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Now let’s begin here in Daniel 8 and we will see how this all develops
together. It goes back and it talks about the empires of Greece, and
Persia, and Media, and then what happens to it after Alexander conquered the
Persian Empire. Now let’s pick it up here in verse 17, “So he came
near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face:
but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end
shall be
the vision.” In other words, its fulfillment is at the end-time. Let’s
see what this is telling us.
“Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward
the ground…” Now just stop here, let me just mention one thing.
Whenever you worship God your face is always down. Satan knocks people
down on their back. So when you have someone like Joseph Smith claim
that he got a vision from God and God talked to him and knocked him down on
his back. That’s not from God, that’s from Satan. And by the
way, just for your information, Mormonism is just a New Age Gnostic
religion. If you don’t have the book, Primitive Christianity In
Crisis be sure and write for it, from Alan Knight. I’ve got the
address on several tapes.
Now, “…but he touched me, and set me upright. 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” (Dan. 8:17-19). That’s why
I keep saying prophecies are not speeding up, and prophecies are not slowing
down. That’s only relative to what we are seeing. It’s all at
the appointed time. Not before, and not afterward.
“The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of
Media and Persia. And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and
the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king
[which is Alexander the Great]. Now that being broken, whereas four
stood up for it, four kingdoms…” So history shows there was a division of
four kingdoms of the empire of Alexander the Great. “…Shall stand up
out of the nation, but not in his power. And in the latter time of
their kingdom…” So it’s very interesting that it talks about this very thing
back in Revelation 13. It says, “…in the latter time of their kingdom,
when the transgressors are come to the full…” Now then, please tie this in
with Genesis 15 where God told Abraham that the sin of the Amorites had not
yet come to the full. So God is going to wait until the sin of this
world of Sodom and Egypt rises to its fullest height. Then out of that
“…a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall
stand up. And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power
[because you see it’s going to be granted to him by treaty]: and he shall
destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the
mighty and the holy people” (vs. 20-24).
Now there are two understandings of this. One, the mighty and holy
people are the 12 tribes of Israel. They will be going in to
captivity. Number two, the holy people, meaning those who are
the true Christians who will have to give their lives in martyrdom as a
witness to this world.
Now notice verse 25, “And through his policy also he shall cause craft to
prosper…” And craft is describing then, not just business practices, but
craft then has to do with the occult, with witchcraft, and the occult
religion. “…And he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by
peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of
princes; but he shall be broken without hand.” And the only one that
applies to is the beast in Revelation and secondarily the false prophet.
So this has not yet been fulfilled. It is going to happen.
Now let’s see what’s going to happen to provoke this and what he is going
to do so he will receive the deadly wound that will be healed. Let’s
come first of all to Daniel 11. Here it talks about him now, in this
case, as the king of the north. Now, could it be that the United
Nations will be moved out of New York City and put back into Geneva?
Could it be that there will be such a stink and an uproar in the United
States concerning the United Nations, that they will pull out and then the
United Nations forces will invade America? I’m just asking questions,
because in America is the greatest concentration of all the tribes of
Israel. And in the book of Ezekiel God shows they’re going into
captivity. So when he’s the king of the north here, could it be that
it is back in Geneva, Switzerland. I just asked a question. It’s very
possible that it could be.
Now let’s read it here, verse 40. “And at the time of the end…” Now
all the way through the book of Daniel these prophecies are tied to the time
of the end. And brethren, we are living in those times. Now here
is a specific concrete action, that when it takes place this is going to
then just a prelude before the beginning of the great tribulation.
Let’s read it. “And at the time of the end shall the king of the
south push at him…” So we have yet to see who the king of the south is.
We have yet to see who the king of the north is, but that’s coming.
“…And the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with
chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into
the counties, and shall overflow and pass over.” Another repeat of
what we saw with Desert Storm, only this time coming down into Egypt first.
“He shall enter also into the glorious land…” Now that is into the area of
Palestine, formerly called the holy land. It’s not holy today.
It’s anything but holy today. “…And many countries shall be
overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and
Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.” Now that’s over in the
area of Jordan. “He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the
countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. But he shall have
power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious
things of Egypt: and the Libyans, and the Ethiopians shall be at his
steps. But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble
him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to
make away many. And he shall plant the tabernacle of his palace
between the seas in the glorious holy mountain…” Now that is Mt. Zion, and
as we have seen and as I said yesterday, there is going to be a temple
built. And it will be built right along side the Mosque of Omar.
