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The Sky is Falling, Chicken Little!
How can we tell that the end is near? Prophets have been saying this for almost 2000 years. For a time the disciples thought it would be in their day. Evolutionists say it will occur in five billion years when the sun becomes a red giant and engulfs the earth. Some say it is already here.
Most of the signs have been around for years, so how do we know when they will be significant?
When the disciples asked Jesus this question, He gave them a list of supernatural signs: (earthquakes, dark day, sky falling and the powers of the heavens shaken). But He gave one specific sign.
"This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached to all the world as a witness to all nations, and then the end shall come. (Matthew 24: 14)

Signs of the End of the World
I have based my understanding of the significance of the signs on the convergence of the signs. This means that I did not look at any one specific sign. I looked at all the critical signs and powers that are to be in operation just before the end. Then I looked at how global or influential or powerful they were. Finally, I looked at which signs were missing and how easily they could be fulfilled. As a result, my conclusion is that the only missing signs are the preaching of the gospel, the final persecution and the seven last plagues. I have evidence that the Holy Spirit is being poured out to fulfill this last sign, because Joel 2 is now being fulfilled.
So these are the signs and conditions of the world during the end.

Prophecy	The Time of the End
	Dark ages						Time of the end
Time Prophecy	2520 years (Babylon Fallen)										Babylon Returns
	2300 years								Judgment
	1335 years								Church regains power			Church #1		Babylon falls					1000 Years
	1290 years						Church is wounded					Church and state unite					Seven Last Plagues	Second Coming
	-	1260 years Persecution							USA Grows			USA #1	Europe	The Beast
														The Image	Now	The Mark
Church	-	Two witnesses							The Three Angel's Message							Tribulation
Feasts	Trumpets								Yom Kippur									Tabernacles
8 Heads	Five fallen heads							Sixth head			Seventh head					Eighth Head
Seals	4	5	Sixth seal															Seventh seal
Churches	3	4					5	6	Seventh Church								Global Israel United
Trumpets	3	4					5	6	Seventh Trumpet									Rescue
Trumpets	Interpretation #2				1	2	3	4	5			Sixth Trumpet					Seventh Trumpet
Matthew 24	Tribulation							The days of Noah				Deceptive miracles				False Christ		Second Coming
			Signs					Evolution				Global Climate Change
Date	530	538	1755	1780	1789	1798	1833	1843	1844	1929	1981	1991	2000	2001	Now	Sunday laws
Event			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	9	12	14	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Fulfilled Prophecy																Unfulfilled Prophecy
The 2300 days (Daniel 8: 14) began in 457 B.C. and ended in 1844. The period known as the "time of the end" formally begins in 1798. It starts at the end of many long prophetic time periods and the rise to power of groups and governments that will be significant in the end. It has the following events: November 1, 1755 - The great Lisbon earthquake. May 19, 1780 - The mysterious dark day over Northern America. 1789 - The French Revolution. 1798 (Papacy Falls) - The 1260 and 1290 year prophecies end. The Papacy officially loses power ending 1260 years of religious tyranny. November 13, 1833 - The stars fell in the great Leonid meteor shower that gave life to modern astronomy. The last super power (The Unites States of America) is rising to prominence and is now in ancient Babylon. 1844 (Judgment Sealed) - The 1335 year and 2300 year prophecy ends and judgment for the saints begins. Blue Laws instituted and are not generally enforced. 1929 (Wound Healed) - The Papacy regains some of its power when the Lateran treaty is signed and the church receives possession of land and political autonomy. 1945 - The second world war ends and with it goes the power of monarchies. New forms of government are introduced. 1980's - The Moral Majority comes out in the open, vowing to take over every political office "from dog catcher to school administrator to the presidency of the United States". 1981 (Babylon Revived) - Babylon the Great is now allied with ancient prophecy as a 2520 year prophecy ends. 1981-1982 - The secret alliance between the pope and Ronald Reagan to end communism creates the beast named Babylon the Great. 1989-1991 (The Seventh Head) - The seventh head (USA and the Papacy) defeats the sixth head (communism). The Soviet Union collapses leaving the United States as the only super power for the near future. This occurred because of the union of the USA and the Papacy to defeat communism. 1991-1992 - The United states of America is officially the only remaining super power. The soviet Union has collapsed and In a symbolic transfer of power, the new Babylon defeats the old Babylon in the Persian Gulf War. The Catholic Coalition is intent on becoming a political force in the United States by controlling a voting block that represents 25% of the population of the United States. The European Union uses the same currency. 2001 (The Lamb Becomes a Dragon) - The Homeland Security Office forms with powers that are similar to the beast power during the dark ages. They have psychologically justified torture as a legal tool as we discovered in May 2004 from the disgraceful treatment of the prisoners of Abu Ghraib. A group with this type of power that is controlled by the United States will be used to enforce the mark of the beast. Current time. The image of the beast is being created. We can see external evidence of it by the recent behavior of the United States in their contempt for law, vilification of non-supporters and use of abhorrent tactics. The time of trouble seems to have started. The Mark of the beast. Europe has already taken the legal and social steps to justify this enforcement of Sunday Laws. The Seven Last Plagues. The Second Coming marks the beginning of the millennium. Millennium

