“I Will Also Keep Thee”

While all this presents a most solemn picture of what is ahead for this world, on the other hand it lets us know, as believers in the Lord Jesus awaiting His return for us, that we will not be here very long. "To wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from [among] the dead, even Jesus [our deliverer from the coming wrath]." 1 Thess. 1:10. Also the word to Philadelphia in Rev. 3:10, "Because thou has kept the word of My patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall [is about to] come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." These verses along with many others, particularly Rev. 4 and 5, give Christians to know that they are to expect the coming of the Lord Jesus at any moment now, and before the great tribulation begins. This has been an encouragement to God's people down through the long history of the Church. Conditions in the world are getting more and more troubled. Israel's history has taken a definite turn toward their long-promised restoration to their land of Jehovah.
There is also a great anti-spiritual, anti-religious movement all over the world with the subtle teaching of humanism even in the primary schools. The development of modern means of communication, and the marked inclination toward a one-world government mean that the world is ripe for the appearance of the beast of Rev. 13, and the second beast who will develop into the false prophet and the antichrist.