Joshua One Ministries

If you wish you knew more about Bible prophecies of the End Times, here is a short list of six key chapters to study. Consider this your crash course on Bible prophecy.
(1) Daniel 7: The Vision of Four Kingdoms, including the fourth and final world kingdom which will dominate the world immediately prior to [...]

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Newsweek does an interview with Tim LaHaye, co-author of the phenomenally popular Left Behind series. Title of the interview: “Are These The End Times?”
I find LaHaye’s comments in this interview to be reasonable and biblical. He does not declare emphatically that these are the end times, but he does say that events unfolding before our [...]

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In a few days I will turn 53. According to the charts, as a 53-year-old U.S. white male, I have 26 years to go. So the question for me is, is the glass two-thirds empty or one-third full?
I don’t fear death. My attitude toward death wavers between, “When it happens, it happens,” and “Bring it [...]

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Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia: Fear of the number 666, because of its connection to the Beast in Revelation 13:18.
I avoid the number 666 about two-thirds of the time (that’s a mathematical pun).
I file this tidbit under the “Strange World” category, not because some people fear the number 666. That’s silly, but not necessarily strange. What’s strange is that [...]

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Many Christians spend a lot of time concerned about the borders of Israel when evaluating the status of prophetic fulfillments. There are several Scriptures that address the issue. See, Numbers 34: 2-12. The boundaries meted out in Numbers measured about 160 miles by 50 miles, or less than 8,000 square miles. To put this in [...]

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There are numerous prophecies regarding the end times, known in the Scriptures as the Day of the Lord. For nearly two thousand years, theological discussion had to include explanations accounting for Scriptures that made promises and predictions about Israel, when there was no state of Israel. One explanation popular among evangelicals was that [...]

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AN ARGUMENT FOR A MID-TRIBULATION RAPTURE
Even though there are 8,352 verses in the Bible, or 27%, that are prophetic, most Christians seem quite willing to forego exposure to them, much less master them. In the New Testament, 1,711 verses are considered prophetic, or 21.5% of the New Testament, and yet 21% of all sermons [...]

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CAN ANYBODY REASONABLY THINK THE RESURRECTION AND SURVIVAL OF ISRAEL WOULD BE POSSIBLE ABSENT THE UNLIMITED POWER OF GOD?
In 1967, I began a life-long fascination with the Second World War and the Nazi plague. I used my allowance to buy a paperback copy of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William [...]

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See: “READY AND WAITING NO. 1: READY FOR THE REIGN”
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Pop quiz: Which preacher preached the greatest sermon of all time on end-times prophecy and The Last Days?
Charles Spurgeon? Hal Lindsey? Tim LaHaye? John MacArthur?
Many wonderful sermons have been preached about The Last Days. But the greatest end-times sermon ever preached [...]

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During the next few months we will be hearing much more about the bird flu (influenza A H5N1, or H5N1 avian influenza virus). If the worst predictions are even partially correct, bird flu will not only affect us individually, but will affect our families, churches, and communities.
Churches will need to look after their members, especially [...]

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