End Times
The Antichrist as Temple Builder
May/07/13 06:03
The following is excerpted from Israel: Past, Present, Future. See end of article for more information.
Bible prophecy associates the Antichrist with the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple.
“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness” (2 Thessalonians 2:4-12).
Here we see that the Third Temple will definitely be rebuilt, but it will be a place for the worship of the Antichrist.
The mystery of iniquity has been operating for 2,000 years, and this is the devil’s program to place his man on the throne of the world. Thus, there are two spiritual programs operating in the world today during the Church Age: God’s program of world evangelism and the calling out of a people for His name among all nations (Romans 11:25), and the devil’s program to resist God’s work and to bring in the Antichrist.
There is One that withholds the devil’s program. We believe that this is the Holy Spirit, who came from Heaven on the day of Pentecost to empower the churches for worldwide evangelism (Acts 1:8). Thus, as long as it is God’s will to continue saving Gentiles and building the churches, the devil cannot bring his plan to fruition. God is in ultimate control. Daniel says the timing of the Antichrist’s work is “appointed” and “determined” (Dan. 11:29, 35, 36). It will not happen until God allows it to happen.
The time will come when the Restrainer will be taken out of the way, and then the Antichrist will be revealed. This refers to the Rapture of church-age saints. The Holy Spirit is the omnipresent God, and in that sense He is everywhere at all times, but in another sense He came into the world at Pentecost to perform a particular work and He will depart at the Rapture when that work is accomplished.
The Antichrist’s appearance will be accompanied both by Satanic deception and by strong delusion sent by God as a judgment upon those who reject the truth. Those who think they can wait until these events begin to happen and get saved at that time are foolish. Those who have heard and rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ will be blinded. Note that God does not blind arbitrarily; He blinds those who reject the truth. Every man has a choice. Christ gives light to every man (John 1:9).
The Antichrist’s appearance will be accompanied by miracles. This will be part of the Satanic deception. There will be signs and lying wonders. The Jews demanded a sign (Mat. 12:39), and though Christ performed mighty miracles by the power of God, they rejected Him. The Antichrist and his false prophet will perform lying wonders by the power of Satan and the Jews will receive him. Every mention of miracles at the end of the church age pertains to Satanic miracles. See also Matthew 24:24; Revelation 13:11-15.
A visitor is reminded of the Temple on every hand in Israel today. It is even on their coins. The 1/10 shekel features a menorah. The 1/2 shekel has a 7th-century lyre of the type that was used in the Temple. The menorah is also the symbol of the Israeli Knesset or Parliament. There is a large one right outside the main gates and another one in a little garden at the entrance from the main road.
A majority of Jews in Israel want to see the Temple rebuilt.
A 2003 poll by the Jerusalem Post found that 80% are in favor.
Continue reading this article……
“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness” (2 Thessalonians 2:4-12).
Here we see that the Third Temple will definitely be rebuilt, but it will be a place for the worship of the Antichrist.
The mystery of iniquity has been operating for 2,000 years, and this is the devil’s program to place his man on the throne of the world. Thus, there are two spiritual programs operating in the world today during the Church Age: God’s program of world evangelism and the calling out of a people for His name among all nations (Romans 11:25), and the devil’s program to resist God’s work and to bring in the Antichrist.
There is One that withholds the devil’s program. We believe that this is the Holy Spirit, who came from Heaven on the day of Pentecost to empower the churches for worldwide evangelism (Acts 1:8). Thus, as long as it is God’s will to continue saving Gentiles and building the churches, the devil cannot bring his plan to fruition. God is in ultimate control. Daniel says the timing of the Antichrist’s work is “appointed” and “determined” (Dan. 11:29, 35, 36). It will not happen until God allows it to happen.
The time will come when the Restrainer will be taken out of the way, and then the Antichrist will be revealed. This refers to the Rapture of church-age saints. The Holy Spirit is the omnipresent God, and in that sense He is everywhere at all times, but in another sense He came into the world at Pentecost to perform a particular work and He will depart at the Rapture when that work is accomplished.
The Antichrist’s appearance will be accompanied both by Satanic deception and by strong delusion sent by God as a judgment upon those who reject the truth. Those who think they can wait until these events begin to happen and get saved at that time are foolish. Those who have heard and rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ will be blinded. Note that God does not blind arbitrarily; He blinds those who reject the truth. Every man has a choice. Christ gives light to every man (John 1:9).
