Utilising Wealth
"There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches." (Proverbs 13:7)
Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO, has made headlines recently for becoming the first individual to amass $1 trillion. A difficult concept for most of us to get to grips with ... so how much really is that? Well, if you were to spend $1 million every single day, it would take you 2,739 years to spend $1 trillion. According to the IMF, there are only 21 countries with GDPs more than $1 trillion, which leaves about 170 with GDPs smaller than the windfall gathered in by Musk.
It's not that Mr Musk has his trillions of dollars stashed under his mattress though -- the vast majority of his extraordinary wealth is in stocks and shares. From a video game sold for $500 as a teenager, to a business empire spanning rockets, electric vehicles, AI and brain implants, Elon Musk has spent decades building companies that have reshaped multiple industries, the most well known of his companies being SpaceX, Starlink, Tesla, xAI, X, SolarCity and PayPal.
When he founded SpaceX in 2002, he believed the company had less than a one-in-ten chance of success. At the time, the venture was little more than an attempt to break into an industry dominated by government agencies and established aerospace contractors, and he had warned friends and investors that failure was the most likely outcome. More than two decades later, the company has become one of the world's most valuable businesses. Its stock market debut this month was the largest initial public offering ever recorded, valuing the company at about $1.75tn. After just a few days of trading, its market capitalisation had comfortably surpassed $2tn, eventually reaching $2.43tn.
Musk's Goals
It's highly likely that Elon Musk unwittingly has tapped into the first six of the seven laws of success, the first of which is to set the right goal -- from a human perspective. Unlike many of the rich people in this world his focus has not been primarily on making money. As early as 2007, Musk stated a personal goal of eventually colonising Mars, to ensure the long-term survival of human beings by enabling mankind to become multiplanetary.
Naturally an infrastructure of some sort would have to be developed first of all -- i.e. being able to make use of local resources, and SpaceX's projected timeline is that once established, a colony on Mars could become self-sufficient in seven to nine years. His timeline involves a first crewed mission to Mars as early as 2029 and the development of a self-sustaining colony by 2050. The ultimate goal of the SpaceX programme is that one million people would eventually colonise that planet.
You can't help but admire his drive, goal-setting, perseverance and resourcefulness! Elon Musk's success has not been without its serious obstacles however. In fact Tesla -- his electric car company -- came within a month of bankruptcy, but he didn't give up, he worked his way around the problems, and Tesla has recently reported record profits, with its shares soaring more than 400% this year.
Not Trillions but Priceless
Interestingly enough, we have similar goals to Elon Musk, but not similar physical assets! It's doubtful whether any of us can boast of multiple thousands of dollars/pounds in our bank account, let alone trillions -- but what we DO have far surpasses SpaceX's resources, and our goal FAR surpasses that of merely colonising the Red Planet.
When I was working as the UK media manager for the Work in the early 1980's we hired an advertising agency to improve the appeal of our ads in the local and national newspapers. One of the most successful ads we ran was very simple indeed: "This magazine is FREE". It certainly brought in the numbers – which was their brief – but today I look back on it and have to ask myself if it was entirely accurate.
From a worldly perspective "this magazine is FREE" ticks all the advertising boxes but a truer statement would have been "This magazine is PRICELESS" – which is a much more profound assessment of WHY the magazine could have no price. After all, what price would somebody place on the meaning of life and access to eternity? And as Mr. Armstrong brings out in his sermon given June 1982:
We are begotten Gods! Children of God! Do you realize how great that is, brethren? Or isn't it of that much consequence to you? THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT COULD POSSIBLY HAPPEN! And we just take it as if "Well, everyone's supposed to go to church. I guess maybe we should have the Holy Spirit." But you don't know if you've got it or not. Is that the way you look at it? Is it just of no consequence? Or is it THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT EVER HAPPENED, OR EVER COULD HAPPEN, IN THE ALL THE UNIVERSE—TO ANYBODY! To be an actual CHILD OF GOD! Scripture says, "Beloved, NOW are we the children of God, and it does not appear [yet] what we shall be." That doesn't appear yet. It will appear, because then we'll be like Christ and this vile body will be changed into a spirit body like His when He comes. (The Church is a New Civilization/Why Only a Few Chosen Now? June 1982)
Priceless Protection
And being a very child of God brings SO many side benefits in this life now that we might take for granted -- and which no amount of money can buy, one of the most precious being protection in the unstable years ahead. Mr. Armstrong has mentioned many times the story of the American statistician and economist, Roger Babson, and how in 1919 he was able to accurately predict the greatest depression in US modern history. We too can have this "insider insight" - not only into the main reasons for the chaos and disastrous conditions in the world today, but also the inevitable outcome.
