North Korea beats its chest, while Russia maintains the world s second largest stockpile of nuclear weapons.
Tensions climb around Israel and in Africa.
Those of us with Bibles watch, knowing that one day the East and the West and the North and the South will square off to annihilate one another. Of course, we re sobered as fury rises and our Lord delays His return. We naturally grow sweaty over the portends of massive chaos, but Isaiah tips us off on three critical pieces of intelligence-data, essential to believers and their inner calm. Since people today don t believe He is a factor or even that He exists, He choreographs an event in the last days to challenge the arrogant. He calls their bluff and rallies them for a face-off.