February 2002 Vol.5, No. 2 Contents Western Thinking About Middle East Misses Key Factor by Cecil E. Maranville Restoration: World's Greatest Nation? by Darris McNeely The Coming World Religion by Darris McNeely Meeting Our Moment of Maximum Jeopardy! by John Ross Schroeder Fifty Years of the African Queen by Melvin Rhodes In Brief...World News Review by John Foster, Cecil E. Maranville and Jim Tuck This Is the Way... A Vision Beyond the Spectacles by Robin Webber Feb '02 WNP Main Meeting Our Moment of Maximum Jeopardy! Human survival has been at stake in times long before our own. Mankind has already passed through several periods of extreme crisis. But the one up ahead may just be the granddaddy of them all. by John Ross Schroeder Over the millennia mankind has faced several crisis periods when the survival of the species was in doubt. In more contemporary times one thinks of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 when the world was brought to the brink of nuclear war between the former Soviet Union and the United States. Fortunately, wiser heads prevailed on both sides and the critical issues were resolved in the realm of diplomatic activity rather than nuclear conflict. A historic moment of maximum jeopardy Perhaps mankind's most critical past crisis occurred over 4,000 years ago. The biblical background of it is crucial to our understanding. Those ancient peoples were in the midst of a population explosion and the Bible records the on-the-spot assessment by the Creator Himself. God was enormously displeased with the chaotic moral state of that ancient world. Those early peoples had strayed so far from their Creator's way that He pronounced the death sentence upon them. Clearly their crimes were capital in nature. "And the LORD said, 'My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh (mortal, NIV); yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years'" (Genesis 6:3). Implicit in God's pronouncement was His longsuffering to provide sufficient time for a wholesale repentance, but it did not occur (see 1Peter 3:20; 2Peter 2:5). Read the full article at www.wnponline.org/wnp/wnp0202/maximumjeopardy.htm Related Information on UCG Sites: Table of Contents that includes "Meeting Our Moment of Maximum Jeopardy!" Other Articles by John Ross Schroeder Olivet prophecy: _Why Understanding World News Is So Important! _Signs of the End Times _The Man Who Saw It All in Advance _Can We Know the Future? _Do Not be Deceived _Has Jesus Christ's Olivet Prophecy Been Fulfilled? _'When You See These Things, Know That It Is Near...' _Understanding the Return of Christ Noah: _Update on the Search for Noah's Ark _The Population Explosion and Prophecy _Noah and Our Time: A Sobering Parallel _God's Magnificent Series of Covenants _A Colossal Testimony to God _Noah: An Example of Righteousness _Noah's Flood: Did the Noachian Flood Cause Global Catastrophe? _Noah's Flood: Did It Really Happen? _Understanding Biblical `Kinds' _Was There Enough Water? _Noah's Ark: Was It Possible? _Was Noah's Flood Universal? _Evidence of a Worldwide Flood _Letters From Our Readers - Sep/Oct 2003 _Question and Answers - VT Jan/Mar 2004 _In the News Oct/Dec 2004 _In the News Jan/Mar 2005 _Noah: A True Noncomformist _Questions and Answers - Jan/Mar 2003 _Confusion Over Noah _Answers from Genesis - Part 4 _Answers From Genesis — part 5 Prophecy, end time - world: _The Cause of Natural Disasters _And The World Was Filled With Violence _The Population Bomb Keeps Ticking Away _Apocalyptic Prophecy - the End of Time? _An Outline of Future History _Is China Really "Opening Up" to the West? _Are We Living in the Time of the End? (8/2001) _Visions of Judgment: The Red Horse of War _Visions of Judgment: The Ride of the Third Horseman -- Famine _Visions of Judgment: The Ride of the Fifth Horseman _Krakatoa -- Preparing for the Future? _How Close Are We to the End of This Age? _The Heavenly Signs in the Sequence of End-Time Events _60 Years After the War in Europe _In the Aftermath of Katrina: What Can We Learn? _Why Don't We Prepare? _World Won't End in "Fire and Ice" _Restoration: Don't Mess With Revelation! _The Two Witnesses and You _The Fall of Satan's Kingdom _The End Time in the Book of Revelation _The End of the Age _God's Framework for End-Time Prophecy _Are We Living in the Time of the End? _What Is the Time of the End? _'This Generation Will Not Pass' _The End of 'This present Evil Age' _A Dangerous and Dying World _The Book of Revelation: Timetable for the End Time _Introduction (bsc5) _The Crisis at the Close _Does Prophecy Tell Us When Christ Will Return? _Armageddon and Divine Intervention _Mass Media and Bible Prophecy _Will Civilization End in Global Cataclysm? _The End of the World: What Does the Bible Say? _The Horsemen of Revelation: The Red Horse of War _The Horsemen of Revelation: The Pale Horse of Pestilence _Are We Living in the Time of the End? (3/2005) _The Day the World Ended: Lessons From Pompeii _Is God Indifferent to Human Suffering? _'Watch Therefore, and Pray Always' _Does History Repeat Itself? The Biblical Verdict _What's Next? A Looming Trade War? _Questions and Answers _Will You Be Ready to Reject the Mark of the Beast? _The Acts of Moses, Elijah and the Two Witnesses _The Warnings Are Loud and Clear--But Are You Listening? _The Enormous Expansion of Chinese Influence: What Does It Portend? _Is 2012 the End of the World? _Will 2012 Bring the End of the World? Search Our Site Key Subjects Index General Topics Index Biblical References Index Good News Magazine Index Booklets and All Literature Index Home Page of this site