Last-day World Condition

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Question: What will some be heard proclaiming in the last days? What comes suddenly?

Answer: 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Jeremiah 6 :14 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them‌ They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

Question: What is the spiritual trend of the world?

Answer: 2 Timothy 3:12, 13; 1 Timothy 4:1 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils

Question: What is to be preached in all the world before the coming of the Lord ? For what purpose ? What comes next?

Answer: Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come

Question: How long will the wheat and the tares grow together?

Answer: Matthew 13:24-30.

Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field

Matthew 13:38, 39.

The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels

Question: How great will be the working of Satan in the earth?

Answer: 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness

Question: What powers, representative of apostate Christianity, will continue till the end, and 'go alive into the lake of fire?

Answer: Revelation 19:19, 20 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.

20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone

Question: What is said of justice and truth in the last days?

Answer: Isaiah 59:14; Hosea 4:1, 2 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

Question: What picture is given us concerning the condition of the earth in the last days?

Answer: Matthew 24:37-39 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Question: Why did the people not know in Noah's day that the flood was coming? What was the condition of the earth then?

Answer: Genesis 6:5, 11 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence

Question: In the midst of this evil, what is said of Enoch and Noah?

Answer: Genesis 5:22, 6:9 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God

Question: What other illustration is given us of the last days?

Answer: Luke 17:28-30 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

Question: What character did Lot develop in this dark time?

Answer: 2 Peter 2:6-9 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; 7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) 9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

Question: In what only is the hope of the world?

Answer: Romans 1:16; 1 Timothy 1:15; Hebrews 7:25 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them

Question: How only will sin be cleansed from the earth?

Answer: 2 Peter 3:11-13 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness

Question: What will then fill the earth?

Answer: Numbers 14:21; Isaiah 14:7; Revelation 5:13 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever

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