Warning Signs for The Second Coming Identified

The Church Age begins at Pentecost (Acts 2) lasting until the church rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18) covering a period often referred to as the "Age of Grace". We are currently living in this period as of the year 2022. In prophetic history, it falls between the 69th and 70th year of Daniel 9's prophesy (Daniel 9:24-27; Romans 11). Jesus predicted the Church Age in Matthew 16:18 when He said, “I will build my Church.” Jesus has kept His promise, and His church has been prospering for almost 2,000 years. The church "rapture" will be an event that will end of the Church Age and usher in the Great Tribulation, a final seven-year period in which the Antichrist and his False Prophet emerge to rule over all nations.

Jesus left warning signs to His followers in order to prepare them for their heavenly departure and to encourage them to warn unbelievers of the church rapture and of His return. Below is a detailed description of these warning signs divided into those involving the Jewish people and those directed to all believers. End times prophecy's concerning these signs are primary covered in Daniel 7, 8, 12; Matthew 24, 25; Mark 13, Luke 21 and the Book of Revelation.

While living in Washington, D.C., we would often take the metro train into the city. In the cities Metro Center, there's a line of circular floor lights next to the train track that would start flashing faster and faster as the train approached. The flashing lights act as a warning sign to passengers that the trains arrival was approaching very soon. Just like flashing lights, the Bible has left us warning signs that as we approach the end of the age, “all these things” or warning signs that will all occur simultaneously at one point in history just before Christ's return. The word "until" appears in each of these verses indicating that something important is about to happen. When all of these major prophecies are fulfilled, Jesus' return is imminent. No one, not even Jesus knows the exact moment or day when He will return, only God the father knows. The verse below doesn't declare we can't know the time though. This is because Jesus wants us to know the time so we can prepare ourselves for exiting this world and warn others through these signs. God will reveal to His prophets with greater and greater accuracy as to the time of the event as the sign(s) are being fulfilled.

• “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." Matthew 24:36 also see Matthew 25:13

God throughout the Bible doesn't reveal to us the exact degree of precision, the day and the hour, as a general rule of prophecy. For example, God didn't tell Noah the day or the hour when the rains would come. He just said it would start to rain hard and to go and stay inside the ark. It took an entire week before it started to rain. Imagine all the people outside the ark laughing and ridiculing Noah and his family sealed inside. It was a measure of their faith to remain locked inside the ark. What a test for Noah who took 100 years to build the ark and now he's told to sit and wait patiently. Their patients paid off by obeying God.

Jesus left us a series of signposts that if any one of them came true is not a big deal, but when we see all of these things or signs converging at one point in history, you can be absolutely sure that our redemption is closing in.

• “When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near”. Luke 21:28

These great signs converging specifically relate to God's chosen people, the Israelites, signaling that His return is imminent. We will identify those great signs and apply them to current events to see if the scripture prophecy has been fulfilled and do we see them converging at the same moment in history. Below you will find that some of the signs have already been fulfilled and the remaining ones are partially fulfilled.

• "Now learn this lesson from the fig tree (Israel): As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near (Jesus' return). 33 Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. 34 Truly I tell you; this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away (Revelation 21), but my words will never pass away." Matthew 24:32–35 also see Luke 21:29-32 and Mark 13:28-30

Jesus uses an old Jewish proverb; "Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather." This verse has two underlining meanings. The primary meaning's that when you see one sign it means nothing. If you see two signs happening at the same time in history it probably means nothing, but if you see all these signs circling or converging at the same time in history be assured His return is near. The secondary message has to do with vultures. Vultures were always seen as unclean, representing death, and are a symbol of God's judgment. A gathering of vultures also indicates a "diseased" spiritual condition. As bad as the tribulation period will be, far worse is being spiritually unprepared when Christ returns or being judged as unworthy to enter the second creation.

