Understanding the End of the Age Vol. 2 Part 10
Abounding Lawlessness
Sunday, January 30, 2022
I. Understanding the End of the Age
A. Abounding Lawlessness
1. (ref. Matt. 24:1-14) Jesus tells of (9) signs of the end-times: (1) worldwide deception & false Christ’s; (2) wars and rumors of wars; (3) famines; (4) pestilence; (5) earthquakes; (6) believers hated and martyred; (7) falling away from the faith; (8) abounding lawlessness & loss of love; (9) worldwide preaching of the gospel.
a. (Matt. 24:12-14 AMP) because of multiplied lawlessness (anomia) and iniquity the love (agape) of the body will grow cold.
~(2 Thess. 2:3-10) mystery of lawlessness
b.(Luke 17:26-37) like the days of Noah and Lot
~Human Hybrids (Play Human Hybrids 1:30 min. video)
~Sexual perversion
~Thoughts continually evil
c. (2 Tim. 3:1-9 NLT) the dangers of the last days.
~(2 Pet. 3:3-7 NLT) scoffers will come.
2. Israel and the many other irrefutable signs.
a. (Matt. 24:32-34) the parable of the fig tree.
b. (2 Pet. 3:8) God’s 7,000 year timetable.
c. (Luke 21:25-26; Joel 2:30-32)
~(4) consecutive blood moons are called a tetrad. Before 1949 the convergence of (4) consecutive blood moons on Jewish holy days hadn’t occurred in over 500 years.
~(1949 and 1950) The re-establishment of God’s holy nation Israel occurred on May 14, 1948.
~(1967 and 1968) In 1967 Israel regained all of Jerusalem as her capital in the Six Day War.
~(2014 and 2015) 2014 Gaza War
3. The Rapture
a. (John 14:1-3) Jewish wedding symbolism
b. (1 Cor. 15:51-54) new bodies at the rapture
c. (1 Thess. 4:13-18) Christ’s coming should comfort
d. (1 Thess. 5:1-11) pretribulation rapture
[Pastor Lee Stokes]