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    Writings of Russell and Colin STANDISH

    The Final Unholy Alliance


    By Russell and Colin Standish


    The Papacy at its zenith of power ever allied itself with powerful states which agreed to do its biddings. By a mixture of threats, favors, and the dispensing of privileges, the Papacy adroitly achieved its aims. In the twenty-first century, no European power, not even the European Union, matches the United States in potency and influence. This situation developed in the last half of the twentieth century. It is only natural that the Roman Catholic Church would see it expedient to make every effort to form a liaison with the United States, despite that Protestants outnumber Roman Catholics in that nation.

    Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, two and a half years before he was elected Pope Pius XII, sailed for New York on October 8, 1936. There he was met by the young auxiliary bishop of Boston, Francis Joseph Spellman, only thirty-seven years of age. Later Spellman became the powerful Cardinal Archbishop of New York. Already Bishop Spellman had experience as a Vatican bureaucrat. In thirty days, Cardinal Pacelli, then the Vatican secretary of state, traveled 6,500 miles in America, visiting numerous cities and Catholic educational institutions. Most of the nation?s major cities were visited, including Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, St. Louis, St. Paul, San Francisco, and Washington, in addition to New York.


    It was during a visit with President Franklin Roosevelt that Pacelli received an assurance that the United States would once more forge diplomatic ties with the Vatican, ties that had been severed in 1867 before the Papal States were disbanded. But the Senate refused to permit Roosevelt's promise to become a reality. The President was forced to content himself with the appointment of Myron Taylor as his personal representative at the Holy See in 1940.

    Thus de facto diplomatic recognition was accorded. The United States Senate had severed diplomatic ties after Pope Pius IX issued his Syllabus of Errors which was deeply offensive to Protestants. A future alliance between the United States and the Vatican seemed impossible at that time, but God had spoken, and once more His Word would be fulfilled. So sensitive were Protestants to the Papacy in 1936 that Roosevelt dared not meet Pacelli until after the 1936 Presidential election had secured him a second term in office. How different from the 1996 election sixty years later, when President Bill Clinton saw papal contacts as an enhancement to his prospects of reelection!


    Pacelli, at that time, was the highest Vatican prelate ever to visit the United States. So great was the Vatican's confidence in the United States that it had invested heavily in Wall Street, only to see this means greatly reduced in the stock market crash of 1929. However, by 1935 it was again investing in blue-chip stocks in the United States (See J. F. Pollard, "The Vatican and the Wall Street Crash"). Pollard also claimed in his paper that in May 1939, the Vatican sent $7,665,000 worth of gold bars to the United States. This move provided cash for the Papacy during the war years. It was strange indeed that the predominantly Protestant United States was preferred to banks of Zurich, a city which is predominantly Roman Catholic.


    It cannot be doubted that Rome, recognizing that the United States would be useful for its purposes, sought to increase its influence in that nation. Already the large number of Irish, Italian, and Hispanic migrants had bolstered the number of adherents to the Roman Catholic faith in the United States, providing Rome with no little influence there.

    As early as the end of the nineteenth century, the Vatican had set its sights on the United States. The hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in the United States was celebrated with pomp and ceremony in the Cathedral of Baltimore on November 10, 1889. Archbishop Ireland gave an address entitled "The Mission of Catholics in America" which contains some statements of significance.


    Catholics of the United States are called . . . to make America Catholic. . . .

    The conversion of America should ever be present to the minds of Catholics in America as a supreme duty from which God will not hold them exempt. . . .

    The value of America to the cause of religion cannot be overestimated. This is a providential nation. . . . In the solution of social and political problems, no less than in the development of industry and commerce, the influence of America will be dominant among nations. There is not a country on the globe that does not borrow from us ideas and aspirations. The spirit of American liberty wafts its spell across seas and oceans, and prepares distant continents for the implanting of American ideas and institutions. This influence will grow with the growth of the nation. . . . The center of human action and influence is rapidly shifting, and at a no distant day America will lead the world. . . .

