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Wanted to try and collect together some end time, final day, last days, the end type prophetic scriptures so they could be contemplated all in one place.

If I have missed anything please help.


Genesis 49:1
Later on Jacob called his sons and said: “Gather yourselves together that I may tell YOU what will happen to YOU in the final part of the days.

Numbers 24:14
And now here I am going away to my people. Do come, let me advise you what this people will do to your people afterward in the end of the days.”

Deuteronomy 4:30
When you are in sore straits and all these words have found you out at the close of the days, then you will have to return to Jehovah your God and to listen to his voice.

Deuteronomy 31:29
For I well know that after my death YOU will without fail act ruinously, and YOU will certainly turn aside from the way about which I have commanded YOU; and calamity will be bound to befall YOU at the close of the days, because YOU will do what is bad in the eyes of Jehovah so as to offend him by the works of YOUR hands.”

Isaiah 2:2
And it must occur in the final part of the days [that] the mountain of the house of Jehovah will become firmly established above the top of the mountains, and it will certainly be lifted up above the hills; and to it all the nations must stream.

Isaiah 46:10
the One telling from the beginning the finale, and from long ago the things that have not been done; the One saying, ‘My own counsel will stand, and everything that is my delight I shall do’;

Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets themselves actually prophesy in falsehood; and as for the priests, they go subduing according to their powers. And my own people have loved [it] that way; and what will YOU men do in the finale of it?”

Jeremiah 23:19-20
Look! The windstorm of Jehovah, rage itself, will certainly go forth, even a whirling tempest. Upon the head of the wicked ones it will whirl itself. 20 The anger of Jehovah will not turn back until he will have carried out and until he will have made the ideas of his heart come true. In the final part of the days YOU people will give YOUR consideration to it with understanding.


Jeremiah 30:23-24
Look! A windstorm of Jehovah, rage itself, has gone forth, an onward-sweeping tempest. Upon the head of the wicked ones it will whirl. 24 The burning anger of Jehovah will not turn back until he will have executed and until he will have carried out the ideas of his heart. In the final part of the days YOU people will give YOUR consideration to it.


Jeremiah 31:38-40
“Look! There are days coming,” is the utterance of Jehovah, “and the city will certainly be built to Jehovah from the Tower of Ha·nan´el to the Corner Gate. 39 And the line for measurement will yet actually go forth straight ahead to the hill of Ga´reb, and it will certainly go around to Go´ah. 40 And all the low plain of the carcasses and of the fatty ashes, and all the terraces as far as the torrent valley of Kid´ron, clear to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the sunrising, will be something holy to Jehovah. It will not be uprooted, neither will it be torn down anymore to time indefinite.”


Jeremiah 48:46-47
“‘Woe to you, O Mo´ab! The people of Che´mosh have perished. For your sons have been taken as captives and your daughters as captives. 47 And I will gather the captive ones of Mo´ab in the final part of the days,’ is the utterance of Jehovah. ‘Down to this point is the judgment upon Mo´ab.’”


Jeremiah 49:38-39
“And I will set my throne in E´lam, and I will destroy out of there the king and the princes,” is the utterance of Jehovah. 39 “And it will certainly occur in the final part of the days that I shall gather the captive ones of E´lam,” is the utterance of Jehovah.

Ezekiel 7:2
“And as for you, O son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said to the soil of Israel, ‘An end, the end, has come upon the four extremities of the land.

Ezekiel 7:5-6
“This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said, ‘A calamity, a unique calamity, look! it is coming. 6 An end itself must come. The end must come; it must awaken for you. Look! It is coming. 7 The garland must come to you, O inhabiter of the land, the time must come, the day is near. There is confusion, and not the shouting of the mountains.

Ezekiel 38:16
And you will be bound to come up against my people Israel, like clouds to cover the land. In the final part of the days it will occur, and I shall certainly bring you against my land, for the purpose that the nations may know me when I sanctify myself in you before their eyes, O Gog.”’


Ezekiel 39:28
“‘And they will have to know that I am Jehovah their God, when I send them in exile to the nations and actually bring them together upon their soil, so that I shall leave none of them remaining there any longer.


