Come,
young citizens of the world, we are one, we are one. Come, young citizens of
the world, we are one, we are one. We have one hope, we have one dream,
and
with one voice we sing: Peace, prosperity, and love for all mankind. The lyrics
are set to an enchanting, rhythmic melody and are sung by a chorus of
sweet-voiced
children.
Soon you are humming, then singing along. What could possibly be wrong with
those sentiments so innocently expressed? Peace, prosperity, and love for all
mankind-are
these not among the most noble of objectives?
Powerful
humanistic allurements beckon seductively, promising a golden future if all of
earth's people will come together as one. Such a glorious world
order,
long dreamed about and even fervently pursued, seems at last achievable. Those
who hold the worldview that national boundaries must fall and sovereignties
must
diminish because we are all citizens of planet Earth passionately embrace the
earth shrinking technologies that science continues to produce. For
example,
the Internet. Yes, the Utopian dream at last seems achievable. However, while
the sirens of globalism - like the twin sisters who lured unwary
sailors
to their deaths in Homer's The Odyssey -sing their lovely, mesmerizing songs of
New World Order, the words pronounced by the Ancient of Days reverberate
through
the corridors of antiquity and leap at this generation from the pages of God's
Holy Word:
Behold,
the people are one and they have all one language, and this they begin to do;
and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined
to
do (Genesis 11:6).
The
Creator of all things was not expressing His pride in His creation called man.
God was concerned and saddened because all peoples of that time were
united
in their determination to build a world to their own specifications. And why
was this very first globalist effort displeasing to the One who built
into
man the marvelous ability to do whatever man could imagine? Did not God himself
create man in His own image, infusing the creature with phenomenal
creative
drive?
It
seems at first glance a supreme paradox: The Creator made the creature called
man in His own image, gifting him with powerful conceptual abilities, and
thus
with the ingenuity to build a tower that could ultimately reach into the
heavens. Then, just as man began to fulfill his potential, the infallible
Creator-God
manifested His displeasure in the people of that day as recorded in this
biblical account:
The
whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass as they
journeyed from the east that they found a plain in the land of Shinar,
and
they dwelt there. And they said to one another, Come, let us make bricks and
bum them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they
for
mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build a city and a tower whose top may
reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad
upon
the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the
tower, which the children of men built. And the Lord said, Behold, the
people
are one and they have all one language, and this they begin to do; and now
nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do.
Come,
let us go down and there confound their language, that they may not understand
one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from there
upon
the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore I's
the name of it called Babel, because the Lord did there confound the
language
of all the earth; and from there did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face
of all the earth (Genesis 11: 1-9).
God
Almighty gave the human race a touch of His own genius, but when those people
used it in this rebellious way, He confused that genius by disrupting
their
ability to communicate. Thereby He put an end to the globalist project. God's
dealings with His creation seemed incongruous: Did He change His mind
about
having made man in His own image? Did He resent competition in matters
involving the creativity which this building project might have represented?
Why
did He break up the one-world building effort at Babel?
God
puts His mighty finger upon the answer to the question My did He break up the
one-world building effort at Babel? His answer at the same time pierces
to
the heart of the reason He had to destroy by flood the entire antediluvian
world, with the exception of Noah and his family and select animal life.
The
root cause of why God scattered the Babel builders, thereby ending their
venture in globalism, is found even farther back in human history than the
era
of the flood. God's Word records about those ancient times and His divine
judgment: "The Lord smelled a sweet savor; and the Lord said in his heart,
I
will not again curse the ground anymore for man's sake; for the imagination of
man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite anymore
every
thing living, as I have done" (Genesis 8:21).
The
key thought from the mind of God for our purposes here is "The imagination
of man's heart is evil from his youth." Let us examine this indictment in
the
framework of its context.
God
declared that He would never again curse the ground as He did following man's
rebellion in the Garden of Eden. Neither, He said, would He ever again
smite
all living things as He did with the worldwide flood of Noah's day. God placed
between these two promises the statement of truth about the fallen
state
of man, a fact absolutely rejected by today's humanistic social architects.
