Among the prophecies spoken at the two gatherings, the prediction of the impending collapse of the Soviet Union was the first to unfold. Since then, the modern phase of the great shaking of the nations has certainly begun. It has extended to the natural world of creation in storm and tempest, famine and plague, earthquakes and tsunamis, droughts and disease.
Socially, the Western nations have been shaken through family breakdown and widespread social unrest. The shaking of the economy in 2008 that destroyed a number of seemingly impregnable financial houses plunged the world into financial crisis from which it is only slowly recovering today.
Beginning with the fall of the Twin Towers in New York in 2001, many acts of terrorism and violence have been loosed among the nations. In the Middle East the Arab Spring began a revolutionary movement that has kindled civil war in Syria and Iraq, and the current establishment of the Islamic State that threatens to engulf the whole region- and beyond -in violence.
Future Direction
What lies in the future? Is there any good news to lighten the sombre tidings that fill our TV news screens? We look to the many prophecies given 30 years ago that the great shaking would be the prelude to a harvest time for the kingdom: that God would actually use the shaking of the nations to prepare the way of the gospel. This is what we will be exploring in the future through Prophecy Today UK. This is why we believe God has urged us to begin publishing Prophecy Today online at this crucial time in world history.
Through the old printed magazine Prophecy Today we sought to publish the truth – that was our criterion. We cannot promise to publish nice popular platitudes, but we do promise to publish the truth. The truth is always good news even when it is warnings of danger: because the truth is the word of the Lord for our times. And God loves his people. His purposes are for our salvation, not for our destruction.
This is why we can look forward to the future with confidence knowing that nothing can separate us from the love of God. In the words of St Paul:
I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom 8:38-39)