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What Are the Signs of the Last Days? 5 Bible Truths You Need to Know
How will people live in earth’s last days? How will things be in a few years? How will God react to what is going on and how people are behaving? Can we continue to act so selfishly and proudly and still receive the favor of God? No. In fact, the Bible says earth’s last days will be terrible. But take heart — God will protect His own.
1. Signs of the Last Days: Who Will Escape
Luke 21:36 — “Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Earth’s last days will soon come, and the Bible says that few will escape. Usually, those who are highly esteemed in this world are not those God favors.
For you to stand in earth’s last days, you would need to be like Jesus, and not fashion yourself to this society’s standards — because you can follow this society or you can follow God. You cannot belong to both groups. One group belongs to Satan; the other belongs to God.
There are two kinds of people in this earth’s last-days timeframe. Since Abel and Cain, there have been two kinds of people: the good and the bad, the wicked and the righteous, the selfish and the giving, the proud and the humble, the honest and the corrupt. Earth’s last days will declare who is on God’s side.
2. Signs of the Last Days: Why Is God Angry
People think that God will never be angry at people. But God’s patience and forbearance has a limit. This is because God cannot let His character be trampled in the dust without revealing Himself, for that would mean God did not care about right and wrong. And if God let people in earth’s last days behave however they wanted, it would mean that God allowed sin and evil to go on unchecked.
What is right and wrong for God and what is right and wrong for our society are very different. Many things that are very evil in God’s eyes, our society does not see as bad at all — things like selfishness, pride, and dishonesty. And many things our society judges as evil, the Bible does not view as severely. Often, things are judged much more harshly in our society than the way the Bible views them. Earth’s last days will come as a surprise.
3. Signs of the Last Days: God Is Merciful
The reason God has not yet destroyed sinners is that God is slow to anger. God lets and allows people time to see if they will turn and repent. God is slow to anger, but His patience has a limit. When people crucified Jesus, His Son, God the Father did not immediately punish the Pharisees.
For forty years, everything went on as usual. Earth’s last days did not come for them right away. The sun shone, the birds sang, the food grew in the fields. Yet in AD 70, Titus came to Jerusalem and took the city captive. One million Jews perished, many crucified. This was Jerusalem’s “last day” on earth — one of the most terrible events ever to happen on earth. The writer Ellen G. White says this is a sample of what is to come over all the earth.
4. Signs of the Last Days: A Warning Needs to Be Given
We need to give warnings to people. More than that, God calls people to give the warning that things are coming, and unless people repent, they shall receive the punishments of a loving God. Earth’s last days will come for the earth and for our society.
Are you ready to follow truth and not this world? Are you ready to follow Jesus and the Bible, and not what society says is true? Both cannot be true. Both cannot be from God. The Bible says that the world will soon become as wicked as in the days of Sodom — when God could not bear the pride, selfishness, lying, and arrogance, the unloving and unkind spirit, and God took away most of the people living there. This was earth’s “last day” then, and this same kind of last day will soon come again to finish the earth’s history.
5. Signs of the Last Days: It Will Soon Come
One day it will be earth’s last day — a day in which people will continue to plan, continue to think that there is no God, and that they can do as they please. They will think that they can decide what truth is, not realizing how serious this is.
It is to the point where humans are telling God what He should do. This is how offensive, revolting, and scandalous people will be in the eyes of God.
The worst thing is that many people will have gone so far into sin that they do not realize how far they have gone. Most people follow crowds, not realizing the crowd is falling toward the edge. You have to think for yourself, and the Bible gives you the right compass direction to end well in earth’s last days.
What is keeping you now from Jesus and the truth?
Repeat after me: Father God, forgive my sins. Help me to follow the truth. Give me Your righteousness, and help me to have a daily connection with You, in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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