I have here a newspaper speaking about a recent meeting of Promise Keepers in Washington DC. "Men packed revival in DC". On the back page we see a picture of a mall at Washington DC that is full of men that were attending this rally. You’ll notice the subtitle here, "Reconciliation is theme of Washington Rally".

Perhaps the most ominous thing about the Promise Keepers being in the news as much as they are; and they are in the news, magazine after magazine is covering what’s going on with Promise Keepers. The most ominous thing part about what they’re bringing to the Christian world today isn’t their call for Christian men to uphold their responsibility in the home and the nation, it’s this call for unity, it’s this ecumenical emphasis that they have.

As we mentioned in our last section, Promise Keepers’ leader, Bill McCartney, although he’s a former Catholic, left Catholicism to go into the Vineyard Movement, and one of the main premises of the Vineyard movement is a call to tear down the walls of doctrines that separate and divide the different Christian brethren and a call to come together on the doctrines we agree upon in order to have unity and from this unity, God can use the Christian church and this Christian force to work a change in America’s declining morality.

The book is entitled ‘7 Promises of a Promise Keeper’ is their guide-book more than any other book and it lists 7 things that Promise Keepers should seek to uphold as they come together in this experience. We are going to look at a few things out of the promises listed.

The promise that is the most concern for us is promise # 6; which says ‘a man and his brothers, a call to unity’; this chapter was written by Bill McCartney. We’re going to take some snippets out of this book and see what Promise Keepers mean by unity because it’s not the unity that is based upon the Bible, this unity is based on coming together on common points of doctrine, the unity that Sister White said would be taking place in Protestant America just before the Sunday Law.

"The body of Christ comprises a wide diversity of members. There are many denominations, various styles of worship, and representatives from all walks of life." Seven Promises a Promise Keeper: 155.

The body of Christ is made up of many denominations, you know there’s a passage in the Spirit of Prophecy where Sister White says that we should repeat over and over again why we are God’s denominated people. God has a denominated people that make up the body of Christ but it does not consist of many denominations. From page 169:

"Why did Promise Keepers select ‘racial and denominational barriers’ when it focused on Christian unity? The primary reason is our sense that the Lord led us to embrace this truth. We must be obedient.

"Alone we can’t change much; you can’t, either, But together, with a million brothers—committed Promise Keepers—we can influence a nation. We can demonstrate that what history, the political process, and the legal system could not do, faith, obedience, repentance and unity in Jesus can change." Ibid. 169.

Now, the motivation according to Bill McCartney for attempting to bring men together in this fashion was that United States was in moral decline and it is threatening this nation, the world and families and our Christian heritage, so the purpose was to try and seek some solution to stop this moral decline. And at the recent gathering in Washington DC, much of the statements that came out of Promise Keepers organization had to do with emphasizing that they had no political intentions, this was strictly a spiritual gathering but here in the book that was written long before that gathering in Washington, it’s very clear: "Alone we can’t change much; you can’t, either, But together, with a million brothers-committed Promise Keepers, we can influence a nation." So do not believe the PR that they’re putting out. They have an agenda to return the United States to some so-called moral position that it formerly was in and even that is open for discussion whether that’s a true premise to even seek to accomplish, but they are intending to do it by using political force that is very common in the United States today, getting your political voting block together as Christian Coalition has done and then put pressure on.

If you want to put pressure on, the place to put pressure on, as far as your numbers, is Washington DC, where they were in October with a million men. Senators and congressmen were out there rubbing shoulders with them, and making speeches with them, because the senators and congressmen, whether they are Republican or Democrat all have one thing in common, they want the votes, so they’ll be out there rubbing shoulders with them.

Pulling examples out of this book about what they’re calling unity, it says this:

"Okay, then, what can we do? If we’re convinced that God desires unity among all believers, each of us needs to reach out to brothers who are of different denominational and ethnic backgrounds." Ibid. 170.

A quick reading of that is OK, there’s nothing wrong with reaching out to anybody, and sharing Present Truth with them but this is not the underlying intent of Promise Keepers, it’s to come together irregardless of differences.

In the opening chapters of this book, each chapter was written by a different leader in Promise Keepers in this particular book. Randy Philips, who’s the president of Promise keepers, he asked a Question that he’s going to follow up with his chapter. I threw this in here, because as we looked in our last study, the pastor there at Brownsville revival in Florida and the ‘expert’ Protestant theologian that did a research on holy laughter, both of these sources cite that they believe that United States and Protestant Christianity is on the verge of a revival. So when this Randy Phillips in this book puts as a subtitle in his chapter, ‘Why Now?’ what he’s asking is, why now should Promise Keepers come together, what is the reason for it? and we’ll look at his answer.

