There are others modern day signs that are unique to our day and time that can be found in prophetic scriptures outside the book of Revelation. Let me just mention a few.
1) Acceleration of Life
The first that comes to mind is the acceleration of life. In Daniel 12:4 we are told that the speed of transportation and the volume of knowledge will vastly increase in the end times. We have witnessed the fulfillment of this prophecy in our life time. When the 20th Century began, the vast majority of people were still traveling the same way they had been since the dawn of human history — namely, walking and riding a horse. Today we have autos, bullet trains, supersonic airplanes, and space ships. And all of this developed in only 80 years!
2) Growth of Knowledge
Similarly, the growth of knowledge has been overwhelming. Technical knowledge is doubling every two years. One edition of the New York Times Sunday edition contains more information than the average person in the 19th Century was exposed to in a life time! Through the World Wide Web, I can almost instantaneously access research resources all over the world. With the click of a computer key, I can go to the Vatican Library, and from there to the Library of Congress, and from there to the Jerusalem Museum.
3) Growth in Speed of Communication
The growth in communication speed is breathtaking. In the 19th Century it would have taken months for the news of the recent Mumbai terrorist attack in India to reach the United States. Even during the first half of the 20th Century it would have taken several days to a couple of weeks. But today, the news arrives instantaneously. Consider the years it took to reach a market audience of 50 million people: Radio, 38 years; Television, 13 years; Internet, 4 years; I-Pod, 3 years; and Facebook (an Internet sharing community), 2 years. That is truly exponential acceleration!
The next article will look at modern day spiritual signs that show Jesus is returning in our time.
It’s a rarely known fact that Sir Isaac Newton, one of history’s greatest scientific mind, using Daniel’s book, stated that one day people would travel at speeds exceeding 40 mph.
The French philospher and athiest, Voltaire, who said that within 100 years of his death the Bible would be a footnote in history, basically called Newton an idiot.
Who’s the idiot now?