by Michael G. Mickey
(10-28-07)

Mark 13:8: For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

Famines and troubles. We have plenty of those these days, don't we? Not only do we have them, what we're being told, in no uncertain terms, is we can expect more of the same.

In Yellowstone National Park, grizzly bears are suffering from an unusually high mortality rate according to a Fox News story, the likely cause of that phenomena being a lack of food sources. Whenever we find that nature is struggling to feed itself, it should be cause for concern, especially if we find that to be the case in an area like Yellowstone National Park! Anyone who has been there knows what I'm talking about. If bear are struggling find something to eat there, it doesn't bode well for the species --- or us.

I'm not trying to make a case for Christ's return drawing near based solely on grizzly bears being hungry in Yellowstone National Park. Far from it! Readers, we have trouble brewing everywhere as I strive to document on the website to the best of my ability, both through commentary and on the site's news page. Surely, the Tribulation Period is drawing near that a sleepy-eyed world seems absolutely incapable of grasping the drastic condition our planet is presently in!

I have to confess that it was only recently that even I became aware of how serious the drought in the southeastern U.S. has been! Needless to say, since a sister from Georgia brought me up to speed on the situation in the Atlanta area, I've been praying for the Lord to quench the thirst of our lands and I hope you will all join me in that. If a Fox News story is accurate, we may need to make prayer for rainfall a regular part of our prayers as experts fear much of the United States is in danger of suffering from a shortage of water. The following is an excerpt from that story:

An epic drought in Georgia threatens the water supply for millions. Florida doesn't have nearly enough water for its expected population boom. The Great Lakes are shrinking. Upstate New York's reservoirs have dropped to record lows. And in the West, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is melting faster each year.

Across America, the picture is critically clear - the nation's freshwater supplies can no longer quench its thirst.

The government projects that at least 36 states will face water shortages within five years because of a combination of rising temperatures, drought, population growth, urban sprawl, waste and excess.

Frightening information to digest, isn't it? But this is what happens when a finite number of resources continue to be tapped into by an ever-growing population that is sinful in its management of same. And, make no mistake about it, our nation's sin problem lies at the core of these troubles.

Did you know that a continent-size stew of plastic trash is floating in the waters of the Pacific Ocean between San Francisco and Hawaii? That's the case according to a San Francisco Chronicle story that opens as follows:

At the start of the Academy Award-winning movie "American Beauty," a character videotapes a plastic grocery bag as it drifts into the air, an event he casts as a symbol of life's unpredictable currents, and declares the romantic moment as a "most beautiful thing."

To the eyes of an oceanographer, the image is pure catastrophe.

In reality, the rogue bag would float into a sewer, follow the storm drain to the ocean, then make its way to the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch - a heap of debris floating in the Pacific that's twice the size of Texas, according to marine biologists.

The enormous stew of trash - which consists of 80 percent plastics and weighs some 3.5 million tons, say oceanographers - floats where few people ever travel, in a no-man's land between San Francisco and Hawaii.

How sad - and this is just a mere tidbit of a far bigger picture.

In what should be the equivalent of a gigantic billboard reading 'Jesus Christ is coming soon!', the United Nations, as reported in a Fox News story, is saying that environmental damage is threatening life on earth!

The story opens as follows:

The international community must respond more quickly to climate change, species extinction, dwindling supplies of fresh water and other threats to the planet, the U.N. Environment Program warned Thursday.

The U.N. agency said in a report that nations still fail to recognize the seriousness of environmental threats to the planet.

Do I believe that mankind is going to react to any of the U.N.'s concerns in concert in spite of the threat posed to our planet's very existence? No. All one has to do is read the Bible to see that what we're being told is of concern to mankind is not going to be addressed with any passion.

Mankind is going to continue in its collectively godless approach to managing the earth's resources until, ultimately, all hell is going to break out upon the earth in the form of the Tribulation Period.

The end of the world, as we presently know it, is near. Our redemption draweth nigh!

Luke 21:28: And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.