The Basics of Bible - Herald of Hope

Signs of the Last Days
The 20th century has seen more changes than any previous century
in the whole 6,000 years of human history. There has been more
advance in scientific knowledge, more growth in world population,
more warfare, and more travel than could have been imagined in
man's wildest dreams just 100 years ago. We will now see that the
dramatic changes which have occurred were predicted in the Bible
over 2,000 years ago as signs of the last days.
The Sign of a Population Explosion
It is estimated that world population in 1850 was
1 billion, yet in the last 150 years it has increased to
6 billion and is forecast by the United Nations to
double to a staggering 12 billion soon after 2050!
By the year 2045 China, even with its “one child”
family policy, is expected to have a 400 million
increase to 1,600 million, and there will be more
Indians than Chinese! The Indian population alone
will increase by more than twice the current
population of the United States!
However, the social implications of birth control
policies are horrific. In India and China women
are having abortions if tests indicate the unborn
babe is a girl, and statistics show that an
imbalance is being created. This will result in
serious destabilizing pressures on human
relationships.
In addition, food production will have to
more than double at a time when famines,
pestilence, and war, are disrupting
agricultural production.
In developing countries much of the
best agricultural land is being
absorbed by massive
urban expansion.
Unemployed rural
workers flock to the
cities and new
residential and
factory complexes
replace vegetable
gardens.
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Graph of World Population
Growth Estimates to 2050 AD
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