Constant Crisis Mode

 Constant Crisis Mode – Todd Strandberg - https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/ One of the most active features of our domain has been the Rapture Index. It has been the subject of a plethora of articles by the secular media. When I started it in 1987,my simple interest was focused on the activity of end-time events. There have been times when not much was going on in relation to Bible prophecy. When I was in the Air Force, there was a time when I could be sent on a 45-day deployment to the Middle East and leave the site on hold the whole time. Today, if I forgetto update something on a daily basis, I get calls from friends worried about my health. A couple of years ago, I realized that the Rapture Index had lost its importance, primarily due to the fact that it is constantly stuck at high levels. The index has notbeen below 170 in 20 years. It is amazing that the index had a low of 58 in 1993. What keeps the RI high is that we are in Constant Crisis Mode. There is always something going on that keeps prophecy-related events in the news. One of my favorite drought sites is the US drought monitor: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu. It is run by the University of Nebraska, and they track areas of the US thathave received below-average amounts of rainfall. The site has records that go all the way back to the year 2000. I looked at them and noticed that in most years, the average level of droughts was less than 30% of the wholeUS. Right now, the percentage of the US in drought condition is 60%, which is the highest reading in the history of the site. Because most western states receive their rainfall during the winter months, there was much hope that this season would end the Californian drought. The first couple monthsof winter looked good, with California receiving large amounts of rainfall, but the rain suddenly stopped. Since very little rainfall occurs in the summer months, California is back in the red zone for drought. California has been in the drought category for four years straight. I was amazed at the state record of having the largest wildfires each year. I didn’t think there wasanything left to burn in California from the 2018 to 2020 fire seasons. Somehow California had the misfortune of having 2021 as the fresh record for the most areas burnt. Normally when winter comes, the recorded numbers of wildfires significantly decrease because of the reduced average temperature and the increased moisture levels. A weekago, I saw a map that had at least a dozen fires burning over the state of Texas. What makes the current fire season odd is that I’ve been tracking them for several years and noticed the few odd years. In 2018 we had a generally wet year. It was odd becausethe moisture levels made it unproductive for growing anything. I’ve been monitoring wildfires for 37 years, and I don’t ever recall so many fires during the spring in the Midwest. There was one report of fires in the Smoky Mountains.The Smoky Mountains are named so because of the natural configuration of clouds. To have an abundance of moisture is very odd and dangerous. The funny thing is not that we are entering into a season that is prone to fire hazards; we are approaching a season that is the kingpin of fire dangers. I know we quicklybecome complacent to end-time views but are at a point where we don’t understand the current reality. The reason why we are experiencing constant crisis is that we are very near to the cause of these end-time events. Once we realize that God is in control of events, we canmake sense of the progression of events. “And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals. Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with aloud voice, ‘Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals?'” (Revelation 5:1-2, NKJV).