Few indeed I have met in these days that do not think that the next few years are going to be anything but tumultuous.
The forecast looks like a constant scenario of war after war,over oil water and food.The world is a very uanstable and treacherous place for nations as well as the people who make them up.
The time has indeed come when nation rises against nation it seems.The reasons for fighting are ever more clear cut each passing day.The reasons for peaceful co existance blurring and disappearing in the thirst for energy,water and food for starving masses.In Africa,Bosnia,and places like Indonesia and South America brother against brother in the battle of ideologies and religions.
The future of international relations looks more to me one of increasing conflicts and less one of trade and commerce treaty.
The revelation of John and the book of Daniel with a few other specific prophecy are the only handle we have on this future of uncertainty that looms ahead.
It is with some trepidation we can well look to what is next on the horizon, and it is only our faith that is going to see us through......
If as they say, our peak oil production is already past then the next 20-30 years will pretty much wind down our remaining supply,as the demand for oil is and will continue to grow none the less.
Without adaquate energy to continue in the extravagant way which the 20th century afforded us,we will be facing an eventual collapse of the system as we know it.or knew it to be exact.
I am thinking now of how bible prophecy compares to this scenario in terms of a constant hunger for energy supplies and a drastic shortage of it.
Food stuffs which sustain us today were produced with considerable expenditure of energy in the form of diesel fuel as well as hydroelectric power to process it. and still more diesel to deliver it to our locations.
As the cost of the energy increases the less we will be able to sustain our energy expensive methods of mass prodiucing and growing food stuffs.
It is the same for services of many kinds as well as petroleum products that we dont really know are from petroleum yet becuse they are still in good supply.
We face a totally altered world structure within three to four decades of time. this is comparable to the change in the world that the last fifty years of technological change has made.
With the very foundation of our economy and life style now in short supply,we will face many new situations where the old answers just will not do and are far too energy expensive to be of value in the new oil poor economy.Old methods and old answers will bejust too expensive to solve the needs and wants of our people.
If we are going to think of the end times prophecy comming to pass in the same aproximate world power structure with no rdical shift in the way the future is playing out.we are going to be woefully out of whack in preparedness for what is about to happen to the world in reality.
I think most of us see a modicum of discomfort in our future but the scope and the depth of the possibilities are very far reaching and far more radical than what most expect .
Many count specifically on being raptured out of this plane of existance before the wrath of Jehovah is felt upon the earth.
And this may be so as well, but in lieu of a rapture in the near future,i think it is wise to at least try to contemplate what the next thirty years can bring to us in the way of stormy weather.
I have always tried to understand how we are drifting into the world situation described in the revelation. what was causing us to become more ad more like the people described therein.
How the one world could be comming about and the things that were working to emphasize that end.
With an energy hungry world,i am sure that anyone comming who could show us how to produce energy in large quantities cheaply(not even safely)could become super influencial.almost a savior to us if the situation were extreme,and the shortage critical to our survival.
The world doesnt have to go through a great upheaval to loose third of its people,one great shortage of farm fuel could kill off a billion or two in a couple of seasons.
The seriousness of the oil situation should not be lost on us at this time.Nations will do whatever their leaders tell them it is nessessary to do in order to procure a supply of this vital stuff.An army of 200,000,000 is not out of the question when they are starving at home.
Just how prophecy will actually come to pass is still a matter of conjecture and nothing is hard and fast save that the prophecy will most certainly come to pass.the question is just how it all will come out against the world situation.
What i am suggesting is the situation will not be going to happen with all things being equal to today.
Perhaps it is time to rethink the ways in which the Lord will move us in order that his word be fullfilled.
I dont think we are wholly ready for the reality of a world without cheap abundant energy.and how much different it will be. Perhaps when we are reading the rev, and other stcripture we should try to picture what is being described against this backdrop of the new energy hungry world that will emerge for the oil crisis that is developing even now.If you beliecve that the price of gas will go down again,to previous levels,then you are way off.The world energy price increases are permanent as the demand grows for an ever shrinking supply.The price will only rise from here on out.Perhaps this is what is going to make the merchants weep.We will only be able to afford energy and not the extras.hurt not the oil and the wine.......
