After almost nineteen hundred years, in May 1967, the Jews fought the six-day war, and freed Jerusalem from its enemies. Men are destroying the world they live in through their greed and carelessness. Growth is so fast that governments cannot cope with the increase. Jesus foresaw these problems. The word 'perplexity' means 'with no way out' - and that is true of the problems the world faces today.
Men can find no way out.
They are afraid of nuclear war, and nuclear accidents like the one at Chernobyl in Russia in 1986. Surely we are getting very close to the time when the Lord will come. They prefer to go their own way, and listen to anyone who will tell them, not what is true, but what they want to hear. The apostle Peter also said that in the last days men would scorn God's Word. That is just what men say today.