The Media Would Like To Dismiss It But End Times Beliefs Have Gone Mainstream

The Media Would Like To Dismiss It But End Times Beliefs Have Gone Mainstream

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The New York times recently ran a column called "The Apocalypse Goes Mainstream" asking why so many adults believe we are living in the "End Times". They tried to be polite in examining the issue but essentially suggested that those who hold to such beliefs have been brainwashed by books such as "The Late Great Planet Earth" by Hal Lindsey for the older generation and The Left Behind Series for the more recent generation. 

About 40 percent of American adults believe that we are living in the "end times," according to polling. The New York Times wants to know where did that idea come from?

Despite beliefs to the contrary explored in the article, belief in the end times did not begin with modern paperbacks or 20th-century theology. It began with Scripture itself--anchored in the words of Jesus, the prophets, and the apostles. What we are witnessing today is not the rise of a fringe idea, but the reawakening of an ancient one.

1. The Words of Jesus Demand Watchfulness, Not Dismissal

In the Gospels, Jesus did not speak vaguely about the future--He gave detailed warnings about the conditions preceding His return: global conflict, deception, moral decay, and widespread fear. He described a world marked by "wars and rumors of wars," lawlessness increasing, and truth growing cold.

These are not abstract ideas--they are observable realities.

To suggest that modern believers are simply projecting meaning onto current events ignores the fact that Jesus explicitly instructed His followers to watch. Not speculate wildly--but remain alert. If millions today see alignment between His warnings and our present moment, that is not irrational--it is obedience.

2. Biblical Prophecy Has a Track Record of Accuracy

Skeptics often treat prophecy as vague or symbolic guesswork. But history tells a different story. The Bible contains hundreds of fulfilled prophecies--many of them precise, specific, and historically verifiable.

From the rise and fall of empires described in the Book of Daniel to the detailed prophecies surrounding the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, Scripture has demonstrated a level of predictive consistency unmatched by any other religious text.

If past prophecies have been fulfilled with such clarity, why should future ones suddenly be dismissed as fantasy?

That's not skepticism--that's selective reasoning.

3. The Modern World Uniquely Mirrors Prophetic Conditions

For most of human history, certain biblical prophecies seemed impossible. A global economy? Instant worldwide communication? The ability to control buying and selling on a massive scale?

Today, those are not just possible--they are actively being built.

Digital currencies, biometric identification, artificial intelligence, and centralized global systems are no longer theoretical. They are here. What once sounded symbolic now reads like a literal blueprint of emerging reality.

This is not about fear--it's about recognition. The infrastructure described in prophecy is no longer distant. It is forming in real time.

4. Israel's Central Role Cannot Be Ignored

One of the most compelling pieces of prophetic evidence is the nation of Israel itself. Scattered for nearly 2,000 years and then reestablished in 1948, Israel stands at the center of global attention--politically, militarily, and spiritually.

Biblical prophecy repeatedly places Israel at the heart of end-times events. The fact that this small nation dominates international headlines, shapes foreign policy debates, and remains the focal point of global tension is not coincidence.

It is consistency--with Scripture.

To argue for a purely "rational" foreign policy detached from Israel's prophetic significance is to ignore the very forces shaping geopolitical reality. Whether one believes in prophecy or not, leaders across the world clearly recognize that Israel is not just another nation.

5. The Moral and Cultural Landscape Matches Prophetic Warnings

The Bible describes a time when truth would be inverted, when good would be called evil and evil good. A time when society would reject foundational truths and embrace confusion as virtue.

Look around.

The erosion of moral clarity, the celebration of what was once universally condemned, and the hostility toward faith--especially Christianity--are not isolated trends. They are defining characteristics of our age.

This isn't about nostalgia or cultural preference. It's about alignment with a prophetic description written thousands of years ago.

Rebutting the Critics

The claim that beliefs about the end times are rooted primarily in modern teachings like premillennial dispensationalism is historically incomplete. While theological frameworks have developed over time--as all fields of study do--the core concepts of Christ's return, judgment, and the culmination of history are deeply embedded in Scripture and early Christian teaching.

Early church fathers wrote extensively about the return of Christ and the final judgment. The expectation of His coming was not a fringe doctrine--it was central to the faith.

