The Last Days (Acts 2:17)

Peter tells us that in the last days, God will pour out of the Spirit of God upon all flesh:

Acts 2:17-18 "And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:"

That is a reference to the prophecy that Joel hath spoken in:

Joel 2:28-29 "¶ And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit."

Peter tells us that that is going to happen “in the last days.” Notice he said “the last days” (plural). Connect this to:

Psalms 90:4 "For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night."

2 Peter 3:8 "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."

If one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day, that means that “the last days” must be at least two days, or two thousand years counting from the outpouring of the Spirit of God upon all flesh. We see that prophecy fulfilled in Acts 2, when the day of Pentecost was fully come, when suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the house where Peter and the rest of the disciples were sitting, and they were filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Peter continues:

Acts 2:19-21 "And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: 21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved."

These things will happen in the last days, that it shall come to past when the sun shall be turn into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable “day of the Lord” come. That was Peter quoting from Joel’s prophecy:

Joel 2:30-32 "And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. 32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call."

That is also to say, “the great and terrible day of the LORD” is the last day, and right before the LORD comes, there will be signs in the heaven: the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood. These things will take place in “the last days,” and if we were to go by “one day is with the Lord as a thousand years” (2 Peter 3:8), that means that these things will happen at least two thousand years counting from the outpouring of the Holy Ghost upon all flesh in Acts 2. The great and terrible day of the LORD is also referenced in:

Isaiah 13:9-10 "Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine."

Again, we see the same things reiterated in this passage of scripture: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her lights to shine. Joel calls it the great and the terrible day of the LORD because Isaiah tells us that it is a day cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, when the LORD shall lay the land desolate and destroy the sinners thereof out of it. In fact, in Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21, we also find the same things being reiterated in the following verses:

Matthew 24:29 "¶ Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:"

Mark 13:24-25 "¶ But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, 25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken."

Luke 21:25 "¶ And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;"

Matthew 24:29 and Mark 13:24 tells us that these things will happen immediately “after the tribulation of those days.” That means that we must expect to go through a period of great tribulation before the last day, before the great and notable day of the Lord comes, which shall be signified by signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars.

Hosea 6:2 "After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight."

After two days is the third day. According to this verse, something is going to happen in the third day, and that is, the Lord will raise us up. That is a reference to the resurrection of the dead in the last day. If a day with the Lord is a thousand years, that means the resurrection will not happen until after two thousand years is passed, counting from the day of Pentecost. The resurrection of the dead will only happen in the third day. Jesus was raised back to life in the third day too. His resurrection was a prefigure of the things which is to come for the dead in Christ. Martha tells us that the resurrection of the dead in Christ will happen at the last day:

John 11:23-24 "Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. 24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day."

The context of this passage was when Lazarus, the brother of Martha and Mary died, and Jesus went to comfort them, and Martha spake by inspiration of the Holy Ghost that the dead in Christ shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. This is a reference to:

Revelation 20:5 "But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection."

John calls the raising of the dead in Christ “the first resurrection.” It is called “resurrection” because it is for the dead, as opposed to the rapture of the living. We know from Paul’s account in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 that the dead in Christ shall rise first, and then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, the meet the Lord in the air:

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."

All these things will take place “immediately after the tribulation of those days,” (Matthew 24:29) when the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shakened, when the great and terrible day of the LORD comes, at the last day, to lay the land desolate and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it. We know from the earlier part of this article that it will be at least two thousand years from the day of Pentecost before that great and notable day of the Lord comes. What then, did the bible tells us about “the last day,” or the last thousand years?

Nehemiah 8:18 "Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner."

Nehemiah tells us that from the first day unto the last day is seven days, and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly. Moreover, from the first day unto the seventh day (the last day) they kept the feast. Connect this to:

Exodus 13:6 "Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD."

John 7:37 "In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink."

John tells us that “the last day” (the seventh day) is that “great day of the feast.” That would be a reference to “the marriage supper of the Lamb” (Revelation 19:9) at the LORD’s return.

