The UN’s Global Goals for Sustainable Development – THE Covenant with Many?
By Thomas Taylor
IS AGENDA 2030 LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE WORLD GOVERNMENT PROPHESIED IN DANIEL AND REVELATION?
By Thomas Taylor
IS AGENDA 2030 LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE WORLD GOVERNMENT PROPHESIED IN DANIEL AND REVELATION?
The Bible prophesies a government that all the world will wonder after (Revelation 13:1-14). It will be a government that rules all of mankind — a true world government. And it will not look like what most Christians are expecting.
Most prophecy watchers are looking for the Antichrist to negotiate a seven-year peace deal with Israel, step onto the world stage, and build his empire from the ground up. But that is not what the text says. Scripture describes a man who rises to power in the context of a world already in crisis — a world that has already been organized, surveilled, taxed, and controlled by a global system that the people of the earth have come to despise. He does not build that system. He destroys it. And when he does, the world will love him for it.
Understanding Agenda 2030 is essential to understanding how that happens.
THE PROBLEM BEING MANUFACTURED
The system the United Nations has built to govern humanity used to be called the New World Order. Today it is called the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), or Agenda 2030 — officially introduced September 25, 2015. It is not a new idea. It is Agenda 21, expanded and accelerated. It was championed by Pope Francis when he came to the United States, pushing the Global Goals at the White House on September 23, at the U.S. Congress on September 24, and before the United Nations on September 25. The final blood moon of the 2014–2015 tetrad fell on September 28 — four days after the Pope stood before the world and helped launch this agenda. If that timing does not arrest your attention, you are not paying close enough attention.
The SDGs tie man-made climate change to moral obligation, declare poverty to be the consequence of environmental failure, and propose worldwide wealth redistribution managed by a global authority as the only ethical remedy. Climate change is the manufactured crisis. It is the excuse for everything. Not because the people promoting it believe it — but because a crisis, real or fabricated, is the oldest tool in the authoritarian playbook. Give people a big enough problem and they will surrender any freedom for the promise of a solution. That is the design.
The U.N. presents it with unusual candor: “All countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership, will implement this plan.” All countries. And then: “We pledge that no one will be left behind.” No one escapes. This is not an invitation. It is a directive. No nation opts out. No individual is exempt.
WHAT THE 17 GOALS ACTUALLY MEAN
The 17 Global Goals sound benevolent. They are not.
Goal 1 (End poverty everywhere): Control world finance and currencies. Goal 2 (End hunger): Control the world’s food supply. Goal 3 (Ensure healthy lives): Control the world’s health care. Goal 4 (Inclusive education): Control the world’s education system. Goal 5 (Gender equality): Suppress masculine resistance, promote passive compliance globally. Goal 6 (Sustainable water): Seize control of the world’s water supplies. Goal 7 (Affordable energy): Control the world’s energy sources. Goal 8 (Economic growth): Control world employment and labor. Goal 9 (Resilient infrastructure): Control world commerce. Goal 10 (Reduce inequality): Worldwide wealth redistribution. Goal 11 (Sustainable cities): Concentrate populations in cities for surveillance and control. Goal 12 (Sustainable consumption): Control supply and demand across all markets. Goal 13 (Combat climate change): Use the false premise of climate emergency to tax, fine, and imprison global citizens who do not comply. Goal 14 (Conserve oceans): Control the oceans and their resources — fishing and mining will no longer be free. Goal 15 (Protect ecosystems): Move land from private ownership to government control. Goal 16 (Peaceful societies): Establish international courts and an international police force to enforce global law.
Goal 16, point 9 deserves to be read word for word: “By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration.” A global numbering system for every human being on earth. It is not a stretch to call this the bureaucratic and technological precursor to the Mark of the Beast.
Goal 17 (Global partnership): Fund and enforce all of the above through taxation, surveillance, data collection, and the dismantling of national sovereignty.
Every single goal accomplishes one thing: the elimination of individual freedom and national independence, consolidated under a centralized global authority run by a handful of unelected experts. This is not charity. This is the beast system’s scaffolding being erected in plain sight, dressed in the language of compassion.
The end result is not a world where the poor are lifted up. It is a world where everyone is equally poor — except the global elite who control the machinery. That is what “equity” means in their framework. Not everyone rises. Everyone is leveled.
THE REACTION THAT WILL BE MANUFACTURED NEXT
Here is what most prophecy teachers miss: Agenda 2030 is not the final world government. It is the Problem.
The globalists running this agenda know exactly what they are doing. They are applying the oldest formula in political history — Problem, Reaction, Solution. You manufacture a sufficiently unbearable problem. You wait for the population to cry out for relief. Then you deliver the solution you always intended — but which the people would never have accepted without the problem first.
