“The Beast Empire”
Part 1
I have watched the expansive nature of the United Nations since I was a fourteen year old teenager. You might scoff but I visited the United Nations in 1954. I went to New York City with my Methodist Sunday School youth group who made a Labor Day weekend trip to New York. Our group left the Pennsylvania Railroad station in Pittsburgh, PA on a Friday evening. Our chaperoned Sunday School youth group occupied two passenger coaches chartered for the trip, arriving in New York City early Saturday morning. We took the Grey Line New York Skyline ferry-boat tour around Manhattan Island, visited Rockefeller Center, the Empire State Building, and on Sunday morning we went to the United Nations building, rode the subway down to “Battery Park” at the tip of Manhattan Island. I was quite impressed as a fourteen-year-old. Such a trip back then was a big deal for a street kid like me. It was funded by a member who passed away and left the Shady Side Methodist Church a quarter-million dollars bequest.
The Korean War was over and a ‘Truce’ was in place and thus my interest was piqued about the reasons for the United Nations. The older boys on our trip talked about the U.N. truce with some concern as the military draft was a reality in the 1950’s. I remember a couple years later when I was applying for a job employers were not hiring draft-age young men. In fact, almost every company that I would apply for work and to fill out an application, I would be asked, “what’s your draft status?” The moment I mentioned I was 1-A, I would be told to come back when I was out of the military. I decided to enlist rather than to wait until I was drafted. When I took the oath of enlistment, there were so many draftees who were in their mid-twenties, some as old as 26. During the draft era the age for military service was 18-35. I learned a lot about the U.N. when I was in the U.S. Army, and most of it was unpleasant news even back then. The United Nations is a Luciferian organization from its conception to the present, I will have much more to say about this later.
In early March of 2017, I began to hear that President Trump was talking about cutting the funding to the U.N. by 50%. That may sound good but I am not expecting it will happen. I have heard so often the term that the United Nations was the last hope for humanity. Being a history major in college as a Pre-Ministry major, I came to an entirely different opinion about the U.N. early on in my education. Many of my younger fellow students saw it as sort of a last hope for humanity. Having spent three years in West Germany, much of the time, front and center, close to the Soviet Union border in East Germany, I began to see the U.N. in a less than the so-called “hope” perception. The fact is, once the Israeli military defeated its Arab/Muslim neighbors in the Six-Day War of 1967, my interest in the U.N. steadily grew. I address in this series of articles a number of things most people do not know about the U.N.
What is the United Nations?
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights. Today, the U.N. has 193 member states, and many other groups with ‘observer’ status. It was initiated by “seven” nations when first announced. Keep that number in mind. You would be hard pressed to find out a great deal of what went on between 1935 and 1946. Most of the preparation documents are virtually still classified and inaccessible to the public. The big three – Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt were planning the future years before Hitler had invaded Poland in September of 1939.
Here is what it claims are its main purposes:
The UN has 4 main purposes:
To keep peace throughout the world;
To develop friendly relations among nations;
To help nations work together to improve the lives of poor people, to conquer hunger, disease and illiteracy, and to encourage respect for each other’s rights and freedoms;
To be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations to achieve these goals.
One needs not to be a scholar to see that they have failure in the most of miserable ways. Peace is a good objective. Having friendly relations between nations is a good objective. Cooperation to help the hungry, poor, and illiterate is a good objective.
Many have called the United Nations the "last hope" for peace. Notice the following:
"To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support—to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective—to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak—and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run." -John F. Kennedy
The year was 1961. In his Inaugural Address, John F. Kennedy President of the United States of America addressed the world as a nation. This was the first speech given by Kennedy since he had taken office. This was his acceptance speech. President Kennedy was a globalist, despite the propaganda image he presented.
In this speech, Kennedy had used a great deal of metaphors, metaphors that described other countries as family members, metaphors that portrayed communism as a great evil, and metaphors that describe the a union called the United Nations as the last hope for peace.
Notice what Pope Paul VI said to the UN in 1965:
“The peoples of the earth turn to the United Nations as the last hope of concord and peace. We presume to present here, together with our own, their tribute to honor and of hope. That is why this moment is a great one for you also. We know that you are fully aware of this. Now for the continuation of our message. It looks entirely towards the future. The edifice which you have constructed must never collapse; it must be continually perfected and adapted to the needs which the history of the world will present. You mark a stage in the development of mankind; from now on retreat is impossible; you must go forward”. -(Pope Paul VI's Address to United Nations General Assembly, October 4, 1965).
A religious leader who professes Christ should teach the true "gospel of peace" -(Romans 10:15; Ephesians 6:15) and point out that Jesus is the "Prince of peace" -(Isaiah 9:6). But Pope Paul VI did neither in his UN address.
Although some have considered that the UN is humanity's last hope for peace, not all have viewed it that way.
Notice something from 1985:
Aim: Prevent Major War
The first article of the Charter outlines the aim those representatives had in mind in establishing the United Nations — "to maintain international peace and security."
This hope is more eloquently expressed in the foreword to the Charter. In it the signatory nations pledged "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetimes has brought sorrow to mankind. "The signers further pledged that "armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest."
Article 2 contains other basic principles such as the sovereign equality of its members (assuring one vote for each member country now grown to 159), regardless of size; that disputes are to be settled by peaceful means; and that members undertake not to use force or the threat of force in contravention of the purposes of the United Nations.
To prevent meddling within the affairs of each state, however, Article 2 stipulates that the United Nations shall not intervene in matters within the domestic jurisdiction of any member nation.
Since those idealistic days 70 years ago more than 100 armed conflicts have plagued the world, though thankfully none of them have been nuclear — yet. Hardly a month has gone by without fighting on some remote battlefield.
Said retired U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Jeane Kirkpatrick, the General Assembly does indeed operate much like a parliament or congress. There are parties, only here they are called the Western powers, the Afro-Asian-Third World bloc, and nonaligned states (many of whom are part of the second or Soviet "party" as well).
Mrs. Kirkpatrick further asserted, has learned how to play the U.N. political game well, far better than Washington. ... Because of the politics practiced in the United Nations, not only are major issues left virtually unattended, many regional disputes are often elevated to world crisis level.
As a result, said Mrs. Kirkpatrick, "what goes on in the U.N. actually exacerbates conflicts.... All kinds of countries that don't have any direct interest in a conflict get involved in it. As a result, you might say all conflict is globalized."
The U.N. General Assembly, even some of its hard-pressed supporters in the Western World admit, has become skewed in its perceptions of what are and what are not true world problems.
Here is a later 1985 report from one who attended the conference when the UN was founded: “FORTY years ago I attended the entire San Francisco Conference for the drafting and signing of the Charter for the United Nations. On June 23 to 26 of this current year, the 40th anniversary of that Conference was held in San Francisco.
So far as I know, I was one of only four or so in attendance at this Anniversary Conference who had attended the Conference 40 years ago. Three were official representatives of nations and signed the Charter. I attended as a press representative, representing The Plain Truth. Although not political or official, at this 40th Anniversary Conference I was seated at the head speaker's table at dinners and some conferences. One hundred thirty-one people, including ambassadors representing about 100 nations, were present.
At the founding Conference 40 years ago, I heard loud and serious oratory in plenary sessions, saying solemnly that this United Nations they were forming was the world's LAST HOPE to avoid final doom! At this Anniversary Conference I heard mostly apologetic speeches for failure and limited praise for real accomplishment in minor areas. World War I was to have been the war to end all wars. World War II was billed likewise, and, at its close, the U.N. was to keep the peace. Yet more than 150 local wars have occurred since and no peace is remotely in sight now. Instead a new kind of violence to upset world peace is the current problem—TERRORISM!
WHY HAS THE UNITED NATIONS SO UTTERLY FAILED? At the Conference 40 years ago, I attended a Pontifical High Mass at a Roman Catholic cathedral, attended largely by delegates to the Conference, officiated by Bishop Hunt of Salt Lake City. The bishop's loud voice rang out a stirring warning to the delegates, quoting from the Bible, "Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it." It was abundantly evident the Eternal was having no part in building this house that was to be humanity's LAST HOPE for the survival of mankind!
I could have quoted more warnings from the sure Word of God. "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?"—and it seems no two nations were or are in agreement. Also, "A house … divided against itself … cannot stand." And the United Nations is a house fatally divided against itself...
For 40 years now Germany has been a divided nation. Nazism promoted nationalism - a patriotic national pride. For 40 years West Germany has been suffering from the accusation of instigating World War II and the infamous Holocaust. But East Germans, though not enjoying prosperity under Communist rule, nevertheless are still, very much GERMANS—proud of being Germans, with the national spirit. They are still "more German" than the West Germans.
The Germans on both sides want to be united once again. There is now a dynamic movement toward a united EUROPE—a resurrection of the medieval Holy Roman Empire. Europeans know a house divided cannot stand. Eastern Europe is more Roman Catholic today than Western Europe....Europeans are saying that 40 years is long enough to be divided. This 40th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations may trigger events to bring on the world's last colossal world violence and trouble...” -(Armstrong H.W. 40th Anniversary Conference of Drafting UN Charter. ‘Plain Truth’, October 1985).
Since he wrote that, the division of Europe basically ended, East and West Germany unified, and we have seen increases in terrorism. This is not to say that the UN does no good, but only that it has not succeeded in its declared purpose to keep peace throughout the world and all nations friendly to each other. I should note here Mr. H.W. Armstrong was a better historian than he was a theologian. I did not embrace his theology but I found his news reporting on the United Nations to be well worth reading and following over the years. Can you say, “The Sea Beast”?
Revelation 13:1-3,"And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like a leopard and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death: and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast."
Here's something to think about:
The beast will not be recognized as such, but will actually be looked upon as a deliverer. So is the United Nations.
