Western Civilization's Unrelenting Expansion - Part 2
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately
wicked: who can know it (Jeremiah 17:9)?
“Why can’t we all just get along?” is the famous question that Rodney King posed in response to the riots that engulfed Los Angeles after a Simi Valley jury acquitted four Los Angeles Police Department officers of excessive force against him after he was subdued during a traffic stop. This seemingly simple query reaches back to the beginning of human civilization without an optimistic answer: Cain could not get along with Abel; the Hittites could not live with the Hebrews; the Trojans could not settle their differences with Greece; Rome and Carthage discovered that fighting had become a way of life for nearly a century; dozens of Native American nations were annihilated by British settlers; the 13 British colonies declared their independence from Great Britain, resulting in the American Revolution; the Civil War; the French Revolution; World War I; World War II; the Holocaust; The Korean War; Vietnam; Iraq; and the list goes on.
The landscape of man’s interaction with man is tattooed with savagery. The slaughtered carcasses of innocent men, women and children are the consequence of man’s inability to “just get along.” In Caroline Alexander's The War that Killed Achilles, she says that if we took any period of a hundred years in the last five thousand, it has been calculated that on average, ninety-four of these years will be occupied with large-scale conflicts in one or more parts of the earth.[i] On its face, without a more sterile analysis of the causes of these conflicts, this statistic seems to speak to the nature of man: that he is a predator like any other beast in the field.
There is one common thread that unites most wars through World War II, but is of necessity absent from modern warfare: Going back to the BC period of tyrannical rulers like Alexander, like Artaxerxes, like Caesar, societies sought to unleash the entire limits of their arsenal to destroy their enemies. However, when warfare crossed the threshold into the nuclear age, we moved into an era where weapons themselves became the enemy. The current state of military technology and the scale of horror that can now be unleashed on the earth place the existence of the human race in peril. When we consider that today’s hydrogen bombs carry a yield that is as much as 4,000 times greater than the weapon that leveled Hiroshima, it could be reasonably argued that it is inhumane to even possess a weapon of this magnitude. No rational individual could ever advance any justification for its use, because such use falls into the category of grave natural disasters. In his book Dark Sun, The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, Richard Rhodes puts it more succinctly: “By its very nature [the hydrogen bomb] cannot be confined to a military objective, but becomes a weapon which in practical effect is almost one of genocide.”[ii]
Western Civilization’s war making capability is unrivaled when we only consider the instruments of war that are public knowledge: NATO, the Western world’s defense federation, simply does not have a military peer. However, when one considers that it would be irresponsible for Western nations to reveal the full extent of their war-making capabilities, it is not unreasonable to conclude that their classified weapons’ arsenal widens the military chasm between the West and the rest. To be sure, non-Western nations who are members of the nuclear club can level the playing field in a non-conventional war. However, and I concede that I may be leaving some of you with the dilemma of not agreeing with my conjecture here, but who do you think was behind the cyber attack that seized control of Iran’s nuclear power station last year?
A malicious computer program, dubbed Stuxnet, which has the ability to seize control of industrial plants, commandeered control of Iran’s nuclear facility and other industrial sites during the last half of 2010. Considering that Stuxnet surprised experts in the field of cyber-security because of its sophistication, I would suspect that only a few countries, the United States included, and even fewer hackers, have the skill to launch this attack. This is heavy drama and shows that someone is concerned about Iran’s nuclear ambitions; however, there is an even larger picture that is emerging here: This malware attack demonstrated that its author has the ability to snatch the nuclear option away from those who could counter an unconventional attack from the West. Certainly, if Las Vegas was taking bets on who the perpetrator(s) of this attack might be, I’m sure that it would be even money on the Pentagon (or perhaps Israel), but I would also offer that a highly skilled hacker may be under contract with the CIA.
Conventional wars, or battles fought with arms that are widely available to most nations, go back to the BC-period of Egypt and Mesopotamia, but simply bombing his way to the throne of human civilization would have been too easy for satan. Sure, he could cajole evil men into decimating half of the human race with non-conventional instruments of death; however, that would betray his skillful ability to deceive. If warfare was his intended path to the apex of human government, then he could have easily set the world ablaze during the climax to World War II, because no other country would have been able to prevent a satanically inspired nuclear holocaust, but then, would those who had remained be willing to worship his hand-picked successor in accordance with Revelation chapter 13? (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))
Instead of forcing men to worship him as their leader; for true worship cannot be imposed upon people, I believe that there is enough scriptural evidence to conclude that satan will deceive mankind into willingly submitting itself to the son of perdition. Remember, one of the themes of this series is that he has deceived angels, pharaohs, Caesars, apostles, presidents, and the most astute of God’s people. Consequently, deceiving the world into embracing and participating in its own destruction, takes the satanic saga and the mystery of iniquity to its logical conclusion.
Ruling the world through deceit instead of conquest will be satan’s crown achievement during his reign in this earth. By its nature, this furtive effort to seize control of world government has been cleverly concealed, and when attempts are made to expose it, cries of paranoia are leveled. The average Westerner may agree that Stalin, or Mao, or Hitler were demonically inspired; however, the notion that there is a faction within Western Civilization that is greasing the skids for the seamless rise of the son of perdition is too much of a leap for some to make. But if we agree that the antichrist will ultimately assume leadership of human civilization, then it makes sense to examine the structure that will support him. This examination would be more than an academic effort, because it will reveal that aside from the West, no other civilization has the ability to create and maintain the infrastructure that will be necessary for the administration of the end-time government (see Part 7 of this series – Introduction to Western Civilization’s Unrelenting Expansion – where I lay out my reasoning for concluding that Western Civilization is the most likely candidate to unleash the son of perdition on an unsuspecting world.)
Many Bible scholars and religious institutions have attempted to reveal the beast of Revelation. However, it may have been the late Carroll Quigley, a history professor from Georgetown University, who actually walked into the belly of the beast to provide us with a glimpse of this global, satanic scheme. His book, Tragedy and Hope, demonstrated the “hidden” Western hand behind the destruction of most of human civilization. Among other things, Quigley discusses his journey into the inner sanctum of the Western aristocracy, and reveals its intention to create a world that is forged after the ambitions of Cecil Rhodes, the European colonist whose shadow loomed very large over the southern tip of Africa during the latter part of the 19th Century.
Most people are familiar with the scholarship that bears Rhodes’ name, but what is not as widely known is that the Rhodes Scholarship is a secret society whose aim is the preservation and expansion of Western rule throughout the world.[iii]
…to be continued
© 2011 David R. Tolson
[i] Caroline Alexander, The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War, (New York: Viking Adult, 2009) p. xiii.
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