December 13: OF ONE MIND
These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast. Revelation 17:13
As the world continues to unravel, people are looking to world leaders for “peace and safety.” The global push for the one-world plan will be much more than just a sales pitch. Many will be ready to join the plan, whatever it is, before they even hear it. Others who pride themselves on being well-informed will be so completely sold on it that anyone who does not “buy in” will be viewed as an offense. The Bible indicates that legislation will compel people to go along (13:15,17), or else! The number one threat to the plan’s success will be those who do not support it. This “common enemy” will pose the biggest danger to saving planet earth.
The end-time unity of governing political powers will be of one mind and will voluntarily relinquish their own power and authority to the beast in exchange for glorious promises of world peace and prosperity. With the beast’s power multiplied many times over by virtue of the world’s rapidly growing support, make note a fundamental detail regarding the infrastructure of this arrangement that has not changed since the Dark Ages: the woman, symbolizing the apostate church – rides the beast. Just as before, the church will control the state. The state will do the bidding of the church! The kind of unity that the devil brings to the world through deceit is destined to be very short-lived (16:19). For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape (1 Thessalonians 5:3).
The powers of seductive, unrighteous deception (2 Thessalonians 2:10) just ahead do not pose an eternal danger to those whose hearts and minds are fully yielded to God. But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation (1 Thessalonians 5:8). Thanks be to God, for every counterfeit that is presented, there is a truth. Dear reader, do you cultivate a love of the truth, that you might be saved?
The Lord is calling for the kind of unity – in Him – that lasts for eternity. When His people love Him and each other in truth, there is a holy single-mindedness that is the true embodiment of Christ’s love. This kind of unity makes known to others the invitation to everlasting life! Paul pleaded with the church at Philippi:
Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Philippians 2:1-2