As we begin this year with our study of biblical prophecies of the last days, we have evidence of their fulfillment on every news station. The Lord said in Mark 13:8, “For nation will arise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will also be famines. These things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.” Certainly we are seeing nations rise against each other, as well as the earthquakes and famines. However, this is not the end, but rather “the beginning of birth pangs.”

Every mother knows that as the birth gets closer,...

As we covered in our message last week, one of the crucial issues with both Israel and the church in these times is for them both to understand their purpose. This is a major, in-depth study which we will do in the coming year. However, there is one issue that relates to both Israel and the church, which are crucial for us to understand now. That is the issue of borders.

Both Israel and the church are in conflict with their neighbors over the placement of their borders. With Israel this is physical; with the church it is more spiritual...

In the Lord’s discourse about the signs of the end of the age, He gave us a very important timetable in Matthew 24:32-34:

This week, we will look at what I call a “new order of ministry” which is now being raised up, and is in many ways a return to the original order of ministry. This order is the most prevalent in Scripture and history by about 10 to 1 over what has become the most prevalent “concept” of what ministry is today.
To challenge our thinking about ministry, we need to consider that only a few of the heroes of the faith in the Bible were priests, or those that we would consider today to be in “full-time ministries.” Very few...

Last week I painted with some pretty broad strokes while addressing “the four winds of the earth.” This week I want to do it again with a perspective that is both historic and prophetic, and will lay the groundwork for addressing some things in more depth later.
In a general sense, the coming of the change of the ages will be like the century that saw transition between the times of Samson, Samuel, Saul, David, and Solomon. Let me explain. As we see in the Bible chronologically, Samuel was about twenty years old when Samson died. Samson represents...