And violence fills the earth. Every day brings news of more bloodshed from war, terrorism, social unrest, or sick crime. Besides the disasters that man is inflicting upon himself, every kind of natural disaster besets the world. Starvation is stalking through many lands. Floods, storms, fires, and earthquakes are becoming more frequent and severe.
Summer brings extreme heat and winter brings extreme cold.
New scourges like AIDS are emerging from nowhere, and scourges long suppressed, like tuberculosis, are reemerging in more virulent forms. No wonder that people today are anxious about the future. No scholar or soothsayer can give us satisfying answers. In all the world we find only one reliable source of information about things to come. That source is the Bible, the book which the Creator Himself bequeathed to mankind as a revelation of His workings in history.