The Antichrist’s appearance will be accompanied by miracles. This will be part of the Satanic deception. There will be signs and lying wonders. The Jews demanded a sign (Mat. 12:39), and though Christ performed mighty miracles by the power of God, they rejected Him. The Antichrist and his false prophet will perform lying wonders by the power of Satan and the Jews will receive him. Every mention of miracles at the end of the church age pertains to Satanic miracles. See also Matthew 24:24; Revelation 13:11-15.
A visitor is reminded of the Temple on every hand in Israel today. It is even on their coins. The 1/10 shekel features a menorah. The 1/2 shekel has a 7th-century lyre of the type that was used in the Temple. The menorah is also the symbol of the Israeli Knesset or Parliament. There is a large one right outside the main gates and another one in a little garden at the entrance from the main road.
A majority of Jews in Israel want to see the Temple rebuilt.
A 2003 poll by the Jerusalem Post found that 80% are in favor.
Continue reading this article……
The Willful Skepticism of the Last Days
Jan/02/13 05:57
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The following is excerpted from the new edition of Understanding Bible Prophecy, one of the courses of the Advanced Bible Studies Series published by Way of Life Literature. One of the new sections of the course is “Bible Prophecies Being Fulfilled Today,” and the following study is from that section. The new edition of Understanding Bible Prophecy (September 2012) is completely rewritten and significantly enlarged.
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“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us- ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up” (2 Peter 3:2-10).
This amazing 2000-year-old prophecy describes the skepticism that prevails in the 21st century. “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers...” (2 Pet. 3:3).
The prophecy indicates that the 19th century marked the beginning of the “last days” of the church age, because it was in the 19th century that this prophecy began to be fulfilled to perfection. The 19th century witnessed the explosion of skepticism in the form of theological modernism, humanism, Unitarianism, Darwinian evolution, communism, and agnosticism.
1. We see the rejection of the Bible’s teaching on the Flood (2 Peter 3:4-6).
Peter describes the scoffers in the last days who will say that “since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation” (2 Pet. 3:4). This is a perfect description of the “uniformitarian” view of geology, which came to the fore in the 19th century through the influence of Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology. According to this view, the geological strata were laid down gradually over millions of years and there was no global Flood. Walt Brown, Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from MIT, describes the view that has prevailed since those days. “Professors in the new and growing field of geology were primarily selected from those who supported the anti-catastrophe principle. These professors did not advance students who espoused catastrophes. An advocate of a global flood was branded a ‘biblical literalist’ or ‘fuzzy thinker’--not worthy of an academic degree” (In the Beginning, p. 253).
Prior to the 19th century, it was generally believed even by scientists that God created the world and that there was a catastrophic universal Flood. In 1930 Merson Davies observed, “We should remember that, up to 100 years ago [up to 1830], such a marked prejudice against the acceptance of belief in the Deluge did not exist.” For example, in the 17th and 18th centuries Cambridge University scholars believed in a universal Flood, but by Darwin’s day they did not. Thomas Burnet (1635-1715), royal chaplain to king William III, argued for a worldwide flood in A Sacred Theory of the Earth (1681). This was one of most popular works on geology prior to the 19th century. John Woodward (1665-1728), founder of the Woodwardian Professorship of Geology at Cambridge, argued that the global Flood was the cause of the fossil beds. This position was published in An Essay Toward a Natural Theory of the Earth (1695).
But by the 19th century, the evolutionary view took control and the prophecy of 2 Peter 3 was being fulfilled.
2. We see mankind’s rejection of divine creation (2 Peter 3:5).
Peter says the scoffers will reject the Bible’s teaching that the world was made “by the word of God.” The doctrine of evolution has gone hand-in-hand with agnosticism, atheism, and a denial of the supernatural. It was Thomas Huxley, “Darwin’s Bulldog,” who coined the term “agnosticism” to describe the view that man cannot know whether or not there is a God, that man can only know the truth through science and that “religion” isn’t allowed a voice, and that even if there is a God it really doesn’t matter, because He isn’t involved in man’s affairs.
The scoffers do mention “creation” (2 Pet. 3:4), but by this they don’t mean the six days of creation according to the Bible. Even Charles Darwin used the word “creation” at the end of On the Origin of Species, but he later explained that he simply meant by this that life “appeared by some wholly unknown process” (Darwin, Autobiography, p. 272).Continue reading this article……
How We Should React to the Signs of the Times
Jan/01/13 08:59
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The signs of the end times are everywhere. Our upcoming book The Bible According to the Future contains a large chapter on these. The strange thing is that believers often react to the signs the very opposite of how God intends for us to react.
