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THE NEW WORLD ORDER
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THE NEW WORLD ORDER
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Please turn in your Bibles to Revelation 17, as we look at the subject "The New World Order and New Age Religion." This will be a short course on prophecy, and a whirlwind tour of current events which may lead to the fulfillment of a future one-world government.
The Biblical Scenario - Revelation 17:1-18
Before we read this chapter, let us give you a grid into which to place this, so you know where to view these events in future prophecy. These are some of the events which we believe are still future for us. First, there is The Rapture of the Church, when Jesus Christ comes back, and we who are true believers are caught up to meet Him in the air. Those who have died in Christ -will come out of their graves and will go up to be with the Lord also. From the heavenly vantage point, then, we will be looking down on the earth during the next seven years. These seven years will be a time known as The Tribulation. During The Tribulation, Antichrist is going to rise to power, and there will be a one-world government, of which he will be the dictator. And in the middle of that Tribulation period, he is going to require everyone on the Earth, according to Revelation 13 to receive a mark on their right hand or forehead which will mean they acknowledge him, not only as their dictator, but as their god. Without that mark they will not be allowed to buy or sell anything for the remainder of the Tribulation period. And then, at the every end of that time, his world empire which he has built will began to crumble, and he is going to fight, literally, against Jesus Christ. He is going to call Christ down out of heaven. Jesus will come back at The Battle of Armageddon, and with His Word, is going to totally obliterate all of the forces of Antichrist and the Devil. We read about that in Revelation 19. Today we are studying Revelation 17. Chapters 17 and 18 go together to portray the destruction of the world empire of Antichrist. This is not the next thing on God's time table, but it is something we need to understand: that before this chapter can take place, a one-world government must emerge. We find here a beast, symbolizing one-world government, and we also find a woman riding on the beast who symbolizes religion that is not pleasing to God.
1A. MYSTERY BABYLON
1B. The Adulterous Woman - Revelation 17:1-6
The first part of this is about the adulterous woman- from verses one to 6.
Revelation 17
"1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, 'Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.'"
Incidentally, if you will look down at verse 15, the waters on which the prostitute sits are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages. So, whoever this woman is, she has come control over the people all over the earth.
"2 With her the kings of the earth committed adultery and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.
"3 Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.
"4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries.
"5 This title was written on her forehead: MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
"6 I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished."
Today, prophecy scholars believe that woman is apostate religion- a one-world religion, put together by people who believe everything and anything except in personal salvation through the death of Jesus Christ. She is seen as an adulterous woman because, in the Old Testament, in many places, Israel, as the wife of Jehovah, is pictured as an unfaithful wife because she has gone away from her faith in The Lord. In the New Testament, the Church is seen as the Bride of Christ, and we are to be presented as pure and clean. You can see that if the picture is one of a love relation ship between man and God, then those who turn from Him, who follow false teaching, and idolatry, and witchcraft and astrology, are seen as unfaithful to God, and their religion is seen as adulterous. This, then is a picture of world religion giving its power to Antichrist in the last days.
The golden cup is a picture of communion with the world, a turning away from the truth. She is drunk with the blood of the saints. Throughout history we find that the church has persecuted true believers, and in the future it will be even more that way. An apostate church will persecute true believers.
2B. The Seven-Headed Beast - Revelation 17:7-18
The next part of this chapter speaks of the seven-headed beast. Beginning with verse 7 we read this:
"7 Then the angel said to me: "Why are you astonished? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and of the beast she rides, which has the seven heads and ten horns.
"8 The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and will come up out of the Abyss and go to his destruction."
This is a picture of Antichrist, the person.
"The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because he once was, now is not, and yet will come.
"9 This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits.
"10 They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for a little while.
