Whenever the word 'last' is mentioned, what comes to your mind? In games, like whot, when a player says 'last' card! How do you understand it? How do you feel? Possibly, conclusion or end of the game with the loser being stopped from playing while the rest start afresh. Yes you are right. The last times is also marked by the end of some events and people, and a fresh beginning.
To begin, let discuss these questions: when does the last times begin and how can we identify it.The last times began in 1914. After coming to the earth and died for us and was resurrected, jesus went back to heaven to present the value of his sacrifice ( just as when child brought back report to his parents that sent him on errand), God made him the king of the kingdom as a reward for being faithful to him on earth as promised. The first thing that jesus used his kingly power to do was to throw setan the devil and his wicked spirit forces down to earth. The bible pronounced woe to the earth and to the sea because setan have come down to them having great anger knowing he has a 'short period of time'. The bible called this short period of time 'the last times'.
How can we identify the last times?The bible prophesied that out of anger, setan will bring woe or hardship, suffering and affliction to the earth. Infact, it says, "the last days will be critical , hard to deal with" world conditions will degrade to the point that people would choose to die. Why? Peoples'attitude will change for worse, that one will betray his family member, lovers of themselves, lovers of money, hypocrisy, not ready to stick to agreement, pretenders, disobedient to parents , slanders, without self-control, greedy, proud, firece, and lots more. Yes, in different localities we hear or see people use fellow humans for money rituals, out of love money. We also see or hear about get-rich-quick schemes used to extort people of their hard earned money-the result of greediness.today, peple are becoming more violent more than ever-lack of self control and being fierce.
What about world events? The Bible also says that world events would get worse. It says that there will be food shortages, wars in one place after another, earthquakes and other natural disasters
and widespread of diseases. Are we not seeing that there is high cost of living now more than ever? We are also hearing reports of war, we also read and hear about different kinds of natural disasters in different parts of the world. These are signs of the last times. But one may wonder, last times of what? Last times of setan and his wicked spirit forces, last time of deteriorating world conditions, last times of people exhibiting the above mentioned bad traits, last times of diseases and hunger, last times of all forms of natural disasters,last times of even political elements that subject their subjects into oppressive rule.
Apart from the bad signs of the last time, there are good things that would come out of the last time. For example, the goodnews will be spread in all the entire earth as a result, true knowledge will become abundant.One may also want to know, after the last days, what next? Then the prayer offered by billions of people in the world will be answered on a grand scale: .......let your name be sanctified, let your kingdom come, let your will take place, as it is in heaven so also on earth. Yes, the sanctification of God's name will cause his will to be done on earth where good people from God's eyes will enjoy a peaceful condition where sickness, death and every form of badness will be no more, under the kingdom rule.
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