FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to the 150+ most common
questions on the end times.
- What is going to happen according to end times prophecy?
- What signs indicate that the end times are approaching?
- What is the end times timeline?
- What is the Rapture?
- What is the Tribulation? How do we know the Tribulation will last seven years?
- When is the Rapture going to occur in relation to the Tribulation?
- What is Eschatology?
- What is the Apocalypse?
- Have any aspects of end times prophecy been fulfilled?
- What is the Second Coming and why is it important?
- What is the difference between the Rapture and the Second Coming?
- What is the mark of the beast?
- What is the meaning of 666?
- Who are the 144,000?
- What is Israel’s role in the end times? Does what is happening in Israel today mean the end times are quickly approaching?
- Is the millennium literal or figurative?
- Will there be a second chance for salvation after the Rapture?
- Who is the antichrist?
- Is the pope, or the next pope, the antichrist?
- Is the United States of America in Bible prophecy?
- Who are the two witnesses in the book of Revelation?
- Will there be a partial rapture?
- What does the Bible say about an end times Temple in Jerusalem?
- Who / What is the restrainer in 2 Thessalonians 2:6?
- Will the generation that saw Israel re-formed as a nation still be alive for the Second Coming?
- What do the seven churches in Revelation stand for?
- What is the marriage supper of the Lamb?
- What is the Preterist view of the end times?
- Is partial preterism biblical? What do partial preterists believe?
- How can I avoid being left behind in the rapture?
- What does Revelation chapter 12 mean?
- How are we to live our lives in light of Christ’s return?
- How can I understand the Book of Revelation?
- What is the abomination of desolation?
- What is the battle of Armageddon?
- What are Gog and Magog?
- Who are Meshech and Tubal in the Bible?
- What is the day of the Lord?
- What are the seventy sevens in Daniel 9:24-27?
- Who will occupy the Millennial Kingdom?
- Who are the four horsemen of the apocalypse?
- Who are the twenty-four (24) elders in Revelation?
- What is the whore of Babylon / mystery Babylon?
- What are the seven seals and seven trumpets in the Book of Revelation?
- What are the seven seals of Revelation?
- What are the seven trumpets of Revelation?
- What are the seven bowls/vials of Revelation?
- What is the Illuminati conspiracy?
- What is the Olivet Discourse?
- What did Jesus mean when He said, “this generation will not pass”?
- Was Jesus’ statement that “some who are standing here will not taste death” in Luke 9:27 (also Matthew 16:28; Mark 9:1) incorrect?
- What are tribulation saints?
- Will babies and young children be taken in the Rapture?
- Does Bible prophecy predict that there will be a World War 3 (III, three) before the end times?
- What is the time of Jacob’s trouble?
- How can we trust that Biblical prophecy can indeed predict the future?
- Why is God going to release Satan after the 1000 years?
- What is the Great Tribulation?
- What is the year 2012 Mayan prophecy?
- Does the Bible indicate that, in the end times, people will not be able to recognize the different seasons?
- What does the Bible say about the end of the world?
- Does the Bible prophesy a one-world government and a one-world currency in the end times?
- Will there be animal sacrifices during the millennial kingdom?
- Who is the false prophet of the end times?
- What is the significance of a red heifer in the Bible? Is a red heifer a sign of the end times?
- Surviving the end times – what do I need to know?
- Islamic antichrist? Will the antichrist be a Muslim?
- What happens at the final judgment?
- What is the meaning of wormwood in Revelation?
- What are the strengths and weaknesses of the pretribulational view of the rapture (pretribulationism)?
- What are the strengths and weaknesses of the midtribulational view of the rapture (midtribulationism)?
- What are the strengths and weaknesses of the posttribulational view of the rapture (posttribulationism)?
- What are the strengths and weaknesses of the pre-wrath view of the rapture?
- What is the New World Order?
- Is it possible to know when Jesus is coming back?
- What do the seven thunders in Revelation 10:1-7 mean?
