Periodically taking a look at the developing big picture, in snapshot fashion, is useful to best serving as watchers of the prophetic clock. With this in mind, let’s—in general terms—examine several current matters of interest concerning Bible prophecy.

Pressures are mounting that indicate increasingly swift movement toward accomplishment of the globalist agenda. This isn’t shocking, considering all the other end-of-the-age signals we consistently observe. The unusual thing I find that activates the sirens of alert is that, other than Israel at the epicenter of global wars and rumors of war, there isn’t one attention-grabbing issue or event that stands out while looking upon the march of eschatological possibilities. All are profound, when viewed in prophetic light, yet they meet in confluence and flow through our daily news without raising much of an alarm, even among those of us who make observing these matters our primary area of work.

We’re witnessing a flood of such issues and events. At the moment, it’s a controlled flood, but a flood nonetheless. I’m convinced it’s the beginnings of a torrent that will gush ungoverned once Christ says “come up here” to the Church.

Daniel framed the warning of that flood for the generation that would be witnessing the end of the age:

And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. (Daniel 9:26).

Daniel was told further:

But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. (Daniel 12:4a)

The flood the prophet was told would come at the end will be a war that will reach its terminus only after desolation is accomplished. In other words, it will end only with Christ’s catastrophic intervention into the murderous affairs of humankind at the end of Armageddon (Revelation 19:11).

We hear these days, even from secular pundits, that we’re already in World War III, but just don’t realize it yet. For my part, I can’t shake the impression that the attacks on America on September 11, 2001, might have been the first of the major salvos from satanic forces opening up the spigots of the end-times flood Daniel prophesied to this present generation.

With that as framework, let’s look briefly at the pressures building for bringing in that flood Daniel was warned about.

The Babylonian system is with this generation; it has been present within every generation. The system of moving back toward Babel—that is, toward one world government, socioeconomics, and religion—has never been as evident as today.

The system of humanistic government—represented in prophetic Scripture by the metallic image of Daniel 2; the weird beast of Daniel 7; the strange creature upon which the harlot rides in Revelation 12; and the beast that comes out of the sea in Revelation 13—is on the rise, while the pressures of ancient luciferian ambitions force end-times prophetic manifestations to the surface of our headlines.

All of it is wrapped in globalist thinking. We are marching back toward the one-world attempts in Genesis 11 that brought God’s direct intervention those many millennia ago.

Attempts at establishing one world government proceeds full-steam ahead. One world economy is the driving force behind the attempts to recapture the spirit of Babel. Both global government and economy are intertwined with a religious fervor for saving the planet from ecological disaster. The world’s most powerful governmental collective—the global economic powers that be—are doing their utmost to force their will on the main actors in the Middle East. They strive to construct a peace that will never eventuate, in the true sense. Their purpose is to govern the flow of oil and prevent Armageddon from igniting. Global economic control is the power that can bring all into compliance–the ability to bring the burgeoning world population into subjugation through the stranglehold of buying and selling. Environmentalism is the religion that continues to look to be the catalyst for attempting to win the hearts and minds of the peoples of the world. Earth Day seems to be the holiday the globalists have chosen as the sacrosanct day of worship at the altar of the developing Mother Earth goddess.

Regardless of the political, cultural, and societal differences, most all religious systems seem to embrace the call to come together for the unified purpose of making life on this sphere equally livable through sustainable development. Even some so-called Christian evangelicals have their own social order plans to achieve Heaven on Earth.

But, all the pressures being brought upon this world to comply with the globalists’ movement toward one world will produce not peace, but fulfilled prophecy. God will again intervene to put an end to the neo-Babel builders.

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. (Psalm 2:1–5).

While we watch the humanistic/satanic pressures mount in attempt to bring about the Antichrist regime, we listen again to Jesus’ words of great comfort:

And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. (Luke 21:28)