--A Time of Great Tribulation

1. THE WHOLE WORLD IS WAITING FOR A SUPERMAN! - A god-man who can solve all their problems and answer all their questions and heal all their economic ills and unite all their politics and end all their religious squabbles and stop all the wars and bring permanent peace and union to all nations.--A one-World government, one-World leader, one-World dictator--a Superman!

2. ARNOLD TOYNBEE, THE FAMOUS CONTEMPORARY HISTORIAN, EXPRESSED THIS NEED PERFECTLY when he said, "By forcing on mankind more and more lethal weapons, and at the same time making the World more and more interdependent economically, technology has brought mankind to such a degree of distress that we are ripe for the deifying of any new Caesar who might succeed in giving the World unity and peace."

3. THE FORMER SECRETARY GENERAL OF NATO, PAUL SPAAK, ADDS, "We do not want another committee; we have too many already. What we want is a man of sufficient stature to hold the allegiance of all people and to lift us out of the morass into which we are sinking. Send us such a man, be he God or the Devil, and we will receive him!"

4. WELL, THEY WON'T HAVE TO WAIT MUCH LONGER, BECAUSE THE BIBLE PREDICTS THAT THERE IS GOING TO BE SUCH A MAN IN THE LAST DAYS OF MAN'S RULE ON EARTH, who will temporarily save the World from total destruction just before Christ Himself returns to rule it. To the World he is going to appear as an angel of light, the most perfect man, the most powerful man, the greatest leader the World has ever known outside of Jesus Christ!--Smart enough and clever enough to solve all the World's problems--economic, political and finally religious.

5. FROM ALL THAT THE SCRIPTURE INDICATES, IT LOOKS LIKE THIS COMING ONE-WORLD LEADER WILL RISE TO POWER BY PEACE and BY FLATTERY and BY CLEVER DECEIT. (Dan.11:21,24.) By his supernatural craft, wisdom and clever political manoeuvering, he will actually temporarily solve today's pressing military, political and economic problems and will effect a remarkable Peace Pact between the conflicting Superpowers, ideologies and religions of the World.

6. OF COURSE, ONLY IN DESPERATION TO SAVE THEMSELVES WOULD THEY EVER SIGN SUCH A PACT! Only under desperate last-resort circumstances would Israel and the Arabs, for example, agree to share the city of Jerusalem, or would Capitalism and Communism agree to share the World in peace--universal d騁ente. But with the World's troublespots heating up as much as they have recently, and with nuclear tensions mounting between the Superpowers, the World is almost desperate enough to put such a one-World government into power right now to prevent World War III and nuclear annihilation!

7. THIS CAPABLE and POWERFUL ONE-WORLD GOVERNMENT WILL AT FIRST BE MUCH BETTER THAN TODAY'S CHAOTIC CONDITIONS: A World of peace, a World of controlled economy--peacetime economy, not war economy--a World of distribution, share the wealth, take from the rich to feed the poor, etc. Under man's most ideal leader and his one-World government, there will finally be a proper apportionment of the World's resources, "from each according to his ability unto each according to his need," of both fuel and food and other necessities, and an end to today's extravagant waste of World supplies.

8. MAN'S FINAL WORLD GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO BE THE MOST PERFECT GOVERNMENT THE SELF-RIGHTEOUS HEART OF MAN COULD EVER CONTRIVE, the most idealistic, the most fair, the most compassionate, the most equal, the most sharing.--It will be like trying to have Christianity without Christ! But of course they will see that it needs a Christ, a superman to make it all possible, and that's exactly what this leader will pretend and claim to be--the Christ, the Messiah, the Saviour of the World! In fact, He's even going to ultimately claim to be God Himself!--When all the time he's a phoney and a fake, the Devil in disguise, "Satan himself, transformed into an angel of light!" (2Co.11:14.)--The Antichrist!

9. FOR AWHILE IT WILL SEEM TO BE ABSOLUTELY HEAVEN ON EARTH, but the price to pay will finally be not only compliance with the World government and the total control of freedom and personal religion and so on, but the eventual aim of the Enemy, the Devil himself who controls it, will be: "Fall down and worship me or you cannot enjoy this great Heaven on Earth that I have created!--Behold, I give you all the kingdoms of the Earth, but the price is, fall down and worship me!" (Lk.4:5-7.)--And that's where the rub's going to come!

"HE SHALL CONFIRM THE COVENANT WITH MANY..." (Dan.9:27).

10. ACCORDING TO BIBLE PROPHECY, THE FINAL CLINCHER WHEREWITH THE ANTICHRIST DEFINITELY COMES ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE and begins his 7-year reign is the famous 7-Year Pact or Covenant described in the Book of Daniel. This Covenant is spoken of many times in the Scriptures and will be like a promise of religious freedom. That's why it's called the "holy Covenant" (Dan.11:30), because it's a religious pact, a religious treaty which has to do with restoring worship, particularly Jewish worship, as it enables the Jews to rebuild their Temple in Jerusalem and to restore sacrificial worship on its altar, a practice which was virtually the heart of their religious observance until their Temple was taken away from them by the judgements of God nearly two millenniums ago!

11. ARE THE JEWS SACRIFICING ANIMALS TO THE LORD TODAY? No! Because there is only one place on Earth where they would consider such resumption of sacrificial worship, and that's Mount Moriah, Jerusalem, where their ancient Temple altar was located before the Roman legions marched into Jerusalem in 70 A.D. and utterly destroyed it. The foundation of the ancient Temples' altar was the rock upon which Abraham started to sacrifice Isaac on top of Mount Moriah. For this reason, the Arabs and Muslims also revere this great city, ancient holy Jerusalem, and particularly Mount Moriah, as Abraham was also the father of Ishmael, through whom the Arab nations were born.

