Now Dr. Coleman says, which is true: “The U.S. can make an agreement with a country or body having no sovereignty, but can never enter into a treaty with a body lacking sovereignty” (Diplomacy By Deception, page 8). Then he lists several other things as to what happened here and how it took place.

He talks about the first Gulf War. He talks about how the – here, let me read this: “Not a single U.N. Security Council resolution, affecting either directly or indirectly the United States, has any validity, as such resolutions are made by a body which itself has no sovereignty.” And yet that was the basis of the first Gulf War. And because the current President Bush was denied that by the U.N. Security Council, he went on his own, so they’re all going against him because he went on his own. So you see, there you go.

“The U.S. Constitution is above any so-called world body, and that, particularly, includes the United Nations…” And that goes for any other country in the world too. “…The U.S. Constitution is above and superior to any agreement or treaty made with any nation or group of nations, whether connected with the United Nations or not. But the United Nations de facto and de jure gives the president of the United States unlimited dictatorial powers not granted by the Constitution.” (Diplomacy By Deception, page 11)

Now let’s see some other things here. This becomes important. “What constitutes sovereignty? It is based upon adequate territory, a constitutional form of money, a substantial population, in clearly demarcated borders which are definitely measurable. The United Nations is totally lacking in these requirements, and no matter what our politicians might say, the U.N. can never qualify as a sovereign body in terms of the U.S. Constitution’s definition of sovereignty. Therefore, it follows that we can never have a treaty with the U.N. Not now, not ever. The answer could be a that, either out of sheer ignorance of the Constitution, or else, as servants of the Committee of 300 [who are the servants of Satan the devil], the senators, in 1945, went along with the U.N. Charter in breach of their oath of office to defend and uphold the U.S. Constitution.” Therefore, as he says in another part, that is treason. “The United Nations is a shiftless, rootless leach, a parasite feeding off of its U.S. host. If there are any U.N. troops in this country, they should be ordered out forthwith, as their presence in our land is a defilement of our Constitution, and should not, indeed, cannot be tolerated by those who have sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution” (Diplomacy By Deception, page 13). So you need to understand, the Constitution in America has been made negligible.

He sums it up: “To sum up our position regarding U.N. membership: We, the sovereign people of the United States, are not obligated to obey any U.N. resolutions because enactment of the United Nations Charter by the Senate, which purported to make the Constitution yield to the United Nations law, conflicts with the provisions of the Constitution, and is, therefore, ipso facto, null and void.” And you can see how this is even rooted into the Supreme Court, where there are Supreme Court justices that look to the laws of other nations to see how they need to interpret the Constitution; which is not an interpretation, but a destruction of it by the court which is supposed to uphold it. Because Satan has so deceived it.

Now I want you to understand something very profound: no man, no group of men, no organization in this world is going to change it because the only way this is going to be changed is by the return of Jesus Christ. The U.N. is the ultimate punishment given to all the people in the world for rejecting Jesus Christ. And it’s going to exercise that power. And only Christ can stop it and destroy it. “The United Nations is in fact a One World Government body put together with the objective of overriding the U.S. Constitution...” (Diplomacy By Deception, page 17). And the constitutions, I will say, of all sovereign nations of this world.

Now let’s look at some of the Scriptures here. We know, as we have covered back in the book of Daniel - now we just want to look at something here very, very important. Let’s come to Revelation 13, then we’ll get back to the book of Daniel, then we will come back to the book of Revelation. But Revelation 13 becomes very important. Now we can fairly well pinpoint when this began. And that was with the founding of the League of Nations, which carried through and was not dissolved until April 18, 1945, and it gave all the assets to the United Nations. Now it’s carrying through. So what is happening here, the prophecies of Revelation 13 are coming to pass in a very profound way. Should that surprise any of us, that all the prophecies of God are going to come to pass in a profound way? It shouldn’t. Jesus said, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away” (Matt. 24:35), and these are the words of Jesus Christ that He gave to John and told him to write them for us.

