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| 1SE | Matt. 16:3 | According to Jesus, should we be interested in understanding the signs of the times? |
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Matt. 24:1-3 |
What Question did His disciples ask Jesus? Man has always been curious about the nearness of the end of the world. |
| 3SE | Matt. 24:6 | What sign did Jesus give first? Notice that He did not scold them for asking for a sign. |
| 4SE | Matt. 24:7 | Name three other signs in verse 7. |
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2 Tim. 3:1-5 |
What condition will people be in during the last days? |
| 6SE | 1 Tim. 4:1,2 | How will Satan especially deceive many in the last days? Beware of false doctrine. There will be many false teachings in the end time. What important advice did Paul give for survival in he last days? (see 4:16) We must be solidly grounded in true doctrine. |
| 7SE | Dan. 12:4 | What did Daniel predict about the end of time? |
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2 Pet. 3:3-5 |
Will everybody believe these signs? |
| 9SE | Matt. 24:14 | What great sign remains? Are things happening today that indicate this will come to pass soon? What work remains to be done? |
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Matt. 24:32-36 |
What should be our attitude to all these things? Can we predict when Jesus will come? |
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Notes: Signs of the End
"These signs were witnessed before the opening of the nineteenth century. In fulfillment of this prophecy there occurred, in the year 1755, the most terrible earthquake that has ever been recorded. Though commonly known as the earthquake of Lisbon, it extended to the greater part of Europe, Africa, and America. It was felt in Greenland, in the West Indies, in the island of Madeira, in Norway and Sweden, Great Britain and Ireland. It pervaded an extent of not less than four million square miles. In Africa the shock was almost as severe as in Europe. A great part of Algiers was destroyed; and a short distance from Morocco, a village containing eight or ten thousand inhabitants was swallowed up. A vast wave swept over the coast of Spain and Africa engulfing cities and causing great destruction." Great Controversy, 304 "In the morning the sun rose clear, but was soon overcast. The clouds became lowery, and from them, black and ominous, as they soon appeared, lightning flashed, thunder rolled, and a little rain fell. Toward nine o'clock, the clouds became thinner, and assumed a brassy or coppery appearance, and earth, rocks, trees, buildings, water, and persons were changed by this strange, unearthly light. A few minutes later, a heavy black cloud spread over the entire sky except a narrow rim at the horizon, and it was as dark as it usually is at nine o'clock on a summer evening. . . . "Fear, anxiety, and awe gradually filled the minds of the people. Women stood at the door, looking out upon the dark landscape; men returned from their labor in the fields; the carpenter left his tools, the blacksmith his forge, the tradesman his counter. Schools were dismissed, and tremblingly the children fled homeward. Travelers put up at the nearest farmhouse. 'What is coming?' queried every lip and heart. It seemed as if a hurricane was about to dash across the land, or as if it was the day of the consummation of all things. "Candles were used; and hearth fires shone as brightly as on a moonless evening in autumn. . . . Fowls retired to their roosts and went to sleep, cattle gathered at the pasture bars and lowed, frogs peeped, birds sang their evening songs, and bats flew about. But the human knew that night had not come. . . . The Essex Antiquarian, April, 1899, vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 53, 54 "Though at nine o'clock that night the moon rose to the full, it had not the least effect to dispel the deathlike shadows. After midnight the darkness disappeared, and the moon, when first visible, had the appearance of blood." GC308 |
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11 SIGNS OF THE END
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