These seven kings, or kingdoms, can be seen as seven world empires. They are very reminiscent of three visions from the Book of Daniel. In the second chapter of Daniel, for instance, there is a rather lengthy, graphic section. It is a dream that Nebuchadnezzar had. He saw an image of a huge statue with gold head, silver chest and arms, brass waist and thighs, and iron legs. The feet of this statue were partly of iron and partly of clay. While he watched the statue, there was a huge rock from heaven that landed on the feet, breaking the feet because of the clay, and causing the whole image to fall over and break into pieces. Then the rock that landed on the feet grew into a huge mountain. Now, Nebuchadnezzar did not have the first clue about what this dream meant, but it bothered him a lot. He called all of his magicians, and no one could interpret the dream, but God gave Daniel the proper interpretation. Daniel explained to Nebuchadnezzar that this was a picture of world kingdoms. He said that Nebuchadnezzar was the Golden head. After Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, there would come another kingdom which was slightly inferior. He did not name it, but that would be the Medo-Persian Empire. Then there would be a third, which we know to be Greece, and after that, a fourth empire, the Roman. The final form of that Roman Empire, the feet, would be partly of the Roman Empire (the iron), and partly of something else (the clay) that was brittle. The rock from Heaven would be Messiah, whose kingdom would shatter all human kingdoms when He comes back as King of Kings. When you put all of this together, it is the same sort of picture, except that, in Daniel, it starts with the third of the seven kingdoms, the Babylonian Empire. If we look back in history, we find that there were two kingdoms before Babylon: Egypt and Assyria. Then came Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece. Those were the five that had fallen. In the vision it says that one of the kings is - meaning that it existed at that time. That would be Rome, the sixth head. The seventh head has not yet come. It will be beyond the Roman Empire, beyond the time of the vision which was given to John, and even beyond our time right now, because, since the Roman Empire there never has been another whole world empire. There have been many attempts to set up empires. Napoleon, Charlemagne, Adolph Hitler, and others have tried, but no one has ever succeeded in having a world empire from the time of the Roman Empire until now. But, according to the Bible, there will be a world empire during the end times that will be dominated by Antichrist.
"11 The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king. He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction."
Antichrist himself is an eighth king.
" 12 'The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast."
When you picture the seven-headed beast (I always see a sort of Brontosaurus with seven heads on seven long necks), think about the last head as having ten horns. In the Old Testament, horns always stand for power or authority.
"13 They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast.
"14 They will make war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will overcome them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings-- and with him will be his called, chosen and faithful followers.'"
Those of us who have gone up with Him in the Rapture, when He comes back at the end of these seven years as King of Kings to destroy Antichrist and his world empire, we are going to come back with Him. We don't have to fight according to Revelation 19.
"15 Then the angel said to me, 'The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages.
"16 The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire."
The prostitute on the beast is world religion. It gives its power to Antichrist in order for his world empire to become a reality. But he, being energized by Satan, does not love that world religion, but hates it and destroys it when he can.
"17 For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to give the beast their power to rule, until God's words are fulfilled.
"18 The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the Earth." (NIV)
Most Biblical commentators feel that this refers to Rome, which is symbolic of world religion because it has, from the time of Christ until now, had more religious sway over the kings of the earth than any other. This is not an attack against a denomination. But, at any given time, there are two camps among Christians. There are those who are true believers in Jesus Christ, who have placed their faith in Him and trust only in Him for salvation. But there is another camp, and always has been, who, although they call themselves Christians, are really relying on works, and because of their works, they focus on the wrong things. They begin to believe the same sort of things that modern Humanists believe, and trust ingood works for their salvation. Because of that, they are not in a right relationship with God.
Now, with this Biblical background, let us consider the woman and the seven-headed beast that is emerging around us even as we read the news from day to day. There is a movement toward a one-world religion, and a movement toward a one-world government that we want to consider.
If you don't realize that the end, or the outcome of all of this, is good for believers, you could become very depressed about this information. It is not my purpose to distress you. You should not be upset or overwhelmed, but you should think about the outcome. (Please see the application at the bottom of this article.)
These two issues: a coming one-world religion and a coming one-world government, are just two of at least twenty "pieces of the prophecy puzzle" that all point toward the soon coming of Jesus Christ for His church. We don't set dates. It could be many years in the future. But it could be today! We have more reason to believe this than any people who have ever lived before.
2A. Movement Toward a One-World Religion
Nimrod's Babylon - Astrology, Occult, Idolatry
It goes all the way back to the story of Nimrod and Babylon. After the Flood of Noah's days, Nimrod was "a mighty hunter before the Lord," and he established the city of Babylon and also the city of Nineveh, which later became the capital of Assyria. He was against God. He introduced astrology, witchcraft, idolatry, and many other evil inventions. It can be shown that all of the religions of the ancient empires were built on the same corruptions originated by Nimrod.
Religion of The Ancient Empires - new forms
If you consider these empires, from Egypt, to Assyria, to Babylon, and so on, you see that all of them had the same basic panoply of gods, but they kept changing their form a little bit, giving their deities different names. In every case, they were worshipping the creature instead of the Creator. This can all be traced back to Babylon.
Satan's Throne at Pergamum
According to Revelation, chapter 2, Satan's throne was established in the city of Pergamum because the city of Babylon had been crushed, and the "Pontifex Maximus" had moved to Pergamum.
