Don't worry yourself with all this political end times dramas. God has everything planned and under His control.
What we need to be doing is preaching the true gospel of salvation, as espoused and experienced by the Apostles.
And watch and pray. Be ready for the Lord's return.
When the whole world is on fire, being on our knees and praying in tongues will be our only safeguard against nuclear destruction.
Sorry Waggles, but this is really naive. Nobody is "worried" about the end times drama. We are called to pray for those in authority, but how do we pray without wisdom ?
This thread is partly to wake people up to the deep deception of our various governments. If you are happy to ignore that then that's fine by me, there are still plenty of believers who know they are called to war in this area and called to be watchmen, even if some prefer blindness.
I imagine you have read Mark13. What do you think Jesus would have said if the disciples had responded with, "Don't worry yourself with all this political end times dramas. God has everything planned and under His control."
Mark13v14“When you see ‘the abomination that causes desolation standing where it does not belong—let the reader understand—then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 15Let no one on the housetop go down or enter the house to take anything out. 16Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak. 17How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! 18Pray that this will not take place in winter, 19because those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, until now—and never to be equaled again.
Jesus obviously has everything under control, but still makes it clear that it is going to be dreadful for some people. Those who display their faith with naive, "don't worry God's in control" are usually those who suffer the worst.
You cannot claim faith for future events unless you also regularly function at that level of faith today. Thus I presume you never face a single crisis because God's in control, never experience sickness or death in the family because God's in control, are never short of money because God's in control, are never out of work because God's in control, never get frustrated because God's in control, Your car never breaks down because God's in control, etc.
I quoted the scripture in Mark because it illustrates the true level of God's care. Jerusalem was due to be destroyed so Jesus warns them in advance. However they still need to be observant and wise. The warning signs would be there in advance, and only fools would stay till the last moment. Wise people and especially the weak and pregnant would have already vacated the area and found a place in the mountains. You could call them the preppers of that day.
No matter what happened, if someone was heavily pregnant on that day, they would suffer enormously and might die or lose their child. A wise mother would have been long gone.
Simply saying, "don't worry, God is in control" is utterly naive, and not an example of faith.
True faith means listening to where the Holy Spirit leads, then praying and then acting in accordance with it.