Sinais do fim dos tempos
A Bíblia descreve sinais que precederão a volta de Jesus. Guerras, falsos mestres, sinais cósmicos e a pregação do evangelho a todas as nações — tudo aponta para o fim dos tempos.
Sinais proféticos
Este evangelho do Reino será pregado em todo o mundo e então virá o fim. Os sinais dos últimos tempos já se manifestam.
And this good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in the whole inhabited earth as a witness to all the ethnic nations, and then the end will come.
"Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of the Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn—they will see the Son of the Man coming on the clouds of the heaven with power and great glory. And He will send out His angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they will collect His elect from the four winds, from one extreme of the heavens to the other.
So be watchful, because you (pl) do not know in what hour your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore you also be ready, because the Son of the Man is coming at an hour that you do not suppose.
teaching them to obey everything that I commanded you; and take note, I am with you every day, until the end of the age!"
Amen.
"Now concerning that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels who are in heaven, not the Son, but only the Father.
Os últimos dias
Nos últimos dias virão tempos difíceis, homens amantes de si mesmos. Mas derramarei o meu Espírito sobre toda a carne.
‘It will be in the last days, says God:
I will pour out from my Spirit upon all flesh;
your sons and your daughters will prophesy;
your young men will see visions;
your old men will dream a dream.
In those days I will indeed pour out from my Spirit upon my male slaves and upon my female slaves,
and they will prophesy.
I will show wonders in the heaven above
and signs on the earth below:
blood and fire and smoke vapor.
The sun will be turned into darkness
and the moon into ‘blood’
before the great and glorious day of the Lord will come.
And it will be: whoever calls on the name of the Lord
will be saved!’
Esperança e prontidão
O dia do Senhor virá como ladrão. Mas nós não somos das trevas — estejamos sóbrios, vigiliando e esperando.
"But keep a watch on yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness, and cares of life, and that Day come upon you suddenly. Because it will come like a trap upon all those who dwell on the surface of the whole earth. So be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that are about to happen and to stand before the Son of the Man."
And now, I tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed —in a split second, in an eye twinkle, at the last trumpet—the trumpet will blast and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.