2nd Timothy 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good.
When persons seek to lynch members of congress, with whom they disagree, and when some political rivals make ads with machine guns cocked, then we may know for certain that the seeds of violence and brutality have already been sown in the West, only awaiting the right set of circumstances to converge.
[The Great Controversy pp 589] Satan delights in war; for it excites the worst passions of the soul, and then sweeps into eternity its victims steeped in vice and blood. It is his object to incite the nations to war against one another; for he can thus divert the minds of the people from the work of preparation to stand in the day of God.
It's now high time for the leaders in both the secular and spiritual arenas to consider, that what God has predicted in His word is not future but is in the here and now. The problems of earth are not isolated to just one geographical area; it is the entire earth that is embroiled in some level of perplexity, just as the Bible has predicted.
Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; 26 Men's hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth ….
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!