1. Gospel preached. The bible seems to suggest that there will be one year of preaching the Gospel effectively, followed by one year of plagues. I am confident that the gospel preached by persuasion and not by force can occur in one to four years.
2. Influential Powers. Only two to four powers are important in the end.
   • United States and the Image to the Beast. The lamb with two horns now speaks as a dragon. The power called by God to protect the persecuted people of Europe has now been corrupted by the forces of evil that were operating in Europe. As of September 2001, it might have officially started speaking as a dragon because it has made laws that reflect the persecuting powers of the dark ages. It has formed the image to the beast because of several activities.
     • Cooperation with the Church. Ronald Reagan and the Pope conspiring to end communism. George Bush consistently flirts with the church. He has created two religious laws that are a back door way of supporting the church despite the constitution. And the media is strangely silent on this issue. I wonder why? Could it be that this is a strategic military move in winning a propaganda war. Is the media is now secretly controlled by the church? Has their former rabid scorn of the church has been curbed?
     • USA Patriot Freedom Act 2001. These laws are adequate for persecution.
     • Homeland Security Office. Their power resembles the courts of Inquisition in the medieval times.
     • Religious Support. It has gotten around the law establishing religion. It will be interesting to see how much they will distribute to churches from the billions of dollars that will be used to fund the "Faith Based Initiative" and the "School Voucher Bill".
     • Abandoning the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Except for the second, all other rights have been done away with under the new terrorist bill. For the end time saints, bearing arms is not a right we care to exercise.
       1. Prohibits government established religion.
       2. Right to bear arms
       3. Use of private property in peace time
       4. Unreasonable search
       5. Self incrimination
       6. Fair and speedy trial
       7. Jury Trial
       8. Excessive bail or torture
       9. All other rights belong to the people. The office of Homeland Security has taken more rights.
     • The Lamb that Speaks like a Dragon. This gentle country changes. No one with eyes and ears will disagree that politically, we are now like the dragon. At least the rest of the world thinks so.
       Just like the medieval church, we have persecution laws and torture is now a tool to be used.
   • Catholic Church. They will be the major religion and they will enforce their dogmas. In order to make the vision of Fatima (1927) come true, that Russia must be converted and dedicated to Mary, its goal had been to end this power. It even supported Adolph Hitler because it thought Hitler would destroy Russia.
     Now it is proceeding with its mission to control the world. However, despite its goal to topple the United States (as it helped to end communism), it must work with the United States.
   • Europe. It is seen in Revelation 17 as giving its power to the church. The prophecy of Daniel 2 claims that attempts at a political reunion like the old Roman empire would fail. However, unity by church control will occur.
   • Spiritualism. Demons working miracles will influence these powers and the people of the world. Already the demonic appearances of "Mary" is driving the pope and Catholic eschatology - giving it the confidence to proceed with its mission to rule the world under Catholic law.
3. Social Signs. God says that the increase in the immoral social climate can be traced to one event.
   The Theory of Evolution ("Planet of the Apes Descended from the Apes"). According to the bible we were created in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1: 26-27).
   In the Image of God. God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (Genesis 1: 27)
   However, the bible says that there will come a time when people will ignore evidence of His power and worship or give credit to the creature, believing that there were created from lower animals.
   Willingly Supressing the Truth. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.
   He Gives Evidence. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
   Futile Speculations of Foolish Scientists. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools,
   ... In the Image of Crawling Creatures and Beasts. and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.
   Immorality is the Result. Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. (Romans 1: 18-25)

   The Message of the First Angel In 1844, God sent a warning to the world around the same time that the theory of Evolution was gaining ground. Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. (Revelation 14: 7) God is the Creator

   
   The futile speculations of evolution began in the 1830's through the work of many atheists, Hegel, Lamark and Darwin. It says that we crawled out of the slime as worms, then fish, then cockroaches, then frogs, then lizards, then dinosaurs, then birds, then mice, then apes, then man. Soon we will be gods. God accuses them of supressing the truth and being willingly stupid. God further claims that He has revealed their error to them.
   The Wild Kingdom. 1800 years before the theory of evolution emerged, the prophet correctly saw the theories of the future. In the same way that the ancients substituted an image of God for idols in the form of many species of animals, modern man has accepted an image of his origins from birds, animals and reptiles.
   The consequences of this belief about our origins are astounding. We have no restraints or reason to consider the claims of God. We feel free to pursue any immoral passion and we begin to act like the wild animals that we hope are our parents. If we are descended from apes then there are no rules to obey but our own. But if we are descended from God, then perhaps there is accountability.
   For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
   Depraved Minds. And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them. (Romans 1: 26-32)
   Some of this brutal behavior can be seen in the theory of "survival of the fittest" and that human behavior is just a mindless reaction to brain chemicals that can be fixed with a pill. Humans are also seen as a collection of chemicals and parts that can be swapped and changed at will. Every destructive, immoral choice is now "an uncontrollable disease". Our children join gangs and emulate the viscious, promiscuous and territorial behavior of wild animals, quoting these theories as an explanation of their behavior.
   • Immorality. We are worse then the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. Immorality has not only affected isolated cities, it is the business of some countries and it is transmitted to our homes every day and it has corrupted major churches. Under such words as "kinder, gentler nation", "tolerance" and "politically correct" immorality is desirable, while old fashioned morality is being systematically condemned. There is no tolerance for the Ten Commandments.
     
