It was a hazy, uncertain and unformed seventh head of the Beast the Apostle John saw rising up out of the sea in Revelation 13. The other six heads were well identified as kingdoms of the world, looking back to earliest civilization and to John’s time in Roman rule. Daniel’s prophecy spoke of four heads, the last one being that sixth head in which John lived. But John saw two earlier heads, or kingdoms, that reigned before Daniel’s time.

The six kingdoms have been identified as Assyria, Egypt, Babylonia, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. Five of them had come and gone, and the sixth one, Rome, was then in power when John lived. Note also, it was the kingdom in power when Jesus, the only begotten Son of God, was born.

Daniel the prophet had looked forward from his place in history and counted four kingdoms, including the one in which he then lived. He wrote of those in Daniel 2 and again in Daniel 7 to identify them, as noted above.

Two ruling kingdoms which came before Daniel were Assyria, then Egypt. Assyria is known for its Tower of Babel, and Egypt for its four hundred years of Jewish habitation and the rise of Moses to lead them out of that bondage of slavery.

What is notable about that first kingdom’s Tower of Babel is that it appears to have been an attempt to rule the known world without regard to any input from the God of the universe. God saw something in their attempt that proclaimed great danger to their future. When He looked down from heaven and assessed their intentions, He said this:

“Indeed, the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech” (Genesis 11:6-7).

The Scripture goes on to say, “So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.”

What did God see in those people that caused Him to propose that there would be nothing they could not do? They were building a tower that would reach into the heavens. If, then, they could work together with one mind and one heart, they could—without God—accomplish untold possibilities. How has it worked out, even though people were scattered around the world with separate languages? Well, through the discovery or invention of the computer and all of its associated developments, man has traveled to the moon and back, has inhabited space stations, and now plans to travel to Mars. All of this is much more than just a tower, but what has accompanied that is an ongoing thought pattern that leaves God out of any place of meaningful consideration of man’s destiny.

Actually, there seems to be a more sinister and concerning reason in God’s foreknowledge of what mankind might do. A future of atomic warfare could eliminate mankind from the face of the earth. Or, perhaps He saw ahead in today’s world a more sinister and demeaning destruction of God’s highest creation that was “made in His own image,” mankind. Man’s turning away from God and into himself with the sexual perversion of homosexuality and transgender frenzy that is rampantly pushing to the front page of all cultures is exactly how Satan would seek to defame God before the universe. We must not forget that the ultimate activity is that eternal warfare between God and Satan, in which Satan relentlessly pursues the dishonor of God.

It is clear in the timeline of history that the idea of existing without God is an underlying theme that is promoted by the secular society of the world. It is the very field of spiritual warfare that has gone on since the rebellion of Lucifer in the creation of the heavens at the very beginning of God’s revelation of Himself.

A forward look in Revelation 17 ties these kingdoms into the final wrap-up of man’s struggle to obtain superiority over God’s plan for mankind. Revelation 17:10-11:

“There are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he must continue a short time. The beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going to perdition.”

When the Beast is seen by John, shown in Revelation 13, it is noteworthy that its energy is so identified: “The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority” (Revelation 13:2b).

That thread of Antichrist is the continual thread of opposition to God and His plan for the ages, and there we see its culmination in that final eighth head of the Beast, personified in the Antichrist who will be cast into the lake of fire, alive, with the false prophet. That seventh head is said to only last a short time. That is because it is the culmination of the long drive to create a New World Order, a one-world government, which has fronted for the Antichrist since the earliest kingdom. The Antichrist is always associated with the New World Order, but the Beast is not the Antichrist until he takes over as the solitary eighth head with authority challenges put down. He, alone, wants to be God.

Meanwhile, that New World Order goal that has captured the minds of many leaders in the world, and has no room for any God of the universe who demands their obedience, is now struggling to take over.  It is described as a glorious endeavor, made for the elite and served by those of lesser prominence. This is the current evidence of that “Tower of Babel Syndrome” that has continued from kingdom to kingdom. Its connection with that sixth head of the Beast, Rome, is noted in Daniel 9:26-27, where one who is of the lineage of that ancient Roman kingdom shows up in a key role of end-time prophecy:

“And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be “cut off, but not for Himself, and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, and till the end of the war desolations are determined. Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, even until the consummation, which is determined, is poured out on the desolate.”  

