CHAPTER II
IMAGINE A COLOSSAL MACHINE
PART 1: THE AMERICAN NEW
WORLD ORDER SYSTEM
NO CONSCIENCE; NO GUIDING
SET OF MORAL VALUES
In an article I wrote back in 2005 - "The
Machine vs. the Church" - I asked the reader
to,
"Imagine a colossal Machine that moves about
the earth gobbling up everything in its path. The acquisition
of wealth and 'precious things' is its sole preoccupation. It
is sustained by its own forward motion, guided mainly by its
own carnal appetites, and it is growing larger and accelerating
as it goes. It uproots whole populations in its quest for riches;
it destroys communities, it devastates the environment, and
it rolls over and crushes all those who get in its way. It possesses
no conscience and no guiding set of moral values. It is, in
fact, totally and completely amoral. No government
is able to stop it; it recognizes no boundaries, no borders,
no higher authority. It allows no limits to be placed on its
appetite, and its presence in the world is, in the words of
author William Greider, 'transformational' in a very vile and
wicked way. Indeed, Greider sees the Machine pushing the world
inexorably -
'... toward some sort of dark abyss'.
"The Machine is 'manned' by an army of robot-like
workers, each with his own job to perform, each possessing his
own special niche; each answerable to a HIERARCHY that
permits no deviation from 'Standard Operating Procedures'. All
independent thought is anathematized. TOTAL OBEDIENCE
to the dictates of the HIERARCHY is demanded from all
workers on the Machine. They must see themselves as having value
only insofar as they have value to the Machine; and if and when
they fail in their performance, or express any independent thought
whatsoever, they are 'cast out' of the Machine and onto the
mounds of wreckage left behind in the Machine's merciless track,
there to rot while someone else - someone from the 'outside'
eager to replace the worker on board the Machine, or someone
from the 'inside' anxious to work his way up the HIERARCHY
- steps in to replace him.
"Those who are cast aside become NON-PERSONS;
human wrecks; derelicts alone on a sea without horizons, destitute
itinerants without hope in this world. They are avoided like
the plague, and their groveling, obsequious presence becomes
a proverb against all those who would even think of challenging
the Machine's omniscience."
THIS MACHINE ACTUALLY EXISTS
I went on to say:
"This Machine actually exists in the world
today. It is called the AMERICAN NEW WORLD ORDER SYSTEM
and the fact of its reality is the one essential truth of EVERYONE'S
social, economic and religious existence - and unless one intends
to withdraw from the world altogether, there is no place to
hide from it.
"It aims sooner or later to subsume and
absorb into its mechanism the whole world and all of mankind,
and to this end it has sent out into all the earth its 'priests
and prophets' as plenipotentiaries and emissaries to extol its
virtues to the 'masses' and to command the whole of mankind
to bow down and serve it.
"The question before every person in the
world today is how does he or she relate to the machine? Do
they submit to it, or do they resist?"
PART 2: THE MACHINE'S
PRIESTS & PROPHETS
THEY SET UP TEMPLES
OF WORSHIP TO MAMMON
I continued by saying:
"The 'priests and prophets' who act as the
Machine's ambassadors and who scurry devoutly and piously about
from nation to nation setting up temples of worship to the god
of the Machine call themselves 'Christians', but they are not!
"Their god is MAMMON, and they are
unceasing in their god's 'praise and worship', though they are
careful to conceal his true identity from the poor of the earth
- i.e., the hapless victims the Machine routinely savages and
plunders - lest the poor rise up en masse against them:
Hence their subterfuge. But what an empty subterfuge it is:
Attempting to pass Mammon off in the guise of a Person who EXPLICITLY
condemned Mammon and juxtaposed Himself against him:
'No man can serve two masters: for either he
will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold
to the one, and despise the other. Ye CANNOT serve God
and mammon'. (Matt. 6:24)
"These are those Christians (so-called)
about whom Jesus said:
'Ye HYPOCRITES, well did Esaias prophesy
of you, saying,
'This people draweth nigh unto me with their
mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is
far from me.
