We have just come through a great deal of internal trauma as a country, which by the way, generated approximately $290 million so far for the media and lawyers involved. Writers are addressing the problem very thoughtfully and the results fall right in line with the Bible although the ecumenical movers and shakers do not relate what is happening to the Gospel. They would rather incite Christians to do something. If you get the revolutionary undertone it is not coming from our point of view but from those who want to take dominion and have not succeeded so far and won't, because it would not be in line with God's plan. If the Bible is true, which we believe it is, according to it, we are heading into a tyranny. When you look up the word Babylon in the Concordance in Hebrew, the word Babylon represents confusion (Old Testament) and in Greek `tyranny' (New Testament). If we are dealing with the mystery Babylon then the world will go into a system of tyranny, which will eventually culminate in leadership by one man world wide. The whole world will look up to him as their leader and according to the Scriptures he will not be chosen by the people no more than Jesus was chosen by the people. Democracy will cease to exist after the world as a whole has come around to becoming a family. Democracy is being used to break down the walls and stop the fighting. Likewise the Pope is used to begin the negotiations with all the people to accept each other and tolerate all systems of faith and in finding new ways to exist with one another. From a practical point of view there was no other direction to take to maintain peace after World War II. The new weapons are too destructive and could destroy mankind altogether. World wars cannot be engaged in anymore because of the nuclear threat.
According to the Associated Press statistics only 27,000,000 people still believe in the Rapture, one of every four Christians which leaves us with 108,000,000 Christians. Divide that number into 6,000,000,000 people (population of the earth) and we have .45% who believe in the Rapture and 1.8% Christians.
Churchgoers confess: They went fishing and golfing was the headline on 1-22-99 on an article in the Tampa Tribune. "That doesn't surprise me," says Rev. Randy White of Without Walls International Church of Tampa. "If we continue having church as usual, we will die off in the 21st century." Since the late 1930s, the Gallup Poll has asked Americans about church attendance. When asked if they have attended church or synagogue in the past seven days, about 40 percent have said yes. They found people were not telling the truth and they found that the most committed members exaggerated. Even if they didn't go last Sunday, they usually go and some only go to weddings, funerals, or mowing a church lawn, which was born out by a follow-up. Randy White was concerned enough about the national trend in declining attendance that he wrote a book: "Without Walls: God's Blueprint for the 21st Century Church." He outlines an aggressive plan for churches that want to stay in operation. The clergy agree, as the older generation dies off, so do loyalties to the neighborhood church. "We are going into our first unchurched generation in this country," says the Rev. Daniel Dunn of the Church of the Lord in Carrollwood. "Where our parents and grandparents had a sense of obligation about joining a church, it's not happening with our youth." Baptist Dawson McQuiag stated that the "problem is, we're still doing church and Sunday school like we did in the '50s and '60s, and that doesn't work in today's world. Our job is to find a way to present the never-changing message in an ever-changing world." He has managed to develop Bible studies that deal with real-life issues such as stress management and a contemporary music worship service." (Tampa Tribune, 1.22.1999)
I began working for a living at age 15 and met many people over many years and only few were truly practicing Christians. When one travels in "Christian" circles one thinks that most people are Christians but in work places it is just not the case. What I'm trying to get at is that we are a little flock which is going to get littler and littler because the world is working overtime on making it impossible for us to believe what we believe. It will be too impractical for some more who will fall away for that reason and it's all the more convincing that we are close to the Rapture, as Scripture states there won't be anyone left to rapture otherwise.
The United States is considered to be the most successful society ever developed because it has proven that people can live together of all different beliefs and cultures without war and the rest of the world wants what we have. Many economies have collapsed trying to compete, we are really all that's left standing economically which should be slightly unnerving.
