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Since the time of the Romans and probably even earlier One World Empires have been the dream of megalomaniacs.
Tragedy and Hope by Quigley is also an interesting read, 1300 pages.
I would like to suggest something that I would encourage others to check out via scripture, though I believe it is true.
The false religion will be based on pride. It will admire itself and live on its self admiration.
The Christian faith will be based on love. It receives gifts gratefully from the Lord and treats them as such (or in our yet incomplete salvation, we attempt to treat them that way, which God still honors and will correct as needed).
Anyhow, that divide (pride vs. love) seems to me the most stark difference between the phony and the real faith when they come head to head like this. Right now phony faiths haven’t often managed to ape full-on Christianity very well. Satan’s current bonds are not loosed enough to permit this. Still, Christianity will always outclass phony faiths. Genuine love for God won’t be able to be hidden. People with that love may err sometimes, but God will correct those errors with His grace.
Just what I needed to cheer me up this morning.
I actually think that they want two classes of people: Atheists and Muslims. Atheists will be a minority (5-10%), but will take care of the science, technology and management. Muslims will make up the general population of workers and consumers.
In the eyes of the Elites, the latter is preferable to any other religion because they will do whatever the Mullahs tell them to do. If a Mullah can convince someone to be a suicide bomber for Allah, convincing them to pay higher taxes should be a piece of cake.
The left hasn't changed an iota.
I guess they forgot about the Tower of Babel
I don't claim to know what devious role that Obama, and probably his successors as well, will play in the soon to come seven year period known to bible believing Christians as the Great Tribulation. But even so, I'm convinced that Obama's presidency is at the very least a relatively mild foretaste of the far worse horrors that are yet to come to the perverse, pleasure-mad, God-rejecting majority of Americans and most other people of this present day "civilized" world.
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On this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Matthew 16:18
Psalm 100
A psalm. For giving grateful praise.
1 Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.
2 Worship the Lord with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.
3 Know that the Lord is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his[a];
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.
5 For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations
The Reign of the Lord’s Anointed
Psalm 2
Why do the nations rage[a]
and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us burst their bonds apart
and cast away their cords from us.”
4 He who sits in the heavens laughs;
the Lord holds them in derision.
5 Then he will speak to them in his wrath,
and terrify them in his fury, saying,
6 “As for me, I have set my King
on Zion, my holy hill.”
7 I will tell of the decree:
The Lord said to me, “You are my Son;
today I have begotten you.
8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
and the ends of the earth your possession.
9 You shall break[b] them with a rod of iron
and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
10 Now therefore, O kings, be wise;
be warned, O rulers of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear,
and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son,
lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
for his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.