While we cannot know the day or hour of Christ’s return, we can know it’s close by the signs given in the Bible. But God’s Word not only tells us approximately when Jesus will return; it also tells us how. Part 1 of 2

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Amazing Facts

Signs of Christ's Return

Doug Batchelor

Signs of Christ’s Return, Part 1

Signs of Christ’s Return, Part 2

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

Coming to you from New York City at the historic Manhattan Center with your host, Doug Batchelor.

Join this exciting journey of discovery as we learn the truth about Bible prophecy, explore the timeless wisdom of God's Word, and see how it relates to our lives today.

My name is Pastor Doug Batchelor, and it's been my privilege to be talking about my favorite theme the Word of God and Bible prophecy for about 45 years now And I'm just so thankful to be back in the town where I grew up in New York City.

And thank you so much, each of you, for coming.

Tonight's presentation is among the most important.

We're dealing with signs of Christ's return.

And so we're gonna go into question number 1 of our study tonight on signs of Christ's return.

And something happened in 1881 in Scotland.

Off the coast in the town of Imath, they had endured a terrible storm.

And because of that storm, nobody could go fishing for several days.

Everybody was tied up in the shore, and they were not able to go out and to go fishing.

And so finally, there was a break in the storm, October 14, and this whole harbor full of fishing boats.

All the fishermen went out and they began to ready to go out and to go catch and try to make some money again and go out fishing.

But the harbor master, he used to watch the weather instruments, he hoisted the storm flag and told people, do not go out.

There is a barometric pressure is dropping.

It looks like there's still a severe storm that's out there.

But the fishermen, they saw their buddies were all going and 1 of them said, I'm going, clear day, calm weather, I got to catch some fish.

And they said, well, if he's going, I'm going.

And most of the fishermen went out that day.

They ignored the warning signs of the instruments.

As a result of that, they didn't know that they were in the eye of a hurricane and a terrible storm swept through the North Sea at that time and almost 190 fishermen were lost as a result of that.

All these families, they lost their fathers and their husbands and their brothers because they did not listen to the warning signs.

In God's Word, the Lord gives us warning signs about what is coming.

Jesus said that His coming would be something like as it was in the days of Noah.

You know, God told Noah, there's a storm coming.

And Noah told the people, and Noah prepared.

And a lot of people said, you know, I think Noah's right, the world's pretty wicked, but they looked and they didn't see any rain.

And even though they saw the signs, sky go black with all these birds that came to the ark, and all the animals came, the clean and the unclean, and they all...

And they waited until Noah and everybody had entered the ark, and then the rain started after the door was shut and it was too late.

Jesus said, that's what it will be like in the day when the Son of Man comes.

Noah was a prophet and he wanted people to be saved by that.

In the book of Amos, chapter 3, verse 7, It says, surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He reveals His secret to His servants, the prophets.

Now, you look at Bible history, whenever God is getting ready to do anything significant, like the flood in the days of Noah, or when he was about to deliver them from the slavery of Egypt, he sent a prophet.

And before the Babylonian captivity, there was Isaiah and Jeremiah.

Before Jesus' first coming, who was that great messenger that came?

So whenever you've got these critical events in history, God says, surely the Lord God will do nothing, meaning nothing of great significance, but He will send a prophet to prepare, to warn, to woo, to win people.

Do you think that God would send prophecies to help us get ready for the second coming and the end of the world?

We're going to be talking about those tonight.

But, you know, we always think it's interesting when we do a seminar like this to take a little time and just go out on the street and get some input from what we call the man on the street.

What do people think out there about will the world end and how might it end?

So we're gonna go to the screen and listen to some of these comments that came in.

If we look at science as a cause, I mean, eventually it will run its course as a planet.

I don't think the world's going to end tomorrow.

I don't know exactly when the earth will end.

I mean, it is a really random question, but I would say maybe a couple million years.

I don't think the world is gonna end but I mean I'm a Christian yeah I think the world is gonna end 1 day yeah you know is it that we're gonna go to hell we're gonna go to heaven I know I'm going to heaven so.

Probably just war, politics, something like that.

People arguing and causing nuclear destruction.

Coming back, yes, of course, as every Christian.

Because I believe Jesus is coming back and all that stuff.

But then there's different people with different thoughts.

You know, like there's some people that said the rapture already happened already.

And there's people that say there's no rapture in the Bible.

I think you'll agree with me that the answers are sort of all over the map.

Do we just take a camera on the street to learn the truth or do we go to the Word of God?

Heaven and earth will pass away, Jesus said, but my word will not pass away.

I wanna make you a promise, in this seminar, what I'm gonna share with you is from the Bible.

I don't want you to believe what I say, I want you to believe what the Bible says.

And I'll be sharing with you what the Bible says on these very important issues.

By the way, it's the best-selling book in the world, and it stood the test of time.

It began to be written about 3, 500 years ago by 40 authors on 3 continents.

Some were shepherds, kings, scribes, fishermen, all different backgrounds.

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Signs of Christ's Return

Signs of Christ’s Return, Part 1

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