The entire world is
on edge because
everyone senses
that something big
is about to happen.
Christians
know that either the
Rapture of the
Church or the battle
described in Psalm
83 is about to
occur.
Many Muslims
in the Islamic world
think their Mahdi is
about to return.
Members of
the New Age Movement
look for the arrival
of their Maitreya at
any moment.
The ancient
Mayans, various
tribes of American
Indians,
Nostradamus, the
notorious 16th
century soothsayer
Mother Shipton, and
Sir Isaac Newton
have all predicted a
series of
cataclysmic
worldwide disasters
will occur around
this time in
history.
Even the
chief ju-ju bead
counters who write
for the supermarket
tabloids are
predicting the
return of “The King”
(Elvis).
The Earth longs to
be free of the curse
it has suffered
under ever since the
original sin of Adam
and Eve.
Jesus told us
in Matthew 24:7-8
that His return
would be preceded by
upheavals in nature
which He likened to
the birth pangs of a
woman about to give
birth, increasing in
intensity and
frequency as the
moment of the
arrival of the child
draws ever closer.
Has the frequency
and intensity of
earthquakes been
increasing during
the past decade?
Absolutely.
Has the
frequency and
intensity of violent
and extreme weather
been increasing?
Yes.
What about
volcanic eruptions?
Famines?
Floods?
Droughts?
Not only is
the answer to all of
these questions
definitely yes, but
the increase in the
frequency and
intensity of all of
these upheavals has
been terrifyingly
dramatic.
Around this time
last year I was
totally convinced
that all necessary
prophecy regarding
the Rapture of the
Church had been
fulfilled and that
it would occur at
any moment.
At the same
time I was a bit
concerned that the
final sequence of
events leading to
the Second Coming of
our Lord was not
quite ready to
begin.
After all,
while Turkey and Israel were not exactly best friends
forever, they were,
nevertheless, still
buddies.
Ezekiel 38
tells us that Turkey and Israel are bitter enemies when the
shooting starts in
the Battle of Gog
and Magog.
Egypt
and Israel
were also on
relatively friendly
terms a year ago, so
how was the conflict
described in Psalm
83 going to take
place?
Besides,
Israel
did not have a great
national treasure so
why would Gog from
the land of Magog
invade
Israel
to capture spoil and
seize plunder
(Ezekiel 38:12)?
That was
before enormous
reserves of natural
gas and oil were
discovered beneath
the nation of Israel.
And finally,
about a year ago the Middle East was surprisingly peaceful considering all of
the howling and the
barking at the moon
about war.
Threats
flowed like water
but in the end each
nation seemed to
prefer peace to the
shedding of their
own blood.
Where was the
spark that would
ignite the entire
Middle East?
If nobody was
willing to commit an
overt act that would
start a war then
only spontaneous
combustion could
trigger the
detonation, and that
did not seem to be
very likely.
That was a
year ago.
It is amazing
how much the
situation has
changed.
To get a better look
at where we are
along then timeline
of the last days we
need to take a look
at the impending
food crisis we are
facing.
Today 1 out
of every 6 people on
this planet goes to
sleep each night
without getting
enough to eat and
34,000 people die
each day from famine
related causes.
This is
horrifying enough,
but things are about
to get a lot worse.
China is the top producer of wheat
in the world.
The droughts
and dust storms in
2010 have been the
worst southwestern China has seen in a century.
India is the second largest producer
of wheat in the
world and is
suffering through a
record heat wave and
water crisis that
has badly decimated
their crops.
Russia is the third largest wheat
producer in the
world and accounts
for 10 percent of
total world output.
Last year
massive wildfires
stretched across 7
regions in
Russia
when temperatures
reached their
highest level since
they started keeping
records 130 years
ago.
France is the fourth largest
producer of wheat in
the world and just
recently lowered
their wheat crop
forecasts due to
cold weather and
drought.
