Killing was more efficient than ever before thanks to improved artillery and rifles, machine guns, land mines, poison gas, grenades, flamethrowers, tanks, bomb-dropping aircraft and torpedo-firing submarines. With the First World War came major advances in weaponry. Yet humankind still could not spark a conflict where “not a single person” could survive. These advancements increased human beings’ efficiency in snuffing out other human beings. By the 1400s, the arrival of gunpowder had led to widespread use of cannons and muskets. With these, the Mongols slaughtered some 40 million people, which was 1 in 10 human beings alive at the time. Even after another millennium had gone by, Genghis Khan’s forces were armed with similar weaponry: recurved bows, crossbows, sabers and trebuchets. The nearest thing to a weapon of mass destruction was a catapult, or maybe a skilled archer atop a war elephant. In fact, unless that time of calamity is shortened, not a single person will survive …” (New Living Translation).Īt the time that Christ spoke these alarming words, a global war that could threaten to kill every living person was not yet technologically possible.ĭuring that era of Roman rule, warfare entailed hand-to-hand combat with weighted pila, spears and swords. In verses 21-22, Christ speaks of an event to occur that does signal the end of the age of man and show that His return is at the door: “For there will be greater anguish than at any time since the world began. Christ said, “ll these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” These are all early warning indicators, but they do not mean the end of the age of man is imminent. He also said people would learn of “wars and rumours of wars,” fierce international tensions, and “famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes” (verses 6-7). He explained that prior to His return, religious deception would victimize many (verses 4-5).
Jesus gave them a surprisingly detailed answer. They wanted to know what events would lead up to that seismic transition.
In this context, it means “epoch” or “age.” The disciples were asking Christ when the age of man ruling over himself would end, and when the age of Christ ruling over humanity would begin. “World” in this verse is a translation of the Greek word aiōn, which has a variety of meanings. Some 2,000 years ago, as they sat on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, the disciples of Jesus Christ asked Him: “Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?” (Matthew 24:3). Prophecy also reveals how that war will end. And a substantial portion of those prophecies describe details about World War iii, what will trigger it, who the aggressors will be, what kinds of weapons they will use, and where decisive battles will occur. One third of the Bible consists of prophecies, which are forecasts of the future. We view them through the lens of Bible prophecy. Could These Predictions Be Right?Īre these analysts alarmists? Or will time prove them right? At the Trumpet, we examine such questions from a different vantage point than other publications. These are only a small sampling of the numerous analysts, pundits and observers who speculate that nuclear North Korea’s aggression-and the reactions to it-could trigger a third world war. Meanwhile, the hacktivist organization Anonymous published a video warning that a “globally devastating” World War iii will erupt over the North Korean situation. In April, the Independent wrote, “With or without Donald Trump’s help, Kim Jong-un could easily plunge the planet into its third world war inside a century.” On August 9, the National Interest published a piece titled “How North Korea Could Start World War iii.”Ī few days earlier, Catholic Online wrote, “North Korea may start World War iii in days with attack on Guam.”
President Donald Trump’s threats to retaliate-have many onlookers concerned that the North Korean situation could soon erupt into World War iii. As the nation makes rapid advances in its nuclear and missile programs, its leader is also making increasingly frequent, belligerent and specific threats to use those weapons against the United States and other targets.
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