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.
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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 §66
...azy, but I'm not. If I am, leave me alone---I'm happy this way. So, I believe God's Word. What's the matter with the church? Her womb, her open mind, has received all kinds of creeds and dogmas, and not the Word of God. When Christ come He found the same thing that Adam found, same thing Jehovah found. And here's these signs and the end time appearing, and the church hasn't got the answer. That's right. It's time. The former rain's went forth. That's the reason Billy's not doing much. Remember, there was...
The sign of the time
58-0520 §48
...destruction, how much more will it do His church, when we see destruction's coming? My brother, sister, get away from these modern Babylon walls. They're going to fall one of these days, and you'll be the victim of them. "Come out of it, my people, and be ye separated," saith the Lord, "and I will receive you. And you'll be sons and daughters unto me. And I will be a God unto you." We're at the end time. The writing's on the wall, Ichabod on the church: the Spirit of the Lord has departed. The church is being made...
Is this the sign of the end sir?
62-1230E §22
We all know that we are living in a glorious time for the church, but a horrible time for the unbeliever. And we're living in one of the most dangerous times of all---all that ever was since the world began. No prophet, no apostle, never in no time, ever lived in such a time as we live now. This is the end. It's written in the skies. It's written over the face of the earth. It's written in every newspaper. This is the end---if you can read the handwriting. The prophets lived in the time when the handwriting was on...
The End-time Evangelism
62-0603 §63
Now, now we want to think of another one here. I got ... if you want to read some of it, Matthew 24. Jesus told of this day, He said the Jews would gather again at the last day. He said, "When you see the fig tree putting forth its buds, then know the time is at hand." He said, "There'll be a perplexity of time, distress between nations, the sea a-roaring; men failing of heart trouble, constantly," not among the women, now, it's amongst the men. Jesus never said the women, "men." Look at the plague! And in that day...
The Voice of the Sign
64-0321E §60
God dealt with this one man. God never deals with groups---it's with one man. Elijah wasn't a group. John wasn't a group. They wasn't a group or a denomination, either one of them; but both of them condemned such. That's right. John said, "Don't you think to say, 'We have Abraham to our father.' God's able of these stones to rise children to Abraham." And the end-time sign will have an end-time voice. And the end-time sign will be according to what's predicted in the Bible. And the end-time voice that follows the e...