US Prophecy & End Time Prophecy (God's Worldview Pt. 4: p184-p232)

Morality under the new Zeitgeist:

Luke 17:28-31

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28 "It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. [content with their state of normalcy] 29 But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 "It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.  Jude 7

In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire. Isa 3:9 9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves. The immorality of Sodom and Gomorrah consisted of accepting even legalizing it. It has become the new normal. They had no more shame. One of the first symptoms, that appear in the lives of individuals or nations, that

do not retain God in their thinking and living, is immorality. Rom 1:18-32 18” The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but

their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They

exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator — who is forever praised. 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them”. God created men in His Image with a free will, and He lets men have what they choose. If you believe you originated from nothing, you will live and end in

nothing. In today’s society, all manner of sex is acceptable between adults, if there is mutual consent. Fornication and adultery is considered normal by many, even among officials in highest public positions. “Boys will be boys”. This is the end time world condition, Christ likened to Sodom and Gomorra, prior to His return.

The lifetime opportunity cost caused by teenage pregnancy in different countries

varies from 1% to 30% of the annual GDP (30% being the figure in Uganda).[41] In

the United States, teenage pregnancy costs taxpayers between $9.4 and $28

billion each year, due to factors such as foster care and lost tax revenue.[42]

Several polls have indicated peer pressure as a factor in encouraging both girls and boys to have sex.[60][61] The increased sexual activity among adolescents is manifested in increased teenage pregnancies and an increase in sexually transmitted diseases. [Wikipedia] A study conducted in 2006 found that adolescents who were more exposed to sexuality in the media were also more likely to engage in sexual activity themselves.[93]

According to Time, "teens exposed to the most sexual content on TV are twice as likely as teens watching less of this material to become pregnant before they reach age 20".[94]

Europe under the 8th head: The secular humanistic, atheistic, social democratic, materialistic, capitalistic Zeitgeist.
Education under the new Zeitgeist:

"Compulsory education differs from compulsory attendance, which means that

parents are obliged to send their children to a certain school.

... International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights requires, within

a reasonable number of years, the principle of compulsory education free of

charge for all.

There are seven countries such as Germany, Belgium, Italy and Norway that have

provisions of free compulsory education to children covering their entire

schooling period. Countries like Britain and New Zealand have made education

compulsory and free for children for a period of 11 years.

With the Right to Education Act coming into force, India has joined the league

of over 130 countries which have legal guarantees to provide free and

compulsory education to children.
According to the UNESCO’s ‘Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2010’, about 135 countries have constitutional provisions for free and non- discriminatory education for all.

Primary school education today is focused on establishing the fundamental

literacy and numeracy skills of children, as well as developing their understanding

of the world. These skills are increasingly necessary for life in the modern world,

and are essential to the functioning of developed economies. For this reason,

primary education is compulsory and provided by the state in almost all countries

around the world. The second United Nations Millennium Development Goal was

to "ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to

complete a full course of primary schooling." Our World in Data.

Indeed, education is good and essential for civilized life. But when education

eliminates God in the life of our children it has permanent destructive

consequences. It destroys harmonious family life. Children lose their respect

toward their ignorant parents who still believe in a creator God.

2 Tim 3:1-5

3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be

lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to

their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without

self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers

of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying

its power.

Johne Dewey, the educator of educators was one of the world's leading

philosophers and psychologists, he revolutionized the theory and practice of

education, he published forty books and more than seven-hundred journal

articles, and he served as president of both the American Philosophical

Association and the American Psychological

Association.

He stated: “There is no god. There is no soul. There is no need for the props of

traditional religion.”

“It seems atheists have developed a comprehensive strategy to win the minds of the next generation. The strategy can be described simply: let the religious people breed them, and we will educate them to despise their parents’ beliefs. Many people think that the secularization of the minds of our young people is the inevitable consequence of learning and maturing. In fact, it is to a large degree orchestrated by teachers and professors to promote anti-religious agendas.

Why the hostility to religion? “Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate,” writes Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion. “Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.” Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great, writes, “How can we ever know how many children had their psychological and physical lives irreparably maimed

by the compulsory inculcation of faith?” Religion, he charges, has “always hoped to practice upon the unformed and undefended minds of the young.” He wistfully concludes, “If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained

the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.”

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If religion is so bad, what should be done about it? It should be eradicated. According to Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith, belief in Christianity is like belief in slavery. “I would be the first to admit that the prospects for eradicating religion in our time do not seem good. Still the same could have been said about efforts to abolish slavery at the end of the eighteenth century.” But how should religion be eliminated? Our atheist educators have a short

answer: through the power of science. “I personally feel that the teaching of modern science is corrosive of religious belief, and I’m all for that,” says physicist Steven Weinberg. If scientists can destroy the influence of religion on young people, “then I think it may be the most important contribution that we can make.” One way in which science can undermine the plausibility of religion, according to biologist E.O. Wilson, is by showing that the mind itself is the product of evolution and that free moral choice is an illusion. “If religion...can be systematically analyzed and explained as a product of the brain’s evolution, its power as an external source of morality will be gone forever.”

