Nuclear weapons are multiplying. Even worse, our world is increasingly ruled by madmen who are eager to use them. The number one problem today is that of human survival—and it is growing by the day.

Yet commentators and journalists rarely discuss this subject. It is clearly the most important issue we could be discussing, yet we ignore it.

Why is that? A big reason is that neither world leaders nor scientists nor religious people have an answer.

But there is an answer.

An Existential Problem

The world spent an estimated $92 billion on nuclear weapons last year, up more than 10 percent from the previous year. This means the world spent about $2,900 per second on nuclear weapons! These numbers are staggering.

Where is this leading? What does it mean for our lives? What kind of a future do our children have?

If just one of these nuclear bombs drops on a city, it would cause an utter catastrophe and trigger an even more horrific nuclear war. The consequences are hard to fathom. That’s why our media and politicians are constantly preoccupied with non-issues. They are willingly blind to this dangerous reality!

If you look at who is acquiring nuclear weapons today, you would have to agree that there is no issue more important, dangerous and urgent to human survival than this. I tell you, we cannot afford to not discuss this.

Who Has These Weapons?

China is quickly expanding its nuclear stockpile, building an estimated 100 nuclear warheads every year! Their goal is to have a substantially larger and more advanced nuclear arsenal than the United States in the coming two decades, as the Heritage Foundation explained.

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That is horrifying! China is ruled by a dictator, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping, who enslaves his own people, commits genocide on an ethnic minority, threatens to invade Taiwan, and intrudes on neighboring countries. It is even preparing to wage war against the U.S.! Nukes in the hand of this man are a ticking time bomb!

But he isn’t even the greatest danger to world peace.

Russia has more nuclear bombs, is allied with China and ruled by an even more ruthless dictator: President Vladimir Putin. As I explain in my booklet The Prophesied ‘Prince of Russia,’ the Bible prophesies that this man will be responsible for more deaths than any leader in human history! Since I wrote that booklet, Putin has invaded Ukraine and committed many other atrocities. But that is just the beginning. This man is certain to use nuclear weapons!

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Russia and China are also allied with North Korea, which is currently ruled by a highly erratic dictator: Kim Jong-un.

North Korea has demonstrated its capacity to use its nuclear weapons in a most dangerous way. It has launched intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach all American cities! Most concerning, as the late Charles Krauthammer wrote in April 2017, is that “North Korea’s regime is bizarre in the extreme, a hermit kingdom run by a weird, utterly ruthless and highly erratic god-king. You can’t count on Caligula. The regime is savage and cult-like; its people, robotic.”

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What will Kim Jong-un do with all those nuclear weapons at his disposal? Some notable experts, like former cia analyst Robert L. Carlin and nuclear scientist Siegfried S. Hecker, think he will go to war. Others disagree, but truly, none of these experts know because of the unpredictable nature of this “erratic god-king”!

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China has quite a lot of control over North Korea. But if you look at China’s goals, this isn’t comforting news.

Moreover, Kim Jong-un shares his nuclear power with Iran, the world’s number one terrorist-sponsoring nation. And Iran has a religious leader even more “bizarre in the extreme” than his North Korean counterpart: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He believes that a nuclear catastrophe would hasten the coming of his messiah!

Iran’s fanatical regime has repeatedly threatened to wipe Israel from the map and to destroy Europe and the U.S. as well. If left unrestrained, they will most certainly use nuclear weapons once they have enough of them to achieve their goals.

Iran and North Korea have a worse problem in some ways than any other nation in this world. They are ruled by people who relish the prospect of a nuclear war! This is the horrifying world that you and I live in.

While it is frightening enough to consider the danger of nuclear weapons in the hands of madmen, the danger emanating from the heart of Europe needs to equally concern us.

A lot of the increased nuclear weapons spending last year was due to expensive upgrades to America’s nuclear weapons stationed in Germany, Italy and other European countries. America is going to regret doing that!

Italy and Germany were ruled by madmen in the past century. Revelation 17 shows that these madmen were the sixth head of a dreadful beast that will rise once more. Europe is about to be ruled by 10 kings, or madmen, who believe it will be their right to conquer nations! In fact, Revelation 13 reveals that they will worship the dragon, Satan the devil, and be empowered by him. That is the highest form of insanity!

This is far too big a problem for any man or group of men to solve. It is a horrifying reality that we are heading into the worst suffering ever on this planet!

The only way to face this and solve it is by looking to God. There is a real solution! God gives it to us in the Bible, if we’ll just listen to and submit to Him.

Editing God’s Word

Some people are recognizing that not only nations but humanity itself needs help from a higher power. During a recent crisis, for example, several ministers pointed to answers in a certain passage of the Bible. But they left something out. And what they left out is the reason we cannot solve this number one problem and just ignore it instead!

“If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:13-14). That is the full, unedited passage from the Bible.

Those ministers who were saying that we need to appeal to God for help did quote this part: “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face.” They also quoted this part: “then will I hear from heaven, and will heal their land.” This is what Mike Pence did in his 2016 campaign speeches: He took his vice presidential oath of office on Ronald Reagan’s family Bible, opened to this very verse.

But these leaders, like Pence, intentionally left out “and turn from their wicked ways” and “forgive their sin”!