Pontifex Maximus in Rome
In the time of Julius Caeasr, the title of Pontifex Maximus (high priest of the ancient pagan religion) was transferred from Pergamum to Rome, and to Caesar himself.
National and World Council of Churches
These councils have been rejected by most of the evangelical churches because their idea is to so water down Christian theology that people do not need to accept the Bible literally in order to be a part of it. We believe that the primary purpose of the church is to help people become true believers in the saving work of Christ, so we can not be a part of that. Because of that, there are other ecumenical movements that are just ignoring the World Council.
New Age Religion
Many of these would come under the heading of "New Age" religion. You can't watch television at night without seeing endless advertisements for psychic counselors and other occultic practices. This is not just a joke. There are millions of people who believe today in these concepts. There is not one great New Age Church but there are thousands of splinter groups, all organized by the Devil to fill that God-shaped vacuum in man's heart, and to do it in such a way that they don't have to believe in a personal relationship in Jesus Christ.
The things they have in common are belief in channeling, where they receive messages from extraterrestrials, belief in astrology, nature worship, pantheism, Gaia worship (Mother Earth), and many others.
Some other forms of this New Age trend include Transcendental Meditation, a modern adaptation of ancient Hindu practices, Silva Mind Control, Yoga, and the Bahai religion which teaches that many roads lead to the same truth.
United Religions - modeled after UN- target 2000
This is a brand new movement, which plans to sign a charter for all religions in the year 2000. They say: " We, people of faith,called by our respective traditions to compassion in response to the suffering of humanity and the crises which endanger our planet, wish to create a permanent forum where the world's religions and spiritual movements will gather daily to engage in prayerful dialogue to make peace among religions, leading to cooperative action for the sake of all.
"We respect the uniqueness of each religion and faith tradition, value every voice, and believe that our shared values can lead to cooperative action for the good of all. We acknowledge that our religious life has often divided us and been used to justify shedding blood rather than building community.
"We affirm that, in spite of apparent differences of practice or belief, our faiths call us to care for one another. We believe that the wisdom of our religious and spiritual traditions must be shared for the sake of all. Therefore, as communities of faith and interdependent people rooted in our faith, we now unite for the sake of peace and healing among religions, peoples and nations, and for the wholeness of the earth."
http://www.united-religions.org/discover/vision/index.shtml
They have a schedule for June 23 of this year to host a convention at Stanford University for delegates from 100 religions to craft the beginning of a charter for this United Religions, which will be patterned after the United Nations, and then on June 26 of the year 2000, the United Religions charter will be signed while a walking pilgrimage for peace will take place through villages, towns and cities throughout the world.
There are literally millions of people ready to respond to this type of one-world religion. Many historians are already referring to our age as a post-Christian era.
Age of Aquarius
The Age of Aquarius was brought to our attention during the revolutionary time of the '60's. They say we have been in the age of Pices, the Fish (symbol of Christianity), but are now moving into the post-Christian age. Those who subscribe to this philosophy will be like the adulterous woman riding on the beast.
3A. Movement Toward a One-World Government
The Ancient Empires/ Secret Societies/ Gnostics/ Knights Templars/ Rosecrucians/ Illuminati
This Satanic plan goes back to the ancient governments and secret societies, including the Illuminati. In the media, those who believe in these things are accused of being wild-eyed wackos. There certainly has been a conspiracy among the rich and powerful behind the scenes, but even if we discounted all of that and started with the events of our own century, you will see that there is what Dr. D.L. Cuddy calls an "Open Conspiracy."
(A Chronological History of the New World Order by D.L. Cuddy, Ph.D., Arranged and Edited by John Loeffler - On the Koinonia House website at http://www.khouse.org/nwo_cuddy.html)
The "Open Conspiracy"
Cuddy did not invent the concept of the "Open Conspiracy." This is something that H.G. Wells wrote about in the year 1928. H.G. Wells had a number of books that were preparatory for a global government. One of them was entitled, "The Open Conspiracy: Blueprints For A World Revolution." He said in that book that the open conspiracy is the natural inheritor of socialist and communist enthusiasms. He said that it would be plainly displayed, and that it will be a world religion. (Cuddy, ibid.)
Here are just a few of the developments of our time that relate to this movement.
The Federal Reserve System - 1913
This was a transfer of the power to create money from the federal government to a private corporation. This private corporation is owned by shareholders, and of the top eight shareholders, four of them are banking houses in Europe. These are the people who literally control our economy, and it is not even a part of our government.