Their denial of this reality is at the core of globalism. So too is the
demented
assertion that man is evolving toward a higher order of being that will
ultimately produce heaven on earth: peace, prosperity, and love for all
mankind.
Adam's
and Eve's God-attuned senses must have changed from perfection to imperfection
in one cataclysmic moment. What a heart-wrenching scene it must have
been
when they willfully disobeyed God, choosing instead to yield to the tempter,
who told them they would be as God when they ate from the tree of knowledge
of
good and evil. How devastating must have been that eternity-rending moment when
those magnificently beautiful humans discarded the effulgence of God
that
had shrouded their nakedness. The image of God emanating from within their
beings must have begun to dissipate, to change into frightening, darkened
countenances.
So, too, their minds no doubt convoluted within their sin-infected thought
processes. Both image and imagination altered in that moment into
a
perpetual state of opposition to the Creator with whom they had previously
walked in perfect trust and love along the Garden's lush pathways.
Mankind's
course has been spiraling downward since that willful decision by the first man
to do what was right in his own eyes rather than obey God. The
fall
brought a curse upon planet Earth and death to man. Every generation of people
since Adam and Eve were evicted from Eden contributes ample proof that
"the
heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked" (Jeremiah
17:9).
From
the first murder, when Cain slew his brother Abel, to the slaughter during the
more than 15,000 wars of recorded history, to the most recent terrorist
atrocity
or one-on-one killing, fallen man continues through his vile actions to testify
to the truth of God's indictment: "The imagination of man's heart
is
evil from his youth" (Genesis 8:21).
We
make the mystery of the paradox more understandable when we reconsider these
fascinating facts. God, who is perfect in all His ways, created humankind
perfectly,
actually making man in His own image. Once again we realize that He gifted man
with a powerful imagination so that whatever man could imagine,
he
could eventually do. However, when man began to use that imagination in
building a tower that would reach into heaven, God was displeased and stopped
the
project by confounding the language of the builders, then scattering them
abroad. We again consider the question: If a perfect God created a perfect
man,
why did God act in such a seemingly harsh manner when the creature used his
God-given talent as recounted in the story of Babel?
The
answer, of course, is that God also created man with free moral will, or
volition. The creature was not made a robot, but was made with brilliant
conceptual
abilities
and was given freedom of choice-which includes discernment for choosing wisely.
But Adam chose to disobey God and so sin entered into the world.
The
human bloodstream became instantly contaminated by the infection. The minds of
men, including their imaginations, became darkened in the mystery of
iniquity
that engulfed them.
The
paradox understood, the question is now answerable: Mat is wrong with people
coming together in a united effort to construct a one-world order with
the
objectives of achieving peace, prosperity, and love for all mankind? The answer
is that man is spiritually separated from the Creator because of original
sin.
His thinking is therefore fatally flawed. Nothing good can come from thinking
and planning that excludes God.
Had
God allowed the globalist' of Nimrod's day to continue their tower project, He
would have had to ultimately curse the earth again as He did when Adam
disobeyed,
or He would have had to destroy all living things upon the earth as He did
because of the corruption that required cleansing by the great flood
of
Noah's day. God was not acting harshly at Babel, nor was He acting contrary to
His perfect character.
Rather,
He was displaying unfathomable love by keeping His promises to the tiny fallen
creature who was deserving of judgment and for whom He would one
day
sacrifice His only begotten Son in order to redeem them.
Children
of the tower of Babel builders today carry on the globalist agenda despite the
differences in language and geographical separation. They circumvent
the
barriers through use of technologies designed to serve their one world
purposes. The siren song grows louder: We have one hope, we have one dream, and
with
one voice we sing., Peace, prosperity, and love for all mankind I
The
obsessive drive toward bringing all men, women, and children into one-world
configuration arose shortly after the time Jesus Christ walked the earth.
It
is perhaps indicative of our sordid day that since the time Jesus walked the
earth in the flesh, this era has been called A.D., but now we are to
acknowledge
that
we live in the period of human history called the Common Era, or CE The
revisionists, you see, demand that all vestiges of Jesus Christ be erased
from
even our lexicon. There must be many ways for the people of the coming New
World Order to come to God, if indeed there is a God.