    We cannot but believe that a singular mission is assigned to America, glorious for itself and beneficent to the whole race, the mission of bringing about a new social and political order, based more than any other upon the common brotherhood of man, and more than any other securing to the multitude of the people social happiness and equality of rights. With our hopes are bound up the hopes of the millions of the earth. The Church triumphing in America, Catholic truth will travel on the wings of American influence, and encircle the universe.
    (John Ireland, The Church and Modern Society, 55-58)



    In 1894, The Catholic Standard and Times of November 3 spoke forthrightly, stating,

    The United States of America, it can be said without exaggeration, are the chief thought of Leo XIII. . . . A few days ago, on receiving an eminent American, Leo XIII said to him: "But the United States are the future; we think of them incessantly." . . . That is why Leo XIII turns all his soul, full of ideality, to what is improperly called his American policy. It should be called his Catholic universal policy. (Cited by Edwardson, Facts of Faith, 240)


    The report of "the third Washington conference" says: "Our purpose is to make America dominantly Catholic."- " The Mission Movement in America," issued from the Catholic University, Washington, D.C. June 1909. (Ibid.)


    Dr. Barrett, who was for many years in the Jesuit order, wrote in 1935 a remarkably frank account of the work of Catholic Action, which was established in the twentieth century. He left no doubt concerning its aims in America:

    In theory, Catholic Action is the work and service of lay Catholics in the cause of religion, under the guidance of the bishops. In practice it is the Catholic group fighting their way to control America. (Boyd Barrett, Rome Stoops to Conquer, 15)

    The effort, the fight, may be drawn out. It may last for five or ten years. Even if it lasts for twenty-what is twenty years in the life of Rome? The fight must be fought to a finish-opposition must be worn down if it cannot be swept away. Rome's immortal destiny hangs on the outcome. That destiny overshadows the land.


    Were Rome to fail to dominate American thought and American lives, her civilization, her moral code, all her glorious incredible dogmas would perish from the earth. Should Rome triumph, she will ascend to a higher state than ever she has enjoyed heretofore. Therefore she must win-if it be given her to win what, as she claims, God has promised-what her Prophets have foretold. Then will the vast West be hers wherein to set up anew her earthly kingdom. And in the fight, as she has ever fought when battles were most desperate in the past, Rome will use steel, and gold, and silvery lie. Rome will stoop to conquer.
    (Ibid., 266?267)


    At the time of Cardinal Pacelli's triumphant tour of the United States, the secular newspaper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press of November 4, 1936, commented,

    Pope Pius [XI] feels that the United States is the ideal base for Catholicism's great drive. . . . The Catholic Movement, Rome's militant organization numbering millions all over the world, will be marshaled direct from Rome by Monsignor Pizzardo-next to Pacelli the Holy See's shrewdest diplomat and politician-instead of by the local bishops as before. (Cited by Christian Edwardson, Facts of Faith, 241.)

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    ...continuing:

    Pacelli had visited St. Paul in Minnesota, sited across the river from Minneapolis. This report indicated that even before the United States assumed its post-war drive for world dominance, the Vatican had its sights firmly focused upon that nation.

    But not all Protestants were asleep to one successful means Rome employed in her quest for influence in the United States. United States Senator Thomas E. Watson in 1928 wrote,


    In the public schools the Catholics have stealthily introduced textbooks written by Jesuits; and your children are being taught, that the Roman church was misunderstood in the past; that its doctrines are not fatal to humanity and gospel religion; that its record is not saturated with the blood of the innocent millions, murdered by papal persecutors, and that there never was such a monstrosity as the alleged sale of papal pardons of sins.

    The Catholics denounce secular education and public schools?why? Because under the papal system, the child is never to be permitted to do its own thinking. . . .

    Educate youth in this Catholic way, and the consequences are logical: the children graduate in obedience; feel no divine thirst for free knowledge; depend upon authority, rather than upon investigation; cringe to the priest; look to him for guidance and control; lose mental self-reliance, and gradually cease to be liberals, progressives, democrats, republicans, believers in the capacity of the people to govern themselves.
    (Roman Catholics in America, 5.)


    There was no question that Rome had to alter Protestant perceptions in order to fulfill the prophetic word that the United States would become a tool of papal policy. The education system, in itself, could fulfill this role perfectly.


    But the Roman Catholic Church had other means at its disposal. While the Roman Catholic priest, Patrick Henry O'Brien, may have let his Irish zeal run a little riot, nevertheless his letter to former priest and later Protestant minister, Dr. Domenica of Philadelphia, reveals what was in the minds and hearts of other priests.

    We the hierarchy of the Holy Roman Catholic church expect all loyal children of the Church to assist the President [Franklin Roosevelt] with all our strength to see that the individuals comprising the United States Supreme Court shall obey the President's injunctions. And if necessary we will change, amend or blot the present Constitution, so that the President may enforce his or rather our humanitarian program on all phases of human rights as laid down by our saintly popes and the Holy Mother the Church. . . .

