I am publishing a five-part series on a rarely discussed subject called the mystery of iniquity. I am writing this out of deep concern that the body of Christ has ignored the signs that the end is, not near, but here. I gave my life to Jesus Christ 31 years ago, and during that period of spiritual renewal for me and my family, there was a revelry that bordered on maniacal that Jesus could return any moment. Since my conversion, I have witnessed the self destruction of many prominent (and not so prominent) Church officials and lay-members alike, and I have seen the enthusiasm for Christ’s return sink to a low that I would have never imagined.
The first article will discuss Satan’s two thousand year’s plan to harness control of human government. The second article will examine the Church where Satan had established his corporate headquarters. Oh, did I say it was a prominent Christian Church? The third article will discuss Satan’s rebellion in heaven, which led to the expulsion of one-third of the heavenly host. And the fourth and fifth articles will tie it all together by examining the last decade and demonstrating how events have hurled human civilization closer to the poisoned embrace of the anti-Christ.
If Satan is clever enough to deceive angels (see Part III of this series), run his kingdom from the hierarchy of a Church (see Part II of this series), and persuade Jesus to consider jumping from the pinnacle of the temple in an act of suicide (see Part III of this series), then it is not a stretch of the imagination to believe that he is desperately working behind the scenes to establish a global government on earth. The scripture is clear that satanic forces will harness control of human government to enslave the populations of the earth. This seizure of world control will not be the result of a cabal of men deciding it will be so.
Satan’s ambition to rule the world spans the course of human history back to the day he offered Eve the forbidden fruit. Since that tragic moment in the Garden of Eden, he has been developing a secret plan to deceive the civilizations of the world into embracing his poisoned government. His plan will be so deceptive, he will trick the vast majority of the inhabitants of the earth to bow down and worship him and his appointed world leader – And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast who is able to make war with him (Revelation 13:4)? In fact, I believe that the deception to plunge the world into the abyss of satanic control will rival Lucifer’s effort that deceived the angels.
In order to recognize Satan’s end-time plot for world domination, one must temporarily discard the belief that he will show up with a tail in one hand and a pitch fork in the other. This “devil” image conjures notions of murder, mayhem and all manner of wickedness. Consequently, many people cannot recognize the devil in a Brooks Brothers’ suit, responding to emails on a Blackberry. They can only see him through a man in a drunken stupor, or a crack addict who abandons her children, or one who betrays the trust of a spouse during a state of adultery.
Satan’s plans for world takeover will be so far removed from our concept of evil that it will be very difficult to discern. In fact, regarding his deception, Jesus seems to suggest in Matthew 24 that the only ones who will not be taken by his fraudulent demonstration of faith are the very elect – For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect (Matthew 24:24, emphasis mine). Matthew 24:24 does not mean that the elect will be deceived, because as Jesus said, “If it were possible,” and we know that it will not be possible. However, what Jesus is actually saying is that the elect will not be able to recognize the devil through his apparent display of spiritual leadership, and of course, during this period of great deception, the elect will be shepherded and mentored by the very elect. Therefore, they will teach the elect how to recognize these false prophets.
Only the very elect will have the spiritual insight to perceive the satanic origin of the deceivers described in Matthew 24. They will understand the significance of many events as they relate to the rise of the anti-christ, while others will not be able to make the correlations. For instance, they understand that September 11, 2001 had less to do with a terrorist attack against the United States than it did with the development of a national security state.
It is significant to note that although we were told that the perpetrators of September 11th were hiding out in Afghanistan, the United States only sent 15,000 troops to capture Osama bin Laden, while sending nearly 150,000 troops to Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein. While the War in Iraq became the centerpiece of the Bush Administration, the campaign in Afghanistan has become a footnote.
President Bush campaigned on his wartime presidency status during his reelection bid in 2004. Invading Iraq, we were told, was necessary, because Saddam was vigorously pursuing an atomic weapon’s program and would be willing to launch a nuclear attack against the United States or one of its allies. This report was bolstered by a speech given to the United Nations by, then Secretary of State, Colin Powell. Powell urged the administration to obtain support from the U.N. prior to launching its offensive against Saddam. However, he did not realize until after the fact that his speech, written by Vice-President Cheney’s former Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby, contained dubious intelligence regarding Saddam’s quest to obtain weapon’s grade nuclear material from Niger known as yellow cake.
The theme of the yellow cake acquisition was not only forcefully presented in Powell’s speech to the U.N, but President Bush also made it the centerpiece of his 2003 State of the Union Address. This is highly disturbing, considering the fact that the CIA had already discounted this intelligence report as false (see former CIA director George Tenet’s statement on this issue).But what is more disturbing is that it appears that the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) diversion and the alleged link between Saddam and bin Laden were smokescreens to obtain public support to overthrow Saddam; a foreign policy goal that the Bush Administration appears to have developed prior to the September 11th terrorist attacks.
