Last September, we at the Trumpet knew the world was entering a time of increased danger and urgency in world events.

Our editor in chief, Gerald Flurry, had written a landmark booklet, called Haggai: God Has Begun to Shake the Nations, based on a biblical prophecy. “And I will shake all nations,” God says in Haggai 2:7.

“God shakes the nations—physically,” Mr. Flurry wrote. “Though the primary shaking is physical, it also shakes all nations mentally, emotionally, and even spiritually—and it keeps intensifying right down to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.”

The beginning of that shaking was tied to a specific sign, a sign that became far more vivid and obvious last September. In that booklet, Mr. Flurry called it “a dreadful warning sign to the world,” and “a sign of world upheaval.”

I recommend you read the booklet. Because looking at world events since then, there is no refuting the accuracy of the prediction. The accelerated—and still quickening—pace of nation-shaking events is shocking.

Brace yourself and take a look at events since September of last year.

Practically the whole of the Middle East and North Africa has violently convulsed—and the shock waves of this revolutionary geopolitical quake are only getting stronger.

The West-friendly government of Tunisia was shaken from office by a popular uprising, and now that nation faces the threat of radicalization.

This revolution caused far more consequential aftershocks in Egypt, toppling an American ally, Hosni Mubarak. Now Egypt’s strongest political force is the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood, a jolt that fulfills a prophecy Mr. Flurry has highlighted for nearly two decades.

Bahrain has also been rocked, with Shiite majority demonstrators, supported and armed by Iran, protesting against the Sunni monarchy.

The Bahrain rebellion is catalyzing an alliance of Sunni powers: Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have all sent security forces there to help quell the protests. Largely behind the scenes, Germany is building an alliance with Arabian Peninsula nations, fulfilling another major biblical prophecy.

Iran has also scored significant victories in Iraq and Lebanon. After nine months of political deadlock, Iraq was finally able to form a coalition government in December only after Iranian-supported anti-American Moqtada Sadr agreed to support Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

And in January, Hezbollah brought down the Saad Hariri government in Lebanon when its ministers and allies withdrew from the cabinet. The new prime minister, Najib Mikati, is Hezbollah’s man—amounting to a soft coup by the Iranian-backed terrorist group.

In Syria, anti-government demonstrations have been roiling since late January in a situation that will likely result in the fulfillment of another crucial prophecy.

Libya is now trembling amid civil war under the bombardment of an international air campaign unofficially aimed at regime change. Eastern Libya, where rebel forces are based, is a hotbed of anti-Americanism and jihadist sentiment.

Since mid-February, Yemen has faced daily anti-government protests. Al Qaeda is filling a vacuum as security forces withdraw from some provinces.

Tremors of unrest have also been felt in Mauritania, Morocco, Djibouti, Jordan (King Abdullah ii fired his government on February 1), Iraq, Algeria and Iran.

Sudan voted in January on whether the population in the south would declare independence from the Muslim-controlled north. The result was 98.83 percent yes—and over 93,000 people have since been displaced in South Sudan because of militia violence and criminality.

Four months of fighting and power struggle in the Ivory Coast that killed over 1,500 people culminated last week. Alassane Ouattara, backed mainly by French forces, removed Laurent Gbagbo by force—a sign of Europe’s growing willingness to intervene militarily in Africa to serve its own interests.

After Mr. Flurry highlighted a prophecy regarding Ethiopia’s radicalization, in March over 4,000 Christians were displaced in violent Muslim anti-Christian attacks.

Muslims have been putting Christians to flight throughout the region. On October 31, an attack on a Catholic church in Baghdad killed 58 and wounded 80. Almost half of Iraq’s Christians have fled, as have similar numbers in Lebanon and Egypt. In Nigeria, ongoing Christian-Muslim violence has escalated since December in a conflict that has killed thousands. This trend presages a Catholic-Muslim clash that will fulfill another monumental prophecy.

