Posted on 11/11/2018 12:47:56 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
November 5, 2018 (American Thinker) – In the 1960s, an informed but naïve undergraduate, I was walking across the campus of the University of Pennsylvania with the Chairman of the Chemistry Department, Prof. Charles C. Price. He told me that he was president of the United World Federalists, and asked if I knew what that organization was. When I said that I did not, he replied that they believed in a one-world government that would grow out of the United Nations. I was nonplussed as I had never heard anyone suggest that idea before. To me, the United Nations was a benevolent organization dedicated to pressuring the world community in the direction of peace, and to operating charitable programs to help the struggling, impoverished peoples of the world. I imagined the UN as a kind of United Way on a worldwide scale.
How would Prof. Price's vision of a new world government emerge? Although there was a socialistic thread in its founding document, the United Nations was formed based on a vision of human rights presented in the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" (UDHR) which placed the concept of rights at the forefront for the progress of the world body. And rights are the mainstay for uplifting human freedom and the dignity of the individual. The UDHR document followed many amazing documents that presented rights as the central concept of the post-feudal world: the English Declaration (or Bill) of Rights of 1689, the U.S. Declaration of Independence with its important and forceful assertion of inalienable natural rights, the powerful U.S. Bill of Rights enacted in 1791, and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (1789).
The word "rights" appears in almost every sentence of the 1869-word UN document. The document is literally obsessed with rights, and one must assume they are likewise obsessed with the rights successes as manifested in the United Kingdom, the U.S., and France. However, there are some deviations from the rights usage we are all familiar with. In Article 3, Instead of the inalienable rights of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" found in our Declaration of Independence, the UN declares everyone's right to "life, liberty and security of person." Are they implying that security will bring happiness? Or are they implying that happiness is too ephemeral a value, and too Western? Perhaps more mundane survival goals are needed by most of the world.
I think that's at His second coming at the end of the Tribulation, when He comes back ONTO the earth to set up His kingdom.
Coming back to the earth to take away the Bride is not Him coming back as king to come ON the earth and set up His kingdom.
Oops “So” should be “Some”
You think the UN doesn’t want us dead too?
The rapture concept is based entirely on one passage that can have many different interpretations. I don’t accept that the passage means a removal of the faithful from a world that then undergoes a tribulation. In fact, the tribulation falls upon the faithful in the end times and the so-called taking up is actually a rising up spiritually at the appearance of Christ at the second coming. This ends the tribulation and leads to the Kingdom. Hence we could be a lot closer to the end of the timetable than many believe, because what we’ve seen in the past can be viewed as the tribulation and a reign of antichrist, in particular if you think that this prophecy means spirit of antichrist and not an individual capital-A Antichrist.
I concede that there is to be a “man of sin” who is chief among the antichrists, but perhaps many already successfully identified him.
Either interpretation may be correct but the fact that millions believe in one or the other shows there is no clear discernment about this, nor can there be since a clear discernment is only possible in foreknowledge of the “day and time” which nobody has. I would say that it is valid to look at any recent seven year period either completed or nearly completed as the time of the end, and that we could be a lot closer than some think to the end of days. I don’t believe that the United Nations will ever succeed in bringing about a world government and I think that globalism as it already exists is as close as we will get to seeing that final step before the second coming.
This is exciting in that there may not be any seven year wait for the final act of this spiritual drama in which so many of us have been vitally interested for many years now. It could just as easily be seven months, or seven days. And with President Trump, I see a leader who is capable of responding to these events in a positive way, in other words, a sign of God’s blessing on America despite the presence of many unfaithful and false prophets.
No,actually the RAPTURE concept is based on one APOSTLE; PAUL.
“You think the UN doesn’t want us dead too?”
Why would you think I think that?
"it is essential for UNESCO to adopt an evolutionary approach... the general philosophy of UNESCO should, it seems, be a scientific world humanism, global in extent, and evolutionary in background... "
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS was a British evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern synthesis. He was the first Director of UNESCO and the first President of the British Humanist Association.
I would add, who here thinks they have so far escaped a tribulation brought on by the spirit of antichrist? Would those bakers in Portland and elsewhere think they had done so? Would victims of various terrorist attacks see it that way? How about victims of lawfare in various western countries? I am one of those. Believe me, there has been no easy escape from tribulation by going up into the clouds with Jesus. And this was never promised to us, I think it is just wishful thinking that there would be an easy way out.
Jesus himself states, “if those days had not been shortened, then no flesh would have escaped (the tribulation)” so in fact He is saying that the tribulation is well advanced among the believers of the end times before an event brings it to a conclusion — that event would appear to be His coming again in “power and great glory.”
However, I would concede that all of the above can be true and there can be a rapture of the faithful out of the doomed earth, the two concepts are not mutually exclusive, but certainly there is no Biblical foundation for any notion of a tribulation entirely post-Rapture. Thousands of your fellow believers can testify otherwise on that.
1 January 1942 || The name "United Nations" is coined
The name "United Nations", coined by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt was first used in the Declaration by United Nations of 1 January 1942, during the Second World War, when representatives of 26 nations pledged their Governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers.
24 October 1945 || The United Nations officially comes into existence
In 1945, representatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco at the United Nations Conference on International Organization to draw up the United Nations Charter. Those delegates deliberated on the basis of proposals worked out by the representatives of China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States at Dumbarton Oaks, United States in August-October 1944.
