The Final Generation

The early church called the message of Jesus’ soon return “The Blessed Hope.” They saw it as a message of liberation that gave them the resolve to live righteously before their God. That is the message I want you to get from reading this book. When you put it down, I don’t want you to be filled with dread; I want you to be excited about what God is doing to seek and save the lost. I also want you to be more determined that as few as possible will be left on Earth the day Jesus calls us home.

In order to understand that message, we must first understand the gravity of where we are on God’s timeline. Time is of the essence. There is no more room for the “business as usual, let me work out my own personal salvation” complacency that grips our culture, our marketplaces, our political arenas, and—unfortunately—far too many of our churches today. Our own personal pursuits of life, liberty, and happiness will not get us through the twenty-first century as they did in the last half of the twentieth.

The American dream is turning into a nightmare right before our eyes, blinding many to the converging prophetic storms gathering before us. People, including many Christians, have grown dull of hearing. As Solomon warned us in Proverbs, now more than ever, “the complacency of fools shall destroy them” (Proverbs 1:32).

Jesus said that the final days before His return would be like those of Noah before the flood. Humanity would be obsessed with the issues of prosperity, entertainment, and self-fulfillment: “eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage” (Matthew 24:38). In Luke, Jesus expanded further on this saying:

“It was the same as happened in the days of Lot:
they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying,
they were selling, they were planting, they were
building; but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom
it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed
them all. It will be just the same on the day that the Son
of Man is revealed.
Remember Lot’s wife. Whoever seeks to keep his life
will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.”
—Luke 17:28-30, 32-33

We must wake up to the realization that the Bible prophecies of Daniel, Ezekiel, and Revelation are quickly moving into position for God’s final checkmate of Satan. Israel is likely within a decade or less of facing the greatest threat to its existence: the development of an Iranian nuclear bomb. Not only that, but the framework for a one-world government and common world currency is already in the minds of many—just as Ahmadinejad outlined before the United Nations last fall, to the accolades of most of the delegates in the General Assembly. A perfect storm of religious extremism and those who would profit from it is gathering to oppose Judaism, Christianity, and Western Secularism alike, while the U.S. and the E.U. take the course of appeasement.