'... in vain they do worship me ...'" (Matt.
15:7-9)
THEY ARE FALSE PROPHETS
I went on to point out what these people really are; they're
"DECEIVERS" - the false or pseudo-Christians
about whom Jesus warned His disciples:
"Beware of false prophets, which come to
you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
"Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do
men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" (Matthew
7:15-16)
In other words, if these people are chasing after money, no
matter how much they pretend otherwise, they are none of Christ's.
And IF, in the end, that's what the American New World
Order System is all about (i.e., the acquisition of wealth),
then one can be sure that NOTHING of God can come from
it or from the pseudo-Christians who serve that system. NOTHING!
Come on now! - isn't that what Matthew 7:17 says: "A
CORRUPT TREE CAN ONLY BRING FORTH EVIL FRUIT."
Plainly, that's what the Bible says! And it goes on to say
that it is good for nothing except to be -
"... hewn down, and cast into the fire."
(Matthew 7:19)
And the Lord goes on to say,
"Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know
them." (Matthew 7:20)
THEY ARE NONE OF GOD'S
Finally the Lord warns His followers:
"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord,
Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth
the will of my Father which is in heaven.
"Many will say to me in that day, Lord,
Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have
cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
"And then will I profess unto them, I never
knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." (Matthew
7:21-23)
What the Bible is saying here is this: It isn't what a person
says, but what he is that counts. Is one's life oriented towards
the acquisition of wealth? Does one measure the success of his
life by the "toys" he possesses - the car he drives,
the house he lives in, the career he possesses, the college
he went to, etc? Are the friends one cultivates oriented towards
money?
If so, he is NONE of God's, no matter how much he hides
behind a front of "piety" and "saintliness,"
and even if he says that the wealth he has acquired is meant
to be used solely for the purposes of God. That's what Rockefeller
said; that's what the Stewart Brothers of Union Oil said when
they helped R.A. Torrey establish the Bible Institute of Los
Angeles (B.I.O.L.A.), while hunting down and killing Poncho
Villa; that's what Carnegie said; that's what Henry Ford said
while attacking and murdering union organizers at his plant
in Dearborn, Michigan, ad nauseum, ad infinitum. Again,
it isn't without reason that Balzak said,
"Behind every great fortune is a great crime!"
THEY SHUT UP THE KINGDOM
OF GOD TO THE POOR
This kind of Christianity produces Christians who measure their
"Christianity" by the money they possess, who condemn
as "failures" the poor for not having achieved their
level of fiscal prosperity, and who feel no compassion when
the poor "get what they deserve" by being stripped
of their welfare checks and tossed out into the street; Christians
who -
"... devour widows' houses, and for a pretence
make long prayers." (Matt. 23:14),
These are the sort of pathetic Christians who act as the Machine's
plenipotentiaries and emissaries and who in their effort to
please the god of the Machine -
"... compass sea and land to make one proselyte,
and when he is made, they make him twofold more the child of
hell than they are." (Matt. 23:15)
And in doing so, they -
"... SHUT UP THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN AGAINST
MEN ..." (Matt. 23:13)
Again, the Bible says, "Ye CANNOT serve God and mammon."
What does that say, then, about Rick Warren, C. Peter Wagner,
Tim LaHaye, Beverley LaHaye, Ern Baxter, Pat Robertson, Jerry
Falwell, Chuck Colson, Robert Stearns, Mike Bickle, Reuven Doron,
Che Ahn, Frank Hammond, Cindy Jacobs, Bill Hamon, John Eckhardt,
Bobbie Byerly, Dutch Sheets, Jim Goll, John Paul Jackson, Francis
Frangipane, James Ryle, Frank Damazio, Ed Silvoso, Carlos Annacondia,
Claudio Freidzon, Roger Mitchell, Ted Haggard, Paul Cain, Chuck
Pierce, Rick Joyner, Kingsley Fletcher, Jim Laffoon, Barbara
Wentroble, ad infinitum, ad nauseum? All these people,
in one way or another are in league with the American New World
Order System.
