[Darris McNeely] According to the scientists who keep track of what is called the “Doomsday
Clock”, we have just moved two and a half minutes to midnight, the end of all humanity,
nuclear destruction – we’re in bad times.
This just happened a few days ago – actually, it came in the aftermath of the inauguration
of Donald Trump as President of the United States.
The scientists who take care of this Doomsday Clock had it at three minutes to midnight,
but now they’ve moved it two and a half minutes to midnight in light of, actually,
as they admit, who has become President of the United States and some of his statements
in regard to nuclear weapons and climate change.
In fact, the scientists who take care of the Doomsday Clock list two essential elements
of the world today – the nuclear situation and the very dangerous nuclear world that
we are in with many nations holding nuclear weapons that are antagonistic toward one another,
and wanting to use those weapons to advance their own particular nationalistic ideas and
agenda – it is a very real threat.
We have rogue nations such as North Korea with a nuclear weapon, Iran wanting a nuclear
weapon – so, rightfully so.
The world is very dangerously close to always and has been, since the 1940s, nuclear war.
The second item that they list as a major problem is climate change, because again,
of comments that have been made by President Trump and others denying climate change and
some of the science in regard to that.
And of course, scientists even debate back and forth the various elements of climate
change, but these are the two reasons that the scientists who take care of the Doomsday
Clock feel it was necessary to move it up thirty seconds, to two and a half minutes,
which is actually the closest it has been to midnight and the hour of destruction since
1953.
They began keeping this clock in the late 1940s after the development of the hydrogen
bombs by the United States and Russia and the testing of those, and again, moving the
world closer to the brink of nuclear war or possible even nuclear winter, and nuclear
annihilation.
It is a very serious issue, the matters of nuclear war and certainly climate is on people’s
minds, and the earth is changing in many different ways – the cause of that, where it will
take us, is certainly debated and wondered about.
But let’s look at, really, this particular clock and take a step back.
I have actually lived with this clock all my life.
I’ve heard about it and from time to time, it will be brought up and a major headline
will be made about scientists moving this clock dial back and forth, depending upon
politics, who’s in charge, what’s happening in the world scene.
Your Bible does describe to us a scene in Matthew 24:22.
Jesus Christ Himself did make the statement that because of world events, and tribulation,
and war, and false religion, and other matters, that the world would move to a point and to
the actual brink of destruction, as the Bible describes it in Matthew 24:22.
Christ says, “Unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved.
But for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.”
All the years I’ve been listening and hearing about the Doomsday Clock and the gloom-and-doom
scenario, I remembered this verse, and you should, as well.
Because Jesus Christ Himself, who’s in charge of history, who’s in charge of prophecy,
and who is in charge of human life on this earth, as the Creator of life, has said that
mankind will not get to midnight in nuclear extinction.
That is a promise of God from the Bible.
Regardless of the politics, regardless of the science, regardless of what happens in
our world scene, yes, there will be some very difficult times ahead of us.
But your Bible, your Word, gives us a word of hope that those days will be shortened,
and they will be shortened as Christ says, “Because of the sake of the elect”.
A group of people, the elect of God, who are faithful, who keep His commandments and understand
the testimony of Jesus Christ – the church of God.
Because of the existence of the elect, God will not allow this clock to tick to midnight.
That’s the hope that we have.
Understand that, and we can rely completely upon God.
That’s BT Daily.
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