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                           Galloping Globalism
                          by Rev. N.W. Hutchings

     Globalism,  by definition,  is the envisioned  utopian  state  of
mankind   whereby   all  national  and  international  barriers,   now
separating the human race into various nations,  are eliminated.  When
these  barriers  are eventually liquidated,  all peoples on earth will
subscribe to one religion,  one system of  economics,  and  will  give
allegiance  to  one  world  government.   As  long  as  present  world
economic,   religious,   and  governmental   barriers   remain,   this
globalistic estate cannot be achieved.
     According  to the Prophetic Word of God,  Satan,  during the last
seven years of this present age,  will make a supreme attempt to bring
about  a  global  world  so  he can forever add this planet to his own
kingdom (government) and prevent the return of Jesus  Christ:  And  it
was given unto him to make war with the saints,  and to overcome them:
and power was given him over all kindreds,  and tongues,  and nations.
And  all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him,  whose names are
not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the  foundation
of  the  world...  And he had power to give life unto the image of the
beast,  that the image of the beast should both speak,  and cause that
as  many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bon,
to recieve a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that
no man might buy or sell,  save he that had the mark,  or the name  of
the beast, or the number of his name (Rev. 13:7,8 15-17).
     In  the Bible it is prophesied that in the last days one man will
be given governmental power over  all  nations,  regardless  of  race,
religion,  or language.  This man will also enforce a common system of
economics;  no individual will work,  buy,  or sell  except  by  state
permission.  There will also be one religion - everyone will worship a
new god, the Antichrist, or be killed.
     Regardless of the utopian promises of the internationalists, one-
worlders  and  globalists,  there  is  no  way  to  tear down existing
national,  economic and religious barriers except through a process of
universal  execution.  For  example,  there  is  no  way  to  attain a
marriage between communism and capitalism;  no way leaders of the free
world and the communist world will agree on a common govenment; no way
Moslems,  Jews,  Buddhists  and  Christians  will  meet  in communion,
brotherhood and assemble except under penalty of death.  In  order  to
attain  a globalist society,  Satan will offer a new age,  a new world
not tied to political systems, economics,  or gods of religions rooted
in ages past.  Even so,  how many still will refuse, under sentence of
death,  to deny  their  country  or  their  god?  The  Prophetic  Word
indicates hundreds of millions, and possibly billions, will die in war
or  by  state  execution  for  the  witness of Jesus...  (beheading in
Rev.20:4).
     In considering the evolution of the global concept  for  mankind,
we  begin with God's blessing upon Noah and the patriarch's seed after
the Flood.  God then divided the human race into nations, according to
the seventy grandsons of  Noah.  According  to  Genesis  9,  Acts  17,
Romans 13, 1 Timothy 2, and many other Scriptures, God established the
nations according to race,  colorc language and then set the bounds of
these nations.  These different peoples, according to God's will, were
to   appoint   rulers   to   establish   governments.    The   primary
responsibility  of  government is to maintain social order through the
administration  of  justice;   to  wit,  protection  the  innocent  by
diligently  prosecuting  the guilty - the ultimate penalty being death
for murder.  The secondary responsibility of government  is  to  grant
every citizen freedom of religious expression, whereby each individual
is  given  the opportunity to know the truth that Jesus Christ is both
Lord and Saviour of all who believe in Him.  The purpose for  dividing
the  world  into nations was to prevent the spiritual contamination of
all mankind as had occurred before the Flood.
     From about 2450 B.C.  until 1945 A.D.  (a period of approximately
4400  years)  the  world,  for  the  most  part,  operated  within the
political framework outlined in God's ordinance for human  government.
It  is  true  some  nations rose and fell;  some became aggressors and
consumed other nations.  But in the course of time, these empires fell
and national boundaries were restored.  However,  at the beginning  of
the  20th  century.  a  prophecy of Daniel had a pivotal effect on the
future course of history:  But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words,  and
seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,
and  knowledge shall be increased (Daniel 12:4).  Steamships,  trains,
telegraph, radio, television, etc... the world suddenly became smaller
and smaller.  Through increased knowledge,  along with development  of
rapid communications and faster methods of travel, nations thoughts of
miles  apart  suddenly  became  next  door  neighbors!  An undesirable
consequence of the fulfillment of Daniel's prophecy is wars  increased
in size and intensity.
