And while wildfires ravage the West Coast, just a 100 miles east, it is snowing.

Oh my god.

What the Oh my god.

What? Ancient patterns are starting to feel familiar again across America.

Chaotic weather from surprising heat in California to the threat of storms rolling into the East Coast put over half the US population in the path of extreme conditions.

Storms behaving outside expectation.

Water shifting unpredictably.

The ground responding without clear cause.

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Descriptions that once belonged to ancient texts are starting to resemble modern events.

Not perfectly, not completely, but close enough to raise a question.

Because when the past begins to echo in the present, it forces a different kind of attention.

Not to what was written, but to what is happening now.

As we explore what might really be happening, stay with me, leave a like, and share your thoughts below.

Have you noticed this, too? With storms across the nation’s eastern half forced airlines to cancel thousands of flights nationwide.

In rural areas, where acres of farmland and homes have been flooded, roads have been closed, and shelters opened.

And the ground didn’t just get wet.

It began to give way.

Not all at once, but steadily, quietly, until what once felt solid could no longer hold.

Rain kept falling without pause.

Not in short bursts, but in sustained waves hour after hour, soaking everything beneath it.

Fields turned into water.

Roads disappeared under mud.

And then the land itself started to move.

Hillsides shifted.

Roads cracked, then collapsed.

Entire sections of earth slid downward, carrying debris, trees, and anything in their path.

Rescue teams moved in, not because of one event, but because multiple things were happening at the same time.

The flood waters rising, landslides forming, homes becoming unstable.

In one place, a house didn’t collapse instantly.

It held just long enough for the water to weaken everything beneath it.

And then the back of it was simply gone.

Not destroyed in an explosion, but erased by the ground that could no longer support it.

People who had lived there for decades said the same thing.

They had never seen rain like this.

Not this constant, not this heavy, not this overwhelming.

Scientists offer an explanation.

When rainfall becomes too intense, the soil absorbs more water than it can hold.

The ground loses cohesion.

Slopes that once seemed stable begin to slide under their own weight.

Add to that the saturation of deeper layers, old fractures, loose sediment, hidden voids, and the structure beneath the surface begins to fail.

From a geological perspective, it makes sense.

But even here, something feels incomplete because this wasn’t just about one hillside or one road or one home.

It was the sequence.

Rain, then water rising, then the ground shifting, then collapse, not random, not isolated, connected.

And this is where another lens begins to speak.

In Matthew 7 26-27, it is written, “The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew, and it fell with a great crash.

” The passage is not just about a storm.

It is about foundation.

What holds and what only appears to because the warning is clear.

What is built on unstable ground does not fail immediately.

It stands until pressure reveals what was already weak beneath it.

And maybe that’s what these moments are exposing.

And not just the force of the rain, but the limits of what the ground can carry.

Something deeper lingers in the air after the storm passed.

What happens when the foundation itself begins to shift? Because when homes collapse this way, not from above, but from below, it doesn’t just feel like damage, it feels like something was removed.

And in that space between explanation and meaning, one question remains.

Was it just the rain or was it the ground? finally giving up what it had been holding all along.

Across Colorado, it didn’t come as a typical summer storm.

There was no slow shift in seasons, no gradual cooling that people could track.

Instead, the weather broke pattern entirely.

What began as a sudden drop in temperature quickly turned into something far more intense.

A cold system forming out of season, deep pulling in moisture and releasing it all at once, not as rain anymore, but as heavy, dense snowfall, falling in a way that didn’t belong to that time of year.

In some areas, accumulation reached levels that would normally take weeks in winter.

But here, it happened in hours.

Roads disappeared, visibility collapsed, movement stopped.

Witnesses described it simply.

You couldn’t see anything.

No distance, no direction, just white falling, blowing surrounding everything.

And what stood out wasn’t just that it snowed.

It was how fast it escalated.

How a system that should not have existed in that season formed anyway.

Even in regions where snow is never completely gone, like the high elevations of Colorado or the Sierra Nevada, what remains this time of year is usually thin, scattered, and stable.

A lingering layer, not an active system.

Nothing like this.

Nothing that rebuilds winter in the middle of a different season.

Meteorologists pointed to unstable atmospheric patterns, sharp temperature contrasts, shifting pressure zones, and moisture carried from warmer regions suddenly forced into colder air.

Under the right conditions, it is possible, rare, but possible.

But even within that explanation, something still feels off.

Because this wasn’t just unusual, it was disruptive.

Weather used to follow a rhythm.

Even extremes had a sequence.

Now it interrupts.

It compresses time.

Turns what should build over days into something that arrives all at once.

And science can explain the mechanics.

It can map the pressure systems, the temperature drops, the moisture flow.

But it cannot explain why the pattern itself feels unstable.