12. IN FACT IN THE 600s A.D., WHEN ISLAM WAS SWEEPING THE WORLD, the great Muslim Caliph, Omar the Magnificent, kindly offered to rebuild the Temple for the Jews at Jerusalem on top of Mount Moriah.--But the Jews refused, saying that only in the time when their Messiah was to come was the Temple to be rebuilt, and it certainly could not be built by a "pagan" like Omar! So since Mount Moriah was also very sacred and holy to all Muslims, Abraham being the forefather of the Arabs as well as the Jews, the great Muslim leader Omar decided, "Well then, I shall build a mosque for my people on this great rock on top of Mount Moriah, to revere our great father Abraham!"

13. SO FROM THAT TIME, 1,300 YEARS AGO, TILL TODAY, A GREAT MUSLIM MOSQUE, THE "DOME OF THE ROCK" OR "THE MOSQUE OF OMAR", HAS STOOD DIRECTLY OVER THIS ROCK UPON WHICH THE ANCIENT JEWISH TEMPLE ALTAR ONCE STOOD.--And it's quite obvious that the Arabs today would never agree to the Jews coming in to their territory and rebuilding the Temple!--And it's also obvious that the Jews would probably never consider building it under any kind of Arab sponsorship!

14. SO THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO WORK OUT SOME KIND OF AN AGREEMENT OR COMPROMISE WITH EACH OTHER, and the only way it could ever be done is with the direct intervention of an outside third party, like a World political government. And this compromise or agreement is what is generally accepted as the Covenant spoken of in the Bible prophecies of Daniel, time and time again.

15. IT'S GOING TO TAKE SOME TICKLISH WORKING and BRILLIANT DIPLOMACY TO FIGURE OUT SOME WAY FOR THE JEWS TO REBUILD THEIR TEMPLE and reinstitute sacrificial worship on their altar with the Mosque of Omar standing right over it, for this "Dome of the Rock" is the holiest of all the Muslim holy places outside of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia!--And as it now stands right over what was once the Jewish Temple's sacrificial altar, exactly what they are going to do in order to get the Jews' Temple rebuilt, we don't yet know.

16. PERHAPS WHEN THE ANTICHRIST MAKES THIS COVENANT, the Jews are going to have to compromise and settle for building their Temple somewhere near the same spot.--Or perhaps this beautiful Mosque will somehow be destroyed? But whatever happens, we know that this Mount Moriah, Jerusalem, is the most holy place on Earth to the Jews, it's the most holy place on Earth outside of Saudi Arabia to the Muslims, and it's even one of the holiest places on Earth to a lot of Christians! Therefore this 7-year agreement will have to be a very ingenious compromise, and will no doubt deal with not only the Temple Mount, Mount Moriah, but the entire city of Jerusalem! In fact, right now Jerusalem is the big unresolvable issue, as Begin and the Jews have sworn that they will never let it go, that it is their "eternal capital" forever!

17. THE ARABS SAY THAT THEY WILL NEVER LET THE JEWS KEEP IT, and THE JEWS SAY THAT THEY WILL NEVER LET IT GO! David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, vowed, "We took Jerusalem and we will never give it up again until the last man and woman is dead defending it! No matter what the cost, we will never give it up until the last Jew is dead! That's how all our people feel."

18. SO IF THERE WAS EVER ANY PLACE WHERE A MASTERMIND'S COMPROMISE AGREEMENT WAS NEEDED, IT'S JERUSALEM! That point is even more unresolvable than the Palestinian question, because both sides have been willing to at least talk about making certain adjustments regarding the Palestinians, but they're both absolutely adamant and unbending regarding Jerusalem! Both sides have come flat out and said that there will be absolutely no compromise!--The Jews say they will never let it go, and the Arabs say they will never let them keep it. So some kind of a compromise has to be wrought to solve this very very difficult problem.

19. AND ANYONE WHO COULD SOLVE THIS PRESSING CRISIS OVER PALESTINE, and JERUSALEM IN PARTICULAR, WOULD CERTAINLY BE CONSIDERED A MASTERMIND and A GENIUS and A SUPERMAN and NO DOUBT ALL THE WORLD WOULD WONDER AFTER HIM!--Because no one has ever yet been able to solve the problem of the antipathy and the antagonism and the warfare between the Jews and the Arabs! So anyone who could somehow reconcile their differences and settle their fights--considering that such religionists are the fightingest people in the World and have started more wars than anybody--anyone who could settle these differences and make them come to an agreement would really be a genius, a superman!--And that's just who it'll be, the Antichrist!

20. I CAN PROVE FROM THE BIBLE THAT HE SETTLES THE JERUSALEM QUESTION!--How?--It says that he takes it over and makes it an international city. In fact, according to the Bible, this World Dictator of this one-World government then makes that city his capital too! His political capital of his World government will be Jerusalem! (Dan.11:45.) So how could it belong to any particular one country or religion? Soon Jerusalem will belong to neither the Jews nor the Arabs nor the Palestinians nor the Muslims nor the Christians, but to all of them!--And most of all to the Antichrist!

21. SO IN ORDER TO GET IN FIRM CONTROL and FIRM POWER HE PROMISES TO INTERNATIONALISE THE CITY OF JERUSALEM with this 7-year Covenant or Pact, no doubt some kind of an international U.N. or World government-sponsored treaty that will guarantee all religions the right to religious freedom there and religious rights of worship, enabling them to restore their various temples and sanctuaries, etc., and all be able to worship and have free access to Jerusalem.

22. IT'S AT THIS TIME, WHEN THE ANTICHRIST INTERNATIONALISES THE CITY and promises religious freedom to all the World's faiths, that the Jews will most likely rebuild their Temple there. This will finally give them their golden opportunity to rebuild it and restore its sacrificial worship, something their religion has not had for almost 2,000 years!

23. WHEN ISRAEL CAPTURED THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM BACK IN 1967, the aged Jewish historian, Israel Eldad, was quoted in Time magazine as saying, "We are at the stage which David was when he liberated Jerusalem. From that time until the construction of the Temple by Solomon, only one generation passed.--So will it be with us!"--And the recent "symbolic occupation" of Mount Moriah, Jerusalem, by a group of armed Jewish religious zealots in March '83, served as another reminder that the powerful religious factions in Israel today are definitely intent on re-establishing Jewish Temple worship on Mount Moriah.