Jesus
Christ, who said He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and that no one can
come to the Father but by Him, simply does not fit the globalist mold.
Thinkers
who formed that mold wanted there to be no doubt that man, through his
intellect, can do whatever he imagines. He can build a perfect world without
input
from any deity who might or might not be out there somewhere. This arrogant
attitude of self- sufficiency is summed up in the document titled "The
Declaration
of Interdependence," released by the United Nations' World Affairs Council
on January 30, 1976. It reads in part:
Two
centuries ago, our forefathers brought forth a new nation; now we must join
with others to bring forth a new world order. To establish a new world order
...
it is essential that mankind free itself from limitations of national
prejudice.... We affirm that the economy of all nations is a seamless web, and
that
no nation can any longer effectively maintain its processes for production and
monetary systems without recognizing the necessity of collaborative
regulation
by international authorities. We call upon all nations to strengthen the United
Nations and other institutions of world order.
The
zeal for stampeding everyone into a totally controlled global village has not
subsided. Elitist power brokers continue to fuel the humanist engine that
drives
the globalist machinery with grandiose declarations and promises of heaven on
earth.
The
Secretary General of Habitat 11, the most recent U.N. forum aimed at laying
groundwork for the New World Order, predicted that there will be "... a
new
beginning of the requests to implement the actions called for at this
unprecedented continuum of global conferences that have marked the closing
decade
of
this century."
He
then made this ominous statement: "A new global social contract for
building sustainable human settlements must be forged for the new global urban
world
order...."
He made his statement in Istanbul, Turkey.
For
superbly documented analyses on these U.N. planners and what their plans
portend, read carefully Chapters 2 and 8 of this book. Berit Kjos and Chris
Corbett
portray in stunning fashion the humanity-convulsing realities that confront
America and all other nations while we approach the year 2000.
J.R.
Church gave the following astute observations about the extremely troubling
U.N. agenda. His report predates the June 1996 Istanbul conference, thus
providing
excellent background for helping us understand the developments we continue to
see.
The
United Nations released a report January 1, 1994, setting the agenda for
upcoming conferences designed to establish world government in the near
future....
Many
are beginning to ask how long it will take the U.N. to implement plans to
accomplish their New World Order ... I Certainly God remains in control.
Those
who are His children through belief in His Son, Jesus Christ, should not look
with trepidation upon these foreboding harbingers of the coming tribulation
period
described by Jesus in the Olivet discourse. However, it is abundantly obvious
that developments we have seen in wave after wave of U.N. intrusions
into
the lives of Americans should make all of us know that real agendas and
activities lie behind our concerns.
Neo-Babel
builders construct even their music in a way that clearly demonstrates the
Luciferian desire to usurp God's throne. John Lennon's universally
popular
song could easily be mistaken as portraying the biblically prophesied
millennial reign of Jesus Christ. But Lennon, like Lenin, preached manmade
heaven
on earth-an imitative mockery of the true Messiah's coming kingdom. The words
and melody are infectious.
Imagine
there's no heaven
It's
easy if you try
No
hell below us
Above
us only sky
Imagine
all the people
Living
for today ...
Imagine
there's no countries
It
isn't hard to do
Nothing
to kill or die for
And
no religion too
Imagine
all the people
Living
life in peace ...
You
may say I'm a dreamer
But
I'm not the only one
I
hope someday you'll join us
And
the world will be as one ...
Imagine
no possessions
I
wonder if you can
No
need for greed or hunger
A
brotherhood of man
Imagine
all the people
Sharing
all the world ...
You may say I'm a dreamer.
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us.
And the world will live as one.'
Globalism's
siren song is a one-world anthem that the true child of God cannot follow to its
murderous, destructive end. The Holy Spirit within us is the
tether
who binds us to the masthead of truth. With Jesus Christ as the Captain of our
salvation, we navigate through the treacherous seas of our time.
Still,
we must be alert and heed the wake-up call.
There
seemed to come a calming, refreshing breeze that restored common sense in
America with the election of November 8, 1994. The vicious, destructive
winds
of socialistic madness had begun to stir early in the twentieth century. They
grew to full hurricane strength while being channeled through increasingly
liberal
legislative and judicial bodies, with powerful assistance from equally liberal
media.
