Grace
Christian Fellowship
System Testing: Citizens living in a
nation where there are evil trends.
The greatest system test that Christians face is being a
citizen of a nation who understands the evil trends that have come upon them in
the
Christians need to understand the issues of the day as they relate to the plan of God. 1Chronicles 12:32 And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; There was a tribe of men of Issachar who discerned the signs of the times. They were able to lead and direct the people in the proper course of action. We need men today from the body of Christ who can discern the trends of today. Men who do not close their eyes to the issues and yet still respect authority and the word of God. To respect and honor authority when the system of government has a trend towards evil is the greatest system test for the believer. Some of God’s leaders preach that we are living in a day of prosperity and spiritual renewal but this is not true. Scripture (Amos) teaches that we are living in a time where there is a famine of the word of God. We are living in a time of apostasy and not renewal. Some leaders are preaching Crusaderism. Cleaning up this world is the devil’s work and then there are some that think God is an American. They can’t see the trends towards evil and the setting up of a totalitarian government.
Isaiah said a day would come when men would say evil was good and good was evil. We are living in that day. Today we are having a liberal socialistic agenda being thrust upon us. We see it in business, public education, the homosexual life style and immorality. Our borders are open to illegal aliens who won’t assimilate our culture. An agenda where the citizen feels he needs to depend on government for his needs. The government is slowly becoming god for the people. People are trusting in the government instead of God and when this happens are freedoms are taken away. Norman Thomas, long time Communist Party presidential candidate said, “Americans will never willingly accept the Communist Party agenda but through the guise of the liberal agenda they will accept every foundational principle of Communism one day.” It will be a slow gradual process over time without them even knowing it. That day has arrived. We have a liberal agenda that has turned this nation into a socialistic nation.
United Nations (“Trojan Horse” on American Soil)
UN policy is to get all the nations together to give up
their national sovereignty and to be absorbed into a Global World Order, a
Global World Government. Their stated
policy is to establish a one-world religion, to make our children wards of the
state and to control education, churches and to take away our right to private
property for the good of the planet.
Their agenda for the
How should Christians react, respond to this information? With our understanding of the Bible and our role with respect to authority we will be able to handle all things when we walk by faith. We are not to rebel or be subversive. We are to execute the plan of God and become a blessing to this nation. This nation will stand or fall depending on how many Bible believing Christians are positive to the Word of God and are honoring the Lord Jesus Christ with their life; real Bible believing Christians who take their walk with the Lord seriously. As long as that number stays strong this nation will survive.
Ezek 14:12-14 The word of the Lord came again to me, saying, Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it: Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God. God blesses a nation through Christians that are positive, maturing and honors Him. The key is a pivot of positive believers who remain true to the word of God. The greatest threat to our freedom is not terrorism but the subversive activity of the liberal agenda to bring us under a Totalitarian state. The biggest threat to our nation was not 9/11 but what has been going on for the last 50 years to take away our constitutional rights. Our nation has changed from the basic premises outlined in the Constitution by our founding fathers. Rom 13:1-2 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. Every proper authority is from God. With humility we are to respect it, honor it and submit to it. Government is an ordained authority from God. We are to submit to the “laws of the land”. The solution is not rebellion.
Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx established some core principles that are necessary to establish communism over a nation. The liberal agenda has worked to establish these principles in our country. Richard Nixon as well as presidents since then signed into legislation executive orders that adopt the whole agenda that will be enacted in the event of a national crisis. The Communist Manifesto principles have all been signed into legislation (verbatim). If the right crisis occurred martial law would go into effect. The Communist Manifesto says the following actions are necessary to subvert a nation over to communism.
1. Abolition of private property
2. Progressively heavier income tax
3. Abolition rights of inheritance
4. Confiscation of property of rebels
5. A central bank
6. Government ownership & regulation of communication & transportation
7. Government ownership & regulation of factories & agriculture
8. Government control of labor
9. Corporate farms & regional planning
10. Government control of education
1. Abolition of private property
Regulation and tax burdens have taken away the rights to own private property. The banks own our homes. If a homeowner wants to build a shed, knock down a tree or build an addition he is required to purchase a permit. He technically has no freedom to do want he wants with his property but is simply living in the house.
2. Progressively heavier income tax
The tax burden enslaves the people to the government. The people are required to work longer and harder in order to pay taxes: they have less free time for themselves. It also means less money available to do the things they want to do with their life. They become enslaved to the government.
3. Abolition rights of inheritance
People work hard all their lives to leave an inheritance to their children. However the government requires a big portion of that money. Elitist government doesn’t want wealth to be passed down from generation to generation. The passing down of wealth to children provides freedom from parents and grandparents.
4. Confiscation of property of rebels
5. A central bank
The Federal Reserve System is in the hands of private
banks.
6. Government ownership & regulation of communication & transportation
Government wants to control what people hear and their movements.