24. JUST TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE WAR IN WHICH THE JEWS OCCUPIED and TOOK OVER OLD JERUSALEM and THE TEMPLE MOUNT AREA, ON MAY 21, 1967, the Washington Post and the New York Times ran the following anonymously-sponsored full-page ad:

To Persons of the Jewish Faith All over the World:

The project to rebuild the Temple of God in Israel is now being started. With divine guidance and hope, the Temple will be completed. It will signal a new era in Judaism. Jews will be inspired to conduct themselves in such a moral way that our Maker will see fit to pay us a visit here on Earth. God will place in the midst of many persons in all walks of Jewish life the desire to participate in this work. Executive talents, administrators, and workers in all levels are needed. All efforts will be anonymous. God will know those desiring to participate. God's Will Shall Prevail!

25. REMEMBER WHAT THE JEWS TOLD THE GREAT CALIPH, OMAR THE MAGNIFICENT, WHEN HE OFFERED TO REBUILD THE TEMPLE FOR THEM BACK IN THE 600s?--They said, "No, the Messiah has to rebuild it." Well, then why will the Jews rebuild the Temple under the Antichrist?--Because they'll think he's their Messiah! In fact, I have a sneaking suspicion and there are certain Scriptural and other grounds for believing that this false messiah will probably be a Jew!--Otherwise they wouldn't accept him!

26. MANY BIBLE PROPHECY TEACHERS BELIEVE THAT THE ANTICHRIST IS GOING TO BE A JEW, as one description of him in Daniel says that he "regards not the God of his fathers" (Dan.11:37). ・And because they rejected their true Messiah, Jesus Christ, ・rejected the One Who came to save them, when this false Messiah comes, as God forewarned in His Word, "Because they refused to believe the Truth, God shall send them strong delusion, that they might believe a lie and be damned!" (2Th.2:10-12).

27. SO I WOULDN'T BE A BIT SURPRISED IF IT'S THE ANTICHRIST HIMSELF WHO DIRECTLY HELPS THEM REBUILD THEIR TEMPLE, because they're going to think he's their Messiah! They'll figure it's safe to rebuild it when their new Messiah, the Antichrist, tells them it's safe and he's internationalised the city and made it an open city for all religions and all peoples and tells'm, "OK, now it's safe to rebuild your Temple!"

28. MENACHEM BEGIN, THE PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL WHOSE EXPANSIONIST TERRITORIAL AMBITIONS FOR RESTORING THE PAST GLORIES OF ANCIENT ISRAEL ARE WELL KNOWN, HAS SAID, "The only ultimate answer to the pressures of our current situation is for the Messiah to come and rescue us!"--Of course the true Messiah already came to rescue them, but they rejected His spiritual salvation and Message of Love, desiring rather material and political power, even as they do to this very day!--"The Jews, who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men; filling up their sins always: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost!" (1Th.2:14-16).

29. DR. MOSINSONN, OF THE HEBREW COLLEGE OF JAFFA, RECENTLY PROCLAIMED, "THINK OF ALL THE GREAT RELIGIOUS LEADERS WHO HAVE COME OUT OF THE EAST, Moses, Buddha, Jesus, etc. We say to you people of the West with confidence, that if you will restore the Jew to his ancestral home, it will not be long until we give you another great religious leader who will perhaps transcend all who have gone before!"--And no doubt they will!--The Antichrist!

30. THE JEWS ARE GOING TO BE THE FIRST TO PROCLAIM HIM and RECEIVE HIM AS THEIR MESSIAH, just the opposite of what they did with the true Messiah, Jesus, Who told them, "I am come in My Father's name, and ye receive Me not: If another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive!" (Jn.5:43). They're going to take this false messiah, this Antichrist, and receive him with open arms and with rejoicing and be thankful that at last their messiah has come! They're going to receive and crown him and cause the whole World to worship him!--Except the faithful ones who really love Jesus and know the Truth of His Word, who will recognise their "messiah" as the Bestial Antichrist that he really is!

"SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES, WHETHER THESE THINGS BE SO!" (Jn.5:39; Ac.17:11).

31. NOW WE'RE GOING TO TURN TO THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET DANIEL and examine some of the specific Scriptures that deal with this Antichrist, his Covenant with the Jews, etc.: "And he"--the Antichrist--"shall confirm the Covenant with many for one week." (Dan.9:27.)--This word that's translated "week" in our King James Bible in the original Hebrew is "shabua," which literally means "seven." Therefore a little better, more accurate translation of this verse would be: "And he shall confirm the Covenant with many for one seven."--And by carefully studying the marvellous Messianic prophecy regarding the exact time of the first coming and crucifixion of Christ in verses 24 to 26 of this Chapter, we know that "one week" here, or "one seven," equals seven years.--Thus the verse can be read,

32. "AND HE SHALL CONFIRM THE COVENANT WITH MANY FOR SEVEN YEARS." As we've explained and as you will see from many other Scriptures we're going to cover, he makes this Covenant as a World Peace Treaty and everything is going fine--he's restoring the World, he's trying to make everybody happy and he's managed to bring World peace--until he's finally got everything firmly in his grip. When he establishes his Worldwide government, he's going to say, "Peace and safety!--Everything's going to be peaceful and safe now!--No more wars, everything's going to be secure, everybody's going to have plenty, and my kingdom's going to be a kingdom of Heaven on Earth, peace and safety!" (1Th.5:3).

33. FOR THERE "SHALL STAND UP A VILE PERSON WHO SHALL COME IN PEACEABLY, and OBTAIN THE KINGDOM BY FLATTERIES" (Dan.11:21). People are going to think, "Oh! Look how wonderful he is!--He saved the World! He saved us from the threat of atomic war and he saved the economy, he's defused the Mideast crisis, internationalised Jerusalem, helped the Jews restore their Temple, etc." He will seem to be the smartest man that ever lived with the greatest power, greatest wisdom, able to solve all problems, stop all wars and put everybody to work rebuilding peace.--But suddenly, just when everything finally seems to be hunky-dory, the balloon is going to burst with the Antichrist forbidding and abolishing all traditional religious worship, declaring himself God and requiring mandatory Worldwide worship of himself, with suppression, persecution and even death to all who won't bow to him!

