The years 2020 to 2022 were not just a crisis—they were a preview. A pattern emerged: governments moved in lockstep, lockdowns became global norms, digital surveillance expanded, and health became the gateway to control. Mobile apps tracked movement. Medical compliance was tied to participation in society. Nations overspent massively on furloughs, emergency products, and narrative control. The WHO attempted to speak as a global authority, often bypassing local governance, democratic voice, and public dissent. One vast communist nation quietly steered the architecture of response—its influence masked, but unmistakable.
This framework will not disappear. It will evolve. And when the next global crisis hits—whether biological, environmental, economic, or digital—these systems will return, not with hesitation, but with speed and force. Only this time, they’ll be more centralized, more refined, and more enforced.
In this rising architecture, the United States will likely take its place as the enforcer—the lion’s mouth of the Beast. With unmatched military strength and deep influence over global media, America holds the power not only to shape the world’s narrative, but to punish its defiance. The mouth of the lion roars to control perception, but it also bites—lethally. This is not just a voice of persuasion; it is a threat, and where persuasion fails, enforcement follows. America, with its war machines, drone capabilities, intelligence networks, and history of foreign interventions, may become the sharp end of the spear. When the Beast needs compliance, the mouth that roars can also devour.
While other nations provide the infrastructure—the leopard with its surveillance and speed, the bear with its firmness and ideological resolve—America gives the Beast its lethal voice. A voice that can cancel dissent, dominate platforms, and issue commands that ripple across the globe. It can make rebellion unthinkable, and resistance impossible. It can turn truth into misinformation, and frame tyranny as salvation.
And most of the world will accept it. Why? Because it will be wrapped in promises: Security. Health. Order. Peace. The false gospel of the Beast will offer the illusion of life, while demanding allegiance unto death. Revelation warns us: “All the world marveled and followed the beast” (Rev 13:3). This global system, empowered by the dragon’s ancient authority, will rise not through conquest, but consent—seducing the world through crisis, then sealing it with control.
But there is another voice. Quieter. Truer. The Lamb still speaks—not with the roar of fear, but with the whisper of life. Those who follow Him will see through the deception. They will not fear the lion’s roar, nor take the mark of the false kingdom. They will suffer, but they will overcome—“by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony.”
Stephen D Green, with ChatGPT, April 2025