- Should Christians stockpile food/supplies in preparation for a possible future disaster?
- What does it mean that Jesus will return like a thief in the night?
- Is the last trumpet of 1 Thessalonians 4 the same as the seventh trumpet of Revelation?
- What is the unholy trinity in the end times?
- Is the war in heaven in Revelation 12 describing Satan’s original fall or an end times angelic battle?
- Could an alien deception be part of the end times?
- What will be the end times one world religion?
- What is the purpose of the thousand-year reign of Christ?
- Does the Bible say that an increase in technology is a sign of the end times?
- Why is God going to send a strong delusion in the end times?
- What are the times of the Gentiles?
- How can I overcome my fear of the end of days?
- Does the Bible say anything about a black Pope in relation to the end times?
- What is Nibiru?
- Can the return of Christ truly be said to be imminent?
- Who or what is Abaddon/Apollyon?
- Why must Elijah return before the end times (Malachi 4:5-6)?
- What are the seventy weeks of Daniel?
- What are the three woes of Revelation?
- Are we living in the end times?
- Does the Bible say the United Nations will have a role in the end times?
- Does war with Syria have anything to do with the end times?
- Why didn’t Jesus return during the blood-red moon of 2015?
- Will the Holy Spirit be present during the tribulation?
- Will all Israel be saved in the end times (Romans 11:26)?
- Who is the man of lawlessness in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12?
- Are the sky trumpets people have been reporting signs of the end times?
- Does the Bible say anything about Russia in relation to the end times?
- What is the concept of “already but not yet”?
- What is the blessed hope?
- What does it mean that Jesus will come in the clouds (Revelation 1:7)?
- What does it mean that there will be wars and rumors of wars before the end times?
- Was 2017 a Jubilee Year? Was Christ supposed to return in 2017?
- Why is apocalyptic literature so strange?
- How should a Christian react to all the doomsday predictions out there?
- What is the Shemitah?
- Do the news reports of rivers turning blood red have anything to do with the end times?
- What biblical prophecies were fulfilled in AD 70?
- Will there be a great apostasy / falling away during the end times?
- Does China have a role in the end times?
- What is the Revived Roman Empire?
- Does the Old Testament truly predict a second advent of the Messiah?
- What role does Iran play in the end times?
- How can I be ready to be caught up in the rapture?
- Why do Daniel and Revelation give varying counts of 1,260, 1,290, and 1,335 days for the tribulation?
- What is historicism? What is the historicist interpretation of the book of Revelation?
- Who is the beast of Revelation?
- What is the image of the beast?
- Is ISIS a sign of the end times?
- What is the significance of the Eastern Gate of Jerusalem?
- Is it possible for a person to be saved/forgiven after taking the mark of the beast?
- Could an EMP attack be a part of the end times?
- What does the Bible mean when it refers to the end of the age?
- What is the mystery of iniquity?
- What does it mean that heaven and earth will pass away?
- What does it mean that there will be false christs in the end times?
- What is realized eschatology?
- What does it mean that the love of many will grow cold (Matthew 24:12)?
- What is the significance of Ezekiel’s temple?
- What is the concept of a secret rapture?
- Should a Christian be a prepper or in any way involved with doomsday prepping?
- Is Jesus coming soon?
- What is millenarianism?
- Is an eclipse a sign of the end times?
- Will bitcoin / cryptocurrency be the one-world currency of the end times?
- Is it possible for a person to get the mark of the beast today?
- Does a cashless society have anything to do with the end times?
- What is the spirit of the antichrist?
- Will Christians see the Antichrist, or will the rapture occur before then?
- What does it mean that there will be scoffers in the last days?
- What will happen when Jesus returns / comes back?
- What is wrong with date-setting for the end times?
- What is the great deception in the Bible?
- What is millennialism?
- Will the Antichrist be gay?
- How much of the Bible is prophecy?
- What will happen to my pets after the rapture?
- Does the statue outside the United Nations have any connection to the beast of the end times?
