In December, the World Health Organization quietly coordinated a large-scale pandemic simulation involving 31 countries across the Western Pacific. Officially titled “Getting ready for the next pandemic,” the exercise—known as IHR Exercise CRYSTAL—was not framed as a hypothetical drill, but as a real-time test of global readiness for an emerging respiratory outbreak. Governments were tasked with responding to alerts, verifying information, conducting risk assessments, and coordinating decisions across agencies as though a crisis were already unfolding.

According to reporting, the emphasis of the simulation was not on recovery after a pandemic, but on early detection, rapid coordination, and centralized response during the initial emergence of a novel illness. The WHO highlighted “real-time information sharing,” “multisectoral coordination,” and pressure-driven decision-making as core objectives. This approach underscores how future health emergencies are expected to be managed—through synchronized international systems designed to move quickly, uniformly, and with limited debate once an emergency threshold is declared.

Scripture warns that in the last days fear, pestilence, and deception will be used to justify sweeping authority and compliance. The language of inevitability—“the next pandemic”—combined with rehearsed global coordination, echoes a world being conditioned to accept centralized power in the name of safety. As pestilences are listed among the signs Jesus warned about, these preparations remind watchful believers that crises will increasingly be leveraged to reshape societies, setting the stage for the kind of global governance Scripture says will characterize the end of the age.

SOURCE: WND