What are the last days?

What are the last days? There're many phrases which pertain to the 'end times'. They include the latter days, the last times, the latter years, the time of the end. In Matthew 24:1-8, the disciples asked Jesus,' What will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?' This clearly refers to the end of the Tribulation when Christ returns physically to the earth to set up his kingdom when you read the whole passage in context.

Prophecy Scholar Thomas Ice said,' The word 'end' is restricted and precisely defined when it is modified by 'day', 'week', 'year', etc. So it is in the Bible, that 'end times' may refer to the end of the current church age or it may refer to other times.'For example, in 1 John 2:18, the Holy spirit said,'God, who at various times and in different ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in THESE LAST DAYS spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds. This evidently refers to the days of His Son.

1 John 2:18 Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour.

In this verse, the apostle Paul speaks of 'the last hour'. He is referring here to the church age, the age of Grace. He's also warning that even in this church age there would be 'many antichrists...by which we know that it is the last hour'. He was right: For two thousand years the church age has not been without false christs and antichrists.

To sum up what I said, the 'last days', 'end times', 'latter days', or even 'afterward' usually refer to any point from just prior to the Rapture to the Glorious Appearing(second coming of Christ).'The last days', 'the time of the end' and 'the end of the age' are terms leading up to the seven-year tribulation when this age comes to the end.