Many people are worried about the last days of this world. Should we be worried? What are signs that Jesus is coming again? Part 2 of 2

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Amazing Facts

Prophecy Encounter

Doug Batchelor

Signs of the Coming King, Pt. 1

Signs of the Coming King, Pt. 2

The Hero of Revelation, Pt. 1

The Hero of Revelation, Pt. 2

The Villain of Revelation, Pt. 1

The Villain of Revelation, Pt. 2

The Law of the Lamb, Pt. 1

The Law of the Lamb, Pt. 2

A Woman Rides a Beast, Pt. 1

A Woman Rides a Beast, Pt. 2

144,000 & The Seal of God, Pt. 1

The Woman of Light

A Prophet in the River

The Mark of the Beast

The Great Judgment Day Pt. 1

The Great Judgment Day Pt. 2

This presentation is brought to you by the Friends of the Amazing Facts Ministry.

Contrary to the popular belief that lightning never strikes the same spot twice, It's actually been known to strike objects, even people, multiple times during intense electrical storms.

During 1 storm, for instance, the Empire State Building in New York was struck 15 times within 15 minutes.

Sometimes a single bolt of lightning will really consist of as many as 42 discharges striking the same spot in such quick succession that it appears like a single flash, but it all happens in less than 1 quarter of a second.

Lightning from 1 cloud to another is also very common, and it's been recorded to jump as far as 20 miles between clouds.

But whether lightning is moving from cloud to cloud, or cloud to ground, or ground to cloud, it's hard to miss the brilliant, blinding flash that illuminates the sky.

In Matthew 24, Jesus said, for as lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

In spite of His words, some still believe that His return is going to be a secret.

Join me now friends as we take a closer look at what the Bible really says about the return of Christ.

People know that something unusual is happening.

2010 the Pew Research Group did a survey and in that survey they explained that by the year 2050 about 60% of the people believed that Jesus would come.

I think 40 of those 60% were absolutely sure.

20% said probably, and that's in North America, of course.

And that's why we're going to be talking tonight about the pinnacle of prophecy and signs of Jesus coming.

You know, it's very interesting we're going to be finding that the book of Daniel is a partner book for Revelation, so we'll be going back and forth.

Revelation does a lot of referring to the book of Daniel.

You look in Daniel 12 and he says in verse 4, But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book until the time of the end.

So no question about what he's talking about.

And he goes on to say, Many will run to and fro.

First of all, I think they're going to run to and fro through the Word of God and discover truth, but you can't miss the point that people are running to and fro faster, do you realize for about 6, 000 years people, the fastest thing you got is a horse?

Just can't even imagine the change that's been seen.

National Geographic back in 2006, I know it's an old article but it still bears the point, that's the magazine cover if you want to reference it.

There's a quote in there, people are traveling far from home more than ever before in human history, and knowledge will increase.

This is a picture here on the screen of the great Hadron Accelerator.

It is the largest experiment in the world, it's the biggest machine in the world, it's under the ground about 500 feet, a 17 mile tunnel in Geneva underneath the ground, where the whole these European governments got together and they poured like $13 billion into building this testing equipment to understand physics, and as they hyper-accelerate these particles, they smash them and then they measure what they find to try and figure out what is the base core of what life is made of, what is the stuff of life?

Actually, the nickname is, the machine has been built to discover, they call it the God particle.

They said, we're trying to find the answers of where everything came from.

But with technology, not only from under the ground there in Geneva, but up in the sky with the International Space Station, knowledge has increased just in 1 lifetime, I should actually say in about a century, you look at just some of the changes, incredible inventions, automobiles, airplanes, radio, television, smartphone, computers, a lot of young people today they can't imagine a world without a smartphone and you know, I get...

Karen and I got a rental car, and it's a fairly new one, we got lucky, got low mileage rental car, and I've nearly wrecked 3 times trying to figure out how to run the thing.

I sat in the car when we got there, and I sat there, I said, Oh, this is great, low mileage, you know, And I figured out finally you don't have to use a key, you just press the button, because it knows the key is in my pocket.

