On Falling Mountains

We're in for it.

When Jesus was being crucified, and was walking down the road with Simon of Cyrene carrying his cross, a crowed was following him, along with women who were crying.
He said to them:
"Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. For the time will come when you will say, 'Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!' Then:
'They will say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us!''
For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?"
[Luke 23:28-31, quote from Hosea 10:8, NIV]

The women in Luke were crying because Jesus was about to be put to death.
They might have been followers of him, but then again they might not have been.
And notably, he was crucified by the religious leaders of the time; these were the people that the Jews revered. And here they are, the (puppet) government, killing our savior.

Jesus told them not to cry for him; rather to cry for themselves and their children.
Why?

Roman times were decent.
True, the romans took over every country they could dump a couple infantry units into. But the Romans knew [or maybe, had known] how to run a government.
With Roman times came roads, sanitation, cleanliness, order... more-or-less peace...
Times were pretty good.
And when the Roman empire fell, the Western world was thrown into darkness.
(cough, the dark ages, cough.)
Emphasis: the Western World. As in, Europe.

China? Japan? Baghdad?
All perfectly fine. Thriving, even.
While Europe was trying to remember how to wear shoes, the part of the world that wasn't ruled by the Roman Empire was just dandy.

Cut to: modern times.
We have: GPS, Fiber-Optics, cell phones, the internet, full government regulations on the electromagnetic spectrum...
Ask anyone and they'll tell you that "global economy" is a pretty big deal.
America's economy is fully and 100% dependent the likes of China, Japan, Taiwan, etc.

When a little chunk of Serbia breaks off and calls itself Kosovo, the news is instantaneous, and everyone's buzzing about it.
In Roman times, Japan wouldn't have had reason to care about that.

See, nothing can happen in today's world that wouldn't be world-wide.
If one super-power crumbles, the whole world will be set askew.
And all you have to do is take a peek at Revelation to realize what kind of skewing will be going on.

I'm sure that governments will be doing plenty of stuff that will cause people to weep. Incompetence galore. Craziness.

Just ask Luke- the women will be wishing that they never had children.
That time is coming soon... and we better be ready.