Canada
is the fifth largest
wheat producer in
the world and has
suffered reduced
grain production due
to severe drought in
their western
provinces.
The Ukraine is the sixth largest
producer of wheat
and the top producer
of barley in the
world.
They have
suffered from the
same fires and
drought that
Russia
has endured to the
point they have
suspended all of the
grain exports for
2011.
Australia is the seventh largest
producer of wheat in
the world.
Flooding has
covered an area in
Australia
equal in size to
that of
France
and
Germany
combined, with water
30 feet deep in some
places, destroying
crops.
Pakistan is the eighth largest
producer in the
world.
In 2010
floods in
Pakistan
covered 17 million
acres of their most
fertile crop land
and did not subside
in time for farmers
to meet the deadline
for planting new
seeds for the fall
harvest.
In addition,
historic floods and
droughts have
destroyed crops in
the major grain
producing areas of South America.
During the
winter of 2010-2011
snow fell in 49 of
our 50 states here
in the
US
where massive
numbers of crops
were wiped out.
While this
was taking place South Korea destroyed millions of
farm animals
infected with
hoof-and-mouth
disease.
Honeybees and
bumble bees continue
to die off across
North America
further reducing
food production due
to lack of adequate
pollination.
These are
just some of the
disasters that have
recently occurred
which will cause
increased famines
throughout the world
starting right now.
If major worldwide
food shortages are a
very real
possibility this
spring then it could
very well mean that
the third horseman
of the apocalypse
is, even now,
placing the saddle
on the black horse
and is preparing to
ride.
If the book
of Revelation is
chronological, as I
believe that it is,
then the rider of
the white horse (the
anti-Christ) and the
rider of the red
horse, who brings
war and destruction,
are saddled up and
preparing to ride
out as well.
No wonder the
entire world is on
edge.
I find it difficult
to describe, but it
seems like there is
a strong electric
charge in the air
that is causing
anxiety around our
planet.
Uprisings are
springing up in
every corner of the
world.
People are
spontaneously taking
to the streets in Egypt, Tunisia,
Libya, Bahrain, Algeria,
Jordan, the Palestinian Territories,
Yemen, Iraq, Iran,
Lebanon, Kuwait, Oman,
Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Nigeria,
Morocco, Mauritania, Sudan,
Ivory Coast, Albania, Pakistan,
Syria,
Belgrade,
Serbia, Croatia, and China.
Western
mainstream media has
attempted to explain
these spontaneous
uprisings as a
longing for freedom
and democracy by the
oppressed nations of
the world, but this
reasoning seems a
bit hollow and
empty.
Something far
more complex, and I
believe
supernatural, is
taking place and it
is incredibly
powerful.
The intangible fear
of impending
calamity has pushed
the levels of
violence all over
the Earth to an all
time high.
Never in the
history of the world
has both the crying
for peace and the
screaming for war
been so deafening.
Gold is at an all
time high because
people no longer
have any faith in
the dollar.
People are
stockpiling food and
they are buying guns
out of fear for the
future rather than
fear of crime.
For many
months ammunition
manufacturers have
had a difficult time
keeping up with
demand.
Something
really big and
really bad is about
to happen and people
all over the world
can feel it coming.
The world economy is
far too deeply in
debt to recover and
is teetering on the
brink of collapse.
The world
banking system is a
house of cards that
is being
artificially propped
up by its own
bankrupt members.
A collapse is
long overdue and
when it does finally
come the result will
be cataclysmic.
On that day
somebody will be
standing in the
wings who will pick
up all of the broken
pieces and will put
them back together
in a single
worldwide system
that everybody will
be required to
belong to in order
to conduct even the
simplest of
transactions.
Financial
irresponsibility
will be a thing of
the past because
each transaction, no
matter how large or
small, will be
tracked in real time
by one central
system.
Identity
theft will no longer
exist.
Everyone will
access the system
using biometric
identification in
(or on) their own
body.
In the past atheists
didn’t believe and
didn’t care.
