What does the Bible say about faces in the last days?

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The Bible does not give a distinct teaching about people’s faces in the last days, but it plainly teaches that the last days will reveal both human rebellion and Christ’s glorious return. Second Timothy 3:1-5 describes widespread ungodliness, while 2 Peter 3:3-4 warns of scoffers who deny the promised coming. Jesus says in Matthew 24:30 and Luke 21:25-28 that the nations will mourn, yet believers should lift up their heads because redemption is near. Revelation 1:7 declares that every eye will see Him, and Revelation 6:15-17 shows the terror of those who remain unrepentant. God calls His people to sober faith, holy living, and confident hope in Christ.

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  • 2 Timothy 3:1-5

    [1] But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. [2] For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, [4] traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; [5] holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also.

  • Matthew 24:30

    and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.

  • 2 Peter 3:3-4

    [3] knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts, [4] and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."

  • Joel 2:28-32

    [28] "It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; And your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions. [29] And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days, I will pour out my Spirit. [30] I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood, fire, and pillars of smoke. [31] The sun will be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes. [32] It will happen that whoever will call on the name of Yahweh shall be saved; For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, As Yahweh has said, And among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.

  • Revelation 1:7

    Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

  • Revelation 6:15-17

    [15] The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains. [16] They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, [17] for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?"

  • Daniel 12:4

    But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased."

  • Revelation 13:16-17

    [16] He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads; [17] and that no one would be able to buy or to sell, unless he has that mark, the name of the beast or the number of his name.

  • Luke 21:25-28

    [25] There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves; [26] men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. [27] Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. [28] But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near."

  • Revelation 9:6

    In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

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