WARS AND PREPARATIONS FOR WAR
The most powerful countries on planet earth today continue to prepare for war at a pace that is unprecedented in human history. Nations talk of peace and sign important treaties claiming to herald a new world order in which military conflicts are remote events of the distant past. Wars solve nothing and change nothing. Today Germany is a united country once again. Russia by and large is bereft of its satellite states. Great Britain has divested most of its colonies and is well on its way to becoming another Island nation among a community of nations. But during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there have been more conflicts on earth, than at any other period of time in earth’s history. This phenomenon is not only a fulfillment of prophecy it is also one of the signs that we are living at a time when human history will be brought to a catastrophic end.
Top 10 Countries with the Highest Military Expenditures (2020):
- The United States — $778 billion.
- China — $252 billion [estimated]
- India — $72.9 billion.
- Russia — $61.7 billion.
- United Kingdom — $59.2 billion.
- Saudi Arabia — $57.5 billion [estimated]
- Germany — $52.8 billion.
- France — $52.7 billion.
Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Matthew 24:4-8 (NKJV).
THE RISE OF FALSE PROPHETS AND PROSPERITY PREACHERS
During the sixties and seventies, there were worldwide evangelists that traveled globally preaching the gospel. Their core message was that man was a sinner and that he needed salvation which could only be obtained by trusting in Jesus Christ. Proponents of this Biblical New Testament Theology included Rex Hubbard, Billy Graham, and Oral Roberts. However, in the recent past things have changed. Now we have what is known as prosperity preachers. They have moved away from the message of humanity being sinful at the core and in desperate need of transforming grace. Their new focus is self-actualization and self-realization. With a great deal of emphasis on the attainment of wealth and prosperity. Heaven and happiness in the hereafter are de-emphasized and health, wealth, and success in the present are promoted. Let me not forget to mention the rise of religious extremists. Some of them claim to be Christ and consequently seduce their followers into mass suicide or sexual promiscuity. Many preachers today claim that God’s Moral Law is no longer binding and people can be saved despite their sins. A piece of theology that is neither found anywhere in scripture nor did it come from any of the teachings of Christ.
James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader, political activist, preacher, and faith healer who between 1955 and 1978 led the Peoples Temple, a new religious movement. In what he described as “revolutionary suicide”, Jones and his inner circle orchestrated a mass murder–suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. Jones and the events at Jonestown have had a defining influence on society’s perception of cults. (WIKIPEDIA: Jim Jones).
In more recent memory are the Davidians in Waco, Texas that were all followers of David Koresh.
Federal agents rammed armored vehicles into the fortified building as flames engulfed religious cult leader David Koresh and over 75 of his men, women, and child followers. Most died in the smoke and fire, with their beliefs that the world would end. A fulfilled prophecy of sorts.
That was April 19, 1993, in Waco, Texas.
People across the country tuned into national news stations to see agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and FBI descend upon the Branch Davidian compound called Mount Carmel in search for illegally amassed weapons. They watched the initial shootout between the two parties evolve into a 51-day standoff and the botched negotiations that ended with images of citizens willing to arm themselves and fight to the death against a tyrannical government. (ROLLING STONES: Waco Cult Showdown Ends In Disaster)
GLOBAL WARMING
One of the new and brutal realities of living in the 21st Century. Is the recognition that the earth is heating up and the atmosphere is getting warmer. This phenomenon has been accompanied by aberrations in the weather pattern and also catastrophic storms. Scientists allege that the predominant reason for these changes in our environment is the increasing use of fossil fuels.
Since 1900, the average surface air temperature has risen 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius). The steepest rise began in the 1970s and continues today. We know this warming is happening because we have measurements of temperature from weather stations. In some places, recorded temperature measurements go back to the 1880s. Estimates of temperature changes in the further past are made from tree rings and ice cores. Today, surface temperatures are monitored at thousands of places, over both land and oceans. An increase of 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit may not sound like a lot. On average, Earth is only 7 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit warmer today than it was during the last ice age. The recent increase in the average temperature of only a couple degrees is already leading to global changes in precipitation, snow and ice extent, and extreme weather, such as heavy rains, heatwaves, and severe storms. (The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine: Humans Are Causing Global Warming).
The effects of global warming have been compounded by large-scale deforestation and the destruction of thousands of species of animals and insects that were placed in this ecosystem to promote the safety of humans. Furthermore, the recent melting of millions of tons of icebergs in the Arctic Region and the resulting rise in sea levels worldwide, along with the new threat posed to communities located near waterfronts and seaports are all extremely serious and alarming.
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