Revelation 13:1 (FV): “And I stood on the sand of the sea...” Now what is the sea? We saw that: peoples, and languages, and tongues, and multitudes. Now here on the sands of the sea, showing a whole worldwide occurrence, as it were. “...And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea...” The beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

Let’s go back to Revelation 17 and let’s finish a little bit here so we can have a little clearer perspective on what we’re doing. Let’s come back here to verse 8. We read down through verse 7 before, so let’s come to Revelation 17:8 (FV): “The beast that you saw was, and is not, but is about...” Yes, we read verse 8; verse 9: “Here is the mind that has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.” Now we need to understand that Revelation 17 is the historic projection of this system. Revelation 13 is its final fulfillment. So God put it not in chronological sequence, as far as laying out the chapters of the book. And He did that so that we have to search, so that we have to prove, so that we have to learn, and know. “…On which the woman sits.” Now we can apply this to the Roman Catholic Church, we can apply this to Babylon the Great. There’s fulfillment in both of them.

Now notice verse 10 (FV): “And there are seven kings; five are fallen, and one is [both of those have taken place], and the other has not yet come [Now that began with the League of Nations]; and when he has come, it is ordained that he remain a little while.” So it hasn’t come to its final fruition. It’s been developing, as Revelation 13 is talking about. And here now it’s talking about the single man, the one who is called the “Beast,” he is going to be brought to the fore. That’s what it’s talking about here. And he is going to head up this whole system. “...And the other has not yet come; and when he has come, it is ordained that he remain a little while.” Now we will see how that is fulfilled back in Daniel 9 in just a little bit.

“And the beast that was, and is not, he is also the eighth, and is from the seven, and goes into perdition.” Now isn’t that interesting? Of the seven – it’s come out of that seventh system. So here we are with the eighth one, and here we are going to come with that great man, the son of perdition who is going to rule the whole world. Because the whole world will have given up its sovereignty to Satan the devil. Now this shows the final fulfillment of it here, verse 12: “And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings, who have not yet received a kingdom, but shall receive authority as kings for one hour with the beast. These all have one mind, and shall give up their power and authority to the beast. These will make war with the Lamb, but the Lamb shall overcome them; for He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are called, and chosen, and faithful” (verses 11-14, FV). The summary of many prophecies. You see, Christ alone can destroy the system. Human beings cannot.

And here’s another thing for us to understand: it is more important to be right with God and grow in grace and knowledge now, than it is to fight against the system. And I’ll tell you why: because God is raising it up. And if you fight against the system, you’re fighting against God, because He has ordained that it is. Just exactly as He told the Jews when Nebuchadnezzar was attacking. He said, “I have raised up Nebuchadnezzar. If you resist him, he’s going to kill you. And I will deliver you into his hands because he is My servant. But if you surrender and go to Babylon, I’ll preserve you.” So today we can take a principle from that. God has not given us the authority to fight against this system, even if it kills us. Now there’s a time when it comes that we will witness against it as God gives us the mind and the mouth to do so. But God has prophesied that these things are going to come. That’s why all of these movements out there to stop it only amount to a warning by men - and they’re doing a better job than we are as far as knowing and understanding the intricacies of government, because we don’t know a thing about that, do we? No, we don’t. And they are giving a warning. And that’s part of a warning that God is raising up different men to give that warning. You need to understand that.

Now let’s come back to Revelation 13. So here is the beast rising out of the sea. Now the sea are peoples, right? What are we told of the United Nations? That this is all the people of the world coming together to have a one world government, a grand deception. Because the people of the world have nothing to do with it except that they’re going to be ruled over by it. “...Having seven heads and ten horns...” Now exactly how that falls out, we’ll have to wait and see. We know that ten horns are ten kings, as it says there in Revelation 17. They receive power one hour with the beast. Now then, most people do not realize this, but the United Nations has the world divided into ten regions. So could it be that these kings who receive power one hour with the beast and have crowns on their heads, even though they have the names of blasphemy, are appointed by the beast, by agreement, by the United Nations, to run that region? We’ve said ten nations in the past, but this is greater than ten nations. This is the whole worldwide thing. All nations, right?