Political leaders and even religious leaders avoid this subject, and even when they are quoting this very clear verse that is very relevant to us today, they brazenly leave out the fact that we are sinning and must turn from our wicked ways!

And these are the very words that we need to heed to save not only ourselves and our nation but the entire human race—yet even the ministers refuse to speak these words!

With America and the world facing this monstrous problem of human survival itself, the preachers just tell the people to humble themselves and pray: Apparently people will feel good and religious if they do that. But they left out the most important part: repentance! We are facing catastrophe, and yet, like little children would, we hide from it.

That is no way to solve this crisis! Yet it can be solved. That is what verse 14 says. God has said in many prophecies that He will save nations, but only if they repent.

The Need for Repentance

Repentance is one of the main messages not only in 2 Chronicles 7 but throughout the Bible. The Old Testament and the New Testament are concerned with turning from sin and overcoming wickedness, not only in others but in ourselves. Yet preachers today won’t even talk about this.

Yes, we must turn from our wicked ways and be forgiven of our sins!

What does it mean to repent of sin? 1 John 3:4 tells us that “sin is the transgression of the law.” That means that God’s law reveals right and wrong, not our own reasoning or laws or anything else. We must repent of breaking God’s law! But the ministers won’t teach that either: They teach instead that Jesus Christ kept the law for us and actually abolished the law. That is not biblical! God expects us to repent of breaking His law and—with His help—to keep His law. That is what it means to turn from our wicked ways.

This is not just some religious teaching. This is the truth of the Bible and the reality we are facing.

How a Nation Can Turn It Around

The ancient ancestors of Germany were a people called the Assyrians. The capital of the Assyrian Empire was Nineveh. God sent a prophet to the capital city to warn the Assyrians to turn from their wicked ways. He warned that He would destroy them if they did not repent. The Prophet Jonah eventually delivered that message to them, and lo and behold, they actually did repent! It’s the only time on this Earth that any non-Israelite nation has ever done that, and the Assyrians did it!

There is great hope here. God records the repentance of Nineveh in the book of Jonah to show us that He saved a nation because its people repented! Their leaders led them to do that, and they solved their problems and saved their country!

There is a solution to these terrifying threats. Even now, God would save nations if they would just heed His warning message.

The modern Assyrians in Germany are about to fulfill a certain dark role in Bible prophecy. They started two world wars and are going to start a third one. The United States is a nato ally of Germany. It also provides Germany’s warplanes access to its nuclear weapons. It recently upgraded these weapons. If the modern Israelites in America and other nations do not repent, those weapons will be turned against us!

The Bible warns that if we refuse to turn from our wicked ways, God will indeed allow nuclear war to punish mankind. But He promises that He will intervene before mankind destroys itself.

We are facing the results of our sins. We have all sinned and are all sinners. We shouldn’t be embarrassed to repent, because that is our only hope, both physically and spiritually.

God says He does not want human beings to wallow in wickedness until they die. He wants us to turn from the sins that are creating such problems in our lives! (Ezekiel 33:11). He has tremendous plans for mankind, and can only proceed with those after we repent.

The Solution

The late Winston Churchill said, “Mankind has never been in this position before. Without having improved appreciably in virtue or enjoying wiser guidance, it has got into its hands for the first time the tools by which it can unfailingly accomplish its own extermination.”

But the problem is even worse today. Our morals and standards are constantly declining. World leaders act more and more aggressively and have less and less judgment. If mankind continues down this route, the ultimate achievement of man would be self-extermination. Global suicide! Cosmocide!

Jesus Christ prophesied, “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened” (Matthew 24:21-22). That is an unbreakable promise from God!

The problem of human survival will be solved, but only because Jesus Christ will come and stop the war before all human flesh is dead!

Jesus warned us to be alert for this critical moment ahead of us: “Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors” (verses 32-33). This earthshaking crisis is at the door! Are you paying attention? Do you recognize how absolutely serious world events are? This truth is right there in your Bible.

Will you take action and repent before it is too late?

‘A Little Flock’

In Luke 12:32, Jesus Christ said, “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” God loves mankind and is eager to bring us into the Kingdom of God. He sent Jesus to die and be resurrected, to establish His true Church—the “little flock”—and enable human beings to turn from their wicked ways, be forgiven of their sins, and keep God’s perfect, holy law.

When Jesus Christ was on Earth, only 120 people were called and converted—a “little flock” indeed! (Acts 1:15).

Today, many preachers accept that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, but they say He did away with the law of God, and they misquote crucial scriptures rather than repent and submit to that law! God’s true Church not only knows who Jesus Christ is but also delivers His message. That Church still exists today, and it is still a “little flock.”

Many verses, including statements by Christ Himself, prophesy that there will be many false churches and false ministers who agree that Jesus was the Christ (Matthew 24:1-5) but who don’t teach His message.

Christ also said, “Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath” (Luke 12:43-44). When our Lord comes—when Jesus Christ returns—we must be found doing His work!

If we submit to God by repenting and obeying His law, He will not only shepherd us as His “little flock” but give us the Kingdom of God and make us rulers over all that He has: the whole universe! That is your human potential—not wickedness and death in a nuclear world war!

You cannot reach your wonderful human potential without first acknowledging your wicked ways, turning from them, being forgiven of your sin, and then—with God’s help—keeping God’s wonderful law. But if you will do that, that is only the beginning of your incredible future!