This article was originally written in 2022 but some elements have been updated to reflect more recent events.
I don’t think anyone can look at the headlines, see the events going on around them and reflect on their own personal experiences in the last few years, and not come to the conclusion that something is wrong with this world — and indeed something is very wrong. But what if I told you that this was all predicted? That through the Bible God foretold exactly what our day would look like.
We’re going to look at world events through the lense of Bible prophecy and explore seven reasons why I absolutely believe that we are in the season of the end.
Reason No. 1
The Rapidly Increasing Depravity of Society
The Bible teaches that in the last days people will be extremely wicked. Apostle Paul, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, wrote to Timothy to inform him, and us, about the condition of people’s hearts in these last days. I’d say that hard times have indeed come, not just physically for many in the world, but even more so, morally.
Paul wrote:
Paul’s description of humanity in the last days is spot on to what we’re witnessing today. The following are some more recent examples of the continued depravity of our culture. One only needs to follow the news for a week or so to see our just how morally corrupt our world has become.
Demeaning & Brutal
Look at the legislation that governments are implementing, especially in the United States. Bills like the ones signed in Colorado, California, Michigan and other states, that allow for abortions up to the day of birth. Many have been flooding state capitals, including members of Congress, to protest for abortion, people who literally want to make laws that guarantee that people can murder babies. Corporations like Amazon, Salesforce, Yelp, among others are even offering to pay for the costs of abortion for their employees. Apart from that, we have criminal justice departments reducing or eliminating sentences for violent criminals, allowing them to go back out on the streets and commit more violent crimes with little punishment for their lawlessness.
Liars & Lovers of Money
Government officials and mainstream media outlets are regularly caught lying, not just about small personal things, but about large, world-affecting issues. Issues and events that impact millions and billions of people, such as issues that pertain to medical treatments, racial tensions, election activity and the financial investments and business dealings of elected leaders. Sadly, you can’t trust the people who are leading your country or bringing you the news. Money is being funneled everywhere from lobbyist groups and globalist billionaires in order to sway opinions and legislation. Everything you read or watch must be researched by you to see if it’s truth. Satan, who is the father of lies is pulling the strings of these people and pushing out deception after deception, lie after lie. It would seem that most of these people are looking to only help themselves and are willing to negatively effect the lives of others in order to make personal gain.
Lovers of Self & Disobedient
Narcissism is reaching pandemic-like levels around the world, spreading like wildfire through social media sites. Many people will do anything as long as it feels good to them, helps them become famous or gains them wealth. So many are starving for acceptance in their life, whether it be affirmation of their lifestyle or feeling wanted by others. Rather than seeking Jesus, they take nude selfies for everyone to see or try to normalize what isn’t normal. Children are being influenced like never before by what they see on the internet, as well as from other entertainment. Children have become increasingly disrespectful to their parents and the entertainment that is geared toward them has been teaching them that disrespect; and this has been going on for the last 20-25 years. The enemy knows that the key to moving people away from Jesus is to indoctrinate the youth of each generation until society is godless and morally corrupt.
Without Love For What Is Good
Disney, the most well-known name in children’s entertainment, in recent years has become a vocal voice for sexual aberrant lifestyles, going so far as to cast well-known characters with people who promote or live these lifestyles. Pushing topics and themes what should never be pushed to children.
In past years Target went full-steam ahead, selling LGBTQ clothing for children, including transgender clothing items like chest binders, packing underwear and transgender affirming shirts. A trend that many retailers have jump onboard with each June.
Back in 2022, Taco Bell hosted a drag-queen brunch tour at some of their locations. Corporations like these now focus on the sexual grooming of children and the indoctrination of these young minds into sexual perversion, homosexuality and transgenderism.
The most popular website on the internet, Youtube, demonetizes or censors conservative and Christian content on a regular basis but openly allows and promotes LGBT focused videos to children. In 2022, CBN News reported that there had been a 4,000%, you read that correctly, four-thousand percent increase in children identifying as transgender. This is a result of the indoctrination campaign against our children from the education system to corporate and media influence. Our world is resembling Sodom and Gomorrah more and more, like in the days of Lot, and there are no signs of it stopping.
