Episode 66: Prophetic Speculation is Running Wild

Bible Prophecy Under the Microscope-Episode 66

Gary discusses how “end-times” prophecy is overflowing on social media lately and how many are claiming that we are in the last days.

In each new prophecy book that hits the bookstores we are told that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled before our eyes. The authors point to various signs that they say are compelling evidence that Jesus’ return is near. In no other time in history, we are led to believe, have eschatological events converged to prove that we must be living in the last days. William T. James writes that “No previous generation has experienced the number, frequency and intensity of signals so similar to things prophesied to be witnessed by the generation alive at the consummation of human history.” The history of the world is the history of war and bloodshed. Plagues and famines have been common place. Jesus clearly set a time frame for the signs that He said would occur before He came in judgment against apostate Judaism: “This generation will not pass away until all these things take place” (Matt. 24:34).

Jesus could not have said it more definitely or more clearly. Even so, modern-day prophecy writers dismiss His clear testimony and the facts of history and propose that our generation is being described. And yet, as we will see, all the signs that Jesus said would take place before that first-century generation passed away came to pass between A.D. 30 and 70. Such testimony is purposely ignored by today’s prophecy writers. James continues: “Jesus’ words about the signs of the times just before His return at the time of Armageddon are becoming reality before our eyes as we move through our daily lives. False christs, false prophets, wars and rumors of wars and all the other signals our Lord said will be happening concurrently in birth-pang fashion convulse our world with continuing regularity.” Without a doubt, the signs Jesus outlines in the Olivet Discourse were familiar to and experienced by His first-century audience.

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Gary discusses how “end-times” prophecy is overflowing on social media lately and how many are claiming that we are in the last days. Anyone with a computer and a camera is able to share their “biblical studies” and “insights” into current events and the Bible, but none of them are honest enough to admit that this has been going on for decades with similar failed results.

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