This document discusses signs of the end times mentioned in the Bible, including an increase in world population, knowledge, violence, and transportation. It argues that these signs are unfolding now as predicted in scripture. Population growth and the rise of India and China are fulfilling prophecies about a 200 million man army. The spread of technology and knowledge supports biblical predictions. More violence reflects Jesus' words about lawlessness and love growing cold. Faster transportation aligns with prophecies of people running to and fro. All of these current trends are part of God's planned end time scenario.

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The end time scenario is uniquely custom designed by God to convey a clear message of warning,
because God has always desired that nobody should mistakenly miss the implication of the future
Judgment that is coming upon the earth for its wickedness. In the Bible, the end times signs are
uniquely described by part upon part in which the intensity of the sorrows of each part's
devastation will increase upon mankind (Matt 24:8, 20-21).
In other words it will be more like a pain of birth pangs that will keep on increasing until it ends at
the climax. Jesus described a particular period of time after the rapture of the Church in which
"there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this
time, no, nor ever shall be." (Matt 24:21). This is the climax of the whole end time signs from God,
which will end with never before seen or heard judgment of God on earth. This is the only one
tribulation wrath of God described in the end time. There is no scriptural basis for a greater and
lesser tribulation as people wrongly believe these days. This is the reason Jesus called this
unprecedented tribulation wrath of God as the 'great tribulation' (Matt 24:21). All the preceding
signs are like wake-up call for mankind to avoid this one great tribulation which will start after the
event of the 'abomination of desolation' (Matt 24:15-22). The intensity of each signs will increase in
greater dimensions till the great tribulation ends.
There are a lot of end time signs of acceleration which points to us that we are nearing this time of
'great tribulation' wrath of God in our 21st century generation.
1) Earth's Population explosion
Statisticians of world population growth tell us that earth's population at the time of Christ was
about 250 million. It took over eighteen hundred years, or until about the year 1850, for the total
population to reach one billion. Eighty years later, approximately 1930, world population rose to
two billion. By about 1960 [i.e. only thirty years later] the world population climbed to three billions.
Four billions was reached about 1975. By the end of 1986 we pass the five billion mark and the
Six billion mark was reached about 1999. [Note: World population did not reach one billion until
1804. It took 123 years to reach 2 billion in 1927, 33 years to reach 3 billion in 1960, 14 years to
reach 4 billion in 1974 and 13 years to reach 5 billion in 1987. It has taken just 12 years for the
world to add this most recent sixth billion people. This is the shortest period of time in world history
for a billion people to be added - (UNO data).]
World population is projected to cross the 7 billion mark in 2013. It is really breath-taking to see
the population of the world explode in the last fifty years. This has not happened since men were
created in this planet earth. How did this happen. Is it because of the latest invention of medicines
that this was achieved? Of course God has released wisdom in man particularly before the end for
the fulfillment of all His end time scenarios, but really because of God's preordained end time

2. purposes to be fulfilled this population explosion is happening now. It is God's specific command
of blessing which multiplies and fills the earth with people (Gen 1:28). That means someone may
ask the question, Does this population explosion has to do anything with the end time scenario
that God has foretold in the Bible? The answer is yes. In the Book of Revelation God has spoken
and appointed a time for a 200 million combined army of the kings of the east [i.e. nation of India,
China, etc] to march through the Euphrates river to fight the battle of Armageddon against Christ
and His saints from heaven because God will make the river get dried up during that period of time
(Rev 16:12-16).
Apostle John wrote about this huge army in Revelation 9:15-16, "15 So the four angels, who had
been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind.
16 Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of
them." and also in Revelation 16:12 he wrote about them saying, "Then the sixth angel poured out
his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from
the east might be prepared." At that time when John the Apostle has written this revelatory
prophetic information, the world's population itself was only 250 million. For most people who must
have read these prophecies in the first century must have looked at it more like a fiction story? But
see how it is exactly fulfilled in our generation after nearly 2000 years had passed.
The combined population of both the country of China and India which is described as the kings of
the east, together today holds more than one third of the whole world's population. Is it by chance?
By no means, it exists because God has claimed that He had prepared this end time event "for the
hour and day and month and year" (v 15), so that nothing at the time of the end happens by
chance. The end time scenario is perfectly controlled and planned by God. Always remember to
say to yourself in such a distressing times like ours," My God is in control of everything that is
happening around me in the world." As we move into the 21st century, India and China - the two
most populous nations on earth -are both moving in to a category of the rising powers of the east.
