Armageddon

Are these the end times?  Is the middle-east our Armageddon?  Is Global Warming a reality that signals the end of life as we know it?  Are self-replicating robots going to take over the human race? (OK, I’m kinda joking about that one…maybe!?)

You laugh at some of this I’m sure.  My more conservative friends are probably commenting right now that it’s been changed to “Climate Change” rather than Global Warming.  The more nebulous politically correct term fits the geologic record more indisputably and gets more political traction as a result.  That both terms are meaningless in many ways from a geological time perspective is the real issue.  It has been the way of the planet from the beginning of its life.

What is not so meaningless is the rise of terrorism and war in the middle-east.  This is where the Bible says Armageddon will be.  This is where three centuries of mindless hate (over the same God) continues to spew out devastation.  This is where nuclear bombs are being built.  When a terrorist group like ISIS is too violent for Al-Qaeda to maintain ties with (remember, THEY had no trouble killing 3000 civilians in the World Trade Center) then I’m really concerned.

Radical Jihadists now control more territory than ever before.  Israel is in more danger of disappearing off the face of the earth than ever before.  Radicalization of Americans on our own soil and those who go to join the fight with the Jihadists in the middle-east is growing in number as never before.  Our ability to successfully counter these attacks is seriously compromised.

If we and other countries are to experience another 9-11 or worse, what will America’s response be?  If nuclear weapons are unleashed on Israel, what will America’s response be?  The Old Testament has always bothered me when God clearly told the Jews to wipe out everyone in the country.  Men, women and children all slaughtered.  Certainly many were innocents.  I’m not sure if we (or other countries) haven’t arrived at the same point in world history and will eventually take that same horrific step.  We did it to Japan in World War II, I wonder what the American, European, Pakistani, Indian or even Russian or Chinese conscience will do this time as radical Jihadists continue their terrorist attacks across the globe.