Aharit Hayamim: End of Days Revealed

In Daniel it says this, this creature was shaneh in Hebrew, which means, can mean it was different, it was diverse, or it was altered. In other words the end time civilization will be different from everything before it. The phrase end of days can be seen here in Daniel. And it's in Daniel 12 verse 13. But as for you, go your way to the end and then you will enter into rest and rise again for your allotted portion at the end of the age. But it really says you shall rise again for your allotted portion at the end of days. Similar Hebrew, kets hayamim, the end of days. So what do we know about the end of days if we just have the Bible? What do we know? Forget about what people say. What, what does it say? In Daniel 12 verse 1 it says, at that time Michael, Michael, the angel, stand, who stands guard over the sons of your people, over Israel. There's a link between the archangel Michael and Israel, will arise. And distress will come as has never occurred. The end days will be a time of distress. And it will also be a time where the Jewish people are in the middle of distress. That's right there. They'll be at the center of controversy. But what it also means, if you, is that they're also going to be in the end times. And back then that wasn't a guarantee they're gonna survive. It says in Daniel 12 verse 10, many will be purged, purified and refined. But the evil will act evil and none of the wicked will understand. But those who have insight will understand. Notice what it says, very important here, about the end times. Many will be purged, purified, refined. The wicked will continue to be wicked. But those who know God will know. That means, what is that telling you? Right there. It's telling you the end times will be, you know, we have the idea it's only going to be dark. The end times will be a time of polarization. What does that mean? Polarization is if you have gray and all, and it breaks up into black and white. Polarization is it divides up. It gets polarized. This goes this way. This goes that way. It'll be a, the end times will be a separation, a very dramatic separation between good and evil. The good and the, the righteous and the evil. And so we, we find it's a very important thing, a very important principle because we're watching it. We find a parallel in Daniel. Also it speaks of the ... another thing, the last days. So it talks about the end of days, the end times, last of days. Who was the first author to write about end time prophecy? Moses. Moses. It's all the way back in the Torah. Moses, Deuteronomy 430 says this. When you are in distress, talking about Israel, and all these things have come upon you in the last days, you will return to the Lord your God. All the way back in Deuteronomy. You probably didn't know it was there. He talks about the end times. He talks about distress on Israel. For those who are marking that, that's Deuteronomy 430. And he says in that day you will return to the Lord. That's already way back there. It reveals again it's consistent. Will be a time of tribulation for Israel. Distress on Israel. But now it says also, it says in Deuteronomy, the Lord will scatter you among the peoples. You shall be left few in number among the nations where the Lord shall drive you. The people, the Jewish people will be scattered to the ends of the earth. But then it says you will seek the Lord. In the last days the Jewish people, there's going to be trouble upon Israel. But in the last days they will seek the Lord. Or they will turn to the Lord. This is so consistent throughout the whole Bible. What Messiah said. You're not going to see me again until you, you turn to me. In Deuteronomy 29 Moses speaks again of a calamity coming on the Jewish people. And yet he says here you're going to seek the Lord. In Jeremiah, in the Jeremiah 30s, in the chapter 30, it talks about the judgment and distress coming on the Jewish people in the last, it says in the last days you will understand it. You will understand it. You will consider it. And then it says God will bring you back, bring you back to the land. You'll, in the last days Israel will be back in the world. Well that is also another theme of the Bible. In the last days God's going to gather Israel back. Well we're going to check out how he did with that. And they will rebuild their land. All that's about the last days in the Bible. And then it says in Hosea, it says this. The, the children of Israel will dwell for many days. Now when the Bible says many days you know what it's talking about. It means ages. Many days without a king or prince. Without a sacrifice or sacred pillar. Without an ephod or household idols. Without idols. Without a king. Without a priesthood. Without a throne. But they'll be without anything. But afterwards the children of Israel will return and will seek the Lord their God. And they will seek David their king. And they will come trembling to the Lord and to his goodness in, when? The last days. Look how consistent the Bible is. From Moses here to Hosea. Last days. The, the children of Israel, in the last days the Jewish people will turn to God and to their king. And who is, who is their king? It is clear who their king is. This is not interpretation. When it says David, David's dead. It's not about, it's not about David, David. It's about the one who's called David, who is the son of David, who is Messiah. So the Jewish people, according to the Bible, in the last days will come back to the Lord, trembling, and will come back to Messiah. Interesting. Because to come back to somebody you had to leave somebody. So it's got to be somebody they knew. Jesus. Yeshua. They knew him. They turned. Last days, according to the Bible, consistent message here, is