USA Today reports that Pope Benedict XVI is using his third encyclical to call for a God-centered global economy. This one statement alone is fascinating on so many levels.
First, the Bible teaches that there will be a global economy (Revelation 13:16-18), and it will indeed be god-centered. That is ‘god’, with a lowercase ‘g.’ This world economy will be under the control of the Antichrist (Revelation 13:16), who claims to be God (2 Thessalonians 2:4; Revelation 13:5-6) and is worshipped as God by billions of people around the globe (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12). All of this will be facilitated by the False Prophet (Revelation 13:12-17), predicted for centuries to be the final pope–and the next one after Benedict XVI–by men such as St. Malachy and Pope John Paul II.
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Friends, this is very important stuff. Israel and the EU are at odds over a two-state solution to the Mideast conflict, which has been going on for 4,000 some odd years. An EU commissioner criticized Israel’s stance, and the Israeli’s didn’t take it very well. The EU is stepping up its role in the peace process and looking for a leader to bring it all together.
Israel warned the European Union on Thursday to tone down its criticism of the new Israeli government or risk forfeiting the bloc’s role as broker in Mideast peace efforts.
The warning came after EU’s commissioner for external relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, this week criticized Israel’s refusal to endorse a Palestinian state. She said an upgrade in Israeli-EU relations would depend on Israel’s commitment to the “two-state solution.”
It also came ahead of a planned trip to Europe next week by Israel’s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman — his first official trip abroad. The ultranationalist Lieberman’s comments about Arabs and Mideast peace have raised international concerns about the new Israeli Cabinet’s intentions.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor on Thursday called Ferrero-Waldner’s comments “very militant” and contrary to understandings with other EU officials.
He said her remarks threatened to undermine understandings with the EU to maintain a “quiet dialogue” until Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu completes the formulation of his foreign policy.
“If there is no coherence in the European position … this will not be useful and will not help the EU in playing a role here,” Palmor said.
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“So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near—at the doors!”
These are the words of the Lord Jesus Christ, recorded in Matthew 24:33 (and Mark 13:29). The Greek word translated as “know” is ginosko, and since it is used in the imperative tense, another way to state this verse would be, “You will know that it is near.” That isn’t a suggestion our Lord made, nor was it a prediction that we’d become aware of the final hours as they drew near (though this is in fact true). No, God in human flesh gave us a command. Much as a mother tells her son, “You will clean up your room before going outside,” Christ was telling us that we not only can know when the time of His return has come, but we had better search the Scriptures and watch for signs.
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