Welcome to the year 2020!
What does Bible prophecy
say about what’s in store?
You're about to find out,
right now!
Welcome to Tomorrow’s World,
and to the year 2020!
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And forgive me
for being so blunt,
but ask yourself:
Doesn't it seem like
the world is on fire?
The state
of political discourse
is more virulent and savage
than it has been in decades,
and not just among
our politicians and pundits,
but among ordinary citizens,
as well.
Meanwhile,
nuclear treaties are dissolving,
old alliances are unraveling,
and the potential for
violent international
confrontation seems to grow.
And on the cultural front,
we seem surrounded
by more confusion than ever,
as Western civilization
is rewriting elements
of its norms and moral code
that have been in place
for generations,
even centuries.
Truly, a world on fire.
Ironically, many preachers
and pastors will tell you
that prophecy is a distraction
from the important parts
of the Bible.
But they are astonishingly
and dangerously wrong.
understanding prophecy
is a vital part
of living, breathing,
Biblical Christianity!
The Apostle Paul
speaks to us through
the centuries in his letter
to those in Thessalonica,
saying bluntly:
In fact, the testimony
of Jesus Christ is called...
in Revelation 19:10,
and Revelation 1:1
plainly says that
God gave Jesus prophecy
to deliver to His followers
so that they would
understand things that are
shortly to take place.
Churches and ministries
that ignore or minimize
Bible prophecy
relegate themselves
to being mere shadows
of what Jesus Christ intended
for His Church,
and they ignore one-fourth
to one-third of the Bible!
Now, of course,
some avoid one ditch
by jumping into another.
Desperate to say something
relevant about the times
they are in,
some take personal predictions
and thread-bare theories
and force them into the Bible,
holding God’s word hostage
as they try to press it
into service to prop
up their own
humanly-derived ideas.
For instance,
how many televangelists
or pulpit preachers
have you heard proclaim
that Jesus might return
this very night?
I know I've heard many!
Yet those ministers
had no idea what they
were talking about!
Now, of course,
you or I may die today,
and, for us then,
Jesus Christ’s return
may as well be tonight,
none of us have any excuse
to rest on our laurels.
But will Jesus Christ return
tonight, this week,
or any time in 2020
to take over the world,
resurrect the saints,
and begin His millennial reign,
or initiate the
so-called “Rapture ” in 2020?
Absolutely not!
And those preachers
who say that He might,
do more harm than good!
I encourage you to
go online and look for
the Tomorrow’s World program
my colleague Gerald Weston
produced last year titled
“2019 in Bible Prophecy,”
in which he boldly proclaimed
three things the Bible foretold
would not happen that year!
And they didn't!
The Apostle Paul tells us
plainly that we are
to make sure we are...
And God’s word
has powerful warnings
for those who would
use His word
to proclaim things
He has not said.
So, we are to care
about prophecy.
In fact, it'd be foolish
to ignore it, given the
earth-shattering events
that God plainly says lie ahead.
Yet, we must not use the Bible
to proclaim our own ideas.
Rather, we must
rightly divide it
and give God’s own message
concerning the days ahead.
And that, dear viewers,
is our goal here
on Tomorrow’s World!
In our next few segments,
we're going to
let God’s word tell us
what you and I need
to be watching for in 2020,
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As we begin,
please keep in mind
that we aren't setting
dates for when all of these
things will ultimately
be fulfilled.
Those details are revealed
in God’s own good time,
and it will come upon many
as a thief in the night!
Yet if we are familiar
with the overall arc
of Bible prophecy,
we can see the Almighty
setting the stage for the day
of Jesus Christ’s return.
As Paul tells us...
Let us not sleep!
What should you and I
be watching in 2020?
Let’s jump in!
First: Keep an eye on...
Of course,
many in the United States
are so used to having no need
to focus on anything but
their own politics and affairs,
they often fail
to pay attention
to events across the oceans.
However, the identity crisis
growing in Europe
is prophesied to impact
the entire world
and every single human being
living in the end times.
The book of Daniel
records a marvelous prophecy
given by God Almighty
to ancient King Nebuchadnezzar
of Babylon.
In it, he saw a statue
made of various materials,
gold at the top,
silver just below,
descending in quality
until the feet,
which were composed
of a mixture
of iron and clay.
The prophet Daniel
interpreted that dream,
explaining that it
represented a succession
of world-ruling kingdoms,
beginning with
Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon
and continuing
down through time
--each inferior in some ways
to the previous one--
until the final
kingdom--symbolized
by the feet
of iron and clay.
