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THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST 3E- IMMEDIATE AND PRESENT SIGNS
6. Ecumenism – one-world religion. The real motive behind ecumenism is to deny Jesus Christ and secretly worship satan. Rev. 13:1-8 buttresses this point. People will bow to the anti Christ. Christianity is not religion. Religion is fallen man’s attempt to find the true God while Christianity is the true God’s attempt to find fallen man through his Son, Jesus Christ. If you don’t know the original, you will go for counterfeit. John 17:3 says, “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” The principle behind ecumenism is that everyone is serving the same God! We are…
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THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST 3D- IMMEDIATE AND PRESENT SIGNS
5. Growth of occultism, Satanism and witchcraft. Rev. 13:1-8, “And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after…
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THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST 3C- IMMEDIATE AND PRESENT SIGNS
3. Increase in knowledge and growth in technology which will fuel other sins as pride, humanism, being too busy for spiritual things, anti-God posture, secularism. 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.” This was prophesied a very long time ago and it is being fulfilled now. Technology is growing and increasingly, we are living in the age of man machine and artificial intelligence. These have produced pride, humanism and worship of technology. No godless person will make it to heaven so don’t get secular. We…
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THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST 3B- IMMEDIATE AND PRESENT SIGNS
Return of Israel to its land cont’d. Today, Israel is flourishing and almost a superpower. Dan. 9:24-27, “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous…