Are globalists getting ready to blame Christians for everything? Totalitarians have learned over the years that if you're going to persecute someone, you want the rest of the population to hate them too so when you imprison them, kill them, take away their possessions, then the rest of the people will rejoice and not Revolt! A famous example of this was Nero who did this with the burning of Rome. You know, he wanted to rebuild Rome according to his plans, so burning down the existing city would facilitate the rebuild that he and his Architects wanted. At the time, Nero was annoyed by the Christians who worshiped a god higher than Caesar, or any of Rome's other gods. So, he decided to fix the two problems with one fell Swoop, burn the City down and blame the Christians for it so that he could persecute them, imprison them and kill them. Pretty slick idea!
During this persecution, Nero's government killed the apostles Peter and Paul. Peter was crucified upside down and Paul was beheaded. Average Christians were burned alive as torches at Nero's Garden parties and some were fed to lions as entertainment. The bonus was that Nero got a fresh canvas on top of the burned City on which to create his new city and by spreading the rumor that it was the Christians who lit the city on fire, well he was able to get the Common People angry enough with them to want Nero to hurt them or imprison them.
So how did Christians threaten Rome who ruled the whole world at the time? Well, they obeyed a power higher than the government. They also said there was only one way to heaven through Jesus and people were joining their ranks left and right. Rome feared a Revolt from the Christians and feared that they would convert most of the other people away from their existing Gods. These are the exact two things that the globalist world order sees as a problem in Christianity today! Today, as it was back in Nero's day, Christians were being made scapegoats for social problems as an excuse to eliminate them. For example, check out this headline:
Canadian Government Moves to Criminalize Christianity
Today, the globalists want to level the existing order of nation states so that they can impose their new order of a global government on whatever humanity remains in the aftermath. But some people are becoming wise to this so they’ll probably need a scapegoat, or diversion, to take the people's attention off of what they're doing in order to pull it off. They don’t want those smelly useless eaters grabbing their pitchforks and storming their castles! If you aren't seeing this in your community, congratulations, yours is one of the last communities without persecution. But guess what, it's coming.
Open Doors International, a nonprofit organization that supports persecuted Christians. They have released their annual 2024 World Watch List, which highlights and ranks countries in which Christians face the most severe persecution and discrimination. In 2023 they reported that 2023 was the worst year for Christian persecution in the history of the world, even worse than Rome's and tragically, the trends say that 2024 is going to be even worse. Now in the previous year's, World Watch’s list, they found that more than 360 million Christians faced severe levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith. This year's report says that number has increased to more than 365 million people, with many of them facing dangerously violent persecution.
According to Open Doors, in 2023, more than 14,700 churches or Christian property such as schools and hospitals were targeted. That's seven times the number of attacks that happened in the previous year. Additionally, in 2023 the total number of Christians who were forced to leave their homes doubled! So, just think about that! You have seven fold increase of attacks on churches and church properties, a doubling of the number of Christians who are being forced out of their homes and the highest level of severe persecution in the history of the world. If you don't think something's happening, guess again, it is!
Now, according to the report, North Korea is the most dangerous place in the world for Christians! I think we all knew that in North Korea, if a person's Christian faith is discovered he or she is killed on the spot, or shipped to a labor camp where survival is very very slim. This is the work of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un who sees Christianity as a threat. In China Xi Jinping also sees Christianity as a threat to the Chinese Communist party's power. Last year, at least 10,000 churches, mostly underground churches, were closed.
In Asia as a whole, two in five Christians are persecuted for their faith. Christians in India face violent attacks from Hindu extremists and are punished for violating the anti-conversion laws in some states. Now go to Africa where one in five Christians were persecuted. Somalia was ranked as the number two country in which Christians face the most extreme persecution. On the other side of the continent, the terrorist group Al-Shabaab, which has expressed its objective to eliminate all Christians from the country, has made Nigeria the deadliest place to follow Jesus. So 2023, as reported in the 2024 report, was the deadliest most severe persecution against Christians in history. Globally, one in six Christians were under severe persecution over the last 12 months. Why is that? What is so different now from just 10 years ago?