Revelation 19:17-18 "And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; 18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great."

The marriage supper of the Lamb is the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great, which according to Isaiah 13:9 “he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.” The marriage supper of the Lamb, when death shall be swallowed up in victory, is a reference to:

Isaiah 25:6-7 "And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. 7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations."

The feast on “the last day” (the seventh day) will be a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined, and verse 7 tells us that God will destroy “in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.” Those would be the kings of the earth and the rulers of this world by whom all nations have been deceived. This is also a fulfillment of the words of the Lord in:

John 12:48 "He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day."

The kings, the captains, the mighty men, and all men, both free and bond, both small and great are those who have rejected the Lord and receiveth not his words. Their judgment will come in the last day (the seventh day), when the great and terrible day of the LORD comes, and the Lord shall lay the land desolate and destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

Genesis 1:5 "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day."

So, if the seventh day is the last day, that means that from Creation (the first day) unto the day of the Lord (the last day) will be seven thousand years. Recall what Nehemiah tells us in this verse:

Nehemiah 8:18 "Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner."

On the eighth day, after the great day of the feast on the seventh day, was a “solemn assembly.” What is that solemn assembly? Wouldn’t that be the assembly of the dead in Christ after the first resurrection, and the rapture of the living when we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air? A day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and if there will be a solemn assembly on the eight day, that means that the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the rapture of the living will only happen at the end of the seventh day, crossing over to the eighth day. Previously, I did a study on the age of the earth in this article:

Based on what I have studied and understood from the 1611 King James Bible, the earth as of AD 2023 was estimated to be about 6,190.5 years old. If the seventh day (the last day) is the seventh thousand year, that means that we may still have many centuries before the great and notable day of the Lord comes, even though technically speaking, we are probably already in or very close to the seventh day, or the last thousand years. Connecting back to what I have shared at the beginning of this article, the last days began in Acts 2, when the day of Pentecost was fully come. Peter said “the last days” (plural) because it will be at least two thousand years before the advent of the last day, or the last thousand years. If we take AD 33 as a reference of the day of the Pentecost, and counting two thousand years forward, that would bring us to AD 2033, or ten years from now. Ever heard of Agenda 30, culling of the “useless eaters?” That means we are probably very close to the advent of the last thousand years before the great and notable day of the LORD comes. That is also probably the reference point that the kings of the earth and the rulers of this world are basing their calendar on.

“Population growth could grind to a halt by 2050, before decreasing to as little as 6 billion humans on Earth in 2100, a new analysis of birth trends has revealed.”

According to this article and some others, 2050 is the year whereby the human population worldwide is expected to experience a catastrophic decline as predicted by the “experts.” That happen to coincide with the advent of the last thousand years, which may explain why the kings of the earth and the rulers of this world are using AD 2033 as a guide for rolling out their atrocities on the general population worldwide. As what I have shared in the following article, they have a plan for world dominion:

It started with the strategic hijacking of Christianity by the top levels of Satanism through the works of John N Darby and CI Scofield, who formalised the Jesuitic doctrine of dispensationalism for the church. The kings of the earth and the rulers of this world have a plan for the next thousand years. They knew that they have to first eliminate the billions of Christians who could potentially stand in their way, and that would be achieved by convincing them that their own bible predicted this reign of evil. That is the surest way to subdue the billions of Christians all at one go, without firing a single shot. Dispensationalism is Judaism in an encrypted form. It is crypto-Judaism for the gentiles.

According to the teachings of dispensationalism, the “rapture” of the gentile church would happen at the onset of the seven years of tribulation, after which the “dispensation of Kingdom” would arrive whereby God would establish a Jewish kingdom on earth according to the Davidic covenant, and the Jews would rule the kingdom as king-priests (gods) with David for a thousand years. Could it be that their plan to extinguish the gentile church from off the surface of the earth via the mark of the beast has been masked as the “pre-tribulation rapture” that must happen before the advent of their thousand-years reign, masked as the “dispensation of the Kingdom?” Afterall, churches which are basing their teachings on dispensationalism do not believe that they will ever encounter the mark of the beast before the rapture comes, by which they are rescued out of this earth before the “Antichrist” makes his appearance.