    We are going to have our laws made and enforced according to the teachings of our Holy See, and the popes and the Canon Law of the papal throne. Our entire social structure must be rebuilt on that basis. Our educational laws must be construed to the end that atheism, the red peril of all blathering isms-Protestantism, Communism, Socialism and all others ilk and stamp, be driven out of this fair land.

    The cross was planted on our shores by a staunch, loyal Roman Catholic [Columbus]. This land belongs to us by every right. Long enough have we compromised on every important question. Now we demand what is really ours, and we are going to have it. We will support our President in every way to obtain it, peacefully, honestly if we may. If necessary we are ready to fight and die for it. . . .

    We want as cabinet members, children of the Holy Mother Church, holding important positions in the entire structure of our government. . . .

    We elected our worthy President by the greatest majority ever recorded in history. . . .

    We control America and don't propose to stop until America, or the Americans are genuinely Catholic and remain so. God help us.
    (Domenica, Is Washington in the Grip of the Roman Church? 23-24)


    Thus the judiciary, executive, and legislature of the country has been targeted to assist the aims of the Roman Church. While Rome steadily pursued its agenda, much of Protestantism slept. A remarkable ally for the aims of the Papacy was found in Evangelical Protestantism when, largely through the sale of the Scofield Bible, especially in the Southern States of America in the early twentieth century, Cyrus Scofield's notes within that Bible were virtually accepted as truth. Those notes neutralized the Bible evidence that the Papacy is the antichrist and in its place promoted the Jesuit view invented by the sixteenth-century Jesuit priest Francisco Ribera-that the antichrist was a future evil individual who would pursue a vile agenda for three and a half years at the end of time.


    Further, Scofield promoted another concept devised by a Spanish Jesuit priest. Manuel de Lacunza y Dias, using the pseudonym, Rabbi Juan Josafat Ben-Ezra, ministering in Chile, espoused the non-biblical theory of the secret rapture in the late eighteenth century. This fiction was grasped by Scottish evangelist, Edward Irving in 1827 and years later accepted by Cyrus Scofield via the teachings of John Darby, the founder of the Plymouth Brethren faith.

    Blinded by these Jesuit-inspired errors, Evangelical Protestants were lulled to sleep. Losing their Scriptural moorings and cast adrift on a sea of error, they slept while Rome's agenda was pushed very successfully. (See The Evangelical Dilemma, by Colin and Russell Standish, listed in the back of this book.)

    The renowned Roman Catholic scholar and prelate, Cardinal Alfred Baudrillart of France, after recounting the fearful history of papal persecution, then proceeded to quote the words of Monsignor d'Hulst:


    The intervention of the secular power in the cause of heresy has left memories which haunt the imagination of our contemporaries like a nightmare. Many men of divers opinions find in this the great scandal of ecclesiastical history. Our deadly enemies find herein matter for furious assaults, whilst our kindly adversaries here encounter the stumbling-block which prevents their return to us. Indeed, even among our friends and our brothers we find those who dare not look this problem in the face. They ask permission from the church to ignore or even to deny all those acts and institutions in the past, which have made orthodoxy [Catholicism] compulsory. (The Catholic Church, the Renaissance and Protestantism, 183-184)


    It is a grave sin to hate Roman Catholics. They are entitled to our love. They must be assured of the religious liberty to believe, practice, and promote their beliefs as long as such practice does not interfere with the same freedom of others. But it is a fearful mistake, with far reaching consequences, to blind ourselves to the Papacy's awful history and prophesied future persecution. In so doing, American Protestantism has denied its roots and ceased the mighty protest from which its very name is derived.


    The British professor at Harvard University, Harold Laski, clearly saw the trends in these matters in the United States when he wrote in The Nation of December 13, 1947:

    I add, with both hesitation and regret, my feeling that a good deal of what is most reactionary in the political and social life of America today is directly traceable to the influence of a militant Roman Catholic church, which is as much the expression of the purposes of a foreign power as any influence exerted by the Communist party. . . . No other body has devoted itself so consistently to poisoning the relations between Russia and the United States. It protects child labour; it is building, from infant school to university, its own educational imperium in imperio [empire within an empire]. It has immense influence over the movie industry, not least where films of a political complexion are concerned. It plays a major part in the repression of freedom of speech. . . . It is attempting with subtlety and skill to establish a concealed control of trade unions in cities where there is a large Roman Catholic population. I doubt whether there are three Americans today whose authority, direct and indirect, counts for more than that of the Cardinal-Archbishop of New York.