In Job 37:6, it is written, “He says to the snow, fall on the earth, and to the rain shower, be a mighty downpour.

” The passage doesn’t describe randomness.

It describes authority over timing and intensity.

And because snow in that sense is not just about season, it is about release.

And when something like this happens, out of place, out of sequence, it raises a different kind of question.

Not just how did this form, but why does it feel like everything is being slowed, covered, silenced? And when familiar ground disappears beneath something that shouldn’t be there, it begins to feel less like weather and more like a break in the pattern.

Across parts of the Great Lakes, the lights didn’t just go out.

They stayed out.

Not for a moment.

Not as a brief interruption, but long enough for people to realize this wasn’t just a passing event.

Power outages stretched across multiple states, affecting entire regions at once.

And what made it more unsettling was the timing.

Some outages didn’t even begin with the latest storm.

Were they traced back to earlier winds, gusts strong enough to tear through infrastructure days before, leaving behind damage that hadn’t fully been restored as of Sunday afternoon, according to power outage US.

Some originated on Friday when gusts in the region reached 85 mph.

So when the next wave came, snow, wind, pressure, the system didn’t fail instantly.

It failed progressively.

Lines already weakened gave way.

Grids already strained began to drop.

And suddenly, entire areas were left in the dark.

Not because something new happened, but because something unfinished finally caught up.

At the same time, in other regions, winds weren’t just disrupting power, they were fueling fires.

The same force moving cold air across one part of the country was feeding flames in another.

In Nebraska had about 30 National Guard members were deployed to help combat multiple wildfires across a broad swath of range and grassland.

two extremes driven by the same system.

Science explains this in fragments.

High winds damage power lines.

Dry conditions and strong gusts accelerate wildfires.

Cold fronts collide with warmer air, creating instability across vast distances.

Individually, each piece makes sense.

But together it begins to feel less predictable because the scale isn’t local.

The impact isn’t isolated.

One system stretches across states from the southern border to the Great Lakes to the mountains in between.

And within that single system, you have snow, fire, and darkness at the same time.

That’s where the explanation starts to feel incomplete because infrastructure is designed with limits in mind.

The weather is expected to test those limits, but not all at once.

And yet, that’s exactly what’s happening.

Pressure is no longer coming from one direction.

It’s coming from everywhere, layered, overlapping, unresolved.

And when systems begin to fail this way, it doesn’t just reveal weakness in materials.

It reveals something about the moment we’re in.

Because long before modern grids and power lines, there were warnings not about electricity, but about stability.

about what happens when systems people rely on begin to break down under pressure, not suddenly, but gradually, piece by piece, until what once felt constant becomes uncertain.

And maybe that’s what makes this different.

It’s not just the outage.

It’s the persistence of it.

The way it lingers, the way it overlaps with everything else.

Storms, fires, collapsing ground.

And now darkness that doesn’t immediately lift.

Because when the lights go out across regions like this, it does more than interrupt power.

It changes behavior.

It slows movement.

It forces people to stop and wait.

And in that waiting, a quieter question begins to form.

Not just how long until the power returns, but how many systems can be pushed at once before something deeper begins to give way.

The National Weather Service warned that a line of severe storms with damaging winds would cross much of the eastern US by late Monday.

It was to begin Sunday afternoon and cross the Mississippi, Tennessee, and Ohio valleys.

The storm threat was expected to enter the Appalachian early Monday, then move toward the east coast where severe thunderstorms with widespread damaging winds and several tornadoes were expected during the day Monday.

The weather service said a stretch from parts of South Carolina to Maryland appeared most likely to experience the greatest damaging winds Monday afternoon.

The weather service said that could include Raleigh, North Carolina, Richmond, Virginia, and the nation’s capital.

The weather service said an increased, albeit much lower, risk stretched north to New York and south to Florida with thunderstorms possible in New England.

Across parts of the United States, tornadoes have begun appearing in ways that don’t feel tied to the patterns people thought they understood.

They are not just forming, they are emerging.

Sometimes earlier in the year, sometimes in places that used to be considered less vulnerable.

See, from one region to another, the same story repeats.

Sudden rotation, rapid escalation, and very little time to react.

What stands out is not just the presence of tornadoes, but the pace.

Reports have been climbing faster than expected with activity already running far above normal levels for this time of year.

Storm systems are forming with stronger energy fed by unusually warm moisture rising from the Gulf, creating conditions that seem amplified.

Science offers an explanation.

Warm, moist air collides with colder systems moving through the jetream.

Instability builds.

Rotation forms.

Under the right conditions, a tornado is born.

But even experts admit something isn’t fully lining up.

The atmosphere, they say, is being supercharged on some days, while on others, the same conditions seem to disappear entirely.

So, tornadoes are now appearing in months that were once too cold to support them.

