Here again, I’m on my soapbox. My contention continues to be that Jesus’ prophecy about the days of Lot is coming into view in these times when Sodom-like wickedness is burgeoning.
Again, I believe as strongly as ever that Jesus said the following about the moment of Rapture:
“Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed” (Luke 17:28-30).
There should not be a question among true believers that we are in Sodom-like days. News reports each hour bring information that burns our eyes and ears with tales of evil. That these days can be likened to Jesus’ prophecy is almost a given.
But there have been reports that the world is about to collapse into a financial heap of disaster and calamity. This goes counter to the Lord’s statement that people will be buying, selling, and building—doing all the things that indicate good economic times like in Lot’s day. It will be just like those days, Jesus said, when He next breaks into this world to bring about God’s ownership again of planet Earth. This will begin with the Rapture of all believers—the Church, as Jesus described His building project. Speaking to Peter and the disciples, Jesus said:
“And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:18).
The news of pending economic catastrophe continues to come, with some writers in the Christian community believing that Christians will soon go into the time of Tribulation (Daniel’s seventieth week—seven years of hell on Earth). There will be no Rapture to rescue believers in Jesus Christ of this Church Age in this view of biblical eschatology—even though Jesus Himself gave John the beloved disciple the following in the book of Revelation:
“Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth” (Revelation 3:10).
The predictions of the world getting worse in terms of economic conditions until the Tribulation starts continue to mount. These predictions erroneously compete with the Lord’s prophecy about the days of Lot, if I may kindly put how I see the views of those counter to the Lord’s foretelling. Here is one such counter opinion to what is happening as the time of Christ’s intervention nears. While the writer is reporting facts, the one-sided view fails to take into account the other, which I next give as an example.
“The global energy supply crunch is only going to get worse as long as the conflicts in the Middle East and Eastern Europe are raging. A lot less oil is getting through the Strait of Hormuz than normal, and diesel production in Russia has been significantly diminished by relentless Ukrainian drone strikes…
If things are this bad now, what will they look like a few months from now if World War 3 continues to intensify? …
The clouds on the horizon are getting really dark, and at this point everyone can see that a major storm is rapidly approaching. (“Goldman Sachs Warns Oil Could Soon Rise Above $120 A Barrel, And the Price of Diesel Just Set Another Record as World War 3 Continues to Escalate,” The Economic Collapse, RR News, September 9, 2026)
The economic picture, worldwide, isn’t as bleak as presented above. As a matter of fact, the following news item seems to indicate quite the contrary in validating the buying, selling, and all other things economic in similarity to the days of Lot, as foretold by the Lord.
Last year, lefty corporate media outlets pushed the narrative that President Trump’s trade war with the world could trigger a 1929-style economic collapse. However, a new UBS report presents a markedly different picture: global trade growth is running at historically high levels, supported by AI-related demand and rising export prices.
Let’s take a trip in the “wayback machine” and look at Bloomberg’s headlines when Trump was ratcheting up the trade war with China in early 2025. The outlet pumped out an ungodly number of headlines about “recession” and impending economic doom.
Roughly 1.5 years later, UBS’s latest data show continued growth in global trade, despite the recession risks economists highlighted when the tariff war broke out in the first half of 2025.
UBS chief economist Arend Kapteyn wrote Tuesday morning that global export values are rising about 19% from a year earlier, placing growth in the 84th percentile of the past 25 years. Higher volumes account for roughly 8.8 percentage points of that increase, while rising prices contribute another 10.3 percentage points…
The report suggests that global trade remains resilient, but its core strength is concentrated in technology and Asia. That leaves the expansion heavily sensitive to the AI and power grid investment boom. It seems that all the doom-maxxing forecasts lefty corporate media outlets made last summer have fallen flat on their faces. (“Where’s the 1929-Style Collapse MSM Predicted? UBS Finds Global Exports Surging to ‘Historically High Levels,’” ZeroHedge, September 9, 2026)
Now let me say that despite these optimistic economic figures worldwide, this report doesn’t bode well for this fallen world that’s rebellious to God’s governance. It just means that Jesus’ prophecy about the days of Lot is now fully in view in these last of the last days before He calls all believers to Himself. The world’s economy will then indeed crash into chaos, and the times will become worse than any economic depression in world history.
There is indeed a storm of unfathomable destruction on the horizon, including a hurricane-like devastation of the world’s economy. But Christians will be sheltered within the clouds of Glory when that storm hits.
The Rapture will vacate all Christians, and the Tribulation will begin with the making of the covenant with Antichrist, as outlined in Daniel 9:27.
You don’t want to be here during that horrendous era. Here again is how to go to Christ and eternal safety when He shouts for believers to come to Him.
“That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10: 9-10).
—Terry