Jesus held His private PROPHECY briefing of the Apostles on a hillside overlooking Jerusalem. He explained how to know when you are in the FINAL GENERATION. The disciples asked Jesus a question that interested all of us, and I’m so glad they did. Follow along as they ask in Matthew 24:3 and as Jesus answers them in verses 8 and 33. This week, I examined just how much God has left for us to know about the future. Here is what I found, summarized by a series of NUMBERS! I hold the ONE Book that God wrote—the Bible. That one book has TWO parts—the Old Testament and the New Testament. Those two parts comprise SIXTY-SIX individual books we call the 39 Old Testament and 27 New Testament books. This one book, made up of 66 books, has 31,103 verses. Of all the verses in the Bible, 8,352 are prophetic or spoke to future events. All Biblical predictions about the future in these thousands of verses can be grouped into 737 predictions. Of these 8,352 verses, 6,312 (or 522 different predictions) have already happened to the letter, JUST LIKE God’s Word said they would. That leaves just about 2,040 verses with 215 specific predictions from God about the end of the world that are being fulfilled. So, the Bible contains many specific events that would signal the end of days for life on planet Earth as it has been for the past several thousand years. Each prophetic sign Christ and His apostles gave is specific and not vague. Jesus explained to us in Matthew 24, verses 8 and 33-34, that these events would begin at the same time, run concurrently, and crescendo like the pains of a woman giving birth the closer we get to His Second Coming. Matthew 24:8, 33-34 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 33 So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near—at the doors! 34 Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. The list of Biblical Signs of Christ's Return will not actually be full-blown until the Tribulation time. Each of the signs of Christ's Return He said--are trends. These trends are speeding up—the last seconds of the countdown clock of Christ's return are clicking down. Each day, the prophetic picture Christ painted grows clearer. The apostles and prophets captured Each of these signs between 2,000 and 3,500 years ago. Now, they are happening in our lifetime! But, in all of history--ONLY our generation has seen EVERY ONE of these events starting to unfold. (WNS-32; 080921PM) Join the LAND OF THE BOOK channel to access weekly video releases over the next year totaling 50+ EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS featuring weekly in-depth Bible Study lessons with John & Bonnie. Clips are taken at just one of the places where we are taking our virtual journey through all the Lands of the Bible & Great Museums of the Bible on the Paul's Life & Letters Course. Plus all the assigned HOLY LAND, Paul's Life & Letters Course STUDY RESOURCES, and John's two most loved books--David's Spiritual Secret & Living Hope for the End of Days at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVK6dN-9kLDnQhYBFuES09A/join Follow Discover the Book Ministries to stay up to date: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoverthebook/ DTBM Academy Courses: https://dtbma.com/Default.aspx Purchase John's Books, Mp3 & DVD resources: E-Books: https://tinyurl.com/y3wbhlxy Here are links to our Amazon Pages-- https://www.amazon.com/shop/dtbm Donate to the ministry: https://dtbm.org/donations/partnership/ For more of Dr. John Barnett's Bible teaching messages, go to: https://dtbm.org/ https://youtu.be/AZiNqHib5W0 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZiNqHib5W0

Wouldn't you like to finally get to REALLY see the Holy Land? Now's the time to check out the Seven Huge Benefits of Joining our Study Tour of the Lands of the Book: 1. UNDERSTAND BIBLICAL PROPHECY: Would you like to really UNDERSTAND End Times Prophecies and God’s plans for Earth? Did you know that the vast majority of the OT prophecies of the TRIBULATION, SECOND COMING & MILLENNIUM are CENTERED on Israel and most of all on JERUSALEM? Did you know that Revelation chapters 7, 11, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20-22 all focus on the Land of Israel? We will see, study, and apply the greatest prophetic classroom in existence—the Land of Israel. 