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Volume 10/Number 3
May/June 2000
WORLD EVENTS FROM A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE
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PROOF THIS IS THE ENDTIME
THIS ARTICLE IS REPEATED IN EACH ISSUE OF ENDTIME FOR THE BENEFIT OF OUR NEW READERS.
Many have stated that it is impossible to know whether or
not we are living in the last days before the second coming
of Jesus Christ. However, below you will find dramatic
proof that this is the last times. All of the proofs below
taken together defy coincidence.
1.
EUPHRATES RIVER TO BE DRIED UP: In
Revelation 16:12,
the Bible predicts
that the Euphrates
River will be dried
up to prepare the
way for the kings
of the east to invade Israel. This
will happen at the
time of the battle
of Armageddon
according to verse
16 of the same
chapter. The battle of Armageddon will be the final battle at
which time Jesus Christ will return and fight on the side of
the nation of Israel. Immediately thereafter He will establish His kingdom and usher in His 1000-year reign of
peace.
On January 13th, 1990, the Indianapolis Star carried the
headline “Turkey will cut off flow of Euphrates for 1
month.” The article stated that a huge reservoir had been
built by Turkey. While filling up the reservoir, the flow of
the Euphrates would be stopped for one month and a concrete plug for a diversion channel built. These things have
now been done. With this newly built dam, Turkey has the
ability to stop the Euphrates River at will. The conditions
for fulfilling this 1900 year old prophecy are now in place!
2.
CHINA GOES TO WAR: In Revelation 9:1516, the Bible prophesies that an army of 200 million
soldiers will launch a
war which will kill
“the third part of
men”. Never in the
history of the world,
until our present generation, has there
been a power on
earth that could field
200 million soldiers.
However, the late
ruler of China, Mao
Tsetung boasted in
his diary that he
could field an army of 200 million. We see that this
prophecy pertaining to the very last times could not ever
have been fulfilled until now.
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3.
WORLDWIDE NUMBERING SYSTEM PREDICTED: In Revelation chapter 13, the Bible prophesies
that a world dictator will soon rule over a world government. He will cause all people on the earth to receive a
number without which they will be unable to buy or sell.
We are seeing this prophecy fulfilled before our eyes in a
most astonishing way. Nearly every human being in the
world now has been assigned a number. In America it is our
social security number. In the last few years we have seen
this number extended to small children. A child without a
social security number cannot be declared as a dependent on
an income tax return. We have seen the emergence of electronic money, shopping with credit cards, and many people
are urging the abolishment of cash. All of these things could
not possibly have been fulfilled until this present time. Only
after the invention of the computer could such a worldwide
numbering system be administered.
4.
THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW WORLD
ORDER: Revelation 13:7 and Daniel 7:23 prophesy the
establishment of a
world government.
We recently have
seen the term “new
world order” being
used by the leading
political people of our
world.
Mikhail
Gorbachev has made
the term famous, and
Pope John Paul II has
referred to it repeatedly. Finally our
former
President,
George Bush, in the
Chicago Tribune, September 12, 1990, said “Iraq is the
first test for the new world order.” He stated emphatically
that the Iraq War is Saddam Hussein against the world. The
United Nations troops are continually referred to as the
multi-national forces. The decision has been made to establish an interdependent community of nations that will rule
the world under United Nations authority. The Bible says
that this will lead us into a great world government. We can
see this happening right before our eyes.
COINCIDENCE OR DIVINE PROVIDENCE? The
Euphrates River can be dried up, the necessary 200 million
man army is available, a worldwide numbering system is
possible because of the computer, and now the new world
order is appearing.
Is it coincidental that all of these major prophecies pertaining to the last times are being fulfilled simultaneously?
Hardly!
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EDITORIAL
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want to re-emphasize that we could
well be living in the most important year of prophetic fulfillment
since the crucifixion of Jesus. It still
appears very likely that the prophesied war that will kill “the third part of
men” will take place within the next few
months. It’s also very possible that the
“confirmation of the covenant” which
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marks the beginning of the final seven
years, preceding Armageddon, will occur
yet this year.
Every area of Bible prophecy is being
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Letters to Endtime
The Ten-Horned Kingdom and Great Britain
I have been reading your book, A Message for the President. I
came upon something that I may be misunderstanding concerning the Ten Nation Union. I don’t have too much
knowledge concerning biblical prophecy, but I am trying to
improve in this area. You stated in Chapter 1 that Great
Britain applied for membership to the European Common
Market. If the lion is supposed to represent Great Britain and
Great Britain is a member of the European Common Market,
isn’t Great Britain being represented twice on the beast; once
as the head of the lion and once as a horn on the ten-horned
beast? Could you please explain this to me?
Tonight, I was sitting around discussing the PalestinianJewish issues that are left to be resolved. I couldn’t believe it,
but some of them were citing the Jewish people as the trouble.
They said that the Jews never had Jerusalem in their possession at any time. They contended that, before the 1948 War,
Palestinians lived there and called Jerusalem their city. Is this
true? He also said the Moslems were planning on building a
temple on the site next to the Dome of the Rock. Have you
heard anything about this?
Thank you,
C. Jones
Plainfield, IN
Reply: When you refer to Britain being represented twice, I think
you are referring to the seven-headed ten-horned beast of Revelation
13. It does have the mouth of the lion and the ten horns of the tenhorned kingdom. If the European Union (formerly called the
Common Market) is the ten-horn kingdom and if Britain remains
a member in the European Union, then Britain would then be mentioned twice in this passage.
In the Daniel 7 prophecy, the ten-horned beast is described as
being the last kingdom to arise. This could explain why Britain is
duplicated. It is also very possible that the European Union will not
end up being the ten-nation union. This must be considered since
the European Union now has fifteen members and is negotiating to
add more.
The Jews possessed Jerusalem from 1004 BC, when King David
conquered it, until 70 AD when the Romans conquered the city and
drove the Jews out. When Jews began to return to Israel in the early
1900’s, it is my understanding that they bought the lands and homes
from the people living there. When the United Nations partitioned
the Holy Land between Jews and Palestinians in 1947, the UN declared that Jerusalem was to be an international city under UN
administration. The Arabs refused to accept this decision and
launched a war against Israel. The control of Jerusalem has been
determined by war from that time until this. Negotiations are
presently underway to determine the final status of Jerusalem. The
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ceed. We know this because the Bible prophesies that the world’s
final battle, Armageddon, will be fought over control of Jerusalem.
The report you received about the Arabs building a temple
north of the Dome of the Rock is not true. They would never initiate such an action. There has been talk about the Jews building
a temple there. It appears that this is what will happen.
“Sorcery” refers to witchcraft
The scripture says in Revelation 18:23, “...for by thy sorceries were all the nations deceived.” What do you believe
that is referring to? I understand “sorcery” in the scripture is referring to drugs. Please respond as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
S. Laughlin
Ft. Worth, TX
Reply: The word sorcery refers to witchcraft and mysticism.
Chapters 17 and 18 of Revelation prophesy of the Vatican.
When in Rome several years ago, our Roman Catholic guide told
us that the word Vatican meant the hill of the magicians and the
soothsayers. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing! I knew that
this scripture said the Vatican would be filled with sorceries, but
until then I didn’t know that this was the literal meaning of
“Vatican.”
“Unity” and the One-World Religion
I’m writing to find out what you think about unity. All of
the world, even Pope John Paul II, is calling for the unity of
Catholics, Buddhists, Muslims, etc. Could it be possible that
the first beast of Revelation 13:3 is Pope John Paul II? The
scripture says one of the heads of the beast was wounded as it
were unto death. Could the wound be the assassination attempt made on the pope’s life in the 80’s that left a mark and
was healed? Could it be that the image in Revelation 14:11 is
speaking about the statue of the Virgin Mary?
C. Connelly
St. Petersburg, FL
Reply: The drive toward unity that we are witnessing in our
world is the formation of the one-world government and the oneworld religious system that is prophesied in scripture. True
Christians should have no part in it.