The Council on Foreign Relations - 1919
This group was dedicated to the cause of bringing about a New World Order, but it was so secretive at first that very few people knew anything about them, and in the sixties and seventies, when some of the conservative groups began to expose them, they branched out into other organizations as well.
The League of Nations - 1920
This project, which came on the heels of World War I, was a failure.
The United Nations - 1945
The United Nations was formed after World War II. It also seemed to be a failure until more recent times when it has gained great strength. Most of us are not happy with the type of things it is doing. It aspires to bring about a global government in our world.
The Bilderbergers - 1954
This group began in Europe to accomplish the same sort of things as the Council on Foreign Relations in the United States.
The European Union - 1956
Europe's "Common Market" has unified Europe in preparation of this one-world government which is about to be forced upon us.
World Constitution and Parliament Assoc.- 1959
A group of educators decided that they should write a federal type constitution for all member states of the whole earth. This was not a joke. It has been promoted ever since, and today there are literally millions of people who have signed agreement to this concept, and only time will tell if this is the instrument that will actually bring about a new whole-world government.
(Original information, once available at http://www.cruzio.com/~tim/wcpa/index.html is now "forbidden!" See This Week In Bible Prophecy's page on this at http://www.twibp.com/archives/18/1.html.)
Do you ever hear any of this on the news? No. It is hidden from us, but it is very real.
The Club of Rome - 1968
This was meant to be a controlling organization for many of these semi-secret organizations. They have devised a plan for dividing the whole Earth up into ten regions or "kingdoms", as they call them. This fits very nicely the vision of the ten horns.
The Environmental Protection Agency - 1970
This has served as a prototype of world protection agencies which are causing us great grief today.
The Trilateral Commission - 1973
This is a union of rich and powerful leaders from the United States, Europe and Japan, in order to bring about a one-world government.
The Humanist Manifesto II - 1973
This document was also blatantly in favor of a one-world government, and its philosophy has helped condition all of us to think that such a structure wouldn't be so bad because we have serious ecological problems, political problems, and other needs that can only be answered by a united world.
The Dissolution of the Soviet Union - 1990
In 1931 the Soviets were being trained that in about 30 years there would be a great theatrical display of peace that would cause the gullible nations of the free world to trust them. I believe the collapse of the communist coalition was all orchestrated. Gorbachev played the part of one who was kidnapped, standing against old Communism, so that the world would not worry about it any longer, and therefore be open to a one-world government.
The Gulf War - 1991
The Gulf War is when we first began to hear from Gorbachev, and especially from President Bush about a "new world order." The concept of a one-world government was something most people had not heard much about before. The expression had been used for quite some time by the Council on Foreign Relations and others of their elite circles to describe their objectives. But with the Gulf War, President Bush began to express openly that this new world order was emerging. On September 11, 1991, President Bush said, "The crisis in the Persian Gulf offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, a new world order can emerge in which the nations of the world, east and west, north and south can prosper and live in harmony. Today the world is struggling to be born."
On September 25, 1990, in an address to the United Nations, Soviet Foreign Minister, Edward Shevardnaze described Iraq's invasion of Kuwait as an act of terrorism. On December 31, Gorbachev himself declared that the new world order would be ushered in by the Gulf crisis. During his State of the Union Message, a month later, in January of 1991, President Bush said, "What is at stake is more than one small country. It is a big idea: a new world order, to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind, based on shared principles and the rule of law: the illumination of a thousand points of lights. The winds of change are with us now."
(Cuddy, ibid.)
UN Conference on Environment and Development - 1992
In 1992 an environmental Earth Summit took place in Rio de Janeiro. It was called the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. This was billed as the "mother of all summits," and it had up to 40,000 government officials and environmentalists from 167 countries in attendance. It was the biggest gathering of world leaders ever held. Time Magazine said that it was a New-Age Carnival. The summit was attended by The Dali Lamma of Tibet, thousands of new agers and occultusts, including John Denver and Shirley McClain, numerous leftist groups, and virtually every environmental group in the world. Seven thousand, eight hundred and ninty-two non-governmental organizations were also included from the 167 countries. The results of this conference were the Biodiversity Treaty and Agenda 21, which are issues we need to keep our eyes on in these days.
State of The World Forum - "Global Governance" - 1995, 1996
In 1995, and again in 1996, Mikhail Gorbachev, from his new headquarters in San Francisco, called for a State of The World Forum. This forum was attended by many high ranking people from all over the world, including our own country. The issues had to do with global governance, which is, by the way, the new expression for the new world order, since there is a bad taste for that expression now.
