Last Days of the End (Days Of The Apocalypse #5)

by Mark E. Fisher

his words in such mystery that only a few could understand them. Always there were questions: Were the passages meant for the past? Or for the future? Or for both?

And they will be tormented with fire and burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and the Lamb. The smoke of their torment will rise forever and ever, and they will have no relief day or night, for they have worshipped the beast and his statue and have accepted the mark of his name.

Revelation 19:1–3 (NLT): After this, I heard what sounded like a vast crowd in heaven shouting, “Praise the LORD! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God. His judgments are true and just. He has punished the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the murder of his servants.”

“LOOK NOW, ALL GATHERED HERE TODAY, AT THE FALL OF NEW BABYLON, AND REJOICE! THE CORRUPTER OF NATIONS, THE PERSECUTOR OF THE REDEEMED AND THE CHOSEN PEOPLE, THE SEAT OF THE GREATEST BLASPHEMY, HAS FALLEN!”

But what joy for all who take refuge in him!

Galatians 6:7 (NLT): Don’t be misled—you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant. Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature.

Joel 2:30–32 (NLT): And I will cause wonders in the heavens and on the earth—blood and fire and columns of smoke. The sun will become dark, and the moon will turn blood red before that great and terrible day of the Lord arrives. But everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved, for some on Mount Zion in Jerusalem will escape, just as the Lord has said. These will be among the survivors whom the Lord has called.

Hosea 6–3 (NLT): “Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces; now he will heal us. He has injured us; now he will bandage our wounds. In just a short time he will restore us, so that we may live in his presence. Oh, that we might know the Lord! Let us press on to know him. He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring.”

‘So that you will not be conceited, brothers, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery: A partial hardening has come to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written: The Liberator will come from Zion; He will turn away godlessness from Jacob. And this will be My covenant with them when I take away their sins.’

Zechariah 13:1, 8–9a–b (NLT): “On that day a fountain will be opened for the dynasty of David and for the people of Jerusalem, a fountain to cleanse them from all their sins and impurity. . . . Two-thirds of the people in the land will be cut off and die,” says the LORD. “But one-third will be left in the land. I will bring that group through the fire and make them pure. I will refine them like silver and purify them like gold.”

Zechariah 12:10 (HCSB): “Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at Me whom they pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for Him as one weeps for a firstborn.”

Ezekiel 36:26–28 (HCSB): “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I

will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will place My Spirit within you and cause you to follow My statutes and carefully observe My ordinances. Then you will live in the land that I gave you...

“What do we do now?” asked Tanya. “We pray for the return of our Savior.” Baruch turned to David Benjamin. “Spread the word to every man, woman, and youth in the camp. Everyone must pray for Jesus’s return.”

Revelation 19:11–16 (HCSB): Then I saw heaven opened, and there was a white horse. Its rider is called Faithful and True, and He judges and makes war in righteousness. His eyes were like a fiery flame, and many crowns were on His head. He had a name written that no one knows except Himself. He wore a robe stained with blood, and His name is the Word of God. The armies that were in heaven followed Him on white horses, wearing pure white linen. A sharp sword came from His mouth, so that He might strike the nations with it. He will shepherd them with an iron

scepter. He will also trample the winepress of the fierce anger of God, the Almighty. And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh:

KING OF KINGS AND LORD...

Matthew 24:30 (NLT): “And then at last, the sign that the Son of Man is coming will appear in the heavens, and there will be deep mourning among all the peoples of the earth. And they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.”

Zechariah 14:3–7 (HCSB): Then the Lord will go out to fight against those nations as He

fights on a day of battle. On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. The Mount of Olives will be split in half from east to west, forming a huge valley, so that half the mountain will move to the north and half to the south. You will flee by My mountain valley, for the valley of the mountains will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the

days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Him. Joel 3:2–3 (HCSB): I will gather all the nations and take them to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. I will enter into judgment with them there because of My people, My inheritance Israel. The nations hav...

cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a ...

It was a call to battle, announcing the end of evil and the defeat of the beast. And it proclaimed the beginning of Christ’s rule on earth.

Revelation 1:7 (NLT): Look! He comes with the clouds of heaven. And everyone will see him—even those who pierced him. And all the nations of the world will mourn for him.

Here you will burn and writhe and never be consumed forever and ever. This, then, is God’s judgment on all who reject him, who rebel against him, and who lead others to destruction.”

chest deep. Flames lashed at his face, his chest, his flailing arms. Below the surface, the burning cauldron boiled his flesh. But it didn’t consume.

It just burned. And burned. And burned. The pain was indescribable, unbearable, beyond imagining, and he screamed. Then a thought worse than his present agony drove a molten spike into the center of his brain. There would be no end to this.

Matthew 24:29 (HCSB): “Immediately after the tribulation of those days: The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not shed its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the celestial powers will be shaken.”

Isaiah 34:1–2 (NLT): Come here and listen, O nations of the earth. Let the world and everything in it hear my words. For the Lord is enraged against the nations. His fury is against all their armies. He will completely destroy them, dooming them to slaughter.

Either they were part of the sheep or the goats, and Christ himself would decide which. If they had given refuge, food, or water to the redeemed who fled the beast, they might, by their actions, have demonstrated their faith in Jesus and be pardoned. But they would have to be judged to determine their true

heart condition. If they failed the test, they’d be condemned to the outer darkness.

Isaiah 65:18–23 (HCSB): Then be glad and

rejoice forever in what I am creating; for I will

create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight. I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people. The sound of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her. In her, a nursing infant will no longer live only a few days, or an old man not live out his days. Indeed, the youth will die at a hundred years, and the one who misses a hundred years will be cursed. People will build houses and live in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They will not build and others live in them; they will not plant and others eat. For My people’s lives will be like the lifetime of a tree. My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work ...

“I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you.” The Jewish people are central to God’s plan for the end times, and Christians should support and stand with them.

Bible have looked forward to the day of Christ’s return. And the Lord’s Prayer begins with: “Your kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven . . .” This certainly calls for the end of Satan’s rule on earth, Christ’s second coming, and the beginning of end-times events.

Looking forward to Christ’s return should not bring sadness but joy. It’s something we should pray for, hope for, and rejoice when it happens! Because the first event on the end-times calendar is the Rapture of the Church, the moment Christ comes to take his people out of this world (1 Corinthians 15:51–52 and 1 Thessalonians 4:16–18).

Before the Tribulation midpoint, unbelievers will have a chance to believe. But after that, if they take the mark of the beast, they are doomed.

So the future for believers is bright and glorious, something to pray for, hope for, and look forward to. When we live with Jesus for all eternity, basking in his love, and loving him in return, we will surely have entered the best of all possible worlds.