Good reference. I’ll study more on him later. Here’s a couple of money-quotes right off:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Huxley
[ Huxley wrote that “There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution. There is no basic cleavage between science and religion;… I believe that [a] drastic reorganization of our pattern of religious thought is now becoming necessary, from a god-centered to an evolutionary-centered pattern”.[76] ]
[ In 1959 he received a Special Award of the Lasker Foundation in the category Planned Parenthood – World Population. Huxley was a prominent member of the British Eugenics Society and was its president from 1959–1962. ]
History is repeating.
When European powers try to enact a worldwide dictatorship, it always ends in millions of deaths.
The U.S. has always intervened to stop it, but that might not happen this time.
download the full PDF file:
11 Sept 2017: Council on Foreign Relations: From International Institutions and Global Governance Program
Innovations in Global Governance
Peace-Building, Human Rights, Internet Governance and Cybersecurity, and Climate Change
Overview
Over the last three decades, a diverse collection of actors—private corporations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and subnational (state, provincial, and urban) governments—has developed and promoted a global agenda of collective action. From advancing human rights to combating climate change, these actors have become new governors in world politics. More recently, a second movement — a loose array of populist and nationalist groups and governments — has questioned the forward momentum of institutionalized global cooperation. Brexit, followed by the Donald J. Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Paris Agreement on climate change, as well as proposed cuts in U.S. contributions to the United Nations and development assistance, suggest a weakening — if not undermining — of the network of treaties, institutions, and relationships constructed over the last seventy years...
https://www.cfr.org/report/innovations-global-governance?utm_campaign=Governance-Innovations-Report&utm_medium=earned&utm_source=redirect
read these two chapters in the above:
“Innovations in Global Climate Governance,” by Karen Florini
“The New Climate Governance Paradigm,” by Robert C. Orr
About the two authors:
Robert C. Orr serves as dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and UN under secretary-general and special advisor to the secretary-general on climate change. Prior to joining the University of Maryland, Orr served as assistant secretary-general for strategic planning in the executive office of the United Nations secretary-general from 2004 to 2014 and was the principal advisor to the secretary-general on counterterrorism, peace-building, women’s and children’s health, sustainable energy, food and nutrition, institutional innovation, public-private partnership, and climate change. Orr joined the United Nations from Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, where he served as the executive director. Prior to this, he served as director of the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC. He has served in senior posts in the government of the United States, including deputy to the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and director of global affairs at the National Security Council.
notice how Florini left the State Dept in January 2017:
Climate Central: Karen Florini, Vice President for Programs
Karen Florini is Vice President for Programs at Climate Central, where her roles include developing and implementing communications strategies that reach and move large U.S. and global audiences as well as key decision-makers. In addition, she leads the integration of Climate Central’s program efforts, and oversees the creation and distribution of the group’s products to the public and thought leaders.
From April 2015 to January 2017, Florini served as Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change at the U.S. Department of State. In that capacity, she helped lead the Global Climate Change Initiative, a whole-of-government mechanism for integrating climate change into foreign assistance. She also led the State Department’s engagement with businesses, state and local governments, and civil society in the climate negotiations context. In addition, she headed the State Department’s portfolio on short-lived climate pollutants, which included overseeing U.S. participation in the multilateral Climate and Clean Air Coalition...
http://www.climatecentral.org/what-we-do/people/karen-florini
Well - Maybe not EVERYONE.....
All events on the prophetic calendar have been fulfilled. We are clear for the rapture and then the seven year tribulation will have begun. The open question is, how low does the depravity of man go before Christ gathers the church?
[ Well - Maybe not EVERYONE..... ]
LOL
Actually it would not surprise me to see the UN relocate its HQ to Europe. Some have even suggested the Middle East, but I lean towards Europe. Well, admittedly, that’s just a guess.
Nothing like a little “Peace and Safety” (Peace and Security)
A bit dated, but folks are still tossing around the phrase. Just as the Scripture predicts they will:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpJbAE6BmHo
It would be easier to name events that have kept the UN stymied and hence, doing nothing which was the idea to begin with. But oh! what a playground they created for the world’s dictators.
I’ve long said that the formation of the UN was done to bring about exactly what we see today except it was not done in the light of day, not on the up and up. One of the largest jokes (not funny) to be played on the world’s citizens. Kind of like the first “we’re here to help you”...
A big hulking complex in NYC where tin pot dictators can mingle and feel like big cheese and the worst civil rights abusers of their own people can be named to commissions to curtail civil rights abuses! Such a deal! But don’t worry - it’s made to appear that it’s all done to include everyone and exclude no one.
Those assigned to work in that complex in NYC are experiencing the thrill of their lifetimes and then it’s time to go back to their hellhole of a country leaving behind unpaid debts to the City of New York.
I see your point.
What are you talking about? Look at all the great work they did with cholera in Haiti!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/world/americas/cholera-haiti-united-nations-peacekeepers-yemen.html
And their great work in the Congo: https://apnews.com/69e56ab46cab400f9f4b3753bd79c930
Well, inflicting disaster and poverty stricken countries with cholera, or raping children in war torn countries probably aren't the best examples.......but, I'm certain they done some good somewhere.........
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