Our world is changing before our eyes in frightening ways. What’s behind the bizarre things we are seeing, and what can we do about them?
A world becoming unrecognizable
Our world is rapidly becoming unrecognizable. It seems to be growing insane. Think back to just a few years ago and compare everyday life then to our world today. The differences are staggering. It seems the world has taken a U-turn into dark days and will never be the same again.
In the United States, the Covid epidemic saw churches and synagogues closed by government edict while strip clubs, liquor stores and marijuana shops were allowed to stay open. We now know that various government branches and health agencies conspired with mainstream media, major social media companies and big tech to censor news unfavorable to the government-approved narrative about Covid.
Millions of people were forced to be vaccinated or lose their jobs and livelihood. Citizens were encouraged to inform on neighbors who didn’t follow lockdown orders. In some cases protestors against such actions had their bank accounts frozen. Some banks blacklisted or dropped companies whose political views didn’t align with theirs. Jails and prisons were emptied, supposedly to prevent the spread of Covid. “Defund the police” movements grew, as did the number of prosecutors who refuse to prosecute criminals but will prosecute citizens who defend themselves and their loved ones.
And the transgender madness continued to explode. Men and teenage boys who claimed to be women began to dominate a number of women’s sports, while those who protested were denounced as bigoted and hateful. Hospitals, drug companies and doctors discovered big money can be made in mutilating the genitals of children and dosing them with harmful, life-altering chemicals.
In a supreme irony, on International Women’s Day the Biden administration honored a biological man with an International Woman of Courage Award at the White House in a clear promotion of the transgender agenda, which denies the biological reality of male and female genders.
The scene looked like some nightmarish vision straight out of the book of Revelation. A fiery structure appeared, clearly modeled after common depictions of the Tower of Babel. This was followed by a giant, hellish, smoke-shrouded beast in the form of a bull. With its red eyes glowing, the mechanical monster was first pulled with chains by what appeared to be dozens of enslaved women led by a man clad in what appeared to be Roman military armor.
Several young women then submissively approached the glowing beast, followed soon after by the formerly “enslaved” women and dozens more young men and women, who then bowed and prostrated themselves in a form of “worship” toward this beast. Flags of dozens of nations were then brought before the beast and set up before it. A spotlit woman emerged and symbolically “rode” the beast; then most of those who had bowed before the beast approached the Tower of Babel structure and entered it as it grew in height.
Other apocalyptic imagery was worked into the bizarre scene, along with seemingly supernatural “signs and wonders” (see 2 Thessalonians 2:9).
The setting, strangely enough, was last summer’s opening ceremony of the international Commonwealth Games (for nations in the Commonwealth of Nations) in Birmingham, England. Many millions of people, represented by the 72 nations and territories participating, were watching.
The Beast, Babylon and Bible prophecy
Readers of the book of Revelation may instantly recognize some key symbolism: “So [the angel] carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy . . . And on her forehead a name was written: Mystery, babylon the great, the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth. I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement” (Revelation 17:3-6).
And: “. . . They worshiped the beast, saying, ‘Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?’ And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies . . . Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God . . . 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. 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” (Revelation 13:4-8).
Babylon is also repeatedly mentioned in the book of Revelation. Notice: “And another angel followed, saying, ‘Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication’” (Revelation 14:8).
“And [the angel] cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, ‘Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird! For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.’
“And I heard another voice from heaven saying, ‘Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities’” (Revelation 18:2-5; see also 16:19; 18:1-2, 10, 21; 19:1).
What in the world is this all about? There’s much more.