious time in each believer's eternal life but should not be an occasion for fear.

Prophetic Books of the Bible

The Book of Daniel is an important prophetic book dealing with the future of Israel and the Millennial Kingdom.

The Book of Ezekiel has some striking similarities to the prophetic book of Revelation, with a vision of the New Jerusalem, the center of the Millennial Kingdom.

The Book of Revelation is largely devoted to the topic of end times prophecy.

2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment. (NLT)

1 Thessalonians 4:16–18 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, the believers who have died will rise from their graves. Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Then we will be with the Lord forever. So encourage each other with these words. (NLT)

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Matthew 24:3-31 New King James Version

The signs of the times and the end of the age ( a ).

3  Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, ( B ) the disciples came to Him privately, saying, ( C ) “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”

4  And Jesus answered and said to them: ( D ) “Take heed that no one deceives you. 5  For ( E ) many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ ( F ) and will deceive many. 6  And you will hear of ( G ) wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for [ a ] all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7  For ( H ) nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be ( I ) famines, [ b ] pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8  All these are the beginning of sorrows.

9  ( J ) “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. 10  And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. 11  Then ( K ) many false prophets will rise up and ( L ) deceive many. 12  And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow ( M ) cold. 13  ( N ) But he who endures to the end shall be saved. 14  And this ( O ) gospel of the kingdom ( P ) will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.

The Great Tribulation ( Q )

15  ( R ) “Therefore when you see the ( S ) ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” ( T ) (whoever reads, let him understand), 16  “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17  Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. 18  And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. 19  But ( U ) woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! 20  And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. 21  For ( V ) then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22  And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; ( W ) but for the [ c ] elect’s sake those days will be shortened.

23  ( X ) “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe it. 24  For ( Y ) false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, ( Z ) if possible, even the elect. 25  See, I have told you beforehand.

26  “Therefore if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the desert!’ do not go out; or ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms!’ do not believe it. 27  ( AA ) For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 28  ( AB ) For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together.

The Coming of the Son of Man ( AC )

29  ( AD ) “Immediately after the tribulation of those days ( AE ) the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30  ( AF ) Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, ( AG ) and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31  ( AH ) And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His [ d ] elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

• Matthew 24:6 NU omits all
• Matthew 24:7 NU omits pestilences
• Matthew 24:22 chosen ones’
• Matthew 24:31 chosen ones

Cross references

• Matthew 24:3 : Mark 13:3–13; Luke 21:7–19
• Matthew 24:3 : Mark 13:3
• Matthew 24:3 : [Matt. 24:27, 37, 39; Luke 17:20–37; 1 Thess. 5:1–3]
• Matthew 24:4 : Eph. 5:6; [Col. 2:8, 18; 2 Thess. 2:3; 1 John 4:1–3]
• Matthew 24:5 : Jer. 14:14; John 5:43; Acts 5:36; [1 John 2:18; 4:3]
• Matthew 24:5 : Matt. 24:11
• Matthew 24:6 : [Rev. 6:2–4]
• Matthew 24:7 : 2 Chr. 15:6; Is. 19:2; Hag. 2:22; Zech. 14:13
• Matthew 24:7 : Acts 11:28; Rev. 6:5, 6
• Matthew 24:9 : Matt. 10:17; Luke 21:12; [John 16:2]; Acts 4:2, 3; Rev. 2:10
• Matthew 24:11 : Acts 20:29; 2 Pet. 2:1; Rev. 13:11; 19:20
• Matthew 24:11 : [1 Tim. 4:1]
• Matthew 24:12 : [2 Thess. 2:3; 2 Tim. 3:1–3]
• Matthew 24:13 : Matt. 10:22; Mark 13:13
• Matthew 24:14 : Matt. 4:23
• Matthew 24:14 : Rom. 10:18; Col. 1:6, 23
• Matthew 24:15 : Mark 13:14–23; Luke 17:23, 24, 37; 21:20–24
• Matthew 24:15 : Mark 13:14; Luke 21:20; [John 11:48]; Acts 6:13; 21:28
• Matthew 24:15 : Dan. 9:27; 11:31; 12:11
• Matthew 24:15 : Dan. 9:23
• Matthew 24:19 : Luke 23:29
• Matthew 24:21 : Dan. 9:26
• Matthew 24:22 : Is. 65:8, 9; [Zech. 14:2]
• Matthew 24:23 : Mark 13:21; Luke 17:23
• Matthew 24:24 : Deut. 13:1; John 4:48; [2 Thess. 2:9]; Rev. 13:13
• Matthew 24:24 : [John 6:37; Rom. 8:28; 2 Tim. 2:19]
• Matthew 24:27 : Luke 17:24
• Matthew 24:28 : Job 39:30; Ezek. 39:17; Hab. 1:8; Luke 17:37
• Matthew 24:29 : Mark 13:24–27; Luke 21:25–28
• Matthew 24:29 : [Dan. 7:11]
• Matthew 24:29 : Is. 13:10; 24:23; Ezek. 32:7; Joel 2:10, 31; 3:15; Amos 5:20; 8:9; Zeph. 1:15; Matt. 24:29–35; Acts 2:20; Rev. 6:12–17; 8:12
• Matthew 24:30 : [Dan. 7:13, 14; Matt. 16:27; 24:3, 37, 39]
• Matthew 24:30 : Zech. 12:12
• Matthew 24:31 : Ex. 19:16; Deut. 30:4; Is. 27:13; Zech. 9:14; [1 Cor. 15:52; 1 Thess. 4:16]; Heb. 12:19; Rev. 8:2; 11:15

Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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100 Bible Verses about The End Of Time

2 timothy 3:1-5 esv / 1,073 helpful votes helpful not helpful.

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

Matthew 24:36 ESV / 740 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.

Luke 21:36 ESV / 677 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Luke 21:11 ESV / 528 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

Joel 2:28-32 ESV / 524 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. Even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit. “And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.

Matthew 24:44 ESV / 506 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

Matthew 24:21-22 ESV / 438 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

Matthew 24:42 ESV / 420 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 397 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...

Matthew 24:13 ESV / 371 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

2 Peter 3:10-13 ESV / 355 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

2 Peter 3:3-7 ESV / 326 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

Matthew 24:21 ESV / 326 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.

Matthew 24:14 ESV / 316 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

Daniel 12:4 ESV / 291 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”

Matthew 24:37 ESV / 282 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 281 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Matthew 24:7 ESV / 277 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

Acts 17:30-31 ESV / 275 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

Romans 13:11 ESV / 273 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

Mark 13:32 ESV / 255 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Matthew 24:22 ESV / 248 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

Matthew 7:13-14 ESV / 242 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

Matthew 24:6 ESV / 235 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.

1 Timothy 4:1 ESV / 229 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 ESV / 221 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

Matthew 24:3 ESV / 205 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

Matthew 24:12 ESV / 192 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.

Isaiah 2:4 ESV / 189 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

Matthew 24:29 ESV / 183 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Matthew 24:11 ESV / 176 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.

Zechariah 8:1-6 ESV / 172 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the word of the Lord of hosts came, saying, “Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath. Thus says the Lord : I have returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of great age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets. ...

Galatians 1:4 ESV / 162 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

2 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 156 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”

Matthew 24:6-7 ESV / 153 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

John 3:16 ESV / 151 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 146 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Acts 2:37-39 ESV / 141 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”

Revelation 20:1-15 ESV / 140 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. ...

1 Thessalonians 5:3 ESV / 138 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 ESV / 136 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.

Daniel 12:1 ESV / 129 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.

2 Peter 3:1-18 ESV / 126 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, ...

Matthew 24:15 ESV / 123 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 122 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

2 Peter 3:10 ESV / 121 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

Acts 2:40 ESV / 121 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.”

Isaiah 2:2 ESV / 121 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,

Revelation 13:1-18 ESV / 120 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?” And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. ...

Matthew 24:5 ESV / 120 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray.

Acts 3:19-21 ESV / 119 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 118 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

1 John 5:19 ESV / 118 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Luke 21:25 ESV / 113 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves,

Romans 8:28 ESV / 111 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Daniel 2:1-49 ESV / 111 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his spirit was troubled, and his sleep left him. Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be summoned to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king. And the king said to them, “I had a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.” Then the Chaldeans said to the king in Aramaic, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.” The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, “The word from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be torn limb from limb, and your houses shall be laid in ruins. ...

Mark 13:1-37 ESV / 110 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!” And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” And as he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when all these things are about to be accomplished?” And Jesus began to say to them, “See that no one leads you astray. ...

