Devices of the Damned Technology in History

Creation Fellowship and the Theme of Technology in the End Times

Sweet. Okay, so I am Terry Kammerzell and I'm here with Creation Fellowship Santee. We're a group of friends bound by our common agreement that the creation account, as told in Genesis, is a true depiction of how God created the universe and all life from nothing in just six days about a few thousand years ago.

We've been meeting most Thursday nights here on Zoom since June of 2020. We've been blessed with presentations by pastors, teachers, doctors, cartoonists, scientists, apologists, and all around smarty pants people who love the Lord and have a message to share.

You can find most of our past videos by searching Creation Fellowship Santee, that's S-A-N-T-E-E on YouTube. You can follow us on our Creation Fellowship Santee Facebook page and you can sign up for our email list by emailing us at creationfellowshipsantee at gmail .com so you don't miss any upcoming speakers.

Most of our topics are creation themed, naturally, but from time to time we are blessed with some off topics, such as what we have tonight. I'm happy to introduce to you Nathan Jones of Lamb and Lion Ministries.

Nathan has been with the ministry since 2007 and serves Lamb and Lion as the internet evangelist, reaching out to the over 4 .5 billion people accessible over the internet with the good news of Jesus Christ.

After graduating from Philadelphia Bible University with a bachelor's in Bible, Nathan attended Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and later received his Master of Management and Leadership at Liberty University.

He is a lifelong student of the Bible and an ordained minister. Nathan is married to Heather Jones, who also serves at the ministry in the media department. They have three teenage children who love the Lord.

Tonight we're happy to have him share with us about signs of the end times and again if you have any questions, whether you're in Zoom or if you're following along with us on Facebook Live, be sure to put them into the comment section and then we'll do a live Q &A at the end with those questions.

So with that, Nathan, go ahead. Thank you so much, Terri. I appreciate being with.

You all here tonight. It's really exciting. I'm located in the Dallas area and you all in California, so there's a little bit of a time zone difference here, but I'm excited to share the gospel with you.

I strongly believe in a young earth creationist. I'm working on my doctoral in apologetics and I just love the subject of creation science. I'm with, like she said, Lamb Lion Ministries. We're a Bible prophecy teaching ministry whose mission it is to proclaim the soon return of Jesus Christ.

And we do that in a number of different ways, but primarily through our television program, Christ in Prophecy, which is in its 19th season now. We're on all the major networks. Check us out, especially on Daystar.

As the internet evangelist, my pulpit tends to be the internet online. I've been working in the internet, both technically and marketing and communications, but primarily as an internet evangelist, sharing the gospel online too.

And I've been doing that for about 20 years. It's the biggest mission field I think the Lord has ever given in history. And I'm excited that you all were part of that and we can connect where instead of me flying to California and sitting in a room with you all, we can connect with people all over the world.

That's the beauty and magic of the internet evangelism the Lord's given us today. And I think it's a sign of the end times, a point for the soon return of Jesus Christ. But he wants us to get that message out as quickly as possible to as many people as possible about the gospel and the soon return of Jesus Christ.

Check out our website, christinprophecy .org. You'll find our TV shows there, our Prophetic Perspective short video series, also on our Christ in Prophecy YouTube channel. You can sign up for newsletters.

We have plenty of articles, social media, a blog, and we have an app, the Lamb Lion app. We want to get you excited about Jesus' return and help you dive in the Bible and grow in your relationship with Jesus Christ.

I'm excited to partner with Creation Ministries because you all deal with the other end of the Bible, the book end. Without the Bible, without Genesis, and without Revelation, it's like reading a mystery.

You don't know how it began and you don't know how it ends. And that's what the Bible is. It's a complete, all 66 books create one unified message and that's Jesus Christ is King and Lord and he's redeeming mankind to bring a remnant back to him to live with them forever.

And so it's an exciting message and I'm glad we can team up with you all and share this gospel message. Well, we mentioned signs of the end times and we are going to definitely cover that, but in communicating back and forth, someone had seen my interview on Jan Martell's radio program about the book that we all contribute to.

She and me and Dr. David Reagan, who's our founder and director, and a number of other authors contributed to this book Lawless, which came out this year. The general editor is Terry James, a friend of mine.

He actually wrote the core to my book on Revelation called The Mighty Angels of Revelation. It takes you through the book of Revelation and teaches you angelology because it's got the 72 angels or groups of angels that you can find in the book of Revelation and also teach you Revelation.