The first beast of Revelation 13 symbolizes the coming global political leader, the Antichrist, and his world government. The second
beast in Revelation 13 represents the False Prophet, the personage
that will be the religious partner of the Antichrist. Whoever is pope
at the time of the Antichrist will fill the role of the False Prophet. We
know this because the global government of the Antichrist will be a
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revival of the Holy Roman Empire. There have always been two
rulers in the Holy Roman Empire—a political leader and a religious
leader. The political leader has been from Europe and the religious
leader has always been the pope of Rome. It seems almost certain
that the final head of the Holy Roman Empire will be no different.
If Pope John Paul II is to fill the role of the False Prophet,
events will have to move very quickly. He will soon be eighty
years old. It is interesting that Pope John Paul II has venerated
Mary more than any other pope.
Taking the “Mark of the Beast” accidentally
I really enjoy reading your Endtime Magazines. They are so
true on what is happening in this crazy world. I have already
finished your book, A Message for the President. It really explained a lot to me that I would have never figured out on my
own. My family and I are praying for your ministry.
I am using the Understanding the Endtime manual as a witnessing tool. I have two Bible studies already. If one person
will hear the gospel and be saved, it will be worth everything.
Anyway, one of the men in my Bible study wanted to know if
you could take the Mark of the Beast accidentally and if it
would literally be the number 666?
If you could let me know as soon as possible, I will tell these
men.
God bless you,
S. Reece
Muncie, IN
Reply: Daniel 12:10 states concerning the endtime, “...none of
the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.” There
will be many people that will accept the mark of the beast without
question. That’s the reason it is so important to understand the
prophetic events that are unfolding right now.
The mark will almost certainly not literally be 666. Revelation
13:18 says, “Let him that hath understanding count the number of
the beast..." Another passage says the mark will be the name of the
beast or the number of his name.
There are several things I have decided that I will never do. I will
never pledge allegiance to any man except for Jesus Christ. I will
never pledge allegiance to the United Nations or any other world
government organization. And if the phrase “under God” is ever
omitted from the U.S. pledge of allegiance, I will no longer be able
to take that pledge.
I also will never take a name or number on my body or under
my skin.
The New Jerusalem is the Church
I have gotten a few of your videos and enjoyed them very
much. Do you think you could explain what Revelation 22:12 means? I am very interested in Bible prophecy. Thank you.
Yours truly,
V. Gustafson
Portsmouth, RI
Some people believe that the New Jerusalem is a physical city.
Others contend that it is a symbolic description of the church. I’m
not positive whether there will be a literal city or not. But I do know
that the New Jerusalem is a description of the church.
We are able to know this because of Revelation 21: 9-10, "And
there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven
vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying,
Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife. And he
carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and
shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of
heaven from God.”
Notice that the angel promised to show John the Lamb’s wife.
Then he showed him the New Jerusalem.
Revelation 22:1 describes a pure river of the water of life in the
New Jerusalem. In John 4:14, Jesus described this same river of
life. "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall
never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well
of water springing up into everlasting life.”
Revelation 22:17 also describes this water of life as a spiritual
thing, “And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let
him take the water of life freely.”
Revelation 22:2 speaks of the tree of life bearing twelve manner of fruits. This has to be referring to the fruit of the spirit that
is produced by all who become a partaker of the tree of life.
Cloning and the Soul
You may have already covered the subject of cloning, but
would you please cover it again sometime in your magazine? I
can see where an animal can be cloned, but I want to know
what you think about humans being cloned. The Bible says
that the soul of a man goes upward, and the soul of an animal
goes downward. I cannot fathom a human being, being
cloned, because we have a soul. How could God allow this to
happen? I also listen to you on short-wave radio. I value your
opinion very much.
Sincerely,
R. & D. Jackson
Internet
Reply: If the cloning of a human being actually were accomplished, it would be my opinion that God would still impart to that
human being its own unique soul. I seriously doubt that we will
have to worry about this since the time of the Second Coming is so
near.
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the views of Endtime and/or its staff.
Endtime reserves the right to edit
letters according to space and editorial style.
Reply: This passage is describing a scene in the New Jerusalem.
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COVER
STORY
The Men Who
Run the World
“For the mystery of iniquity doth already work…”
II Thessalonians 2:7
AP Wideworld Photo/Reed Saxon
by Irvin Baxter Jr.
R
emember those heady six
years
when
Mikhail
Gorbachev
dominated
world events so completely
that Ted Turner said he was
the greatest world leader in the last 2,000
years? The Velvet Revolution, the fall of
the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold
War, the birth of the New World Order,
a Nobel Peace Prize and the dissolution
of the Soviet Union all occurred in such
rapid succession that it almost took our
breath away.
Then suddenly he was gone. Did he
just burn himself out? Does such a dynamic leader become content to just fade
into the pages of history? Or has he perhaps found other ways to pursue the lofty
goals of his much-vaunted New World
Order?
Gorbachev left the Soviet Union in
1991. He immediately, as though it had
already been planned, launched the
Gorbachev Fund. He described the Fund
as a think-tank whose purpose was to explore the path that global governance
should take as mankind progressed into
the interdependent global society.
Working with Maurice Strong,
General-Secretary of the highly publicized Earth Summit of 1992, Gorbachev
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Ted Turner and three others were honored Gorbachev for their efforts in protecting the environment by Global Green USA, an affiliate of the conservation organization Green Cross
International, founded by Gorbachev.
founded an international environmental
organization called Green Cross
International. He also managed to be
named president of this new organization. Since that time, environmental
issues have asserted their dominance
over every business, building project,
military activity and individual life.
Green Cross International is no fly-bynight organization. Gorbachev was
immediately able to enlist Yoko Ono
(widow of John Lennon), Olivia Newton
John, John Denver, Carl Sagan and
Javier Peres de Cuellar (ex-SecretaryGeneral of the UN) to serve on the
board of directors. His two presidential
advisors for Green Cross International
are Robert Redford and CNN’s Ted
Turner.
Maurice Strong
Who is this Maurice Strong with
whom Gorbachev seems to have so
much in common? Strong is a Canadian
multi-billionaire, an avid believer in
global government and a convinced so-
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cialist. Interestingly, he owns a 10,000acre ranch in Colorado that serves as a
new-age spiritual retreat for believers in
universal spirituality. A Zen Buddhist
temple has been built there, Zoroastrians
have a worship center there, as well as
many other like-minded New Age cults.
Kofi Annan
The deeper we investigate, the
stranger this story becomes. In the early
90’s, President Clinton became unhappy
with the operation of the United
Nations. He claimed the organization
was in desperate need of reform. Using
the U.S. veto, he blocked the appointment of Boutros Boutros-Ghali for a
second term as UN Secretary-General.
He then handpicked his successor—the
present Secretary-General, Kofi Annan.
Annan proceeded to create a new
position at the UN—Under SecretaryGeneral for UN Reform. He then
announced the person chosen to reform
the United Nations, preparing it for
world governance in the emerging 21st
Century. Why were we not surprised
when he chose New Age, globalist, socialist Maurice Strong?
Ted Turner
In the meantime, Gorbachev admirer
Ted Turner believes so strongly in the
destiny of the UN that he decided to give
the largest single gift ever granted to an
organization. He announced that he
would bestow $1 billion dollars to advance the UN’s mission. This is the same
Ted Turner that has controlling interest
in Time Warner, which has now entered
into partnership with America Online
(AOL).
Al Gore
Once Strong joined Annan at the
UN, it was decided that a visit to the
White House would be in order. The
U.S. Congress was refusing to pay close
attention to $1 billion in back dues to
the UN. This had been done in order to
prod the UN into accomplishing the
needed reforms. Strong was asked to accompany Annan to the White House in
an attempt to obtain payment because
Strong had a very close friend in the
Clinton administration—Vice-President
Al Gore. Both Strong and Gore are avid
environmentalists and globalists. Of
course, Gore is the author of his now fa-
The groundwork is being laid for the prophesied Antichrist to take control of a world government.
The circle of intrigue is undeniable.
mous environmental book, Earth in the
Balance.
only scratched the surface.
