End times prophecies can inspire us to read the news and make connections, but there are risks. On one hand, we should not try to read the news into the Bible; eisegesis is a path to unfounded fear at best and oftentimes can lead to horrible personal decisions. On the other hand, we should not ignore what is happening around us because events around us as well as across the globe spark natural and healthy inquiry. Whether we’re in the end times or not, it behooves us to be properly prepared and regularly reading our Bibles.
Global tensions have escalated sharply as multiple hotspots flare simultaneously, echoing the Lord’s warning in Matthew 24 about wars and rumors of wars marking the approach of the last days.
Jesus spoke plainly to His disciples on the Mount of Olives, describing signs that would precede His return. In Matthew 24:6-8 of the King James Version, He declared: “And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.”
These words ring true today. As 2025 draws to a close, the world witnesses an array of conflicts that align with this prophetic outline. Russia continues its grinding advance in Ukraine, claiming key areas like Pokrovsk while facing immense casualties. Talks under the Trump U.S. administration show progress, yet the war persists into its fourth year, drawing in allies and raising fears of broader NATO involvement.
In the Middle East, Israel confronts threats on multiple fronts. Direct exchanges with Iran intensified this year with airstrikes targeting nuclear sites and proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas. Ceasefires in Gaza hold precariously, but underlying hostilities remain. Syria’s landscape shifted dramatically with the fall of Assad and the rise of new powers in Damascus. Yemen sees ongoing strikes, while Sudan endures one of the deadliest civil wars, with millions displaced.
Further east, China conducts large-scale drills around Taiwan, heightening rumors of potential invasion. Clashes in the South China Sea persist, and North Korea’s provocations add to regional instability. Africa faces upheavals in Congo, with Rwanda-backed forces seizing territory, and other nations grappling with insurgencies.
These events do not signal panic, as Jesus instructed believers not to be troubled. They represent the “beginning of sorrows”—birth pains that intensify before the end. Nation rises against nation, exactly as foretold. Russia, Iran, and others form alignments that students of prophecy recognize from Ezekiel 38-39, where Persia (modern Iran) joins a northern coalition against Israel.
Yet amid these signs, Scripture calls for watchfulness and faithfulness. The gospel continues to spread worldwide, fulfilling Matthew 24:14: “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” Reports show surging Bible engagement, campus revivals, and mass conversions across third world nations, even as darkness grows.
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Believers must stand firm, enduring to the end as promised salvation for those who do (Matthew 24:13). Global conflicts multiply, but God’s sovereign plan unfolds precisely. These are reminders to redeem the time, share the hope of Christ, and look upward for His imminent return.
The stage sets for greater tribulations, yet the Lord remains in control. He warned of deception, false christs, and increasing lawlessness—evident today. Hold fast to the Word, pray for peace where possible, and prepare hearts for what comes next.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
I bet they thought this during both World Wars. Today, can’t touch 1917 in terms of being bad.
You want to know why people are leaving the Church? One of the reasons is because people like you use fear and guilt to control people.
The events of Matthew 24 are not about Messiah’s bride, but the tribulation saints, who are the friends of the bride. Messiah’s bride (those who have been given the NEW covenant) will be fully removed from the earth and taken to the wedding chamber ON the Feast of Trumpets TEN YEARS BEFORE the Antichrist is revealed and the tribulation begins.
Ten years after the bride has been removed, Messiah Yahoshua will return to the earth in judgment at Armageddon ON the Feast of Atonement (ten days from Trumpets to Atonement).
https://wayofthetabernacle.com/rapture.htm
I no longer assume that prophecy is necessarily talking about places. The word nation can mean a place or a people or both, but from a Biblical standpoint, it most often refers to a people. Places were named after the patriarch who settled there, going back to the three sons of Noah. The “nations” mentioned in scripture, such as Gog, Magog, Tubal, Meshech, and so on, are the names of descendants of Noah as well as the name of the place were they settled. Scripture could be referring to the place where they settled, or it could be referring to the descendants of those people.
Noah’s son Japheth settled more or less in what is now called the donbass. Then his sons settled westward from there, with Gog and Magog being in the area of western Ukraine, and westward. Historically, it is understood that Europeans are descendants of Japheth. Shem settled in what is called the middle east, and is where the word “semetic” comes from. And Ham settled in Egypt. In all of these locations there are places even today that still bear the name of the sons of these three.
