part0011

One sure signal that God’s Word is true is the nation Israel down through the ages. Even more specifically, the matter of building the Third Temple atop Mount Moriah—rather the resistance to building that structure—validates God’s Word. As pointed out throughout this book, the Jewish people constitute the most hated, persecuted nation throughout history. Today, almost every country represented in the United Nations goes against the Jewish state in nearly every vote involving Israel’s best interest.

Any talk of building a Jewish house of worship on the Temple Mount brings violence from Israel’s enemies and touches off fears of Middle East—even worldwide—war. The Temple Mount is the one spot on the planet that, in the eyes of the world’s diplomats, threatens to ignite nuclear conflict and World War III. It’s as if Israel, Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount itself are the hold-up to world peace, safety, and unity.

The one-world anthems make the call to global unity sound so sensible, so inviting.

Come, young citizens of the world, we are one, we are one/ Come, young citizens of the world, we are one, we are one/ We have one hope, we have one dream, and with one voice we sing/ Peace, prosperity, and love for all mankind.

The lyrics to the above are set to an enchanting, rhythmic melody and are sung by a chorus of sweet-voiced children. Soon you are humming, then singing along. What could possibly be wrong with those sentiments so innocently expressed? Peace, prosperity, and love for all mankind—are these not among the most noble objectives?

Powerful humanistic allurements beckon seductively, promising a golden future if all of earth’s people will come together as one. Such a glorious world order, long dreamed about and even fervently pursued, seems at last achievable. Those who hold the worldview that national boundaries must fall and sovereignties must diminish because we are all citizens of Planet Earth passionately embrace the earth-shrinking technologies such as the Internet that science continues to produce. Yes, the utopian dream at last seems achievable. However, while the sirens of globalism—like the twin sisters who lured unwary sailors to their deaths in Homer’s Odyssey —sing their lovely, mesmerizing songs of New World Order, the words pronounced by the Ancient of Days reverberate through the corridors of antiquity and leap at this generation from the pages of God’s Holy Word:

The Creator of all things was not expressing His pride in His creation called man. God was concerned and saddened because all people of that time were united in their determination to build a world to their own specifications. And why was this very first globalist effort displeasing to the One who built into man the marvelous ability to do whatever he or she could imagine? Did not God Himself create us in His own image, infusing the creature with phenomenal creative drive?

It seems at first glance a supreme paradox: The Creator made us in His own image, gifting us with powerful conceptual abilities, and thus with the ingenuity to build a tower that could ultimately reach into the heavens. Then, just as we began to fulfill our potential, the infallible Creator God manifested His displeasure in the people of that day as recorded here:

Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth; and from there did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. (Genesis 11:1–9)

When people used their God-given genius in this rebellious way, He confused that genius by disrupting their ability to communicate. Thereby He put an end to the globalist project. God’s dealings with His creation seemed incongruous: Did He change His mind about having made people in His own image? Did He resent competition in matters involving the creativity this building project might have represented? Why did He break up the one-world building effort at Babel?

God puts His mighty finger upon the answer to that question, piercing to the heart of the reason He had to destroy by Flood the entire antediluvian world except Noah, his family, and select animal life. The cause of why God scattered the Babel builders is found even farther back in human history than the era of the Flood:

The Lord smelled a sweet savor; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground anymore for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite anymore every thing living, as I have done. (Genesis 8:21)

The key thought from the mind of God for our purposes here is “the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth.” Let’s examine this indictment in context.

God declared that He would never again curse the ground as He did after man’s rebellion in the Garden of Eden. Neither, He said, would He ever again smite all living things as He did with the worldwide Flood of Noah’s day. God placed between these two promises the statement of truth about the fallen state of man, a fact absolutely rejected by today’s humanistic social architects. Their denial of this reality is at the core of globalism. So, too, is the demented assertion that man is evolving toward a higher order of being that will ultimately produce heaven on earth: peace, prosperity, and love for all mankind.

Adam and Eve’s God-attuned senses must have changed from perfection to imperfection in one cataclysmic moment. What a heart-wrenching scene it must have been when they willfully disobeyed God, choosing instead to yield to the tempter, who told them they would be as God when they ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. How devastating must have been that eternity-rending moment when those magnificently beautiful humans discarded the effulgence of God that had shrouded their nakedness. The image of God emanating from within their beings must have begun to change into frightening, darkened countenances. So, too, their minds no doubt convoluted within their sin-infected thought processes. Both image and imagination altered in that moment into a perpetual state of opposition to the Creator with whom they had previously walked in perfect trust and love along the Garden’s lush pathways.

Mankind’s course has been spiraling downward since that willful decision by the first man to do what was right in his own eyes rather than obey God. The Fall brought a curse upon Planet Earth and death to man. Every generation of people since Adam and Eve contributes ample proof that “the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked” (Jeremiah 17:9).