     After   World   War   I,   many  of  the  world's  most  profound
intellectuals and politicians concluded  nations  must  resolve  their
problems  and  differences  without war or mankind eventually would be
destroyed.
     Thus,  the  League  of  Nations,   and  international  forum  for
representation  from  all  nations,  was formed to meet and peacefully
settle national conflicts without ware.  The  United  States  did  not
join  the  League  of Nations,  because at that people did not want to
relinquish any degree  of  national  sovereignty.  Most  nations  that
became  members only gave "lip service" to the organization,  much for
the same reason.
     Nevertheless,  the  seeds  for  the  international  community  of
nations   was   planted.   These   seed  were  carefully  nurtured  by
individuals like John Dewey in the American educational system.
     Just two decades after World  War  I,  came  World  War  II.  The
second  world war exceeded the first world war many-fold in both scope
and casualties.  Even though the framework  for  a  new  international
forum of nations had been laid.  World War II ended with the explosion
of  two  atomic bombs over Japan.  This dramatic and awesome ending to
the most destructive war waged on planet  earth  served  as  proof  to
internationalism  advocates  that  international  institutions must be
established,  or man surely would destroy himself and all other living
things.
     Presto,  the League of Nations was reborn under a new  name  -The
United  Nations.  Birthed  with the United Nations was a host of other
international social,  political,  and economic entities which were to
help   bring   UN   membership   into   a  trusting,   interdependent,
international relationship.  Just a few of  these  organizations  are:
International   City  Managers'  Association;   International  Control
Commission;  International Court of  Justice;  International  Monetary
Fund;   International   Peace  Corps;   and  the  International  Trade
Organization.
     Since 1945 there have been a series of major  wars  (Korean  War,
South  Vietnam  War and other serious political and economic struggles
with the Communist world) in which the United States  has  played  the
"international   good-neighbor"   role   to  the  hilt.   Through  the
International Monetary Fund,  the U.S.  gave gold  to  other  nations;
through the Marshall Plan,  it built up its most deadly foes,  Germany
and Japan, into major, industrial comepetitors;  and through retention
of its United Nations membership, it bor the bore burden of cost while
being  constantly  attacked  by  at  least  three-fourths  of  the  UN
membership.
     In our schools we are allowing the disciples of  internationalism
to  indoctrinate  our  childred with their gospel.  Dr.  C.M.  Pierce,
Harvad University,  stated at a  convention  of  teachers  in  Denver,
Colorado  in  1973:  Every  child in American who enters school at age
five is mentally ill,  because he  comes  to  school  with  allegiance
toward our elected officials,  toward our founding fathers, toward our
institutions,  toward the preservation of this form  of  government...
patriotism,  nationalism,  sovereighty...   All  of  that  proves  the
children are sick,  because the truly well individual is one  who  has
rejected  all  of  those  things  and  is  what  I would call the true
international  child  of  the  future.   Professor  Pierce  and  other
internationalism  advocates  did  not understand that internationalism
would be short lived.  While the course of mankind,  in  the  economic
and  political sense,  has been directed mainly through the channel of
internationalism since 1945, today it is the throes of death.
     Internationalism has given way to  Globalism.  Those  who  equate
internationalists  with  globalists  make  a  serious error.  Even the
League of Nations - now the United Nations,  and related agencies like
the  International Monetary Fund,  recognize the existence of nations.