Strobe Talbott
Timothy Wirth
Ted Turner didn’t want his $1 billion
UN contribution to be wasted. He
needed someone to administer the
proper distribution of the donation.
Timothy Wirth, serving as UnderSecretary of State for Global Affairs in
the Clinton State Department, accepted
the job. However, when we see how intertwined the U.S. and the UN really
are, it becomes clear that, when Wirth
left the U.S. State Department to administer the grant, he was still working
with the same people toward the same
goals.
Bill Clinton
Let’s pause a moment to pull this web
of power together. President Clinton
handpicked Kofi Annan; Annan appointed Maurice Strong; Strong is a good
friend of Al Gore; Strong works hand-inhand with Mikhail Gorbachev; Ted
Turner is presidential advisor to
Gorbachev; Turner donates $1 billion
dollars to the UN; Wirth leaves the
Clinton administration to work for
Turner.
You have to admit that this is getting
interesting! But believe me, we have
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In 1992, Strobe Talbott wrote an article for Time magazine, entitled, “The
Birth of the Global Nation.” In the article he stated that U.S. sovereignty as we
have known it will cease to exist in the
21st Century. He asserted that all nations would soon answer to a single
global authority. But why should we care
at all what Strobe Talbott says?
Talbott has been very close to
President Clinton for a long time. They
were roommates while attending college
as Rhodes Scholars in London. When
Clinton took office in 1993, one of the
first things that he did was to make
Strobe Talbott Deputy Secretary of State.
Talbott has been the key foreign policy
advisor to Clinton throughout his entire
administration. So one of the most powerful members of the U.S. State
Department believes that United States’
sovereignty is soon to be over!
Robert Muller
Where in the world does Strobe
Talbott come up with these outlandish
ideas? It’s interesting to notice that
Robert Muller published a book in 1991
titled The Birth of a Global Civilization. In
1992, Talbott wrote his article, “The
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Birth of the Global Nation.” It appears
that Muller’s book was what inspired
Talbott’s article. At least, the principles
set forth in Muller’s book certainly sound
like the ideas advocated by Talbott.
So who is this Robert Muller? He
worked in the UN for thirty-eight years
as Assistant UN Secretary-General to
three Secretary-Generals—U Thant,
Kurt Waldheim and Javier Peres de
Cuellar. He wrote so prolifically about
the future of the United Nations that he
was given the name “Prophet of the
UN.”
Another of Muller’s books New
Genesis-Shaping a Global Spirituality, reveals Muller’s extreme interest in
spiritual things. During one conversation
that I had with Muller, he stated that the
world had gone as far toward unity as politics could carry it. He asserted that total
world unity could only be completed by
coming together spiritually. That belief is
what inspired him to write New Genesis.
Another of Muller’s outstanding
achievements is the writing of his World
Core Curriculum. He authored the
World Core Curriculum in order to provide young people with the global
education that he felt they need to compete in our increasingly interdependent
world. Muller credits the teachings of
Alice Bailey and the Tibetan teacher
Djwhal Khul for providing the basis for
the World Core Curriculum.
Alice Bailey
Who is this Alice Bailey? In the early
1920’s she founded a publishing company called Lucifer Publishing Company
(You may have heard of Lucifer!). Bailey
used her “demonic” publishing company
to disseminate her radical New Age ideas
around the world.
Most people were not inclined to seriously consider adopting views produced
by Lucifer Publishing. When the negative effects of the company’s name
became apparent, Bailey shortened the
name to Lucis Trust. Amazingly, Lucis
Trust was headquartered at the United
Nations Plaza for many years. Recently, it
was moved to Wall Street.
Djwhal Khul
Of this entire mysterious web, the
identity of Djwhal Khul is the most
bizarre. Djwhal Khul never existed. He
was Alice Bailey’s spirit guide. Think of
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it!
The
Assistant
Secretary-General
to
three Secretary-Generals
of the UN crediting a
“spirit guide” and Lucifer
Publishing for his inspiration. No wonder the
United Nations is so effectively carrying out
Satan’s plan of one-world
government!
So how does all this
work? Djwhal Khul inspires Bailey; who inspires
Muller; who then writes
the
World
Core
Curriculum to train our
children. In the meantime, Maurice Strong
operates his New Age
ranch, complete with a
Zen Buddhist temple,
while reinventing the
United Nations, preparing it to rule the world.
Having a hard time
believing all of this? I
don’t blame you. It is absolutely incredible, but
it’s true!
Bishop William
Swing
Episcopal Diocese of California
The men who run the world
Bishop William Swing of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, CA is
one of the original signers of the United Religions Initiative. He has
worked closely with Robert Muller, the “Prophet of the UN”, to
bring about a global religious forum patterned after the United
Nations. His hope is the URI will do for religion, what the UN has
done for the political world.
Robert Muller stated to
me that he felt it was a pity that the political leaders of the world were able to
meet and talk daily at the UN while the
spiritual leaders of the world would
hardly speak to each other. He pointed
out that the constant dialogue, which
takes place at the UN, had enabled the
world to speak together and act together
as the World Community.
Muller, the “Prophet of the UN,” believed that an organization should be
created that would do for religion what
the UN has done for the political world.
Since Muller had expressed this idea to
me, I was not surprised to hear a couple
of years later that the United Religion
Initiative had been launched. Robert
Muller, employee of the UN for thirtyeight years, was one of the three original
signers of the Initiative.
Another signer of the original United
Religions Initiative was Bishop William
Swing, Episcopalian Bishop of Grace
Cathedral in San Francisco. Swing has
become the driving force behind the
United Religions. He also was one of the
speakers at Mikhail Gorbachev’s Global
Forum in 1996.
Also in 1996, Bishop Swing traveled
the world to assess the level of support
among the religious leaders of the world
for a United Religions effort. He met
with the Dalai Lama, the Archbishop of
Canterbury, Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
Mother Teresa, the Pope and Cardinal
Francis Arinze of Nigeria, the Vatican’s
Director of Inter-Religious Dialogue.
What he heard in his discussions convinced him that the time for a United
Religions Initiative had arrived.
Swing has been holding conferences
and working diligently since that time.
As a result, the constitution for the
United Religions Initiative will be signed
June 26, 2000—the 55th anniversary of
the signing of the United Nations
Constitution. That date was chosen because Swing hopes that the United
Religions can do for religion what the
United Nations has done for the nations
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of the world. He hopes that ongoing religious dialogue can slowly bring about an
agreement of thinking among the religions until a level of global spirituality
can be achieved.
Cardinal Francis Arinze
Cardinal Arinze is the Pope’s representative for inter-religious affairs. Arinze
and Swing have worked together in advancing Interfaithism. Some people
believe that Cardinal Arinze could become the next pope upon the death of
Pope John Paul II.
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II is very much a player
on the world geo-political scene. In the
new Catechism of the Catholic Church
(Item #841), the Pope stated, “The plan
of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place
amongst whom are the Muslims: these
profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and
together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last
day.” With this statement, Pope John
Paul II came down solidly on the side of
Interfaithism.
He also is a longtime friend and partner of Mikhail Gorbachev. On March 9,
1992, the New York Times carried an article by Mikhail Gorbachev titled, “My
Partner, the Pope.”
In U.S. News and World Report on May
18, 1992, an interesting article was published under the title “Papal Promoter.”
This report stated, “Pope John Paul II is
promoting Mikhail Gorbachev…to be
the ideal presiding officer of a United
Europe.”
Strange, strange, strange
Who would have dreamed that
Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Clinton, Kofi
Annan, Pope John Paul II, Maurice
Strong, Ted Turner, Strobe Talbott,
Robert Muller, Alice Bailey, Djwhal
Khul, William Swing and many, many
others are working together to usher in a
new age New World Order?
