May 15, 2025

Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, Novelist and Life Coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Thursday, May 15, 2025, and this is episode #5 in Series 2025. This episode is titled, “Where Is Humanity Headed?”

Where IS humanity headed? Do you know? Do you wish you knew? Are you afraid, or doesn’t it faze you?

Well, if you’re like most people, you are concerned about what’s going on in the world around us. As the saying goes, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that the world is on the brink of destruction, and all of it, sadly, is self-imposed.

So, where exactly is the world headed? While most people are frantically trying to figure it out or have completely tuned it out, there are answers to this very legitimate question. And those answers are found in a place where most people refuse to venture. That place is within the pages of the Holy Bible.

If you had a negative, visceral reaction to what I just said, you need to hear what I’m about to say because it could literally save your life. This is no time for playing games, my friend, and if you truly care about your future, then you will choose to listen closely to the rest of this podcast.

The Bible is a book replete with predictions about the future. Most of them have already come true—exactly as predicted. Some are currently in the process of coming true—exactly as predicted. And a few still remain to come true and will occur exactly as predicted.

Let’s take a look at some of these prophecies and compare them with what’s happening in the news today.

Number 1: 2 Peter 3 NIV – ” . . . in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, ‘Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.’”

Wherever I turn these days, I find mockers of Christ’s promise to return. While I hope not, perhaps you are one of them. If so, I would warn you to stop your mocking. If you don’t, you will one day deeply regret it. No one can call God a liar and get away with it. So stop calling Him a liar. Just because His promise to return hasn’t yet come to pass does not mean that it won’t.

Number 2: Matthew 24: 7 NIV . . . “There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.“

Well, you might say, “Dr. MaryAnn, there have always been famines and earthquakes,” and you would be right. But we can’t deny that there are more earthquakes today than ever before, and in places where we never used to hear of earthquakes. I have spent most of my life in New Jersey, and for the first 65 years of my life, I don’t recall ever experiencing an earthquake. In the last decade, however, New Jersey has had three earthquakes measuring over 4.0. This is highly unusual for my area. The same can be said of places like upstate New York, Indiana, and Ohio. Those states are not known for earthquake activity.

Consider also the Phlegrean Fields outside of Naples, Italy, a supervolcano now on the verge of a catastrophic eruption. Or Yellowstone National Park, also on the brink of a disastrous eruption. These are developments in the earth that are direct fulfillments of Bible prophecy.

Number 3: 1 Thessalonians 5: 3 NIV – “While people are saying, ‘Peace and safety,’ destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.”

Interestingly, if you go to the website of the United Nations, you will find the phrase “peace and safety” or “peace and security” written in multiple places. Just out of curiosity, I did a search on how many times the phrase “peace and security” occurs on the UN website as of the recording of this podcast, and the results listed 8012 times!

But not only do we see thie phrase “peace and security” on the UN website, we also hear it continually in the news or read it repeatedly in online articles, in magazines, and in newspapers. It is virtually on the lips of every commentator, newscaster, and political communicator. Just as the Bible predicted.

But what is of special concern about this Bible prediction is what will happen while people are continually saying, “Peace and safety.” Listen again to what the Bible predicts in 1 Thessalonians 5: 3: “While people are saying, ‘Peace and safety,’ destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.”

Did you get that? Destruction will come suddenly. That means without warning. While people are going about their daily lives, destruction will suddenly come. No one will be expecting it.

Mark my words, dear friend, destruction is coming swiftly upon the earth, and you don’t want to be here when it does.

What kind of destruction? I’ll get to that at the end of this podcast. You will want to listen to the end to find out.

Number 4: Now, let’s go to another Bible prediction that is coming true. It is found in 2 Thessalonians 2 and talks about the lawlessness or rebellion that will be prevalent in the last days. We have already seen this in the bloody riots that have occurred on the streets of our major cities, in the widespread looting of businesses, in the escalation in crimes against our citizens, and in the acceptance of evil as good and good as evil. Hear what the Bible says about these rebellious, lawless people:

2 Thessalonians 2: 10-11 NIV: “They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.“

Have you ever wondered why the world has gone crazy? Well, we just read the reason. These rebellious people have believed the lie of Satan and have delighted in their wickedness. As a result, God has turned them over to delusion, to a reprobate mind, so that they can no longer think straight. They have lost the ability to reason logically.