Daniel 2:28
However, there exists a God in the heavens who is a Revealer of secrets, and he has made known to King Neb·u·chad·nez´zar what is to occur in the final part of the days. Your dream and the visions of your head upon your bed—this it is:


Daniel 8:17-19
So he came beside where I was standing, but when he came I got terrified so that I fell upon my face. And he proceeded to say to me: “Understand, O son of man, that the vision is for the time of [the] end.” 18 And while he was speaking with me, I had become fast asleep on my face on the earth. So he touched me and made me stand up where I had been standing. 19 And he went on to say: “Here I am causing you to know what will occur in the final part of the denunciation, because it is for the appointed time of [the] end.

Daniel 9:26
“And after the sixty-two weeks Mes·si´ah will be cut off, with nothing for himself. “And the city and the holy place the people of a leader that is coming will bring to their ruin. And the end of it will be by the flood. And until [the] end there will be war; what is decided upon is desolations.

Daniel 10:14
And I have come to cause you to discern what will befall your people in the final part of the days, because it is a vision yet for the days [to come].”

Daniel 11:35
And some of those having insight will be made to stumble, in order to do a refining work because of them and to do a cleansing and to do a whitening, until the time of [the] end; because it is yet for the time appointed.


Daniel 11:40
“And in the time of [the] end the king of the south will engage with him in a pushing, and against him the king of the north will storm with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships; and he will certainly enter into the lands and flood over and pass through.


Daniel 12:4
“And as for you, O Daniel, make secret the words and seal up the book, until the time of [the] end. Many will rove about, and the [true] knowledge will become abundant.”


Daniel 12:9
And he went on to say: “Go, Daniel, because the words are made secret and sealed up until the time of [the] end. 10 Many will cleanse themselves and whiten themselves and will be refined. And the wicked ones will certainly act wickedly, and no wicked ones at all will understand; but the ones having insight will understand.

Daniel 12:13
“And as for you yourself, go toward the end; and you will rest, but you will stand up for your lot at the end of the days.”


Hosea 3:5
Afterwards the sons of Israel will come back and certainly look for Jehovah their God, and for David their king; and they will certainly come quivering to Jehovah and to his goodness in the final part of the days.


Micah 4:1
And it must occur in the final part of the days [that] the mountain of the house of Jehovah will become firmly established above the top of the mountains, and it will certainly be lifted up above the hills; and to it peoples must stream.

Amos 8:2
Then he said: “What are you seeing, A´mos?” So I said: “A basket of summer fruit.” And Jehovah went on to say to me: “The end has come to my people Israel. I shall no more do any further excusing of them. 3 ‘And the songs of [the] temple will actually be a howling in that day,’ is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah. ‘There will be many a carcass. In every place one will certainly throw [them] out—hush!’


Habakkuk 2:2-3
And Jehovah proceeded to answer me and to say: “Write down [the] vision, and set [it] out plainly upon tablets, in order that the one reading aloud from it may do so fluently. 3 For [the] vision is yet for the appointed time, and it keeps panting on to the end, and it will not tell a lie. Even if it should delay, keep in expectation of it; for it will without fail come true. It will not be late.

Mal. 3:17
“They will be my people,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “On the day when I act in judgment, they will be my own special treasure. I will spare them as a father spares an obedient child. 18 Then you will again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”


Matthew 10:22
And YOU will be objects of hatred by all people on account of my name; but he that has endured to the end is the one that will be saved.

Matthew 24:3
While he was sitting upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples approached him privately, saying: “Tell us, When will these things be, and what will be the sign of your presence and of the conclusion of the system of things?”

Matthew 24:14
And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.


1 Timothy 4:1
However, the inspired utterance says definitely that in later periods of time some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to misleading inspired utterances and teachings of demons,


1 John 2:18
Young children, it is the last hour, and, just as YOU have heard that antichrist is coming, even now there have come to be many antichrists; from which fact we gain the knowledge that it is the last hour.

1 Corinthians 1:8
He will also make YOU firm to the end, that YOU may be open to no accusation in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, by whom YOU were called into a sharing with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Corinthians 10:11
Now these things went on befalling them as examples, and they were written for a warning to us upon whom the ends of the systems of things have arrived.

1 Corinthian 15:24
Next, the end, when he hands over the kingdom to his God and Father, when he has brought to nothing all government and all authority and power.

