Here's more. As disease spreads, and long-cherished societal norms break down, many turn to despair, and even to suicide. In the last decade, 300,000 Americans have taken their own lives—as many as were killed in combat in World War II. “America is in the throes of a largely unrecognized suicide epidemic, as suicide has become the eighth leading cause of death in the United States today, and the third leading cause among adolescents. All Americans recognize that our country is rife with violent crime, but few know that 50 percent more Americans kill themselves than are murdered” (San Diego Union-Tribune, January 11, 2002). In 2003, Students Against Drunk Driving released a survey showing that 19 percent of U.S. high school students had considered suicide, 14.8 percent had made a plan to commit suicide, and 8.8 percent had actually attempted suicide at least once. The problem of suicide is worldwide. The World Health Organization reported in September 2006 that more than a million people each year kill themselves, and that for every suicide death there are as many as 50 unsuccessful suicide attempts (United Press International, September 8, 2006). China’s Xinhua News Agency reported in September 2006 that nearly 250,000 Chinese kill themselves each year. In many countries, suicide is the leading cause of death for young men between ages 15 and 24. The jails, too, are filled with evidence that American society is not what it should be. Recently, the United States achieved the dubious honor of boasting the largest prison and jail population on Earth. It reached this zenith by surpassing cash-strapped Russia—long its only rival as a mass imprisonment society—after Russia released thousands of inmates to save money, noted Sasha Abramsky, author of Hard Time Blues. “Approximately 2 million Americans are now serving either prison or jail time. Per hundred thousand residents, the United States has an incarceration rate over five times that of England, six times that of Canada, and seven times that of Germany. In 2004, according to a U.S. Department of Justice report, nearly 7 million people in the U.S. were on probation, in jail, in prison or on parole—accounting for 3.2 percent of the U.S. population or one of every 31 adults. What does that say about the stability of a society and the contentment of its people? Remember, too, that the U.S. is not immune from the threat of starvation. Drought has engulfed nearly a third of the United States, threatening to confront some places this summer with what experts say could be their worst water shortages in years. ‘This is a sleeping giant, said climatologist Mark Svoboda, at the National Drought Mitigation Center in Lincoln, Neb. ‘The impact is still to come. As of spring 2002, New York City’s reservoirs had sunk to 48 percent of capacity, and many other communities throughout the U.S. experienced shortages and mandatory water rationing that summer. And the water we do have may be poisonous. Three decades after the Clean Water Act, a growing number of environmental scientists believe that traditional concerns about water contaminants might not go far enough. They see a potential threat emerging from the ubiquitous use and presence of chemicals associated with medicine and ordinary life. These compounds, from antibiotics to caffeine, are washing into the environment and water supply—with consequences unknown (San Diego Union-Tribune, March 20, 2002). But some effects are known. In England, for example, sharply lower human sperm counts have been linked to contaminants in the Thames River. In Germany, where sewage runoff can amount to at least half the water in many smaller rivers, researchers have detected noticeable quantities of anticonvulsant, anti-inflammatory, and other types of drugs in the water supply. Researchers in Kansas have found traces of nonylphenol in their water, this common ingredient in soap has been linked to cancer, infertility and physical deformities. Modern agriculture itself is changing the nature of our water supply—for the worse. Agriculture is the single biggest threat to water quality in the nation today, said Charles Fox, who served as associate administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1997 to 2001. One factor is a phenomenon called hypoxia, which causes tainted water to become so salty—and devoid of usable oxygen for plants and wildlife—that it is damaging the ecology of many areas. Since 1960 farmers in the region have tripled the volume of nitrogen and other chemicals they apply to their fields. Although soil conservation has improved dramatically during that period, thousands of tons of chemical nutrients still run off those fields into tributaries of the Mississippi and ultimately into the Gulf of Mexico. There, every summer, the nitrogen does its work again—triggering unnatural algae blooms that decay, sink to the bottom and consume the oxygen needed to sustain coastal life (Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 17, 2006). Sometimes the problem is as simple as mankind’s careless disposal of what