PROPHECY & TRUTH BEHIND THE NEWS BY JAN MARKELL L
uke 21 references troubled times in several places. Verse 25 says nations will be in distress with perplexity, sug- gesting that problems may be so grave that no one knows how to solve them. Verse 26 refers to men’s hearts failing them from fear, especially when they see what may be com- ing upon them. In this context, the perfect storm is coming. Rahm Emmanuel made the often-quot- ed statement that we should never let a crisis go to waste. Greece has a crisis. You may think Greece is so small it isn’t worth explor- ing the deeper meaning. The real problem is contagion. Greece is just one of many socialist nations in Europe. Thus, Greece has been funding massive social programs and accu- mulating huge debt. Nations that could fol- low right behind Greece—and soon— include Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Great Britain, among others. All wobbly European nations are hoping the European Union will bail them out of trouble. They may try, but the financial issues are so formidable that it will not work.
As Gary Bauer of American Values says,
“Many of the over-spending, over-borrowing and over-expanding European Union gov- ernments are heading toward financial bank- ruptcy and utter collapse. And yet Obama and his allies still insist on remaking Ameri- ca in Europe’s crumbling image.” Bauer continues, “Europe’s fiscal chaos is an affirmation of Thomas Jefferson’s axiom that ‘a government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have.’ The violence in Greece recently is the inevitable result of too much government. And given the Obama admin-
Nations in Distress With Perplexity
istration’s socialist impulses, its addiction to spending, and its unflinching devotion to unions, there’s no reason to think a Greek tragedy could not happen in America.” Greece had no choice but to cut some austerity programs and further tax people. Most of the population of Greece is getting some kind of government benefit. Until the collapse, they could retire at 53. Now the age is raised to 60. The people in that nation had grown dependent on big government and handouts. The free lunch was pulled out from under them and parts of the nation went up in flames with three deaths. This is what happens when the “entitlement men- tality” pervades nations.
Today Greece, Tomorrow America Debt and deficits are the gifts that keep
on destroying! People do not willingly give up benefits, particularly if they have benefit- ed from them for years or decades. Most people are self-focused. They often do not see the long-term damage being done due to these entitlements. And politicians don’t seem to think about the consequences either. They are busy buying votes that always come with handouts.
America should be paying very close
attention to socialist Europe. This is exactly what the movers and shakers in Washington and around the world want to see America become. We may honor their wishes. Our unfunded liabilities exceed $100 trillion. Yes, that’s trillion with a “t.” The inevitable outcome of the Obama administration spending will be either bankruptcy or auster- ity. It will likely be both but entitlement cuts will likely produce the same kind of chaos that we saw in Greece this spring. Since Pres-
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ident Lyndon Johnson, we have doled out trillions of dollars making millions of peo- ple dependent on big government. By now, they know of no other lifestyle. If it is yanked, these people will not go quietly into the night. Capitalism is not the problem. Hand- outs and socialism are.
What is the deeper meaning here? The
world is being bombarded with what the Bible calls “birth pangs.” God is trying to get our attention. The world does not under- stand end-time scenarios so God is trying to wake up the Church. We are seeing financial chaos, volcanoes, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, oil spills—all of disastrous propor- tion. To solve the financial issues, the world will willingly walk into the one-world sys- tem with a one-world currency. Right now both the Euro and the dollar are crumbling. People will be open to a powerful, charis- matic man who will tell everyone he can fix it all. The Bible calls him the Antichrist. He will be empowered to do miracles, signs and wonders, and pull rabbits out of hats. This man will be handed the perfect storm referenced above—a crumbling of society on a global scale. As the passage in Luke states, men’s hearts will fail them for fear. While the real fulfillment of such signs is in the Tribulation, we cannot help but see the stage being set for that.
This could be a long, hot summer or perhaps the chaos will hold off for another year or two. But we know that it will come. Most nations today are dependent almost exclusively on government and now America is no exception. And Rahm Emmanuel and his associates will not let the scenario go to waste.
JAN MARKELL is Founder/Director of Olive Tree Ministries, Inc. To learn more about her ministry or to request her free newsletter, write to Box 1452, Maple Grove, MN 55311 or visit Jan at:
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