And while technology has improved, even the systems designed to track these storms are being pushed to their limits, relying not just on data, but on human judgment stretched thin.

So, the explanation exists, but it doesn’t feel complete because science explains how a tornado forms.

It does not explain why the timing feels off, why the frequency is shifting, why the pattern itself seems less stable than before.

And this is where another lens begins to speak.

In Luke 21:25, it is written, “There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars.

On the earth, nations will be in anguish at the roaring and tossing of the sea.

” The language is not about a single event.

It is about disturbance in the sky, in the water, and on the land.

Tornadoes are not new.

Ice storms are not new.

But when what was once seasonal becomes unpredictable, when what was once rare becomes frequent, when what was once understood becomes uncertain, it begins to resemble something more than weather.

Not proof, not conclusion, but a signal.

Science describes the mechanics, pressure, temperature, wind shear.

But some asks a different question.

What happens when creation itself begins to lose its rhythm? And maybe that’s the tension we’re standing in right now between explanation and meaning.

Something uncovered from the ground.

Not ruins, not structures, but fossils.

Remains of life that didn’t fully match what scientists expected to find.

At first, it seemed like a normal discovery.

Fragments preserved in layers of rock.

evidence of ancient organisms from a time long before anything recognizable walked the earth.

But as researchers looked closer, something didn’t align.

These forms weren’t as simple as they were supposed to be.

They showed signs of complexity, movement, structure, even symmetry, features that, according to previous understanding, shouldn’t have appeared until much later.

In other words, life may have become complex earlier than expected.

And that changes more than just a timeline because for decades, the story of life on Earth followed a sequence, slow development, gradual increase in complexity.

Then a sudden expansion, but now that sequence is shifting.

What was thought to happen later may have already begun earlier.

Science offers explanations.

Rising oxygen levels, genetic mutations reaching a threshold, environmental feedback loops between life and the planet itself.

See, all of these could have contributed to what scientists call an explosion of life.

A moment when organisms didn’t just exist.

They diversified, spread, and reshaped the world around them.

But even here something feels incomplete because these explanations describe conditions.

They describe mechanisms but they don’t fully explain the timing.

Why then? Why so suddenly? Why does complexity appear almost all at once in what researchers themselves describe as a geological blink? In Genesis 1:24-25, it is written, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds.

” And God saw that it was good.

The language is not gradual.

It is declarative.

Life appears, ordered, structured, defined.

And later in Ecclesiastes 3:11, it says, “He has made everything beautiful in its time, not random, not delayed, in its time.

” And which raises a different kind of question? What if what we’re uncovering now is not the beginning of complexity, but the evidence that it was always there, just earlier than we expected.

Because fossils don’t create history.

They reveal it.

And sometimes what they reveal doesn’t follow the timeline we built.

Science adjusts.

It reorders.

It refineses the model.

But scriptures has always pointed to something else.

That life was not just the result of conditions, but of intention.

And when discoveries like this begin to shift the foundation of what we thought we knew, it doesn’t just challenge science, it challenges the sequence itself.

Because if complexity didn’t slowly emerge the way we believed, but appeared sooner, faster, more complete, then maybe the question isn’t just how life evolved.

Yeah, but whether we’ve been looking at the timeline from the wrong direction all along.

Across the United States, the sky didn’t just change color, it disappeared.

In parts of Arizona, a wall began to form on the horizon.

Not clouds, not rain, dust rising, stretching, advancing.

What people saw wasn’t a storm moving through the city.

It was something swallowing it.

Within minutes, daylight dimmed into a dull brown haze.

Visibility collapsed.

Drivers pulled over, not out of caution, but because they had no choice.

Some said they couldn’t even see their own hands in front of them.

The air itself became heavy, thick enough to taste, fine enough to slip through every opening, filling homes, cars, lungs.

And just as quickly as it arrived, it passed, leaving behind silence, dust, and disruption.

Flights were grounded.

A power failed across thousands of homes, structures strained under wind, and sudden rain that followed behind it.

Science calls this a haboo, a wall of dust driven by strong winds from collapsing thunderstorms formed when cool air rushes downward and spreads outward across dry land, lifting massive amounts of loose sediment into the air.

In regions like Arizona, flat, dry, exposed, this can happen.

That’s the explanation.

But even within that explanation, something feels incomplete.

Because this wasn’t just wind carrying dust.

It was scale, speed, density.

The way it turned afternoon into darkness.

Not gradually, but instantly.

And the timing.

Arriving in a season already marked by imbalance.

Dry in some places, sudden rain in others.

Conditions that don’t fully settle only shift.

Science describes the mechanism wind or pressure terrain, but it doesn’t fully explain the feeling of something approaching, of something overtaking.

Scripture says when the sky fills with it, when it rises, moves, and covers everything in its path, it carries a different kind of weight.

