What Does the Bible Say About the Future of the World?

11.3.2024

Introduction

Jesus is coming back!

Daniel 7:9-10 (NLT)

I watched as thrones were put in place and the Ancient One sat down to judge. His clothing was as white as snow, His hair like purest wool. He sat on a fiery throne with wheels of blazing fire, 10 and a river of fire was pouring out, flowing from His presence. Millions of angels ministered to Him; many millions stood to attend Him. Then the court began its session,

and the books were opened…

Daniel 7:13-14 (NLT)

As my vision continued that night, I saw someone like a Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient One and was led into His presence. 14 He was given authority, honor, and sovereignty over all the nations of the world, so that people of every race and nation and language would obey Him. His rule is eternal—it will never end. His kingdom will never be destroyed.

Acts 1:9-11 (NLT)

After saying this, he was taken up into a cloud while they were watching, and they could no longer see him. 10 As they strained to see him rising into heaven, two white-robed men suddenly stood among them. 11 “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why are you standing here staring into heaven? Jesus has been taken from you into heaven, but someday he will return from heaven in the same way you saw him go!”

1. We are living in the time in-between!

We are right at the end of the church age where we have been for 2000 years, and we are entering an age of judgment just before the Second Coming of Christ and His 1000 year rule we call the Millennium or the Millennial eign of Christ.

This is a volatile time, and God has given us grace to deal with it!

Vote this week if you haven’t already. What happens to you and your family and how the future plays out here in the USA is at stake in this election.

2. I want to first of all address what we are immediately dealing with in the USA.

Today and next week, I just want to give you a preview of things to come according to the Bible!

First of all, pray for our nation and its leaders!

1 Timothy 2:1-4 (NKJV)

Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

When you pray each day, pray first of all for the nation you live in and its leaders!

Your praying makes a difference!

Let me address the election this week.

3. Five reasons why is it important for me as a Christian to vote:

1. God gave our forefathers a way to have a free country in a fallen world!
2. Our constitution affords us rights that are God-given so that we can be free to worship, free to voice our opinions, free to assemble, free to address our differences with the government when they arise, and free to defend ourselves from dictators who want to rule over us with an iron fist!
3. We have a responsibility to honor those who have sacrificed their time, their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor for freedom. How is it honorable to give away what cost those who lived before us so much?
4. To whom much is given much is required.

Luke 12:48 (NKJV)

For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.

5. It is easier to preach the gospel worldwide from the vantagepoint of freedom.

4. We must keep in mind that a one-world ideology of leadership will eventually come to the forefront… Scripture says it will.

Revelation 13 mentions two beasts that arise in the time just prior to Jesus’ return.

The Beasts here are two people controlled by the satanic kingdom.

The beast from the sea (representing people) is the person we usually call antiChrist.

This is the world leader of the global system (AntiChrist).

Revelation 13:5-8 (NLT)

Then the beast was allowed to speak great blasphemies against God. And he was given authority to do whatever he wanted for forty-two months. 6 And he spoke terrible words of blasphemy against God, slandering his name and his dwelling—that is, those who dwell in heaven. 7 And the beast was allowed to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And he was given authority to rule over every tribe and people and language and nation. 8 And all the people who belong to this world worshiped the beast. They are the ones whose names were not written in the Book of Life that belongs to the Lamb who was slaughtered before the world was made.

This is a religious leader (It may be the Pope!) He tells people to listen to the global leader!

Revelation 13:11-17 (NLT)

Then I saw another beast come up out of the earth. He had two horns like those of a lamb, but he spoke with the voice of a dragon. 12 He exercised all the authority of the first beast. And he required all the earth and its people to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 13 He did astounding miracles, even making fire flash down to earth from the sky while everyone was watching. 14 And with all the miracles he was allowed to perform on behalf of the first beast, he deceived all the people who belong to this world. He ordered the people to make a great statue of the first beast, who was fatally wounded and then came back to life. 15 He was then permitted to give life to this statue so that it could speak. Then the statue of the beast commanded that anyone refusing to worship it must die.

16 He required everyone—small and great, rich and poor, free and slave—to be given a mark on the right hand or on the forehead. 17 And no one could buy or sell anything without that mark, which was either the name of the beast or the number representing his name.

This is the Global Reset that is being pushed by the elites of the world who control nations with money.

30 years ago it was spoken of as the New World Order.

World leaders are pushing for this and want America to join in. Some political leaders in this nation want us to join this reset. Others resist, pointing to our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Here is what I see, regardless of who is president.

If globally minded people are in the office of President, and control our Congress and Senate, then we will participate fairly quickly in a global reset. And that is where we are right now.

Financial freedom will continue to slowly dwindle away.

