THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA:
CHRISTIANITY AND THE STATE

INTRODUCTION:
MYSTERY BABYLON

As we have previously indicated - and as Dwight Pentecost of Dallas Theological Seminary suggests - the various verses in the Scripture that refer to "great" BABYLON make it plain that the Bible has in view something more than just a commercial and political reality; there is also a religious factor or component in sight here. Pentecost writes:

"... (in the end of days) we see the whole stage (i.e., the world) filled with two personalities only: a ‘Beast’ and a ‘Woman’ ..." (cf. Rev. 17:3)

The Beast answers to the civil authority; the woman answers to the religious authority - and the picture given in the Revelation suggests the union of these two powers in the "latter days" - A CONDITION OF THINGS NOT UNLIKE WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD - ONLY HERE THE PICTURE DEPICTS THE CHRISTIAN WORLD, and the "players" are not the mosque and the state, but the CHURCH and the STATE! And be clear here, we’re not talking about some strange "New Age" religion, but one which is clearly characterized as "Christian" (an apostatized form of Christianity, no doubt; but, nonetheless, "Christian" as the world counts "Christian"); and to this, most evangelicals - from Barnhouse, to Gaebelein, from Chafer to Pentecost, from Ironside to Ryrie - agree.

Many people - especially those who have grown up in this country during the last twenty or thirty years and who are thus accustomed to thinking that civil power can be completely separated from religious power - are puzzled as to why the Bible speaks of two Babylons in the "Latter Days" - one a religious entity and the other a civil entity. They seem genuinely bewildered by the picture the Bible uses to portray their relationship one with the other - a woman (the religious entity) riding a beast (the civil entity). Why, they ask, does the civil power (the beast) have need of the religious power (the woman)?

The fact of the matter is, however, there is a fundamental mutual interdependence between religion and politics, and today’s secular society has been making a grave mistake in believing otherwise. Why? - because civil power, in the end, must be legitimized, and an appeal to the fickle and even capricious "democratic will of the majority," while adequate enough during periods of cultural and economic stability, often fails to ensure that same stability during periods of turmoil and dislocation - and that is precisely what the "end of days" is all about - i.e., turmoil and dislocation.

RELIGION GIVES SANCTION TO OBEDIENCE

Religion gives sanction to obedience on the part of ordinary people, and it legitimizes the exercise of power on the part of rulers. For this reason, religion has historically been impressed onto all of society’s experiences and actions - from simple family chores to the corporate activities of the state. The fact is, in most societies religion has not only been a personal matter, but it has also been a state obligation and responsibility.

Society organizes itself not so much around legal codes as it does around culture. Culture sets the real parameters of a society; the legal codes of that society merely reflect what culture has already determined to be "right" and "wrong." It provides the underlying assumptions upon which society is based. But what a culture determines to be "right" or "wrong" must be anchored by something. For example, who is to say whether abortion is "right" or "wrong?" or whether homosexuality is acceptable behavior? or whether divorce should be condoned or not? or whether a society should be organized as a patriarchy? or maybe as a matriarchy? One may assert that he "feels" homosexuality is wrong; that abortion is murder; and that men should be the head of the family. But that’s not enough. Others may "feel" the exact opposite. And an appeal to philosophy to end the argument is more often than not futile.

Philosophical or ethical speculation in the absence of some kind of an anchor has normally proven useless for such purposes. Indeed, all it seems to accomplish is to further erode "fixity" and stability, the essential ingredients of the bonds of social existence. In the absence of an acceptable anchor, philosophical and ethical speculation exists in a state of perpetual agitation. Should the agitation continue unchecked, it may lead to the ultimate contempt of all authority.

Moreover, history is full of situations where even an appeal to the "will of the majority" has not sufficed to establish cultural parameters. It didn’t suffice a century and a half ago with regard to the question of slavery, where - contrary to popular belief - a majority of people, both north and south, saw the question of slavery not worth fighting over. Nonetheless, fight they did - and they were forced to do so by abolitionists who were anchored in their conviction by religion. Religious absolutism has, over the long run, a dogged and persistent way of carrying the day, of ultimately triumphing over people and ideas which are less solidly based.

Iran, Algeria and the Sudan are only the latest in a long list of societies which have succumbed or are in the process of succumbing to religious absolutism - especially in this era of cultural disorder and confusion. Too often, academicians have shoved religion aside, deeming it not fit for serious study. But what they have perhaps failed to recognize is the central - indeed, pivotal - role that religion plays in setting up a culture’s parameters, of fixing its boundaries. In the end, one finds more often than not that it is religion upon which the cultural norms of a society are ultimately based, either explicitly as in the case of Iran, or implicitly as in the case of most of the nations of the Western World.

