Are We Living in the Time of the End?

How does the Bible use the term "time of the end"? What exactly is it? Are we in that time yet? Is there a way to know? Get these crucial answers today.

For thousands of years people have been fascinated with predictions of the end of the world. If we look into the inspired writings of the biblical prophets and apostles, we find many prophecies that refer to the time of the end. Should we take them seriously? Are world conditions such that these prophecies could be fulfilled in our day?

In this guide you’ll find:

  • What Jesus, His apostles and the biblical prophets really said about the intriguing days they referred to as the “time of the end.”
  • That many Old Testament scriptures discuss events that take place during the end of this age and the world to come.
  • How biblical prophecy can strengthen your hope and faith in the future.

Jesus made it clear that no one could know the exact time of His return (Matthew 24:36). But the details we do get in the Bible have spiritual benefits to help us live our lives according to His future, today.

Table of Contents

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A nuclear mushroom cloud.
2 minutes
Many biblical prophecies leave us in no doubt that increasingly cataclysmic events will occur before God's direct intervention in human affairs.
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Rubble around the temple wall in Jerusalem.
7 minutes
How does the Bible use the term time of the end? What exactly is it? Are we in that time yet? Is there a way to know?
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Soldiers coming out of an airplane.
2 minutes
We could be headed for the greatest crisis in all of human history culminating in the second coming of Jesus Christ.
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Big body of water
2 minutes
Like the people in Noah's time who laughed and mocked as he built the ark, the end of this age will come when the overwhelming majority are unprepared...
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The prophet Zechariah describes how Jesus will return to the Mount of Olives (background, above), which overlooks Jerusalem (foreground) on the city’s east side.
17 minutes
Jesus Christ spoke of a coming "end of the age." What did He mean? What age did He say would come to an end?
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A sunset over a body of water.
4 minutes
The Bible speaks of the time of the end. But exactly what will come to an end?
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A open Bible on a table.
2 minutes
Some biblical terms have a considerably broader application than the 3 1⁄2 year time of crisis immediately preceding Jesus Christ's return.
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Religious idols and iconic trinkets.
8 minutes
In a remarkable prophecy shortly before His death, Jesus described the signs that would precede His return. What do those signs reveal?
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A massive wave.
3 minutes
Are natural disasters, earthquakes and hurricanes, increasing as Jesus foretold?
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A Bible laying on a table.
2 minutes
What did Jesus mean when He referred to this generation?
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Woodcut by Gustave Doré
8 minutes
In the biblical book of Revelation, Jesus Christ foretold many more signs of the time of the end. What do these mysterious signs mean?
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Roof tops of a shanty town.
4 minutes
How is the increase of the world's population related to prophecy?
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Nuclear explosion
9 minutes
Bible prophecy reveals several specific conditions that must be met before Christ returns to earth. Where are we on this prophetic time scale?
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A Bible opened to the book of Revelation.
6 minutes
Why does God reveal what the future holds? So we will be spurred to change. What do you need to do to be prepared?
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A person reading a Bible.
2 minutes
In light of the many prophecies about the end of this age, what can you do? What should you do?