34. "IN THE MIDST OF THE WEEK"--AFTER 3-1/2 YEARS--"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" (Dan.9:27). Now, if "the sacrifice and the oblation" are going to cease, then they first have to start. And if it's going to start, then the Jews have to have the Temple, and so on.--Therefore this Covenant which the Antichrist makes with the Jews obviously must have something to do with letting them rebuild their Temple and restore their sacrificial worship.--Many of the other Scriptures which we shall cover in this lesson reaffirm that this rebuilt Jewish Temple will play an important role in soon-coming Endtime events.

35. IT IS IN THE MIDST OF THE "WEEK," OR 3-1/2 YEARS INTO THE 7-YEAR COVENANT PERIOD, THAT THE ANTICHRIST CHANGES, abolishes the newly reinstituted Jewish sacrificial worship, profanes the altar, and exalts himself as God. "Yea, he magnified himself even to the Prince of the Host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of His sanctuary was cast down. And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced, and prospered" (Dan.8:11,12).

36. "AND ARMS SHALL STAND ON HIS PART, and THEY SHALL POLLUTE THE SANCTUARY OF STRENGTH, and SHALL TAKE AWAY THE DAILY SACRIFICE, and THEY SHALL PLACE THE ABOMINATION THAT MAKETH DESOLATE" (Dan.11:31).--Now this is a very, very important key Scripture, as it tells us that at this point, 3-1/2 years after confirming the 7-year Covenant with the Jews--"in the midst of the week"--he not only forcibly enters their newly rebuilt Temple there on Mount Moriah, Jerusalem, and "takes away the daily sacrifice," but he also "places" something called "the Abomination of Desolation"!

37. FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER DANIEL GAVE THIS PROPHECY, JESUS, IN HIS FAMOUS DISSERTATION ON "THE SIGNS OF HIS COMING and OF THE END OF THE WORLD" in Matthew Chapter 24, said, "When ye therefore shall see the Abomination of Desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place"--obviously the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem--"whoso readeth, let him understand"--this is very important, you'd better understand!--"Then shall be Great Tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the World to this time, no, nor ever shall be!" (Mt.24:15,21).

38. TIME and AGAIN THE BIBLE REFERS TO THIS LAST HALF OF THE ANTICHRIST'S 7-YEAR REIGN AS THE "GREAT TRIBULATION".--The last horrible, terrible Tribulation period of which the Scriptures have spoken for millenniums!--"A time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time!" (Dan.12:1).--The end of man's reign on the Earth, the last 3-1/2 years of the Antichrist's 7-year reign. Daniel talks about it, Isaiah talks about it, Jeremiah talks about it, Ezekiel talks about it, Jesus talked about it, Paul talked about it, Mark talked about it, Matthew talked about it and the beloved Apostle John who wrote the Book of Revelation talked about it!

39. NEARLY EVERY PROPHET OF GOD WHO EVER WROTE A WORD IN THIS BOOK TALKED ABOUT THAT LAST ENDTIME OF GREAT SORROW and GREAT TRIBULATION, great trouble, great turmoil, great suffering, the World's worst in all of its History!--Which will occur very soon! The Bible is very specific about it and even tells us exactly how long this Tribulation period will last!--It tells us that it will be 3-1/2 years, 42 months, or 1260 days! (Dan.7:25; 9:27; 12:7; Rev.11:2,3; 12:6,14; 13:5).--And we'll cover more on these Scriptures later on in this lesson.

40. BUT WHAT DID JESUS SAY THE CUE WOULD BE, THE SIGN, THE SIGNAL, THAT WOULD SHOW US WHEN THIS TERRIBLE TRIBULATION PERIOD WOULD BEGIN? The Lord said, "When ye therefore shall see the Abomination of Desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet stand in the holy place, then shall be Great Tribulation"! So the placing of this Abomination of Desolation obviously introduces the Great Tribulation period, and when you see it standing there you'll know the Tribulation has begun!

41. SO THE BIG QUESTION NOW IS, WHAT IS THIS ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION? Jesus said you'd see it "stand in the Holy Place." And Daniel 11:31 says he "places the Abomination that maketh desolate." Daniel 12:11 says that "the Abomination of Desolation shall be set up." He places it, he sets it up and it stands there, and later on in the 13th Chapter of Revelation we find out that it's an Image of himself!--It says very clearly that it's an "Image of the Beast," of the Antichrist! And as we study this Image in detail in a short while, you'll learn that it's not just a dumb statue of wood or stone, but it will be the most amazing machine man has ever made, which will be able to "both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the Image of the Beast should be killed!" (Rev.13:15).

42. SO IN THAT MOST SACRED OF ALL PLACES IN THE WHOLE EARTH TO THE JEWS, the Temple area of Mount Moriah, Jerusalem, the Antichrist will erect or "set up" a magical Image of himself, the "Abomination of Desolation", to be worshipped by the whole World, when he abolishes all other religions and proclaims that they must now worship him as God!

43. IN FACT, WE KNOW THAT HE WILL NOT ONLY PLACE HIS IMAGE, THIS ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION, IN THE REBUILT TEMPLE FOR ALL TO WORSHIP, BUT THE ANTICHRIST HIMSELF WILL SIT IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD AS GOD, SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD! He'll pretend to be God and will try to force everybody to worship himself directly! The Apostle Paul wrote, "Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, that the day of Christ is at hand" (2Th.2:1,2).--In other words he was telling them, "Don't be worried that the day of Jesus' Second Coming and the Rapture of the Church is at hand." After all, back then when he wrote this, it certainly wasn't the Endtime yet!--It's taken almost 2,000 years to get to this point!