And this is going to be the event which is going to finally trigger the
thing which will bring the deadly wound which was healed. We’ll see
that in just a minute. “…Yet he shall come to his end, and none shall
help him” (vs. 40-45).
Let’s go to 2 Thessalonians 2 and let’s see the event that is going to
perpetrate that assault against him which will be a deadly wound, literal
physical deadly wound, an attempted assassinations of the coming world
dictator, heading up the United Nations and all the implications involved
with that. Now we’ve covered this many times, but I just want to
rehearse this so we have everything put together so we understand how it’s
going to happen.
Verse 3, “Let no man deceive you by any means…” Now remember, we’ve already
covered that Satan has deceived the whole world. “…For that day
shall not come, except there come [the great apostasy] a falling away
first…” And in the Greek it is “shall have come”, meaning a completed future
event. And we are getting closer to the completion of that the more,
the more that we gather together of this One World Religion the closer we
are to the apostasy in the world. We’ve already seen the apostasy
happen within the Church, haven’t we?
Next, “…And that man of sin be revealed…” That is the beast. And it
reads in the Greek, “shall have been revealed”. And we are the ones
who will reveal it, we are the ones who will know who he is, and it’s going
to be known in the whole world because not only are we going to reveal it
but the two witnesses are going to reveal it. Now if you don’t have
the Revelation 1 and 2 and the chart that goes with it, now you need the
chart so you can understand the sequence of events. The two witnesses
come on the scene about six months before this even takes place here where
he comes in and he enters into the temple. Now he’s going to enter
into the Jewish temple, which they will call the Temple of God in Jerusalem.
Now notice, verse 4. “Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all
that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth
in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” Now you get
those two tapes on Revelation and the chart. I’ll just suffice to say
this. If you take from the time that the beast and the false prophet
are killed and you go back 42 months, and you also figure when the
sacrifices will be stopped and you go back 1260 days, you come to the 10th
of Nisan. And the 10th of Nisan is the day when the
Passover lambs will be selected by the Jews. And he comes in and stops
those sacrifices at that time. And that’s why then the Jews are going
to mount an assassination squad and they are going to get him. And he
is going to be wounded. But his deadly wound is going to be healed and
when he comes back from that then the whole earth is going to really be in
the grips of Satan the devil and the beast and the false prophet.
Now let’s go back to Revelation 13 and we will read that. That is the
event which causes the deadly wound. Then it’s healed. “And they
worshipped the dragon which gave [authority] power unto the beast: and they
worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who
[has the power] is able to make war with him?” Then at that time,
“There was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and
[authority] power was given unto him to continue forty and two
months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme
His name, and His tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it
was given unto him to make war [against] with the saints, and to overcome
them: and [authority] power was given him over [every tribe] kindreds, and
[language] tongues, and nations.” Brethren, this is a huge, tremendous
event. “And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose
names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world” (Rev. 13:4-8). That’s the event that is going
to trigger it.
Now, let’s see how things are coming right now, the developing of the
United Nations. Let me just read you this. Now, this event, by
time we have the videos will have already taken place, so you may have much
more information by that time. And I hope to, at the live sites, where
I’m going to be preaching to have them. Now this is an article that
you can…I don’t know where you can download…but it was sent to me. You can
get it on the internet. And you might be able to go to the United
Nations web page and get a lot more information, because there is a
tremendous amount of information there, which I’ll cover some of it in just
a little bit.
And this is, “United Nations poised to impose a One World Government,
Charter 99…” Now remember last Feast of Tabernacles I went over Charter 99
very thoroughly, and the charter for global democracy. Now, these are
the special interest people and the pawns of the Committed of 300 who are
doing this. The peoples of the world are not rising up to make this
happen. But they are given the impression that they are. Now the
article reads, “In September 2000, less than five months from now…” In our
case less than four months from now. “…The United Nations will convene
a special millennium assembly as a global summit on the future of the world.
This event will crown a decade of preparation to launch the new millennium
on a new system of global governance.” Now that means one world global
government. “The blueprint was published by the commission on global
governance in 1995. Now a charter to achieve global governance…” They
are not saying a global government, which is what they mean, so they use the
word governance so that it’s a little softer and people won’t really have a
clue as to what they are doing.
“This has been developed for the presentation at the Millennium Assembly
next September. It will also be published publicly on U.N. day,
October 24. It is called the Charter for Global Democracy [rising up
out of the sea, giving the appearance of people doing it.]. It has
already been signed by influential leaders of 56 nations, and has the
support of civil society, non-government organizations around the world.”
