DEALING WITH THE TIMES OF CRISIS

(part 1)

As I write this article, I look through the glass of my windows. The trees in the gardening circle in front of my house are beginning to lose its leaves. Autumn has arrived in the Southern Hemisphere. As it warms up, the sun kisses the trees and plants. I watch the birds singing and working as they gather material for their nests.

Facing all this, you wouldn't know the world is in the grip of its most catastrophic pandemic in more than a century.

We are at a moment in history in which we can learn vital lessons so we are not caught unaware when larger, even more impactful, prophesied events occur in the future.

God is giving the world a wake-up call, a moment of crisis that can bring clarity to life in 2020. This world will not be the same after this pandemic.

God is giving the world a moment to wake up and repent. Will you seek God while He may be found? Isn't the time to understand how suddenly the world can change?.

Here we are dealing with the lingering impact of an event no one would have expected when we were celebrating the New Year of 2020.

As I write this article, around the third part of the month of April, more than 2 million people have contracted the virus and more than 130,000 have died in this worldwide plague. Entire economies have been turned upside down. The social compacts between government and citizens will be permanently altered, and we may be sorting through the aftermath for years.

I truly believe that by putting this event in a biblical context will help you cope with what’s happening and be better prepared when, not if, something of this magnitude happens again. It is, then, time to learn. In the Book of Luke, Jesus Christ referred to an increase of "pestilences" or disease epidemics along with other disasters in the buildup of events leading to His return, and many wonder if we've reached the final stages of this progression.

"And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven." (Luke 21:11)

Lately, I have been referring quite often to chapter 6 of Revelation which, by the way, is dealt with precision and detail in my book "Apocalypse Unfolding Now" where it describes the infamous "four horsemen of the Apocalypse", which in parallel to Jesus’ prophecy represent spiritual deception, war, famine and plagues of disease and disaster.

The important question is: Have we reached this point?

It is obvious and true that while these conditions have always been a part of human history, a marked increase will occur in the end time. We have seen such increase since the world wars of the past century, but the final ramp-up is still ahead.

Chapter 6 of Revelation, more specifically verse 8, indicate that this "end time" And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given to them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. Catastrophes will kill a fourth of the earth’s population. With the global population now approaching 8 billion, it is clear that we have not yet approached this scale.

Bible prophecy is clear that other key prophetic events must occur before we reach that point. So while the global COVID-19 pandemic fits within Jesus’ warning of increasing epidemics leading to global fear and other troubles, this is more of a foretaste of far worse things to come. We still have further to go before the final devastating events preceding Christ’s return. (to be continued...)