First, the globalist’s think that now the time is ripe for them to usher in their New World Order! The United Nations is planning to take power over global health care in May when the World Health Organization’s International “Treaty” the Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response Accord is set to be signed. And in September, they're planning to take sovereignty away from the nations in the Pact for the Future.
Who has been at the forefront of opposing these things? Well, Christians! So the globalist leaders want to silence their opposition so that they can just Breeze into Power! Everything you see in the world around you, from the wars, the rumors of wars, to LBTGQ, I before E except after C and sometimes Y rights, to rigged elections, etc., they're all about this! Everything is leading up to the globalist’s taking over and the reason why we're seeing all of this right now is because they think the time is right!
Second, they need a scapegoat! the world economic Forum held its annual session in Davos Switzerland, just like they do every year, and this year's theme was the restoring trust. Why? Because, frankly, the world has lost trust in the globalists and what better way to restore that trust than to shift the blame for all of the worlds problems from them, the people creating all of the world’s problems, to someone else like Christians! No doubt this is the perfect fit from their perspective.
Third, they want to create an “Us Vs. Them” attitude and select people groups around the world so that the globalists can appear to be heroes for punishing those unruly Christians. Identity politics isn't just practiced in Western democracies. Notice what's going on all over the world in places like Nigeria and India. They’re sowing “Us Vs. Them” conflicts everywhere so the globalists can pick the winners and the losers in these conflicts by coming against Christians, and this matches what Jesus says precedes the end of the world as we know it!
“Nation will rise against Nation”
~ Matthew 24:7
Now, most readers of this verse think it's referring to countries like USA vs. China. But the word “nation” in the Greek is “ethnos” or people group. So Jesus warns that people groups will come against other people groups. It's identity politics. Jesus is warning us against it and the struggles that will result from it. Now this is nothing new. History has seen every single totalitarian government do these same things, picking winners and losers. In the French Revolution it was the royalists who were persecuted and guillotined. In communist Russia, it was the owner class, you know the capitalists. In Germany, it was the Jews, Gypsies and anyone deemed mentally impaired or imperfect. Finally, in Maoist China, it was the intellectuals. BTW, Mao executed 65 million on his rise to power. He is the greatest mass murderer in history, so far that is.
But in all these instances the totalitarian forces were in charge of a single country or limited to a region. The government that's coming will be worldwide. That takes the persecution that's coming in the future to an entirely different level. Think Mao was bad? In Revelation 6 7-8 we're told that the toll will be one quarter of the earth! If that's meaning people, then that would be around two billion people! Interestingly, that's the estimated numbers of Christians on Earth. So, if we want to make this a little more personal, think about your country!
Have you noticed your government picking winners and Christians as losers in all sorts of social issues and unrest? In almost every nation a group of winners can be chosen; Hindus, Muslims, atheists, leftists, LGBTQ activists, climate change fanatics etc., and in each case, the losers will always include the Christian element. When you control the mainstream media, you can slant any story any way you want. If you also control the politicians, you can slant the government response to any situation any way you want!
Now this essay is aimed mainly at the Christian West. But I live and work in Japan where it isn’t all that bad just yet, but there are signs that it’s starting to change. Now just think about the events in your country and I'm sure you can see how this is occurring right now in real time. And the Open Door statistics support this. Something like one in six professing Christians worldwide are experiencing severe persecution. If you're not ready, get ready for it to become much worse, more than just one in six, maybe as high as 50%, or more!
Well, who's behind this? Just consider Joe Biden. Does anyone with two brain cells and a functioning synapse between them really think he's in charge of the US government? Well, neither was Donald J. Dumpsterfire! He was ready to release the sealed John F Kennedy assassination files when he was visited that morning by the CIA and chose not to release them. Someone else was pulling the strings so, it’s pretty clear that our “elected” leaders, or as I like to call them our “S-elected” leaders, are not calling the shots. It would appear that at a minimum, the central Bankers who control the money of the world are above the government leaders and they actually use the central bank money to control those leaders and what they do. So who tells the central Bankers what to do? Arguably, that’s the Demonic forces seeded in Heavenly places that Paul tells us about in Ephesians 6:12.
