This booklet provides answers that will prepare you for what's ahead.

A remarkable feature about the description of today's world within these pages is that much of it was written thousands of years ago. We will examine specific predictions and prophecies that are two to three thousand years old, which accurately depict conditions and events that have taken place -- or are soon to take place -- during our lifetime.

Among the prophecies we will be looking at are predictions describing our modern rapid transportation systems, today's unprecedented increase in world travel, as well as the explosion in knowledge of all kinds that we are currently witnessing. Other technological advances, such as electronic banking, as well as a soon-to-be-implemented global credit system, are likewise predicted with uncanny accuracy.

The effects of global warming, as well as the outbreak of modern killer diseases such as AIDS and cancer, were also foretold.

Awareness of the predictions covered in this booklet will give you a new perspective on the radical transformation the world is currently undergoing, as well as prepare you for the cataclysmic changes to come.

The Big Question:

Throughout the ages, a number of great religious teachers and seers have received special insight into the future. A discourse that is regarded by many as the most profound and detailed of its kind was given 2,000 years ago on a hillside just outside the ancient city of Jerusalem. There, a small band of truth-seekers gathered around their Teacher, a carpenter-turned-preacher, known simply as Jesus of Nazareth. The question they asked Him prompted a response that spans the centuries and zeroes in on the days in which you and I are now living:

"And as He sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto Him privately, saying, 'Tell us, what shall be the sign of Thy coming, and of the end of the world?'" (Matthew 24:3).

What His followers were asking Him about is often referred to as the Second Coming, the dramatic personal return of Christ to take over the world and establish the Kingdom of God on earth. The term "the end of the world" is used here not to signify the end of the planet, but the end of the current unjust and inhumane reign of man.

Jesus answered their question with not only one sign that would indicate when "the end" would be near, but He gave dozens of specific indicators to be on the look out for. Outstanding predictions by a number of other biblical writers help fill in the picture. It is these prophesied "signs" that we will now focus on.

The Even Bigger Answers:

(Jesus speaking:) "You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. … For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows" (Matthew 24:6-8, NKJV).

Everyone knows that the world has experienced wars, famines, plagues and earthquakes for millenniums. However, you may be surprised to learn how the severity and frequency of all of these things have radically increased in recent years. Take the first part of this passage for example:

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