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Our latest three-part series on Christ in Prophecy has been taking a hard look at the rapid rise of the globalist agenda that's bent on forming Satan's prophesied one-world government. This nefarious movement is called the Great Reset.
In our first episode, we began with Brandon Holthaus, the pastor of Rock Harbor Church, who defined exactly what the Great Reset is, its agenda, and the many names it goes by from its strongest supporters of the socialistic government, including big tech, pharma, banking, and environmental activism. Then, Billy Crone of Get A Life Ministries covered the economic mechanisms that are needed to be put in place in order to control everyone's ability to buy and sell, revealing that many are already in place to make the Mark of the Beast system a reality. And, finally, Don Perkins of According To Prophecy Ministries revealed from the book of Revelation what the Great Reset will look like once fully implemented — the Antichrist's rising one-world empire.
In this week's episode, we will explore how Satan is using today's technologies to unite the world under his new culture and ethos.
Let's begin by looking at how today's technologies are affecting our youth culture. This point is significant — no other generation in the past has been subjected to as many distractions as the Millennials and Gen-Zs of today. Gen-Zs, in particular, have lived their entire lives never having known what life was like without being connected 24/7 to the Internet and mobile devices. This characteristic has led Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, to label Millennials and Gen-Zs as Generation Me and iGen respectively. And, after having reviewed two studies about classroom attention spans, led columnist Victoria Barret to label the children of today as the Distracted Generation.
A great price has been paid psychologically for these endless distractions. Barret cites 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 Sense study, 71% of teachers surveyed said they thought technology was hurting attention spans "somewhat" or "a lot," with 60% concluding that online distractions hindered their students' ability to write and communicate in person. Almost half of the teachers concluded that continual distractions also hurt critical thinking and homework skills.
Though ever-connected to their "friends" over social media, losing in-person human relationships has caused Gen-Zs to find themselves increasingly homebound, jobless, dislocated, lonely, lethargic, physically weakened, depressed, taking prescription pain killers, and even 35% more likely to commit suicide than previous less-technical generations.
After learning that 44% of high school seniors in 2015 had never been out on a date, Dr. Twenge noted with 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." She concluded that "the twin rise of the smartphone and social media has caused an earthquake of a magnitude we've not seen in a very long time, if ever" and that "there is compelling evidence that the devices we've placed in young people's hands are having profound effects on their lives — and making them seriously unhappy.
This abruptly negative shift in teen behaviors towards troubled emotional states is not a localized Western problem either, but has become a global cultural phenomenon. Twenge notes: "The arrival of the smartphone has radically changed every aspect of teenagers' lives, from the nature of their social interactions to their mental health. These changes have affected young people in every corner of the nation and in every type of household. The trends appear among teens poor and rich; of every ethnic background; in cities, suburbs, and small towns. Where there are cell towers, there are teens living their lives on their smartphone."
The communications technologies that the Lord has provided His Church today has reached far more people for Jesus Christ than any era before Itek Corporation founder Richard Leghorn coined the term "The Information Age" back in 1960. Praise God!
But, as we have noted, technology is a double-edged sword. The same social media that keeps us connected to long lost family and friends also connects us to click-baiters and identity thieves and cyber-bullies. The same online classes that we take to help educate us 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 fingertip, which wonderfully warns of impending storms, can also keep us in a constant state of agitation long after the event has passed. The benefit of encountering so many different points of view online can leave one's head spinning in moral relativism and despair.
Technology and the many devices that connect us provide great benefit to the individual and society, but in the wrong hands, can produce great harm. The lord of all evil — Satan — knows this. He's had a plan going for thousands of years, since the beginnings of his corrupting influence on humanity, and it continues to this day. The only difference between then and now is that Satan has added technology to his strategy for reaching his insidious goal.
Watch this week's episode of Christ in Prophecy to learn how to identify Satan's end-goal. Next, let's discern his overarching strategy. And, finally, I will reveal a number of the technologies which combined culminate into the ultimate devices which our Enemy now employs to help achieve his nefarious objective.
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