Now, after spending nearly $1 trillion in Iraq and losing more than 4,200 troops, no series public official, Democratic or Republican, will testify that Saddam had a WMD program or was in anyway linked to the September 11th bombing. So public support for the War in Iraq hinged on the feedback from an unreliable source in the intelligence community; however, according to the Downing Street Memo, senior officials from the Prime Minister’s office believed that Bush had already formulated his intention to overthrow Saddam in early 2001.
The secret memo recorded the head of MI6 (British equivalent of the CIA) as expressing the view following his recent visit to Washington that,
The Downing Street Memo was leaked to the Sunday Times and was first published on May 1, 2005. It is considered by many to be the smoking gun of an alarming abuse of presidential power; especially when one attempts to reconcile Bush’s public comments concerning the buildup towards war in Iraq with the facts of the secret memo. In a March 8, 2003 Radio Address President Bush is quoted saying, “We are doing everything we can to avoid war in Iraq. But if Saddam Hussein does not disarm peacefully, he will be disarmed by force.” However, the memo quotes the head of the MI6 as saying, “Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD.”
The Downing Street Memo demonstrates an unprecedented betrayal of the public trust by the President of the United States. However, the bigger issue is not that President Bush fixed the facts and intelligence around a pre-September 11th policy to invade Iraq, but why was an Iraq invasion important to the Bush administration? War with an Islamic country was inevitable as we race towards the rise of the anti-christ. Muslims are the biggest adversaries of Capitalism, and it is clear to me that Capitalism will be the end-time economic system. The War on Terror in general and the Iraq War specifically is an attempt to accelerate the demise of Islam.
What we are witnessing is the continuation of the Crusades between Western Christendom and Islam, which has been evolving since the 11th Century. In fact, immediately after September 11th, Bush referred to the conflict as a Crusade, which ignited an anti-American sentiment within Muslim nations around the world. If a powerful foe can come into one’s country with sufficient force to alter that country’s mode of thought and action, it won’t be long before that civilization is destroyed. As the Western World evolves and Capitalism expands, it begins to erode the tradition of other cultures. Fifty years ago no Islamic country would have invited the Western Capitalists into their markets. However, today, the influence of the West is prominent in many Middle Eastern countries. It wasn’t that long ago that China was considered a Communist country, but it is now viewed as the largest Capitalist market in the world. It is just a matter of time before it too will be having democratic elections.
I’ll address why the expansion of Capitalism is vital to the rise of the anti-christ in the final article of this series.
To be continued…
The first article will discuss Satan’s two thousand year’s plan to harness control of human government. The second article will examine the Church where Satan had established his corporate headquarters. Oh, did I say it was a prominent Christian Church? The third article will discuss Satan’s rebellion in heaven, which led to the expulsion of one-third of the heavenly host. And the fourth and fifth articles will tie it all together by examining the last decade and demonstrating how events have hurled human civilization closer to the poisoned embrace of the anti-Christ.
If Satan is clever enough to deceive angels (see Part III of this series), run his kingdom from the hierarchy of a Church (see Part II of this series), and persuade Jesus to consider jumping from the pinnacle of the temple in an act of suicide (see Part III of this series), then it is not a stretch of the imagination to believe that he is desperately working behind the scenes to establish a global government on earth. The scripture is clear that satanic forces will harness control of human government to enslave the populations of the earth. This seizure of world control will not be the result of a cabal of men deciding it will be so.
Satan’s ambition to rule the world spans the course of human history back to the day he offered Eve the forbidden fruit. Since that tragic moment in the Garden of Eden, he has been developing a secret plan to deceive the civilizations of the world into embracing his poisoned government. His plan will be so deceptive, he will trick the vast majority of the inhabitants of the earth to bow down and worship him and his appointed world leader – And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast who is able to make war with him (Revelation 13:4)? In fact, I believe that the deception to plunge the world into the abyss of satanic control will rival Lucifer’s effort that deceived the angels.
In order to recognize Satan’s end-time plot for world domination, one must temporarily discard the belief that he will show up with a tail in one hand and a pitch fork in the other. This “devil” image conjures notions of murder, mayhem and all manner of wickedness. Consequently, many people cannot recognize the devil in a Brooks Brothers’ suit, responding to emails on a Blackberry. They can only see him through a man in a drunken stupor, or a crack addict who abandons her children, or one who betrays the trust of a spouse during a state of adultery.
