Anne Graham Lotz Warns The End Times Are Near
Anne Graham Lotz, author of The Vision of His Glory, Revised and Updated: Finding Hope Through the Revelation of Jesus Christ, says the signs Jesus spoke of are converging. She reads Scripture firmly and argues we are living in a generation that fits the prophetic markers. Her tone is urgent but rooted in hope.
Lotz puts it plainly: “You cannot know the day or the hour, but [Jesus] didn’t say you couldn’t know the generation,” Lotz told CBN News. “And he told us to watch — that we’re not supposed to be caught by surprise when all these things take place.”
She leans on two signs she finds especially hopeful. She told listeners, “So He gives many signs, but the two most thrilling signs to me, the most positive signs are … when he says the Gospel will be preached to the whole world and then the end will come.” Lotz sees those signs unfolding now.
Lotz argues the spread of the Gospel has entered a new era thanks to global reach and technology. She says, in effect, the message is “blanketing the globe” in ways that were not possible in prior generations. That global evangelism is a key marker for her reading of prophecy.
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Another sign Lotz highlights is Jesus’ fig tree parable and its link to Israel. She notes, “The fig tree in [the] Scriptures represented Israel and … He was using a fig tree to represent Israel to his disciples,” and she reads the budding of that tree as a prophetic signal. For Lotz, modern Israel’s rebirth is a vivid fulfillment of that imagery.
She points to Israel’s modern founding after the Holocaust and gives the concrete date of May 14, 1948, as a turning point. That event, she says, moved Israel from long dormancy into national life again. To her, that return strengthens the case we are drawing near to the final chapter.
Lotz urges Christians to know the prophetic timeline so they can respond faithfully. She admits the timeline is complex but insists it matters: “For myself … I think we’re at the end of that timeline,” she said. That conviction shapes how she reads current events.
The conversation even turned to tragic headlines and cultural shock, including the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the surge of young people toward faith. Reflecting on grief and purpose, Lotz recalled a verse that came into her mind, the image of death producing life. The biblical lens is how she frames national sorrow and spiritual stirrings.
She quoted a verse that has anchored her thinking: “Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” Lotz then explained, “In other words, God can bring incredible life from death and blessing from brokenness.”
Lotz watched how mourning might be transmuted into a wider harvest of souls. She reflected, “And I look at Charlie Kirk’s death, as untimely as it was, as much as I grieve for his wife and his children, I wonder if … that’s the grain of wheat and God allowed him to fall into the ground, so to speak, and die because, from from his death, is springing up just thousands of people’s lives who are being impacted and changed.”
She affirmed Kirk’s life and the greater ripple she believes it now creates: “He lived to declare his faith and values and point people towards the Lord,” she said. “And his death has done that in a way … much more than his life ever did.”
Above all, Lotz wants readers to walk Revelation with clarity and hope. “At the end of everything, Jesus reigns,” she said. “So good overcomes evil, and love overcomes hate. Jesus overcomes the devil.”