Apocalyptic Prophecy and Wealth Distribution
In this money-controlled world, we can easily see how much and where wealth is exchanged and generated by focusing on major security exchanges in the world.
Specifically, as of October 2013, the total of the market value in all the stock exchanges in the world reached $63 trillion.
Indeed, those who live on $1.25 per day accounted for 22% of the global population in 2008. It corresponded to one billion 290 million, but the number of the poor in the world was one billion 940 million in 1981. In 1981, a half of population in developing countries was poor.
This must be the reason why mankind can still survive on the earth. Wealth has been distributed into more wider regions. But detailed data tells that most of those who have escaped poverty are Chinese.
In this context, the US and China are the two most responsible nations in terms of responsibility of one who occupies a majority of wealth in the world, at least financial assets, and another who has been rising out of poverty.
As for Japan, it is also responsible, since it has been the key nation to economic development of China. China has succeeded in development of its industries by importing and introducing technologies and funds from Japan legally and illegally. It is apparent that without help from Japan in these decades China could not achieve that scale of economic success.
The US is the most Christian nation among the three at issue. Its failure means also a failure of Christianity. China is a country whose society was unified through adoption of the communist ideology and socialist systems that were both first formulated in Europe. Chinese failure will mean that of those European-born philosophies. In contrast, Japan has balanced itself on traditional Japanese spiritualism and American-style democracy introduced after WWII.
However, it is impossible for only one strong nation or one block of nations survives in the 21st century. The globalization economy has made all the nations share the same fate. We have to take into consideration the global economy and politics from one level above that where we are used to observing the world so far.
The apocalyptic prophecy is concerned with the whole world.
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Luk 4:10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:
Luk 4:11 And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Luk 4:12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.