44. "LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU BY ANY MEANS: FOR THAT DAY"--OF CHRIST'S SECOND COMING--"SHALL NOT COME, EXCEPT THERE COME A FALLING AWAY FIRST, and THAT MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, THE SON OF PERDITION; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God, shewing himself that he is God!" (2Th.2:3,4.) There it is! Do you get that? What's going to happen before Jesus comes? Paul is telling you here just as plain as day! He said, "That day shall not come except there come this falling away first and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition."--The son of Hell!--The son of the Devil!--The Antichrist !--"Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God!"

45. SO HE IS NOT ONLY GOING TO SET UP AN IDOL OF HIMSELF, HIS IMAGE, THERE IN THE "HOLY PLACE" IN JERUSALEM and COMMAND THE WORLD TO WORSHIP IT, but he is going to sit in the very Temple of God that the Jews have rebuilt right there on that holiest of holy places and proclaim that he is God: "Worship me!" He's going to sit down upon his throne in the Temple of God, saying that he is God! "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work!" (2Th.2:7.)--That's what the Antichrist and his kingdom are!--A mystery that's going to be so diabolical, so devilish, so fiendish, that it's going to be a mystery of iniquity! "Doth already work!"--Sure, the Devil was busy working in Paul's day, and he's certainly working in ours! In fact, God Himself spoke to us and told us that the Author of Confusion is already gathering his forces for the Great Confusion!--And that was 18 years ago in 1965! So I'm convinced that he is already busy working his way to World Power from behind the scenes! He's already alive and working at it!

46. "ONLY HE WHO NOW LETTETH WILL LET, UNTIL HE BE TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY." (2Th.2:7.) The original meaning of this old English word "let" was "prevent," or hold back. So He Who now preventeth the Antichrist and the Devil from taking over the World will keep on preventing it, or withholding it--this flood of iniquity, this flood of evil that's going to take over the World when the Antichrist and the Devil reign as king and as God--until He's taken out of the way.

47. IN OTHER WORDS, GOD and HIS HOLY SPIRIT and THEIR RESTRAINING INFLUENCE ARE KEEPING THE WORLD IN CHECK RIGHT NOW! God has been holding back the floodtide of evil and the flood of iniquity, the flood of Satanic forces! He's been holding them back! But one of these days soon, when "He Who now letteth is taken out of the way" and the restraints of the Holy Spirit of God are lifted, like a dam being opened or removed, a flood of iniquity is going to circle the World under the reign of the Devil himself in the person of the Antichrist!

48. "AND THEN SHALL THAT WICKED BE REVEALED, WHOM THE LORD SHALL CONSUME WITH THE SPIRIT OF HIS MOUTH, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming! Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders!" (2Th.2:8,9.) The Biblical picture is that he's going to be the child of the Devil, Satan in person in the form of a man.--The Devil is finally going to get what he's been after all the time, kingship of the whole World! He's always wanted to rule the World and he's going to get his final chance with the Antichrist, when he really will rule the whole World with tremendous power!

THE DRAGON AND THE BEAST!

49. GOD'S WORD TELLS US IN REVELATION THAT IT IS IN THE MIDST OF THE SEVEN YEARS--at this middle moment when the Antichrist breaks the Covenant and decides to set up an Image of himself and commands that the whole World worship him--at this time the Antichrist will become possessed of Satan himself! He will become the Devil in person, the Devil incarnate, and he will run the World for the next 3-1/2 years as the Devil himself, because he will be the Devil himself in the flesh of a man.

50. "AND THERE WAS WAR IN HEAVEN: MICHAEL and HIS ANGELS FOUGHT AGAINST THE DRAGON; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in Heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole World: he was cast out into the Earth, and his angels were cast out with him." (Rev.12:7-9.) At this time Satan is cast out of Heaven with a third of the rebellious angels that follow him down into the Earth for the last 3-1/2 years of Earth's History! (Rev.12:4.)

51. YOU SAY, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN? I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WERE DEMONS and DEVILS and REBELS IN HEAVEN!" Well, you haven't read your Bible very well! In the Book of Job, Satan is even called one of the "sons of God"! Although he is in rebellion against God, he still appears before Him in the courts of Heaven accusing the Saints day and night throughout all History! Job 2:1 says, "There was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord." And back in Revelation after he's finally cast out: "And I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the Kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ: For the accuser of our brethren is cast down which accused them before our God day and night!" (Rev.12:10.)

52. THEREFORE THE HEAVENLY VOICE WARNS: "WOE TO THE INHABITERS OF THE EARTH and OF THE SEA! FOR THE DEVIL IS COME DOWN UNTO YOU, HAVING GREAT WRATH, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time!" (Rev.12:12.) And therefore that last, short period of World History, 3-1/2 years of Great Tribulation, is the worst in all World History, in which the Devil rants and raves and rampages across the face of the Earth!--No longer able to soar into the heights of Heaven and accuse us before God, but cast out of his place and cast down to the Earth, confined here, and soon to be chained and confined to the very darkness and flames of Hell in the heart of the Earth!

53. BECAUSE HE KNOWS HIS TIME IS SHORT and HE ONLY HAS 3-1/2 YEARS, he makes the best of that 3-1/2 years by inspiring the Antichrist, possessing him like a demon-possession, only it's a Devil-possession, Satan himself possessing him! Then the Earth will soon see that he is not the Messiah! And the Jews, who are first to recognise him, will also soon realise that he is not their Messiah!--And instead of bringing the Heaven on Earth that he promised, he brings Hell on Earth!

54. "AND WHEN THE DRAGON SAW THAT HE WAS CAST OUT UNTO THE EARTH, HE PERSECUTED THE WOMAN" --the true Church, the Bride of Christ, those who have received Jesus as their Saviour.--"And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent." (Rev.12:13,14.) Here again is the 3-1/2 year period of Tribulation of the Church!--With the Dragon, Satan, cast out of Heaven and persecuting the Church, who has fled to her place for "a time (1 year), times (2 years) and half a time" (1/2 year), 3-1/2 years, "from the face of the serpent!"