ALL GREAT SOCIETIES - ESPECIALLY THOSE WHICH ARE MILITARILY EXPANSIVE - MUST CLAIM THAT THEIR LEGITIMACY ORIGINATES FROM A "DIVINE MANDATE." THE COST OF EXPANSION IN BLOOD AND HEARTACHE IS TOO TERRIBLE AND TOO HEAVY A LOAD FOR AVERAGE PEOPLE (who do not really share in the riches of conquest, but who, in the end, must do the great bulk of the fighting and the dying) TO BEAR UNLESS THEY CAN SOMEHOW OR OTHER BE MADE TO BELIEVE THAT "GOD IS ON THEIR SIDE" - GOTT MIT UNS - AND THAT THEY ARE ACTING UNDER A "DIVINE MANDATE." The recent ascension of George Bush to the U.S. presidency with the help of his Religious Right allies is a huge step on the road to creating (or re-creating) an America that is as much undergirded by religion as is today's fundamentalist regimes in Iran, Afghanistan, the Sudan, etc. - and this portends great harm to the world at large.

WHEN GREAT POWER AND "DIVINE MANDATES" COLLIDE

Think about it! - an America that today is unmatched anywhere in the world by an enemy acting either alone or in ANY possible combination believing that it has a "Divine Mandate" to conquer the world! And there should exist no doubt on the part of any of our readers as to the ABSOLUTE, COMPLETE and TOTAL military supremacy of the United States in today's world. Samuel P. Huntington, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University writes:

"The ... (United States) is now at an extraordinary peak of power in relation to other civilizations. Its superpower opponent has disappeared from the map ... The ... (United States) faces no economic challenge. It dominates international political and security institutions with Japan [acting largely as a 'copycat' junior partner - Huntington words] in the international economic arena. Global political and security issues are effectively settled by ... the United States (with Britain and France acting as 'junior partners'); and world economic issues ... (are settled) by the United States (with Germany and Japan acting as 'junior partners'), all (i.e., the United States, Germany, Britain, France and Japan) of which maintain extraordinarily close relations with each other to the exclusion of lesser and largely non-Western countries." [Samuel P. Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations," in Foreign Affairs, Summer, 1993, pg. 39.]

So great has U.S. domination of the world progressed that decisions made at the United Nations or in the International Monetary Fund are essentially U.S. decisions reflecting U.S. values - they are not world decisions at all. Huntington writes,

"The very phrase, ‘the world community’ has become (nothing more than) a euphemistic collective noun ... to give global legitimacy to actions reflecting the interests of the United States ... (and) through the IMF and other international economic institutions ... (the United States) promotes its economic interests and imposes on other nations the economic policies it thinks appropriate." [Huntington, pg. 39.]

The truth of the matter is, most people in the Religious Right have it all wrong - IT'S NOT SO MUCH THAT THE UNITED NATIONS DOMINATES AND CONTROLS THE UNITED STATES AS IT IS THAT THE UNITED STATES MANAGES AND COMMANDS THE UNITED NATIONS! - and while for political reasons this fact is obfuscated by "political-speak" and diplomatic mumbo-jumbo, the truth is, the United Nations is much more the "toady" for the United States than the other way around.

So powerful militarily has the United States become in the affairs of the world, that THE OTHER NATIONS OF THE EARTH HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO THE STATURE OF MIDGETS IN COMPARISON, even when acting in combination against America. Nothing so underlines this fact as the development of America's "Revolution in Military Affairs" (RMA).

WHO IS LIKE UNTO THE BEAST?

The term "military revolution" was coined by historian Michael Roberts in 1955 to convey the importance of the changes in military organization and strategy conceived and implemented by Maurice of Nassau and Gustavus Adolphus between 1560 and 1660. Usage has since broadened to mean any epochal shift in military technique, organization, and strategy. The military revolutions of the past have had a profound impact on the evolution of domestic society, the balance of power, the conduct of war, and the prospects for peace. The revolutions initiated by Napoleon and the German High Command of the 1930s, for example, shifted the balance of warfare decisively to the offense and made possible France and Germany's grasp for continental dominion (by France in the early 1800s and by Germany in the 1930s and '40s).