Agenda 2030 is the Problem phase.
A world government that controls your food, water, energy, land, money, healthcare, education, and assigns you a legal identity number is not a world anyone will quietly accept forever. Resentment builds. Resistance grows. Nations strain against it. Economies suffer. People suffer. The system becomes visibly corrupt, visibly tyrannical, and visibly unsustainable. That is not a failure of the plan. That is the plan. The goal is to make the current order intolerable so that when a man rises who appears to dismantle it, overthrow the corrupt globalist establishment, and offer freedom and national dignity in its place — the world will not merely accept him. They will worship him.
That man is the Antichrist.
He is not the one who builds Agenda 2030. He is the one who appears to destroy it…but not completely; he will allow and use some of it to control the populace. He rides in as the solution to the misery the globalist system has created. And he replaces it with something far worse — his own absolute control, presented as liberation.
Revelation 13 tells us the world will wonder after the Beast. They will say, “Who is like the Beast? Who can make war against him?” (Revelation 13:4). That is not the language of a population submitting to a tyrant. That is the language of a population who believes their champion has finally arrived. You do not get that reaction from obvious oppression. You get that reaction from a man who defeats the oppressors — or appears to.
THE 3.5 YEARS THAT REMAIN
There is one more piece of the puzzle that reframes everything.
Daniel’s 70th week is not seven years long. Not for our purposes. The Church has been taught for generations that the “Tribulation” is a seven-year period — but that phrase, “seven-year tribulation,” does not appear in the Bible. Not once. What Daniel 9 actually describes is a 70-week prophecy given specifically to the Jewish people and Jerusalem. Sixty-nine of those weeks were fulfilled precisely at the first coming of Christ. The 70th week — the final seven years — was designed for Jesus.
He fulfilled exactly half of it.
Jesus ministered for 3.5 years, from His baptism to the cross. In the middle of the week He caused the sacrifice and offering to cease — because His death on the cross rendered the entire Levitical system obsolete (Hebrews 10). Daniel 9:27 is primarily a Christ verse. He confirmed the covenant with many. He brought the sacrificial system to its fulfillment. He accomplished it.
But Israel rejected their Messiah. And Jesus told them exactly what that forfeiture would cost them. In John 5:43 He said: “I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.” The final 3.5 years that Israel refused when they crucified their King do not simply disappear. They transfer. They will be fulfilled by the one Israel ultimately receives — the Antichrist.
This means what remains on the prophetic clock is not seven years. It is 3.5 years. The second half of Daniel’s 70th week, still outstanding. That is the Great Tribulation. That is the time of Jacob’s trouble. That is the 42 months, the 1,260 days, the time and times and half a time that Revelation returns to repeatedly — because it is the consistent, unambiguous duration of what is coming.
The entire popular prophecy framework built around “the seven-year Tribulation” rests on a misreading, and that misreading has produced a generation of Christians who are not only unprepared for what is coming — they have been trained to believe they will not be here for it.
THE ANTICHRIST REMAINS HIDDEN
Satan has always done his most effective work covertly, not overtly. He is not going to send a man onto the world stage who announces himself as the Antichrist, signs a seven-year covenant with Israel in front of cameras, and gives the Church a clear starting gun. That would accomplish nothing. Every prophecy-aware believer on earth would immediately identify him, call him out, and resist his agenda at every turn.
He does not work that way. He never has.
2 Thessalonians 2:6-8 tells us the man of lawlessness is currently restrained, and will remain hidden until the restrainer is removed. He is operating now — in the shadows, behind institutions, behind agendas, possibly as one of the architects of the very system that will eventually be overthrown and replaced with his own. When he finally steps into the open, the world will not see a tyrant. They will see a deliverer. The infrastructure of control will already be in place. The people will already be suffering under it. And he will appear to be exactly what they have been praying for.
This is how Revelation 13 works. The world wonders after the Beast. They do not submit to him in fear, initially — they run to him in relief.
The Church needs to understand this. We are not waiting for a man to sign a document and start a seven-year clock. We may already be inside the window. The problem is being built around us. The reaction is being cultivated. The solution is being prepared.
Watch.
Resources:
September 23: The Pope’s Speech at the White House
September 24: The Pope’s Speech at the U.S. Congress
September 25: The Pope’s Speech at the U.N.
September 25 – 27, 2015: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Summit
September 25: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Global Goals
The Youtube video: ‘We The People’ for The Global Goals
June 18, 2015: The Pope’s climate change encyclical
