The entire world will be afflicted with the same delusional adoration for the anti-Christ that was evidenced in the worship of Hitler by the German masses. I think Hitler was an example and a warning, and he was pretty much responsible for the rebirth of Israel, much to his upset in hell I would imagine. For someone of his meglomaniac ego to learn he was merely a pawn in the plan surely did not sit well with him when he learned of it. God will take man's intentions for evil and use it, turn it, for His purpose.
The difference now is this, we are looking at globalism, not just Germany taking over the world, but the world being taken over by an entity that is growing in power and influence not through war, but through peace, as foretold. "By peace he shall destroy many". The platform he shall rise on will be a platform of peace, "they will say peace and safety, but there will be no peace".
Israel is back in the land and is the focus of the worlds attention, yes, Israel has had wars and troubles back in it's ancient history, but every nation in the world was not entangled in it as it is today. The question of who Jerusalem belongs to is a cup of trembling, poison, that can lead to WW3. Jerusalem has become a burdensome stone for all nations, all that burden themselves with it shall be dashed in pieces.
"Damascus shall be a runious heap", the weapons of war that can fulfill the prophecy of the curse that will be visted upon all that come against Israel are invented and in place, "Their eyes shall consume away in their holes, their tongues shall consume away in their mouths, and their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet.", chemical weapons can cause soldiers of the same camp to turn on each other in madness and blood lust which is also prophetic.
Today, all of the Empires listed in Daniel have come to pass, Babylon, Medo/Persia, Greece, Rome, and now the nations that Rome divided into are reuniting into the "EU", and the "United Arab Immirents" and both or either are the last ones listed and both or either will be ruled by the anti-Christ. Both of these have formed before our eyes, not to mention the growing influence of the U.N. which, as told by prophecy, is an entity that will be both weak and strong at the same time, able to exert strong influence, but weak in it's ability to hold all these nations together because each nation seeks it's own best interest.
Today, as in Hitler's Germany, children are being questioned as to guns in the home, by their own peditricians, everything your child types on the computer in school is stored in a database in D.C., quizzes are issued by the Fed to be taken by children without parental awareness. We could very eaisly be entering into a period where the "Father will give up the child unto death and the child the parents." Your most dangerous enemies will be those in your own household".
It is quickly becoming possible to mark all men so that they cannot buy or sell without an implanted chip, paper money will become a thing of the past, and the sooner the better as far as the makers of chip implants such as Digital Angel is concerned. Is this the mark of the beast? I don't think so, but it is not a stretch to imagine that after these chips have become a common every day convenience that a world dictator can come along and nullify your ability to use this convenience without his identifying mark of alligance.
Between satellites and cameras on every corner, optical scans and such, your movements will be easy to trace and if you are not where you are suppose to be when it is time to worship you will be asked to give an accounting of why you were not on your knees, look at how the Muslims pray five times a day and imagine that requirement for the entire world, in fact if the Muslims get their way you will be on your knees five times a day or they will want to know why not, in fact the beheading of those Saints that will not reject the diety of Christ nor accept the dictators mark sounds very Muslim to me.
Look at how all nations are pushing globalism, no borders, look at how our own President pushes globalism and a borderless world under an entity of appointed officals over each trade hemisphere that will settle trade disputes and keep the masses in line.
Finally, a passage that causes me great worry is the one about the Great Whore that has fallen from her place with God and, drunk with power, rides the Beast. To ride something is to control it. The USofA rides the U.N. and tries to control it, and the U.N. hates the US, the beast hates the Whore, wants out from under her control and destroys her in one hours time with fire. The anti-Christ talks three nations into giving him their power for one hour and he launches a strike on the Whore that destroys her in that one hour, she is identified as the richest place on earth at the time, she is populated with people of different races and tongues. What a void the destruction of the USofA would provide the anti-Christ to step into world power. Makes ya wonder if someone like Ben Laden has thought of this, in fact Ben Laden could also be an example as was Hitler. I hope I am guessing wrong on this one, I'm hoping that big time, but read it and see what you think. I see no need to don tin foil because one can easily believe that all this can readily come to pass in the next twenty/twenty-five years. Much of the stage is already set in fact.