1 Thessalonians 5:2-3 "For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape."

In every dispensational church you go to, be it the left-wing liberal churches or the right-wing conservative ones, you will not only hear them preach “peace” because now is the “dispensation of Grace” so-called, but you will also hear them preach “safety” in the form of the pre-tribulation rapture by which they may escape from the great tribulation. They are all blinded to the scriptures which tell us that the mark of the beast will be forced upon us, and that we will not escape the great tribulation which is to come. Paul tells us that when they shall say “peace and safety,” then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape. It will come upon them as a snare, suddenly and without warning, and they shall not escape.

Paul continues in the next verses:

1 Thessalonians 5:4-6 "But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober."

These are the Christians that are in darkness because they are already blinded to the truth by the dispensational doctrines that undergirds their interpretation of scriptures, so that “that day” (day of the Lord) should overtake them as a thief. That’s why Paul exhorts that we should not sleep as do others, but rather, let us watch, comparing spiritual things with spiritual, and be sober. After all, the same Paul also warned us that in the last days perilous times shall come:

2 Timothy 3:1-5 "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."

The churches in the last days will be made up of men who are lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. Summarily, churches would be made up of men having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. They will be easy pawns in the hands of the kings of the earth and the rulers of this world to execute evil.

This is a 1947 map depicting the “What If” following the end of the Second World War in Europe. The map was published on the loose page of Sunday News on March 9, 1947.

1st Reich: The small map dated 1914 shows the area ruled by Kaiser Wilhelm I, who has proclaimed Emperor in Versailles on Jan. 18, 1871, when Germany took its place as a world power after the Franco-Prussian War. The invasion of Belgium in 1914 was the beginning of World War I.

2nd Reich: After Germany’s defeat and the abdication of the Kaiser, the National Assembly met on Feb. 6,1919, and elected Friedrich Ebert president of the republic. Under the Weimar Constitution, promulgated later in the year, the republic lasted until 1933, when the Nazis came into power.

3rd Reich: Hitler’s appointment as chancellor led to the scrapping of the Constitution and the formation of a totalitarian state under his dictatorship. The large map gives the boundaries of the area under Nazi domination during the period of Germany’s greatest expansion – in 1941 and 1942.

4th Reich: With four of the Allied nations occupying German soil and attempting to form an agreement concerning the country’s future organization, the boundaries are still to be determined. The map dated 1947 gives the existing division into American, British, French and Russian zones.

The “dispensation of the Kingdom” would last a thousand years, which means that the super race would rule the earth for a thousand years as immortal gods. That would be the 4th Reich, a continuation of the 3rd Reich (also known as the “Thousand Year Reich”) whereby the Nazis were poised to succeed the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and the German Empire (1871–1918). No doubt some very powerful people are playing God, working to change the bible prophecies using dispensationalism, a Jesuitic system of doctrine that undergirds bible interpretation, so that the future that has been prophesied of them in the bible will not come to past. Instead, they will reign as immortal king-priests in the place of born again believers. Will they succeed?

Psalms 2:1-5 "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, 3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. 4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. 5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure."

This passage of scripture tells us that the kings of the earth and the rulers of this world have conspired against the LORD and against his anointed, but the psalmist tells us that they have imagined a vain thing. Notice their aim is to “break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.” Interestingly, all forms of the word “band” is found 66 times in the 1611 King James Bible, 66 being a reference to the 66 books of the Holy Bible, and the word “cord” is a reference to the threefold cord that is not quickly broken (Ecclesiastes 4:12), referring to the two or three faithful witnesses in the Holy Bible whereby every word of God is established. The truth can be temporarily undermined by men, but it will ultimately prevail because this passage of scripture tells us that the LORD who sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: he shall have these men in derision. Then he shall speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. God will prevail, even as the truth must come to light because it is Light itself. It cannot be destroyed, neither can it be extinguished, and darkness must flee before light.

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