Globalism   acknowledges   no   boundaries,    either   national    or
international.  While  modern  Paul  Reveres  have been running up and
down the street shouting,  "The Internationalists  are  coming!",  the
globalist wolf has entered our kitchen through the back door and eaten
our  lunch.  For  the first time in history,  why do foreign investors
and industrialists  own  more  property  in  the  United  States  then
Americans  own in other countries?  Why can't President Reagan reverse
the balance-of-trade deficit that  has  now  exceeded  $150-billion  a
year?  Why  can't  the American auto and steel industries be protected
against lower-price foreign  imports?  The  answer  to  all  of  these
questions  is  galloping globalism.  To illustrate,  we quote from the
July 8, 1985 edition of Industry Week, from an article titled "The Now
Global Game,  One World-One Market":  The world economic order created
and sustained by the Industrial Revolution, and brought to its keenest
cutting edge following World War II, is fading.  Old power structures,
alliances,  and  consumer  values  - all the old gods that underpinned
international politics and global competition -  are  being  reshaped.
And   the   forces   driving   these   changes  -  including  advanced
communications system - have set in motion some far-reaching economic,
political,  and psychological tremors.  In the accompanying  paranoia,
nations  have  resorted  to  fingerpointing,   grumbling,  and  veiled
threats.  And tensions are certain to grow as the  new  'global  game'
unfolds.  Thomas Campbell,  a Stanford University law professor,  sees
the world steadily drifting toward a paralysis of trade.  'It could be
as  severe  as the which fueled the Great Depression,' he warns.  'The
world is on the  verge  of  reverting  into  hostile  camps.  All  the
efforts  that nations have made since World War II in opening up trade
are now in peril. 'Charlies L.  Brown, chairman of AT&T Co., also sees
the world at a crossroads.
     'We   can   follow  an  expansive  approach  and  seek  increased
international cooperation,' he says.  'Or we can opt for a restricting
approach  and  withdraw behind the walls of protectionism and national
pride.'
      At  stake  in  all  of  this  is  the  future  of  the  'global'
corporation,  which  scholars  view as distinct from the multinational
corporation.
      The global corporation, they point out,  tends to view the world
as  a  homogenous  market rather than a collection of separate markets
with  unique  requirements.   Professor  Theodore  Levitt  at  Harvard
Business  School,  one  of  the  most respected marketing minds in the
country,  has long been a champion of the global corporation  and  the
'globalization'  or  markets.  'What  we  are  dealing  with here,' he
declares, 'is a implacable force; a tide and not a wave.'
      While we weep not at  the  grave-site  of  internationalism,  at
least  the  internationalists professed to have a concern for the poor
and underprivileged in all nations.  While tears of the  international
one-worlders  for  suffering  humanity  are  mostly  of  the crocodile
variety, the globalists do not even pretend to have a conscience.  Who
cares if a million auto workers lose their jobs in the  United  States
because  of lower priced imports?  Their loss will balance out against
a gain in the Orient or Europe.  Here is how the global game works  as
we  quote  again from the article in Industry Week:  "The only playing
card that some countries have is their pool  of  low-cost  labor,  but
with factory automation, this is becoming less of a bargaining chip.
      Moreover, the spread of technology has created a worldwide labor
pool  -  one in which workers in one country actively compete for jobs
with workers elsewhere.  A case in point: workers in Barbados now earn
$2.50 an hour keypunching data into American Airlines computers.
      Previously, the task was done by 200 U.S.  workers in Tulsa, who
earned $6.50 an hour."
     Because  of  expanding  global  technology,  communications,  and
investment interests,  worker in one country can,  by the flick  of  a
switch, take over jobs being performed by workers in another country.
     American  Airlines  saved  $6,400  a  day  by  having  workers in
Barbados do the same job that workers in Tulsa were  doing.  This  was
made   possible  through  a  world-wide,   computerized  communication
network.
     But  what  about the workers in Tulsa?  What will happen to them?
A few may find  employment  elsewhere,  but  most  will  experience  a
difficult period of financial adjustment.  This difficult situation in
Tulsa is being multiplied many times over in other cities, and it will
continue  to worsen unless American workers are willing to adjust to a
global work scale.  The article in Industry Week points out within the
next 15 years an additional 600 million,  trained workers  will  enter
the  global  work  force.  Because  it will be suicidal for workers to
strike,  unions will become a thing of the past.  Necessity will bring
about  an  equalization  of the wage scale on a global basis under the
global economic system,  the only recourse for industry and workers in
the  United  States  is  a  tariff  on  imports  and foreign services.
