The “Black Sky” Plan And The “Be Ready” Campaign – What Kind Of Disaster Is The UK Urgently Preparing For?

The “Black Sky” Plan And The “Be Ready” Campaign – What Kind Of Disaster Is The UK Urgently Preparing For?

Michael Snyder

Is there something that they aren’t telling us? All of a sudden, governments all over the globe are instructing their citizens to stockpile food, water and other essential supplies. Why is there such a sense of urgency to do this in late 2026? What has changed? Without a doubt, conditions are far different than they were 12 months ago. It appears that the war with Iran will soon greatly escalate, the war in Ukraine just continues to intensify, a Super El Niño is causing global weather patterns to go nuts, European cities are being ravaged by seemingly endless riots, and we are simultaneously facing a global energy crisis, a global fertilizer crisis and a global food crisis. Chaos is erupting all around us, and the months ahead are almost certainly going to be even more chaotic.

But does this explain why governments throughout the world have suddenly decided that now is the time for everyone to go out and buy emergency supplies?

In the UK, the BBC just published a very long article that reveals details about their “Black Sky” doomsday plan…

In a major emergency, we are being told to hunker down and turn on an FM radio, as thousands did in Lancaster. This is why the BBC has its own Black Sky plan.

Only a small number of staff know the full details, but from what I have gleaned, about 100 people in the BBC will run a special emergency radio studio.

It will have secure lines of communication not dependent on the internet, and fuel, water and food to ensure it can operate without resupply for at least three days.

What kind of scenario are they anticipating that would make this “Black Sky” doomsday plan necessary?

Apparently it would include a loss of power and Internet, because they are planning to use radio transmission towers to keep the British public informed over FM radio…

The BBC’s broadcasts will be sent via radio transmission towers, isolated from the internet and equipped with tanks of between five and 40,000 litres (8,800 gallons) of diesel to keep their generators going for three days – FM radio is power hungry. The teams will be using satellite phones to keep in touch and if these stop working there are pre-agreed protocols and meet-up points.

Why FM? Because it works almost everywhere, even in a blackout or a crippling cyber-attack.

This “Black Sky” doomsday plan was revealed less than a month after the UK government’s “Be Ready” campaign was launched.

Starting on October 22nd, the UK government began instructing citizens to stockpile food, water and other emergency supplies…

The government’s new Be Ready campaign is advising the public to stock up on three day’s worth of supplies for use during severe weather or cyber-attacks, so help can be directed to the most vulnerable first.

In a concise, two-page document, it suggests people stock bottled water and non-perishable food for three days, a torch with spare batteries, a wind-up FM radio, a first aid kit and a copy of their passport. To stave off panic buying, it advises people to check their cupboards first and build up items gradually on regular shopping trips.

Apparently the “Be Ready” campaign has been very successful.

A co-owner of a prepping store in the UK was absolutely astounded by the number of orders that started coming in…

While there is no evidence the advice has triggered mass panic, the public is clearly responding. Jack Brown, who co-owns Sgt Prepper Shop, which stocks emergency food and survival tools, said he received a month’s worth of orders in the first 24 hours of the Be Ready campaign.

“I thought my phone was glitching or being hacked with the number of orders coming in,” he said.

But what has prompted this dramatic change of tone by officials in the UK?

Are they concerned that cyberattacks could take down the power grid or the financial system?

In France, hackers just broke into a prominent bank and successfully got away with 133 million dollars…

French cooperative bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa was targeted in a cyberattack that enabled fraudulent transactions of up to $133 million, forcing it to respond by suspending certain systems.

The bank says that the attacker used its own account to initiate transactions to other banking organizations, but customer assets remain unaffected.

Crédit Mutuel Arkéa is a major French banking group with more than 5.8 million members and 211.5 billion euros in assets.

Our financial institutions are under constant attack, and artificial intelligence is giving hackers more powerful tools that we have ever seen before.

Without a doubt, that is a very serious threat.

There is also the possibility that the war in the Middle East could soon get very serious.

If they are attacked, the Iranians have warned that they could actually start cutting undersea Internet cables, and apparently they are quite serious about this threat…

Ships linked to Iran looped, loitered and went dark over undersea internet cables in the Gulf of Oman in the weeks after Tehran threatened the region’s digital infrastructure, the Financial Times reported on Friday. One of them had been boarded by US Marines in May.

At least four vessels tracked by the maritime analytics firm Windward took unusual routes and lingered over cable corridors off Oman in October, the FT said. Three were tankers under US sanctions. The fourth was a small Iranian fishing boat with no known owner.

