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SRH: Bible prophecy predicts that there will be several significant events signaling the End of the Age. These seminal events will occur just prior to the beginning of a period called Daniel’s 70th Week, and they will serve to alert everyone that the final days have come upon the world…

Daniel’s prophecy of the 70 Weeks is an incredible prediction of the Lord’s future dealings with the nation of Israel. The angel Gabriel gave this prophecy to Daniel over 2,500 years ago (Dan. 9:24-27). The word translated “week” in this prophecy is actually the Hebrew word “shabua”, which means a period of 7 days or 7 years. In the context of this prophecy, it means 7 years; thus, according to Daniel, there are 70×7 or 490 years that encompass the entire prophecy. The last 7 year period, called Daniel’s 70th Week, was separated from the prior 69 Weeks due to the rejection of Jesus by the Jews after He revealed himself as the Messiah (see Calculating the Time of Messiah). The 70th Week is predicted to begin in the Last Days with the rise of a global government under the Antichrist and end in the fiery destruction of this world in the Great Tribulation and the Battle of Armageddon.

This section discusses the unique prophecies that will usher the world into those final 7 years. As the chronological chart in this section outlines, the events that precede the rise of the final world empire and Daniel’s 70th Week will occur in the following stages:

1) The great falling away

The Apostle Paul warns us that the Antichrist will not be revealed until there is a precipitous falling away from the faith. This will involve conditions arising in the world where more and more people will deny the faith, while at the same time displaying blatant immorality, lying and cheating, having no conscience, being full of hypocrisy, and they will even be against eating meat. These very conditions are arising to an extreme in our generation, especially over the last few decades.

 

From the prophecies regarding the final world empire (see the New World Order), it is apparent that there are several events that must occur before the Empire-Beast consolidates its power around the Antichrist. The prophecies indicate that Daniel’s 70th Week does not actually begin until after the Antichrist has appeared and then risen to power over the empire. Only after he consolidates power over the 10-nation alliance does he make a treaty establishing a one-world government, which is signed by many nations. Enacting that treaty, or covenant as the Bible calls it, is the key event that begins the final 7-year period before the Return of Christ (Dan. 9:27). It is possible that this treaty will also include a peace agreement involving Israel and its Middle Eastern adversaries because Russia’s attack on Israel at the start of the Great Tribulation is prophesied to occur against the Jewish nation then said to be living in peace (Ezek. 38:8). https://www.brighteon.com/embed/fd31c91c-01a6-48ad-a23d-1b183eee7d4c

Therefore, it is apparent based upon these prophecies (and others that we will consider in Revelation chapters 13 and 17) that there are several preliminary events that must occur before the final 7-year period begins. These events serve to prepare the way for the full establishment of the Antichrist’s kingdom. It is during this period that the world will become ensnared by the allure of the Antichrist and the wonder and power of the Empire-Beast.

It is also predicted that God will send strong delusion throughout the world so that the people who did not believe in the love and truth of Christ will be enticed to fall for the deception of the Antichrist (2 Thess. 2:11). This is extremely important because all those who get entrapped and become followers of the Antichrist and his empire will suffer the wrath of God poured out without mixture in the final days (Rev. 14:9-12).

The Great Falling Away

One of the most overlooked events signaling the end is contained in prophecies that will occur just before the rise of the final world empire and the Antichrist. This event is the great falling away from the faith, as predicted by Paul to occur in the End Times. He tells us in 2 Thessalonians that the man of sin will not be revealed until there is a falling away from the truth of Christ. He wrote down this prophecy because many Christians at Thessalonian had believed that the end was at hand and the Antichrist was about to arise. Some even believed that the Roman Emperor was the Antichrist. This was due to the extensive persecutions that Christians endured as they lived in the Roman Empire during the First Century. In response, this is what Paul said to the Thessalonians:

The Antichrist Spirit Has Begun to Move, the Rule of Law Has Collapsed