NEW TESTAMENT PROPHECY
(40 - 110 AD)
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This is a brief survey, a few bits and pieces, which are either new or important to the end of the age prophetic picture. (Parentheses are my comments, quotes are from KJV.)
Matthew 24:7-8
For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom
against
kingdom and there shall be famine pestilences and
earthquakes in
divers places All these are but the
beginnings of sorrows.
Matthew. 24:12
The love of many will wax cold, because iniquity
shall
abound.
Matthew. 24:14
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached
to all the world. (Note
that this is different from the
gospel
about Christ)
Matthew. 24:22
For the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened,
otherwise there should be no flesh saved.
Matthew. 24:24
There shall arise false Christs, and false prophets,
and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch
that, if it
were possible, they shall deceive the very
elect. (However they shall be so well
informed that
this is not possible.)
Matthew. 24:29
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall
the sun be darkened,
and the moon shall not give her
light, and the stars shall
fall from heaven…
Matthew. 24:30
The sign of the Son of man coming in the clouds of
heaven
with power and great glory.
Romans 11:1-27
Paul relates a long parable about a symbolic olive
tree (original Israel) which loses some of
its branches
(unbelieving Jews and Israelites). In place
of these
lost branches, branches from a wild olive
tree (gentile
Christians) are grafted on to the original
olive tree. At
the end (of the messianic period) the
original branches
that have broken off (Jews, Judah) are
grafted back in
through mercy and restoration. This will
happen when
the "fullness of the Gentiles be come
in." (The age of
the "Gentile Christians" will be
approximately 2000 years
long, as was the age of "Jews"
before them.)
Each (Christianity and Judaism) has had its chance. Each will have confronted its failures. Each will be reunited one to the other with mercy over all.
Galatians 6:4-5
Let every man prove his own work…
For every man shall
bear his own burden.
Galatians 6:6 Let him that is
taught in the word communicate
unto him (God) that teaches
in all good things.
Notice the direct Father to son relationship emphasized in Galatians 6:6.
Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived;
for God is not mocked: for
whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap
Ephesians 6:12 For we
wrestle not against flesh and blood, bu
against
principalities, against powers, against
the rulers of
darkness of this world…(the Power Elite)
Ephesians 6:13
Wherefore take unto you the full armour of
God, that ye may
withstand the evil day.
Ephesians 6:14
Girt your loins about with truth, and have
on the breast plate
of righteousness…
Ephesians 6:15
And your feet shod with the preparation
of the gospel of
peace.
Ephesians 6:16 and above all, take the Shield of Faith…
Ephesians 6:17 the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit.
I Thessalonians 5:2 …the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night.
I Thessalonians 5:8 But let us who are of the day, be sober.
I Thessalonians 5:14
Warn them that are unruly,
comfort the
feeble minded, support
the weak, be
patient
toward all men.
I Thessalonians 5:15 See that none render evil for evil.
I Thessalonians 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
II Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means:
For that day shall
not come unless there
come a falling away
(from God) first, and
that the man of sin
be revealed. (Antichrist)
II Thessalonians 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the work
of Satan with all
power and signs and lying wonders.
II Timothy 3:2 Men shall be lovers of selves, covetous,
boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient
to parents, unthankful, unholy,
II Timothy 3:3 Without natural affection, truce-breakers,
false accusers, incontinent, fierce,
despisers
of those that are good.
II Timothy 3:4 …lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.
II Timothy 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the
power thereof
II Timothy 3:6 …this sort are they which creep into houses and
lead captive silly women laden with sins.
II Timothy 3:7 Ever learning,
and never able to come to the
knowledge of the truth.
II Timothy 3:13 Seducers shall become worse and worse, deceiving
and being deceived.
II Timothy 4:4 They shall turn
their ears away, away from
truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
II Peter 3:3 There shall
come in those days scoffers,
walking after their own lusts.
This concludes our brief survey of New Testament prophecy. The Revelation to John has been discussed elsewhere throughout this book.