55. IN THESE LAST 3-1/2 YEARS HE'S NO LONGER GOING TO BE ABLE TO GO BEFORE THE COURT OF GOD ACCUSING YOU IN HEAVEN, he's gonna be right here, face-to-face with you, not only accusing you, but persecuting and trying to kill you! "And the dragon was wroth with the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." (Rev.12:17.)--Now in the next Chapter we find out that the Devil wages his war and wrath against the Church through the bestial Antichrist World dictator whom he possesses!

56. "AND I STOOD UPON THE SAND OF THE SEA, and SAW A BEAST RISE UP OUT OF THE SEA"--the sea of humanity--"having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy." (Rev.13:1.) If you read the 7th Chapter of the Book of Daniel, you'll again see this great beast in its various forms, & learn that it represents various World empires that have ruled the Earth. In Revelation Chapter 17, we learn that "the seven heads are seven kings"--or kingdoms--"five are fallen"--Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia & Greece had all come & gone--"one is"--the Roman Empire was in power when John wrote this--"& the other is not yet come."--The Antichrist's final World empire!--"And when he cometh, he must continue a short space." (Rev.17:9,10.) So these seven heads are the seven great World empires that come & go upon the stage of History from the days of earliest Egypt to this last great Antichrist empire which is rising now.

57. "AND THE TEN HORNS WHICH THOU SAWEST ARE TEN KINGS, WHICH HAVE RECEIVED NO KINGDOM AS YET; BUT RECEIVE POWER AS KINGS ONE HOUR"--A VERY SHORT TIME--"WITH THE BEAST."--The Antichrist. (Rev.17:12.) Because these ten kings, kingdoms or powers had "received no kingdom as yet" during John's day, at the time of the 6th head, the Roman Empire, it's obvious that these "ten horns" are all on the final seventh head, the Antichrist! "These have one mind, & shall give their power & strength unto the Beast." (Rev.17:13.) In the Book of Daniel, these same 10 World powers who cooperate with & help put the Antichrist into power are described in further detail in Daniel 2:34,41-43 and Daniel 7:7,8,20-24.

58. "AND THE BEAST WHICH I SAW, THE DRAGON GAVE HIM HIS POWER, & HIS SEAT, & GREAT AUTHORITY!" (Rev.13:2.) That great red dragon that we just saw in the previous Chapter--Satan himself who has been cast out of Heaven, who in great wrath persecutes & wars against the Church for 3-1/2 years of Great Tribulation--does what with this 7th head, this last World empire's Antichrist emperor?--Gives him his "power & his seat & great authority!" The old serpent himself possesses this monster, this Beast, this Antichrist man!

59. BACK IN DANIEL CHAPTER EIGHT, WE AGAIN FIND THAT THE ANTICHRIST'S GREAT POWER IS NOT OF HIMSELF: "In the Latter Time, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, & understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power"--by Satan's power--"& he shall destroy wonderfully, & shall prosper, & practice, & shall destroy the mighty & the holy people . And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; & he shall magnify himself in his heart, & by peace shall destroy many." (Dan.8:23-25.) Now, back to Revelation 13:

60. "AND I SAW ONE OF HIS HEADS AS IT WERE WOUNDED TO DEATH; & his deadly wound was healed: & all the World wondered after the Beast."--This monster!--"And they worshipped the dragon"--the Devil!--"which gave power unto the Beast"--the Antichrist--"& they worshipped the Beast saying, Who is like unto the Beast? Who is able to make war with him?" (Rev.13:3,4.)

61. NO WONDER THE ANTICHRIST IS SO POWERFUL & SUCH A SUPERMAN & WONDER-WORKER! Satan has at last been cast out of Heaven & in his fury, knowing that his time is short, he possesses this Antichrist, this Beast, & makes him a Superman, a Devil-man, the Devil in the flesh, like Jesus was God in the flesh! He will be the Devil in the flesh who will run the World & command all to worship him & attempt to slaughter all who refuse!

62. SO APPARENTLY DURING THE FIRST 3-1/2 YEARS OF HIS REIGN, THE ANTICHRIST IS CERTAINLY INSPIRED OF THE DEVIL & given wisdom of Satan & so on, but it's at that "midst of the week" crisis point, when he breaks the Covenant, stops the sacrifice, sets up his Image & says, "Worship me!"--that's when he becomes personally possessed of the Devil, Satan himself!--So when the Antichrist sets up his Image & says to the World, "Worship me," who is really talking?--The Devil, the "god of this World"! (2Co.4:4.) That's what he always wanted!--The whole World to worship him! And he's going to get it--for awhile!--Except from us & others who love the Lord & will dare to defy & resist him!

63. "AND THERE WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM"--TO THE BEAST, THE ANTICHRIST--"A MOUTH SPEAKING GREAT THINGS & BLASPHEMIES. And power was given unto him to continue forty-&-two months." (Rev.13:5.) There again we have the 3-1/2 years of Tribulation! "And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His Name, & His Tabernacle, & them that dwell in Heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints & to overcome them: & power was given him over all kindreds, & tongues, & nations." (Rev.13:6,7.)

64. NOW, WHAT DID IT MEAN WHEN IT SAID, "ONE OF HIS"--THE 7-HEADED BEAST--"HEADS WAS WOUNDED TO DEATH; & HIS DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED"? (Rev.13:3.)--Well, we know that this is referring to the seventh head, the Antichrist, because later on in this same Chapter we see that the Antichrist has a false prophet, a promoter, who "causeth the Earth & them which dwell therein to worship the Beast, whose deadly wound was healed...saying to them that dwell on the Earth, that they should make an Image to the Beast, which had the wound by a sword & did live!" (Rev.13:12-14.)

65. IN REVELATION 17, AGAIN SPEAKING OF THE ANTICHRIST, it says that "they that dwell on the Earth shall wonder, when they behold the Beast that was, & is not, & yet is ... the Beast that was, & is not, even he is the eighth, & is of the seven, & goeth into perdition."

(Rev.17:8,11.) Now this Beast that we've been reading about has only seven heads, representing the seven great World empires or kingdoms!--So where does this eighth one pop up from? "The Beast that was, & is not, even he is the eighth, & is of the seven."