Unholy & Proud
Glamour released an interview in Spring 2022 with celebrity Megan Fox, who proudly discussed her ritual blood-drinking with her fiancé Machine Gun Kelly. There is nothing normal about this behavior and frankly it’s satanic; akin to the human sacrifice rituals of ancient pagan cultures. This satanic behavior has been going on behind the scenes with more and more participants feeling emboldened to share their pagan religion in the mainstream as our culture continues to deteriorate. Celebrities like Fox aid in this societal destruction by using their platforms, along with media companies like Glamour, to peddle this godless content to young adults and teens, who often emulate them. And it’s not limited to movie stars either; musicians, social influencers, athletes and even politicians are openly and proudly displaying and promoting their immoral behavior on the public scene more and more each day.
Lawlessness Increasing
Each generation has fallen deeper and deeper into depravity while falling further and further away from Jesus. USA Today reported that there was an average of 100 gun-related deaths per day in 2020. Between abortion, assisted suicide and violent crimes, it’s easy to see that many no longer love their fellow humans. One only needs to read the Old Testament to see a similar moral decline with ancient Israel and Judah as they moved further and further away from God. Though this world’s lawlessness and depravity will not reach its pinnacle until the last seven years of human history, known as the Tribulation period. Jesus teaches that the lawlessness of mankind will multiply, causing many to lack any kind of love for their fellow humans (
Reason No. 2
The Wars, Rumors of Wars, Pestilences & Severe Weather Events
While answering the disciple’s questions about the signs of the end, Jesus explains that wars, rumors of wars, pestilence, earthquakes, etcetera, will be signs of His second coming. It’s true that we’ve had many wars, many natural disasters, many pestilences, and the like. But understand that Jesus is ultimately teaching that the signs will be in how frequent and intense these things become in the Tribulation period. We know that events like these don’t happen overnight and verse 8 is key to understanding that these events will increase and intensify over time, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman.
Even more specifically, Jesus teaches that nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. This phrasing is a Hebrew idiom that refers to war involving an entire area, in this case the world. I believe that Jesus was speaking of a major world war that will break out as the 7-year Tribulation period is beginning. The red horse of Revelation 6, which symbolizes war, points to the very fact that there will be great war in the future. At that time, the Bible teaches that one-fourth of the earth’s population will die as a result of the events listed at the beginning for Revelation 6.
Some teach that WWI and WWII were partial fulfillments of Jesus prophetic teaching. Whether that is the case or not, I don’t know. But what is clear is that the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have seen very little peace in the world, along with increasing disasters, and a reborn Israel (
The world is in a very critical state of unrest. China and Russia have teamed up and are helping Iran. Iran wants to wipe Israel off of the map and is attacking them through their terrorist proxies in Lebanon and Syria. This has only ramped up significantly since the October 7, 2023 terror attack on Israel. The war in Ukraine is essentially hot, in regards of NATO versus Russia, with classified documents showing US and UK troops have been on the ground in Ukraine in some capacity. China is becoming more and more bold about its plans to attack Taiwan. World War III is quite literally at the doorstep, unless something major changes and fast.
Reason No. 3
Jerusalem Is Becoming A Heavy Stone
Written some 2,500 years ago, the book of Zechariah, chapter 12, tells of a time when the nations would be drunk over Jerusalem and that there would be a time coming when some of those nations will attempt to overtake it, but will not succeed (
Since Israel’s victory to seize control of Jerusalem in 1967, there has been a greater and greater drunkenness over the holy city, especially by Muslim nations. Today there is great focus on Jerusalem, which is the most contested piece of land in the world. It’s kind of funny, given that Israel was desolate for centuries after the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and killed and exiled the Jews. But the Bible always taught that the Jews would come back to their land one day, and that is happening right this very moment.
Many nations, along with the United Nations have been trying to “help” establish peace in the region by drafting treaties that would split the city between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. In May 2024, the UN held a vote to establish a Palestinian nation, even though Israel was fighting a war against the recognized government of the Palestinians, Hamas. Who unprovoked, attacked civilians in Israel on October 7, 2023, murdering over 1,400 men, women and children that day.
God warns every nation who desires to split the land He gave the Israelites (
In Spring 2024, groups of Jew-haters took over college campuses across the United States to protest Israel’s defense against the atrocities that Hamas committed on October 7, 2023. Not only have they protested but have mistreated, called for and provoked violence against Jewish students and professors. Antisemitism in the world is reaching levels not seen since World War II, creating a dangerous climate for the Jewish people all over the world, which is driving more and more of them to move to their promised land.