And so Terry has done a series of books. I got this collection here. He started out with this book called Deceivers about false prophets in the end times. One of the biggest signs that Jesus gave in Matthew 24 and Luke 21 was the proliferation of false prophets.

It's the number one sign he gave. And then he followed up with a book called Discerners and it again explored more signs of the end times. I contributed a chapter to each of those. And then I contributed a chapter to this book Lawless that doesn't follow the name convention that I came with because his editor changed it to Lawless because we lived in lawless times this year.

I think we could all agree. So I did a chapter on in the book Lawless and your head of your group wrote me and said, well, I'm really concerned about while technology is affecting our children and how is Satan using that and how does that lead up as a sign of the end time, the point to the soon return of Jesus Christ.

So when we talk about covering signs of the end times, I'm going to focus as requested this chapter in the book Lawless. And so that's the sign I'm going to cover today. I will, I have to admit that this is, it was kind of the last minute thing that asked me to do the chapter on Lawless.

And yes, it's on Kindle. You can find these on Kindle. My wife works at the ministry as well as the encoder and transcriber. She also handles their eBooks and you'd find our eBooks on Amazon as well. But since this was the last minute thing, I don't have a formal presentation for the chapter Lawless.

So what I'd like to do is take you through the chapter and then we can discuss afterwards some of it. I'm going to first start with an opening story. I want to see if you all can relate to this opening story.

Do you have people in your lives? Maybe we can turn off the direct and do a little discussion as soon as I read this. And then we're going to go into Satan's five-step plan from the Garden of Eden. So we're definitely going to cover Genesis in your group.

And then we'll move on to how the different technologies are continuing to grow and merge to what we now all use today as the smartphone. How is Satan using the smartphone to create a new global ethos, a new global culture, and how does that fit into the end times?

So that's kind of an overview of what we'll be covering tonight. So without further ado, I'm going to pull up my chapter here and I'm going to read the opening story. And if we could, if it's okay with you guys, let's go back to the discussion briefly afterwards.

And tell me if this person or sounds like a family member or somebody that you know, or if you can relate to it yourself. Okay. And now the story, The Modern Day Man, it opens up my chapter in Lawless, which is titled Devices in These Ends.

So it goes, With the sudden explosion of musical notes, Kitty Perry's roar erupted from the smartphone frantically vibrating face down upon the nightstand. The musical cacophony drowned out the long groan which escaped the young man lying on his unkept bed.

Yanking a pillow and pressing it firmly over his head, he groggily half listens to muffled lyrics. I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter dancing through the fire, because I am a champion and you're going to hear me roar.

He let the inspirational message motivate him, at least into a sitting position, bare feet hanging off the edge of the bed. The man scratched his jawline obscured by his scraggly beard. With some effort, he leaned far over and snatched up his Android, not expecting facial recognition to identify him with several condition.

He zigzagged his index finger across the surface, keying in the code to unlock the interface and click the pause button on Spotify. He was greeted by dozens of multicolored app icons filled with numbers indicating notifications that were all vying for his attention.

Checking the like count on his Instagram post from the night before, he bemoaned the paltry response, and that old pang to his self-esteem shot through his heart yet again. His selfie pic, winking at a dinner, reminded his stomach that he was hungry and it groaned too.

After inquiring with Google Home what time it was, the man realized almost 25 minutes had elapsed since Katy Perry had knocked on his proverbial door and awakened him. Trudging to the bathroom for his morning ablutions, he switched on both Pandora and the Fawcett.

Soaking in the bathtub took another half hour as thumbs deftly moved from Snapchat to WhatsApp to Twitter to TikTok, and for kicks, he pulled up bit .ly to help him decide if he should towel off or spend some additional time seeing if Studio C has released anything new on YouTube.

With a loud sigh, he obeyed and dripped his way out of the tub and into a pair of PacSun skinny gray jeans. He wished he had a dark stack pair, and so with a few more swishes of his index finger, Amazon would be delivering a new pair at the front door just another hour or two.

His bank accounts app whined with the disappointing news that there'd be another overdrafting. No problem. He just reapplied for another Apple Pay account. A knowing smile and his cleverness spread across the hazy mirror image, peering back at him, and so enamored by what he saw, he puckered his lips and snapped a picture to upload to his Tinder dating profile.

Well, that should get the model swiping right. Lunchtime had already started as he sculpted to the table, eyes glued to his phone so he wouldn't have to see the disapproving gaze of his father. He didn't want to start that when I was 23 conversation all over again.

