End Times Overview (Perplexity of the Nations)

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“For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will also be famines. These things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.(Mark 13:8 NASB)

Phases of Labor

Key Events Ramping Up
to the Tribulation
(not complete list)

Rapid advancement toward the creation of a world currency (anticipating the mark of the beast)

Attempts to Divide Jerusalem (Zech 12:3, Daniel 9:27)

Greater frequency and intensity of natural disasters (like birth pangs Mark 13:8 )

World Currency
(and demise of US $)

Rep. Kanjorski Admitted The World Economy Was 20 Hours From Collapse On CSPAN     (Feb 16, 2009)

China Paper Urges New Currency Order After “Financial Tsunami”
Reuters Sep 17, 2008 www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSPEK4365020080917

The Chinese yuan is preparing to overtake the US dollar UK Telegraph 14 May 2009http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5325805/Chinas-yuan-set-to-usurp-US-dollar-as-worlds-reserve-currency.html

China Buys $50 Billion SDRs of IMF    Wall St Journal Sept 3, 2009 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125194047261781873.html

UN wants new global currency to replace dollar

“The dollar should be replaced with a global currency, the United Nations…”     UK Telegraph Sept 7, 2009

“Scrap dollar as sole reserve currency: U.N. report” (Reuters) – June 29, 2010

Medvedev sees single currency dream in G8 coin gift

Attempts to
Divide Jerusalem
(and destroy Israel)

A Warning to Not
Divide Jerusalem

“And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it. (Zechariah 12:3)

March 19 – Quartet Against Jerusalem

Quartet (US, UN, EU and Russia) meets in Moscow and calls on Israel to stop construction in East Jerusalem, freeze settlement construction and begin proximity talks with the Palestinians.

Bill Koenig http://www.watch.org/showart.php3?idx=129114&rtn=/index.html&showsubj=1&mcat=1

April 19-20 – Israel’s
Independence Day

Martin Indyk: “Netanyahu must choose: Obama or his right-wing Likud Party.” April 19-20, 2010

May 31 Turkey Flotilla

Greater frequency and intensity of
Natural Disasters

…Merely the Beginning
of Birth Pangs

“And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken. (Luke 21:25-26)

“The number of events have gone up very, very dramatically,”

Trends in natural disasters. (2005). In UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics Library. Retrieved 03:35, September 16, 2010 fromhttp://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/trends-in-natural-disasters.

Global Natural Disasters

Natural Disasters of
2010
January – Rio de Janeiro Mudslide
& Haiti’s 7.0 earthquake

February 27 – Chile’s 8.8 earthquake

March 20 – Iceland’s volcano erupted for first time in 200 years.

April 4, Qinghai, China 6.9 magnitude quake

April 20 – Gulf of Mexico oil spill

April 22-24, Southeastern U.S.

Tornadoes cut through the Southern United States over a few days, causing massive destruction in parts of Mississippi and Alabama. 10+ deaths. AP

May 10, U.S. southern Plains

Several tornadoes tore through the southern Plains, killing five people and injuring dozens. Storms moved through parts of Oklahoma and Kansas, dumping hail as big as softballs, leveling houses, flipping cars, and downing hundreds of power lines. AP

May 2010, Central Europe

Half a dozen countries – The Czech Republic, Hungary, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Serbia – have been devasted by the worst flooding in decades. AP

May 28, Cotalo, Ecuador

Ecuadorean villagers fled their homes after the Andean nation’s “Throat of Fire” volcano erupted, AP

May 31 Guatemala Sinkhole

Sink hole 60 feet wide

200 feet deep

June 12, Langley, Ark

At least 18 people were killed …after the Little Missouri River engorged more than 20 feet in a matter of hours AP

June 14, Oklahoma City

thunderstorms dumped as much as 10 inches of rain […] killing at least one. AP

June 22, northern Brazil

– Torrential floods ripped through cities in northeastern Brazil, killing at least 50 people. AP

July 28 – August, Pakistan

By August the continued flooding had affected 20 million people and about one-fifth of Pakistan’s territory, AP

July 31-August  Russian Fires

Mozambique Food Riots

Protests over rising food prices that have left thirteen people dead enter the second day in capital Maputo

Sept. 4, New Zealand – powerful 7.1- tremor magnitude

estimated $2.9 billion in damage. David Alexander, Associated Press

Sept 8^th Indonesian volcano erupts again; strongest yet

San Bruno, Calif., Sept 9, 2010

Are We Seeing Fulfillments of the
“Times and Seasons”??

Massive Solar Flare (CME) 2012-2014(?)

NASA Finds A Giant Breach in Earth’s Magnetic Field (2012-2014)

4 Total Lunar Eclipses 2014-2015 (per Mark Biltz)

Impending collapse of $ (before 2015?)

All Seeing Eye on back of $ to arrive 2012-2016 (Per Tom Horn)

Fig Tree (Matt 24:32-34) 1948 + 70/80 yrs = 2018/2028??

Our Hope

“Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.” (Luke 21:28)

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