It’s apparent that what God told Zechariah 2,500 years ago is being fulfilled right this very moment, with the conclusion of the events spoken about in Zechariah 12 set to take place some time in the future, possibly not too distant future.
It can be said that the prophetic clock is made up of an hour hand that is based on Israel, a minute hand that is based on Jerusalem and a second hand that is based on the Template Mount. During Passover 2023, tensions boiled over yet again, and Muslims attacked Israel police by throwing just about everything they could at them from their mosque on the Temple Mount. There have been rocket attacks from multiple locations and Iranian drones coming into Israel. This area is highly contested and flairs up at times, but one day it will completely boil over as God has told us in Zechariah 12 and we seem to be getting very close.
Reason No. 4
The Coming Together of the Ezekiel 38 Nations
The prophet Ezekiel was given a prophecy pertaining to Israel in the last days, one that has yet to come to pass at the time of the writing of this article. It can be found in the pages of chapters 38 and 39. Chapter 38 lists several nations, by their ancient names, who will form an alliance, led by a leader, “Gog”, which means chief or commander, who presumably comes from modern-day Russia or Turkey. As this prophecy states that they will be from the “remotest parts of the north”. With the Bible, directions are always based on the location of Israel. This alliance will come against Israel for the purpose of seizing spoil, but God will turn their armies on each other and they will destroy themselves.
What’s significant about this now, is that we can gain a pretty solid understanding of who these nations are today. And those nations have become increasingly friendly toward each other as well as have formed some alliances. Never in history have these nations been so close, in fact some of them have fought against each other for periods of time.
The significance reveals itself once you understand who these nations are in the modern day. We can learn by mostly studying Genesis 10 and some history of that area. Below are the nations listed in this prophecy and what they’re called today. Some of them are very clear, while others are debated to some extent, but the overall picture is very clear.
- Gomer (son of Japheth) is part of Turkey
- Persia (descended from Shem through son Elam) is called Iran today
- Cush (son of Ham) is the region of Africa where Sudan and Ethiopia are located
- Put (son of Ham) is the region of northern Africa where Libya and Algeria are
- Rosh (son of Benjamin, descendant of Shem) Rosh was a man listed in the Bible, now I’m not sure if that means anything as it pertains to this prophecy. Some will hold to Rosh being representative of modern-day Russia for various reasons, while others will say that Rosh is being used in adjective form, which means “head of”
- Magog (son of Japheth) means “Land of Gog”. Could be southern Russia and maybe some Stan countries, such as Kazakhstan. Josephus theorized that this was the area of the Scythians (Ashkenaz) who were a horse riding tribe, who is said to have lived in Turkey, Southern Russia, Armenia, Ukraine & Crimea. Further back, Herodotus identified them as nomadic people who dwelt near the north shore of the Black Sea, with artifacts found in the areas of Southern Russia, Ukraine and Crimea. Even further back, royal Assyrian records attribute the Magog people to the kingdom of Lydia (Turkey)
- Meshech (son of Japheth) likely Turkey
- Tubal (son of Japheth) likely Turkey
- Beth-Togarmah (son of Gomer) likely Eastern Turkey & Armenia
It is my belief that this coalition of nations will be headed by the leader of Russia at the time, with Turkey and Iran as the big allies followed by the smaller nations as support. What’s obvious is that all these nations but Russia are predominantly Muslim at this time and the Muslim’s absolutely despise the Jews and the state of Israel, constantly calling for the destruction of the Jewish state and the Jewish people.
Never before have all of these nations been allied and pushing toward common goals. Though not best friends, Russia, Turkey and Iran have certainly formed an alliance in the last several years and have been helping each other toward shared goals in the Middle East region. Russia currently has a large presence in Libya and a newly formed agreement with Sudan for a Russian naval base on its coast. I can’t imagine this alliance will sit stale for decades or centuries before turning into the force that will come against Israel, all signs point to this happening sooner rather than later.
Reason No. 5
Tribulation Events Are Casting Their Shadows
Right now, there is a push for the globalization of the world’s economies and eventually global governance, being pushed by groups like the United Nations, through their Agenda 2030 and the World Economic Forum, through their Great Reset. The globalist-minded power players of the world have used Covid-19 as a catalyst to reset the world order for more globalization. They’ve stated openly that one of their goals is to reset the world order so that there are no longer any super powers. And rather than raise the standard of all nations to that of the USA, their goal is to reduce the USA down to the same level as the other nations. This is made obvious by the stirring of social unrest, the unmitigated illegal immigration, the trillions of dollars being printed and spent since Covid-19 began and the socialist agenda being pushed at the highest levels of government, down to the lowest levels of education.
