Global governments are increasingly gathering in the symbolical waiting room of the world’s hospital where “nations in perplexities” go to die. The news of America’s tragic decline over recent years has taken the country to the brink of its national death. What has happened to this once vivacious, vibrant nation of historic and world renown, a nation that seemed to have known the hand of God upon it? Its diagnosis is clear: the righteous foundations that so magnificently supported its greatness have been carefully dismantled, forcing both the infrastructure and the superstructure to rapidly implode.

What will be the final death stroke for America? From one perspective, only God knows what instrument of death He will use to bring about America’s demise. There are a number of powerful international leaders (along with some in our country) who are collectively working untiringly to bring about the final death blow to America. For America seems to be the last bastion of morality, truth, absolutes, and the dignity of liberty remaining on the earth. It is the final obstacle against a long-desired New World Order. Many ideological diseases have been inflicted upon this nation to weaken its strength. The strong man has been bound from within; we are now witnessing the death of this strong man. But amidst the counsel of the wicked, only God will bring the final death blow to America. His judgment will be because of our overwhelming sins and our covenant with the Prince of Darkness.

Today Christians have been called upon to live in the most treacherous time in history—a time when the evident unfolding of biblical prophecy clearly warns us of this hour in history. That which God declares to be true, contemporary man declares to be false; that which God declares to be either moral or immoral, man now declares to be the opposite. Man has either redefined or denied every divinely-appointed institution by God. Today’s humanists are a product of the ever-expanding foundations of atheism, evolution, moral relativism, freedom of inquiry, postmodernism, and the pursuit of a one-world government. …

In these crucial days a Christian husband and wife must face the future together. No greater joy could God have given under the sun than the precious life together of a man and woman as husband and wife. We must fully understand that this relationship was first divinely appointed by God, prior to the Fall, prior to children, and prior to the revelation of the Church. It was the first of social relationships that God gave to mankind. Man and wife were literally one in the beginning: she was found within him; she came from his deep sleep, she came from his bones, and she came from his flesh. She was the closest thing to him throughout all creation. God appointed them to be together for the journey of life. These two, man and woman, were together prior to the Fall. And yes, they fell together, both partaking as if it were one act of sin. Together they would face life after the Fall—its sorrows, its griefs, its agonies, its travails, and yet there would be earthly joys God would sprinkle along the way of the fallen path. …

We cannot help but see the deterioration and collapse of marriage in our country and throughout the world. And sad to say, we may see such failure in marriage among professing Christians as well. Therefore, it is important that we understand what it will take to start and maintain a good marriage in Christ. …

Rising within the Holy Scriptures are references to “princes” in the earth. These princes are men of leadership and power throughout the centuries of history. Such leaders are presented as exalted ones, men of greatness, prefects, rulers, those who have risen in prominence amidst both history and prophecy. This Christmas we view with hope the coming Prince of Peace Who will rise above all exalted ones of history. …

Daniel described the End Time as “troublous times”; Paul described them as “perilous times.” Are such times divinely appointed for us at this time in history? As we come to the end of another year in God’s good providence, perhaps we need to ponder the “concept” of time for our present age and the future, in the light of the Scriptures. We must consider if these troublous and perilous times are to be a part of God’s appointment for our history?
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I never think of Christmas any more without contemplating and desiring the naivety of the Nativity. What a wonderful, true naivety we view when we take the time to stoop down to look into the Manger of the Lord Jesus. There are at least eight striking situations which we would set forth as the Naiveties of the Nativity. These center around six persons and two groups: Zacharias, Elisabeth, Mary, Joseph, Simeon, Anna, the Shepherds, and the Wise Men. It is refreshing to view our Christmas Story with the artless, natural, ingenuous, and unaffected simplicity of these personalities.
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Who would have suspected ten years ago that which we are facing now in our society? Our country is accelerating at unprecedented speeds toward necessary changes to merge with other nations to establish a New World Order for the coming “Man of Sin” and for Satan’s final kingdom to face God and His Son. The “Day of Man” is coming to its prime vision in history. Any sense of innocence and simplicity in the former natural life of human existence in America is becoming but a dim memory. All of humanity is being forced to accept new concepts of thought—a new language, a new economy, a new approach to education, and a new concept of government—that is intelligently molding a new America and world. It is evident that God’s will is permitting man to have his free season of unrestrained disobedience; this willfulness will finally lead to a global confrontation with Christ before heaven ultimately sets up its righteous kingdom on earth.
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Postmodernism is the term that has come to describe the pervasive way of thinking in the Western world, particularly in the last twenty years. While the earliest seeds of postmodernism can be traced back to the writings of men such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Marx, and Freud, key men who solidified its place in contemporary philosophy include Geoffrey Hartman, Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Richard Rorty. The New Age movement has helped to distribute this philosophy into the general culture of societal thinking today.
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With this subjective presupposition the postmodernists do not believe that anything, including so-called science, can tell us what is real; what is real is only what scientists believe to be real at that particular time in history. Because even scientific concepts are not immune to subjective currents in language and culture, no one can claim any scientific objectivity about the world. Reality remains only what is real to the subjective perspective of each individual—as a result, Feyerabend declares, “anything goes.” 
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At three critical moments in history, God intervened and radically changed humanity or delayed its intended aspirations. The first intervention was at the fall of man (Genesis 3). God came down in the cool of the day in the Garden of Eden and met the hiding Adam. He ultimately barred Adam from the Garden lest he should partake of the Tree of Life. This tree had the power to impart imperishable physical life: “Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever” (Gen. 3:22). Perhaps we must understand the conceptual power of this tree. No tree of itself can possess such virtue or inherent natural qualities; we must view this power through the Word of God, Who was pleased to ordain that such should be the effect of partaking of the fruit of this tree. …