As we witness such things as the spread of globalism, the building of a one-world church, the increase of wickedness, the breakdown of the traditional family, the destruction of that priceless bastion of liberty called America, the normalization of homosexuality, the callous murder of babies, the filthy pop culture, the breathtaking increase in governmental surveillance, we become fearful, uncertain, frustrated, angry, and discouraged, but this is because our minds and hearts are too focused on things of this world rather than things above. Too often we have the same short view that “conservative” unbelievers have rather than the long view that comes from the light of Bible prophecy.
Doubtless there will be frustration and discouragement, because we aren’t spiritual robots who are unaffected by our environment, but our response should be tempered by the truths of God’s Word. We should respond to the times in a dramatically different way than our unsaved friends and neighbors.
When we consider what is happening in the world, we should respond in at least the following ways:
First, we should rejoice greatly in our salvation.
“But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy” (1 Pet. 4:13).
“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal” (2 Cor. 4:17-18).
No matter what we suffer in this present world, it is but for a moment in light of eternity with Christ. Every day we should walk in the joy of the gift of blinded eyes opened and salvation bestowed through Christ’s great Sacrifice.
Second, we should be comforted that Christ’s return is drawing near.
“And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh” (Lk. 21:28).
“For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words:” (1 Th. 4:15-18).
Each day brings us closer to the Rapture of the New Testament saints, and in this light, the signs of the times, though they are grievous for this present life, should be a cause of rejoicing for the believer.
Israel's Current Spiritual Blindness
Dec/13/12 07:48
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“Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 5 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: 6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. 8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: BUT THERE WAS NO BREATH IN THEM” (Ezekiel 37:4-8).
The most significant sign of the end times is the restoration of Israel to her land and the creation of the modern state of Israel.
The continued existence of Israel in spite of 2,000 years of global disbursement is one of history’s amazing stories and it was prophesied in ancient Bible passages such as Deuteronomy 28-30. In Deuteronomy 28 God warned that if Israel turned away from Him and rebelled against His law she would be scattered to the ends of the earth and troubled wherever she went.
“And it shall come to pass, that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. 64 And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. 65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: 66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: 67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see” (Deuteronomy 28:63-67).
This is a perfect description of what happened to Israel following the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 A.D. But the same prophecy said Israel would return to the Lord.
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Preparation for Rebuilding the Jewish Temple
Nov/21/12 07:51
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The following is excerpted from the new edition of Understanding Bible Prophecy, one of the courses of the Advanced Bible Studies Series published by Way of Life Literature. One of the new sections of the course is “Bible Prophecies Being Fulfilled Today,” and the following study is from that section. The new edition of Understanding Bible Prophecy (September 2012) is completely rewritten and significantly enlarged.
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“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God” (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4).
The first temple was built by Solomon and the second temple was built by Zerubbabel and Joshua (Ezra 2-5) and later enlarged by Herod the Great.
A visitor is reminded of the Temple on every hand in Israel today. It is even on their coins. The 1/10 shekel features a menorah. The 1/2 shekel has a 7th-century lyre of the type that was used in the Temple. The menorah is also the symbol of the Israeli Knesset or Parliament. There is a large one right outside the Knesset’s main gates and another one in a little garden at the entrance from the main road.
Since the 1980s, the idea of building the Third Temple has gained rapidly in popularity among the Jewish citizens of Israel. In 1986, David Shipler wrote in his book Arab and Jew, “During my five years in Jerusalem [1979-84], the idea of building a Third Temple in place of Al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock evolved from a wild notion held by a very few fringe militants into a goal embraced and legitimized by parts of the established right wing.” By 2003, a poll by the Jerusalem Post found that 80% of Jews in Israel want to see the Temple rebuilt.
Since 1994, the Women in Green movement has organized a march around the Temple Mount in recognition of Risha B’Av, the day of mourning over the destruction of the Jewish temple. The march begins with the reading of the book of Lamentations in front of the American Consulate and then proceeds to circle the walls of the Old City. Thousands joined in the march in July 2012. Nadia Matar, the leader of Women in Green, told Arutz Sheva TV, “We walk around the Old City to say that Jerusalem is ours. The Temple Mount is ours. Like a bride going around the groom we go around the Temple Mount, showing our loyalty and our love to Jerusalem. ... Altogether we are saying the land of Israel is ours, Jerusalem is ours, and we pray for the day that Tisha B’Av will turn from a fast day into a day of holiday when we can all dance to the Temple Mount.”
In March 2010 posters calling for the building of the Third Temple appeared on buses plying eastern Jerusalem routes. The posters, sponsored by Our Land of Israel, featured a depiction of the Temple occupying the place of the Dome of the Rock mosque and a Hebrew phrase that translates, “May the Bais Hamikdosh [Jerusalem temple] be rebuilt speedily and within our days.” A leader of Our Land of Israel, Baruch Marzel, said, “We’re representing the truth, in front of everyone, and saying out loud what every Jew believes. That the Third Temple needs to be built immediately on the Temple Mount and that the mosque should not be there” (Jerusalem Post, May 29, 2010). Predictably, the posters caused a storm of protest from Muslims and were removed after a couple of days.
