Signs of the End of the Age

Matthew 24

1Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings.
2"Do you see all these things?" he asked. "I tell you the truth, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down."

3As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. "Tell us," they said, "when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?"

4Jesus answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you.
5For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many.
6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.
7Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
8All these are the beginning of birth pains.

9"Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.
10At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other,
11and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
12Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,
13but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.
14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. (NIV)

1.The Rise of False Christ and Prophet (V5,11)
There is cases where people claimed that he is christ and deceived others. And false prophet giving false foretell and misled many people. For eg Sun Myung Moon from Korean, Dongfang Shandian from China and many others.

2.War and Rumors of Wars(v6)
The world today is in a mess. There were 2 world war happened during the 20th century alone.
Even today, the world is constantly in war, especially in the middle-east area.

3.Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.(v7-8)
Nation against nation means civil war. War happened within the same country. For eg, East & West Germany, North & South Korea, North & South Vietnam, and the war happened within China too. These are people with the same race, language. tradition, but due to politics issue, they fight within and with each other.
Kingdoms against kingdom need not to explain and you will understand what is it about.

4. Famines and Earthquake.(V7)
Recently the world had food crisis, even USA, one of the richest country in the world was also affected by this crisis, rising of patrol price, inflation...etc etc.
The latest news announced that there is 30 over countries are having famines now.
And earthquake, one of the best example is the recent earthquake happened at China.

5.Prosecution of Christians. (V9-10)
There is a lot example especially in China(last time) and Some Other Country.

6.Increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.(V12)
The human nowadays are much more wicked as compared to last time. And our public security is becoming worst and worst each day. We need to be always beware when we are at outside. Even at home also not guarantee that you are safe.

7.Gospel of the kingdom will be preached to the whole world.(V14)
6 signs above are negative, only this is the positive sign. Obviously, now the whole world had heard about Jesus christ, even in the poorest area in the world. Missionaries are at every corner of the world, they devoted their life for the sake of the kingdom of God. They want more life to be saved when the end comes.
And with the advanced communication technology nowadays such as internet, the rate of people knowing the gospel of Lord becoming faster and faster.
And christianity is the religion with the largest believer in this world.

Remember, the verses above were told by Jesus Christ to his disciples 2000 years ago and they are happening now. And the signs are becoming more obvious each day.
Although our country is peaceful, no war, no natural disaster, have rich sources of food....but that doesn't means that we will not face all these problems later. We'd never know. Always be grateful to God that we are still in a good condition now.

And I would like to stress on this:
The End of the world is coming, very soon.
Believe in HIM and be saved.