Globalism
Globalism
The Bible does not use the modern political term “globalism,” but several passages are widely connected by interpreters (especially in evangelical and dispensational traditions) to themes of human attempts at worldwide political/economic unity apart from God, centralized power, and end-times global systems.
These are often read as warnings or prophetic patterns rather than direct commentary on contemporary politics even though the should and would if they fully understood the Gospel of the Kingdom.
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Tower of Babel
Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is one of the most commonly cited foundational passage.
Humanity, speaking one language, settles together and says:
“Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” (Genesis 11:4, ESV)
We are lead to believe that God confuses their language and scatters them. But does that which bound them within Babylon actually darkened their eyes and degenerated their social bonds so they became a scattered flock?
Many see this as a divine judgment on human pride, self-glorification, and resistance to God’s purpose of filling the earth (cf. Genesis 9:1, 7; Acts 17:26, where God “determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place”).
While it is frequently viewed as an early pattern of centralized human power that God disrupts how did that power centralized in a few or even one come into being?
Did the people seek a system where they all have one Purse?
Did they build a city that was a cauldron where they are the flesh?
Did the develop an appetite for the dainties of rulers which are the reward of unrighteousness?
Were those benefits provided by Benefactors who exercise authority one over the other the bait upon a table that should have been for your welfare but was a snare and a trap?
Did we not heed these warning of Peter about covetous practices[1] and the wages of unrighteousness?[2]
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Scholarly readings
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Scholarly readings vary concerning all these things and even Daniel 2 and 7 which described successive empires culminating in a final kingdom different from the others that will “devour the whole earth” (Daniel 7:23).[3]
Revelation 13 is the clearest description of global scope under a single authority.
The beast is given “authority over every tribe and people and language and nation” (13:7).
A second figure imposes a mark so that “no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark” (Revelation 13:16-17).
This is widely interpreted as a future global political-economic system demanding allegiance and controlling commerce.
Revelation 17–18 portrays “Babylon the Great” as a worldwide commercial and political power whose merchants and kings mourn its fall.
There is an explicit call: “Come out of her, my people” (Revelation 18:4).
These texts are the primary basis for discussions of a prophesied one-world system under the Antichrist, often contrasted with the later global kingdom of Christ (Daniel 7:14; Revelation 11:15).
Warnings about the “World” System
New Testament passages warn against the present world order (kosmos) as a system oriented away from God: [4]
These do not name modern globalism specifically but address human systems, pride, and opposition to God’s rule and follow not the way of righteousness.
Interpretations differ significantly. Many Christians see the prophecies as future (tribulation-period) rather than already fulfilled in current globalization.
Economic trade, technology, and cultural exchange are not inherently condemned; the concern in the texts is typically with systems that centralize power, demand worship/allegiance rather than worship by faith. That system is contrary to God, or reject His sovereignty.
A word to the murmurs
There are those who revile the rulers including those they have chosen for themselves by vote or vittles[5]. They should heed the warnings of scripture.
To blame "Western Colonial Powers" is falling into a trap of condemning the heroes of the past because of the common sins that come when the people choose to live in darkness. Those who chose to propagate a select group of villains are often missing the problem we have seen in all the other nations from the Mongol of Genghis Khan, to the Moslem Caliphates who violently perpetrated their Colonial Conquest with sword and scimitar.
It is the sloth, apathy, avarice, and the covetous practices[6] of the people form the tower of mystery Babylon because they fail to come together and live by the way of the righteousness of God seeking the kingdom of God through true faith, hope, and love which is to say fervent Charity.
This was the way of Melchizedek, as Abraham, Moses or as we see in the New Testament the way of the early Church and the true followers of Jesus the Christ.
Instead they murmur and cling to their doctrines of Mystery Babylon in self righteousness eating the dainties of rulers, loving the wages of unrighteousness and in that appetite for benefits they continue to degenerate believing the lie feeding their own vanity and through sloth they empower those powers, rulers, and tyrants of the world.
The same "Western Colonial Powers" that crossed the sea stopped the blood thirsty reign of the Aztecs who enslaved the people in Mexico, crushed the Islamic slave trade at sea, attacking some of the worst tyrants of history.
But again it is not the abundance of evil but the lack of the faithful in the modern Church and its 40,000 denominations.
Who are the faithful, who will honestly follow the way, which is the way of Melchizedek, Abraham, Moses or the followers of the true teachings of Jesus the Christ.
Footnotes
- ↑ Covet not
- Exodus 20:17 "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour’s."
- Deuteronomy 5:21 "Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any [thing] that [is] thy neighbour’s."
- Micah 2:2 "And they covet fields, and take [them] by violence; and houses, and take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage." Property and inheritance tax.
- Habakkuk 2:9 "Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! 10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul. 11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. 12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!"
- Leviticus 19:18 "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD."
- Mark 7:20 "And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."
- Romans 7:7 "What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet."
- Romans 13:9 "For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
- 1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
- 1 Corinthians 6:10 "Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." See Not inherit the kingdom
- Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God." See Not inherit the kingdom
- 2 Timothy 3:2 "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
- 2 Peter 2:3 "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."
- 2 Peter 2:14 "Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:"
- Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:"
- ↑ Righteousness vs Unrighteousness
- Luke 16:9 "And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations."
- Matthew 5:19 "Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach [them], the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed [the righteousness] of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven."
- 2 Corinthians 6:14 "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”
- 1 Corinthians 6:9 "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."
- 2 Timothy 3:1 "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."
- Romans 1:18 "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,"
- Romans 2:8 "But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,"
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10 "And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:"
- Jeremiah 22:13 "Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; [that] useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;"
- 2 Peter 2:13 "And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness<3408>, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: 15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness<3408 >;"
- Acts 1:18 "Now this man purchased a field with the reward <3408> of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out."
- Jude 1:11 "Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward <3408>, and perished in the gainsaying of Core."
- ↑ The statue’s ten toes and the beast’s ten horns are often linked to a multi-nation confederacy that consolidates power.
- ↑ World order or kosmos
- ↑ 06718 ^דיצ^ TzadikYodDalet tsayid \@tsah’- yid\@ from a form of 06679 and meaning the same; n m; AV-venison 8, hunter 3, victuals 2, provision 2, hunting 1, catch 1, food 1, hunting 1; 19
- 1) hunting, game
- 1a) hunting
- 1b) game hunted
- 2) provision, food
- 2a) provision, food, food-supply
- צ ץ Tzadik is always related to The Faith of the Righteous One, the foundation of the word "to hunt" or Harvest even eat or desire. [Harvest, pant, desire] (Numeric value: 90)
- י Yod The Infinite Point of essential good. Divine spark hidden in the ט Tet. Spark of spirit. [closed hand... Deed, work, to make] (Numeric value: 10)
- ד Dalet Selflessness – Charity, back and forth or through a door or pathway, to enter like a fish (Numeric value: 4)
- Esau was a cunning hunter 06718 Genesis 25:27 צַיִד TzadikYodDalet
- Nimrod in Genesis 10:9 was said to be a mighty hunter using 06718 צַיִד tsayid TzadikYodDalet
- Another "hunt" is 06679 ^דוצ^ TzadikVavDalet tsuwd
- Micah 7:2 we also see 06679 with additional letters יָצ֥וּדוּ YodTzadikVavDaletVav yā·ṣū·ḏū where brothers "hunt" the blood of one another.
- 1) hunting, game
- ↑ Fornication, adultery and idolatry
- Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"
- Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
- 1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
- Psalms 106:38 And shed innocent blood, [even] the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
- Ezekiel 16:36 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;
- Proverbs 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;
- Proverbs 20:16 Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.