2. GRASP A THEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK: The Context of all my Bible Teaching and Q&A’s is that my answers are based on a framework of being: 1). Evangelical (must be saved by calling personally on the Lord, not by association but by the reception of Christ); 2). Inerrantist (trust the Scriptures that Jesus believed and affirmed every word, person, and event); 3). Cessationist (Revelation of Scripture ended God does not tell people inspired, inerrant things anymore); 4). Imputationist (Christ alone, not a church or experience or administered sacrament); 5). Creationist (God wrote with His own finger in stone (Ex 20:8-11) that He framed everything from nothing in six literal solar days) God made everything perfect in the Universe, then allowed some to fall into sin. 6). Catastrophist (Noah’s Flood); God flooded the surface of the Earth and killed all air-breathing animals and people that were not in His Ark of Safety built by Noah. 7). Maximalist (every historic, prophetic & scientific statement is true); 8). Dispensationalist (Israel is not the Church, God has unbreakable plans for both). 3. START SOME WEEKLY-FOCUSED SPIRITUAL GROWTH: We want to cover one of the 52 sites, each week with you. We will help you locate where we are going in your Bible, then on a map, as well as in the Chronological flow of either the Life of Christ & the Apostles, the Life of David & the Prophets, or the Life of the Patriarchs. This regular contact builds the motivation to stay in the Word, stay on track to make life applications from our readings, and ask God each week to change us. 4. DO LIFE-TRANSFORMING DEVOTIONALS: Usefulness to God comes by sanctification, sanctification comes by God’s Word, and this virtual study tour is WORD-BASED. We will explain how you take an hour each week to read the passages associated with that site. Mark the PLACE/SITE we are visiting in the margin of your Bible. Then do a prescribed DEVOTIONAL journaled study of that site. Then you watch a video of me explaining and applying the spiritual implications of this lace we are visiting this week. 5. SEE ALL 260+ EVENTS OF CHRIST’S LIFE: As we visit sites in the Holy Land, we track through the 89 chapters of the Four Gospels using a chart that puts each event in chronological order. You will get to finally see how all the events in each Gospel account fit together to make the Life of Christ into a beautiful and complete picture as never before. Of the sites, we will visit, 70% of them reflect directly on the Life of Christ & the Apostles of the Early Church. So, we will cover what is usually a Seminary level Life of Christ course looking at the 250+ events in the Life of Christ and seeing the big picture of His ministry, His Seven Sign miracles, and the revelation of His seven great “I AM” names in the Gospels. 6. EXPERIENCE FAITH-BUILDING CHAPTERS: There are seven reasons you can trust the Bible and all of them are POWERFULLY illustrated in the Land of the Book. So many times, over the years I have seen folks on our tours when it finally struck them—THE BIBLE IS TRUE. This all really happened, and I am seeing with my own eyes the reality of the BOOK I CAN TRUST--God’s Word. We will see those seven reasons in-- Christ’s belief in the Bible, His apostles' complete trust in God’s Word, the fulfilled prophecies, the scientific accuracy & archaeological verification, the unified message of the Bible, and the incredible endurance of God’s Word and His Chosen people. 7. GET A BIBLICAL PANORAMA OF HISTORY: Finally, you will see how the people and events in the Bible actually fit squarely within a scientific and historical Chronology. All of a sudden the history of the world will make sense and so will God’s plan for the future—and for YOUR life! (230520) Join the LAND OF THE BOOK channel to get access to weekly video releases over the next year totaling 52 EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS that feature weekly in-depth Bible Study lessons with John & Bonnie. 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I'd like to challenge many of you to invest some time each day over the weeks ahead to begin to gain a PERSONAL MASTERY of the SCRIPTURES. For me it started at 15 minutes a day, then 30, then 60 minutes a day. With an hour carved out of web browsing and movie watching, you can study through the Bible every three months, by looking for one key topic. After a year you can have found and studied: Every verse on the FUTURE (Eschatology) in the Bible; plus EVERY PRAYER of the Bible; EVERY MARRIAGE & FAMILY in the Bible; and EVERY time the PLAN of SALVATION was given in the Bible. That is only in the FIRST YEAR. I have been doing that for the past 40 years. That is how you start to UNDERSTAND the WHOLE Bible, at just an HOUR a DAY! Join the LAND OF THE BOOK channel to get access to weekly video releases over the next year totaling 50+ EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS that feature weekly in-depth Bible Study lessons with John & Bonnie. Clips are taken at just one of the places where we are taking our virtual journey through all the Lands of the Bible & Great Museums of the Bible on the Paul's Life & Letters Course. Plus all the assigned HOLY LAND, Paul's Life & Letters Course STUDY RESOURCES, and John's two most loved books--David's Spiritual Secret & Living Hope for the End of Days at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVK6dN-9kLDnQhYBFuES09A/join Follow Discover the Book Ministries to stay up to date: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoverthebook/ DTBM Academy Courses: https://dtbma.com/Default.aspx Purchase John's Books, Mp3 & DVD resources: E-Books: https://tinyurl.com/y3wbhlxy Here are links to our Amazon Pages-- https://www.amazon.com/shop/dtbm Donate to the ministry: https://dtbm.org/donations/partnership/ For more of Dr. John Barnett's Bible teaching messages go to: https://dtbm.org/ https://youtu.be/MYbIor2WvaI ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYbIor2WvaI

As the end of the physical world approaches, so does Earth’s darkest spiritual hour. Satan knows that God has plans to save “a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands…” (Revelation 7:9). So to try to thwart God’s harvest of precious souls and to prevent the world from coming to Christ, Satan has deployed legions of liars. False signposts—all pointing people away from Christ. This is not new to our generation. False teachers have been a part of the landscape from the start. Things were so bad one hundred years ago, that the greatest Bible teachers of that generation banded together to put up the flag of truth. What those men did is now a common form of mockery in the world. They sat down and declared what were the nonnegotiables of the faith. But as we open to Matthew 24 again, we are opening to what I consider one of the saddest doctrines in the Bible--the teaching in God's Word about the antichrist, and Satan’s all-out, final assault upon the Gospel. When Christ Returns there is a powerful, pervasive, and universal leader who speaks eternally damnable lies--backed by the most believable signs and wonders ever witnessed on planet Earth. Please open with me to the next section of Matthew 24. Matthew 24:15 “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), Matthew 24:24 For false christs [pseudo-christs] and false prophets [pseudo-prophets] will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. At the end of days, Satan sends to earth the expression of all of mankind’s desires in the person of the antichrist. In a very short time, almost all of the earth will follow him! That is the saddest commentary on the fallen heart of humanity there could ever be. Wanting is always the wrong choice. The antichrist like Satan—comes to kill, steal, and destroy. Christ, on the other hand, came to offer an abundant life. If you have never trusted Christ as your Savior, I would urge you to receive him today. When you call upon Christ to save you from your sins, God delivers you from the power of darkness and their eternally damnable lies--and brings you into the wonderful kingdom of His Son. Today, just as during the Tribulation years, there will be only two types of people on the planet—truth lovers and truth haters. Open now to 2 Thessalonians 2, and stand with me to see that dark hour. From WNS-28c - How to Spot a False Teacher (050612AM) - https://youtu.be/rwIFh9fkdxU Join the LAND OF THE BOOK channel to get access to weekly video releases over the next year totaling 50+ EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS that feature weekly in-depth Bible Study lessons with John & Bonnie. Plus all the assigned HOLY LAND, and Paul's Life & Letters Course STUDY RESOURCES, and John's two most loved books--David's Spiritual Secret & Living Hope for the End of Days at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVK6dN-9kLDnQhYBFuES09A/join Follow Discover the Book Ministries to stay up to date: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoverthebook/ DTBM Academy Courses: https://dtbmonline.org/all-video-courses/ Purchase John's Books, Mp3 & DVD resources: E-Books: https://tinyurl.com/y3wbhlxy Here are links to our Amazon Pages-- https://www.amazon.com/shop/dtbm Donate to the ministry: https://discoverthebook.org/donations/partnership/ For more of Dr. John Barnett's Bible teaching messages go to: https://discoverthebook.org/ https://youtu.be/nh2DEbhTRAs ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh2DEbhTRAs