The End Time of the last days is where we believe our present history finds us. The Bible prophetically characterizes this time as a global delusion sent by God whereby He gives the world over to the culminating powers of satanic deception, yet for a season. In the light of the intensifying depravity of mankind, such a season will give witness to the lowest ebb of human history, resulting from the long and persistent investment of Satan’s ploys in his quest to control mankind. The End Time is the prelude to Satan’s greatest and most mature hour. It will mark his collaboration with the leadership of humanity to bring about what he believes to be the overthrow of God on the planet Earth. It will culminate with his ultimate covenant with the Man of Sin, the Antichrist. …

While this world continues its collision course with God and His appointed Tribulation Period, there are two dominant powers that control today’s world system. The first power is New Atheism, as addressed in the previous article. The second power, Postmodernism, has become the philosophical heartbeat of the world today. Over the many centuries since the first coming of Christ, a great number of godless and destructive philosophies have been birthed from the matriarchal womb of Humanism. By far, its worst offspring is the growing child of postmodernism, a philosophy that has arisen in the aftermath of modernism. …

In our last issue of Straightway, we observed the radical changes that Pope Francis has brought to not only the façade but also the religious and governmental infrastructure of Roman Catholicism. We must acknowledge that Pope Francis is definitely the religious and ideological product of Vatican II (1962–1965). Unlike the First Vatican Council (1870), the Second Council provided the permissions this pope needed to craft a radical “face-lift” of Romanism and make crucial administrative changes. …

There are two contrasting powers within the Roman Catholic Church today. Yet to some extent they are being manipulated by the same prince of darkness, Satan himself. These two influential powers are the order of Jesuit priests and the more recent lay organization called Opus Dei (presented fully in the concluding article). These two groups are playing major roles in the promotion of Romanism each from its own perspective. They are presently in a satanic struggle with one another for supremacy in the future Romanist Church. In this article we desire to briefly explore the Order of Jesuits, or properly called “The Society of Jesus.” …

Amidst the complex maze found globally in the Roman Catholic Church, the vying powers of influence are unending. Some of these, such as the Order of the Jesuits, are more pervading than others. Their influences are detectable from the local parish to the universal perspective of the Roman Church. From a public perspective, the dark chain of command begins with the pontiff and his immediate staff and colleagues, and continues through the College of Cardinals at the Vatican and around the world; there is also the plenary scope of bishops with their web of subordinates; then there is the multi-faceted corps of mendicant orders (which include men and women); and finally, there are the local priests and lay organizations. Collectively, this labyrinth of organizations is the ubiquitous extension of the pontiff, his ears, eyes, and presence by proxy. He is portrayed as the “voice of God,” Christ’s chief shepherd on earth, yea, His very “vicar” on earth. …

Our purpose in this Straightway issue is to take a candid look at three areas of End-time concern arising in the religious media. Whereas the first area relates to the papacy, the second area con-cerns the present description of Romanism as the “Mother Harlot.” The third area regards the controversial “red moons” or “blood moons” that have be-come of great concern both to the Jewish religious leaders of our present day as well as Neo-Evangelical and Charismatic pastors. …

Roman Catholicism, the oldest continuing apostasy of Christianity, has been a historical enigma for centuries. A “mystery of iniquity” has been the rotting heart underneath her public veneer of a self-proclaimed “representation of Christ on earth.” Even from pre-Reformation times, the Roman Catholic Church has been viewed as the Mother Harlot of Revelation 17. Its extravagant wealth, pomp and circumstance have been part of an elaborate cover-up of this Kingdom of the Tares; it has been a church that has entered the gates of hell (Hades) where it resides in death. Its history from the early Crusades and subsequent reign of terror of the Papal Inquisitions has left the Vatican with more innocent blood on its hands than all the twentieth-century dictators, such as Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, and Saddam Hussein, put together. Although End-time political governments certainly have had their cover-ups of deception and oppression, Romanism has risen to be the greatest of all deceptions. Proclaiming to be under the cloak of Christ, she presents herself as the bride of Christ, the papacy as Christ’s Vicar, and the Roman Church as the only church accepted by God. …

The contemporary voices and self-proclaimed interpreters of Jewish prophecy (such as John Hagee) have created great concern in the Neo-Evangelical and Charismatic churches over the re-appearances of “red” or (as they have identified them) “blood” moons. Because these men believe such moons are part of the End-time fulfillment of biblical prophecy, they are warning the Evangelical world of some inevitable judgment or earthshaking event which will occur soon. 
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