The revolution in military affairs now in progress is no less far-reaching in its consequences for the United States (the one and only possessor of this technology), and the world at large. The technological bases of the ongoing revolution are (1) the dramatic improvements in the accuracy and range of weaponry (e.g., the development of "smart weapons"), (2) the acuity of reconnaissance and surveillance (e.g., spy satellites and other reconnaissance aircraft), (3) the ease of deception (e.g., stealth technology), (4) the ease of suppressing enemy defenses (again, "stealth technology and the development of "cruise missiles), and (5) the effectiveness of command and control (which the "computer revolution" has unleashed). This technology, when implemented effectively - and, again, only one nation possesses the means and "know how" of doing this - has the effect of reducing to impotence the military establishments of the other nations of the earth; hence the somber warning of Scripture against the proud possessor of this technology:

"... WHO IS LIKE UNTO THE BEAST? WHO IS ABLE TO MAKE WAR WITH HIM?" (Rev. 13:4)

Ah, but there is a catch. To use such force decisively, a nation must possess the willingness to use that power - and use it MERCILESSLY. It's one thing to possess such power, it's quite another to possess the ruthlessness necessary to use it effectively. The fact is, populations are not normally pre-disposed to annihilating neighboring populations. Murder and slaughter are not activities easily embarked upon. There has to be a reason - a COMPELLING reason.

THE IMPORTANCE OF RELIGION

And that is exactly where religion comes in! - it's religion that provides the "compelling reason" necessary to the RUTHLESS exercise of great power. That's precisely what makes the ascension of George Bush (UNDERGIRDED AS HE IS BY THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT) to the presidency so pregnant with significance, and in this connection it is important to note that it's not so much George Bush himself that should be the cause of concern as it is the people with whom Bush has so very unambiguously made common cause: the Religious Right. THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT BELIEVES THAT IT HAS SUCH A MANDATE.

Commenting on the connection between religion and the use of great power, Russian dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn has remarked,

"To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good ...

"Ideology (or theology) - that is what gives devildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors."

"A social theory which helps to make one's acts seem good instead of bad in one's own eyes, so that one won't hear reproaches and curses but will instead receive praise and honors" - Solzhenitsyn hit it on the heard! And the extent to which the Religious Right subscribes to its own MESSIANIC image can be measured by the way it portrays America's history to the world as a succession of righteous acts. God and America! Church and state! - these are the watchwords of the Religious Right. The belief by countless numbers of American Christians that America is, in its origins, institutions, history, and international conduct, GOD'S CHOSEN NATION "... henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world ..." (as Senator Beveridge once said) is something few in the Religious Right doubt. Commenting on this, Michael Parenti has written,

"A nation which has spent the better portion of its history captivated by its own CHOSEN PEOPLE mythology will have little difficulty in believing it is preeminently qualified to uplift mankind. THIS SALVATION IMPULSE IS COMPOUNDED WHEN NATIONAL VIRTUE IS WEDDED TO NATIONAL POWER, FOR AMERICANS THEN BEGIN TO SEE PROOF OF THEIR DIVINE CALLING IN THE VERY POWER WHICH ENABLES THEM TO THRUST THEMSELVES UPON OTHERS."

THE MESSIANIC IMPULSE

The urge towards a MESSIANIC impulse - the urge that has now culminated in the ascension of George Bush to the presidency (which is not to say that Bush himself is the ultimate end of this process) - has been building for years in the United States, propelled mainly by elements analogous to those in Iran that catapulted that nation towards religious fundamentalism in the late 1970s: (1) those in the rural heartland who feel that they have been left out of the country's new, "high-tech" economic revolution, and (2) suburbanite "Christians" in America's metropolitan areas who - while they might have given up on Christ's injunction against wealth in this world [i.e., "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal ..." (Matt. 6:19-20)] - have been appalled at the moral breakdown of the nation over the past forty years.

These are the kind of "Christians" who flock weekly to America's new mega-churches presided over by such charismatic (and very authoritarian) personalities as the late John Wimber, James Robison, James Kennedy, Charles Stanley, Jack Hayford, etc. and who hold out the promise to "people of faith" that they can have their Christianity and a "spirit-filled" life - all that AND their SUVs, their split-level homes, their IRAs and 401Ks, their trips to Disney World and the Cayman Islands, etc.

Both groups [i.e., (1) those in America's rural heartland who have been left out of the economic boom of the last twenty years or so, and (2) suburbanite Christians] believe in America's "Manifest Destiny," and both believe that America has been prevented from fully attaining that destiny by the Satanic forces of "Secular-Humanism."