From the first murder, when Cain slew his brother Abel, to the slaughter during the more than fifteen thousand wars of recorded history, to the most recent terrorist atrocity or one-on-one killing, fallen humankind continues through vile actions to testify to the truth of God’s indictment: “The imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth” (Genesis 8:21).

The mystery of the paradox is more understandable when we reconsider these fascinating facts. God, who is perfect in all His ways, created humankind perfectly, making us in His own image. Once again we realize that He gifted us with a powerful imagination so that whatever we could imagine, we could eventually do. However, when we began to use that imagination in building a tower that would reach into Heaven, God was displeased and stopped the project by confounding the language of the builders, then scattering them abroad. We again consider the question: If a perfect God created a perfect man, why did God act in such a seemingly harsh manner when the creature used God-given talent as recounted in the story of Babel?

The answer, of course, is that God also created us with free moral will. The creature was not made a robot, but was made with brilliant conceptual abilities, and was given freedom of choice—which includes discernment. But Adam chose to disobey God and so sin entered the world.

The human bloodstream became instantly contaminated by the infection. The minds of people, including their imaginations, became darkened in the mystery of iniquity that engulfed them.

The paradox understood, the question is now answerable: What is wrong with people coming together in a united effort to construct a one-world order with the objectives of achieving peace, prosperity, and love for all mankind? The answer is that we are spiritually separated from the Creator because of original sin. Our thinking is therefore fatally flawed. Nothing good can come from thinking and planning that excludes God.

Had God allowed the globalists of Nimrod’s day to continue the tower project, He would have had to ultimately curse the Earth again as He did when Adam disobeyed, or He would have had to destroy all living things as He did because of the corruption that required cleansing by the great Flood of Noah’s day. God was not acting harshly at Babel, nor was He acting contrary to His perfect character.

Rather, He was displaying unfathomable love by keeping His promises to the tiny fallen creatures who were deserving of judgment and for whom He would one day sacrifice His only begotten Son in order to redeem them.

Children of the tower builders today carry on the globalist agenda despite the differences in language and geographical separation. They circumvent the barriers through technologies designed to serve their one-world purposes. The siren song grows louder: We have one hope, we have one dream, and with one voice we sing., Peace, prosperity, and love for all mankind.

The obsessive drive toward bringing all men, women, and children into one-world configuration arose shortly after the time Jesus Christ walked the earth. It is perhaps indicative of our sordid day that since that time, this era has been called “AD,” for anno domini , which means “in the year of our Lord,” but now we are to acknowledge that we live in the period of human history called the “common era,” or “CE.” The revisionists, you see, demand that all vestiges of Jesus Christ be erased from even our lexicon. There must be many ways for the people of the coming New World Order to come to God, if indeed there is one.

Jesus Christ, who said He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and that no one can come to the Father but by Him, simply does not fit the globalist mold. Thinkers who formed that mold wanted there to be no doubt that people, through our intellect, can do whatever we imagine. We can build a perfect world without input from any deity who might or might not be out there somewhere. This arrogant attitude of self- sufficiency is summed up in the document titled “The Declaration of Interdependence,” released by the United Nations’ World Affairs Council on January 30, 1976. It reads in part:

Two centuries ago, our forefathers brought forth a new nation; now we must join with others to bring forth a new world order. To establish a new world order…it is essential that mankind free itself from limitations of national prejudice…. We affirm that the economy of all nations is a seamless web, and that no nation can any longer effectively maintain its processes for production and monetary systems without recognizing the necessity of collaborative regulation by international authorities. We call upon all nations to strengthen the United Nations and other institutions of world order.

The zeal for stampeding everyone into a totally controlled global village has not subsided. Elitist power brokers continue to fuel the humanist engine that drives the globalist machinery with grandiose declarations and promises of heaven on earth.

The Secretary General of Habitat II, the 1996 UN forum in Istanbul, Turkey, aimed at laying groundwork for the New World Order, predicted that there will be “a new beginning of the requests to implement the actions called for at this unprecedented continuum of global conferences that have marked the closing decade of this century.” He then made this ominous statement: “A new global social contract for building sustainable human settlements must be forged for the new global urban world order.” God’s children through belief in His Son, Jesus Christ, should not look with trepidation on these foreboding harbingers of the coming Tribulation period described by Jesus in the Olivet Discourse. However, it is abundantly obvious that developments we have seen in wave after wave of UN intrusions into the lives of Americans should make all of us know that real agendas and activities lie behind our concerns.

Neo-Babel builders construct even their music in a way that clearly demonstrates the luciferian desire to usurp God’s throne. John Lennon’s universally popular song could easily be mistaken as portraying the biblically prophesied millennial reign of Jesus Christ. But Lennon, like Lenin, preached man-made heaven on earth—an imitative mockery of the true Messiah’s coming kingdom. The words and melody are infectious.