The beast will, to begin with, use peace as its chief weapon. So does the UN.
The world will be under the influence of the beast. Isn't that true also of the United Nations and becoming more so each day? Let's note other remarkable similarities from the word of God.
According to Daniel 8:24, Revelation. 13:7, and 17:13, the “beast” derives his power from other sources. Now that is exactly the case of the UN. It is entirely dependent upon its member nations to give it power. Only as they support it and stand behind its decisions can it assert itself.
According to Daniel 2:40-43 the beast, or kingdom, as it is called by Daniel, will be clay and iron, typifying dictatorship and democracy causing division and weakness. Isn't that exactly what has taken place between the Western powers representing democracy, and Communist China & Russia (and their followers) representing dictatorship? Also notice verse 43 of Daniel 2, which says, "they shall mingle themselves with the seed of man; but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay." How true this is of the U.N. which is made up of 193 different nations. Isn't this also characteristic of the confusion and disunity that has prevailed in the UN among member nations? When the Antichrist comes, he will try to unite the world, but in the end he will not succeed either. His kingdom will not be a unified world empire like the four represented by the gold, silver, copper and iron. It will rather be a coalition or confederation of nations each delegating powers to the Antichrist. But the kingdom itself will still be part iron and part ceramic pottery, partly strong and partly brittle. Even if his power gives the appearance of external unity, there will be no internal unity among the selfish, godless nations who will be deceived at that time. In the beginning the beast doesn't have power to enforce its decisions. We find 10 of the nations or (regions) who are of one mind getting together and giving their power and strength to the beast. The "Security Council" consists of 15 members-- five permanent members and 10 elected by the General Assembly for two-year terms] -Revelation 17:12-13. The UN has its flag, its army, and is just waiting for the big powers to say, "I'll give you my power and strength." After many decades, America has signed over many of its military bases to the United Nations, and has implemented "Executive Orders" that empower the U.N. to wield power over the world as a sovereign government. The U.N. has even declared that it no longer recognizes any nation's sovereignty when that nation opposes a U.N. edict. The U.N. is therefore in possession of great power since it can make such a threat.
The name Babylon is very significant. In Revelation 17:5 we have Babylon, the Great Whore, Mother of Harlots. Practically every student of the word recognizes this Babylon as apostate Christianity headed up under the Papacy [Catholicism]. Her daughters are the Protestants who are following in her steps in trying to build religious empires, and make a name for themselves. Now the second Babylon we have in view is the beast's confederated empire: The last form of Gentile world power (the U.N.). To begin with, we find ecclesiastical ("religious") Babylon, (Catholic and like-minded "Protestant" churches) the great whore, riding on the back of the beast, political Babylon (the U.N.). But then we find the ten kings of Revelation 17:12-13 turn on the great whore and destroy her, Revelation 17:16-17, "And the ten horns which you saw upon the beast; these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. For God has put in their hearts to fulfill his will, and to agree and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled."
The word Babylon originated at the tower of Babel (Genesis 11) and means confusion. What happened at the tower of Babel was simply men getting together and saying, let's unite together, and build us a great city and tower (or civilization) lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the earth. Now the thing that was wrong was they did not seek God's face in the matter. They were presumptuous, self-willed, and made their own plans ignoring God and leaving Him out completely. God already has his plans made regarding this old world and the coming kingdom, and the sooner mankind learns this the better off he will be. In the meantime, man-made plans and schemes are doomed to fail. The beast of Revelation is called Babylon along with the great whore because the presumptuous and self-willed spirit of Satan that was in man at the tower of Babel is in them. It's simply man trying to make a universal kingdom without God. This is the spirit of Antichrsit that dominates the political and religious world. The basic sin responsible for this is self-worship instead of God. It's the same spirit that was in Lucifer that caused him to say, "I will ascend into heaven; I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the North. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High." Isa. 14:13-14.
United Nations Has Same Goals as the Vatican?
Various world leaders seem to support an ecumenical-interfaith agenda: Two years ago on February 6, 2014, President Obama said Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. “In contrast to those who wield religion to divide us, let’s do more to nurture the dialogue between faiths.”
In a world in which sectarian divisions fuel some of the most violent and dangerous confrontations, the interfaith movement — once thought as irrelevant — has emerged as a force in American religion like never before. The movement has made for some unlikely bedfellows, such as an emerging think-tank for Jews and Mormons in Salt Lake City. It involves unlikely alliances, such as when one of the most conservative Christian pro-life groups staged a news conference on Capitol Hill in September applauding a Muslim prayer service on the Mall. It involves unlikely allies, such as leading Christian “emergent church” leader Brian McLaren, who was roundly criticized during Ramadan last year when he fasted the entire month out of solidarity with Muslims. It involves unlikely support, such as that offered by the Obama White House, which has identified interfaith work as a public policy goal.
Some of the biggest movers and shakers in the interfaith movement are governments in Muslim states include: Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. Heads, or former heads, of state are likewise involved. Soon after British Prime Minister Tony Blair retired, he founded an interfaith foundation in London to “promote respect and understanding about the world’s major religions and show how faith is a powerful force for good in the modern world.” He immediately converted to Roman Catholicism so that he could run for the presidency of the EU, a requirement for the office. This fact should tell you a great deal about the EU!
What about the United Nations? ‘Zenit’, a pro-Vatican news agency, reported the following: On May 7, 2014, in an interview published Wednesday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has said the United Nations and the Holy See have the “same goals and ideas”. The UN chief, who is to meet Pope Francis on Friday, said he was grateful to be able to meet the Holy Father for a second time (the two first met in April last year). This year, he noted they will meet “in the context” of a summit of heads of UN agencies taking place this week in Rome. “I thank him for the time that he will dedicate to us,” he said, according to the Italian newspaper ‘Il Velino’. “The United Nations and the Holy See have the same goals and the same ideas,” he added.
I wondered if that meant that the United Nations not only shared the goal of peace through human efforts, but other ones as well, such as the ecumenical goals of the Vatican. So, I did a search on the United Nations’ website and found the following: Secretary-General, at New York Ecumenical Service, Stresses Special Role of Religious Leaders as Standard-bearers of Reason, Respect. Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Church of the Holy Family in New York:
“Whether priest or lama, rabbi or imam, you are all standard-bearers of reason and respect within and among religious traditions. People everywhere look to religious leaders for guidance, support and direction. We need religious leaders in all parts of the world to help lead the way in promoting tolerance, seeking forgiveness, healing divisions and building mutual understanding and mutual respect. This pursuit is rooted in all faith traditions and it is needed now more than ever. We need voices of moderation and calm everywhere to make themselves heard…”
“Almost 50 years ago, Pope Paul VI delivered a sermon here at this very ecumenical service. He said, “The work of peace is not restricted to one religious belief, it is the work and duty of every human person, regardless of…religious conviction.”
“That remains our mission — our obligation — and our calling. Lastly, I sincerely hope that under the leadership of the President of the General Assembly, Vuk Jeremić, we will be united and able to address all the challenges we are facing. Let us strive together to advance our common humanity and shared future.”
“Faith-based Organizations Can Help Deliver United Nations Message for Renewed Cooperation to Tackle Climate Change, Other Crises, Secretary-General Says” Pressure is building within the membership of the UN for a Muslim nation to be appointed to a seat on the Security Council.
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Under-Secretary-General Vijay Nambiar, Chef de Cabinet, to the Ninth Annual Orthodox Prayer Service for the United Nations Community, presided over by His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, in New York, today, 26 October:
“I send greetings to His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and to all the participants in this annual prayer service. As a secular organization, the United Nations has no common religion. But as humanitarians we, too, like all major faiths, work on behalf of the weak, the disadvantaged, and those who are vulnerable to violence, disease and disaster. And we share the same ethical foundation: a belief in the inherent dignity of all individuals. If ever there were a time for unity among religions and peoples, it is now. We must be united in purpose, united in action… Let us work together for a safer, healthier more equitable future for all”.
Few people realize how fast the ecumenical movement is moving and how much support it has. After this came out, the Vatican started to support the UN's 'climate change' agenda. The fact that the United Nations also seems to share Pope Francis’ views on wealth distribution (e.g. Pope Francis speaks against current economic order and proposes changes) also suggests that there may be some cooperation on this as well. It should be noted that it is not just ecumenical dialogue between professors of Christianity that the Vatican and UN want, they also want an inter-faith acceptance and cooperation – essentially a final Babylonian type cooperation -(cf. Genesis 11:1-9), and the Bible shows this will happen in the end times -(Revelation 17, 18).
While some, even amongst the Eastern Orthodox have publicly opposed it (see Greek Orthodox Bishops denounce Pope Francis, Church of Rome, and Ecumenism as Antichrist Plan of Freemasons), others, like Patriarch Bartholomew, have embraced it. So much so, that the Eastern Orthodox agreed to their first “ecumenical council” in over a thousand years earlier this year which took take place in 2016.
Earlier last year, Charismatic Kenneth Copeland agreed to it. Protestant endorsement of the ecumenical agenda was led by Charismatic Kenneth Copeland, James Robison, and Anglican Tony Palmer. Protestants Beware!.
The Bible clearly warns against the final Babylonian system which the ecumenical movement and the United Nations is trying to form: 4So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast… 6Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. 7It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. 8All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world”. 9If anyone has an ear, let him hear.” -(Revelation 13:6-9).
Notice in the above, real Christians would not be part of it. Notice that some religious leader tries to get people, through teaching (looking like a lamb, but being a dragon), "miracles" (signs and lying wonders), and economic pressure to support the Beast: ““11Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. 12And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. 15He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.” -(Revelation 13:11-18).
