Hmmm?... What does one think about when you see government powers coming together?
Educational curriculums, law and order, politics, healthcare, economy, education, religion... ??
We think of Biblical prophesy.
All if not most of these have been in the process of consolidating for decades now and some are coming together faster than expected.
Even the mere talks of this should raise the little hairs in the back of our necks unless of coarse, we take Biblical prophecy as serious as watching "Ironman", the movie part 5.
I am not ashamed of being that guy ... the one on the corner holding up a "The End is near" sign. Because Jesus said, "When you see these things, it is the beginning of birth pains". "The beginning of sorrows".
I'm knocked down in awe when I see how quickly civil unrest takes place.
It's not that most people cannot take an issue like these recent protests in major US cities, and find the right balance of what is wrong and what the solution is. But the fact that it takes a smaller but more passionate one-sided view on each extreme to cause such chaos and disequilibrium over the whole nation.
And then issues like these push us towards an equally chaotic solution like.... a "national policing force".
Our children aren't learning to read and write well, so the government steps in and starts a whole national "common core" system to try and rectify that issue.
The same with healthcare (Obamacare)...
The environment .... (Agenda 21)
We've heard politicians use the phrase "New World Order" in their speech especially, with respect to a "global" economy.
Our problem with securing the electrical grid, electronic banking systems and personal identifications are now being threatened more than ever. And the call for "Cyber" security is very much in the news today. The talks are headed in the direction of combining more than ever national identification systems in all facets of every day life (healthcare, immigration, employment, etc.) ... for our over all security. In order to secure people and institutions, inevitably you're going to have to shut some doors (preventing access to) and open others (privacy breaching). It's inevitable.
How have all of these necessities come upon us? ... Signs of the times.
And even in religion, we've seen the continuation of systems and ideas coming together teaching pluralism ... where it is said that major religions have more in common than where they differ.
Recently, because of the anti-Christian devastation in the middle east, Pope Francis visited with the heads of the Eastern Orthodox church to make a pact of peace... something that has never happened before.
And then there's the extreme purging of Christians all over the Middle East and in various parts of the world as we know it. Like never before, Christians are being slaughtered. This is happening right in front of global eyes, and very little is being said or done about it. The nations of the world do not care. (This is a good time to read what Christ, Jesus thinks about how the world treats his little brothers - Read Matthew 25).
God is in the process of removing His saints off the face of the earth, and the hour of "sorrows" is upon us.
While we sip our coffees in the morning or channel surf, whole villages of families, women and children are being run out of their homes only with whatever they can carry...
They're losing EVERYTHING they own and their lives are in constant risk of sickness, disease, murder, rape, torture, etc.
If God's Truth is within us, we can see these things and where they are headed. Jesus said: "Unless you are born from above, you cannot see the Kingdom of Heaven".
You won't be able to understand what's going on unless God's Truth (Holy Spirit) is within you.
When Jesus said this, He was talking to an extremely intelligent and religious man who came to Him by night in order to find what he was missing. And Jesus spoke to him and basically told him that with all his religion, he was missing THE POINT of it all. (Book of John Chapter 3)
Because after all, there's religion, and then there's TRUTH.
Truly, we're living in perilous times as predicted in scripture.
It's high time to pray for all those many displaced and persecuted people all over the world. And pray that "Ye be counted worthy to escape these things that are set to come upon the earth".
It's also a ripe time to deliver that Gospel message to everyone. Some will hear, most will not but God has already counted which "are His" from the foundation of the world.
God bless you.