In the opening chapter in a passage subtitled, Why Now? After citing the phenomenal growth of Promise Keeper meetings Randy Phillips answers his question; "Why now? Why would men sacrifice the time and effort? Why were so many willing to make such profound commitments to change? What had shifted so much that now men were open to Jesus? After prayerful consideration, I could reach only one inescapable conclusion: We are on the threshold of a spiritual awakening." Ibid. 3.

Brothers and sisters, Protestant America, as our survey pointed out, is no longer using the Bible as their guide of life, and Sister White points out that those who will not receive the truth for this time are going to be brought under strong delusion. Protestant America won’t receive the truth that’s contained in the three angel’s messages that Adventism has been presenting for 150 years, but they’re at the point now where they’ve rejected that final warning message to the world, to where they are barely looking at their Bible on a weekly basis.

They’re willing to accept as modern Christian prophet, someone who makes errors in their prophecy; they’re willing to accept as a manifestation of the Holy Spirit people being drunk in the ‘lord’ and oinking like pigs; and one of the reasons that they are willing to accept this is because they all sense that they are on the verge of a spiritual revival and who without any foundation in the Word of God wants to be the one who opposes the work of God that you’re sensing is on the way?

This strong delusion that is to take place in the United States during the Sunday Law crisis, Satan has done masterfully his work of preparation to get it ready.

Speaking about this threshold of spiritual awakening Randy Philips says:

"In describing the spiritual commitment necessary to fulfill this awakening this coming together "based on what they have in common," Ibid. 6, is set forth:

"Based on what they have in common," is a quote of his words the previous promise is a paraphrase but that had to be thrown in there because that is like taken right out of the Great Controversy. The Protestants and the Catholics of America are to come together on the points of faith that they hold in common. This is what Promise Keepers is suggesting that they need to do in different denominations of the world in order to accomplish this spiritual awakening.

But never forget that this spiritual awakening that they are sensing they are on the verge of, is in agreement and accompanying this force that they expect to bring to bear politically to turn this country around. Now here the level of setting aside the differences of doctrine that they have between the different denominations listed, and this is just a paragraph that tries to describe how you worship this way and you that way and it’s all OK. This is a very interesting point of worship, this is from pg, 19: In this paragraph it’s saying, here’s one thing we need to do, we need to redeem the worship that centers on the Lord’s table.

"Redeeming worship centers on the Lord’s Table. Whether your tradition celebrates it as Communion, Eucharist, the Mass, or the Lord’s Supper, we are called to this center piece of Christian worship." Ibid. 19. 24

Brothers and sisters, they are willing to say that communion is just another expression of the Eucharist. Sister White informs us that the largest reason that those that were slain by the Catholic Church during the Dark Ages were slain is for their refusal to accept the blasphemous position of the Eucharist. The Protestant today in the United States have forgotten what Protestant means; to PROTEST Rome! And they’re willing to take what during the Dark Ages was the most blasphemous position of the Papacy and say that it’s just another expression of the communion or the Lord’s Table or Mass.

We are living in very serious and very solemn times. (1997)In the next year and a half, Promise Keepers has 38 major gatherings scheduled all across this country. It isn’t subsiding, it’s growing, its developing branches for the ladies that are involved to come together and its too close to what has been described in the Spirit of Prophecy that would take place before the Sunday Law to set aside as just a new curiosity in the Protestant world.

1st the moral Majority arises in the Reagan years while this secret alliance is formed with the Vatican; as soon as that wave subsides the Christian Coalition gets under way, the Christian Coalition brings its force to bear on the United States and it’s still there and as it’s reaching a crescendo we see this new movement of Promise Keepers arise and out of Promise Keepers we can trace its very inception back to Bill McCartney, he’s the founder of it; and his reference point for his Christian experience to promote Promise Keepers comes out of the Vineyard Movement and the Vineyard Movement is the same spiritual reference point that we get the Holy Laughter movement that is spreading like frogs around the world today.

In Revelation 16 the Beast the Dragon and the False Prophet that are leading the world to Armageddon is taking place and the books of Daniel and Revelation go together. When we look at Daniel 11:40-45, we see a story that begins in verse 40 between the King of the South, the King of the North and ultimately a third character comes in as symbolized in chariots, ships and horsemen, which we identify as the United States.

