Concerning The Last Times
Concerning The Last Times
Concerning The Last Times
CONCERNING
THE LAST TIMES
Concerning the outpouring of the Holy Spirit
Isaiah 44:3
3 For I will pour out waters upon the thirsty ground, and streams upon the dry land:
I will pour out my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thy stock.
Ezekiel 36:25
25 And I will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed from all your
filthiness, and I will cleanse you from all your idols.
Ezekiel 36:26
26 And I will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit within you: and I will take
away the stony heart out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:27
27 And I will put my spirit in the midst of you: and I will cause you to walk in my
commandments, and to keep my judgments, and do them.
Joel 2:28
28 And it shall come to pass after this, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh:
and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy: your old men shall dream
dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
Mark 16:17
17 And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my name they shall cast out
devils: they shall speak with new tongues.
18 They shall take up serpents; and if they shall drink any deadly thing, it shall not
hurt them: they shall lay their hands upon the sick, and they shall recover.
19 And the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and
sitteth on the right hand of God.
20 But they going forth preached every where: the Lord working withal, and
confirming the word with signs that followed.
John 14:17
17 The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, nor
knoweth him: but you shall know him; because he shall abide with you, and shall
be in you.
Acts 1:8
8 But you shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you, and you
shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to
the uttermost part of the earth.
Romans 12:4-13 4 For as in one body we have many members, but all the
members have not the same office:
5 So we being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of
another.
6 And having different gifts, according to the grace that is given us, either
prophecy, to be used according to the rule of faith;
7 Or ministry, in ministering; or he that teacheth, in doctrine;
8 He that exhorteth, in exhorting; he that giveth, with simplicity; he that ruleth,
with carefulness; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
9 Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, cleaving to that
which is good.
10 Loving one another with the charity of brotherhood, with honour preventing
one another.
11 In carefulness not slothful. In spirit fervent. Serving the Lord.
12 Rejoicing in hope. Patient in tribulation. Instant in prayer.
13 Communicating to the necessities of the saints. Pursuing hospitality.
14 Bless them that persecute you: bless, and curse not.
15 Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep.
16 Being of one mind one towards another. Not minding high things, but
consenting to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.
17 To no man rendering evil for evil. Providing good things, not only in the sight
of God, but also in the sight of all men.
18 If it be possible, as much as is in you, have peace with all men.
19 Revenge not yourselves, my dearly beloved; but give place unto wrath, for it is
written: Revenge is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord
. 20 But if thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat; if he thirst, give him to drink. For,
doing this, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.
21 Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good.
1 Corinthians 12:7
7 And the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man unto profit.
8 To one indeed, by the Spirit, is given the word of wisdom: and to another, the
word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
9 To another, faith in the same spirit; to another, the grace of healing in one Spirit;
10 To another, the working of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, the
Ephesians 4:10
10 He that descended is the same also that ascended above all the heavens, that he
might fill all things.
11 And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and other some evangelists,
and other some pastors and doctors,
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of
the body of Christ:
13 Until we all meet into the unity of faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of
God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fulness of Christ;
1 Timothy 4:14
14 Neglect not the grace that is in thee, which was given thee by prophesy, with
imposition of the hands of the priesthood.
You will hear of wars and reports of wars; see that you are not
alarmed, for these things must happen, but it will not yet be
the end. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom; there will be famines and earthquakes from place to
place. All these things are the beginnings of the labor pains."
Matthew 24: 6-7
Since before the time of the prophet Daniel there have been
warnings about the nature of the final days of the earth.
Perhaps the best known of these is from the New Testament:
"When you see the desolating abomination spoken of through
Daniel the prophet standing in the holy place (let the reader
understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains, a
person on the housetop must not go down to get things out of
his house, a person in the field must not return to get his
cloak. Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those
days. Pray that your flight not be in winter or on the sabbath,
for at that time there will be great tribulation, such has not
been seen since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever
will be." (Matt 24: 15-21)
"Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that
if they had lived in our day, faith would be simple and easy.
But in their day, they will say, things are complex; the Church
must be brought up to date and made meaningful to the day's
problems. When the Church and the world are one, then those
days are at hand"
St. Antony the Abbot - Fourth Century
"The time is coming when princes and peoples will reject the
authority of the Pope. Some countries will prefer their own
Church rulers to the Pope. The German Empire will be
divided."
Saint Hildegard - Twelfth Century
"In the 20th century there will be wars and fury that will last a
long time; whole provinces shall be emptied of their
inhabitants, and kingdoms shall be thrown into confusion. In
many places the land shall be left untilled, and there shall be
great slaughters of the upper class. The right hand of the
world shall fear the left, and the north shall prevail over the
south."
Saint Hildegard - Twelfth Century
"The pope will change his residence and the Church will not
be defended for twenty-five months or more because, during
all that time there will be no Pope in Rome...After many
tribulations, a Pope shall be elected out of those who survived
the persecutions"
Bishop Christianos Ageda - Twelfth Century
"In the days of peace that are to come after the desolation of
revolutions and wars, before the end of the world, the
Christians will become so lax in their religion that they will
refuse to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation, saying 'it is
an unnecessary Sacrament'"
St. Vincent Ferrer - Fourteenth Century
"The fifth period of the Church, which began circa 1520, will
end with the arrival of the holy Pope and of the powerful
"Before the war breaks out again, food will be scarce and
expensive. There will be little work for the workers, and
fathers will hear their children crying for food. There will be
earthquakes and signs in the sun. Toward the end, darkness
will cover the earth. When everyone believes that peace is
assured, when everyone least expects it, the great happening
will begin. Revolution will break out in Italy almost at the
same time as in France. For some time the Church will be
without a Pope.".
The Ecstatic of Tours - Nineteenth Century
In 1946, just after the end of World War II, Therese Neumann,
a German stigmatic and mystic, was asked by an American GI
if the United States would ever be destroyed or invaded in a
war. Her answer was pointed:
"No, but at the end of this century America will be destroyed
economically by a series of natural disasters."
Therese Neumann, German mystic, Twentieth Century