During WWII, there were those who thought Adolf Hitler was the Antichrist and that he and the Nazis were bringing an end to the world as we knew it. Then there was the Cold War of the 1950s-1960s, when we thought thermonuclear war would end the world. We carried our fear and concern re nukes into the late 1970s and early 1980s when I was in graduate school and we often discussed Mutually Assured Destruction and ICBMS. In the early 2000s, it's been extremism, one radical ideology after another.
But could it be, in God's providence, that what really brings the world's to its knees in the End Times is debt, "Doomsday Debt" so great across the globe that we cannot get out from under it? Right now, the world carries over $300T in debt, 349% of global gross domestic product, and the equivalent of $37,500 of debt for every single person in the world.
And then there is China, an economic powerhouse in recent decades but now facing a crushing demographic crises brought on in part by the Chinese Communist Party's attempt to play God in its one-child policy. China now has more people dying per year than are born. This is not just a demographic concern. It is an economic concern, a direct threat upon prosperity.
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