COSCO - Chinese "base" in Long Beach - 1997
Recently we were all surprised when we heard that the Chinese were given a lease to a former military base in Long Beach. This has been decried by many conservatives in our country as allowing the enemy of civil rights and of human dignity – China, of course, being the worst perpetrator of crimes against humanity in the world today – to have a commercial base right here in our back yard.
National Sovereignty Act - Failed - 1997
I mentioned the Biodiversity Treaty that came out of the Earth Summit in 1982. Subsequent to that, 48 of the national parks of the United States have been turned over to the United Nations. If you drive, for instance, into the Death Valley area, you will see a sign that says "Welcome to Death Valley International Biosphere." This alerts visitors that this area has come under the control of The United Nations Advisory Board. This is true, not only here in the United States, but in many places around the world, where they have taken over key places of environmental or historical importance.
In Congress this year, there was a bill introduced to try to regain sovereignty over our own national parks, and, believe it or not, it did not have enough support in Congress to pass. It would have required a two thirds vote to overturn the existing agreements. That means that there were more than one third of our elected congressmen who were willing to go along with the United Nations agenda to control our national parks, and the other things that this will lead to in the future. We don't hear about these things in the media, but there is something new every week or two that cause us to conform to the New World Order.
(https://www.bible-prophecy.com/nwo.htm#Current)
Ongoing issues:
Here are some of the things to be watching in the near future:
Goals 2000- Outcome Based Education
Many of you have already been involved in standing against this in recent days. It will keep trying to push itself to the front in educational circles
Education Reform - Schools "partial hospital status"
According to Phyllis Schaffley, the goal of this educational reform is to remold the entire American school system into a seamless web that literally extends from the cradle to the grave. She points out that, thanks to a loop-hole in the law back in 1989, schools can obtain a "partial hospital status" and receive a steady flow of Medicaid funds to support their programs. Through such schools, and under the guise of preparing children for the 21st Century, the government can control the delivery of health care to millions of children." If the past is a guide to the future, this will result in the schools giving more condoms to children, and providing services without the consent of the parents.
Trade Treaties - eg. NAFTA, GATT
Many of the treaties that are being enacted have the effect of trading away our sovereignty in the interest of global governance. In 1993, Henry Kissinger wrote this about NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) in the Los Angeles Times, "What Congress will have before it is not a conventional trade agreement, but the architecture of a new international system, a first step toward a new world order."
Arms Reduction Treaties -
START II (Strategic Arms Reduction)-1996
This treaty banned all land-based nuclear weapons with nuclear warheads. This sounds good, but it's effect is to tie our hands, militarily, while it allows other countries which do not keep treaties, like Russia, and Third World countries, which are not a part of the treaties at all, to go ahead with their military development. This is a very bad thing as far as the United States is concerned because it leaves us militarily impotent to stand against the terror that other countries might pose.
Chemical Weapons Conventions (Treaty) April 24, 1997
This treaty was recently ratified by Congress to do the same thing with Chemical weapons. We don't want to use Chemical weapons, but the greatest deterrent against those who have them and use them is the fact that we can retaliate in kind, but now we won't be able to do so. So you see that the trend is to tie our hands militarily, so that we are not able to do much as a nation, and thus make the United Nations the only one that can enforce the law. The sad thing about that is that, under the banner of the United Nations, our own troops are already being sent as some sort of police goon-squads to far-away parts of the world, where we are "keeping the peace," not in the name of freedom, but in the name of the United Nations. Most of us are not in favor of this use of our military as a world police force for the United Nations.
Agenda 21
This was adopted by the World Ecology Conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The introduction to Agenda 21 says, "In order to meet the challenges of environmental and development, states decided to establish a new global partnership. This partnership commits all states to engage in a continuous and constructive dialogue inspired by the need to achieve a more efficient and equitable world economy." What they have in mind is a redistribution of wealth and a cutting down of population so that the world will be able to get along easier in the future.
(http://rolac.unep.mx/agenda21/ing/ag21an02.htm)
Rewilding and other Environmental Issues
Maps have already been drawn that show whole states and as much as 50% of the country being destined to be returned to wilderness state, which means that, in some parts of it, human being would not be allowed to go in.