Acts 3:19 ESV / 109 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,

Acts 2:38 ESV / 108 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

1 John 2:18 ESV / 107 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.

Matthew 24:9 ESV / 103 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.

Matthew 24:33 ESV / 102 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates.

Matthew 24:31 ESV / 102 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Matthew 24:4-5 ESV / 102 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray.

Daniel 9:27 ESV / 100 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”

Daniel 12:11 ESV / 99 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And from the time that the regular burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days.

Matthew 24:23 ESV / 98 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it.

Revelation 13:17 ESV / 96 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.

2 Timothy 3:1 ESV / 94 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.

Matthew 24:24 ESV / 93 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

1 Thessalonians 5:2 ESV / 90 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

Revelation 11:18 ESV / 89 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”

2 Peter 3:3 ESV / 88 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.

Matthew 24:30 ESV / 87 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Revelation 3:1-4 ESV / 86 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. “‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

Matthew 24:9-10 ESV / 83 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake. And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.

Revelation 6:1-17 ESV / 82 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer. When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword. When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand. ...

Matthew 24:28 ESV / 82 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

Micah 4:1-3 ESV / 82 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and it shall be lifted up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it, and many nations shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord , to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;

Daniel 7:27 ESV / 82 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; his kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.’

Joel 2:1-32 ESV / 79 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations. Fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them. Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, and like war horses they run. As with the rumbling of chariots, they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a powerful army drawn up for battle. ...

Daniel 12:1-13 ESV / 79 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on this bank of the stream and one on that bank of the stream. ...

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 77 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Luke 21:25-26 ESV / 77 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Daniel 7:1-28 ESV / 76 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter. Daniel declared, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. And four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another. The first was like a lion and had eagles' wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it. And behold, another beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side. It had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, ‘Arise, devour much flesh.’ ...

Joel 2:31 ESV / 75 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.

Revelation 3:10 ESV / 73 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.

Revelation 20:7-10 ESV / 71 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them, and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Revelation 2:10 ESV / 70 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

1 Corinthians 15:52 ESV / 67 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.

Revelation 19:11-18 ESV / 66 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. ...

Zechariah 14:8-9 ESV / 65 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter. And the Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day the Lord will be one and his name one.

Isaiah 46:10 ESV / 65 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV / 64 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

Zechariah 14:1-5 ESV / 61 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Behold, a day is coming for the Lord , when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.

Mark 13:24-27 ESV / 59 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.

2 Timothy 3:1-17 ESV / 58 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. ...

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 56 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 56 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord , and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; ...

Matthew 24:5-20 ESV / 53 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are but the beginning of the birth pains. “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake. ...

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At , on and in (time)

We use at :

with particular points on the clock:

I’ll see you at five o’clock .

with particular points in the day:

The helicopter took off at midday and headed for the island.

with particular points in the week:

What are you doing at the weekend ?

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At the New Year , millions of people travel home to be with their families (but we say on your birthday).

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What time are you leaving? (preferred to At what time are you leaving? )

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We moved into this house on 25 October 1987 .

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I’ll come and see you in the morning for a cup of coffee, okay?

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We usually go camping in July or August .

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The house was built in 1835 .

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The garden is wonderful in the spring when all the flowers come out.

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The population of Europe doubled in the nineteenth century .

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I was awake in the night , thinking about all the things that have happened.

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We use at the end (often with of ) to talk about the point in time where something finishes. We use in the end to talk about things that happen after a long time or after a series of other events:

At the end of the film, everyone was crying.

Not: In the end of the film …

I looked everywhere for the book but couldn’t find it, so in the end I bought a new copy.

At the beginning or in the beginning ?

We use at the beginning (often with of ) to talk about the point where something starts. We usually use in the beginning when we contrast two situations in time:

At the beginning of every lesson, the teacher told the children a little story.

In the beginning , nobody understood what was happening, but after she explained everything very carefully, things were much clearer.

Other uses of in with time

We use in to say how long it takes someone to do something:

He was such a clever musician. He could learn a song in about five minutes .

We use an apostrophe -s construction ( in a year’s time, in two months’ time ) to say when something will happen. We don’t use it to say how long someone takes to do something:

I won’t say goodbye because we’ll be seeing each other again in three days’ time . We can also say in three days, without time, in this example.

He ran the marathon in six hours and 20 minutes .

Not: He ran the marathon in six hours and 20 minutes’ time .

