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    The Religion of the Last Days, the New Age Movement, and the Return of Christ
    The Religion of the Last Days, the New Age Movement, and the Return of Christ
    The Religion of the Last Days, the New Age Movement, and the Return of Christ
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    The Religion of the Last Days, the New Age Movement, and the Return of Christ

    By John Ankerberg

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    This book will help you to identify the characteristics of the religion of the last days. The world we live in is changing fast. John Ankerberg shares: “I have witnessed things that I never thought I would see in my lifetime.” The Bible gives us characteristics of the religion and the people of the last days, the New Age Movement, and how it all relates to the return of Jesus Christ. We need to identify the signs of the end times, (that we are catching glimpses of today) so we will know where we are in God’s prophetic timeline.

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    PublisherJohn Ankerberg
    Release dateAug 23, 2024
    ISBN9781941135846
    The Religion of the Last Days, the New Age Movement, and the Return of Christ
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    John Ankerberg

    Host of the award-winning John Ankerberg Show, has three earned degrees: an MA in church history and the philosophy of Christian thought, an MDiv from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and a DMin from Luther Rice Seminary. He has authored, co-authored and/or edited 92 books, including the 2-million-selling “Facts On” series of apologetic books.

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      The Religion of the Last Days, the New Age Movement, and the Return of Christ - John Ankerberg

      The Religion of the Last Days, the New Age Movement, and the Return of Christ

      By Dr. John Ankerberg

      Published by ATRI Publishing

      Copyright 2024

      ISBN 9781941135846

      License Notes

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be resold or given away to other people. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the author.

      Unless otherwise noted, Scripture is taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV). Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Scripture verses marked NKJV are taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations marked ESV from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved."

      New American Standard Bible®, NASB, © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

      Verses marked KJV are taken from the King James Version of the Bible. Public Domain.

      Editing and Cover Design by Cathy Sims, ATRI Publishing, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

      Contents

      Title page

      Signs of the End Times

      Fundamental beliefs that make up the content of Christianity

      The Characteristics of the Religion of the Last Days

      1. People will depart from the faith

      2. People will follow deceptive spirits

      3. People will follow the teaching of demons

      4. People will not endure sound doctrine

      5. People will choose churches that preach on what they want to hear

      Reading the Signs

      1. People departing from the faith

      2. People following deceptive spirits

      3. People following the teaching of demons

      4. People departing from sound doctrine

      5. People choosing churches that preach on what they want to hear

      6. People basing their religious beliefs on fables or fairy tales

      7. False teachers in churches denying the Lord

      8. The last days will be dangerous days

      9. People having an outward appearance of Christianity, but no inward reality

      10. Evil doers going from bad to worse

      11. Scoffers making fun of the second coming

      12. People abandoning the true Christian faith

      13. People being deceived by the Antichrist and demons

      What are the UFOs?

      The future

      What does Jesus say?

      What should you do?

      About the Author

      Notes

      Signs of the End Times

      We need to identify the characteristics of the religion of the last days as it’s outlined in the Bible: The characteristics of the religion and the people of the last days, the New Age Movement, and how it all relates to the return of Jesus Christ. We also need to see what the signs are for the end times.

      When you talk about future events from a biblical perspective, there are things to keep in mind. One is that, usually, when we talk about the coming of Christ and specifically the rapture, we believe that the rapture will have no signs, no events that must take place prior to it that we must be watching for. It could come at any moment.

      Before Jesus went to the cross, he forewarned his disciples that he would be leaving them soon and they were greatly disturbed. To comfort them, he gave them this great promise in John 14:1-3:

      Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

      Jesus was referring to his future coming when he raptures the church from the earth. We know he is referring to his coming to rapture the church instead of his second coming after the end of the great tribulation because he indicates that when he comes, he will receive the believers unto himself. He’s not going to come all the way down to the earth where we are to live. He’s going to remove us from where we are to be where he is: I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. The purpose of this coming is to take us to be with him to live in his Father’s house.[1]

      The apostle Paul tells us 1 Corinthians 15:51-52:

      Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed."

      "Paul is emphasizing the fact that there would be an entire generation of Christians who will never experience physical death because the Lord is going to come and remove us from the earth while we are still alive. He is telling us not every Christian will die, but everyone will be changed.

      "He emphasizes that the change will involve a change in our body. Believers now have a mortal body, which is subject to disease, deformity and death; but when this change takes place, we will receive an immortal body, which will never die again, nor be subject to disease and deformity. Paul’s also emphasizing the extreme rapidity of the change in the body of Christians when this event takes place. The change will take place faster than the twinkling of an eye. So,

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