There is often criticism from even so-called evangelicals when someone comments on a current news story and relates it to a biblical passage or prophetic scripture.  True, one may not want to jump and point at every event as prophetic but neither should events be dismissed as non-sensical or coincidental.  The amil or (self-unrealized) Replacement theologian may laugh or mock as he wiggles in his chair at a Wednesday night Bible study when he says he is not going to read the paper to see what the Bible says!  But the truth is, news sources may unknowingly expose Bible prophecies as they unfold before us today!  In fact, the news sources of today may be our current fig trees.

Again, this is not to say that every time a leaf falls from a tree or if we hear the sound of a frog calling on a rainy night that we should shout that prophecy is being fulfilled.  Still, God is sovereign over all creation.

Does the same Bible study leader totally (arrogantly ) ignore all the signs of the last days for fear of believing any of them?

II Peter 3:3-4 states that there were many who would mockingly say that "knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own  lusts,  and saying, where is the promise of His coming?  For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning."  So, is that true what the scoffers say?  Do all things continue status quo or do all things get worse as we near the end?

In today's world of high-tech instant news we can know or see something happening in the very moment it happens.  It should be no surprise that so much instant news can be seen around the world as it occurs.  People around the world will see the Lord return with His saints sometime after the rapture (Jude 14-15).   Will the scoffers, etc. be scoffing then?

Certainly, the scoffers see what is going on in the world.  Do they say it means nothing?

With one example--how do the scoffers,  amil-ers, and Replacement Theology believers ignore  what the television news and newspapers are reporting on Israel?  Since becoming a country again as prophesied in scripture, is there any news service that does not report on Israel with regularity?  And in one scripture, how can they ignore Israel as prophesied in Isaiah 43:5-6 where it is written that the Lord will bring His people from all over back to Israel.  How do the scoffers, et al, handle that one?  Perhaps they will cry that Isaiah penned that between 700 and 600 B.C.  And, they are right but the Jewish people were not scattered all over the world at that time in history as they were/are today.  

Because so many amil or Replacement Theology adherents are hung-up on the fulfillment of their (mis) interpretation of kingdom prophecy being fulfilled in 70 A.D., they choose to ignore most biblical prophecy as it unfolds today.  Therefore, it is easier for them to believe prophecy that has been fulfilled rather than prophecy that has yet to come.  It is also easier for them to allegorize scripture they do not understand rather then study it fully or admit they do not understand it.

Some of the churches/denominations that hold to Replacement Theology or supersessionism in the United States are the Roman Catholic Church, the Episcopal Church,  the Reformed Baptist, the Presbyterian Church, the United Church of Christ, and the United Methodist Church.  Is it any wonder why the Sovereign and Triune God of the Bible has been withholding any blessings on this country?

 

And, there are so many more signs and events they emphatically prove that The Lord is coming soon!