The Endtime


1. The last days; signs of the times:
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  • A. We should discern the signs of the times:
  • B. Greatly increased learning:
  • C. Greatly increased natural disasters:
  • D. Greatly increased wickedness & wars:
  • E. Rampant homosexuality in the end time:
  • F. Great falling away from true faith:
  • G. Increased persecution of true Christians:
  • H. What all these fulfilled signs mean:

  • A. We should discern the signs of the times:

    MAT 16:3. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

    MAT 24:3. And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

    MAT 24:39. And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

    1TH 5:2. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

    1TH 5:4. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

    2PE 3:3. Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

    2PE 3:4. And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

    B. Greatly increased learning:

    DAN 12:4. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

    2TIM 3:1. This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

    2TIM 3:7. Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

    MAT 24:14. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

    C. Greatly increased natural disasters:

    MAT 24:7. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

    LUK 21:26. Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

    D. Greatly increased wickedness & wars:

    2TIM 3:1. This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

    2TIM 3:13. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

    MAT 24:6. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

    MAT 24:37. But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

    MAT 24:38. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

    LUK 21:25. And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

    E. Rampant homosexuality in the end time:

    LUK 17:28. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

    LUK 17:29. But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

    LUK 17:30. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

    ROM 1:24. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

    ROM 1:26. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

    ROM 1:27. And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

    ROM 1:28. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

    2TIM 3:1. This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

    2TIM 3:2. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

    2TIM 3:3. Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

    GEN 9:20. And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

    GEN 9:21. And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

    GEN 9:22. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

    GEN 9:23. And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

    GEN 9:24. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

    GEN 9:25. And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

    GEN 9:26. And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

    GEN 9:27. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

    GEN 13:12. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

    GEN 13:13. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

    GEN 18:18. Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

    GEN 18:19. For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

    GEN 18:20. And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

    GEN 18:21. I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

    GEN 18:22. And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.

    GEN 18:23. And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

    GEN 18:24. Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

    GEN 18:25. That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

    GEN 18:26. And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

    GEN 18:27. And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:

    GEN 18:28. Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

    GEN 18:29. And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.

    GEN 18:30. And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

    GEN 18:31. And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.

    GEN 18:32. And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.

    GEN 18:33. And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

    GEN 19:1. And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

    GEN 19:2. And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

    GEN 19:3. And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

    GEN 19:4. But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

    GEN 19:5. And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

    GEN 19:6. And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

    GEN 19:7. And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

    GEN 19:8. Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

    GEN 19:9. And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.

    GEN 19:10. But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.

    GEN 19:11. And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

    GEN 19:12. And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:

    GEN 19:13. For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

    GEN 19:14. And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

    GEN 19:15. And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

    GEN 19:16. And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

    GEN 19:17. And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

    GEN 19:18. And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my LORD:

    GEN 19:19. Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

    GEN 19:20. Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

    GEN 19:21. And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

    GEN 19:22. Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

    GEN 19:23. The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

    GEN 19:24. Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

    GEN 19:25. And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

    GEN 19:26. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

    GEN 19:27. And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:

    GEN 19:28. And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

    GEN 19:29. And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

    GEN 19:30. And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

    2PE 2:6. And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

    2PE 2:7. And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

    2PE 2:8. (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

    F. Great falling away from true faith:

    2TH 2:2. That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

    2TH 2:3. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

    MAT 24:12. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

    MAT 24:5. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

    MAT 24:11. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

    MAT 24:24. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

    1TI 4:1. Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

    G. Increased persecution of true Christians:

    MAT 24:9. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

    MAT 24:10. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

    LUK 21:16. And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.

    LUK 21:17. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.

    H. What all these fulfilled signs mean:

    MAT 24:33. So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

    LUK 21:28. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

    LUK 21:31. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.

    LUK 21:32. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.