it has used. Chinese environmentalists report that their nation discharged more than 52 billion tons of waste water into rivers and the ocean in 2005—nearly half of that entirely untreated (China Daily, September 27, 2006). With clean, fresh water becoming more scarce and more precious, how long will it be before wars break out over water? As an editorial in the Midland Reporter-Telegram observed, The fact remains that the world is on the lip of the cup as far as fresh water sources are concerned. September 26, 2006. AIDS—Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome—may no longer command the headlines it did in years past, but it has not gone away. According to one United Nations report, an estimated 46 million people around the globe were living with the HIV virus as of 2005. In that year alone, an estimated 6.2 million became newly infected with HIV, and an estimated 3.3 million lost their lives to AIDS (2006 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, May 2006. In  six African countries, more than one out of every 20 adults between ages 15 and 49 is infected with the HIV virus. Botswana is the worst hit, with a 24.1 percent rate of HIV prevalence in this group. This represents a decline from a nearly 33 percent infection rate in 2001, but much of this drop was not good news—it reflects the many who have died (ibid.). In its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the Centers for Disease Control noted the sad milestone, Twenty-five Years of HIV/AIDS. The CDC reported that more than a million people in the U.S. are living with the HIV virus, with 40,000 of those newly infected in 2006. Of these, male homosexuals account for 45 percent of the new infections. Women account for about 25 percent of new AIDS infections in the U.S., and AIDS is currently the leading cause of death for black women between ages 25 and 34 (June 2, 2006). AIDS continues to have a devastating effect on the American economy. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control have calculated that AIDS costs the U.S. economy approximately $36.4 billion each year in direct and indirect costs (The Economic Burden of HIV in the United States in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, September 2006). AIDS, of course, is by no means just or even primarily an American or African problem. Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union now have the fastest-rising rates of HIV infection in the world, with the number of HIV-positive people in Russia growing fifteenfold between 1998 and 2001, according to a United Nations report. The highest rate of infection there was found in the Ukraine, where at least 1 percent of the population is infected with the virus. Between 1981 and 2006, more than 25 million people died of AIDS—including 500,000 in the U.S.—making it the fourth leading cause of death worldwide. Jesus Christ prophesied that just before His return there would be famines,lack of food,and pestilences,disease epidemics. Presently we are seeing just the beginning of these curses, which will increase until they have a massive effect on our entire way of life. Christ directly prophesied that our time would be like Noah’s (Matthew 24:37–39). Noah’s day was characterized by wickedness and was filled with violence Genesis 6:5,13. Has the problem of crime been licked in the U.S.? No, it has not. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that two out of every 1,000 people in the U.S. were victims of a violent gun crime in 2005—a 43 percent increase over the 2004 rate. Additionally, there were 2.6 robberies per 1,000,up from 2.1 in 2004. Dan Esserman, police chief in Providence, Rhode Island, recently met with Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, and was told that federal funds previously earmarked for crime-fighting would now be used for preventing terrorism. Esserman’s response: I believe in homeland defense, but I also believe in crime fighting, I don’t want one neglected for the other. Every year we’re losing 16,000 people to murder, mostly young people and mostly killed by guns, and that’s more than three times the number that died at the World Trade Center” (The Star-Ledger, September 11, 2006). Criminologists are warning that the coming generation may become superpredators without a consciousness of right and wrong—having never been loved, nourished and positively disciplined. At the same time, to the disgust of many in conservative, traditional communities in other parts of the world, Hollywood and its imitators grow fantastically wealthy by merchandising moral degeneration through violent, sex-filled videos and CDs. Such a corrupt influence is increasingly seen as a social evil that ought to be kept out—yet the youth and, increasingly, the adults of the Western world eagerly embrace it. Kim Painter, in a March 15, 2002 article for USA Today, reported that studies now show as many as 21 percent of boys and 19 percent of girls say they have had sex by age 14! Not long ago, researchers in Washington, DC designed a program to prevent early sexual