Is Global War Coming?

Friday, July 14, 2017

Is Global War Coming?

World Changes in 2017

The Telegraph ran a sobering headline on July 4: “We are sleepwalking towards a global war—and Russia and China are enabling it.” The writer spoke of the recent launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile indicating that North Korea can place a nuclear device on such a missile and reach U.S. soil as far away as Alaska. The article speculated that, should the situation escalate, it could drag world powers—including the U.S., China, Russia and South Korea—into a nuclear war that could devastate the Korean peninsula and beyond. A confrontation between the USA and North Korea could draw China and Russia into the conflict on the side of North Korea, as China is a major trading partner with North Korea and Russia provides missile technology to North Korea (Wall Street Journal, July 11, 2017).

Bible prophecy has long warned there will be a global conflict at the end of the age, involving “kings of the east” who will come together to fight a European beast power—the “king of the North”—that will also be threatened from the south by an Islamic power—the “king of the South” (see Daniel 11:41-44; Revelation 9:13-16; 16:12). The saber-rattling in Northeast Asia could push these eastern powers together against the West—leading to the end-time global conflict described in Bible prophecy. To learn more about the future of these nations, read “The Return of the Dragon.”
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Human Trafficking Surrounds Europe
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A new report from the U.S. State Department demonstrates that nations surrounding Europe are seeing a heavy amount of human trafficking (sex trafficking and human slavery). “On the EU’s eastern side, the U.S. said women from Belarus and Ukraine were being trafficked for sex in Russia, Poland, and Turkey... It said Nigerian, Bulgarian, and Romanian women are being trafficked for sex in Germany, while Afghan, Bulgarian, Pakistani, Polish, Romanian, and Vietnamese people were being used as forced labour” (EU Observer, June 28, 2017). Other nations cited for their involvement in human trafficking included Mauritania, Mali, Sudan, Eritrea, Syria, Iran, Lebanon and Jordan.

Revelation 18 foretells an end-time European beast power that will come to a sudden end. This prophesied power will bring great riches and wealth to much of the world. The merchandise traded by and through this economic powerhouse will include precious metals, fine fabrics and spices, livestock, grains, and “bodies and souls of men” (vv. 11-13). The human trafficking surrounding Europe today will apparently continue and will help make nations of the world rich. The good news is that Jesus Christ is going to return and “proclaim liberty to the captives” by putting an end to human trafficking (Luke 4:18)! For more information on the future actions of the coming European superpower, read or listen to The Beast of Revelation.
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Political Correctness Runs Amuck: Erosion of Religious Liberty in Britain
The Importance of Fathers

As political correctness becomes further entrenched in Western societies, the British government is requiring private religious schools to teach immoral behavior that is contrary to their basic doctrines. According to The Telegraph, “A private Jewish girls’ school which teaches children aged up to 8 has failed three Ofsted inspections because it does not teach pupils about homosexuality or gender reassignment” (June 25, 2017). According to the government, the school did not meet the pupil’s need for “spiritual, moral, social and cultural development”—although the school has high marks in all other areas and in all other ways would be considered a model school.

As Israelite-descended societies drift further from their foundation of biblical morality, we are witnessing increasing persecution of people and groups who attempt to maintain their Bible-based beliefs. It is a sad irony that nations that grew strong promoting biblical morality are now persecuting those who still hold to that historical foundation. However, this is exactly what God foresaw happening at the end of the age. The prophet Jeremiah wrote, “you have forsaken the LORD your God, and the fear of Me is not in you” (Jeremiah 2:19). The prophet Hosea wrote, “They do not direct their deeds toward turning to their God, for the spirit of harlotry is in their midst… Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity… [and] have begotten pagan children… Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment because he willingly walked by human precept” (Hosea 5:4-11). The moral decline of the Israelite-descended nations is sad to watch, but they will return to God after a coming period of correction. For more details on this amazing story, read or listen to The United States and Great Britain in Prophecy.
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