     India has seen a sudden change in their popular culture message within the last six years. As movie producers try to access the Asian population in Europe and the United States they have been producing homosexual films, and promoting fornication to target these audiences and the nation of India.
   • Murder. Scientific advancements have caused us to devalue life. With cloning and embryo farming we can grow racks of human beings to harvest cells and body parts. We kill unborn children when pregnancies are inconvenient. We invade innocent nations or starve them into submission to extract our will.
   • Fear. It has driven the United States to cross over the line. Now, because of bad choices, good men will make bad decisions for what appears to be justifiable reasons.
   • Wars. I hesitate to mention this for several reasons.
     • Christ said that wars and rumors of war were not the sign of the end - only that they would get worse. It is also possible that this statement refers to the time of the breakup of the Roman empire and the constant attack by the Barbarians which may be a model of our future decline.
     • It also appears that when the end comes people will be surprised.
     • The evidence seems to suggest that the world will cooperate to wipe out a peaceful group of people on religious grounds because of some unknown terror. It does not appear that they are at war with each other on the magnitude of a World War III. The nations are cooperating to wipe out the righteous. At the very end they turn against each other, but the former atmosphere is one of cooperation to unite against God. It is the type of effort we see at the building of the tower of Babel. The nations unite against the interests of God.
   • Mockers. People are mostly unconcerned with religion and they love to mock faith in God. Instead they have designed their own gods. Some churches mock those who "take the bible literally" without discussing the unusual fulfillments that are occurring. Instead they conclude that God is not coming to rescue us, we are responsible for our own fate. The secular media is just eager to promote that view.
   • Excessive Marriage and Sexual Immorality. We will be marrying and giving in to marriage.
     » Divorce. The divorce rate among people getting married for the first time is 50%, even in the church.
     
     » Cohabitation (Trial Marriage). Over half the people in Europe are living together, despite the fact that they are supposed to be about 90% Catholic. Premarital sex seems to be the norm among all singles and teenagers. Even in the conservative south, Christian teens engage in certain sexual behavior that gives them the false sense of security that they are still virgins.
     In a recent study 66% of couples live together before marriage. 40% of them produce children and 50% of those with children break up after five years. While only 15% of married couples with children break up after five years. Cohabitation is disastrous for children.
     Overall, the divorce rate is 2.5 to 3 times higher than couples who do not live together before marriage.
     
     » United States Same Sex Marriages and Civil Unions. The recent debate over same sex marriage has resulted in a call for an amendment to the constitution. It will define marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Forty four states have already made laws to define marriage according to this definition.
     Same sex civil unions are allowed in Vermont. Colorado (1975), Massachusetts (2003), San Francisco (February 12, 2004), New Mexico (February 20, 2004) until the attorney general stopped them, New York (February 26, 2004), Oregon (March 4, 2004) and Hawaii.
     California and New York issued marriage license in defiance of existing laws in 2004. The supreme court of Massachusetts told the state to allow these marriages.
     September 7, 2005, California became the first state to pass a law legalizing same sex marriage.
     
     » Global Same Sex Marriages and Civil Unions. These marriages are allowed in Canadian provinces (2002), the Netherlands (2001) and Belgium. In September 2004, the new government in Spain approved laws to legalize these unions and adoptions. On June 29, 2005 it officially became the law. The Catholic church is upset. The United Kingdom will allow these unions in 2005.
     Canada has even taken enormous steps to protect homosexuals from any words or attitudes that deny the legitimacy of that kind of relationship, even on biblical grounds. Canada officially made it a national law in 2005. On June 28, the house of commons voted it in, defining marriage as a union between two persons. The senate is expected to approve in July.
     On December 5, 2005 Britain legalized same sex civil unions. South Africa did it a month before.
   This discussion is not meant to take a position on whether such laws are right or wrong. The purpose is to demonstrate that we are in the end time social climate described by the Bible.
   
   Like the Days of Noah and Lot. At the very end, two civilizations under judgment ignored the last critical signs. They even ignored signs that pointed to supernatural intervention and prophetic fulfillments that seemed ludicrous because they were unwilling to acknowledge God. The attitude of the secular world is business as usual and pleasure on demand. People are marrying, living together, partying and generally preoccupied with pleasure.
   The Days of Lot. It was the same as happened in the days of Lot. They were eating, they were drinking, They were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building. But on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from Heaven and destroyed them all. (Luke 17: 28-29)

   Life as Usual in Excess					Crucial Signs (Exodus of the Righteous)		Destruction (Rain)
   Eating	Drinking	Marrying	Planting	Building	Animals migrate	Noah entered the Ark	Flood
   Eating	Drinking	Marrying			Angels Came	Lot Escaped	Fire and Brimstone
   Eating	Drinking	Marrying	Planting	Building	People leave Babylon Jews accept Christ	Flight from the cities	Second Coming Fire and Brimstone
   Wars and rumors of wars

   The Days of Noah. For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark. and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be. (Matthew 24: 37-39 also Luke 17: 26-27)
   
   Faith on the Earth. Jesus questioned whether or not He would find faith on the earth when He comes. Although the message of the angel "lightens the earth with glory", will the vast majority of the people choose darkness?
   
