The Final Countdown

A glance at some headlines from around the world over the last 24 hours shows a continuing tanking economy:

• We face biggest slump since Depression, warns Bank Chief
• Europe in deepest recession since War
• Germany drags eurozone faster into slump
• Hong Kong suffers record contraction
• US prices fall most since 1955

Globalization organizations, such as the Bilderbergs (who met in Greece this month), want to use the global financial mess to usher in one world government, commonly referred to as the New World Order. They will unknowingly use the Antichrist to acheive this goal.

Honestly, I used to think that people who were concerned about groups such as the Bilderbergs, Trilateral Commission, and the Illuminati had too much time on their hands. But when I started to learn more about these groups I was overwhelmed with amazement. The plans they have in place come directly from the Word of God.

• Global government (Daniel 7:23; Revelation 13:7)
• Global rule birthed in Europe  (Daniel 9:26)
• Earth ruled by one man (Daniel 7:23; Revelation 13:7)
• Implanted computer chips to track people (Revelation 13:16-18; 14:11)
• Dividing the world into 10 sections (Daniel 7:23; 11:39)

The calls for a world government are coming in from leaders all over the Western hemisphere. This will open the door for the Antichrist to take power, and he will use socialism to gain his world-wide popularity (Daniel 11:24). Programs such as the one that provides free cars to welfare recipients in Massachusetts will become commonplace.

Condensing the days news into one post worked well yesterday, so we are going to do it again. There is a lot of stuff going on.

***The Egyptian news weekly Al-Usbua reports (via the Jerusalem Post) that an Iranian vessel attempting to deliver weapons to Hamas was destroyed by either an Israeli or American vessel off the Sudanese coast. Along those lines, a report released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute today says that arms transfers to the Mideast are up 38 percent since 2004, with many of them going to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia from the United States. All this happens while Syria and Turkey stage joint military maneuvers, a “disturbing development” according to Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.

It is appropriate that so many arms and military exercises are happening in the region, and all of the above nations have a part in the Russian led march on Israel (Ezekiel 38:15), but not on the same side. While Iran (Ezekiel 38:5), Syria (Isaiah 17:1, Psalm 83:8) and Turkey (Ezekiel 38:6) will join with Russia and many other Arab nations (Psalm 83:4-5), Saudi Arabia and the UAE (Ezekiel 38:13) will team with the United States to defend Israel (Isaiah 18:7).

***Israel’s population is nearing 7.5 million, with over 5.5 million of those being Jews. Yet Palestinians continue to refuse to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will not accept eastern Jerusalem as being part of Israel, and that is critical to future events. Very soon Israel will sign a peace contract that creates a Palestinian state and divides up Jerusalem (Joel 3:2; Zechariah 14:2), but this is a contract Israel signs with “death and hell” (Isaiah 28:15) and will only last 42 months before the Russian & Arab march on Israel (Ezekiel 38:11; Daniel 9:27).

***Yesterday we wrote about the new centralized database in the works in the UK to store transcripts of all emails and phone calls that pass through the nation. British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said today that are no plans for “a central store” of data, meaning more than one computer will house information collected on the UK citizens. Smith said that all Facebook messages, texts, and web internet addresses that are visited will be recorded, as well. Another EU leader, the Antichrist (Daniel 7:24, 9:26), will attempt to monitor and track every human on the planet (Revelation 13:16-18) using ID microchips similar to the one that helped Sarah Hawley find her missing cat this weekend .

***Iceland’s prime minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir, says she wants to join the EU “as soon as possible.” The EU will become a global organization (Daniel 7:23, Revelation 13:7), usurping authority from its member nations, such as is happening now in Britian where the EU wants to force British courts to apply Sharia law in certain cases.

***IBM announced today that it is in the final stages of completing a computer program with an astounding ability to interact with humans via artificial intelligence. A robot with with such abilities will be used by the False Prophet as the “image of the beast” (Revelation 13:12-17). People who do not worship this image will be killed, often by their own family members (Mark 13:12-13). There is already an unnatural affection among mankind, such as with Jesse Fierstine, who cut out his own father’s pacemaker. It will become much worse as people begin to believe that the Antichrist is God (2 Thessalonians 2:4).

***The swine flu scare continues to spread, with over 2,000 people hospitalized in Mexico, with confirmed cases in the US, Canada, Spain, the UK, and other nations. Reports now indicate that the virus may not only have pig and human components, but bird components as well. The swine flu won’t be as big as many fear, however future virus mutations from animals will be a source of widespread death during the Tribulation (Revelation 6:8).

***News continues to show the degradation of US society as same-sex couples have begun marrying in Iowa following a state Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage; state sanctioned atheism is on the rise;  70% of Americans who do not regularly attend church say they simply “gradually drifted away” from the faith (1 Timothy 4:1);  Nine out of ten teens view pornography online, many of them due to porn purveyors tricking the kids into going to seemingly innocent sites;  and professional educators are calling for a mimicking of the UK system where sex education is now compulsory for five year-olds. This pictures the continuing fall of America (Isaiah 18:2, 7;  Jeremiah 50:11) which leads to God sending His judgment (Revelation 18) though the vehicle of missiles fired over the north pole by Russia (Jeremiah 50:9).

