Some predictions and recommendations for 2014

Here are some links to predictions and recommendations for 2014 from a number of sources:

(1) Here is a summary of what 2014 may bring from one of my favorite websites, the GlobalEurope Anticipation Bulletin:

http://www.leap2020.eu/GEAB-N-80-is-available-Currencies-geopolitics-real-estate-finance-2014-the-big-American-retreat_a15224.html

(2) Here's how The Economist sees the world in 2014:

http://www.economist.com/theworldin/2014

(3) Here is the BlackRock report for individual investors "2014 Outlook - The List: What to Know, What to Do":

http://www2.blackrock.com/us/individual-investors/insight-education/special-reports/2014-outlook

(4) John Williams has just published the first installment of "Hyperinflation 2014—The End Game", a fully-updated hyperinflation report from Shadow Government Statistics [two additional installments will follow later in 2014]. He predicts that hyperinflation will start as early as this year. These latest reports are accessible to his subscribers only, but his site also has many free reports and recommendations:

http://www.shadowstats.com/

(5) Dr. Marc Faber, publisher of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, has three predictions for the upcoming year:

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/talking-numbers/dr-marc-faber-three-bold-predictions-2014-113455980.html

(6) Here is a hodgepodge of 2014 predictions from Forbes online magazine:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/advisor/2013/12/19/top-10-predictions-for-2014/

(7) Justin Bachman of BloombergBusinessWeek has "six extremely unlikely predictions for 2014":

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-12-30/six-extremely-unlikely-predictions-for-2014

(8) Bachman's essay mentioned author Isaac Asimov's predictions for 2014. Some are spot on. Here they are:

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/23/lifetimes/asi-v-fair.html

(9) Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Dr. Paul Craig Roberts believes that 2014 will bring more social collapse:

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/12/30/2014-will-bring-social-collapse-paul-craig-roberts/

(10) And if 2014 will be the end of the age, as some oracles seem to predict, here is what Christ Jesus had to say about our future in Matthew 24 KJV:

3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

16 Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains:

17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day:

21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

25 Behold, I have told you before.

26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

28 For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

The Israelis are putting in place everything that is needed to rebuild the Jewish Temple. And once their temple has been rebuilt and the daily sacrifices have been restarted, they will embark on their version of the Kingdom of G-d.

We may not see the end of the age in 2014, but I do not believe it can be that far off. I do expect that the tribulation of the Palestinians will continue, and that other nations also will continue to suffer so that Israel may thrive.

Of all these predictions, I personally hope that those of Christ Jesus are the ones which come to pass. His vision of things to come heralds the advent of the Kingdom of G-d, while the rest of these oracles merely lament the demise of the Kingdom of Mammon.

Whatever happens, be prepared. And remember:

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

Matthew 16:25 KJV