The Time We Live In

Much has been the speculation about the current time and the end of the world. People around the world are getting interested in knowing what is in store for us in the future and our forthcoming generations. People are getting interested in prophecy.
As for that people have always been interested in future. Palmistry, Tarot cards, astrology, pagan witchcraft has deep connotations of the natural human interest to know future. Future knowing by supernatural means (as they believe) is as old as human civilisation itself. Much of it has been deceitful, but a substantial portion of it, I believe, definitely has a supernatural element to it, and it is one of the unsolved mysteries of mankind.
But prophecy is different. It has a wide range in both its implications and effects. Prophecy itself may be for one person, for a group of people, for a particular race, for a nation and for the world. Prophecy may be good or bad, specific or vague and even transitory in nature. Prophecy also is as old as civilisation itself. Prophecy makers are called prophets and they often attribute prophecy to divine revelation and insist that they themselves are the medium by which prophecy is revealed by the divine to the earthly beings. I believe that there have been prophets in all the ancient civilisations and many of them have made true prophecies, so we can certainly say that prophecy has to be taken seriously.
As for the biblical prophecy, prophecy forms a major bulk of the Scripture. We find prophecy right away in Genesis 3:15. This is a prophetical curse by God to the serpent- “and I will cause enmity between you and her, and between your generation and her generation, He will crush your head and you will bit His heel.” This is also called the first messianic prophecy. It is quite obvious to know that God is talking about Jesus the Christ here, who crushed the head of Satan the serpent by bringing salvation to all mankind and Satan did bite his heel by delivering him to a cruel death on the cross. Thank God he couldn’t keep him dead for much long.
So, starting right from God himself prophecy originated and filled the mouths of the Hebrew prophets. What they spoke was prophecy, destined to come true. But many a times, prophecy is so carefully concealed in the symbols and allegory that it’s meaning is unclear. Why?-is the obvious question. I mean why will God try to conceal the prophecy? Know one knows for sure, but the answer that comes to my unworthy mind is that prophecy is meant to be revealed to very special people and only those who are really interested and keenly bent on knowing what God has spoken should reach to the pearls of wisdom that prophecy stores.
So has there been prophecy for our times? Yes, the times we live in are one of the most dramatic and active times of all time. A lot of biblical prophecy is being fulfilled, and many will be fulfilled in front our very eyes. Let us begin with just short ones, and we will together go into the depth of this ocean.

The appearance of Vehicles-
“They are in confusion in the ways; the chariots jostle one against another in the streets: their looks are like torches, like lightning running to and fro”
Nahum 2:3
Now, an ancient prophet of old, when sees a vision of cars running around, how else is he to interprete it?

The appearance of missiles-

There shall the fire devour thee: thou shall perish by the sword,
it shall devour thee like the bruchus: assemble together like the
Bruchus, make thyself many like the locust.
Nahum 3:15.

What can be somethins sword-like, which kills people like locusts are killed, and kills by fire? A missile? Bingo!

The world history-

God foretold a lot to the prophet Daniel. Infact, God told him the concise world history. If one will read chapter 2 of the book of Daniel, one will know that the Babylonian king had a dream and Daniel offers to tell both the dream and the interpretation.
Please turn to Daniel 2:31 and also Daniel 7.

Image of the Empires (Daniel 2) Animal symbols of the empires (Daniel 7)

Head of Gold=Babylon (603-538 BC) Deflated Lion=humbled Nebuchadnezzar

Arms and chests of Silver=Medo-Persia Lop-sided bear=Persia is stronger than
(538-334 BC) Media, ribs? Egypt, Babylon and Lydia
Defeated


Waist of Bronze=Greece (334-331 BC) Leopard with 4 wings=Alexander whose
Kingdom after death divided to 4 generals

Legs of Iron=Rome 31 BC to 20th century AD. The beast with the Iron teeth.
Two legs, hence got divided into the eastern and western.
Later got divided into 10 (just like the toes)

This kingdom is continuing in our present time. Can’t we see that the formation of European Union with its 10 ehtnic groups is a fulfillment?

Uncreated stone descending from Heaven Son of Man (Jesus) descends from
The clouds


It is remarkable that God revealed the future is such a bright imagery to a pagan king whose dream was interpreted by Daniel.