Book of Revelation - "The End Times". Megiddo is an actual place, inhabited since Neolithic times, which is prophesied as the site of a battle at the end of the world.
It is tempting to think that the world is fast approaching it's end. We just can't know exactly when, or what will end. Today there are armed conflicts in too many places to mention here, but it's a frightening list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts
Action Against Hunger gives the appalling number of countries experiencing famine or extreme hunger. People are dying every day.
https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/the-hunger-crisis/world-hunger-facts/the-worlds-hungriest-countries/
The AHA centre has statisitics for natural disasters worldwide now.
https://ahacentre.org/weekly-disaster-update/weekly-disaster-update-9-15-january-2023/
Last but not least we have the overriding problem of the Climate Emergency threatening everything.
On top of these major world calamities, we in the UK face economic decline, recession, strikes, food banks, serious problems in providing effective healthcare, education & transport, increasing poverty & a glaring, unacceptable, wealth divide. We have politicians who are unable to meet these challenges resulting in a total lack of confidence by the public.
It's a very complex world we live in. Everyone has to work to find solutions. It's everyones problem. It is a battle for survival of the world as we know it. We cannot afford to loose.
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