As for the idea that prophecy "re-enchants the news in a dangerous way," this argument misunderstands the role of belief. For millions, prophecy does not distort reality--it provides a framework for understanding it. It encourages vigilance, moral responsibility, and hope--not chaos.

The real danger is not that people see meaning in world events.

The real danger is a culture so committed to materialism that it refuses to see meaning at all.

A Call to Confidence, Not Apology

To those who feel dismissed, labeled, or ridiculed for believing in biblical prophecy--this moment should not weaken your faith. It should strengthen it.

Scripture itself warned that in the last days, there would be scoffers. That belief in Christ's return would be mocked. That watchfulness would be ridiculed as ignorance.

And yet, here we are.

Not deceived. Not uninformed. Not clinging to fantasy--but standing on a foundation that has endured for thousands of years.

The question is no longer whether people believe in the end times.

The question is why so many are beginning to see it now.

And perhaps the answer is simpler than critics would like to admit:

Because the signs are no longer subtle.

Propagandists For Globalism Depend On Censorship:

Propagandists For Globalism Depend On Censorship: Fewer People Are Buying Into The Hardcore Cult Propaganda That Marxist-Globalists Rain Down On The World

J.B. Shurk

Perhaps I’m being too optimistic, but I think fewer people are buying into the hardcore cult propaganda that Marxist-globalists rain down on the world every day.  

I see a few more rolled eyes around me when someone blames a thunderstorm on “climate change.”  The last few stragglers of committed COVID-hyperventilators have taken off their paper masks when out in public (and have pleasantly discovered that abnormally rapid breathing disappears once dirty rags are removed from one’s face).  I’ve heard more “trans”-enablers stating clearly that biological boys should not be in girls’ locker rooms or competing in their sports.  More celebrities and academics (many of whom have proudly identified as atheists in the recent past) have begun to read the Bible and openly discuss the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Is the world healing?  Has the ideological pendulum begun to swing back toward sanity?  Have the Marxist-globalists dosed the world with so much propaganda over the years that the effectiveness of their lies is starting to fade?  Does that mean the last century of Marxist-globalist sociological conditioning is beginning to wear off?

I think the lies that Marxist-globalists regularly tell have become too preposterous for the average person to swallow anymore.  

Last week, the apocalypse-whisperer Al Gore was at a Hollywood “climate change” event honoring how wonderfully stupid all his celebrity friends are.  Joined by The West Wing alum Bradley Whitford, both men discussed the likelihood that Earth will descend into another ice age in ten to twenty-five years.  They referenced Roland Emmerich’s 2004 wintry disaster movie, The Day After Tomorrow, in describing what we should expect.  Prepare for snowdrifts!

Listening to this kind of doomsaying-lunacy the average person says to himself, “I thought you told us that ‘global warming’ was going to incinerate us?  Now you’re predicting snow?”  Gore’s wildly inaccurate, scaremongering, anti-science, fever dream, An Inconvenient Truth, predicted that the Arctic Ocean’s summer ice would be gone by 2013 (wrong!) and that Mt. Kilimanjaro would have no snow by 2015 (also wrong!).  The snake oil salesman who became filthy rich by selling disaster porn to the world promised that rising temperatures would soon (as in at least a decade ago!) leave Manhattan and Miami under twenty feet of water.  Now, in 2026, apparently “global warming” is so last decade’s fashion, and we’re back to “global cooling” again!  We already did “global cooling” during the 1970s!  Does that mean bell-bottoms, disco, “blaxploitation” films, and kung fu will be making comebacks, too?

A century of the “little boy who cried wolf” telling us that using hydrocarbon fuels (or what the oh-so-educated “elites” among us call “fossil fuels” in order to pretend that everything runs on dinosaurs) would cause the planet to freeze…or perhaps burn…or maybe change our climate (Duh, the climate is always naturally changing, you idiots!)…or produce a tornado somewhere in the Midwest…has forced a lot of people to ask, “Why should we trust ‘The Science’ when ‘The Science’ sounds a lot like propaganda?”  When Marxist-globalists doubled down by turning a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, into the world’s leading authority on “climate science,” people capable of thinking beyond the limits of government programming finally had enough. 