The new Prime Minister of Germany said the other day in an economic conference that 80,000,000 Europeans are out of work, which are more people then live in Germany. It is a staggering number which has implications and Prime Minister Schroeder is eagerly looking forward to get a closer relationship with our President, who seems to have all the answers in spite of what the Congress just experienced. But are we really thriving? Next I want to go into what surfaced recently representing a subtle change moving the country and ultimately the world into the direction of the final regime. I heard Jerry Falwell with my own ears say that the issue with President Clinton underlying the war between the Parties is abortion and that they needed only three more Republican Senators to get enough votes to get it stopped. He did not deny that it was a coo more or less to take over the government. They came close to succeeding. I used to admire him, listened to many of his sermons, have known him for years, but cannot find in the Gospel that Christians are to topple Caesar if Caesar is out of agreement with Christians. Dave Hunt wrote: "The ministry of Jerry Falwell offers another example of blatant disregard for Biblical truth and compromise. Falwell was caught posing in a warm hug with Sun Myung Moon after speaking at the plenary session at Moon's Christian Ecumenism in the America's Conference in Montevideo, Uruguay. Falwell called Moon, "An unsung hero to the cause of free dom who is to be commended for the determination and courage and endurance in support of his beliefs." "Actually, Moon is a cult leader who deserves no praise because he opposes freedom. His mind-control tactics enslave his followers. What are the beliefs that Falwell commends Moon for? Well, for one, Moon believes that Jesus failed in His mission. Instead, Moon claims that he is the true Messiah. Jesus Christ supposedly said one of Moon's sons that "The king of glory, our precious lord Sun Myung Moon, and his beloved bride, Hak Ya Han, reign as king and queen of the entire universe, and I, Jesus of Nazareth, known as the Christ, bow in humility before them." Yet as Moon is commended by "evangelical" Falwell for his claim of Messiahship! It is staggering what's happening in our day." (Midnight Call, World-wide Peace Through Religion, Dave Hunt 3.99)
Noah W. Hutchings, South West Radio Church since 1933 wrote a letter to his listeners: "Just before I wrote this letter to you, a question asked by a listener concerning the New Living Translation was called to my attention. The Living Bible is a paraphrase (not a Bible) and the New Living Bible is a paraphrase of a paraphrase. The NLB has received endorsements from Billy Graham, Dr. Jerry Falwell, and representatives from GARB, Southern Baptists, Dallas Bible Seminary, Episcopalians, Catholics, etc.. Even its endorsers acknowledge the NLB as ecumenical stew. Every week it seems a new Bible version appears. The problem for us is not the NASB, NIV, CEB, NLB, NKJV, ect. The issue is that men are now determining on an exponential scale "yea, hath God said." "Verses are omitted and basic Bible truths have been deceit fully changed to mean something else, often the exact opposite. Words like "born again," "saved," "salvation," "grace," "repentance," "gospel," "sin," "cross," "blood," "judgment," "hell," etc., are being replaced by "politically correct," "sexually correct," "ethnically correct," or "doctrinally correct" words. What is most amazing is that seemingly fundamental evangelicals are endorsing, using and disseminating these butchered Bibles. And the vast majority of Christian publishers will no longer print books by authors that use KJV references." (Noah W. Hutchings, undated) Due to over zealous "prophets" the United States is in a constitutional crisis. In the article "The Future of the End of Democracy," by J. Budziszewski, First Things, March 1999, wrote: "outrages perpetrated by the Supreme Court decision "Planned Parenthood v. Casey", which upheld the outcome.. of the .. abortion decision Roe v. Wade (1973).. [It] reaffirmed.. that no government can affirm without undermining the grounds of its own authority: a private right to use lethal violence for any reasons whatsoever against an unprotected class of persons.. the Court upheld Roe even while admitting that it may have been decided unconstitutionally.