Pope Francis has also repeated that he has similar, and often the same, goals as the United Nations. A new combination of religious Babylon and politics is forming. Pope Francis’ encyclical titled ‘Laudato Si’ was officially released in June 2015. Here is some information about it: The Pope’s encyclical appears to focus on climate change and environmental degradation but the larger focus is his indictment of capitalism and the presumed greed that it spawns, leading Pope Francis to call for a global government solution. The language in the encyclical looks like it came from the UN’s Agenda 21 and the Club of Rome’s Limits to Growth. Both were deeply flawed analyses of problems and solutions. Pope Francis is especially harsh in his criticism of capitalism as if it is the cause of greed, selfishness, and a lack of concern for our fellow man.
Pope Francis is a Marxist-socialist and his idea of socialism is that of Marxism. A conflict issue exists that most people are unaware of and that is the United Nations was set up as a Communist form of global government. The differences are minimal, but significant nonetheless in the area of which brand of Marxism ultimately reigns. The Roman Catholic Institution has been committed for more than a century to overthrow atheistic-communism to convert Russia to a Roman Catholic country.
That type of criticism is directly from the Socialism philosophy that holds that property be held in common and economic relationships be governed by political hierarchy. History has demonstrated that Socialism, while intellectually appealing, fails in the real world. The tone and direction of the Pope’s condemnation suggests that he is enthralled by the writings of Thomas Malthus and the doomsayer Paul Ehrlich who has been consistently wrong in his predictions and prescriptions for saving the planet. And according to the ‘Guardian’, he seeks “changes in lifestyles and energy consumption to avert unprecedented destruction of the ecosystem before the end of the century”. This is the language of Greenpeace and Earth First who are extreme by any definition.
The call for global governance is reminiscent of former French President Jacques Chirac’s 2000 statement that “For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument (the Kyoto Treaty) of global governance, one that should find a place within the World Environmental Organization which France and European Union would like to see established.”
The notion that the world should be run by an organization modeled after the UN or the European Commission and European Union is chilling and ought to lead to the prompt dismissal of the Pope’s philosophy but not his personal values or focus on reducing poverty. His ‘Laudato Si’ encyclical is very similar to the United Nation's 'New Universal Agenda,' which Pope Francis has promoted and endorsed. The Bible warns against a church that sits on seven hills/mountains that is engaged improperly with political leaders: 1Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, 2with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 3So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. 5And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 6I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement. 7But the angel said to me, “Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns. 8The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. 9Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. 10 There are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he must continue a short time. 11 The beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going to perdition. 12The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast. 13 These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast. 14These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him are called, chosen, and faithful. 15Then he said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues. 16And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire. 17For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled. 18And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.” -(Revelation 17:1-18).
The woman/church is involved in politics, is on the great city of seven hills, and will finally be betrayed by political leaders in the end time. The Vatican is actively involved in 30+ United Nation’s groups and agencies, largely from behind the scenes of public view.
Catholic scholars teach the seven heads are the seven hills, on which the woman sits. That is, the city of Rome. (Victorinus. Commentary on the Apocalypse, from the seventh chapter. Translated by Robert Ernest Wallis. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 7. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.).
“The Church that is in Babylon saluteth you, and so doth my son Mark” -(1st Peter 5:13). That Babylon stands for Rome, as usual amongst pious Jews, and not for the real Babylon, then without Christians, is admitted by common consent (cf. F.J.A. Hort, “Judaistic Christianity”, London, 1895, 155) (Wilhelm J. Transcribed by Donald J. Boon. ‘Apostolic Succession’. ‘The Catholic Encyclopedia’, Volume I, 1907 by Robert Appleton Company. Online Edition, 2003 by K. Knight. Nihil Obstat, March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York). I will say more about this passage from 1st Peter 5:13 in Part 2. It is significant in identifying the Vatican and the Revived Roman Empire led by a Roman Antichrist. Even in the day of the Apostle John, Rome was considered Babylon the Great, confirmed by the Apostle Peter.
The seven headed city is probably Rome (‘septicolis’– seven hills) (Dupont Yves. Catholic Prophecy. TAN Books, 1973, p.24).
The woman sits on a scarlet beast, which is full of blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns (illustrating the close relationship between the historical city of Rome and the beast, the symbol of the Roman Empire, see Revelation 17:3). This woman (Rome) has been called Babylon the great and is drunk with the blood the saints and martyrs (see Revelation 17:5-6)…Another code for the symbols of the beast is announced in Revelation 17:9: “This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven mountains on which the woman is seated” (an obvious reference to the city of Rome built on seven hills). (Kurz, W. ‘What Does the Bible Say About the End Times?’ ‘A Catholic View’. Servant Books, Cincinnati. Nihil Obstat: Kistner H., Schehr T.P. Imprimi Potest: Link F., Paul J.M. Imprimatur: Carl K. Moeddel, Vicar General and Auxillary Bishop, Archdiocese of Cincinnati, July 19, 2004, pp. 165, 166).
Something that I have not referenced heretofore is the distinction of the term “seven heads and 10 horns”. The term is found four (4X) times in Revelation, 12:3; 13:1; 17:3; and 17:7. My point is that when you see frequent or multiple occurrences of such references, do not simply assume the text speaks about the same “beast” as the other passages refer to the “beast”. Think about how those passages may relate in fact and refer to “three” or “four” beasts. The word “Beast” is found 41X or 45X times as I recall but do not necessarily refer to the same entity. The “Beast” of Revelation morphs over the time span of the book of Revelation.
Its final manifestation is with what we know as the present United Nations and its 10 regions of the world. It was preceded by the League of the Nations at the close of World War 1. When the League of Nations collapsed, its leaders were actively planning the replacement for the League. The Revived Roman Empire (E.U.) originally was 10 nations. The fact is that common terms and expressions do not always refer to the same “beast” over time. We cannot rule out the fact the Revived Roman Empire (E.U.) in its present form of 27 nations in the European Union will retrench back into a stronger 10 nation alliance. The E.U. failed in a number of ways and one of those is in the fact it was a union of weak nations with much stronger and richer nations. The Club of Rome was commissioned by the U.N. and tasked with the purpose to divide the global nations into 10 regions for efficient control.
Do not overlook the possibility that the E.U. serves as a test model for what would become the prototype of the U.N.’s 10 kingdoms’ (regional) structure. I am saying that the E.U. was the first regional effort towards the global U.N. plan. In any “business model” you can’t predict or tell where kinks in the system might reveal planning flaws, necessitating adjustment and reverting back to the drawing board. The invasion of millions of Islamic refugees and Jihadi terrorists certainly has pushed the E.U. to the breaking point of the local cultural impacting the larger social-economic-political fabric of the E.U. It is certainly creating a series of crises which may be the foundation from which the Man of Sin can arise and unify the original 10 members of the E.U.
The question that I raise is this: How many “Beasts” are we talking about in the book of Revelation? 1, 2, 3, or 4? We need to study the book of Daniel as well as Revelation because each interprets the other, meaning God’s truth is dispersed throughout the two books. My contention is that the final “Beast” of “ten horns” is the “ten kingdoms” which the Club of Rome came up with in 1972. There is great secrecy about the origin of the U.N. In the ‘Corbett Report’ – Episode 316, ‘The Unofficial Biography of David Rockefeller’ it is noted that “seven” nations met: “Arriving in New York to choose United Nations Headquarters, delegates from seven nations are welcomed by Grover Wayland. They must choose a site within the New York or Boston areas. The committee calls on President Truman at the White House before proceeding to inspect locations. The eastern United States will soon hold the new capital of the world!” The planning of or dividing the world into the New World Order were drawn up in the 1930’s and perhaps implemented as soon as the League of Nations collapsed. It formally dissolved on April 18, 1946. The League of Nations failed because the United States desired to remain an “isolationist” nation out of international politics, something that resulted from World War 1. The Rockefeller family donated a 6-block long parcel of land on 8th Avenue between 42nd and 48th Streets, once a railroad livestock yard arrival point.
The idea of a global government is perhaps best associated with Cecil Rhodes, for which the nation of Rhodesia in Africa is named. The text of Revelation 17:12-17 is the text most associated with this final global government: 12“And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. 13These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. 14These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. 15And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. 16And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. 17For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
If you go back to verse 17:7, it speaks about: “And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth”. Many people, including theologians and scholars would lead us to believe it is talking about the “seven hills” of Rome. That is true, but so is the fact that Washington, D.C. and Istanbul, Turkey also sit on “seven hills”. I point this out for the purposes of establishing the true identity cannot be based on a single phrase, and it requires a greater effort to examine all the related texts. Many different interpretations have been offered to represent the identity of this woman who sits on “seven mountains”. How about “seven” continents? There have been many examples of Scriptural issues with more than a single correct answer. I would submit you consider that more than one may be correct, or even all being correct. It is this reason I recommend studying Scripture “thematically”.
I am not trying to confuse the reader but rather to deepen your ability to interpret the Scriptures. There is no question in my mind that we are in the final stages of the last “Beast” empire, with the United Nations as the fulfillment of the Bible’s last Beast. The map below was established in 1972 by the Club of Rome: 10 kingdoms or (10 global regions).
My personal study of the “seven” heads lead me to the obvious that it would be the Global G7 association of nations, the largest economic powers in the world: Canada, China, France, Germany, Russia, UK, and USA. I base that suggestion on the old premise it is “money that makes the world go around”. The House of Rothschild has the leading position of currency and credit in the G7.
The United Nations is the “front” entity or organization for the global elite of the world. The Triad that lies behind the United Nations is the three independent City-States of: The Crown of the UK (financial head); The Vatican (religious head); and, Washington, D.C. (the military head). The European Union was a trial experiment or trial run of what will constitute the larger Biblical Beast System.
