Signs In Abundance

11 Irrefutable Signs We Are in the Last Days

Pete Garcia

Matthew 24:1-3, 15 (my emphasis)

• The temple and the city’s destruction foretold by Jesus in one other place: (Luke 19:44) (Palm Sunday). It was falsely attributed to Him— John 2:19 (see Matt 26:61).
• Jesus acknowledged the destruction of the Second Temple while simultaneously pointing to a future desecration of it.
• Matthew 24:15 presupposes a standing sanctuary where the abomination of desolation occurs.
• Paul reinforces this in 2 Thessalonians 2:4, describing a man of sin entering the temple of God.
• Temple preparations today indicate readiness without requiring prophetic speculation.

3. Jerusalem trampled by Gentiles until the fullness (Luke 21:24)

“And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled” (Luke 21:24).

• Jesus declared Jerusalem would remain under Gentile domination until the defined prophetic limit is reached.
• Many empires over the past two thousand years have sought to rename Jerusalem and erase it from history. All have failed.
  • Aelia Capitolina: The Roman emperor Hadrian renamed Jerusalem after the Bar Kokhba Revolt in 135 A.D., and it was called that until 324 A.D., when Emperor Constantine I changed its name back to Jerusalem.
  • Al-Quds (Arabic): Meaning “The Holy One,” widely used by Muslims instead of Jerusalem.
  • Bayt al-Maqdis (Arabic): “The Holy House,” referring to the Jewish Temple.
• Major Far and Near East cities of antiquity whose names did not survive time.
  • Alexandropolis → Kandahar
  • Byzantium → Constantinople → Istanbul
  • Ninevah → Mosul (Iraq)
  • Babylon → Hillah (Iraq)
• Although Israel regained control of Jerusalem in 1967 in the Six-Day War, the Temple Mount remains under the Gentile authority of the Jordanian Waqf.
• This partial control aligns with Romans 11:25, where the fullness of the Gentiles precedes Israel’s restoration.
• Jerusalem will remain the most contested city on earth until the Second Coming.

4. Global antisemitism rising (Zechariah 12)

“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it” (Zech 12:1-3).

“For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem;
The city shall be taken,
The houses rifled,
And the women ravished.
Half of the city shall go into captivity,
But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city” (Zech 14:2).

Zechariah foretold Jerusalem becoming a burdensome stone to all nations.

• Modern antisemitism has been rampant from the first century until the present, at times waxing and waning. However, since the early 20th century, it has intensified globally across political, academic, religious, and cultural spheres, culminating in the first half with the Third Reich, the Holocaust, and World War 2.
• Anti-Zionism was politically acceptable in the post-World War II era…until October 7, 2023. Now, Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism have become mainstream, both on the political left and the right.
• Hostility toward Israel increasingly transcends ideological and religious boundaries.
• The trend mirrors the prophetic convergence of global opposition against Jerusalem, Israel, and the Jewish people.

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