For the LORD Most High is awesome;
He is a great King over all the earth.
Psalm 47:2
Scary! That’s what it felt like to grow up in the early 1960s. The Cold War was at its height; the media focused on nuclear annihilation, and Communism seemed to be an unstoppable force. Cuba exported revolution to every country in South America, and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev vowed to take over the world.
That, of course, never happened. Sometime in the early 1990s, the Soviet Union quietly dried up and blew away. Today, there are whispers about the Illuminati clandestinely taking over the planet, and radical Islam would also like to take a stab at world domination. Just like emperors and despots of the past, there is no end of candidates who want to attain the status of king over all the Earth.
The book of Revelation does foresee that this New World Order is coming, but it won’t be the utopia that many people are hoping for. A terrible and cruel world leader that the Bible labels as “the Beast” will control the wealth and souls of the planet and witness the death of three-fourths of the human population in a seven-year period.
All opposition to the Beast will be crushed and world religions extinguished, because the Antichrist will become king over all the earth. The good news to this is that the downfall of this evil world leader is just as sure as his ascension to power. When all human resistance is gone, and hopelessness grows to record proportions, the Lord of Hosts will descend from heaven with a huge army of warrior angels to defeat forever the Beast.
The real New World Order will begin. King Jesus will reign in Jerusalem and all creation will acknowledge Him as King over All the Earth.
February 20