G. Rossi (1873) said: “We must observe that St. Malachy does not mention the last Pope as a distinct person from the preceding one, whom he styles Glory of the Olive. He merely says, “During the last persecution of the Church, Peter II, a Roman, shall reign. He shall feed the flock in many tribulations, at the end of which the City of the Seven Hills (Rome) will be destroyed, and the awful Judge shall judge his people.” According to St. Malachy, then, only ten, or at most eleven, popes remain to be in future more or less legitimately elected. We say more or less legitimately elected, because out of those future popes it is to be feared that one or two will be unlawfully elected as anti-popes. (‘THE CHRISTIAN TRUMPET’, or, ‘Previsions and Predictions about Impending General Calamities, The Universal Triumph of the Church, The Coming of Antichrist, The Last Judgment, and The End of the World’. Compiled by PELLEGRINO [Gaudentius Rossi], A Missionary Priest with Superior’s permission. Boston, THOS. B. NOONAND & CO., 1873, pg. 139).
The Apocalypse was an inexhaustible quarry where to dig for invectives that they might hurl then against the Roman hierarchy. The “seven hills” of Rome, the scarlet robes of the cardinals, and the unfortunate abuses of the papal court made the application easy and tempting (Van den Biesen, Christian. ‘Apocalypse. ‘The Catholic Encyclopedia’. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. Oct. 5, 2008).
Nor must we look for order in the Apocalypse; but we must follow the meaning of those things which are prophesied. Therefore in the trumpets and vials is signified either the desolation of the plagues that are sent upon the earth, or the madness of Antichrist himself, or the cutting off of the peoples, or the diversity of the plagues, or the hope in the kingdom of the saints, or the ruin of states, or the great overthrow of Babylon, that is, the Roman state (Victorinus. ‘Commentary on the Apocalypse’, Chapter 7, Verse 8. Excerpted from Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 7. Edited by Alexander Roberts & James Donaldson. American Edition, 1886. Online Edition Copyright © 2004 by K. Knight).
There was a strong anti-Roman tradition in the early Church. Rome was the harlot city soaked in the blood of the saints, the center from which spread out wave after wave of persecution. The Book of Revelations’ gloating vision of the coming ruin of Rome, “Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the great” -(Revelations 14:8), remained a persistent strand so long as the empire continued to persecute the church, and survived even into the Middle Ages (Duffy, Eamon. Saints & Sinners: ‘A History of the Popes’. Yale University Press, New Haven (CT), 2002, pp. 16-17).
The author of the Commentaries upon the Apocalypse set forth in St. Ambrose name, write thus: This…sometime significant Rome, especially which at that time when the Apostle wrote this, did persecute the Church of God. But otherwise it is significant the whole city of the Devil, that is, the universal corps of the reprobate. Tertullian also taketh it for Rome, thus, Babylon (saith he) in St. John is a figure of the city of Rome, being so great, so proud of the Empire, and the destroyer of the saints. Which is plainly spoken of that city, when it was heathen, the head of the terrene dominion of the world, the persecutor of the Apostles and their successors, the seat of Nero, Domitian, and the like, Christ’s special enemies, the sink of idolatry, and false worship of the Pagan gods (Annotations on Chapter 17 of the Apocalypse. The Original And True Rheims New Testament Of Anno Domini 1582. Prepared and Edited by Dr. William G. von Peters. Ph.D. 2004, copyright assigned to VSC Corp. Page 583).
It is clear that even the Catholics admit that John is referring to a reprobate church (he used the analogy of a woman) as Babylon and that early Christians identified that with Rome. A reprobate church would seem to be one that incorporates non-biblical practices (such as certain traditions) as superior to Biblical ones. Catholics may be surprised to read what two of their scholars (Will and Ariel Durant) wrote about Catholic Christianity: “Christianity was the last great creation of the ancient pagan world (Durant W and A. The Story of Civilization: Caesar and Christ, a history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325”. Volume 3 of ‘The Story of Civilization’. Simon and Schuster, 1935 Original from the University of Virginia Digitized Apr 10, 2008, p. 595).
This should give Catholics pause to think. It appears that the Durant’s are stating that Catholicism is essentially a pagan creation, while The Catholic Encyclopedia (and other Catholic scholars) teach that Rome is Babylon.
But irrespective of these passages, John (the last living original apostle) never writes anything positive about Rome or the church there. He warned about one that will be involved in a Europe-wide government that will affect the whole world -(Revelation13 & 17).
Pope Francis did not call for the establishment of the kingdom of God, but for an international coalition. Although Catholic scholars admit that Rome is the city of seven hills/mountains, the Bible teaches that real Christians are not to be in this end time Babylonian system: 2“And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird! 3For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury. 4And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. 5For her sins have reached to heaven and God has remembered her iniquities. -(Revelation 18:2-5).
That is the system that the ecumenical movement and the United Nations is trying to prop up. Pope Francis wants the UN to go further to push his Marxist-socialist wealth distribution agenda. On May 9, 2014, Pope Francis told U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Friday that the world body must do more to help the poor and should encourage the "legitimate redistribution" of wealth. Pope Francis, who since his election last year has often called for significant changes to economic systems, made his comments in an address to Ban and heads of many U.N. agencies meeting in Rome. “A contribution to equitable development could be made "both by international activity aimed at the integral human development of all the world's peoples and by the legitimate redistribution of economic benefits by the State ...," he said.
In the past 24 months since his election, Francis has issued several strong attacks on the global economic system. Ban Ki-Moon also renewed an invitation for the pope to address the United Nations in New York. The wealth distribution agenda seems to be consistent with what will happen under the final Antichrist. The UN and Vatican have solidarity and are pushing for a common cause to rally support.
When Pope Francis met executives from the United Nations agencies, led by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, he urged them to challenge all injustice, the "economy of exclusion," the "throwaway culture" and to "protect the family." For his part Ban hailed the personal commitment of Pope Francis to eradicating poverty and promoting sustainable development during their meeting at the Vatican Friday, May 10, 2014.
"I count on the Catholic Church, under your leadership, to continue to work closely with the United Nations to promote a life of dignity for all. Our meeting today will send a very strong message of solidarity in our common cause." Ban said.
This time Ban brought with him the heads of the U.N. agencies, around 50 senior U.N. officials who were meeting in Rome. The Catholic Church and U.N. agencies... normally concur on the fight against poverty.
Ban said during his audience with the Pope. "Inequality is growing. Injustice is prevalent. There is too much intolerance among peoples and faiths. All of these aggravate insecurity."… "Across the U.N. agenda, I see the need for calm, compassion, cooperation and courage," said Ban. "Your Papacy embodies these principles and has inspired people in all regions and from all backgrounds. We deeply appreciate your personal commitment to eradicating poverty and promoting sustainable development."
The UN and Vatican are committed to working together. They want a socialistic, ecumenical, and inter-faith world. As far as the UN and morality goes, notice some additional information about what its Secretary General believes: On March 7, 2012 Ban delivered a speech titled "The Time Has Come" to the United Nations Human Rights Council urging the Council to place greater emphasis on combating homophobia and LGBT rights around the world. The speech was met by a protest by the committee, with delegates organizing a walk-out protest during the speech. During a speech at the UN headquarters commemorating Human Rights Day, Ban condemned countries with anti-gay laws, mentioning 76 countries that criminalize homosexuality. He said: "It is an outrage that in our modern world, so many countries continue to criminalize people simply for loving another human being of the same sex." Ban has told senior managers that homophobia will not be tolerated. He pointed to countries such as Ukraine which has proposed criminalizing public discussion about homosexuality as threatening basic human rights. He further stated that government has a duty to defend vulnerable minorities. In April 2013, he described LGBT rights as one of the great neglected human rights of our time. He also said that religion, culture or tradition can never justify denial of basic rights.
The above is against the Bible and will end in death -(cf. Romans 1:18-32). The Bible Condemns Homosexuality.
United Nations Works with the World Council of Churches
The World Council of Churches (WCC) has, with United Nations' (U.N.) support, announced that it is launching a global peace network: On December 9, 2014, The World Council of Churches says it has launched an ‘Ecumenical Peace Advocacy Network’ to build a just and sustainable peace, engaging churches, ecumenical organizations and civil society.
The WCC announced EPAN at its conference held from December 1 to 5 in Sigtuna, Sweden it said in a statement on December 9. 2014, "This consultation intended to create program synergies and develop collaboration methods, sharing best practices and lessons learned in peace-building, conflict prevention and advocacy for peace," said Rudelmar Bueno de Faria, WCC representative to the United Nations in New York.
The WCC meeting on Peace-building and Advocacy for ‘Just Peace’ was hosted by the (Lutheran) Church Sweden, the Uniting Church in Sweden, and the Christian Council of Sweden. More than 80 ecumenical advocacy experts, church leaders, as well as civil society and United Nations partners from 37 different countries, took part in the event. The event was follow-up in 2015 in Africa and the Middle East meeting aimed at preparing advocacy strategies and plans to promote just peace, reconciliation and conflict prevention.
"The new Ecumenical Peace Advocacy Network is a great opportunity for churches to act collectively to address issues related to peace on a global level," Bueno de Faria said. "Churches and ecumenical organization have the responsibility to mobilize themselves on specific peace issues and influence processes that brings about lasting and just peace."