As Mr. Babson pointed out from his wealth of experience, economic prosperity depended largely on the moral integrity of the population. Tip the scales to where over 50% were dishonourable and immoral in their dealings with one another and economic depression is unavoidable. It would seem obvious that these days a great deal more than 51% are unrighteous in their dealings -- morality in every sphere of life is surely at an all-time low! Therefore it's clear that shortly this world will be thrust into financial chaos, leading to the time of Jacob's trouble, and a time in which no amount of physical wealth will be of any help, as many will even cast their gold, silver, even stocks and shares to the "moles and the bats" (Isaiah 2:20)
But we've been given great encouragement by God, who promises to see us through, and also deliver our children (Isaiah 61:9, Psalm 37:25)
- Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
- For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
- He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
- In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
- Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
- At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
- For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. (Job 5:17-23)
- Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
- For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken. (Proverbs 3:25,26)
Unsurpassed Understanding
God's church at this end-time has been blessed with a wealth of understanding that has not been available to even the Old Testament prophets, as the apostle Peter brings out...
- Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care,
- trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow.
- It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things. (I Peter 1:10-12 NIV)
But the understanding of the very meaning of life and what the future holds doesn't come from hour upon hour of Bible study, even with a plethora of translations and concordances! This fundamental, life-changing "holy grail of philosophy" had to be revealed, and God did so through His end-time apostle Mr. Herbert Armstrong, who proved his obedience and faithfulness over his lifetime.
Think for a moment of the basic but incredibly rare understanding we have: that there is a gap of possibly billions of years between the first two verses of Genesis chapter one, and it explains SO much about the violence and evil in today's world. Also, it's obvious to us that world peace is not within any politician's or world leader's grasp, because we understand the lesson of the two trees of Genesis 3. And we don't mourn as others when we lose a loved one, because we know for a surely that death is a type of sleep, and we will be reunited.
Again, consider the depth of understanding we have been given by the very Holy Days themselves. So often we can take this for granted when on each Holy Day we hear the same basic "Why are we here?" message. A familiarity can creep in, which sadly can lead to indifference and apathy, if we are not very careful.
And yet via the Passover we are given the incalculable gift of direct access to the very throne of the universe and the spiritual power that then gives our lives true purpose. I wonder if we would take prayer so much for granted, and sometimes even feel it is a burden, if we thought deeply on what it took to rent that veil from top to bottom to allow us access to the Holy of Holies, any time day or night -- whereas in the nation of Israel in the wilderness only the High Priest had this access, and then it was only once a year on the Day of Atonement. (Leviticus 16:2)
Feeding on the word of God, while putting sin out of our lives, pictured by the Feast of Unleavened Bread, we change our "spiritual DNA" to that of our Father -- and then comes Pentecost, when we're given a down payment of the Holy Spirit – the self-same power that was used to create this endless universe and all we see around us. Simon Magus offered to buy this power, but it truly is without price. We have become the begotten children of the greatest Being in the universe ... with whom NOTHING is impossible.