Now non-government organizations, NGO’s. These are the ones who are
implementing all of these things and all of these programs. It’s like
all the bureaucracies in America, the United States, then have been given
the power to make regulations, such as the EPA, and such as the DRE, and so
forth. All of these U.S. government bureaucracies have been given the power
to make regulations with the force of law. And this is what the
non-governmental agencies in the world are going to come to. So keep
your eye on the non-governmental organizations.
“The document is in reality a charter for the abolition of individual
freedom.” So let me just read the principles.
1) This charter calls for the consolidation of all
international agencies under the direct authority of the United Nations.
2) The regulation by the United Nations of all
Trans-national [that’s what it should be] corporations and financial
institutions requiring an international code of conduct concerning
environment and labor standards.
3) Demands an independent source of revenue for the
U.N.
Now I’ve mentioned, years back, when the U.N. gets the power to tax, look
out. They are proposing it. It is going to come. It is
going to happen. And I call your attention to what I brought out
concerning the tape on “The Coming U.N. Army”, standing army. It is
going to be big. It is going to be under the direction of the U.N.,
and it’s going to fulfill its wishes. But it’s going to have to have
taxation to support it. So there is a tax called the Tobin Tax.
And taxes on aircraft, shipping fuels, licensing of the use of global
commons. Now global commons is the space up in the outer space around
the earth. And non-territorial seas, and the related environment that
supports human life.
4) To eliminate the veto power and the permanent
member status of the Security Counsel.
5) Authorizes a standing U.N. army.
6) Requires U.N. registration of all arms, and
reduction of all national armies, as part of a multi-lateral global security
system under the authority of the United Nations.
7) Requires individual and national compliance with
all human rights treaties and declarations.
Notice, “individual.” People then will be governed, not by the laws
of the United States, but by the U.N.
8) Activates the international criminal court and
makes the International Court of Justice compulsory for all nations, and
gives individuals the right to petition the courts to remedy social
injustice.
Nice broad term, isn’t it? To speak against the evils of this world
will be a social injustice, will be against the rights of people to have
their own religion. So you see, that’s how we’re going to be hauled up
for it. Now if you don’t believe there’s a coming World Court, just start
going through some of these documents. If you have a computer and
you’re on-line, get on the U.N. page, watch it, look at it, click down some
of the documents, read them, be aware of what’s going on. I’ll do what
I can to keep you updated on all this. Of course that is, as we go
down in time.
9) Calls for a new institution to establish
economic and environmental security by insuring sustainable development.
But you have to save the flies, and the frogs, and the snakes, and you
can’t develop and you can’t cut timber here, and cut timber there. Oh,
we’ll let it all burn down in forest fires, but no you can’t cut it down to
build houses. You see, God gave trees so they would grow. They
get old. They are meant to be cut down. They are meant to be
used. And everyplace where they have clear-cutting, please
understand…it always grows back, and they always plant trees. But you
see, we’ve been sold a bill of goods by this environmental thing. Now
if you want to vote for a tree-hugger, vote for Al Gore.
10)Calls for the establishment of an International Environment Court.
11)Calls for a declaration that climate change is a central global security
interest that requires the creation of a high level action team to allocate
carbon emissions based upon equal per capita rights.
And that means we’re all going to give up our car. Now you think
about it.
12)[Here’s the one they want] Calls for the cancellation of all debt owed
by the poorest nations, global poverty reduction, and for the equitable
sharing of global resources as allocated by the United Nations.
And who’s going to see that that is done? The United Nations.
And they will enforce it, and you will have no rights. And please
understand, all international law that will be imposed and will be people
brought to justice concerning it will be canon law. And canon law is
this: you are guilty unless you can prove yourself innocent. Now you
know why the founding fathers of the United States of America had it so that
you are innocent until proven guilty. That will soon be all done away.
The United Nations is going to make sure that that is going to happen.
Now let’s go back and review Psalm 2 again. And let’s see how all of
this fits together, and then I’m going to read to you some things from “The
Peoples Millennium Forum”, and I’ll also give you an internet address that
you can go ahead and bring up on the web if you’re hooked up to it.
“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The
kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together,
against the LORD, and against His anointed, saying, Let us break
their bands asunder…” This is the great apostasy at the end. Let’s have
nothing to do with God, the true God. And they will all be worshiping
Satan the devil. And it is here, they’re imagining a vain thing.
The U.N. is going to be an absolute vain creature and the man who heads it
out, the very last beast is going to be the vainest of all saying that he is
God. “Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from
us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have
them in derision” (Psa. 2:1-4). And God is going to have them in
derision, yes.
