Part 1

• Revelation 16:15 NIV
  “Look, I come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.”

• Revelation 16:12
  The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East.

• Revelation 16:13-14
  Then I saw three impure spirits that looked like frogs; they came out
  of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out
  of the mouth of the false prophet. They are demonic spirits that
  perform signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to
  gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty.

• Revelation 16:15
  Look, I come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and
  remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.

• Revelation 16:16
  Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is
  called Armageddon.

• Mark 13:32
  But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in

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Signs in the Church

• Matthew 24:11-13
  and many false prophets will appear and deceive many
  people. 12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most
  will grow cold, 13 but the one who stands firm to the end will be
  saved.

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Signs In the World

• Socially
• Spiritually
• Economically
• Politically

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Deceivers

• Matthew 24:3-5
  As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to
  him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what
  will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” 4 Jesus
  answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. 5 For many will
  come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive
  many.

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Wars

• Matthew 24:6-7
  You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are
  not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to
  come. 7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against
  kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

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Terrible (Perilous) Times

• 2 Timothy 3:1-5
  But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will
  be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful,
  proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful,
  unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control,
  brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers
  of pleasure rather than lovers of God—5 having a form of
  godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.

• 1 Corinthians 2:14
  The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come
  from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot
  understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.