We see in these 3 symbolic powers in verse 40, none other than the Beast, the Dragon and the false Prophet of Revelation 16, only we are seeing their political aspect. We’re seeing the story of how these three powers struggle politically to lead the world not in Daniel 11 to Armageddon but in Daniel 11, these three powers lead the world to a geographical position of between the seas and the glorious holy mountain which is geographic area that Bible commentators will tell you is the valley of Jezreal with the same implications, the same geographical connotations as Armageddon.

Daniel 11:40-45 is nothing more than Daniel’s piece of information about how these three powers strive against one another beginning in the 1798 time period and ultimately lead the world to the point where there are just two classes; those that serve the Lord and those that don’t.

And Revelation 16 is telling that same story, same three powers, only their spiritual side leading the world to Armageddon and we have suggested in the previous study of Daniel 11, that when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, that this was the wakeup call for Seventh-day Adventists, that these final rapid movements had begun.

The next thing to take place in these sequence of verses is a Sunday Law in the United States. Daniel and Revelation go together and it’s easy to show that the spirit that comes out of the Dragon, the Beast and the false Prophet; the miracles of the New Age movement being the spirit of the Dragon; the miracles and prophecies of Mary and apparitions of Mary being the spirit of the Beast of Catholicism and the miracles and manifestations that are going on in the Charismatic movement in Protestant America are underway.

When we see the collapse of the Soviet Union in verse 40 and understand that verse 41 is the next thing to happen and verse 41 is the Sunday Law in the United States, this piece of information out of prophecy was designed by God to begin to bring God’s people into the final revival experience. If you and I truly and honestly believe the Sunday Law is imminent in the United States and we remember that Sister White says the movements for Sunday legislation are going on in darkness.

We may not see the Sunday Law being argued in the senate and the house of representatives today but prophetically by faith we know that that movement is alive and well and its moving forward. We can see legal precedence being set in the judicial high court of the United States and we can see laws being written by these Christian Coalition congressmen that are designed to overturn rulings that every one knows is going to bring the breach in the wall of separation of church and state. We can see all these other events if we truly believe that these indicators are in agreement with prophecy then that kind of information brings the final revival and is in agreement with how Sister White says the final revival would come.

She says that when the books of Daniel and Revelation are better understood among us that there’ll be seen a great revival. One of the strengths of this presentation of Daniel 11 is that it agrees with Revelation. Sister White says Daniel and Revelation are one book, they complement one another—bring each other to perfection.

So as we see the spirit of the false prophet the spiritual side of apostate Protestantism today, wrapped up in a revival, which is obviously not consistent with the fruit of the Holy Spirit, it’s just beyond the ability to be a movement that is of God. Yet we see Protestant America totally prepared to receive this, and we see how quickly it’s happening, and how it’s also playing into the push for ecumenism, then we need to go back to the Great Controversy 464 and factor in that if the books of Daniel and Revelation go together; and if these three powers of Revelation 16 are nothing more than the same three powers that are in Daniel 11:40; only one is the political view, one the spiritual view. What Daniel 11 tells us is that the Sunday Law is immanent.

Then if we are seeing these spirits in Revelation 16 leading the world to Armageddon then that means this final revival that comes to God’s people during the Sunday Law crisis must be just about here. Let’s look at this statement from Great Controversy 464:

"Notwithstanding the widespread declension of faith and piety, there are true followers of Christ in these churches. [the fallen churches] Before the final visitation of God’s Judgments upon the earth there will be among the people of the Lord such a revival of primitive godliness as has not been witnessed since apostolic times. [Sister White says that’s our greatest need, this revival of primitive Godliness. And she says that when we understand the books of Daniel and Revelation there will be seen this revival.]

"The Spirit and power of God will be poured out upon His children. At that time many will separate themselves from those churches in which the love of this world has supplanted love for God and His word. Many, both of ministers and people, will gladly accept those great truths which God caused to be proclaimed at this time to prepare a people for the Lord’s second coming.

"The enemy of souls desires to hinder this work; and before the time for such a movement shall come, he will endeavor to prevent it by introducing a counterfeit. In those churches which he can bring under his deceptive power he will make it appear that God’s special blessing is poured out; there will be manifest what is thought to be great religious interest. Multitudes will exult that God is working marvelously for them, when the work is that of another spirit. Under a religious guise, Satan will seek to extend his influence over the Christian world." The Great Controversy, 464.

Daniel 11 tells the story of these three powers leading the world to a position between the seas and the Glorious Holy Mountain where the world’s divided into two classes. Revelation 16 talks about these three powers leading the world to Armageddon. The spirit that comes out of the mouth of the false prophet is the charismatic movement which today the people in the Protestant world will tell you it’s bringing a revival, a great religious awakening to Protestant America.