66. THE ONLY THING I CAN THINK OF THAT THIS COULD POSSIBLY MEAN IS THAT WHEN HE FIRST RISES TO POWER & CONFIRMS THE 7-YEAR COVENANT, he is the seventh great World empire, that of the Antichrist.--But he is not yet really completely anti-Christ, he hasn't yet been fully possessed of the Devil, he hasn't become the Antichrist, although he is the seventh great one-World government. But at the point of the Abomination of Desolation "in the midst of the week," 3-1/2 years after confirming the Covenant, he becomes possessed of the Devil & thus becomes a new government, totally of the Devil, the Antichrist! It looks like the very same man, the seventh head, only he is now the eighth!

67. "HE WAS & IS NOT & YET IS"--THIS WOULD EXPLAIN "WOUNDED UNTO DEATH & HIS DEADLY (FATAL) WOUND WAS HEALED...WHICH HAD THE WOUND BY A SWORD & DID LIVE." (Rev.13:3,14.) It looks like the Anti-christ will be shot, assassinated, killed, "wounded unto death"--of course they didn't have guns back then, but guns are our modern "swords" of today--yet supernaturally he will come back to life by the miraculous power of the Devil!--He possesses him & raises him as it were from the dead!--A "resurrection" which could serve as his credentials to divinity! He will then no longer be the same, the man who brought World peace & settled the problems & made the Covenant about Jerusalem, etc.--He will be the same young man, but yet not the same!

68. HE'LL STILL BE THE SEVENTH HEAD, & YET HE'S NOT: "EVEN HE IS THE EIGHTH, & IS OF THE SEVEN!" The World won't know the difference really, they'll think it's the same government, the same man--but the Devil will take him over! This would explain the tremendous change, why he suddenly breaks the Covenant, profanes the altar, places the Abomination of Desolation, the Image of the Beast, & causes himself to be worshipped--which sounds just like the Devil all the way! He will be Satan incarnate, Satan in the flesh, just as Jesus was God in the flesh! And all this will result in Hell on Earth during those last 3-1/2 years of the Antichrist's reign, because he will have become the Devil himself! (See also No.1571, "How Is The Antichrist's Deadly Wound Healed?")

"THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST!"

69. AS WE'VE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED, THE ANTICHRIST, THIS "BEAST," HAS A FALSE PROPHET who becomes his greatest promoter, his propaganda master, who promotes him & his worship & is actually the one who insists that this great Image, a great idol of the Beast, this monster, be built, & that all the World fall down & worship his Image or be killed!

70. "AND I BEHELD ANOTHER BEAST COMING UP OUT OF THE EARTH; & he had two horns like a lamb, & he spake as a dragon." (Rev.13:11.) Here is the false prophet--not the Lamb of God, but the lamb of the Devil! "And he exerciseth all the power of the first Beast before him, & causeth the Earth & them which dwell therein to worship the first Beast."--The Antichrist. "And he"--this false prophet, this false lamb--"doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from Heaven on the Earth in the sight of men, & deceiveth them that dwell on the Earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the Beast; saying to them that dwell on the Earth, that they should make an Image to the Beast, which had the wound by a sword, & did live." (Rev.13:12-14.)

71. "AND HE HAD POWER TO GIVE LIFE UNTO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST, that the Image of the Beast should both speak, & cause that as many as would not worship the Image of the Beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small & great, rich & poor, free & bond, to receive a Mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the Mark , or the name of the Beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the Beast; for it is the number of a man; & his number is Six hundred threescore & six." His number is six hundred sixty-six!--666!

 

72. SO THERE YOU HAVE THE CONCLUSION OF REVELATION 13, A VERY UNLUCKY CHAPTER! The killing of all those who refuse to worship the Image of the Beast here is obviously the beginning of the Great Tribulation. And as I've already said, I am convinced that this Image is the thing which is "set up" in the "holy place," which is "placed" there & "stands" there--the Abomination of Desolation.--Nothing is more abominable to the Jews, Muslims & true Christians than an idol & blatant idolatry, so I'm convinced that that's what it is.--This Image is the "Abomination of Desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet"! (Mt.24:15.)

73. THIS FALSE PROPHET OF THE ANTICHRIST HAS "POWER TO GIVE LIFE UNTO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST." (Rev.13:15.)--That could mean electrical power, or it could be spiritual, demonic power--real spiritual life. You know, they're already working on electronic equipment which enables you to turn a TV on & off or select a channel just by thinking--& that has tremendous possibilities. Spirits usually have to use man as their receiver, because he's the only one who's spiritually sensitive enough to get their spiritual impulses. But now man is building machines, equipment, which will be spiritually sensitive enough to be operated & activated by tiny little mental impulses, by thought.

74. SEE, NO MATTER HOW "INTELLIGENT" THESE COMPUTERS ARE, THE ONE THING THEY LACK, IN A SENSE, IS A SOUL, A CONSCIOUS SPIRIT. But the Image of the Beast, which I'm convinced will be some kind of super-computer , will actually be demonically inspired to where it actually does have demon intelligence, more than just what man has programmed it with & fed into it.--So that it will be a real wonder, & will really be worshipped! It will be the ultimate in idolatry: Man worshipping the crowning creation of his own hands!

75. MAN WILL FINALLY HAVE CREATED HIS OWN GOD THAT CAN ACTUALLY TALK & SPEAK & MAKE DECISIONS, ETC.--The Image of the Beast!--And things are getting more & more that way all the time! Did you notice who Time magazine just selected as "the Man of the Year" for 1982?--For the first time in the magazine's history, the "Man of the Year" was not a man at all, but a computer!--Look how the World is being prepared for a mechanical god, an Electronic Brain, a Computer Deity!

76. THIS IMAGE IS GIVEN "LIFE, THAT THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST SHOULD BOTH SPEAK, & CAUSE THAT AS MANY AS SHOULD NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST SHOULD BE KILLED." (Rev.13:15.) It certainly sounds like it's some kind of an automaton, a robot, operated by some kind of computers!--A cybernetic robot, computerised so that it can speak & talk & move & even act like it's alive & command the worship of the World! Think of that! It will be able to not only speak, but kill!--Or cause to be killed somehow. Maybe it speaks & condemns them to death?--We'll find out soon enough!

