Are there any Biblical prophecies currently being played out in the world today?

Question

My view is that there is absolutely no information to suggest that we are in the end times, or that the Antichrist is on Earth, or that any biblical prophecies are currently playing out. In every era of history, you could make a case that these things were happening, as they are open to broad interpretations and they are often vague.

However, I am always interesting to the idea that I might be incorrect. I am certainly open minded on the subject. So I am wondering what events you see in the world today that might lead you to think that any biblical prophecies are coming to pass, or are on their way to happening.

Answer 1

Well, I think a big one was when Israel Got their land back which was foretold. And someone told me the end will be during the time those people who were born then are still around. Now I can't remember why they said this.

But one that's happening right now is the storms and natural disasters. It was predicted these would increase when the time is nearer. And they are!

The bible also speaks of Antichrist(s). But there will be a final one who denies Jesus is the Christ-so look for that. I can think of one religious organization that denies his Deity.
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Answer 2

2Peter 3:3 - For YOU know this first, that in the last days there will come ridiculers with their ridicule, proceeding according to their own desires  and saying: “Where is this promised presence of his? Why, from the day our forefathers fell asleep [in death], all things are continuing exactly as from creation’s beginning.”

The fact many ridicule those who firmly believe we are living in the last days and these ridiculers only see that "things are continuing exactly as from creation’s beginning” is itself part of the sign that we are living in the last days of this system.
Yes, it is true that there have always been wars, natural disasters, lawless people etc. The difference now however is the scale and the fact that all of these things are occurring simultaneously is definite proof that we are living in the last days.
There are other more exciting prophecies contained within the Bible book of Revelation that require deep Bible study in order to understand symbols contained there from their correlation with other scriptures in the Bible. For example, Babylon the Great is spoken of a harlot who sits on many waters and commits fornication with the kings of the earth. (Revelation 17) It is well worth the time and effort to study and understand the meaning of these prophesies, some of which have had recent fulfillment others are now being fulfilled and the rest will be fulfilled in the near future.

Answer 3

Matthew 24:14
Also all of Matthew 24
2 Timothy 3:1-5
2 Peter 3:3, 4
Jude verse 18

Isaiah 2:2-4
Micah 4:1-3
Psalm 2:1-12

People may say that things like wars, famines, pestilences, and so forth have always been going on, and they are right.

What is interesting though, is that according to Matthew 24 for example, all these things would be going on AT THE SAME TIME! AND in conjunction with the global preaching of the good news of God's Kingdom by the Christians.

Furthermore, while the nations are warring with one another, true Christians in the same period have exchanged their weapons of war for implements of peace on a global scale, just as prophesied in Isaiah 2:2-4 and Micah 4:1-3.

Answer 4

Obviously the Xians have no knowledge of anything outside their little worlds. Wars have been going on since the beginning of civilization, same with hurricanes, tornadoes, and other natural disasters, there have always been bad people, godless or not. There are absolutely no biblical prophecies that have ever come true, not one.

Answer 5

How about the earthquakes, volcanoes erupting, mudslides, starvation, the evil and wicked people everywhere committing rapes and murders and doing unspeakable things to babies , the godless giving false doctrine, people following after witches and soothsayers or the violent children that people have raised up, there is so much evidence you'd have to be a deaf, dumb, blind, idiot not to see that.
It is as if the whole world has become as Sodom and Gomorrah.

Answer 6

Read Ezekiel 34-38.

Answer 7

Have you read Matthew 24? or 2Tim. 3: 1-5?

Matthew 24:3-14; "3 While he was sitting upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples approached him privately, saying: “Tell us, When will these things be, and what will be the sign of your presence and of the conclusion of the system of things?”

4 And in answer Jesus said to them: “Look out that nobody misleads YOU; 5 for many will come on the basis of my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many. 6 YOU are going to hear of wars and reports of wars; see that YOU are not terrified. For these things must take place, but the end is not yet.

7 “For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be food shortages and earthquakes in one place after another. 8 All these things are a beginning of pangs of distress.

9 “Then people will deliver YOU up to tribulation and will kill YOU, and YOU will be objects of hatred by all the nations on account of my name. 10 Then, also, many will be stumbled and will betray one another and will hate one another. 11 And many false prophets will arise and mislead many; 12 and because of the increasing of lawlessness the love of the greater number will cool off. 13 But he that has endured to the end is the one that will be saved. 14 And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come."

The good news of God's Kingdom( Daniel 2:44) has now reached every land. Personally in 236 countries.

Daniel 2:44: "And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin. And the kingdom itself will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite;"

2 Timothy 3: 1-5: "3 But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3 having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4 betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away."

Answer 8

Wars and rumors of wars...look whats going on in the Middle East. Natural disasters, look at Katrina and the tsunamis.

Answer 9

The gospel has been taught in nearly every country on the planet. There are only a few more to go. That's one of them.

Answer 10

Matthew 24:6-8, Matthew 24:29-31, and Mark 13:24-27 PRIOR TO and AT the Sixth SEAL -

The world is presently at Matthew 24:6-8 (below).

Immediately after the tribulation of these days that we are presently witnessing, the world will face the Sixth SEAL (Matt.24:29-32, Mk.13:24-27, Re.6:12-17 below)


Matthew 24:6-8 -

Matt.24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all [these things] must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

Matt.24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

Matt.24:8 All these [are] the beginning of sorrows.


Matthew 24:29-31 -

Matt.24:29 IMMEDIATELY AFTER the tribulation of those days (Matt.24:6-8 above, Lk.21:9, Mk.13:7) shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken (Re.6:12-13 below, Lk.21:25, Isa.13:10):


Matt.24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory (Mk.13:26, Re.6:16 below, Lk.21:27).

Matt.24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of HEAVEN to the other (Mk.13:27 below).


Mark 13:24-27 -

Mk.13:24 But in those days, AFTER THAT TRIBUTION (Matt.24:6-8, Matt.24:29 above), the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,

Mk.13:25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.

Mk.13:26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory (Matt.24:30 above, Re.6:16 below).

Mk.13:27 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven (Matt.24:31 above).


The Sixth Seal -

Re.6:12 And I beheld when he had opened the SIXTH SEAL, and, lo, there was a GREAT EARTHQUAKE; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood (Matt.24:29 above, Acts.2:20, Joel 2:31);

Re.6:13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth (Matt.24:29 above), even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

Re.6:14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and EVERY MOUNTAIN (Ps.104:6) AND ISLAND WERE MOVED OUT OF THEIR PLACES (Isa.2:19).

Re.6:15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains (Isa.2:19, Isa.13:7-8);

Re.6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of HIM THAT SITTETH ON THE THRONE (Lk.21:27, Isa.2:19), and from the wrath of the Lamb (Re.6:17 below):

Re.6:17 For the great day of his wrath is come (Re.6:16 above, Joel 2:31, Jer.30:7); and who shall be able to stand (Lk.21:36)?



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