He tried all the classes at the local community college, but gender studies just wasn't for him. His ambition was to become a YouTube star. He just needed one of his video rants to go viral, and then he would have it made.

Or he'd become the greatest of Reddit's social justice warriors, if only he could get excited about a column. Fortunately, his father was busy scanning through the news headlines on his Surface tablet, shifting uncomfortably from side to side as each AP news bite irked him.

Mother, too, was engrossed with words with friends and Facebook, so her half of the sandwich just hovered a few inches away from her mouth. Tablets, he scoffed internally, so uncool. They're only good for little kids like his sister to play, Pikazoo, and so she was.

The family sat in silence, except for the sounds of chewing and the tapping of glass, each intent on their own devices. The melodic voice of Google Home at last reminded the family of their afternoon activities, and they silently parted from each other like ghosts.

The young man groaned at the thought of having to endure yet another evening shift at the GameStop, a career path he knew couldn't last too much longer in this online gaming world. Frightened at the thought of gaming, he sped back to his shutter room and switched on his PS4 to earn a better spot on the Fortnite leaderboard.

Upon earning a new skin for his avatar's rocket launcher, his phone lit up with an angry text from his boss. Was that a poop emoji? He was late again. Dropping the controller, the absent employee reached to pick up his key fob, only to recollect that his older hybrid electric Prius wasn't charged and so would not be moving from his spot on the driveway.

Scrambling through his atlas, he pulled up Uber in order to pick up. Soon, standing out on his front lawn, waiting for his ride, the young man was forced to face down a few unbearable moments of uncomfortable nothingness, so he reached into his back pocket yet again for his phone.

That made him feel so much better. 15 minutes later, the Uber driver gave up trying to draw the young man's attention, and with a shrug, slowly drove off without him. So I kind of intro the story to kind of give an identity to a new generation of people, and we're going to get into that, who that new generation is, but does anybody relate to anybody like that?

Does anybody know anybody who lives like that? Who lives constantly for their cell phones, that their whole lives are based on apps, or do you know somebody like that, or are you yourself somebody like that?

Do we switch over to communication here, or should I just read the chat? Trying to get away from your phone? Well, yes. It's horrifying. Living, quote, quote, living, yes. I was at a restaurant. Let's see, what was that?

That was Cheesecake Factory, and my wife and I were there on a date, and across the aisle, 15 family members were at a table, and they're all around the table, and every single one of them was on their cell phone.

Not a single family member looked up or talked to each other through the whole time, and that is kind of starting to define what our time period is like, and so it's a scary time period because it's no generation like this has been like this before.

I mean, every generation has had its ups and downs and in particular concentrations of things, but this is the significance, and this is my thesis for this chapter, that no other generation in the past has been subjected to as many distractions as the Millennials and Gen Zs of today.

Gen Zs, I'm talking about children or adults now from 1999 to 2015, have been connected to the internet 24 -7 to the internet, both in their mobile devices. They don't know what life is like at all without being connected to a mobile device, so this characteristics led Jean Twenge.

She was a professor at San Diego State University, and she labeled Millennials, the Millennials are those who are born from 1980 up to 1998, as Millennials and Generation Zs, as Generation Me and iGen, respectively, and after reviewing two studies about classroom attention spans, British columnist Victoria Barrett labeled the children of today the distracted generation.

Well, what does this mean, and how has this affected the children that they're so addicted to their cell phones? A great price has been paid psychologically for these endless distractions. Well, Barrett cited a Pew Research Center finding where nearly 90 of teachers surveyed said that digital technologies were creating an easily distracted generation with short attention spans.

In a common case study, 71 of teachers surveyed said they thought technology was hurting attention spans somewhat or a lot, and 60 concluded that online distractions hindered their students' ability to write and communicate in person, so almost half of the teachers concluded that the continual distractions that came from their smartphones were critical thinking and homework skills, and though ever connected to their friends over social media, in-person human relations has caused Generations Z to find themselves increasingly homebound, they're jobless, dislocated, great loneliness, lethargic, physically weakened, depressed, a lot of them are taking prescription painkillers, and 35 more likely to commit suicide than previous less technical generations.

As a matter of fact, after learning that 44 of high school seniors in 2015 had never been out on a date, Dr. Choi noted that some worry that it's not an exaggeration to describe iGen as being on the brink of the worst mental health crisis in decades, with the cause being that much of this deterioration can be traced to their phones, so she concluded that the twin rise of the smartphone and social media has called an earthquake of a magnitude we've not seen in a very long time, if ever, and she said there's compelling evidence that the devices we've placed in young people's hands are having profound effects on their lives and making them serious and happy.