    And to this must be added the curious and significant fact that the members of the Roman Catholic church seem able, like their co-religionists in Great Britain, to obtain pivotal posts in the foreign service, exercising a power of infiltration which must make members of the Communist party feel that they are infants at the game.

    Anyone who measures Roman Catholic strength in the United States today with what it was a generation ago cannot fail to be impressed by its growth, as well as perturbed by its direction. Spain apart, I doubt whether there is any country in the world today in which its authority is greater than in America.
    (Cited in The Christian Century, December 31, 1947)


    If these conclusions were true well over half a century ago, how much further has the United States progressed under the skillful posturing of Roman Catholic clerics toward the single-minded goals of the Papacy to control the political, legislative, and judicial agendas of the greatest nation of history!


    Excerpt from the book Two Beasts, Three Deadly Wounds, and Fifteen Popes, by Russell and Colin Standish.
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    That explains a lot! Thank you.

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    Washington In the Lap of Rome, Justin Dewey Fulton

    Rome In America


    The pontifex maximus Sc?vola thought it expedient that the people should be deceived in religion; and the learned Varro said plainly, that there are many truths, which it is useless for the vulgar to know; and many falsities which it is fit the people should not suppose are falsities. (Note: Vid Augustin. de civ. Dei, B. 4 [...].) Hence comes the adage "Mundus vult decipi, decipiatur ergo."
    Why do some or many lawyers deceive? If the policy of Roman State and Roman Religion were to deceive upon what of it can one safely believe?

    Snippet from "The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated":
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    "The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius
    "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter." Proverbs 25:2
    Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Thess. 5:21.

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    I am of the unequivocal mystery school - A Course in Miracles. Jesus led an apocalyptic mystery cult. I also study The Science of Mind.




    Only Jesus' of those spoke in parables.

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    But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the children of God, even to them that believe on his name (John 1:12).
    Key difference is that of (a) becoming God and (b) becoming sons of God.
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    Being a son of God or being the light (rather than bearing the light) seems to bring with it a habit of shining light rather than creating shadows. This is might be where the line of distinction is drawn between "children of darkness" and "children of light". As in the former lie so that the form and fabric of their lie goes undiscovered. The latter (i.e. "children of light") are all about truth in support of the expansion of the kingdom of heaven (i.e. "the more the merrier" as contrasted with the scarcity-based mindset).

    On one hand, I get that there are some scientific concepts one might hope the most base man wouldn't figure out for all of the damage he might do if he knew. Similarly, there are those who are too lazy enough and could hardly be bothered with .. something 'pesky' like reading or learning anything more than how to stuff their pie holes and 'fulfill' various bodily functions. So yes this reminds me of a quote that has accompanied for a long, long time perhaps as a kind of 'mantra':

    It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.
    On the other hand...an interesting snippet....

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    Debt and Grace: As Related to the Doctrine of a Future Life (Charles Frederic Hudson)
    If Pilate knew of no kingdom of truth then of what kingdom was Pilate? One of light or one of darkness?

    When "we ought protect the mysteries" is code for "I hope they don't ever find out that we're lying to them!"... well its pretty clear whether it would be of light or of darkness. At the same time, I consider many that I've encountered along the way who could care less about anything as stated above but things like bowel movements but yet who became envious because I was successful in applying truth.

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    But I have also encountered those who knowing full well what they are doing did place counterfeits, traps, snares who despise the kingdom of heaven and who despise truth but yet they might pose as 'truthers' or as being 'pious and holy'. That one Jesus who was raised from the dead and ascended into heaven lucidated why they do it!

    Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
    Because they were 'hindered' they decided to 'return the favor' and hindered others. Perhaps they were led down an utterly false trail, found themselves stuck so 'passed it on' (i.e. "spreading the disease")?

    And the LORD said unto Cain, Where [is] Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: [Am] I my brother's keeper?
    On another note I'm reminded of a speech by a Ravi Zacharias that he related about a Muslim that came to him asking him questions. Ultimately Ravi Zacharias explained to him above all his questions something like this: BECAUSE YOU ARE OF THE TRUTH...THAT IS WHY YOU SEEK OUT THE TRUTH.
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    "The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius
    "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter." Proverbs 25:2
    Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Thess. 5:21.