In Genesis 2:7, it is written, “Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, beginning and return, not just physical, symbolic.

” And maybe that’s why moments like this feel different.

Because science can explain how the dust was lifted, but it doesn’t explain why it feels like everything familiar.

Sky, air, distance can disappear in a matter of minutes.

And when that happens, it stops being just a storm.

It becomes a question not just about what moved through the city but about what else might be shifting with it.

And across the United States, something else has started to shift.

Not in the sky, not in the ground, but in the system meant to understand it all.

For decades, there was a record.

A way to measure the cost of disasters, storms, fires, floods, heat.

Not just what happened, but what it meant.

That record is now being stopped.

The system that tracked the financial impact of extreme weather, one of the most consistent ways to see the scale of change, will no longer be updated.

Not because disasters have slowed, not because the damage has decreased, but because the tracking itself is being reduced.

On the surface, there are explanations, shifts in policy, changes in staffing, new priorities.

Individually, each one makes sense, but together they form a different pattern.

Because this isn’t just about data, it’s about visibility.

But for years, these records acted like a mirror, reflecting how often disasters were happening, how severe they were becoming, how much they were costing.

Now that mirror is fading, and at the same time, the events it once tracked are not slowing down.

Storms are intensifying.

Fires are spreading.

Weather is becoming harder to predict.

So the question isn’t just why the system is changing but why it’s changing now.

Because when a system designed to measure reality begins to step back, it doesn’t remove the reality.

It removes the reference point.

And without that reference, patterns become harder to see.

Trends become easier to ignore.

Science still exists.

Data still exists.

But the structure that connected it, that made it visible at scale, is beginning to fragment.

And and that’s where this stops feeling like a technical adjustment and starts to feel like a different kind of instability, not environmental, but societal.

Because history has shown something consistent.

Systems don’t usually fail all at once.

They narrow first.

They reduce.

They simplify what they track until what remains is no longer enough to see the full picture.

And by the time the gap becomes obvious, the pattern has already moved ahead.

So this moment isn’t just about one database ending.

It’s about what happens when the tools used to understand change begin to change themselves.

Because if storms are intensifying, if the ground is shifting, if the sky is becoming less predictable, and at the same time, the system meant to measure all of it begins to pull back.

Then the instability isn’t just in nature anymore.

It’s in the way we see it.

And once that begins, the question is no longer just what is happening, but how much of it we are still able to recognize while it’s happening.

More than 2 months after a tornado destroyed his home, Brian Lowry still looks through the rubble, hoping to find a tie clip his mother gave him made from the center stone of her wedding band.

I still have hope, Lowry said.

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death toll rises to at least 37 after tornadoes, wildfires, and dust storms ravage multiple US states.

He, his wife, and 13-year-old son made it to safety before the tornado ripped apart their trailer home of 15 years.

But the recovery from the storm has been a slow and painful process.

Mississippi’s request for federal aid is still pending before the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

I meaning badly needed assistance has not yet made it to his hard-hit community of Tyler Town to recover from the storms that struck in mid-March.

The delays could provide a glimpse into what’s in store for communities around the country as the summers storm season arrives and FEMA is mired in turmoil.

A stretch of states, including Kentucky, Missouri, and Oklahoma, have already been battered with tornadoes this week, setting the stage for more disaster requests to FEMA.

And the Atlantic hurricane season is just around the corner.

March storms left seven dead and hundreds of homes destroyed or damaged.

In Mississippi, nearly 20 tornadoes tore through the state on March 14th and 15th, leaving seven people dead and hundreds of homes destroyed or damaged.

Republican Mississippi Governor to Tate Reeves asked the Trump administration for a major disaster declaration on April 1st.

The state and residents like Lowry are still waiting.

I don’t know what you got to do or what you got to have to be able to be declared for a federal disaster area because this is pretty bad.

Lowry said, “We can’t help you because whatever.

We’re waiting on a letter.

We’re waiting on somebody to sign his name.

You know, all that.

I’m just over it.

” The declaration would allow the state to access a wide range of FEMA resources, including financial aid for individuals and for government agencies still removing debris and repairing infrastructure.

We don’t have a declaration yet.

People are still hurting, said Royce McKe, emergency management director for Walthhall County, which includes Tyler Town.

A requests for help come at a time of upheaval for FEMA Mississippi’s request comes at a time of upheaval for FEMA.

The AY’s acting administrator, Cameron Hamilton, was recently ousted after he publicly disagreed with proposals to dismantle FEMA, an idea President, Donald Trump, has floated in, calling the agency very bureaucratic and very slow.

David Richardson, FEMA’s new acting administrator, committed himself to executing Trump’s vision for the agency.

He also previewed potential policy changes, saying there could be more cost sharing with states and that FEMA would coordinate federal assistance when deemed necessary.