   Despite the fact that Catholicism is the state religion in Europe or that over 90% of the people in many European nations claim to be Catholic most of Europe is secular and virulently opposed to religion. We appear to be at the stage France was in on the brink of the first French Revolution. They mock Christianity and religious conservatives. Jesus Christ is admired by only one percent.
   The lesson learned is that a state established church is the death of true religion. It only sucks up government funds and discriminates against religious minorities.
   England is so secular that most of their old churches have been remodeled into secular buildings. Binge drinking and alcoholism has gotten so widespread that seventeen year olds are suffering from cirrhosis of the liver.
   As the secular western world neglects God, their spiritual emptiness is manifested in an indulgence into sex, drugs, alcohol and riotous living. To compensate for this emptiness, they are legislating niceness just as the church tried to legislate morality.
4. Natural Disasters. The weather seems to have become psychopathic since 1989. Sooner or later, the signs will shift from those of atmospheric origin to signs of cosmic origins, or threats from objects in space.
   • Earthquakes. We had two great earthquakes within four months in the same location. The earthquakes and tsunamis on December 26, 2004 killed about 221,000 people. Three volcanoes became active in that region in April 2005. 74,000 were killed in Pakistan in 2005.
   • Cyclones and Roaring Seas. Rogue waves and strange hurricane patterns. Florida was assaulted by five hurricanes in 2004. Japan was hit by over ten in the same year.
     In 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed a major city leaving a million homeless. Weeks later, hurricane Rita was the strongest on record. The entire 2005 season held the record for number of storms, damages and wind strength.
   • Heat Wave. As of 2007, the years 1997 to 2007 were the hottest on record since these statistics were kept in 1880. Seven of the worlds eight warmest years have occurred since 2001 and ten of the warmest years have occurred since 1997. A heat wave killed over 35,000 in Europe in 2003, 14,802 died in France. 2007 was the hottest year, and for the first time in 128 years, Moscow experienced sustained May temperatures of 86 degrees or higher.
   • Red Tide. This started appearing in the oceans on a regular basis since 1986, killing millions of fish.
   • Hole in the Ozone Layer. In 1985, scientists discovered a hole over the south pole. It is now over 11 million square miles (28.5 square kilometer) or three times larger than the United States.
5. Religious Signs.
   • Demonic activity. Psychics, communion with the dead and increased belief in Unidentified Flying Objects and the return of space aliens are now common entertainment.
     For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect. (Matthew 24: 24)
     
     The Catholic church is training more priests to be exorcists because of an increase in demonic activity and Satanism in the church. The young people in Italy appear to be attracted to the devil.
     And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs; for they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them together for the war of the great day of God, the Almighty. (Revelation 16: 13-14)
   • Demonic Mary. Many apparitions of Mary are leading the church into idolatry and to prepare them for a false Second Coming of Christ.
   • Attack on God. The messages from Mary consistently attack the first four commandments. Terrible disasters will occur because of sin, the only way to avoid it is to:
     1. Another god. Mary will save us
     2. Idolatry. Pray the rosary. Pray to Mary and other saints. Fill your churches and living rooms and backyards with icons and statues and images. Bow before these when you pray.
     3. Do not call upon the name of the angry God. Go to mass and confession. Talk to priests, Mary and other saints so that they can talk to God for you. Promote the feeling that God has no mercy. He is only full of wrath and anger and that you need Mary to stop his anger and intercede for you.
     4. Observe the false Sabbath. Close all shops on Sunday, ban sporting events. Have a uniform worship.
   • Signs and wonders. There are pitiful fake healings and other signs which still impress the gullible. Eventually, some will be very convincing.
     And he does great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceives those who live on the earth by [the means of] those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast. ... (Revelation 13: 13-14)
   • Ecumenism. A philosophy of "Political correctness" and ecumenism on the basis of common points of doctrine has caused many to abandon the word of God and ridicule those who take the bible literally. One tactic that they constantly use is to classify them with the "unscientific".
   • Israel Returns. According to Paul in Romans 11 and Zechariah 12, Israel will recognize the Messiah and will return to Christ because of a great outpouring of the Spirit. Those who accept Christ by faith will be grafted back into the great olive tree of God. Then all Israel, the entire church, will be united and waiting for the Second Coming. It all begins when Israel ignites a volatile situation and the nations besiege her.
   • American Led Religious Theocracy. Religions will take over free governments. We will begin to impose Christian theocracy.
   • Attack on the Sabbath Keeping Churches. Besides the Pope calling for all governments to legally recognize Sunday as a day of rest, the attack on the covenant of God involves attacking major Sabbath churches so that a splintered and fractured church has no collective power. There were two major Sabbath churches. One ceased to exist in 1995.
     
     » Worldwide Church of God. One should take a look at how the Worldwide Church of God was destroyed from within. The former Sabbath keepers who believed in prophecy has splintered because its leadership and pastors have repudiated almost every doctrine that they once taught. It all started when Joseph W. Tkach, Sr, the successor to Herbert W. Armstrong - changed most of the doctrines. Here is an example of what has been happening.
     • Abandon Bible. Belief in progressive revelation that denies previous beliefs.
     • Abandon Prophecy. Joseph Tkach's view that no one can know anything about prophecy and that even if you could it would not matter anyhow".
     • Abandon Sabbath. 7 January 1995, he told his followers that the church would no longer demand a legalistic observance of the Old Testament Sabbath.
     • Embrace Sensuality. Christian rock music
     • Embrace Mary. Homage to Mary. This is a clue to the source of their infiltration.
     • Prevent Publications. They tried to retain ownership of the writings of the founder to stop all publications of his book.
     • Scattared. The church is now splintered and scattered, effectively ending their ministry.
     How could this have happened? Their ministers seem to have suddenly changed their entire belief system. The members seem to be caught unawares.
     This did not happen overnight. Something about their centralized structure, family succession and member complacency made them easy targets for infiltration and sabotage.
     
