As we approach the days of the Apocalypse, known in the Bible as ‘THE DAY OF THE LORD’ (Joel 2, Isa. 13), ‘THE DAY OF VENGEANCE OF OUR GOD’ (Isa. 61), ‘THE GREAT DAY OF HIS WRATH’ (Revelation 6), and many other such terms that signify God’ great and sore displeasure with man’s evil upon earth, we can expect certain prophesied events to transpire that will signal the end of the world as we know it. The greed of man is insatiable, and as man’s greed increases, so does his insanity, so do his activities that are destroying both the planet and life on the planet. After sending warning after warning after warning, the hammer will finally drop and man will discover that he is but a weak vessel of clay that can no more resist or oppose God than a paper boat survive a 100 foot tsunami.
God will send judgment upon man to reward the weak and powerless (with eternal life), and to punish the rich and powerful who destroy His creation with impunity, to punish those who rob the labor of the poor that slave in their factories, and to punish those who launch wars that kill millions, all for the sake of profit. Throughout the Bible God warns leaders, both political and religious, to protect the weak, to not take away the rights of the poor, to nourish the widows and the fatherless (the weakest members of society.) Despite all their high sounding rhetoric of helping the poor and disenfranchised, of forming a just society, politicians of all nations do exactly the opposite; the rich and powerful get away with murder while the poor and weak are murdered with impunity. The poor are crushed with the weight of unbearable poverty while the wealthy dine on $1000 Kobe steaks and $10,000 bottles of French wine, more money than many poverty ridden humans make in a lifetime, and that after slaving from sun up to sun down every day of their lives, sometime from age 4 and up. The poor are traded like commodities, like cattle in a meat market even while the greed of commodities traders in Chicago and New York drive up the prices of grains and cereals, so that even the most basic of food stuffs are priced out of the reach of millions. In essence they trade the lives of people, people themselves become commodities so that a select few can collect billion dollar bonuses at the expense of millions of lives. Their political leaders instead of defending and nourishing the destitute poor, hide behind the façade of free markets to defend their inaction on behalf of the weakest and poverty stricken slaves in society, especially in third world countries. Not only do they take no action to protect the poorest, politicians actively work on behalf of powerful corporations and business interests to pass laws that further impoverish the already poverty stricken. There is no better glaring example of this political corruption than in India where the government has sold the nation’s small farmers to multinational interests like Monsanto, and as a result a small farmer commits suicide in India every 30 minutes. These politicians do not pass these laws and open up their countries to foreign investment for the sake of the betterment of the citizens of the nation but rather for their own profit. They line their pockets with millions while the poorest commit suicide out of desperation because they have become so impoverished that they cannot even feed their families one meal a day. If the judges of this world will not judge the cause of the powerless, will the Omnipotent Judge of the whole world also not judge their cause? Yes He will judge their cause and in doing so He will crush those to whom He has given power and authority to serve all His people, not to oppress them, not to rob and kill them for their own profit!
