Policymakers encourage urbanization, because it stands to boost economic growth.
The Bible is not silent about Far East Asia, both past and future.
Though it may today appear that the economic advance of China and other Asian nations is unstoppable, this is not necessarily a valid conclusion.
We live in a season where the world is experiencing unprecedented conditions of rapid change.
Over the past decade, a fractious geopolitical environment has come into view. Why?
The “sign of the times” is here, we believe. Mankind is inextricably imbedded in the most complete financialization in history.
In this issue, we focus on the unprecedented explosion of financial wealth and its global intertwining.
Human Longevity: Long, Short and Future?
Why are children no longer prized? Today’s generations now plan much smaller families … if any family at all.
The sudden, “significant trend” that we continue to review in this part of the series is the rise of very powerful and large multinational corporations (MNCs)… often called the Global Titans.
We are chronicling the world’s most “significant trends” of the present world season.
The truths of eternity and God’s plan for the cosmos and salvation remain secure. God preserves knowledge … it does not change.
The truths of eternity and God’s plan for the cosmos and salvation remain secure. God preserves knowledge … it does not change.
Without question, the mind of modern-day mankind is under devastating assault.
Anyone working in the business world will be familiar with the current marketing jargon. Advertisers talk of market share.
The Bible says that the spirit of Tyre, that ancient city whose name was synonymous with Tarshish, shipping, trade and idolatry, will again re-appear on the world stage.
From outer space, the most differentiable feature of planet earth is its blue color. No other planet has such wonderful hues of blue and green.
Authorities and global agencies have since intensified their pursuit of counterfeit goods.
The Bible is full of prophecies about the endtime conditions of people’s pocketbooks.
The name “Babylon” appears six times in Revelation. Could Babylon the Great then be identified as a commercial colossus—a humanistic, materialistic, self-confidence system of commercialism?
Readers may be aware of yet another global financial bubble recently unfurling across the world.
It is timely to again weigh in on the progress of the global financialization phenomenon … what we refer to as the Endtime Money Snare.
Down through human history, there have been many societal experiments in caring for the poor and the disabled.
Which statement is true: Wealth is booming worldwide today, or wealth is corroding?
Who can do without the Internet today? Many conveniences have been born of current networking technologies.
Christ asked: “Who do people say I am?” (Mark 8:27). We may view this as a request for a public survey.
The world today is perplexed and vexed, perhaps as never before, seen from a global perspective.
Just why did God create an earth that is subject to seismic activity … quakes, tremors and temblors?
On recent travels to Mediterranean environs, we encountered many ancient structures and ruins built of stone dating back millennia.
Not only does the Bible mention specific historical occurrences, it also uses earthquakes in literal prophecies, as well as symbolically and metaphorically.
In recent times, “fake news” and “false media” have come into the public awareness.
Will there be a cashless world at some point in the future?
Sugar has caused atrocious problems and distortions in the world and in human health.
The “fall” of commercial, systemic Babylon comes about sometime before the end of the first half of the Tribulation period.
Are the monetary and economic events we witness today in alignment with Bible prophecy?
No doubt, everybody would agree: Unprecedented times are upon the world.
Surely, the Tribulation is a terrible period … as none ever before in mankind’s history.
A recent article here, entitled “Checklist: Why the Rapture Is Not a New Delirium,” triggered an outsized number of responses.
Economists and pension analysts around the world are gnashing their teeth.
Christians, who are looking up—“for [their] redemption draweth nigh” (Luke 21:28)—sometimes fall into a negativity trap.
