As I write this article today, May 13, 2008, I have realized that the world is in great crisis this particular week. Thousands of human lives have been lost and more than a billion dollar worth of properties damaged from this particular week alone.
You can read it from the news papers and see in on the television news casts - tragedy after tragedy is happening this particular week. And these are simply natural chaos that are not even man-made. It is not just Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers who is suffering in pain, but there are literally thousands of people who are also injured and have suffered this week.
More than 10,000 people are now feared dead in Myanmar which was formerly named Burma. And thousands are also suffering. The cause? Tropical cyclone Nargis. Complicating the scenario is politics in Myanmar where their government is slow in releasing visas for foreign aid to come to the rescue of their people.
More than 10,000 people are also feared dead in China. The cause? A 7.9 magnitude earth quake that caused the collapse of many buildings in China. As of press time, hundreds of people including children are still trapped inside collapsed buildings.
As of press time, wild fires are ravaging the state of Florida, USA. Another fire can be seen starting in the mountains of Mt. Baldy in California. 22 people have been killed in Oklahoma due to the recent tornado. This tornado have also damaged properties along the way as it ripped through several other states.
These are simply natural causes. These do not even include the deaths due to wars in the middle east. These do not even include the rising prices of gas in America. What exactly is happening in the world today? Are these signs of the times happening right before our very eyes?
Try to pause and think about it for a moment. These events are not simply children's Bible stories that can be told as the time passes by. These events are simply the reality of what has been foretold in the Holy Bible. Yet there could be even more worse events that may come.
Think about it. Have we realized what exactly is happening to this world? Or are we simply numbed because year after year we read and hear about crisis that is happening world wide? Is the world coming to an end pretty soon? If He does come very soon, are you ready for the coming of Jesus Christ?
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