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He plays football every Saturday .

Are you free next Monday at two o’clock?

Last summer we rented a villa in Portugal.

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The two couples were married in two different cities on the same day , 25 years ago.

Not: … at the same day, 25 years ago .

We don’t use at to refer to dates:

The General was killed on 26 August .

Not: … at 26 August .

We use at , not in , with weekend(s ):

What do you usually do at the weekend ? Do you go away?

Not: What do you usually do in the weekend?

We use in with months, not on :

They’re going to Australia in September for a conference.

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Do We Have an Accurate Revelation Timeline of End Times Events?

What Must Happen before the Events of Revelation?

We know that the Gospel must be preached around the world for a witness unto all nations and then the end shall come ( Matthew 24:15 ).  Many events will take place before the Revelation timeline. There will be people popping on the scene pretending to be the Messiah. Jesus tells us not to be deceived ( Mark 13:6 ). We will hear of wars and rumors of wars. We should not be troubled. These things must happen before the end of the world. Other events listed in Mark 13 reports that nation will revolt against nation and kingdom against kingdom. We all know that this has been going on for years. The U.S. has been involved in World War I and World War II. Our troops have fought in Korea, Vietnam, The Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, Iraq just to name a few. We also had many wars on our own soil like the Civil War. There have been wars and conflicts in other nations. This will continue until the end of time.

The Bible tells of earthquakes, and there shall be famines and troubles. These are the beginning of sorrows. We have been experiencing troubles with coronavirus and we have experienced sorrows. However, the Bible speaks of many other events that shall occur. The Bible speaks of affliction that has never been seen since the beginning of creation. False Christs and prophets shall rise and show signs and wonders to seduce Christians. This has been happening already over the years. You may remember how many people died with Jim Jones in Guyana.

What Are the Events That Happen in Revelation?

Many things occur in the book of Revelation . What should be of concern for Christians is the time before the rapture. According to modern-day prophets and preachers, the rapture could occur at any time. After the rapture is when the true drama of the Revelation timeline unfolds.

A good portion of the Revelation to John has to do with visions that God gave to him. Most scholars say John wrote Revelation. Throughout Revelation, you have events that occur at the end of time as we know it.

Let’s pick it up in chapter 5 of Revelation. There is a lot of symbolism here regarding Jesus dying on the cross. He is referred to as the Lamb being slain. Verse 11 speaks of a number too numerous to name. John heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the beasts and elders and the number of them was 10,000 tim es 10 ,000, and thousands of thousands. They were all saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory and blessing.” This right here is shouting material because of the hundreds of thousands and thousands. That’s shouting material because ten thousand tim es 10 ,000 is 100 million. Then, it says thousands of thousands. So, the number appears to be more than 100 million. We should be encouraged that we will be in that number.

Seals are being opened in chapter 6. There is widespread panic on the earth. There are great earthquakes. The sun becomes black, and the moon turns bloody. The stars of heaven fall. Mountains and islands move out of their place. Kings of the earth, great men, rich men, chief captains, mighty men, everyday men are hiding in the dens and rocks of the mountains. They are running to avoid the wrath of God.

John then sees other events in the Revelation timeline. One angel instructs four other angels to wait until the Saints are sealed. These are those who were saved after the rapture and are still on earth during the tribulation period. They received a seal on their foreheads so that the locusts that will be sent out will not harm them. The sting of the locust is compared to that of a scorpion. The appearance of the locust is far worse than any scary movie. These locusts are like horses prepared for battle. They have the faces of men. There are crowns of gold on their heads. Hair like women and teeth like a lion. They have breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings is like chariots running to battle. They had tails like scorpions and the tails were used to hurt those on the earth for five months. The locusts are probably demons. They may look like the above or they could just have all those features and characteristics. They will however inflict pain for five months. No ordinary insect will be able to do that. Read chapter 9 to get a full picture.

In chapter 7, you will see those from the tribes of Israel that will be sealed. The locusts’ sting will inflict pain for five months on other inhabitants of the earth. Those are not saved and took the mark of the beast . Chapter 9 gives the details that torment is so great that men will seek death and not find it. They will desire to die, but death will flee from them. More fury is unleashed in chapter 9. There are hundreds of thousands of horsemen sent out. These horses are breathing fire. Understand a lot of turmoil can be avoided for those who repent and give up their idol gods and trust in the one true God.

