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Kilotons and megatons. Civil-defense drills. Blaring air-raid sirens. "Duck and cover." The Berlin Wall. ICBMs. The Cuban missile crisis. Backyard bomb shelters. For those of us who grew up in the 1950s and '60s, the end of the world was serious business.
Anthrax. "Dirty" bombs. Sarin gas. Holy war. VX. Nuclear "suitcase" bombs. Suicide bombers. Armageddon. The end of the world is serious business again today.
Many hoped the threat of nuclear war would disappear when the Soviet Union collapsed more than a decade ago. But that hope proved to be in vain. Now we have more nuclear-armed armies than there were in the '50s and '60s, many of them in dangerously unstable places.
At least when only a few major powers had nuclear arms, we could bet that cooler, more rational heads would prevail. Each side knew that using weapons of mass destruction could invite annihilation.
Not any more. In our new age of uncertainty it seems only a matter of time before rogue nations or terrorists get their hands on nuclear materials. Many already have deadly biological and chemical weapons-and not only the will but also the willingness to use them. Our world is perhaps more dangerously unstable than ever.
Jesus Christ, in a major prophecy He gave shortly before His death (recorded in Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21), listed signs to look for that would precede His return and the end of this present age of man. They read much like today's headlines: religious confusion and deception, wars and rumors of wars, ethnic unrest, famines, disease epidemics, earthquakes, other natural disasters and more (Matthew 24:1-8,29). Ultimately, Jesus said, these horrors will build to a crescendo in a time of "great tribulation" so dangerous and devastating that, without God's intervention, humanity would face extinction (verses 21-22).
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