However,  for reasons  we  later  explain,  protectionism  will  bring
foreign banking reprisals that could possible result in total economic
collapse.
     It  also stands to reason,  and the globalism article in Industry
Week contends,  global economics is bringing with it serious political
and  psychological  changes.   The  word,   psychological,   is  often
substituted for religious.  While  global  advocates  do  not  overtly
declare  man  lives  by  bread alone,  they do contend the food on the
family table determines a man's political  views.  And,  according  to
Revelation 13, men will one day be forced to worship the Antichrist as
god in order to get it!
     There  already is developing an alarming global control of labor,
industry, commerce, banking and communications.  Today, we see a giant
step taken to that point when every person will be under  the  control
of a single authority,  and all will work, buy, and sell using numbers
for names and code  marks  for  identification  and  exchange  values.
According to the Bible,  the bringing on of such a global society will
result in more deaths than claimed in all past wars  in  history.  But
for Christians this is an even greater reason to discern the 'signs of
the times' and be prepared for our Lord's return.
     As we continue  discussing  "Galloping  Globalism",  a  prophetic
overview relating to Bible projections,  keep in mind internationalism
and  globalism  are   separate   entities.   As   previously   stated,
internationalism   entails   the   cooperation   of   nations   on  an
interdependent basis;  globalism recognizes  no  national  borders  or
barriers.
     The  United  States'  economic  system  traditionally is based on
capitalism,  commonly referred  to  as  "free  enterprise."  But  when
Americans speak of "free enterprise" on an ultimate, global scope.
     The  chief  apostle  of  global free trade and commerce is Milton
Friedman.  Mr.  Friedman's dissertation on economics appears in  major
newspapers,  magazines,  and  television production.  We quote from an
article by him titled "Protectionism Won't Cure U.S.  Trade Imbalance"
(Human  Events,  8/17/85):  Producers  in  many industries - including
auto,  steel,  and textile - have been telling Congress that they need
higher  tariffs,  tighter import quotas and other trade impediments...
they say they cannot compete with  foreign  producers.  They  cite  as
'proof'  our  $100 billion plus-excess of imports over exports...  The
chief sufferers would be U.S. consumers and export industries, notably
agriculture.  Rather than raising our trade  barriers,  we  should  be
lowering  them...  Some  jobs  are  lost  in  export  industries or in
industries competing with imports.  Those are visible.  More jobs  are
gained  in other parts of the economy...  What should we do?  The best
solution would be  to  dismantle  all  trade  barriers  over  a  brief
transition period... say five years... to give the affected industries
a chance to adjust.
     While  Mr.  Friedman  is  considered to be a 'purist' by economic
conservatives,  what he actually  preaches  is  global  economics.  He
advocates  the  abolishing of all national barriers against free trade
and commerce throwing the world markets open to  the  best  goods  and
services offered at the lowest price,  whether the producer is located
in Japan,  the Common Market,  or  the  Soviet  Union.  And  what  Mr.
Friedman  carefully  avoids  is  the  contemporary  wage scale and the
standard of living of the average American worker.  There  is  no  way
the U.S.  auto industry can produce and automobile with $20.00 an hour
labor that will compete with a Japanese automobile made with $10.00 an
hour  labor.  The  same  reality  applies  to  shoes  made  in  Italy;
electrical household appliances made in South Korea;  or garments made
in  Hong Kong and Singapore.  If there are to be no trade barriers and
and a global economy, then as a globalist state, there also would be a
global economy,  then as a globalist state,  there  also  would  be  a
global  standard  wage,  meaning U.S.  workers in key industries would
have to take huge cuts in wages.
     President  Reagan  has  threatened  to  introduce   protectionist
measures against Japan and the Common Market in December of this year.
