Rev. Billy Graham’s End Times Prophecies - Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are
riding now, says famed evangelist
The Bible’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are riding now,
as you read this, in the fulfillment of Bible prophecy that proves the end of the world is
at hand.
That’s the word from famed evangelist Dr. Billy Graham, who declines to give an
exact date for the end but flatly states: “I have heard the distant sound of
hoofbeats and seen the evil riders on the horizon of our lives.
“There is serious trouble ahead for our world, for all of us who live in it. It
will be a time of nuclear conflagrations, biological holocausts and chemical apocalypses
rolling over the Earth, bringing man to the edge of the precipice.
“History will ‘bottom out’ in the battle of Armageddon,” he
continued. “We already see its shadow creeping over the Earth. It is estimated that
40 wars are going on somewhere in the world at any given time,” continued the
evangelist. “Any one of them could be the beginning of the beginning of the
end.”
Dr. Graham expressed hid grim but ultimately hopeful vision of man’s future in his
landmark book, Approaching Hoofbeats, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Avon
Books, New York, $4.95).
The hope, as he points out, is found in the words of Jesus Christ, who promised to
return to Earth before mankind is annihilated–and establish Heaven on Earth.
The problem, continues Dr. Graham, is the period if trial and tribulation, of
pestilence, plague and world war, that we face before Christ returns.
In fact, in Matthew 24:22, Christ Himself said: “If those days had not been cut
short, no one would survive.”
For those who think the end will come “out of nowhere,” Dr. Graham
points out that the end, in many ways, has been creeping up on mankind for years.
From the poisoning of the environment with pollutants of every description to the
stockpiling of enough nuclear warheads to destroy the world 17 times over, the seeds of
our own horrifying destruction have already been sown.
And yet, he notes, quoting 2 Peter 3:9, 10: ” The day of the Lord will come like a
thief. The Heavens will disappear with a roar. The elements will be destroyed by fire and
the Earth and everything in it.”
Before that cataclysmic event horrifyingly comes to pass, said Dr. Graham, mankind
faces the terrible lies and wrath of Satan who, according to Revelation 6:8, will kill one
quarter of the population of Earth–over a billion people. The spiritual death of
billions more will impoverish the world. Drought, famine and pestilence will contribute to
global starvation and suffering.
Millions will go mad with pain and terror. Disease even worse than AIDS will sweep the
globe, contributing to the horrifying scenario that eventually leads to Armageddon itself.
And then, “Suddenly chaos grips the universe,” said Dr. Graham. An earthquake
shakes the entire world, no Richter scale could measure its fury. There is a complete
eclipse of the Sun. In fact, reports John (in Revelation), “The sun turned
black….the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to Earth as
late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.”
Only then, said Dr. Graham, will the misery turn to joy–after God closes the books
on human history and establishes Paradise on Earth.
“Before judgement falls, however, God always warns,” said Dr. Graham.
“And lest you be frightened by the specter of misery to come, you should really
rejoice, because Christ tells us in the next to the last verse of the Bible: ‘I am
coming soon.’”
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