The ships sailed normally “until they reached a specific cable corridor, and only then slowed, looped, turned back, loitered or went dark,” Windward told the newspaper. That behavior “fits the profile of mapping the cable routes, or placing charges or mines on them while dark,” it said.

If Iran starts cutting undersea Internet cables, that could have serious implications for the entire global financial system.

Meanwhile, the war between Russia and Ukraine has reached a very dangerous stage, and there is a very real possibility that NATO could get directly involved.

Ominously, a major British news source has just published a very alarming article entitled “‘Every single Brit’ must prepare for WW3 conscription as major warning issued“…

Brits could face being called up to fight in a potential World War Three, with the “whole of the nation” warned to brace for conscription within six years. Security and intelligence expert Professor Anthony Glees delivered the stark warning amid growing concerns that Britain could become entangled in a wider conflict with Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

The University of Buckingham academic stated the “whole of the nation” should be prepared for the prospect of conscription, while urging the Government to begin recruiting volunteers.

Professor Glees said: “The UK Government should plan to sign up volunteers now and over the next three years and ‘the whole of the nation’ should prepare for conscription within six years unless Putin were defeated.”

Sadly, the truth is that we are in the midst of World War III right now, but most people are not calling it that yet.

War, famine, pestilence, cyberattacks, financial chaos and historic natural disasters are all in our future.

I don’t think that it is just a coincidence that governments all over the planet are suddenly telling their citizens to prepare for doomsday.

We live in such perilous times, and I am convinced that 2027 is going to be even more chaotic than 2026 has been.

'Iranian demands are outrageous,' Rubio says as talks fail to make progress

'Iranian demands are outrageous,' Rubio says as talks fail to make progress

IDAN KWELLER

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday that negotiations with Iran have made little progress, stressing that Washington is not close to reaching a diplomatic breakthrough with Tehran.

Speaking to reporters ahead of his departure for France to attend a meeting of G7 foreign ministers, Rubio said, "I have no progress to report. There are several countries that continue to engage with Iran and put forward various ideas, but I would not say that we are on the verge of a breakthrough."

Rubio said President Donald Trump continues to favor a diplomatic solution, but acknowledged that Iranian demands remain a major obstacle to reaching an agreement.

"The president will always prefer to resolve this problem, like any other problem, through diplomatic means. Unfortunately, sometimes that is impossible. If there is an opportunity to do so, we will examine it. At the moment, the talks have not been particularly productive because the Iranian demands are simply unacceptable, and in some cases they are outrageous, ridiculous, and detached from reality," he added.

Rubio also addressed the possibility of additional US strikes on Iran, saying Washington would act if American forces or shipping in the region came under threat.

"If there is a clear and immediate threat to shipping or to our forces in the region, we have the right to defend ourselves. It all depends on the level of the threat and whether they are acting against us or intend to do so," he said.

The secretary of state also defended Trump's decision to go to war with Iran, despite the potential political consequences of the conflict.

"A nuclear Iran would be unacceptable and dangerous not only to Israel and the Middle East, but to the entire world and the United States. The president confronted a threat that other presidents were unable to confront. Sometimes doing the right thing is not necessarily popular, but it is necessary," Rubio said.

Rubio declined to comment on whether the war had contributed to Republican losses in the US midterm elections.

Three Hours in the Kremlin

Three Hours in the Kremlin

Larry C. Johnson

Vladimir Putin does not give three hours of his time to people who have nothing to say. On Thursday, he gave three hours to Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. Two days later, Israel’s president handed the job of forming the next government to Gadi Eisenkot instead of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Washington spent the week arguing about the midterms. Moscow, Tehran and Jerusalem spent it rearranging the board.

The Kremlin’s account of the meeting was a masterpiece of saying nothing. Putin received Rezaei on November 5. The two discussed “the current state of bilateral relations” under the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty, and “the situation in the Gulf region and the Middle East as a whole.” A message from Iran’s Supreme Leader was delivered. Its contents were not disclosed. That was it.

The Kremlin is never chatty, but the brevity is itself a message. When Moscow wants the world to know it has promised something, it says so. When it wants room to bargain with Washington, it publishes three sentences.

The photograph said more than the text. Sitting on the Russian side of the table were Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s senior foreign policy adviser, and Igor Kostyukov, the head of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service. You do not bring your top diplomat and your top military intelligence officer to a courtesy call. That is a working group for war and peace.