Wal County was hit especially hard by the massive storm system that wre havoc across multiple states.

The storm spawned two significant tornadoes in the county where four people died.

Dak said the county has sunk an estimated $700,000 into cleaning up the damage but can’t afford to spend more and has halted operations until it receives federal help.

We need federal help and we need it desperately and we need it now, said Bobby McGinness, a Tyler Town resident and firefighter.

I know President Trump said that America first, we’re going to help our American folks first, but we haven’t seen the federal folks down here.

While Mississippi has been waiting, a similar major disaster declaration request out of Arkansas after the storms hit was denied, appealed by Republican Governor Sarah Huckabe Sanders, and finally approved on May 13th.

We are encouraged by FEMA’s decision regarding Arkansas’s application from the same storm system that hit Mississippi.

Scott Simmons to the Mississippi Emergency Management AY’s director of external affairs said in a statement, “We anxiously await a positive decision.

In Missouri, there are frustrations about the federal response to March storms.

In Missouri, the federal response to storms earlier this year is being criticized as residents pick up the pieces from a Friday twister.

The EF3 tornado packing winds of up to 150 mph, 241 kmh, slammed into St.

Louis on Friday, and the city is awaiting a disaster declaration from the Missouri governor’s office so it can access federal help.

We need to get the federal government mobilized, said US Senator Josh Holly, a Missouri Republican.

All federal resources that can be brought to bear here should be.

The senator also expressed frustration over the federal response to a deadly March storm.

We cannot wait months.

I’m not happy about the fact we’re still waiting from all of that damage 2 months ago.

We lost 12 people in those storms.

We’ve lost seven here.

He said the scope of the damage is immense.

Mississippi lawmakers press federal officials about assistance.

Mississippi lawmakers have been pressing federal officials on the issue.

During a congressional hearing in early May, Republican Mississippi Representative Michael Guest asked US Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam, whose department oversees FEMA, to push forward the request.

I would ask you if you could make sure that you could do everything to expedite that request.

Guest said, “It is impacting my local jurisdictions with debris cleanup.

It is impacting people as they seek to recover.

” Republican Mississippi US Seni Hyde Smith also asked Nome about FEMA assistance and the administration’s new approach to the agency.

President Trump has been very clear that he believes that the way that FEMA exists today should not continue.

Noam responded.

He wants to make sure that those reforms are happening where states are empowered to do the response and trained and equipped and then the federal government would come in and support them and financially be there when they need them on their worst day.

For many people, Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer.

But along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, it also means the start of hurricane season is nearly here, too.

And this particular hurricane season comes at a moment when NOA and its agencies are being cut and facing their own turmoil.

But nearly 20 years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, federal officials came to Gretna, Louisiana to predict the US is on the cusp of another above normal hurricane season.

Between 13 and 19 named storms, 6 to 10 hurricanes, three to five of them major.

National Weather Service Director Ken Graham did not utter the word climate, now scrubbed from the federal lexicon, and yet still made clear the main culprit.

When you have a planet that’s warmer, you look at the ocean temperatures could be impacted by that.

Warm sea surface temperature is probably the number one contributor to the whole thing.

A lot has changed since Katrina.

Forecasters now issue an outlook for global tropical storms 3 weeks in advance or hurricane hunter aircraft are flying with new experimental radars able to collect data on the ocean waves and the wind.

And there are improved models for predicting precipitation and the rapid intensification of storms.

The modeling has never been better.

Our service has never been better.

Our ability to serve this country has never been better and it will be this season as well.

And yet the weather service and its parent organization, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, are facing an uncertain financial forecast.

The Trump federal spending overview, known as the skinny budget, released by the White House on May 2nd, calls for a 24% cut to NOAA’s budget.

The Department of Government Efficiency terminated more than 800 NOAA employees are raising concerns about the frequency of essential forecasting tasks like launching weather balloons, and the science budget is hit even harder.

Trump proposes a 74% cut to the office of oceanic research.

Wed Abdalahi, University of Colorado, Boulder.

I think these numbers are very difficult to believe, frankly.

Glaciologist and former NASA chief scientist Wed Abdalati is the director of the cooperative institute for research in environmental sciences CIS a joint venture between NOA and the University of Colorado Boulder.

It’s important to study climate change because it is a big driver of our environment.

The environment in which we live now, the environment in which we are going to live a year from now and 10 years from now.

And understanding that enables us to anticipate what the future may look like or if some challenges are coming, how do we head them off? At first, the Trump budget sought to eliminate all funding for climate, weather, and ocean laboratories and cooperative institutes housed primarily at major research universities.

Cyrus and 15 other cooperative institutes are strategically distributed across the country.

Collectively, they explore climate, weather, oceans, coasts, air quality, water resources, and disaster resilience.