We know from Revelation that the beast is already on the earth during this time. There is more mention of him in chapter 13. The events that have transpired probably occurred after the beast’s arrival. Unfortunately, people will worship the dragon which is the devil. The beast is the devil’s representative on earth. In Revelation 13:8 , it says “And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” During this time, people have already taken the mark of the beast 666 in their hand or forehead. This is unfortunate. People must be educated about this. If they get left behind and repent, I am sure that God will help them. Don’t be so afraid that you will starve to death and take the mark of the beast. It is better to die of starvation and live in heaven than to sell out for a way to eat and then you end up in hell because you bowed down to the beast.

Chapters 15 and 16 of Revelation detail more bad news for those who are left behind and not saved. There will be several plagues poured out targeting those who have worshipped the beast. One plague will render men helpless. One will give them sores. Another will make the seas turn into blood. Another calamity will cause the sun to be so hot that it will scorch people on the earth.

After the fulfillment of the Revelation timeline, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light. The stars of the heavens shall fall and the powers that are in the heaven shall be shaken ( Mark 13:24-25 ). Then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

In Revelation 19 , John writes that he saw heaven open and behold a white horse. He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness, he doth judge and make war. His eyes were a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns. The many crowns no doubt signifies that He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

The battle of Armageddon occurs in Revelation 19 . Of course, we win. The devil is bound for 1,000 years while God sets up His kingdom on earth. The devil is eventually put into the lake of fire with the beast and false prophet. People also will be judged sometime after all of this. Read Revelation 20:12-15 for more. It says “I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”

A new heaven and a new earth are established. John saw a new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven. John said that he heard a great voice out of heaven saying, “Behold the tabernacle of God is with men.”

What Are Various Timelines Christians Have Proposed for Revelation?

There are many different views and interpretations on when certain events will take place in the Bible. No man knows exactly how or when each of the events listed in Revelation will unfold or to what degree. We should however know that God is not a man that He should lie nor a son of man that He should change His man. Will He speak and not act? Will He promise and not fulfill ( Numbers 23:19 ). The book of Revelation was written sometime AD 90-95. A lot of Revelation is symbolism, and you really must study and dig to derive the literal meaning. Of course, we can only speculate what events will look like during that time. Revelation does give a clear picture.

Why Should Christians Avoid Getting Too Invested in Revelation Timelines?

We must go back to the scripture that states no man knows the time or the hour when the Son of God shall appear( Matthew 24:36 ). So, we should be busy trying to get as many people saved as possible. No one on this earth will ever know the exact day when God will return. We should be mindful of His return and know that He will come back like a theft in the night ( 1 Thessalonians 5:2 ). So even though these events all must happen before God’s return, we just need to be ready and stay ready.  Look at Luke 18 . Jesus makes it clear that we should be conducting business as usual. In the days of Noah , people were marrying, eating and drinking, and carrying about their lives up until the day Noah and his family went into the ark.

In the days of Lot, people were eating and drinking. They bought, sold, planted, and built. When Lot left Sodom and Gomorrah, the Lord rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed all the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah. We don’t have to worry about seeing these events if you are a Christian. Stay saved. Stay prayed up. Pray for others who are just oblivious to all that is Christianity. Pray for backsliders who just think that they have time unlimited to get it together. God will not always strive with man.

Further Reading

What Is the Timeline of Revelation?

Is There a Timeline in the Book of Revelation?

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“At the end” vs “in the end” explained with examples

by Phil Williams | Jul 27, 2013 | Definitions , Grammar , Prepositions | 62 comments

Thank you very much. I was in trouble but now it’s okay for I got the point. Very useful.

Glad it helped!

The best explanation I have read. Thank you very much.

Glad it helped, thank you!

you explaned so simple and comprehensible. thank you

My words also, perfect !!!

Is it necessary to use(of) after (at the end)?

Hi Danar, sorry for the slow response – yes, if you’re connecting it to something then it is “at the end of [something]”. The exception would be if the [something] is understood but not stated, for example when we use “at the end” following an already understood ending: “We ran around the complete race course. There was a finish line at the end.” (to be understood as “at the end of the race course”).

Hi, is better to say in or at the end of the book? I would say “at” as it refers to a specific point. Thank you!

