Reset

The Bible promises that the world will endure difficult times.  And, 2nd Thessalonians 2 points to a "lawless" person, who is referred to as the Antichrist, who will reign on the earth.  We can see these 
verses:
7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.
9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

John writes in the book of 1st John about the "spirit of the antichrist" which is at work in our world today.  The prophesied coming of this lawless leader reminds us of the urgency of the hour.  The signs that Jesus outlined about the end times - with wars and rumors of wars, natural disasters, and widespread conflict - are unfolding in our world, and we have to keep focused on our mission to live for Christ and speak His truth.

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In Revelation 13, we read about a global leader, known as the Antichrist, who will establish his 
authority over the entire world. We can read:
7 It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation.
8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

And, we see another "beast" arise who is essentially the "enforcer" for the Antichrist - later in the 
chapter, we see these verses:
16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,
17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.

Economic leaders are scheduled to meet in January in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum, and the Christian website, Sovereign Nations, has a piece that warns of the COVID-influenced agenda that could be discussed there, centered around the launch of "The Great Reset."

We've already seen how COVID has been used to clamp down on freedom of religion in states across our nation.  And, there have certainly been lessons that have been and will be learned with regard to this virus that was largely unknown less than a year ago.  COVID has brought economic peril, and it has apparently yielded an opportunity through which movers and shakers can capitalize in order to implement counterproductive social policies.

The article to which I referred, which is a repost by Desmond Berg of a Sky News story, opens with this line:

Sky News host Rowan Dean says the next World Economic Forum in Davos has morphed from a “jet-setter climate gabfest” into a sinister “anti-democratic enterprise designed to destroy your job, steal your prosperity and rob your kids of a future”.

The article goes on to say, "Mr Dean highlighted what he described as a 'disturbing trend among many of the world’s left-wing elites to increasingly conflate COVID-19 with climate change...Many are going so far as to suggest that all the measures applied to the coronavirus, the lockdowns, the destruction of businesses, the suppression of dissent, curfews, strong-arm police tactics, should become the ‘new normal’ for dealing with climate change."

Dean reports, regarding the advertising for the Forum: “This promo is saying that all the very worst things in the world, from the coronavirus to bushfires to riots to pollution to poverty are somehow linked," and adds, “Then it is claiming they can magically disappear. Literally at the push of a button and just like that, everything in the world is made right and pure again."

Justin Haskins of the Heartland Institute, a Regent University graduate and professing Christian, according to the Regent website, writes:

The purpose of the “Great Reset” is to use the coronavirus pandemic as a justification—attendees repeatedly referred to it as an “opportunity”—to completely overhaul the entire global economy, including the U.S. economy, to make a more “equitable” world and to fight climate change, which was on numerous occasions identified as the world’s next great “crisis.”

In an article published on the World Economic Forum’s website, WEF founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab said “the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions.”

Haskins also writes:

In short, the Great Reset is a proposal to completely alter the entire global economy, moving it more toward collectivism and away from capitalism. According to its most ardent supporters, the purpose for the “Great Reset” is three-fold: (1) repairing the global economic damage caused by the coronavirus; (2) stopping a coming climate change catastrophe; and (3) using the two previously mentioned “crises” as an opportunity to advance socialist ideals, including the destruction of capitalism and individual rights.

Prophecy teachers J.D. Farag and Tom Hughes have devoted some podcast time to this concept, and when you consider the implications, this desire to see the world become one fits into the Biblical scenario.

The Bible teaches that in the end times, the world will come together under one government. The head of that government will be a character named the Antichrist.  He is hostile toward the true Christ and establishes his own religion.  World economic systems all come together into one, and the economy is predicated on the Mark of the Beast, without which commerce cannot take place; the person without the Mark cannot buy and sell.  National sovereignty will be surrendered to the global authority. It sounds a bit like the Tower of Babel, and we know how that turned out.

One could ask the question: So, where is religion in this "equitable" world?  The World Economic Forum website has a clue: "The COVID-19 Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs will help faith-based organizations and social entrepreneurs enact radical change and rebuild a better future." The mantra: "We must build the world we want out of this disruption, so that markets work for the whole of society, not just a few. For what is the purpose of a free market if the people who make it possible are not themselves free? How we earn, how we spend and how we sustain the world and each other need a radical rebalancing."  Can you say socialism?  The practice of Christianity replaced by the "religion" of humanism?

Tear it all down - that's the language of the streets of our nation, and found in the more sophisticated boardrooms of those driving global change.  The Judeo-Christian foundation is at risk, and there are those who, in the name of saving our planet and saving humanity, are willing to build on new and "radical" foundations, based on human ingenuity rather than Biblical wisdom.  

In the future, there will be a one-world government. There will be a dominating world leader. And, following a seven-year period of tribulation, the second coming of Christ and His thousand-year reign, there will be a "great reset." You find it in Revelation 21:
1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.
2 Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.

The world is going global and rushing headlong into oblivion; but we know from God's Word that His plan is at work.