The Coming Days: A Guide To The End Times

By Daniel Nigh

The Coming Days demonstrates that the Bible has foretold many events hundreds, even thousands, of years in advance including the domination of Jerusalem by ten empires, the completion of the Dome of the Rock to the exact year, World War I, the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Armenian genocide, the holocaust, and the birth of the modern

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Feb 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9781640888876

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Preface

If you are opening these pages for pleasure and easy reading, you probably won’t find it here. What you will find is understanding of what is going on in this world and what is about to happen in the coming days. For thousands of years, God provided glimpses of the future to His servants, the prophets. Many of the things they foretold have already happened, but most of them are yet to come. Some of their prophecies were given in clear language, and their meaning was understandable from the time they left the prophet’s lips. But for many other prophecies, God chose to structure them in a way that they could not be understood until their time had come. We are now at such a time.

Many of the words of the prophets have been locked in deep symbolism for centuries, unfathomable until enough of history had passed that the symbolic events of prophecy could be superimposed over those events. The pages of this book demonstrate that this point in history has now been reached.

God told the prophet Daniel, Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end (Daniel 12:9). We are truly on the doorstep of the time of the end. For those who are willing to thoughtfully consider the pages to come, the deep symbolism can now be understood.

In the following pages, I will give an extensive interpretation of Bible prophecy, much of which you may not have heard before. Throughout most of my life, I have had an interest in Bible prophecy, although it has been only in the past ten years that I have strongly pursued the study of it. I have been driven to spend thousands of hours in this study of God’s Word. My focus has been directly on the scriptures and not on the writings and commentaries of others.

A correct interpretation of Bible prophecy must bring together in a cohesive manner the greatest possible number of prophecies from all the prophets into a unified narrative. If a conflict exists between any two parts of the narrative or between the narrative and any part of the Bible, the interpretation is flawed. The narrative must flow seamlessly throughout history, incorporating the events of prophecies already fulfilled in the past before reaching into the future to reveal what is yet to come. Many prophesied events are described multiple times in the Bible by prophets from different time periods, different places, and in different contexts. Each piece adds to the complete picture of that event so that when properly interpreted the pieces fit solidly together, extending the level of confidence in the overall interpretation to a higher degree. I believe that what is contained in the pages to follow reaches this high level of confidence.

Sadly, there are information gaps around some prophesied events, making it difficult to place them on the proper timeline. In some such cases, I have chosen to try to connect the dots as best I can, offering continuity between otherwise disjointed events. It is for this reason that I refer to what is presented in this book as a scenario of the future. I am confident that most of what is presented in these pages will indeed happen, much of it between the years 2018 and 2028.

I grew up in a Christian family, but it was not until after I got married and left home that I accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior. My mother was a tongue-talking, Spirit-filled, firebrand for the Lord. My dad was not so much so. He called her a holy-roller, but he did try to raise me in a Christian home and often took me to church when my mother wouldn’t go (because the people at that particular church were not on fire enough for the Lord in her eyes).

I recall a time when I was young. I believe it was before I started going to school. I was sitting at the top of the basement steps, and my mother was at the bottom of the steps working. When she realized I was there, she looked at me and said, Danny, do you feel anything different? I was puzzled as to what she meant. She may have asked me twice before I asked her what she was talking about. She replied, I have asked God to give you divine perception. It was such a strange response that it has stuck in my mind all these years. I don’t think I even knew at the time what those words divine perception meant. In looking back, I believe that she asked God to give me intuitive understanding of His Word.

Did I ever receive divine perception? I don’t know the answer to that question. I do know that as I study prophecies over and over and pray for wisdom to understand their words, understanding often follows, sometimes as a powerful and humbling burst of insight that leaves me praising God.

