Oh, let the Son of God enfold you with His spirit and his love.

Let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you,

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with signs of God's return, as we pick up in Matthew chapter 24 verse 6.

And now with today's message, here's Pastor Chuck.

Now he said you're going to hear of wars and rumors of wars.

Don't be trouble.

Or all of these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

Wars and rumors of war, since the time of Christ, there have been 13 years of war to every

one year of peace.

So the fact that there's going to be a war, the fact there's a war going on in Iran and Iraq

is no sign.

But Jesus said, for nations shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom.

In the Greek, this speaks of world wars, and this is a sign.

There shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in diverse places.

These all constitute signs of his return.

World wars, we've had two of them, beginning in 1914.

Famines, the earth today is plagued with famines.

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