If we are living in the end-time of man's occupation and misrule of planet Earth, what would you expect the "signs of the times" to be? And can you do anything about it?

That master newscaster of all time, Jesus Christ, predicted today's news with uncanny accuracy. Also, through the prophets of Israel he inspired an open window though which to view those momentous events and conditions that would be signs of the tumultuous end of our age.

We live in that end-time, in the "time of the signs".

Earth's billions, if we have eyes to see, now live in the time when these predicted signs would burst on the world.

Against astronomical odds, all these events - predicted from two to three thousand years ago - will take place together within a single generation. A cluster of events that will happened. Only a very few of the following predicted signs have not yet happened.

Can you discern which ones? Keep this list of 48 signs handy and check them off when you see them happen!

1. Increased capacity to make war through technology
2. Widespread and horrific bloodshed between and within many nations
3. A movement to conformity of religion worldwide
4. Gross deviation from Bible teachings
5. Appearance of a globally acclaimed religious leader
6. Heavy influence from eastern religions, the occult, astrology
7. Expectation of peace, with no peace
8. A viable Jewish State in Palestine
9. A peace treaty in the Mid East
10. Continuing overt hatred of Jews by Arabs
11. Talk of, and then action on, the building of a place for sacrifice in Jerusalem
12. The restoration of sacrificial worship in Jerusalem
13. Military invasion of Israel by international forces
14. Famines due to upset weather, wars, pollution, population pressure
15. Large-scale and life-threatening man-made pollution
16. Economic decline and mega deaths because of disease
17. Destructive natural convulsions: quakes, floods, fires, heat, cold
18. Asteroids etc devastating huge areas of the earth
19. The moral and economic decline of the Anglo-Saxon nations
20. Serious health problems in these nations, including birth defects
21. And massive inner-city problems
22. With decline in agricultural output
23. Massive military defeat of Britain and the USA with over two-thirds of the population dead or exiled
24. A mass deportation of Jews from the land of Israel
25. Unwise, weak and vacillating leadership in the democracies
26. The appearance of a powerful and dynamic leader in Europe
27. The neglect of justice: bad laws, unbalanced judgments, favor to the rich, neglect of lone parents, the sick and the poor
28. Decline in civil values and human character
29. Disrespect for the elderly, for parents and for the young
30. Increased leisure/unemployment
31. Notable corruption at all levels of society
32. Homosexuality becomes high profile and influential
33. Increased criminal activity including murder and assault
34. A short-lived union of ten European nations, led by a united Germany, in a military alliance against the Anglo-Saxon nations
35. The call for a strong leader to solve massive world problems
36. International military co-operation
37. A movement towards establishing a world government
38. Europe, a vast international trading place
39. A move towards an economically controlled society worldwide
40. The growth of anti-semitism
41. Burgeoning scientific development and fast communications
42. Civil strife in Eurasia - China, the CIS states, India etc. - leading to massive and destructive, possibly nuclear, war there. Accompanied by terrible famine, disease, wild animals on the rampage.
43. The rise of Islamic militancy and anti-Western sentiment, with a huge federation of Islamic nations, centered in Iran-Iraq
44. Many claiming to be a Messiah
45. Superficial religiosity without true religious substance
46. The ability by mankind to destroy all life on earth
47. Spectacular events in the skies

Remember! All these events are predicted to occur within the generation that sees the return of Jesus Christ.

A glance at these predicted situations will make clear that we are surely in the time of the signs prophesied in the Scriptures. Most of them are preoccupations of our daily news!

Unprecedented troubles yet lie ahead for the world. And more specifically for those nations descended from the Biblical patriarch Jacob. The near future harbors the "time of Jacob's trouble".

You, too, will be embroiled in the coming holocaust - but only if you refuse to make the changes in your life that God demands.

"Seek you the LORD all you humble of the land who do his commands... perhaps you may be hidden in the day of the wrath of the LORD" [Zephaniah 2:3]