I kept trying to figure out where do I put the key.

I'm 1 of these old people, I want to put the key in somewhere.

And I keep taking the key out when I walk up to the car, but it doesn't need the key, it just opens by itself.

And I said, what a waste of energy, I had to find it.

And I'm trying to figure out how to shift the thing, and I'm looking at all this, and finally Karen reaches over, she turns a knob.

I'm a man, I want to grab something and hear it clunk, you know, when...

Can you imagine trying to explain a smartphone to the apostle Paul?

Paul would say, look, let me find that in my scroll.

I said, no problem, Paul, I'll Google it.

And another 1 for me that I think is a tremendous evidence of the nearness of Christ's coming is global evangelization.

Matthew 24, verse 14, this to me I think is 1 of the most powerful prophecies that really makes me believe we are living in the last days.

Jesus said extremely clearly, The gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations.

And then he said, Then the end will come.

He didn't say it might come or it could come or it may come.

He said very emphatically, the end will come.

He did not say the gospel will be preached and there'll be a great global revival and everybody will believe.

He said, for a witness, give them an opportunity.

And then what they do with that opportunity is up to them, but the end will come.

Well, is the gospel going in all the world?

Just this last 2 days we've had an invitation to return to China.

We were 1 of, if not the first Christian organization in over 50 years invited to preach publicly a whole series of meetings that was broadcast on television in China.

And then the neat thing is they made copies of that and they continued to multiply that.

I just got a call from our headquarters there and they said, can you come back?

And so the gospel, and it's now on satellite.

Karen and I are going next month to New Guinea and they tell us there'll be about 100, 000 people at this 1 meeting that we're going to in New Guinea.

And I'm just 1 of thousands of missionaries that are out there doing it.

Jesus said the gospel will go to the world.

Amazing Facts gets email from all these people in the Middle East that are watching online.

And so people are searching, and the gospel is going, and missionaries are going.

And so we're seeing, I think, the fulfillment of that in this generation.

Now, I need to pause at this point and delve into a very important part of our study.

I've been talking about signs of Christ coming, now I want to talk about how He's coming.

Because there's a lot of confusion about how.

Now, there's going to be a lot of people in heaven that misunderstood how He's coming.

Did the apostles misunderstand how the Messiah was coming the first time?

They'll be in heaven, but they had the Scriptures wrong.

They thought when the Messiah came, He was going to come on a white horse like King David and he was going to destroy all of the Romans like Samson or something, and they were going to be a world empire like Solomon, and they just had all these great glorious ideas about when the Messiah comes, and Jesus said, no, no, no.

First time I'm coming like a lamb, second time I come like a lion.

Well, the devil is doing the same thing to the church today.

A lot of good people are confused about how he's coming so they won't be prepared to receive him.

A lot of Christ's people, the Jews, did not receive him when he came the first time because they said, Nazareth?

They misunderstood that he was coming first as a sacrifice.

Well now there's a lot of misunderstandings.

When you read Revelation, there's 1 group that's called Preterists, and just think of the word pre.

They believe that all of Revelation was pretty much fulfilled by 100 AD.

Series

Prophecy Encounter

Signs of the Coming King, Pt. 2

Transcript

Description

Parent Series

Sponsor

Recorded

Plenary

Walking Through the Storm

1h 28m

Understanding Difficult Topics

1. Understanding and Explaining the Secret Rapture

1h

God's Love Stories (Noon Meetings)

6. From Sikhism Hinduism to Seeking Him

1h 42m

Sabbath School 2nd Quarter 2024: The Great Controversy

02 The Central Issue: Love or Selfishness?

33m

Final Events

01 The Point of No Return

1h 5m

Plenaries with Norman McNulty

Revelation’s Sanctuary Theme

50m

Seminars

Education and the Three Angels

1h 10m

Jesus On Prophecy

Hallelujah, Here Comes the Judge

59m

Jesus On Prophecy

Is there a Prophet in the House

38m

Jesus On Prophecy

Hour of Judgment Part 1

58m

The Sanctuary

15. The Second Coming & The End of the World

45m

Sound Doctrine