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The Antichrist and Israel
Oct/09/12 19:57
The following is excerpted from the book Israel: Past, Present and Future, which is available from Way of Life Literature -- www.wayoflife.org
Bible prophecy describes a powerful man who will rule the world for a short period before the return of Christ. He is called by many names, including Antichrist, Man of Sin, Little Horn, the Beast, Son of Perdition, and that Wicked.
“But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief” (1 Thessalonians 5:1-4).
Here we have a description of the Antichrist’s peace program. Like Antiochus Epiphanes and Hitler and Stalin and many other tyrants, the Antichrist comes as a man of peace.
In Revelation 6:2 he arrives on the scene at the very beginning of Daniel’s Seventieth Week, and he is riding on a white horse with a bow but no arrows. He has military power but he is not using it at this point. He enlarges his power through deception. Daniel says he will destroy by peace (Dan. 8:25).
Daniel 9:27 says he will make a seven-year covenant with the Jews but will break it at the halfway point. The Antichrist will doubtless propose a plan that will solve the Middle East crisis and allow the Muslims to live peaceably with the Jews. I believe that it is at this point that the Third Jewish Temple will be built. The peace plan will make headlines throughout the world and will be blazed across the Internet. It will get 24/7 coverage on cable news networks. People the world over will rejoice, thinking that mankind is entering a millennium of glorious peace and prosperity.
This program is exactly what the Jews are longing for today. They just want peace.
Continue reading this article……
Bible prophecy describes a powerful man who will rule the world for a short period before the return of Christ. He is called by many names, including Antichrist, Man of Sin, Little Horn, the Beast, Son of Perdition, and that Wicked.
“But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief” (1 Thessalonians 5:1-4).
Here we have a description of the Antichrist’s peace program. Like Antiochus Epiphanes and Hitler and Stalin and many other tyrants, the Antichrist comes as a man of peace.
In Revelation 6:2 he arrives on the scene at the very beginning of Daniel’s Seventieth Week, and he is riding on a white horse with a bow but no arrows. He has military power but he is not using it at this point. He enlarges his power through deception. Daniel says he will destroy by peace (Dan. 8:25).
Daniel 9:27 says he will make a seven-year covenant with the Jews but will break it at the halfway point. The Antichrist will doubtless propose a plan that will solve the Middle East crisis and allow the Muslims to live peaceably with the Jews. I believe that it is at this point that the Third Jewish Temple will be built. The peace plan will make headlines throughout the world and will be blazed across the Internet. It will get 24/7 coverage on cable news networks. People the world over will rejoice, thinking that mankind is entering a millennium of glorious peace and prosperity.
This program is exactly what the Jews are longing for today. They just want peace.
Continue reading this article……
Prophetic Speculation
Sep/12/12 08:17
The following is an updated edition of an article that first appeared in O Timothy magazine, Volume 10, Issue 3, 1993. It was originally titled “Date Setting and Sign Looking.”
Recently I received a report that said Jesus must be coming soon because of chip implant technology. Allegedly, someone saw a man pay for his groceries by running his hand over the store’s cash register scanner as part of a government experiment.
There is no doubt that rapid advances have been made in chip implant technology, but this means very little as far as the coming of Christ is concerned. Christ’s coming is imminent and is not predicated by signs. Further, we have no way of knowing if the sign of the antichrist will involve an implanted chip. The Bible says the sign of the antichrist will be “a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads” (Revelation 13:16). A computer chip is not a mark. Based upon the simple reading of the Scripture, it is more likely that the sign of the antichrist will be some sort of a visible tattoo rather than an invisible implanted chip.
To try to figure out the identity of the antichrist or the mark of the beast by observing current events is vain speculation and is a waste of time.
Jack Van Impe’s 1993 video was entitled A.D. 2000 - The End? Though he didn’t say for sure that the Lord would return in the year 2000, he came very close. In his catalog of publications, he advertised the video in these terms:
• A dynamic, power-packed video of Dr. Van Impe expounding on the following:
• The 6-Day Theory--as predicted in the Jewish Talmud and by the Apostles Peter and Barnabas, and also by church historians, including Irenus in A.D. 140.
• Chronological charts and calendar of Jewish holy days leading up to Messiah’s appearing!
• Mystery circles in the field.
• Earthquakes, famines, AIDS ... and the end!
