Two parties have great plans for this world. One is bent on having a one world government in their control for selfish reasons of great magnitude. That party is made up of New World Order proponents who speak of their goal in glowing terms of peaceful law and order…for them. I have identified them as the Tower of Babel Syndrome, reaching as far back as that episode recorded in Genesis 11.

The other party is God, the Sovereign of the Universe, who seems to have a knack for letting mankind do their thing, seemingly, and then turning those activities into the progressive realization of His own ultimate purpose.

In this article I want to show how the actions of that cartel for world control will be, in fact, God’s vehicle to bring about their demise and His glory.

In Psalm 75:6-8 we are told this:

“For exaltation comes neither from the east nor from the west nor from the south, but God is the Judge. He puts down one, and exalts another. For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is fully mixed, and He pours it out. Surely its dregs shall all the wicked of the earth drainand drink down.”

The continuity of the context indicates that the placement of a certain one in authority is to establish a basis for eventual judgment. One can observe that mankind has the unique incapability of righteously governing themselves for any lengthy time period. Paul writes to Timothy of this degenerating actuality in 2 Timothy 3:13, saying, “But evil men and impostors will growworse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.”

When Daniel laid out the interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in chapter 2 of the book of Daniel, the image of a man was seen, made up of various metals from head to toe. The head was of gold and represented the king’s regime and was followed by four other future kingdoms. Note the diminishing value of the metals as the future kingdoms represented unfold: “This image’s head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay” (Daniel 2:32-33).

The interpretation of the dream reveals five kingdoms represented by the image of a man. The first one, Babylon, had the head of gold–Nebuchadnezzar’s kingdom. In succession, the next kingdom to rule was of silver that was displayed in the image’s chest and arms. It is later identified as the Medo-Persian empire, a duel leadership situation adequately shown as the chest with the two arms. The third kingdom was of bronze, shown as the belly and thighs of the image.

This one is identified as Alexander the Great’s Greek empire. It is said of him that his last complaint as he died was that there were no more worlds for him to conquer! Then, we come to the fourth kingdom to rule the world, known to us as Rome in the time of Christ. That one was shown as iron, a strong metal, but iron rusts and disintegrates over time. That is what happened to the old Holy Roman Empire—“holy” perhaps because it linked up with the Roman Catholic Church and fading away because of rampant immorality.

One thing is different, however, about this fourth one—it had an extension of two feet of iron, also, having ten toes, which were iron mixed with clay. That continues to imply a weaker, softer integrity of character, one that is saturated with the immorality and godlessness of a degenerate people.

In these recounts over these past centuries, it is easy to see that secular history is parallel with Bible prophecy. There could be questions of why did it take God so long to bring about the soon conclusion of mortal human history of manmade governments, ostensibly speaking, that is. Recall, if you will, that there were many centuries before God called Abraham out to begin the Hebrew nation and people, out of which was to come the Messiah, the Savior of the world, especially of those who believe (see 1 Timothy 4:10). And, in Galatians 4:4, the Scripture says this:

“But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, bornof a woman….”

When John wrote of his vision in Revelation 13, he saw a beast rising up out of the sea having seven heads with ten horns having ten crowns on them. On the beast the seventh head was unclear—in chapter 17:8, it is described as, “The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition.”

We know that it is speaking of that seventh head because verse 11 follows with identification of the beast’s eighth head, as, “The beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going to perdition.” (That “perdition” is the lake of fire, in which he and his false prophet will be thrown to burn forever and ever — Revelation 19:20).

The ten horns with ten crowns that John saw compares to the ten toes Daniel saw on his image of a man, and these compare to the ten regions the planners for a one world government have envisioned. North America is one of those regions and includes Canada, the United States and Mexico. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), activated in the late 1900s, is evidence of the progress of that planning, and no doubt has much to do with the obvious reluctance of national leaders to close borders and protect American sovereignty.

Daniel looked ahead and saw four kingdoms, yet that fourth one, the legs of the image, had extended characteristics—two feet and ten toes. John looks back from his standing in that fourth kingdom of Daniel’s vision, but the sixth kingdom of his vision. There were two kingdoms, or heads, prior to Daniel in Babylon—Assyria and Egypt. John writes of that seventh—and eighth—head as future. He says, in Revelation 17: 8, “The beast that was, and is not, and yet is.”

The history of the seven headed beast, as world kingdoms or world governments, is summed up in Revelation 17:10:

“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.”

When Daniel 9:27’s prophecy of a coming confirmation of a covenant for seven years is activated, and the pretribulation Rapture occurs, that one who brings the covenant to pass will come out in the open, “conquering and to conquer,” as Revelation 6 tells us.

We see him working to bring together those ten toes to develop that New World Order that is now an open secret among the global elite. As that one world government, so longed for by the elite and developed from the foundation of a world-wide control of the money supply through the banking systems, it will only continue a short time.

Revelation 17:10, above, tells us that. Then, the Antichrist will tire of trying to work with those “ten horns” and will dump them and take over as the eighth head of the beast. The timing of this action will coincide with his entry into the temple and declaring himself as God and demanding the worship of all mankind on earth. It will happen halfway through that seven year covenant period, as shown in Daniel 9:27. (See also 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4.)

Here we have advanced knowledge of God’s “planned progression” of His side of the parallel unfolding of secular plans for the world and those of our sovereign God. Since the days of Cain, man has had his own ideas about his destiny, and they did not include God.

Probably topping the list of frontline perpetrators of a one world government, a world-dominating kingdom, in these last few centuries, has been the Rothschild dynasty. From the earliest days of the development of banking systems, they have led the way. Presidents have been assassinated to retain control of the money supply of this nation. One Rothschild is said to have declared in the early 1800s, “Give me control of a nation’s money supply and I will not care what its laws are.”