Now they all
seem to be rabidly
obsessed on a
mission to eliminate
every trace of
Christianity and
Judaism, yet nobody
seems to feel
compelled to stamp
out any other
religion.
Religious
persecution has
increased in
frequency and
intensity to the
point where
Christians are
fleeing for their
lives from the
entire
Middle East,
as well as other
parts of the world.
Over the past
few decades the
Moslem world seemed
to be relatively
content to live and
let live as long as
Christians did not
disparage Allah or
Mohammad.
Now it seems
there is an ever
increasing
determination to
kill every Christian
and eliminate all
traces of our
history and even all
traces of our very
existence.
The Islamic
community at times
almost appears to be
frightened of us
Christians and of
what is about to
happen in the world.
When Paul told us
that in the last
days immorality
would increase and
that men would
become lovers of
men, he was not
exaggerating.
In the past
immorality increased
in a subtle, almost
coy manner, like a
cancer silently
spreading through
the body of its
host.
However, in
recent years the
intensity of
immorality has
multiplied itself
many times over and
with a shocking
viciousness.
Homosexuals,
lesbians, and
transsexuals are so
proud of their sin
that they march in
the streets
demanding to be
recognized as a
special, privileged
class.
We have
actually reached the
point where it is
literally a crime to
say (or even imply)
that homosexuality
is a mental disease
or defect.
The Bible
tells us that in the
last days good will
be called evil and
that evil will be
called good.
Is it just me, or
has filthiness
become the accepted
norm in far too many
places where just a
short time ago it
was not only
considered vulgar,
but also
unacceptable as
well?
Even more
disturbingly, has
the viciousness of
which these
perversions are
being forced upon us
increased
dramatically?
I believe
they have and I
sense that something
really big is about
to happen because of
it.
All of the signs
that we are in the
last days and that
the Second Coming of
our Lord is near are
not only here, but
many of these signs
have intensified
immensely.
In every
direction we look we
see the writing on
the walls.
So, what
should we do about
it?
Stockpiling
gold, food, and .44
magnum jacketed
hollow point
ammunition is not
the answer.
The first thing we
should do – the most
important thing we
should do - is to be
absolutely certain
that our reservation
has been make to be
in heaven with our
Lord and Savior for
all eternity.
This requires
an admission that we
are sinners, a faith
in our Lord that He
is the only path to
God and that He is
the one and only
Savior of the World,
and a request in
which we must go to
Jesus in prayer and
ask Him to be our
Savior.
Nobody can
ever get to heaven
by being a good
person and there are
no good deeds that
will get us there
either.
Missing out
on such a wonderful
gift would be
incredibly tragic,
especially when such
a beautiful gift is
free.
Time is
rapidly running out.
At the
instant of death our
eternal fate is
sealed.
Our time here
on this Earth is
precious, but it is
a gift.
There is no
guarantee that we
will still possess
life here on this
Earth a moment from
now.
The second thing we
should do is to use
the time that we
have remaining to
make sure those
around us will be
going to heaven as
well.
Far too many
people believe they
will be saved
because they
consider themselves
to be a good person
and/or because they
go to church on
Sunday.
Spending
eternity in hell for
this mistaken belief
is so horribly
tragic that it is
beyond description.
And finally, I
believe that we
desperately need to
tell people that
heaven is a real
place that actually
exists, and that
hell is also a real
place that actually
exists.
Salvation is
a free gift and the
opportunity to
choose our fate ends
at the moment of
death.
In the latter
portion of 1999 the
world was gripped
with a paranoid fear
that the computers
of the world would
somehow cause
worldwide disasters
when the calendar
rolled over to the
year 2000. We called
it the Y2K event.
Everyone felt
a sickening dread
that these disasters
would be of Biblical
proportions.
Nothing
happened.
Now the
intangible fear has
returned and it is
far stronger than it
was before.
What will be
the final outcome
this time around?