After many years of study, writing down my notes, and putting them together, I documented the results of my studies by putting my own website online with its first full day on Easter Sunday of 2018. To announce my website, I had some business-type cards prepared with www.inthosedays.com printed on them to hand out to friends and acquaintances. One evening, I approached a friend at church to give him one of my cards. Before I could give him the card, he said to me Are you going to give me a card? I was surprised. He explained that the night before, he had had a dream that I was going to give him a card. I was greatly surprised by this and have often wondered if perhaps this meant that God was, in some way, giving His endorsement to my website.

The contents of this book are closely based on my website, with a few minor updates. Some will say the contents of the website and the contents of this book extend well beyond a basic interpretation of Bible prophecy. The act of interpretation can extend the meaning of the passage to which it is applied. This is especially true in deciphering the meaning of things and concepts which are represented symbolically in scripture. Unless an interpretation is from the Lord, it is, more than likely, wrong. The thought that maybe I have gone too far in explaining the coming days troubled me from the time I first made the website available online. I asked myself, Has God really given me understanding of the future?

A strange thing happened to me in the months after the website went live. I had decided it was time to move the money in my IRA out of the stock market and was considering the best time to make that move. About that time, an answer came to me. I was given knowledge of a specific number of dollars my account should pass before I was to sell the stock. Months later, on the evening of September 20, 2018, the value in my account closed just over the dollar amount I had been given; and the next day, I called my financial advisor to sell the stock. September 20, 2018, was the all-time peak for the S&P 500 up to that time. From that point, the trend of the market continued downward for months and did not reach a new peak until more than six months after that first peak. I was amazed. I concluded that it was a sign from God that I was capable of hearing His voice concerning events in the future and, specifically, that I should not fear making my interpretations of prophecy available online or publishing them in a book.

I believe the interpretations of Bible prophecy presented in this book and the descriptions of events soon to come are largely correct. I pray that they will bless God’s people and His kingdom. The time of the end described by the prophet Daniel is no longer millennia away, centuries away, or even decades away; it is literally just years away now. It is my sincere prayer that as the events described in this book take place, the faith of believers will be strengthened, and nonbelievers will see the truth of God’s Word. I pray that they will be convinced to accept our Lord and our God as their personal Savior before it is too late. Amen!

Daniel Nigh

Chapter 1

An Overview of the Book

The pages to follow present a scenario of how end-time events may unfold, based on Bible prophecy. Around the time of the fall of Jerusalem to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon in 598 BC, Satan, who was then among the sons of God, was given authority to indwell the bodies of seven future kings throughout time, possibly for the purpose of punishing God’s people, the Jews, for their transgressions against Him. These seven kings are symbolized in scripture by the seven heads of a scarlet dragon, representing Satan himself. Satan used these kings, whom he controlled, to exceed the mandate God had given him.

We do not know the names of the first five of these kings, who have since passed. They may have included Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon; Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who persecuted the Jews of Judea and Samaria; Nero, emperor of Rome; Talaat Pasha, the main perpetrator of the Armenian Genocide; and Adolph Hitler, who perpetrated the Holocaust, killing six million Jews.

Within the ten-year period from 2018 to 2028, major fulfillments of Bible prophecy are likely to occur. The sixth king/antichrist of Satan is about to become known. He will be indwelled by spirit powers called the beast and the false prophet and will lead a revived Ottoman Empire centered at Istanbul, Turkey. This revived Ottoman Empire will be an image of the original Islamic Ottoman Empire, which ceased to exist shortly after World War I. With the help of other nations, including Iran, the antichrist will gain control of much of the Middle East, including Jerusalem, and probably all of Israel. He will implement the mark of the beast and complete the era of the number 666, which summarizes Islamic control of Jerusalem from beginning to end.

The antichrist will inflict great tribulation upon God’s people, Jews and Christians alike. However, some of his allies, who supported him at first, will turn and fight against him in the battle of Armageddon.

On a different front, an alliance of ten other nations, possibly associated with the United Nations, will also fight against the sixth king/antichrist. They will destroy modern Istanbul, which was the seat of the Islamic caliphate at the end of the Ottoman Empire and will be the future seat of the coming reborn Ottoman Empire and caliphate. Around that time, Jesus will return to the earth, at His second coming, to gather His people and to take back control of the earth from Satan. The sixth king/antichrist will be defeated and killed, and the ten nations will gain control of Jerusalem for forty-two months.

