Great Tribulation but no Trials? - 2011

Most notably…

• Ever escalating natural and man-caused eco-disasters…
• Coupled with a seemingly inevitable total collapse of global economic structure…
• Garnished with a noticable upheaval of many countries engaged in governance overthrow and replacement.

Certainly these conditions and events could be viewed as conditions worthy of a tribulation period.

Why Isn’t Wall Street Behind Bars?

When Inside Job won the Oscar for best documentary the director Charles Ferguson got onstage and said to the world:

Even anecdotally most folks acknowledge the phenomena of ever increasing natural disaters around the world… this image deals specifically with the United States disaster record but I think it is safe to say the trend is globally applicable.

Natural and man-made disasters

Swiss Re, a reinsurance company, puts global economic losses from natural and man-made disasters in 2010 at $218 billion, more than three times the previous year’s figure of $68 billion.

Corruption fanned global political unrest says watchdog
An anti-bribery watchdog has said corruption played a key role in the political upheaval in the Middle East and across the world in 2011.

What tribulation would be complete without a food crisis?

COUNTRIES REQUIRING EXTERNAL ASSISTANCE FOR FOOD (total: 33 countries)

Countries in crisis requiring external assistance for food are expected to lack the resources to deal with reported critical problems of food insecurity. The list below covers crises related to lack of food availability, widespread lack of access to food, or severe but localized problems. However, many countries are also severely affected by high food and fuel prices. These include countries which are large net importers of cereals and fuels, with generally low per capita incomes, relatively high levels of malnutrition, and for which there is a strong transmission of high international food prices.

How deep into signs of tribulation need we be until an official declaration of one is made?

Of course I am not even remotely qualified to make such a call, that would take the word of a Pope, Archbishop or some other fanciful leader of a flock, me, just a humble observer standing in tippy toe and trying to gauge the flow.

Either way, if you did not like or enjoy the first four years of the cement mixer I can all but guarantee you will not appreciate the next three years–trends indicate slide not recovery and at an ever increasing pace at that. This is the crux of personal survival in a tenuous situation, observing and understanding the current situation and making mental preparation for avoidence or at least mitigation of the apparent risks…

Even if one is without belief, one does have to wonder… doesn’t one? Something does seem to be afoot–No?

Perhaps… The art of prophecy is a lot to do with knowing and understanding human nature–then extrapolating probable result into the future… based on your worst found fears of it.

End of Days – Tribulation from Cornerstone Chandler on Vimeo.

Stay tuned…

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