THE RAGE IN THE AMERICAN HEARTLAND

Insofar as the first group is concerned (i.e., the rural group), one can begin to get an idea of how widespread the conservative reaction has been that has taken hold on that portion of the population by examining the results of the 2000 election for the U.S. presidency. Republican Party candidates - spouting a militant Religious Right rhetoric - carried all of America's rural heartland, essentially an area which stretches from 100 miles east of the West Coast (where liberal bastions like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle are situated) to about 50 miles west of the East Coast (where "open-minded" and multiculturally oriented strongholds like Boston, New York, Baltimore, Washington, and Miami are located) and from the Canadian border in the north to the Mexican boundary in the south with only a smattering of "diversity-minded" urban areas in-between (such as Phoenix, Albuquerque, Denver, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, etc.). [Please see the county-by-county map of returns on page 38 of Newsweek Magazine, dated January 22, 2001.]

This is an area where people - to the horror and bewilderment of America's liberal metropolitan areas - carry NRA membership cards in their wallets, kids get out of school for the first day of hunting season, pickups are in abundance, and where people see the Clinton-Gore years as a depraved and corrupt assault on God-fearing, white Christians, and on "religious values" like school prayer, abortion, women in the military, etc. This is Bush country! - and America's liberal community should have seen it coming!

The first clue as to the extent of the rage that has now taken hold in rural America occurred in Oklahoma City in 1995 where the federal office building there was bombed, killing 168 innocent people and shattering the cultural complacency of those who resided in America's liberally-oriented metropolitan areas and who had thought that they had won the "Culture War." These were people who actually believed that all that was left for them to do was "mop up" the few "rednecks" left who had not yet succumbed to multiculturalism, "diversity" and the triumphant female warriors of militant feminism.

Instead, what had occurred, according to Joel Dyer, editor of the Boulder Weekly and author of numerous investigative stories on America's farm crisis, was that a vast, seething "revolutionary movement" (Dyer's words) FAR GREATER AND MUCH MORE MASSIVE THAN URBAN AMERICANS HAD EVER IMAGINED POSSIBLE, had taken hold there; a movement that is unalterably committed to wresting the country back from the grip of the United Nations which they believe has captured the nation, and returning America to "Christ and the church" - AND IT'S PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS THAT CARRIED THE DAY FOR BUSH IN THE 2000 ELECTION.

AN ANTI-LIBERAL, CONSPIRACY-ORIENTED MILITANCY

The anti-liberal, conspiracy-oriented militancy of people who live in America's heartland areas is breath-taking to those who have never really been exposed to it.

Nonetheless, the fact is, the people who live there and believe that they have lost everything that had meaning in their lives (socially and/or economically) eagerly embrace scenarios like the Illuminati Myth that purport to explain what is happening. Such scenarios and other conspiratorial rhetoric provide an easily understandable, "black and white," "us vs. them" explanation of what's happening that seems to fit each person's particular circumstance and helps him or her to hang on against what the perceive to be tidal wave of godlessness emanating out of the United Nations.

This kind of "Movement Thinking" offers such people the hope of restoring order and justice to the confusing world around them. It reaches them at the very roots of their belief system, invoking God, patriotism, family values, and a nostalgic view of what they think America used to be like. It tells them that they are not to blame for their predicament. It provides them with scapegoats for their rage in the form of Jews, secular-humanists, the IRS, the UN, the Illuminati, the CFR, the Tri-Lateral Commission, the Bilderbergers, etc.

Liberals - by telling such people to ignore this rhetoric and to believe that their only real alternative to bring about change is to use their votes - are being very, very naive here. Most rural Americans are no longer willing to choose between one corporate-sponsored, millionaire attorney and another when it comes to electing their representatives. They charge that that's how they got where they are in the first place. Dyer reports on how such people in the country's rural areas have been recruited to the movement to take America back for "Christ and the church." He cites a conversation he had with an undercover investigator while researching his book:

"At first someone will stumble across a flyer or a pamphlet that says something pretty innocuous like 'taxes are too high' or 'abortion is murder', something like that. There's usually an address for more information or maybe a date for an upcoming meeting.

"When people attend their first meeting, they usually seem pretty skeptical about what they're hearing, stuff like Jews (which most believe are the agents of "godless internationalism") have taken over the banks and government and that Americans have to prepare to go to war against the government. But the group treats them really nice and they (i.e., the recruits) can tell there's a lot of camaraderie among the people. Most times they'll come back for more meetings. It's a very social thing.