Now notice verse 2. This refers back to the book of Daniel, and showing here that what is coming up is an amalgamation of the greatest and most glorious facets of the kingdoms of this world. “And the beast that I saw was like a leopard, and his feet like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion; and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne and great authority.” See, because Satan only receives sovereignty as people give it to him. And once he has it, then he delegates it to those that he desires. And so that’s what he’s doing here. As we have seen, in fact, it has no authority. What a tremendous deception. “And I saw one of his heads as if it were slain to death, but his deadly wound was healed; and the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast” (verses 2-3, FV). So out of this system is going to come one man; and that one man is described in II Thessalonians 2, coming out of this great mystery of lawlessness. And he is going to be the ruler of this world, and govern and ruthlessly destroy the earth through the power that has been given to him. We’re going to see that in just a minute. We’re not going go to II Thessalonians 2 because we might run out of time. You can go ahead and read that. We’ve covered that many times before.

“...And the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon...” So this is why there is a steady progressive, continuous, insidious, all out attack upon Christianity, and the Ten Commandments, and Jesus Christ, and God the Father; and that is so that people will worship the dragon who is Satan the devil. “And they worshipped the beast, saying, ‘Who is like the beast? Who has the power to make war against him? And a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies was given to him; and authority was given to him to continue for forty-two months” (verses 4-5, FV). That is after the deadly wound was healed. And as I have explained before, when this beast - let’s go back to Daniel 9 right now - when this man goes into the sanctuary of the temple that is going to be built in Jerusalem by the Jews, and proclaims that he himself is God and stops all the sacrifices, you know the Jews are going to try and assassinate him. And also, because God had begun dealing with the Jews by that time in the time order of the chronology of the prophecies.

Now let’s come to Daniel 9:26, and here is a little known prophecy and a greatly misunderstood prophecy. “And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off [that’s when Christ was crucified], but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary...” And that happened in 70 A.D. So then there was a prince that came, right? Yes indeed. Now there is going to be another one to fulfill its second – actually, its third fulfillment. Nebuchadnezzar was first, Titus was the second, and the one that is coming is the third. And so he is going to destroy the city and the sanctuary, “...And the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.” That’s talking about the whole great tribulation. Now notice verse 27: “And he...” Not the Messiah. The prince of the people, who is the son of perdition, who magnifies himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he shows that himself, he is God. “...He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week...” (Dan. 9:26-27). Now one week is seven years. Now if you don’t have the chart and the tapes that I have done on the outline of Revelation 1 and 2, be sure and write for them. Because I show just a basic outline how this happens. So a week, seven days, equals seven years in fulfillment.

Now notice, “...And in the midst of the week...” Now this does not refer to Jesus Christ, though He was crucified in the midst of the week. This has nothing to do with Jesus. Because when He died the sacrifices did not cease. They continued for another forty years. “...And in the midst of the week [after three and a half years; that’s when the deadly wound was healed] he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate” (verse 27). Now it’s talking about the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem again. So that’s going to happen.

Now let’s come back here to chapter 8. Let’s see how this man is going to operate. There are many, many prophecies of this as we go through and pick out the different prophecies in the Bible. So in order to understand Revelation 13 to it’s full, because that is an overview of everything at the end, all the particulars that go with it come from different sections of the Bible and must be put together properly to give the whole picture of what is happening. Now let’s come back here to Daniel 8. Again, just as Revelation 13 is rooted going clear back to the beast of Daniel 7 and Daniel 8, so likewise the string of Babylon the Great - because see, you have Babylon, then you had the Medo-Persian Empire, and then you had the Grecian Empire, and then you had the Roman Empire. And the Roman Empire and its system continues down to today. And guess where the European Union was founded? And by what treaty? The Treaty of Rome after World War II. Isn’t that amazing?

