Signs From The Bible

Signs From the Bible

Have you ever considered that what we are experiencing nowadays is representative of the signs of the Last Days? There is rampant anger expressed everywhere, and people are quickly infuriated. Have you noticed the fiercely destructive forms of lawlessness raising their ugly heads throughout America and the world? We all know that all this is not “normal,” but is it a sign that things are rapidly progressing toward what the Bible calls the Last Day?

And talk about touchy people, you could even say some become enraged at the drop of a hat. All that anger and heartache cannot be blamed on the mandated COVID confinements or the lingering effects of the derivative viruses. Yes, in today’s antagonistic, keep everybody masked and separate political environment, many people are thinking we are living within the last days. Maybe yes—maybe no. But we get closer and closer each day, don't we?

What other signs can be found from the beginning to the end of the Bible? Two of God's intriguing characteristics are; He gives us repeated evidence, through signs and miracles, that He is there with us, with His people. And occasionally, He chooses to reveal what will happen in the future. His words are recorded in the Bible for the benefit of the Believers and the unbelievers to dwell upon.

Most likely, He had very specific reasons for offering the limited enlightenments of the signs of the end times. Within His glorious fairness, everybody is encouraged to accept Him, and Jesus, via their own free will. The prophecies of the end times give accounts of what will happen at the end of this earth's history. Those accounts include the rapture of the church, wherein all believers are removed from the earth, the tribulation, seven years of almost insurmountable anguish as God judges the sin of humanity, and the millennial kingdom which begins shortly after the end of the tribulation. But the Bible also gives guidance as to the timing of the rapture and the tribulation. When God's will is fulfilled, then Christ will reign as King on the New Earth.

Across the pages of Exodus and the Book of Numbers, a series of God's signs were witnessed. The first sign the Pharaoh was shown was revealed in Exodus 7:10. Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent. After forcing everyone except the Jews themselves to suffer the effects of the Ten Plagues, the Lord encouraged Pharaoh to let the Israelites leave their bondage in Egypt and go to worship Him in the wilderness. Two of the Pharaoh's magicians imitate the same miraculous feat by turning their rods into serpents. Later, Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods so Moses revealed God's powers as the most formidable.

My point here is, even the adversaries of God can produce false signs. Don't allow them to sway you.

Later, the fleeing people were eyewitnesses to more of God's miraculous wonders.

An angel of God and a pillar of cloud and fire guided and protected the multitude (Exodus 13:21-22; 14:19). Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided. (Exodus 14:21-29). God took off the wheels of chariots so that they drove with difficulty; and the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.” The army was drowned in the sea (Exodus 14:25-31). The bitter waters of Marah were made sweet and drinkable (Exodus 15:23-25). Manna rained from heaven six days a week. The wind brings the quail to provide meat (Exodus 16:4,13-18 & Numbers 11:31). Water spouted up from a rock (Exodus 17:5-6). God permitted the raised hand of Moses, holding a rod, to allow the Israelites to prevail over Amalek (Exodus 17:9-13). God spoke from the mount at Sinai (Exodus 19:2-6; 16-21). Miriam's rebellion and a white as snow leprosy (Numbers 12:5-10). The ground opened and swallowed Korah (Numbers 16:25-35) The budding rod of Aaron sprouted, which produced blossoms and yielded ripe almonds. (Numbers 17:8). More water flowed from a rock and was a sin of Moses (Numbers 20:10-12). The bronze snake on a pole to be viewed and heal all who were snake bit (Numbers 21:4-9)

The signs and prophecies regarding the rapture do not tell us when all this happens Nor do they give us any singularly specific sign to watch for. In fact, in Matthew 24:36, Jesus admitted, “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.” Although signs, like the re-establishment of Israel, and the coming tribulation will occur after the rapture (taking up) of believers.