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Jesus is Returning In Our Time: Spiritual Signs

Some of the most exciting signs that are unique to our day and age that point to Jesus’ return in our time are the spiritual ones.

1) Outpouring of the Holy Spirit

In Joel 2:28-32 we are told that there will be a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the end times, right before the return of the Lord. This chapter also tells us that this outpouring will occur after the Jews have been regathered to the land of Israel (Joel 2:18-28).

The nation of Israel was re-established in May of 1948. One year later the ministry of Billy Graham took off like a rocket, resulting in the Gospel being preached to more people than ever before in history. This important development was followed by the birth of the Charismatic Movement and the explosive growth of the Pentecostal Movement, both of which put an emphasis on the power of the Holy Spirit and the importance of worship.

2) Davidic Praise Worship

Spontaneously, all over the world, the Tabernacle of David (Amos 9:11) began to be resurrected as churches returned to Davidic praise worship. This movement accelerated in the early 1980’s when the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem started a yearly celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles. Thousands of Christians came from all over the world, and many were introduced to Davidic worship for the first time. They took the concept home with them in their hearts and introduced it to their churches.

3) World Evangelism

In like manner the Holy Spirit has empowered world evangelism. Seventy per cent of all the missions work done by the church in its two thousand year history has been accomplished since 1900. Seventy per cent of that has been done since 1948, and 70% of that has been accomplished in the last ten years! In other words, the proclamation of the Gospel is on an exponential curve.

Much of the modern increase in missions outreach is due to technology, through the use of radio, television, movies, satellites, and the Internet. In April of 1996 Billy Graham preached a sermon that was broadcast to 200 countries in 40 different languages. It is estimated that 2.5 billion people heard or saw the message. The presentation was followed-up with the distribution of 445 million pieces of literature in over a hundred languages.

“The Jesus Film” produced by Campus Crusade in 1979 has been shown to over 6 billion people worldwide. Based upon the Gospel of Luke, the film has been translated into over 1,000 languages and is currently being shown in almost every country in the world by more than 2,500 teams.

The “10/40 Window Project” has focused the attention of Christians to pray for the success of evangelistic efforts in the area across Africa and Asia from 10 degrees latitude north of the equator to 40 degrees latitude north of the equator. Of the 55 least evangelized countries, 97% of their population lives within this geographical window.

The result has been a great harvest of souls. More Muslims have come to Jesus in the past twenty years than in the previous one thousand years.

What we are witnessing in missions outreach is a fulfillment of Jesus’ words when He said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go to the Father” (John 14:12). The accelerated success of missions worldwide is also a partial fulfillment of a prophecy Jesus spoke in His Olivet Discourse: “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a witness to all the nations, and then the end shall come” (Matthew 24:14).

The Uniqueness of our Age

After reviewing the modern day signs, I don’t think we need any handwriting on the wall to indicate to us that we are living in a unique age. Historical developments and technological inventions are making it possible for us to understand many end time prophecies for the first time.

Even the phenomenal success of Hal Lindsey’s book, The Late Great Planet Earth, is a modern day sign of the times. Keep in mind that this book was the number one best seller in the world, with the sole exception of the Bible, for ten consecutive years, from 1970 to 1980 (as authenticated by Time Magazine). What was it that the Lord told Daniel? — “Seal it up to the end of time when those who have insight will understand.”

The bottom line, my friends, is that we are living on borrowed time, because Jesus is coming soon!

Maranatha!

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Dr. David Reagan

Dr. David Reagan is the Founder and Evangelist Emeritus of Lamb & Lion Ministries. He is a life-long Bible student, teacher, and preacher and he led over 45 pilgrimages to Israel. Dr. Reagan was the host of the radio then television program Christ in Prophecy for nearly 40 years.

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  • The Charismatic Movement & Pentecostal Movement are not movements of the Holy Spirit. They are movements of the Devil. For Example Todd Bentley and the so called Lakeland Revival.

  • Justin, yes Todd Bentley and others are servants of Satan, but to say that the entire Pentecostal movement is of Satan? Then that means that both Peter and Paul were servants of Satan in that they healed people. The Bible says that Paul had an anointing so great that people were healed just by touching something that touched him!

    True Pentecostalism just says that God is working through His Spirit in the lives of people and takes the Bible from Genesis to maps seriously; as the inerrant Word of God. It’s not about jumping up and down and falling down and yelling and waving your arms, it’s about believing and worshiping God in spirit and in truth.

  • Justin, I know many born-again believers who are charismatic and some who are Pentacostal. I don’t think you can hold one person up and say just because this person did not preach the truth that the whole movement is not of God! That seems to me to be throwing out an entire movement based on one person’s actions (and that standard, if applied to all denominations, would disqualify them, too).

  • Labeling your competition as servants of Satan gives the impression of a turf battle. Say it ain’t so. I’d like to turn that discussion on its head and propose that God, being omnipotent, can use any spiritual teacher and any caring person to reach out to someone who can be saved. The public consists of thinking individuals; even if they’re being served by a misguided teacher they still have eyes and ears.

    I’ve posted a free e-book, Walkabout: The History of a Brief Century on the Web. It’s a story set in the Last Days, and it discusses things such as interdenominational quarrels in a constructive spirit. I hope it helps clear matters up.

  • yo! i realize that this is a 2 week old post at the time of this writing but i gotta disagree with one point and if i am mistaken then please correct me cuz i wanna be accurate about this. the last days revival happens AFTER the rapture NOT BEFORE. from what i understand the context of the outpouring of the holy spirit is in the tribulation. in fact BEFORE the rapture it is the opposite. the leodicean church and apathy.

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