The ecumenical and inter-faith movements are moving ahead, yet they WILL NOT RESULT IN REAL AND LASTING PEACE. An underlying issue as to why this cannot succeed is in the very foundational chartering of the United Nations. Irvin Baxter, has a radio program called “Religion and Politics” and publishes a magazine on religion. The content of an article that Irvin Baxter wrote follows:
A young American diplomat was the leading force in the designing of the United Nations. He was secretary of the Dumbarten Oaks Conversations from August to October of 1944 where most of the preliminary planning for the U.N. was done. He was Roosevelt's right-hand man in February of 1945 at Yalta where the postwar boundaries of Europe were drawn (Roosevelt was a dying man at the time. His death came only ten weeks later). At Yalta it was agreed that the Soviet Union would have three votes (one each for Russia, Ukraine, and Byelorussia (Belarus)) in the U.N. General Assembly, even though the United States had only one. At Yalta much of Eastern Europe was placed under the iron heel of communist rule. At Yalta, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin appointed this young diplomatic shining star to be the first Secretary-general of the U.N. for the founding conference held in San Francisco, April/June of 1945.
All of this seemed well and good until three years later, when Alger Hiss was exposed as a Communist spy and sent to prison. Only then did people understand why the emblem of the United Nations looked so much like the emblem of the Soviet Union. It now made sense that the Soviet Union, at Yalta, was given control over all of Eastern Europe. Then everyone understood how the Soviet Union managed to capture three votes in the U.N. General Assembly compared to one for the United States. Then it became clear why a secret deal had been struck stating that a Communist would always hold the office of head of the U.N. military.
The U.N. charter was authored by a Communist, the first U.N. Secretary-general was a Communist, and the U.N., from the beginning, was designed to be a Union of World Socialist Republics. Few people know this fact. Franklin D. Roosevelt was simply a Communist-Democrat. We have seen ample evidence of Communist-leanings in the Democratic Party in the past eight years of the President Obama administration.
On a recent tour of the U.N., not one mention was made of any of this by our guide. Hiss' name was not mentioned one time. When pictures of the founding conference contained his picture, our U.N. guide avoided telling us who it was.
I'm sure everyone was taught about the United Nations and its importance in school, but I'm also sure that the above information was conveniently omitted from your textbooks!
One of the most important positions within the entire United Nations — if not the most important — is that of Undersecretary-general for Political and Security Council Affairs. Most Americans have never even heard of this position, much less anything about the man who holds the job. The undersecretary-general for Political and Security Council affairs has three main areas of responsibility. They are:
Control of all military and police functions of the United Nations peacekeeping forces.
Supervision of all disarmament moves on the part of member nations
Control of all atomic energy ultimately entrusted to the United Nations for peaceful and “other purposes”.
In view of the fact that these three functions may soon constitute the ultimate power of life and death over every human being on the face of the earth (once national disarmament is achieved and all military is under the control of the U.N.), there would appear to be some minor justification for us to be more than passingly curious over who wields this power. Since the United Nations was created in 1945 there have been fifteen men appointed to the position of undersecretary-general of political and security-council affairs. Astonishingly, every single one of them has been a Communist!
Communists appointed to the position of undersecretary-general:
Arkady Sobolev--USSR (1946-1949)
Konstantin Zinchenko—USSR (1949-53)
Ilya Tehernychev—Ygoslavia (1954-1957)
Anatoly F. Dobrynin—USSR (1958-1960)
Georgi Ptrovich Arkadev—USSR (1960-1962)
Eugeny Dmiterievich Kiselev—USSR (1962-1963)
Vladimir Pavolovich Suslov—USSR (1963-1963)
Alexie E. Nesterenko—USSR (1965-1968)
Leonid N. Kutakov—USSR (1968-1973)
Arkady N. Shevchenko—USSR (1973-1978)
Mikhail D. Sytenko—USSR (1978-1981)
Viacheslav A. Ustinov—USSR (1981-1986)
Uasiliy S. Safronchuk—USSR (1987-1992)
Vladimir Petrovsky—Russia , “former USSR (1992-)
James O. C. Jonah—Sierra Leone (Co-chairman)
Some observers feel that fifteen Communists out of fifteen appointees constitutes a trend of sorts. But whatever we call it, Trygve Lie, the first secretary-general of the United Nations, revealed that this pattern was no mere coincidence. In his book ‘In the cause of Peace’ Lie wrote: "Mr. Vyshinsky (of the USSR) did not delay his approach. He was the first to inform me of an understanding which the Big Five had reached in London on the appointment of a Soviet national as assistant secretary-general for political and security-council affairs...
"Mr. Stettinius (U.S Secretary of State) confirmed to me that he had agreed with the Soviet delegation in the matter. "The preservation of international peace and security was the organization's highest responsibility, and it was to entrusting the direction of the Secretariat department most concerned with this to a Soviet national that the Americans had agreed." (From The Fearful Master by Edward Griffin)
No wonder someone said that the truth is stranger than fiction! This incredible saga of the United Nations just goes on and on. Perhaps the most revealing fact of all concerning the powers that control the United Nations is that every single Secretary-general since the U.N.'s formation has been a socialist.
Trygve Lie from Norway was the first elected head of the U.N. He was chosen by the fifteen-member U.N. Security Council and ratified by the U.N. General Assembly on February 1, 1946.
Lie, at the age of twenty-three, was appointed secretary in charge of administration of the Norwegian Labor Party. The socialist lawyer served as Minister of Justice until June 1939, when a Cabinet reorganization made him Minister of Commerce. In April 1945, Lie was chosen to head the Norwegian delegation to the United Nations Founding Conference at San Francisco. At the conference itself he was chosen chairman of Commission III which was charged with drafting the charter of the Security Council of the United Nations, "the organ...which would have the power to act against aggressors."
Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden was elected Secretary-general of the United Nations on April 7, 1953. At the age of thirty, Hammarskjold became Undersecretary of the Swedish Ministry of Finance. At the Ministry he worked under the Fabian socialist economist Ernst Wigforss, whom he once said considered his second father. Sweden has long been the leading socialist state of Western Europe, taxing its citizens at a 75% rate.
U Thant of Burma was elected Secretary-general of the U.N. on November 30, 1962. According to Current Biography 1962, U Thant considered himself a democratic socialist.
Kurt Waldheim of Austria took office as Secretary-general of the United Nations on January 1, 1972. Waldheim had been Austria's U.N. ambassador from 1964 to 1968. When the Austrian Socialist party won the March 1970 elections, Waldheim again became Austria's U.N. representative. After serving two terms as U.N. Secretary-general, Waldheim became the head of Austria. It was revealed that Waldheim had lied about his role while serving in the Nazi forces of Adolf Hitler. Facts that were made known resulted in Waldheim being banished from the United States, even though he was the head of Austria.
Javier Perez de Cuellar became U.N. Secretary-general on December 15, 1981. In his address to the General Assembly after being sworn in, Perez de Cuellar called the disparity in wealth between rich and poor nations a violation of "the most fundamental human rights." During his administration, some third-world spokesmen complained that Perez de Cuellar had not been sufficiently outspoken in promoting the massive transfer of resources from rich to poor nations on a global scale (Wealth redistribution has always been the central plank in the platform of international socialism). "I am a third-world man," the Secretary-general replied. "But first of all I am a representative of 157 countries. I have to act in a way so that I am not only the representative of the third world."
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the former foreign minister of Egypt, became the first African to head the U.N. on January 1, 1992. "If I was offered the job (of secretary-general) five years ago," Ghali said, "I would have turned it down. The U.N. then was a dead horse, but after the end of the Cold War, the U.N. has a special position." Politically, Boutros-Ghali was a member of the Arab Socialist Union.
Is it coincidence that one Communist and six Socialists have headed the United Nations since its birth in 1945? Does it seem strange at all that the driving message of the U.N., the message of wealth redistribution, is the central message of International Communism? Do you find it amazing that the United States has allowed the Soviet Union to have three votes to our one in the United Nations since 1945? With the supposed dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1992, each of the fifteen member of the ex-Soviet Union now have a vote in the U.N. So now we are outvoted fifteen to one. Yet Russia retains the right to invade these states if they get out of line.
So what does all this mean? The plain truth is that the United Nations has been designed to be a Communistic Socialism world government from its very beginning.
What will happen? The United Nations will obtain the world domination that it has been planning for since its beginning. Communism will achieve its dream of ruling the world, but only for a very short time. We know this because the New World Order “Beast” of Revelation 13 appears in another prophecy in Revelation 17. In Revelation 17:3 the beast is red. Red is used by God in another prophecy Communism and why not?! Red is the official color denoting Communism—Red China, Red Russia, et al.
There are some dreadful times just ahead for this world. The consolation is that the deep darkness that lies just ahead will soon be replaced by the glorious dawning of the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And He shall reign forever!!
Irvin Baxter alludes to the fact that Soviet Union members were in charge of all U.N. military actions. Something that eludes the reader’s knowledge here is in the fact that the former Soviet Union knew of all U.S. battle plans and military actions in the Korean War as was the case in the Vietnam War. Communist commanders in North Korea and North Vietnam knew in advance all military actions by the United States and military support of other countries. The United States has not won a military war since World War 2, now you know why that is true. Avro Manhattan authored the book ‘Viet Nam: Why Did We Go?’
The real reason for the Viet Nam War was to wage a war against the indigenous people of Viet Nam (Buddhists) on behalf of the Jesuits and Catholics who had been defeated when the French were thrown out of Viet Nam in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu, which ended French colonial rule in Viet Nam. Over 58,000 American young men died in a war to punish the Buddhists for expelling the Jesuits Roman Catholic Institution between 1955 and 1975. That war cost the lives of approximately 2.5 million civilian of what was once called French-Indo-China! But they do not tell you that in the public school system. They simply tell the kids that it was to stop the “domino” theory of the spread of Communism in Asia, part of the United States foreign policy.
While a temporary peace will come to the Middle East per Daniel 9:27, it will not last per that same verse but it will end in destruction for many in the Middle East.
United Nations, US President Obama, and Pope Francis Agree to Iran Deal
Another area that the United Nations, US President Barack Obama, and Pope Francis agree on is the multi-year nuclear deal with Iran.