Now let’s come here to Daniel 8. And it talks about the destruction of the Medo-Persian Empire. And let’s begin here in verse 19: “And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.” Let’s remember that. The end time is when God determines it. I just got a letter the other day, someone saying, “Well, the 1,335 day starts on May 4, 2004.” Now let me tell you something, no man is going to tell God when the prophecies are going to be. And it found its way to the round file very quickly. So the time appointed is when the end shall be. “The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia” (Dan. 8:19-20). So that’s why kings and kingdoms are likened unto beasts. That’s why the final beast is called “the beast,” because he’s going to be ruler of the whole world. And it’s going to come out of this system which began with Babylon. That’s why it’s called in the book of Revelation, “Babylon the Great,” because it’s the final fulfillment of it.

“And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king” being Alexander, who conquered the whole civilized world. Now that being broken, because he died, it took him 12 years to conquer the Medo-Persian Empire and spread Greek culture throughout the whole eastern part of the Middle East. He died, and he died in Babylon. Amazing, isn’t it? “Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms...” So it was divided into four kingdoms. And that’s then where we get later the king of the north and the king of the south. “And in the latter time of their kingdom [which comes right through Revelation 13], when the transgressors are come to the full...” (verses 21-23). We haven’t quite reached it yet. Now this is important to understand. Remember what God told Abraham when He made His covenant. He says, “It’s not yet time now, because the sin of the Amorites is not yet come to the full” (Genesis 15:16, paraphrased). It was 430 years later. So here we have “when the transgressors are come to the full.” What is the fullness of the transgressions of the people of this world? When they worship Satan openly. And that’s coming.

It says, “...a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. And his power shall be mighty...” And we’ll see that when we come back to Revelation 13 in just a minute. “...But not by his own power [because it’s by the power of Satan the devil]: and he shall destroy wonderfully [that is awesomely], and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.” And we will see that in just a minute in Revelation 13. “And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper...” And that’s deception and witchcraft and worshiping Satan the devil. “...And he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace [a false peace; and it could also be prosperity] shall destroy many...” (verses 23-25).

Now here is where we get the identification of when this will take place, and the character of the man who will do it, though it does not name the man by his own particular name because it follows what the Bible says, “You shall know them by their fruits,” so it describes his fruits and his actions so we will know by that who this man is. But if we be as close to the end time as we think we are close to the end time, that man is alive somewhere on this earth, and has already been dedicated to Satan the devil to serve him, probably from birth.

Now there are many secret societies in this world. And most of them don’t realize this, that they’re all under the aegis of Satan the devil and under the control of the Illuminati, and the political faction is the Committee of 300. Now if that sounds strange to your ears, you better wake up and understand what’s going on. You better get some of these books and read these books. Let me tell you something - back in 1966 I was doing visiting tours clear over into Colorado. And I visited some brethren who had been baptized years and years ago and no one had ever visited them. So I made arrangements and I got there and visited them. And the brethren there, the husband and wife, they said, “I want you to listen to these records.” So it was 33 speed records. Remember those big old ones? My, how technology has changed. And then you go back and you think of the one that Thomas Edison first invented with the big speaker coming out. My, how we’ve progressed, right? Yes indeed. But that progress is all leading to the end, the destruction of the world anyway.