Globalism’s siren song is a one-world anthem that the true child of God cannot follow to its murderous, destructive end. The Holy Spirit within us is the tether who binds us to the masthead of truth. With Jesus Christ as the Captain of our salvation, we navigate through the treacherous seas of our time.

Still, we must be alert and heed the wake-up call.

The twenty-first century has brought great changes to American culture. It has been a spiraling out of control in most every facet of the nation’s society. Movement away from God became so overt as to make the observant Christian question whether the Lord of Heaven had given up on the United States altogether.

Then, there seemed to come a calming, refreshing breeze that restored common sense in America with the election of November 8, 2016. The vicious, destructive winds of socialistic madness had begun to stir early in the twentieth century. They grew to full hurricane strength while being channeled through increasingly liberal legislative and judicial bodies, with powerful assistance from equally liberal media.

The storm raged throughout the nation’s culture by the time the 1990s arrived. Occasional executive-branch resistance from 2001 to 2008 slowed it only momentarily while it roared against the country’s rapidly weakening moral barriers.

Suddenly, just as the great storm seemed to reach its full fury, American voters arose in sufficient numbers, and the howling leftist assault was brought to a stunned calm for a time.

Many reasons have been suggested for the loud repudiation of liberal ideology and its influence upon America’s governmental policies. Certainly, the electorate’s majority voice unmistakably demanded that politicians begin serving the people in a way that benefits the nation rather than continue serving their own parochial interests at taxpayers’ expense, as had been the case for decades.

But a sudden pulse of wind disrupted the calm only days after the people’s actions in the voting booths brought the tempest to a standstill. The gust seemed to burst from out of nowhere.

A national dementia, manifested by a rage beyond anything that had been seen in the country, burst upon the scene with fury. Hatred of the newly elected president by the political left, enjoined by the mainstream media, both news and entertainment, brought charges against Donald J. Trump that have never been substantiated, even partially.

The rage remains as of this writing. It is satanic in its virulence. It threatens the very constitutional fabric of America as founded.

When the American voters swept the one-nation-under-godlessness liberal utopian schemers out the front door, the ejected ones quickly ran around the side of the house, where they joined with the globalist New World Order builders, who were being welcomed in the back door with eager smiles and open arms. I wrote an entire book on this phenomenon (which some believe to be my best, ever) titled Saboteurs (Defender Publishing, 2017).

These Deep State globalists, whose master is Lucifer the fallen one, enjoined the rage felt by the losers in the 2016 presidential race. Their plans for building their new world order had been slowed by an act of Heaven. The new president is an ardent anti-globalist who wants to “put America first,” as his campaign slogan stated.

Under the guise of free trade, the one-world parasitic, global apparatus long ago began siphoning strength and resolve from this nation and others. The globalists elite now channel America’s wealth, along with funds from other geopolitical and economic spheres, into Third-World countries at a rate greater than ever before. They constantly strive to solidify their one-world power base through material goods giveaways. They continue to create and consolidate an ever-increasing constituency dependent on the New World Order hierarchy for absolutely everything as those poorest of people move through their miserable lives from cradle to grave.

The one-world schemers would have us believe that all this noblesse oblige is being undertaken on behalf of humanity for humanity’s own good: egalitarianism at its most glorious peak of achievement!

Mankind in general and Americans in particular fell prey to the sedative effects of globalism’s siren song while the eye of the storm passed calmly overhead.

GATT (General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade) certainly was not perceived to be a storm warning by most; rather, it was proclaimed to be salvation for the economic stability of the world. God, however, is never fooled and cannot be sedated. He put out the storm warning long ago that just such a time in human history will arrive when an elitist ruling class will combine its power and authority to create a mechanism of control through which it will attempt to enslave every human being on the planet.

God’s warning foretold that the world’s authority and power will ultimately be given to one man, the world’s last and most terrible despot (read Daniel 9:27, Revelation 13, and Revelation 17:12, 13).

Those who analyze prophetic matters have long puzzled over why the United States of America is not mentioned specifically in God’s prophetic Word. Certainly, there has never been a nation more blessed or more active in the spread of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Small and seemingly insignificant nations and regions like Libya and Ethiopia are recorded in passages of prophecy yet to be fulfilled, but not America.

To repeat the opening thought expressed at the beginning of this section: With the election of November 8, 2016, there seemed to come a calming, refreshing breeze that promised a return to government that serves the people rather than that seeks to rule with mastery over them. America seemed to have been given a reprieve from the death sentence the woolly-minded had pronounced upon religious and a growing number of other liberties. But how deep a commitment to return to those earlier, saner principles (and thus how realistic the reprieve) remains to be seen.