The Mystery of Iniquity certainly is already working, and it will soon culminate
in the one-world government and oneworld religion prophesied in the Bible. It
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EXCLUSIVE
INTERVIEW
Exclusive Interview
Maurice Strong
AP Wideworld Photo/Rick Rycroft
Possibly one of the ten most
powerful men on earth
Editors note: Mr. Maurice Strong
chaired the Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro
in 1992. He, together with Mikhail
Gorbachev, founded Green Cross
International of which Gorbachev is now
President. Strong was appointed by UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan to preside
over reform of the UN in order to prepare it
for governing the world in the 21st Century.
He is now serving as the president of the UN
University of Peace in Costa Rica. In
March of 2000, Strong and Gorbachev coauthored the Earth Charter, which they hope
will become a globally accepted statement of
principles that will ultimately bring all of
mankind together.
If you want to know what the powers that
run the world are thinking and planning,
carefully read this exclusive interview with
Mr. Maurice Strong.
Baxter: Mr. Strong, what is your background — the path life has taken you
and how you have arrived at your present
positions.
Strong: Well, that is a tall order, and I
certainly will not try to answer it in detail. I grew up in a small town in
Manitoba, Canada. I recall the latter
days of the depression, which, of course,
affected people’s attitude towards life. I
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World environmental expert Maurice Strong
used to disappear from my school and go
out into nature and learn from nature. It
got me in a bit of trouble with my school
principal, but it did help me find the direction for my future life, which has been
very much related to our relationships
with nature and with each other. That
has taken me into business, and then
into government in Canada, where I
headed our foreign aid program, and
then into the United Nations and a variety of international assignments. The
most recent of which is to help
Secretary-General Kofi Annan with reforming the UN. As a follow-up to that I
have undertaken the job of trying to revitalize and strengthen a very promising
but little known UN organization called
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exclusive interview—Maurice strong
AP Wideworld Photo/Julio Pereira
the UN University for Peace.
A Strong Environmentalist
Baxter: I first heard your name back in
1992 when you were chairman of the
Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Tell us a
little bit about that particular meeting
and what came out of it.
Strong: As I mentioned, I have long
had this deep interest in nature — the
human relationships with nature and
how our relationships with each other
depend upon and affect nature. So when
the United Nations decided to convene
its first world conference on the environment in Stockholm, Sweden in 1972,
the Secretary-General of the United
Nations, at that time U Thant, asked me
to come in and become SecretaryGeneral of that conference. That means
to manage the conference process itself.
That was in 1970. The conference itself
was in 1972. That conference gave rise
to, amongst other things, the establishment of the equivalent of a “global
Environmental Protection Agency,”
called the UN Environment Program. I
became the first head of that. I subsequently went back to my own
government. Then in 1990, the UN
General Assembly decided to convene a
new world conference on the environment and development, because the
environment and development are
closely linked. I was asked to become
Secretary-General again. I said that,
while happy to help, I think we need a
new generation of leadership. It was decided, however, that I should do it. I
agreed, and it was a great experience.
The conference was held in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil in June 1992. It produced
two major treaties. One on bio-diversity
and one on climate change.
It also produced Agenda 21, which is a
program to help insure a sustainable future for the human community in the
21st Century, and a series of principles,
which we call the Declaration of Rio. So
it ended on a high note. However, the
problem, as with so many other international agreements, is that there is no
enforcement power at the international
level. Governments have done some
good things, but on the whole, progress
has been much slower that envisaged. I
would have to say that despite progress in
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Maurice Strong, left, chairman of the Earth Council talks with former Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev, right, during a press meeting at the Rio-Plus-Five Conference in Rio de Janeiro in
1997.
many areas, the condition of the patient,
being the earth, has deteriorated since
then. And we are still doing the kind of
things that are not going to fundamentally get us off of that destructive
pathway.
Strong Enforcement
Baxter: Do you foresee ever being able
to enact enforcement mechanisms?
Strong: Well, we don’t need enforcement mechanisms from the global level
on every little aspect of human life. I am
a great believer in the principle of subsidiary, which means that every
regulatory or governmental action that
has to be taken is taken at the level closest to the people concerned at which it
can be managed effectively. On that
basis, not everything needs to be done at
the global level. But there are some
things that can only be done at the
global level—the atmosphere, the
oceans, and the common areas beyond
national jurisdiction for example. No individual government, however powerful,
can manage them alone. Yet the condition of those common areas, and I think
particularly of climate change, the atmosphere, carbon dioxide and
greenhouse gas content of the atmosphere, is something that is determined by
actions that happen all over the world.
People can draw a border on the ground
to separate their country from another,
but they can’t draw a border in the atmosphere.
The
atmosphere
is
everybody’s atmosphere. What people do
to it helps or hurts everyone. So there are
issues of that kind — climate change and
protecting the sources of bio-diversity
around the world. These are the key to
earth’s life systems. Many of them require
a degree of international cooperation
that no government can enforce. Of
course, the mechanism for doing this is
our treaties and conventions. We have a
whole system now of conventions and
treaties; however, we have very, very limited enforcement mechanisms. I have to
say I am a great admirer of America as
the most powerful country in the
world—a country that has given us such
a great example of law and order and
democracy. But Americans need to remind themselves that their government
has not always practiced what it preaches
on the international level. Some undertakings that it makes, which are in
international law and treaty commitments, frankly aren’t always adhered to.
Now when the greatest country of the
world doesn’t abide by its international
commitments, that certainly doesn’t
make it very conducive to other countries pursuing and following their
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agreements. So there is a huge amount of
work to be done out there. I am convinced that the ordinary American does
not realize the degree to which the U.S
does not adhere to some of the international laws and treaties. Now, of course,
America is not doing that across the
board. In many cases the U.S. is in the
lead in these things. But as the most
powerful country in the world, the point
I am making is not so much criticizing
the U.S., but reminding Americans that
what they do or fail to do makes a vast
amount of difference. Until the U.S. gets
solidly behind the consistent and fair enforcement
of
international
agreements, it is going to be very, very
hard to develop an enforceable system
of international law, which is absolutely essential to our future.
A Strong Friendship with
Gorbachev
Baxter: Maurice, I find myself with
questions bubbling to the top of my
mind, because you are such a wealth
of information. Out of the Earth
Summit at Rio de Janeiro where you
were the chairman, there was an organization born called Green Cross
International. Mikhail Gorbachev became the president of that
organization. Tell me, how does a man
go from being the dynamic, charismatic, and world-dominating leader
that Mikhail Gorbachev was, to the
totally different venue of environmentalism? What is going on in the
heart and mind of Mikhail
Gorbachev?
real interest in the environment and his
interest in spirituality. What interested
me while he was still in office was to see
the number of times that he mentioned
the importance of spiritual life, of spirituality. He didn’t talk about religion, but he
talked about spirituality. Later, as I got to
know him, it was quite clear that he has
a real spiritual orientation. It is also clear
that he had a deep interest in the environmental issue, both personally and in
the sense of being one of the early people
amongst world leaders to recognize its
importance to world peace and security,
as well as the future of humanity.
between us as human beings and the
larger forces that created us, which regulate our life and into which we ultimately
return.
Baxter: Robert Muller wrote a book
called, New Genesis: Toward A Global
Spirituality. He and I discussed this point
when he was on our program. We were
talking about the fact that the world had
been brought together as far as it could
be brought together politically through
the United Nations. He felt the need for
something beyond that — a global spirituality that could pull nations together.
How is that going to be enacted?
Strong: Well, first of all we have to
recognize those basic spiritual concepts and moral and ethical values
which do have a universal degree of
validity, and an almost virtual universal degree of acceptance. Compare
these spiritual concepts with the ones
that divide people because they
involve different religious interpretations. My own belief is that there is an
innate universal spirituality that links
people. People strive to express it in
the best way possible, and in doing so,
they go on different pathways; but
they are still heading for the same
mountaintop. We have tried to distill
the essence of these in what we call
the Earth Charter. This is the movement started by Mikhail Gorbachev
and me as a result of the Earth
Summit in Rio, where I had proposed
to the governments in attendance
that they should adopt an Earth
Charter. The Earth Charter is basically a statement of ethical and moral
principles designed to guide the behavior of human beings towards each
other and towards the earth. It is intended to shape a secure and sustainable
future for humankind. The governments
weren’t quite ready for it. They did agree
on a Declaration of Principles, but it didn’t go nearly as far as we had expected.
