Bible Prophecy Update

Bible Prophecy Updates, Middle East, The Last Days

Posted on September 3rd, 2010

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Israel, Last Days, Obama, Peace

‘We Seek Peace to End Conflict Once and For All’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scheduled to give historic speech in Washington, state he hopes for lasting peace. ‘I came here to find a historic compromise. President Abbas, you are my partner in peace’, Netanyahu slated to say. Netanyahu is hoping to commence a process in Washington which will end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “once and for all.” In a special speech to be delivered Wednesday night at the White House Netanyahu is slated to state he does not seek a cease fire but lasting peace. “I am very pleased to be here today to begin our common effort to achieve lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians,” Netanyahu is slated to say. “I want to thank you President Obama for your tireless effort to renew the quest for peace. I want to thank Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senator Mitchell, the many members of the Obama administration and Tony Blair, who have all worked so hard to bring Israelis and Palestinians together here today.” The prime minister will also want Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordanian King Abdullah “for their support of these talks and for their continuous efforts to promote peace, security and stability in our region. “
America In Prophecy, Schools, Signs on the Earth, The Last Days

Posted on August 30th, 2010

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America, Church, Last Days, Signs

Signs of the Last Days: Teens Becoming ‘Fake Christians’

If you’re the parent of a Christian teenager, Kenda Creasy Dean has this warning: Your child is following a “mutant” form of Christianity, and you may be responsible. Dean says more American teenagers are embracing what she calls “moralistic therapeutic deism.” Translation: It’s a watered-down faith that portrays God as a “divine therapist” whose chief goal is to boost people’s self-esteem. Dean is a minister, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and the author of “Almost Christian,” a new book that argues that many parents and pastors are unwittingly passing on this self-serving strain of Christianity. She says this “imposter” faith is one reason teenagers abandon churches. “If this is the God they’re seeing in church, they are right to leave us in the dust,” Dean says. “Churches don’t give them enough to be passionate about.”
Rob Robinson, Signs, The Last Days

Posted on August 28th, 2010

Written by Rob Robinson

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Bible, Last Days, Prophecy

The Purpose of Prophecy

I have people ask me all of the time if the teaching of Bible Prophecy is really that important. Perhaps as you perused the available Amazon Kindle Blogs that are currently available and you came upon “Bible Prophecy Update” you thought to your self; “Why would I want to subscribe to a Blog like that?” The purpose of prophecy is not to predict the future or to inflame our emotions to fear what may be ahead. The purpose of Bible Prophecy is to reveal who Jesus really is. To bring the human population into an awareness of God’s plan for mankind and how much He loves us all. In the last book of the Bible, the Book of Revelation, John wrote that the entire purpose of Prophecy is to reveal Jesus.

Revelation 19:10… For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

As you hopefully read my blog here each week, you find that there are many Bible Studies, a Daily Devotional and other studies Perhaps you have thought that these studies seem to have nothing whatsoever to do with Bible Prophecy. The reason that there are these kinds of resources on this web site is that absolutely everything is of a prophetic nature even if at first we do not realize it.
Rob Robinson, The Church, The Last Days, The Rapture of the Church

Posted on August 14th, 2010

Written by Rob Robinson

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Jesus, Rapture, Signs

The Danger of Thinking Jesus Return Is Delayed

Peter wrote that in the last days people would begin to say that Jesus is delayed in His coming, or that He will not return at all. As we approach the day of the Lord’s return, it will be a sign to us all that the hearts of people will have grown cold towards spiritual matters and the thoughts of Jesus return will be farther and farther from their minds.
2 Peter 3:3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4 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 creation.”
Economy, The Antichrist, The Last Days

Posted on August 7th, 2010

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Economy, Signs

The Rise of the Central Banks

Normally, when a country expands its money supply, it will offer bonds to other countries. The lending countries will buy the bonds and then the borrowing country will use that money to issue paper currency to the lending banks at a set interest rate. The problem many countries have now is that lending countries are not buying. This puts the borrowing country in a bind. Since slowing the rate of increase of the money supply will invite a recession (a way for the economy to readjust itself back to reality), politicians will want to “boost” the economy by increasing the money supply. With no one buying a country’s debts, the debtor country is reduced to printing money that is backed by nothing. This is called “monetizing the debt.” Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the United State’s central bank, the Federal Reserve, has been accused of gearing up the printing presses. Of course, in these days of electronic funds transfers (EFT), a printing press isn’t even required. A simple computer entry into a balance sheet will suffice. In the last two years, the United States has put $2.5 trillion into the world’s economy.11 Continuing to expand the money supply in such a manner could cause a hyperinflation only seen in recent history in developing nations and post-World War II Germany. (We will visit the topic of hyperinflation and its effects on society in the third and final section of this series.)
Fulfilled Prophecy, Rob Robinson, Salvation, Signs, The Antichrist, The Book of Revelation, The Last Days, The Rapture of the Church, The Tribulation