Those who destroyed the city and the temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. did not proclaim anything about any plan to be like God and require the worship of all people. It was a military endeavor to conquer the nation of Israel. It was allowed by God to finalize His judgment upon the Jews to scatter them into all nations and tribes of the world. It took sixty-five years for the city to be abandoned. For 1,800 years the land of Israel was a desolate place and hardly inhabitable. God preserved it for the return of the Jews according to His promise, on May 14, 1948.

Much can be written about the threads of conflict that have continued over the centuries, but it now appears that the end is drawing near. Promotion of the New World Order concept has run quietly, but rampant, in the highest levels of national leadership. Such can be found easily on the internet, where the blessings and benefits, so called, are promised by Bush 41 (George H. W. Bush), for example. He touts the glories of the New World Order wholeheartedly, saying with confident certainty, “After we are successful, and we will be….” After Obama’s election in 2008, Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon, declared excitedly, “He (Obama) has been primed to lead us into a New World Order” and “We hired him right out of law school!”

But the presidency of Donald Trump has sparked the greatest concentration ever seen in the struggle of that Antichrist side of the warfare of Satanic evil versus what is right and what is wrong. The four years of Trump’s attempts to restore law and order, social justice, and moral integrity to this nation has been met with total rejection by the leftist Democrats. It is an indictment of their bent toward destruction of the nation’s sovereignty.

Denial of the 2016 election results, and now the 2020 results from the level of legality is in the forefront of that warfare to create a New World Order as defined by the godless throng of evilness that abounds today.

The “falling away” from morality and justice in this nation, the citadel of freedom in the world, is very apparent since the 2016 election. Now, with the uncertain position of a Biden win, the far left and immoral factions are demanding strong positions for sexual immorality in his administration.

Jesus said, in Luke 21:28, “When you see these things beginning to happen, look up, for your redemption is drawing near.”

That is the hope of the believers, who are the Christ-indwelt body of resistance to that ground-swell of evil that is readying for the revealing of that one who will be the Antichrist. That is when the “Blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,” will take place, and the beginning of the end of the New World Order really gets underway.

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The likeness of President Trump’s ongoing controversy with the “deep state” of embedded bureaucrats in the capital city, Washington, DC, has several comparisons with that horrid resistance of the Jewish leadership against Jesus Christ.

Donald Trump was an outsider, not a politician, and certainly not like any of those whom he labeled as members of “the swamp,” which he promised to drain. That did two things, at least. It infuriated the establishment and created fear that he would, indeed, reveal truths about the insider deals that no one has known about. The leftist Democrats hated him intensely and had no shame about letting the public know of their hate. Even before his nomination and election, they tried every possible ruse to expose him as an infidel, mentally unfit for the presidency, a truly wretched person with no redeeming purpose for the people of the United States of America. Yet, his rallying cry was “Make America Great Again!”

The leftist major news media gave him no rest, picking up on every negative imagination that came to mind and delivering it in lock-step to the American public, as well as the whole world, that Trump was an evil, unfit man without intelligence enough to win their respect.

While President Trump delivered on his promises made during the campaign, the Democrat politicians and their supporting arm of the news media made no effort to advance any kind of platform of policies that they thought would be of help to the nation. During the year of campaign resistance and the four years of his presidency, the constant topic of the leftist news media was their hate for Donald Trump. Then attempts were made to implicate him in secret deals with Russia with three years of investigation by Robert Mueller and a team of leftist lawyers bent on putting him out of the oval office for good. That effort failed measurably.

The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff spent his whole time attempting to get an impeachment process underway. It also failed measurably because there were no eyewitnesses to the alleged charges, primarily, yet the total Democratic side of the House voted to impeach him, in lock-step. It did not win subsequently in the Senate’s consideration of the issue, yet the Senate Democrats voted for impeachment, again in lock-step.

Adam Schiff did not give up, but continued an attempt to implicate President Trump in a phone call with a Ukrainian leader that they alleged to be illegal. Schiff made up a conversation those two supposedly had and told it as if he had been on the same line with them. All of this came about because of their hate for Donald Trump, who came out of the business world to set straight their plan for destruction of the United States of America.

