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[Bible Speaks]

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“The world is passing away and so is its desire,” says 1 John 2:17. What is that “world”? How and when will it pass away?

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WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS

The end will come in two main stages. First, God will destroy organized false religion, portrayed as a prostitute named “Babylon the Great.” (Revelation 17:1-5; 18:8) While professing loyalty to God, she has consorted with the world’s political leaders. These very rulers, however, will turn on her. “[They] will hate the prostitute and will make her devastated and naked, and they will eat up her flesh [or, riches] and completely burn her with fire.”—Revelation 17:16.

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Next, God will turn his attention to the political rulers themselves—“the kings of the entire inhabited earth.” Along with wicked people in general, these will be destroyed in “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” also called “Armageddon.”—Revelation 16:14, 16.

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“Seek Jehovah, all you meek ones of the earth . . . Seek righteousness, seek meekness. Probably you will be concealed on the day of Jehovah’s anger.”—Zephaniah 2:3.

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WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS

The end will come when mankind has been sufficiently warned by a global proclamation of God’s Kingdom—a world government that will replace human rulership. (Daniel 7:13, 14) Jesus Christ said: “This good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.” (Matthew 24:14) That preaching work, which reflects God’s justice and mercy, is part of a composite “sign” marking the time of the end. The sign also includes international warfare, earthquakes, famine, and disease.—Matthew 24:3; Luke 21:10, 11.

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Besides foretelling world events, the Bible also gives us a social profile of “the last days.” We read: “Critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, . . . disobedient to parents, . . . without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, . . . lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God.”*—2 Timothy 3:1-5.

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“Keep on the watch, therefore, because you know neither the day nor the hour.”—Matthew 25:13.

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102015407?q=1+john+2%3A17&p=par#h=11