Posted on June 30th, 2010

Written by Rob Robinson

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Bible, Last Days, Prophecy, Rapture, Signs, Tribulation

The Signs of Jesus Return

The purpose of Bible prophecy is so that we might know that the Bible is not just another book penned by men, but a supernatural document with it’s source from outside time and space. The Bible is unique in that it makes predictions of the future with such detail and precision, that the slightest error would make any one of those prophecies unreliable. In over 2,500 Biblical prophecies, every single minute detail has been completed with precision and accuracy. The odds of any book being able to predict over 2,5o0 events in advance with 100 percent accuracy, is beyond the possibility of chance. The certainty of the fulfillment of these events already predicted and already fulfilled, gives confidence to the remaining 1,000 prophetic predictions that are yet to be fulfilled. If the Bible has been perfectly accurate so far, it is certain that the events spoken of describing the last days before Jesus returns, most certainly will also be fulfilled accurately. The following is a short list of some of those prophetic events already fulfilled, to be fulfilled and in the process of being fulfilled.

This article and the importance of the details of this article, are the reason that I started Bible Prophecy Update. So that you might realize that the Lord of the Universe has a plan that He has been unfolding for thousands of years, and that plan includes His desire to make Himself known to you. As you read, study and become familiar with the events of Bible prophecy, you will realize that the Lord is who He claims to be. That there is a God who is above all creation and who loves every human being equally and with great fervor. When we failed to be what He had created us to be and the defect of sin spread to all human kind, He took it upon Himself to become one of us, and give His life in exchange for all of ours. The sacrifice of Jesus Christ on a Roman cross 2,000 years ago, paid the price all of us owed for our own individual and collective sins, forever. If you will place your complete trust in what Jesus has done for you at the Cross, and accept Jesus as your own Savior, you will be cleansed of your total sin and obtain eternal life.

When Jesus returns next, it will not be physically to the earth, but to the atmosphere above earth, from where He will call out of the earth all those who have already come into a personal relationship with Him and have accepted His sacrifice for their sins. (1 Thessalonians 4:17)
Bible Prophecy Updates, Breaking News, Wars

Posted on May 26th, 2010

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Last Days, Signs

North Korea: ‘Prepare for War’

SEOUL, South Korea — Tensions on the Korean peninsula soared Tuesday as South Korea resumed propaganda broadcasts into North Korea in retaliation for the deadly sinking of a warship, while the North’s leader reportedly has ordered troops ready for combat. The South’s restarting of psychological warfare operations was among measures it announced Monday, along with slashing trade, to punish Pyongyang for the March torpedo strike that sank a navy warship and killed 46 sailors.
The US has thrown its full support behind South Korea’s moves to retaliate, which also include bringing North Korea before the UN Security Council. China — North Korea’s main ally and aid provider and a veto-weilding member of the Security Council — has so far done little but urge calm on all sides.
Bible Prophecy Updates, Israel in the News, The Last Days

Posted on May 13th, 2010

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Bible, Israel

Nentanyahu Turns to the Bible in Jerusalem Discussion

Beset by questions about Jerusalem’s future in talks with the Palestinians, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached for the Bible on Wednesday to stake out the Jewish state’s contested claim on the city.Netanyahu told a parliamentary session commemorating Israel’s capture of East Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 war that “Jerusalem” and its alternative Hebrew name “Zion” appear 850 times in the Old Testament, Judaism’s core canon.”As to how many times Jerusalem is mentioned in the holy scriptures of other faiths, I recommend you check,” he said. Citing such ancestry, Israel calls all of Jerusalem its “eternal and indivisible” capital — a designation not recognized abroad, where many powers support Arab claims to East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.
Bible Prophecy Updates, Israel in the News, The Last Days