7. Government ownership & regulation of factories & agriculture
Farmers in the
8. Government control of labor
Regulation and involvement with unions are growing stronger.
9. Corporate farms & regional planning
See item 7 above.
10 Government control of education
At the local level, money is accepted from the government for schools. Federal Government can now tell the people what they will teach the children. A humanistic liberal agenda is taught: evolution, homosexuality is an alternate lifestyle, there is no God, morality is determined by the individual (you determine what is right or wrong), etc. Government can control a nation by controlling its youth. Indoctrinate the youth into the government’s way of thinking.
REMEMBER THESE ARE THE CORE PRINCIPLES OF THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO.
Karl Marx also wrote about how to take over a nation:
1. Corrupt the young away from religion. Get them interested in sex.
Movies, magazines, MTV, music, television all center around sex. Get youth’s attention off principles of freedom, serious issues of life, God, morality, right and wrong, authority etc. and get them focused on frivolity and sex. We are there.
2. Break down traditional moral virtues.
Our society today promotes free love, promiscuity, alternate life styles, marriage isn’t necessary just live together etc. etc. etc.
3. Encourage civil disorders; a soft government attitude towards crime.
Let the people protest against government but don’t punish the real criminals; get rid of the death penalty and give them soft sentences.
4. Divide the nation into hostile groups (race, religion).
Divide the country so it will be weak. Let the minorities clamor for more. Get the blacks to oppose the whites. Split the nation. Today we are a nation divided.
5. Get people’s mind off government & focus their attention on athletics, sex, etc.
Focus the nation's attention off government and onto athletics and sex. Sex and sports are foremost on people’s mind today.
6. Get control of media (managed news).
Use the media to shape public opinions. Over 1,000 newsworthy events occur daily however the liberal media decides what news will be aired on TV. It’s managed news. The liberal media decides what they will broadcast and their viewpoint. It’s done to shape and condition the people’s mind set.
7. Destroy faith in leaders.
There have always been skeletons in the closet of our nation’s leaders however the media of the past had enough respect for their positions not to expose their indiscretions so that the people’s faith in those leaders wouldn’t be destroyed; that would be a greater evil. But today all bets are off. It’s front-page news.
8. Cause registration of firearms – eventually to confiscate. (Lenin, Stalin & Hitler first called for disarming population)
As long as people have the right to own a weapon it won’t be easy for the government to come in and take away their freedom, property and rights. The first thing Stalin and Hitler did when they came to power was to legislate laws to confiscate weapons. If the population isn’t armed then there will be no problem when taking control.
We just outlined 8 principles from Karl Marx for taking
over a nation. How much of this fits
into what is going on in the
Luke 20:21-25 And they asked him, saying, Master, we know
that thou sayest and teachest rightly, either acceptest thou the person of any,
but teaches the way of God truly: Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto
Caesar, or no?…And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things
which be Caesar and unto God the things which be God’s. Jesus said give
Caesar his do as leader and authority and give God His do. Whenever the government disagrees with God’s
commands then obey God but until then obey the government. The only time a
believer is told to disobey the laws of the land is when those laws are in
direct contradiction to God’s laws. Act
Constitution
In 1865 the foundation of our constitution was usurped.
The constitution was a contract entered into freely by the independent states
with the Federal Government. These
independent states would be allowed to operate in a free union while still
maintaining their separate identities. This union was to be entered freely by
the states and not forced. The real
issue in the Civil War was not slavery (on its way to being abolished) but
states’ rights. Do the states have the
right to rule themselves or does the Federal Government have the right to tell
the states what to do? The Civil War was the Federal Government usurping the
constitution by forcing all the states to become part of the union. The Federal
Government would control the lives of the people in the union. When Abraham Lincoln declared the Civil War
he determined that the union superceded the constitution. The whole basis of the constitution (states
freedom to become part of the union) changed at that point. The Civil War took
away the states individual rights to govern themselves and the Federal
Government took priority. The Federal
Government forced the states to stay together and imposed regulations. The constitution basic premise of states'
freedom to join the union was completely subverted and has been degenerating
ever since. This nation has been degenerating into liberal socialism with the
Federal Government as Big Brother ever since. Today constitutional laws say
it’s up for interpretation. Once you
break the foundation, the standard, its open to
everyone’s opinion. The constitution no
longer has final authority but the opinions of unethical judges, politicians
and bureaucrats that do not have the nation’s best interest at heart but their
own self seeking power. John Adams said, “We have no government armed with
power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and
religion…Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry, would break the strongest
cords of our constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our constitution was made only for a moral
and religious people. It is wholly
inadequate to the government of any other.” Government and law are no good
unless there is respect for morality and God.
When you break down the authoritative standards of morality and a belief
in God the constitution means nothing anymore and is dependent on every man’s
interpretation. Psa 118:8 It is better to trust in the Lord than to
put confidence in man. What is the recourse for the believer in this evil
day? It is to trust in the Lord.