     » Seventh Day Adventists. Could this happen to Seventh Day Adventists? Many think that it is already happening and that the process has infected our seminaries. I see a problem with both members and leaders. Our members seem to be in pursuit of this world - they call it blessings from God. The leadership seems to be in pursuit of acceptance by those in power. We do not want to be too odd.
     I have had two prominent pastors who have promoted ridiculous beliefs. One believes that we should get out of the business of teaching prophecy. That sounds like one of the falling pillars of the Worldwide Church of God, doesn't it. The other publicly states that he sees no reason for the death of Jesus. It is irrelevant. A third pastor that I had, from the same church, wanted to open and sponsor a gay club on one of our campuses. Not for the purpose of leading people towards the values of God. No. But because they need a place to socialize with their friends.
     I even heard that some of our leaders believe that our views about the end time role of the leaders of the Catholic church have been "assigned to the historical trash heap". This explains their pretending to do things that never get done. Many have turned to evolution. How pervasive is this attitude among our leaders that one could openly teach these things?
     It is the ministry of ordinary members that will complete the work of God. You have the power through the Holy Spirit. Whatever mechanism caused the collapse of the Worldwide church of God will not succeed here because God is calling individuals.
     Wake up! Learn and cherish the former beliefs because God is in the process of validating them.
6. Major Prophecies. The remaining prophecies are the persecution based on our refusal to disobey God, the spread of the Gospel and the Second Coming. Right now, the powers that will persecute are consolidating their capabilities. Therefore, the events that we will see on this earth that are related to the prophecies are related to the church controlling Europe and the United States and expanding its worldwide influence.
   • The Time Prophecies. The "Time of the End" officially began in 1798.
     All the actual time prophecies to the Jews have ended. The 2300 day prophecy ended in 1844 and the others ended in 1798. The time prophecy to Nebuchadnezzar ended in 1981.
   • Seven Churches. We are in the time of the seventh Church - Laodicea. The people who are being judged.
   • Seven Seals. We are in the time of the sixth seal and all of the astronomical signs associated with this seal have passed - except the one that says the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
     Now, when something is shaken things begin to fall out. So this might refer to bombardment by asteroids. It might be the hail stones associated with the immediate return of Christ or it might be the an event shortly before the return of Christ that causes "men fainting from fear in expectation of the things coming on the earth, for the powers of heaven will be shaken " Luke 21: 26. Such a planet killing event will cause everyone to turn to religion.
     The Seventh seal is the eight days associated with the Second Coming. So, for all intent and purposes, the sixth seal is the last one that we will experience on earth.
   • Seven Trumpets. We are in the time of the seventh trumpet - when the gospel will be finished. The true gospel was restored right after we got out of the dark ages and at the same time Christ began the judgment.
   • Seven Thunders. In 2006, the third thunder is ending. This is the fall of Babylon. The fourth thunder is the latter rain.
   • The Beasts of Revelation 13. There are two beasts and one image.
     1. Beast with Seven Heads, Ten Horns and the Wound. It gave its power to the leopard beast and transformed this beast. This is the Catholic Church controlling Europe.
     2. Lamb with Two Horns. It causes the world to worship the first beast. This is the United States who works with the first beast.
     3. The Image to the First Beast. It is created by the United States. Somehow Catholcism unites with the United States.
   • The Prostitute of Revelation 17. We should now be looking for evidence of the Catholic Church trying to control international, United States and European politics and laws. The activities might be hidden.
   • The Eight Heads of Revelation 17. Since 1991, we are in the time of the seventh head. The eight head is Satan who will make a false appearance at the end.
7. Babylon the Great. The end of times appears to be a copy of the end of the first Babylon. At that time there was a war between Babylon and Persia, religious persecution and an exodus of Israel.

Unfulfilled Prophecy
What is happening now? Almost everything is fulfilled. The public debate will shift to religious issues. The trend will be the control of government by the church. Amazingly, with this veneer of religion, there will be the strong influence of the immoral and the occult. Everyone will be ruled by their own passions, but it will be the Christians who will succeed in influencing the government. Especially as it relates to international concerns.
The United States will increasingly grow into its dragon phase, telling the world what to do under threat of punishment. This type of force will extend into religious affairs.
We should look for the following events.