Now, you might think that this isn't something that is happening in the West, or particularly America, this negative shift in teen behaviors with troubled emotional states isn't a Western problem, it's a global cultural phenomenon.

The rise of the smartphone has radically changed every aspect of teenagers, from the nature of their social interactions to their mental health. These changes have affected young people in every corner of the nation and every type of household, and the trends appear among teens and poor and rich of every ethnic background, cities, suburbs, small towns, where there's cell towers, there are teens living their lives on their smartphone.

Now, like I told you all, I come from a background in technology. I started out in the IT world from web development and design and digital marketing, and I spent the last 20 years of my life reaching out to people over and over the gospel, so I do love technology.

Don't take me wrong, I'm not a technophobe. I do love technology. The communication technology the Lord has provided us here today has reached far more people for Jesus Christ than any area before iTech corporate founder Richard Leghorn coined the term the information age back in 1960, so praise God, but as we read, technology is a double-edged sword.

The same social media that keeps us connected to long-lost family and friends also connects us to clickbaiters and identity thieves and cyber thieves. The same online classes that we take to help educators from anywhere in the world can also depersonalize the educational process and leave the student learning in a vacuum.

News and weather at the touch of the fingertips, which normally warns of impending storms, can also keep us in a constant state of agitation longer if the event has passed, so the benefit of countering so many different points of view online can leave one's head spinning in moral relativism and despair, so technology and the many devices that connect us do provide, I believe, a great benefit to the individual and society, but in the wrong hands they can produce great harm.

Now the Lord of all evil Satan, he knows this. He's had a plan going for thousands of years since the beginning of his corrupting influence on humanity, and it continues to this day. The only difference between then and now is that he's added technology to his strategy for reaching his insidious goal, so as we go forward in this discussion, let's talk about what, let's identify what Satan's end goal is, then we're going to discern his overarching strategy, and finally I'm going to get into a number of technologies which combined culminate into the ultimate device which our enemy now employs to help achieve its various objectives, all right?

Satan's Goal: To Usurp God and Rule the Earth

So let's begin with Satan's goal and strategy. Just what is Satan's goal? Well, we go to the book of Isaiah for that. It provides a first-person narrative exactly what Satan has long been attempting to achieve.

He said, I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest side of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds.

I will be like the most high, and you can find that in Isaiah chapter 14, 13 -14. Ever since God's guardian cherub and heavenly worship leader began to envy the praise and worship of the almighty received, Satan has sought to usurp God and sit on his throne.

A failed coup d 'etat forced the prideful angel to change his plan, and having been banished from heaven and cast down to the earth, if he cannot rule the universe, then Satan will at least rule over the planet promised to God's children who were made in his image.

Satan would corrupt humanity, bending those mere mortals to serve him rather than their heavenly father, and so build his own heinously evil global empire upon their subjugated backs. Now, what strategy then does Satan employ in his attempt to reach his sinister goal of establishing his global empire and so garner the praise of mankind?

That's what Satan wants. Satan wants mankind to worship him in place of God. Well, he continues to follow the same five-step strategy he did back in the Garden of Eden. Now, if any group knows about the book of Genesis and the Garden of Eden, I'm so happy you guys know this, but it's interesting to examine the fall of David to see exactly how Satan's strategy works, and it works like this.

Satan's Five-Step Strategy in the Garden of Eden

Step one, distract. The first step in Satan's nefarious strategy to steal the planet earth from mankind began by distracting God's children. Genesis 3 tells the story of how Satan, in the form of a serpent, approached the very first woman Eve.

Hanging down from his perch in a nearby tree, the serpent stopped the woman in her tracks with a simple question asking, has God indeed said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman replied to the serpent, we may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said you shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it lest you die.

Well, God has created and then placed the very first people, Adam and Eve, into a garden paradise. Remember, there's no weeds or thorns or thistles or stinging and biting creatures to be found there. The first couple only had to keep the garden well trimmed and cultivated, name the animals, and keep God and each other company.

No one or need existed, for the bounty of the garden was lovingly given by God for them to just fuck out with Eve. Every imagined fruit and grain was at their disposal. The crops grew, and the trees fruited all year long.

Only one rule existed in this tropical paradise, and that was for Adam and Eve not to eat from that one lone tree. I mean, that's it, right? Just one tree. The first couple even been warned by God what would happen should they eat of the fruit of that tree, death.

