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The WORLD STAGE of the THIRD DECADE of the 21st CENTURY: Humanity’s FORESEEN, Potentially Very Dangerous SITUATION.

An unusual, potentially very deceptive PERIOD of TIME in human history, when many powerful nation-leaders, organizations, and great multitudes of people around the globe of Earth are clamoring for and working for "PEACE, SECURITY, and PROSPERITY." Ever closer and closer to making these tremendous goals a REALITY for a major portion of humankind. 

YET, even among the vast multitudes worldwide who desire these enormous "BLESSINGS," there are great numbers led by vociferous, persuasive influencers, who want to ENJOY THEM in a world where pure libertinism, secularism, materialism, and hedonism are the ruling philosophies for human life on Earth. With almost zero tolerance for opposing life views and world views. A MENTALITY which, effectively, translates to the philosophy and agenda of: "NO specific moral codes; NO God, gods, or goddesses; NO Bible, Vedas (Hinduism), Tripitaka (Buddhism), Guru Granth Sahib (Sikhism), Qur'an (Islam), or other so-called "Sacred Writings." In short, to: NO RELIGION AT ALL!!!!.

Believe it or not, this "Unusual, disquieting PRESENT SITUATION of HUMANITY in GENERAL in the 2020s" was, to those who see it thus, actually FORSEEN almost 2,000 years ago by the Master Teacher and Prophet of Nazareth, JESUS. He taught: "While people are saying, 'There is PEACE and SECURITY,' then SUDDEN DESTRUCTION will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a THIEF. For you are all children of LIGHT, children of the DAY. We are not of the night or of the darkness. So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober." 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11. "THAT DAY" is not a reference to the "Pax Romana" ("Roman Peace"), usually dated from 27 BCE to 180 CE, but to the DAY of the SECOND "COMING of the LORD," described in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, of which the above-cited text is a continuation.

 

And for a clearer and deeper understanding of the "Unusual, disquieting  SITUATION" under the magnifying glass, he revealed the relevant prophecies of Revelation 10:6; 16:12-16; 20:1-11; and 21:1 on "rulers of nations deceived and persecuting, rulers not deceived during a "THOUSAND YEARS" (the Millennium), rulers deceived again, ARMAGEDDON, the END of the EARTH, and "TIME SHOULD BE NO LONGER."

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What is so "UNUSUAL, disquieting, and potentially HIGHLY DECEPTIVE" about the prophecy of Jesus and its fulfillment in the Third Decade of the 21st Century? Think about it. In a given "SITUATION of HUMANITY," when great multitudes around the globe of Earth are blessed with "PEACE, SECURITY, and PROSPERITY" to a notable degree, how could there be any serious threat or real danger of "SUDDEN DESTRUCTION" WORLDWIDE? "Unthinkable, absurd, ridiculous" would be, naturally, the response of multitudes who have not, for whatever reason, studied these subjects.

 

But, It can happen, and is prophesied by the Master Teacher and Prophet Jesus of Nazareth to assuredly happen as a consequence of the godless secularism, materialism, hedonism, and satanic idolatry of the overriding majority of human beings who take advantage of "PEACE, SECURITY, and PROSPERITY" to satisfy all their own personal fleshly, worldly passions, vices, obsessions, agendas, and philosophies, in bold and defiant rejection of the Creator God's divine purpose and instructions for human beings!

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Severe PLAGUES are to be brought upon them to get them to "REPENT," but, revealing beforehand, by divine foresight, the outcome, Jesus says: "THEY DID NOT REPENT." Revelation 9:20-21; 11:18; 16:9-21 

I would respectfully ask: Have Buddha, Confucius, the authors of the Vedas, Mohammed, the Popes, the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchs, the Aztec writings, Nostradamus, and self-appointed "prophets" of Christendom such as Jong Myuung-Seok (South Korean), Alan John Miller (Australian), et all, proclaimed as divine revelations given to them, specific prophecies just like those of Jesus of Nazareth being precisely fulfilled in this THIRD DECADE of the 21st CENTURY? Precisely, the one: "While people are saying, 'There is PEACE and SECURITY,' then SUDDEN DESTRUCTION will come upon them..."

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To be sure, "the TESTIMONY of JESUS is the SPIRIT of PROPHECY" (Revelation 19:10), and both his prophecies fulfilled already, as well as those being fulfilled in the 21st century, constitute indisputable proof that he is the "ONE LORD" (Ephesians 4:5) who has that true "SPIRIT of PROPHECY." Thus confirmed his legitimacy, power, and universal "AUTHORITY" (Matthew 28:18-20), WISE, indeed, will be the human beings in Asia, Africa, Europe, North, Central, and South America, and all the islands of the seven seas who seek to know and follow his will on all matters having to do with the salvation of the soul, for he and his Father in heaven desire "all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." 1 Timothy 2:3-4; John 3:16.

 

"Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned." Mark 16:15-16; Acts 22:16. "REPENT and BE BAPTIZED every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ FOR the FORGIVENESS of your SINS, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." Acts 2:28

Text and layout by the author Homer Dewayne Shappley. All rights reserved. Not to be sold in any format. The source should be properly identified in any published citation of the content.

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The World Stage of the 21st Century: Actors and Events.

Prophecies of the New Testament Sacred Scriptures

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