***Jerome Corsi has crunched numbers in an attempt to show that the US is becoming the largest welfare state in world history. What is intriguing is how accepting the American people are over this rapid sprint to socialism. The US has long been the home to capitalism, and it will continue to provide the world with wealth into the Tribulation (Jeremiah 51:3; Revelation 18:11-15). However the readily acceptance of socialism by the US will make it easier for the Antichrist to gain power, for he uses socialism to curry the favor of many nations (Daniel 11:24).

***More Christians have been killed in faith-based violence in Iraq, where Christians are fleeing the country because of being targeted by extremists. Yesterday a woman and her daughter had their throats slit, while a father and his three sons were shot in their home. As mentioned yesterday, persecution of Christians is often overlooked, even among our churches. There have been more people killed for Christ in the last 100 years than in the previous 1900 years combined. Jews & Christians will continue to be targeted on an increasing scale as we approach the Tribulation hour, at which time mass killings of believers and Jews becomes global (Revelation 13:7, 12:13, 20:4; Matthew 24:9; Mark 13:9; Luke 21:12-17; John 16:2).

World financial leaders are meeting in Washington this weekend to begin working out the details of a new, more powerful International Monetary Fund. President Obama fully backs the plan.

Inside a cavernous assembly hall in downtown Washington, dignitaries gather twice a year for routine meetings of the International Monetary Fund. Before long, though, the room could take center stage in the IMF’s transformation into a veritable United Nations for the global economy.

Surrounded by blond wood paneling and a digital screen the size of a cinema’s, central bankers and finance ministers would meet to convene a financial security council of sorts. Serving almost as ambassadors to the IMF, they would debate ways to put out the world’s economic fires and stifle reckless policies before they ignite new ones.

Bowing to a new economic world order, the IMF would grant fresh powers to the likes of China, India and Brazil. It would have vastly expanded authority to act as a global banker to governments rich and poor. And with more flexibility to effectively print its own money, it would have the ability to inject liquidity into global markets in a way once limited to major central banks, including the U.S. Federal Reserve.

That image of a radically transformed IMF — whose role in the global economy had turned largely advisory in recent years — is now coming together through internal IMF documents, interviews and think-tank reports. Finance ministers from major nations will begin grappling with the formidable details of the IMF’s makeover this weekend when they converge in Washington for the fund’s biannual assembly.

The changes, broadly outlined by President Obama and other leaders of the Group of 20 nations in London earlier this month, could take months, even years to take shape. But the IMF is all but certain to take a central role in managing the world economy. As a result, Washington is poised to become the power center for global financial policy, much as the United Nations has long made New York the world center for diplomacy.

The IMF’s mission is expanding so broadly that its managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said in an interview that the organization — which underwent deep cuts last year before the financial crisis swept the globe — may boost staffing in coming months, potentially creating dozens of high-paying jobs in the District.

“The IMF is changing, and with it, there will be a sea change in the way the world economy is run,” said C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “Their role will dramatically shift. You’re talking about monitoring fiscal stimulus, moving toward tighter regulations for financial institutions. You’re talking about global economic management in a way we have never seen.”

The leftist members of the US Supreme Court, particularly Justice David Souter, have made it a practice to rely on laws and opinions written by foreign courts when deciding US cases. Over the weekend, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said it needs to happen even more often than it already does.

Conservatives don’t like this.

“If we’re relying on a decision from a German judge about what our Constitution means, no president accountable to the people appointed that judge and no Senate accountable to the people confirmed that judge,” Chief Justice Roberts said at his confirmation hearing. “And yet he’s playing a role in shaping the law that binds the people in this country.”

That is a good argument, but the real concern is the continued push to a one-world government. This is another step being used to usurp individualism from nations in order have every thing handled on a world-wide scale. From a prophecy perspective, it is exciting! It means Jesus is coming soon!

Shortly, the world will be divided into 10 sections (plans already exist) and the Antichrist will arise (Daniel 7:20, 24) and gain control over the whole earth (Daniel 7:23; Revelation 13:7). Nations shall willing cede to him (Daniel 11:21, 24) because of his socialist agenda (Daniel 11:24). Later on he will show his true colors.

It is hard to go more than 24 hours without seeing another world leader say it time to place the entire earth under one massive umbrella and create a “new world order.” Today it was Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s turn, who said this while in Beijing meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao.

We are creating a new world, a balanced world. A new world order, a multipolar world,” Mr. Chavez said on arriving in China the evening before a scheduled Wednesday meeting with China’s president and Communist Party leader Hu Jintao.

“The unipolar world has collapsed. The power of the U.S. empire has collapsed,” he said. “Everyday, the new poles of world power are becoming stronger. Beijing, Tokyo, Tehran .. It’s moving toward the East and toward the South.”

Many years ago, the late Paul Henri Spaak, who was Prime Minister of Belgium, President of the UN General Assembly, and Secretary General of NATO, said Europe clamored for a single leader with great oratory skills to set up a one world government, even adding, “be he man or devil we are ready to receive him.”

Quite a prophetic statement by Mr. Spaak. The Antichrist will rise as the world is divided into 10 regions under a world government (Daniel 7:24). He will be controlled by the Devil and his demons during his ascent to power and through the first half of the Tribulation (Daniel 8:23), at which point he will actually become Satan incarnate (Revelation 17:8, 11).