But they can’t tell whether it is or isn’t because they are no longer studying the word of God. But we can. And when we see this false, counterfeit religious revival taking place in this time period of earth’s history, it tells us the true revival is immanent because this is Satan’s attempt to destroy the true revival. But it is going to come, the promise is that it will come and we’re right on the verge of it.

The testimony of Revelation 16 is in total agreement with the testimony of Daniel 11, in the setting of the close of probation. Right there in the midst of the testimony of the seven last plagues is a warning that during the time period that we can see the spirits of these three powers doing the work of leading their followers to Armageddon, we need to have the garments of Christ’s righteousness on! We’re in a time period when we cannot afford to be in any other condition as a Christian. We’re living in too dangerous a time.

We spent some time at the beginning of this study considering the political side of the Dragon. This is probably the most misunderstood of these three powers in Adventism. The book ‘Tragedy and Hope’ was written by a Jesuit college professor who had access to the mystery religion, One World Illuminati group of individuals that have been seeking to bring about a One World Government. He had access to their secret files and this book is nothing more than a description of how he believes and they plan to bring in a One World Government by the year 2,000. {Editor’s note: here again we see evidence that the 4 angels have been holding back the plans of men.}

The Tragedy and Hope title means tragedy for those that resist the system; they’re going to meet with a tragedy according to this author because they’re going to have to be eliminated and yet he believes this One World Government is the hope of the world. That’s where the title comes from. Carol Quigley, who wrote this book is a man that Bill Clinton praised as the one that taught him his worldview of how the world is to be set up.

We know that many people in Adventism and outside Adventism do not believe in these ‘conspiracy stories’ and we recommended a magazine produced by the John Birch society and we’re not endorsing the John Birch society, we’re simply suggesting that much of their information is sound. This particular magazine is one of the most concise overviews of the history connected with the One World movement that I’ve found. Evidence is available to demonstrate that the political aspect of the Dragon—socialism—is still active. It’s attempting to bring about a One World Government.

We would also recommend our presentation of Revelation 17 because we believe that the Ten Kings illustrated in Revelation 17 as ruling the earth for one hour with the Beast, are nothing more than John symbolizing the confederacy that takes place at the end of the world. The United Nations has the world divided up into ten districts that it’s going to be ruled from. This is the story of the Dragon’s effort to bring about a One World Government in connection with apostate Protestantism and the Beast.

Apostate Protestantism’s story we find in Revelation 13; the United States is going to be the power that forces the whole world to worship the Beast of Catholicism but it’s also going to be the power that tells the world that they should set up an image of the beast. The definition of the image of the Beast is when secular power is used to enforce religious dogma or sustain religious institutions.

So if the world is going to be forced by the United States to set up an image of the beast, according to the definition in the Spirit of Prophecy, it means the whole world will have to have a secular power that has the ability to force the whole world to worship this religious dogma of the Beast. In other words, it’s going to have to have a One World Government set up.

Revelation 13:15 says that United States will have the power to make this world image of the beast speak. Sister White says the speaking of an nation is the action of its legislative and judicial branches, so this world image of the Beast, obviously, according to the symbols given in the Spirit of Prophecy and the Bible, is going to at least be made up of a judicial and legislative branch and certainly the United Nations has a judicial world court and a legislative branch.

But it is not structured like United States, a democracy, nor is it a monarchy like Catholicism, the United Nations if you care to look closely at its guidelines and its structure and constitution, is a socialistic set up. This is the politics of the dragon. Malachi Martin identifies the same three powers, the Dragon, the Beast, and the False Prophet that we see as the King of the South, the King of the North and the chariots, ships and horsemen of Daniel 11 vintage. He’s talking about a race between the Soviet Union, socialism, the dragon; United States, apostate Protestantism, the false prophet; and Catholicism, the Beast. The race is about who’s going to control the world through a One World government by the year 2000. The same three powers that the Books of Daniel and Revelation identify are the three powers striving to make this happen today.

All these things are coming together. I want to read something out of a book called the ‘City on a Hill’ by Michael Reagan; this is Ronald Reagan’s son. This book was released in 1997 and the structure of this book is Michael Reagan, Ronald Reagan’s son’s defense for the plans of the political belief structure of Ronald Reagan. He’s saying that the things Ronald Reagan believed in and promoted while he was president are the things that are going to still work for the United States if they would return to the Reagan years.

