Friday, 05 Sep 2014 06:09 PM - By Cathy Burke - Newsmax
In a post on the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association website, the evangelist — the association's president and CEO — notes "it seems the world is coming apart at the seams."
"There appears to be no end to the bad news."
Ticking off some of the most troubled places on earth, Graham notes the "killing of Christians by Muslims from Indonesia to Bangladesh to Pakistan," China "tearing down church buildings," "Christians tortured, beheaded, and crucified in Iraq, with villages burned and churches destroyed, and much the same in Syria."
In the United States, as well, he writes, "there is great opposition to the church of Jesus Christ. We see this throughout the media, the entertainment industry, government, and politics."
The signs are unmistakable, he writes.
"Jesus warned His disciples in Matthew 24 when they asked Him about the signs of the end of the age," he writes. "He said there would be wars and rumors of wars, famines, earthquakes, and pestilence. He told them, 'Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.'"
The Ebola virus outbreak is yet another sign, he said.
Graham also heads the charity Samaritan's Purse, whose workers have cared for victims in Africa.
"We have seen firsthand the pestilence of Ebola," he writes. "A medical doctor serving with Samaritan’s Purse in Liberia was infected with this deadly virus, but through the prayers of many righteous, God spared his life.
"I don't know if we have hours, days, months, or years — but as Christians, God calls us to take the truth of the Gospel to the ends of the earth," he said.
Franklin's warning isn't the first time the crisis in the Middle East has prompted speculation that the prophecy of the end of the world was being fulfilled, The Christian Post noted.
But Robert Mulholland, retired professor of New Testament of Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Ky, was skeptical, saying events in Syria are not connected to prophecies of the "end times."
"In this case, Isaiah was predicting the demise of Damascus at the hands of Assyria in the eighth century" B.C., Mulholland said. "If one wanted to try to make the case for Isaiah 17 predicting the end times, then Iran [the present day successor to Assyria] would be responsible for Damascus' demise and not its primary ally."
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My comments: What are the unique "signs" today? For the first time in America, a godless Electorate has elected a godless, Secular Humanist as President, the head of the godless Democrat Party. And they are pursuing godless, anti-Christ, Laws, Policies and Practices.
Today, there is not one Christian Nation. Christians are being persecuted all over the world. The Pope, the head of the Catholic Church is making Heretical Statements. Much of the so called, Christian Church, looks just like the World. We have so called, Christian Churches getting rid of their crosses so as not to offend. In so doing they show show their shame of Christ Jesus Himself. We have so called, Christian leaders, saying that Christianity and Islam serve the same God, which is Heresy. And on and on.
This is all pointing to the One World Government and One World Religion of the Antichrist;
to the Whole World bowing down to the son of Satan, receiving his "mark" and worshiping him, as Scripture has foretold.
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