Dr. David Jeremiah - Where Do We Go from Here?

2021 David P. Jeremiah

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While writing this introduction, Im watching the grim recovery efforts in Surfside, Florida, where the Champlain Towers South condominium collapsed in the dead of night, one floor pancaking onto the next, burying scores of people under tons of concrete. Most were sleeping in their beds, unaware of the suddenness of the coming catastrophe.

There had been signs, including warnings of water seeping beneath critical parts of the structure and weakening its integrity. But the alarm sounded too late.

Three thousand miles away, residents of San Franciscos lavish Millennium Tower absorbed the news with apprehension. Their fifty-eight-story skyscraper with its dazzling views and luxury amenities has sunk eighteen inches into the soft downtown soil on which it was built. Its tilting, and some view Surfside as a warning to the new Millennium.

Im concerned about the new millennium tooour trembling twenty-first century. Im burdened for the underpinnings of our culture, our eroding foundations and structural cracks. Like you, Ive studied the signs of the times and believe were approaching a global cataclysmone predicted in our Scriptures and unfolding before our eyes.

All this came to me in a sort of rush months ago as my wife, Donna, and I were having breakfast. We made the mistake of watching the morning news. Every story was more distressing than the one before. We sat there viewing the burning cities, backbiting politicians, runaway infections, heated elections, social upheaval, racial tensions, skyrocketing crime, shouting pundits, deafening lies, eroding sands, and cracking foundations.

I looked over at Donna and said, You and I are watching the dismantling of America.

This book was born in that moment.

I began to look at these crises and controversies in a new way. I realized they are not isolated movements, philosophies, or events. They are as interconnected as a spiders web. COVID-19 seemed like an arbitrary crisis as it unfolded, but it didnt occur in a vacuum, and the worlds response revealed our souls. Add to that emerging globalism. Were only one existential crisis from a one-world government.

And what about our worldwide economy, hanging by a strand?

Think of the degradation of our culture. It seems as if every member is a lover of self, a lover of money, a lover of pleasureand eager to cancel anyone who disagrees with them. This translates to extreme persecution for the church in much of the world and to eroding religious liberty at home. Across our country, an unprecedented spiritual famine is causing an epidemic of emaciated hearts. In the process, many professed Christians are abandoning the faith. This has created a vacuum for the rising tide of socialism to flood into our land.

Simultaneously, events in the Middle East are turning Jerusalem into the powder keg of history. Again! Throw a pandemic in the midst, and there you have ita world in chaos.

Ive told you all that to say this: I refuse to be discouraged, and so should you!

This is no time to retreat. Its time to live by conviction. When Moses sent the twelve spies into the promised land to reconnoiter the territory, ten of the spies were overwhelmed with fear and despair. They were daunted by the giants they saw. But two of the spies, Joshua and Caleb, said, in effect, Let us go forward! We can take the land!

Years later in recalling the event, Caleb told Joshua, I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land. And I brought him back a report according to my convictions (Josh. 14:7 NIV, emphasis added).

Well, in this book Ive explored the territory of our times, and I am bringing back a report according to my convictions. This is not bravado. Im speaking as honestly and as humbly as I can when I tell you we cannot be still, we cannot be silent, and we cannot live by lies. We must live by our biblical convictions. We can no longer ignore the warnings or sleep in beds of ignorance. I believe were approaching the consummation of the ages.

For as long as Ive had a Bible, Ive studied scriptural prophecy. Ive preached and written about the last days from the beginning of my ministry. Perhaps youve read some of my previous books regarding the Bibles message on the end of the world and the return of Christ. I love writing about biblical prophecy because its Gods transfusion of hope to our hearts.