If you’re referring to the broader themes, for example talking about how a story resolves, ‘in the end’ would be appropriate, but if you want to identify a location in the book, such as where information can be found, then ‘at the end’ would be appropriate.

Perfectly explained!! Thank you!

You’re welcome!

I’m not an English native speaker and I did not study English, but I write exciting stories in English. Presently, I want to learn how to speak casual English the way native speakers do.

Hi Haruna, honestly the best way to learn native English for writing would be to read as much as possible. This is true for native speakers too! Reading books in all areas greatly expands writing skills.

hello sir, thank you for the explanations I am glad I now knew what the differences are of these two, anyways can I ask what books to read if you wanna learn deep English words, coz I’m having fun learning them

Hi Axl, I’m not really aware of the best books specifically for vocabulary building but what I would typically recommend would be to find non-specific books that you enjoy which you can read and pick up new words from (also certain newspapers are good for this). But other than that I would say merely read as much as possible and make note of the new words you learn!

For a specific grammar book that goes into some details like this, though, Swan’s Practical English Usage is good.

Hi, can you help me, I know at the end is for location and period but in my sentence I have used in the end. Is it that much wrong. “9 books for the time being. I’m excited to see the result in the end of the year.”

Hi, In this case, no, “in the end” would not be appropriate – “at the end of the year” would be more appropriate as it refers to a point of time.

At last they qualified for the football tournament.

Will the synonym of At last be : At the end or Finally

Hi Peter, “at last” would be synonymous with “Finally”, so “In the end” would also be appropriate.

Thanks for this reminder! 😉

Thanks,your explanation helped to clear the doubt.

Muito obrigada! Thank you very much!

Can we use ‘at the end or in the end’ with present tense.

Hi Chu, yes you technically could – with ‘in the end’, as it can simply be emphatic. For a present event it would probably refer to a past time, e.g.

Of for timeless/rule-based sentences:

‘At the end’ doesn’t really work with present rules or temporary events as it refers to a specific time.

which will suit the below sentence..” in the end” or “at the end”.

Please find the queries given in/at the end of the document. Kindly let me know which is the correct usage in the above sentence

Hi Jenny, ‘at the end’ would be appropriate here, as you are defining a specific position.

Thanks for reply.

Finally, I understand. TY. My guess is that finally and at last mean the same thing. When something happens at the end of a process where we have been growing impatient, we say finally or at last.

Hi Christophe, yes that is a correct understanding.

Thank you very much for your instructions and continuous support by sending english lessons into my e-mail. New year is coming soon, best wishes for a happy and successful new year Mr. Phil Williams.

You’re welcome, thanks for saying so, and best wishes to you too! Phil

In the end I found good explanation! Thank you!

Thank you Phil, very useful !

There is a tendency to use prepositions in the real world without giving much thought. I was brought up using specific words I later found to be incorrect. Colloquial is not academic, so that is why grammar sites such as yours come in handy. However, American English is different. Americans will say “in school” whilst we say “at school” or “On the weekend” instead of “At the weekend. Nowadays you can get both even in the British language. This is probably because of the global distribution of American series and films on TV. Thanks for clarifying this issue. I’m sure international students will find this extremely helpful.Thanks for posting.

Yes you’re absolutely right – natural use of prepositions is often done without much thought into it and the “at the weekend”/”on the weekend” is a great example of how language shifts between different regions. And definitely, American English and Americanisms are quite common in the UK thanks to media exposure, but British English is not necessarily as well understood in America.

Thank you for taking the time to answer my comment. You offer a vast amount of useful grammar and writing tips. I stumbled on your webpage quite by chance, but by joe, I’m so glad I found it. 🙂 Will visit regularly and invite friends. Good job!

You’re welcome, I’m always happy to be of help!

Masterfully explained in a few words!

Very clear . Thank you so much ! I was struggling with this for quite a long time ,but you made it clear for me with your explanation. While I was reading the replies and comments , I came across the phrase “ read books in all areas” and asked myself whether it could be said “ books of all areas” or “ books from all areas”. Prepositions always confuse me. Can you explain this for me, please. I would appreciate it very much. Be blessed!

Hi Asya, You’re welcome. Yes, prepositions like this can be tricky, and it can depend somewhat on regional use. For your example, in some cases there would be little difference between reading books “in all areas” and “from all areas”; both meaning to cover a range of topics (though “from” might also be used to suggest a particular origin, depending on context). “of all areas” I think would be less common, as “of” would more comfortably fit with types, “books of all types/subjects”. You might also use “on”, such as “books on all subjects”!

