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.)

 

Mt. 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.

 

Mt. 24:12        The love of many will wax cold, because iniquity
                        shall abound.

 

Mt. 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)

 

Mt. 24:22         For the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened,
                        otherwise there should be no flesh saved.

 

Mt. 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.)

 

Mt. 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…

 

Mt. 24:30        The sign of the Son of man coming in the clouds of
                        heaven with power and great glory.

 

Ro 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.

 

Gal. 6:4-5        Let every man prove his own work…
                        For every man shall bear his own burden.

 

Gal. 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 Gal. 6:6.

 

Gal. 6:7           Be not deceived; for God is not mocked: for
                        whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap

Eph. 6:12         For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but
                        against principalities, against powers, against
                        the rulers of darkness of this world…(the Power Elite)

 

Eph. 6:13         Wherefore take unto you the full armour of
                        God, that ye may withstand the evil day.

 

Eph. 6:14        Girt your loins about with truth, and have
                        on the breast plate of righteousness…

 

Eph. 6:15        And your feet shod with the preparation
                        of the gospel of peace.

 

Eph. 6:16        and above all, take the Shield of Faith…

 

Eph. 6:17        the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit.

 

I Thess 5:2      …the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night.

 

I Thess 5:8      But let us who are of the day, be sober.

 

I Thess 5:14    Warn them that are unruly, comfort the
                        feeble minded, support the weak, be
                        patient toward all men.

 

I Thess 5:15     See that none render evil for evil.

 

I Thess 5:21     Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

 

II Thess 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 Thess 2:9     Even him, whose coming is after the work
                        of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders.

 

II Tim 3:2       Men shall be lovers of selves, covetous,
                        boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient
                        to parents, unthankful, unholy,

 

II Tim 3:3       Without natural affection, truce-breakers,
                        false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers
                        of those that are good.

 

II Tim 3:4        …lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.

 

II Tim 3:5        Having a form of godliness, but denying the
                        power thereof

 

II Tim 3:6       …this sort are they which creep into houses and
                        lead captive silly women laden with sins.

 

II Tim 3:7       Ever learning, and never able to come to the
                        knowledge of the truth.

 

II Tim 3:13      Seducers shall become worse and worse, deceiving
                        and being deceived.

 

II Tim 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.