Following Rio, and then after Mr.
Gorbachev left office, we joined to undertake a people’s movement to produce
a People’s Earth Charter. Literally millions of people throughout the world
have been involved in that process. We
have developed a Charter now, which is
the product of widespread consultations
and dialogue amongst vastly different
My own belief is
that there is an
innate universal
spirituality that links
people. People strive
to express it in the
best way possible,
and in doing so, they
go on different pathways; but they are
still heading for the
same mountaintop.
Strong: Well, you will have to go to
Mikhail Gorbachev to find out what
is going on in his mind and heart.
However, I can tell you what I see, as a
friend of his and as one who has been
privileged to work with him and know
him. We are joint chairpersons of the
Earth Charter Initiative. This is an initiative of his Green Cross Organization
and the organization of which I am the
chair, the Earth Council. The Earth
Council also emerged from the Earth
Summit Conference in Rio. While
Gorbachev was still Secretary-General of
the Communist party and President of
the Soviet Union, you could read in his
many statements some first clues as to his
Global Spirituality & The Earth
Charter
Baxter: When you speak of spirituality,
can you describe what that means in a
global context?
Strong: Well, everyone will have his
own definition, but I define spirituality as
that set of forces which links us to the
source of all life in the cosmos. People
define it in different ways, through religions and through philosophies. But
fundamentally, it really addresses the link
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people, who are separated religiously, ideologically, geographically and ethnically.
But these people have joined in identifying those universal spiritual, moral and
ethical values that they can all sign onto
and that they believe are essential. This
will enable us to cooperate in securing a
future for all of us. Now, after three years
of intensive dialogue and consultations,
we have just agreed on the Earth
Charter. It happened in March, in Paris,
at UNESCO Headquarters. The Earth
Charter is not a statement written in
stone. It is a product of widespread consultation. It articulates these universal
values and principles, but it is not designed as a document for people to sign
onto. Rather it is to serve as a focal point
for them to examine their own hearts
and souls. They should examine their
own life priorities in relation to the Earth
Charter and the principles that it articulates. They should look at those
principles in terms of how they apply in
their own communities, their own organizations, and how they apply in their
own national life. Then we hope to stimulate that kind of educational and
dialogue process throughout the world.
Then in 2002, on the 10th Anniversary
of the Rio Earth Summit and the 30th
Anniversary of the original Global
Environmental
Conference
in
Stockholm, we expect to submit this as a
People’s Earth Charter to the United
Nations. We don’t necessarily expect the
United Nations to automatically adopt
it. They will hopefully give it blessing,
but it will stand on the authority of the
millions of people around the world who
have helped to design it and who have
helped to make it a centerpiece of our
universal moral and spiritual life. That is
where it will derive its authority from,
and it is well on its way to that now.
Baxter: Maurice, we have interviewed
Hans Kung on this program. He wrote a
book called A Global Ethic for the Global
Politic and the Global Economic. He also
wrote a document called “Towards a
Global Ethic,” which was adopted by the
Parliament of the World’s Religions in
1993. I also know that Bishop William
Swing plans to have the Charter signing
of the United Religions Initiative on
June 26th of this year. Have these religious leaders had any input into the
Earth Charter?
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An ecological agenda
Ecological security did not become a U.N.
concern until the Stockholm Conference on the
Human Environment in 1972. The Earth Charter
is the first worldwide campaign addressing the
interrelated problems of poverty, conflict, social
injustice and environmental degradation.
EARTH CHARTER TIMELINE
1987 The World Commission on Environment and
Development (Brundtland Commission) recommends
the creation of a universal declaration on environmental protection
and sustainable development.
1992 An Earth Charter is placed on the agenda for the Earth Summit,
but governments fail to reach agreement. Instead, the Rio Declaration
on Environment and Development is adopted.
1992 Creation of the Earth Council to promote and advance the
implementation of the Earth Summit agreements.
1994 A new Earth Charter initiative is launched under the leadership
of Maurice Strong, the Secretary General of the UNCED, and Mikhail
Gorbachev, the president of Green Cross International.
1995 The Earth Council and Green Cross International, with support
from the Dutch government, begin the task of developing a people’s
Earth Charter to be presented to the United Nations by 2000.
1996 The Earth Council initiates the Earth Charter Consultation in
preparation for the Rio+5 Forum.
1997 The Earth Charter Commission is formed and convenes at the
Rio+5 Forum. A Benchmark Draft is released as a "document in
progress."
1998-1999 Groups from some 45 countries join the Earth Charter
initiative.
1999 Benchmark Draft II of the Earth Charter is released in April.
2000 The Earth Charter Commissioners convene in France to ratify
the latest version of the document and to endorse The Earth Charter
Campaign.
2000 The official launch of The Earth Charter Dialogues and Media
Campaign is scheduled for June at The Hague Peace Palace.
Strong: Very much so. They have been
very much involved. It has not been confined to religious leaders only, but they
have been very influential indeed. This
coming August, just before the special
millennium session of the UN General
Assembly, there will be a Millennium
Peace Summit of Religious & Spiritual
Leaders convened in New York, involving spiritual and religious leaders from
throughout the world. The Earth
Charter will be an important agenda
centerpiece.
Baxter: So is it possible that the
United Religions Organization may well
lend their influence and maybe even the
Parliament of the World’s Religions. This
could become a document for people to
rally around.
Strong: Absolutely! We have to be
clear though. It is not another piece of
sacred writ. It is simply a statement of
ethical, moral and spiritual principles. It
has come about through a very spiritually
exciting process. It should be used as a
focal point of education for reflection for
action for determining how we can reorient our own actions and our own lives in
the places that we have influence around
these basic principles. If people start to
do this, the world can be changed.
Strong Reform to the UN
Baxter: Maurice, I am so interested in
you being appointed to UN reform. I
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know that President Clinton was very
dissatisfied with the United Nations, and
he insisted that there be a new SecretaryGeneral instead of Mr. Boutros
Boutros-Ghali. Clinton wanted UN reform. Consequently, Kofi Annan became
our Secretary-General of the United
Nations and appointed you as the
Under-Secretary in charge of UN reform.
Can you give us an overview of what the
goals are of this effort? How is it progressing? Where are we right now?
Strong: First of all let me be historically correct here. I was, in fact, directly
in charge under the Secretary-General of
his UN reform program. I have now
moved to an advisory role and have undertaken to reform a particular UN
institution, which is the University for
Peace in Costa Rica, where I am speaking to you from today. The U.S. had
been pressing for reform. That is true.
But the U.S. wasn’t the only one.
People in the UN wanted reform.
Usually people in organizations know
when they need to be changed even
though sometimes they resist the
change. So the U.S. wasn’t the only
one. This certainly wasn’t President
Clinton’s intention, but some elements
in the U.S. wanted the UN to reform
primarily to reduce its cost. Of course
that is a worthy goal in itself, but it is
not a sufficient reason for reform. The
UN and its various institutions were
created just after WWII and in the aftermath of that war. Their composition
largely reflects the conditions that existed at that time. Those conditions
have changed immensely. We have
now over 185 members in the UN,
most of them from the developing
world. Very few developing countries
were even there when the UN was created. They were colonies and therefore,
not represented. So the world has
changed, and it is only normal that the
institutions that reflect that would have
to adjust accordingly. Kofi Annan, as
Secretary-General, came into his job
knowing that, having more experience
in the organization than any SecretaryGeneral has ever had. Kofi Annan grew
up in the UN. Nobody knew the UN
better. So he was able not just to respond
to the President’s call, but to respond to
the basic need for reform, which he, himself, understood as well as anybody. He
decided, and I think quite realistically,
that he had to undertake reform on two
separate pathways. On the first tract, he
took care of those things that were under
his control as the chief executive officer.
