The Bible predicts that there's coming a world peace.

It will be a deceptive peace.

It will be a false sense of security.

It will be the most deceptive trap that's ever been set

because it'll catch the world in it.

And they'll be caught and they'll be destroyed.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

No doubt the front page above the fold headline of many newspapers contained the word peace after Japan surrendered ending World War II.

You know, as you think about periods of history, it's natural to think in terms of wartime and

peacetime. Still, how much peace has there really been in our world, even when wars haven't raged?

Well, there is coming a time of worldwide peace,

and ironically, it will usher in an unimaginable terror on an unthinkable scale. In a very real sense,

that peace will signal the beginning of the end. That's the title of the study John MacArthur begins today,

the beginning of the end.

And to get started, John, here's a question many people probably have.

It shouldn't be too hard to answer.

Exactly, how close are we to the beginning of the end?

How close are we to the beginning of the end? How close are we to the beginning of the end?

Closer than we've ever been. That's the standard answer, and it's actually an accurate answer.

Yeah, we're closer to the beginning of the end, the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ than we've ever been, closer to the rapture of the church than we've ever been. People sometimes will say to me,

well, are there certain prophetic things that have to happen

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