Months of international negotiations and years of sanctions targeting Iran’s nuclear program led up to this one moment. In the early hours of July 14, 2015 U.S. President Barack Obama made his way down a long red-carpeted hallway in the White House to announce a historic agreement.
“The United States, together with our international partners, has achieved something that decades of animosity has not – a comprehensive long-term deal with Iran that will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” Obama said.
“Today because America negotiated from position of strength and principal, we have stopped the spread of nuclear weapons in this region,” Obama said.
Here are basic agreement details:
Iran will reduce stockpile of low-enriched uranium by 98 percent to 300 kg for 15 years
Iran will reduce by two-thirds the number of centrifuges operating to enrich uranium at its main processing center
Iran is prevented from designing warheads or conducting experiments on nuclear weapons-related technology.
Arms embargo on Iran will be eased, as long as IAEA judges Iran’s nuclear program to be peaceful.
International sanctions on Iran will be lifted, enabling it to export oil.
If an international panel finds Iran is not honoring the accord, it can vote to restore sanctions.
President Obama laid out the key points of the deal, noting that “every pathway to a nuclear weapon is cut off.” Under the agreement, he said Iran would no longer produce highly enriched uranium and weapons-grade plutonium that are necessary to make a nuclear bomb. Iran will remove two-thirds of its installed centrifuges, and will not use its advanced centrifuges to produce enriched uranium for the next decade. Iran will also get rid of 98 percent of its stockpiled enriched uranium and modify its core reactor.
“If Iran violates the deal, all the sanctions will snap back,” Obama said. My question is: what function does the pope play in this and why is the pope in this picture at all. Keep in mind, the Vatican wants control over the state of Israel.
The president closed his remarks with a message to the U.S. Congress, which now has 60 days to review the deal, saying while he welcomes lawmakers’ scrutiny of the agreement he will “veto any legislation that prevents successful implementation of the deal.” President Obama said now is not the time for “politics and posturing” and warned that an Iran armed with a nuclear weapon would be far more destabilizing to the Middle East and the world. There is no evidence to support the Vatican is representing the interests of the Jewish people in Iran’s ability to produce nuclear weapons.
“History shows that America must lead not just with our might, but with our principals. It shows we are stronger not when we are alone but when we bring the world together,” Obama said. “Today’s announcement marks one more chapter in this pursuit of a safer, and more helpful, more hopeful world.”
In my research, I came across a press report from Vatican City, July 14, 2015 / 07:14 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After global powers reached an agreement with Iran Tuesday limiting the country’s nuclear activity, the Vatican said the deal was an important step and expressed their hope the fruits would spread to more than just the nuclear field.
Pope Francis also praised the plan in his “Urbi et Orbi” blessing on Easter Sunday, saying that “in hope we entrust to the merciful Lord the framework that had been recently been agreed to in Lausanne, that it may be a definitive step toward a more secure and fraternal world.”
WASHINGTON—The U.N. Security Council has unanimously endorsed the agreement Iran and a group of six world powers struck last week to limit the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. The 15-member Council quickly voted Monday morning. The five permanent, veto-holding Council members are signatories to the agreement, so the resolution was expected to be adopted.
Now that it has been passed, the deal goes into effect after no later than 90 days. The next key milestone comes after the U.N. nuclear watchdog – the International Atomic Energy Agency – issues a report, expected in December, on the resolution of past and present issues with Iran’s nuclear program. That is when Iran would see relief from the sanctions that have hurt its economy. The U.N. vote comes as U.S. lawmakers begin their own review of the agreement.
President Barack Obama’s administration sent it to Congress on Sunday, setting off a 60-day review period. Lawmakers can choose to approve the deal or reject it and refuse to lift congressionally-imposed sanctions against Iran. Obama has said he would veto any rejection. So, right after Barack Obama endorsed the plan, the Vatican did, and then this was quickly followed up by UN endorsement. These three share a lot of the same agenda--to a degree.
Notice, however, that the USA decided to make some statements that Iran does not like:
Military action could still be used to prevent Iran developing a nuclear bomb, despite the agreement struck this week, the US defense secretary has said. Ashton Carter made the comments in route to Israel, the first leg of a tour of the Middle East. He was seeking to ease concerns of a key ally who has been one of the most vocal critics of the nuclear deal. But Mr. Carter admitted he was “not going to change anybody’s mind in Israel”
Iran‘s foreign minister on Monday criticized the United States and Israel for not taking the threat of military action against Tehran off the table following the landmark nuclear deal between Iran and world powers. The official IRNA news agency quoted Iran’s top diplomat, Mohammad Javad Zarif, as saying the military option remains a very hazardous idea.
“Applying force … is not an option but an unwise and dangerous temptation,” he said. Yet, Zarif added, “there are people who talk about illegal and illegitimate application of force” for their own purposes. He called the nuclear deal reached last week a “victory of diplomacy over war and violence. Zarif did not single out any specific country but his remarks came a day after U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said during a visit to Israel that the accord imposes no limits on what Washington can do to ensure the security of Israel and U.S. Arab allies. So, both the USA and Israel have stated that they will consider military action against Iran in the future. Possibly because of the deal Iran just got, it may think that the USA or Israel would not do that. That would be dangerous for Iran.
It is very likely that Iran will ‘overplay’ its hand someday very soon.
Since Iran will NOT be the final King of the South of Bible prophecy -(cf. Daniel 11:4-43), readers may reason that Iran may somehow get “neutralized” before this final king rises up. And it may be that provoking some type of conflict with Israel (through an attack or through simply possessing nuclear bombs) and/or the USA, etc.
Although Iran wants to dominate the Islamic world, Bible prophecy shows that it will not. But, because leaders like its past and current presidents credit a non-existent Imam Mahdi for various events and its Supreme Leader has claimed to actually speak to him, the regime in Iran must be considered unstable and capable of taking steps that would seem illogical to outsiders.
This makes Iran ominously dangerous. Iran may well damage Israel -(Isaiah 22:1-14) and even the USA. But that will not end well for Iran -(cf. Jeremiah 49:34-38).
The Obama Administration is trying to tell everyone what a great deal it made with Iran. It describes the deal quite differently than how the Iranians seem to view it. On July 19, 2015. Iran’s Ayatollah claimed that it is the USA who is the real terrorists and he referred to the nation of Israel as ‘wicked Zionists’ Iran has no intention of wanting to be the friend of the USA or anything but an enemy to Israel. Given the accuracy of Bible prophecy, Iran’s Ayatollah’s word rings hollow.
While a temporary peace will come to the Middle East -(cf. Daniel 9:27, see also The ‘Peace Deal’ of Daniel 9:27), this deal is not that one. Expect more conflict in the Middle East for a time. The United Nation risks having another war in the most volatile region in the world.
The United Nations does see problems, but not the right solution. Does the United Nations recognize there are problems now? Yes, but it does not understand the proper solution:
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warns of ‘turbulence’ ahead, with wars, refugees, disease and climate change. When the Secretary-general of the United Nations says the world seems to be falling apart, perhaps we should sit up and listen. The United Nations chief gave his “state of the world” address on September 25, 2014. Put simply, he thinks it’s awful.
“This year, the horizon of hope is darkened” were his exact words. “The world’s ‘fasten seat belt’ light is illuminated. Turbulence is testing the multilateral system, national institutions and people’s lives.” In other words, prepare for a rough ride.
“Not since the end of the Second World War have there been so many refugees, displaced people and asylum seekers. Never before has the United Nations been asked to reach so many people with emergency food assistance and other lifesaving supplies,” he said in his address at the opening of the UN General Assembly’s annual ministerial meeting.
He called for world leaders to join together to ease the plight of nearly unprecedented numbers of refugees, the displaced and victims of violence and disease.
“But leadership is precisely about finding the seeds of hope and nurturing them into something bigger,” the UN chief told presidents, prime ministers, monarchs and ministers from the UN’s 193 member states. “That is our duty,” Ban said. “That is my call to you today.”
Notice that Ban Ki-Moon essentially called on world leaders to unite to prevent the situation from getting worse and put his hope in that. Other than his hope in this present world, what Ban Ki-Moon stated sounded similar to what Jesus said on the Mount of Olives: “4And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. 5For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. 6And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8All these are the beginning of sorrows”. -(Matthew 24:4-8).
Jesus’ statement that the sorrows were not yet the end are consistent with Ban Ki-Moon’s. However, while Ban Ki-Moon put his hope that humans could solve the problems, Jesus taught that the situation would eventually worsen, God would insure the solution (the gospel of the kingdom) would be proclaimed to the world as a witness, and then things would get so bad that God has to intervene to stop the world from being destroyed:
“14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come. 15Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), 16then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. 18And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. 19But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! 20And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. 21For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened. -(Matthew 24:14-22).
The United Nations was never God’s hope for humanity, the Kingdom of God was. That remains the true hope for this world. The Vatican seems to share the UN's climate change/global warming agenda.
Pope Francis’ closest adviser castigated conservative climate-change skeptics in the United States Tuesday, May 12, 2015 blaming capitalism for their views. The Vatican continues to spearhead the idea of man’s role in climate change despite overwhelming evidence that it is being influenced by the Sun itself.
Speaking with journalists, Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga criticized certain “movements” in the United States that have preemptively come out in opposition to Francis’s planned encyclical on climate change, “The ideology surrounding environmental issues is too tied to a capitalism that doesn’t want to stop ruining the environment because they don’t want to give up their profits,” Rodríguez said, according to the Boston Globe's Crux blog. Rodríguez’s comments came at the beginning of the annual meeting of ‘Caritas Internationalis’, an association of Catholic charitable groups.
He said many individuals both inside and outside the Catholic Church are awaiting Francis’s encyclical “with hope,” and especially watching how it might impact the United Nations’ December meeting that seeks to reach an agreement on an international climate change pact.