THEY HAVE A "FORM OF GODLINESS"
These men and women - these putrid, small-minded sycophants
of the American New World Order System - have a "FORM
OF GODLINESS" (2 Tim. 3:1-5), but not the substance thereof.
Behind the mask of "piety" and "godly devotion"
they show off to the world are souls twisted with the lust for
"things." These groveling acolytes - these sniveling altar boys
to the god of the Machine - are deceivers, all of them; cheats
and connivers pretending to be Christians while they serve the
god of Money: Fakes and frauds like Ted Haggard of the World
Prayer Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado who - before he
was found out cheating on his wife with another man - led countless
numbers of his congregates each Sunday in "praise and worship"
to his false god, and who taught the LIE that the Machine
is -
"God's vehicle for the spread of Christianity."
What a shallow display of virtue! These people are beneath
contempt! - nincompoops and dolts who routinely denounce "liberals"
as relativists lacking moral firmness and using double standards
while they side with a president who lies about the presence
of "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq and stand aside while
the American military bombs the hell out of the Iraqi people,
sending thousands and thousands of them, mostly innocent men,
women and little children, to their graves as "collateral damage"
- a slaughter of innocents that far exceeds the number of killings
attributable to the so-called "insurgents."
This continuing slaughter is what Pat Robertson has called
-
"... a movement in the heavenlies to break the
power of deception so those people (the Iraqis) can be exposed
to the gospel." [Please see our article, "A
Woman Riding a Beast Going Forth Conquering and to Conquer."]
Is it little wonder, then, that these self-absorbed, egocentric
Christians would feel no guilt or remorse when - in their name
and the name of their God - American multinational corporations
and the military which supports them plunder the poor of the
earth in countries like Guatemala, Honduras, Thailand, the Philippines,
the Ukraine, the former Yugoslavia, etc. for the benefit of
the American New World Order System? What a "turn-off"
this kind of Christianity is to unbelievers! [Please see our
articles, "Algeria:
A Study of the Dreadful Two-Tiered System the U.S. Is Promoting
Among Its Muslim Client-States" and "The
Congo and American Greed."]
Well did Jesus say of such Christians:
"Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how
can ye escape the damnation of hell?" (Matt. 23:32-33)
THEY ARE TRAITORS TO THE FAITH
These people, these so-called Christians, these pitiable servants
of the Machine are TRAITORS TO THE FAITH (2 Tim. 3:4)
- all of them; all those who have allied themselves with the
rich and powerful of this world; in other words, all those who
have allied themselves with the Machine. But while they, indeed,
may be "traitors to the faith," they are still men and women
who possess the money and the wherewithal to put on a "display
of godliness," a pretense of "Christianity" (so-called).
And make no mistake about it, money has the power to make one
appear godly; it has the power to hide one's sin; to put on
a "good show" with rapturous music in a venue filled
with hundreds and thousands of the "beautiful people"
of this world who in ecstatic but totally bogus displays of
sanctity lift up "holy hands in worship to God" each
Sunday in their coifed hair and their Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger
and Liz Claiborne finery.
AND THIS, OF COURSE, IS EXACTLY THE KIND OF CHRISTIANITY
THAT THE "PROPHETS AND PRIESTS" OF THE MACHINE ARE SEEKING TO
EXPORT AROUND THE WORLD TO JUSTIFY THE MACHINE IN ITS AVARICE
AND GREED; the kind of Christianity that puts the poor off
insofar as the Gospel is concerned.
This is exactly the kind of Christianity (so-called) that the
"lackey elites" in America's "client-states" are adopting in
order to ingratiate themselves with the leaders of the "American
system." What a sham this kind of Christianity is. It's the
same kind of sham Christianity that the leaders of Guatemala
and El Salvador adopted in order to ingratiate themselves with
Dimitri Negroponte during the Contra Wars in Central America
in the 1980s. [Please see our article, "The
Horror of John Dimitri Negroponte and Everything He Represents."]
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