Tract two represented those very fundamental
reforms
which
the
Secretary-General was not able to undertake on his own. These he could only
recommend to governments, because
only governments could undertake
those. It is interesting to observe that
even those governments who keep calling for reform are reluctant to undertake
fundamental
reform
themselves.
Virtually every single thing on tract one
that was under the authority of the
different departments and organizations
of the UN and consolidating them into
five executive decision-making structures. And consolidating different
agencies where the UN functions. The
UN is a big family. There are a lot of different organizations, and they often act
individually. We have brought them together into a common UN house, having
them work cooperatively, and thereby
improving both their effectiveness as
well as sharing costs and efficiencies.
Taxing Matters
Baxter: What lies ahead to be done?
Strong: Well, the biggest single
reforms must be undertaken by governments.
For
example,
the
Secretary-General recommended that a
number of committees and governing
bodies be consolidated, and some of
them actually removed. None of that
has been done, and none of it can be
done by the Secretary-General. He can
only recommend. These actions, of
course, would not only improve costs,
but would also improve effectiveness.
Also remember that the United
Nations is very different than national
governments, in the sense it has no taxing power to raise the money that it
requires to do the jobs that are entrusted to it. ❏
“August...there will
be a Millennium
Peace Summit of
Religious & Spiritual
Leaders convened in
New York, involving
spiritual and religious
leaders from through- The second half of our interview with
out the world. The Maurice Strong will appear in the next edition of Endtime.
Earth Charter will be Here’s a brief look-ahead at some of his
an important agenda comments. the UN Security Council:
On revising
“The original permanent members were
centerpiece.”
chosen from among the victors in WWII.
Secretary-General has been done or is in
the process of being done. Almost nothing of tract two has been done.
Baxter: Could you give us some examples of that, Maurice?
Strong: Cutting a third off of administrating costs and putting that money into
a special development fund to help developing countries. Taking thirty
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We need a significant revision of the
Security Council. It has to be brought to a
situation where it reflects real world geopolitics.”
On reforming the veto power: “…perhaps
having it apply only in certain limited circumstances. Or maybe requiring that more
than one country join in the veto to make it
effective. Or providing some basis where the
veto could be overridden in the General
Assembly by a two-thirds majority.”
On getting the U.S. to surrender sovereignty: “No nation has to surrender
sovereignty. But it is in the U.S.’s interest in
many cases to make that decision.”
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TECHNOLOGY
WATCH
Controlled &
Cashless
Endtime Photo
by Eddie Sax
I
t’s the next obvious step — a cashless society. Virtually everyone
wants it. Almost nobody is against
it. And by the way, it’s prophesied
in the Bible.
Money has become a relic of the past.
May we please have a moment of silence?
Your usefulness has come and gone. You
are leaving this cold, cruel world and
being replaced by a string of ones and zeroes. We will miss you.
What is cash, anyway? When you sell
something, you get it. When you buy
something, you give it. Cash is what you
hold onto between acts of selling and
buying. Why do you accept it from people? It’s because you believe that cash has
a value and that everyone recognizes this
value. Why do people take it from you?
Because they believe it has a value, too.
Cash is what you temporarily hold
onto between sales and purchases. How
much time does a person hold onto cash
these days? Not much. With the invention of the computer, the Internet, smart
cards and other technological advances,
the amount of time a person needs interim cash is approaching nil. Cash is
quickly becoming unnecessary. In fact,
the only reason it’s really still around is
because the masses aren’t ready to part
with it completely— yet.
Living in a cashless society has many
obvious benefits. Convenience, safety,
reduced crime and cost savings are but a
few. What’s not to like?
Ask the government. They have some
major problems with the emerging cashless society. You see, the technologies are
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Is the cashless society closer than we think?
coming together in a way that is enabling
individuals and corporations to move
their money to any place in the world, at
the speed of light, and (here’s the kicker)
without the knowledge of Big Brother.
And what Big Brother doesn’t know, Big
Brother can’t tax.
The ramifications are clear. The government’s very existence is being
threatened, and the government knows
it. Their traditional methods of tracing
the financial activities of citizens and
criminals alike are coming to an end. It’s
a new day. Technology has passed them
by.
What will Big Brother do?
Government has two choices. First, it
can hope for its citizens to voluntarily
come forth with all of the information
needed in order to levy its taxes. Sure.
Their second option is to take a stroll
down Intrusion Boulevard. They can attempt to compile a detailed record of
every financial transaction for every person in the country. The justification for
this violation of liberty would be in the
name of tax collection and crime prevention.
Which option do you think they
might choose?
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Pass the Chips
E
the power of
this world government will
come
from
Satan himself.
Bringing this
all together, the
prophecy states
that, in order to
gain entry into
the
coming
global economy, a person
will have to
take on the
mark of Satan.
This, for obvious
reasons,
will result in
eternal damnation. After all,
it’s what one
should expect
for taking on
the mark of
Satan.
The prophecy
reads like this:
“And
he
causeth
all,
both small and
great, rich and
poor, free and
bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in
their foreheads: And that no man might
buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or
the name of the beast, or the number of
his name.”
It is more than a coincidence that we
are living today on the brink of a global
cashless society. A worldwide economic
system is being established, as we speak,
that will have the ability to lock people
ver since the patent rights for “Digital Angel” were acquired late last year by Applied Digital Systems of Palm
Beach, Florida, many in the Christian community have
been alarmed that this product will become the mechanism used
by the Antichrist to fulfill the mark of the beast prophecy.
DigitalAngel.net, Inc. is a subsidiary of ADS. Its president, Dr.
Peter Zhou, is also the chief scientist for the computer chip implant device. In an interview with WorldNetDaily.com he
responded to concerns from the Christian community. “I am a
Christian, but I don’t think [that argument] makes sense. The
purpose of the device is to save your life and improve the quality
of life. There’s no connection to the Bible.”
In comparing Digital Angel to pacemakers, he said,
“Pacemakers used to be seen as bizarre, but now they are part of
everyday life. Digital Angel will be received the same way. A few
years ago there may have been resistance, but not anymore.
People are getting used to having implants.”
ADS President Richard Sullivan added, “No one will be forced
to wear Digital Angel. We live in a voluntary society.”
When a true global economy is finally established, which will
not be long from now, the Christian community may want to revoice its concerns. If this Digital Angel technology falls under the
control of the New World Order’s global economy, Christians
should indeed be speaking loudly at that time.
It would be of interest to note that a special Technology
Pioneers Award was recently given to Applied Digital Systems
from the World Economic Forum for its contributions to “worldwide economic development and social progress through
technology advancements.” Global economy planners apparently
see the potential of Digital Angel for the future global economy.
And that’s scary! ❏
Another headache that technology
has given the governments of the world
is free speech. The Internet is a big, wide
super-information highway that transmits any kind of message quickly and
efficiently—including politically-incorrect ones. It’s cheap, it’s anonymous and
totalitarian systems don’t like it too
much. But they can’t stop it.
They can, however, control it.
Got the picture? Good. Now let’s look
at the prophecy.
Revelation 13:16-17 describes an
endtime cashless society. In it, nobody
will be allowed to buy or sell unless he
has some sort of mark. This mark will be
a person’s entry ticket into the economy.
An economy is a place where you buy
and sell things — like food, for instance.
The context of the chapter tells us that
this economy will be a global economy,
and the mark—well, the mark will not
be good. It’s called the mark of the beast,
and the beast—well, the beast will be the
leader of a global government. In fact,
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out if they don’t have the password. The
password will be a number, and you will
only be issued your number by agreeing
to play by the rules of the New World
Order. Unfortunately for Bible-believing
Christians, the rules will require taking
an unbiblical oath that will, in effect,
deny Jesus as your exclusive Lord and
Savior. This is the reason why taking the
mark of the beast will result in eternal
damnation.
What will the mark be like? The Bible
says it could be a mark, or it could be the
name of the beast, or it may even be the
number of his name. And that number
will be 666.
How will one calculate the number of
someone’s name to be 666? We don’t
know at this time. Revelation 13:18 says
it will take wisdom. “Here is wisdom. Let
him that hath understanding count the
number of the beast: for it is the number
of a man; and his number is Six hundred
threescore and six.”