The
storm raged throughout the nation's culture by the time the 1990s arrived.
Occasional executive-branch resistance slowed it only momentarily while it
roared
against the country's rapidly weakening moral barriers.
Suddenly,
just as the great storm seemed to reach its full fury, American voters arose
almost as one entity and the howling leftist assault was brought
to
a dead calm.
Many
reasons have been suggested for the loud repudiation of liberal ideology and
its influence upon America's governmental policies. Certainly, the electorate's
majority
voice unmistakably demanded that politicians begin serving the people in a way
that benefits the nation rather than continue serving their own
parochial
interests at taxpayers' expense, as had been the case for decades.
But
a sudden pulse of wind disrupted the calm only days after the people's actions
in the voting booths brought the tempest to a standstill. The gust seemed
to
burst from nowhere, although the clouds of its origin had been seething for
many years in the financial stratosphere of the European Common Market.
GATT
(General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) swept down on the U.S. ship of state
while the nation sat in the calm eye of the storm. NAFTA (North American
Free
Trade Agreement) joined in the sovereignty-assaulting blow.
The
new storm front is even now whipping up monstrous economic waves which might
very well swamp the nation in their wake. What the socialist engineers
of
the first part of the hurricane could not accomplish with their internal
assault, the socialist world economic powers that comprise the backside of
the
sovereignty-killing storm managed to achieve with little more than a tropical
front. When the American voters swept the one- nation-under- Godlessness
liberal
Utopian schemers out the front door, the ejected ones quickly ran around the
side of the house, where they joined with the globalist New World
Order
builders, who were being welcomed in the back door with eager smiles and open
arms by a lame-duck Congress which was composed in part by rational-thinking
patriots
who should have detected the ruse.
But
there are none so blind as those who will not see. Under the guise of free
trade, the one-world parasitic apparatus has now apparently been contrived
and
has begun siphoning strength and resolve from this nation and others. The
globalist elitists now channel America's wealth, along with funds from other
geopolitical
and economic spheres, into Third-World countries at a rate greater than ever
before. They constantly strive to solidify their one-world power
base
through material goods giveaways. They continue to create and consolidate an
ever-increasing constituency dependent on the New World Order hierarchy
for
absolutely everything as those poorest of earth's people move through their
miserable lives from cradle to grave.
The
one-world schemers would have us believe that all this noblesse oblige is being
undertaken on behalf of humanity for humanity's own good: egalitarianism
at
its most glorious peak of achievement!
Mankind
in general and Americans in particular fell prey to the sedative effects of
globalism's siren song while the eye of the storm passed calmly overhead.
GATT
certainly was not perceived to be a storm warning by most; it was rather
proclaimed to be salvation for the economic stability of the world. God,
however,
is never fooled and cannot be sedated. He put out the storm warning long ago
that just such a time in human history will arrive when an elitist
ruling
class will combine its power and authority to create a mechanism of control
through which it will attempt to enslave every human being on the planet.
God's
warning foretold that the world's authority and power will ultimately be given
to one man, the world's last and most terrible despot (read Daniel
9:27,
Revelation 13, and Revelation 17:12,13).
Those
who analyze prophetic matters have long puzzled over why the United States of
America is not mentioned specifically in God's prophetic Word. Certainly
there
has never been a nation more blessed or more active in the spread of the gospel
of Jesus Christ. Small and seemingly insignificant nations and regions
like
Libya and Ethiopia are recorded in passages of prophecy yet to be fulfilled,
but not America. Could we with the super hurried movement of America into
the
World Trade Organization (WTO) be witnessing at least a partial answer to the
question of what will happen to the United States, since it is not mentioned
by
name in biblical prophecy?
John
Gizzy, editor of Human Events, in commenting on the highly questionable way the
U.S. was speedily ushered into the GATT arrangement and membership
in
the WTO, said:
I
don't think anyone will argue that we have to play in an international market.
