This, one of my first blogs and posted on 22nd November 2011, was later included on home page’s About menu to inform visitors of the acceleration of prophetic fulfillment, as may be inferred from the links to confirmatory events added two years later:

NOT MANY PEOPLE KNOW THIS

As you may have gathered from my Welcome, with my dear Nina’s patience my time  is spent writing on prophecy and Richard’s Watch began with a brief examination of eschatology – the theological study of the destiny and judgement of nations and all people, even angels!  You may know it as ‘The Last Days’ or, more popularly, as ‘End-Times’. The origin of this term is in the ancient Hebrew Torah’s description: Acharit Hayamin, ie. ‘Last of the Years’.

Let me take you for a very brief visit into one of my favourite classes where Dr Chuck Missler (who’s since passed into heaven) asks his students, “Why Eschatology?”

“It is very practical”, he answers himself and explains:

“Apparently, we’re being plunged into a period of time about which the Holy Bible says more than any other period – including the time when Jesus walked by the Sea of Galilee!

“Now that’s a preposterous statement – and I challenge you to challenge my statement! To do so you need to do two things:

1  Find out what the Bible itself says about this and – this is a bit harder,

2  Find out what’s really going on – but you won’t get that on the ten o’clock news!

“Fortunately, thanks to the internet, the alternative press and to talk-radio you can do some homework and find out what really is going on. The more you do those two things the more you’ll understand why many scholars are extremely excited about the horizon we’re moving into – because it all deals with the return of Christ to rule earth.

“It really is remarkable how controversial this topic is, but there are:

• over 1800 references in the Old Testament to this event – 17 Old Testament books give prominence to the event.
• over 300 references in the New Testament – 216 chapters in 23 of its 27 books give prominence to this primary issue: the return of Jesus to rule on earth.

“You may not believe what the Bible says, but what’s utterly astonishing is that so very many claim to believe in Jesus, yet have no grasp of the idea Christ is to literally return and rule!”

I respect Dr Chuck for often stressing we shouldn’t take what he says as ‘Gospel’ but always to perform a ‘Berean check’ per Acts 17:11; that is, to search the scriptures to find out whether or not his ideas line up with them.

Also, I admire his apology for admitting that, having long taught about an anticipated Middle-Eastern war from a certain scriptural stance, he gained a better understanding from other passages. So Chuck explained why he’d changed his mind.  For more information visit his website at Koinonia House.

YET what are we to do when mainstream news doesn’t help?  We’ll look at that soon…

Footnote:

The following posts are just a few examples among many of subsequent eschatalogical developments:

• Events indicate the Bible’s relevance for today (30 Aug 2013)
• World leader tells other leaders Bible prophecies are being fulfilled… (8 Oct 2013)
• Billy Graham: “It’s time to take the news…and Bible…and watch (22 Oct 2013)
• Update on the ‘Ezekiel 38 Alliance’ (21 Nov 2013)
• ‘The Invisible Hand’ re-appears! (26 Nov 2013)
• Synod sides with satan – Risk of Anglican Schism/Shaking (19 Jul 2017)
• See also Bible Updates tag for collection of blogged material.
• Since posting above links the prophecies in Revelation 13 became increasingly manifest, as in recent postings and to be covered in depth very soon.