Terry James
Fear is on the rise in America and around the world at the moment. The fear coming upon humankind is like the nervous milling-about that stirs within the wildebeests of the Serengeti just before predators set them to flight. There are many reasons this is so. However, one particular reason especially agitates that simmering fear and will lead to growing anxiety over things to come.
Before we address the most profound reason for fear of things to come, let’s look at the many other causes that make fear levels rise across the nation and the world. Those causes involve myriad issues and events. We and others who consider our times in light of Bible prophecy continually attempt to analyze those matters and present our findings to anyone and everyone who will stop, look, and listen.
For the masses of humanity in third-world regions, such as vast areas of Africa, Asia, and other bleak places, the daily search for the next bite of food and swallow of water leads to ongoing panic. We see the frail bodies, the distended stomachs, the flies on the faces of those whose wide, searching eyes look to the cameras filming them for their next life-sustaining morsel.
These suffering souls aren’t often demonstrative with their fear because their circumstances have denuded them of energy and have robbed them of the ability to know how near to starvation they’ve come. The world turns a blind eye, for the most part, to the plight of these emaciated hordes. The people looking the other way too often include even those of us who are watchmen on the wall for the signals of Christ’s return.
Starvation, nonetheless, is one of the sure signs of where this generation stands on God’s prophetic timeline. That millions of people are caught up in growing famine dramatically warns us that the black horse of the apocalypse will one day, perhaps soon, ride forth. But growing famine isn’t the most significant reason for the geometrically-progressing worry around the globe.
Rising Contemporary Threats
Thinking of fear burgeoning within the civilized areas of the world, let’s briefly review the more familiar causes. These involve topics we have exhaustively examined in recent days:
- Iran’s determination to acquire nuclear weapons led to the recent war. Iran could not be allowed to possess the means to bomb Israel out of existence. Even now, a nuclear war in the Middle East looms as a realistic possibility.
- All of the Middle East is a breeding ground for terrorists, and they threaten the Western world as they set up radical Muslim enclaves within the UK and all the European Union nations, establishing Sharia law that overrules the laws of the nations that Islam invades. These radical Islamic forces unabashedly shout for the destruction of America, Israel, and anyone else who doesn’t bend the knee to Allah.
- There seems to be an unstoppable build-up toward an eventual nuclear exchange due to the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
- Millions have invaded US borders due to the Biden administration’s willful policies allowing illegals to enter. Terrorists threaten to blow up things and kill people in every part of America. New York and other major American cities and their large, densely-congregated populations are in the bullseye for attack by terrorists with possibly horrific weapons, including those that are nuclear, biological, and chemical.
- The United States of America daily experiences assaults from even some in Congress who seemingly hate America. They work incessantly at chipping away at individual rights and national sovereignty. The US Constitution is under unending assault, and the system of checks and balances is out the window.
- Congressmen and women continue to shirk their responsibility to the American people, concentrating more on their own wealth and power. We’ve witnessed a government power grab of unprecedented proportions during the previous administration.
- Morality plummets, while entertainment madness infects old and young alike, taking thoughts of preserving the republic far from the citizenry.
- US leadership in economy, diplomacy, and almost every other category is on the skids, even with the new administration’s efforts to slow the slide into oblivion. Corporate America has become a sick, dying entity – thanks to elected officials who seem intent on the government owning/running private enterprise. By their constant striving to meld the American economy with the socialist economic structures of Europe, they are destroying this nation, whether wittingly or not. By running up multi-trillion-dollar deficits, these so-called “Progressives” are giving away hope for future generations to know the prosperity of past generations of Americans.
- The neo-Babel builders herd America’s great wealth, technology, and influence toward end-times Babylon – the long-anticipated New World Order.
- The leaders of most nations are violating, at every turn, God’s prescription for interacting with His chosen nation, Israel. The world’s diplomatic community, of course, has no idea of the prophetic ramifications of dealing treacherously with Israel, so it has no qualms about trying to force a peace that can never truly be made this side of Christ’s Second Advent.
- Most frightening of all, from the perspective of those of us who are watching the stage being set for biblically prophetic things to come, is the fact that the Church, as a whole, is oblivious to America’s treacherous dealings with Israel. Most in this late hour, in fact, think the Church has replaced Israel as inheritor of the promises God gave to the people of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Today, much of the Church is both ignorant and apathetic about Bible prophecy – an attitude the Lord Jesus rebuked in Revelation 2-3.
All of the foregoing, however, doesn’t account in total for the almost-tangible fear about the future. The one, all-encompassing reason for the fear that is driving people to look anxiously at what’s ahead for themselves and their children is the spirit that pervades this generation.
It is the spirit of Antichrist.
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