​50 Reasons Why We Are Living in the End Times

The Disciples, even Jesus, used prophecy to evangelize the world.  We are living in the last days and should also understand prophecy.

This article uses content from David Reagan’s article “50 Reasons We are in the End Times”

To be sure, this list of 50 only scratches the surface, as there are many more prophecies related to end-time events we are seeing now. The most important event is the “convergence” of all of these listed things and many others. We don’t know the time or day we will see Jesus return. Still, Jesus did say that we will know the season and not be surprised by these things (Matthew 24:33). As for the lost folks, well, it will take them completely by surprise, but not us, at least those that are not willfully Biblically illiterate or spiritually blind (1 Thessalonians 5:1-5). Prophecy is one of, if not the best, tools for ministering the Good News to the lost world.

The Apostles used it as well as the Disciples, to open the eyes of those living in darkness to see the light of Jesus Christ, and I believe that we should not put down this tool – even Jesus used prophecy to talk about Himself.

The best way to look at the numerous signs of the end times is to put them into categories.

The six major categories are:

• The signs of nature
• The signs of society
• Spiritual signs
• The signs of world politics
• The signs of technology
• The signs of Israel

The 50 reasons why we are living in the end times are as follows:

1. Increasing instability of nature (Luke 21:11 – nature)
2. Increasing lawlessness and violence (Matthew 24:12 – society)
3. Increasing immorality (Matthew 24:37 – society)
4. Increasing materialism (2 Timothy 3:2 – society)
5. Increasing hedonism (2 Timothy 3:4 – society)
6. The increasing influence of humanism (2 Timothy 3:2 – society)
7. Depraved entertainment (2 Timothy 3:4 – society)
8. Calling evil good and good evil (2 Timothy 3:3 – society)
9. Increasing use of drugs (2 Timothy 3:3 – society)
10. Increasing blasphemy (2 Timothy 3:2 – society)
11. Increasing paganism (2 Timothy 3:1-4 – society)
12. Increasing despair (2 Timothy 3:1 – society)
13. Signs in the Heavens (Luke 21:11 & 25 – technology)
14. Increasing knowledge (Daniel 12:4 – technology)
15. Increasing travel (Daniel 12:4 – technology)
16. The explosion of cults (Matthew 24:11- society)
17. Fake christs (Matthew 24:5- society)
18. Apostasy of the church (2 Timothy 4:3-5- society)
19. Increasing attacks on Jesus (Romans 1:18- society)
20. Increasing attacks on the Bible (Romans 1:18- society)
21. Increasing persecutions of Christians (Matthew 24:9- society)
22. Increasing occultism (1 Timothy 4:1- society)
23. Wars and rumors of wars (Matthew 24:6 – world politics)
24. Weapons of mass destruction (Luke 21:26 – technology)
25. Increasing famine (Luke 21:11 – nature)
26. Increasing pestilence (Luke 21:11 – nature)
27. Computer technology (Revelation 13:7 – technology)
28. Television (Revelation 11:8-9 – technology)
29. Satellite technology (Revelation 13:7 – technology)
30. Virtual reality (Revelation 13:14-15 – technology)
31. Unification of Europe (Daniel 2 & 7 – world politics)
32. Far Eastern military powers (Revelation 9 & 16 & 16:12 – world politics)
33. The movement towards world government (Daniel 7:23-26 – world politics)
34. Regathering of the Jews (Isaiah 11:10-12 – Israel)
35. Re-establishment of Israel (Isaiah 66:7-8 – Israel)
36. Resolution of the land of Israel from desolation to abundance (Ezekiel 36:34-35 – Israel)
37. Revival of Biblical Hebrew (Zephaniah 3:6 – Israel)
38. Re-occupation of Jerusalem (Luke 21:24 – Israel)
39. The resurgence of the Israeli military (Zechariah 12:6 – Israel)
40. Re-focus of world politics on Israel (Zechariah 12:3 – Israel, world politics)
41. Russia’s threat to Israel (Ezekiel 38 & 39 – Israel, world politics)
42. Arab threat to Israel (Ezekiel 35 & 36 – Israel, world politics)
43. Denial of the second coming (2 Peter 3:3-4 – society)
44. Denial of creation by God (Romans 1:8-22 – society)
45. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit (Joel 2:28-29, Joel 2:23, where the “latter rain” means the heavy outpouring we see now spirit)
46. Translation of the Bible into many languages (Matthew 24:14 – technology)
47. Preaching of the Gospel worldwide (Matthew 24:14 – technology)
48. Revival of Messianic Judaism (Isaiah 40:3-5 – Israel)
49. Revival of Davidic worship (Amos 9:11 – Israel)
50. The understanding of Bible prophecy (Daniel 12:8-9 – spirit)

With this information, go into the world and preach the Good News of Jesus Christ.