• "For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 28 Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather." Matthew 24:27-28

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The Law of Return is an Israeli law, passed on July 5th, 1950, which gives Jews the right to come and live in Israel and to gain Israeli citizenship. Both the scattering and return of the Jewish people to their homeland is prophesied in the Bible. God's plan for the Jews was to be missionaries for the rest of the world (gentiles), but because they rejected Jesus the Messiah, God scattered them across many nations in 70 AD. with the Roman's destruction of Jerusalem. After the holocaust many Jews had no home to return to. This spurred a mass migration from Western Europe and for those who survived the death camps to the Holy Land (Palestine) which was strictly limited by the British from 1917 to 1948. There were also immigration bans put on Jews by some countries (Soviet Union, Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia). These immigration bans were later lifted. Bible verses prophesying the scattering the Jewish people among all the nations of the world. (Deuteronomy 4:25-30, Hosea 9:1-3, 9:17, Luke 21:24, Ezekiel 36:19). 

•  "I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins." Leviticus 26:32 also see James 1:1

• "Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known. 65 Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart. 66 You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. 67 In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!” because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see. 68 The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you." Deuteronomy 28:64-68

The end of this prophesy predicts the sale of Jews after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman Titus in 70 AD according to Roman history.  Afterwards this the Romans round up the remaining Jews and take them to Egypt to be sold as slaves. There were so many Jews being sold as slaves their price went down to zero, so they were giving away Jews for nothing (4-5 million Jews were sold). Moses predicted this event over 1,500 years before it occurred. God punished the Jews by scattering them for not being a light to other nations and preaching the Gospel to them. The Jews were blaspheming the name of God to other nations by preaching that they don't need a redeemer, your good works are enough to save you. God judged the Israelites twice for their disobedience. The first diaspora was caused by the Babylonians who took them captive as Moses predicted in Deuteronomy 28:47-55. This short-lived exile that would last exactly 70 years as predicted by Jeremiah below until a Persian King would set them free to rebuild their nation. They did stop practicing idolatry but were still not faithful in spreading the good news about God to the world. Not many gentiles became Jews during the Persian Empire which caused the second diaspora.

• "This is what the Lord says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place." Jeremiah 29:10

After some time, God will migrate all the Jews in the world back to their homeland. The Bible says that 1 day to the Lord is 1,000 years on earth. The following verse says that in 2,000 years, He will restore Israel which refers to them returning to their homeland and on the 3rd day or another 1,000 years, He will restore us which is the Millennial Kingdom period when Jesus reigns on earth as a ruler. Israel was recognized as a nation 1948 and their land was restored in 1967. In the end times every Jew will be living in Israel which will cause them to expand their boundaries causing Jordan to become a nation state for Palestine. Every Gentile nation will expel all the Jews from their country. Just imagine the US expelling 6 million Jews back to Israel.

• " After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence." Hosea 6:2 written 786–746 B.C.E.

Bible verse prophesying the rebirth of Israel. The "valley of dry bones" gives a picture of the Jews killed by the Hitler and the Nazi's in WW2 where six million bodies were dumped in mass graves of concentration camps valleys like Auschwitz and Dachau. Later it was discovered that two million more jews were slaughtered by Stalin in the Soviet Union. These images were printed in newspapers all over the world in 1946 & 1947. Everyone thought the Zionist movement was finished with the center of the movement being from Europe, but at the same time the world became aware of the horrors of the Holocaust. It wasn't until the people of the world saw the "valley of dry bones" images that the nation was reborn against all odds.

• "The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. 3 He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” Ezekiel 37: 1-3

• "Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. 14 I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.” Ezekiel 37:11-14, written 592 B.C.E.

• "I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms." Ezekiel 37:22

Psalm 102 is a prophesy by King David written over 3,000 years ago describing the second return of the Jews to the land of Israel. It would be the Jewish prisoners of the Holocaust that escaped and survived who would be the ones to rebuild Jerusalem. This corresponds to Ezekiel 37 vision of the valley of dry bones. It's the Jews that came out of the Nazi death camps that were put in battalions to fight the wars to save the nation from Muslim insurgency.