Both are economically competing each other in various ways and are economically moving in to a
kingly zone of newfound riches. Half a century and before that time in the past, both these
countries were in a very backward state compared to the western nations which were the only
back bones of the world's thriving economy and very technologically advanced ahead of these
eastern nations. But now these eastern nations are building a very huge army of millions and
equipping itself with all the latest advanced technology weapons because of a booming economy.
How is it possible for these eastern nations to come up suddenly as the rising powers of the
world? It is because God has planned this two hundred million combined army from the east which
has been a sort of fiction in the past is possible now because I believe the time is up for the end
time scenario to be orchestrated by God's sovereign plan! Why they are economically booming? It
is because in the end time scenario God has called these nations as the "kings from the east"
(Isaiah 41:4). God calls each generation uniquely and designs it for His eternal purposes to be
fulfilled. Praise the Lord!
2) Increasing knowledge
The knowledge of people around the world is increasing phenomenally day by day in an
unprecedented way. Today's latest technology is becoming obsolete by the same time tomorrow
because someone is coming with a better technology within this period of time. The internet which
was unknown to most countries of the world before just a decade and a half are today connected
to the amazing world of web information technology. Almost all nations are amazingly increasing

3. their usage of internet like never before. The whole world is connected together at just a touch of a
button and cell phones are becoming more as an all in one web connected gizmos. The memory
storage of these devises has increased in an unimaginable way in the past few years and thus the
cost has come down and the usage is becoming universal. It is becoming affordable even to the
least paid people in the most economically backward nations of the world. If we ask ourselves the
question, why has these information technologies which have not been available to people from
the beginning of creation [approx for the last 6000 years], are only available now in our technology
minded generation? Has not man thought about interconnecting the world through silicon
technologies all these centuries? Why just hardly the last two decades only? The answer is
because God is the one who gives man the knowledge to get breakthrough's in his life, He has
released the knowledge only now in the end time for His purposes to be fulfilled (Isaiah 28:23-29).
This purpose of God has been foretold thousands of years ago in the Book of Daniel 12th chapter
4th verse which says, "... [at] the end; knowledge [i.e. information] shall increase." In today's
language we call this knowledge as information. Knowledge is nothing but collection of
information. Thus arriving at the conclusion that the Information Technology we use today has
been foretold nearly two and half millennium before itself. Very soon when Antichrist will arrive in
the world stage, he will make all the people of the earth to register their biodata in a centrally
connected computer network from which he will have all the information of all the people of the
world and their back ground at his finger tip. He will forcefully make people to enroll themselves by
receiving a silicon seal as a tattoo on their right hand or on their forehead which will identify them
as a loyal worshipper of Satan and his son Antichrist where ever they may be in the world, in order
for them to buy, live and trade to survive because of a one world government which will be
established by him (Rev 13:16-17).
The other most important medium through which people are updated with knowledge is through
television. In today world, the whole world is connected through television. If anything happens on
one part of the world, in the next few seconds it is televised in the global and regional news
channels live through satellite technology. One of the important end time technology intertwined
verses that Jesus spoke in the end time context is in Matthew 24:15-19, "15 "Therefore when you
see the 'abomination of desolation,' spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place"
(whoever reads, let him understand), 16 "then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17
Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. 18 And let him who
is in the field not go back to get his clothes. 19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those
who are nursing babies in those days!" Here in the preceding verses we see that Jesus was
speaking to a variety of audiences. Jesus' warning to the people involves seeing 'abomination of
desolation' standing in the holy place, which will happen inside the temple which will allow only the
priest to stand in the holy place.
This abomination is Antichrist entering the temple and trying to take over its independent worship
of offering and sacrifices which will be unhindered in the first three and half years of his peace
covenant with the nation of Israel. My question is how can people see this 'abomination of
desolation' happening inside the temple from all over Judea, from the housetop, from the field,
pregnant and nursing mothers who may be in the hospitals and in their homes all at the same time
unless they have all in one hand-held mobile television in their hand? Already internet is getting
integrated with television because of increased bandwidth that is available day by day. Most
television programs are already streamed through internet itself and are as good as seeing
through television.

