Time Of The End

 

 

Aaron Ipisani

THE TIME OF THE END

Daniel closes his prophecis concerning the epochs and events of world history with a sweep forward to the end when there shall be distress as never before, followed by the resurrection of the dead and the everlasting glory of the saints.

   A time of distress such as has not happened from beginning of nations (Daniel 12:1) is not inapplicable to our own generation: torture, suffering, and death of entire populations-genocide-by demon dictators, no more intense perhaps than the atrocities perpetrated by Antiochus, Titus, and the Roman emperors, but on a scale unparalled in all previous history.

   Many will go here and therd to increase knowledge is to be a characteristic of the time of the end. This, too, applies to our own generation as it has to no other: modes of travel and other means of communication on a scale never before dreamed of.

   The nuclear bomb, biological warfard, terrorism_it makes us wonder if we may be living in the period Jesus spoke of as the setting for His return: "On the earth, nations will be kn anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the 

sea. 

People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world" (Luke 21:25-26).