For some 6000 years, Satan has longed to accomplish his original threefold objective: to be God, to rule the earth, and to be worshiped by all of humanity. But in order for this to happen, the world must be fundamentally changed. Satan must reshape and re-create it in his own image. This requires four essential elements in his strategy;

1. Reform the governments of the nations
2. Deceive the hearts of humanity
3. Prepare and position his Man of Sin
4. Remove the Church’s influence

Each of these four prophetic pillars is predicated upon crisis. Let’s examine what Scripture says about how each of these will be fulfilled, and what contemporary clues indicate they are currently in formation.

1) Reforming and Realigning the Governments of the Nations

Daniel 2 and 7 speaks of a revived Roman Empire (also reflected in Revelation 13 and 17). This 10-king alliance will likely be representative of the most powerful European and Western nations in the last days. Keep in mind, kingdoms and countries can be crippled in a matter of weeks or months due to war, economic collapse, invading armies, or through divine judgment.

Scripture does not specify who these 10 kings will be, or what their kingdoms will look like. Presumably, they will include existing nations, pre-existing alliances/conglomerate governments, or even newly formed multinational alliances. One king may represent many nations. It’s even possible that the current European Union could be represented as one kingdom by their president. Again, Scripture doesn’t fill in the blanks for us here.

These future nations could each represent many countries/regions themselves. Historians and theologians agree that once-mighty Rome could be revived as a 10-nation confederation. What we can be confident of is the fact that there will be a unified one-world government formed in the Tribulation. Is there evidence of movement towards that goal today?

The Past Foreshadows the Future

On January 10, 1920, the League of Nations was formed as the first worldwide intergovernmental organization. Originally meant to encompass 32 nations, its purpose was to prevent another world war through disarmament, collective security, and intergovernmental dialogue. President Woodrow Wilson won the Nobel Prize for his role as the leading architect of the League.

But the United States Senate refused to join the League out of concern for American sovereignty. And we know that the League of Nations was not able to prevent another global war. Adolf Hitler, aspiring to conquer Europe then the globe, plunged humanity into another World War. Interestingly, Hitler’s plan had included a thousand year Reich (realm or empire), counterfeiting the future thousand year millennial reign of Jesus Christ. And the Holocaust he inflicted on the Jews was an eerie prelude to Revelation 12 — representing Satan’s attempt to prematurely jumpstart the Tribulation and his reign on earth.

After the war ended in 1945, Winston Churchill advocated for the formation of the “United States of Europe” — his vision for the future of Europe and world peace. In 1957, France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, signed the “Treaty of Rome,” establishing the European Economic Community (EEC), or the European Common Market. What is known today as the European Union currently has 27 nations.

In addition, the United Nations has become a bloated, self-important bureaucracy seeking to expand its power over every nation and individual in the world.

Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste

When the Covid pandemic hit, current and former world leaders issued calls for a global governance system. Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and former general secretary of the UN, Ban Ki Moon, urged for the united efforts of the G-20 nations, the UN, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank to secure “human rights, solidarity, and justice” by stimulating our shared “responsibility as global citizens.”

Currently, Ban is the deputy chair of “The Elders,” an independent group of international leaders “working together for peace, justice, and human rights.” Among their global agenda is multilateral cooperation among nations, peace, universal health coverage, and battling climate change, towards “justice for all.”

A relatively new player on the global scene has joined this mix. Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), has been convening global elites every year since 1971 in the relatively obscure town of Davos, Switzerland. During the Covid crisis, Schwaub said, “The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world.”

Other religious leaders and globalists were eager to chime in:

Each one of us is evolving towards the godhead. I believe that the messiah whom we await, whom we all without any doubt await, is the universal christ; that is to say, the christ of evolution. – Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit Priest, Philosopher, Paleontologist, Evolutionist

We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government, a one-world religion, under a one-world leader. At his choice hour, the absolute supreme will ring his own victory bell here on Earth through the loving and serving heart of the United Nations. – Robert Muller, former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, Proponent of the “Global Constitution”

So, what catalyst could catapult the world’s nations into such a unified agreement? What global emergency or planetary predicament would be so severe, so acute, so devastating, and so impactful that it would motivate the nation’s leaders to cast aside their differences and past conflicts? What would move them to essentially dissolve their borders, weaving global economics and common pursuits together in order to become one? What, or who, will unite them?

The Covid response was a foreshadow of things to come. Their real agenda, according to the World Economic Forum and International Monetary Fund, is climate change, economic equality, and social justice. What does this look like practically? It essentially involves worshiping the planet and destroying capitalism in favor of socialism, and casting aside the Judeo-Christian faith system that would stand in their way.

Those are but surface issues masking an even deeper agenda, found in Psalm 2:1-6.

Psalm 2:1-6 KJV – “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.”

Yes, a one-world government is in formation, looming on the horizon. As Michele Bachmann has testified, political leaders in Europe are avidly pursuing such a goal. And America is currently led by a man whose “Build Back Better” campaign was lifted verbatim from the pages of the WEF’s global reset agenda.

Jeff Kinley is an author, former pastor, speaker, and is the host of Vintage Truth and Prophecy Pros podcasts, as well as The King is Coming television program, formerly hosted by Dr. Ed Hindson. Kinley is also a guest contributor for Christ In Prophecy.