Ever since Adam and Eve sinned the world has been heading towards the beast kingdom,and that is because that is the direction they are going.People's nature according to the flesh is selfishness and arrogance,wanting to exalt them self,so as time goes on they will become more selfish and arrogant.
Jesus said evil men shall wax worse and worse,deceiving and being deceived,and since iniquity shall abound,the love of many shall wax cold,and that is because sin is a lack of love.
We have gotten to the point in time where people are highly selfish and arrogant(Proverbs 30:11-14),and because of that the attitude is,people basically care about themselves with little regard for anyone else,so you do not care about me<i do not care about you.
Back years ago when people had the attitude,hey there's Joe.I like Joe he's a swell guy,and howdy neighbor,people had the attitude that people were basically decent,and whatever they did wrong was so miniscule that it was not enough to make them hate society as a whole,so there wanting to exalt them self was to a bare minimum,because they would not want to exalt them self above good ole Joe,and sweetheart Suzie.Their wanting to exalt themselves was restrained somewhat because they viewed people as being basically decent.
But the youth started getting rambunctious in the 1950's which led to them rebelling against authority in the 1960's with the attitude,do your own thing,be your own boss,and have your own way,which opened a can of whoop butt on America,which America has influenced other nations youth,and people starting separating from each other instead of being closer,and arrogance and wanting to exalt themselves was kicked up a notch,a big notch.
Also technology causes them to be able to heap crazy money to themselves because they can reach the whole nation,and the world.
As time goes on the more people will exalt themselves and be arrogant because that is the direction they are going,and the more they are selfish and arrogant,the more they are that way,and the more they want to exalt themselves.They care less and less about people and their feelings as time goes on so their wanting to exalt themselves becomes less and less restrained.Their minds start thinking crazy things that they want to believe because they want to exalt themselves above people because of their arrogance.
It is a cycle that does not quit.They are selfish and arrogant so they do not like each other as much,which they exalt themselves at first a little,which they do not like each other more,which they exalt themselves more above each other,and the cycle continues.
They want to exalt themselves above these people that are highly arrogant,and if they cannot do it be money and material things,they will do it spiritually,and that is why so many people leave the truth of the Bible and will not accept the truth of the Bible,but will want to hear it according to an occult interpretation that God warns us about in 1 Timothy 4,in which the time will come that they will only want to hear the Bible according to their own lusts.
As time goes on the secular world gets more selfish and arrogant,the religious world gets more selfish and arrogant,and the hypocrisy in Christianity will get worse,and the occult world gets more selfish and arrogant.
The world will get more selfish and arrogant,and since they are going in that direction,it will get worse,until they take is as far as they can take their arrogance and wanting to exalt themselves,and that is the beast kingdom.They will take it to the end result,the beast kingdom,which is established because of the occult world,whose arrogance is far higher than ever,and evolution had a big influence,for now they do not have a fear of God so they think crazy things and their being able to have power through nature has increased,for there no God that gave them that power,for it is them that had the ability to have that power,and there is no God to fear,and no God that they have to offend because of their arrogance.
Evolution with it's theory that there is no God,Freemasonry that does not like to discuss politics,or religion,where you can have any religious belief but believe in a higher power,America that allows all religions to be practiced there,and worldly pleasures,the New Age Religion with it's occult interpretation of the Bible that God warns us about,the Pope with his all anybody that does the will of God on earth has salvation even if they do not accept Jesus,atheists and agnostics will have their sins forgiven as long as they live morally and by their conscience,and wanting to bring about a unified religious system,all have a part in why it will happen.
Jesus addressed 7 Churches in Revelation,which I believe is how the Church Age will go in popular opinion although God has always had people throughout history that were in the truth,a prophesy concerning the Church,for if they were Churches that were at that time I do not believe that they would of been that caught up in deception as some are described.
Jesus is addressing that the first Church lost it's first love,which seems like they did not care about people like they should.Then addresses other things that were creeping in,and the time the Roman Catholic Church became popular,which had the Jezebel spirit,which they were deceiving people from the truth and only the priests could read the Bible,and then the time when the KJV came out in which people could read the Bible and started breaking off from the Roman Catholic Church,until now where Jesus said they are luke warm Christians,that are increased with good and say they have need of nothing.
As time goes on the arrogance and wanting to exalt themselves of the world will increase until they reach the end result,the beast kingdom.
God said that He is going to gather all nations together against Jerusalem,and that is because God is going to allow the world 7 years to rebel against Him and follow the beast kingdom,and will bring the Jews to the truth.God is going to allow all people that do not love Him to follow the beast kingdom and take the mark,and then He can continue on with His plan for Jesus and the saints to rule over one sixth of the world that fought against Israel.
Since God is allowing the world to have it's way and follow the beast kingdom,there will be a lot of deception out there.The devil is taking advantage of this and causing all kinds of deception to be out in the world to get people away from a God and being caught up in the flesh and wanting to exalt themselves,that is why that occult interpretation of the Bible,is the doctrines of devils.
As time goes on people get more arrogant and wanting to exalt themselves because that is the direction they are going,and since God is allowing all the people that do not love Him to follow the beast kingdom,there will be a lot of deception in the world,a lot of hypocrites in Church,and the occult exalting themselves highly for they have no God to fear,and no God to offend because of their arrogance because of evolution.