• Why Jewish rabbinical scholars, Hindus, Muslims, New Agers, and secular leaders are proclaiming A.D. 2000 as the beginning of the new and final age.
Continue reading this article……
There is no doubt that rapid advances have been made in chip implant technology, but this means very little as far as the coming of Christ is concerned. Christ’s coming is imminent and is not predicated by signs. Further, we have no way of knowing if the sign of the antichrist will involve an implanted chip. The Bible says the sign of the antichrist will be “a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads” (Revelation 13:16). A computer chip is not a mark. Based upon the simple reading of the Scripture, it is more likely that the sign of the antichrist will be some sort of a visible tattoo rather than an invisible implanted chip.
To try to figure out the identity of the antichrist or the mark of the beast by observing current events is vain speculation and is a waste of time.
Jack Van Impe’s 1993 video was entitled A.D. 2000 - The End? Though he didn’t say for sure that the Lord would return in the year 2000, he came very close. In his catalog of publications, he advertised the video in these terms:
• A dynamic, power-packed video of Dr. Van Impe expounding on the following:
• The 6-Day Theory--as predicted in the Jewish Talmud and by the Apostles Peter and Barnabas, and also by church historians, including Irenus in A.D. 140.
• Chronological charts and calendar of Jewish holy days leading up to Messiah’s appearing!
• Mystery circles in the field.
• Earthquakes, famines, AIDS ... and the end!
• Why Jewish rabbinical scholars, Hindus, Muslims, New Agers, and secular leaders are proclaiming A.D. 2000 as the beginning of the new and final age.
Continue reading this article……
Date Setting and Sign Looking
Oct/19/11 08:06
(first published via the FBIS July 31, 1996) (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) -
The following first appeared in O Timothy magazine, Volume 10, Issue 3, 1993. The article uses Jack Van Impe to illustrate the point, but the three truths brought out apply equally well to many other ministries which focus on prophetic events, conspiracies, and speculations.
Jack Van Impe's latest video is entitled A.D. 2000 - The End? Though he doesn't say for sure that the Lord will return in the year 2000, he comes very close. In the Jack Van Impe catalog of publications, he advertises this video in these terms:
A dynamic, power-packed video of Dr. Van Impe expounding on-
* The 6-Day Theory--as predicted in the Jewish Talmud and by the Apostles Peter and Barnabas, and also by church historians, including Irenus in A.D. 140.
* Chronological charts and calendar of Jewish holy days leading up to Messiah's appearing!
* Mystery circles in the field.
* Earthquakes, famines, AIDS ... and the end!
* Why Jewish rabbinical scholars, Hindus, Muslims, New Agers, and secular leaders are proclaiming A.D. 2000 as the beginning of the new and final age.Continue reading this article……
The following first appeared in O Timothy magazine, Volume 10, Issue 3, 1993. The article uses Jack Van Impe to illustrate the point, but the three truths brought out apply equally well to many other ministries which focus on prophetic events, conspiracies, and speculations.
Jack Van Impe's latest video is entitled A.D. 2000 - The End? Though he doesn't say for sure that the Lord will return in the year 2000, he comes very close. In the Jack Van Impe catalog of publications, he advertises this video in these terms:
A dynamic, power-packed video of Dr. Van Impe expounding on-
* The 6-Day Theory--as predicted in the Jewish Talmud and by the Apostles Peter and Barnabas, and also by church historians, including Irenus in A.D. 140.
* Chronological charts and calendar of Jewish holy days leading up to Messiah's appearing!
* Mystery circles in the field.
* Earthquakes, famines, AIDS ... and the end!
* Why Jewish rabbinical scholars, Hindus, Muslims, New Agers, and secular leaders are proclaiming A.D. 2000 as the beginning of the new and final age.Continue reading this article……
Salvation and End-Times Apostasy
Aug/03/11 08:11
August 3, 2011 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) -
A fundamental reason why so many professing Christians are embracing the false god of end-times apostasy (e.g., the non-judgmental, no-obligations god of The Shack) is the absence of biblical salvation.
A genuine experience of salvation is foundational to spiritual protection, because it is impossible to understand the truth properly apart from the new birth.
A fundamental reason why so many professing Christians are embracing the false god of end-times apostasy (e.g., the non-judgmental, no-obligations god of The Shack) is the absence of biblical salvation.
A genuine experience of salvation is foundational to spiritual protection, because it is impossible to understand the truth properly apart from the new birth.
“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Corinthians 2:14).
Further, those who are not saved are still under the power of the prince of the power of the air (Ephesians 2:1-2). It is only the truly regenerate individual who can claim the precious promise of 1 John 4:4, “greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”
