Well, we are not living in a time of peace and prosperity. We were, but now things are changing. The situation between Turkey and the Tsar needs careful management. There are Sunni terrorists posing as refugees in the European heartland: and the cucks — Key, Obama, Trudeau and whoever is the current PM of Australia — want to repeat that mistake.

But we have teaching for this time. And there are two parts to this. The first is that Christ will come when we do not think we are in crisis. When all proclaim prosperity and peace.

Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him. Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

(1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 ESV)

And the second part of this teaching is that we need to be prepared. One of the things about peace and prosperity is that you tend to think that you can just get away with things. The children of the rich can afford to be stupid, because Daddy can buy lawyers to bail them out and subvert justice. The poor do not have these options.

Let those who are heading smoothly towards the pit be warned: their parties are the grease that leads to their destruction, and their ideology makes them blind. But we must be of Christ, and act like Christ, for this generation.

So they have a warning.