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• Russia’s annexation of part of the Ukrain
• Global conflict• E-bola outbreak• Environmental
catastrophies
New Year Reflection2015
• Rise and growth of Islamic State
• Abductions in Nigeria and elsewhere
• Conflict in Israel and Gaza
New Year Reflection2015
Rosetta probe lands on Comet 67P
New Year Reflection2015
Signs of End Times
• People will rush here and there• Knowledge will increase
New Year Reflection - 2015
LIFE AFTER BAPTISMWe are to live “dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus”• not continuing our previous way of living• living so that sin is not the ruler of our
lives
Baptism?
4 …keep this prophecy a secret; seal up the book
until the time of the end, when many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase.”
Daniel 12:4
Signs of End Times
• People will rush here and there• Knowledge will increase
New Year Reflection - 2015
Signs of End Times
• People will rush here and there• Knowledge will increase • Ability to enforce the “mark” (Rev. 13)
New Year Reflection - 2015
New Year Reflection2015
Oct. 14, ‘04 Denver Post "FDA approves human microchip"
provided significant information as to how fast these implants are
advancing, we quote, "...With a syringe, the microchip is inserted under the skin in a procedure that
leaves no mark. The chip releases the patient's information when a
scanner passes over it.
New Year Reflection2015
To kickstart the chip's use…, Applied Digital will provide $650 scanners for free at 200 of the nation's trauma centers."(Positive ID Corporation is the main contractor for implementing this technology. Their business plan, dated December 2014 is available on-line.)
Signs of End Times• People will rush here and there• Knowledge will increase • Ability to enforce the “mark” (Rev. 13)• Violence and sexual immorality
(Matt. 24; Luke 17)
New Year Reflection - 2015
New Year Reflection2015
…as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 For as in the days before the flood, they
were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not
know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the
coming of the Son of Man be.
Matthew 24:37-39
Signs of End Times• People will rush here and there• Knowledge will increase • Ability to enforce the “mark” (Rev. 13)• Violence and sexual immorality
(Matt. 24; Luke 17)• Natural disasters, earthquakes
(Matt. 24; Luke 21)
New Year Reflection - 2015
23 “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe it. 24 For false christs
and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to
deceive, if possible, even the elect. 25 See, I have told you beforehand.
Matthew 24:23-25
New Year Reflection2015
Australia Alan John Miller Miami José Luis de Jesús Miranda Brazilian Inri Cristo Russia Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop New Mexico Wayne Bent,
New Year Reflection2015
Signs of End Times
• False Christs and prophets (Matt. 24)• World pushing for peace (1 Thess. 5)
New Year Reflection - 2015
LIFE AFTER BAPTISMWe are to live “dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus”• not continuing our previous way of living• living so that sin is not the ruler of our
lives
Baptism?
2 For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say,
“Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as
labour pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
New Year Reflection2015
Signs of End Times
• False Christs and prophets (Matt. 24)• World pushing for peace (1 Thess. 5)• War and famine (Matt. 24)
New Year Reflection - 2015
Signs of End Times
• False Christs and prophets (Matt. 24)• World pushing for peace (1 Thess. 5)• War and famine (Matt. 24)• Christians being killed (Matt. 24)
New Year Reflection - 2015
Signs of End Times
New Year Reflection - 2015
9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be
hated by all nations for My name’s sake.
Matthew 24:9
IraqSyria
Nigeria
Pakistan
Egypt.
Kenya
Angola
Niger
Central African Republic
North Korea
New Year Reflection - 2015
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and
light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
(Isaiah 5:20)
Signs of End Times
• Increase in sin (Matt. 24)• Christians turn away from the truth
(2 Timothy 4)
New Year Reflection - 2015
LIFE AFTER BAPTISMWe are to live “dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus”• not continuing our previous way of living• living so that sin is not the ruler of our
lives
Baptism?
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but
according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;
4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth,
and be turned aside to fables.
2 Timothy 4:3-4
New Year Reflection2015
Signs of End Times
• Increase in sin (Matt. 24)• Christians turn away from the truth
(2 Timothy 4)• Mankind destroying the earth (Rev. 11)
New Year Reflection - 2015
LIFE AFTER BAPTISMWe are to live “dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus”• not continuing our previous way of living• living so that sin is not the ruler of our
lives
Baptism?
You…reward Your servants the prophets and the saints, and those
who fear Your name, small and great, and…
destroy those who destroy the earth.”Revelation 11:18(b)
New Year Reflection2015
What Next?
10 The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason
of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only
labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away…