(OPINION) Is it possible that Jesus specifically warned us about the times that we are living in nearly 2,000 years ago? You may have noticed that global events have started to spiral out of control lately. Normally, the summer is a period when things are relatively quiet. As far as the news industry is concerned, August is supposed to be the quietest month of all because so much of the world is on vacation.
But that definitely has not been the case in 2024. According to journalist Simon Tisdall, in recent weeks we have been experiencing a “peaking of volatility, instability and insecurity, unprecedented in recent times”
He is right.
But just because things have been crazy lately does not mean that we are living in the end times.
If we really are living in the end times, there are certain very specific signs that we should be seeing.
Of course there have been wars, famines, pestilences and natural disasters all throughout human history.
If we really are living in the end times, all of these elements should be occurring simultaneously, and the intensity of each element should be at a very high level.
Let’s talk about war first. According to the Institute for Economics & Peace, there were 56 active military conflicts in the world last year. That was the highest number that we have witnessed since World War II.
As I write this, there is a tremendous amount of speculation all over the globe about “World War III”. The conflict in the Middle East is on the verge of being transformed into an “all-out war”, it is probably only a matter of time before the U.S. is dragged into the war in Ukraine and we find ourselves directly fighting with Russia, and the moment that China invades Taiwan we will be at war with the Chinese.
We are most certainly living during a time of wars and rumors of wars, and the hot phase of “World War III” will truly be unlike anything we have ever seen before.
All throughout history, famine has accompanied war.
Right now, we are facing a global food crisis of unprecedented magnitude. In Sudan, endless war has created a famine that is truly horrifying. At this moment, it is being projected that millions of Sudanese citizens will die in the months ahead.
How would you feel if you had to watch your family slowly die of starvation?
According to Timmo Gaasbeek of the Netherlands Institute of International Relations, 2.5 million people in Sudan could perish “by the time crops are harvested in September”
September is next month!
But most Americans don’t even realize that this is happening because our big news networks only want to talk about Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
Reuters has reported that hunger is so bad in some parts of Sudan that people are literally making meals out of balls of dirt just so that they will have something to fill their stomachs.
Meanwhile, supplies of food all over the world just keep getting tighter and tighter.
CNN has admitted that we are facing “the worst food crisis in modern history”, but the truth is that this is just the beginning.
Once nuclear weapons are used, everything will change.
One study that was conducted a few years ago determined that three to four years after an all-out nuclear war global food production would have dropped by about 90 percent.
That same study concluded that approximately 360 million people would be directly killed during an all-out nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia, and over 5 billion people would die from starvation in the aftermath.
What would our world look like if 5 billion people were simultaneously dying from starvation?
That is something to think about.
If we really are living in the end times, we should also be experiencing major pestilences.
Needless to say, the COVID crisis killed millions of people and it is still with us.
Over the past few years, the bird flu has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of millions of chickens and turkeys all over the globe, and now the bird flu has jumped into mammals.
Are we next?
We better hope not, because the World Health Organization says that over 50 percent of the humans that have caught H5N1 since 2003 have ended up dead.
In 2022, a Monkeypox plague rapidly spread all over the planet, and it created a lot of fear.
Now a far deadlier version that reportedly spreads more easily among humans is spreading in central Africa, and the World Health Organization is extremely concerned about this.
And I certainly don’t want to leave out dengue fever. So far this year, there have been more than 10 million cases in North America and South America combined.
If you have ever had a severe case of dengue fever, you will never forget it.
It is known as “breakbone fever”, because many of those that develop severe cases literally feel like their bones are breaking.
What about natural disasters?
Are we seeing a lot of those?
It is being reported that last year the number of “billion dollar disasters” established a brand new all-time record high.
Meanwhile, the ground under our feet is shaking with alarming regularity.
Last week, I wrote an article about the strange seismic activity that we have been witnessing on the west coast, on the east coast, under the Great Lakes and down in Texas.
On the other side of the world, all of the recent shaking in Japan has created a tremendous amount of panic. People are feverishly hoarding food because they are so concerned about the possibility of a “megaquake”.
I am entirely convinced that everything that we have been through so far is just the beginning.
We are still only in the very early chapters of this “perfect storm”, and if I am right there is a tremendous amount of death and destruction ahead of us.
