15 year old boys dies in skateboarding accident
5 year old Calgary boy disappears with Grandparents
Dunville teen killed in auto accident
And then there are the ongoing riots, shootings, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions and the growing unrest in the Middle East and at the southern border of the USA.
I don't know about you, but I am not convinced that this kind of thing has been going on forever, we just have better access to information than we've ever had before.
Searching Google you will find that April of this year was a record breaking year for earthquakes.
According to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) which issues alerts for tsunamis, April was a very busy month for the earth's crust. Of course there are earthquakes every hour of every day, but the world usually only sees one or two earthquakes per month that are 6.5-magnitude or higher. This April there were 13, including five that were higher than 7.8, prompting tsunami warnings. "Easily a record for this institution," reports PTWC. ~ http://gizmodo.com/a-timelapse-of-all-the-earthquakes-from-this-record-bre-1570401997
How about tornadoes?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/record-breaking-oklahoma-tornado-was-wider-than-manhattan-and-had-winds-of-295mph-8645270.html
Many sites claim that the increase in tornado activity is actually a result of better monitoring, however, it would seem that the storms are getting more powerful... just ask the people in Arkansas, Indiana
This chart may help to show how tornadoes have increased in the last 60+ years:
Flooding?
I for one don't remember hearing about as much flooding up here in Canada as I have in the last couple of years. Between 2003 and 2013 Canada had nine disasters with damages surpassing CAD 500 million each. Prior to that only three Canadian disasters exceeded CAD 500 million in damages.[4] The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) reports that the cost of natural disasters rose 14-fold since the 1950s
So what is going on? Is it Global Warming?
I don't believe it. Especially considering that there was a release lately about high ice levels in the Arctic. http://notrickszone.com/2013/08/23/nasa-stumped-summer-arctic-ice-extent-among-highest-this-decade-antarctica-headed-toward-record-extent/
What is going on? I guess it depends on what you want to believe. Some look to science for an explanation. Some don't care.
But here is what I really believe. In the last ten years, at least, we have seen in increase in all of these things as well as crime, disease, and the decline of morality. The only thing that I can think of that has this kind of affect is God. Yep, I said it, God.
The Bible is pretty clear about a lot of things. And the state of the world is described in the Bible to a "T".
In regards to the people:
2 Timothy 3
3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power.
Matthew 24
10 At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, 11 and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. 12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, 13 but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved
2 Peter 3
Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” 5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water.
sound familiar?
As for the world?
Matthew 24
6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of birth pains.
9 “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.
Watch what is going on all around the world and you can clearly see wars, rumors of war, nation against nation, kingdom against kingdom. In the last few years we've seen Libya and Egypt in upheaval, North and South Korea on the brink. Japan and China bickering. Iran threatening just about everyone, Syria has been a mess, and now we have ISIL on the scene, advancing through Iraq, into Syria and threatening Jordan... their ultimate goal is Israel.
In many place in the middle east, Christians are being killed every day.
Which brings me back to the beginning of this post.
Not one of us knows how much time we have left in this life. We could find ourselves facing eternity at any moment. But what is most important is where you are going to spend it.
Anyone who rejects the gospel of Christ, no matter how good they think they are, will be condemned to eternal separation from God. In other words, hell. Do you really want to risk it? Look at the world. It's pretty clear it's a mess and it's going to get a lot messier. Where do you want to end up when you die? A place with no fear, pain, illness or death? or a place of eternal misery?
Jesus said that he is the way, the truth and the life, that no one could get to the father but through him.
What he meant was that if you reject him, you can't get to heaven. Take some time. If you are unsure, ask God to reveal Himself to you. He will. I pray that anyone that reads this will research and consider and choose Christ, before it's too late.
Anyone else noticing an increase in persecution against Christians?
