‘Apocalyptic’ Events Increasing Worldwide

ANALYSIS – Wars, famine, natural disasters, death. If you are like me, I'm sure you have wondered what the heck is going on in the world.

It seems every day we hear of another, or several, new mega-calamities facing our world.

If you are a devout Christian, you see in current events everywhere the dreaded “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” described in the Book of Revelation. Each of the horsemen represents a different facet of the apocalypse: conquest, war, famine and death.

Christians may gain comfort in biblical predictions and explanations showing how it's all part of God's plan. If you are more secular, however, you may be far more concerned.

Or you may simply be getting numb to the increasing number of “apocalyptic” type events occurring worldwide at a dizzying speed. And just accept it as the “new normal.”

Either way, you can't deny that there is a lot going on in the world, and it is getting worse, not better.

Prophecy News Network (PNW) recently published an insightful and well documented overview of the current state of the world. It notes correctly that: “Major wars are raging all over the globe, children in Africa are literally dropping dead from starvation as hunger spreads like wildfire, and “billion-dollar disasters” are hitting us more frequently than we have ever seen before.”

Let's start with war.

According to a new Norwegian study, the number of armed conflicts in 2023 was the most that we have seen in a single year since the end of World War II. Last year saw 59 conflicts of which 28 were in Africa, the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO) showed.

Most prominent to many in the West, is the Russian war of conquest in Ukraine. That's two horses in one.

Then there is the brutal war between Israel and the Islamist terror group Hamas and, on a smaller scale, Hezbollah. Both backed by Islamist Iran.

Meanwhile, the civil war in Sudan is even more bloody and destructive than either, with far less media attention.

“But,” as PNW notes, “if you think that things are bad now, just wait until Israel and Hezbollah start lobbing thousands of missiles back and forth, China invades Taiwan, and the Russians and NATO begin directly pummeling one another.”

That's when things can easily go nuclear with global catastrophe ensuing.

We are definitely living in times of “wars and rumors of wars.”

Then we have wide scale famine and death expanding across the globe.

PNW notes that “the number of people facing acute food insecurity last year was the highest ever recorded…”

It adds:

The number of people threatened by hunger in the world has never been so high. In 2023, 281 million people in 59 countries were facing acute food insecurity, according to the 2024 Global Report on Food Crises, published on Wednesday, April 24, by several international organizations (including UN agencies, the European Union, the US Agency for International Development). This figure is up on 2022 (257 million) in its fifth year running.

The global left has been highlighting hunger and near starvation in Gaza, where tens of thousands are in need. But in “Sudan, people are literally eating dirt and leaves just so that they can fill their stomachs with something.”

According to the U.N.'s World Food Program: “Twenty-five million people in Sudan need humanitarian assistance, 18 million are facing acute food insecurity and 5 million people are at emergency levels approaching famine as the country's civil war passes the one-year mark.”

That's a lot of starving people, in just one country. And these are not the only ones.

But if that isn't bad enough, a dizzying number of pestilences is causing death and chaos all over the globe. We just came out of the COVID pandemic that killed a few million people. Still, that was mild compared to what may come next.

PNW explains:

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the number of Mpox cases has surged to an all-time record high, and it is the form of the disease that has a particularly high death rate. This, while Brazil recorded the highest number of dengue cases globally in 2024 according to new data from the World Health Organization (WHO). There are nearly 6.3 million probable, and 3 million confirmed cases in the country.

And in case you haven't heard, in true sci-fi fashion, scientists have discovered “giant viruses” lurking ominously in the enormous sheets of ice that cover Greenland. Can't wait for those things to erupt.

Finally, PNW explains, we are also living in a new world of increasingly frequent “billion-dollar disasters.”

Insurance broker Gallagher Re reported in January that the planet was ravaged by a record 63 billion-dollar weather disasters in 2023, surpassing the previous record of 57 billion-dollar calamities set in 2020. This year we will likely top that peak number.

In the U.S. alone, in the six months of this year, there have already been 11 “billion-dollar disasters.”

As PNW adds: “A deadly outbreak of tornadoes last month caused $4.7 billion in damages across the Southern, Southeastern and Central U.S., making it one of the costliest weather events of the year so far, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Monday.”

Meanwhile, it adds: “The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said there had been 11 confirmed weather and climate disaster events [in the U.S.] so far this year with losses exceeding $1 billion, with the total price tag topping $25 billion.”

And expect far more, as hurricane and wildfire season ramp up.

Whether this is all biblical, or not, it should definitely make you think. And ask, “what the heck is going on?”

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.

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