In his book, he takes little passages from speeches by Ronald Reagan to introduce the theme in the chapter or an entire chapter, and then he comments about it. Michael Reagan is the number 1 nighttime radio talk show host in the United States. He’s well known as a political analyst, a conservative, but he’s also well known as mainstream. People are not going to throw criticism his way like they would John Birch Society criticism, where John Birch society being so right wing it is fabricating these conspiracy theories about the New World Order and has some kind of ulterior motive. Michael Reagan is not going to get that kind of criticism. He’ll be criticized as a conservative republican certainly, but he’s not anyone who is on the fringes. He’s not a Jesuit theologian as is Malachi Martin, who wrote ‘Keys of this Blood’. He’s not going to take that kind of criticism.

In one chapter he makes a very nice presentation of the truth about the intent of the United Nations. As we bring our study to a close on how these three powers are leading the world to Armageddon. The Dragon power in my mind is the most misunderstood of these different prophetic entities. We’re not looking here at the spirit of the Dragon, which is primarily identified in Revelation 15, but we want to emphasize the political aspect to the Dragon power. It’s type of government is socialistic and its designs are by the end of this millennium to have a One World government in place in which it intends to bring an era of peace to the world.

Its intentions may be good, but it’s a legitimate, verifiable truth of history that the long term planning to accomplish this went on for a few hundred years. The people involved at the top level have specific agendas which they are bringing to pass.

We want to close with a chapter out of this book "City on a Hill" by Michael Reagan, called ‘Shining City or Global Neighborhood’. He reads a couple quotes from Ronald Reagan.

"Our own sovereignty is not for sale". Ronald Reagan; 1st inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1981.

"It was the leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad and the collapse of imperial communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile. Because they might just wind up lowering our flag" Ronald Reagan, speech before Republican National committee Feb. 3rd 1994.

Michael Reagan continues: "The brightest symbol of hope for the world is found in New York City, no not that glass walled, slab-shaped building on the East River; it’s the lady with the torch in New York harbor. America not the UN is the shining city on a hill. We need to be reminded of Ronald Reagan’s words when he rededicated the Statue of Liberty in 1986.

"Call it mysticism if you will, but I’ve always believed there was some great Divine providence that placed this great land here between two great oceans to be found by a special kind of people from every corner of the world with a special love for freedom and a special courage that enabled them to leave their own land, leave their friends and their countrymen and come to this new and strange land to build a new world of peace, Freedom and hope." (Ronald Reagan)

Michael Reagan continues: America’s mission in the world is to point the way to peace and freedom and hope. The blessings of liberty are the birthright of all people all around the world. This is why Abraham Lincoln called this great land ‘the last best hope of man on earth’. Here in this country we have been called to show the world what freedom means, what freedom costs and what freedom accomplishes in the world.

America is industrious brilliant and prosperous because she is free. Yes the UN and international cooperation and multi-national peace keeping forces do have a place in the world, but we should never view the UN as a super government to which America owes allegiance.

America is a sovereign nation and Americans are a sovereign people. While we care about the world, we should not be the caretakers of the world. We must not submit our sovereignty to the UN nor should we isolate ourselves from the rest of the world. We must lead the world; that is our mission as citizens of this city on a hill.

The Clintonesetas don’t see America as a shining city. The vision of Bill Clinton and his team of globalists is not to magnify the light of America’s freedom but to magnify the power of what they call the ‘World body’, the United Nations.

The organization that was chartered in 1945 as a co-operative family of nations is on its way to becoming a super government. The Clinton vision of the New World Order was spelt out by Strobe Talbot, Clinton’s Oxford roommate and deputy secretary of state in a magazine piece he wrote shortly before Clinton was elected.

‘In birth of the global nation’ time-July 20, 1992, Talbot predicted, ‘Nationhood as we know it will be obsolete. All states will recognize a single global authority. Citizens of the world will have assumed real meaning.’

And it’s understandable that the idealists of the left would romanticize this idea of a borderless world. After all, if there were no nations, there’d be no need for nukes. Maybe this utopian deal is one reason the left is so stubbornly opposed to what is obviously a good idea, FBI. A star wars missile defense is designed to preserve national sovereignty and security. If we render Nukes obsolete with FBI technology, we dilute the urgency to unite the world under a single socialist government.

From ??, to Bill Clinton, today’s opinion leaders scorn conspiracy kooks who worry about globalism. They lump all discussion of the one world government in the same category with black helicopters, the illuminatti, Elvis sightings and UFOs hiding in the tail of the halebot comet.

But the fact is, right here in the real world, the United Nations commission on global governance has completed a three year study, with plans to implement global government by the year 2000. You won’t read about it in your newspaper or hear about it on CNN, but you can read the entire plan for yourself in a 410 page UN report ‘Our Global Neighborhood’, published by Oxford University, or you can download the entire document from the Global Governance website at http://www.cgg.ch/fulltext.htm [we’ve looked there, and it is there now in 2002]

Continuing: It begins with a disclaimer that the UN global governance plan does not imply world government or world federalism, but the rest of the book is a blueprint for exactly that, a One World Government build around a global civic ethic based on a set of core values that can unite people of all cultural, political, religious or philosophical backgrounds.

