Where is the population explosion happening according to Les?
According to the teaching, the population explosion is occurring in the most poverty-stricken areas of the world, where poor people have children in poverty. Haiti is given as an example of abject poverty where families have nothing except children. This is presented as a sign of the end time.
Les explains that Luke 21:25 describes signs in the sun, moon, and stars and distress of nations with perplexity—meaning problems people have no answer to, and the world is full of it. He points to recent turmoil in areas such as Liberia or somewhere in Africa, Sri Lanka, and Yugoslavia, saying the whole world is in turmoil. He agrees with population pundits that the world is being inundated with people and that some of the most poverty-stricken areas are having a population explosion, with poor people having children in poverty and not knowing what to do. He cites Haiti, where there is abject poverty and people have nothing except kids, with more and more people piled upon people. This perplexity and lack of answers to dilemmas, he says, is a sign of the end time.