Now let’s come to Luke 19. Let’s see something else here. This
is very interesting because we have two things going on here in Luke 19.
Let’s pick it up in verse 12. That is when they thought the Kingdom of
God should appear immediately. “He said therefore, A certain nobleman
went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.”
Now He’s talking about Himself here in this case. “And [that is before
He left] He called his ten servants and delivered them ten pounds, and said
unto them, Occupy till I come” (Luke 19:12-13). So this is giving the
commission to the Church to do the work that the Church is to do. And
also coming down to each one of us as that ties in with the parable of the
talents in Matthew 25. That’s a parallel account similar to this.
But notice verse 14. “But his citizens hated him…” Now not the ones
who were the servants of God. And the citizens here are the people of
the world. Do they hate God today? Yes. “…Hated him, and
sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign
over us.” That ties right in with Psalm 2, “…let us cut His bands, cut
the cords…”, “We don’t need God. Why, we’ll finish what the
tower of Babel started.”
“And it came to pass, the when he was returned…”, he called into account,
and so forth, of the servants and he gave them authority over the cities.
But let’s come over here to verse 27. “But those mine enemies, which
would not that I should reign over them, bring thither, and slay them
before me.” Now those are the seven last plagues and then the wars at
the beginning of the millennium. And they are going to be set up for
it in such a profound way.
Now I want to read to you some parts out of this that is called, “We The
People’s Millennium Forum, Declaration and Agenda for Action Strengthening
The United Nations for the 21st Century.” Now, listen
carefully, I’m going to give you the Internet address:
http://www.millenniumforum.org (NOTE: This link has not worked for
several months. If it comes back online, or if anyone knows their new
address, please let me know.
Contact the Webmaster)
And you can keep up with this as we come down toward September when these
things take place.
Now it starts out this way:
“We, the 1350 representatives of over 1000 non-governmental organizations
[NGO’s] and other civil societies from more than 100 countries, have
gathered at the United Nations headquarters in New York, from 22 to 26 of
May 2000, to build upon a common vision. And the work begun at the
civil society conferences, and at the U.N. world conferences in the 1990’s,
all of this combined…” They’ve been working behind the scenes and we haven’t
known it. “…to draw the attention of governments to the urgency
of implementing the commitments we have made and to channel our collective
energies by reclaiming globalization for and by the people.”
Now one of those commitments that were made, who made them, who’s under
obligation. Now let’s read on.
“Our vision [the people imagine a vain thing] is of a world that is human
centered, and genuinely democratic…”
God’s is going to be a millennium where that it’s going to be God centered
and run according to the love of God. Not the democracy that people
think of in the world. Now continuing here…
“…Where all human beings are full participants and determine their own
destinies.”
Now you can’t do that when it’s going to be government from the top down
from the U.N. with their laws and dictatorial things.
“In our vision, we are one human family in all our diversity, living in one
common homeland and sharing a just sustainable and peaceful world guided by
universal principles of democracy, equality, inclusion, volunteerism, non
discrimination, and participation by all persons, men and women, young and
old regardless of race, faith disability, sex orientation, ethnicity, or
nationality.”
Now that is Sodom and Egypt, my friends.
“It is a world where peace and human security is envisioned and the
principles of the United Nations Charter replace armaments, violent conflict
in wars. It is a world where everyone lives in a clean environment,
with a fair distribution of the earth’s resources.”
COMMUNISM! That’s what this whole thing is. Communism.
And it’s all against Israel, because what did God give to Israel? God
gave to physical Israel all the blessings, all the richest places of the
world, the wealth, the blessing of God through Abraham. And they want
to undo all of that don’t they? Now as I said, look at these
societies, and look at these nations and judge them by the Ten Commandments.
But they want to do it so that they can have salvation, as I said, in
their sins, excluding God, worshipping Satan the devil and doing
their way. This is something. I mean, this is absolutely
amazing.
“Our vision includes a special role for the dynamism of young people and
the experience of the elderly.”
This is why the education around the world has been formed according to the
mold of what the New Agers want, the One Worlders want, which then is what?
Group thinking. Now remember last year we had the videos, and we had
the tape by Dean Gotcher, “Stinking Thinking”. And they’ve molded a
whole society through the education systems of the world so the young people
coming along are going to be all for it. That’s why they’re going to
have a special place for them. And what does it say in Isaiah 3?
“And children will rule over them and be their oppressors…” Yes, indeed.
I tell you, this is amazing.
