Second Coming Signs Part 3

Second Coming Signs

When the disciples asked when, what and how Jesus gave to them a long and lengthy answer.

Thus we have The Olivet Discourse.

Jesus outlined 4 major signs to being with.

SIGN NUMBER 1:  THE FIRST SIGN THAT JESUS TALKS ABOUT
IS THE SIGN OF DECEPTION   V4

I believe the anti-christ will have the ability to deceive the masses, and therefore we will see a mass deception like non other.  It's coming, when?  I do not know, but we must prepare and do so now.


SIGN NUMBER 2:  DISPUTES AMONG NATIONS   V 6

The Bible says as we see wars and conflicts and distinction among people groups escalate it will become greater and greater in intensity. There will come a day when it will explode.  If you go home and read the book of Revelation it is all about war.  The book of Revelation is a bloody book.  It is about the ceaseless and unending terrible life taking war, that will cover this planet during that 7 year tribulations period.   It is not going to be just that one-day, having been peaceful the day before, rather it is going to be something that escalates.

When the church is taken out of this planet, I believe things will carry on much as they did before, and all the things that started while the church was here are just going to get worse and worse. Now it will get exponentially worse… But in my understanding and opinion, the buildup will be steady and strong beforehand.

We are living today in a time where if we are not careful we will take for granted that we are at peace, we are at peace at our own risk.    The major world wars were fought with conventional weapons.

We have major weaponry today.  Much of the scientific research that is done today across this world is given to arms development.  Here we are with all of these diseases that we can’t cure, and all these problems we can’t solve, and yet it’s amazing how much time, effort, energy and money are spent developing instruments of war.

In fact despite all the arms limitations, military weapons, and corresponding sanctions there is still one military weapon, and 4000 pounds of explosives for every man, woman, boy and girl on the face of the planet.

And if someone gets careless can you imagine what will happen? That is why the Bible says as we move toward the end of this age there will be war and war will be an industry.  Is war an industry?  You bet it is.  My father works in the Dallas area, and while I was growing up they had an old bomb line that was almost out of commission.  There were few bombs stored or produced there.  But today it is cranked up and fully operating.

Jesus was telling his disciples:  There will be wars and rumors of wars. What you have seen you will see more of and as you move to the end of the age you will see more and more of this. More than you’ve ever seen before.

SIGN NUMBER 3: THE SIGN OF DEVASTATION. V 6

There will be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in various places.  Earthquakes famines and pestilences described the state of devastation.  We live in a day to day when we cannot open a newspaper or turn on the television, and not here about earthquakes or famines.  You cannot turn on the television cannot find someone who is raising money for the poor, sick and needy. As you flip the channels someone is airing a commercial trying to help the hungry.

Beloved there a lot of people around this globe who are dying from starvation, and pestilences.  Even within the borders of our United States of America, the poverty numbers are rising, those who are legitimately hungry are greater, and as we open our eyes we will see that we are moving toward the end of the age.  As we move toward the end of the age we will realize these things are in greater proportions.

When you consider earthquakes, the earthquakes happening in regions once thought impossible to be touched by an earthquake.  The Bible says as we come to the end of the age there’ll be more and more earthquakes.


I found some rather interesting data as I was preparing for this sermon.  From 1863 until 1908. Of 38 years there were 12 recorded earthquakes of 7.0 or higher.  In the next 38 year. From 1901 to 1938 that number jumped to 53. And from 1939 to 1976 the number went up to 71. But what really got me was this:  in the next 38 year period  from 1977 until December of 2015 252 earthquakes occurred 7.0 or higher.

In the last 4 years from 2016 to 2019 we saw 50 7.0 or higher.
Whatever you make of this data it is clear we are living in a time when earthquake frequency has increased exponentially.

What the Bible says is when we get close to the time when the church is out of here, and the signs are given freedom to be everything that they will become, in the period of time right before that moment, there will be a growing intensity of all these things. Does the sign of the earthquake measured up to that? When I read the statistics, when I watched the news around me, it reminds me that the coming of my Lord draws near.

What about pestilence?

That is a term for diseases.  Tragically there are many diseases that exist today that we can’t control.  Have you been reading carefully what’s going on in our world today around us?  Years ago they thought they had eradicated some diseases that were monsters in the past.  Did you know polio once thought to be eliminated has returned?  Did you know that tuberculosis once believed to have been eliminated is making a comeback? Our antibiotics that used to be so effective in fighting and controlling diseases, are becoming increasingly useless to even touch the super viruses that we have today.

And today we have Covid-19


We’re living in a strange and sometimes frightening world.  And I’m telling you beloved I am glad that I have the word of God, because if I did not have the word of God I really would be frightened.

But I find comfort today because when it gets worse, and it will!   But the Lord is going to come back and take us with him and that thrills me.

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