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If you are you getting the sense that things are coming unraveled, you are not alone. The average person is sensing an unprecedented level of insecurity about the world around us. Our daily news is filled with crime, political tensions, scandal, rioting, protests, and moral rot to the point that many have stopped listening to such negative news. Lawlessness and corruption have resulted in a spirit of concern and alarm almost all over the world. Tensions are high! We were told about these days just before the return of Jesus. They would be just like the “days of Noah” (Matthew...

And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty...

The world has endured an almost mind-numbing series of shocks in recent weeks, from the unprecedented swarm of tornadoes across the American Midwest to the death and destruction wrought by Cyclone Nargis as it tore a path through Myanmar, better known as Burma.There were 368 documented tornadoes in the U.S. in January and February of this year, shattering the previous record of 243 over that two-month period, set in 1999. February's total of 232 tornadoes also shattered previous records.Cyclone Nargis ripped Burma apart, killing at least 128,000, according to Red Cross estimates, and creating some 2.5 million refugees.Al Gore was...