The cooperative institute at the University of Miami is deploying drones and remote research vessels to improve hurricane forecasts.

In Boulder, Wed Abdelati showed me some of the tools they have developed to predict how fires behave.

But this is derived from satellite observations.

Coupling this with information on the ground, drought information, how much fuel is there for a fire ch to really get at the dynamics and the ultimate implications.

Certainly, there are many places like Park City.

That’s what this team of CIRS scientists is focused on.

They manage the Western Water Assessment, one of 13 NOAA funded teams across the country focused on climate adaptation.

They work closely with small agricultural and ranching communities trying to cope with worsening drought conditions fueled by rising temperatures.

Looking at things like how drought is changing, it’s getting bigger.

It’s getting drier.

It’s coming on more quickly trying to understand how we can better predict that which is so important for things like agriculture, farming, and ranching.

Figuring out what to plant when.

This was among 13 noa climate adaptation teams.

At least one has closed and there are concerns that others may as well.

What would you do if it ended? If it ended, I don’t know.

I planned I was one of the people who hoped to retire here at CIS with Western Water Assessment.

Like I really it’s my passion and I love it.

And so if it ends, I’m going to kind of have to restart and figure out what that means.

It’s worse in parts of Western Colorado.

Now her colleague, hydraologist Nells Bjarka, is a newly minted PhD now eyeing greener scientific pastures.

If I lost this job, it is unlikely that I would reenter the workforce here in the US.

I probably would move to Australia.

There are plenty of positions I would be qualified to do, and it is much less adversarial.

When we visited, layoffs were imminent.

However, after the universities and members of Congress raised serious concerns, Sir Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik approved funding requests for CIR and a few other cooperative institutes that were on the brink.

But the extent and duration of the reprieve are uncertain and uncertainty is something NOA is chartered to fight.

Despite all of this, Ken Graham offered some asurances and we had some folks go, but we’re going to make sure that we have everything that we have on the front lines.

Every warning is going to go out.

But the most important warning may be coming from scientists now sidelined who were doing the work that makes the forecast better.

Something strange is happening right now.

With wars constantly increasing, nations are shaking.

Morality continues to be collapsed.

Truth itself is eroded more and more as time goes on.

And many Christians were just acting like everything’s fine.

Like nothing’s happening.

But that’s why Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell just gave this powerful illustration about the times we’re living in trying to wake us up.

because once you hear it, you might start seeing the world in a completely different way.

So, listen to this clip, hit that like button.

Let’s reach more people with the truth.

And as always, let me know what you think in the comments.

Springtime in Georgia and no matter how many times you wash your car in this season, it will be green uh in a few hours or a day or two if you leave it outside.

That pollen is fallen on everything.

And you cannot deny the pollen that is in the air.

You can act like it doesn’t exist.

You can wash your car like it does not exist.

You could put something outside like it does not exist.

But whatever is outside, the pollen will remind us that it’s in the air.

I’ve shed a lot of tears this week because I feel like there is a lot of apathy, lethargy, blindness in the Christian church that’s out there.

And the pollen of endtime events are falling on all of that apathy and ignorance.

And we can’t explain it away.

And if you forget everything today, this is the hour for us to go past these gatherings.

It’s time to go past meeting on Sundays and being in church community.

Just on Sundays, what signs indicate that the end times are approaching? Preachers have always talked about the end time signs.

If you look back in history, even Jesus himself as well.

And the end times must be talked about because the Bible itself speaks about them.

And there are many Old Testament prophecies and many signs that show when the end times are coming close, the birth painans.

But if we look at all the generations before, never in history have so many of the signs appeared as they have in this generation.

So today from the Old Testament prophecies to the New Testament, it is necessary to look at number one, the fig tree generation.

Number two, the war of Gog and Magog from the book of Ezekiel.

Then the coming of the one world government, religion, and the antichrist.

Preparations for the third temple in Jerusalem.

The signs Jesus himself gave about the end times, the explosion of knowledge and travel, scoffers and spiritual apathy, and then the gospel reaching the whole world.

Now, please keep in mind that these topics are huge.

Full long sermons could be made on each one of these.

See, and they would all be important, but the idea of this video is to give a very quick overview with a firm grasp on each one of these.

So, the first one to look at is the fig tree generation.

Now, in the Bible, God prophesies that Israel will become a nation again in their land.

This is read in Ezekiel 37, Jeremiah 31, Amos 9:14-15, and also in Isaiah 11:es 11 to 12.

Now, before going into what the fig tree generation means from a biblical perspective, not personal belief, but what the Bible itself says, ask this.

Did this already happen? Yes.

In 1948, Israel became a nation again after 2,000 years.

If you look at all cultures across the globe, many would think that is impossible.