The forecast looks like a constant scenario of war after war,over oil water and food.The world is a very uanstable and treacherous place for nations as well as the people who make them up.
The time has indeed come when nation rises against nation it seems.The reasons for fighting are ever more clear cut each passing day.The reasons for peaceful co existance blurring and disappearing in the thirst for energy,water and food for starving masses.In Africa,Bosnia,and places like Indonesia and South America brother against brother in the battle of ideologies and religions.
The future of international relations looks more to me one of increasing conflicts and less one of trade and commerce treaty.
The revelation of John and the book of Daniel with a few other specific prophecy are the only handle we have on this future of uncertainty that looms ahead.
It is with some trepidation we can well look to what is next on the horizon, and it is only our faith that is going to see us through......
If as they say, our peak oil production is already past then the next 20-30 years will pretty much wind down our remaining supply,as the demand for oil is and will continue to grow none the less.
Without adaquate energy to continue in the extravagant way which the 20th century afforded us,we will be facing an eventual collapse of the system as we know it.or knew it to be exact.
I am thinking now of how bible prophecy compares to this scenario in terms of a constant hunger for energy supplies and a drastic shortage of it.
Food stuffs which sustain us today were produced with considerable expenditure of energy in the form of diesel fuel as well as hydroelectric power to process it. and still more diesel to deliver it to our locations.
As the cost of the energy increases the less we will be able to sustain our energy expensive methods of mass prodiucing and growing food stuffs.
It is the same for services of many kinds as well as petroleum products that we dont really know are from petroleum yet becuse they are still in good supply.
We face a totally altered world structure within three to four decades of time. this is comparable to the change in the world that the last fifty years of technological change has made.
With the very foundation of our economy and life style now in short supply,we will face many new situations where the old answers just will not do and are far too energy expensive to be of value in the new oil poor economy.Old methods and old answers will bejust too expensive to solve the needs and wants of our people.
If we are going to think of the end times prophecy comming to pass in the same aproximate world power structure with no rdical shift in the way the future is playing out.we are going to be woefully out of whack in preparedness for what is about to happen to the world in reality.
I think most of us see a modicum of discomfort in our future but the scope and the depth of the possibilities are very far reaching and far more radical than what most expect .
Many count specifically on being raptured out of this plane of existance before the wrath of Jehovah is felt upon the earth.
And this may be so as well, but in lieu of a rapture in the near future,i think it is wise to at least try to contemplate what the next thirty years can bring to us in the way of stormy weather.
I have always tried to understand how we are drifting into the world situation described in the revelation. what was causing us to become more ad more like the people described therein.
How the one world could be comming about and the things that were working to emphasize that end.
With an energy hungry world,i am sure that anyone comming who could show us how to produce energy in large quantities cheaply(not even safely)could become super influencial.almost a savior to us if the situation were extreme,and the shortage critical to our survival.
The world doesnt have to go through a great upheaval to loose third of its people,one great shortage of farm fuel could kill off a billion or two in a couple of seasons.
The seriousness of the oil situation should not be lost on us at this time.Nations will do whatever their leaders tell them it is nessessary to do in order to procure a supply of this vital stuff.An army of 200,000,000 is not out of the question when they are starving at home.
Just how prophecy will actually come to pass is still a matter of conjecture and nothing is hard and fast save that the prophecy will most certainly come to pass.the question is just how it all will come out against the world situation.
What i am suggesting is the situation will not be going to happen with all things being equal to today.
Perhaps it is time to rethink the ways in which the Lord will move us in order that his word be fullfilled.
I dont think we are wholly ready for the reality of a world without cheap abundant energy.and how much different it will be. Perhaps when we are reading the rev, and other stcripture we should try to picture what is being described against this backdrop of the new energy hungry world that will emerge for the oil crisis that is developing even now.If you beliecve that the price of gas will go down again,to previous levels,then you are way off.The world energy price increases are permanent as the demand grows for an ever shrinking supply.The price will only rise from here on out.Perhaps this is what is going to make the merchants weep.We will only be able to afford energy and not the extras.hurt not the oil and the wine.......
ser to the syrian border.