It is an incredible period of opposition to one whose stated purpose was to restore America to its leadership in the world as the land of freedom for “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” It truly is a strange reaction to one who has actually kept his promises made during the campaign, to the extent possible as he battled with opposing bureaucrats in the House and Senate. There is a bit of information that gives us an idea of the underlying reason for so much hate and resistance to the president.

It is revealed in the statement I have reported many times which President Obama made at the DC Correspondents’ annual dinner on April 30, 2016:

Obama said, “The end of the Republic has never looked better,” and he went on to show a real expectation that Hillary Clinton was sure to be “elected” president. (I used quotations on “elected” because it is now clear that the election had been rigged to accomplish just that.) Henry Kissinger eagerly exclaimed after Obama was elected in 2008, “He has been primed to lead us into a New World Order!” It is clear that no New World Order can be brought into place as long as the United States sovereignty remains intact, thus the ongoing drive to destroy this Constitutional Republic.

“But God,” that arresting truth of the sovereign ruler of the universe, stepped in, perhaps saying in so many actions, “You will not bring that about in your own anti-God methods. I will see to it in My own timeframe and will bring judgment with it. That sense seems to come from Psalm 75:6-8:

“For exaltation comes neither from the east nor from the west nor from the south. But God is the Judge: He puts down one, and exalts another. For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; It is fully mixed, and He pours it out; surely its dregs shall all the wicked of the earth drain and drink down.”

(A recent article titled “Clearing a Pathway for Antichrist’s Judgment” at www.raptureready.com/home/featured shows how God provides open doors of His own making to reach the ultimate goal He has in mind for that “glorious future” the One World Order promoters tell us about—that time they envision the elitists living in great luxury while the “lesser ones” serve them.)

Now, let’s look at the other “like-kind” of expression of evil and rejection of truth so many centuries ago. It was the time of the revelation of Jesus Christ, proclaiming truth and righteousness in the face of absolute rejection of Him and His positions on issues of that day. He called for truth over falsehood and yet was called a blasphemer, a servant of the devil, an imposter. In spite of evidence that He was innocent, and declared so by the civil ruler, Pilate, they screamed, “Crucify Him, crucify Him, give us Barabbas!” Today, the loud cry throughout the major news media and social media venues is, “Hate Trump, deny Trump, exclude Trump, eliminate Trump, impeach Trump, give us Biden!”

It is the likeness of the tactics the opposition used in both episodes that I am comparing, not making any kind of assertion that Trump is equal to Jesus, in character or purpose—in case the reader has thought otherwise. The trial of Jesus went through with no ability to find agreeing witnesses, yet they were quick to cry “blasphemy” by twisting His words to have them fit with what they wanted to believe.

In the three-year, multi-million dollar Mueller investigation, the perpetrators of injustice could not find evidence to support the charges. Then, in the impeachment trial, the House Democrats could find no reliable eyewitnesses of alleged charges; yet they voted, in lock-step, to impeach Trump.

After the religious leaders had crucified Jesus, to be sure someone did not claim He was still alive, they had soldiers seal the tomb and stand guard over it. In today’s episode, evidence of a rigged election continues to emerge, yet the media has hurriedly called the election in favor of Biden, while declaring there is no credible evidence that any kind of fraudulent activity occurred anywhere.

The resurrection of Christ in that time, centuries ago, upset the plans of the opposition and turned the world upside down. The question now pending for today’s episode is how will the charges of rigging the election turn out? Will there be a “resurrection” of Donald Trump to a second term?

In all of the ways of mankind, it is the sovereign God of the universe Who has the final say. God is just, and wickedness never escapes His judgment. Should Biden end up with the presidency, it will be of God’s doing. If the previously stated objectives of Biden and his promoters are activated, with no law and order, police or closed borders, chaos in the cities, release of felons from prisons, and continued open sexual immorality, it will be the continuing of the “falling away” that brings the removal of the “One who restrains” with all of His saints, followed by the “sudden destruction” of the judgment of God upon this nation and the world. (See 2 Thessalonians 2:3-8 and 1 Thessalonians 5:2-3.)

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