Title: 13
Author: Joe Griffin
Last saved by: Paul J. Davey
Company: GDC

Clanking Chains

		08-05-29.CC02-906 /

The Current Specter of Globalism: Lucifer’s Objective, Lennon’s Imagination, & the Holy Spirit’s Restraint; the Rise & Fall of the Beast-Dictator, 2 Thess 2:1-10

43.	Yet given the power to shut out biblical insight from the classroom has resulted in the lie rushing into the remaining vacuum.  Big Bang cosmology is not precisely defined because those who try to do so must hypothesize about events that, according to them, occurred more than 13 billion years ago.  Macroevolution proposes that all life emerged from a “warm little pond” and through mutations and “survival of the fittest” mankind eventually appeared.  There is no documented proof of this hypothesis.
44.	Why, then, are two doctrines, both based on implausible propositions, protected hammer and tongs by the National Education Association, the United States Congress and Supreme Court, and mainline media?
45.	The obvious answer is Progressive ideology.  But it is the rhetorical veil that conceals while advancing a hidden agenda.  I assert that the hidden agenda behind this and other irrational notions aggressively promoted and protected by establishment leaders today is the Fabian diminishment of the United States as a superpower in order to blur our culture into a multinational hodgepodge thereby eliminating the need for national boundaries.
46.	Internationalism is an idea that the Bible identifies as satanic in origin with examples provided from Babel in Genesis to Lucifer’s attempt at world government in Revelation.
47.	In order to control a multinational, multicultural, and multireligious population each of these identifying characteristics must be altered and ultimately erased.  No patriotism will be permitted, culture will be compliance with political correctness, and religion will be worshiping and serving the creature rather than the Creator.
48.	Prophecy: Lucifer has been attempting to accomplish this objective since his fall in Isaiah 14: “I will be like the Most High.”  He now has command control of planet earth and it is his objective to create a world government in which his brilliant ideas will bring about global peace, prosperity, and good will toward all.
49.	This gigantic delusion is what drives proponents of Progressive ideology.  They are the crusaders that manage the rhetorical veils that conceal while advancing the satanic desire to rule this world.
50.	But God will not permit internationalism to prevail even in the Tribulation, and according to 2 Thessalonians 2:3-8, the restraining ministry of the Holy Spirit prevents any meaningful success in the Church Age.
51.	Yet, try he will, and those who worship and serve him are obsessed with the idea of converting John Lennon’s imagination into reality:
“Imagine”
(John Lennon)
Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try;
No hell below us, above us only sky.
Imagine all the people living for today.
Imagine there are no countries; it isn't hard to do;
Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion, too.
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one;
I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one.
Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can;
No need for greed or hunger or brotherhood of man.
Imagine all the people sharing all the world.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one;
I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one.
© 1971 by Lenono Music.  All rights reserved.
52.	Let me be clear: it is impossible for a one-world government—currently envisioned by those who “imagine” such a thing as a New World Order—to be successfully achieved during the Church Age.
53.	The presence of believers who are indwelt by the Holy Spirit and thus under the protective care of God restrain the efforts of Satan and his human emissaries in their efforts to organize a global government.
54.	Remember that whenever political power is centralized the rise of a totalitarian government is inevitable.  Such efforts have been attempted throughout history but God will never permit its fulfillment during the Church Age.
55.	Documentation that confirms this conclusion is found in the passage just referenced, 2 Thessalonians 2.  To make certain that all of you are aware of this guarantee from the Word of God, here is the corrected translation of this passage:
2 Thessalonians 2:1 -		Fellow believers, with reference to the Rapture of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him [ resurrection ], we urgently request,
v. 2 -		that you be not easily shaken in mind or disturbed, neither by a personality [ a false teacher ], nor by a policy [ false doctrine or political propaganda ], nor by a forged epistle [ false corrigendum: a counterfeit letter assigned to Paul ] as if from us, alleging that the Tribulation [ KJV: “Day of Christ”; NKJV, NASB, NET, NIV: “Day of the Lord”: Greek: ¹ ¹mšra toà kur…ou, hē hēmera tou kourou: “the Day of the Lord”: Tribulation ] is now present.
v. 3 -		Do not let anyone deceive you in any way since the Tribulation cannot come unless the Rapture [ ¹ ¢postas…a, hē apostasia: intransitive use: “the departure” ] has come first, and then [ after the Rapture ] the man who is lawless—the one doomed to destruction—shall be revealed [ the Beast-Dictator of Revelation 13:1-10: the Gentile Antichrist ].
v. 4 -	He sets himself against and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship [ idols ] so that he is installed in the temple of God proclaiming himself to be God.
NOTE:	This verse refers to prophetic events that occur in the Tribulation after the Rapture terminates the Church Age.  The Beast is a term given by John to the personality that arises as dictator over the ten-nation confederation that arises within the boundaries of the old Roman Empire.  At the midpoint of this seven-year dispensation, a Satan-possessed Beast-Dictator declares himself to be God, demands that the Jews worship him, and installs a statue of himself in the Temple’s Holy of Holies in Jerusalem.  See Daniel 9:27; 11:31; Matthew 24:15; Mark 13:14; compared with Revelation 13:1-18.
2 Thessalonians 2:5 -		Do you not remember that when I was still present with you I constantly taught you these things [ See Acts 17:1-10; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11 ]?
v. 6 -		And so now you know the One who restrains [ the Holy Spirit restrains the advance of human good and evil during the Church Age but this restraint suddenly ceases at the Rapture ] so that he [ the Beast-Dictator ] may be revealed in his own dispensation [ identity of the Antichrist is not possible during the Church Age but will become evident in the Tribulation ].
v. 7 -		For the mystery of lawlessness [ the ideologies, theologies, and philosophies of cosmos diabolicus are presented by those whom Paul describes as “deceitful workers disguising themselves as apostles of Christ” and “servants of righteousness” in 2 Corinthians 11:13-15, so that their evil remains a mystery to the biblically ignorant ] is already operational [ Lucifer’s global strategy is operational during the Church Age although restrained until the Rapture ].  Only He who now restrains will continue that ministry of restraint until He is taken out of the way [ the Rapture of all Church Age believers terminates the dispensation and withdraws the restraining ministry of the Spirit ].
v. 8 -		At that time [ following the Rapture ] the lawless one [ the Beast-Dictator, or Antichrist ] shall be revealed [ become an international personality ] whom the Lord Jesus shall destroy with the breath of His mouth, in fact, He shall neutralize him by the appearance of His coming [ the Beast-Dictator and the False Prophet are incarcerated in the lake of fire (Revelation 19:19-20), the four allied armies doing battle at Armageddon are destroyed (Revelation 19:21), and satanic authority over the earth is terminated as Lucifer is sentenced to the Abyss for 1,000 years (Revelation 20:1-3) ].
v. 9 -		The appearance of the lawless one shall be according to the modus operandi of Satan with all power and by means of miracles, even wonder miracles of the lie,
v. 10 -	and by means of all deception of unrighteousness to those who are being led astray, deprived, ruined, destroyed because they have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved.

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