By abolishing all transcendent or supernatural truths, science can establish itself as the only source of truth, our only access to reality. The objective of science education, according to biologist Richard Lewontin, “is not to provide the public with knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and what genes are made of.” Rather, “the problem is to get them to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, science, as the only begetter of truth.” What, then, happens to religion? Philosopher Daniel Dennett suggests that “our

religious traditions should certainly be preserved, as should the languages, the art, the costumes, the rituals, the monuments. Zoos are now more or less seen as second class havens for endangered species, but at least they are havens, and what they preserve is irreplaceable.”

How is all this to be achieved? The answer is simple: through indoctrination in the

schools. In his book Breaking the Spell, Dennett urges that schools teach religion

as a purely natural phenomenon. By this he means that religion should be taught

as if it were untrue. Dennett argues that religion is like sports or cancer, “a human

phenomenon composed of events, organisms, objects, structures, patterns.” By

studying religion on the premise that there is no supernatural truth underlying it,

Dennett argues that young people will come to accept religion as a social creation

pointing to nothing higher than human hopes and aspirations.

As for atheism, Sam Harris argues that it should be taught as a mere extension of science and logic. “Atheism is not a philosophy. It is not even a view of the world. It is simply an admission of the obvious....Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.”
Of course, parents—especially Christian parents—might want to say something about all this. That’s why the atheist educators are now raising the question of whether parents should have control over what their children learn. Dawkins asks, “How much do we regard children as being the property of their parents? It’s one thing to say people should be free to believe whatever they like, but should they be free to impose their beliefs on their children? Is there something to be said for society stepping in? What about bringing up children to believe

manifest falsehoods? Isn’t it always a form of child abuse to label children as possessors of beliefs that they are too young to have thought out?”
Dennett remarks that “some children are raised in such an ideological prison that they willingly become their own jailers...forbidding themselves any contact with the liberating ideas that might well change their minds.” The fault, he adds, lies with the parents who raised them. “Parents don’t literally own their children the way slave owners once owned slaves, but are, rather, their stewards and guardians and ought to be held accountable by outsiders for their guardianship,

which does imply that outsiders have a right to interfere.”
Psychologist Nicholas Humphrey argued in a recent lecture that just as Amnesty International works to liberate political prisoners around the world, secular

teachers and professors should work to free children from the damaging influence of their parents’ religious instruction. “Parents have no god-given license to

enculturate their children in whatever ways they personally choose: no right to limit the horizons of their children’s knowledge, to bring them up in an atmosphere of dogma and superstition, or to insist they follow the straight and narrow paths of their own faith.” Philosopher Richard Rorty argued that secular professors in the universities ought “to arrange things so that students who enter as bigoted, homophobic religious fundamentalists will leave college with views more like our own.” Rorty noted that students are fortunate to find themselves under the control “of people like

me, and to have escaped the grip of their frightening, vicious, dangerous parents.” Indeed, parents who send their children to college should recognize that as professors “we are going to go right on trying to discredit you in the eyes of your children, trying to strip your fundamentalist religious community of dignity, trying to make your views seem silly rather than discussable.” This is how many secular teachers treat the traditional beliefs of students. The strategy is not to argue with religious views or to prove them wrong. Rather, it is to subject them to such scorn that they are pushed outside the bounds of acceptable debate. This strategy is effective because young people who go to good colleges are extremely eager to learn what it means to be an educated Harvard man or Stanford woman. Consequently, their teachers can very easily

steer them to think a certain way merely by making that point of view seem fashionable and enlightened. Similarly, teachers can pressure students to abandon what their parents taught them simply by labeling those positions as simplistic and unsophisticated.

Children spend the majority of their waking hours in school. Parents invest a good
portion of their life savings in college education and entrust their offspring to
people who are supposed to educate them. Isn’t it wonderful that educators have
figured out a way to make parents the instruments of their own undoing? Isn’t it
brilliant that they have persuaded Christian moms and dads to finance the
destruction of their own beliefs and values? Who said atheists aren’t clever?”
Dinesh D'Souza “What's So Great About Christianity
Indeed, indeed; cleverness without God makes clever devils.
Lenin once said: "Give us a child for 8 years and it will be an atheist forever. Evil minds that considered a religious home environment detrimental to children, devised a strategy to get children away from their parental influence before the age of 5. If states would legislate, that the compulsory school attendance begins at age one, parents would strongly protest. Mothers wanted to be with their children to make a loving secure home for them, while their father had to be out to earn their support. So, these clever strategists adjusted the economy, that it was only possible for a family to stay above the poverty line, when both parents had to work. Their children were now educated in state controlled day care centers. The results speak for themselves.

Schools do not only provide information, they also set the minds of children for

life. Worldviews, social norms, human relations, law and order, and in some

nations religious life or hyper nationalism are built in their consciousness. Typical

tools of brainwashing, like repetition of slogans or pledges are applied at early

ages, before they know what a pledge is, making pledging a superficial habit.

Children should be educated to understand and keep what they promised:

Matt 5:37

37 Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'; anything beyond this comes

from the evil one.

In America, children, even preschoolers, are repeating the pledge of allegiance

every morning, with their right hand over their hearts.

