Welcome to our new website about the end of the world.  The first question you probably have is whether we believe that the world is about to end.  Well, no we do not.  But the truth is that it may soon feel like it.  Already the world is troubled by financial collapse, plagues, natural disasters, societal collapse and war, and all of those things are going to get a lot worse in the years ahead.  People are going to be wondering if the world is about to end.  People are going to be asking some really hard questions.

The truth is that the financial collapse of 2008 shook a whole lot of people up.  For decades we have enjoyed probably the most prosperous time in human history (at least for the western nations), but now the very foundations of the world economic system are coming apart.  World leaders are openly speaking of the need for a one world currency, a one world economic system and a one world government.  While the rich continue to get richer, the middle class is being destroyed and the poor are losing both their jobs and their homes.  People are hurting.

At the same time flu pandemics and other serious disease outbreaks are beginning to sweep the globe.  There are whispers that we are about to see tens of millions of people die around the world in a devastating global plague.  Certainly the Scriptures speak of great plagues during the last days.  Are we approaching those times?

Meanwhile, the world stands on the verge of a massive food crisis.  Crippling droughts across the globe coupled with horrible harvests are threatening to plunge the world into the type of food panic never seen in modern times.  Already some nations teeter on the edge of societal collapse as people trust each other less than ever and as they trust governments around the world less than ever.  Can society function without trust?

In the midst of all of this, there is the ever present threat of natural disasters.  Will the year 2012 see an explosion of natural disasters as some believe?  Are we about to see a pole shift?  Could we see earthquakes that will change the geography of whole continents?  Could sudden climate change alter coastlines and change life on earth permanently?

Already worldwide tensions seem at an almost all-time high.  Is war on the horizon?  Certainly the Middle East could explode at any moment.  Rumors of war with Iran seem ever present.  The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq never seem to end.  The Korean peninsula is always a powder keg.  Meanwhile, relations between the United States and Russia are in a serious state of decline.  Could an alliance of Russia and China one day attack the United States? 

Of course we have not even mentioned the ever present threat of terrorism.  Up until now, we have never seen a large scale attack that used chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.  How would the world change if that happens?  Is it not inevitable that someday terrorists will get their hands on such weapons?

The truth is that the world can change in a moment.  We live in what is perhaps the most interesting time in all of human history,  and the reality is that things are about to get a whole lot more interesting. 

Buckle up my friends - it is going to be a bumpy ride.