And so we stand today just a few weeks before the third season of the year depicting the fulfilment of what has gone before. The day of Trumpets – which stands as the fulcrum between two entirely different worlds -- is "our day" in many ways, when our unsubstantial human body will be changed into glorious, eternal spirit bodies at the return of Christ. Then comes Atonement (and the Jubilee) finally proclaiming liberty throughout the entire earth at the removal of Satan the devil and his violent and depraved broadcast. This then will allow the age of God, pictured by Tabernacles and the Last Great Day, ushering in a Utopia to last for eternity and bring God's transcendental purpose to fruition.
- And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
- And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. (Revelation 21:3,4)
New Civilization
Elon Musk's "survival pods" on distant planets in order to preserve man's civilisation would come to destruction sooner or later, if the basic nature of mankind doesn't change! Instead...
Christ came to start A NEW WORLD! A NEW CIVILIZATION! People think this civilization is wonderful. Oh, it's Satan's civilization. Jesus came to start GOD'S CIVILIZATION. He started it with twelve. Then He started it with the Church. Now here are more than 1,000 with us right here today, and each of us is going to be able to teach several hundred (if not a thousand). A thousand of us need to learn to teach a thousand…a thousand, thousand, or a million. I guess so. How many does it take to teach the billions of the earth?...
...He's calling us NOW in order that, in the Millennium, we can teach the millions and even the billions... We have to learn the way of living of God—the way that is cooperation, that helps, that produces. And brethren, ultimately, after that thousand years and the Great White Throne Judgment, we're going to go to other planets; and we are going to raise up new people. We're going to start new worlds; and it's going to go on and on until there are BILLIONS TIMES BILLIONS of people; and God has started with a few of us. (The Church is a New Civilisation/Why Only a Few Chosen Now? June 1982)
Utilising that Wealth NOW
There has been another "world's richest man" and that was King Solomon. He certainly had his goals and dreams, as he explains in Ecclesiastes 1, verses 4 to 10, but what was his conclusion? "Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun."(Ecclesiastes 1:11). After discussing the brevity of this human life: "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it" (Ecclesiastes 12:7) .... then comes Solomon's conclusion:
- After all this, there is only one thing to say: Have reverence for God, and obey his commands, because this is all that we were created for.
- God is going to judge everything we do, whether good or bad, even things done in secret. (Ecclesiastes 12:13,14 NLT)
That summing up sounds very much like Mr. Armstrong's PT article of August 1981..."Keep your Eyes on the Goal":
But consider: What are you, now? Just a mass of matter, put together like a machine. Your present existence has to be constantly SUSTAINED. You have to keep drawing a breath of air into your lungs about every four or five seconds. You have to eat food on the average of three times a day. You have to take care of eliminating the impurities from food, and of bathing and cleansing your body. You have to maintain and sustain your physical anatomy to keep on existing – and even then you are ageing and degenerating every day and every year – and the most certain thing in this existence we call “life” is that this machine process is going to run down – YOU ARE GOING TO DIE...
...Unless God’s own CHARACTER is being formed and developed in your mind and your life, replacing the human nature that is there now, you shall have missed your GOAL. God’s PURPOSE is to CREATE within human beings, during this experience we call physical life, a new and perfect CHARACTER, so that you and others may be given eternal life – self-containing, inherent life. (The Plain Truth, August 1981 - "Keep your Eyes on the Goal")
With such an incredible goal at the forefront of our minds, we shouldn't be despondent when we encounter obstacles, setbacks, even hard trial, whether they be ill health, job losses, bereavement, family worries etc, because there's nothing that with God's help we can't handle, and He's promised never to leave us or forsake us (Isaiah 46:4, Luke 12:7, I Corinthians 10:13).
Wealth -- God's Way
In many a successful business venture, it's been a matter of "not what you know but who you know" and that couldn't be more applicable to our daily lives as the begotten children of the most important and powerful individual in the universe! But just having an academic understanding of the meaning of life-- even God's Plan and promises -- is not enough. Like worldly riches, these kind of "spiritual riches" will also fail, as we are warned by Christ Himself in Revelation chapter 3:
- I know your doings, you are neither cold nor hot -- would you were either cold or not!
