It’s about time that the universal conspiracy against God’s government—initiated in darkness and going on for thousands of years—will come to an end.

The Lord Jesus Christ anticipated the final confrontation against the mastermind of evil with these words: “Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out” (John 12:31).

The victory achieved by the Lord Jesus Christ on our behalf is ultra-majestic—not only from a human perspective and the plan of salvation—but as a glorious and outstanding victory which unveils the actual nature of this conspiracy. It reveals the real motive of the great rebellion. It vindicates the name of God from all false accusations and upholds His matchless dignity as the supreme God of love.

Unfortunately, the usurper of God’s authority on earth has “cloned” and multiplied by billions his own malicious nature in the sons of men. Thankfully, on the opposite side, the Lord Jesus Christ is displaying His faithful ones who are ready to live or die for their Saviour.

Now is the time when “among earth’s inhabitants, scattered in every land, there are those who have not bowed the knee to Baal. Like the stars of heaven, which appear only at night, these faithful ones will shine forth when darkness covers the earth and gross darkness the people. In heathen Africa, in the Catholic lands of Europe and of South America, in China, in India, in the islands of the sea, and in all the dark corners of the earth, God has in reserve a firmament of chosen ones that will yet shine forth amidst the darkness, revealing clearly to an apostate world the transforming power of obedience to His law.”1

Dear reader: We are living in a most solemn time, a time that marks the stopping of the clock. Time will freeze and the pendulum will reach ground zero. The grace of God will be withdrawn. Everything that was done in darkness will be revealed in broad daylight. No one will then be able to say, “I was deceived,” or “I didn’t know because I didn’t get the privilege or opportunity to know the truth about these things.” At the time of Jesus Christ, every single person living on earth will be aware that they will have made their decisions in a perfect state of consciousness against or in support of the great archrebel. Very soon, no one will dispute the legitimacy of God’s willingness to help and save as many as will allow His grace to work in their hearts:

“The aim of the great rebel has ever been to justify himself, and to prove the divine government responsible for the rebellion. To this end he has bent all the power of his giant intellect. He has worked deliberately and systematically, and with marvelous success, leading vast multitudes to accept his version of the great controversy which has been so long in progress. For thousands of years this chief of conspiracy has palmed off falsehood for truth. But the time has now come when the rebellion is to be finally defeated, and the history and character of Satan disclosed.the archdeceiver has been fully unmasked In his last great effort to dethrone Christ, destroy His people, and take possession of the city of God, . Those who have united with him see the total failure of his cause. Christ’s followers and the loyal angels behold the full extent of his machinations against the government of God. He is the object of universal abhorrence.”2

It is my impression that we have just crossed the last round heading toward the final crisis. Yes, many people have thought—especially in time of war—that the end must surely be here, and at different moments in history people have cried with a loud voice, Misericordia! (“The end of the world is here!”) But this time, there will be no turning back for humanity. A very important declaration made back in the 1800’s by the American author Ellen G. White begins to show real relevance in the current international context today as “[Satan’s] last opportunity to gain control of the world is now before him, and he will make most decided efforts to accomplish the destruction of the inhabitants of the earth.”3

Indeed, there have been a lot of waves made today [at the time of this printing] by the disclosure statement regarding the future of humanity envisioned by the World Economic Forum (WEF) through its founder, Klaus Schwab, and one of its most influential lead advisers based in Tel-Aviv, Dr. Yuval Noah Harari. Professor Harari has made some very blunt and transparent declarations concerning the future of people living on this planet.

It’s amazing how the expression in the inspired Ellen G. White quotation we have cited above—exposing that Satan’s goal “to gain control of the world is now before him”—is actually being fulfilled in the declarations made publicly in various settings by the WEF’s atheistic mastermind of a scholar.

