The economic global system we see developing today will undoubtedly be the vehicle he will use to promote his worship and his control. But even this in itself does not now constitute the system of the beast. In and of themselves they are not evil. He takes whatever might benefit man, like world trade, and seeks to use it for his own nefarious schemes and purposes. Nationalism is the biblical model for today as opposed to internationalism, but only because it is a safeguard against the tower of Babel mentality.
Internationalism makes it easier for the rise of and unlimited power of tyrants.
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