It is apparent from the prophecies that
the governments of this world will
choose to exercise intrusive measures
upon the emerging computerized cashless society. If you want to play the game,
you’ll have to get your number.
Mythological, you say? Try getting a job
without a social security number. Try
opening a bank account. Try buying land
or getting a dentist to fix your teeth.
Welcome to the 21st Century, where
myths become realities.
A cashless society is a technological
inevitability. It’s already in place. Will
the government control this cashless society? That, too, is inevitable. They’re
already working on it.
It’s time to slap on your Nikes, grab
your sword and start spreading the Good
News. You’re running out of time. ❏
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FEATURE
ARTICLE
World’s Greatest
Disaster
—Just Ahead—
AP Wideworld Photo/Greg Baker
by Irvin Baxter Jr.
H
ow do you say that the
world is on the brink of the
most horrible catastrophe
since the creation of
mankind without being
judged as alarmist, paranoid and a little
on the edge? What words could possibly
be used to say that one-third of the
world’s population, two billion people,
will soon be snuffed out by a fiery nuclear
exchange? How could a person say these
things and remain credible? I’m not sure
there is a way.
The prophecy doesn’t lie
However, the scripture is right there
staring back at us off the pages of
Revelation 9:15-16. “And the four angels
were loosed, which were prepared for an
hour, and a day, and a month, and a year,
for to slay the third part of men. And the
number of the army of the horsemen
were two hundred thousand thousand:
and I heard the number of them.”
Perhaps we shouldn’t say it. Maybe the
more prudent course would be to play it
safe and hold our tongue. Yet how can
anyone justify silence when the Bible
plainly prophesies a holocaust in which
one person out of three will die?
Believing that the time for this prophetic
fulfillment is at hand (whether that
means four months or five years from
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Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji makes a point during his press conference in Beijing Wednesday,
March 15, 2000. Accusing the U.S. of blocking China's unification with Taiwan, Zhu said the
Chinese people would "use all their blood and even sacrifice their lives" to defend the unity of the
motherland.
now), doesn’t this call for the mobilization of every resource at our disposal to
warn a world of the coming catastrophe.
I want to declare with no equivocation
that there is not a single possibility that
this prophesied destruction of “the third
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Chinese-American War?
part of men” will not occur. It is going to
happen! The only question is “When?”
An army of 200 million?
The prophecy clearly says that an army
of 200 million will participate in the war
that kills one-third part of men. Only
one nation has ever possessed the necessary population base to place an army of
200 million on the battlefield. The late
leader of China, Mao TseTung, stated in
his diary that China could field an army
of 200 million soldiers, the exact number
in the prophecy.
Taiwan’s elections move area
closer to war
Three days before Taiwan’s March
18th elections, Chinese Prime Minister
Zhu Rongji warned the people of Taiwan
not to choose the “independence candidate.” He was referring to Chen
Shui-bian, candidate for the Democratic
Progressive Party (DPP).
Zhu said that under no circumstances
would China tolerate the independence
of Taiwan, while the Chinese military
said: “Taiwan independence means war.
We are prepared to pay any price to protect the peaceful reunification of the
motherland.”
Chen replied, “We do not accept ‘one
China, two systems.’ We oppose becom-
“A top Pentagon
official yesterday
warned China that
it would face
‘incalculable
consequences’ if it
followed through on
threats to use force
against Taiwan.”
ing the second Hong Kong or second
Macau. We have independent sovereignty,” he said.
Chen was the clear target of Zhu’s
threat that whoever proposes Taiwanese
independence will “not end up well.” “If
the Taiwan independence forces come
into power it could trigger a war between
the two sides of the strait,” Zhu said.
When the people of Taiwan voted
three days later, they chose Chen Shuibian.
With tensions presently escalating
sharply over Taiwan and with the U.S.
pledged to defend Taiwan, the possibility
of a nuclear conflict between China and
the United States is very real.
On February 23, 2000, The Washington
Post published an article, “Pentagon
Issues Warning to China.” The article
stated, “A top Pentagon official yesterday
warned China that it would face ‘incalculable consequences’ if it followed
through on threats to use force against
Taiwan.”
Also on February 23, 2000, CNN
News reported a statement by White
House spokesman Joe Lockhart, “We
have repeated, in I think both actions
and words, that we view any threat to
Taiwan with grave concern.”
Lockhart said, “…the country would
not hesitate to respond if China attacks
Taiwan. In 1996 we responded appropriately to what we viewed was a threat.
That should give you some indication of
how we view this situation.”
A few days later on February 29, 2000,
The Washington Times published an article entitled “China Threatens U.S. with
Missile Strike.” The article stated,
“China stepped up its war of words over
Taiwan yesterday, bluntly threatening to
fire long-range nuclear missiles at the
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World’s greatest disaster —just ahead—
United States if it defends the island.”
Experts: War is coming
“There is going to be a military confrontation,” predicted Charles W.
Freeman Jr., a former assistant secretary
of defense and retired American diplomat with long experience in China.
“While the clash may not be imminent,”
Freeman said, “it’s very likely the U.S.
and China are going to have a war over
this issue.” Freeman’s statement was published in The Washington Post, March 16,
2000, in an article headlined “Experts
Debate Likelihood of a U.S.-China
Clash.”
“CIA Predicts Military Confrontation
in the Straits in 2000”—Central
Intelligence Agency Director George
Tenet warned that a military confrontation in the Taiwan Strait was likely this
year because of Taiwan’s presidential
election in March and related talk of independence for the island. Tenet made
his comments when he delivered his annual global threat-assessment report to
the Senate Intelligence Committee on
Wednesday, February 3, 2000. (China
News Digest, February 7, 2000)
USA Today on March 15, 2000,
“There is going
to be a military
confrontation,”
predicted Charles
W. Freeman Jr.
summed it up this way, “A conflict is inevitable because the Taiwanese won’t
reunify with communist China, and
Beijing won’t settle for anything less.”
How did we arrive at this
dangerous juncture?
China has stated repeatedly over the
last fifty years that there is one China
and that Taiwan is a renegade province
of that one China. She has insisted that
someday Taiwan must reunite with the
Mainland. However, it appeared that the
uneasy co-existence between Taiwan and
the Chinese Dragon just 100 miles away
might be allowed to continue until someday it would hopefully just work itself
out.
Since 1972, the United States government has assented to this “One China”
policy—with one condition. The projected reunification must be done
through peaceful diplomacy, not through
war. Congress passed the Taiwan
Relations Act in 1979, which obligated
the U.S. to supply Taiwan with the necessary military equipment to defend
herself against invasion.
The turning point came in 1996 when
Taiwan held its first democratic elections. The last thing the communist
dictatorship on the Mainland wanted
was for the dreaded disease of democracy
to take root in China, and the Mainland
insisted that Taiwan was an inseparable
part of China.
In an attempt to scare Taiwan out of
holding the elections, China fired missiles just off the coast of Taiwan while at
the same time threatening invasion.
President Clinton sent two aircraft carriers and 100,000 troops into the Straits of
Taiwan. China was forced to back down.
Within one year, China placed an
China ‘Ready for Nuclear War’ Over Taiwan
The following article appeared on April 12 in the Hong Kong
Standard. Hong Kong is controlled by Mainland China.
Beijing is prepared for a nuclear war against the United
States if Washington “would dare to stand in the way” of
China’s reunification, a military-backed weekly has warned.
In such a possible Sino-U.S. war over Taiwan, Washington
would be subject to tremendous losses in human casualties as
well as in its global and regional interests, warned an article in
the latest issue of the Military Review Weekly.
The magazine is an official publication with retired People’s
Liberation Army generals, including for Chief of General
Staff Yang Chengwu, operating as its honorary publishers or
advisers. The article quoted unnamed military experts as saying that China would use nuclear weapons if the U.S. “dared
to stand in the way” of the country’s reunification. “China, to
safeguard its national interests, has prepared for a nuclear war
against the United States,” it said.
