End of times. Prophecy.
Fires. Floods. Hurricanes. Global warming.
Malachi 4:1 - “Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire,’ says the LORD Almighty. ‘Not a root or a branch will be left to them.”
Luke 21:25-26 - "There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken.”
Luke 21:29-31 - “Look at the fig tree and all the trees. When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near. Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that the kingdom of God is near.”
Pandemic. Hunger. Earthquakes. War.
Isaiah 26:20, 20 - “Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by.”
Luke 21:10-11 - “Then he said to them: ‘Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.’”
Matthew 24:6 - “You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come”
Luke 21:32-33 - “Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.”
Revelation 3:10 - “Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.”
Substance abuse. Idolatry. Divination. Unbelief.
Galatians 5:19-20 - “The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions.”
1 Timothy 4:1 - “The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.”
Matthew 24:24 - “For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.”
Timothy 4:3-4 - “For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.”
Luke 21:34-35 - “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap. For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth.”
1 Peter 5:88 - “Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.”
Shootings. Terrorists Violence. Hatred. Mental illness. Suicide.
2 Timothy 3:1-4 - “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.”
Matthew 24:12 - “Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.”
Matthew 16:2-3 - “and in the morning, 'Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.' You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.”
Luke 21:36 - “Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”
“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.”
— Matthew 24:14