Thousands of glaciers will vanish each year in the coming decades, leaving only a small fraction standing by the end of the century unless global warming is curbed. But Planet Earth’s last 3 years were its hottest on record.

About 39% of Americans believe we are living in the End Times, according to Pew Research. That includes half of self-identified Christians and a quarter of the religiously unaffiliated, who agree “we are living in the End Times,”. There was a split among Christians, between those who don’t believe this is the End Times (49%) and those who do (47%). Among Christians; black Protestants (76%) and Evangelicals (63%) are most likely to believe these are the End Times.

Mainline Protestants (31%) and Catholics (27%) are less likely to believe these are the last days.

Psalm 68:11-12 describes a scene of divine victory where the Lord gives a command, and women proclaiming the good news are a great army, causing enemy kings to flee, while women at home divide the spoils of war, celebrating God’s triumph over His enemies and echoing Prophet Miriam’s song in Exodus.

The word Armageddon does not appear in the Hebrew Bible, and appears only once in the Greek New Testament, in Revelation 16:16 which makes no mention of armies being predicted to one day gather on or near Mount Megiddo; but instead seems to predict only that “they (will gather) the kings together to … Armageddon”.

The term “apocalypse” comes from the Greek word “apokalypsis,” meaning “revelation.” Although often associated today with the end of the world, apocalypses in ancient Jewish thought were a source of encouragement in times of hardship or persecution.

We know now know that oil, gas and coal are the kings of global warming. The book of Revelation text does seem to imply, based on the text from an earlier passage of Revelation 16:14, that the purpose of this gathering of kings in the “place called Armageddon” is “for the war of the great day of God Almighty” which is now seen as the ongoing battle against Global Warming. The Madhi himself may already have been born.

Yajuj and Majuj are mentioned both in Qur’an and hadith. In Islam their appearance will be one of the signs of the end times. These events will transpire after the arrival of Dajjal, Mahdi and Prophet Jesus. Gog and Magog (“Gog u-Magog” in Hebrew and “Yajuj and Majuj” in Arabic) are names that appear in the Hebrew Bible, and in the Qur’an.

They are sometimes personified as individuals, and sometimes identified as nations or as geographic regions: but all references in Bible, Qur’an and Hadith (oral and then written tradition) clearly indicate that they are very numerous in number, and will appear from the north toward the end of times, before the Day of Judgement:

“They said, “O Dhul-Qarnayn, indeed Gog and Magog are [great] corrupters in the land. So may we assign for you an expenditure that you might make a barrier between us and them?” (Qur’an 18:94) —[Dhul-Qarnayn] said, “This is a mercy from my Lord; but when the promise of my........

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