TUESDAY August 9, 2022

Future Events

Therefore, when they [the disciples] had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.”
Acts 1:6-7

The Bible has many Scriptures that speak of future events. Yet the times and seasons for many of them have no exact dates––they remain hidden. The disciples were left with no real answers to their questions, except––It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. However, there are signs that Jesus gave to His disciples about His coming, that we still look for today:

“Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows” (Matthew 24:4-8).

It is believed that there is a total of a 7000-year period in the history of the world: from Adam to Abraham there are 2000 years; from Abraham to the first coming of Jesus Christ is another 2000. From the First Coming to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is yet another 2000, which will make a total of 6000 years. Only 1000 left, which is the Kingdom Age.

In between the First and Second Coming of Jesus Christ is a very narrow line––a small period of time called “Jacob’s Trouble”––the Great Tribulation Period (Jeremiah 30:7). Right now we are living in the last days, the end of the final 2000-year period. When 1,993 years is reached, the last 7 years of the world’s history will begin––the Tribulation Period. Right now the Church is restraining the Antichrist, but when the Church is taken out of this world, the Holy Spirit will work upon the nation of Israel (2 Thessalonians 2:7-8).

We are living on the brink of the apocalypse but the world is asleep.
~Joel C. Rosenberg~

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