2021: a year in review
The peace of mind so many in the world enjoyed on 10 March 2020 has not returned, and will not return in that way again. On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the new COVID-19 a pandemic. What followed was a global and jarring bureaucratic reaction to the aerosol-transmission aspect of a hitherto unknown virus: stay-at-home orders, mask mandates, lockdowns of entire populations to quell the spread of the virus, whole industries being mothballed, and on-and-on. In mid-March 2020, we hoped to still do Easter-as-usual, but as the days turned into weeks, it was clear we would lose our 'normal' Easter, and when that day of days came and went with us still at home, I think everyone knew deep-down things were not getting 'back to normal'. It was at this time I realized my lifelong interest in Bible prophecy being reignited in late 2019 was well-timed. Without the perspective a genuine interest in end-times biblical prophecy has given me, my time since t