""[We] are satisfied," say the jurists, "that the immediate question is not the soundness of Roe's resolution of the issue, but the precedential force that must be accorded the ruling." In effect this statement sets the Court itself in the place of the Constitution, and it seems that the Justices intend no less, for they declare explicitly that "the rule of law" depends on citizens accepting their decisions. The third was that the Court unilaterally established a religion, something the Constitution explicitly forbids: the religion of radical selfism. By contrast with the Founders, who pledged themselves to the laws of nature and of nature's God, they announce a "right to define one"s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life." "In such a polity no one can long be safe.. Any king who says "Everything is permitted" must add "But I decided for everyone what `everything' includes." .. The Court has at last found it necessary to defy the principle of our own republican government (the balance of powers), the principle of all republican government (that the weak have equal standing with the strong), and the principle of government as such (that rule is ordained to protect, not destroy). The courts have followed the logic of the Casey [case] willing to approve, involving euthanasia and assisted suicide... For good or ill, what distinguishes it was its willingness to raise the question "whether we have reached or are reaching the point where conscientious citizens can no longer give moral assent to the existing regime" and to consider, without endorsement, the rights and wrongs of responses "ranging from noncompliance to resistance to civil disobedience to morally justified revolution."...
"The courts have not, and perhaps cannot, restrain themselves, and it may be that in the present regime no other effective restraints are available. If so, we are witnessing the end of democracy... America is not and, please God, will never become a Nazi Germany, but it is only blind hubris that denies it can happen here and, in peculiarly American ways, may be happening here. What is happening now is a growing alienation of millions of Americans from a government they do not recognize as theirs; what is happening now is an erosion of moral adherence of the political system.. What is happening now is the displacement of a constitutional order by a regime that does not have, will not obtain, and cannot command the consent of the people... The question is "God or country"?.. "It is the Supreme Court that has raised the question of the legitimacy of its law". [The rebuttal is] "Usurping judges are not like Nazis, and abortion is not like the Holocaust... Have [they] ignored the strides their cause has already made and endangered the political alliances that achieved them? [Another comment is that] conservatives have begun to think the unthinkable and do the undoable.. speaking of past and future reforms in realms of welfare, Medicare, and Social Security...
"If an abortion is really a murder then thirty-seven million abortions are really a Holocaust. They are not something that could happen here; they are happening here.. Ancient democracy meant that the most numerous group or class could do as it pleased.. Checks and balances are not a complete answer, for a determined and unscrupulous majority can subvert any restraints the mind of man can devise. The Founders counted on checks.. to slow down imperfect men until they could come to their senses by themselves.. I am one of those who doubt whether revolution can ever be justified.. if the judicial branch continues to entrench its usurpations, a day may come when the republic can no longer be said to continue... At stake in our own day is the killing not just of infants but of the unborn, disabled, aged, sick, or merely depressed. Several varieties of killing are already legal; several others are on the verge... ultimately the culture of death cannot be sustained by permissive laws alone.. If I instead say euthanasia should not be illegal, then obviously I suppose either that there is no God, that even if there is a God He has no law, that if He has a law it need not be obeyed.. To banish religions that call themselves religions is merely to free the religions that do not call themselves religion from the burden of competition...
"..Generic religion is "neutral" religion: just those ideas about God, good, and evil that all human beings embrace. The problem here is that no such ideas exist. Theravada Buddhists, for example, do not believe in a God at all, and Hindus believe that what they call God is beyond good and evil. Another possibility is that generic religion is "general revelation": not the ideas all humans do embrace, but the ones they all ought to embrace because God has "written them on their hearts." Here the problem is different; some traditions maintain strongly the reality of general revelation, while others deny it."
We are rapidly moving into Capitalism of unprecedented proportions. The mergers of large corporations, banks, utilities are changing our world beyond recognition, where we become more and more removed from those who are to serve the population. The complexity of communications which have entered our lives steal hours of our time which we don't have. Many businesses will not be able to cure their Y2K problems because of lack of funds and will go under. They expect a large number of small businesses to fold. The state of Colorado has spent $55 million so far to cure its Y2K problems and have not arrived yet but plan to make it.