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    Amen!


    It is delightful to read your post Allodial.

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    The Second Beast of Revelation 13



    By Russell and Colin Standish

    The title of this book is Two Beasts, Three Deadly Wounds and Fifteen Popes.



    We have spent a considerable time on the exposition of the first beast of Revelation chapter 13, initially so mystifying, and yet, with study, so clear. It is now proper that we turn our attention to the second beast depicted in the same chapter.


    It is important that we do so, for these two beasts will unite in purpose at the end of this earth?s history to enforce terrible persecutions upon those who are true to God and His Word.


    And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 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 bond, to receive 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. (Revelation 13:11?17)



    Here we see that a universal death decree and an economic boycott will be enacted against those who will not endorse the worship of the first beast, the Papacy, through the efforts of these two powers. The great issue at the end of time is religious, for it is a matter of worship. Notice the references to worship in this chapter.


    And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? (Verse 4)


    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. (Verse 8)


    And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. (Verse 12)


    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. (Verse 15)



    God?s last message of love at this terrible time is also a call to worship Him.


    Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. (Revelation 14:7)



    Thus the end-time conflict is centered upon the worship of God and the worship of the beast.

    Since the Vatican possesses no significant military or police powers to enforce such decrees worldwide, it will resort to a powerful ally to enforce its will. This is no novel strategy for the Vatican. For centuries she used the Holy Roman Empire and other nations in precisely this way. Thus there is a definite historical record of such collusion in the past.


    But where, in these last days preceding Christ?s second coming, could the Papacy find such a powerful assistant? To discover the answer to this question we must turn to the clues of the identity of the second beast of Revelation 13. These clues are fewer than those of the principal party, the Papacy, but they are nevertheless quite specific.



    Clue 1

    And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. (Revelation 13:11)

    This beast is symbolic of a political power, for, as we have demonstrated, a beast in these prophecies represents a political entity.



    Clue 2

    And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. (Ibid.)

    We have seen that the Papacy arose from the ?sea? (Revelation 13:1), which refers to multitudes of people (Revelation 17:15). Thus the significance of the emergence of the second beast out of the earth may be discerned, by contrast, to be a power which arose on a sparsely inhabited continent.



    Clue 3

    And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. (Ibid.)

    Here youthfulness and harmlessness are symbolized. It was to be a new nation, one not born in the ages of antiquity. It was to arise as a mild nation. The other six beasts were ferocious, but the seventh was to arise as a meek lamb.



    Clue 4

    And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. (Ibid.)

    Here is a dramatic alteration from the lamb to the dragon, a fierce beast. This denotes that this nation, innocent in its foundation, would undergo a metamorphosis. The Scripture is precise in its identification of the dragon.


    And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. (Revelation 12:9)

    And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. (Revelation 20:2)

    Thus this initially upright nation was later to become the agent of Satan just prior to the end of the world, for it represents also the last (seventh) head of the first beast.



    Clue 5

    If any man have an ear, let him hear. He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. (Revelation 13:9?10)

    This text refers of course to the first beast, the Papacy, which was taken captive by the force of arms in 1798. But we notice that this infliction of the deadly wound is timed at the period of the rise of the second beast of Revelation 13, for verse 11 immediately follows. Thus this second beast would commence its rise to power during the late eighteenth century. But it would not then immediately succeed the Papacy as the sixth head of the beast of Revelation 17, for its emergence was lamblike, mild, inoffensive. Perhaps the lamblike nature of the second beast also indicated that it would initially follow the will of the true Lamb, the Lamb of God. Indeed, this meaning is strongly supported in that by contrast it later follows the dragon, Satan. There are only two leaders we can follow.


    Now, which nation has fulfilled each of these criteria? There are only two contenders?the United States and Australia. Both arose in the late eighteenth century, the United States (1776), Australia (1788). Both were founded in regions of the world which were sparsely populated. At the time of the emergence of the United States there were estimated to be only about 1,000,000 American Indians occupying the vast territory of over 3,000,000 square miles. At Australia?s foundation only 300,000 to 500,000 Australian aborigines were scattered thinly through its territory of almost 3,000,000 square miles. Both were youthful nations. Both settlements developed into nations?political powers.



