A Year or Two Ago

There is a Bible prophecy foretold of last days of a system of things or “world” that would have much wickedness. I believe we are living in those days today. The Bible quotes in Matthew 24:7&8 a somewhat edgy and realistic foretold truth, “for nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be food shortages and earthquakes in one place after another.” “All these things are a beginning of pangs of distress.” As I think of these scriptures, it makes me wonder what other challenges there will be for us a s a great people to take on and work with, to change the world for better. When analyzing some of these events I can see that most of them the world’s history has gone through many big stages with already. It makes me question for us here today, “What can we do to help?”
Africa is victim to an aids epidemic of about 17 MILLION and an even increasing number have been affected with the HIV virus that causes aids stated from the Watchtower Library. “in 1991 alone a visitor to Uganda felt like they could peer through the portals of hell and glimpse the holocaust to come,” states the Newsweek article from KeepMedia on www.keepmedia.com. A study from the article spronsored by UNICEF stated that at the time of 10 hard-hit countries of Sub-Saharan Africa up to 5.5 million children fewer than fifteen would lose their mothers due to Aids. Under the Article, “Why is Africa Suffering So Much on pages 5-7 on the Watchtower Library promiscuous sexual behavior is considered to be the main propagator among people and especially in the Aids Epidemic in Africa. From an African Journal, “According to Nature,” the typical route that the infection follows starts with the prostitute,” “Female prostitutes serve to seed the epidemic in most monogamous women through contact with promiscuous husbands,” which further spreads the virus. Right now in Sub-Saharan Africa, aids is taking the lives of its people and even leaving some children parentless or even homeless. This is a sad but true reality that the scriptures from the Bible in Matthew 24:7&8 which are being fulfilled right now in the overwhelming details of some disadvantaged people in the world around us. Researcher Dawn Mokhobo states that a main propagator of Aids is promiscuous sexual behavior that has even largely broken down within marriages. (Watchtower Library 2003 Edition) Mokhobo, stating that much of the morality between individuals being a primary cause of concern in the breakdown of the lives and societies of many people in Africa, says it is a much larger and rarer epidemic than everywhere else. Characteristics of Africa’s aids consist of much heartache within disrupted families, medical disasters and innocent victims also who are infected. Truly then the prophecies foretold in the Bible book of Matthew 24:7&8 are becoming fulfilled.
Aids is considered to be a condition of acquired immunological deficiency associated with infection of the immune system by a retro virus sometimes passed between two sexual partners or even passé d on to carried children at the time that one might inherit the fateful disease. Heart dropping scenes of two, three or even four babies, toddlers or young children in a bed dying together are just some of the sickening realities in terrible stomach-churning situations of distress in Africa. (Watchtower Library 2003 “Why Has Aids Spread So Widely?” “Why is Africa Suffering So Much?” “Aids Spreads To Africa”) A terrifying sight of skin shriveled and mal-nourished looking bone masses of people of all kinds are the scenes of a decomposing society of which may not only be caused by sexual intercourses, birth of infants infected with HIV from mothers but also by infection from blood transfusions in places where it has become much more widespread such as France. Dr. Jacques Lebas, president of the humanitarian organization in France, noted this turn in aids worldwide not only as an epidemic in Africa but as one of childhood occurrences being victims as well. It was estimated by the WHO(World Health Organization), that the HIV virus would have infected around 10 million children by the year 2000. So what can we do as individuals to help this change take place and what is brought to the characteristics of understanding to the details foretold by the Bible in these days as well?
Many steps have been taken by the World Health Organization to stop the spread of aids along with many others as much as possible. Along with that, Africa has always lacked the proper nourishment for its individuals to hopefully help with the health of aids victims along with other places of Sub-Saharan Africa that is experiencing famine. WE as individuals can take steps to help each other work together as people to bring about the changes that so many brave individuals go over to other countries beyond our borders to face hands-on. Many of us can help with donations toward aids victims even when we cannot directly help with it. Yet, many may wonder with the troubled occurrences right now of the world why God allows suffering to go on such as this and why much of this is happening now as well as many other events that have been allowed to happen in history. It all depends on us and whether we can believe as individuals that God can make miracles happen and that is exactly what I believe he will do as his plan in the Bible foretold slowly unfolds while yet much wickedness along with pain and suffering will be destroyed. Certainly we’ve had our plays of miracles here in Union with being a part of the two missing boys of our Beaufort area being found, along with wars to end other wickedness of the world abroad all in a precise way of timing in a fail-proof plan that will eventually bring the once sought restoration of the perfect world in the beginning of Adam and Eve to a realistic view once again after everything else is accomplished. God wants us to have that second chance at life and not only gave us that chance to prove ourselves as individuals through Jesus Ransom Sacrifice as a standing example throughout history but to prepare us for a judgment day where the “motivations of the heart” and all of much more will be uncovered before the accomplishment of it’s time. Jesus is working at the hand of God right now to “destroy” the wickedness and later all suffering and pangs of distress when eventually there will be a time once again of a perfect life! While waiting for these accomplishments though we musty all busy ourselves as good people of God to accomplish what is good toward all so that one day God’s plan will be fulfilled throughout the fine works of his servants. Then, “He will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor cry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away,” as he promises and God cannot lie.