Believe it! The New World Order is going to be in your face before you know it! the following is how the One Worldists plan to do it. They will impose socialism and equality of outcome on an entire planet through global trade and economic policy.

GAP is the first step in that direction. The plans are being drawn for the creation of a UN economic security council that would centralize all international finance, industry and trade policy under one global authority. Existing agencies such as the World Bank, the world trade organization and the international monetary fund would function under the auspices of the Economic Security Council consisting of 23 individuals chosen from around the world.

The globalists will impose global taxation to fund the UN [this is starting now-2002] and redistribute wealth on a global scale. Global tax schemes range from individual income taxes on the entire world population, to taxes on all the international financial transactions which is projected to produce 1.5 trillion annually, about 150 times the currant UN budget.

America was founded as a revolt against taxation without representation. The day an American president and an American congress and American people submit to global control and global taxation, America is history, sianara, out of here, gone!

The globalists plan to overrule national sovereignty through a global environmental policy. This is the stealth process of chipping away at our national sovereignty through such seemingly laudable goals as protecting the eco-system. We see it taking place through global non-government organizations or NGOS. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature; the United Nations Environmental program, the World Resource Institute, the Earth Council, and ultimately a proposed assembly of the people which would be elected by the world at large and would promote environmental policy in the UN.

We see our national sovereignty being chipped away through the policies and pronouncements from the United Nations Conference on Environmental and Development and its follow up conferences. We see it promoted in such documents as ‘Earth summits Agenda 21’, at the conventions on climate change, biodiversity, Ozone depleting substances, desertification, endangered species, wetlands and world heritage sites.

The globalists agenda is embedded in such buzz-words as ‘rewilding’ and sustainable development which sum up the global environmentalists belief that industrialized human society is a cancer on the planet and that the only hope for mother earth is a return to a planet pre-industrial.

Third world standard of living, radical cuts in the consumption of energy, raw materials, food and water; central panning for the world economy; global eco-indoctrination and family planning goals, and of course the abolition of national sovereignty.

Globalists talk about a growing gap between the world’s rich and poor, and the environmental jeopardy caused by unbridled consumerism in the North, that despoils the integrity of the Earth. Their solution is to impoverish America and spread misery around the planet.

Most Americans are unaware that global environmentalism is already resulted in a UN takeover of many of our national parks and historical sites. The takeover began with the world heritage treaty drafted by the UN educational, scientific and cultural organization in 1972. UN watchers consider UNESCO to be one of the most corrupt agencies in the entire UN bureaucracy. Under the World Heritage treaty, the UN has already taken over 18 so-called world heritage sites. An additional 48 Biosphere sites have been handed over to UNESCO man and biosphere program by the US State department without any treaty or congressional oversight whatsoever.

National heritage sites include Carlsbad caverns, glacier national park, the Florida Everglades and Yellowstone National Park. Cultural heritage sites include—are you ready for this?—the Statue of Liberty, and Independence Hall, Philadelphia.

We can expect to see even more UN-ization of our military, the use of our own young men and women, our own tax-bought material in causes other than our own national defence and security. This is an insult and a dishonour to all those who over the past 200+ years gave theirs last measure of devotion to the defence of America’s freedom and security. Our freedom is so sacred that thousands of Americans soldiers have willingly suffered dismemberment or death to defend it and the liberal One Worlders and our government are willing to surrender our sovereignty, security, and fighting forces to foreign powers without a whimper.

The Globalists are also using food and population scares to give the UN leverage over national sovereignty. The 1996 World Food Summit in Rome produced mountains of stupidity but not an ounce of real hope for the hungry people in the world. If adopted, the food summit agenda would produce less food in the world, not more. The food summit focused on sustainable growth plans for more population control, more abortions, the placement of usable land off limits to farming and development and world-wide adoption of organic food production.

Organic methods are wasteful and in effective because they reject the use of pesticides and require more land to produce smaller yields. Almost nothing was said at the summit about using new high yielding hybrid seeds and environmentally friendly fertilizers and pesticides to double food producing in the have-not nations. According to ‘USA Today’, the star of the food summit was that beloved humanitarian, Fidele Castro who spoke glowingly of the need for more government imposed birth control.