    But here Australia?s claim falters. While the United States commenced as a haven for persecuted Christians from Europe?a sweet respite from difficult conditions?Australia could, by no stretch of the imagination, be deemed to have arisen as a mild nation. Rather than providing a respite from persecution, it was founded as a harsh penal colony. The pitiless treatment of convicts, many transported to Australia for trivial crimes which today would have been punished by the perpetrator entering into a good behavior bond (1), left a fearful scar upon the white settlement of Australia.

    [1. ?Good behavior bond?: The perpetrator promises that they will stay out of trouble for a set time, usually at least several months. If the offender breaks the bond, they must return to court and may have to pay a certain amount of money decided by the court.]



    Further, the prophecy of the second beast, as it unfolds, speaks of a nation which would develop into a power of worldwide dominance. In meeting this criterion the United States is unchallenged.

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    ...continuing

    In the nineteenth century, the United States could not take its place as a world leader. It was decidedly inferior in power to the major nations of Europe, especially Britain, France, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Prussia and Russia. Even Spain and Portugal exerted more worldwide influence. In addition, fearing to become embroiled in constant European conflicts, President James Monroe in 1823 led the nation to adopt an isolationist stance which prevented any move toward the United States exerting a powerful influence in the world.


    The Monroe Doctrine dominated United States policy until 1941, when the nation entered the Second World War following the Japanese bombardment of Pearl Harbor. It is true that adherence to the Monroe Doctrine had faltered in 1917 when for the last year of the First World War the United States became a combatant in Europe, but it immediately resumed its former stance after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, declining even to join the League of Nations which it had helped to establish.


    But with the entry of the United States into the conflict of the Second World War, a new era arose. Soon the country was embroiled in wars around the globe, including Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Kuwait, Bosnia, Kosovo in Serbia, and Somalia, to cite only a few and to ignore its clandestine interference in sovereign states such as Chile and Nicaragua.

    In 1989, within a period of four months, Poland, East Germany, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary threw off the yoke of Communism, and two years later Communism in the Soviet Union collapsed. That mighty atheistic defier of the God of heaven disintegrated into fifteen independent nations: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.



    Although Communism still held sway in China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos and Cuba, its force as the great opponent of the God of heaven had petered out. Truthfully, President George Bush, Sr. could report to the United States Congress, the nation, and the world, that there was now only one (military) superpower in the world, the United States of America. The sixth head of Atheistic Communism had fallen, and the United States, 225 years after its creation, had stepped into its prophesied preeminence, for President Bush, Sr.'s boast was indisputably correct. Over a century of isolationism and three-quarters of a century of conflict with Communism could not alter God?s prophetic word.


    The United States is the seventh head. Ominously it will continue only "a short space" (Revelation 17:10). Christ's return is nigh at hand. What a time to prepare our hearts in righteousness within a world which can justifiably be judged as wicked and vile! Only the power of the Holy Spirit can bestow purity of heart and life in these dark days of our earth.


    But let it not be forgotten that the prophecy went on to declare,

    And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. (Revelation 17:11)


    The eighth head unites with the seventh in the great last affront against God's truth and his people. This is a head which "is of the seven"-one of the previous heads, "which was and is not." In 1798 the Papacy received a deadly wound and could be then termed "is not." But verse 8 of chapter 17 of Revelation had stated not only that it "was, and is not" but that it "and yet is."

    Only one of these seven heads has recovered from its deadly wound- the Papacy. Clearly the two great powers which unite in purpose to oppose God's law and persecute His people as this sinful earth's history closes, are the United States and the Vatican. The United States is unchallengeably the great military power of the planet and the Vatican the most powerful religious entity.



    Thus the following will be fulfilled, speaking of the second beast, the United States:

    And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. (Revelation 13:12)



    Together these two quite diverse powers will act as did the Papacy and the military forces of Europe of the past, not now confined largely to Europe, but throughout the world. Their decrees will be universal.

    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. (Revelation 13:8)


    And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads. (Revelation 13:16)



    No deception will be spared mankind in order to beguile the citizens of the world into accepting the dictates of this final unholy alliance against the truth of God and His people.

    And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. (Revelation 13:13-14)



    Further, for the few who are not deceived, no coercive effort will be spared.

    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 bond, to receive 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. (Revelation 13:15?17)



    We are rapidly approaching momentous times, for this head will continue "a short space" (Revelation 17:10). Recent fulfillment of moves to seal a union between the United States and the Vatican, are examined and documented later. (See chapter entitled "George W. Bush is Romeward Bound.")
    Last edited by Treefarmer; 05-23-12 at 03:54 AM.
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