Without hesitation, the title of this post, might prompt you to agree, without reservation, that political/military power and wealth are indeed concentrating. Throughout history, power and wealth have long been cozy. But there’s a clear pattern that I think will enthrall.
Over the eras of history, these twins haven’t always ‘danced so closely’ as they appear to be doing in our day. Indeed, their relative closeness over time, has ebbed and flowed. Often, in one man, they both were ‘stowed’. But in the modern era, there has usually been a significant distinction between political/military power and wealth. Playbook for the anti-Christ (Part 2), based on ChatGPT’s research, explains how Donald Trump is currently (April 2025) the most powerful man in history, but he’s clearly not the most-wealthy. However, his unusually close association with a long string of multi-billionaires (13 of whom are in his cabinet of 22 officers), raises this question:
Might the historical pattern of power and wealth,
concentrated in one man, be returning??
To that question, my unequivocable answer is, YES!!! Let’s briefly explore why.
On any journey, especially long ones, it is critical to keep the destination in mind, and to pay attention to various sign posts and/or events along the way. Well, it is apparent to anyone who has eyes to see, that history is a multi-millennial journey, designed for humanity. Though the foolish among us may think our journey here will be forever, the wise among us know The Bible iteratively attests otherwise. Since our journey here had a starting time, it is logical to perceive it will also have both an end time, and a final destination that will eventually be reached. Makes sense?? The Bible, and all of history, are chock full of pivotal sign posts and events along the way to our destination. These include many events that were predicted (prophesized) well in advance of their occurrence. The Lord uses prophecies as one of many proofs of Who He is—The Lord God, Creator, Sustainer, and Judge Potentate of all things! Years ago, Bible scholars concluded 80 percent of those predictions have become historical facts. Unfolding news events around the world, indicate that percentage is still growing.
History also reveals the ebb and flow ‘dance’ between power and wealth, from ancient BC times, to today. With this insight, the pertinent question is:
What does The Bible signal about this ‘dance’
as we approach our declared destination??
It responds with both inferred and emphatic points that most readers might miss or misinterpret. The trajectory of global events, as interpreted through a theological lens, indicates a movement towards the reunification of political/military and economic wealth, not divided as they currently are, but in one person. Perhaps it is akin to the growth of huge companies via corporate mergers, and government’s anti-trust measures to curb such. Other obvious examples include the fact that ‘money begets money’, and ‘power begets power’, resulting in eventual, unimaginable mergers. In both cases, human pride, greed and grift, push both the powerful and the wealthy to crave more, consolidate more, and seize more, by any means possible, corrupting people and systems along the way, or rather, that get in the way!!
History on this current version of Earth is being slowly driven toward its declared, unstoppable culmination. In the culmination sequence, might there be a trifecta of cases in which political/military power AND economic power once again MERGE …in one person with significant or total, global impact and influence??
Stay tuned for Part 2
A Possible Trifecta of Consolidations
