What on Earth is Happening: The Macro Picture

Since so many of the Bible's yet-to-be-fulfilled prophecies concern national Israel, directly or indirectly, the possibility of their being fulfilled has existed only since 1948. Some people have tried erroneously to date the Second Coming of Christ, using that date as a starting point. Jesus said that no man knows the day or the hour of His return, but that we should be aware of the times and the seasons. To that end, this blog is dedicated. So, with that matter settled, what about this coming unity (one-ness) in the areas of government, economics and religion?

In this 21st Century, government and economics are closely tied together, especially in those countries which have adopted some form of central banking. (For the USA, that would be the Federal Reserve Bank). Representatives from countries with the world's largest economies regularly meet. This has been done in G8 Summits (there is a G7 Summit scheduled for northern Canada this year), recently expanded to the G20 - 19 countries plus the European Union - with summits scheduled for 2010 in Toronto and Seoul. The world is becoming unified with respect to economics, right before our eyes. Autumn of 2008 demonstrated that an economic crisis in one nation could quickly become a crisis in many nations.

For millennia people and nations have risen, attempting to gain control of the world (usually meaning "the known world"). Only with the advance of technology in the 20th Century were wars labeled as "World Wars" in the global sense of the world. Yet no one nation emerged from the 20th Century as the one world ruler. Instead, we have the United Nations, whose mission is peace as opposed to war. The UN recently spearheaded a global warming summit in Copenhagen. While no binding treaty resulted, the handwriting is on the wall that this summit was more about spreading the wealth and diluting national sovereignty than it was about melting icecaps.

Many believe the US economy is built on a house of cards and that legislation such as cap and trade, healthcare reform, or another stimulus bill could cause it to crash. Jerry Robinson, author of Bankruptcy of Our Nation declares that the USA is already bankrupt (morally and financially). It seems logical that a much weakened United States would be necessary for a one world government/economy to be possible. Interestingly, not only does the Bible predict this, but it says that it will take place under a so-called banner of peace.

Completing this tri-part-macro-picture of the future is religion. The World Council of Churches, in a December 22, 2009 posting on its website, presents a theology that is helpful in the movement to counter so-called global warming. This theology does away with many of the religious distinctives, promoting the idea of "going along" so you can "get along." It promotes a social gospel, widely accepted because it includes "good works" while mostly leaving out sin, the cross of Christ and repentance. This is based on the notion that man is basically good, and getting better; a notion that does not square with reality.