I believe that once Israel became a Nation again in a day in 1948, that the END TIMES prophetic clock speeded up. And, that the generation that saw that happen will have at least one member of that generation alive when the concluding acts of the play transpire on the world stage. So, if that contention is accurate, it should mean that the end of history as we have known it will occur before our lifetimes are out.
And, certainly it seems that each year, the speed of such prophetic events increases with more and more data points fitting more and more puzzle pieces into the ending events presented in Scripture for the END TIMES.
For example, just a few off the top of my head:
1. Israel again a nation in a day. No dispersed people ever reconstituted again as a nation before or since.
2. Hebrew as their resurrected language--never happened to any culture before or since.
3. Jerusalem made a heavy burden and focus of the whole world in contrast to it's not being a major center of anything economically or politically.
4. The Mark of the Beast computer chip ID implant is all ready and in use in the USA, Mexico and other locations and could be implemented manditorily world wide within 3-5 years easily--particularly in non rural areas.
5. The global government is functioning very effectively in the shadows and could easily force itself overtly on the world stage at virtually any time.
6. The globalists are satan worshippers.
7. The globalists have effectively begun to destroy Christianity in the public square shockingly effectively. Christians have been punished in Western countries in ways never imagined possible--ALREADY--and the global government is not even overtly in power--yet.
8. The North American Union and other sections of the planet divided up by the puppet masters into 10 regions fits precisely Daniel's vision regarding the satanic ruler and the 10 kings submitted to him.
9. "Even if you build nests among the stars--yet will I bring you down." Never before possible but from that era's idiom, is not possible--the Space Station is there twinkling similar to a star in the night sky.
10. Knowledge has increased so astronomically beyond ever before it abundantly fulfills the prophecy about that--particularly with the net.
11. Running to and fro upon the earth has never been as rampant as it is now in the recorded history that we know of. Again fulfilling another end times prophecy as never before, since the prophecy was given.
12. The Gospel is within a decade and a half or so of being distributed to the last people groups not having it. This is CERTAINLY A HUGE SIGN in and of itself.
13. The globalists have begun their efforts to unify the world's religions [and to hyper activate the world's anger against "fundamentalist" religionists via the Jihadi terror folks who are also serving to scare the world into a world government and to remove guns from the populace].
14. The globalists have succeeded in transforming the founding American Judeo/Christian ethic into the lawlessness prophecies described where good is called evil and evil good.
15. The churches which most dismiss and/or trash Jesus' deity are also the churches most in support of the globalists and their world government agenda.
16. The Nations around the world which most prevent Christ's deity being preached and particularly prevent teaching about the 2nd Coming and END TIMES events are also those countries most in sympathy with the tyrannical socialist goals of the global government.
17. The bioengineered weapons that are probably already in the hands of terrorists as well as the main actors mentioned in biblical prophecies would fulfill very easily the Biblical predictions of pestilence devastations.
19. The weather changes already experienced and certainly those on offing whether due to sun spot cycle extremes or human forces or otherwise have already precipitated famines in some places and look well cocked to produce vastly more famines as well as floods.
20. The rebuilding of the literal city of Babylon as predicted in prophecy but doubted even by many END TIMES ASTUTE prophecy experts has begun. There are convincing reports that the globalists intend to set up the seat of their satanic world government there as Biblically predicted for the END TIMES. I didn't know before that ancient Satanic Babylon was the source of socialism as a form of government as well as the source of the roots of all the pagain religions.
21. The capacity to SEE Christ return all over the world at one time via global TV and the net sets the stage for the first time for that prophecy to be fulfilled.
22. The evidently vastly increased numbers of erupting undersea volcanos is one possible contributor to an increase in heat globally. This is also in keeping with an END TIMES prophecy--as would be some scientific predictions of extreme and unusual sun activity which is projected to destructively add to cancers, heat and other problems vis a vis communications systems.
23. The numbers of rare and/or dramatic astronomical, space born discoveries and events has gone off the scale compared to even 50 years ago--much less 100. This would certainly fit the "signs in the Heavens" prophecy.
24. The countries allied AGAINST ISRAEL fit rather precisely those Biblically predicted to be so in the END TIMES.
25. Israel is beginning to find oil as some feel has been Biblically predicted. They are also spoken of in terms of reaping the wealth of the minerals in the Dead Sea which would be in trillions of dollars.
It feels like I could come up with a number of others but I'll stop there. Clearly there has never before been such a combination of Biblically prophecied events, puzzle pieces in the same era fitting so well the Biblical prophecies. Denial of that fact is . . . well . . . blind denial. That kind of denial will likely in coming months and years be costly in terms of lives . . . and sadly, likely in terms of eternal life.
Christ Himself said to watch, to occupy, to prepare, to be ready with lamps [our lights as believers sharing Christ's light?] full of and with extra oil of Holy Spirit and trimmed, i.e. ready.
In any case, even just in the secularly natural sense, we must be ready for whatever the Jihadi's, the traitorous DIMRATS/socialist/globalists throw at us. Add in their demonized cohorts . . . it is likely increasingly to be--buckle seatbelts time.
We at least do well to be often in Scripture--digesting it and taking it into the fiber and fabric of our being; walking in Holy Spirit; in ongoing dialogue with Jesus--ready for whatever HE directs us to do.
Where are these convincing reports?
Are you at all open to the possibility that you WANT to see these events, and therefore view everything through a lense that supports your view?