The world is a smaller place and the relaxed tariffs of agreement on the
part
of the U.S. will help us get into a world market and sell our products with
ease overseas.... Nonetheless, the problems persist. Some thoughts: If
you
accept that free trade is good and necessary, why on earth do we need a
22,000-plus page agreement that only one senator who voted on it bothered to
read?
I might add that after actually reading through the document, Sen. Hank Brown
of Colorado voted "no." And could we not simply have bilateral
agreements
with
individual countries we want to trade with?
For
that matter, why didn't we have a trade agreement in one simple sentence:
"All tariffs will decrease 20 percent per year over the next five
years"?
We
didn't do it the simple way. We needed a new, super powerful, secret World
Trade Organization, one with 350 employees and a $7 million annual budget,
a
fourth of which Uncle Sam will pay for to implement GATT. There was great
concern that the WTO, which represents 123 countries, permits the United States
only
one vote and no veto. And to be sure, small countries, such as Castro's Cuba-or
any of them-could vote to sock it to the U.S. with million-dollar-plus
fines
if local regulations violated world environmental rules....
Finally,
the avenue of passage for GATT that was utilized by our men and women in
Washington makes us a bit suspicious. If this is such a significant agreement,
with
such a far-reaching impact, why were only 20 hours of debate permitted, with no
amendments, and why on earth did a lame-duck Congress, a huge number
of
whose members were defeated last month, make a decision that will impact you
and me well into the twenty-first century? What would have been the matter
with
the next Congress taking office in January dealing with this lofty agreement?
What were Bill Clinton and other GATT supporters afraid of? ... But
as
it becomes law and as the vote was taken, I could not help but think of the
warnings issued by one of the greatest Constitutional scholars in the U.S.
Senate,
the late Sen. Sam J. Ervin of North Carolina. One of his greatest apprehensions
was that [of] the danger [which] international agreements posed
to
our national sovereignty. In Ervin's words, "The United States has never
lost a war nor won a treaty."'
To
repeat the opening thought expressed at the beginning of this section: With the
election of November 8, 1994, there seemed to come a calming, refreshing
breeze
that promised a return to government that serves the people rather than seeks
to rule with mastery over them. America seemed to have been given
a
reprieve from the death sentence which the woolly-minded had pronounced upon
religious and a growing number of other liberties. But how deep a commitment
to
return to those earlier, saner principles (and thus how realistic the reprieve)
remains to be seen.
To
those who have truly studied the Word of God, it is clear that man-made
government that refuses to be guided by God's principles of morality will
inevitably
degenerate
and fall to tyranny within its own borders or without. Political parties cannot
muster the fortitude to either restrain or constrain the oppression
and
tyranny that incessantly seek to enslave. Government of, by, and for a moral
people can ensure those inalienable rights which our forefathers fought,
bled,
and died to secure for us. It is we the people, under God, who must determine
to govern wisely. President George Washington said in his farewell
address,
"Reason and experience both forbid us that national morality can prevail
in exclusion of religious principle." John Adams, America's second
President,
said,
"The United States Constitution was made only for a moral and religious
people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."
We
must begin by governing our own lives in a way that is pleasing to the Creator.
There is only one way to please Him, and that is to put ourselves under
the
lordship of His blessed Son, Jesus Christ, who shed His blood on the cross of
Calvary for the remission of our sins. How wonderful it would be if not
just
the majority of American people but a majority of people throughout the entire
world turned to Jesus Christ in humble repentance!
But,
tragically, we can be certain that this will not happen. God in His omniscience
tells us through His Holy Word that in the last days perilous times
shall
come and that evil men and seducers will become worse and worse, deceiving and
being deceived. The man who will be the world's last and most vicious
tyrant
is perhaps even now waiting in the shadows just beyond the spotlight's circle.
He will take the crown given to him by his New World Order sycophants
and
use the platform of globalism they have erected to build a monolithic throne
upon which he will ultimately sit, claiming to be deity while demanding
worship.
Today,
movers and shakers in the world of global politics are paving the way for the
world's last dictator, called in God's Word the Antichrist. They do
so
most likely oblivious to biblical prophecy. But whether wittingly or
unwittingly, they rush headlong into that dark night of apocalypse.
