Smithsonian Magazine ^ | January 2018 | Charles C. Mann
Half the world is now middle class or wealthier Homi Kharas and Kristofer Hamel Thursday, September 27, 2018
For the first time since agriculture-based civilization began 10,000 years ago, the majority of humankind is no longer poor or vulnerable to falling into poverty. By our calculations, as of this month, just over 50 percent of the world’s population, or some 3.8 billion people, live in households with enough discretionary expenditure to be considered “middle class” or “rich.”
23 charts and maps that show the world is getting much [better] ...
The Lancet: World population likely to shrink after mid-century ... www.healthdata.org › news-release › lancet-world-pop... Jul 14, 2020 __________
The real "distinction event" is that which is a result of spiritual and moral degeneration, with the once significantly God (of the Bible) fearing West in particular having increasingly and incrementally forsaken the true God and ran after idols and partaking in the deception that follows, including that of electing proxy servants of the devil and promoting polices that are a perversion of what God ordained.
And thus the rise of justifying everything from atheism to vulgarity and profanity to rebellion to parents and just authority to murder (incld. infants) to theft to lusts to attacking and perverting marriage (and more) are all a result and evidences of America's spiritual decline, and a war against God that has cost immensely in souls, lives and money.
Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time? (Luke 12:56)
We are now increasingly seeing the rise of the radical Left, and with Covid-19 serving to condition the masses to endure long-term losses of freedom and expression (silence the facial expression, then the words) and imposition of other restrictions. Which will provide a foundation for imposing even longer restrictions under the premise of combating Climate Change, and which is part of a policy of social change that maligns, attacks and punished those who oppose moral evils as abortion and homosexual realtions.
And which will include China-type tracking and control, and the marking, censorship and punishment of those who expose deception and seek to preserve basic morality and freedoms. Resulting in provoking a certain fringe element of conservatives (mostly libertarians I suspect) or antifa anarchist to violence.
And which the Left will hypocritically use to mark all who will not signify their allegiance to the flag of Sodom (so to speak), etc. as domestic terrorists, and thus be treated as such.
The mandated requirements in order to be members in good standing with the community can easily extended to requiring some sort of indelible mark, which both the rise in tattoos as well as vaccinations (and I am not against all vaccinations) help condition the masses for.
Which scenarios does sound like what end times "rapture" movies (i think this is the best one, if dated) but some scenarios seem more plausible every year (I believe the rapture at the end of the great Trib, with the resurrection of all believers, but if you just use the believing remnant in such movies as representing all believers then it fits with my understanding).
However, this all awaits the rising of a powerful world leader, a demonic alternative to Christ to deceive those who do not want the Truth of the gospel, as they reject contrition and His authority.
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Revelation 13:8)
He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. (Revelation 13:10-14)
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (Revelation 13:15-18)
“...17 leading scientists...”
Sounds like a toothpaste ad.
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/
The leftist propagandists will continue the flogging until morale improves!
What should we do?!? Let me guess: Rejoin The Paris Accords and give them a generous contribution, and also adopt the Green New Deal, and we'll be saved!
/EXTREME SARC
Even worse, the Sun will run out of power in a few billion years, and women and minorities will be hit hardest! If the next Ice Age doesn’t get everybody first. Or if an asteroid doesn’t wipe us out first. Or a million HALs don’t rebel and eliminate carbon based life forms!
Let’s just get it over with.