The Iranian side has been far more talkative. According to Kazem Jalali, Iran’s ambassador in Moscow, the meeting ran about three hours. Rezaei’s message from Mojtaba Khamenei covered the American and Israeli attacks on Iran, Tehran’s seven conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and nuclear cooperation. Jalali also described an agreement on gas. In the short term, Russian gas would be swapped through Azerbaijan. Over two to three years, a pipeline would be built with 110 billion cubic meters a year of capacity, starting at 55 billion.

Putin made no public promise of military help, and the 2025 treaty contains no mutual defense clause. But he did not need to say anything. Iran sent its top security official to walk Putin through its terms for ending the war, in person. Moscow brought its spy chief to hear them. That is how you prepare for a negotiation, not a photo op.

On Saturday, President Isaac Herzog asked Gadi Eisenkot to form Israel’s next government. It was not close. Sixty-seven members of the Knesset recommended Eisenkot, including the Arab-led parties. Only 46 recommended Netanyahu.

Now comes the hard part. Eisenkot’s bloc won 48 seats on October 27, and he has ruled out governing in coalition with the Arab-led parties that just helped him. That leaves him two roads. He can bring in the ultra-Orthodox parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism, to reach exactly 61. Or he can run a minority government that the Arab parties support from outside. He has 28 days, plus a possible 14-day extension. If he fails, Israel heads for another election, and Netanyahu stays on as caretaker.

Netanyahu, true to form, is not going quietly. He warned that a government “dependent on Islamists” would “dismantle the state of Israel from within.” He has also demanded an investigation into supposed foreign interference in the election. It is the political equivalent of declaring the referee biased after losing 67 to 46.

Eisenkot is no dove. He is a former chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, and he lost a son and a nephew in the Gaza war. He still supports economic pressure on Iran and limited military action. But his approach differs from Netanyahu’s in three ways that matter.

• Iran. Netanyahu has spent this year campaigning for regime change in Tehran and lobbying Washington for more strikes. Eisenkot campaigned on “more diplomacy alongside any military steps” and told the Wall Street Journal he would back military action only against “direct and immediate threats to Israel.” Years ago, he called the US withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal a “strategic mistake.”

• Washington. Netanyahu tied Israel’s fortunes to the Republican Party and to Trump personally. Eisenkot calls the relationship “a partnership between peoples, built over generations” and promises to rebuild its bipartisan base. He also says he wants to work “closely and constructively” with the Trump administration. That is a man who wants Israel back on good terms with both parties, not one who wants to drag a lame-duck Congress into another war.

• Leverage. For eight months, the loudest voice urging Trump to “finish the job” in Iran has come from the Israeli prime minister’s office. Take that voice away, and the war party in Washington loses its most important foreign ally just as Republicans absorb a midterm verdict on the war.

Now put Moscow and Jerusalem side by side. Iran is laying out its terms to Putin, with Russia’s military intelligence chief in the room. Qatar and Pakistan are mediating to keep Washington and Tehran from going back to open war. And Israel is about to swap a prime minister who wanted the war widened for one who talks about diplomacy and alliance repair. For the first time since February, the people pushing for a settlement have more momentum than the people pushing for more bombs.

There is one dangerous window. Until Eisenkot forms a government, Netanyahu remains prime minister, and he has every incentive to create facts before he leaves. A caretaker with nothing to lose and a fondness for surprise strikes is not a comforting combination. If there is a moment of maximum risk in the next six weeks, it is now.

So here is the week in review. Iran sends its security chief to Moscow for three hours. Putin brings his spy chief and says almost nothing in public, which is how you keep your options open. Israel’s president hands Netanyahu’s job to a general who prefers diplomacy alongside force. American voters fire the Republican Congress over the war.

Everyone seems to have read the room except the man in the Oval Office. Donald Trump can treat these as separate stories, or he can see what the rest of the world already sees. The coalition for war is shrinking, the coalition for a deal is growing, and the window for a face-saving exit will not stay open forever. Three hours in the Kremlin and a 67-to-46 vote in Jerusalem are not the end of the war. But they may be the beginning of the end of the reasons to keep fighting it.

Wars And Rumors of Wars

Wars And Rumors of Wars

Daymond Duck

Here is what Jesus said and my understanding of what Jesus meant:

• And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
• And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? Verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
• And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? (Some translations say end of the age, not world.)
• And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
• For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
• And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these thingsmust come to pass, but the end is not yet.
• For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
• All these are the beginning of sorrows (Matt. 24:1-8 KJV).

