In AD 132, Simon Bar Kochba led the Jews in a furious revolt against the Romans. This was the kind of Messiah the Jews were looking for. He was acknowledged as the Messiah. The revolt failed, 3 million Jews died and the remainder were dispersed for almost 1800 centuries. People are still looking for a Messiah that will lead them into whatever their particular goal may be. This is the real danger – people want a Messiah molded in their own image. The world offers them plenty – Guru Maharaj Ji, Sun Myung Moon, Charles Manson, Jim Jones, Ron L. Hubbard, Deepak Chopra, David Koresh, Applewhite. Etc. The list could go on forever.

In all of recorded history the world has suffered 13 years of war for every single year of peace; but since 1945 the pace has increased tremendously, with more than 300 wars being fought in the past 41 years. Since 1945, not one single day has passed without the waging of some sort of war or conflict somewhere in the world. To make matters worse, unlimited military budgets have produced the means of massive worldwide destruction; nuclear, chemical, biological weapons and an astronomical amount of conventional weapons are now available. The cost of a single Exocet air-to-ship missile would equal the annual income of more than 10,000 people in most Third World countries. Every gun that is made, every warship that is launched, every rocket fired, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. The world is not spending money alone on arms. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. Every destroyer costs new homes for 8000 people.

There are 32 million soldiers around the world. Close to 50% of all scientists work on weapons research, while over 40% of all funds spent on scientific research are focused on arms. Tiny Israel is confronted with a military threat from the Arab nations alone which is stronger than the combined military strength of all the NATO forces.

Israel is surrounded by enormously well armed Arab nations with virtually unlimited military support from Russia. (Just in recent weeks we have seen Russia side with Iraq against Israel.) Our century has see the perfection of mass warfare in which all elements of society unite to either annihilate the opponent or obtain unconditional surrender.

Seven nations, including Israel, now possess more than 60,000 nuclear warheads. The question regarding WWIII is not ‘if’, but ‘when’. One nuclear scientist, when asked what weapons would be used to fight WWIII replied, "I’m not sure. But I’ll tell you what will be used to fight WWIV. Rocks."

Our peace and disarmament treaties are a mockery. Only a small number of obsolete weapons are dismantled, and the parts are used to make new weapons. Since 1947, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has displayed a clock on its cover which symbolizes how close these specialists feel we are to a nuclear Armageddon. Their clock now shows only 3 minutes to midnight. (That was in 1990).

Nuclear and political scientists from MIT and Harvard met in November of 1975 and concluded that a thermonuclear war would certainly occur before the year 2000. The only way to prevent such a war would be a decision by all nations to surrender their sovereignty to an authoritarian world government. The Bible has already predicted that very scenario.

There is drought and famine throughout Africa, India and Southeast Asia. Over 40 million may starve to death in the Sahara region of Africa. Russia and China are not able to feed themselves. One third of the world is approaching starvation. The amount of agricultural land is decreasing rapidly. New deserts are growing at the rate of 14.8 million acres every year. Over 26 billion tons of topsoil are lost each year and the tropical forests, which produce significant amounts of our planet’s oxygen are shrinking by 27 million acres per year. Our soils are so depleted that enormous amounts of fertilizer are required on every acre of farmland. The ‘greenhouse effect’ which seems to be caused by our environmental pollution, is contributing to the word drought in the last 200 years. The world population is growing at the rate of 220,000 people per day. 90 % of them will be born in Third World countries where the prospects for food growth are the poorest. At the present rate of growth, in 600 years there will be standing room only – one person per every square meter of land on the globe.

The moral tragedy here is that less than 1% of our annual world arms expenditure would solve the world hunger problem within several years.

Today we face incredible pollution and ecological problems which appear virtually unsolvable. Hazardous waste dumps are hidden in every community, leeching out toxic elements into water supplies.

The continued heavy use of pesticides has helped produce new strains of insects, superbugs, which cannot be controlled. Children living in homes whcihc use gaarden pesticides have a 600% greater risk of developing leukemia.

Third World famine is due to the fact that 1/3 of all food produced is destroyed by rats and other pests. In many cities the rats outnumber the humans.

AIDS is the deadliest plague in mankind's history. It has a 100% death rate. Studies indicate that over 1 1/2 million people in North America alone will die from this tragic disease, which so far shows no signs of a cure. In countires like Uganda, estimates are that 20 - 50% of the population are infected.

In the 70 years from 1900 to 1969, there were 48 earthquakes. In the next 23 years, 1970 to 1993, there were 176. They are happening with greater frequency and intensity than ever before. In the last days, when Russia attacks Israel, there will occur the strongest earthquake in history.

During the last 15 years, the General Assembly of The United Nations has spent enormous amounts of time in debates and condemantion of Israel. An automatic majority of Warsaw Pact and Third World nations can be counted to vote in favor of any resolution condemning Israel.

Satan hates God's people, be they Jews or Chrsitians.

We have seen the disintegration of the traditional family over the past few decades. The two parent home is becoming the exception rather than the rule. Divorces are exceeding marriages in some communities. Manmy hospitals in America register more abortions than live births. The figure exceeds one million annually in North America. Self has become more important than relationship.

Society is breaking down at an alarming rate. Violent crime, child abuse, wife-battering, and even abuse of aging parents by their children are proof that 'love has grown cold'.