Signs are Indicating That the End Times Are Approaching 2016

Our culture has become increasingly captivated by apocalyptic themes and story lines, with a plethora of popular TV shows and feature films embracing zombies, plagues and other terrifying end-of-days scenarios. 

But the idea of a future Armageddon-like scenario isn’t merely reserved for fictional entertainment plots, as the concept is deeply embedded in Christian theology, impacting the way believers have read, interpreted and processed biblical Scripture over the past two millennia.

In fact, many contemporary theologians and pastors believe they’re observing numerous signs in the current culture that mirror the supposedly prophetic contents of Scriptures in Old and New Testament books like Ezekiel, Daniel and Revelation—events that they say could soon come to fruition.

So what has convinced these theologians and pastors that the end times could be ramping up?

Many of these theologians and pastors told me that sweeping moral decay, biblical disconnectedness and ongoing violence in the Middle East are just a few of the prophetic markers that they believe were foretold thousands of years ago in both the Old and New Testaments.

But how can Christian leaders be so sure that the biblical end times are approaching? Jesus Himself foretold of His future Second Coming. The problem? Christ also proclaimed in Matthew 24:36 that “no one knows” the day or the hour of His return. While the Bible proclaims that humanity cannot know the “when,” Jesus did reveal to the disciples some of signs of His Second Coming in Matthew 24:6-8: “You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled. … For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines, epidemics, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.”

Surely war has always been with us, though the 20th century—and 21st century thus far—has seen broader and more sweeping world wars that involve many nations, with the contemporary battle against Islamic terror crossing international borders. This is collectively caused some end-times experts to look more deeply at what is unfolding.

With that in mind, the first sign that has some Bible scholars positing that the world is either in or is rapidly approaching the end times is the ramped-up chaos in the Middle East. In recent years, the situation in the region has been raising more than a few eyebrows, as the seemingly never-ending tensions between Israel and its neighbors continue to intensify.

Source:  RAW NEWS