Reverend Franklin Graham is quite worried that the world appears to be "imploding" because the United States is currently wrapped up "on its own politics" while the rest of the world is "unravelling."
"The danger signals are everywhere. Beheadings, rapes, murders, bombings are taking place every day across North Africa through the Middle East, all the way to the borders of India," he writes on his Facebook page. "The U.S. military is deploying fighter aircraft to Finland to counter Russia's moves in that region; China is deploying missiles on an artificial island they have built in the South China Sea over the objections of the international community; and North Korea has successfully test fired a long-range missile that has the potential of eventually reaching America with a nuclear bomb."
Add to that, just a few days ago Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev declared that the world has already "slid back into a 'Cold War.'" Every time he looks at the news, Graham sees "a global epidemic of political and economic instability."
Graham says the world's only hope is in the Almighty God, and it is imperative that people pray for "those in authority."
"One day He is going to wipe the slate clean and 'create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind' (Isaiah 65:17). For those who have trusted His Son Jesus Christ by faith, there is an eternal future with Him to look forward to," he says.
In the meantime, people can find reassurance and hope in the words left by Jesus Christ. It is found in the Bible verses John 14:1-3, and it reads: "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me...I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also."