"After they've been coming for a while, you can watch 'em change. They start buying into everything that's said, no matter how ludicrous. They start spending all their free time with other members of the group. All they hear is conspiracy talk, and everyone around them believes it, so they do, too.

"After a while, a person who was just a little ticked off about taxes is building up an arsenal in his basement. It happens all the time. Once you join that culture, you just go deeper and deeper." (Harvest of Rage, pg. 70)

And its just not farmers, but laid-off factory workers and others who are succumbing to the movement to take America back for "Christ and the church." At an ever-quickening pace, people of all backgrounds within the country's growing pockets of "left out" Americans are being persuaded to join in the battle against a multicultural future that's threatening to put an end to their preferred way of life. "The Movement" is seen as a protector of nostalgia in the decaying world of rural America and similar pockets of depression in America's urban landscape.

THE MOVEMENT'S THEOLOGY

The theology that is being fed into these groups is precisely the theology that undergirds such "Movement" leaders as Pat Robertson and James Dobson. Most in "The Movement" would have little trouble in subscribing to what Robertson wrote in his book, New World Order,

"Satan knows that a world government (which most believe is the United Nations) must soon be prepared for the man whom he is preparing to receive his particular empowerment and authority. Such a world government can come together only after the Christian United States is out of the way. After all, the rest of the world can federate any time it wants to, but a vital, economically strong, Christian United States would have at its disposal the spiritual and material force to prohibit a worldwide satanic dictator from winning his battle. With America still free and at large, Satan’s schemes will at best be only partially successful. From these shores could come the television, radio, and printed matter to counter an otherwise all-out world news blackout. An independent America could point out Satan’s lies. If America is free, people everywhere can hope for freedom. And if America goes down, all hope is lost to the rest of the world."

THE STRUGGLE THEN - according to "Movement" adherents - IS TO PRESERVE AMERICA FROM THE EVIL MACHINATIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER WHICH THEY SEE AS BEING CENTERED IN THE UNITED NATIONS. If America can be preserved, then Satan is doomed. If America falls, then all hope is lost. SO THE STRUGGLE THAT "MOVEMENT" ADHERENTS SEE IN THE "END OF DAYS" IS THE STRUGGLE FOR AMERICA. TO "MOVEMENT" ADHERENTS, IT'S ALL ABOUT AMERICA. IT'S AMERICA THAT COUNTS. It's here that the struggle will be won or lost.

WHAT A DECEPTION ALL THIS IS!

But what a deception all this is! The United Nations commands no armies. It has no navies. It has no real budget. It's nothing more than what the United States is willing to allow it to be. There is no real power there. The U.N. is nothing more than a mask for U.S. machinations - a convenient facade for the U.S. to hide behind as it pursues its own narrow interests in the Middle East, the Balkans, Africa, Asia and elsewhere. And the same is true insofar as NATO, the Organization for American States (the OAS), the WEU, the EC and all the rest of them!

The fact is, all of these organizations are nothing more than creations of the United States - including the EC. The very real truth of the matter is, the driving force behind the creation of the EC itself was, and is today, corporate interests in the United States that want to do business in Europe unhindered by a plethora of national legislatures that are - in the end - subservient to the will of the people that elect them. The EC is the device American corporate interests created to bypass these legislatures, most of which were controlled by left-wing constituencies. The sad reality is, the EC is nothing more than a body of business-oriented bureaucrats in Brussels answerable to no national legislative bodies and subservient only to the business interests of multi-national corporations centered largely in the United States. And here one needs to be clear about something: the biggest stock holders in many of Europe's largest, best-known corporations are American business interests.

One needs to understand that that's the reason the United States has pushed so strongly over the years to disassociate Europe's corporations from government control there. The reason was so that American business interests could buy into these corporations. That is what "privatization" on an international level is all about! - opening up European, Latin American and Japanese businesses to U.S. control. And in the end, that's precisely what U.S. corporate interests are ultimately aiming at in China and Russia.

When one hears, for example, about Daimler Benz taking control of Chrysler (or any other such similar "deals"), one should not think that that necessarily means that the Germans are buying into an American corporation, but rather that Americans, operating behind Daimler Benz, are buying into Europe and the East.