Satan’s plans for world takeover will be so far removed from our concept of evil that it will be very difficult to discern. In fact, regarding his deception, Jesus seems to suggest in Matthew 24 that the only ones who will not be taken by his fraudulent demonstration of faith are the very elect – For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect (Matthew 24:24, emphasis mine). Matthew 24:24 does not mean that the elect will be deceived, because as Jesus said, “If it were possible,” and we know that it will not be possible. However, what Jesus is actually saying is that the elect will not be able to recognize the devil through his apparent display of spiritual leadership, and of course, during this period of great deception, the elect will be shepherded and mentored by the very elect. Therefore, they will teach the elect how to recognize these false prophets.
Only the very elect will have the spiritual insight to perceive the satanic origin of the deceivers described in Matthew 24. They will understand the significance of many events as they relate to the rise of the anti-christ, while others will not be able to make the correlations. For instance, they understand that September 11, 2001 had less to do with a terrorist attack against the United States than it did with the development of a national security state.
It is significant to note that although we were told that the perpetrators of September 11th were hiding out in Afghanistan, the United States only sent 15,000 troops to capture Osama bin Laden, while sending nearly 150,000 troops to Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein. While the War in Iraq became the centerpiece of the Bush Administration, the campaign in Afghanistan has become a footnote.
President Bush campaigned on his wartime presidency status during his reelection bid in 2004. Invading Iraq, we were told, was necessary, because Saddam was vigorously pursuing an atomic weapon’s program and would be willing to launch a nuclear attack against the United States or one of its allies. This report was bolstered by a speech given to the United Nations by, then Secretary of State, Colin Powell. Powell urged the administration to obtain support from the U.N. prior to launching its offensive against Saddam. However, he did not realize until after the fact that his speech, written by Vice-President Cheney’s former Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby, contained dubious intelligence regarding Saddam’s quest to obtain weapon’s grade nuclear material from Niger known as yellow cake.
The theme of the yellow cake acquisition was not only forcefully presented in Powell’s speech to the U.N, but President Bush also made it the centerpiece of his 2003 State of the Union Address. This is highly disturbing, considering the fact that the CIA had already discounted this intelligence report as false (see former CIA director George Tenet’s statement on this issue).But what is more disturbing is that it appears that the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) diversion and the alleged link between Saddam and bin Laden were smokescreens to obtain public support to overthrow Saddam; a foreign policy goal that the Bush Administration appears to have developed prior to the September 11th terrorist attacks.
Now, after spending nearly $1 trillion in Iraq and losing more than 4,200 troops, no series public official, Democratic or Republican, will testify that Saddam had a WMD program or was in anyway linked to the September 11th bombing. So public support for the War in Iraq hinged on the feedback from an unreliable source in the intelligence community; however, according to the Downing Street Memo, senior officials from the Prime Minister’s office believed that Bush had already formulated his intention to overthrow Saddam in early 2001.
The secret memo recorded the head of MI6 (British equivalent of the CIA) as expressing the view following his recent visit to Washington that,
The Downing Street Memo was leaked to the Sunday Times and was first published on May 1, 2005. It is considered by many to be the smoking gun of an alarming abuse of presidential power; especially when one attempts to reconcile Bush’s public comments concerning the buildup towards war in Iraq with the facts of the secret memo. In a March 8, 2003 Radio Address President Bush is quoted saying, “We are doing everything we can to avoid war in Iraq. But if Saddam Hussein does not disarm peacefully, he will be disarmed by force.” However, the memo quotes the head of the MI6 as saying, “Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD.”
The Downing Street Memo demonstrates an unprecedented betrayal of the public trust by the President of the United States. However, the bigger issue is not that President Bush fixed the facts and intelligence around a pre-September 11th policy to invade Iraq, but why was an Iraq invasion important to the Bush administration? War with an Islamic country was inevitable as we race towards the rise of the anti-christ. Muslims are the biggest adversaries of Capitalism, and it is clear to me that Capitalism will be the end-time economic system. The War on Terror in general and the Iraq War specifically is an attempt to accelerate the demise of Islam.
What we are witnessing is the continuation of the Crusades between Western Christendom and Islam, which has been evolving since the 11th Century. In fact, immediately after September 11th, Bush referred to the conflict as a Crusade, which ignited an anti-American sentiment within Muslim nations around the world. If a powerful foe can come into one’s country with sufficient force to alter that country’s mode of thought and action, it won’t be long before that civilization is destroyed. As the Western World evolves and Capitalism expands, it begins to erode the tradition of other cultures. Fifty years ago no Islamic country would have invited the Western Capitalists into their markets. However, today, the influence of the West is prominent in many Middle Eastern countries. It wasn’t that long ago that China was considered a Communist country, but it is now viewed as the largest Capitalist market in the world. It is just a matter of time before it too will be having democratic elections.
I’ll address why the expansion of Capitalism is vital to the rise of the anti-christ in the final article of this series.
To be continued…
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