Ok Quix I'll take the bait- let's say your fears and suppositions are TRUE? What should we do to counter all this?
No bait involved.
It's an issue I've pondered a long time.
I think the only thing we can do is pray and endeaver to live walking close to God.
I am hoping I can go back to Taipei to teach at the university I have taught so many years at by fall 2005 even though I believe that within 1-3 years later Mainland China will invade Taiwan and do God only knows what with the foreigners there.
I live in NW NM--a mostly unattractive target area for such conflicts. However, I believe when calamaties occur, only walking close to God will be of any safety value. And, being in His will for each individual and family will be of utmost importance. Some will be led to places of safety--evidently some even to safe havens supernaturally protected by God. Others to martyrdom.
Somehow, Christ will have an overcoming, glorious, conquering church that even the gates of hell will not withstand. He must plan to grow a lot of us up rather miraculously and instantly as we're far from that state currently.
It is certainly clear that the world government is coming. It is certainly clear that the puppet masters will have increasing control towards that goal.
Somehow, when evil floods in, God will raise up a standard against it. Believers will do great exploits. The light will get brighter as the dark gets darker.
There are hints and a few brief strokes of outline of the future ahead.
1/3 to 2/3 of the population of the world will die. Some have said that Americans will eat their infanticide results while others wait hungrily for loved ones to die--and some won't wait but will hasten the process for food reasons. I believe it will be true, in some areas. Famine is a terrible thing--and probably all the more so to a generation needing two airline seats.
But the whole world [actually, all CREATION] will be in anguished travail--as The Bible says--groaning expectantly, eagerly for the manifestation of the sons of God. . . . evidently to aid in the deliverance from the pollution of sin.
The world will have a massive demonstration in a dying fire-dance of destruction of the end results of SELF-FIRST and God last, if at all.
Then, Christ will show all Creation what He bought to bring about at Calvary and proved at the empty tomb that He had the right to do.
Part of me wishes I had a more practical response. Part of me feels this is the best response I can come up with and the most fitting.
May God be with you and yours.