A case in point: People who don’t know the difference between a man and a woman are deluded. People who think that there are many genders are deluded. Bottomline, these people have made themselves their own god, resulting in the loss of their ability to reason logically. How many times have you heard someone say lately that the world has gone insane? That is a very apt word to describe the condition of our culture today.

Number 5: Acts 4: 12 – “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

There is a move that has gained widespread acceptance and that states that there are many ways to Heaven. Even the late Pope Francis was a proponent of this false teaching. The Bible makes very clear that there is only one way to be saved, and that way is through the Name of Jesus Christ.

Jesus Himself spoke these words found in John 14: 6: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” So, anyone who teaches that there are many ways to be saved is a liar and a heretic. To heed that person or persons is to court eternal damnation of your very soul.

Yet, millions are embracing this heresy, this lie of Satan, designed to draw men into Hell. Are you one of them? If so, I warn you, friend, to reconsider your position.

Number 6: 2 Thessalonians 2: 3 NKJV – “Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first,”

What is the falling away? It is the great apostasy, the widespread move of the Church away from the sound doctrines of the Bible, including sin, salvation, and judgment. These central tenets of Christianity are being replaced by what the Bible calls “doctrines of demons.” We read this in 1 Timothy 4: 1 – “Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some will turn away from the true faith; they will follow deceptive spirits and teachings that come from demons.”

Number 7: Zechariah 12: 1-3 – ““I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.”

The entire world today is focused on Jerusalem and a two-state solution for Israel. Such a solution is blatantly against the Word of God. He Himself said that if we divide His land, He will divide ours. A sobering warning!

Hatred against Israel, the Jews, and now even Christians has reached alarming proportions. All of this was predicted in the Bible.

I could continue with many more Bible prophecies that are being fulfilled today before our very eyes. But I want to end this podcast by explaining what I hinted at in the beginning. The prophecies I listed have far greater implication than simply political, geographic, or social. During the seven-year tribulation, there will be horrors upon this earth that the world has never witnessed before. You do not want to be here, because much of the world population will be decimated and destroyed.

Yet these prophecies I have shared—and many more I haven’t shared—have eternal implications for every you personally, and you would do well to take them seriously.

For you see, my friend, Bible prophecies are not meant to scare us but to prepare us. To prepare us for what? To prepare us for the return of Jesus Christ to the earth.

Now, before you start mocking, hear me out if you truly care about your eternal destiny. You see, whether you believe it or not, you will continue to exist after you die. And you will exist in one of two places, Heaven or Hell.

Just because you may not believe in Hell doesn’t mean Hell is not a real place. For you see, my friend, you and I are not the arbiter of whether or not something is true. God is. You and I do not determine what is true or not true. God does.

Jesus says in the Bible, in John 3: 3, that unless a person is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. This means that unless you are born again, you will go to Hell when you die.

What does it mean to be born again? It means to admit you are a sinner and to ask Jesus to save you from your sin. Have you done that? Have you been born again?

If not, you can be born again right now. And I urge you—I even implore you—to make that choice. Just pray this simple prayer with me now:

Lord Jesus, I admit that I am a sinner in need of a Savior. I cannot save myself. I repent of my sin. I believe that You are the Son of God Who died for me and Who rose from the dead. I invite you now into my life to be my Savior and Lord. Make of me what You created me to be. In Your Name. I pray. Amen.

If you sincerely prayed this prayer from your heart, you are now a born-again child of God. Write to me at drmaryannn@maryanndiorio.com, and I will send you a free PDF e-booklet titled After You’re Born Again.

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Until next time, remember that God loves you just as you are and just where you are, and that He will help you to keep on winning with the Word.

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Source Cited: “Top 10 Bible Prophecies that are Coming True Right Now!”
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