• "For He looked down from His holy height; From heaven the Lord gazed upon the earth, 20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To set free those who were doomed to death, 21 That men may tell of the name of the Lord in Zion And His praise in Jerusalem," Psalms 102:19-21

Jesus Second Coming cannot occur until every Jewish person has migrated back to Israel (Ezekiel 37:21-28). Not until Israel is disarmed as a nation can this prophesy be fulfilled. How does God get all the Jews back in the Land of Israel? Could it be prosecution at the hands of other nations? We can only speculate, but what we do know that it could be by Israel's prosperity in the latter days because they are prophesied to become a very rich nation once again. Our best guess is that this prophesy will be fulfilled with a combination of persecution and economic opportunity.

This prophecy is currently being fulfilled (~50% of Jews in the world live in Israel as of 2022).

There is an initial settlement order prophesied in which the Jewish people would migrate back to their homeland for a third time found in the Psalms and the Book of Isaiah 11:11-16 just before the end times. Petaḥ Tiqwa was the first village (founded 1878) in the modern Jewish settlement of Palestine and is known as Em ha-Moshavot (Hebrew: “Mother of Villages”). Below is the precise order in which they would inhabit the areas until 1940's.

1. Philistia - Gaza strip area, specifically in the philistine plains and hills (1885).
2. Eastern Galilee (1920-30)
3. Jerusalem - area of Mount Zion (1946)
4. Negev Desert - southern Israel and Western Galilee

• "They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia (1st Jewish settlement) to the west; together they will plunder the people to the east. They will subdue Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them." Isaiah 11:14

The following prophesy found in Isiah 11 also states that the Jews will be united as one. In the Old Testament, the kingdoms were divided into a north and south.

• "Ephraim’s (north) jealousy will vanish, and Judah’s (south) enemies will be destroyed; Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim." Isaiah 11:13

Jews have always occupied Jerusalem but confined to inside the old city walls and as the end times approaches, the city walls for the first time would not be big enough to hold all the people migrating back, so new suburbs would have to be built in the high places surrounding the city (the ancient lands of Ammon (Ammonites), Moab (Moabites) and Edom (Edomites) aka Transjordan before 1948 and Jordan thereafter). Ezekiel 25 says that the people of the East (Arabs occupying Ammon, Moab and Edom) will rise up to take possession of the land, but in due time Israel will gain control of these ancient high places of worship found in 1st & 2nd Samuel, Chronicles Kings (Mount of Olives, Bethlehem, Mount Moriah, Samaria, etc.). In 1967 during the six-day war this prophecy was fulfilled as the prophet Ezekiel predicted ~2,500 years ago.

• "Therefore, prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and hills (high places), to the ravines and valleys: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I speak in my jealous wrath because you have suffered the scorn of the nations. 7 Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I swear with uplifted hand that the nations around you will also suffer scorn. 8 But you, mountains of Israel (high places), will produce branches and fruit for my people Israel, for they will soon come home." Ezekiel 36:6-8

Jeremiah predicts that when the Jewish nation comes together for a second time gives the exact locations and sequence in which these new settlements in the suburbs would be built beyond the city walls because the city of Jerusalem would not be big enough. This settlement consists of nine new suburbs from outside the Tower of Hananel and ending at corner of the Horse Gate. The was no settlement outside the city walls until after 1885. In the Jeremiah prophecy back in the day it sounded strange that the suburbs would be built in that exact order because the best places to construct them were build last with locations of seven, eight and nine. These suburbs just happened to be located inside the border between Israel and Jordan before it existed. 

• "The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when this city will be rebuilt for me from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. 39 The measuring line will stretch from there straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn to Goah. 40 The whole valley where dead bodies and ashes are thrown, and all the terraces out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far as the corner of the Horse Gate, will be holy to the Lord. The city will never again be uprooted or demolished.” Jeremiah 31:38-40

This prophesy has been fulfilled. 

Two other migration predictions found in Isiah 11 are that the Gulf of Suez will dry up and that the Euphrates River will be broken up into seven independent streams. He does this to permit the last of the remaining Jews from other nations to migrate back to Israel.