To those who have truly studied the Word of God, it is clear that man-made government that refuses to be guided by God’s principles of morality will inevitably degenerate and fall to tyranny within its own borders or without. Political parties cannot muster the fortitude to either restrain or constrain the oppression and tyranny that incessantly seek to enslave. Government of, by, and for a moral people can ensure those inalienable rights which our forefathers fought, bled, and died to secure for us. It is we the people, under God, who must determine to govern wisely. President George Washington said in his farewell address, “Reason and experience both forbid us that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” John Adams, America’s second president, said, “The United States Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.”

We must begin by governing our own lives in a way that is pleasing to the Creator. There is only one way to please Him, and that is to put ourselves under the lordship of His blessed Son, Jesus Christ, who shed His blood on the cross of Calvary for the remission of our sins. How wonderful it would be if not just the majority of American people but a majority of people throughout the entire world turned to Jesus Christ in humble repentance!

But, tragically, we can be certain that this will not happen prior to Christ’s return. God in His omniscience tells us through His Holy Word that “in the last days perilous times shall come” and that “evil men and seducers will become worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.” The man who will be the world’s last and most vicious tyrant is perhaps even now waiting in the shadows just beyond the spotlight’s circle. He will take the crown given to him by his New World Order sycophants and use the platform of globalism they have erected to build a monolithic throne upon which he will ultimately sit, claiming to be deity while demanding worship.

Today, movers and shakers in the world of global politics are paving the way for the world’s last dictator, the Antichrist. They do so most likely oblivious to biblical prophecy. But whether wittingly or unwittingly, they rush headlong into that dark night of apocalypse.

Globalism is the system of geopolitics, with the ideology at its center that desires exactly what God’s declaration forbids. Today’s so-called international community’s rant against Israel, considering the Jewish state an occupier of the territory given by the Creator of all things to the Jewish people in perpetuity, is at the heart of the rebellious hatred that will eventuate in horrendous consequences. The utterance that frames the preciseness of this generation’s position on God’s prophetic timeline cannot be repeated too often:

And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. (Zechariah 12:1–3)

This is God’s answer to the raging heathen who want Him off their backs:

The divine message is clear. The Lord Jesus Christ, not the rebellious world’s choice as ruler, will ultimately sit on the throne established by the God of Heaven.

Whether the Arabs, the Islamist world, the international community, or anyone else hates the very thought of a Temple of Jewish worship being built upon that promontory, it will be done. As a matter of fact, it will be the ultimately evolved globalist who, many prophecy students believe, will see to it that the Third Temple will be built.

Again, the primary Scriptures that many sense prove the point are the following.

And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. (Daniel 9:27)

When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains. (Matthew 24:15–16)

The Antichrist is referred to in the book of Daniel as “the prince that shall come” (Daniel 9:26). Daniel 9: 27 foretells that “he” will “confirm the covenant with many.” The “he” is the “prince that shall come” of Daniel 9:27. Jesus calls this personage “the abomination of desolation” as recorded in Matthew 24:15. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that the Antichrist will have something to do with the reconstruction of a Temple that he will enter and desolate.

Some claim the prophecy refers to the time of the initiation of the Maccabean Revolt in 168 BC when Antiochus IV Epiphanes entered the Second Temple and defiled it with swine blood and an idol. But, this occurred well before Jesus foretold that the “abomination of desolation” will stand in the “holy place”—the Third Temple—declaring himself to be God and demanding worship.

The conclusion to this volume deals much more in-depth with biblical proof texts of the Third Temple and its desecration.

The globalist drive to establish a new world order, likely unknown by most who are part of that drive, is a dark determination to establish Antichrist’s reign on earth. The apex of that reign—obviously, in Satan’s view—will be when his man of sin, the son of perdition, goes into the Third Temple and blasphemes God. Lucifer, since the rebellion in Heaven, has wanted to usurp the throne of God. This is as close as he will ever get. His chief desire is to rule over God’s creation called man and, ultimately, destroy as many people as possible.

The insanity of the anti-Trump political ideology that has been witnessed since the 2016 presidential election is because the minions of Satan, both human and demonic, are enraged. The globalist drive has been slowed, their program for world domination temporarily neutered.

Thankfully, even though God’s judgment upon sin is sure, He is also slow to anger and His mercy is great. It appears that we are currently in a lull that God has graciously granted just before the prophesied end-of-time storm that will devastate a wrath-deserving generation. Even so, a brisk wind is already snapping the flag of warning that apocalypse approaches.

God the Holy Spirit earnestly and tenderly beckons all who will heed His call to take shelter within the only harbor where protection from the deadly whirlwind to come can be found. That safe harbor is Jesus Christ. Those who refuse to accept the haven of safety offered by Christ will perish beneath the raging, crashing surge as surely as did the antediluvians during the judgment of Noah’s day.