One world coming

Mankind has longed to return to the tower of Babel, unified under one system of everything, one world, government, economy. No single factor has achieved as much to that end as Covid-19. The virus exposes social and economic weaknesses. The aroma of nationalism’s death is in the air. Ever heard anything sweeter, from a one-world perspective than “we’re all in this together?” The ages-long dream seems near.

The Bible has a different message. Various New Testament passages detail characteristics of the times right before, and at, the reappearance of Jesus. In Matthew 24:7, Christ lists some that are global in scope, somewhat concurrent, overwhelmingly in force, and disturbingly familiar: Kingdom (political) against kingdom nation (ethnicity) against nation, famines, pestilences… Sound contemporary? “These things have always been, this is just religious doomsday bunk.” Not so.

These are unique; never before so global, intense, and irreversible. Matthew 24:21 says that following these particular events is “…great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” The world accepting and participating in a unifying totalitarian regime fulfills Bible prophecies and heralds not the Age of Aquarius and a new Babel but rather the devastating return of Jesus (2 Thessalonians 1:7, 8).

Have COVID-19 and the 2020 ethnic-based riots urged you to a new direction? Make it receiving Jesus as Savior.

Rod Foss

Spokane