Thus we come to Psalm 75:6-8 again, which declares that God sets up one and puts down another, meaning that He is the one who decides who will be the leader of a country. And with that revelation, we can recall the 2008 campaign rhetoric of Barack Hussein Obama saying, “Come join me in fundamentally transforming America forever!”

And again, his April 30, 2016, statement, “The end of the Republic has never looked better” continues and seems to highlight a soon conclusion to that theme of American destruction. Apparently, it was his way of summing up the real success of his two terms as president of the United States.

Those parallel plans of the secular world and the God of heaven are coming down to a single vision. We know what Bible prophecy says will take place, but we merely wait for the secular planners to activate what God has already planned for them to do.

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You have heard—no doubt, the play on words from the phonetics of the labels of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. The Pharisees are “fair-I-see” because of their self-defined righteousness, as shown in the parable Jesus told of that one going down to the temple to pray, at the same time a publican was there also. He prayed “with himself” that he was thankful that he was not like that publican, but kept the law, paid his tithes, etc. (Luke 18:9-14).

The Sadducees were “sad-you-see” because they did not believe in the resurrection. Jesus did not address that issue in this parable, or at least directly, however. I must add this observation, though, that it is interesting that every false doctrine promoted has at its final ending only hopelessness that comes from attempting to establish a relationship with God by works of the flesh and not solely by faith.

When Jesus warned His disciples to “beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees,” they thought He was referring to their having not brought any bread from the leftovers of that feeding of the five thousand He had just accomplished. However, Jesus had something else in mind, something that reaches out to all believers down through the centuries to today and the future. Following is the discussion from Matthew 16:5-12, revealing their grasp of His warning:

“Now when His disciples had come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. Then Jesus said to them, ‘Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.’ And they reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘It is because we have taken no bread.’

But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, ‘O you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves because you have brought no bread? Do you not yet understand, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up?

Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many large baskets you took up? How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread?—but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.’ Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

After that scenario, Jesus asked who were people saying He was. Peter was quick to answer that “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Then Jesus reveals a great truth that is, I would submit, most often missed when conversion to Christianity is considered. It is this: No mortal person is able to recognize Jesus Christ for who He really is without revelation by the Spirit of God. That is the essence of the new birth, being born-again.

Jesus said to Peter, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven: (Matthew 16:17).

This is to say, frankly, that no mortal man has any access into the spiritual realm of God’s presence and reality unless he is led there by revelation of the Spirit of God through conviction of sin and repentance before God.

On the Rock of that declaration is built the whole of the gospel message. We can see in 1 Corinthians 3:11, that Jesus Christ is the foundation on which Christianity is built.

Having established that fact with the disciples, He began telling them of His coming death, burial and resurrection in Jerusalem. Again Peter was quick to respond, taking Him aside and saying, “Far be it from You, Lord; this shall not happen to You!” (Matthew 16:22).

Here is where, in this context, the reality of the leaven of the religious leaders seems to show up. It could be phrased several different ways, like “there are more ways to heaven than Jesus only,” or “You must be baptized to be saved,” or “you have to be a member of our church,” or “you must keep the Sabbath,” or “you must keep the commandments,” or …

The religious system that had developed over the centuries in Israel had been turned into a political system of central control and authority. It was not unlike that which is coming to light in the United States currently. It gives a perspective of how an outsider, Jesus Christ, began to challenge the insiders who ran things and did not want them changed.

In this secular scenario being displayed in America, candidates who are not from the historic political profession are challenging the insiders, the “establishment,” and it is disrupting the status quo where always in times past—that controlling shadow group could pick candidates for both sides of the political spectrum. No doubt, those who see this happening and know the truth are quietly wondering if the final outsider candidate, having been nominated—will suffer a like rejection as did Jesus that day long ago.

But I digress from the discussion of the leaven or doctrine of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. A close inspection of any of the world’s religions and the false doctrines that are attached to Christianity and even are in Christianity, will reveal that in some manner they all fall back on Man doing in his own self-righteousness what he thinks will get him to that eternal bliss. I call it the “Tower of Babel Syndrome” where the people got together and decided they did not need God and began to build a tower that would reach the heavens.

But the idea of a Man picking his own way to heaven started with Cain. It is quite unlikely that he did not know that a blood sacrifice was the only acceptable offering before God for forgiveness of sins—even then a foreshadow of that Lamb of God who was to come in the form of a perfect man and a perfect sacrifice.

After Saul of Tarsus found out who Jesus really is that day on the road to Damascus, and became known as the apostle Paul, he had some words to define his tenure under the influence of that leaven of that religious establishment:

“For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, though I also might have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so: circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

“But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which isthrough faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith” (Philippians 3:3-9).

He says in net summary, his righteousness in the law was mere refuse. Another translation uses the word “dung” to characterize that religious system and identify it as a work of the flesh, not of the Spirit.

Hebrews 11:6 says, “But without faith it is impossible to please God, for he who comes to Him must believer that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him,” and Romans 14:23b says, “…for whateveris not from faith is sin.”

Of course, this means that when one who has sought right standing with God by his own works and appears before the Lord and enters his plea, Jesus will say, “Depart from Me; I never knew you.” A paraphrase of the first of the Beatitudes in Matthew 5:3 expands it this way:

“The truly happy are those who realize their own depth of spiritual poverty, for only then can they enter in and enjoy the blessings of the kingdom of heaven.”

A certainty which Jesus spoke of to Peter ( as well as all of those coming after His time), and also echoed in the words of Paul: “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 15:50).

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