• "The Lord will dry up the gulf of the Egyptian sea (Gulf of Suez); with a scorching wind he will sweep his hand over the Euphrates River. He will break it up into seven streams so that anyone can cross over in sandals."  Isaiah 11:15

Winston Churchill said that “with the stroke of a pen one Sunday afternoon in Cairo” on August 19, 1921, he created the British mandate of Transjordan, now known as the Kingdom of Jordan. This area consists of the ancient lands of Ammon, Moab and Edom. Apparently, having been drinking that day, the colonial secretary’s penmanship was wobbly, “allegedly producing a particularly erratic borderline.” The resulting zigzag that delineates the border between Jordan and Saudi Arabia is sometimes referred to as “Winston’s Hiccup” or “Churchill’s Sneeze.” 

An operation between June 1949 and September 1950 that brought 49,000 Yemenite Jews from Yemen to the new state of Israel. In Ethiopia, they have discovered through DNA what is believed to be from the tribe of Dan.

• “From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my supplicants, the daughters of my dispersed ones, shall bring my offering.” Zephaniah 3:10 This prophecy dates 630 B.C.E. 

There are also over 9,000 members of the Jewish community living in India's northeastern states, half of them are in Manipur and Mizoram. Called the Benei Manashe, these Jews are believed to be the descendants of the Menashe tribe. They have documentation tracing back 2,700 years. 

As the end of the age approached we should expect to see the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. This is another great sign pertaining to the restoration of the Jews.

• “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place 25 "Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem UNTIL the Anointed One (Messiah), the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. 26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens, (years)’ the Anointed One (Jesus) will be put to death (crucified) and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he (anti-Christ) will set up an abomination that causes desolation, UNTIL the end that is decreed is poured out on him." Daniel 9:24-27. Written 606 B.C.E.

Daniel 9 is probably the most incredible prophecies in all the Bible because it forecasts that exact time when the Messiah would be cut-off or killed. Daniels prophesy states that there is a total of 70 groups of sevens or 490 sevens. Daniel provide a sort of “clock” that gives an idea of when the Messiah would appear and be crucified. There are 7 sevens and 62 sevens for a total of 69 sevens. According to Daniel 4:16, 23, 25, and 32, each “seven” in the vision represents seven years. This is the only detail Daniel received, but this one detail provided a critical clue for later generations. The expression literally means "seventy sevens" and the year-for-a-day principle applies here (see Numbers 14:34, Ezekiel 4:4-6). 

This is further divided into 69 sevens and 1 seven (69 + 1 = 70 years). The first 69 year period is further divided into 62 sevens (434 lunar years) and 7 sevens (49 lunar years) periods when the anointed one is "cut-off". The first unit of 49 years covers the years that it took to rebuild Jerusalem, “with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble”(Daniel 9:25). This rebuilding is chronicled in the Book of Nehemiah.  The 49 sevens represent the Hebrew year of  Jubilee or the year at the end of seven cycles of shmita (Sabbatical years). According to Old Testament regulations, this year had a special impact on the ownership and land management in Israel. According to the Book of Leviticus, Hebrew slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven, and the mercies of Yahweh would be particularly manifest. Christ free us from sin by paying our debt with His death on the cross.

Seven ‘sevens' = 49  lunar years

Sixty-two ‘sevens = 434 lunar years

Total of 483 lunar years (483 x 360 = 173,880 days/365 = 476.4 solar years)

There are 483 lunar years (Hebrew calendar) and we convert them into solar years, which equals 476 solar years until the Messiah comes and is put to death (cut-off). A Hebrew calendar year can be 353, 354, 355, 383, 384, or 385 days long.

Converting the 360-day year used by the ancient Jews, 483 years becomes 476 years on our solar calendar. Adjusting for the switch from B.C. to A.D., 476 years after 444 B.C. places us at 33 A.D., which would coincide with Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem (Matthew 21:1–9). The prophecy in Daniel 9 specifies that, after the completion of the 483 years, “the Anointed One will be cut off” (verse 26). This was fulfilled when Jesus was crucified.  Daniel 9:26 continues with a prediction that, after the Messiah is killed, “the people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary.” This was fulfilled with the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.. The “ruler who will come” is a reference to the Antichrist, who will have some connection with Rome, since it was the Romans who destroyed Jerusalem. The final "seven" or a seven year period is covered in Revelation section. Daniel received and recorded this prophetic revelation while serving as Chief Counsel in the Persian court. 