It is the only nation after such a long period that came back to its land and became a people, a nation again.

But it doesn’t matter what is believed about the government or the people in Israel.

The fact is there are many people in Israel who are Jews from the line of the ancient Israelites.

So they became a nation again in 1948.

They then gained control of Jerusalem in 1967.

And since then the population there has increased from all over the world from every corner.

Aaliyah is rooted in the biblical promise of a designated place for the descendants of Abraham.

For many, it is more than returning to a homeland.

It is responding to a divine call and the blessings that come with it.

There is a sense of being home, of being part of something bigger with trust that God will provide a way forward.

God has gathered his people.

And even to this day as this is being spoken, an anti-semitism spreading across the world is also increasing the number of people returning to their people to their land.

But now Jesus says in Matthew 24:32-34 from the fig tree learn its lesson.

This generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

When reading that chapter, it becomes clear that Jesus is talking about the signs of the end times and about this final fig tree generation.

And so the first thing that had to happen was that Israel had to come back to its land, the people, right? And when this happened in 1948 or 1967, some people say because that’s when they gained control of Jerusalem, it doesn’t matter.

They came back.

The fig tree generation.

That last generation that Jesus is talking about.

Many believe the clock started.

The clock of the last generation before the end is here.

Oh, so now the question needs to be asked biblically, what is a generation? How many years? Because normally people would think just 80 years, right? Well, yeah.

The book of Psalms talks about 70 or 80 years for a generation.

When Jesus led the Israelites out of the wilderness toward the land of Canaan, there was also a generation that was 40.

But that is not necessarily accurate according to how long people live.

It was simply that specific generation at that time.

And then when going to the book of Genesis, a generation is described as 120 years.

Now if it is 80 according to Psalms for example 1948 + 80 years means it could even be in 2028.

It could be more.

Now this could be longer, it could be shorter, right? Because it doesn’t say 100% that when this number finishes then the end time is going to come.

It simply says the fig tree generation will not pass.

So it could be any time from now until maybe even 20, 30, 40 years.

If you want to fully understand the future generation, that video will be added in the description.

Let’s go to number two, the war of Gog and Magog.

This is read about in the book of Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39.

It talks about a coalition of northern forces that will come and attack Israel when they do not expect it.

In the book of Revelation, there is also mention of the war of Gog and Magog.

But these are not the same.

That Gog and Magog is still the same evil spirit behind it.

But that one takes place after the millennial kingdom.

The Gog and Magog in Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39, if that entire section is read, describes a coalition of forces that will attack Israel.

Now remember, and that could not happen if Israel had not first become a nation again.

That has happened in this lifetime.

So now there is anticipation for this Gog and Magog war to begin.

Most people already know if the news is being followed, there have been many conflicts involving Israel in just the last few years, especially involving Iran and its proxies.

Right? So, do we know who these enemies of Israel are? Yes, the Bible describes them.

Ezekiel 38 2:3 mentions Mog.

Today, it is often associated with southern Russia and central Asia.

Rash is also linked to modern-day Russia.

Mesk refers to central and eastern Turkey.

Tubil is also located in modern-day Turkey.

Then verse 5 adds Persia which is modern-day Iran.

Kush refers to the region of Sudan and parts of Ethiopia in Africa.

And put is associated with modern-day Libya.

And it is also believed that there may be more regions in Africa involved because that is where the descendants of Kush spread.

Who is Kush? It can be traced back to when Noah had three sons, Ham, Shem, and Japheth.

They all had children and their descendants spread across the world.

Ham had Kush.

Kush also had Nimrod.

Nimrod is associated with the rise of early civilizations including the Sumerianss and with the development of early belief systems such as pantheism.

He is also connected to the building of the Tower of Babel in rebellion against God.

There is more detail on that in other discussions.

But the line of Kush, many of them spread into Africa.

Over time, many people groups migrated, including the Bantau peoples from central and eastern Africa, who also moved further south into regions like South Africa.

That’s as low as you can get.

Some people when moving to the States would ask, where are you from? The answer would be South Africa.

And they would say, yeah, Africa, but where? The clarification had to be made.

The country itself is called South Africa, not the south of Africa.

A lot of people actually don’t know much about Africa when you come to Europe and America.

But South Africa itself, if it’s unfamiliar, has a long and complex history.

Recently, there have been forces like Iran with governments aligning with Russia and also China.

And it is clear how these powers have been turning against Israel and also America not just in the last year but even over the past decade.

Much of this connects to socialism and Soviet influences going back even before 1994.

But that is a much larger topic for another time.

In Ezekiel 38:6 continues with Goomemer, the region of modern-day Turkey and Beth Togarma located in eastern Turkey and the Armenia region.

Now, many who follow the news already know there is deep hostility from Iran toward Israel.