the Jewish people will return to the Lord. They will be away from the Lord. They will come back to the Lord. Now it's, now let's go, what does the New Testament say about the last days? 2nd Peter 3, verse 3 says, know this first of all. In the last days scoffers will come, mockers, who will come with their scoffing, following after their own lusts, and saying where's the promise of his coming? Ever since the fathers were asleep it all continues as it was from the beginning. Saying that in the end times there will be evil, men will be mockers, cynical, cynics. It says in 2nd Timothy 3, the end times will be perilous times. Times of peril. Matches up with what's in the Hebrew Scriptures. Times of evil. Times of calamity. And then it says in 2nd Timothy, it says this, listen, for men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. Boy, I wouldn't want to live at that time, huh? And we're, I'm going to get into that in a moment. See how, see how this matches up. But again, evil times. Again that, that's also another part of it. People will be sinful, materialistic. And then it says what it says in the, in the Book of Acts, on the Day of Pentecost Peter quotes from the Prophet Joel. And he says in the last days, same thing, last days, ... God says I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh and your sons and daughters shall prophesy and your young men will see visions and your old men will dream dreams. Even among the, the bond servants, men and women, I will in those days pour out my Spirit and they shall prophesy. And I will grant wonders in the sky above and signs on the earth beneath. Blood and fire, smoke, the sun will be darkened, the moon blood. But before the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come and everyone who calls upon the name shall be saved, when in the last days, in those last days. So you've got the pouring of the Holy Spirit comes into the picture. But also again the distress and all those things. So he's quoting the Book of Joel. And in the Book of Joel is also, it talks about repentance. It talks about, it describes Israel repenting and coming back to the Lord. So there's all this. It's like a puzzle you put together. It's all consistent but each one adds a little bit more. What else do the scriptures say about the last days? There will be a great falling away, Paul writes. There'll be a great, the Antichrist will not be revealed, the man of sin, until there's a great falling away. A great, or in, or in the word we, is often used apostasy. So notice, a great falling away. So notice what you're seeing. You see not just bad. You see also good. In the end times it's not just the trouble, tribulation. It's also return to the Lord. And it's also the Spirit pouring out. It's people falling away but the Spirit pouring out. Same, two things happening at once. Polarization, good and bad. And notice how consistent it is. What else does it say? You read, you read the Bible and you read even in Revelation, or read, read what Messiah said. I'm not coming again until the Jewish people say, say blessed is he. And we recombine that with, with Zechariah 12. In the last days all the nations will come against Israel, Jerusalem. And look at Revelation, Armageddon. Nations coming, it's all consistent. The Jewish people will be back in the world according to the Bible. They'll be the center of controversy. The nations of the world will be against Israel. It also talks about a one world civilization, a one world global state. And the rise of one who the Bible calls the beast or the Antichrist. At the same time the gospel will be spread to every nation. It says also Gentiles will take hold of a Jew and say come let us go with you. That also kind of goes into the kingdom. Jacob's trouble, the time of tribulation. Jacob's trouble. Again, that's all the way consistent way back to the Torah. So we just looked at what some of the puzzle pieces the Bible gives from the beginning onward about the end days. Let's put it together and see how it matches up with what is happening now. One, it says that in order for all this to happen the Jewish people have to survive. Now Moses says it over 3,000 years ago. And most of the people who were around Moses, most of the Hittites, Amorites, Jebusites, all the, they're not here anymore. So there was no guarantee the Jewish people are going to still be around three and a half thousand years later. All these other people are gone. For these things to happen, God's Word to be true, the Jewish people had to survive. And there is, that's not just, it's against all odds, because all these other peoples, look at it, look at the map, they're gone. Even Egypt is not the same as Egypt was. Not the same people, basically. It's all, and then all, it's just they're, they're gone. But the Jewish people are still alive. Well all the others are gone. The Babylonians are pretty much, you don't see Babylon, you don't see Assyria, you don't, they're pretty much gone. But the Jewish people according to this have to survive to go into the end times. And on top of that, it's not just that they were people who shouldn't have survived, but on top of that they were also the most hated people, the most crushed people, the most defenseless people. Two thousand years with no army, nothing, no police, no king. They're in every, they're everywhere around the world with, not in their own land, hated and, and destroyed, destroyed, destroyed, all hell against them. And yet they survive. Why? Because God is true. And God said it. The Jewish people have survived and they are central. If they didn't survive there's no last days. If they didn't survive God's Word wouldn't be true. But God said as long as the sun is in the sky, I'm paraphrasing, as long as