THE BIBLE'S DESCRIPTION OF THE LAST DAYS!
Luke 17:26-29 - And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Note: I believe that the "days of the Son of man" may very well begin immediately following the Rapture of the Church, and continue through the Tribulation (of Israel - see Jer. 30:7 and Dan. 9:24). That would mean that the Day of the Lord would be Christ's Second Coming. It is clear from the Olivet Discourse (Mt. 24 - 25; Mk. 13; Lk. 21) that the event being described is the Tribulation, which consists of two three and a half year divisions of "Daniel's Seventieth Week" (Dan. 9:27). It is during that time when the entire world will be viewed as wicked (see Gen. 6:5-7 - days of Noah); for the Church, by the grace of God, will have been removed before "the week" begins (Jn. 14:1-3; 1 Th. 4:13-18; Rev. 4:1). The single most important lesson to be learned by Luke 17:26-29, is that God will tolerate evil for only so long before He says "that's enough!"
THE BIBLE'S DESCRIPTION OF TODAY!
Isaiah 5:20 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Romans 1:22-32 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, Who is blessed forever. Amen. 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: 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. 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; being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, lacking self-control, fierce, despisers of those who are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
2 Peter 3:3-7 - Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 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. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the Word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same Word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
THE DAY IS COMING WHEN GOD SAYS, "ENOUGH!"
BELIEVE IN THE JESUS OF THE BIBLE,
AND YOU WILL SPEND ETERNITY WITH HIM!
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