The talented English singer Petula Clark had a hit song in 1966 titled ‘A Sign of the Times.’ The song had absolutely nothing to do with the Biblical ‘signs of the end times’ we will focus on in this article, but there was just something about the song title that intrigued me even back then.

Every decade has its own signs of changing times. Back then, the Vietnam War was coming to a boiling point, with many protests in the United States. There were racial and civil rights issues. It was harder to borrow money or get mortgages because of higher interest rates and inflation. Even the U.S. government was feeling a financial squeeze because there just wasn’t enough money to finance both a war in Vietnam and a War on Poverty. The use of illegal drugs was beginning to increase, and even the popular music most teenagers listened to was changing fast.

Fast forward to the 21st century, and the signs of the end times seem to be multiplying faster than rabbits with each passing year. Not really a surprise since the Bible prophesied such a time in human history would occur at an appointed time set by God, resulting in the ‘end of time’ as we have known it over the last couple of millennia. This should intrigue everyone.

Biblical scripture says that the ‘signs of the times’ will continue to increase and get worse in intensity and frequency, just like a mother’s birth pangs. Our national signs in the United States, international signs around the world, and cultural, societal, and moral signs around the globe continue to compound and get worse and worse by the year at an unprecedented rate of speed.

It seems things are getting so bad these days that perhaps we have reached the time in the ‘signs of the times’ where God is giving depraved minds over to their delusions, as the Bible says will happen at some point in God’s timing, before the pre-Tribulation Rapture and Jesus’ return.

“For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.”

“Therefore, God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise.

“For this reason, God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind to do what ought not to be done.

“They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things but also approve of those who practice them” (Romans 1:21-32).

If these Bible verses do not exactly sound like what is happening in the USA and the world today, then I do not know what does. They describe precisely our current sad moral situation, which seems to dominate our daily newscasts and talk shows more and more with each passing day.

I know that I have never witnessed the current level of corruption, deception, insane hatred, maniacal and deranged lunacy, lying, unrestrained hysteria and delirium, mocking, pure Satanic evil influence and possession, and assorted other craziness, all happening at the same time at all levels of government, in schools and a majority of mass media outlets, in the public squares, and even in the world of sports and so-called entertainment. And I have never heard so many adult professionals and governmental leaders spew so much cussing and swearing. It is all at unprecedented levels in my lifetime. If these are not the end times we are living in, then I cannot imagine how bad things will be in the ensuing years going forward. Only God knows!

But the things mentioned above are not the only signs trending us into the end times.

Israel, God’s chosen people, will always be front and center in end times activity. Add in materialism, wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes, famines, pestilences, apathy, persecution of Christians, spiritual warfare, heavenly signs, and more—it is then that we will see the rapid end-time signs come into clear focus.

And God makes it perfectly clear in the Biblical book of Isaiah what He will do during the end times to those people who have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.

“I will send them great trouble and choose harsh punishment for them and will bring on them what they fear and dread. For when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, no one listened. They deliberately sinned and did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me” (Isaiah 66:4).

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter” (Isaiah 5:20).

It is becoming clear why the United States of America is not specifically mentioned in Biblical end-times prophecy. Either the USA will continue to decline and fall from God’s grace due to increasing and greater moral decay, or it will be incorporated into the European coalition, or it may be invaded by an enemy, or it will likely become a weak and powerless nation at the time of the Rapture when it will be decimated by the loss of millions of its patriotic Christian citizens.

Christians already know there is a simple remedy God has offered to anyone to help us face the future optimistically as this world continues to become a darker and darker place to live.

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His one and only Son [Jesus Christ], that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).

Yes, it is as simple as that.

I pray YOU will take God up on his offer!

The Wall Street NYSE has been in the news a lot lately regarding the fluctuating value of stocks during the current tariff war being waged. My blood pressure does not fluctuate with the up and down trading on the New York Stock Exchange because I do not have any monetary stock and bond investments, and thus I do not lose any sleep about what is happening on Wall Street.

I have a different take on the terminology of stocks and bonds. My investments are taking stock in what my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, has to say to me in His Word, the Bible, enabling my bond with Him to grow exponentially stronger moving forward as my earthly days roll along.

An investment in Jesus Christ has a guaranteed forecast of a long-term profitable increase throughout eternity to come. Who would want to trade a worry-free, eternal, secure investment in Jesus Christ versus tossing and turning in bed, losing sleep over worry about short-term monetary transactions that last only a few decades at best, during a brief earthly lifetime?

The Bible has much to say about wealth and words of wisdom concerning money, profit, and loss.

“What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?” (Mark 8:36).

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:19-21).

“Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself” (Proverbs 23:4).

“Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy” (1 Timothy 6:17).

“Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5).

“Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows” (1 Timothy 6:9-10).

“No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money” (Matthew 6:24).

“He who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile” (Ecclesiastes 5:10).

These verses are a small sampling of what the Bible has to say about monetary matters. Since Biblical times, King Solomon, the Apostle Paul, and Jesus Christ himself left us words of wisdom about money in the Bible, which have served every generation well, including our own generation today. Perhaps these words of wisdom have never needed to be heard more than in the current times we live in, as we seem to find ourselves near, or in, the ‘end times’ just preceding the Rapture of the Church (Christians) from the earth.

That means the time is shorter than ever for you to decide if YOU will serve mammon (money) or God in this life. There is nothing wrong with having money, or even being rich, if you use it for good in promoting the Kingdom of God here on earth. It is the ‘love of money’ that will get you in trouble. How you use the money God has blessed you with may be a major determining factor in where you spend eternity, either with Jesus Christ in heaven or separated from Jesus forever via the judgment of the unrighteous.

You can be a billionaire philanthropist and give away millions or billions to good causes, but it will not punch your ticket to eternal life with Jesus in heaven. You must put ‘stock’ in Jesus Christ to obtain eternal life. If you give your life to Jesus and believe in Him, then Jesus will create a ‘bond’ between you and God the Father. Now, that is the kind of stocks and bonds we should be excited about investing in for long-term, never-ending benefits, with the indicator arrow always pointing up toward heaven until we hear the closing bell of our life on earth.

Jesus, God’s one and only Son, was God’s blood sacrifice on our behalf, the one and only sacrifice sufficient to make us righteous with God the Father. Jesus suffered and died for us to redeem us of all our past, present, and future sins.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).

Every Easter, Christians joyously celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead so that when we die, we will be raised from the dead in our resurrected bodies, fit to join Jesus in God’s Kingdom of Heaven for all eternity, just as the Bible promises us will happen, and the Bible has kept ALL its promises. Of course, there is the possibility of the Rapture happening at any time before we die, which means we will be blessed to meet the Lord in the air instead.