2 Corinthians 1:13
For we are really not writing YOU things except those which YOU well know or also recognize; and which I hope YOU will continue to recognize to the end,

Hebrews 3:6
but Christ [was faithful] as a Son over the house of that One. We are the house of that One, if we make fast our hold on our freeness of speech and our boasting over the hope firm to the end.

Hebrews 6:11-12
But we desire each one of YOU to show the same industriousness so as to have the full assurance of the hope down to the end, 12 in order that YOU may not become sluggish, but be imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

1 Peter 1:20
True, he was foreknown before the founding of the world, but he was made manifest at the end of the times for the sake of YOU 21 who through him are believers in God, the one who raised him up from the dead and gave him glory; so that YOUR faith and hope might be in God.

1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things has drawn close. Be sound in mind, therefore, and be vigilant with a view to prayers. 8 Above all things, have intense love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.

Jude 1:17-18
As for YOU, beloved ones, call to mind the sayings that have been previously spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, 18 how they used to say to YOU: “In the last time there will be ridiculers, proceeding according to their own desires for ungodly things.”

Revelation 1:3
Happy is he who reads aloud and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and who observe the things written in it; for the appointed time is near.


Revelation 21:5-6
And the One seated on the throne said: “Look! I am making all things new.” Also, he says: “Write, because these words are faithful and true.” 6 And he said to me: “They have come to pass! I am the Al´pha and the O·me´ga, the beginning and the end. To anyone thirsting I will give from the fountain of the water of life free.



In Christ

abe

Mal. 3:...17 “They will be my people,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “On the day when I act in judgment, they will be my own special treasure. I will spare them as a father spares an obedient child. 18 Then you will again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”

Thanks e-magine,

I added it above.

It is interesting to think Moses must have understood that there would be some final days which were further off from his time.

I wonder what Jacob might have understood from what he told his 12 sons in Genesis Chapter 49.

Recently I have read the last book of Ezra (Esdras) in the Apocrypha.

His visions of the last days.


Very interesting!


In Christ

abe

Hi abe

Well, it certainly makes for some interesting reading, seeing all those scriptures together like that :ok:

I'm curious though... after having made such a collection, are you still so certain the phrase does not particularly apply to a period OTHER than the one we're living in today?

For example...

Ezekiel 7:2
“And as for you, O son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said to the soil of Israel, ‘An end, the end, has come upon the four extremities of the land."

This is written in present tense... clearly Jehovah was condemning the land of Israel to their 70 years of exile here.

Daniel 12:4
“And as for you, O Daniel, make secret the words and seal up the book, until the time of [the] end. Many will rove about, and the [true] knowledge will become abundant.”

I think what's interesting here is that the words are sealed up. (Those words were written in the 530's BC). Contrast this with Revelation (60's or 90's AD), where John is told "Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this scroll, for the appointed time is near." (Rev 22:10)

What does this suggest to you about the period of the 1st century? Who do we know had the authority to unlock seals... anyone in particular?

1 Corinthians 10:11
Now these things went on befalling them as examples, and they were written for a warning to us upon whom the ends of the systems of things have arrived.

Don't you find this one interesting, abe? Paul is describing the time period he lived in as an arrival of "the ends of the system of things".

What? Could Paul be some kind of closet Preterist? :readthis:

1 Peter 1:20
True, he was foreknown before the founding of the world, but he was made manifest at the end of the times for the sake of YOU who through him are believers in God, the one who raised him up from the dead and gave him glory; so that YOUR faith and hope might be in God.

What? He WAS made manifest at "the end of the times"? Is Peter a closet Preterist as well?

1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things has drawn close. Be sound in mind, therefore, and be vigilant with a view to prayers. 8 Above all things, have intense love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.

What? The end had "drawn close", in Peter's day... the early 60's of the 1st century? Hmm. Whatever is Peter talking about? Didn't he knew the "end" wasn't scheduled for another 1,900+ years?

Jude 1:17-18
As for you, beloved ones, call to mind the sayings that have been previously spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, how they used to say to you: “In the last time there will be ridiculers, proceeding according to their own desires for ungodly things.”

What? So Jude was warning about what the apostles had already spoken about ("in the last time"), and it was already coming about, requiring Jude to remind them of the apostles prior warning?

To me, these scriptures show clearly that there were different "ends" from Jehovah's viewpoint throughout history.