(New Age Conservation Plans for U.S., Karen McDaniel on The Trump of Maranatha site - http://www.prophezine.com/alliance/maranatha/text/consrv.html)
Militia movements, Radio talk shows
We all know these are existent in most of the states. They are, for the most part, against the federal government. We may sympathize with some of the issues about which they are concerned, but the danger here is that these people can pose a threat to the federal government, and the government could then use this to declare a national emergency at the time of their choosing. In other words, by pushing these militias a little bit, they can force them to do things which would escalate to a national emergency. You may wonder what this would matter. The problem here is in the broad powers granted to the President by executive orders which were adopted after World War II.
Presidential Executive Orders
With these executive orders, which the President can invoke on his own, he would have greater dictatorial power than Adolph Hitler or Joseph Stalin had at the beginnings of their reigns.
These executive orders are a matter of public record. Let me give you some of them:
#10995: Seizure of all print and electronic communications media in the United States.
#10997: Seizure of all electric power, fuels, and minerals, public and private.
#10998: Seizure of food supplies and resources, public and private, including farms and equipment.
#10999: Seizure of all means of transportation, including cars, trucks or any other vehicles, including control over highways, harbors, and waterways.
#11000: Seizure of all American people for work forces under federal supervision; it allows the government to split up families if they believe it is necessary.
#11001: Seizure of all health, education and welfare facilities, public and private.
#11002: Registration by the Postmaster General of all men, women, and children for government service.
#11003: Seizure of all airports and aircraft.
#11004: Seizure of all housing and finance authorities; authority to establish forced relocation and to designate areas that must be abandoned as "unsafe." Establishment of new locations for population groups, building of new housing on public land.
#11005: Seizure of all railroads, inland waterways, and storage warehouses, public and private.
#11051: Authorize the Office of Emergency Planning to put the above order into effect in times of increased international tension or financial crisis.
(http://206.107.180.50/CaptainNemo/free/orders.htm)
This answers the question, "Why would the United States ever get involved in a one-world government? How would we ever make that plunge, because the people don't want it. We like the way our country was founded. We like what it stood for. We like our independence; we're a freedom loving people. We die for our liberties here, so, what would cause us to become a part of this one world order? Simply stated, it would have to be some sort of radical change in the government. It could possibly be precipitated either by an environmental crisis (real or imagined), or by something like this militia movement, or some other national emergency where a state of emergency could be declared, then, by the time everything got sorted out, we would have become a part of some new world government. We don't know how it will turn out, but we do know that there is movement in this direction.
Isn't it interesting that it has been prophesied that there will be a one-world government, and we can see these things beginning to come to pass.
Application
Knowing the truth
What can we do about it?
We are not discouraged about what we see. We may be discouraged about the government, or something in the church, but we are not discouraged about our own personal destiny, because we have read the end of the Bible, and we know that we come out victorious. Jesus Christ has already given us victory. We are overcomers. We have a secure future with Him in heaven if we have placed our faith in Jesus Christ. So no matter what happens in the world, we are on the winning side, and we are going to end up with Him. Not only that, but He has given us promises of deliverance from the wrath that is to come if we are true believers in Him. What this should do for us as Christians, is to drive us to prayer and to sharing our faith with other people. It should not cause us to throw up our hands in despair and say, "There is nothing we can do."
Prayer - especially national repentance, revival
When we pray, we should pray for national repentance. Let us pray that the Lord will receive our humble repentance and restore our land. Instead of being discouraged, let us pray for revival, because revival will turn all this around. And even though judgment is inevitable, it can be put off for a time like it was for Nineveh when Jonah went there. The people who turned to God had a revival, and for a while there was renewal for their land. The same thing can happen for the United States if we will be faithful. It will prolong, but it won't put off the inevitable, that there will eventually be a one-world religion and a one-world government.
"Redeem the time" - Share the Gospel - Ephesians 5:16 Those of us who believe in prophecy should be highly motivated to share the Gospel with everyone we possibly can. These are the days when many people's hearts are tender because they are concerned about what is going on, and we should be reaching out to them with the Gospel, and trying to win them while there is still time.
"Look up, for your redemption draws near!" - Luke 21:28
Praise God, we Christians have nothing to fear because Jesus Christ is coming back as the victor. He is coming a King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and as we see some of these things developing which could be the fulfillment of last days prophecy, we are not afraid because we belong to Him.
If you have never received Christ as your own personal savior, be sure to settle that issue now! Jesus said, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come into him." (Revelation 3:20) You can receive Him as savior by prayer right now. Won't you do that? Ask Him to save you from your sin and enter your life. Then, when He comes back for His believers, you will be caught up to meet Him in the air.
