What Are the Signs of the End Times?
1) Direct Answer
Yes. The Bible gives clear signs that mark the end time, and we are watching them come to fullness right now.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Global upheaval and birth pains:
- Wars and rumors of wars; nations rising; earthquakes, famines, pestilences, fearful sights (Matthew 24:6-8; Luke 21:11, 25-26). “These are the beginning of sorrows”—birth pains that grow closer and stronger.
- Moral collapse and last-days character:
- “Perilous times” with lovers of self and pleasure, disobedience, boasting, unholiness (2 Timothy 3:1-5).
- “As the days of Noah” and “as the days of Lot” — violence, corruption, and open immorality (Genesis 6:11; Luke 17:26-30).
- Israel and the fig tree:
- The fig tree budding is a time-sign; when it puts forth leaves, “know that it is near, even at the doors” (Matthew 24:32-34; Luke 21:29-31). The prophets spoke of Israel’s regathering (Ezekiel 36–37).
- Worldwide witness:
- “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come” (Matthew 24:14).
- Great religious deception:
- Many false christs and false prophets with great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, the very elect (Matthew 24:4-5, 11, 24).
- Departing from the faith and seducing spirits (1 Timothy 4:1); strong delusion on those who reject the truth (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12).
- The falling away and the man of sin:
- A notable apostasy and the revealing of the man of sin who opposes and exalts himself (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4).
- The “abomination of desolation” spoken by Daniel (Matthew 24:15).
- Lukewarm church condition:
- Laodicea—rich, increased with goods, but spiritually blind and lukewarm; Jesus standing outside knocking (Revelation 3:14-20).
- Acceleration of knowledge and travel:
- “Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased” (Daniel 12:4).
- Scoffers and unbelief:
- “In the last days scoffers… saying, Where is the promise of His coming?” (2 Peter 3:3-4).
- Economic control and the mark:
- A global system restricting buying and selling without the mark (Revelation 13:16-17).
- Outpouring and urgency:
- “I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh” in the last days (Joel 2:28-32; Acts 2:17-21).
- A restoring call before the Day:
- God promises a turning of hearts and a restoring message before the great and dreadful day of the Lord (Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 17:11).
- The revealing of the Son of Man:
- “As it was… in the day when the Son of man is revealed” (Luke 17:30)—Christ making Himself known by His Word at the end.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Jesus said these signs would come like birth pains—more frequent and more intense. When you see them converging, “know that it is near, even at the doors.”
- It’s not date-setting—no man knows the day or hour—but the season is unmistakable by the signs God gave.
- The right response is not fear but readiness: repent, believe the Gospel, be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and be sealed with the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38-39). Hold to the Word, watch and pray, and look up, for your redemption draws nigh (Luke 21:28).
Short reinforcing statement
Now notice—every major sign Jesus and the prophets laid down is standing on the earth together. You see, the clock is striking. Stay with the Word and be ready.
Ask a Follow-up Question
What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
The End-time Sign Seed
62-0319 §52
Now, the first two thousand years the world cosmos (order of world) come to its end, and God had to send something---the judgments from heaven---and judge the earth in judgment, and save the righteous Noah and his family. The second two thousand years, the same thing taken place again. Cosmos, world order, even the church was polluted. The days of Noah, they mocked and made fun of him, and he preached 120 years in the door of the ark. And in the second thousand years the church went into captivity, committed whored...
The signs of His coming
62-0407 §61
God would send signs down out of heaven of his Word, and the people... The heathens ... said, "Don't take their learning." Keep away from their learning. Now, they're learned. Don't learn their ways. They got seminary ways, and all kinds of ways like that, and you stay away from them. You stay right with the Word, see. You stay right away from them, 'cause they're going to bear false signs. For Jesus said in Mark, 16th chapter, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Yes, sir. That's right. So if them signs d...
An Exodus
56-0615 §24
...p, going down to..." "Where're you going, boy?" "Down to Egypt." "What are you going to do?" "Take over." And he did it. Went on down and took over. He brought the children of Israel out of bondage. And on the road out, God showed signs and wonders. Every time you see a man, any time in the Bible, that's ever had a touch of God, signs and wonders follow. Jesus promised the same thing. "These signs shall follow them that believe, to the end of the world. In my name they shall cast out devils, speak with new tongues,...
Abraham and his Seed after him
61-0423 §82
...ok up. Your redemption's drawing nigh." When Jesus referred to it, and said, "As it was in Sodom..." When you see a modern Billy Graham go down into Sodom; when you see the signs begin to appear before the elected church, and the rest of it fighting against it, watch---the time of the rapture is at hand. The fig tree putting forth its buds over yonder---that generation will not pass away till all be fulfilled, which is way into that generation since the Jews have been returning to their homeland. We're at the end t...
Is this the sign of the end sir?
62-1230E §92
Notice, the seventh angel was to blast the Laodicean rich church. "I am rich, increased in goods, and have need of nothing." He said, "You are miserable, wretched, poor, blind, and naked, and don't know it." That was his message. O God, send us a fearless prophet with "Thus saith the Lord" that the vindicated Word of God will move through it, and prove that he's sent from God. And when he comes, he'll blast them ages. Sure will. He'll set that Laodicean church against him. Certainly he will. They did in every other...