- So, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am going to spit you out of my mouth.
- You declare, 'I am rich, I am well off, I lack nothing!' -- not knowing you are a miserable creature, pitiful, poor, blind, naked.
- I advise you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich, white raiment to clothe you and prevent the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to rub on your eyes, that you may see.
- I reprove and discipline those whom I love; so be earnest and repent. (Revelation 3:15-19 Moffatt)
This privileged and unparalleled understanding must not only become part of us but it must change us, and this comes through prayer and the study of God's word and the flow of God's Holy Spirit, as Paul explained to the church in Corinth: " But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory,... by the Spirit of the Lord" (II Corinthians 3:18)
Out-of-this-World Wealth
Elon Musk might well achieve a degree of success with his goal of colonising Mars -- or at least a base or two on the Moon, as in Deuteronomy God promises: " If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:" (Deuteronomy 30:4). But the "civilization" that he will one day witness will FAR exceed anything SpaceX could achieve ... even if its trillion dollars were multiplied many times over.
God too wants to "ensure the long-term survival of human beings" but by a very different route..."And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live." (Deuteronomy 30:6). (see also Ezekiel 11:19, 36:26) I believe the world God has promised mankind far surpasses anything a mere human being could mastermind, regardless of his wealth. God speed that day.
- Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver, and instead of wood, bronze and instead of stone, iron, and I will make peace your administrators, and righteousness your overseers.
- Violence will not be heard again in your land, nor devastation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.
- No longer will you have the sun for light by day, nor will the moon give you light for brightness; but you will have the LORD as an everlasting light, and your God as your glory.
- Your sun will no longer set, nor will your moon wane, for you will have the LORD as an everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will be over.
- Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever, The branch of My planting, the work of My hands, that I may be glorified.
- The smallest one will become a thousand, and the least one a mighty nation. I the LORD will bring it about quickly in its time. (Isaiah 60:17-22 NASB)
A disaster looking for a place to happen?
El Niño Has Arrived!
It’s all about the temperature of the Pacific Ocean. The warmer it gets, the greater the effects of El Niño. Right now, the world is entering a new El Niño phase. Sea surface temperatures for El Niño are already 1.3°F (0.7°C) above normal - breaking the El Niño threshold of 0.9°F (0.5°C).
However, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) also revealed that ocean waters in the eastern Pacific have already risen to 3.8°F (2.1°C) above average. This pattern, where warmer water is detected in the east, is typical when a strong El Niño is developing. ‘Most El Niños begin in the autumn, so this is developing much earlier and faster than expected.’
The ‘Great El Niño’ of 1790–1794 caused the death of around 50 million people - that’s 4% of the world’s population. In today’s world of around 8 billion people, that would equate to 250 million deaths!
The Weather Weapon
God has often used the weather as a way to bless, or correct, His people…
The blessings:
“I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.” (Leviticus 26:4)
The correction:
“I also have given you cleanness of teeth [famine]…”
“I have withholden the rain from you…”
“I have smitten you with blasting and mildew…”
“I have sent among you the pestilence…”
“I have overthrown some of you…” (Amos 4:6-12)
Is this about to be fulfilled? Remain alert and watch!
El Niño In History
“By the 1780’s it starts to become possible to reconstruct the global impact of major El Niño events with some genuine statistical accuracy. This is largely because of the wealth of data gathered by the British East India Company. By far the greatest amount of information we have available relating to the droughts of the eighteenth century is of the ‘Great’ El Niño of 1790–1794. This was of particular significance on account of its strong global effects, the particular sequence of events which it manifested and the very prolonged nature of the droughts it produced, especially in South Asia but also Australia, America and Africa. The evidence of intense and prolonged global impacts suggests it may have been among the most severe in the written record.” (link.springer.com)
What Is The El Niño Phenomenon In The Pacific Ocean?
