LESSON 38

THE SIGNS OF CHRIST’S COMING

1.   What question did the disciples ask Jesus about His second coming?

Matthew 24:3

2.   What is one outstanding sign of the imminence of Christ’s return?

Matthew 24:4, 5, 23, 24

3.   How does Paul describe the same conditions?

1 Timothy 4:1-3

4.   What did Paul say would be the social conditions of the last days?

2 Timothy 3:1-5

5.   What did Jesus say about national and international relations?

Matthew 24: 6,7

6.   What parallel in social conditions did Jesus give?

Matthew 24:37-39

7.   What signs in the heavens would be visible?

Matthew 24:29; Luke 21:25

8.   What weather and climatic catastrophies would be prevalent?

Matthew 24:7; Luke 21:26

9.   What will be the moral conditions at this time?

Matthew 24:12; Luke 17:26-29

10.   What description is given of religious conditions?

2 Thessalonians 2:2-4, 8-12; 2 Timothy 3:5

11.   Will the world recognize these signs?

2 Peter 3:3, 4, 10; Luke 21:35

12.   What is another outstanding sign of the end:

Daniel 12:4

13.   What will be a notable feature of the gospel work in the end?

Matthew 24:14

14.   What sign among the rich will indicate the last days?

James 5:1-3, 5

15.   What conditions will prevail between capital and labour?

James 5:4, 6; Habakkuk 2:6,7

16.   What is the modern apostate church declared to be?

Revelation 17:5, 18

17.   Who and where are her daughters?

Revelation 17:1,2,15;  18:2,3

Note:  Never in the history of the world has the name of Christ and the truth been mis-represented and blasphemed as it is today. Not only is Catholicism responsible, but her daughters – fallen Protestantism – guilty of open defiance of God’s Law and Truth.

18.   What will this false religious condition under the cloke of Christianity bring upon the world?

Revelation 18:6-8;  16:1-21

19.   What are God’s people instructed to do?

Revelation 18:4;  16:15

20.   Because of the backslidden condition of the church, what further instruction is given to God’s people?

Revelation 3: 14-20

21:   Will some people be disappointed in that day?

Matthew 7:21, 22;  24:40, 41

22.   What are we told to do?

Matthew 24: 42-44; 2 Peter 3: 11-14