Question #2

Is the present church age given any attention by the prophets?

Yes.

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.

2 Peter 3:3, 4 – Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, :4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

Joel 2:28-32 – 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. :30 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.

With Acts 2:16-21 – But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; :17 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: :19 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.

Hosea 2:23 – And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.

With 1 Peter 2:10 – Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

Romans 9:25, 26 – As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. :26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.

Isaiah 55:5 – Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.

Isaiah 65:1 – I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

Romans 10:20 – But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.

Ephesians 3:1-6 – For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, :2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: :3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, :4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) :5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; :6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 – Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, :2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. :3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; :4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. :5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? :6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. :7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. :8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: :9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, :10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. :11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: :12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

1 John 2:18, 19, 22 – Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. :19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. :20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. :21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. :22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

2 Timothy 4:3, 4 – For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; :4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Daniel 7:11, 25, 26 – I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame. :25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. :26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.

1 Timothy 4:1-3 – Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; :2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; :3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

2 Peter 2:1, 2 – But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. :2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

Acts 2:39 – For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Romans 6:23 – For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Psalm 9:17 – The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

Daniel 12:1, 2 – And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. :2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.