That is Francis’s top stated goal for the encyclical, to encourage Catholics to fight climate change and influence the U.N.’s process. Sadly, Pope Francis' stated goal is not to get people to repent and live as Jesus taught. We are having climate problems and that was expected. The world is actually in a berserk transition, as the real age of peace is not yet here. It may be a period of chaos. It is the beginning of sorrows Matthew 24:8 The problems that the world is now facing should be a wake-up call to repent. The ‘trumpet’ warnings are going out, but many prefer to put their trust in humankind and not God to solve the problems.
Pushing the homosexual agenda and other sins as various ones in the UN and various governments has been doing results in 'climate change.' But that is not something that many people wish to seriously consider. The Bible is clear that humans would destroy the earth and the Jesus has to come before humans do so:
“The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, And the time of the dead, that they should be judged, And that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints, And those who fear Your name, small and great, And should destroy those who destroy the earth.” -(Revelation 11:18).
“And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened.” -(Matthew 24:22).
The Bible is clear that various aspects of weather will be used by God prior to Jesus' return, both as warnings and as punishments. Much of the world in the 21st century sees that there have been various forms of 'climate change.' What should be done? Notice what Solomon prayed: “26When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them, 27then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance. 28When there is famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is; 29whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows his own burden and his own grief, and spreads out his hands to this temple: 30then hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone know the hearts of the sons of men), 31that they may fear You, to walk in Your ways as long as they live in the land which You gave to our fathers. -(2nd Chronicles 6:26-31)..
The solution to various weather-climate matters is to pray and to repent and properly obey God. The United Nations and others have a different plan. But their plan will NOT work: “8Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. 9And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory…every island fled away -(Revelation 16:8-9, 20).
Sadly, people will not properly repent and turn to the God of the Bible, so 'global warming' will happen beyond what most now think is possible. Although Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers” -(Matthew 5:9), He also taught that the Kingdom of God was the solution -(Mark 1:14, Matthew 24:14; Revelation) and His word explained, regarding those of the world, "the way of peace they have not known" -(Isaiah 59:8; Romans 3:17).
The United Nations 2015 'New Universal Agenda' by 2030
Many world leaders, including Pope Francis, believe that it will be international human cooperation that will bring peace and prosperity, and not the Kingdom of God. And while they will have some temporal successes, they will not only not succeed, their human efforts will ultimately bring planet Earth to the point that it would make life unsustainable if Jesus did not return to establish His Kingdom. This is a false gospel. Notice a warning from the Apostle Paul to the Galatians: 3Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, 4who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. 6I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, 7which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. 9As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed. 10For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ. -(Galatians 1:3-10).
It is Christ Jesus, not the United Nations, who will deliver us from the present evil world. The UN is promoting a false gospel. Many in the world are trying to put together a semi-religious Babylonian international plan to put in a new world order in the 21st century. Notice something directly from the United Nations:
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Preamble This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognize that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. All countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership, will implement this plan. We are resolved to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet. We are determined to take the bold and transformative steps which are urgently needed to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path. As we embark on this collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets which we are announcing today demonstrate the scale and ambition of this new universal Agenda. They seek to build on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what these did not achieve. ...
The Goals and targets will stimulate action over the next fifteen years in areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet:
People
We are determined to end poverty and hunger, in all their forms and dimensions, and to ensure that all human beings can fulfil their potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment.
Planet
We are determined to protect the planet from degradation, including through sustainable consumption and production, sustainably managing its natural resources and taking urgent action on climate change, so that it can support the needs of the present and future generations.
Prosperity
We are determined to ensure that all human beings can enjoy prosperous and fulfilling lives and that economic, social and technological progress occurs in harmony with nature.
We are determined to foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies which are free from fear and violence. There can be no sustainable development without peace and no peace without sustainable development.
Partnership
We are determined to mobilize the means required to implement this Agenda through a revitalized Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, based on a spirit of strengthened global solidarity, focused in particular on the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable and with the participation of all countries, all stakeholders and all people. The interlinkages and integrated nature of the Sustainable Development Goals are of crucial importance in ensuring that the purpose of the new Agenda is realised. If we realize our ambitions across the full extent of the Agenda, the lives of all will be profoundly improved and our world will be transformed for the better.
DECLARATION
Introduction
1. We, the Heads of State and Government and High Representatives, meeting at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 25-27 September 2015 as the Organization celebrates its seventieth anniversary, have decided today on new global Sustainable Development Goals.
2. On behalf of the peoples we serve, we have adopted a historic decision on a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centered set of universal and transformative Goals and targets. We commit ourselves to working tirelessly for the full implementation of this Agenda by 2030. We recognize that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. We are committed to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions – economic, social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner. We will also build upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seek to address their unfinished business.
3. We resolve, between now and 2030, to end poverty and hunger everywhere; to combat inequalities within and among countries; to build peaceful, just and inclusive societies; to protect human rights and promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls; and to ensure the lasting protection of the planet and its natural resources. We resolve also to create conditions for sustainable, inclusive and sustained economic growth, shared prosperity and decent work for all, taking into account different levels of national development and capacities.
4. As we embark on this great collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind. Recognizing that the dignity of the human person is fundamental, we wish to see the Goals and targets met for all nations and peoples and for all segments of society. And we will endeavour to reach the furthest behind first.
5. This is an Agenda of unprecedented scope and significance. It is accepted by all countries and is applicable to all, taking into account different national realities, capacities and levels of development and respecting national policies and priorities. These are universal goals and targets which involve the entire world, developed and developing countries alike. They are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development. ...
Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard. We reaffirm our unwavering commitment to achieving this Agenda and utilizing it to the full to transform our world for the better by 2030.
The above was formally adopted by the United Nations on September 25, 2015, not too long after Pope Francis spoke before the UN that day -- he also applauded the approval:
UNITED NATIONS -(Reuters) – World leaders on Friday adopted the most sweeping agenda ever of global goals to combat poverty, inequality and climate change, capping years of debate and saying now is the time for “a little less conversation, a little more action.” Described by the United Nations secretary-general as “a to-do list for people and planet,” the 17 “Sustainable Development Goals”, or SDGs, are to be implemented over the next 15 years with a big global push to win public and political support.
The 193 U.N. member nations formally adopted the goals in the shadow of the worst refugee crisis since World War II, calling for shared peace and prosperity. Pope Francis called the adoption of the SDGs “an important sign of hope.”
“Solemn commitments, however, are not enough, even though they are a necessary step toward solutions,” said the Pope as the Vatican flag flew for the first time outside the United Nations where security was heightened for his visit.
He said world leaders must follow through with “a will which is effective, practical, constant, with concrete steps and immediate measures” to protect the environment and end social and economic exclusion. While many consider that this is good news, this is a false gospel. Of course, it will fail - even though the time for a temporal peace deal will come per Daniel 9:27. Even the UN declared above that its earlier "Millennium Development Goals" did not succeed. The difference now is that we have seen changes in the world as well as a pontiff who is more directly involved in endorsing this. As far as Pope Francis goes, he basically laid much of this out in his encyclical titled ‘Laudato Si’.
When you consider that 'new universal agenda' could also be called the 'new CATHOLIC agenda' this may increase the potential enormity of its impact to those who pay attention to biblical prophecy.
Why?
The word 'catholic' means 'universal.' According to the Bible, it will take a combination of a military leader in Europe (called the King of the North, also called the ‘Beast’ of Revelation 13:1-10) along with a religious leader (called the false prophet, also called THE Antichrist and the two-horned Beast of Revelation 13:11-17) from the city of seven hills -(Revelation 17:9,18) to bring in a Babylonian -(Revelation 17 & 18) 'new catholic order.' And the Bible teaches that this is not good -(Revelation 13, 14, 17, & 18).
This is something that the Bible-believing Christians and similar churches of God have denounced its plans. Since Satan beguiled Eve to fall for a version of his gospel nearly 6,000 years ago -(Genesis 3), humans have believed that they know better than God what will make them and the world better. It may well be that the 6,000 years God gave humans to rule itself is up between now and the UN's hoped for fully implementation of its 'new universal agenda'
Notice also the following assessment of the UN's plans:
In a nutshell, if we all behave ourselves and do exactly what the U.N. wants, then in a mere 15 years the entire population of the planet will be able to do something it’s never been able to do in 6,000-plus years of modern human civilization, to wit: “End extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and fix climate change.” Yes really. These 17 goals, when implemented, will achieve those three things. Isn’t that nice? ...
These goals are carefully crafted and worded that no sane person can object to them. After all, who wants more poverty, hunger, or dirty water? Who wants girls and women to be oppressed? Who wants cities and human settlements to be discriminatory, unsafe, failing and unsustainable instead of “inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”? ...
There’s just one picky little problem: how to achieve these goals. How can we “reduce inequality within and among countries”? How do we “ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns”? What’s the best way to “strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development”?
When we put aside the pretty buzz words and disregard the sparkly packaging, it comes down to one thing: force. Remember, there are only two ways to get someone else to do something: persuasion and force. When persuasion doesn’t work, force is the only alternative.
If you have more money than I do and I can’t persuade you to give me some, these U.N. goals means I can force you, at the point of a gun, to give me some of your money so we can “equalize” our wealth. If you have access to better health care than I do, I can force you, at the point of a gun, to make you pay for mine so we can both have “healthy lives.”
If your country is richer than my country, I can force you at the point of a gun – or since we’re talking entire nations, probably at the threat of nuclear annihilation – to give me your wealth and your resources. Now let’s look at these goals from a different angle. What is preventing these goals from being achieved in the first place? What is preventing girls and women from achieving equality? What is preventing “peaceful and inclusive” societies with “justice for all” from happening? What is preventing people from getting educational opportunities or abundant health care?