4. The bottom-line is that the whole world will be connected through a major network and mostly all
people will be hooked to television from their pockets at that time of 'abomination of desolation'. So
only the warning that Jesus gave his readers can be valid only with the present end time
technology only. Jesus foresaw our time though his prophetic foresight and have spoken to our
end time generation. This technology will play an important role for the people of God to escape to
the mountains of Judea to get raptured at that time or else they will face death at the hands of
Antichrist just before the rapture takes place. It will help others to be ready through watching and
prayer to get raptured. This kind of technology is also a part of the fulfillment of the prophecy
which says about 'increase in knowledge' at the end time. Praise the Lord!
3) Increase in violence
Violence is increasing all around the world due to lack of love in the heart of human beings. Two
thousand years ago itself Jesus exactly predicted an upsurge of violence during the end time by
saying "And because lawlessness [i.e. violent, insane and aggressive behavior] will abound, the
love of many will grow cold." (Matt 24:12). Because of urbanization the community life are totally
becoming nonexistent in our days. The process of leaving the country side to live in the cities due
to lack of opportunities to prosper economically is a part of God's end time agenda for the
propagation of the gospel of Jesus Christ (v14). But these things are being used by Satan to
accelerate his end time catastrophic agenda for mankind because the love of mankind is growing
cold. Where there is no love, there is no opportunity for God to intervene, dwell and bless (1 John
4:12). Children are the closest replicas of the kingdom of God (Matt 18:2-5; 19:14; Luke 18:16-17).
Children don't naturally kill; they learn it from violence in the home and most pervasively, from
violence as entertainment in television, movies, and interactive video games (Prov 22:6). The
technological invention of the end time which has been released by the wisdom of God through
man has been effectively used by Satan for the destruction of mankind which is his eternal desire.
Murder rate are increasing in the cities rapidly with a vertical surge. If not for imprisonment and
availability of medical technology it would have been still worse. Most murders are left unsolved
and closed because of the magnitude of the work which is very much higher than the available
infrastructure and man power in populated countries of the world.
The media plays an important part in the life of the children in our end time generation. Most of
them when they come to home, the entertainment they prefer is viewing television rather than
physical extra-curricular activities. Children are always amused by what they see and they are
sight-driven. Without parental oversight because of their extended city based work timing, the
children end up watching all kinds of violent and immoral things. Because what they see gets
recorded in their mind, and what they think will be based on what is stored in their mind (Prov
4:23; Mark 7:20-23).
This is the reason for their aggressive behavior. There are also many more factors involved, and
none should be discounted: for example, the prevalence of guns in our society. But violence is
rising in many nations with draconian gun laws. And though we should never downplay child
abuse, poverty, or racism, there is only one new variable present in each of these countries,
bearing the exact same fruit: media violence presented as entertainment for children. Let us learn
and also teach our children to love God and others by being an example before their eyes in this
end time generation. We cannot love anyone without the person of love emanating His
unconditional love through us. God pours out His love in to our hearts when we maintain a

5. consistent daily relationship with Him through His Holy Spirit (Rom 5:1-5). Praise the Lord!
4) Increase in transportation
The increase in transportation is a sure sign of the end times. The Bible says, "[At]... the time of
the end; many shall run to and fro [i.e. travelling will increase]." (Dan 12:4). Ships on sea and
horses, donkeys, bullock carts on road and camels on deserts were the primary means of
transportation since the olden times. Only in the last two to three centuries new inventions such as
trains, planes and cars have played a tremendous role in increasing the appetite of humankind to
travel around the world. Trades between countries have increased in leaps and bounds because
of increased transportation with in a limited period of time. Why such fast transportation have
never struck man's mind to invent it for all these millenniums except for a couple of centuries
before? God gives the answer by saying, "3 " I have declared the former things from the
beginning; they went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it. Suddenly I did them, and
they came to pass. 4 Because I knew that you were obstinate, and your neck was an iron sinew,
and your brow bronze, 5 Even from the beginning I have declared it to you; Before it came to pass
I proclaimed it to you, Lest you should say, 'My idol has done them, and my carved image and my
molded image have commanded them.' 6 " You have heard; See all this. And will you not declare
it? I have made you hear new things from this time, even hidden things, and you did not know
them. 7 They are created now and not from the beginning; and before this day you have not heard
them, lest you should say, 'Of course I knew them.' " (Isaiah 48:3-7).