During this period, Jesus will reign in the midst of His enemies. The leader of the ten nations, who is the seventh and, by extension, an eighth of Satan’s kings, will make war on Jesus and His people. Jesus will then lead His people to drive the nations out of Israel. At this point, the people of Jesus who have died throughout many centuries will be resurrected and will join those who are living to fight the nations of the seventh/eighth king of Satan. Jesus will defeat the nations, and the physical kingdom of God will come to the earth for the thousand-year reign of Jesus and His people.

Chapter 2

Fulfilled Prophecies in the Book of Revelation

Summary

The book of Revelation was written around fifty to sixty years after the crucifixion of Jesus, nearly two thousand years ago. It is made up almost entirely of prophecies about the future. John, the writer of the book, was given a series of visions about the future, provided to him supernaturally by Jesus. The visions began at a time just before Jesus was born, when the dragon (another name for Satan, the devil, or the serpent) sought to disrupt God’s plan for His people and led a civil war in heaven, taking a third of the angels of heaven with him to the earth. Up to this point, God had ruled the earth, but now Satan became ruler of the earth.

Jesus was born, carried out His ministry on earth, was crucified on a cross by the Romans, rose from the dead, and returned to heaven. Jerusalem and God’s temple were destroyed by the Romans in AD 70, and most of the Jews were driven out of the city. Over the years, the Temple Mount, where God’s temple had once stood, was used for a Roman temple and various other purposes. Many years later, the people of Islam captured Jerusalem and built new structures on the Temple Mount, including the Dome of the Rock, an Islamic shrine which makes the Temple Mount desolate of God’s temple to this day.

From the time of the construction of the Dome of the Rock, beginning in AD 688, an event which symbolically represents the end of Jewish presence in Israel, the Jews remained scattered in a wilderness of many nations, exiled from their land for a period of 1,260 years until the creation of modern Israel in 1948.

In 1914, a great war took place in the spirit world between the archangel Michael and the dragon. In this war, the dragon and his angels were cast down from the sky to the earth. In the visible world, a great war was also taking place, now known as World War I. At that time, Germany and its allies, including the Ottoman Empire, were defeated. (The mortal wound to the Ottoman Empire will be discussed much more in later pages.) When the dragon was cast down, this event was accompanied by revivals in Christianity and the birth of the Pentecostal movement. The Armenian Genocide, an event in which many Christians were killed for their beliefs, appears to have also been prophesied. The struggle continued during World War II, with the Holocaust, when the dragon pursued and killed millions of Jews.

The rebirth of Israel is symbolized by a woman, Israel, fleeing from her pursuers to a place where she could be nourished. The land of Palestine, which had been a wilderness devoid of God’s people, became the destination for Jews throughout the world. The prophetic description of the return of the Jews to Palestine, flying on the two wings of the great eagle, mirrors the biblical description of the exodus of the children of Israel coming out of Egypt to the Promised Land on eagles’ wings. The Arab-Israeli wars which followed are described in the book of Revelation as a river from the mouth of the serpent, intended to sweep away the Jews from Israel, but the attackers were defeated and buried in the earth.

The current ongoing attacks against Christians in the Middle East are foretold at the end of Revelation chapter 12, as a war against those who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ (Revelation 12:17).

2.1. Israel Was Chosen to Bring Forth the Son of God

To really start at the beginning of the book of Revelation, we must go to chapter 12, where we are taken back to a time just a little before the birth of Jesus.¹ In these verses, Jesus is about to be born to the nation of Israel, which is described as a woman clothed with the sun.

2.2. The Dragon (also Known as the Serpent, the Devil, and Satan) Is Introduced

A second event is also taking place at about the time Mary becomes pregnant with Jesus. We are introduced to the first of three major powers of evil that dominate much of the