Humanity has never experienced what is happening in the world today.

Joel 1:1-3

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“The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. Hear this, you elders, and give ear, all you inhabitants of the land! Has anything like this happened in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? Tell your children about it, let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.” Joel 1:1-3

The prophecy of Joel is speaking to every inhabitant of the land, a global message. Specifically, the Holy Spirit is speaking to every person around the world who lives for God though Jesus Christ. He is speaking to all of us “elders” who are familiar with the strong roots the Gospel of Christ once had in this world.

Today, something unheard of and destructive has happened to belief in God. No longer do people feel a need for admitting they are sinners in need of the remission of sin through Jesus Christ. No longer do people embrace the Holy Spirit to live a life of Holiness. Through Joel, the Holy Spirit asks, “Has anything like this happened in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?” We are encouraged to relay to the children the difference between a world with the testimony of Jesus and one without Him. “Tell your children about it, let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.”

What is different today that makes the events within the world so unheard of? Very simply, we are living within a global culture that makes itself more important than God, rejects the need for Jesus Christ, and ridicules the presence of the Holy Spirit. The nations of the United Nations are of one mind, and they have given their power and authority to the beast, as quoted, “These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast. These will make war with the Lamb…” Revelation 17:13-14a. That is why the global government is called the government of the beast.

What is the driving force to make the global events of today so unheard of? There is a thing in the world which gives people what to think, feel, say, and do as it enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people. People in every city around the world are conformed to the anti-Christian global culture as they are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do.

The global government of the beast came into existence when the United Nations was established immediately after WW2, as described in Daniel 8. The formation of the global government is also described in Revelation 17.

It is also unheard of since the creation of God that the human conscience has been systematically and globally tossed aside. The thing giving people what to feel, think, do, and say has replaced the human conscience. Traits of psychopathy fills every city around the world as people have become egocentric to empower and exalt themselves above God. They feel no remorse and feel no need for the remission of sin through Jesus Christ. They oppose, ridicule, and manipulate the presence of the Holy Spirit as they detest the life of Holiness. The world fills with anti-social and lawless activity with superficial charm with no empathy for others.

It is for us who hold to the testimony of Jesus Christ to continue to spread the Good News to the generations after us. We must always share the world we once knew when the Gospel of Christ was strong and to explain the extinction of the testimony of Jesus in the world today. As hopeless as it seems in today’s world, there will always be a few who are faithful to the testimony of Jesus Christ until the day of His return.

The phenomenally powerful global culture destroys the earth in quest of their worldly Garden of Eden.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1