Posted on May 13th, 2010

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Israel, Temple

Archaeologist: Stop Muslim Temple Mount Denial

Dr. Gabi Barkai, senior lecturer at Bar Ilan University and recipient of the Jerusalem Prize for Archaeology, says Israelis must demand that Israeli antiquities law be enforced at Israel’s most important archaeological site– the Temple Mount.
“It is the most important site in the world for the Jewish people,” Barkai told Benny Tucker of Arutz Sheva’s Hebrew newsmagazine in a Jerusalem Day interview, “as well as the most important archaeological site in Israel, and despite all this, Israel has abandoned it. Over the past ten years, the Waqf has taken control, making major changes in the status quo: It has conducted illegal digs, built mosques and the like, and the situation has changed from one extreme to the other.”
Bible Studies, Israel Fulfilled Prophecy, The Last Days

Posted on April 29th, 2010

Written by Rob Robinson

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Bible, Prophecy

Ruth: A Romance of Redemption

This little four-chapter book is often studied (even in secular colleges) as a masterpiece in miniature for its romantic elegance and literary value- and its charming glimpse into life in ancient Israel.
It is a classic love story of loyalty and devotion, and yet it also contains some surprising insights that go far beyond the historical narrative itself.
One of the principal characters is Naomi, a Bethlehemite, who, because of a famine, migrates with her husband and her two sons to distant Moab. The two sons take Moabite women for wives. During the ten years that follow, Naomi’s husband and both her two sons pass away, leaving her destitute.
Upon hearing that things have turned for the better in her native Bethlehem, Naomi decides to return home. She encourages the two young girls to make new lives for themselves among their own people.
Natural Dissasters, The Last Days

Posted on April 19th, 2010

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Signs, Volcano's

A New Volcanic Eruption Soon?

The word on everyone’s lips right now is ‘volcano.’ The eruption of the long-dormant Eyjafjallajökull on March 21st has absolutely devastated travel across the UK and most of Europe. Most websites on the internet cannot cope with the amount of traffic from people trying to find ways home – theP&O Ferries website has actually crashed due to so many people trying to catch a boat. And phone systems are ringing off the hook.
But is this only the beginning to the main event?
Israel Fulfilled Prophecy, Signs on the Earth, The Last Days

Posted on April 12th, 2010

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Israel, Prophecy

The Miracle of the Survival of the Jewish People

Centuries ago an agnostic king of France was discussing philosophy and religion with his royal court counselor. After numerous arguments were presented by the Christian advisor in favor of the position that God had revealed Himself in the Holy Scriptures, the king finally demanded that his counselor prove to him that God existed in an argument using only two words. The counselor replied, “The Jews!” In those two words the counselor summed up one of the most miraculous demonstrations of God’s supernatural intervention in human history. The survival and prospering of the Jewish people during thousands of years of brutal persecution, pogroms, and the tragedy of six million Jews massacred in Hitler’s Holocaust is a mysterious miracle unparalleled in history.
Bible Prophecy Updates, The Last Days, The Rapture of the Church

Posted on January 1st, 2010

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Will You Be Left Behind?

Iran on Wednesday denied as “baseless” a report it was close to clinching a deal to import 1,350 tons (1,372 tons) of purified uranium ore from Kazakhstan to restock its depleted reserves.
Any such deal would violate United Nations sanctions imposed on Iran in 2006 over its nuclear program. Uranium ore, also known as “yellow cake”, can be enriched to use for fuel either for reactors or nuclear weapons. ynetnews.com
Bible Prophecy Updates, The Last Days

Posted on November 25th, 2009

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Last Days, Prophecy

Various Views of the ‘Last Days’

Eschatology (from the Greek έσχατος meaning “last” + -logy) is a part of theology (End Times) and philosophy concerned with the final events in the history of the world or the ultimate destiny of human kind, commonly phrased as the end of the world. In many religions, the end of the world is a future event prophesied in sacred texts or folklore. More broadly, eschatology may encompass related concepts such as the Messiah or Messianic Age, the afterlife, and the soul.
The Greek word αιών means “age”; some translations may read “end of the age” instead of “end of the world”. The distinction also has theological significance, for the “end times” in many religions may involve the destruction of the planet (or of all living things), but with the human race surviving in some new form, ending the current “age” of existence and beginning a new one.