all these, all the stars and those, as long as it's all there you're not going anywhere. Because it's, as long as they're there they are a sign that God exists. So the Jewish people will survive into modern times for this to happen. And yet it says it'll be a time of shaking distress. Modern times, the 20th century, witnessed the most shaking and distress in the history of the world. From World War I. World War had never been before. World War II, another world war, 60 million people got killed. The Holocaust. The atomic bomb. The Cold War. Genocides. Persecution. Last days. All these things. Now, now Daniel says, as he speaks it, it's a time of purifying. It's really a time of light and darkness. We are seeing that as well. This process there. And we're going to get to that. The Jewish people it says will have been scattered to the ends of the earth. Will that happen? Only happened the last few centuries did they go to every nation. And really even up to modern times. To the 1920th century they were scattered to the ends of the earth. We are here right now, if you don't believe that. We're here, we are at one of the ends of the earth right now. You know, we think, you know, we're the center. But we're really biblically kind of at the ends of the earth. We're a coastal, we're way over, out, out, outside. And yet you see Jewish people here. That means God's Word is true. If you don't believe that, you're listening to a Jewish person at the ends of the earth right now. You're at the end of the earth. But that's because God is true. And it says yet the Jewish people will seek the Lord, will turn back. Well do you know that, that as, at the same time that Israel started turning back to the land, Jewish people started turning back to Jesus the Messiah. Started gradually. Since we are here at the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem, prophetic event, the, the liberation of Jerusalem, that, that is according to the Bible. And that's another thing. Jerusalem has to be in Jewish hands. Well that is now, since only in the last 50 years, 1967. And yet since that date more Jewish people have been coming back to Jesus as the Messiah than any other time since the Book of Acts. So all these things. Jeremiah speaks of the last days, speaks of it as a time when Israel is wounded. The Jewish people are wounded. Well never have the Jewish people been wounded as they were in the Holocaust. And if you read that, it's an amazing thing because it talks about a day of great darkness and, and they're crushed. And yet in that day God starts bringing them back. And it's like out of the ashes of the Holocaust God brings back Israel. Israel comes back. And according to the, to the prophecies Israel has to be back in the world. The Jewish people have to be back in the land. Rebuilding the cities. Replanting the fields. Well that has happened. That's a key event. I was with Dr. Dobson and he told me a story that when he was, I don't know, I'm, I'm not gonna get the age right, but he was a kid. He was like eight years old or five years old. Whatever, whatever it was. And one day his mother just took him aside and says, son, says you have, remember this day. Remember this day in Jesus' name. Because this day Israel has come back into the world. God promised it. God is real. God has done it. And he never forgot that. In that day God said, we have witnessed it. Most of us here have not. There are some here who are living who have probably were old enough to witness it. Most of us are not. But it happened in our generation. We've actually seen God's hand. God said it. Not only did he, not only did he preserve Israel against all odds, but to have them then come back. When has a nation been totally scattered to the ends of the earth? Totally. And then, and then out of nothing all of a sudden the nation is born again. Born in a day. When? Never. Only because God said it. He did it. God is real. And that has not stopped. When Israel came back in the, into the world it had a few hundred thousand people. But then God started the gathering from all over, from the Arab lands, from around the ends of the earth. And some of us can remember the 1980s. A great, great gigantic return from Russia. Russia opened up and the Jewish people came back. I mean masses and masses of them. So I remember when Beth Israel, when I was preaching the, the Falasha Jews of Ethiopia were gathered back on an airplane lift back to Israel. Another Operation Moses, Operation Solomon. This has not stopped. Israel now, just, just around this time Israel has surpassed America for having the most Jewish people in the world. In fact, soon it may be that more Jewish people are in Israel than any other, than anywhere. I mean right now that's the center. That means there's a shift coming in history. But so here they are, we have watched them do it. The Lord, they shall return. They shall come back. The Bible said it. And there's a lot of people, there's a lot of, of, of church people who didn't believe it. That's never gonna be. It's all spiritual. When the Bible speaks about Israel coming back and Israel being blessed, that's not about Israel. That's about the church. When the Bible speaks about cursing them, that's about the Jewish people. That, that's called replacement theology. We replaced Israel. But there, if you look at some, I have some commentaries from the 19th century. And you read the commentaries and I love them because these are people who believe God's Word. And at one point there's, they're talking, they're reading the prophecies about, they're talking about the prophecies about Israel coming back. And they're saying yes, we know it's impossible. We know, because back then there was nothing. Israel was a desert land and had