In other words, what is the source of the equality, the wealth, the security, the sustainability and the inclusiveness these goals demand? It’s very simple. The source of these good things comes from human ingenuity. The only thing that prevents people from exercising the full extent of their ingenuity is other people, particularly collections of other people known as “government.” Only government has the force needed to “persuade” people to obey – forcibly. Throughout history, most systems of government have done their best to rope people into the service of that government. Whether “government” was represented by kings or dictators or tyrants, the purpose of people was to serve their leaders.
The reality is that the Bible warns of one who will use force to get control -(Revelation 13:4, 16-18). It will take the return of Jesus Christ, and not the UN, to bring about real peace and prosperity. The UN's 'New Universal Agenda' is a False Gospel!
The Goals of the United Nations for Peace Will Accomplish Something Else. Although it is claimed to be peaceful, the movement will also be propped up through economic intimidation and terror -(Revelation 13:15-17), as well as signs and lying wonders that will deceive all but the very elect who have the love of the truth:“24For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 25See, I have told you beforehand.” -(Matthew 24:24-25).
9The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” -(2nd Thessalonians 2:9-12).
Well there have been many signs and lying wonders throughout history, the time will come when they will become even worse -(2nd Timothy 3:13; 2nd Thessalonians 2:7-12). The world will be deceived -(Revelation 12:9, Mark 13:22). The time to stand up for the truth is now. While peace is a fine goal -(Psalm 122:6; Matthew 5:9), the Bible warns of a time when false declarations of peace will be indicated and also made: “21And in his place shall arise a vile person, to whom they will not give the honor of royalty; but he shall come in peaceably, and seize the kingdom by intrigue. 22With the force of a flood they shall be swept away from before him and be broken, and also the prince of the covenant. 23And after the league is made with him he shall act deceitfully, for he shall come up and become strong with a small number of people. 24He shall enter peaceably, even into the richest places of the province; and he shall do what his fathers have not done, nor his forefathers: he shall disperse among them the plunder, spoil, and riches; and he shall devise his plans against the strongholds, but only for a time”. -(Daniel 11:21-24).
“10Because, indeed, because they have seduced My people, saying, ‘Peace!’ when there is no peace” -(Ezekiel 13:10).
“3For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. 4But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. 5You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. 6Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober”. -(1st Thessalonians 5:3-6)
In the future, the Vatican -(Revelation 13, 17), United Nations, certain ones in Europe (it is the European King of the North who comes in peaceably in Daniel 11), and elsewhere will be talking peace -(Ezekiel 13:10), yet war and destruction will come. These will be ‘same goals’ that the United Nations and Vatican have related to the ecumenical movement and financial controls.
The Bible clear warns about this Babylonian arrangement -(Zechariah 2:7) and teaches that the only true unity will come after that system is destroyed -(Revelation 18) and Jesus returns -(Revelation 19; Zechariah 2:8-12). But as the UN and the Vatican do not seem to understand those Scriptures, they are working towards something that the Bible warns against.
The Nations of the World Will Fight Against Christ!
As astounding as it sounds, the Bible is clear that the nations of the world will unite against the returning Jesus Christ. When Jesus returns, He will destroy the unity of nations that are against Him: “15Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and voices could be heard shouting in heaven, calling, 'The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever.' 16The twenty-four elders, enthroned in the presence of God, prostrated themselves and touched the ground with their foreheads worshipping God. 17with these words, 'We give thanks to you, Almighty Lord God, He who is, He who was, for assuming your great power and beginning your reign. 18The nations were in uproar and now the time has come for your retribution, and for the dead to be judged, and for your servants the prophets, for the saints and for those who fear your name, small and great alike, to be rewarded. The time has come to destroy those who are destroying the earth”. -(Revelation 11:15-18).
19:6 “And I heard what seemed to be the voices of a huge crowd, like the sound of the ocean or the great roar of thunder, answering, 'Alleluia! The reign of the Lord our God Almighty has begun;. 19 Then I saw the beast, with all the kings of the earth and their armies, gathered together to fight the Rider and his army. 20 But the beast was taken prisoner, together with the false prophet who had worked miracles on the beast's behalf and by them had deceived those who had accepted branding with the mark of the beast and those who had worshipped his statue. These two were hurled alive into the fiery lake of burning sulphur. 21 All the rest were killed by the sword of the Rider, which came out of his mouth, and all the birds glutted themselves with their flesh... 20:4 Then I saw thrones, where they took their seats, and on them was conferred the power to give judgment. I saw the souls of all who had been beheaded for having witnessed for Jesus and for having preached God's word, and those who refused to worship the beast or his statue and would not accept the brandmark on their foreheads or hands; they came to life, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. -(Revelation 19:6,19-21; 20:4, NJB).
Notice that Jesus will have to destroy world of armies unified against Him. You should not support this. But whatever is left of the 'United Nations' in the end will. If you will believe the Bible and truly live as a faithful elect Christian, the Bible shows that you will not have to be deceived as the rest of the world will be -(Matthew 24:24; 2nd Thessalonians 2:9-12). We Christians want to be part of Jesus' 'new world order' not the one that the Bible condemns that the Vatican and United Nations are working on.
As part of the unmasking the global “Beast Empire” we will examining key chapters of the Bible, namely the books of Daniel and Revelation, as well other supporting passages from elsewhere which support interpretation of the symbolic use of metaphors to reveal the powers behind the metaphor. One such example is the ‘Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’ in Revelation 6:1-8. Theologians and scholars identify these symbolic four horses with such things as war, death, pestilence, famine, poverty, etc. with the Great Tribulation; Yet, in doing so, they rarely link these things to the forces on earth carrying out or bringing about such horrendous acts. The Four Horses of Revelation 6:1-8 represent the four competing power centers vying for control of humanity. These are represented as follows:
White – The Vatican and the Papacy
Red – Communism
Black – Capitalism
Pale - Islam
The platform stage from which these four actor elements play out their roles in the Bible will be located at 405 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017. Former New York mayor Rudi Giuliani called it the “Capitol of the World” in 2004, his statement suggest something far more cynical and sinister.
In my study of “The Beast System”, the two most important books of the Bible are Daniel and Revelation. The larger puzzle before us is to sort out the puzzle pieces in a way that we can let the pieces come together naturally, to reveal the picture without trying to force pieces to fit an image other than what God revealed to Daniel and John. Daniel was given a dream, so it is this dream that becomes the real starting point.
In Daniel 7:2, Daniel states: “I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.” The “great sea” represents the masses of humanity. That is answered for us in Revelation 17:15: “The waters which thou sawest, …. are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues,” He saw four winds striving. “Winds” derives from the Hebrew “ruach”, and is rendered “spirit” or “mind,” in every occurrence in the Bible. Daniel saw “four global spirits” seeking to conquer the souls of men everywhere. The prophet Zechariah saw those same four spirits, also. “There came four chariots out from between two mountains; … In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses; And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses. Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are thse, my lord/ And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.” -(Zechariah 6:1-5).
We do not have to guess what these four horsemen represent, Scripture interprets itself. They are the four most powerful SPIRITS that traverse the earth. The FOUR WINDS of Daniel 7:2 are the FOUR SPIRITS – HORSES of Zechariah 6, and with the FOUR HORSEMEN of Revelation 6:1-8: “And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”
Who are the four horsemen? We are told what they represent and what they bring to the earth. The Four Horsemen are four spirits that are striving to control the earth in the last days. These prevailing, apocalyptic spirits have historically appeared to be archrivals both in philosophy and politics. However, do not be fooled. They are all the works of a single Luciferic scheme, four spirits working toward a single goal. That goal is the enslavement of mankind to Satan himself.
Be mindful that these four spirits are working during the period of the Iron and Clay Feet era. Why? Because it is very important to realize that Iron of Roman Politics and the Clay of the Roman Catholic Institution represents this union and the prevailing powers of this fifth Beast, following the four empires of Gold, Silver, Brass, Iron with Clay. Scholars are in agreement that the four Beast Empires represented: Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Greece, Roman, with the fifth Beast as Roman Catholic Europe.
Under Lucifer, the Spirit of Rome is the Chief Principality in the heavens, under which these four spirits work. The demonic Prince of Rome governs and foments all four of these spirits. These Four Spirits have patrolled and even dominated the earth for most of the last days. These are the Four WINDS, the Four SPIRITS, and Four HORSEMEN which viciously compete for global dominion. They represent Catholicism – Capitalism – Communism – Islam. Remember, Daniel’s prophecy said that these spirits “walking to and fro” or “to patrol” –(Zechariah 6:7) “strove on the great sea”. The sea represents the masses of humanity, so there is conflict over the masses of humanity. They appear to be striving against each other, but under closer examination they are striving with each other, for one common cause: Lucifer’s domination. All four spirits are instruments of one worldwide Luciferian agenda, and they all answer to the Prince of Rome, the dominant or prevailing spirit o this age.
Those who remember the Cold War following World War II, remember that at that time, there was great enmity between the Capitalist West and the Communist Soviet Union. Both Capitalism and Communist Soviet Union are political and economic ideologies. The only other real competition is that in the two largest religious communities of Catholicism and Islam. These four spirits are locked into a world conflict with the purpose of destroying each other. Those familiar with history know that Catholicism has been engaged in a battle with Communism since the era of the Russian Tzars. The Jesuits orchestrated the Russian Revolution of 1913 to destroy the Russian Monarchy in its quest to conquer Russia.
In Part 2 of this series I will begin to unpack the Bible’s content in understanding of the “Beast Empire” and how the world is being set up for enslavement to its control! This series will constitute a thorough and comprehensive study.
Pastor Bob
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