Continuing our burden from the previous issue, we come to another aspect of the understandings of the wise and wicked in the End Time. Even though the Scripture describes in certain contexts great details of the time of the end, it is obvious that the wicked will not and cannot avail themselves of this divine revelation. Nevertheless, the Bible is and will be a source of comfort and direction to those who are true believers in God.

The Mystery of the Word of God

The Bible truly is the singular miracle book! No other writing in human language is infallible and inerrant. The Bible dwells in a dual dimension of eternity and time; yet, even in time, it is timeless in the fact that it cannot be limited to a specific generation. God’s Word has also a dual concept in that it has eternally existed as the Living Word (the Son of God) and the Written Word (the “scripture of truth,” Dan. 10:21) in heaven. Forever God’s Word has been settled in heaven; it is as eternal as its author.

There eventually came a fullness of time when God appointed for the Living Word to come to earth, take on flesh, and dwell among men. Likewise, the Written Word, which was eternal in heaven, was appointed in time to take on the “flesh” of an anthropomorphic (human) language. The Holy Spirit moved within the womb of a virgin woman and brought forth the creation of a body for the Living Word; likewise, the Holy Spirit moved upon holy men to bring about the enfleshment of the Word in human language. The written Word of God is not the covers of the book, the ink, or the paper upon which it is written; it is the breathing of God in human language words. Although the words within the Bible can be found in a dictionary and other books written with words, it was when the Holy Spirit brought these words together and breathed upon them over a period of 1600 years and through forty to forty-four writers that we were given the written Word of God on earth.

The Old Testament was given to the Jews; the New Testament was given to the Church. God’s Word was not given to the world! It was “once and for all” delivered unto the saints to keep and guide God’s people through the last days even up to and through the End Time. “We have also a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts” (2 Pet. 1:19). This Word is for God’s saints in bringing them through the worst of times unto the coming of the Lord.

Although given in human language, this divine revelation is portrayed in such a way that it is hidden from the wicked, even though it is understandable by those spiritually minded. The apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 2 gives us a classic insight to this truth, as he presents “the things,” yea, “the deep things” of God. The Apostle, in his transition concerning the wisdom of God, declared, “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (2:9). These “the things” are God’s Word, for he continues by saying, “But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God” (2:10). Paul clarifies that these “things” of God’s Word are a revelation. In the next verse he declares,

For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God (2:11, 12).

Only the Spirit of God can illuminate “the things” of God to a man, for such things are not of a man, but of God. But Paul continues: “Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.” The Word or the things of God were given by divine inspiration and not by the human wisdom of man. Thus, in the light of these truths, Paul then declares, “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” The natural man neither understands nor accepts “the things” of God: literally he rejects and refuses to accept the things of God. This principle is true not only of the Word of God but also of God’s men. The wicked do not know, nor discern, nor understand God’s men; the wicked do not discern what they do and why they do what they do. Paul continues in verses 15 and 16:

But he that is spiritual judgeth [discerneth] all things, yet he himself is judged of no [natural] man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

The spiritual man is given the ability by the Holy Spirit to sift, to examine, to decide rightly, because he has the eyes of his heart enlightened (Eph. 1:18). He is no longer blinded by the god of this world (2 Cor. 4:4). At the martyrdom of the Apostolic Father Polycarp, the crowd in the arena did not understand why he would be willing to be burned at the stake, rather than simply say, “Lord Caesar.” He was unwilling to save his earthly life by the worship of Caesar in place of the Lord Jesus. The wicked could not understand.

“None of the wicked shall understand,” for they are blinded by their own sin, by the world, by the Devil, and by the delusion sent by God. Even on the Cross, the Lord Jesus Christ acknowledged in His prayer to the Father that “they know not what they do.” The wicked are not bettered by the Word, or by the rod of God, or even by any of the warnings of God; they are hardened through their own tribulations unto their own ruin.

Understanding God’s Word and Providence

In contrast to the wicked, the godly shall be taught of God to understand the ways of God’s providence foretold by the prophets. They truly have God’s wisdom in these matters. Wicked men will continue to practice wickedness, while those who are wiser by tribulation and trial shall understand. This truth is important. It is not the clarity of how the Word of God is written that automatically reveals the Word to a person. It will always take the enlightenment of God’s Spirit to bring about the discernment of what the Word is saying.