“El Niño and La Niña are the warm and cool phases (respectively) of a recurring climate phenomenon across the tropical Pacific - the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ‘ENSO’ for short.
The pattern can shift back and forth irregularly every two to seven years, and each phase triggers predictable disruptions of temperature, winds and precipitation.
These changes disrupt air movement and affect global climate.
ENSO has three phases it can be:
El Niño: A warming of the ocean surface, or above-average sea surface temperatures (SST), in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. Over Indonesia, rainfall becomes reduced while rainfall increases over the tropical Pacific Ocean. The low-level surface winds, which normally blow from east to west along the equator, instead weaken or, in some cases, start blowing the other direction from west to east.
La Niña: A cooling of the ocean surface, or below-average sea surface temperatures (SST), in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. Over Indonesia, rainfall tends to increase while rainfall decreases over the central tropical Pacific Ocean. The normal easterly winds along the equator become even stronger.
Neutral: Neither El Niño or La Niña. Often tropical Pacific SSTs are generally close to average.” (dailymail.com)
A Powerful El Niño Is Forming
If History Is a Guide, It Could Hit Hard
“Well before it was understood, the El Niño phenomenon was leaving its marks on humanity. El Niño is the name given to powerful shifts in Pacific Ocean winds and water temperatures that can drastically transform global weather patterns. Over the centuries these natural patterns have sparked epic droughts and heat waves, and have intensified epidemics.
Some academics even claim to see the fingerprints of El Niño on political and economic crises in ancient Egypt, or on the downfall of the Moche civilization in present-day Peru, more than 1,000 years ago. And in 1877 and 1878, a famine fueled by El Niño killed millions of people across the tropics, hardening inequities that, as one research paper put it, ‘would later be characterized as the “first world” and “third world”.’ Right now, the world is entering a new El Niño phase.” (nytimes.com )
El Niño Has Arrived
“El Niño has arrived, and weather experts fear the global climate phenomenon may be primed to match a deadly event that led to the deaths of more than 50 million people. The natural climate pattern occurs when warmer-than-usual waters in the Pacific change the weather around the world for a minimum of several months.
Ocean conditions have now warmed to the point where El Niño is active and will likely continue well into next year, officials declared on Thursday. A spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said: ‘El Niño conditions are present and expected to strengthen into the Northern Hemisphere winter 2026-27.’
The declaration means the agency has found that sea surface temperatures are at least +0.9°F (0.5°C) above average and are expected to stay that way for the foreseeable future. Climate scientists fear this frequent weather event will become a ‘Godzilla’ or ‘Super’ El Niño by the end of the year, meaning sea surface temperatures rise to 3.6°F (2°C) above normal or even higher - which NOAA classifies as ‘strong.’
The agency confirmed those fears on Thursday, stating that there is a 63 percent chance of El Niño becoming ‘very strong’ between November 2026 and January 2027.
Climate officials added that this El Niño will likely be one of the strongest since 1950, and there is a fear it could match an event from 1877, which triggered severe droughts and crop failures around the world, contributing to more than 50 million deaths globally. Many climate historians think the 1877 event reshaped world history, and some consider it one of the first ‘truly global climate disasters’.” (dailymail.com)
Danger Zones
“Just a 4.86°F (2.7°C) increase in sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean wreaked havoc across several continents. Parts of Africa, Southeast Asia and Australia experienced severe drought and forest fires. India saw its normal monsoon rains disappear, while Northern China suffered devastating dry spells that led to harvest failures. In Brazil, rivers dried up and agriculture collapsed. There were also outbreaks of malaria, plague, dysentery, smallpox and cholera across already weakened populations.
Researchers have estimated that the resulting scarcity of food and disease outbreaks killed up to 4 percent of the Earth’s population at the time. That would be the equivalent of at least 250 million people dying if El Niño caused that to happen today.