Jesus left the Temple for the last time. He would never go back there or teach there again. He went out to the Mt. of Olives and sat down.

The disciples went to Him privately and asked Him three questions: 1) When shall these things be? (the destruction of the Temple), 2) What shall be the sign of thy coming? (His Second Coming), and 3) of the end of the age?

Jesus didn’t answer the first question, but history shows that the Romans destroyed the Temple in 70 A.D.

He answered the second question in Matt. 24:14: “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” (In the Revelation of Jesus Christ – the Book of Revelation – we learn that the gospel will go all over the world during the Tribulation Period by the 144,000, Two Witnesses, and an angel; Rev. 7:11, 14:6.)

Understand that during the Tribulation Period (a day of sorrows; Zeph. 1:16-17: like birth pains; Gen. 3:16), the Book of Revelation teaches that:

• Peace will be removed from the earth (Second Seal; Red Horse; Rev. 6:3-4).
• A great war called the Battle of Armageddon will take place (Rev. 19).
• A global economic collapse will cause the price of food to soar and lead to famine (Third Seal; Black Horse; Rev. 6:5-6).
• Death and Hades will use War, famine, pestilence, and wild animals to kill one-fourth of those on Earth (Fourth Seal; Pale Horse; Rev. 6:7-8).
• During the Tribulation Period, there will be many earthquakes (Sixth Seal-great earthquake; Rev. 6:12; also, Rev. 8:5; Rev. 11:13; the greatest earthquake ever; Rev. 16:18).

But in Matt. 24:6, Jesus said He was talking about wars and rumors of wars, famine, pestilence, etc. that would happen before the time of the end (before the Tribulation Period and His Second Coming).

This is the way I see it: Jesus was lovingly warning us about people deceiving us.

• Deceivers said WW I was the Battle of Armageddon (and we are in the Tribulation Period), but it wasn’t true because Israel didn’t exist.
• Deceivers said WW II was the Battle of Armageddon (and we are in the Tribulation Period), but it wasn’t true because Israel still did not exist.
• Deceivers said cancer, Covid, Ebola, etc. were signs that we were in the Tribulation Period, but they couldn’t be because they did not kill one-fourth of those on Earth.
• Deceivers said great earthquakes mean that we are in the Tribulation Period, but the greatest earthquake ever will be after the rise of the Antichrist (after the First Seal; Rev. 6:12; after the Rapture).

Jesus lovingly (an act of grace) warned that there would be wars, famine, pestilence, earthquakes, etc. during the Church Age, before the Tribulation Period, but they wouldn’t be as bad as those that happen during the Tribulation Period.

We should watch for the convergence of ALL of the signs, not just some of the signs, and it seems to be what we are seeing today.

(FYI: The Tribulation Period won’t begin until the Antichrist rises to power over a world government and confirms – strengthens – a false covenant of peace for seven years, but the Church won’t be here for that, and there will be wars and rumors of wars, famine, pestilences, earthquakes, etc. before then.)

Here are some recent events that seem to indicate that the end of the age is near.

One, here is an interesting quote about current events from Amir Tsarfati on Oct. 29, 2026:

• 500 million Europeans expect 300 million Americans to protect them from 120 million Russians who cannot defeat 40 million Ukrainians.
• Meanwhile, they fail to realize that they are being conquered by 2 billion Muslims who claim they are being persecuted by 8 million Israelis!

(My comment: 2 billion Muslims claiming they are being persecuted by 8 million Israelis is evidence of Jew-hatred and the fact that God said Israel cannot be destroyed at the end of the age.)

Two, here is Amir Tsarfati’s opinion on the outcome of the U.S.-Iran War (Oct. 31, 2026).

• Ezekiel 38:5 explicitly names Persia as part of the coalition that will come against Israel.
• My understanding of this prophecy is that an anti-Israel regime will remain in place in Iran, weakened but still hostile, and willing to join a broader coalition rather than attack Israel alone.
• The passage identifies Persia’s participation; it does not explicitly identify the government that will be in power or describe its military strength. Those details reflect my interpretation of how the prophetic picture may unfold.
• For these reasons, I do not expect the coming months to bring the outcome many are anticipating.
• The United States and Israel can weaken the Iranian regime, degrade its capabilities, and force it to make difficult choices.
• That does not mean they can guarantee its overthrow.
• We must distinguish between what military force can accomplish, what political leaders promise, and what Scripture actually says.

