Scriptural Evidence That We Can Know the Seasons
300 Verses In Old Test. Prophesied About His First Coming
500 Verses In Old Test. Prophesied About His Second Coming

1 of Every 25 Verses in The New Testament
1 Thess. 5:1-6

But Concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write you.
For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night
For when they say, “peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.

But you, brethren are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief
You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and sober

Hebrew 10:25

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

Matthew 24:33

“So you also, when you see all these things, know that it” is near—at the doors!

Question:
Why are there so many more signs about the second coming than the first coming.

Answer:
God wants us to know the seasons because Jesus' return is going to initiate the wrath of God, and God does not wish that any should perish.

Therefore, God is obligated to warn us of the impending return of Jesus because God never pour out His wrath without warning.
If God failed to warn us, He would violate His character, and God cannot do that.

An Abundance of Signs
1. Signs of Nature
2. Signs of Society
3. Technology
4. Spiritual
5. World Politics
6. Israel

Signs of Nature:
Luke 21:11 And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences, and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.
Matthew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.

Unbeliever calls it Global warming

Signs of Society:
Genesis 6:6-8 And God was sorry that He had made man the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
V-7 So the Lord said, “ I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.
V-8 But Noah found grace in the Eyes of the Lord.

2 Timothy 3:1-5 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:
For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boaters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful unholy,
unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despiser of good,
Traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
Having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away

Signs of Technology:
Daniel 12:4 “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”

Countdown to REAL ID (December 31, 2009)
349 days, 14 hours, 22 minutes, 04 seconds
Following the deadline of May 11, 2008, state driver's licenses and identification cards were not to be accepted for federal purposes unless the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) determined that a state was compliant with the REAL ID or a state had been approved for an extension by the Secretary of DHS. All 56 U.S. jurisdictions have received an initial extension from the Secretary of the DHS. The initial extension is valid until December 31, 2009. www.ncsl.org/realid

End of Times
Re-establish of Israel nation- May 14, 1948
Ezekiel 37: 21-22 Then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land.
“ And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all, they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they ever be divided into two kingdoms again.

1900- 40,000 Israel
1945- 800,000
Today Millions

The Balfour Declaration
November 2, 1917
During the First World War, British policy became gradually committed to the idea of establishing a Jewish home in Palestine (Eretz Yisrael). After discussions in the British Cabinet, and consultation with Zionist leaders, the decision was made known in the form of a letter by Arthur James Lord Balfour to Lord Rothschild. The letter represents the first political recognition of Zionist aims by a Great Power.

Foreign Office
November 2nd, 1917

Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.

" His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country." I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

Yours sincerely,
Arthur James Balfour

2. Surrounded by Threatening Arab Nations

Zechariah 14:1 Behold, the day of the Lord is Coming And spoil will be divided in your midst.
v-2 For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; The city shall be taken, the houses rifled, And the women
ravished. Half of the city shall go to captivity, But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city

Characteristics of the Last World Empire
This last empire, symbolized by the feet and toes of iron and clay, will one day constitute the first dictatorship that is truly global in nature. This revived Roman Empire will rule the world in the following ways:

1) Politically
“And he was given authority to rule over every tribe and people and language and nation.” Revelation 13:7

2) Religiously
“ And all the people who belong to this world worshiped the beast.” Revelation 13:8

“They worshiped the dragon for giving the beast such power, and they worshiped the beast.” Revelation 13:4

3) Economically
“ He required everyone – great and small, rich and poor, slave and free – to be given a mark on the right hand or on the forehead. And no one could buy or sell anything without that mark, which was either the name of the beast or the number representing his name.” Revelation 13:16-17

Every facet of the human experience will be utterly dominated by this global government. All other governments will give way to this powerful government, described as a beast in Daniel Chapter 7. In this chapter, Daniel has a vision of four world empires, represented by beasts. The fourth beast represents Rome:

3. The Roman Empire Revived:

Brown seeks new world order or One World Government
5:37am Monday 10th November 2008
Prime Minister Gordon Brown will call on fellow world leaders to seize the opportunity created by the current worldwide economic crisis to create a "truly global society".

Mr Brown will use a high-profile speech in the City of London to say that Britain, the US and Europe should join together to provide leadership in the creation of a "stronger and more just international order".

The emergency summit of world leaders in Washington must establish consensus on a new Bretton Woods-style framework for the international financial system, featuring a reformed IMF which will act as a global early-warning system for financial problems, he will say.

The Prime Minister promised on Sunday to work with US President-elect Barack Obama to build a new global society in which the markets are subjected to morality and ordinary people's interests are put first.

In electing Mr Obama, US voters showed their belief in the "progressive" agenda of government intervention to help families and businesses through the current crisis, he said.

In his annual foreign policy speech to the Lord Mayor of London's Guildhall banquet, Mr Brown will say that the trans-Atlantic relationship between Britain and Europe and the USA can be the driving force behind the creation of a new international order.

" The alliance between Britain and the US - and more broadly between Europe and the US - can and must provide leadership, not in order to make the rules ourselves, but to lead the global effort to build a stronger and more just international order," Mr Brown will say.

" The trans-Atlantic relationship has been the engine of effective multilateralism for the past 50 years.
" As America stands at its own dawn of hope, so let that hope be fulfilled through a pact with the wider world to lead and shape the 21st century as the century of a truly global society."

To all believers of our Lord Jesus Christ---Maranatha