The question is - Can he do so without an accompanying collapse of the
banking industry and a related political, global revolution?  We quote
again  from  the  article  "The  New  Global  Game" (7/8/85 edition of
Industry Week):  Other segments of the financial community are jumping
on  the  bandwagon.  Talks  are underway to link the stock exchange of
New York, London, and Tokyo.  Observes Harvard's Prof. Levitt:
    One of the most powerful and yet least celebrated ways in which we
see commerce being driven toward global standardization is through the
monetary system  and  the  international  investment  process.'  Japan
leaped  into  global  finance  with  both  feet.  Of  the  ten largest
international banks,  five are Japanese,  three are American,  one  is
British,  one is French.  But for all the power, the world finance has
a less tangible impact on countries than the location  of  plants  and
the  production  and  distribution  of  goods.  So  the  use of world-
shrinking technology  by  giant  manufacturing  companies...  is  more
likely to give nations continuing migraines.  'Countries are in charge
of territory,' points out David B.  Abernathy,  professor of political
science at Stanford.
    'Huge  companies  pose  a  challenge to national sovereignty.' The
article continues to point out that possibly by 1990, global economics
will control the political and  psychological  complexion  -  probably
meaning  the religions,  of all nations.  It should also be noted that
many references are made to international banking  being  an  integral
part  of  the  new  economic and political order.  To cite a speciffic
example of the parasitic  relationship  of  international  banking  to
global economics, we refer to the case of Penn Square Bank of Oklahoma
City,  located about two miles north of the offices of Southwest Radio
Church.  Penn Square Bank  was  a  thriving  and  progressive  banking
establishment.  Its  primary  investments were in the oil industry and
related energy  companies.  Suddenly  there  was  a  world  oil  glut;
thousands of drilling efforts shut down.  The mortgages and notes held
by  Penn  Square  became  worthless;  the  bank  went  bankrupt almost
overnight.
     On May 28,  1985,  I was in San Francisco to meet our tour  group
heading  for  the Orient.  While waiting in a hotel room,  I turned to
Channel 9 on local television.  A  public  television  program  titled
"Breaking  The  Bank",  a  production  of  television  station WGBH of
Boston,  was  in  progress.  According  to  the  program,  Continental
Illinois  of  Chicago,  the  eighth largest bank in the United States,
backed Pen Square Bank in Oklahoma City.  When Penn Square  Bank  went
broke  Continental  Illinois  suffered  greatly,  but  because  of its
international connections,  it survived for a time.  But what happened
to  this bank within the next few months serves as a warning to all of
us.  We quote from the script of "Breaking The Bank" provided by WGBH:
     JUDY WOODRUFF (commentator):  At the same time,  Continental  and
other  American  banks  were  having  trouble collecting on loans from
Latin American countries who couldn't pay their debts... By the spring
of 1984,  Continental Illinois was a disaster waiting to happen.  Even
more  than most banks,  Continental depended on short-term speculative
money from around the world...  All it took was  a  gentle  push  -  a
breeze really - too topple Continental...  That push was provided by a
rumor in New York...  reported by a Japanese writer  working  for  the
Commodity News Service.
     According  to  the  story,  there was a possibility that Japanese
investors  might  be  considering  buying   Continental...   America's
proudest  banks were ripe for the picking...  The report went out over
the wire at 3:50 on a Tuesday afternoon...  In Tokyo,  it was  already
Wednesday...  And  it  was this story,  this rumor,  that panicked the
currency traders in Tokyo.
     This happened because of the way world  money  markets  work.  To
lend money, Continental needed a steady flow of money coming in: about
$8  billion  a  day  in mid-1984...  Much of this money came in quick,
short-term loans,  for no more than  a  day.  This  is  possible  only
through  modern  communications.  Traders  sitting  halfway around the
world supply money to other traders.  They're not trading real  money,
but  sending  figures on a computerized screen to people they've never
met.  It's fast and frantic... and it's all based on trust.
     Feeding on each others' fears...  Japanese traders withheld about
$1  billion  they  normally  would have loaned Continental that day...
