1. Kingdom Series
Matthew 24: 27-31
Signs of End Time

2. Introduction Continuing Kingdom series Keeping it simple
Making it real
You may be surprised, but hopefully enlightened

3. Mat 24:27-31 (1) 
For as the lightning comes out of the east and shines even to the west, so also will be the coming of the Son of Man.  (28)  For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered.  (29)  And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.  

4. Mat 24:27-31 (2)
(30)  And then the sign of the Son of Man shall appear in the heavens. And then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of the heaven with power and great glory.  (31)  And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

5. Parousia – The Coming of Jesus
And then the sign of the Son of Man shall appear in the heavens. And then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of the heaven with power and great glory.  
Means Presence (到臨)
Not “return” (回來) but “come again” (再來、再臨)
A global, visible and undeniable coming of Christ

6. Signs of End Time (SOET)

7. SOET 1: Turmoil in world
And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.
The Sun and the Moon: countries and governments of this world
Political turmoil & upheaval in world, war & rumors of War

8. SOET 2: Increasing power of governments (1)
In the name of unity (Gen 11:3-4)
In the name of science
Exercising greater control
Recent Alfie Evans case In UK

9. Government’s Increasing Power: Alfie Evens

10. SOET 2: Increasing power of governments (2)
Do you see how powerful governments is becoming?
Governments will seek to control people’s actions, thoughts, believes, conscience and ultimately faith.

11. SOET 3: Economic control (1)
In the name of security
For the convenience of transaction
Challenges with economic control
Rev 13:16-18  And it causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark on their right hand, or in their foreheads,  (17)  even that not any might buy or sell except those having the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of its name.  (18)  Here is the wisdom. Let him having reason count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. And its number is six hundred and sixty-six. Rev 13:16-18 

13. Mark of the Beast – “666” on Forehead & R. Hand

14. SOET 3: Economic control (2)
The technology is already available and proposed
Action:
DON’T let anyone to put anything on your right hand or forehead
It is an act of RELINGQUISHING yourself to Satan
And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the Word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast nor his image, nor had received his mark on their foreheads, nor in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.  Rev 20:4 

15. SOET 4: Societal Rejection & Persecution
Pervasive societal rejection and persecution of Christianity

16. SOET 5 - Apostasy of Church
Apostasy: Abandoning God and His laws
Apostasy of a great church?
A great number of churches in apostasy
The state of the church
External/secular world pressure
Internal falsehood – even pastors

17. A sign of End Time?

18. SEOT 6: Normalcy (A sign?)
Luk 17:26-28  And as it was in the days of Noah, so it also shall be in the days of the Son of Man.  (27)  They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and the flood came and destroyed them all.  (28)  So also as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built…
Weddings: planned
Commerce: Businesses boom
“Life will go on”, “Life is still going on”

19. SOET 7: Repentance of Israel
For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, lest you should be wise within yourselves; that blindness in part has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the nations has comes in.  (26)  And so all Israel shall be saved; as it is written, "There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob. Rom 11:25-26 
Israel will have a revival and turning to Christ
The last thing will happen
The ultimate testament of the Lord faithfulness.

20. Conclusions (1) Signs of Parousia (coming of Christ) are:
Turmoil in world and natural disasters
Increasing power of governments
Economic control
Pervasive societal rejection and persecution of Christianity
Apostasy of church
Normalcy (A sign? Rather, a state, a condition)
Repentance of Israel

21. Conclusions (2) The signs are emerging, they are here
Be watchful and be alert
Believe in God: And it shall be that everyone who shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Act 2:21 
凡求告主名的，就必得救。