Too many caring politicians are dropping out of the race for the Presidency due to the inability to get a minimum of $25 million necessary to run for the job. What we are left with are people like Ted Turner, an atheist, who blamed Christianity for overpopulation and environmental degradation recently. E. Calvin Beisner, an associate professor of interdisciplinary studies at Covenant College at Tennessee's Lookout Mountain wrote in a column for the Atlanta Constitution that Ted Turner addressed the Society of Environmental Journalists recently. He quoted Turner, who declared, "The Judeo-Christian religion.. says man was.. given dominion over everything, and his salvation was that he was to go out and multiply. Well, we have done that.. to the point where in Calcutta, it's a hell-hole. So it's not an environmentally friendly religion.
[I wonder what made him think of them as Christians?] Beisner responded that "Calcutta has for hundreds of years been dominated by Hinduism.. Ted Turner compares Calcutta to Atlanta which is not a case of population but of the poor versus the rich.. To blame the Third World on Jews and Christians is an absurdity on its face. Listen to this: "Still if Turner wants to run for president in 2000, that is fine with us." [Little does he know of what I read in my travels through magazines, newspaper articles and Internet, Turner would like to reduce the population in tune with the United Nations] (Tampa Tribune 12.19.98) On 3.10.99, Fox News Now, Ted Turner was shown telling a Polish joke directed to the pope and that Pope John Paul II "should get with it, welcome to the 20th Century!" A representative of a Catholic Group wanted to feed Ted Turner to the lions. Since Turner represents Major League Baseball and Time / Warner - he should be sanctioned and suspended for offending God in the person of Pope John Paul II, the vicar of Christ. According to the Catholic Turner is offensive to the rights of God and should be treated as others - sanctioned and suspended. He said that Turner needs lessons about the pope as vicar of Christ. Major League Baseball issued a statement that do not condone slurs distancing themselves from Ted Turner. This episode was only aired a couple of times.
Millionaire George W. Bush, Jr., governor of Texas, is another possible candidate who is featured as someone to vote for in the Evangel, a Baptist Counter Cult ministry. George promotes ecumenism which will result in a pluralistic society so desired by politicians. "Generic Religion" is their answer to peace. When asked if faith in Christ is necessary for admission to heaven, Bush said, "I believe that God decides who goes to heaven, not George W. Bush," which circumvented the question in a rather interesting way and qualified him for the job according to the Baptists. If Jeb Bush, his brother is a Catholic, George W. Bush is a Methodist and father George is an Episcopalian who downplayed his religion in politics, we have the picture of ecumenism with a backdrop of Freemasonry which is well known of father Bush. Next to Al Gore, George Jr.'s prospects of making the White House are rather bright. His goal is for the state to work more with "faith-based" programs - such as churches and religious organizations that teach job skills to the uneducated, etc.. which wasn't too popular in Israel when he visited recently.
"Bush admitted to unspecified indiscretions when he was a "young and irresponsible" single man.. with his marriage.. he had a religious awakening and .. swore off alcohol..Bush ruffled Jewish feathers.. when he told a newspaper reporter .. that people go to Heaven only if they have accepted Christ as their savior. A few days later he backtracked, saying it would be arrogant for him to dictate the terms of admission to the afterlife.. George Bush, senior, threatened to withhold $10 billion in loan guarantees aid from Israel in 1992 in retaliation for the Shamir government's development of the West Bank settlements.. "If I were to put Bush with, let's say hypothetically Al Gore, I think Jewish voters would have to go with Gore. Gore has a proven record, he has already been supportive of the Jewish community, he has built relationships there [in Israel]." (The Jerusalem Report 1.18.199 p.33) Note this: Al Gore is asking George Bush, Jr. to join him, Al Gore, as Vice President, in his bid for the Presidency. This certainly confirms that we have become a one party system since President Clinton moved toward the center. Al Gore doesn't seem to be on top of foreign politics nor the United Nations agenda. There is one hitch which will play in favor of Al Gore, but only if he forgets about George. The hitch is a treaty which George Bush senior refused to sign. The Treaty on Biological Diversity is on the shelf waiting to be brought up again and Al Gore would be the man to push the new agenda.
