Indifference to God

Matthew 24:38

In case you are just joining us, we’re observing what’s happening in the world around us – with what the Bible says will happen prior to the 2ND coming of Christ.

Jesus describes the events prior to His return as birth pains in Matthew 24:7-8. “Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.”

Think about it: the closer a woman comes to giving birth, the closer together the contractions are. Let’s review what’s happening in the world around us:

• Financial famine in America: High unemployment; skyrocketing bankruptcy; financial markets seem to have little stability-
• Complete economic uncertainty in global markets
• Lawlessness in London’s streets and other major cities – Libya, Syria, Egypt, Yeman
• Egypt, Syria, Tunisia and Yeman have been shaken this year by dramatic and unexpected revolutions –
  
• Israel – Iran is rapidly closing in on building nuclear weapons and the world is not doing nearly enough to stop them –
• A new global mentality.
• Moving ever so slowly to one currency – Europe has already consolidated it’s currency. Leaders have expressed desire to be one economically.
  
• 2011 Earthquake / Tsunami in Japan
• 2010 Earthquake in Haiti
• 2005 Category 5 Hurricane Katrina
• 2004 Earthquake/Tsunami in Southeast Asia
  

Jesus likened the second coming to the days of Noah. “For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.”