So he played these for me, and I listened very intently because this was Myron Fagin’s explanation of the Illuminati, and how it was founded through Adam Weishaupt, who was a Jew and also a Jesuit; and how and they took over the whole of what is called the Masons, and all secret societies that men belong to in this world. So you name them, they’re controlled by the Illuminati and all of the different men and women that hail the coming kingdom of Satan - the one world government. And so I said to myself, “Wow. Boy. That’s amazing.” So that Feast of Tabernacles - and every year Garner Ted Armstrong would take my wife and I to dinner because my wife babysat for Garner Ted Armstrong and his wife with their kids. So I was very anxious to tell him, “Look, we’ve got to be preaching this.” He said, “Aw no, there’s nothing to it. Just forget all about that.” And I said to myself, “How can it be?” After hearing those things it’s evident to me what is happening in the world. So I told myself this: I said, “Alright, what I’m going to do is just put it on the shelf. I’m not going to get it out of my mind, nor am I necessarily going to stand up and preach it. I’m just going to watch and observe and see.” So later I got the book, None Dare Call It Treason. And then I got another book, The Fourth Reich of the Rich. And I got another book, Tragedy and Hope by Professor [Carroll] Quigley, which lays it all out in about 970 pages.

See, because - and as Dr. Coleman says, when they reach a certain point they can let it be an open conspiracy. So I said to myself, “This is amazing.” And I have watched it through the years. And I have studied it through the years, which will bring me pretty close, we’re 38 years into that right now, aren’t we, from ‘66 until now? And according to the Scriptures and according to what’s happening in the world, that is true.

Now notice, he identifies it. You see how it takes it from the time of Babylon through Medo-Persia, through Greece, through the Roman Empire, clear down to the end, to the one man who is called the beast in Revelation. And it says we can identify him here. The last part of verse 25: “...he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes [Revelation 16 and 19]; but he shall be broken without [human] hand.” Now how are the beast and false prophet executed? God sends an angel and casts them into the lake of fire. Not by human hand. Now notice verse 26: “And the vision of the evening and morning which was told [to you] is true...”

Now let’s come back here to Revelation 13, and let’s see this, because this is something. This is the world ahead of us, Satan’s great counterfeit kingdom, that’s going to come in all its glory, in all its splendor, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness. And everyone is going to be so absolutely turned toward this and turned against God, that only those that God is going to call and only those who have the Spirit of God will understand. Many of them will not repent until they get into the great tribulation.

Now let’s come back to Revelation 13, because we have to see something that is very important. Because you see, we have to prove our love, our faith, our belief, our conviction, and the use of the Holy Spirit of God unto death. Now God is going to spare a lot of seniors. They’re going to pass their final exam and go to the grave. But those of us who are alive and remain, we just might as well make up our minds and not go out and look for it, not go out and provoke it, because this one world system is going to provoke it sooner or later anyway. But we might as well make up our minds to the fact that it’s going to cost us our lives. And it’s not going to be pleasant, but it’s going to be worth the crown of glory that we’re going to receive. So we might as well realize that and make up our minds to that effect, and ask God to give us the strength, and determination, and the faith, and the love. And as Jesus said that unless you forsake all that you have and carry your cross you cannot be His disciple. And now we are down to the time when we need to be prepared for this.

Now notice what’s going to happen. After he was given the time to continue for forty and two months after stopping off the sacrifices there at the temple and the attempted assassination, he’s going to be proclaimed God on this earth. “And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, and His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. And he was given power to make war against the saints, and to overcome them; and he was given authority over every tribe and language and nation.” Again, worldwide. “And all who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If anyone has an ear, let him hear” (Rev. 13:6-9, FV). There we have it. We don’t have time to get into the mark of the beast. We’ll save that for another sermon.

But I want you to understand that as we are in training right now to be able to be the kings and priests in the true kingdom of God which Christ is going to bring when He returns, that we better be about doing the work of growing, of overcoming, of learning, of praying, of studying, of being steadfast with God. Because the day is going to come that if we do not, and if we do not exercise the power of God’s Spirit in our lives, then we are going to be like the five foolish virgins whom Christ says, “I don’t know who you are. And I don’t know where you came from.” Because you see, eternal life is so profound, and so valuable that God is not going to give this just to anyone, but to those who love Him with all their heart and mind and soul and being, whether in life or whether in death.

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