The world is hurtling toward a final showdown between these powers and Jesus, king of the universe!
As you may know, some are anticipating the final seven years of human rule on Earth may begin soon, possibly as early as the fall of this year with what the UN and globalists are calling the Summit on the Future and the signing of a worldwide Covenant that will grant them authority over the Nations. Many see parallels with this and what Daniel 9:27 called the Covenant with the many! Whether that happens this year or next, or in the coming months or years after that, a Showdown is coming and for all the reasons we describe, the powers of this world will want to pick winners and losers so those who survive and remain are under control and the followers of Jesus's aren't around and getting in the way. This is the way of the totalitarian regimes throughout history. This time it will be Christians on the losing side. Joining them in the “re-education or death” camps will be the capitalists, intellectuals, Jews and anyone else who opposes the central global government.
But what will the persecution look like? Best guesses are that it will look like modern China. But that begs the question, was China chosen by the globalists as a test ground for many of those Draconian control mechanisms? Well, maybe it was. Klaus schwab, head of the World Economic Forum said the country he most admired was China! Justin Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada said the country he most admired was China! And even old “Dementia Joe” Biden slipped up and instead of saying that “he most admired Canada,” which, is what he was supposed to say, said “China” instead and then joked, “well, now you know what I'm thinking.” China with all of its surveillance cameras and facial recognition software can track you and monitor you wherever you go. With its “Social Credit” scoring system that rewards and punishes you for every action. China with its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is rapidly expanding so it controls your bank accounts and China with its “re-education or die” camps that give you one last chance to conform or else!
In the prophetic letter to the Church at Smyrna in Revelation, Jesus said to His church that will go through these horrible times in Revelation 2:10, “do not fear what you're about to suffer. Behold the devil,” (notice the devil's behind this) “is about to throw some of of you into prison that you may be tested.” See, it's God's test. “For 10 days you will have tribulation, be faithful unto death and I will give you the crown of life!” So, imprisonment awaits many of us and death after that. Are you ready?
Remember Dietrich Bonhoeffer? He was a German Pastor imprisoned by the Nazis for his opposition to the government. One day a fellow Pastor was coming to the jail as part of a prison ministry saw Bonhoeffer behind bars, was stunned and said: “Why are you here?” Bonhoeffer replied: “why aren't you here also?” In other words, why aren't you opposing evil! All of us who are alive and remain will be given that choice to oppose evil or to accept it and conform. Are you thinking right now about what choice you might make when it's presented to you? It's important to know that although the forces against the Church of Jesus are very strong they will not overcome the church. The church will overcome them spiritually! Jesus will return as king of kings and Lord of lords and in Daniel's Vision the statue of the five kingdoms in Daniel 2, the stone not cut by human hands, that’s Jesus, will pulverize the stone statue which represented all the human governments.
Jesus wins and if we follow Jesus, we will win too. But, it’s not a physical or political victory for us until he comes back! We're not going to win in the short term and we’re NOT going to escape. Look at what Revelation 12:11 says about how we win! “And they have conquered him by the blood of the lamb by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death!” We win by sharing the Gospel, the words of Our Testimony and not being afraid to do so even if we have to face death. We have to overcome. Are you ready for such things? Is your church ready for such things? I hate to say it but most are not ready for this. Sadly, most are ready to join the world. They are ready to walk the broad road that leads to destruction because it's easy and they’ll miss the narrow road that leads to life.
Jesus said only a few find that narrow road!
So, what does that mean for you and me? Well, maybe we ought to expect that our church, our pastor, our friends might get swept up in the confusion and take the easy way out. Pray they don't but, be aware that they very well might. So, what's that going to look like? Where are you going to end up and if it ain’t on the right side, what are you going to do about it? Now the ball is in your court. The next move is up to you.