While every El Niño is different, in the US, it typically brings warmer-than-normal temperatures across the northern half of the country and parts of Alaska. Cooler conditions are more common across the southern states, especially from Texas through the Southeast.
The climate pattern also tends to shift storm tracks, increasing the chances of wetter-than-average weather across California, the Southwest, the Gulf Coast and much of the Southeast. Meanwhile, drier conditions are often seen in parts of the northern Rockies, the Ohio Valley, the Great Lakes and sections of the Mississippi Valley.” (dailymail.com)
Information Update
“Thursday’s announcement revealed that the area of the central Pacific where scientists actively monitor sea surface temperatures for El Niño was 1.3°F (0.7°C) above normal - breaking the El Niño threshold of 0.9°F (0.5°C).
However, NOAA also revealed that ocean waters in the eastern Pacific have already risen to 3.8°F (2.1°C) above average. This pattern, where warmer water is detected in the east, is typical when a strong El Niño is developing.
AccuWeather senior meteorologist Chad Merrill said in a statement: ‘Most El Niños begin in the fall, so this is developing much earlier and faster than expected.’ El Niño often disrupts global rain patterns, making the climate wetter in the southern US and drier in the north.
In the US, El Niño has a major impact on the natural jet stream, which flows from west to east over the middle of the country. As El Niño heats the Pacific, this pushes the jet stream farther south, so it flows over the southern and Gulf states. This brings wetter weather to the South, drier weather to the Midwest and warmer weather to the Pacific Northwest and Northern Plains.
‘It will intensify drought in the Northwest and northern Rockies and lessen drought intensity and coverage in the Southwest,’ Merrill added. ‘It won’t do anything to eliminate the long-term drought in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic until we get to late fall and early winter.’
Deepti Singh, associate professor at Washington State University, told the Washington Post: ‘Simultaneous multiyear droughts similar to those in the 1870s could happen again. What is different now is that our atmosphere and oceans are substantially warmer than they were in the 1870s, which means the associated extremes could be more extreme.’
Climate forecasts show that 2026’s temperatures in the Pacific Ocean are already well above average - triggering El Niño. While Super El Niños have had a catastrophic impact on the globe in past years, meteorologists have noted that it may help the East Coast avoid a devastating Atlantic hurricane season.
Overall, AccuWeather is now predicting a below-average hurricane season, with fewer named storms and fewer tropical cyclones developing into major hurricanes. However, AccuWeather’s Lead Long Range Forecaster Paul Pastelok told the Daily Mail that this does not mean Americans should let down their guard in 2026, as a major hurricane can still reach land despite the presence of El Niño.
‘It only takes one storm, and then boom! We’re not saying that El Niño is going to weaken and dampen the Atlantic Basin season completely,’ he said. ‘There’s still a lot of warm water, a lot of potential there. So, I just wanted to make sure if people were saying, “Oh, we don’t have to worry about anything this year.” That’s not true. It only takes one storm.’
Pastelok noted that the devastating Hurricane Andrew, which made landfall in Southern Florida as a Category 5 storm in 1992 and killed 65 people globally, developed during an El Niño summer.” (dailymail.com)
Super El Niño’s “Corridor Of Chaos”
“El Niño has returned, and scientists have compared the impending weather shifts to a historic ‘global climate disaster’ that led to the deaths of 50 million people. The arrival of the climate pattern on Thursday is expected to bring an increased threat of torrential downpours, flooding, severe thunderstorms and tornadoes to an 800-mile stretch of the US from the South to the Mid-Atlantic.
Major cities from coast to coast will be affected by the weather phenomenon’s disruptions, AccuWeather’s lead long range forecaster Paul Pastelok told the Daily Mail. An El Niño is a natural climate pattern in which the central and eastern Pacific Ocean surface temperature becomes significantly warmer than average, flipping weather patterns worldwide.
