OP: Q: ""age of Grace" is coming to an end (soon) ?"
A:
Matthew 24...Jesus' prophecy and SIGNS of the "end of the (CHURCH) age" of Grace
QUESTIONS:
3 As He (Jesus) was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the DISCIPLES came to Him privately, saying,
“Tell us, (prophesy!)
1. WHEN will these THINGS happen, and
2. what will be the SIGN(s) of "Your (Second) COMING", and
3. (what will be the SIGN(s)) of "the end of the (Church) age"?”
ANSWERS:
1. v. 36 "But of that day and hour no one knows, (WHEN tribulations / things BEGIN)
not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.
3.. v. 2-28...THINGS / SIGNS of .."birth pangs"...tribulation...great tribulation...to the brink...THEN
2. v. 29-31... Jesus' Glorious Return from Heaven!
BIRTH PANGS = NOW!
4 And Jesus answered and said to them,
“See to it that no one misleads you.
5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ (a savior)
and will mislead many. (Believers AND UnBelievers?)
You will be hearing of:
1. wars and rumors of wars.
See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. (of tribulation)
For:
2. nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom,
and in various places there will be:
3.famines and
4.earthquakes.
But all these things (signs) are merely "the beginning of birth pangs".
Seven years of Tribulation / Great Tribulation described in Daniel ~11-12 have not begun!
9 “THEN they will deliver you to tribulation,
and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
10 At that time many will fall away (APOSTASY) and will betray one another and hate one another.
11 Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many.
12 Because lawlessness is increased,
most (BELIEVING) people’s love will "grow cold".
13 But the one who endures to the end, (OF THE TRIBULATIONS)
he will be saved.(FROM DEATH OR WORSE)
14 This "gospel of the kingdom" (Jesus the Divine Messiah has come to save Man!) shall be preached in the whole world
as a testimony to all the NATIONS,
and THEN the end (OF THE TRIBULATIONS) will come.