President Clinton could not get it ratified because it is one of the most bizarre and threatening of treaties because it calls for elimination of a huge portion of the world's population, and strict regulatory control over whoever is left. This treaty would give control of U.S. land, energy and private property to various agencies of "global governance." If you want to see the new map of the United States which the agencies connected with the United Nations have developed, go to http://www.america-collins.com/ biomaps.htm ----- according to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. It came out of the Earth Summit. It is a pet project of Vice President Al Gore (discussed in his book, Earth in the Balance). The challenge from the podium was, "we must eradicate poverty. We must achieve greater equality within the free nations. We must reconcile human activities and HUMAN NUMBERS with the laws of nature." The document itself is only 18 pages, and was almost ratified when a SECRET 1000 page document was found which was written to implement the Biodiversity Treaty. This document contains the plan to reduce the world's population by 2/3 to 3/4 in the next 30 - 50 years. It calls for setting aside 1/2 of the American landscape as wilderness areas connected by corridors which would be surrounded by "buffer zones" in which human activity would be highly regulated.
This document while calling for Radical Population control, poses three possible plans for implementation:
1. An agricultural society "in which most human beings are peasants.. should be able to support 5-7 billion people. 2. An industrial society American style (functioning at our present standard of living) would only sustain 1 billion people. 3. An industrial society European style (living more frugally) would sustain 2-3 billion people. This assessment gives us a choice of returning to a feudal peasant lifestyle or mass genocide - what a choice. There is a video available "Global Governance" which tells the entire story with color maps where activity will be highly regulated. (Write to Today, the Bible and You, PO Box 690628, Tulsa, Ok 74169-9940, 918-234-0462) Most of the population would be relocated to the eastern states (most likely because it is better climate for gardening). The United Nations would be in charge as to how this is all to be conducted. This treaty calls for limits on human consumption, land use, transportation, energy and population. We would be required to get rid of fertilizers, cut food production in half, restructure use of automobiles, fuel, refrigeration, air conditioning and meat consumption. Maurice Strong who chaired the Earth Summit in Rio, stated, "It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class..[naming all our conveniences] are not sustainable." Tim Wirth, U.S. Climate conference delegation leader declared, "We've got to ride the global-warming issue.. EVEN IF THE THEORY IS WRONG, we will still be doing the right thing." President Clinton signed this Treaty despite the fact that after the discovery of the Secret 1000 pages, the Senate did not ratify it. Now he is brazenly implementing its tenants by taking the first step in 47 steps, through his `Man and the Biosphere' project, and his `Council on Sustainable Development'. Representative Helen Chenoweth gave her definition of sustainable development as, "a cloudy mixture of earth worship, pagan mysticism, and folklore." Bruce Babbitt, Interior Secretary, speaking to the National Religious Partnership for the Environment (11.21.96) condemned traditional Christianity and elevated the pagan practice of worshiping nature, making it the foundation for a new social "covenant". The U.N. Environmental Program's Biodiversity Assessment (GBA) call for the abolition of Biblical civilization and adoption of pre-Christian pagan societies. (see Today, the Bible & You, 1.1999) This treaty may very well become a campaign issue.
Senator Orren Hatch is another prospect for the 2000 Republican Presidential nomination who is Mormon which would coincide with their United Order for the new millennium. The Mormons would probably feather his nest with the necessary funds but so far there hasn't been any confirmation of these hints which came out prior to the impeachment trial of the President. Mrs. Elizabeth Dole, as a past director of the Red Cross, ties into Freemasonry. The Red Cross roots go as far as the Templar Knights. "At a recent Y2K conference we heard for the first public outcry for a "Global Commander-in-Chief".. (Today, the Bible & You, 10.98)