activity. They designed it with seventh-graders in mind, but after a pilot study they decided to target fifth-graders instead—because too many seventh-graders were already having sex. Yet all of these problems are just the beginning of the story. The world continues to face nuclear proliferation on a truly massive scale. While you might rejoice at the breakup of the Soviet Union, the immense amount of weaponry that nation possessed—including nuclear weapons—is now in danger of being sold to the highest bidder. How does God know what will take place in the future? How can He prophesy about some event hundreds or even thousands of years in advance? Well lets turn to Jeremiah 17:4-10 it says: And you let loose, even of your own accord, from your hereditary possession that I had given you. I also will make you serve your enemies in the land that you have not known; for as a fire YOU people have been ignited in my anger. To time indefinite it will keep kindled. This is what Jehovah has said: “Cursed is the able-bodied man who puts his trust in earthling man and actually makes flesh his arm, and whose heart turns away from Jehovah himself. And he will certainly become like a solitary tree in the desert plain and will not see when good comes; but he must reside in parched places in the wilderness, in a salt country that is not inhabited. Blessed is the able-bodied man who puts his trust in Jehovah, and whose confidence Jehovah has become. And he will certainly become like a tree planted by the waters, that sends out its roots right by the watercourse; and he will not see when heat comes, but his foliage will actually prove to be luxuriant. And in the year of drought he will not become anxious, nor will he leave off from producing fruit. The heart is more treacherous than anything else and is desperate. Who can know it? I, Jehovah, am searching the heart, examining the kidneys, even to give to each one according to his ways, according to the fruitage of his dealings. From the beginning, God has been an acute and perceptive observer of human behavior. He really knows what we are like. God fully understands how humans tend to degenerate, to compromise and to forsake the right way. Since God has such a profound knowledge and insight about us, He can accuracy predict what the basic conditions of peoples and nations will be in the future. Then, by skillfully manipulating the determinants of national power such as the weather, human leadership and other circumstances, God can fulfill specific prophecies that are sometimes astonishing in their minute detail. And also, the U.S. is a deadbeat nation. The United States currently owes trillions of dollars that it will never be able to repay. Who will be left holding the bag—and holding it angrily? A nation that was once the economic engine of the planet is now a debtor that may soon face an unwanted accounting. For decades, America has at least been able to earn a good return on its overseas assets, shielding it from the worst effects of the deficit. But this phenomenon is coming to an end. As one of the world’s most highly respected magazines reported (The Economist, January 19, 2006): In the mainstream view, America is now the world’s biggest debtor. Thanks to its chronic trade deficits, it stood $2.5 trillion in the red at the end of 2004. And yet it still somehow manages to earn more on its foreign assets than it pays out to service its much bigger stock of debts: $36.2 billion more in 2004. It is not the $36.2 billion of income that is the mystery, they say. The anomaly lies in the $2.5 trillion of debt. If America is still coming out ahead of foreigners, then, contrary to popular belief, it must still be a net creditor.… But sadly… after making $36.2 billion in 2004, America made just $4 billion on its net foreign assets in the first three quarters of 2005. If it continues on its present course, it will shell out about $190 billion. America’s net foreign assets would then amount to minus $3.8 trillion. A dark matter indeed. Perhaps other nations may convince themselves that they are justified in attacking a nation whose renowned exports include a lifestyle promoting drugs, sex, degenerate music and bad debt. Will we be accused by other nations in the future of borrowing their money and continuing to live high on the hog with no real intention of ever repaying them? From Genesis to Revelation, the biblical prophecies point toward a literal government to be set up on this earth by Jehovah God. As the prophet Daniel put it very plainly in Daniel 2:44 it says: And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin. And the kingdom itself will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite. The living Jesus Christ will come as King of kings to rule this earth and straighten out human society before it destroys all humans from this planet. Revelation 19:16. Matthew 24:21–22. If we will believe and respond to Jehovah God's message, you and I will have the magnificent opportunity to be among those “other kings” and rulers assisting Christ in this very real