@ Russ N. -- agree with most of what you're saying. Except that China is the culprit and most everyone realizes that. And that 'they' -- a few people are in control -- as much as we allow them to be.
How much control are we allowing. And now with Biden in office. Now we'll start seeing the downward spiral. The changes he's made in his first week in office.
In reading your last sentence. Are you a pre-trib or a post-trib rapture person?
And, yes, I realize that This was responding back to 'Admon's comment. Just adding my 2 cents' worth.
I believe the end times plays out:
1. Falling Away occurs first. They will no longer endure sound doctrine, but heap to themselves teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. God’s Word diminishes and science and liberal secularism increases.
2. Truth becomes a lie and lies become truth, good becomes evil and evil becomes good. Liberal secularism dominates the education, science, and political systems. Sin and perversion (LGBT, abortion, divorce, fornication, deceit and corruption) becomes normalized.
3. The diversity of mankind fades away and unity grows stronger. Global economics, global politics, international liberal secular laws, and a common unified (global warming, energy, COVID-19, government mandates) goal and focus.
4. Natural disasters increase (birth pains) - more frequent earthquakes, droughts, hurricanes, floods, pandemics.
5. Sin and lawlessness increases. In the age of fake news and increased propaganda, murder rate is increasing, political corruption increasing, wealthy elite growing more powerful and above the law, society unravels as the family unit and community is destroyed.
6. The rapture takes place.
7. Strong Delusion. Advanced technologies, advanced AI and super computers, advanced surveillance, fake news, and technology to alter reality with advanced computer programs sets the stage for the antichrist and phalse to deceive the whole world into believing a lie.