“…And reaffirms a universality, indivisibility, and inter-dependence of all
human rights, civil, political, economic, social, and cultural, and then
religious [the unspoken thing].”
That’s the other side of the story. Now last year I brought you about
Satan’s coming global church of Satan. And this year I’m bringing you
Satan’s counterfeit millennium.
“The challenges: We begin the new millennium facing grave and
interconnected challenges. As actors in the struggle for peace,
justice, and the eradication of poverty [NGO’s, non-government
organizations], encounter daily the human impact of rising violence, armed
conflicts, widespread violations of human rights, unacceptably large numbers
of people who are denied the means for minimal human existence [and that’s
all because of sin]. At the same time, new and emerging diseases such
as HIV-AIDS threaten to devastate entire societies.”
Listen, there is one way to end all those diseases. Stop fornication.
Stop adultery. Stop homosexuality. And they will disappear.
But oh, no. You cannot enforce the commandment, “You shall not commit
adultery”, or that homosexuality is wrong.
“Globalization in the advances in technology creates significant
opportunities for people to connect, share, and learn from each other.
At the same time corporate driven globalization increases inequities between
and within countries, undermines local traditions, cultures, and escalates a
disparity between the rich and the poor, thereby marginalizing large numbers
of people in urban and in rural areas [Jesus said you’ll always have the
poor with you]. Women, indigenous people, youth, boys and girls, and
people with disabilities suffer disproportionately from the effects of
globalization.”
“Massive debt repayments are still made by the poorest nations to the
richest at the expense of the basic health education of children’s lives.
Trafficking in women, sexual exploitation, drug trafficking, money
laundering, corruption, and the flow of small arms promotes insecurity.
States are becoming weaker while an unaccountable transnational private
sector grows stronger. A single minded focus on economic growth
through uncontrolled free markets combined with the adjustment and
stabilization policies of international financial institutions, controlled
by the richer creditor nations, are crippling many national economies,
exacerbating poverty, eroding human values, and destroying the natural
environment.”
In other words what they’re saying, “We’re going to take from the rich and
we’re going to give to the poor”, and that is Communism.
“Globalization should be made to work for the benefit of everyone to
eradicate poverty and hunger globally, establish peace globally, ensure
protection and promotion of human rights globally, ensure the protection of
our global environment, enforce social standards in the workplace globally.
It can happen only if global corporations, international financial
institutions, and trade institutions and governments are subject to
effective democratic control by the people, i.e. the United Nations General
Assembly. We see a strengthened and democratized United Nations and a
vibrant civil society as guarantors of this accountability. And we
issue a warning. [Now this is a threat! Listen to it, their warning]
If the architects of globalization are not held to account this will simply
be unjust. The edifice will crumble with dire consequences for
everyone. In the end the wealthy will find no refuge as intolerance,
disease, environmental devastation, war, social disintegration, and
political instability spread.”
So then they go through and they show how they are going to do this, which
is too much for me to read. There are thousands and thousands of pages
of this stuff from which all the background of this has come. And it
shows exactly what they are doing. And by the way, at the same time
you might look up the ICC, the International Criminal Court, which has been
proposed.
Now, let’s come to the book of Revelation, and let’s finish this right
here, because brethren we have before us the greatest challenges yet.
And we are going to see the fulfillment of these things in our lifetime, and
we are going to be part of that generation which shall not pass away until
all these things be fulfilled.
Now Jesus said here, Revelation 13:7, “And it was given unto him to make
war with the saints, and to overcome them…” Now you need to understand that
we overcome Satan the devil.
Turn back here to chapter 12 and let’s see what’s going to happen.
Satan was cast out, his angels with him, the one who deceives the whole
world, verse 9. “And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is
come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of
His Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them
before our God day and night. And they overcame him…” (Rev. 12:10-11).
So we are going to have to overcome him. We’re going to have to
overcome all the circumstances. We’re going to have overcome our human
nature by the power of the Spirit of God. We’re going to have to
overcome sin by the blood of Jesus Christ. We are going to have to
overcome the beast by our lives, by our testimony, and by what we believe
because Christ is the King and we give allegiance to Him only, and to none
else.
Now notice, “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, by the word of
their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death” (vs. 11).
And it has to be because he, the beast, is going to be given power to make
war with the saints and to overcome them.
Now let’s come back here to Revelation 13:7, “…and power was given him over
all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the
earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of
the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” (Rev. 13:7-8).
Now we will end with this, as Jesus said, “If any man have an ear, let him
hear” (vs. 9). Brethren, will you?
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