• Gospel Preached. God will take control of this work if we do not do our part.
• Miraculous Signs. Among the believers and also demonic signs.
  The demonic signs would even fool the saints if that was possible. They use these abilities to deceive the world. Matthew 24: 24, Revelation 13: 13-14 and Revelation 16: 13-14.
• Visions and Dreams. Joel predicts that God will send visions and dreams. I know that He is.
  It will come about after this that I will pour out my Spirit on all mankind; And your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on the male and female servants I will pour out my Spirit in those days. (Joel 2: 28-29)
• Jews convert. Paul predicted that they will be saved (Romans 11: 25-26). God will make an effort to graft them back in.
• Image to the beast. Watch the growth in power and attempts to install religious rules and support of religion.
  We need to look carefully at the office of Homeland Security. This agency has the potential of being the source through which Revelation 13: 15-17 will be fulfilled.
• Church and State. Watch for any signs of religions trying to control the United States and European government or get the government to finance its programs.
  In December 2003, the French proposed the banning of religious fashion in public schools, except for small crosses and star of David. But Muslim women must remove their scarves, Jewish and Sikh men their head gear.
  
  Revelation 13 points to the control of the United States by the church. Revelation 17: 12-13 points to the European nations handing power to this great global church and state union.
  A 120 year old prophecy by Adventists predicted that the Protestant church will be the one to capture the United States government and ultimately join forces with the Catholic church.
• A fearful astronomical sign. This is a guess about what the fearful event might be. But there will be a fearful astronomical event that may not be the actual Second Coming (Luke 21: 26). The Second Coming is a sudden event that is over quickly. It does not allow time for prolonged fear of what is about to happen to the earth as Luke seems to suggest.
  This has the potential of causing several impossible scenarios to occur because, for the first time, human abilities will not be able to solve the impending disaster. The world will look to religious solutions. Wars are not the sign of the end, and they have never made people turn to God permanently. Historically, people have also recovered from natural disasters, plagues, wars and famine without any help from God. They have learned to trust science and technology and human reasoning to find solutions to global crises and they have always emerged better off with the experience.
  
  However, a bombardment of the earth by asteroids that are one to ten miles in radius within a year of discovery would cause us to consider religion.
  • Acceptance of the Gospel. I personally do not believe that God will scare people into listening to Him. This has not been His method. He has used power in the past. But this power was used to cause amazement and awe at His abilities. He does not want obedience through terror.
  • Triggers political takeover by a religious leader. The Catholic church is the only viable religious institution poised to assume this leadership role in this crisis. There are several reasons why this will occur.
    • Vatican Observatory. Some have speculated that the governments of the earth would not publish this information because of the chaos it would cause. However, most people who search for space debris are private individuals and the Vatican. The Catholic church has a modern observatory and it is not in the best interest of the Catholic church to keep such an event secret from the world. In fact, the church is waiting for such an event to demand that it should lead the world.
    • Bible Prophecy. The bible predicts that the world will hand over power to the church. It further states that the existing conditions will cause people to allow persecution and the death penalty on the basis of religious beliefs - even in the United States.
      How could such a scenario happen in the United States of all places? This wonderful country!
      Fear.
      September 11, 2001 should teach us how. Within a month of this tragic event almost all Americans willingly gave up their freedoms and were willing to allow medieval inquisitions because of the fear of terrorism.
      Therefore, how will we react to impending global annihilation. The fate of the dinosaurs. The Catholic church will step in with an answer and you will want to listen because you will want to believe. They will show you prophecies from Mary that predict such a disaster and why it will occur and what the remedy is.
      You will obey because you will reason - "what will it hurt to give homage to Mary? The earth will be destroyed in six months anyway". And if the church tells you that everyone must obey, then you will willingly kill the minority who refuse because you are willing to do anything to avoid this global calamity. Your current attitude towards God and religion will dictate your response to this crisis.
    • Papal Expectations. The pope expects what he calls a "fissioning event". Bible prophecy calls it the "strong delusion". It is a future global event that will cause a paradigm shift in our beliefs and make him the world leader. If he dies then the next popes will apply this prophecy to themselves. All these expectations are based on several prophecies from demons pretending to be "Mary".
      Malachi Martin, The Keys of this Blood, Page 639.

    John Paul is waiting ... for an event that will fission human history, splitting the immediate past from the oncoming future. It will be an event on public view in the skies, in the oceans, and on the continental land masses, of this planet. It will particularly involve our human sun ... it will be seen as the glory of the Woman whom the apostle describes as "clothed with the sun" and giving birth to "a child who will rule the nations with a scepter of iron."
    ... it will immediately nullify all the grand designs the nations are now forming and will introduce the Grand Design of man's Maker. John Paul's waiting and watching time will be over. His ministry as the servant of the Grand Design will then begin.

• The Appearance of Satan. He comes as an angel of light. The Bible predicts this as an event to avoid and the Marian prophecies predict this as a good thing. According to the prophecies from "Mary", she will appear to the world before the real Second Coming to convince the world to listen to the pope and avoid the wrath of God. If the world does not listen, there will be global disaster. Mary will appear with lots of convincing witnesses such as Jesus, Joseph, disciples, important Bible characters, Catholic saints, possibly a pope. Maybe Elvis too.
  This event also has the potential to cause the global persecution.
• Mark of the beast. Forced Sunday worship and global persecution.
  I hope that at this point, the people of God will refuse to persecute their fellow brothers and sisters and that the church will look at the mistakes of the past and look at current events and examine the beliefs that had only a few months ago. The belief that they would never resort to such medieval behavior. That they never thought that what they are now experiencing would be possible. That any divine tyrant who would demand murder and torture of good people is not worthy of love.
• The Seven Last Plagues. These are God's response to the persecution of the church.