But Satan knows that which is forbidden often becomes the most tempting. Even with all the boundless delicacies at their disposal, Satan knows how easy it is to distract mankind with the things which they can never possess.

But with that one simple question Satan posed, all the bounties faded away from Eve's sight, and only that solitary forbidden tree remained stubbornly tugging at her mind. So that was step one, distract.

Step two, self-focus. So with Eve's minds distracted away from all she possessed, now only what she could not have, Satan implemented the second step in his strategy to wrest the world away from humanity.

He made the humans focus not on the loving God and their countless blessings, but on themselves. In verse four, the serpent said to the woman, you will not surely die, for God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

Well, Satan's bald-faced lie placed a niggling doubt in Eve's mind, and she began to think that maybe God was holding out on her, and that maybe he did not love her and Adam as selflessly as he had claimed, and that maybe even God was jealous of humanity and so keeping them down.

Her outward focus on God and her husband became self-focused on what she now believed she didn't have but deserved. So Eve began to see her and Adam as victims, dupes even, an unknown feeling welled up within her for the very first time in her short life.

Eve began to envy, and Satan recognized that emotion all too well. So now we move to Satan's plan step three, to break apart. The story goes on in verse six that a distracted, self-focused Eve took a good look at that forbidden fruit and found that fruit was quite attractive, for it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree desirable to make one wise.

Purposely ignoring the subconscious voice pleading with her conscious mind to not to do this disobedient thing, Eve made up her mind. She plucked a piece of the forbidden fruit and she ate it. Well now Adam enters into the picture, and we don't know if he was there the whole time, or he just come upon Eve in the serpent conversing, Genesis doesn't say.

But some claim that Eve's newfound understanding of the difference between good and evil, that loss of her childlike innocence, caused her to realize she'd somehow become different than her husband, maybe even emotionally superior.

Regardless, her willful disobedience had broken her apart from her. With that realization, Eve may have used the very first feminine charms to lure Adam to join her in her guilty state. Unlikely though, for verse 17 places the fallen mankind squarely on Adam's shoulders.

We know simply that she also gave to her husband with her and he ate, and then the eyes of both of them were open. Eve deceived when she disobeyed, but when Adam disobeyed, he chose to do so with all the facts present.

So mere moments passed before Adam and Eve's relationship began to break apart, and that juice had barely dripped off their chins before they realized with some shock that they were naked. And so they ran off to sow fig leaves together and make for themselves coverings.

The complete openness in their intimate personal relationship was the first time cloaked from each other. And instead of an equal partnership going forward, man the stronger vessel would dominate woman the weaker vessel, and all future marriages would suffer some level of gender God would later in verse 16 explain to Eve this new hierarchy as your desire shall be for your husband and he shall rule over you.

So mankind's relationship with their heavenly father had also been shattered for verse 8 reveals that for the very first time in their lives, Adam and Eve feared the presence of God and they said that they hid from it.

When God at last found their hiding spot, they rhetorically asked the couple how they knew they were naked and why they disobeyed him. And immediately the guilty two flung incriminations like knives at each other.

Adam blamed Eve for their sin, and Eve blamed the serpent, and their newly fallen self-righteous state surely all three found a way to blame God. So yet another breaking occurred when verse 21 reveals the Lord God made tunics of skin out of the animals to clothe them.

Death had indeed at last entered paradise. That trusting relationship between mankind and the animal world had been shattered by their disobedience and much fear and mistrust and blood would be spilled going forward.

Step four then, Satan's plan is to divide. So Satan's temptations had successfully achieved the breaking apart from God from man, man from woman, and mankind from the animal kingdom. Satan had with almost too much ease wrested the title deed of the earth away from humanity.

Satan was now the god of this age as the second Corinthians 4 -4 explains. The earth was his. But as soon as the enemy heard the first baby's birth cry, he realized he had a whole new problem to contend with, mankind's offspring.

The very same pride and lust and self-focused ambitions that fueled Satan and his demonic followers now also fueled mankind. Satan hadn't just created one god to rule over his world, he ended up creating hundreds and thousands, billions and soon billions of little self-proclaimed gods, and every one of them at some level craved the attention and worship of man for God alone.

It was bad enough that the demonic overlord had demons clamoring for higher positions, but how could he possibly rule the entire world and still have all of God's creation worship him when challenged by billions of ambitious competitors?

Though the task seemed daunting, the challenge just unbeatable. So Satan's first solution in dealing with this quandary was to attempt to transform humanity into becoming more like his demonic times. Genesis 6 reveals that when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.

