Resounding Shophar Blast Podcast
At the Doors
Hello, Everyone! Welcome to
another broadcast of the Resounding Shophar Blast! In case you haven’t been watching, there is a
lot going on right now regarding the fulfillment of Biblical end-time events,
so much so that some people are scrambling just to keep up with everything that
is going on.
As I observe all that is going on right now, I am reminded of something
that took place back in December of 1989.
The event was a meeting between then President George W. Bush, Sr. and
the Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev on the island of Malta. I don’t remember much about that event, but
what I do remember was something said by a well-known news anchor who was on a
boat in the middle of the Mediterranean, and during a storm. This news anchor, and I don’t remember which
one it was, while he’s on the deck of the boat braving the storm, told the
audience that things were happening so fast that they were having trouble
keeping up and reporting all the news taking place. When I heard him say that, immediately God
quickened to me that when the time comes for Jesus to return for His Bride and
for the start of the Tribulation period, things will be happening so fast that
people’s heads will be spinning, and what the world was experiencing at the
time this reporter made these statements was only a glimpse, a taste, of what
will happen when God says it’s time.
People are now actually beginning to comment about how so much is
happening right now in the area of Biblical end-time prophecy fulfillment, they
are having trouble keeping up with it all.
In Matthew 24:32-35, as well as in Mark 13:28-31, Jesus gives us the
parable of the fig tree. In the Bible,
the fig tree is symbolic of the Nation of Israel. When Jesus gave this parable, Israel was not
a nation, but He was looking at a future time when Israel would become
one. In this parable, Jesus makes it
known that the generation that sees Israel become a nation will not pass away
until all the things He previously mentioned takes place. Well, Israel became a nation May 14, 1948, and
ever since then the fulfillment of Biblical end-time prophecies has kicked into
high gear along with the highly anticipated return of Jesus for His
Church. Some people want to say that it
will be several years yet before Jesus returns, and some say even at least 100
or more years yet, but there is one very big problem with this rationale. The generation that saw Israel become a nation
is about to pass away, which means that there isn’t the 10’s or 100’s of years
some would like to believe there is before Christ returns. There has been much debate over the years as
to how long a generation is Biblically speaking, ranging anywhere between 40 to
120 years, but the consensus seems to point to 70-80 years as mentioned in Psalms
90:10. The current life expectancy
statistics show just under 80 years, which seems to correlate very well with
what we are currently seeing in the fulfillment of Biblical end-time
prophecies.
In the parable of the fig tree, Jesus tells us that when we see all the
signs He had mentioned taking place that we are to know that the end is near, at the doors! Talking about end-time events and when Jesus
will return for the Church, many people will comment about how the signs Jesus
mentioned, as well as what has been mentioned in other passages, have been seen
for years. This only feeds into the
fulfillment of one of the prophecies we’ve been given regarding the end-times,
and that is found in 2 Peter 3:1-7 when the Apostle Peter tells us in the last
days many will mock and question the promise of Christ’s return.