There have always been wars, rumours of wars, nation rising against nation and kingdom against kingdom and famine and earthquakes in various places, pestilence, spiritual deception, persecution of New Covenant believers, apostasy and also many antichrists who collectively teach us about the final antichrist to come (Matthew 24:5-13) (1 John 2:18).
Many Bible believers in past history within the Body of the Messiah thought that the end of the age was at hand. The ‘signs’ mentioned by the Messiah in the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke has always marked history since the first century onwards.
Having said this, what makes this time in which we live different from all pervious times in history? In fact how close are we to the Second Coming of the Messiah our Lord Jesus?
We know from what the Messiah our Lord Jesus Himself said that no man knows the day or the hour of His Second Coming and also at that time even the angels and He Himself did not know. Of course in heaven in eternity He knows now that day set by God when He will judge the world in righteousness by the man He has appointed for this task being the Messiah our Lord Jesus (Matthew 24:36) (Acts 17:31). This is an appointment that everyone will keep!