If you enter "mark of the beast" in the search bar of the FAQs, you will find some good answers. However, there is a fine sermon on the topic as well in YouTube, delivered at a Christian conference in July of 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqYNglDWuOA&t=329s Additional Resources:For children, [...]
2 Thessalonians 1:7-10 (NKJV), 7 “. . . when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, 8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our [...]
In Jesus’s day, the Roman government ruled. Herod was a king over Jerusalem and Judaea. If you recall, Herod was so evil that he married his brother’s wife, Herodias. He also had John the Baptist’s head chopped off and brought to his birthday party [...]
This parable is recorded in Mark 13:28-31 and Luke 21:29-32. The Jewish scriptures sometimes represent Israel as a fig tree (Hosea 9:10, Jeremiah 24, Jeremiah 8:13). During King Solomon’s reign, Israel lived in safety, each man “under his own vine and fig tree” (1 [...]
Summary: Yes, we see many signs of our Lord’s return now! Matthew 24:30 answers the disciples’ questions of verse 3, “Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming (Greek, presence) and of the end of the [...]
There is much confusion about the manner and purpose of His return. Many false predictions have been published. Some take the Lord’s words, “lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world,” to mean that Christ never left and ascended to the Father. They believe that Jesus has been personally present during the entire gospel age. Such [...]
The scriptures do not teach a tribulation followed by a war on Israel. The last stage of Armageddon is the war against Israel. Jeremiah 30:7, “Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of ‘Jacob’s [...]
Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight…” John 18:36. God is not directing the leaders of this “present evil world,” Galatians 1:4 It is not that there is no good in [...]
The prophets not only addressed events in ancient Israel and its future, they also prophesied of the Christian church. This verse has a double application - both to regathered Israel and to the Christian church. No weapon in the hand of either Satan, or [...]
Scriptural references to “the end” or “end times” must be read in context to identify which time period is ending. Knowing what follows a prophecy also helps to understand verses properly. Inaccurate scriptural interpretations have fostered a fearful dread in people when the topic [...]
The passage refers to three different time periods: Verse 17 - “the last days”; Verse 18 - “in those days”; Verse 20 - “before that great and notable day of the Lord come”. Peter is quoting from Joel 2:28-32 as a prophesy partially fulfilled [...]
Habakkuk 2:2-3 (CSB), “The LORD answered me: Write down this vision; clearly inscribe it on tablets so one may easily read it. For the vision is yet for the appointed time; it testifies about the end and will not lie. Though it delays, wait [...]
“The Old Testament is the New concealed and the New Testament is the Old revealed.”The New Testament contains a large number of Old Testament quotations. There are at least 295 separate references to the Old Testament. These occupy some 352 verses, or more than 4.4 [...]
There has never been a Christian country. God has never made a covenant with any Gentile country to be His Christian nation. Jesus said the “gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations…” Matthew 24:14. [...]
In this present time of trouble, God instructs the humble to, “Seek the LORD, all you meek of the earth, who have upheld His justice. Seek righteousness, seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the LORD’s anger.” [...]
The covenant of David is God’s promise that one of David’s sons would always be on Israel’s throne. “And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever,” 2 Samuel 7:16. For many centuries descendants of [...]
Revelation 20:7-10 (RSV), “And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be loosed from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations which are at the four corners of the earth, that is, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; [...]
Zechariah 14:3-5 (ESV), “Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. 4 On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and [...]
Isaiah 66:7-8 (NIV), “Before she goes into labor, she gives birth; before the pains come upon her, she delivers a son. Who has ever heard of such things? Who has ever seen things like this? Can a country be born in a day or [...]
“...the kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ: and he shall reign for ever and ever.” (Revelation 11:15) This scripture summarizes the purpose and results of Jesus’s second presence. Revelation 20 begins with Jesus’s return. Jesus [...]
