End Time Prophecies Unfolding Soon?

by Richard Allen Kent
(Sullivan, Indiana, USA)

Have you ever wondered what will happen in the end? End time prophesies, and what will take place at such end, has grabbed the curiosity of not only Christians, but everyone. We all know that the earth and most of its inhabitants were destroyed in the days of Noah, but have we given much thought of God’s promise to do it again? Is
scripture clear on what will happen and how? The answer to that is yes.

God’s promise to rid the world of evil, and corruption is clear. Isaiah 1:28 reads: And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

It reads in 2 Peter 3: 3-7 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation…. Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

But God would have it that all be saved - amen. It reads in 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

But how will it happen? In Revelation 8:3-13 it reads this: …Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake....and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth.

A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up. The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea... The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water...

The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the star... As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: "Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!

Reading in Revelation 16; 10-21... And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain... And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits…

For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty… And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, it is done. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.

And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell… And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent (one hundred pounds).