Now, because of Jesus, born again Christians, whether Jew or Gentile, are grafted into the line of Jacob, while other branches have been cut off (Romans 11), which is our spiritual ancestry.
The reason I say this is to make the point that when we do study the scripture, consider and ponder these matters, and talk about such things, we shouldn’t make assumptions. Scripture could be talking about places or peoples, fleshly ancestry or spiritual ancestry.
As far as fear and personal decisions are concerned, we cannot suppress the truth for such reasons, leaning on our own understanding. The results are always up to the Lord.
Both Peter and Paul were put to death in the purge of Christians by Nero, after the “great fire” of Rome. Christians were accused of starting the fire. And it’s conceivable why they might’ve been falsely accused, because these men such as Peter and Paul were going around telling everybody that this corrupt creation will one day be destroyed with fire (2 Peter 3). Unbelievers, who are far more wicked than they may even realize, will assume we are liars, just as they call their Creator a liar.
That sort of thing is just about guaranteed to happen. We’ll even be blamed for it. But we cannot suppress the truth. Though we do need to be careful that when we speak with certainty, we’re certain it is true. And if we’re not 100% sure, then let that be known, and make that disclaimer.
As scripture says, there is nothing new under the sun. Look at modern “science” that is atheistic, does not recognize that man even has a spirit or soul, and only considers the flesh. When we say what God says is going to happen, and we see it coming, the first thing that enters their mind is that we’re going to try to make it happen. Right. Because they believe it’s all a bunch of hooey, themselves do not believe, and reject the obvious truth from creation that man is more than just flesh alone, they take it as a threat.
It goes far back, even much farther than nero. To Isaiah being sawed in half alive. It is not new. It goes all the way back to the beginning.
People, especially you self-made Christians who follow any and all groups that reject the inspired and preserved words of God, and again especially Captain Kirks’ army out to win the world, we are in the latter days, NOT the end times. The end times will be during the Tribulation and it is obvious that we are NOT in the tribulation… yet. You are looking for ‘another Jesus’ to come down, claiming to be the risen Christ. This is the dispensation of the grace of God which presents the goodness of God, NOT the severity of God, as taught in the Old Testament. you are following Peter and his gospel, NOT Paul’s gospel of the uncircumcision (that’s us). Get a KJB and look to Paul and you will find the risen Christ!
Hoo boy, … right in that same chapter of 2 Peter 3 …
“15 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters.” – 2 Peter 3:15-16. (Peter)
“26 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.” – Hebrews 10:26-27 (Paul)
Peter and Paul were not in any disagreement on anything, including circumcision. Read Acts chapters 10 and 11. Also Acts 16, Paul had Timothy circumcised.
You have to understand that the Jews were already circumcised at birth. The question was whether or not new gentile believers needed to be circumcised. And the answer the Holy Spirit gave to both Peter and Paul was “no”, gentile believers did not need to be circumcised. If you read the scritpure carefully you’ll see. Peter and Paul were not in disagreement. Peter saw the judaizers, and those who claimed the ceremonial law needed to be honored, even though God had already fulfilled that promise, as false prophets spreading falsehoods, just as Paul did … because they were …
Both men were together at those meetings in Acts. And both died together in Rome.
The idea that they were opposed comes from passages such as Gal. 2:11-14. And Paul corrected Peter, not because Peter’s doctrine was wrong or that they were in disagreement, but because Peter was afraid of the judaizers, and should not have been acting out of fear.
There are prophecies that describe events and conditions leading up to the tribulation. Nobody’s said we’re in the tribulation now. I don’t know where you got that, but nobody’s said it here. And the phrase “end times” does not solely refer to the 7 year tribulation. That’s a part of it, but not all of it. In Matt. 24, the disciples asked “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”, and Jesus Himself responded describing those signs, events and conditions leading up to the tribulation. All of which are part of the “end of the age”, the “time of the end”.
Tell me, exactly who is rejecting the inspired word of God if it isn’t the one who claims that there are two Gospels?
There is only one Gospel of Jesus Christ. And none of the Apostles disagreed about that Gospel any more than the Holy Spirit who inspired them could disagree with himself.
Paul said it is now the end time, and that was 2000 years ago. So yes, we are definitely in the end times.
It’s always been that way from the beginning. It seems to multiply more because there are MORE people being crowded on this earth. So I guess that is one of the signs. Population BOOM.