To the
mind of the unregenerate secularist, the idea of a one world government is
a logical answer to the world’s apparent needs. They say it will be
efficient and cost-effective. (And, I suppose it will keep those pesky,
independent thinking freedom loving people better under “control.”)
Also, when the secularist views human history, he notes that the majority
wars in the world have been rooted in one kind of religious extremism or
another; so then the idea of ridding the world of all religions and
religion’s most zealous adherents seems to makes perfect sense. This is
all the fruit of the fallen mind of mankind.
Jeremiah
17:9-10 (KJV) The heart is deceitful
above all things, and desperately wicked: who can
know it? 10 I the LORD
search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every
man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his
doings.
Yes, having one world
government would be wonderful if men’s hearts were pure in motive and
men were actually trustworthy. However, who of men can be trusted since
the hearts of all men are deceitful and wicked.
2
Corinthians 4:4 (KJV) In whom the god (Lucifer) of
this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest
the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image
of God, should shine unto them
Mankind is deceived to
believe they can achieve a beneficent one world government because they
are blinded and deceived by their own hearts. The hearts of all men are
deceitful.
Only the Lord Himself
who knows the hearts of men.
Jeremiah
17:10 (AMP) I
the Lord search the mind, I try the heart,
even to give to every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of
his doings.
Hebrews
4:12 (NASB) For the word of God is living and active and
sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of
soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge
the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Many think the idea of a
"New World Order" to sweep over the world is just an alarmist
conspiracy theory. Have you ever looked to notice what is
written on the back of the U.S. $1.00 bill, under the pyramid on
the back? It has these words written in Latin - “Novus
Ordo Seclorum.”
The phrase Novus
ordo seclorum, Latin
for “New Order of the Ages,” appears on the reverse of the Great
Seal of the United States, first designed in 1782 and printed
on the back of the US $1 dollar
bill since 1935.
The founding
fathers who wrote the United States Constitution knew and believed the
nature of man is fallen and cannot be trusted without the checks and
balances of the three branches of government. Consider the words of George
Washington and James Madison. George Washington wrote this in his farewell
address. “Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political
prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable… And let us with
caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without
religion.”1 This is why we have three (3) co-equal
branches of government in the
USA
. James Madison, the most influential of the US Constitution’s authors
had this to say about the weaknesses of men ruling over men in
“Federalist 51.” “If angels were to govern men, neither external
nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a
government which is to be administered by men over men, the great
difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control
the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”2
A great problem occurs when all three branches or government are under
the control of, or aligned with, one party and one mindset, as we see in
the
USA
today.
The Bible makes
clear that a one world government that is coming to this world; one that
will enslave mankind as no other time. It will unite the world in its
declaration of war upon God and the righteous who believe in God. We
already see the marginalization of believing Christians throughout
society.
The fact is that
there is a one world government coming to this world relatively soon, I
believe. Sometime soon “the church, which is His body (the body of
Christ)” (Eph 1:22b-23a) will be removed from this world by being
caught up “to meet the Lord in the air.” This is commonly
called the rapture of the church. Some say there is no such word as
“rapture” in the Bible, but consider the Latin Vulgate, an
early fifth century Bible version. It was translated from the Hebrew and
Aramaic by Jerome between 382 and 405 CE. Note the Latin words that
I have inserted in the 1Thessalonians 4:17 below. “Rapiemur
and rapturo” are two forms of the same verb, meaning “rapture.”
1Thessalonians
4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught
up (Latin, rapiemur or rapturo, meaning “rapture”)
together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:
and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
“The body of Christ”
will be taken out of this world to “the third heaven,” (2Cor 12:2, far
beyond the atmosphere, stratosphere and troposphere) which now is the
location of “paradise.”
God then will again turn
His attention back to His program for
Israel
. God will fulfill His promise of judgment upon
Israel
and the world and the coming of the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
to earth. This is in accord with the so-called Lord’s Prayer, which
actually is a prayer Jesus gave to the Jews concerning the long promised
kingdom to come immediately following the Great Tribulation period of
judgment upon the earth. Matthew 6:10 (KJV) …Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth, as it is in
heaven…
We must not confuse the
future events for the “the body of Christ,” which is destined
for the third heaven, with those future events for the nation
Israel
and their eternal destiny on earth.
Paul writes to “the
body of Christ” concerning the location of our homeland – in
heaven – not on earth.
Philippians
3:20 (KJV) For our conversation (Gk., politeuma, and citizenship)
is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour,
the Lord Jesus Christ:
We are God “ambassadors
for Christ” (2Cor 5:20) while we live upon the earth, since our real
home is located in the third heaven or what may be called the super-heavenlies.
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1 “Farewell
Address to the People of the United States” from “World Famous
Orations” by William Jennings Bryan Vol. 8, Funk & Wagnalls 1906
2 “The
Federalist Papers,” Penguin Classic, 1987, Pgs 319-320
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