Adventist Prophecies
Seventh Day Adventists have several other details about the fulfillment of prophecies that they have held for about 100 years. The current behavior and laws of the United States and the involvement of Protestant churches in launching this power is a unique Adventist belief that people scoffed at. Now it is a reality since 2001.

Adventist Prophecy	Prophecy	Fulfilled
The United States will be the last world power	Beast from the Earth	1991
The United States will become a persecuting tyrant	Dragon Speaks	2001
The Catholic church will regain international power	Wound Healed	1929, 1991
The Protestant churches will be the first to influence the government	Union of church and state	1980, 2000
There will be a union of church and state. The Catholic church will influence the United States.	Cooperation Babylon the Great	Fulfilled in Europe
There will be a national Sunday law that will be enforced	Mark of the Beast	Fulfilled in Europe. Not really enforced in the USA
Spiritualism will be popular	Miracles	1970's
Spiritualism will infiltrate the church	Miracles	1980's
God will use simple methods to complete the work	Zechariah 4: 6	Internet, House to house
The final movements will be rapid	Woman in Childbirth	e.g. The fall of communism.
Judgment passes from the righteous dead to the living	The Sealing	I think it has started
Visions and dreams	Joel 2	Fulfilling
God will take control	Isaiah 63: 1-6; Isaiah 59: 1, 16-17	Fulfilling
The church is ridiculed and persecuted	Mark of the Beast	Not fulfilled
Satan will impersonate Christ	The Eighth Head	Not fulfilled

Consolidating Forces: The Making of Armageddon
Two religious groups believe that they are fighting Armageddon or some precursor to that war. Both appear to be making moves to create conditions for a self-fulfilling prophecy. Both believe that they will be victorious.

The Muslim prophecies say that major battles will be fought in Afghanistan, Baghdad and Syria. And when Al-Madhi returns every faithful Muslim should join the army led by Al-Madhi who is assisted by someone from Afghanistan who leads a great army. This army goes to fight against Israel and the Christians. The execution of their war has forced America to fight in those places mentioned by their prophecies. In another version of a Middle East prophecy, the final battle will be fought in the holy nation of Iran. Our sword rattling is truly stirring up the pages of their prophecy. And these groups are acting according to their prophetic scripts. But it is unfortunate that the actions of the United States prompted them to also fulfill these prophecies of their own free will.
The religious right believe the opposite. With some tweaking of the prophetic players, they now believe that the Muslims are the forces of Antichrist. They used to believe that Russia and China would start a war in the Middle East and persecute Israel. But the opposite has happened. Now they have recast the role of America so that it is a power that has been called by God to defeat the wicked and bring in the kingdom of God. They are even deliberately trying to turn Russia into an enemy again.
What will actually happen? The nations will march against Israel and surround them. Even though the religious right believe that they must support Israel, somehow, America will stop supporting Israel. I do not know how that will happen. But it will. America will also lose the war. We will never leave the Middle East.

Evangelistic Efforts
If we use money collected or number responding as proofs of success of the evangelistic efforts of God Himself then the great attempts of the prophets of God to articulate the position of God have all been devastating failures. People simply prefer darkness to light. Neither the professed people of God nor the wicked are willing to contemplate the appeals for life from God.

• Noah. He was 480 years old when he began to preach. His first son was born at the age of 500 and the flood came when He was 600 years old. But after 120 years of preaching and building an ark, the entire world rejected the message of Noah. Only eight people were saved. My calculations estimate that the total population of the earth at the flood was 15 to 33 million, based on two children per family.
  and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought about a flood on the world of the ungodly. (2 Peter 2: 5)
• Lot. After spending several decades in Sodom only three people were saved. His wife looked back, longing for Sodom, and she died. His older children refused to leave. Noah was able to save only his family but Lot lost most of his. For the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, they had only one night of warning when the angels came.
• Moses. He was forty when he ran from the comforts of Egypt to herd sheep. He was eighty when he came back to lead the exodus of stubborn goats. But when Moses was 120 years old, after forty years in the desert, of the estimated six million Jews in the exodus only two reached the Promised Land, Joshua and Caleb. If you count the fact that God took Moses to the Promised Land in heaven then only three people were saved. The others died in the wilderness because they longed for Egypt, just as the wife of Lot looked back to Sodom.
• Jesus. After preaching to Israel for 3½ years and living among them for 33½ years, He died as a rejected man. Even the twelve disciples had abandoned Him.
• Second Coming. What will be the situation at the end of time? It appears that the majority will reject God.
  ... However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth? (Luke 18: 8)
  Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it. (Matthew 7: 13-14)
  Is there any hope that this final effort of God will have major success. Will billions of the estimated 6.6 billion be saved? We have only one example of a very successful effort by a prophet who actually wanted failure!
  Jonah. For forty days, he preached to the residents of Nineveh, the capital of Assyria. All 120,000 people repented and were saved. But Jonah was angry that God did not destroy them.
  ... An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign, and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet. For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. (Matthew 12: 39-40)

  -	Buried Three Days and Nights	Message Preached	Audience	People Saved
  Jonah	In the Belly of the Sea Monster	Repentance (40 Days)	Assyria	120,000
  Jesus	Suffering and Burial	Gospel (40+ Jubilees)	Babylon	Unknown

Efforts to Stop the Preaching of the Message
The gospel message involves several aspects.

