Growing State Tyranny. Foretaste of the End Time?

Part 1

It is a fact the recent events by somehow kind of tyrannical governments have trampled the rights and consciences of millions of people. Silently, behind the scenes, someone, something is driving this occurrence. My question is: Does it have any implications for prophesied end-time events?

It is no secret of the plans currently underway to "reset" the world's political structure by replacing mankind's centuries-old system of nation-states with effectively one-world governance by a cabal of the world's elites. This new system would direct many aspects of daily life for virtually all people on earth.

The basis for such change is already being laid today through increasing government tyranny over people's lives. Recent events have paved the way for such a Great Reset, with national governments exerting greater and greater control over the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Especially sobering is the fact that these dictatorial policies were put into place not in Third-World dictatorships, but in advanced liberal Western democracies.

What is more important about all this is that an evil political system along such lines is prophesied in the Bible to emerge in the end time.

Jesus Christ revealed to the apostle John a glimpse of what this system would look like. Revelation 13 and 17 speak of a despotic world leader described as "the Beast" being empowered by a union of 10 other leaders. This leader will, for a short time, exert tremendous control and power over the world.

Facing this reality, I have to seriously admit that there is a great possibility that the Covid-19 pandemic was an excuse for vast state control.

This pandemic gave those who advocate more government power just the leverage they needed. In nation after nation and state after state, individual liberties - the bedrock of modern democratic systems - were sacrificed as governments seized unprecedented powers to control daily life in the name of combating the disease.

Millions of private businesses throughout the world were lockdown while large national retailers were allowed to remain open. The governments dictated which businesses were considered "essential" and which were not. Large quantity of these have gone bankrupt.

Restaurants and entertainment venues were shuttered. Businesses were shut down, schools forced to close. And at a time when millions looked to God for strength and guidance, churches of all denominations found themselves closed down by the state.

Vaccination products were developed in record time. By early 2022, a majority of the citizens of most nations had either voluntarily received these or had contracted Covid-19 and recovered, providing a large measure of "herd immunity." Despite this, national and state governments seized on Covid's continuance to require vaccination shots of these products, in spite of growing evidence of their ineffectiveness or even harmful side effects.

Major corporations, following government dictates and wanting to be seen as reflecting current “accepted” values, enforced vaccination mandates on their employees. Those who refused lost their jobs or were subjected to harassment and discrimination.

Around the world, many governments imposed mandatory mask and vaccination mandates. Those who refuse to conform have faced restricted travel and denial of service at restaurants and stores. It seems the popular cry "my body, my choice" does not apply when government bureaucrats direct otherwise. (to be continued)