And as demons possessed men and conjugated with them, the resulting offspring became giant. And these mighty men who were of old, the men of renown, they were known as the Nephilim. These unholy creatures provided the mythos for the demigods of ancient lore.

And so abominable was this perversion of nature, so evil had the hearts of mankind been corrupted that God announced he would first cap their lifespans to 120 years. And then at last, he stepped in and wiped the earth clean of them with the flood.

For being the so-called ruler of the earth, Satan could not stop God's interference and he was relegated to being a mere bystander at the global deluge. Creation had been reset, humanity rebooted, starting with the righteous knower in his family.

The true solution to Satan's quandary came surprisingly from God himself. Mankind must be kept divided. Revelation 11, excuse me, Genesis 11 reveals that in only a few generations after Noah, mankind had yet again set their hearts against God's authority and sought to establish their own rule.

All Noah's descendants gathered as one in the land of Shinar and they began to construct a tower that would stand as a monument to mankind's disobedient refusal of God's demand to spread out into the world.

Verse 4 reveals humanity's wayward intention. They said, come let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top is in the heavens and let us make a name for ourselves lest we scatter abroad over the face of the whole earth.

God recognized that what mankind could not do alone, they could certainly achieve if they all just work together. As God surveyed the construction site, the trinity conversed with himself, including in verse 6.

And the people are one and they all have one language and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. God knew that dividing humanity would slow their progress and so he came up with a quite a clever solution, to confuse their languages.

So after hours of futilely attempting to communicate with each other by flipping their hands about and heated arguments and fistfights breaking out, those who didn't make sense of each other began assembling by common language.

The divided people group soon migrated off to the ends of the earth and they becoming the forerunners of the ethnic peoples and nations that we have today. The combination of linguistic confusion and greedy hearts would bring about millennia of endless wars and ongoing division.

Mankind's dream of resting back the tidal the earth grew frustrated and approaching impossible. Well yet another division arose when a man named Abraham came on the scene and that would further keep the humanity divided.

So back in the garden before Adam and Eve had been exposed out of paradise and into a cursed land, God had presented the serpent with a tremendous prophecy. He declared I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed.

He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel. Genesis 3 15. The very first prophecy in the bible. Not only would mankind be divided by language barriers and soon ethnically along racial lines, but also between those who chose to follow Satan's rebellious path and those who swore their lives to faithfully follow God.

The unfaithful would be separated from the faithful, God's enemies versus God's children, and Satan's followers pitted against God's disciples. Under the old covenant it was the gentile world pitted against the Jewish nation.

Under the new covenant the entire world against the church. Well with this first messianic prophecy God also proclaimed a champion for his faithful, the one who had come to be known as the Messiah, the Christ, the revealed son of God, the perfectly holy incarnation of God, Jesus Christ.

He broke loose Satan's tenuous hold on the tidal deep of the earth with a selfless act. Jesus crucified, buried, resurrected from the grave, victorious, he became the worthy lamb slain. His victory over death granted Jesus dominion over the earth.

Revelation 5. And Christ's faithful children, long having surrendered their claim over the world when they also surrendered their lives to Jesus, will one day be granted inheritance rights to the planet upon Jesus Christ, return yet again banished Satan, this time to the bottom of the spirit, and establish him in his millennial kingdom.

So here we go, that's how Genesis is connected to Revelation. It's the beginning and the end of the story. So I gave you the hopeful end right there. Let's get to step five, Satan's plan, and that's to globalize.

Satan's strategy began by distracting humanity with perceived wants, then redirecting people to focus only on themselves, resulting in the breaking apart of vital relationships, and then dividing humanity so they cannot join and so attain the power and praise which he so lustfully deserves or desires.

The fifth and final phase of Satan's strategy to achieve both world dominion and mass worship ends with this, and that's globalization. Satan has spent many long centuries anxiously waiting for means to at last be developed that would make possible the ability to regather the warring masses, and then reprogram humanity under a whole new unifying culture and ethos, his ethos.

This newly shared culture in immortality would bring about a false sense of harmony that result in a reunification of the disaccorded nations, but all under his own global governmental control. Satan seeks to establish a new world order.

The Bible, especially the book of Revelation, reveals that Satan, in the not too far off distant future, will be wildly successful in implementing his new world order, though not all by his own efforts.

God at first interferes in the affairs of Satan and man yet again by removing his restraining influence, and he does so by rapturing the church up to heaven. Then we Christians, who are alive and remain, shall be caught up, raptured, together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord, 1 Thessalonians 4, 17.