been, had been nothing for two, almost 2,000 years. Nothing was happening. Muslim land. And they were saying, when they're looking, they're saying, you know, I know, we know it's impossible. But God said they're coming back, so they're coming back. And they did. It will be perilous times, Moses said. Or, or it will be through, actually throughout the scripture up to the, the, the, the New Testament. But what is that, what was that description of the people of the end times? What did it say? Men shall be lovers of self. Does that sound familiar? There is more self-love in our culture than there has ever been in the history of the world. I don't just mean American. I mean modern culture. Self-love. Self-realization. Self-actualization. Self-obsession. Self-magazine. Self-culture. Self-preoccupation. In the church, the Gospel has become, in many churches, is largely, largely for the self. God is your counselor. God is your personal, personal agent. He's going to help you. He's your personal trainer. And he's going to help you be more successful. That's not the Gospel. God will bless you as you follow him, as he chooses to bless you. But it becomes a thing where, are you serving God, or is God serving you? You're seeking to be served by God. That is not what, what Jesus said. That's not what he said. He who serves himself. No, I've come to serve others. But it ends up, ultimately it's about self, self. God wants for you and God wants for you. God will bless you, but put him first. Don't put yourself first. If you're putting, if you're just getting more, if that's all you're doing, you're getting more selfish in the name of God. That's not what God said. He said give up, be selfless, love, and God will bless you. And even the church becoming, it says, what is it, what else does it say here? Men will be lovers of money. Become more materialistic, more money oriented. I was with an old-time minister the other day and he was speaking about how, you know, when they, he said in the past I could, people just volunteered, volunteered, volunteered for the Lord's work. And he says now people want to be paid for everything. And that, that is a shift. People want, what do I get out of it? Instead of just serving the Lord. God will bless you. He says they want the reward now. They don't want it later. Men will be boastful, arrogant. Culture of, of, of arrogance. Malicious, gothic culture. A vulgar, it's describing a vulgar culture. A harsh culture. How many people realize that, I don't, I don't, depending on where you grew up, that we are in a, a vulgar culture. A culture that is vulgar. That's harsh. That's not gentle. That, that is, that is, that is destructive. Treacherous. Reckless. Conceited. Lovers of pleasure. Rather than lovers of God. Does that sound familiar? We're in it. And all those things are more so now than have ever been since the Gospel came to Western civilization. It says there shall be a great falling away when you know before the Lord comes. Today the New York Times and ABC News and others will refuse to even write the name of God with a capital G. They will not even give him the dignity of a first name. They'll treat him as if he was a pagan deity. Recently it came out, the top, they had a study of the top ten books in schools that Americans viewed as most dangerous. One of the top ten was the Bible. Can you imagine that in a school system that was founded by the Puritans for the, for the purpose of spreading the Gospel? Imagine if the Puritans returned today to America to see what happened. They would be shocked. Every year in the last seven years the numbers of those in America who identify as Christian at all, not saying, not saying born-again Christian, not saying evangelical Christian, not saying true Christian, but Christian has dropped by one percentage point every single year. Thus in seven years seven percent less. Now that, that may, I don't know if it seems to you, but that has to be, you were talking about 2,000 years. That has to be the greatest change, mass change. We're witnessing the greatest mass change of morality in the history of the world. There's never been a change in morality this fast globally. Ever. It's like the undoing of the Gospel when it came to, to this civilization. Among Millennials it's heading to almost half, saying they're not Christian at all. Then that's, that's the future. How many Millennials are evangelical? Nineteen percent. Eighty-one percent. No. One poll sought to find out how many of the younger generation have a biblical worldview. The answer? One percent. Another translation of, in Timothy it says they will, with, with, in the last days they will be without natural affection. Without natural affection. Interesting. Well they'll be with, they'll, they will therefore be with unnatural affection. There, there's something about this that, there's something about the end times that's linked to unnatural. The word when Paul says there'll be a great falling away, the word is apostasy. And apostasy comes from the Greek apostasia. And that is taken to mean, and it does mean, it means to, to, to move away from, fall away from your stand. Fall away from faith is what it's saying here. But it means fall away from the stand of. But it also means to fall away from the state of, or the state of being. So in other words, in the same day when you see, you see a culture, a civilization falling away from faith, from the faith, from the Word of God, you will also see man falling away from the state of man. Women falling away from the state of women. Marriage falling away from the state of marriage. Get it? A falling away from being. In Daniel, when he looks, when he looks at the last global kingdom, or the last great kingdom, that, that fourth