‘As far as heavy rainfall and tornadoes, Houston to Atlanta, Orlando and parts of the Mid-Atlantic, pick a city… those are more concerning, especially as you get into later this year,’ Pastelok warned. ‘You’re going to be hearing a lot about El Niño,’ Florida meteorologist Jeff Berardelli added. ‘And the reason is, our computer models are advertising a very strong if not super El Niño, one of the strongest on record, and because of all the heat released into the atmosphere, it has wide-ranging impacts all over the globe.’
While El Niño makes the weather calmer and drier in the Northwest and Northern Plains, it heats the Pacific and pushes the jet stream farther south, increasing the chances of volatile weather over Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas.
This current El Niño is projected to mirror an infamous one from 1877, known for triggering severe droughts and crop failures around the world. It contributed to one of history’s deadliest famines, killing over 50 million people, mainly in India, China, Brazil and parts of Africa.
US climate officials said this year’s will continue to intensify and become one of the strongest on record by the end of 2026, with similar ocean warming patterns that could once again alter the world’s rain and drought patterns.” (dailymail.com)
“Godzilla El Niño” Could Absolutely Devastate Global Food Production
“The World Meteorological Organization is warning that this summer’s El Niño event could be the worst yet. Compounded by fertiliser shortages, inflation and rising oil prices, these shocks threaten to push an already fragile food industry to the brink, and the impact will land squarely in consumers’ shopping baskets.
Coming into this year, the number of people around the world experiencing acute food insecurity was already at the highest level ever recorded. And now a ‘Godzilla El Niño’ could absolutely devastate food production in many of the areas around the world that grow the four crops that account for 60 percent of all global calories…
Global food security relies heavily on a highly concentrated supply chain. Just four crops, wheat, rice, maize and soybeans, account for over 60% of global calories. While localised regional shortages are typically balanced by other markets, a global El Niño triggers teleconnections: simultaneous weather anomalies across different continents that cause correlated crop failures. And this systemic drop in supply leads to direct price increases at supermarket tills.
Of course conditions will be much worse in many impoverished nations around the globe. In some cases, there simply won’t be nearly enough food to feed everyone. We really are facing a nightmare scenario, and the vast majority of the global population is completely and utterly unprepared for it.” (themostimportantnews.com)
“Prepare To Meet Thy God, O Israel”
As we come to the end of the 6,000 years of Satan’s rule over the earth, God applies His correction.
“And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.” (Deuteronomy 28:23-24)
“And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:” (Leviticus 26:19)
But It’s Not Just Drought!
A message recorded by the prophet Amos - a final warning FROM GOD!
“And I also have given you cleanness of teeth [famine] in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew [often a result of flooding]: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, Prepare To Meet Thy God, O Israel.” (Amos 4:6-12)
Some will “return to God”, and He gives them this promise:
“I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.” (Hosea 5:15)
“I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.” (Proverbs 8:17)
The Warning Did Go Out!
At the end of his book, The United States and Britain in Prophecy, God’s end time apostle gave this warning:
“Most people, we know only too well, will take this SERIOUS WARNING lightly – put it out of mind – turn to other immediate interests of no importance by comparison!
That is why a loving, just, all-wise, all-POWERFUL GOD is going to take away from them these unimportant counter-interests, and apply such intensified CORRECTION that they shall, finally, come to their senses, and turn to Him and His WAY which will bring them eternal happiness and abundant blessings!
But YOU need not have to suffer this intensified correction, greater than any trouble ever suffered by humans.
By God’s direction and authority,
I have laid the TRUTH before you!
To neglect it will be tragic beyond imagination!
To heed it will bring blessings, happiness and GLORY beyond description!
The decision is now YOURS!”
(The United States and Britain in Prophecy - Chapter 14)
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Today we find the Church of God in a “wilderness of religious confusion!”
The confusion is not merely around the Church – within the religions of the world outside – but WITHIN the very heart of The True Church itself!
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