The food summit hypes a crisis where no crisis exists. The world is not getting hungrier every day. While the world population has doubled since 1960, the percentage of those without enough to eat has dropped from 35% to 20%. Food has become about 40% cheaper in real adjusted for inflation terms throughout the world. Dooms-dayers say the world is running out of room and resources, the truth is that the entire population of the planet could be comfortably housed within the borders of the State of Texas, placing only 8 people to an acre and each family could sustain and feed itself by devoting as little as 20% of its space to raising food with artificial light and hydroponics, the raising of food in nutrient enriched water.

Thanks to rapid advances in agricultural technology, food can be produced more abundantly and efficiently today than ever before, but the UN’s world food summit would put a stop to that. The solution of world hunger is not centralized control of food production or elimination of pesticides. Nor is the solution to abort more of the worlds children. The solution is freedom! Nicholas Everstott of the American Enterprise Institute put it this way, "Political freedom is the enemy of famine and economic liberty is the foe of hunger." He points to Viet Nam as proof of the value of freedom in feeding people:

"For years after the Viet Nam war the collective state controlled farms and communist Viet Nam could not produce enough rice to feed the people of the country. In 1986 the government conducted an economic experiment. Breaking up collectives and giving people their own land to farm while allowing food prices to find their own level.

"Three years later, Viet Nam had become the third largest exporter of rice in the world. The power of freedom. If you want to see the world get rid of government price controls, import quotas and subsidies, feed the world with freedom."

The UN also plans to strip America of its world leadership position. In the UN’s global neighbourhood, veto power and permanent status would be striped from the five permanent nations of the US security council, China, France, Great Britain, Russia and the United States. This would dilute if not abolish the leadership role of America. Also the Economic security counsel would collect the wealth produced by the citizens of developed nations and re-distribute it to developing societies.

The Clinton administration is helping to sponsor the 1998 world conference on global governance and can be expected to campaign hard to elect liberal democrats to congress in 1998 so that the UN global governance treaties and agreements can be more easily ratified.

The world needs the illumination and moral leadership of the shining city on a hill, but there are those in many Nations and with our own government who want to place a shroud over the city and hide its light its light from the world. "Shut up and pay up", is the message of global bureaucracy to the shining city.

The United Nations doesn’t want our influence, just our affluence. From former US secretary general Butrose Butrose Gowly? To new secretary Kaffe Anon?; from Bill Clinton to ??, we have been hearing about the US debt of 1.4 billion to the United Nations, some in UN bureaucracy have been floating plans to cut off our UN voting rights, slap us with late charges and ban citizens from holding UN jobs if the congress doesn’t cough up. But the fact is, the US doesn’t owe the UN a dime. Instead the UN owes the American taxpayers big-time!

Our globalist president, Bill Clinton is trying to shame his own country, calling America the biggest piker in the UN. But the US has always been more than generous with the bloated, wasteful, anti-American world bureaucracy. Our normal UN assessments, our 25% of the operating budget and 31% of ‘peace keeping’ costs. The next largest contributor is Japan, with an assessment of 14% of the budget. Only Russia, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain and Canada contribute more than 2%. But on top of our normal assessment, the US provided some 6.6 billion in logistical and other support to the UN from 1990 to 1995.

Of that money the global bean counters on the east river credited 1.8 billion against their so-called debt. Of the remaining 4.8 billion the UN reimbursed up for less than 80 million. Those are general accounting office figures, so we should not write a check for 1,4 billion to the UN, we should deduct that amount from the 4.8 billion credit the UN now owes, then submit an invoice for 3.4 billion.

Who has been spending all this American money on dubious ‘peace keeping’ missions, it wasn’t the US congress, through the legal appropriation process! No, this money came out if the budgets of various federal agencies including the department of defense, without congressional approval, which is at least improper and probably illegal. The Clinton administration looted the budget of these agencies in order to sustain the global governance of the UN.

At a White House press conference on March 8, 1987, Sarah McKlendan of the McKlendan news service lobbed this mush-ball question to Bill Clinton, "Large segments of our citizens believe that the United Nations is taking over whole blocks of counties in Kentucky and Tennessee. They believe that you’re going to give our army to Russia and all that baloney. Can you do something about this? Because its hurting the Unity of the United States."

The question set off gales of laughter throughout the White House press chore and put a smile on Clinton’s face. "I dunno", Clinton chuckled, "because the people who believe that think I’m the problem. We’re all laughing about it, but there is a non-insubstantial number of people that believe there is a plan out there for world domination and I’m trying American sovereignty over to the UN. Let me just say this, for those that are worrying about it I would say that there is a serious issue here that every American has to come to grips with; the issue is, we live in an interdependent world. We have to co-operate with people. We’re better off when we do. We’re better off with we’re better off with the United Nations. We’re better off when these countries can work together. So I just think that for folks that are worried about this out in the country, they need to be thinking about how we’re not going to give up our freedom, our independence. But we’re not going to go it alone for the 21st century either, we’re going to work together and we have to."