Concerning this last
worldly kingdom,
Daniel explains...
This last Kingdom
is a collection
of peoples or nations
hard to keep together,
not naturally
adhering to one another,
just as iron and clay
do not mix.
As the vision and Daniel’s
interpretation make plain,
this is the last global kingdom
of men to exist
before the return
of Jesus Christ
and the establishment
of His kingdom,
which will smash
the worldly kingdom
before growing to fill
the whole world.
My friends,
the beginning of this kingdom,
the feet and toes
of iron and clay,
exists today in the form
of the European Union.
Just as the iron and clay
of the vision do not naturally
adhere to one another,
Europe continues to struggle
with its identity,
attempting to keep together
its collection of various
nation-states and peoples,
each with their own
national identities,
plans and desires.
The departure
of the United Kingdom
and Brexit has rocked
that Union in ways
that are still being understood.
As historian Ian Kershaw
noted in the pages
of the New York Times,
These difficulties will
eventually be resolved
in the most dramatic of ways,
and the result will impact
the lives of every human being
on the planet!
Watch developments
in Europe in 2020!
And not only Europe!
Watch the...
The Bible prophesies
dramatic changes
in the Arab world,
eventually resulting in
a coalition or confederacy
of nations actively plotting
the destruction of Israel
and--when you
understand prophecy--
the United States
and nations descended
from Great Britain.
We see this coalition
described in Psalm 83...
Eventually a world power
will arise
--called in the book of Daniel
"the King of the South".
And while common enemies
often bind rivals
together temporarily,
the Bible makes it clear
that in the years ahead of us
these Arabic nations,
the European superpower,
and additional military titans
of the east will clash
against each other
with such ferocity
that the survival
of mankind itself
will be in doubt.
Those times lie yet ahead,
but the savvy student
of Bible prophecy
can see the groundwork
being laid today in 2020.
Watch for it!
Now, you might ask
"where are the
United States
and the United Kingdom
in all of this?"
You will find out
in the next area
to watch in 2020!
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So, where in all of this
is the United States
and the United Kingdom?
What should we watch for
concerning these nations
in 2020?
Regrettably, the news
is not good.
In 2020, watch for
the continuing...
...of the world.
Many ministers and preachers
will tell you that
the U.S. and the U.K.
can't be found in the Bible.
Well, I will tell you
that they are flat out wrong.
If you don't believe me,
you really need our free DVD!
We have more material
explaining how to find them
in prophecy both on our DVD
and on our website
at TomorrowsWorld.org,
but for now,
let me simply explain
that prophecy portends
abject political, cultural,
and moral decline
for these once-great nations.
On the political front,
the prophet Jeremiah speaks
to the relationships
between the U.S. and the U.K.
and the nations of the world
that they have allied
with in the past...
The international relations
and support that the U.S.
and the U.K. have built up
since the end of World War II
will unravel in the years
ahead of us,
but note why.
God doesn't say the cause
is anything truly
political or economic.
Fundamentally it is because
of the sins of these nations!
Because their decline
is not simply political
or financial but moral.
If you're paying
attention today,
you see it, don't you?
In our halls of government,
on our movie screens,
and in our classrooms,
the growing moral rot
of the United States,
and the United Kingdom,
and other nations
of the Anglosphere
is on depressing display
for all the world to see,
all while the Ten Commandments
can hardly be found.
That decline will continue
in 2020.
Watch for it.
Watch--too--
developments in the world
of organized religion.
With the rise of the so-called
“nones” -that is,
those who answer
“none of the above”
when asked what
religious affiliation
they possess,
the world of organized religion
is doing a lot
of soul searching.
The Roman Catholic Church
continues to be rocked
by the scandals
of child abuse among
its priests,
and the Roman Pontiff,
Pope Francis
--once the darling of media
and those looking for signs
of a changing Catholic Church--
has faced criticism
from multiple quarters,
both from Catholic conservatives
--who see him as
watering-down doctrine--
and from Catholic
and worldly liberals
--who see him as reacting
too slowly to claims of abuse,
perpetuating a culture
of protection for abusers.
Yet, while it seems
old fashioned
in an era of loose,
modern “spiritualism”
to talk about global roles
for the Roman Catholic Church
and the Protestant denominations
that have descended
from that organization,
the Bible says that
their relevancy will increase
in the days ahead.