The panic followed the  sun.  The  news  that  Japanese  traders  were
shunning Continental was waiting for traders when they came to work on
London,  Zurich,  Frankfurt, and the other big European money centers.
Now they,  too,  balked at lending to Continental.  As the sun rose on
New  York,  the  same  thing happened,  and finally on Chicago...  The
realization grew that Continental was near collapse - just  like  Penn
Square Bank two years earlier...
     The  whole  banking system is based on trust...  on the belief it
won't collapse.  If a bank as big as Continental  were  to  go  under,
trust  in  the entire system could have vanished.  And so,  within two
days - by Friday - the  crisis  spread  to  Washington,  to  the  U.S.
Treasury.
     In that city, worried men like FDIC Chairman, William Isaac,  and
Federal  Reserve Chairman,  Paul Volcker,  began talking of a bailout.
Acting quickly, the Fed loaned Continental more than $2 billion.
     It wasn't enough...  And so the nation's 16 biggest banks, led by
Morgan Guaranty of New York, rode to the rescue.
     Meeting secretly over the Mother's Day weekend,  the banks agreed
to loan Continental $4 1/2 billion.  It was a  powerful  statement  of
support  for  Continental - and it failed utterly.  Even a total of $7
1/2 billion wasn't enough ... And so, the government took over.
     The FDIC and  the  big  banks  pumped  another  $2  billion  into
Continental.   More   important,   they  guaranteed  all  deposits  at
Continental - not just those under $100,000.
     Commentator, William Isaac, FDIC Chairman: If we hadn't done what
we did,  we could have had a severe financial  crisis  throughout  the
world.  It  was  as  simple as that.  I don't know where it would have
stopped and I wasn't about to find out.
     Geoffrey Bell, International banker: A failure of a bank the size
of Continental Illinois  would  have  led,  without  question,  to  an
international banking crisis. (End of quote from "Breaking The Bank".)
     According  to no less an authority William Isaac,  FDIC Chairman,
the failure of a bank like Continental Illinois,  a bank  with  global
computerized  banking,  could destroy the entire international banking
system from Moscow, to Paris, to London,  to New york,  to Tokyo.  All
banking,  all  commerce,  all  personal checking accounts,  all saving
accounts could be wiped out everynight.  And what  would  we  have  to
replace the present banking system and the dollar?  I think Revelation
13:18 spells it out in great detail!
     Another  example  is  cited in the August,  1985,  edition of the
Washington Letter by Jack Anderson.  We quote: The banking industry is
the backbone of the U.S.  economy.  Unhappily, the economy has chronic
back trouble. ADVICE TO BANKERS: STOP KIDDING YOURSELVES.
     The nation's nine largest banks each have more than  100  percent
of  their  shareholders' equity loaned out to just four countries with
frighteningly  shaky  economies:   Argentina,  Brazil,   Mexico,   and
Venezuela.
     If  these  countries  follow  the  siren song of Fidel Castro and
repudiate their debts,  the nine big banks would be left with negative
net  worths,  their  shareholders  would  be  ruined,  and the federal
government would have to nationalize the banking  system.  This  is  a
nightmare  that  bankers  would like to believe will go away when they
wake up.  But the slow,  inexorable penetrating power of  inconvenient
facts is beginning to register: A sudden event could end up destroying
the  banking  system.  What  could cause the collapse?  Nobody can say
for sure...  Default on the billions in foreign loans, meanwhile,  has
been prevented by a series of patchwork 'rescheduling' expedients that
have only postponed the ultimate day of reckoning.
     Consider  this:  The  soviet block and Third World countries have
borrowed an incredible $700 billion  in  the  United  States  and  the
West...  my  sources  tell  me they expect the total to soar past $900
billion by 1990,  with interest charges alone coming  to  $55  billion
annually.  But  let's  get back to the possible collapse of vulnerable
Latin  American  economics.   This  could  not  only  lead   to   debt
repudiation  also the destruction of the U.S.  banking system.  That's
not all.
