#5a End times(15aug2004)

End times

God’s promise of His return

‘This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels.
He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus’
2 Thessalonians 1:6-8

Bouquets or brickbats??

God will judge

‘God will give to each person according to what he has done’
Romans 2:6

‘Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.’
Mathew 25:46

Dead or alive??

All have to face God, our maker

‘Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt’
Daniel 12:2-3

Now or later??

Will end times happen in my life- time??

‘How long will it be before these astonishing things are fulfilled??’
Daniel 12:6

Matters not, Master’s nod

When it happens, it is not important. More importantly, it is when it happens, are we right with God.

‘As for you, go your way till the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days, you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance’
Daniel 12:13


Any hints or glint??

‘…what will be the sign of Your coming and the end of age?’
Mathew 24:22


Yes, in Mathews 24 : Signs of the End of the Age

- ‘For many will come in My name, claim “I am the Christ and will deceive many.’

- ‘You will hear of wars and rumours of wars’

- ‘Nations will rise against nations…’

- ‘There will be famines and earthquakes in various places’

- ‘Many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other’

- ‘And the gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come’

Mathew 24



It does not matter for you

- to understand the mysteries of God

‘I heard, but I did not understand. My Lord what will be the outcome of all this be?’
Daniel 12:8

- to know the timing of the occurrence of end times

‘No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father’
Mathew 24:36








But it does matter for you to be ready always


‘Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come’
Mathew 24:42


‘So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him’
Mathew 24:50


‘For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking…..
they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them away, this is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.’
Mathew 24:38-39


How do we stay ready???


A personal Christ-like life

‘Keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life’
Jude 21


An obedient God-led life

‘Be merciful to those who doubt; snatch others from the fire and save them, to others show mercy, mixed with fear ..’
Jude 22-23