There's a word to this kind of prophetic writing that projects God's final success onto the end of time: it's called "apocalyptic".

We need to beware of the fallacy of the theory of uniformity. Uniformity presupposes that whatever happens today has always happened this way, and that we can anticipate the future in the light of the processes we see in the past. On the basis of uniformity it is said that the future will mirror the way things have always been. But the Bible is premised on something other than uniformity. The sovereign God of creation and salvation intervenes to disclose himself to the world.

"All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had. With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and much grace was upon them all. There were no needy persons among them.

Jesus directs our attention to the birds of the air. What do we see when we look at them? What do they live on? The food they eat every day. They never know what they will eat tomorrow. They live from day to day. Jesus told us to pray for our daily bread, the bread that we need day by day. We are not told to pray for what we need tomorrow, but only for today. The answer to anxiety when we feel poor is that we must live in the present, and not in fear of the future.