creature, that fourth beast in Daniel. The word that's used to describe, first of all it's a weird-looking thing. It's the only one that has metal in it. It's like unnatural. It's artificial. But the word when it's described in Daniel, it says this, this creature was shaneh in Hebrew, which means, can mean, it was different, it was diverse, or it was altered. In other words, the end time civilization will be different from everything before it. The first creatures are all animal forms. But this one is beyond. And so it's saying the end time civilization, last day civilization will be unnatural, will be an unnaturalness, a dehumaneness about it. We're watching that. So it's weird to watch people, you know, if I, when I go to airports now, I just kind of, every single person is plugged into something electronic. Unless they're like very old, there's almost everybody is plugged into electronic something, you know. Everybody. It's amazing. And it, and yet we know we're using it, you're using it. But you got to be, we got to be careful where this is all going. We're using it, or are we getting so plugged in that we stop relating? You know, the younger generation, in many ways they're, they've done studies. They don't relate as much to others. They relate through there, through that. So I'm looking and saying, wow. And I'm writing it down, typing this up and writing it down on my laptop as I do that. But we got to be careful. Last days will also be a time, it says, of repentance. I will pour out my spirit all these things. The world be focused on Jerusalem. Just this last Hanukkah, not even a year ago, the whole world, through the United Nations, voted to condemn Israel over Jerusalem. And what did they say? They said that Jerusalem is, is, does not belong to Israel. It is a Palestinian territory. And Israel is the occupying power. Again, all con, condemning over Israel and Jerusalem. And God said in the last days all nations will come and they'll try to move Jerusalem. And I will, I will come in that day. One world state. How about that? How does that match up? We never in the history of the world has there been any, any approach to it as there is now. We are now joined to the world as we have never been. The whole world is joined more than it ever has. It's not yet political, but it's in every other way. Culturally, technically, every other way we are joined together. The internet. Joined together. There will be, the Bible speaks about in the end times, there will be persecution of God's people. You say, well I don't see that that much. Well, do you know that there are more Christians persecuted today than ever before? Across the world. More than ever before around the world. More than the days of Rome. And then if you look at America, the way America is going, you can even see it coming. And there's a mystery in the Hebrew year, or really the age, the age God has done something that he set up the whole age to go according to the pattern of the Hebrew biblical year. And the thing is about, when you look at that year, at the end of the year, or the sacred year, comes a time called the days of Teshuvah. Try Teshuvah. Teshuvah means the days of repentance. The days of repentance. And it also really, you could take it out, you can translate it as the days of return. Same thing. Return repentance. The Jewish people return is linked to repentance. And so it, when does it come? It doesn't come at the beginning of the age. It comes at the end of the, the end of the Hebrew year. That means it comes at the, at the end of the age there'll be a great return. It'll be a time, days of return. So what are we seeing at the end of the age? We're seeing Israel returned. And you'll see repentance as well. There will be a people who come back to the Lord, as we saw with Israel. But also, you can take this further, there will be a return of the church returning to its roots. Because when the Jewish, the Jewish people in the church are linked together. Israel and the church are always linked together. Even if they don't think they're together, they're linked together. At the beginning it was all together. And then it's separate. But what happened? The Jewish people left Israel and the church, they went, they went to all the earth. And what happened to the gospel? Went to all the earth. And at the same time as they did that, the church was separated. The Jewish people were separated from their land, their inheritance. And the church was separated from its inheritance, Israel. Its roots. Its home. Jerusalem. And so what happens then if Israel comes back and the Jewish people return and Jerusalem comes back? It means the church is going to come back home as well. And it's interesting because it's not only that 50 years ago when Israel came back, when Jerusalem came back, not only that the Jewish, more Jewish people came back, returned to the Lord, but also if you've noticed, the church has more and more true believers returned to their roots. There's the separation between the church and Israel is vanishing. That more, more of the church loves Israel. I mean, you know, we take it for granted but it was not always the case. Way back in history it's rare. Love Israel. You went, if you know, if I, if you, 50 years ago you're in a church and you said Yeshua, they would think you're speaking in tongues. But now if you say it almost every born-again believer knows it. You would never hear a shofar in a church. You'd never have Passover in a church. But now even Israel knows that its best friends are not, not even America, it's born-again evangelical followers of Messiah. This is Jonathan Cahn. Thanks for watching. The Return of the Gods is available literally everywhere, Amazon, wherever books are sold. And God bless you.