You doubt? - well, just stop for a moment and think about what happened there! Who really has control of what now? Before going into the deal with Chrysler, Americans already had a huge stake in Daimler - a stake that American corporations secured for themselves shortly after the end of the Second World War when Germans (and British, and French, and Italians, etc.) were desperate for American investment and capital. At the time the Daimler / Chrysler deal was struck, Americans didn't have a majority share in Daimler - but close to it. Now that Chrysler has been thrown into the mix, Americans control well over fifty-one percent of the new, combined corporation.

The Daimler-Benz / Chrysler marriage had very little to do with "rationalizing" production or any other such thing, and everything to do with American CONTROL of Daimler and the concomitant positioning of American corporate interests in preparation for the ECONOMIC RAPE of Eastern Europe. One needs to remember that it's not whose name appears on the corporate stationary, or what language is spoken at the corporate headquarters, or whether the CEO is German or American or British that means anything. What counts is who are the main shareholders.

My, how easily people are thrown off track! And what's true of the Daimler deal is true of almost everything else that has been going on in Europe since the end of the Second World War - or does one really think that American corporate interests opened up the giant American market, funded the Marshall Plan, established NATO, pushed the creation of the EC and all the rest for altruistic purposes? If so, I have a bridge I would like to sell them in Brooklyn. And that's true of Volvo, Renault (which was for years and years a government-owned French company, now "privatized"), Shell, Opel, Bayer, etc.

Moreover, insofar as the EC constituting a military threat to the United States, one has only to understand that the strongest military in Europe is not the new, funky and somewhat ludicrous "Euro-Corps" that has recently been created, or the German, or the French, or the British, or the Italian militaries, but the United States army (and navy and air force) in Europe!! IT'S THE U.S. ARMY IN EUROPE THAT COUNTS! - NOTHING ELSE! And why, exactly, are U.S. troops there? After all, who are they supposed to be defending Europe against? - the now defunct Soviet Union? China? What? No! Obviously, the troops are there to protect American corporate interests.

Is it so hard to understand what the real reason is they are there ten years after the collapse of the Soviet Union? No! - of course not! It's pretty obvious! But most Americans refuse to see the obvious; and European corporate interests help by doing everything in their power to keep the truth from the European public. The truth is, European businesses are now so tightly connected to American corporate interests that it is difficult any longer to tell which companies in this mix are authentically American and which companies are authentically European; there really is no difference anymore.

THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER

NOW ALL THIS IS THE REAL TRUTH OF THE MATTER. IT'S THE U.S. THAT IS THE ECONOMIC SCOURGE OF THE WORLD. [Please see our articles on the American Empire," and the "American System of Client States."] It's the U.S. elites, with a smattering of European and Japanese participation together with the help of subservient "client-state" elites, that control the world. WHEN CHRISTIANS BUY INTO THE MYTHOLOGY OF PAT ROBERTSON AND JAMES DOBSON - i.e., that it's the U.N. that is the real bugaboo - AND WHEN THEY CHASE MYTHOLOGICAL SHADOWS LIKE THE ILLUMINATI AND TRY TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF THE UNITED NATIONS THAT IT IS NOT, CHRISTIANS ARE THROWN TOTALLY OFF THE TRACK OF WHAT'S REALLY HAPPENING AND ARE MADE TOOLS OF THE CORPORATE ELITES.

In the end, by trying to rescue America for "Christ and the church," what they may very well find themselves doing is participating in the construction of the very "New World Order" that they say they despise. Thinking to do good, they are doing GREAT evil and have joined themselves to the very anti-Christ system of the "end of days" that they say they are opposed to. In the end, Christianity - an apostatized form of Christianity, no doubt, but Christianity, nonetheless - will bring in the Anti-Christ.

Despite all this, however, the Christian warriors of Pat Robertson, Tim LaHaye, James Dobson, Charles Stanley, D. James Kennedy, Jack Hayford, etc. soldier on in their effort to protect America for "Christ and the church," and with each passing day they are being ever more radicalized. More and more, the followers of Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, D. James Kennedy, Charles Stanley, etc. are buying that much more into the mindset that what the tribulation is all about is an INTENSE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE FORCES OF SATAN (i.e., "secular-humanists" based in the murky corridors of the United Nations) AND THE FORCES OF GOD (i.e., "people of faith") FOR CONTROL OF AMERICA. In the end, we are being led into a trap where many will find that there is no way out for them once they are entangled in it.

More next time!

God bless all of you.

S.R. Shearer
Antipas Ministries

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