government that Jehovah God will set up on this earth. Jehovah God inspired the Apostle Paul to explain this same point in 1 Corinthians 6:2–3 it says: Or do YOU not know that the holy ones will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by YOU, are YOU unfit to try very trivial matters? Do YOU not know that we shall judge angels? Why, then, not matters of this life? Then Paul explains that the true Christians in God’s Church need to practice correct government and learn to judge problems between brethren in the church, because true Christians are now in training to become kings and priests under Jesus Christ. Why have you never heard this before? Why is this clear biblical message virtually never preached in the mainstream churches of this present society? Somewhere on this earth is Christ’s true little flock. In Luke 12:32 it says: Have no fear, little flock, because YOUR Father has approved of giving YOU the kingdom. His true Church is to preach the good news of the coming Kingdom or government of God as a witness to all nations. Many other scriptures make it clear that the Kingdom of God is a literal government to be set up on this earth. The true saints of God have before them an awesome challenge and opportunity! For they will rule not only human beings on this earth, but also the angelic hosts whom God now uses to minister to human beings and help them prepare for their coming responsibilities in Tomorrow’s World Hebrews 1:14. We need to use our talents and abilities now in God’s service. We need to overcome sin and Satan and so be truly prepared to serve under the living Jesus Christ. Jehovah God foretells during this last second, that humanity’s knowledge shall increase (Daniel 12:4). Perhaps the distinctive hallmark of our time is the explosion of material knowledge. Technological changes are totally overturning what we used to think of as normal. In His wisdom, the Creator knew that when our focus would be primarily on materialism, our lives would be entrapped by idolatry and paganism. What we are sowing today, we shall reap tomorrow. Yes, Jehovah will distress us through weather, earthquakes, disease epidemics and other disasters. He will allow perverted demon spirits to strike at and destroy the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic nations and their allies through their influence over envious, hateful leaders yet to appear on the world scene. And greatly increased terrorist attacks will serve as an additional tool to break the pride of our power. Leviticus 26:19. God is Almighty. He has the power to bring about the inspired prophecies of His Word. God’s will shall be done on earth as it is in heaven. Jehovah's rule will change everything around you, the entire human society, the educational systems, the cultures and class structures and it will eliminate the politics, the wars and the sufferings. These are massive changes we are talking about. Our daily environment, our diet of television, the kind of radio programs and music we listen to, the threat of mugging, rape and murder in our streets, our parks and even in our schools will be changed for the better. Forces now in motion will bring about the death of the United States and other British-descended nations. Our peoples have increasingly turned away from the God of creation and every vestige of true religion. How close does a raging fire have to be to get your attention? Close enough that you can personally see it? Feel it? Smell it? Yet, as we read almost daily in the newspapers, people are burned to death by a fire that started, often quietly, in another part of the house or building. But the people are dead just the same. The Eternal God tells us in His Word: "If a trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be afraid? If there is calamity in a city, will not the Lord have done it? Surely the Lord God does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets. A lion has roared! Who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken! Who can but prophesy? Amos 3:6–8. So the great God who determines the rise and fall of nations will warn us through His faithful servants of any major event due to bring national catastrophe. After almost a century of dominating influence in the world, the United States is a nation on a brink of disaster. Facing mounting challenges such as economy built on debt and consumption. And the scourge of terrorism and war. The United States is one of the most diligent and dangerous places that it is ever been. What effect America will effect the world, as well as you and your family, your financial welfare, your health, even your very survival. Can we know with certainty what lies a head? If you want to know what Jehovah God Almighty plainly says in your own Bible about what lies ahead for this nation, and for you personally. I will have more on this on my next webpage. So go to my next webpage. This is John Grissom declaring to mankind everywhere that the kingdom of Jehovah God is at hand. Jesus Christ is coming in your life time. Prepare to meet your God. Maranatha.