President Clinton’s answer is not a denial, it’s an admission! ‘We live", he says, "in an interdependent world and we’re better off with the UN and we can’t go it alone." He laughs at the suggestion that he is ceding the American sovereignty to the UN but he doesn’t deny it. Because he can’t; his actions shows that this is exactly what he’s doing; surrendering to an alien power our own hard-won leadership position in the world; our wealth, our young men and women in the armed forces, our national parks, our historic sites, our authority over our own environmental policies, food policies, population policies, economic and trade policies and more.

"America must make a choice because there is no middle ground. We can either become the shining city on the hill that Ronald Reagan envisioned or we can cross Bill Clinton’s bridge into the 21st century; a bridge to a brave new world of global governance in which the light of the shining city is snuffed out by the darkness of a global socialist bureaucracy.

"Will America continue to be the last, best hope of man on earth? Or will America become a memory of what almost was and what could have been? MY friend, we will decided that question." end of Michael Reagan’s chapter.

Michael Reagan’s perspective on end-time events is not the Adventist perspective on end-time events. But the idea that the United Nations is intending to bring the world under its control in the very near future is even acknowledged by someone who is mainstream. It’s easy to see. This is in agreement with Bible prophecy. The times in which we live are the times in which Revelation 13 is being fulfilled when the United States is about to force the whole world to worship the beast of Catholicism. The whole world is going to set up this image of the beast.

And this world government that will control things will be on a socialistic platform as pointed out by Michael Reagan. Not only does Michael Reagan not have the Adventist perspective on this event, even though he has some very keen insights on what is transpiring in the world, you’ll find that Michael Reagan is one of the most outspoken supporters of the Promise Keepers in the United States. So we see, some men, outside of Adventism, have some glimpses of what truth is, at the same time they are being drawn into these other influences that Satan has orchestrated and set in motion.

The only people that have the availability of information that can give clarity to the things that are going on today are the people that are living by the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy. That’s you and I. We have responsibility to those in the world that care about issues but don’t have proper perspective. We have a responsibility to begin raising that warning message. Sister White’s warned we’re going to have to do in hard times that which we could have done in easy.

And our prayer is that these studies on prophecies that are demonstrating that probation is about to close, that a Sunday Law is imminent, will inspire you as members of God’s church at the end of the world, to set aside those things that so easily beset all of us that the Lord might use us fully to begin giving the final warning message to those people that would respond to it, if they would just see it lived in our lives and hear it proclaimed by us.

"A great crisis awaits the people of God. A great crisis awaits the world. The most momentous struggle of all the ages is before us. Events, which for more than half a century we have, upon the authority of the prophetic Word, declared to be impending, are now taking place before our eyes. ...

"While the Protestant world is making concessions to Rome, and danger is increasing on every hand, let us arouse to comprehend the situation, and to see the contest before us in its true bearings. Let the watchmen lift up the voice, and give with clearness the message, which is present truth for this time. ‘For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?’ Let us show the people where we are in prophetic history, and seek to arouse the spirit of true Protestantism, awaking the world to a sense of the value of the religious liberty they have so enjoyed." Signs of the Times, November 28, 1900.

"The lamb-like horns and dragon voice of the symbol point to a Striking contradiction between the professions and the practice of the nation thus represented. The speaking of the nation is the action of its legislative and Judicial authorities. By such action it will give the lie to those liberal and peaceful principles, which it has put forth as the foundation of its policy. The prediction that it will speak ‘as a dragon,’ and exercise ‘all the power of the first beast,’ plainly foretells a development of the spirit of intolerance and persecution that was manifested by the nations represented by the dragon and the leopard-like beast. And the statement that the beast with two horns causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast: indicates that the authority of this nation is to be exercised in enforcing some observance which shall be an act of homage to the papacy." The Great Controversy, 442.

"In this time of prevailing iniquity, the Protestant churches that have rejected a ‘Thus saith the Lord,’ will reach a strange pass. They will be converted to the world. In their separation from God, they will seek to make falsehood arid apostasy from God the law of the nation. They will work upon the rulers of the land to make laws to restore the lost ascendancy of the man of sin, who sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. The Roman Catholic principles will be taken under the protection of the state. The protest of Bible truth will no longer be tolerated by those who have not made the law of God their rule of life." Review and Herald December 21, 1897.