We see from the preceding verse that the reason God had declared these end time happenings
from the beginning [i.e. from the time of Daniel the prophet nearly 2600 years ago itself] is
because mankind may not say that these inventions have come because of their own effort apart
from God's wisdom. This is the reason the latest creations of mankind may be new to humanity
but not to the God who has planned these things since the beginning of time. Man always idolizes
his own effort and always substitutes an inanimate thing to substitute the giver of all good things,
who is God Himself. This is because of the fallen nature of man (Is 48:8). But for the sake of God's
own glory He does all these things declaring it from the beginning of time, so that man may hear
and understand His awesomeness (Is 48:11).
One of the reasons God is giving man the wisdom and knowledge in the end times is for man to
recognize the Giver and the Creator in much more intimate way and give Him back all the glory He
deserves. It is God who has given man the idea two centuries before to invent fast transportation
for efficiently using it in the end times so that all humanity may be blessed through the gospel of
Jesus Christ. The Bible says, "....How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of
peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!" (Rom 10:15). In those days the preachers used to
walk with their beautiful feet. It took days and months to reach a neighboring country or to cross a
continent, but in our end times it hardly takes a day or two. In our end times the preacher of the
gospel of peace is carried by airplanes, buses, cars, trains and boats so that his opportunity to
reach out to the people of the world is more than ever before! Praise the Lord! Glory to God!
5) Rapid disintegration of society
Apostle Paul by divine inspiration spoke describing a particular generation of the last days in which
he said, "1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times [i.e. extremely stressful and
dangerous times] will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters,

6. proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving,
slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of
pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from
such people turn away!" (2 Tim 3:1-5). Exactly as he had prophesied all these character traits are
together seen in this end time generation like never before. Truly these days are fierce, dangerous
and troublesome. In today's world the billboards on the road says slogans like, 'You deserve the
best, you are the master of your own life, etc...' which makes people more inclined to become
lovers of themselves, destroys love and instills selfish survival at any cost. The end result of these
above false concepts propagated usually results in lawlessness, loveless acts of selfishness and
rebellion in the society which hates other people's opinion even when it is good. As a result there
comes an 'I know everything' attitude of rebellion which destroys order in the society, families,
work place and worshiping communities.
All these character traits of the people of the end time are based on pride of man which God hates
(1 Pet 5:5). Because of such prideful heart the end time generation will become blinded to eternal
things and thus people who deceive and lie will be the entertainers of the end time generation
(Matt 24:24). The Lord has clearly expressed things that he hates in Prov 6:16-19 which says, "16
These six things the LORD hates, yes, seven are an abomination to Him: 17 A proud look, a lying
tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, 18 A heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in
running to evil, 19 A false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren."
The other important area in which Satan is causing devastation in the lives of humans is by
breaking the family unit which is the fabric that holds the society. The marriages are not 'holy
matrimony' any more. It is becoming unholy and perverse because the gay marriages are legally
happening around the world and divorce rate is increasing in all nations around the world mostly
because of breaking the promise to practice sex with in the boundary of marriage. Many feel that
the easiest way to indulge oneself to fulfill fleshly lust and polygamy is through a routine divorce
schedule. In many instances infidelity, involvement in unrestrained pornography, unforgiveness,
extra-marital friendship which increases unloving and unthankful attitude of grudge toward one's
spouse are some of the major causes of break up in the constitution of marriage around the world.
Many people after getting involved in to such lifestyles without self-control, later they are unable to
come out of such bondages in our end time generation. God hates divorce (Mal 2:16), because it
destroys the soul of humankind along with the indescribable suffering brought to the children of the
next generation (Matt 19:9; Prov 6:32; 2:16-17).
When a child is affected by the divorce of their parents, it will grow up with a spirit of rebellion and
will get hurt inside the heart. Naturally the child will become disobedient to parents and may even
hate God for allowing such things in his life. More than ever the Church needs to love these
people and show them that God desires them to come out of such rut and rottenness. And He will
bring them out of it if only they will follow and accept the love of Christ! Saints wake up for the
glory of the Lord has rises upon you!!! Be the light of the world!
