Growing up, I was told that the future wasn’t going to bright for the earth. I would be fine because I would “go in the rapture.” This, of course, led to the moments in my life where I thought I had been “left behind.” Such an evil little eleven-year-old, I was. The left-behind world was going to unite under a single leader who would head up the New World Order, which would be evil incarnate. Eventually, I grew up and left those “strange, fundamentalist” views behind. I became “educated” in the truth of the matter. I learned about the “amillennialist” view that basically the book of Revelation was just telling us that God would ultimately overcome. After all, for generations people have believed that they were the “final generation.” God was coming back in their lifetime, and their proof was the “obvious signs.” This is why, even though I did believe in the rapture, I didn’t believe it would happen in my time (by the time I got to college).
Leaving the issue of the rapture behind, I want to talk about another part of this whole interpretation of Revelation. That is, the New World Order. No this term isn’t in the Bible, but neither is “rapture” or “Trinity.” Do I need to stop here and let that sink in? The question is whether or not the concept of the New World Order (hereafter, NWO) is biblical. At the risk of coming across as a fanatical fundamentalist, I think it is present. To me, the question isn’t whether or not the NWO is coming; its whether or not it has any significance to the events in the book of Revelation. I think we as a world aren’t far off (by this I mean within 25-75 years) from this NWO.
Okay, at this point let me say this. This is a theory. I’ll try to give you truths, but the reality is that these truths are just dots in a sky. You have to trace the outline to make sense of it all. One has to connect the dots to come to the conclusion that there really is a NWO coming. I don’t know there is. I’m not saying this will happen. What I’m saying is that some of the things I’ve read and seen scare me. This subject will require many posts so if you're going to take the red pill, then follow it to its ultimate conclusion before you make any judgments.
Let me tell you how this started. I’ve been doing a class on the Church of God’s Declaration of Faith. The final two points (of the 14) are about eschatology (the end times). I’ve been doing a lot of research on the issue because I didn’t receive much education on the issue at Lee. I came across a lot of compelling information for the Preterist viewpoint, which basically claims that Revelation isn’t futuristic but a past event. In this framework, "John" is just saying that Christians will prevail over the evil Roman Empire and their persecuting Emperors like Nero (who is “the beast”). Well, while looking up stuff on that, I also found out a lot about globalization or the New World Order and the related “The New Age Movement.” I’m going to say some things below that I will try to back up with sources. (I used wikipedia as a source, but I made sure it wasn’t just garbage by double checking it and by using my own knowledge of the subject matter. I used wikipedia because it tends to pull a lot of information together into one spot—itself.)
Believe me, the rest will be a lot more interesting than this was, but this was necessary to explain why I got here and where I intend to go.
Next:
Part 1 will cover the purpose of the New World Order (globalization) and its religious connections.
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