Robert J. Morgan - The 50 Final Events in World History: The Bibles Last Words on Earths Final Days

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The 50 Final Events in World History

2022 Robert J. Morgan

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To John Campbell

Every day the sun rises and sets, etching another sentence of history onto the parchment of our times. The tiny blue marble of earth, suspended in the vastness of a spangled universe, spins on its axis while its inhabitants cling for life. People are fearful. Our world is in disarray, and who knows what will happen to us and to our children? Who knows what tomorrow holds?

Almighty God knows.

He knows whats ahead. He knows it perfectly, instantly, totally, and omnisciently. He knows the future as well as the past, and the outlines of His predetermined plans are engraved on the pages of His Book. The Intelligent Creator is an Infallible Communicator, and He has packed His Word with remarkable predictions, like a woman packing remnants into her quilting chest.

Im convinced a phenomenal pattern is about to unfold. World events arent lurching into chaos; they are moving toward culmination and consummation. Theres hope for tomorrow, and theres hope for you and yours. The cascading flow of crises is merging with the outlines of Bible prophecy, like two mighty rivers crashing into each other and coalescing into an unstoppable flood. For the children of God, this isnt a flood that will sweep us away. It will lift us up!

We need this kind of uplifting hope. Everyone I know seems to have a lot of unexpected stress. Looming over the demanding details of daily life are gathering clouds of worldwide cataclysm. We are living in perilous times. The world has always been in a mess, but not since the days of Noah has our fragile planet faced such imminent and existential dangers as now. The threatsnuclear, economic, technological, philosophical, moral, political, biological, viral, environmental, and a host of othersimperil the earth with calamities of biblical proportions, which is what this book is about.

In these last days, when breaking news hits us at the speed of light, its vital to understand scriptural prophecy and to have a firm grasp on the Bibles last words about earths final days. As no prior generation, we need to understand the contents of the book of Revelation, which opens with these words: The revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place (1:1).

Me?

Perhaps youre thinking, Me? Study Revelation?

Absolutely! Nothing is more exciting than knowing tomorrow in advance, especially when tomorrow is hurtling toward us with unprecedented trouble. How exhilarating to stand on the precipice of prophecy, peering through the mist into the mysterious days predicted in the Bibles final book! History moves in only one directionnever backward, always onward, toward its final pre-appointed end. It grinds relentlessly into tomorrow, oblivious to the catastrophes and cataclysms in its wake.

Dr. J. Barton Payne, a Bible scholar and seminary professor who served on the translation committees for the New American Standard Bible and the New International Version, analyzed the prophetic portions of Scripture and calculated that of the roughly 31,000 verses in the Bible, over 8,000 contain predictive prophecy8,352 verses to be exact. In other words, about 27 percent of the Bible is prophetic. Some of those prophecies were historical or messianic predictions, which have already been fulfilled, but many still point toward the futureincluding much of the material in the final book of the Bible, Revelation.

Since prophecy is a subject that interests God and occupies His Word, it should intrigue our minds and thrill our hearts, especially in these tense days. All the other books of the Bible lead to Revelation. Its how God chose to conclude Holy Scripture. The preceding sixty-five books pave the way for the twenty-two chapters that compose the Revelation of Saint John, the sixty-sixth and final book of the Bible.

Without Revelation, the Bible would have no satisfying conclusion. It would end with the book of Jude, which is a wonderful epistle about contending for the faith but is not a book that heralds Gods plans for time and eternity.