November 18, 2022: World News & Prophecy Review has been waiting for the US election process to conclude before going to press. Unfortunately, the process of the US midterm election process has mirrored the debacle of the 2020 Presidential year election. Ballots are still being counted in Arizona, more than 10 days after election day!
G20 Summit
Meanwhile leaders of the top economies of the world met in Bali, Indonesia, for the G20 summit, along with 2 highly influential, unelected individuals.
Election Integrity
From a prophetic perspective, can we draw any conclusion regarding these seemingly disconnected events?
The four major Republican candidates in Arizona, Kari Lake for Governor, Blake Master for the US Senate, Abraham Hamedah, Attorney General, and Mark Finchem, Secretary of State, all campaigned to reverse Progressive initiatives of the Democrat Party, open borders, mail in ballots, critical race and transgenderism in public schools, etc. All four campaigned vigorously, while their Democrat counterparts, were mostly unseen during the campaign season, and the Democrat challenger for Governor, Katie Hobbs, refused to engage in debate with Kari Lake.
Republican voters were highly encouraged by candidates to vote in person, and on election day 72% of all voters on November 8 were Republican. Virtually all polls predicted victory for the Republican party, but the results of each race were very close, and integrity of the election has been questioned with thousands of examples now revealed of ballot harvesting and the inept processing of election day results, or the breakdown of printers and processors in Maricopa County, the most populous in Arizona. Although a massive Red Republican wave did not materialize during the midterm election, the Republican party did secure a majority in the House of Representatives.
In the key states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, conservative voters have objected to the election process or raised questions regarding ballot harvesting, mail in ballots, or other suspected election fraud.
Unity In Bali
In Bali, Indonesia, world leaders were lectured by former software mogul, Bill Gates and self-appointed Chairman of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab on the necessity of Digital ID and Global Vaccine Passports for International travel.
A declaration, signed by G20 Bali Leaders, reads “We support […] efforts to strengthen prevention and response to future pandemics that should capitalize and build on the success of the existing standards and digital COVID-19 certificates.” Paragraph 23 of the Declaration reads. “We acknowledge the importance of shared technical standards and verification methods, to facilitate seamless international travel interoperability, and recognizing digital and non-digital solutions, including proof of vaccinations.”
All which means the developed world has agreed to allow the World Health Organization to allow standards that would restrict travel between nations.
What is the correlation between this important summit and recent United States elections?
United States Resistance
The enactment of these universal directives is more difficult without a compliant United States. Under the Trump administration, the United States de-coupled from Paris Climate accords, stopped funding the World Health Organization and encouraged other nations to pursue their national interest. At the United Nations, President Trump encouraged Germany to be careful about reliance on Russia as their primary source for energy and was ridiculed by their delegation. Today that advice makes a lot of sense in the middle of a Russian/Ukrainian war, and European nations scrambling for alternative energy supplies as winter approaches.
Conservative leaders in the United States have been sounding the alarm of the loss of individual freedom, while Progressive leaders are embracing the ideas and philosophies proposed for the entire world by the Davos Group, World Economic Forum, World Health Organization and United Nations. These two ideas cannot coexist in a United States that remains true to the principles of the Constitution, which protect individual rights. Something must give, and Bible Prophecy indicates a big change for nations that are proponents of the right of individuals over state control.
Increasingly, those individual freedoms have been either taken away or surrendered to the power of the state in most of the primarily English-speaking nations of the world, the UK, Cananda, Australia and New Zealand. Their leaders fully embrace the restrictions imposed on citizens during the Covid-19 Pandemic. This is a goal of Klaus Schwab, and the World Economic Forum. He calls it a New World Order.
The Rise of “the Beast”
In Revelation 13:16-17 we read of a future world power that forces a “mark” upon everyone on earth. In order to participate in the economy — to “buy or sell,” — to have a job or shop, citizens will need to receive this mysterious mark! “He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has [the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
What is the “mark?” Remember — the “Beast” of Revelation has a religious component to it. (Revelation 13:11-14)
The Bible interprets the symbol of “beast” and “horn” as a government, kingdom, king or leader. (Please see Daniel 7:23-24)
Revelation 13 indicates two governments, civil and religious, working in concert with one another. The 2nd beast mentioned in Revelation 13:11 is a religious entity, deceiving the world with miraculous signs and wonders. It appears to be Christ like — as a lamb, but it is actually of the Devil! It is within the context of religious deception that we are able to understand the mysterious mark.
One of the identifying signs between God and His chosen people Israel was the Sabbaths He gave to them. (Exodus 31:13, Ezekiel 20:12, Ezekiel 20:20)
The prophet Daniel gave a parallel prophecy to Revelation 13, in Daniel 7:23-25. These 2 dynamic chapters of Bible Prophecy touch upon the same themes — worldwide enslavement to government mandates, persecution of the people of God, even to the point of changing “times and law.”
Very likely, using the power of state enforcement, a future world ruling government will enforce not only economic restrictions, but religious ones as well that shut out all those who resist the state, making the worship of the Beast a necessary prerequisite of participation in commerce! (Revelation 13:6)
Another proposed change is the elimination of paper currencies, in favor of “digital currencies” with a social credit score — a score controlling individual access to funds, restricted to the individual if not compliant.
What Can You Do?
Are we there yet? No, but when the power of the state can be universally applied to enforce health mandates; enforcement of travel restrictions unless obeyed, we may not be far off!
Revelation 14:12 instructs the saints (people of God) faced with the demands of this coming government, to adhere to “the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.”
To accept the “mark of the Beast” is a sure death sentence, as everyone who does so with suffer the wrath of God! (Revelation 14:9-10)