Close to the end of Jesus’ ministry on Earth, just before his crucifixion and resurrection, the disciples were perplexed and frightened by the events that were unfolding. They came to Jesus and asked:

“Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age? … And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.
“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.” Matthew 24:3, 6-9

This article is taken from The Australian 03/02/2024, Xi, Putin, and the Ayatollahs put the world on the brink of chaos by Greg Sheridan.

The world stands on the brink of security collapse and perhaps widely extended war. Iran has moved its proxies directly into killing American soldiers in the Middle East. In a season of considered escalation by the mullahs in Tehran, the International Atomic Energy Agency warns that Iran now has sufficient highly enriched uranium that it could produce several nuclear devices in a short period.

Meanwhile, Russia is starting to prevail in Ukraine. The Ukrainians, long drip-fed sufficient weapons to avoid losing, but never enough to make decisive victory possible, are suffering acute battlefield losses, territorial stagnation, and the possibility of being overwhelmed at last by an increasing supply of cheap drones to Russia, not least from Iran and North Korea.

In the US, Christopher Wray, the FBI director, testified to Congress that Beijing plans through cyber attack to wreak havoc on US domestic infrastructure – water supplies, power generation, oil and gas pipelines, even facilities like hospitals – in the event of hostilities over Taiwan.

Meanwhile, CIA director William Burns sounded the warning on waning US support for Ukraine: “One of the surest ways to rekindle Chinese perceptions of American fecklessness and stoke Chinese aggressiveness would be to abandon support for Ukraine. Continued material backing for Ukraine doesn’t come at the expense of Taiwan; it sends an important message of US resolve that helps Taiwan,” he said.

North Korea has declared it no longer seeks peaceful reunification with South Korea but plans complete domination of the Korean peninsula.

British Defence Secretary Grant Shapps told a London conference the world had moved “from a post-war world to a pre-war world”. Senior NATO figure Dutch admiral Rob Bauer warned allied nations to build their industrial capacity to produce weapons to sustain a long war. He also said allied governments should level with their citizens about resilience, mobilisation, creating bigger military reserves, and possibly conscription.

The Bible is largely made up of fulfilled prophecies which should be sufficient evidence that the many end times prophecies like Jesus’ prophecy above on wars and rumours of wars, and increasing persecution ahead for Christians will be fulfilled to the letter.