"THE MARK OF THE BEAST!"

77. "AND HE CAUSETH ALL, BOTH SMALL & GREAT, RICH & POOR, FREE & BOND, TO RECEIVE A MARK IN THEIR RIGHT HAND OR IN THEIR FOREHEADS: & THAT NO MAN MIGHT BUY OR SELL, SAVE HE THAT HAD THE MARK, OR THE NAME OF THE BEAST, OR THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME." (Rev.13:16.) The time is soon coming when paper money will no longer be used as a medium of exchange! The money medium of exchange will be replaced by a very remarkable credit system in which every person in the World who belongs to the System will bear a credit number, without which he can neither buy nor sell, & by which he is accredited in his governmental account with the value of whatever goods or services he produces, & to which he can charge the goods & services that he himself needs.

78. MEN WILL NO LONGER BUY NOR SELL WITH MONEY AS A MEANS OF EXCHANGE, BUT WITH A NUMBER, a number which will be given them permanently, without any possibility of counterfeit, change, manipulation or forgery, because it will be branded on each person: "A mark in their right hand or in their foreheads." Every man will have his own number, every member of the World System will be branded or tattooed with the Mark of the Beast like cattle for the slaughter, & will be forced to worship the Beast & his Image or be killed!

79. "HERE IS WISDOM,"--IN OTHER WORDS, "HERE'S A REAL CONUNDRUM, A RIDDLE FOR YOU. FIGURE THIS ONE OUT!"--"Let him that hath understanding"--let somebody real smart who's got understanding, & of course only the Holy Spirit can give that kind of understanding--"count the number of the Beast: for it is the number of a man; & his number is Six hundred three-score & six!" It says that his number will be the number of a man, & it says specifically that his number is 666! Now despite the fact that some folks claim to know all about this, I'm afraid we'll have to confess that we're not yet sure exactly what this means. Of course, throughout the Bible the number 6 has been significant as being man's number, the number of man, just incomplete of God's perfection of seven. But I'm sure when the time comes & this last great government of man takes over, the Lord will give us His understanding of all this. (Dan.12:10.)

80. IT'S REALLY SHOCKING TO SEE HOW THINGS ARE ALREADY WORKING IN THIS DIRECTION! In fact, some of them are getting to the point where they're actually bragging about it & flaunting the number! In 1974, Dr. Henrick Eldeman, Chief Analyst for the European Economic Community, unveiled a gigantic 3-story-tall super-computer in Brussels which has been appropriately called "The Beast" by those who work with it. It is claimed by many, including Dr. Patrick Fisher, renowned Canadian computer scientist, that every individual from the industrial trading nations who has ever been issued a birth certificate, a social security number, a credit card or passport, is already tied-in personally to this computer. And in 1977, Dr. Eldeman triumphantly announced that he was ready to begin assigning a number to every person in the World; & that he "plans to use a three 6-digital unit, or 18 numbers."--Sound familiar?

81. THIS IS SOMETHING THEY'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR YEARS & they've already got this whole new credit system in the works! The whole World will soon buy on this credit system with no currency, no cheques, no paper money, & you won't even need any more credit cards, because you will be your own credit card! You will have your invisible electronic number in your hand or in your forehead which can somehow be read by the cashier, or whoever you're buying goods from, who will then tap your number into his machine to see if you really have that much credit & to charge that up to your account & so on!

82. DR. R. KEY OF WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY HAS DEVELOPED WHAT IS DESCRIBED AS "A UNIVERSAL UNALTERABLE MARK" which is "laser-branded" onto pets & livestock for identification purposes, & its use is already widespread. According to the doctor, by fully implementing this technology every animal in the World could be individually identified. "It is quick & painless, & it is theoretically possible to include man as another one of these animals," says the doctor, who admits that he has branded himself in this fashion by way of experiment.

83. NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE TELLS US THAT ANOTHER SIMILAR, BUT PERHAPS MORE SOPHISTICATED IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM HAS RECENTLY BEEN DEVELOPED: "'System ID' involves implanting a tiny electronic chip into an animal's muscle where it can be detected by a scanning instrument. Each chip is injected into the animal using a syringe. It is then coded with a unique 12-digit number. Whenever an animal's identity needs to be verified, as in cases of theft, a scanning device is brushed over the animal's skin to activate a signal in the chip. The device has been tested & found safe & painless to animals."

84. ANOTHER BIT OF INFORMATION THAT HAS SURFACED RECENTLY IS THAT THE BANKING INDUSTRY, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, HAS COMPLETED THE TESTING OF A SOFT INJECTABLE PLASTIC FOR HUMANS, manufactured by a laboratory in Orlando, Florida. Upon injection, this liquid substance smooths out under the skin much like water does on a flat surface & becomes semi-hard, forming a permanent underskin shield on which a tatoo gun can imprint a mark or number using a laser beam. Regarding this, it's interesting to note that in Revelation 13:16 it says, "in the right hand, or in the forehead," not on.

85. SO THEY ALREADY HAVE THE SYSTEM DEVISED WHEREBY THIS NUMBER COULD BE TATTOOED INVISIBLY IN YOUR HAND OR IN YOUR FOREHEAD.--They've already got the whole thing in the works! And of course, once this new system is implemented, it can easily be centrally controlled by one-World organisation, the coming one-World government. There will be a one-World economy & there will be no more differences in types of currency & all this terrible confusion there is about monetary exchange today. The whole World will be on one medium of exchange, this system of credit, & it will be universal. They say it will simplify the whole economic system & that it will be very easy to operate--& of course, it will also be very easy to control.

86. SENATOR FRANK CHURCH, CHAIRMAN OF A COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING U.S. INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES, apparently foresaw the awesome power such a one-World government/economic order could wield, when he said, "The government has the technological capacity to impose total tyranny if ever a dictator came to power. There would be no place to hide!"--And he's right!--There won't be!--Except for in the Lord & with His protection!

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