by Giuseppe Guarino

It is also a video. Though the text is more complete.

I became a Christian over 44 years ago. I was a teen-ager. But when I discovered about the Bible, and in particular about Bible end-time prophecies, I began to commit to the reading of the Word of God like nothing else. Wherever I went, my Bible was with me. I knew nothing of commentaries, Bible Atlases, Dictionaries; all I needed was my Italian Bible.

My favorite books were Daniel and  Revelation. I read them over and over.  I wanted to understand what those prophecies actually meant. I remember my mother looking at me strange as I would not be happy with quick answers to my questions. Also, some pastors questioned my excessive interest in end-time prophecies.

But I am pretty hard-headed.

In those days God himself was my teacher, according to His promise.

JOHN 6:13, “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.”

It was during those days that I developed a method of interpretation of Bible prophecies that I still use and is the backbone of my books today.

Don’t let anyone interfere with your call. You ministers were called by God, not by men; so, you must give an account of yourself and your actions only to God and to no-one else. Never forget this.

To this day I have no idea why some people question your decisions, your heading in one direction rather than another –when you perfectly know God told you to do so. Some believers’ lack of spiritual discernment can put you in danger. They seem to be there more to create doubts rather than support you. Thank God for Spirit-filled Christians.

I spoke to a dear sister in my church concerning my involvement in Vision and my journey to the US. Then she said to me, “Now I understand. That is why the Holy Spirit revealed to me a specific word for you: ‘you are on the right way.’ I could not understand why He told me to tell you this. Now I do.”

 

Back in the 90s reading chapters of the Word like Matthew 24, 2 Thessalonians, Revelation 13, I wondered how all that could ever come true.

Now, in 2025 I see that things are happening just like Jesus prophesied, like John saw them, like Paul reminded his readers in Thessalonica.

Jesus gave us a perfect description of the times we are living in. The PROPHECIES  of the past have become the NEWS of today.

MATTHEW 24:4-14, “And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.  ⁵For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.  ⁶And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.  ⁷For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. ⁸All these are the beginning of sorrows.  ⁹Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.  ¹⁰And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.  ¹¹And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.  ¹²And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.  ¹³But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.  ¹⁴And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”

As you can see, we partially see these things taking place. The more we go on, the more we will see them fulfilled.

Especially verse 14.

Jesus sent us to preach the Gospel of Reconciliation with God. The Good-News is we are saved in Jesus, the Christ. But as we approach the time of the end of this evil age, I believe the Church is naturally adding to the witness of the Gospel of Grace the Gospel of the Kingdom, that preached by John the Baptist and Jesus himself:

“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

(Matthew 3:1, 4:17).

Not only we speak about the wonderful work of redemption of Jesus, but we feel the urge to warn people that end-time prophecies are being fulfilled and Jesus will be back soon. It’s good news for us, bad news for those who reject Christ and his grace. It will be then that the Lord’s prayer and our prayer will be fulfilled, as we say: “Thy Kingdom come.”

 

Jesus says concerning the last days, our days:

MATTHEW 24:36-39, “³⁶But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. ³⁷But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ³⁸For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, ³⁹And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”

Back in the 90’s I imagined what this prophecy spoke about. Today I look around, watch the news, see movies, even look at relatives and friends, and see that this Word is being fulfilled today.

Do you know we are building an ark on dry land?

Talk to people about the coming judgment and they will laugh at you. Just like in the days of Noah, just like the Lord said. God will be patient again, but only until the ark will be ready, and wait a little longer till Noah and his family are safe inside. Then, it will be too late. It will start to rain. Today the Ark to be built is the Church, the body of Christ! God wants everyone to be saved. He wants everyone to receive Jesus and be saved.

But the sad truth about many today is that,

2 THESSALONIANS 2:10, “…they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.”

Jesus paid the price for all mankind.

Jesus spoke in parables and told stories people of his time could understand. Even Paul did the same, using military and sports terminology. So, if we want to say it with today’s words, we can put it this way: The bill is paid. Jesus paid. The price was so high, that He alone could pay it. So, come in, eat, there’s an all-you-can-eat meal inside. Just come in and enjoy with gratitude. (Jesus used a similar story in Matthew-Do you remember it?).

But some people would rather starve than eat at the Lord’s table! How sad!

 

Another wonderful Bible passage speaks about the times we are living in today.

2 PETER 3:3, “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts.”

Isn’t this a perfect description of how many deal when confronted with the Truth of the Gospel? When people stop having serious arguments against the Bible, all they do is make fun of you – but it is to their own perdition. We MUST PRAY for them. Win them to Christ using the powerful weapon of LOVE.

 

I remember there was a sentence in Paul’s epistles which not many years ago we saw as something quite complicated to actually take place.

2 THESSALONIANS 2:3-4, “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;  ⁴Who 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.”

This is PROPHECY.

Now it perfectly aligns with the NEWS of today, like never before.

This is an article taken from

https://www.jewishvoice.org/read/article/update-building-third-temple

“Since 1987, when the Temple Movement began preparations for the rebuilding of the Third Temple, efforts to see this become a reality in the 21st century have been slowly progressing. While modern Israel and a large percentage of the Jewish people throughout the Diaspora are secular, Orthodox Jews do not believe these people will play a role in the rebuilding of the Temple since it is a spiritual work. It is Orthodox Jews who revived the Sanhedrin, the religious body that supervised the halachic (legal) issues related to the Temple and who intend to see it rebuilt in a proper way.

The importance to Orthodox Jews of rebuilding the Temple lies in its role in the redemption of the world, which they believe can only take place once the Temple is rebuilt. Gershon Salomon is director of the Temple Mount Faithful, an organization that has been trying to prepare Israeli society to accept and promote the rebuilding of the Temple through demonstrations at the Temple site, the construction of a cornerstone for the Third Temple, and the making of various Temple-related utensils. Salomon has said: “[Building the Third Temple] is an act which must be done to complete the redemption of the people of the Bible in the Land of the Bible. I cannot imagine an Israeli State or Israeli life in this country without the Temple Mount in the center of this life.””

 

Just like the events in the life of Jesus made clear that he was the long-waited Messiah, today’s NEWS confirm that we are living so very close to the time of His Return.

One portion of Revelation could not be believed to fully and literally be fulfilled and has been a mystery for generations of Christians.

REVELATION 13:15-18, “¹⁵And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.  ¹⁶And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:  ¹⁷And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.  ¹⁸Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”

This is PROPHECY.

Now, let us read the NEWS.

From the British BBC website, https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61008730

The article speaks of a person “able to pay using his hand because back in 2019 he had a contactless payment microchip injected under his skin.”

The United Nations, the World Economic Forum, etc., are all good organizations. But they confirm that one day the whole world will be united under a demonic influence whose expression is the man that Christianity, since the days of John the apostle, has called the Antichrist.

In Europe there is a strong political tendency to try to remove cash, banknotes and coins from circulation and introduce only an electronic currency. Today we see how the scenario of Revelation 13 can be literally come to pass.

 

 

Conclusion

So many things we here in the news today remind us of prophetic Bible passages. So it is perfectly legitimate to spread the good news of the Return of Jesus as something near. We warn people of the coming judgment and, at the same time we rejoice for the imminent manifestation of the glorious hope of the Return of Jesus Christ.

LUKE 21:28, “And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”

One last warning,

LUKE 21:34-36, “And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. ³⁵For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. ³⁶Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.”