Dear friends:
 
About 34 years ago, when the Lord first began showing me that we were in the final years of His plan for earth-dwellers, I was near the end of my career in the U.S. Air Force.  I had a traveling job, and with my team of 6-12 inspectors I would travel all over the U.S. pulling surprise “no-notice’ inspections on unsuspecting organizations at selected bases.  We usually arrived at night, stayed in a motel, and surprised the organization with an alert before daylight the next morning.  Needless to say, we never won any popularity contests!
 
This is said introduce a point.  To get to our destinations, sometimes we had to fly commercial, but sometimes we were able to get hops on available Air Force planes, usually the low and slow, propeller-driven, ex- World War II types, not pressurized, typically the old C-47 “Gooney Bird” (the civilian DC-3). This meant we usually had to often fly THROUGH storms, not over them!  Not fun.
 
But it also meant that we flew low enough where we could see a lot, if the weather was clear.  Many times at night, I would sit and gaze out the small window at the amazing sight below me – lights penetrating the blackness as far as I could see.
 
Lights, lights, and more lights.  For miles, and miles, and miles, with no end.  Cities appeared as piles of sparkling jewels.  Arteries between cities were like sparkling necklaces.  Outside the urban areas were endless little, random dots of light.  Surprisingly, even in the sparsely settled West, dots seemed to be everywhere, many probably just a single home site out in the country.  Few square miles were actually void of light.
 
And all this was over 30 years ago.  Population statistics show that the U.S. population has increased about 40 percent since then!  Think how many more lights there are now.
 
Then I would think of the same nation and real estate just over 100 years before, and the sparse population.  All travel was by walking or horseback.  And just 100 years before that, when the few people in the wilderness areas were the native American tribes.
 
The explosion of population and the plethora of lights in this former wilderness shouted to me that Jesus is coming soon!  Similar population explosions are being experienced throughout the world.
 
Another trend is urbanization, with people congregating in large numbers into small areas, highly dependent upon one another, and extremely vulnerable to transportation breakdowns and shortages of food and water, especially in emergencies, whereas people in agrarian societies were more independent.  People are now more influenced by and can by brainwashed by mass media controlled by a few.  Populations are now more ripe for a charismatic leader who has the solutions to all their problems, which could erupt overnight on a mass scale.
 
Continued…