Professor Harari has affirmed on video (speaking in reference to COVID-19): “This is what convinces people to accept legitimatize total biometric surveillance. If we want to stop this epidemic we need not just to monitor people; we need to monitor what’s happening under the skin.”4

Along the same line of thinking, another of his statements underlining the concept of total control over humanity is the following: “What we have seen so far is corporations and governments collecting data about where we go, who we meet, what movies we watch. The next phase is the surveillance going under our skin. . . . [The] same last surveillance systems established even in democratic countries which previously rejected them. And we also see a change in the nature of surveillance. Previously surveillance was mainly above the skin. Now it’s going under the skin. Governments want to know not just where we go or who we meet. Above all, they want to know what is happening under our skin—what’s our body temperature, what’s our blood pressure, what, what is our medical condition now.

“Now humans are developing even bigger powers than ever before. We are really acquiring divine powers of creation and destruction. We are really upgrading humans into gods; we [are] requiring, for instance, the power to re-engineer life. . . . Humans are now hackable animals.”5

“You know the . . . whole idea that humans have you know this . . . they, they, have this soul or spirit and they have free will and nobody knows what’s happening inside me, so whatever I choose whether in the election or whether in the supermarket, this is my free will. . . . That’s over .” 6

Such concepts are not limited to the WEF, but rather are becoming viewed by the public as less bizarre and more plausible than ever before imagined.

So, friend, we can see the actual aim of a few people who are really obsessed with total control of their neighbors, while echoing the same old lie of the devil, “Ye shall be as gods” (Genesis 3:5).

Yet it’s so amazing how the following revelation from the 19th century is in the process of fulfillment. Again, the messenger of the Lord explains:

“I have been shown the perils that would thicken about the remnant in the last days. . . . Great scenes are soon to open before us. The Lord is coming with power and great glory. And Satan knows that his usurped authority will soon be forever at an end. His last opportunity to gain control of the world is now before him, and he will make most decided efforts to accomplish the destruction of the inhabitants of the earth.  Those who believe the truth must be as faithful sentinels on the watchtower, or Satan will suggest specious reasonings to them, and they will give utterance to opinions that will betray sacred, holy trusts. The enmity of Satan against good, will be manifested more and more, as he brings his forces into activity in his last work of rebellion; and every soulwill form an alliance  that is not fully surrendered to God, and kept by divine power, with Satan against heaven, and join in battle against the Ruler of the universe.”7

This will lead humanity to the verge of total collapse and set the stage for the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. In the climax of cruelty, the great Emmanuel will rise in defense of His people. Then will be seen the real characters revealed in our world and the unmasked mastermind of rebellion against God’s government.

“ ‘These have one mind.’ There will be a universal bond of union, one great harmony, a confederacy of Satan’s forces. ‘And shall give their power and strength unto the beast.’ [Revelation 17:13.] Thus is manifested the same arbitrary, oppressive power against religious liberty, freedom to worship God according to the dictates of conscience, as was manifested by the papacy, when in the past it persecuted those who dared to refuse to conform with the religious rites and ceremonies of Romanism.”8

This is the hour when the glory of the Son of God will be revealed and the marks of His suffering on the cross will overflow the world.

From that body that was glorified by the Father, especially from the side that was pierced by the ignorant Roman soldiers, from the face that was spat upon by the surrounding multitude, from the palms that were extended in an act of love for humanity, radiates the glory of the Son of God.

That was when the powers of darkness thought they would curb the plan of salvation, while the Lord was on the cross condemned by a corrupt tribunal. But that was the very time when beyond Orion, at the throne of the Father, the heavenly tribunal was deciding the irreversible condemnation of the cosmic “Barabbas.”

It was at the cross that the Son of God died to resurrect the TRUTH. It was at the cross of Calvary that the most peaceful and humble—and the only divine—man on earth died to resurrect the dignity of human race. It was on the hill of Golgotha that the deadly draught made Jesus cry, “I thirst” in order that we may have water in the time of trouble. It was on Calvary where Jesus turned the hearts of the mothers to the sons and He said: “Woman, behold thy son. . . . [Son,] Behold thy mother” (John 19:26, 27).

It was at the cross where the entire universe ended the mystery of sin. Jesus is the glory of the Father and the express image of His beautiful, flawless, divine character. Praise to Jesus will be the melody that we are going to sing every day in eternity.

May the Lord help us to prepare for that great day when a new begin-ning will be given to the saints.