The Last Days

{SIGNS OF THE TIMES}
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1. The Key Sign of the End of the Age - {PDF Copy} - (Jesus declared, definitively, that the “end” will not come until “this gospel of the kingdom of God is proclaimed to all nations”)
2. Deceivers in the Church - Sign of the Last Days - {PDF Copy} - (The presence of false teachers in the church provides a clear sign that we are in the period known as the “last days” - 2 John 7-8)
3. The "Last Generation" Con - {PDF Copy} - (The Prophecy Industry has been telling us for generations that we are the “last generation” that will live to see the return of Jesus)
4. What Rapture? - (The New Testament Hope is found in Bodily Resurrection and New Creation, not in a Rapture) - {PDF Copy}
5. Signs and Wonders or Christ Crucified? - {PDF Copy} - (Claims that God will reap a great harvest of souls because of the mighty “signs and wonders” the church will display in the "last days" do not square with Scripture)
6. The Apostle Paul and the "Signs of the Times" - {PDF Copy} - (Did Paul command us to the "signs of the Times" so we can calculate the nearness of the end?)
7. "Know the Times and the Seasons"!? - {PDF Copy} - (Did Jesus Command us to know the "signs and the seasons" of the end?)
8. "Concerning Times and Seasons" - {PDF Copy} - (An explanation of the "times and seasons" - 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11)
9. Revelation:  An Opened Book - {PDF Copy} - (The purpose of Revelation is to unveil, not to conceal or mystify)
10. The Parousia and the End of the Age - {PDF Copy} - (The note of finality in passages about the return of Jesus leaves no room for any interim period after his arrival)
11. The Temple Setting of the Olivet Discourse - {PDF Copy} - (The Olivet Discourse of Jesus cannot be understood apart from his conflicts with the Jewish Temple authorities that preceded it)
12. Wars and Rumors of War - {PDF Copy} - (Jesus warned of deceivers who would raise false expectations about the signs and seasons of the end)
13. The Abomination of Desolation According to Jesus - {PDF Copy} - (When disciples see the “abomination of desolation standing where it ought not,” they are to flee the vicinity of Jerusalem)
14. The Budding Fig Tree - {PDF Copy} - (The parable of the budding fig tree pointed to the destruction of the Temple predicted by Jesus – Mark 13:28-29)
15. "This Generation" in the Olivet Discourse - {PDF Copy} - (Mark 13:30-31 - Was Jesus referring to the generation contemporary with him or to one in a remote future?)
16. "As it was in the Days of Noah" - Normalcy or Chaos? - {PDF Copy} - (Jesus used an analogy to the destruction of the Flood to stress the necessity to be prepared for the sudden arrival of the Son of Man)

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