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1) On June 26, 1945, at a San Francisco conference, 50 nations met to adopt the United
Nations charter. The UN General Assembly held their first meeting in London on January
10, 1946.
2) A UFO was reported to have crashed in Roswell, New Mexico on July 4, 1947.
3) On November 29, 1947, the UN voted to approve a Jewish homeland, and on May 14,
1948, Israel became a nation.
4) It has been long accepted that the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947, but
according to Randall Price in his book Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls he found out that
they may have actually been discovered as early as 1936. However, 1947 was time when
their existence was revealed.
5) The World Council of Churches was established on August 23, 1948.
Just as we are able to interpret prophecy, and determine the signs of the times– so has Satan.
He knew the time that Israel would prophetically be resurrected as a nation, and he had to make
sure his plans would be in place, so, when the time came, he would be able to deceive the world
into accepting the Antichrist as the messiah.
Let’s look at the events surrounding Israel becoming a nation. The establishment of the
United Nations would herald the move toward one-world government. As discussed earlier,
recent exposé has shown that there was a UFO crash at Roswell, and among the technology
gleaned from it was integrated circuit chips, fiber optics, and lasers. The treasure of ancient
documents found at Qumran has yielded copies of nearly every Old Testament book, however, it
has also turned up documents from a Jewish sect known as the Essenes. As these Dead Sea
Scrolls were translated in secret, the scholars behind them began to use them to undermine the
divinity Jesus, by saying that the Essenes were the true originators of what became known as
Christianity. And the World Council of Churches would begin the move toward ecumenicalism
that is seeking to bring all the world’s religions together into one unified body.
Now let’s put these events in perspective with Bible prophecy.
Jesus said in Matthew 24:34 – “Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all
these things be fulfilled.” Jesus was speaking to his disciples concerning the last days, and had
just told them about the parable of the fig tree. Some Bible scholars have interpreted Ezekiel
36:8 to mean that the fig tree represented the nation of Israel. So it is believed that Jesus was
referring to the generation that would be alive when Israel became a nation on May 14, 1948. Job
42:16 refers to a generation as being 35 years, while Webster’s Dictionary indicates that it is
forty years. The figure of 40 years is echoed in Hebrews 3:9-10 which says: “When your fathers
tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that
generation...” Adding 40 years to 1948 would give us the year 1988.
But let me add another wrinkle to this theory. It is no secret that Bible prophecy, and the
understanding of it, revolves around Israel. Israel is the only nation that is referred to in the
masculine gender. According to Jewish custom, a male is labeled under the following age
categories: child (1-12), young man (13-19), warrior (20-29), and mature man (30-50, who is
able to officiate in the Temple). The age of 50 is the age of retirement (and Jubilee). So if you
interpret this as being symbolic and add 50 years to 1948, you get the year 1998, which is more