More than ever people are indulging in slander, even within the Church. Slander means a false
spoken statement about someone which damages their reputation, or the making of such a
statement. More pastors are leaving their ministry and are trying to find a job to sustain
themselves because of slander. Saints beware! These are the strategies of the devil to bring
division among brethren and thus make the Church powerless, ineffective and deny it the blessing
of God which comes only with unity (Ps 133; Acts 2:42-43). Slander, gossip, backbiting, faction,

7. envy, strife are the root causes for division in the Church of God (1 Cor 3:1-4). These are
promoted by demonic agencies from hell directly (James 3:14-16). If you are involved in any such
activities, immediately humble yourself and repent! And start to support the Church leaders and
submit to them whom God has kept over you. You are accountable to God for every idle [i.e.
useless, unwanted and unnecessary] word that you speak, so ask the Lord to give to self-control
to speak the right words to people and thus build the kingdom of God (Matt 12:36-27). It is all
happening because we are in the end times! So stay away from it and instead make peace as the
sons of God (Matt 5:9).
6) Signs in general to be like birth pangs, that is, increasing in frequency and intensity
All the described signs of the end times which are described above will steeply increase till the
great tribulation starts in which all these signs will reach its zenith. These signs are not given in the
Bible to make us fearful, instead to make us confident that our God is in control of all these
uncertain times. These signs can be symbolized more as like birth pangs. Once it starts, it will end
only at the pointed finish line. Until it reaches the finish line, each time it will keep on increasing in
greater intensity after a period of time. The end time sorrows will be exactly like the mentioned
birth pangs (Mark 13:8). Jesus described these various periods of time using different phrases.
The following are some of it, "all these things must come to pass, the end is not yet"(Matt 24:6),
"All these are the beginning of sorrows" (Matt 24:8), " For then there will be great tribulation, such
as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless
those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those days will be
shortened." (Matt 24:21-22). This tribulation is planned by God not for the righteous people, but for
the wicked. So only as the Bible says, "The righteous is delivered from trouble [i.e. great
tribulation], and it comes to the wicked instead." (Prov 11:8). The righteous people of God will be
raptured to heaven in their brand new resurrected spiritual body and then all the wrath of God will
come upon the wicked people who will be corrupting and destroying the planet earth.
Jesus has also described roller-coaster changes in the temperature of the globe that will occur at
the end before the tribulation will start. The world is calling this climatic change as 'global warming'
which is occurring due to pollution and is preventable. Of course up to a certain extent this is true.
The pollution which has been caused by the 21st century factors such as invention of cars, aero
planes, high powered motorized ships, population explosion, industrial wastes are only a part of
the reason. But the real reason is God is causing "...signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars;
and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts
failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the
powers of the heavens will be shaken." (Luke 21:25-26).
In the preceding verses we see an inter-connection between signs in the sun, the distress of
nations and the sea and the waves roaring. This clearly gives us an idea that the scientific sign
that can be traced in sun is the increase in temperature due to the rising heat emitted from the
sun. Man made global warming has been a global debate which has made people say is the
reason behind the Arctic melt down. But the real reason is God controls the thermostat of the sun.
This can be seen in Rev 16:8-9, "8 Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and
power was given to him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and
they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent
and give Him glory."

8. God will literally do this during the great tribulation of the end time to break such false theories of
man-made global warming which people misleadingly say are preventable by man made
resolution. This is the true 'inconvenient truth' that people deny. The change in the temperature of
the sun is causing global climatic changes and spiking increase in the sea level. This dramatic
roller-coaster change in temperature around the globe is causing many storms, hurricanes,
tsunamis, tornadoes, floods, etc consistently around the globe. The intensity and regularity is
increasing day by day. This is also one of the important sign of acceleration of the end times.
Watch out saints and persevere to the end in which Christ will come to meet all the saints and the
bride of Christ will be raptured to the wedding of the Lamb (Mark 13:13; 1 Thess 4:14-18; Rev
19:7, 9). There will be great rejoicing. Don't miss the wedding by being caught up in your day to
day activities (Matt 22:1-14). Praise the Lord God for the rapture and comfort one another with the
message of rapture during the tough times of persecution you will face while declaring the Gospel
in our end time generation (1 Thess 4:18). Persevere, for we must finish our race to perfection. So
keep on and keep' in ongoing! Great destiny ahead!
I am Apostolic Bible Teacher who loves to dig out the truths of the Bible and bring it out in a
revelatory and inspired way. I am an traveling teacher and preacher of the word of God who also
writes. You can contact me for scheduling and ministering for Bible conferences, one day retreats
and Healing meetings.
May God bless you all.
Abraham Israel
Please visit, http://www.apostolicrevelation.blogspot.com
E-mail: abrahamisraeli@yahoo.com
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