…not the end of the world”. That is how one Financial Times article put this global economic crisis into perspective this week. Indeed, the world is changing before our eyes and I wonder if most are really aware of what is happening.

A Wall Street Journal article this morning talks about the $900 million dollar dinners at a New York restaurant with people standing in line to get a table. Yet there is an anxiety in the tone of what you see and read that has not been there since 9/11/2001. Some are beginning to see that the world really is changing.

I wrote earlier that Asia is in a position to even provide bail out cash for the West, a turn around from ten years ago. Every financial writer these days is understanding that a new world is dawning and when the sun come out again America will not be the only financial center. There will be a new system in place to prevent another global crash like this of the past week.

Whatever it is, in time it will grow into a system described in Revelation 18 as a super power that will trade in “the bodies and souls of men”. (Verse 13). It will appear to be benign but ist heart will be cruel. This system will, called Babylon the Great, will be supported by a dark spiritual power. It will be unlike any to come before.

Elizabeth Wurtzel writes, “In the history of empire…no country has ever wielded dominance as gently and judiciously as the United States has…this planet as a whole will fare far worse under China or whatever country comes next. The world is about to be a much sorrier place.”

I truly believe we are seeing the end of a world we have all come to know. It may take a while to clearly see the outline. But it will be different from anything in our time.