Outnumbered by the girls, he's the last man standing - The Sidney Morning Herald
"With the death in Barbados on Thursday of James Emmanuel ''Doc'' Sisnett, at the age of 113 years and 90 days, Jiroemon Kimura, of Japan, has become the last man alive to have been born in the 19th century."
Kudos to Jiroemon Kimura! It is an accomplishment to be the oldest man alive. I only hope he has taken as good care of his soul as he has of his physical body. The late Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones once said, "This life has got to end, and your soul will go on. What, therefore, will happen to you?"
One of the verses in the Bible that has always been of interest to me is Matthew 24:36, where our Lord Jesus says: "This generation shall not pass until all these things have been fulfilled."
I'm pretty sure that this verse primarily referred to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 A.D. But like many Bible prophecies, I also think this has a dual meaning, the second of which has yet to be fulfilled.
Many well meaning Christians have used this verse to try to predict when our Lord would return. Those who see the restoration of the Jewish State in 1948 as a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy have used that date as sort of a clock, speculating that "One Generation" from that date (1948) is when Jesus would return.
I haven't really looked into where Dr. Harold Camping came up with his (false) predictions of our Lord's return in 2011, but I wouldn't be surprised if the year "1948' figured into his calculations. Many have said that the average generation in the Bible was 40 years, and therefore, 40 years from 1948 our Lord Jesus would return. That would have been 1988.
I recall listening to a taped radio broadcasts somewhere around 1990 in which the speaker was urgently calling on his listeners to prepare for the Return of our Lord Jesus in September of 1988 (I think the tape was made a few months prior to that date). The speaker was an accountant who calculated that Jesus would return on Rosh Hashanah (September) of 1988 (You can read his book 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Occur in 1988!, by Edgar C. Whisenant)
Our Lord makes it abundantly clear: No man knows the day or the hour of his return (Matthew 24:36). But that date has been set, and just as surely as our Lord Jesus came to earth the first time (as was prophesied in the Old Testament!), he will return again in the future. The Bible says:
"Knowing this first, that in the last days there will come scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. For this they are willingly ignorant of, that by the Word of God the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of and in the water: whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same Word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgement and perdition of ungodly men. But beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness, but is long suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also, and the works that are therein shall be burned up." (2 Peter 3:3-10)
On that day only one thing will matter: your relationship (or lack of it!) with our Lord Jesus Christ. Please stop what you are doing and listen to this important Gospel sermon by Dr. David P. Murray:
When Government Tries to Be God