In fact,
prophecy speaks of a
“mother church”
wielding a false,
deceptive counterfeit
of Christianity
in the end times,
described as “Babylon”
and possessing daughter churches
that are just as deceptive,
symbolized by a woman
drinking the blood
of true saints of God
who are true to the teachings
of Jesus Christ
and the commandments of God,
Revelation describes
this religious system...
Watch in 2020 for
changes to continue
in the Catholic Church
and its daughter churches
in the Protestant world
as organized religion
progresses, step-by-step,
toward a dangerous
condition to come.
And watch in 2020 for...
And we mean natural disasters
of all sorts--such as weather,
earthquakes, famine,
flood, and disease.
Now, of course, it is easy
to feel with every
disaster in the news
that we are living
in the worst times
mankind has ever seen.
Frankly, most of this
is an exaggeration,
as anyone who has studied
the American Dust Bowl
of the 1930's or the
Spanish Flu of 1918
can tell you.
However, it is dangerous
to say too quickly
“all things continue
as they were from the
beginning of creation.”
And we do see changes
taking place.
Overuse and misuse
of antibiotics and antivirals
and the resulting mutations
in dangerous strains of bacteria
have resulted, for instance,
in the risk of
“superbugs ”
-diseases against which
mankind has no defenses.
The U.S. Secretary of Health
and Human Services--Alex Azar--
explained the situation
in a speech in New York City.
After praising all
the progress
that has been made
in modern medicine,
he noted:
Perhaps mankind will find
new ways to stop these
devastating infections
--we should certainly hope so--
but prophecy is clear
that eventually diseases,
natural disasters,
and famines will begin
to get the better of us
and they will devastate
life on earth
in the last days
--including a special level
of devastation
in the United States
and British-descended nations.
How will these things develop?
That remains to be seen,
but this area is definitely
one to watch in 2020.
We have one more area
to pay attention to this year,
but before we explain that,
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Today, we've looked at
five areas of world news
and current events
that you need to watch develop
in 2020 as prophecy
continues to unfold.
The sixth area to watch
is the...
Note: not a false,
shallow “gospel” that
discusses nothing
but the life of Jesus Christ
and some of His teachings,
but a full-throated
preaching the full,
true Gospel message
that Jesus brought to the world,
including the coming
Kingdom of God!
The preaching of that Gospel,
the true Gospel
of Jesus Christ,
is a sign of
the prophesied end times,
as we see in
Matthew 24:14...
Again,
not just any “gospel”...
Jesus says specifically,
“this gospel of the Kingdom”
--the Gospel of the coming
Kingdom of God!
The coming of Jesus Christ
will not take place
until after the gospel
you hear being preached
on the Tomorrow’s World program
and in our free magazine
and materials
goes out to all the world
as a witness to all the nations!
So, what does that
imply for 2020?
All I can say is
“Watch this space!”
We live in a world
where preaching the Bible truth
is getting harder and harder,
as restrictions on speech
--enforced by governments
and societies who don't
want to hear what
God has to say
about their lifestyles
and choices--
seek to silence God’s counsel
and His warnings
of the times ahead.
Yet His word is sure,
and one way or another,
this Gospel will grow
and go out in power!
So, again, watch this space!
It would be foolish
to say that all of these things
will come to a climax in 2020.
In fact,
we're guaranteed
that they will not.
Christ will not return
in 2020,
and there are still
prophetic pieces being moved
into place by God
on the great chessboard
of history.
However, it would be
just as foolish
to ignore these developments
and assume that prophecy
is not moving forward.
Quite the contrary.
For those of us
who labor for you
on this program,
as well as the members
of the hundreds
of Living Church of God
congregations around the world
who've already paid
for the all of the
free materials we offer
so that you can have
them at no cost whatsoever,
every year that passes,
we see a growing number
of signs that
the end-times are near.
And though the times
between now and the return
of Jesus Christ
will be troubling,
for those who submit
themselves to Him now
--in this life--the signs
of the times ahead
are also beacons of hope!
As our Savior Himself
tells us...
Our prayer here
at Tomorrow’s World
is that you, too,
will seek God and embrace
the way of life He commands
so that these signs
may encourage you
the same way
they encourage us.
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and I, along with
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will be here
waiting for you,
eager to share truths
about Bible prophecy,
the Kingdom of God,
and the teachings
of Jesus Christ
that you will hear
nowhere else.
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