The primary "end" I see Daniel, Jesus and the apostles referring to was the "conclusions of the system of things" that was upon the apostles and disciples of the 1st century, which culminated in the destruction of the Jewish religious system of worship between 66 and 73AD.

This is the "end" that concerned Daniel, Paul, Peter, Jude and Jesus himself... as their own words testify.

It boggles me that with so many scriptures listed, you still refuse to see this!

(Of course, there are a few that are clearly still future... such as 1 Corinthian 15:24... presumably that "end" is at the end of the 1,000 years though... and not at Armageddon.)

Interpretum,

It is really interesting to see end time scriptures all together.

Many old testament scriptures were written to talk about the end.

Then Jesus Christ came and he too talked about the end.

Then Jesus Christ died and the Apostles also started talking about the end.

The Apostle Paul mostly talked to Gentiles who were not even living in Jerusalem and maybe never went to Jerusalem about the end coming upon them.

Preterists think the end was when Jerusalem was destroyed and yet Gentiles all around the world are told about the end to come upon them, the Gentiles living far far away from Jerusalem.

Then the Apostle John living in Patmos wrote the Book of Revelation about the end coming upon them and was told to send the seven letters to Gentiles living in Asia!

He was not told to send the letter to Jews in Jerusalem!

The Jews in Jerusalem who according to preterists were the people who needed to be concerned about the end.

Oh well, I tried. :dontknow:

I'll keep trying to to the end.


In Christ

abe

Its a little of both, as I see it.

Hey abe

First off, please forgiving my sarcasm... I don't mean any offense, and I know you sincerely believe what you believe, which I respect, although I disagree with it.

Now on to what you said...

Jesus himself also said that the tribulation would come upon all those on the inhabited earth. This wasn't just about Jerusalem... as I have said before, the entire Roman empire suffered greatly during that time as well. I think you'd really enjoy reading Josephus' account of events during that period... during 66-69AD for example, the Roman empire suffered a civil war and near collapse... and whole cities went to war, with Jews slaughtering Gentiles, and vice versa.

The end of the Jewish system DID affect Gentiles around the "inhabited earth" (Luke 2:1) in a major way.

Absolutely.

But the book of Revelation does cover the fall of Jerusalem... see chapters 7 through 11, and compare it with the writings of Josephus, and you may have your eyes opened.

Why do you think they contain "seven trumpets"?

Can you think of what seven trumpets are alluding to? Hint... Joshua brought it down.

The fall of Jericho was brought about by seven trumpets. This time, in Revelation, it was the fall of Jerusalem.

And then, once that's dealt with... it focuses on the primary concern of those Gentile readers of Revelation... namely, the "wild beast" that was ruling over them, of which emperor worship (as pictured by the beast demanding worship) was their primary concern - thousands of Christians losing their lives because of it.

Those in Jerusalem needed to "flee to the mountains"... heeding Jesus' advice (which you say was nothing to do with Jerusalem).

Those not in Jerusalem obviously didn't need to... but their fellow Christian's flight is still pictured in Revelation... in chapter 12! There we see a woman fleeing into the wilderness, while the dragon attempts to drown her.

Revelation, which I think was likely written around 67AD, was like a news report, telling Christians around the Roman empire of what was going on in Jerusalem and the surrounding regions, and what they (as Gentiles) would soon face at the hands of the Roman "wild beast" that would soon demand their worship.

Revelation is not rocket science. It is NOT sealed, and its fulfillment was "near" to its audience.

Unfortunately, modern audiences who fail to see it in its 1st century context have effectively "sealed it up" (contrary to Jesus' words), requiring special channeled "mouthpieces" or prophets to unseal it again (with their own private interpretations).

As I maintain, while I admit that some of my viewpoints on the more obscure parts of Revelation are speculative, I'm convinced the majority of Revelation interprets itself, when placed in the right context (i.e. seen from a 1st century viewpoint) and/or by viewing the angel's or Jesus' interpretation as the final word on the matter.

You are convinced that Revelation is being fulfilled right under your nose... but keep in mind, so was Russell... and a whole string of commentators before him.

Every generation has managed to find events that "fit" the words of Revelation.

Now, before you accuse me of being someone who is saying, "Where is this promised presence of his?"... no, that's not the point. My point is simply that Revelation was designed to be read with a 1st century perspective in mind.