Restoration:
Signs of Our Times

by Darris McNeely

Students of Bible prophecy have long searched the Scriptures to try to understand the times in which they live. Like Christ's disciples, we want to know what will be the signs of His coming in the power of the universe.

Every year at this time we see the usual reviews of the past year and projections of what will come in the next. At this time of year, I'm always curious to read a publication by The Economist titled The World in 2005; its editors try to look ahead and give us a forecast of what is to be. However, we are safer if we stay with what Jesus Christ outlined in His Olivet Prophecy of Matthew 24. Here Christ spoke of the impact of false religion, war, famine, pestilence and other specific indicators. These are the well-known "four horsemen" of Revelation 6, the first four of seven seals.

In Matthew 24:7 He mentioned "earthquakes in diverse places." As I write, the world is dealing with last month's earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Indonesia. More than 150,000 are known dead (some estimates are as high as 1 million) and many thousands more are likely to die from disease and starvation in the aftermath of the destruction. Ironically this quake occurred one year to the day after another huge quake killed thousands in northern Iran.

The past decade has seen a rise in what some call "superdisasters" that take an increasing toll in life and property. It does little to scoff and say that disasters have always occurred or that modern communication does a better job of reporting events. We are seeing events foretold by Christ—events He says are just "the beginning of sorrows." We grieve at the loss of life in Asia and want to reach out to do what we can. But we must brace ourselves for more to come.

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