God may not give a specific discernment to his men until an appointed and needed time for that truth to be understood. We can observe this principle in Daniel 12:8, when the prophet said (as the Hebrew reads), “I heard [perfect tense] and was not understanding [imperfect tense].” Daniel was asking what will be the final outcome? What will be the permanent achievements? It was made clear to him in 12:9 that there would be no understanding given to him of these matters. These words would only be revealed when those things come to pass. Daniel would not know the understanding of the prophecies now, but men, at the appointed time, would come to know at the time of the end. Daniel 8:26 states, “And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.”

Prophecy declares that great trouble will accompany the End Time of the Church Age. While the wicked will not understand this trouble arising, God’s people, given wisdom by Him, will understand. The end is both partly hidden and partly revealed by God.

Part of the End Time that is revealed concerns global governments and world empires. Movements within these will effectively bring about an Antichrist who will rule the world, and a beast of the earth that will ride the back of the beast out of the sea. We understand there will be a one-world religion. Even though these principles are revealed, the wicked still will not understand the danger. This principle is portrayed in Acts 4:25–28:

Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ. For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together. For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

Peter and the apostles saw this in the Word of God through the power of the Spirit.

There is also enough revealed by the Spirit of God to guide and urge us in the right way:

Enter ye in at the strait gate, for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in thereat. Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it (Matt. 7:13, 14).

Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father: when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power, For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet (1 Cor. 15:24, 25).

God knows the end from the beginning. Nothing surprises Him. Nothing frustrates Him. Everything is used to fulfill His purpose. Since the end is with Him, what foolishness it would be for an individual to think he could reach a happy end by opposing God’s ways. If we are following His ways, we have no fear for the end.

The World’s View: A New World Order

The twentieth century was the key century for the transition of the world into the End Time. It was the first time in history that we experienced a “world” war. It was the first time we experienced mass destruction of mankind with a weapon of such magnitude as the atomic bomb. It was the first time of a closed world order being pursued rejecting God’s presence. Within the latter part of that century, we began to witness the face of the world beginning to drastically change. We truly have entered into a confrontation of God’s prophecy versus the world’s prophecy of the End.

On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan gave a speech at the Brandenburg Gate commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin. In that speech Reagan challenged the Soviet leader at that time, Mikhail Gorbachev, to “Tear down that wall!” referring to the Berlin Wall that was built in 1961 around Western Berlin. Reagan had hoped that taking down the wall would be an emblem of Gorbachev’s desire to increase freedom in the Eastern Bloc of Germany through glasnost (“transparency”) and perestroika (“restructuring”). It was eventually through Reagan’s and Pope John Paul II’s influence upon Gorbachev that the wall was torn down, permitting the people to begin crossing the border. As a result, today Germany is one country.

In the late summer of 1990, war erupted between Iraq and Kuwait. The lightning-fast, 100-hour war was witnessed via satellite around the world. Global humanity became obsessed with the potential of this war. Because so many nations were involved in this anticipated battle, Neo-Evangelicals and the Charismatics gave prophecies that this might be the Battle of Armageddon to bring an end of the world. But, of course, that war did not unfold as the world thought it would.

In 1992 the European community emerged as a possible forerunner of the United States of Europe provoking much prophetic interpretation. But in June of this year (2016) the United Kingdom made a public declaration to pull out of the governmental European Union. How this will affect the rest of Europe and its influence for others to do the same remains to be seen. The massive immigration especially of Muslims into European countries (predominately the U.K., France, and Germany) and into our own country is profoundly affecting the ethnic makeup of many countries.

Amidst the struggles of political and economic survival, there is still the aggressive global talk of a “New World Order.” Early in 1971 John Lennon (after breaking up with the Beatles and now with his mistress Yoko Ono) gave to the world the song Imagine. The lyrics caught the attention of the world by openly declaring the hope of a time to come where there would be no countries, no religion, no heaven, no hell, no possessions, everyone living for today, and the world becoming as one. His dream was a world of secular hedonism, a world without religious faith, without national pride or sovereignty, without anything to fight for, without any private property, but with a one-world government and communal property. He suggested that if the governments were to take away everything, there would be nothing to fight for. Hypocritically, Lennon died with an estimated $250 million being left to Yoko Ono and their son.

Many individuals have written about this hope over the decades of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Walter Millis, in his book Road to War: America, 1914–1917, made the observation concerning Colonel Edward Mandell House, the aid to Woodrow Wilson: “The Colonel’s sole justification for preparing such a bath of blood for his countrymen was his hope of establishing a new world order of peace and security as a result.” We read of the many contributions that the Rockefellers have brought forth as a great force of economic power behind a global government. As early as July 26, 1968, the New York Times stated, “In an address to the International Platform Association at the Sheraton-Park Hotel [New York-Governor Nelson], Rockefeller called for the creation of a “new world order.” Adolf Hitler, as cited in The Occult and the Third Reich is quoted as saying, “National socialism will use its own revolution for the establishing of a new world order.” Richard N. Gardner, former deputy assistant secretary of state for international organizations under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, in Foreign Affairs, April 1974, declared the following:

In short, the “house of world order” will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down . . . An end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old fashioned assault.

Jimmy Carter, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1976 stated, “We must replace balance of power politics with world order politics. The Humanist Manifesto II (1973) declared the following:

We deplore the division of humankind on nationalistic grounds. We have reached a turning point in human history where the best option is to transcend the limits of national sovereignty and to move toward the building of a world community . . . a system of world law and world order based upon transnational federal government.

And we must include the New Age leader of the past, Benjamin Crème, who stated in April 25, 1982, “What is the Plan? It includes the installation of a new world government and a new world religion under Maitreya.” Maitreya is the so-called coming messiah of every religion (such as the coming Buddha of complete enlightenment).

It is evident that for decades there has been continuity between the White House, the State Department, the Council of Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, various secret societies, and the leadership of the New Age movement. There is this one obsessive, driving force toward a one-world government, a world police force, world courts, world banking and currency, with a world elite in charge of it all. Some of the goals are a complete redistribution of wealth, an elimination of Christianity, and a depopulation of two or three billion people in the third world by 2020.

America: The Year 2016

Our country is in an absolute moral, spiritual, religious, ethical, and governmental shambles. The very laws of the land corrupt and continue to oppress righteousness rather than preserve righteousness and the good we once knew as a nation. America’s distinctives are but a distant memory; is there anything made in America that has not been touched by foreign influence? Our country has truly entered the Post America Era that our present administration announced eight years ago would aggressively be pursued. We are on the eve of UN powers controlling our nativity and bringing us into conformity to the whip and the will of the global, one-world order. The direction is set, the powers are in place, the mood and spirit of global society is pressing us onward, and there is no champion for Truth.

As we have entered well into this ominous year of darkness in our country, what will rise from the mud, the mess, the debris, and the cesspool of our present national distress? We are witnessing violence filling our country and the world, but the wicked do not understand why it is all happening. They certainly refuse to acknowledge the depravity of man and the intensifying of sin in these last days; they refuse to acknowledge the powers of demonic evil in “religious” Islam; they refuse to acknowledge the willful demise of the God-appointed family; they refuse to acknowledge the secular philosophies that pervade the halls of education and politics; they refuse to acknowledge the demoralization of our country as we have sown to the wind of debilitating promiscuity and are now reaping the whirlwind of national suicide. Ironically, they will use these evils to intentionally bring the downfall of a country, knowing that they will destroy the former glory of that nation. But what will come out of the desolation and the chaos that has been sown? The global leaders hope that out of what they believe to be controlled chaos, they will be able to bring about a new world order, a utopia built on man and a denial of God. To divert the thinking of the common man, we are manipulated through the social media to believe that our problems stem from lack of money, racism, ethnicity, poverty, bad DNA, Christianity, overpopulation, availability of guns, and lack of societal tolerance. Yes, we are at the hour of global apostasy where the wicked will do more wickedly and will never understand.

The year 2016 will be the year when America will reap the finality of what we have sown. God has given us over to “Obamination” for eight years. But what is before us? Whatever public Christian concept remains in our country is an apostate Christianity. It has no power to stop the appointed powers to which God has given us over. We stand in the wake of our national debauchery; we are living in a national disaster of character in leadership. What will this year unfold for our history?

Conclusion

The words of Ezekiel 14:13, 14, and 16 indicate that a city or nation could fall so deep into sin that God would not spare it, no matter what prayers are prayed:

Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it: Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD. . . . Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.

God is still in control of the events of this country amidst the fact that America sees what the media wants us to see. Will there be the “dark horse” to arise in God’s providence which will send us to the final dismantling of America? Who will be able to turn the tide of the flagrant enemy that has already come in like a flood among us under the guise of immigration? Will several enemies unite at the given command to drive us to our knees of surrender, with a new unknown leadership emerging from the wings? Though the wicked may believe they are orchestrating the imminent events of America, they do not know that God is in control.

May God help us not to trust in men, but only in God for our future days. We once again cry out, “Even so, come, Lord Jesus!”