Where Are We Now in Prophecy?

Are today's headlines foretold in the pages of your Bible? Is there a message of hope beyond the gloom and doom news cycle of today's world? Jesus Christ was a prophet; He forecast the overall sequence of events of the world from His time on into the future. His futuristic message was current then and it's current today.

by Darris McNeely

Occasionally we receive inquiries from students of prophecy who ask, "Where are we now in Bible prophecy?" People naturally want to understand where we are in the march of end-time prophetic events.

Someone recently sent me an e-mail about a fantastic scenario of the end time based on several nonbiblical events. It sought to pinpoint exactly where we were prior to the coming of Christ and the end of the age. I can't fault a person for wanting to understand. After all, it was the apostles who first posed the question to Christ while in Jerusalem. "What will be the sign of Your coming and of the end of the age?" they asked.

Like the apostles, we ask the same question. We want to know how close we are to the time of 10 kings appearing and the time of a great fearsome person or system called "the beast." We want to know who the "false prophet" may be.

Daniel the prophet sought the same detailed understanding of the fantastic visions given to him in his day. Servants of God through the ages have wanted to understand their times, whether they were living in the end days and if they would be among the generation to see Christ return in His glory.

Students of Bible prophecy are like the disciples and Daniel. We want understanding and we want to know when—when will the Beast power come together, when will the Great Tribulation begin. We want to know who will be the man of sin from 2 Thessalonians. We want to construct elaborate timelines to align references to days and weeks, all in an attempt to determine, "as close as we can without setting dates," the time when Christ will return. Like the precision mind of an engineer, we analyze a complex prophecy like Daniel's 70 weeks, attempting to put together the pieces of a historical, geographical and theological puzzle that only God can divine.

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