Why the Modern World?

Since the first advent of Jesus Christ, the world has been living in the age of the church. We call this the modern era in today’s vernacular. Does the modern world have an expiration date? The answer is yes! Some theologians call the time we are living now the post modern era. While that is a term I have heard, the modern age or era will only really end when the church age ends. The bible doesn’t teach that we will know the time when this happens, but it is the time of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Matthew 28:20 “teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” Amen.

No matter what shape the secular world takes, the modern world will never cease to be until the church is taken off this planet through the rapture. At that point the modern world will be transformed into the system of the anti-Christ. The governments of the world will be united at that point, there will be a one world religion and a one world political leader. After a time of peace, the anti-Christ will unleash his wrath upon the earth, until God starts bringing His Revelation Judgments onto this earth. The wrath of the anti-Christ and the wrath of God upon the world, will bring the swift and final judgment to all of unbelieving humanity by the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ will come from Heaven with all his angels and Saints. We believe the rapture of the church can happen at any moment, there is nothing holding this back. The modern era/world still gives men, women and children time to repent and receive the forgiveness of their sins by God. But when the age or dispensation of the church ends, so will the opportunity to be forgiven end too. This is Mike.

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