Although China’s weaponry in general could not match
Washington’s, it had its strong points, the paper said. China
had world-class spy satellites and its space chip-launching
technology would enable its missiles to break though the
U.S.’ National Missile Defense System to strike U.S. territory.
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tron bomb. Such bombs would be very difficult for U.S. aircraft carriers to defend against, the article said. When the
PLA launched war games and test-fired missiles into waters
off Taiwan in mid-1995 to early 1996 to intimidate the island’s voters before the first presidential election, the U.S.
responded by sending two aircraft carrier battle groups to the
area. In a war without boundaries the U.S. would suffer unbearable human causalities, it said.
When such a Sino-U.S. war started, China would then no
longer honor its commitment on non-proliferation. "And
then if countries like Iraq, Iran or North Korea obtain missile
technology from China, the U.S. would be under global
threat,” it said. “The enemy’s enemy is our friend.” China
would then ally with countries, which had been bullied, such
as Iran, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Libya and Cuba. It would even be
possible for China to form a military alliance with Russia, and
perhaps India, the article said.
It also warned Japan not to provide logistical support to the
U.S. military in a Sino-U.S. war over Taiwan. If they did,
Beijing would see it as Tokyo's declaration of war against
China and then Japan would become part of the battlefield.
The U.S. would also suffer great economic losses in the region
as the mainland's market “is far more important to the U.S.
economy than Taiwan’s.”
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order with Russia for two Sovremennyclass destroyers. These warships are
equipped with nuclear missiles that can
sink the U.S. aircraft carriers with one
shot. China took delivery of the first
Sovremenny in February of 2000 and is
scheduled to receive the other one later
this year.
In the meantime, another event contributed to the escalation of tensions
across the Straits of Taiwan.
Negotiations for the eventual reunification of Taiwan with the Mainland were
scheduled to begin in August of 1999. In
July of 1999, Taiwan’s President Lee attempted to establish Taiwan’s position on
a German talk radio show. He stated that
China should negotiate with Taiwan on
a state-to-state basis.
Chinese leaders went ballistic. They
protested that Lee’s statement was a de
facto declaration of independence and
was therefore a cause for war unless it was
retracted. President Lee stood firm and
no retraction was forthcoming. China
immediately began to threaten invasion
of Taiwan.
In August, a secret paper was issued to
Chinese military officers instructing
them to prepare for war with Taiwan and
the United States.
In September, Chinese forces conducted a mock invasion of Taiwan.
During the exercise, troops chanted, “We
will liberate Taiwan.”
On October 1, 1999, China held a
huge parade in Tiananmen Square commemorating the 50-year anniversary of
the communist takeover in China.
Intercontinental ballistic missiles with
nuclear warheads capable of reaching the
United States were displayed in the parade. Soldiers carried a huge banner in
the parade that read, “We will not wait
forever to liberate Taiwan.”
Then came all the threats and
counter-threats during the Taiwanese
election campaign. With the election of
pro-independence candidate Chen Shuibian, China has suddenly been thrown
into a quandary. Does she make good on
her threats to invade or should she continue to depend on diplomacy to pursue
the unification of Taiwan to the
Mainland?
The latest position taken by China is
that they will wait to see what President
Chen says in his May 20 inaugural
speech and what he does. They say that,
if reunification talks do not begin within
a few months, they will invade Taiwan.
President-elect Chen has been very
careful about making any statement that
might anger the Chinese. The last thing
Taiwan wants is war with the Mainland.
Yet he has refused to agree to the one
China policy that China says must be accepted in order to avert war.
So what will happen?
We all would like to believe that
cooler heads will prevail and that tensions between Taiwan and China will
dissipate. However, the prophecy of
Revelation 9:15-16 and the opinion of
the secular experts seem to indicate just
the opposite. It seems certain that we are
headed straight toward the most horrific
war ever experienced by the human race.
The only remaining question is
“When?” ❏
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by Eddie Sax
Biometrics:
Tool for Control
Biometrics means “automatically recognizing a person using distinguishing
traits.” Fingerprints and retinal scans are
two such examples. Reading an implanted chip is another.
The Biometric Consortium (www.biometrics.org) serves as the U.S.
Government’s focal point for research,
development, testing, evaluation and application of biometric-based personal
identification technology. While one
would hope that the Department of
Commerce would have the greatest interest in this technology, the branches of
the government most actively involved
with biometrics are the FBI, National
Security Council, Department of
Defense and Department of Justice.
Wiring the World
Ford has made PC’s and Internet
hook-ups available to its 350,000 employees for $5 per month, and Delta
Airlines made a similar pledge. Intel has
just announced it will give all its employees PCs and Internet access and services
at no charge.
By the end of the year, more than
70,000 Intel employees worldwide will
receive Pentium III processor-based machines, unlimited Internet access and
other computer products, including a
printer, monitor and software packages.
“The program aims to create more
tech-savvy workers and encourage familie to take advantage of the Internet
Age,” an Intel spokesman said.
The Army is considering giving laptops to its recruits.
Bigger Sacks, Stronger Backs
In an effort to curb drug dealers and
money launderers, a proposal is under
consideration in Canada’s parliament to
eliminate that nation’s largest denomination, the $1,000 bill. It’s worth about 690
U.S. dollars.
Criminals trying to transport their illgotten profits out of the country will
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need bigger suitcases and stronger muscles. The next largest denomination is
the $100 bill, worth about $69. The load
would become ten times as great.
It will be interesting to see if “the bill
passes.”
aspects. Wherever John Paul II goes on
his trips, he will always speak of the poor
and of solidarity. He is the most important socialist in the world.”
e-purse
Ecumenism and the spirit of compromise has swept into the royal family of
Great Britain. For the last 1,000 years,
the King of England would swear to uphold the Protestant faith at his
coronation ceremony. When Prince
Charles of Wales is crowned King, however, it appears that it will be a
multi-faith inauguration ceremony.
The issue is religious discrimination.
The establishment of the Church of
England causes “religious disadvantage”
to other faiths and Christian denominations. The current coronation ceremony
may no longer be appropriate in modern,
multi-cultural Britain, a government report says.
The King’s role as Supreme Governor
of the Anglican Church and “Defender
of the Faith” is also to be reviewed. The
report argues that the union between
church and state may not be “the best or
the most appropriate way forward in
terms of the need to embody the principles of equity, inclusivity and
participation in the contemporary plural
society of the United Kingdom.”
Tony Blair has become increasingly interested in the relationship between
Christianity and other faiths. The government would almost certainly resist
severing the link altogether, but senior
figures think other religions should have
a greater role in national life, just as representatives of other faiths are to be
given seats in the House of Lords along
with Anglican bishops.
The Church of England is itself considering ways to be more “inclusive.” The
Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. George
Carey, is reported to have told an audience in his diocese that he expects the
church one day to have its status and
privileges reduced.
A smart card has just been developed
that can verify its owner through fingerprint verification or iris recognition. It is
being called e-purse. The smart card is
based on a technology known as biometrics, and was developed by Keyware
Technologies as a way to combat fraud
and other security issues.
The biometrics can be used in conjunction
with
PINs
(personal
identification numbers) and passwords
and, according to the company, cannot
be duplicated by impostors.
A release date for this invention has
yet to be announced.
e-wallet
According to Forrester Research, 66%
of online shoppers abandon their shopping carts at the checkout because of
repeatedly having to fill in forms with
credit card numbers and address details.
If the process can be streamlined for the
e-consumers, it would not only be more
convenient for them, but also, more lucrative to the e-vendors.
Enter e-wallets, a digital wallet stored
online that contains all of the pertinent
information you are asked at e-checkout
counters. E-commerce keeps getting Easier.
Gorbachev Calls Pope “Most
Important Socialist in the World”
On April 10, in a speech at Rome’s
Sapienza University, the world’s most respected communist described Pope John
Paul II as “the most important socialist in
the world.”
In his address, former Soviet president
Mikhail Gorbachev said, “Globalization
can also have destructive effects but we
must pursue, as the pope says, its positive
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