This leveling out of the world’s nations is starting to resemble the predictions of
Another goal of theirs is to usher in a digital currency that can be fully tracked. China, India, Russia and the United States, among others, have started to roll out or are working quickly to roll out digital currencies. The ultimate goal is to centralize this on a worldwide level. The significance of this is immense. Never before in human history have we had a true method to track all of the buying and selling of every single person in the world economy. There has already been talk of being able to use such a system to limit a person’s carbon-footprint, to prevent unhealthy people from buying too much junk food and to limit those who drive too much from buying gas. We can look at China’s social credit system as a preview of what these world leaders are wanting. These systems, along with this mindset of control will ultimately lead into the beast system of the final Antichrist, just as Revelation 13 predicts.
July 2023 marked the launch of FedNow in the United States. A money transfer system that anyone can use to send people money. This gives the government much greater insights into the details of those transactions. I believe that this is quite likely the first public step toward Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in the United States. It’s very possible that the digital dollar could hit in the next few years, time will tell. Everything appears to be getting setup for such a system, one that I believe will be the start of the Beast system of Revelation 13.
The next Tribulation shadow is in the form of the current global food shortages that are rumored to turn into a major global food crisis anytime now. China has been hoarding food for a while now and owns a vast amount of many of the world’s staple grains. Covid-19 impacted the economies of the world in a way not really seen on a worldwide scale before. Food production was greatly impacted, which has not fully rebounded, and the droughts, extreme weather patterns and wars have threatened food cost and security for much of the world’s population.
As a result, Western nations are seeing the cost of food continue to rise, some 30% or more since 2022, with poorer nations are suffering worsening famine. On top of this, there were reports of around two-dozen or more food processing plants in the United States, in 2022 and 2023, suffering damage or complete destruction from fires and two from plane crashes. It’s very odd to have so many similar facilities suffering these things in such a short span of time. Food stability and costs are and will continue to be something to watch.
Famines have happened all throughout history, however nothing quite like this has formed on a worldwide level, with maybe the closest situation being the food rationing of World War II. And dare I even say that some of this seems to be orchestrated by someone. Recently, Rockefeller Foundation's SVP of Food Initiative, Roy Steiner said: “the world is spending far too much on foods that are bad for people and bad for the planet.” Comments like this from leadership in organizations like the Rockefeller Foundation certainly raise red flags. I’m not saying this is the coming famine predicted in Revelation 6, but if not, it’s at the very least a shadow of what is to come according to this passage:
This prophecy tells us that there will be a great food crisis in the future, during the Tribulation. One that will affect the whole world and will cause people to spend a full days wage just for a quart of wheat or three quarts of barley. It tells us that the wealthy, represented by the oil and wine, will not suffer greatly like the rest of humanity. The globalist elites are attempting to reset this world so that they control everything and have all the money, while the rest of us will be equally poor, owning nothing and given only what they think we need. Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was quoted saying, ”control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.”
The first four seals of Revelation 6, all seem to be casting their shadow on this world. While these seals are opened by Jesus and are very much part of God’s wrath, I believe that God uses man’s wickedness to allow for the atrocities of these four seals to take place. All four of these things are very much man-made problems and our world is hurling quickly toward this time of culmination.
Reason No. 6
A Growing Hunger For A World Leader
With all the crises in the world going on, there have been more and more calls for the world to come together under unified leadership. One such idea is a unified pandemic response headed by the World Health Organization, that would supersede national guidelines. Europe is home to many of the world leaders and influencers who are also globalists and support such things, such as Emmanuel Macron, Klaus Schwab and António Guterres, to name a few. What’s significant is the Bible seems to teach that the final Antichrist will come from a revived Roman Empire. Former Belgian prime minister and primary architect of the European Union, Paul-Henri Spaak said:
“We do not want another committee, we have too many already. What we want is a man of sufficient stature to hold the allegiance of all people, and to lift us out of the economic morass into which we are sinking. Send us such a man, and be he god or devil, we will receive him.”