     Our Latin American neighbors are also essential trading partners,
buying about one-fifth of all our exports.  Also there  is  a  gnawing
fear  among  top  officials  that  a  precipitous deterioration in the
Mexican economy would loose a flood of  illegal  immigrants  over  the
border.  And,  of course,  Cuba and the Soviet Union would do whatever
they could to capitalize on the economic misery in Latin America...  A
confidential report circulating in the Treasury Department warns  that
the  number  of  problem banks and bank failures will rise to alarming
levels in the next few years... catastrophe is a great teacher.
     According  to  globalists,   the  present   national   political,
economic,  and banking systems must give way to the wave of the future
because there is no turning back.  A key to establishing a homogenized
unification  of  mankind  under  one  system  is  universal,   instant
communication  controlled by computerized economic control.  According
to an article in the August 26,  1985 edition of  U.S.  News  &  World
Report titled "Computer' Next Frontiers", the coming computers will be
able to listen,  talk, see, and come close to reading a person's mind,
and tell the individual what he needs to know.  They will even be able
to read lips,  and operate at speeds hundreds of times  the  speed  of
present computers.
     The  article  concludes:  Such  developments  are  close to being
available to anyone who wants them, said Charles lecht, who runs a New
York City consulting firm.  Adds Jack Huehier, head of development and
manufacturing at IBM: 'We're just at the beginning.  The technology is
running like crazy.  If we're smart enough to know how to  package  it
and use it, opportunites are unlimited.' Expectations have been raised
before by computer proponents but seldom with such confidence.
     As  technology  crosses  its  newest  frontiers  -  and computers
acquire the sensibilities of their human user -  the  grandios  claims
sound less like exaggeration and more like prophecy.
     There  is  a  new breed of globalists rising to the forefront who
manifest no conscience as far as the collaps of  the  current  banking
and  economic  system  is concerned.  They envision a new age emerging
within the next few years whereby all national political, and economic
system,  and possibly religions,  will  merge  into  one  huge  global
system.
      Quoting  again from the article,  "The New Global Game":  As the
global game heats up,  so much is at stake that,  in Europe and  Asia,
thee  is  growing  sentiment  for 'Japan Inc.' arrangements - that is,
governments and corporation joining forces to work their will  on  the
rest of the world... Conscious strategy or not, it does seem that U.S.
policymakers  have  awakened  to the fact that they must begin viewing
the world in global economic terms... If this is mere political window
dressing,  it nonetheless suggests that Japan has gotten  the  message
that  the  global  game  will  no longer be played by its rules alone.
Perhaps the next message to be delivered is that  there  is  only  one
earth on which we all live;  that all people,  their environments, and
their econonmics are interconnected;  that we  can't  afford  any  big
loser; and that we all have to win together.
     If, according to this global prophecy, this is to be, then who is
to  deliver  this message?  According to the Bible,  this could be the
message of a man who will have power over global economics,  politics,
and  religions.  This man is identified as the Antichrist:  And he had
power to give life unto the image of the beast,  that the image of the
beast  should both speak,  and cause that as many as would not worship
the image of the beast should be  killed.  And  he  causth  all,  both
small and great,  rich and poor,  free and bond,  to receive a mark in
their right hand,  or in their forehead;  And that no man might buy or
sell,  save  he  that had the mark,  or the name of the beast,  or the
number of his name (Rev. 13:15-17)
     And who will refuse to become  world  citizens  and  worship  the
Antichrist  as God?  The answer is given in Revelation 13:7,8,  ...and
power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues,  and nations,  And
all  that  dwell  upon the earth shall worship him whose names are not
written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundations  of
the world.
     How  near  are  we to this day when everyone in the world will be
ordered to worship the Antichrist as god in order to get a  code  mark
or a number to work, buy, or sell?... We cannot say.  Current economic
and  political  news  indicates  we  may  be  nearer than most care to
believe.  The important question for  each  person  is,  "Is  my  name
written  in  the Lamb's book of life?  Have I received Jesus Christ as
my Saviour and LORD?!

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