Three, here is Amir Tsarfati’s opinion on the multitude of governments urging people to store food, water, etc. (Nov. 3, 2026):

• Why are we so surprised to see governments urging people to prepare emergency supplies to last anywhere from three days to three weeks?
• Look around you!
• We are seeing natural disasters of increasing intensity and frequency, more wars and rumors of wars, more viruses, and more people under strong delusion.
• This is a textbook end-times scenario.

Four, concerning the alliance between Russia and Iran at the end of the age: on Oct. 29, 2026, Russia announced that it will expand its workforce at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, signaling renewed cooperation between Moscow and Tehran despite continuing regional tensions following the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran earlier this year.

Rosatom, Russia’s state-owned nuclear corporation, plans to increase its construction workforce at Bushehr to 200 by November, with additional personnel (about 500 more specialists) expected to return in early 2027 as work progresses on two new nuclear reactors.

Five, here is Jonathan S. Tobin’s (editor-in-chief of JNS, a columnist for Newsweek and a contributor to other publications) opinion on the U.S. election:

• It was a big night for the Democrats and a very, very bad night for U.S. President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
• But amid the wreckage left by the blue wave that flipped control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, members of the GOP aren’t the only big losers.
• Supporters of the U.S.-Israel alliance and those who worry about the surge of antisemitism that has swept across the globe over the past three years should be equally worried about the implications of the Democrats’ midterm victory.
• The consequences of the Democrats’ return to power on Capitol Hill will be primarily directed at the Trump administration.
• But whatever that will mean for Trump’s ability to govern effectively in his final two years in office, control of Congress by a party that is now largely dominated by its intersectional left-wing will have a serious impact on the U.S.-Israel relationship as well as the battle against Jew-hatred.

(My comment: This will have a major impact on the decline of America and Bible prophecy. U.S. support for Israel will quickly decline, and God’s support for America will decline with it. But His support for Israel will not decline. God is still on the throne, and it is likely that the global march toward world government and the Tribulation Period has just sped up. The rejection of MAGA is a major step toward the rise of the Ten Kings.)

(My opinion: I believe the Ten Kings – Ten Toes – will be ten leaders over ten groups of nations on earth; Google regionalization.)

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The Rapture Paradox, 'Why The Sudden Urgency?'

The Rapture Paradox

Terry James

The Rapture of the Church will instantaneously bring all of evil’s terror to those left behind when all believers in Jesus Christ leave planet Earth. We must, therefore, witness to the saving message of Christ as never before while we now sense that moment of Rapture approaching.

The Rapture Paradox

A woman from the Netherlands who is a frequent visitor to www.raptureready.com proposed we address a troubling thought she lives with as a Christian. It is a paradox I believe many Christians who look for Christ to come for believers in the Rapture have considered, at least to some extent.

The writer sent an article about the growing Islamic population in Europe and the threat Islam represents not only to Israel, but to the rest of the world that is not Islamic. She recognizes that Israel being at the center of world controversy indicates the lateness of the hour, prophetically speaking. She puts it this way in her email:

Every time I see these articles, I am on one hand horrified at the treatment of the Jewish people but on the other hand full of anticipation as I know that with each event that pushes the Jewish people back to their homeland of Israel, the closer the rapture is for Christians. I do feel badly that I am excited for the rapture though as I know what that means for those that will be left behind… Should we be as excited as I am to know that we can (I believe “will”) be raptured any second? I know this gives me an urgency to share the gospel with friends and neighbors, but I still always feel guilty for the anticipation and excitement I get when I see the current events played out daily.

This dichotomy within the believer’s thinking is, I believe, not unusual for those who truly look for Christ’s any-moment call as prophesied by Paul the apostle:

“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thessalonians 4:16–17).

Christians who believe the pre-Tribulation Rapture is truth from God’s Word, yearn—without need to apologize—for the blessed hope that is found in Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13). At the same time, they know that when that call from their Lord comes, those left behind will soon endure a time of horror, which the Lord Himself foretold:

“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Matthew 24:21).

Those left behind will, the Christian knows, include perhaps close friends and beloved family members. So, the paradox of wanting the Rapture to take place, and at the same time dreading it for those who will stay on this planet that will endure God’s judgment and wrath is, to some, troubling.

The article this writer sent with her email encapsulates just a small part of the building evil that the Lord of heaven will judge with His righteous wrath. The article points to the satanic rage represented within Islam, the number-one Israel-hating entity on the planet. Hatred for Israel and the desire of the international community to force the Jewish state to divide the tiny portion of its God-given land in order to come up with a formula for peace with its Islamic neighbors will lead to Armageddon, God’s Word says:

“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land” (Joel 3:2).