The nation usually at the epicenter of the region’s troubles, Israel, remained mostly quiet—until March. The Jewish state felt a horrifying emotional temblor on March 11 when terrorists knifed to death five members of a Jewish family in the West Bank. It shuddered as Hamas resumed rocket attacks. And a terrorist bomb then shook Jerusalem on March 23, clearly marking an escalation of violence against Israel.

God Has Begun to Shake the Nations, the booklet says. Indeed.

But that explosive region is hardly the only place.

The European Union has been convulsing from a massive economic quake that is altering the landscape of the Continent—mostly to Germany’s benefit.

To try to prevent financial fault lines from growing wider, EU ministers agreed on September 7 to create several new regulatory bodies, which then began operating in January. Germany hosts two of the four bodies.

On November 21, Ireland caved in to EU elites’ demands to accept a bailout, taking around €90 billion in loans and handing over its national sovereignty in the process. Ireland’s economic policy is now subject to the authority of the EU’s central bankers.

In mid-December, European leaders agreed to amend the Lisbon Treaty to create a permanent eurozone rescue fund. This decision reflects Germany’s efforts to redesign the Union to its liking.

Last month, eurozone nations surrendered yet more of their sovereignty when leaders agreed to a version of a German-France “pact for the euro”—one more step toward a German-led pan-European government.

Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates, after parliament rejected his austerity package last month, resigned. Two weeks ago, facing unsustainable interest on its debt, Portugal followed Ireland’s path and asked for a bailout.

Back in February, it was announced that Germany would take over the New York Stock Exchange. A Deutsche Börse-nyse merger (if approved) will hand 60 percent ownership of the combined company to the German side.

In March, Germany’s parliament voted to formally end military conscription, “a historic change for the nation’s post-World War ii forces,” Associated Press called it. Come July, Germany once again will have a professional military.

Despite these victories, though, Germans’ dissatisfaction with their leaders is intensifying. Last month, cnn called losses for Angela Merkel’s ruling conservative party in state elections “a political shift of historic proportions.”

Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg has bucked that trend, riding a wave of popularity—until last month when he resigned as defense minister because of accusations of plagiarism over his doctoral thesis. Though out of office, he has retained the public’s admiration.

Economic troubles shook Britain on March 26 in the form of over a quarter-million demonstrators—many of them violent—marching London’s streets to protest government spending cuts.

A similar scenario played out in Wisconsin in the U.S., highlighting the reality that several states face bankruptcy—and inevitable social turmoil.

Amid all the unrest, oil prices have steadily risen, jeopardizing global economic recovery. Crude prices now sit north of $120 a barrel, the highest since September 2008.

All the while, the dollar’s value is dropping. Other nations and international bodies are actively looking for something to replace it as the world’s reserve currency, which would utterly level America’s economy.

All this shaking of the nations—and we haven’t even yet looked at the climatic and other “natural” disasters that have rocked our globe. Every month has had a doozy or two.

December saw wildfires in Israel kill 42 people and force thousands of evacuations. It was considered the worst natural disaster in Israel’s history.

December and January witnessed the worst flooding in Australia’s history. The leading newspaper there called it a “biblical disaster.”

In January, floods in Brazil caused mudslides that left tens of thousands homeless and killed more than 700 people.

In February, Queensland—still shell-shocked from the flooding—got hit by a massive cyclone.

The worst drought in 44 years continues to damage wheat crops and force ranchers to reduce cattle herds in Texas.

And there has been the literal shaking of nations. A magnitude-7.5 earthquake off Indonesia killed 343 people on October 25. January saw four huge quakes, in Argentina, Japan, Pakistan and Chile.

Then on February 22, an exceptionally violent trembler leveled much of Christchurch, New Zealand. Scientists say this severe of a quake strikes an average of once every thousand years.

Not even three weeks later came the 9.0 quake near Japan that created a killer tsunami, which killed tens of thousands of people and caused a nuclear disaster. The geopolitical effects of that tragedy could change the region permanently.

Are you paying attention? Our world is rattling, and the intensity of the tremors is growing.

“If you want to know where we are in Bible prophecy,you’d better understand why God is shaking the nations,” Mr. Flurry wrote in the Haggai booklet. “That means you must obey God, watch world news and pray for understanding.”