There is a powerful monetary tide sweeping the world toward what Jesus called the worst time of human history (Matthew 24:21).

One prophetic element stands out in considering the seven-year Tribulation era, with regard to the Antichrist regime. That’s the economic platform prophesied to be at the heart of the Beast system.

With so many signals in view that point to the brewing Tribulation tempest, we should expect—if we’re reading the end-times signals correctly—that this heart of the Beast should be well along in its construction. We’ve covered all the indicators found within current issues and events that we believe are signals like those given by Jesus and the prophets. National and world economies have been dealt with in our efforts to make prophetic sense of the dynamic rearrangements taking place in recent years, months, weeks, and days.

America’s staggering weight of debt and swift economic decline is front and center in pointing to the fact, we believe, that this is the generation that stands at the end of one dispensation–the Church Age—and upon the precipice of the next—the Tribulation. Each hour seems to bring additional confirmation that the Tribulation storm is about to break upon an uncomprehending world. Such confirmation is present in abundance in the realm of geopolitics and global economics.

America, as we’ve pointed out many times, is at the center of this global economic turbulence. President Donald J. Trump’s administration has made it a priority, of course, to bring the US back into fiscal sanity. The cutback in profligate spending to fund causes the world over is being stopped. That effort has thrown the rest of the world–particularly the nations of Europe—into a panic. For example, take a look at this reaction by France’s president:

Now [French President Emmanuel Macron] feels he has to go full hawk in response to US President Trump, as on Wednesday in a nationally televised address he claimed Putin is now threatening all of Europe and has declared, dubiously, that Russian aggression “knows no borders.”

Macron pulled out all the stops, and appears to be making himself into the European version of Russia’s Medvedev, going maximal no limits jingoism. “President Putin is violating our borders to assassinate opponents, manipulate elections,” he claimed in the remarks.

“We need to prepare,” the French president said, amid a broader European push to ‘fill the gap’ in the wake of President Trump suspending all US arms shipments to Kiev, as well as intelligence-sharing. On Sunday during a London security conference of European leaders, UK PM Kier Starmer presented a plan of up to 30,000 UK peacekeeping troops for Ukraine, supported by France.

“I want to believe that the US will stand by our side, but we have to be ready for that not to be the case,” Macron said in reference to shifting Washington policy. (“Macron In Anti-Russia Rant Says France Considering Expanding Nuclear Umbrella To Europe,” Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge, March 6, 2025)

Since Bible prophecy clearly states that the Antichrist government, thus the economic engine that will power that absolute dictatorship, will emerge from Europe, we need keep our prophetic antennae pointed in that direction. We must be especially alert to news involving movement within Europe to cause significant changes to the global economic structure.

Prophecy scholars and others have long pondered why the US, the most powerful nation in history, isn’t mentioned by name–or even by significant reference—in God’s Word. We continue to flounder in attempts at finding an exact answer for that question. However, with the recent astonishing changes nationally and abroad, the answer seems to be in the process of forming.

Monetary manipulation is at the root of the change taking place. The American dollar must be removed as the currency standard so that a global currency not underwritten by any national monetary unit can be established. This is precisely the Beast economic order I’m convinced Bible prophecy describes as outlined in the following:

And he caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (Revelation 13:16–18)

This speaks to me of a computer system–a hybrid Internet—run by highly advanced AI, whereby all citizens of the global economic order will be absolutely controlled at every level of life. Probably, it will consist at its heart of electronic funds transfer (EFT)—a system of special drawing rights (SDR). Anyone refusing to toe the mark of the Antichrist’s regime will face having his or her SDR account blocked or removed completely from the system. Fear of starvation is a mighty motivator to comply.

Pressures are mounting for a completely changed global economic order. Even the king of the kings of the East, China, is at the center of the dynamics driving the changes.

Most economists who are honest will admit that the current building economic heap of debt cannot continue to accumulate. They are amazed, in fact, that everything hasn’t already collapsed into total, worldwide depression. I again offer my belief that it will be the Rapture that causes the ultimate implosion and collapse.

The great world leader called in Revelation “the Beast” will be there to implement a satanically inspired economic scheme that will at first offer hope–that will for a time “cause craft to prosper” (Daniel 8:25). But Antichrist’s plan will achieve what it will be designed to do: enslave most of the world in electronic bondage.

Jesus offers the opposite of what the counterfeit, Antichrist, will produce. Jesus promises: “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed” (John 8:36). We must at every opportunity lift up the holy Name of Jesus before the eyes of a world headed into the terrors of the Tribulation.

Signals are in every direction that Christ will at any moment step onto the clouds of Glory and call all believers to Himself. Thus Christians will be kept out of that time of Tribulation, which will come upon all the world to judge those who have refused to accept God’s great gift of salvation.

Here again is how to receive that gift:

That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto Salvation. (Romans 10:9—10)