• Love. The love of God and love for each other. This message is popular if we are willing to say that all gods are the same. Anything less would be negatively criticizing another religion.
• Sin. This message is not popular and is condemned as preaching from a divisive old book. Anything less would be negatively criticizing another person's natural lifestyle.
• Final Warning. The three angel's message are God's final warning to the world. They convince the world of sin, righteousness and the judgment to come. In particular, the second angel's message admonishes the servants of God to warn the world that Babylon has fallen, they should leave so that they will not be punished.
  This message criticizes a particular government and church. It is not popular.

We cannot separate the message of love from the message of warning. Unfortunately, those in power are not content at having the messages preached and labeling us as crackpots. No. They are making every effort to stop us through legal, social and business methods. They are changing laws, saturating the public with a particular "peace" message, controlling communications businesses and influencing the governments. At some point it will be impossible to say anything other than

"God is love and all paths lead to the same god."

The Message of the Three Angels
The judgment has started. Worship the creator			Babylon (USA and Papacy) has fallen. She corrupted the nations. Leave her					Avoid the mark of the beast or receive the plagues
Personal	†	Radio	Television	Satellite	Books	†	WEB Sites	News Letters	Telephone
Religious Speech (Redefined, Regulated and Censored)
Laws		Vulgar Speech		Hate speech			Anti-Government speech
		Legal Pressures					Social Pressures
Media Censorship		Vulgar speech	Hate Speech	Socially Unacceptable Speech			Negative speech	Divisive speech	Unpatriotic Speech
Business Censorship		Few owners	Few opinions	Stakeholder control	Business rules		Customer Complaints	Advertiser Threats	Cost
		Power Pressures					Cost Pressures
Door to Door		Blocked Message
Personal		Radio	Television	Satellite	Print	Internet		Email	Telephone
The Dying World

With the changing environment and the new socially conscious rhetoric, religious speech walks a fine line between hate speech and unpatriotic speech and will be banned from public dissemination because of the legal and social pressures brought on the companies that carry their message.
How can we preach the full message under these conditions? We cannot.
And when did this censorship take hold of the liberal western cultures? Within the last six years (since 1998).
This means that we must try to be as successful as possible before we are totally shut out. The only option we will have at that point is personal evangelism in private homes and this too is being regulated in places like Canada, China, Middle East and countries of the former Soviet Union. Businesses already ban "soliciting".

Western Democracies. Now that communism is dead, western democracies have immediately begun to censor religion.
In France you can be jailed for printing a book that "incites hatred".
In Canada you can be jailed for printing offensive advertisement or preaching incorrect things in public and on the internet. In other western democracies you can be fined for convincing someone to change their religion.

The Succession of Empires

Powers		Detail	Major Activities	Year	Prophecies
1	Babylon	70 years	Fall of Babylon	539 BC	Daniel 2: 38; 7:4
2	Medes and Persians	Cyrus	Babylon is captured under the leadership of Cyrus.	539 BC	Daniel 7: 5; 8: 3,6
3	Greeks	Alexander	The first great leader	336 BC	Daniel 8: 5; 11: 3
		4 Divisions	Seleucus, Cassander, Ptolemy and Lysichamus	306 BC	Daniel 7: 6; 8: 8; 11: 4
		2 Divisions	Northern and southern kingdom (Seleucid and Ptolemy)	281 BC	Daniel 11: 5, 6
4	Romans	Caesar	Augustus Caesar defeats Cleopatra and Mark Anthony in the Battle of Actium	31 BC	Daniel 11: 17-18
		Messiah	Passover Lamb - First Coming. Resurrection proven.	31	Daniel 9: 24-27; 11: 22
		Dragon	Rome persecutes the Messiah and God's people	66	Revelation 2: 10; 12
5	Europe	Ten Divisions	Tries to unite and will be unsuccessful.	768 - Now	Daniel 2: 41-43; 7: 24; Revelation 12: 3; 13:1
		Little Horn	Persecutes God's people when the government is controlled by the church	538 - 1798	Daniel 7: 21; Revelation 17: 3, 6
6	Papacy				Revelation 13, 17
7	United States	Lamb	Rescues God's people	1600+	Revelation 13: 11
			Righteous judged	1844+	Day of Atonement. Daniel 7: 22
		Dragon	Uniting with the church to become Babylon the Great	1981+	Revelation 13
			Speaks like a dragon	2001	Revelation 13
			Persecutes God's people	-	Revelation 13: 15-18
			Seven Last Plagues	1 year	Revelation 16
			Fall of Babylon		Revelation 18
8	Satan	Eighth head	False Second Coming		Revelation 17
9	Kingdom of God	Messiah	King - Second Coming. Righteous resurrected		Tabernacles day 1
		Millennium	Land rests from sin	1000+ Years	Revelation 20: 1-3, 7
		Messiah	Judge - Third Coming. Wicked resurrected		Tabernacles day 7. Revelation 20: 4-5
		Judgment	The wicked are judged		Revelation 20: 11-15
			Armageddon		Revelation 16: 16; 19: 19; 20: 8-9
			Hell		Revelation 20: 14-15
		New Earth	Israel lives with God in peace	Forever	Revelation 21

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Study to show yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2: 15 Copyright     Updated : August, 2006 Credits: Author: Laverna Patterson. Editor: Patterson (January 2008) Read "The Great Controversy" by Ellen White.