David
Allen Lewis, one of the most reliable observers of eschatology that I know,
reported the following about the latest developments on the globalist's
agenda.
What
went on in San Francisco, September 1995, was nothing less than extraordinary.
Mikhail Gorbachev and a bevy of politicians, futurologists, and New
Agers
took the world a giant step closer to global dictatorship. From September 20 to
October 1, 1995, a landmark meeting, headed by Marxist Mikhail Gorbachev,
former
head of the Soviet Union, was conducted at the Fairmont Hotel and a nearby
Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco. Billed as the State of the World
Forum-Toward
a New Civilization, it was one of the most significant steps forward in
implementing the coming world government, which President Clinton
recently
referred to as the "global village." It was previously hailed as the
New World Order by former President George Bush in many speeches made while
he
was president of the USA.
Jim
Garrison, executive director of the Gorbachev Foundation, made a very revealing
statement in the May 31 issue of SF Weekly, a far left San Francisco
newspaper:
"Over the next 20 to 30 years we are going to end up with the world
government... it's inevitable." Garrison writes of the problems of
violence
in
the USA and the rest of the world, proclaiming that "... in and through
this turbulence is the recognition that we have to empower the United Nations
and
that we have to govern and regulate human interaction." Garrison is from
the New Age Esalen Institute and Soviet American Exchange Program, San
Francisco.
Yes,
the Cold War is over, but looming before us is the ideological Hot War of
hegemony (domination) and oppression. The globalists know that the human
race
must be blinded to the real intentions of these elitist one-worlders if they
are to succeed. They must endeavor to use the media to brainwash you
into
thinking that they have your best interests at heart.
I
have no doubt that history will record The World Forum as a momentous occasion
in the annals of the coming Antichrist. And the world lies in darkness,
ignorant,
blindly stumbling along, vaguely uneasy but nonetheless pathetic. . . . Lewis
quoted from the document titled "State of the World Forum- Toward
a
New Civilization," September 20-October 1, 1995, San Francisco. He writes:
...
On page three of the document, the mission of the conference is clearly stated.
"The State of the World Forum is the launching of a multiyear global
initiative
to focus on the fundamental challenges and opportunities confronting humanity
as we enter the next phase of human development. It is being held
in
the belief that at this momentous juncture in history-between the ending of the
Cold War and the dawn of the new century-we are experiencing the birth
of
the first global civilization.... The goal of the Forum is to articulate a
clearer vision of new international priorities. Its product will be an ongoing
process
to generate innovative approaches to the challenges facing human society. This
historic gathering will 1) Analyze the current state of the world,
and
2) Launch a multiyear process, culminating in the year 2000, to articulate the
fundamental priorities, values, and actions necessary to constructively
shape
our common future.
"Ultimately,
the State of the World Forum is an invitation. It is a call to individuals
throughout the world to join in this dialogue and to work directly
with
the convening of committed individuals as an active member of an historic and
timely global initiative .......
Lewis
writes further: . . On the last page of the Document we read, :,The State of
the World Forum is a project of the Gorbachev Foundation/USA, an international
nonpartisan,
nonprofit educational foundation created in 1992 to address the immediate
challenges of the post-Cold-War world and assist in the process
of
building global consensus for our common future."
Lewis
goes on to report a long list of attendees. Many of the high- profile names are
familiar to most Americans. For further information about those meetings,
write
your request to David Lewis Ministries, P.O. Box 11115, Springfield, MO
65808-1115.
Thankfully,
even though God's judgment upon sin is sure, He is also slow to anger and His
mercy is great. It is my opinion that we are currently in a lull
that
God has graciously granted just before the prophesied end-of-time storm that
will devastate a wrath-deserving generation. Even so, a brisk wind is
already
snapping the flag of warning that apocalypse approaches.
God
the Holy Spirit earnestly and tenderly beckons all who will heed His call to
take shelter within the only harbor where protection from the deadly whirlwind
to
come can be found. That safe harbor is Jesus Christ. Those who refuse to accept
the haven or safety offered by Christ will perish beneath the raging,
crashing
surge as surely as did the antediluvians during the judgment of Noah's day.