Out here in the Antipodes as February begins everyone gets back to work and school and another working year begins in earnest. I wonder what it might bring forth, more of the same. Maybe the Lord will come back for His Church, caught up to be with the Lord in the clouds to be for ever with Him. Maybe His mercy will leave it another year, so as the gate of Heaven still stands open so that still more people can come to Him in faith.
Last month we dealt with the situation in the Middle East and what is happening there. This month we need to look more at the Western nations. We believe that there will be a future world government, prophesied in the Bible, and due to manifest itself in the future. It will originate in Europe. Referred to as the “Woman on a Scarlet Beast” [Rev 17:3]. It is undoubtedly the city of Rome as it refers to the Scarlet beast sitting on seven hills. There is one city notorious for being built on seven hills and that is Rome in Italy. Italy was a founder member of the European Union and it is also where the Roman Catholic Church has its base at the Vatican. [Rev 17:9]. The foundation document of the European Union was called the “Treaty of Rome”.
Something or someone is slowly changing the world to their own ends. There is certainly every indication that a world government is on its way. These meetings of the G8, or G20 including all the heads of important global nations to meetings on world financial problems, rebels, global warming, world trade and all manner of things are beginning to form a type of global governing body. We are told in the Bible that the Antichrist or Beast of Revelation [Rev 13:1-10] and his right hand man the Beast out of the Earth or False Prophet [Rev 13:11-18] will manifest themselves in the latter days. There will a world government, and a world universal church absorbing all religions and a unified monetary system.
The Church of Rome appears to be making overtures to other religions, in an effort to bring the leaders of these religions together for world peace discussions. This may appear to be very acceptable in the efforts of world peace but one can see it is a very short step between this and a universal world religion, which will at first be the worship of the “One True God” and end up worshiping the person of the Antichrist and guided by the False Prophet. [Dan 11:1-39]. The occult has featured largely in many of the great empires that have risen from various leaders. Certainly the most recent involving Hitler, Himmler and their reign of terror that spread through Europe last century. The first empire and ruler to create an empire was Nimrod who led people after the flood to build a tower and edifice to promote the power of men. Then they said “ Come let us build ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we will make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth”[Gen 11:4]. This was deliberately against God’s wishes, who told them to populate the whole earth [Gen 9:1-3]. Nimrod, who was behind the building of the tower of Babel and its city the City of Babylon, was definitely influenced by Satan who is ever seeking to make man disobey God. Later on, Rome became a great empire and the Emperor became in Caesar and in Nero’s day the object of worship, to deny God and in addition attempting to destroy the Christian Church.
It is interesting to note that the Strasburg European Union building is built in the form of the unfinished tower. Of Babel. The official information is that the design is based on the Coliseum in Rome, however the story goes round that it is based on the Tower of Babel, taken from the painting by Brugel the Elder [1563]. The official statement does not quite follow the obvious as their motto says “Europe: Many Tongues One Voice”. Outside the building is a statue of a woman riding a beast. This is supposed to be a statue of Europa, an ancient legend, but could be representative of the “Woman riding the Beast” of Revelation chapter 17. This is the future business and financial system which will control the world under the Antichrist [or Beast] and will be totally corrupt and will be destroyed by Christ at the end of the Tribulation. The fact is, that the European Union was originally set up by the Bilderbergers in 1958. In his opening speech William Van Duyn’s opening remarks to the Bilderberg meeting of 2014, stated “Since the creation of the Bilderberg meeting back in 1954, my father, also HRH Prince Bernard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, and Henry Kissinger, decided to organize an event to unite different entities from industry, politics and culture. After the fourth meeting back in 1958, the Bilderberg members put together the conditions of the “Treaty of Rome”. It was finally signed and the European Community was born with 6 states as members. Today the European Union contains 28 countries.
Next month we will go more deeply into the Illuminati, the Bilderberg Society, and their plans for the future and the present structure of nations which is committed to world government, a universal monetary system, and what the Bible predicts will happen [Rev 13:16-17]. That is if the Lord does not come and take us out of this world which is fast slipping into a world of sin, permissiveness and persecution of the Church. Are you looking for His coming? And are you ready?
Brian D. Papworth
Representative for the Prophetic Witness Movement International in the South Pacific.