The intent has been openly stated to remove Israel completely and this has not been hidden through statements, actions and the use of proxy groups.

When looking at the forces surrounding Israel, it becomes clear Israel stands largely alone.

So this is expected to happen, especially with Russia continuing alongside that coalition to move against Israel.

It will happen.

It will come to pass just like the other Bible prophecies that were spoken and fulfilled.

This will also take place.

So this is what has been waited for or perhaps what has already begun.

There are two ways to look at it.

Either it already started when Israel was attacked unexpectedly by Hamas and other forces at a moment when people were unprepared.

Some were celebrating.

It took time for the reality of the attack to fully unfold.

That location was visited.

The impact was overwhelming.

It leaves a deep mark.

You could spend an entire day there seeing the stories, learning the names, one side written in Hebrew, the other in English.

There was a man, Ben Shimoni, who went back and forth saving many people.

And there are details not always spoken openly.

What happened there included acts of extreme violence.

The testimonies from those who arrived first, they describe something deeply disturbing, something that feels beyond human, dark, destructive, almost demonic in nature.

But what unfolded began with Hamas and then continued in waves.

Small movements, a building over time.

Yet the Bible describes something larger.

A full coalition of forces that will come together and move against Israel.

This is still believed to be ahead.

And when that moment comes, what happens next? The Bible says that God himself will fight for Israel.

These nations will not be victorious.

The ending has already been written.

And after that, once God steps in and delivers them, what follows leads into the next phase.

That brings us to number three and number four.

Number three is a one world government, religion, and the antichrist.

The Bible, especially in the book of Daniel and the book of Revelation, describes this figure, the antichrist, who will rise.

The devil will work through him.

And this antichrist will take control of a global system, a kind of new world order.

This system will operate politically, an economically, and religiously.

Daniel 7 describes a final world empire made up of multiple kingdoms that merge into one system ruled by a single leader.

Daniel 8 says, “He exalts himself, destroys many, and opposes God.

” Chapter 11:36-37 adds, “He exalts himself above every god and honors no god but himself.

” It is often suggested that behind visible systems, governments, media, global influence, there are deeper layers of power and control.

What is seen on screens may only reflect part of a larger structure.

Influence is shaped through news, social media, and even celebrities.

And some believe that these networks, these hidden structures are already in place.

It is believed that the antichrist is already present waiting.

Revelation 13 says he will control buying and selling worldwide.

A revelation 17 speaks of a global religious system that supports him.

Now for the first time in history this infrastructure is already in place.

Let that sink in for a moment.

Apart from that, there appears to be a phase where as much chaos as possible is being created in the world.

Because remember what will the antichrist come and do? He will bring peace.

But for peace to be established, there first has to be chaos and war, right? So things are not going to get better.

Things are going to get worse.

The Bible also says there will be wars and rumors of wars.

So these hidden systems are already pulling strings while the devil works through them to carry out a larger plan.

A plan that leads to a point where suffering becomes so widespread across so many nations and that people begin to cry out someone come and help.

Someone come and save us.

For example, nations may reach a point where they cannot sustain themselves.

Nothing can be changed internally.

Outside help becomes necessary.

And this pattern will grow more and more until finally countries begin to agree on a single global governing system, a new world order, and people will believe that this system will bring peace.

Daniel 9:27 says, “This ruler makes a covenant with many nations, then breaks it halfway through.

He breaks it.

Why? Because that period of tribulation is described as 7 years.

The first half will appear peaceful.

The book of Revelation speaks of this as well.

But once full power is established, any alliance can be broken.

At that point, complete control is in place and then anything can be done.

Oh, but here is the key.

Israel will not accept this unless they believe he is the Messiah.

They will not allow a stranger to enter their third temple still to be built and declare himself as God unless they are convinced.

But before any of that can happen, the third temple must be built.

And that leads to number four, preparations for a third temple in Jerusalem.

As scripture is studied, both Jesus and Paul speak about a third temple.

But today in Jerusalem, there is no third temple.

There is a Muslim mosque.

However, what is important to understand is that Jewish groups have already prepared many of the necessary elements for the temple to be built.

A full breakdown of this has been covered elsewhere with more detail available.

For example, according to Numbers 19, the temple sacrifices require a perfect, an unblenmished red heer for ritual purification.

This is something that had not existed in Judaism for nearly 2,000 years.

But in 2018, several were born in Texas and they were publicly presented in 2022.

This is what is being pointed to all the pieces coming together.

Small details like this yet incredibly significant.

For 2,000 years, there were none.

Now they exist.

Now moving to what Jesus himself said.

Number five, the signs of the end times.

Believers naturally seek understanding.

There is a desire to know what will happen.

That is why the book of Revelation exists.

It is the only book that specifically says there is a blessing in reading it.

Certain things can be known because they were revealed.

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