We should be clear on this. God owns the devil. God owns all of his creation. Nothing happens outside of God's sovereign will. God uses all things for His Glory. What is happening in the world is God's wrath being poured out as he has given all those who deny Him over to a debased mind. People with a debased or reprobate mind are in carrying out their evil plan. They will not succeed. They have already been judged. That does not mean they won't wreak havoc on the world because they will, but Jesus will open the scroll and the 7 seal judgements, and then the 7 trumpet judgements, and finally the 7 bowl judgements will fall upon all those who do not believe, and then Jesus Himself will descend and will destroy the wicked and set up His 1000 year reign on the earth.

The only question we have, is at what point are we on God's timeline. Is all that is going on in the world leading immediately up to the Great Tribulation or is it still far off??