Historians know of at least four decrees made by the Persian emperors "to restore and build Jerusalem." Cyrus made one in 538 B.C, Darius I made one in 520 B.C and King Artaxerxes Longimanus I made two, one in 458 B.C. and another in 444 B.C. Some decrees were to rebuild the temple and/or others were to rebuild the city. Persia’s king Artaxerxes issued the long-awaited decree (actually two decrees) to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. Only one of them fits Daniel's time constraints and this becomes clear when we work out the puzzle of the seventy "sevens".  Below is the breakdown:

476 years - 538 B.C.= ~62 B.C. No significant biblical event

476 years - 520 B.C. = ~44 B.C. No significant biblical event

476 years - 458 B.C. = ~18 A.D. No significant biblical event

476 years - 444 B.C. = ~33 A.D., Christ's ministry ends, His crucifixion and resurrection

God made it easy, we only have one correct choice! This is one of the most precise, chronological Biblical prophesy's anywhere in the Bible requiring basic math to prove its accuracy.  On March 5, 444 B.C. King Artaxerxes in his 20th year gave Nehemiah permission (decree) to return and rebuild the city of Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 2:1-8). This confirms our starting point. If you count the days from the date of King Artaxerxes decree the end date is Sunday March 29, 33 A.D. Of the 70 “sevens,” 69 have been fulfilled so far in history. 

This prophecy has been fulfilled.

This leaves one final “seven” year period yet to be fulfilled. Most scholars believe that we are now living in a huge gap between the 69th and the 70th seven called the Church Age. The prophetic clock was put on pause temporarily by God due to the Jews rejection and crucifixion of their Messiah. Because the Jewish people rejected Jesus as their Messiah, God scattered them throughout other nations (Leviticus 26:32) and turned His attention primary to the gentiles since Christ's crucifixion ~2,000 years ago. As the Church Age comes to an end, Christ will rapture all Christian's living and dead to closeout the age of grace. Next, God will immediately turn His full attention back on the Jewish people during 70th Tribulation period. Daniel's final “seven” years is what we refer to as the seven year Tribulation period. Half way through this seven year period (3.5 years), an Antichrist figure will arise and fulfill Daniels prophesy.

• "So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation, spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains."  Matthew 24:15

In 70 A.D., the second temple was destroyed, along with the city of Jerusalem, by Titus' Roman army. Daniel states that a third temple will be rebuilt in its place when he says, "And at the temple he (anti-Christ) will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him." What we do know from this verse is that the "abomination that causes desolation" will happen in a wing of the third temple. You are correct in thinking that there is no third temple in Jerusalem today.... but there going to be. There has to be in order to fulfill this prophesy. And the idea that the Antichrist will set himself up as "God" in God's holy temple is a desecration.

• "He (Antichrist) will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God." 2 Thessalonians 2:4

Jews today are quietly planning the construction of the 3rd Jewish temple. The Temple Institute's founded in 1987 ultimate goal is to see Israel rebuild the Holy Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, in accord with the Biblical commandments. They are in the process of reconstructing the 103 implements required to do Temple worship as they did back in the Old Testament.

One thing is certain: God has a timetable, and He is keeping things on schedule. He knows the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:10), and we should always be looking for the triumphant return of our Lord (Revelation 22:7).

This prophecy has yet to be fulfilled.

Just before Christ's return Israel will be a nation without walls. The only way this can happen is if there is a peace treaty between itself and the surrounding Muslim nations. Not until Israel is disarmed as a nation can this prophesy be fulfilled. 

• "This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil scheme. 11 You will say, I will invade a land of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people—all of them living without walls and without gates and bars. 12 I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land." Ezekiel 38:10–12, also see Zechariah 2:4

This prophecy has not been fulfilled.