I hope this helps.

Thanks for your time to explain it to me , Phil ! I appreciate it very much !

Thank you Phil, finally someone who put the away the confusion away.

You’re welcome, I’m glad it helped!

Very useful tip. Thanks, please. At the end of the piece, I got what I needed.

What a perfect explanation! I’ll never forget it 🙂

I am delighted to get this straight today

In the end, I finally learned how NOT to use in the end incorrectly all the time

This is really helpful. Thank you

This has helped me alot. Thank you so much.

Can you tell me if you can end a sentence with the word, this. If I wrote, “My face would not look like this.” Referring to a picture.

Yes, that’s fine. Though generally speaking we can end sentences with most types of words depending on the circumstances (even prepositions; the rules that say you shouldn’t aren’t really helpful).

Which of this is correct? In the end, life would be good At the end life will be good

This would need more context really. If you let me know which you think is correct, or the confusion with the difference, I can help you with the reasoning.

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‘South Park: The End of Obesity’: The New Special Is Now Streaming Online

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Ozempic, the weight loss drug that has taken over Hollywood this past year, is at the center of the newest “ South Park ” streaming special, now streaming on Paramount+.

In “South Park: The End of Obesity,” the weight loss drugs take the quiet mountain town of South Park by storm. When the overweight, foul-mouthed Eric Cartman is denied access to the medicine, he recruits Kyle, Stan, Butters and Kenny for help.

In the trailer, Cartman laments his size in the mirror while his friends run lab experiments in lab coats and goggles, preparing him to take the drugs. “We’ve been out navigating the American healthcare system,” says Butters. “I almost died!”

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“South Park” first debuted on Comedy Central in 1997 and has been renewed through 2027. The renewal will take the show through its 30th season on the air. Episodes of “South Park” can be watched on Comedy Central, Max and Amazon Prime’s Max Channel.

“South Park: The End of Obesity” is produced by MTV Entertainment Studios. “South Park” is co-created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who both serve as executive producers, along with Anne Garefino and Frank C. Agnone II. Eric Stough, Adrien Beard, Bruce Howell and Vernon Chatman are producers.

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• This shift raises concerns about the reliability of AI answers and the impact on web traffic.
• The move risks disrupting Google's ad revenue model and the broader internet ecosystem.

Google is the internet's gatekeeper. You ask it a question, and it sends you to a site on the internet that can answer that question for you.

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People who make a living putting things on the internet have been freaking out about this future for some time . But there's a risk for Google, too: If people aren't putting things on the internet, what will Google use to create answers?

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WWE King and Queen of the Ring 2024: Time, how to watch, match card and more

Who will be the king and queen  of  WWE ?

WWE is headed back to Saudi Arabia for King and Queen of the Ring 2024, where the finals of each tournament will take place to determine who will wear wrestling's crown. It's quite the achievement, given that it has been a springboard for success in WWE.

While the men's and women's matches headline the event, there will be three other matches taking place Saturday, and they all involve championships. Cody Rhodes will defend his Undisputed WWE Championship, new Women's World Champion Becky Lynch will put her title on the line and Intercontinental Champion Sami Zayn will compete in a triple threat match in what is shaping up to be an exciting night.

Here's what to know for King and Queen of the Ring 2024:

When is King and Queen of the Ring 2024?

The 2024 King and Queen of the Ring is Saturday, May 25 at 1 p.m. ET. The event will be taking place at 8 p.m. in Jeddah.

Where is King and Queen of the Ring 2024?

The 2024 King and Queen of the Ring will be at Jeddah SuperDome in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 

How to watch King and Queen of the Ring 2024

The event can be streamed on  Peacock , but you must have their premium or premium-plus subscription to watch. Internationally, it will be available on WWE Network.

King and Queen of the Ring 2024 match card

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• King of the Ring final:  Gunther vs. Randy Orton.
• Queen of the Ring final:  Lyra Valkyria vs. Nia Jax.
• Undisputed WWE Championship match:  Cody Rhodes (c) vs. Logan Paul.
• Women’s World Championship match:  Becky Lynch (c) vs. Liv Morgan.
• Triple threat match for Intercontinental Championship:  Sami Zayn (c) vs. Chad Gable vs. Bronson Reed.