People are now waking up to a rather startling set of propositions: Marxist-globalist governments lie to them regularly.  Those lies cause harm to citizens.  When citizens complain, Marxist-globalist governments tell more lies and try to redirect blame (It’s Trump’s fault; It’s Putin’s fault; It’s that blasted ‘global warming’!).  When citizens see through those lies, too, Marxist-globalist governments turn to the same blunt instrument that all totalitarian governments choose: censorship.

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Europe pushes global military spending to record high

Europe pushes global military spending to record high

RT

European military spending helped to propel global defense expenditure to a record high of almost $3 trillion in 2025 despite the US decreasing its outlay, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released on Monday.

Worldwide military expenditure rose 2.9% in real terms last year to reach $2.887 trillion, marking the 11th consecutive annual increase and lifting the global military burden to 2.5% of GDP, the report said. SIRPI experts explained the trend by citing several ongoing conflicts and persisting geopolitical tensions.

The entire European continent accounted for the largest regional increase, with spending rising 14% to $864 billion. SIPRI linked the surge to the Ukraine conflict, a standoff with Russia, and “the ongoing pursuit of European self-reliance alongside increasing pressure from the United States to strengthen burden sharing within the alliance.”

In total, European NATO members spent a combined $559 billion in 2025, with Germany’s outlays rising 24% to $114 billion and Spain’s jumping 50% to $40.2 billion.

US military expenditure fell 7.5% to $954 billion, with SIPRI linking a surprise decline to the Trump administration’s refusal to approve new assistance packages to Ukraine, in contrast to previous years when $127 billion in direct military support had been authorized.

The US, however, has continued deliveries via the NATO-coordinated PURL program, with other Western countries footing the bill.

Last week, Pentagon officials also said that US President Donald Trump was advocating a military budget of $1.5 trillion to provide funds for the new Golden Dome missile system, AI capabilities, and a new class of battleships.

SIPRI noted Russia’s defense expenditure grew 5.9% to $190 billion, while Ukraine increased spending by 20% to $84.1 billion, equivalent to 40% of GDP, becoming the seventh-largest military spender in the world.

Elsewhere, China increased military spending by 7.4% to $336 billion, while Japan’s expenditure rose 9.7% to $62.2 billion, and Taiwan’s by 14% to $18.2 billion.

Moscow has repeatedly condemned what it described as reckless militarization by the EU, adding that it is aimed at Russia. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has also suggested that European propaganda seeks to turn Russia into a “model external enemy” to divert attention from internal crises.

Terry James: Sudden Destruction

Sudden Destruction

Terry James

For years I’ve had Jesus’ prophecy of Luke 17:28–30 at the center of the message I believe our Lord wants delivered at this late hour of the Church Age:

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. (Luke 17:28–30)

Well, that message hasn’t changed. It still resonates as the one prophecy I believe is most directly meant for this sin-darkening planet that’s on the cusp of receiving God’s wrath because of humankind’s rebellion against Him.

Jesus said when He next intervenes into the evil affairs of earth’s inhabitants, the “righteous” will be removed. In the “days of Lot” in Jesus’ prophecy, it was Lot and his family who were removed because Lot was considered the only one in Sodom who was righteous. In the case of Christ’s next intervention, He indicated that another righteous entity will be removed to safety. This, of course, will be all who believe in Jesus for salvation–collectively called the Church.

I always preface what I say about that moment of Rapture with Jesus’ statement that, at the time, people of earth will, as in Sodom of Lot’s day, be buying, selling, planting, building, and marrying—in other words, going about business as usual.

Even with all the evil going on now–and it’s probably worse than it was in ancient Sodom and Gomorrah—it is still business as usual, as I view it. Despite the evil–the wars and rumors of war, the deception, the ethnic upheaval all over the planet—there isn’t yet catastrophic disruption of life on earth.

So, in this sense, our time is exactly like Jesus predicted in Luke 17:28–30.

As we know, the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed. And the destruction apparently came immediately following Lot’s removal. The cities were decimated; for millennia, scientists and archaeologists thought the Bible’s account of the destruction to be myth. But in most previous decades, there is evidence that indeed these cities were destroyed, and even sulfur residue of the region at the south end of the Dead Sea proves that something devastatingly powerful blasted the area. Pottery shards and other evidence that humans once inhabited the region are still being extracted from beneath the earth’s surface there.

