End Times Headlines This Week

Posted by Lorren on October 24, 2008

Again, I’d like to thank Kalexa over at Homeschoolreviews.com for posting these. The commentary is mine, the headlines were gathered by her.

Police prepare for unrest on election day
~ The last days will be full of violence, as in the days of Noah. It says something about our country if we can’t even vote without violence.

U.S. foreclosure filings up 71% in the third quarter
U.S. mulls $40 bln plan to help forestall foreclosures
Leaders to rethink global finance
Deep recession fears slam Wall Street
Global financial crisis could reach peak in spring – Russian source
~ America can not be a global superpower in the last days… since the Bible does not mention America, we can not be a major player in the last days. However, it’s not just the United States that is having financial problems. The Antichrist will one day implement a system where everyone who wants to buy or sell would have to get a mark that will doom them to hell. A financial meltdown would make people more willing to take this mark.

EU’s Solana says Europe’s commitment to the peace process is “total.”
~ Solana’s a big guy in the United Nations, EU, and peace process movement. Israel will sign a 7 year peace deal during the tribulation, that the Antichrist will break halfway through it.

Georgia says Russia deploying troops in S.Ossetia
Libya seeks Russian arms
US, British ex-diplomats warn Bosnia in danger of collapse
Diplomats Fail to Reach Agreement on Iran’s Nuclear Program
~ The world will be full of violence in the last days. There will also be war in the beginning of the Tribulation period.

Iranian Officials Recommend Preemptive Strike Against Israel
Kuntar: Zionist entity must disappear
Obama’s expected victory in US election could signal bad times for Israel
~ The world will turn against Israel in the last days.

‘No God’ slogans for city’s buses
Vatican synod stresses importance of interfaith dialogue
~ The Antichrist will create a one-world religion, even before he claims to be God himself. People that believe in the Bible and the one true God are less likely to go for a one-world religion.

Data show U.S. riding out worst storms on record
~There will be signs in the weather

Obama spells ‘persecution,’ warns Focus on the Family
India asked to investigate Hindu massacre of Christians
Iraq’s Christians ’sacrificial lambs’ as attacks mount
British aid worker shot dead in Afghanistan for ‘preaching Christianity’
~ In Matthew 24:9-10, Jesus says that we will be hated and persecuted for his Name’s sake. This is in the same chapter that he was talking about the signs of the end.

Health alert as dengue fever rages in Pacific
Plague Emerges in Grand Canyon, Kills Biologist
~ Jesus also mentions pestilences in the last days (Matthew 24)

UN warns of millions could starve in North Korea
Longer drought sends Thar to threshold of famine
~ Jesus talks about famines in the last days

QUAKE HITS IRAN
Powerful quake rattles Tonga
Strong quake hits Indonesia’s Sulawesi island
~ In the last days, Jesus said that there would be “Earthquakes in diverse places” (Matthew 24:7).

School holds surprise ‘Gay’ Day for kindergartners
~ People will not follow God in the last days.