01_01 The Three Signs

Introduction to Chapter 01  The Kingdom of heaven is very close!

The major two books of prophecy are Daniel, in the Old Testament, and Revelation, in the New Testament. Daniel contains a prophetic time-line that begins in Daniel’s time and extends through history to the Second Coming of Jesus and beyond. Revelation contains an overlapping prophetic time-line, from the time of Jesus and His disciples, through history to the same Second Coming of Jesus and beyond. Where are we on that prophetic time-line? This question is crucial because we will see that we are now already in “the hour of God’s Judgment” at “the time of the end!” (Judgment has been reserved till the end time.) We will learn that the Investigative Judgment (from the “books” in heaven) shortly precedes the Second Coming of Jesus in power and great glory!

This Chapter contains the proofs, in detail, of these facts.

The studies in this educational Seminar series are purposely put into mainly short documents, so that each one will cover a major facet of the information, in detail, but in little “sound bites” that break up the big subject into learnable small parts. Almost all of the studies are also put in SERMON form. You may want to preach them, yourself, with the writer’s blessing! The SERMON form is downloadable in PAMPHLET form, so that they may be distributed, Chapter by Chapter, 10 Chapters in all, in your own Bible Study group! Each PAMPHLET is easily photo-copyable to share with other interested people that you find. This is especially my desire, that their distribution by this method may exponentially spread their important information. By that I mean that each person that studies them might distribute them to several others, who, in turn, could distribute them to several more in their own Bible Study group, and thus from one, many might be reached!

In Chapter 1, the first document of the series, #01_01, The Three Signs of Jesus’ soon Second Coming, gives the astounding history of the fulfillment of each of these signs, in their order, in relatively recent history! The return of Jesus is “the blessed hope” of the Christian! Yet, these historical fulfillments have been IGNORED by Christianity in our time! Jesus is, relative to man’s probationary time, (six thousand years) very soon to come! The Kingdom of heaven is very close!

The Three Signs of the Soon Return of Jesus in the Second Coming

Where are we in the Biblical time-line of history? Are we at the very end of it? The following answers that question authoritatively. Jesus is soon to return! Prophecy, by Jesus Himself, has foretold it, and history, relatively recent history, has confirmed that He is “at the very doors!”

Please read with me, right now, Mt.24:29-33 and Rev. 6:12,13. Turn first to
Mt. 24, verses 29 to 33:

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days (which we today know as the ‘Dark Ages,’) – 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, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Now learn a parable of the fig tree: when his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: so likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors!”

Now, the parallel text, with one more detail, Revelation chapter 6, verses
12 and 13:

“I beheld when He had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake: and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.”

These are parallel texts and here are their fulfillments, in relatively recent history, which we don’t hear about in our public-school history classes. We do study ancient history, but these stupendous events, which fore-tell the return of our Lord Jesus, have been ignored!
Here are the historic fulfillments of the signs!

The Lisbon Earthquake:
November, 1755, affected four million square miles! 90,000 people perished in Lisbon alone. A great number of cities were completely destroyed. The worst hit were Spain, Portugal, and North Africa. It was reported that it was felt even in North America!

25 years later followed…
The Dark Day; and the Moon like Blood:
May 19, 1780. Darkness covered the entirety of New England (early America) from 10 in the morning till 1 a.m. the next night. People were filled with fear that the Judgment day was at hand, a very general opinion. The full moon appeared finally, but was the color of blood!
There was no mistaking this sign! But, 53 years passed before the last sign. The excitement and interest had been forgotten.

The Stars of Heaven Fell:
November 13, 1833 – a meteorite shower of such magnitude, and sizes of individual meteors, that it brought to mind immediately, “The stars of heaven fell unto the earth even as a fig tree casts her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.”

This was the third sign, fulfilled just two years after a farmer-turned-preacher began to proclaim the Advent near (the Second Coming of Christ)!
This man unsealed the prophecy of Daniel’s 2300 days, (from Daniel chapter 8) and proclaimed that it would be ending in 1843, with the Coming of Jesus in power and Judgment! “…the hour of His Judgment is come!” What was to follow the three signs? “And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.” Rev. 6:14.
We are right between these two verses, in the prophetic time-line!

When the next verse is fulfilled, there shall be but two groups living upon the earth. The one group, “…the kings of the earth, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks, ‘Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: for the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?'” Rev. 6:15-17.

The other group shall exclaim, “…Look! This is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for Him, and we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation!” Isaiah 25:9.

NOTE WELL: In the words of Christ, the Second Coming is “at the very doors!” (Mt. 24:33) It is time to decide which group you will be in. Today is the day of salvation!

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