The passage above indicates that the final kingdom or empire, will be an eighth kingdom, but will belong to one of the seven other Revelation-listed empires, which is this coming globalist new world order. The seven listed empires in Revelation 17 are based upon the time of writing, about AD 95:
The five fallen: Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Grecian
The one that is (as of John’s day): Roman
The one yet to come: New World Order / Globalist Government (ten kings / ten horns, Daniel 2 feet of iron and fired clay)
The final Antichrist’s kingdom will last only 3.5 years and will be a result of him taking control of the new world order / globalist government that the “ten kings” will have setup prior. Perhaps this is the result of the UN’s Agenda 2030 and the World Economic Forum’s Global Reset, only time will tell.
Daniel gave more detail regarding the final Antichrist. He wrote that the Antichrist will be of the same people group as those who would go on to destroy the second temple and Jerusalem, which were the Romans in AD 70 and AD 135. From this passage we can deduce that the final Antichrist will most likely be from Europe.
The Roman empire is the only empire of the Bible, that did not fall at the hands of a conquerer, but imploded from within, due to immense moral corruption, yet its cultural influence (much of it from the previous Grecian empire) has persisted throughout the West and much of the world to this day. This only makes it more likely that it will be revived in some sense by way of a European-led new world order and the rise of the Antichrist from the region. With the United State’s debacle in Afghanistan, Europe has become more important to the Middle East. Positioning Europe to become a more dominate political force on the world scene. Pair this with a desire among the leaders of the EU who are pushing for tighter military cooperation to build toward an EU-controlled military.
Then, mix all of this in with the globalist organizations like the World Economic Forum, who has graduated world leaders, government officials, entertainers and executives from their Young Global Leaders program. Many, many people who now hold important positions of influence or legislation in governments and corporations around the world. Such people include French president Emmanuel Macron; former New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Arden; Finnish Prime Minister, Sanna Marin; actor, Leonardo Di Caprio, Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg; and many others. Klaus Schwab, head of the World Economic Forum, was recorded on video bragging about all of the Young Global Leader graduates he has inside of governments like France, Argentina and Canada.
This world like never before is being positioned to not only setup a global government by means of total infiltration into both the public and private sectors, but it also seems that many people around the world are poised to accept such a thing. Fear is the tool being used by these leaders to scare people into complying; “the earth will be destroyed by climate change if we don’t act”, “you’re going to die if you don’t take this shot”, and so on. Just look at how fear and media manipulation was used to make so many comply with the orders of government and World Health Organization appointed “experts” during Covid, even when the scientific data was not settled. It’s obvious now, that all it will take are some more major disasters and a “man with a plan” to get billions to worship this man and accept the coming Mark of the Beast.
Reason No. 7
All of the Technology Is Here
This brings me to my final reason, the technology. We have all the technology needed to track all buying and selling, once a digital currency system is in place. I believe that this system could likely use blockchain for record keeping. Furthermore, other technologies that might be used for the Mark of the Beast and the governance of the mark are all here. We have world-covering satellite communications with Starlink; palm scanning payments with Amazon; facial recognition cameras; artificial intelligence that is able to learn, be aware of its environment and track people without the need for constant human intervention; bio-luminance tattoos that use an organically-derived compound called Luciferase, scannable QR codes; wireless-capable implantable microchips and so much more. China already uses some of this technology to track their citizens, what they buy, what they post on social media and where they go. We’re literally at a point in history where all of the technology needed for the final Antichrist’s beast system is available, not only on a national level, like what China has been implementing, but worldwide.
To have one or two of these things falling into place is significant alone, but to have all of these things forming and falling into place is truly Biblical. As of the writing of this, the world is not yet in the Tribulation period, but all signs seem to suggest that it’s getting close. Everything is coming together as the Bible describes and this is why I absolutely believe that we are living in the last days leading up to the 7-year Tribulation. Please don’t take my word alone, do your own research. Study the Bible and look up these things that I am writing about.
How Can I Be Prepared?
The only way to be prepared for what’s coming, and even more so for eternity, is to be right with God. You don’t want to be in the Tribulation period, which will be a time, that Jesus said, will be the worst time the world will ever see or has seen. And you certainly don’t want to spend eternity in Hell, away from your Creator, in punishment for your sins.
But how can you get right with God? It’s as simple as understanding that you’re a sinner who is destined for Hell and that you can’t save yourself. That you must turn to Jesus for forgiveness and believe in His death, burial and resurrection for your salvation. Learn more about Jesus