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The Fertilizer Shock of 2026-2027: A Man-Made Famine in the Making

The Fertilizer Shock of 2026-2027: A Man-Made Famine in the Making

Mike Adams

We are watching a catastrophe unfold that was entirely predictable. The current fertilizer crisis is not a natural disaster -- it is the direct result of globalist policies, financialization, and a just-in-time supply chain that prioritizes profit over food security. The triple shock -- the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, China’s export ban, and Russia’s quota system -- has already doubled urea prices in many markets, but the real story is how vulnerable countries have been left exposed by a system that values corporate margins over human lives. In my view, the mainstream media and international institutions are downplaying the severity because they have no solution that doesn’t challenge their own power structures.

The historical record shows that manmade famines are not accidents but engineered outcomes. As William Maxwell McCord wrote, “Manmade famines in Asia and Africa, the worldwide debt crisis, political tyranny and corruption…” . We are now repeating that pattern on a global scale. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization warned back in 2022 that high fertilizer prices could cause global grain production to plummet by 40 percent . That warning was ignored, and now we are living the consequences. The crisis is not a surprise; it is a choice made by those who run the system.

The direct loss of Gulf fertilizers is only the tip of the iceberg. The second-order effects are crippling domestic production in nations like Bangladesh and Egypt, where natural gas -- the primary feedstock for nitrogen fertilizer -- is now prohibitively expensive due to the destruction of Qatar’s LNG trains. As I reported in a recent analysis, “the recent confirmation that retaliatory strikes have destroyed two of Qatar’s fourteen critical LNG ‘trains’ is not a distant geopolitical blip. It is a world-altering event” . Without affordable gas, ammonia plants shut down, and with them the supply of urea and ammonium nitrate.

Meanwhile, Russia’s decision to halt ammonium nitrate exports from March 21 to April 21 has tightened global supplies even further . China’s export restrictions, while rational for their own farmers, reveal the hollow promise of global trade interdependence: every nation looks out for itself when crisis hits. And the sulfur crisis is another hidden dagger: the destruction of Gulf refineries has cut off critical sulfur supplies for phosphate production. As I detailed in a previous report, “zero spot sulfur is available on the global market” . Even major producers like Morocco and Russia cannot escape this bottleneck. The cascading failures are not random -- they are the logical outcome of a system built on fragile, centralized infrastructure.

The Human Toll: Tier 1 and Tier 2 Countries on the Edge of Famine

The numbers are staggering: approximately one-fourth of all globally traded nitrogen fertilizer normally travels through the Strait of Hormuz . That artery is now effectively closed. The UN has warned that this disruption threatens one-third of the global fertilizer trade at a critical moment for spring planting, and could trigger a broader food crisis unless shipments resume quickly . But no one is listening.

Sudan is the most exposed -- more than half its fertilizer comes from the Gulf, the country is in the grip of a civil war, and its planting season runs from June to July. This is a recipe for mass starvation, and it is being treated as a secondary concern. Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka each face their own ticking clock: fertilizer that doesn’t arrive by May is fertilizer that won’t be applied. 

The ripple effects will hit the lean season of 2027. Even countries like India and Brazil have some buffers through stockpiles or later planting windows, but that only masks the systemic fragility. The poorest smallholders in Bihar or the Sahel have no such safety net. As one study notes, “below certain income levels it may simply not be possible to obtain an adequate diet” . These are the people who will die first.

Where Political Instability Will Concentrate

The political fallout is just as predictable as the food shortages. Countries where food already consumes over 50 percent of household income -- Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh -- are defenseless against a 25 to 30 percent price spike. History shows that food riots topple governments. The link between food prices and political stability is well documented: “another indirect indication of food problems in specific areas is the price of food in relation to income levels, that is, the ability to purchase food” . When that ability evaporates, the social contract breaks.

Egypt’s bread price history is a flashing red light. The Sisi government’s price caps may delay the explosion, but the IMF program ensures the pressure will build. Sri Lanka’s 2022 collapse was triggered by a fertilizer ban; the political memory is fresh, and this crisis could reignite unrest far more rapidly than officials admit. As the fertilizer bottleneck at Hormuz raises the risk of food inflation and worsening global hunger, we are sitting on a powder keg . The only question is where the first spark will ignite.