We reserve a few minutes Sunday morning to suggest news, or trends, that seem to be predicted by a literal, futurist reading of the Bible.
We are careful to use recognized, reliable sources for news. There is a lot of sensationalism surrounding unfulfilled Bible prophecy, and we don’t want to add to it.
We’re not saying the things we report are the definite fulfillment of prophecy – only that they are the things you’d expect to be happening in build-up to the future seven year Great Tribulation.
Students of Bible prophecy have long argued that the government of the Great Tribulation will be some sort of global union, eventually controlled by the antichrist.
Climate change maybe the issue that will lead the nations of the world to surrender their sovereignty to a global government with the goal of saving the planet. If the dire predictions regarding climate change are true, then we find ourselves in a do or die moment in which we either come together as a planet or face extinction.
BTW: I should mention that I am not really talking about climate change, per se. I am not saying that it is real, or that it is manufactured. I am only saying that it has the potential to tilt the world towards and into globalism.
I read an article this week titled, The UN Tells the EU That Green Energy Goals Are Worth Freezing to Death Over.
Excerpts:
As part of ongoing efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, the European Union (EU) adopted plans intended to lower the continent’s reliance on carbon-producing energy.
Under its current framework, by the end of the decade, the EU seeks to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 55% from what they were in 1990. It further pledges to make the continent carbon neutral by 2050. To achieve these goals, the EU has mandated that countries make certain changes. In June, it passed a resolution that would ban all sales of cars with internal combustion engines by 2035. Many nations have also been phasing out coal-fired power plants that produce a disproportionate amount of global carbon emissions.
https://reason.com/2022/09/13/the-u-n-tells-the-e-u-that-green-energy-goals-are-worth-freezing-to-death-over/
There is a problem. The EU is facing an energy crisis. To answer the problem, European governments are spending at least $50 billion on imports of coal and natural gas, and reactivating shuttered coal plants.
The UN wants them to stay the course towards reducing carbon emissions. Their counsel is, to be blunt, let people in Europe freeze this winter, staying on track to save the planet.
A UN commissioner said,
In the face of soaring energy prices which threaten to impact the most vulnerable as winter approaches, some EU member States are turning to investments in fossil fuels infrastructure and supplies. While that impulse is understandable, I urge the EU and its member States to consider the long-term consequences of locking in more fossil fuel infrastructure. It is essential to accelerate the development of energy efficiency projects and renewables. There is no room for backtracking in the face of the ongoing climate crisis.
If people have to die as result of carbon energy policies, so be it. We have to save the planet.
If you think I’m exaggerating, research what is going on in Sri Lanka.
Environmentalists convinced the government to immediately cease using non-organic fertilizer. Their president banned all synthetic fertilizers. Farmers were forced to go all organic overnight. Food production is down as much as 50%, while food costs increased by 80%. Farmers say that Sri Lankans are going to starve to death.
Michael Shellenberger, formerly a top environmental activist, points out that if we used all organic fertilizer, the earth could support a population of 3 billion. There are currently 8 billion on the planet now. I don’t think it’s going to far, at this point, to say that many are willing to allow more than half the global population starve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE5TrVEGP20
Centuries ago, the Bible predicted a global government. Using climate change, pandemics, and other disasters, real or imagined, the push towards globalism is on. It is exactly what we expected.
We are witnessing the stage-setting for the seven year Great Tribulation that is described in the last book of the Bible. We will not, however, be on Earth during that terrible Time of Jacob’s Trouble.
The resurrection and rapture of the church are imminent. It could happen any moment; nothing needs to happen before it.
Jesus will come, in the clouds, and raise the dead believers of the Church Age. He will transform the bodies of living believers to glorified, resurrection bodies. We will join Him in Heaven while the earth endures one final seven-year campaign of severe evangelism.
Are you ready for the rapture? If not, Get ready; Stay ready; Keep looking up.
Ready or not, Jesus is coming!