Resetting the World

The world’s best-selling book–the Bible–explains God’s mission to save the world while giving an overview of the first four thousand years of human history.

It describes in detail the war between good and evil (God, Satan, Israel, Jesus, and the Church). That’s one reason I accepted “The Book” as my life compass many years ago. The Bible’s worldview fits reality far more than any other.

It also records the rise and fall of nations/civilizations while using many diverse metaphors to describe it.

A modern term for “rise” might be “reset.” 

In 2025, God is using the Trump administration to reset the world.

Resetting the World

Scripture uses many word pictures to describe the salvation story and renewal of human societies. Here are a few:

• Light and darkness. Light signifies good, righteousness, and renewal. Jesus is the light of the world. The Reagan presidency touted “Morning in America.” We are to be “children of light” in a dark world.
• Water/waves. God judged and saved an evil world through the Flood. There can be waves of righteousness or torrents of evil. YWAM was founded on a vision of waves of young people evangelizing the continents. 
• Faith and unbelief. Abraham is the father of faith as opposed to those you turn away from God.
• Death and resurrection. Wickedness is “death-like” as it separates us from God and others. Being severed from God is eternal demise. Jesus came to save and resurrect our hearts on earth and bodies in heaven one day.
• The godly and the ungodly. These are the basic words in Proverbs for living right or wrong.
• Destruction/transformation. The devil is the destroyer. Jesus transforms individuals and nations.
• Revival and decline. People and nations that turn away from God suffer many negative consequences. When they awake to God’s ways, they experience social/spiritual renewal.

The six books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles tell the history of Israel over a five-hundred-year period. During that half millennium, God’s people rose and fell in their walk with God–often following their leaders. Some bad kings brought the nation into decline (e.g. Saul, Ahab, Manasseh). Others brought seasons of spiritual and social awakening (e.g. David, Hezekiah, Josiah). 

The 21st century A.D. dawned with great hope after the Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America” renewal, the fall of Iron Curtain, and the Good News of Jesus exploding into many nations. But by 2008, I feared that the United States and the world in general were lurching toward the dark side.

We did–for the next 17 years.

Increasing darkness. Waves of evil. Growing unbelief (the “nones”). Celebrating abortion (killing babies). Vulgar speech. Cancel culture. Growing totalitarianism. 

The early 2000’s were a slow but heart-wrenching time of decline.

God gave me a message in 2008 called “The World is About to Change.” I foresaw the Western World rejecting its godly roots, becoming increasingly secular/atheistic, family decay, many moral evils, and the rise of globalism (secular elite one world rule). 

The Covid years only advanced the secular march toward tyranny. When a mentally diminished Joe Biden won the presidency in 2020, it seemed like a social tsunami of evil might usher in the Last Days.

Then a very unlikely figure, Donald Trump, was saved from an assassin’s bullet and providentially voted back to the White House for a second, non-consecutive term.

For the past six months, during a flurry of activity rarely seen in an American presidency, the Trump administration is doing nothing less than resetting the world.

For how long only God knows. 

“Resetting” is a fitting digital age description of what’s happening as “reboots” of technology are common. Trump’s team is resetting nearly everything in America life. His amazing work ethic and policies are impacting the globe.

In what areas is the Trump team resetting the world?

Faith & Morality. Trump talks about faith constantly, gives God credit for saving his life, and most of his policies are based on the biblical worldview including the right to life, personal liberty (free speech), family strength, religious liberty, reigning in progressive education, and keeping biological men out of women’s locker rooms.

Love of Country. Trump loves America and its heritage. He erected two large American flags on the White House grounds, and is preparing the nation to celebrate our 250th birthday on July 4, 2026. America first, not last. Patriotism is back–not hating the USA.

Peace through Strength. The July 4, 2025, military parade was glorious. Military recruitment has soared and all the woke policies of the past administration are being eradicated. Iran was de-nuclearized in a brilliant strike. Hamas will be eliminated from Gaza. Syria fell, and the Abraham Accords may expand to other nations. Trump has worked peace deals in Rwanda—DR-Congo, India-Pakistan, and the EU has upped its game in NATO. Putin will eventually be forced (with stiff sanctions) to stop his unprovoked atrocities in Ukraine. The USA is back as a global peacemaker.

Economic Renewal. Trump’s strength shines through his business savvy and negotiating skills. The OBBB will turn our economy around in the coming months (no tax hike). Tariffs are changing the global economic playing field to the benefit of the American worker and other nations. Why did no other president in my lifetime have the wisdom and guts to create fair trade worldwide? This action alone will bring China to the bargaining table (soon) and slow the march of their Silk Road Initiative.

China. The world’s largest totalitarian threat is being brought to the tariff negotiating table (they need us more than we need them) and their global influence is being stunted. Eric Durneika writes:  

Amid China’s growing role in Africa, however, comes a marked transformation in the U.S.’s Africa policy under President Trump—one that prioritizes stability and trade over endless, unaccounted-for aid. The Trump administration is actively challenging the Chinese Communist Party’s grip on the continent that is home to some of the fastest-growing economies, the fastest-growing population, and abundant natural resources.

Same with the Pacific, South Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. 

There are hundreds of other changes taking place in the U.S. and around the world that have been ignited by the Trump administration. If they are combined with the growing “Baptism Revival” and Generations Z and Alpha showing a significant interest in Jesus, then a full-blown spiritual awakening could be before us.

If you have 30 minutes, please listen to the following discussion between Eric Metaxas and Rod Martin on the global changes now underway. Metaxas is one of my favorite historians, and Rod Martin, a brilliant pundit/entrepreneur.

It’s hard to see historical change with clarity when you’re living it (especially if you have a negative bias toward its leaders). We also don’t know for how long or how deep this American reset with last. Our key tasks are to pray, fulfill our personal assignments, and ride the growing wave. 

But it’s only a preview of coming attractions.

The greatest reset in the cosmos will take place when Jesus Christ, King of kings and Lord of lords, will return to the earth to restore all things.

Ephesians 1:9,10 tell us with certainty:

[God] made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. 

The Consummation. An eternal reset. 

Until then, we must “occupy until he comes” (Luke 19:13).