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Historical perspective on the present moment
Peter Kopa, Prague, December 1, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCrASZ2zd8c
Where are we?
The wars and upheavals of the past century and the current global crisis raise the following questions: What is happening to the world? Why are there so many injustices and conflicts? Are we facing the end of the world? To answer these concerns, we need to know about distant and recent history, because it helps us understand what is happening today. Unfortunately, the study of history was greatly neglected in school, so now we need a comprehensive analysis of history.
Those who lack a historical perspective on the present moment are like castaways lost at sea, unable to find their bearings to reach the nearest land. The sun and stars can be obscured by the clouds of so many false prophets. Therefore, we need something to show us where north is.
In our Christian culture, we have a compass that has given greatness to the West, which is the progressive divine revelation in the Old and New Testaments. This orientation allows us to understand events from an optimal and objective perspective, both the macrocosm and the microcosm of individual life.
There is an obvious parallelism and interconnection between the two cosmoses, because the protagonists of great movements are always, in the final analysis, individuals, with their load of vices and virtues. Moreover, the great transmutations (the movement of peoples, wars, colonization, digital manipulation of the masses, science and technology, etc.) are a projection of personal decisions, both for good and for evil, which is only apparently more dominant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvv8i-JEbr0.
Is historical development linear?
The paradigm of the Hebrew people helps to answer this question. God advances in his redemptive work not through human stability, but through disruptions that move the people again and again to renewing conversion, after they have fallen into infidelity. The Bible presents faith as something that arises from effort. The underlying matrix of Scripture is that God intervenes in history in unexpected ways and redirects people to their good, through successive conversions, toward the end determined by Him for their salvation.
These disruptive milestones therefore have a meaning that can only be grasped from the perspective of faith, which in turn is the foundation of a hope contrary to a fatal, dark, and blind destiny. This attitude has been and is the quintessence of Christianity: that evil is the starting point for something better. Thus, the most spectacular and transcendent example has been the sacrifice of Christ, which brought so much good to all who have believed and believe in Him.
Every evil (wars, injustices, persecution of Christians, digital manipulation, and the desire to establish a new world order) has brought and will bring unexpected goods. But this process can take more than a hundred years, while people expect its consummation to be fulfilled during their lifetime. And so, people without the hope of faith believe that the world is heading for a fatal and dark destiny. This is precisely why materialism, whether communist or Nazi, is so evil, inspiring today the false ideological musings of the globalists of the Davos 2030 Agenda.
This wave pattern of historical development also includes science and technology, which in their own way have also created constructive disruptions. Just think of the mechanization of agriculture and industrialism, which have caused major social crises of relocation and concentration of people around new industrial complexes. The same can be said of medicine and hygiene, which have triggered demographic growth. Today we face the challenge of materialism, artificial intelligence, and abusive and often corrupt political management in most nations.
Irruptions of the divine
This Christian worldview forms a type of person that no other culture has produced. Unlike empires, which are born and die, (https://thinktanklatam.org/the-transmutation-of-the-world-order/)the Church has been growing continuously since the resurrection of Christ: When God calls Abraham to leave everything familiar to him, He disrupts a predictable life. Abraham responded not out of cultural instinct, but because God had already revealed His promises to him; his obedience flowed from faith in God’s word.
This pattern in Scripture becomes the prism through which we can understand our own cultural moment. We see the same dynamic unfolding in our world today. It is important to distinguish cultural morality from genuine biblical faith. Only the church, the people redeemed by God, is the community of the New Covenant that has historically proven faithful to its own identity, based on an essentially unchanging faith that allows for the correct historical view of the present moment.
In our day, we are witnessing a worldwide return to faith, especially in leading countries, reversing the process of turning away from faith in God: https://thinktanklatam.org/habla-la-burra-de-balaam/. Everything points to the current expiration of cultural materialism being definitively overcome with the return to a new Christian world order.
A New Beginning
To see how God deals with erroneous assumptions, Scripture gives us a definitive example. The sacrifice of Isaac reveals how God deals with broken systems. Abraham climbs the mountain carrying with him the logic of all the religions he has known: the belief that gods demand blood. But when God stops the sacrifice, He is not only saving Isaac, He is tearing down the entire religious foundation of the ancient world. Here, God shows Himself as the author of life, not as its executioner. We are witnessing a moral reset and a revelation of a God who lifts up what has fallen out of pure love.
2 Chronicles 7:14 says, “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
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This article is inspired by a dissertation by Prof. Tim Orr, a highly influential Australian influencer.