One world themes will emerge with urges for us to participate in global law and governance that does not involve our constitution and rights as US citizens (with an embrace of any lifestyle of your choosing); a global economy will emerge, with an eventual digital currency for the world; and global religion will come that reduces every religion to serving the same god. This will bring great persecution to Christians and Jews.

The WHO is pushing an agenda they want the US to enter into that will bypass our Constitution and Bill of Rights and force US citizens against their will to participate in certain things “for the health of all”!

There will be a LOT of pushback!

If Donald Trump wins the next election, we may have a delay before the USA joins the global community in all the ways I just mentioned.

People are really mad at Trump because he is not a globalist. He puts America first. He is a Constitutionalist. He is a nationalist. He believes in a country with defined borders, a clear history, and a set of autonomous governing laws ( our Constitution) And that is why so many of the elites in our country, including the news media, do not like him.

Either way, regardless of who becomes president in 2024, I see lots of fighting between two groups. God has called us in this time to be peacemakers.

Satan and his kingdom desire instability in America so that they can easily propagate their one-world ideology!

Resist the tendency to respond in anger right now, whichever way it goes.

Prepare your family for a time of relative instability.

Get close to your fellow Christians. We need each other now more than ever.

Nonetheless, the antiChrist spirit is prevalent worldwide right now, and will eventually gain traction. It is only a matter of time before the person that is the antiChrist appears on the world scene in the Middle East.

Some countries will resist.

Daniel 7:25-27 (NLT)

He will defy the Most High and oppress the holy people of the Most High. He will try to change their sacred festivals and laws, and they will be placed under his control for a time, times, and half a time. 26 But then the court will pass judgment, and all his power will be taken away and completely destroyed. 27 Then the sovereignty, power, and greatness of all the kingdoms under heaven will be given to the holy people of the Most High. His kingdom will last forever, and all rulers will serve and obey Him.

Daniel 8:23-25 (NLT)

At the end of their rule, when their sin is at its height, a fierce king, a master of intrigue, will rise to power. 24 He will become very strong, but not by his own power. He will cause a shocking amount of destruction and succeed in everything he does. He will destroy powerful leaders and devastate the holy people. 25 He will be a master of deception and will become arrogant; he will destroy many without warning. He will even take on the Prince of princes in battle, but he will be broken, though not by human power.

5. The last generation before Jesus’ return will have something in common with Noah!

Luke 17:26-35 (NLT)

When the Son of Man returns, it will be like it was in Noah’s day. 27 In those days, the people enjoyed banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot. People went about their daily business—eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building—29 until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and burning sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Yes, it will be ‘business as usual’ right up to the day when the Son of Man is revealed. 31 On that day a person out on the deck of a roof must not go down into the house to pack. A person out in the field must not return home. 32 Remember what happened to Lot’s wife! 33 If you cling to your life, you will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it. 34 That night two people will be asleep in one bed; one will be taken, the other left. 35 Two women will be grinding flour together at the mill; one will be taken, the other left.

During Noah’s time, there was a proliferation of wickedness brought on by the intermarrying of angels and humans.

This created a race of giants that literally filled the earth and began to dominate the human gene pool.

This is what precipitated God sending a flood to kill man and animals and start over with Noah and his family.

The human gene pool had been corrupted.

The fallen angels propagated perversion and occult practices to the human race.

They taught the human race different kinds of warfare technology and introduced instruments of war.

They filled the earth with lust and violence.

What we see now is just the beginning of this all over again.

Sexual perversions are increasing.

Violence is reaching a fever pitch.

New technologies are seeking to integrate the human with implants that change DNA to increase wisdom, mobility, and longevity.

We are going in the same direction as Noah’s day!

Keep yourself and your family!

Seek God and pray!

6. Ask for a fresh move of God in your life, in your family, and in the world.

Jesus is coming perhaps sooner rather than later!

Isaiah 60:1-3 (NKJV)

Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. 2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; But the LORD will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you. 3 The Gentiles shall come to your light,

and kings to the brightness of your rising.

Joel 2:28-32 (NLT)

Then, after doing all those things, I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams, and your young men will see visions. 29 In those days I will pour out my Spirit even on servants—men and women alike. 30 And I will cause wonders in the heavens and on the earth— blood and fire and columns of smoke. 31 The sun will become dark, and the moon will turn blood red before that great and terrible day of the LORD arrives. 32 But everyone who calls on the name of the LORD

will be saved, for some on Mount Zion in Jerusalem will escape, just as the LORD has said.

These will be among the survivors whom the LORD has called.

Action Points:

1. Are you praying for your nation and its leaders before anything else?

2. Are you being responsible for your God-given freedoms by voting?

3. Are you preparing you and your family for instability?

4. Are you seeking God wholeheartedly and asking God for spiritual revival?