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End Times Signs
Signs of the End Times
Unfolding Before Our Eyes
JEREMY
BURNS
Though
Christ warned that no one but the Father knows the exact day and hour of His
return, Scripture provides us with myriad signs that illustrate the time is
drawing nearer.
Here
are five key signs of the end times that are making waves right now.
1. "Endless" drought burns forests like
kindling
The
ongoing California drought has killed more than 12 millon trees in its San
Bernardino National Forest to date.
The danger is
compounded by rampant bark beetle infestations and wildfires, both of which
take advantage of the trees' water deprivation.
"It
is almost certain that millions more trees will die over the course of the
upcoming summer as the drought situation continues and becomes ever more long
term," biologist Jeffrey Moore, acting regional aerial survey program
manager for the U.S. Forest Service, told the Los
Angeles Times.
Now four
years into the deadly drought, California has approved unprecedented water
usage restrictions on businesses, government agencies, and individuals, in
a desperate effort to conserve the state's increasingly limited water.
But with more
than 93 percent of the state experiencing severe, extreme or exceptional
drought as measured by the U.S. Drought Monitor, the situation looks dire
indeed.
"This
is the drought of the century, with greater impact than anything our parents
and grandparents experienced," said Felicia Marcus, chair of the State
Water Resources Control Board, in a statement.
2. Bird flu outbreak the next step toward a new plague?
Although
the burgeoning Ebola epidemic has largely been brought under control (for now),
another highly pathogenic virus is just starting to rampage through the
American heartland.
The
H5 strain of avian flu has infected upward of 20 million birds at dozens
of commercial sites from Iowa to Idaho, from California to Arkansas.
Though the
poultry and egg industry is taking steps to prevent any of the infected birds
from entering our food supply, one can only imagine the potential devastation
that could be wreaked should some of these infections slip through — potentially
triggering the long-feared jump to a strain of the virus inherently infectious
to humans.
3. Thousands of starving sea lions mysteriously displaced
A
record number of sea lions have washed up, starving and stranded, on southern
California shores in recent months.
This ghastly
phenomenon more than doubles the total of lost sea lions appearing in 2013, the
previous worst winter on record for the animals.
Moreover,
the record counts don't even include the vast number of dead sea lions, many of
which may never be discovered.
Government
agencies and news media have blamed the "unusual mortality event" on
a confluence of strange events, from warming coastal waters and unseasonably
weak ocean winds to abnormal food shortages.
Whatever the
cause, it is clear that something strange and unprecedented is disturbing the
normal flow of this marine ecosystem, and it's growing in intensity.
4. The Altar of the Lord rebuilt in Jerusalem
One
of the key unfulfilled elements of end-times prophecy is the rebuilding of the
temple of the Lord in Jerusalem.
For
centuries, the Temple Mount has been occupied by the Dome of the Rock and the
Al-Aqsa Mosque, and even today, though the site is in the State of Israel, the
site is administered by the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf, a Muslim organization.
In short,
there are several key barriers that seem to block the way to that particular
prophecy being fulfilled.
The
Temple Institute is one organization vying for the temple's reconstruction, and
it recently undertook an unprecedented step in this prophetic restoration:
rebuilding the Altar of the Lord.
Though
the altar, which was completed in December, would comprise just a portion of
the prophesied restored temple, this is just a step in the Temple Institute's
overall plan to fulfill Scripture.
In
keeping with its stated goal of "do[ing] all in our limited power to bring
about the building of the Holy Temple in our time," the organization, and
other supporters of the "Temple Movement," are working to bring this
prophecy to fruition in the very near future.
5. Microchip implants—the Mark of the Beast?
It
has long been surmised that the Mark of the Beast could be electronic in
nature, perhaps as an implanted microchip in the hand or forehead, to be used
for commerce, identification and access to various elements of life under the
Antichrist's rule.
Recently, one
company in Sweden voluntarily piloted a program that bears eerie
similarities to those apocalyptic predictions.
Employees
of BioNyfiken are able to unlock doors, access their printing accounts, and pay
for lunch with a simple wave of their hand, as scanners read the chip implanted
within and identify the user associated with it.
Hannes
Sjoblad, BioNyfiken's chief disruption officer, predicts a future in
which "big corporates and big government come to us and say everyone
should get chipped."
Meanwhile,
tech trends expert Faith Popcorn revealed that, "We foresee a future in
which everyone will have an implanted chip."
What
other end-times signs do you see unfolding? Sound off.
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