Another sign of the end time is the emergence of Israel as a top exported of fruit including oranges, bananas, pineapples and tomatoes. When we see the desert bloom, and the fruit trees growing in a place that was once a desert we know Christ is sending us signs for His return.

• "In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit." Isaiah 27:6, also see Isaiah 35:1-2

This prophecy is currently being fulfilled.

The city of David was abandoned and laid under a pile of rubble for 2,500 years. The city was first excavated in 1979 where a few of the storerooms of King David were uncovered. Today the entire city has been unearthed and exposed for the first time. Israeli archeologists have exposed it and the ruins are in beautiful condition to be seen by all as in the days of King David and Solomon. The city will not be revealed until the desert blooms.

• "The fortress will be abandoned, the noisy city deserted; citadel and watchtower will become a wasteland forever, the delight of donkeys, a pasture for flocks, 15 till the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the desert becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field seems like a forest." Isaiah 32:14-15

This prophecy has been fulfilled.

Before the migration back to the homeland in 1967 photos depict the Judean hills surrounding Jerusalem as a barren desert with little sage and vegetation because of the lack of water. The Judean Hills today are covered with cedar, olive, and pine which were planted after the six-day war conquest. Since the reforestation efforts the rainfall has also doubled within the region as predicted by Isaiah. 

• "I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs. 19 I will put in the desert the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive. I will set junipers in the wasteland (highlands), the fir and the cypress together, 20 so that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it." Isaiah 41:18-20, also see Isaiah 51:3

There is also a prophesy that when God performs these miracles the Jews take credit for renewing the land. In Isaiah 48:3-11 passage the Jews are resistant in giving God credit, but in the end through His prophetic word God will convince them that it is He who worked the miracles. This was God's purpose in having hundreds of predictions in the Old Testament concerning the second return of the Jews to the Land of Israel. The Jews are currently resistant, but one day soon their eyes will be open to giving God the credit.

This prophecy has been fulfilled.

"But there is one great difference between Socialists of the Christian era and those of today  The Socialism of the Christian era was based on the idea that ‘all mine is yours,’ but the Socialism of today is based on the idea that ‘all yours is mine.’"

 ― Winston Churchill

There were many incredible events and technological advancements that took place in and around the year 1948 including the birth of the computer age. It is believed that the birth of the State of Israel started a countdown to a series of events leading to the return of Jesus Christ. The year Israel became a nation can be interpreted as 1948 when the United Nation confirmed Israel's charter and US confirmed it as a nation. It can also be debated that Israel didn't become a nation until 1949 when a peace treaty was signed with Israel enemies because in 1948, five Arab nations were trying to exterminate it. Another birth date to consider is 1967 when Israel regained control of the city of Jerusalem during the Six Day War (Arab–Israeli War). We believe that 1948 was the more significant year because it's the date most accepted by history and because it was a pivotal year economically, socially and politically. Listed below are historically significant events that originated around that time:

• The birth of the nation of Israel, U.N. charter ratified in 1948.
• Invention of the transistor chip by AT&T and Bell Labs (picture to the left) in 1948 opened the door for the creation of the modern computer.  The UNIVAC was introduced as the first general-purpose electronic digital computer design for business application designed principally by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly in 1951. Computers were adopted by banking, banks were linked to one another, borders disappeared and the global economy was born. In 1943-1945 the ENIAC computer was developed but was very inefficient and replaced by the UNIVAC. This is the same time when the World Bank & International Monetary Fund were founded.
• Commercial Television (mainstream TV) made its official debut in 1948 with the Invention of the transistor chip. TV has the power to shapes public opinion and has become mindless entertainment (brain candy). It has the capacity to define reality. TV reality has become not what is actually true, but what people want to believe is true. For instance;  you can pick which version of truth you want to hear...CNN or Fox.
•  Claude Shannon, American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory". Shannon is noted for having founded and perfected information theory with a landmark paper, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", which he published in 1948. Information Theory deals with the laws of measuring, processing and transmitting information  via communication systems which made Network TV possible. Unfortunately, TV has become mind poison and has become a platform for propagating an immoral, secular world view. Entertainment TV has embedded into the plots of prime time dramas issues such as abortion, evolution, feminism, gay rights, euthanasia, teenage pregnancy, etc.  promoting them with a positive message. This propaganda has been woven into the fabric of society as being "normal" or morality acceptable. When for centuries these acts were considered morally wrong in America. Suddenly, American morals have been reversed in a single generation, the 1948 generation.
• Norbert Wiener published a book on Cybernetics in 1948: "Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine". It is the first public usage of the term "cybernetics" to refer to self-regulating mechanisms. The Science of creating a living machine.
• Dennis Gabor introduced “A new microscopic principle", which he termed holography. A hologram, aka holograph, is a real world recording of an interference pattern which uses diffraction to reproduce a 3D light field, resulting in an image which still has the depth, parallax, and other properties of the original scene.
• Debut of the Doomsday Clock set to 7 minutes before midnight. It moves back and forth according to the perceived threat level at any given time. The clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe. Maintained since 1947 by the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the clock is a metaphor for threats to humanity from unchecked scientific and technical advances. 
• GATT organization was formed in 1948 to promote international trade (reducing or eliminating trade barriers) for the new global economy. GATT was later replaced by the WTO (World Trade Organization is an intergovernmental organization)
• The United Nations (UN) was developed after WW2 (1945) in order to prevent another world war. The UN setup the infrastructure for global government even issuing their own constitution (UDHR). The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was drafted and proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on December 10, 1948. The whole purpose of the UDHR is to empower the UN with the authority to govern all nations. That same year, it created the mechanism for regulation the global economy introducing the Vienna Law of Treaties (Law of Treaties) which binds the countries that sign it making Law of Treaties the supreme law. Article 27: "A party may not invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty. This rule is without prejudice to article." This is a form of global government sounds a little like the Treaty of Rome forming the European Union (EU).
• United Nations (UN) composed of 66 member nations in 1948. One year after there were 128 member countries with their own unique ethnic makeup. Various colonial empires were granted independence allowing existing countries to be divided into many smaller, more ethnic countries that had a hard time existing within the same borders. Previously, these countries were held together by colonial powers. Today it has 193 members.
•   On July 16, 1945, the 'Trinity' nuclear test plunged humanity into the so-called Atomic Age. The first-ever nuclear bomb was detonated in New Mexico, at the Alamogordo Test Range. Robert Oppenheimer named the atomic test “Trinity” in a conflicted homage to John Donne’s poem, “Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God”.
•  The first Indo-Pakistani War was fought between India and Pakistan over the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1947 to 1948. It was the first of four wars that was fought between these newly-independent nations. The war continues today except with nuclear capabilities. 
• Yugoslavia while ostensibly a communist state, broke away from the Soviet sphere of influence in 1948. Burma (Myanmar), North & South Korea, North & South Vietnam, Pakistan, Taiwan broke from China along with many more countries gained independence the same year. 
• Since 1948 earthquake activity has tripled, many of magnitude greater than 7.  8 of the 10 largest earthquakes to  hit the planet since 1900 have come after 1948.
• The first widespread use of Antibiotics (chloromycetin, aureomycin) in 1948 transformed the most terrifying diseases in the developed world into mild inconveniences if caught in time (tuberculosis, syphilis, pneumonia, bacterial meningitis, bubonic plague, staphylococcus). Since, growth hormones have been fed to cattle and used in other food stocks included antibodies. As a result, our food is so laced with antibiotics they have lost their effectiveness. Microbes in the human body have developed immunity to antibodies and almost every known disease organism has build up resistance to a least 1 antibiotic. A disaster unfolding before our very eyes.
• The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism or promoting unity among the world's Christian Churches. Their mission is to merge all the world religions into one. It wants to create a kinder, gentler, all-inclusive religion. This merging is in high gear with the formation of the United Religions Initiative (URI), a global grassroots interfaith network which is linked to United Nations, ECOSOC, which is one of the 6 principal organizations of the UN.
• Robert Dickey, a physics professor at Princeton University played a crucial role in proving that we live in a big bang universe by formulating a calculation to measure residual radiation. In 1948 he wrote a paper on residual radiation left over from the cosmic creation event later proving that the universe suddenly came into existence just as the Bible claims.
• Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The first 7 scrolls were discovered by chance in by Bedouin, in a cave near Khirbet Qumran on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea in 1947. Since then, no further scrolls have come to light, though excavations have been carried out from time to time at the site and nearby. 