Mystery of Iniquity/lawlessness
There are elitists today whose purpose is to bring about a
New World Order. This is not new. 2Thess
tells us the mystery of iniquity is already at work. It is Satan’s plan to condition the world
with his agenda so the world will be prepared (mentally) to accept Satan’s man,
the antichrist. Henry Kessinger in 1994 said in a meeting of the Bilderbergers
in
“Today Americans would be outraged
if UN troops entered
1Tim 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. The mystery of godliness means that God became a man. Mystery of iniquity is Satan’s counterfeit that runs contrary to the mystery of godliness. The mystery of iniquity will culminate with Satan indwelling a man as the antichrist ruling over the world being worshiped by men. Just as God knew the exact right time to bring His Son into the world so will Satan know the exact right time to bring his man, the antichrist, into the world. 2Thess 2:7-8 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming. When the restrainer is removed antichrist (a world dictator) will rule over the earth. The antichrist will be Satan in human form.
1. MYSTERY OF INIQUITY REFERS TO SATAN’S AGENDA…SATAN’S PLAN THAT HE HAS BEEN SUBTLY WORKING IN HUMAN HISTORY…PREPARING AND CONDITIONING MANKIND THROUGH FALSE SYSTEMS OF THOUGHT…ALL DIRECTED AT BRINGING ABOUT THE NECESSARY CONDITIONS…ON PLANET EARTH…TO SET THE STAGE…TO MAKE THE UNBELIEVING WORLD RIPE TO RECEIVE THE MAN OF LAWLESSNESS…THE SEED OF SATAN, THE ANTICHRIST.
2. THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY IS A GREAT DECEPTION CULMINATING WITH THE REIGN OF ANTICHRIST.
The mystery of iniquity is Satan’s conditioning process over the whole earth to bring about the right conditions so mankind will accept a one-world government, a one-world dictator, Satan incarnate. These conditions will not happen overnight. The trends have been going on for hundreds of years. In the past 50 years the process has been stepped up, accelerated. The mystery of iniquity is Satanic thought systems:
3. SATANIC THOUGHT SYSTEMS: DARWINIAN EVOLUTION, HUMANISM, RELIGION, COMMUNISM, SOCIALISM, HEDONISM, UFO PHENOMENA, UN PEACE MOVEMENT, ECUMENISM, TERRORISM, THE LIBERAL AGENDA PROMOTED BY THE SECULAR MEDIA…ETC
All these “isms” is Satan’s plan to bring about the right conditions and mind sets of the people on earth so that he can bring about a global world order, and a global world dictator.
All that has been outlined above may seem farfetched. However, Richard Nixon enacted the following executive orders (EO #11490). These orders certainly do not sound like they were derived from an American citizen. You would certainly think it was Karl Marx. These orders have already been signed into legislation by a past president. If the right crisis occurred the following orders would be implemented under national emergency conditions:
· EO 10995 – Provides for the government control of the communications media…
· EO 10997 – Provides for the control of the power, fuels and minerals…
· EO 10998 – Provides for the control of all food and farms…
· EO 10999 – Provides for the control of all transportation, highway etc…
· EO 11000 – Provides for the mobilization of all civilians into work brigades under government supervision…
· EO 11001 – Provides for control of all health, education and welfare…
· EO 11002 – Designates the postmaster to operate a national census of all persons.
· EO 11003 – Provides for control of all airports and aircraft…
· EO 11004 – Provides for relocation of any populations… (Note: Hundreds of FEMA internment camps are already on US soil) Populations that appear to be a threat will be relocated.
· EO 11005 – Provides for control of railroads, waterways and public storage facilities…
In short: If the right crisis occurs we will come under
martial law with UN troops patrolling our streets in control of our vital
resources. We will live under a totalitarian police state under the guise of
providing us security from the supposed forces threatening us. This is not Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution of
1917 or Hitler’s
There are things in place today that threaten our freedoms. The solution is not rebelling or starting a revolution. The solution is to continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ; to walk by faith and not by sight. 2Pet 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished. The Lord knows how to take care of His people. This is a promise. 1Pet 4:12-19 Beloved think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye, for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you; on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. If we are the generation that will come under the fiery trial then we will be persecuted for Christ. Christians have experienced persecution throughout history and are experiencing it today in foreign lands. Verse 19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator. If we are this generation that will be subjected to the mystery of iniquity we are told to commit ourselves unto the Lord Jesus Christ. The only way Christians can have the faith to commit themselves during that time is to prepare now. Grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ today. Walk with Him faithfully today. Learn His word and grow in the faith now. God has provided the believer with the power to handle any adversity he may face (filling of the Holy Spirit, Faith Rest, and Word of God). Read Eph 6:10-13. The way to prepare for the evil day is to discern the times we live in and be strong in the Lord.