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Why the Sudden Urgency?

J Brentner

Reports are rampant across social media and elsewhere. A total of thirty-three countries are now urging citizens to stockpile food, water, and other essential supplies for at least 3 days. And it’s not as though these countries are in close proximity to each other; the warnings stretch across the planet, touching every continent from Canada to Australia.

The Pentagon is warning its major military bases to prepare for 90 days without power or outside supply chains of necessities.

Why the sudden urgency from so many governments across the planet? A war would have to be quite deadly and widespread to cause dire conditions in so many diverse locations across the globe. If it’s a warning of dire economic conditions, the depression would drastically alter life everywhere.

What might these things mean in light of Bible prophecy?

Prophetic Implications

The catastrophes that could cause such widespread disruption reflect biblical prophecies of the Day of the Lord, which will begin with “sudden destruction” (1 Thessalonians 5:1-3). Disasters that could disrupt communication and life on military bases for three months resemble life on Earth as depicted in Revelation 6, after we are in Heaven watching Jesus open the seals (Revelation 5).

If the warnings point to the possibility of widespread nuclear war, that speaks to the second seal, when the rider on the red horse takes “peace from the earth” (Revelation 6:3-4). Wars with an enormously high death count are coming after the Rapture, although we may see deadly wars in the meantime.

Warnings about severe future food shortages abound and are reminiscent of the third seal (Revelation 6:5-6). We may see hard times before our departure, but the widespread nature of the warnings signifies Day of the Lord conditions. In the meantime, we prepare as the Lord leads, not out of fear.

In Matthew 24:36-39, the Lord warned that a sense of normality would prevail before the beginning of His wrath upon the earth. The current warnings of chaotic life throughout the world will surely ring true in the future, but a time of relative calm will precede the outbreak of the Lord’s wrath.

It will resemble the calm before a severe storm. Whether it’s real or imagined, a sense of normality will emerge before the events of Revelation 6 suddenly begin. The warnings point us to the nearness of Jesus’ appearing to take us home. People will imagine that they live in a time of peace and security, but like a “thief in the night,” the Lord will suddenly intervene, and the unbelieving masses will feel His fury. The deadliest wars and dire economic conditions will ensue after the Day of the Lord begins, not before.

What Might Be the Purpose of the Warnings?

Could deceptive motives lie behind the dire warnings? Please know I am speculating a bit here, but it seems strange to me that so many countries are issuing the same warnings with almost identical wording. We saw this in the buildup to the draconian precautions for COVID; now we are seeing it again.

During the COVID era, those warnings sparked fear worldwide as people wore masks, kept six feet away from others in public, closed stores, and stayed home. The alarms altered life for billions of people.

Similarly, many world governments are now stoking fear with warnings of dreadful conditions. Why? Might it be another way to eventually control people with fear, just as they did in the past?

Another possibility is that, along with the elite who are building bunkers, many world leaders recognize that something extraordinary and disastrous is coming in the near future, and they want to be in a place where they can control the narrative when it happens.

Satan is well aware of all the signs pointing to the nearness of the Rapture. Along with the above possibilities, I believe the warnings are his advanced preparation to provide plausible explanations for the disappearance of so many people.

A climactic earth-shattering event lies in the world’s future: namely the Rapture. The Lord has given us the most telling sign that we live in the last days: Israel’s miraculous appearance as a nation in 1948, which fulfilled Bible prophecy! Right now, we see a myriad of signs pointing to the nearness of the seven-year Tribulation.

We don’t know what lies ahead for us as believers in the immediate future. Perhaps we will endure difficult times because of warfare and shortages. Perhaps the Rapture will happen very soon.

However, I know two things with absolute certainty based on the Word of God.

First, horrific wars, devastating earthquakes, and deadly famines will happen right after the Rapture. What we see now are precursors – God’s warnings of what lies ahead for the planet – so people look for answers in Scripture and turn to Him. Governments worldwide are imitating His alarm bells, so people look to them for answers after the Rapture occurs.

Second, we live in the final moments before Jesus appears to take us home to the place He’s preparing for us. I am amazed this hasn’t already happened, but I realize it’s all because of the Lord’s restraining hand. But with such widespread lawlessness and support for all kinds of wickedness, now quite evident across America, how much longer can it be until the Lord says “enough,” and intervenes by first taking us home?

It’s our blessed hope, revealed throughout the New Testament, that enables us to endure all that this world throws at us. We know a glorious day lies ahead, one that could very well start at any moment. And I pray it happens soon!