List obtained from Hal Lindsey Report

1948 Hinge of History Part I & II

April 1, 2011 & April 8, 2011  

"A secular society will continue expecting God to bless them even after they eliminate all evidence of His existence from the public square."

― Michael Crist

Commoner

Roughly 20% of the world's population as of 2021 are fully committed Christians who bring others to faith in Christ.  The great commission (Matthew 28:16-20) will be fulfilled when one-third or roughly ~30% of the world's gentile population including ~30% of Jews become believers in Christ leaving the other two-thirds apostate. This is clearly stated in Zechariah's prophesy below referring to the Jews. Once this prophesy is fulfilled Jesus Christ's return is impending.

• "Strike the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered; And I will turn My hand against the little ones. 8 And it will come about in all the land,” Declares the Lord, “That two parts in it will be cut off and perish; But the third will be left in it. 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, Refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, And I will answer them; I will say, ‘They are My people,’ And they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.” Zechariah 13:7-9

This prophecy is currently being fulfilled.

This timeline is confirmed by a couple of very important Bible verses. In the New Testament Jesus has a very critical appointment with a Samaritan woman at the well. Samaritans were part Israelite and part race other types of people, who were not exiled when the Northern Kingdom was destroyed in 722 B.C.E. The Israelites detested Samaritans and would avoid all contact because they were not fully Jewish. In the verses below Jesus (fully Jewish) is telling her that a day will come when both Jew and Gentile will worship God together. 

• "Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” 25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” 26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you— I am He." John 4:21

Later in the story the woman converts many of the other Samaritan Gentiles to believers in Christ after her encounter at the well and they invited Him to stay with them for 2 days.

• "So when the Samaritans (Gentiles) came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days." John 4:40

The following verse is an Old Testament prophesy about when God will restore and revive Israel after 2 days. 

• "Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds.2 After two days he will revive us (Jewish Nations Reborn); on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence. 3 Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth." Hosea 6:1-3 also see Hosea 3:5

These two verses speak about Jesus' (Messiah's) return. The first one is addressing the Gentiles and the other one  is to the Jews. On God's timetable one day is equal to 1,000 years on Earth (2 Peter 3:8, Psalm 90:4). So, two days is 2,000 years, Jesus is saying that two thousand years from His ministry on earth, He will restore Israel as a nation at a time when both Jew and Gentile will worship together as one body in Christ. If we add 2,000 years plus 33 A.D which is the year Jesus ministry ended we get the year 2033. It's unlikely that this is the exact year of His return, no ones truly knows, but we can say that the date falls into the time table estimates of 2021 to 2059 above. The important thing to understand is that we are living in the period when all these events will take place (The Rapture, Tribulation and Jesus' return). This second verse also says that on the 3rd day, or add an additional 1,000 years, Jesus will restore us which is referring to the thousand year, Millennial Kingdom period after His return, when Jesus reigns on Earth as a ruler and Lord. We also believe this "third day" or three days reference mirrors Jesus resurrection on the third day.

If you have not received the free gift of pardon that Jesus Christ paid for on the cross, please do not delay a decision for God any longer. The end of the Church Age will happen in an instant and if you have not made a decision for Christ, you will find yourself living in a secular, Satan worshiping world of unimaginable horrors. 

• "As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left. 42 “Therefore keep watch (be prepared), because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into." Matthew 24:37-43

"If Christians worldwide would invest 1% of their income we could share the Gospel with enough people to fulfill the great commission within a minimum of five and a maximum of ten years. It's currently at 0.1%".

Ralph Dana Winter

Founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission

American Missiologist & Presbyterian Missionary

"Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today."

―  Abraham Lincoln