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the

Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and

justice for all."

The pledge was originally written - "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the

Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

1954 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower asked Congress to add "under God" to the

pledge. Congress adds the phrase.

Several lawsuits have been filed to dismiss the words “under God”.

America, the two- horned beast, the false prophet: Rev 13:11-18 11 Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. 12 He exercised all the authority of the first

beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 13 And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men. 14 Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the

first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 He

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was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. 18 This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.

More detail on these prophecies will be considered later. The USA is also identified as: “The false prophet”. Rev 19:20 20 But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs, he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image Since this beast is not directly named in the above vision, we need to pay close attention to all the descriptive identifying indicators.

Identifying indicators that this beast is the USA: “Another Beast”: It is another World Empire, that arose later besides the reemerging beast from the abyss under it’s 8th head, that brought sovereign authority to the European nations, symbolized by the crowns on the 10 horns. “Coming out of the earth”: The other beasts came out of the sea, the population around the Mediterranean Sea. This beast comes out of the Earth; a sparsely inhabited continent that was settled and populated mostly by Europeans, who

brought their traditions and convictions with them. “Two Horns, like a lamb”: The two Horns have no crowns. Its constitution is based on democracy and religion. Their appearance seams peaceful. Its world dominating weapons, are money and technology.

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“Speaks like a Dragon”: The dragon represents Satan in the Roman empire and the European nations. Rev.11. His spirit of world domination marks all empires, including this beast. “Exercises all Authority of the fist beast”: Global mind control, enforced by military power. “Made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast whose deadly

wound had been healed”. Both beasts cooperate to accomplish Satan’s final strategies and plans for our world; he wants to be the only God of this world. One beast encouraging the other to submit to their master’s old proven scams. “Performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men”. The wonders of technology including the fire ball of the devastating nuclear explosions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, perplexed the world, watching it on television. “Deceived the inhabitants of the earth”: The deception extends globally. “He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.”: Under the authority of the USA, an image of the beast, a united Europe was made, as it was during the time of the Roman Empire

before its division by the ten horns. NATO, the European military alliance, and the EU, the European Economic Community was set up. The prophesied “beast that was and is not and will come out of the Abyss” has arrived under “the 8th head, the spirit and incorporation of the beast; the anti-God, anti-Christ and anti-harlot secular Zeitgeist that overshadows the world. Rev. 17:8, 11, 13, 14. Historic background:

Systematic European colonization of the Americas began in 1492. Western

European conquest, large-scale exploration and colonization soon

followed. Britain, France, Russia, Spain, and some independent States established

their colonies and jostled for territory. Some settlers hoped to find freedom of

religion, while many hoped to find their fortune.

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“Indigenous people north and south were displaced, died of disease, and were

killed by Europeans through slavery, rape, and war. In 1491, about 145

million people lived in the western hemisphere. By 1691, the population of

indigenous Americans had declined by 90-95 percent, or by around 130 million

people." Wikipedia,

“North American native population was estimated as high as 18 million. America was born in blood.
On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson, was accepted as the official document, the proclamation of freedom from the occupation and oppression from the British Empire. On September 17, 1787, the USA constitution, written by James Madison, was ratified by 13 States.
On December 15,1791, the first 10 [by now 27] Amendments to the Constitution in the Bill of Rights, written by James Madison and George Mason, was adopted, clarifying and guaranteeing the rights and freedoms of every citizen of the USA. Other States joined the Union; the last to join was Hawaii on August 21,1959.

On 8 September 2000, the head of the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)

formally apologized for the agency's participation in the "ethnic cleansing" of

Western tribes.” [68][69][70] Wikipedia

The Enlightenment spirit is all over the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Ideas

in the Constitution came from several different Enlightenment thinkers like Locke,

Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire, Beccaria, Descartes, Spinoza, Newton.

The Enlightenment thinkers presented a challenge to traditional religious views.

They were the liberals of their days.

The USA began as a republic under God, mostly of protestant denominations.

Many laws and regulations were based on religion, until secularism in the name of

democracy diminished and eliminated religious traces from legislation, removing

even its symbols, like the “Ten Commandments”, from public places. Separation

of Church and State and Freedom of all Religion signifies, that no majority religion

or church can have favored legislation. However, the battle is not over. It has

been the tradition of the big churches to force their views and customs on the

minority through legislation, thus failing their Christian mission to bring

conviction, and not robbing your neighbor of his or her God given free will to

choose. Disciples of Christ, live the word of God and bring His good news with

love to all they meet. Some of you proudly say: “I am pro-life. What life do you

mean? If you are pro-unborn life and not pro-born life, you are a hypocrite.

Innocent children, their parents and families are slaughtered by the thousands,

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even millions by nominal “Christians” who approve and participate in the

atrocities of wars. You cannot justify yourself by saying: yes, but I do it only if my

government tells me so. You pick the gnat out of your spiritual consumption, but

swallow the swine. Get rid of the swine first, then you will be better qualified to

deal with the gnat. Hypocrisy is a fruit of the spirit of Satan.

Modern Culture:

The new secular Zeitgeist, that originated in Europe, has shaped also American

culture. The new spirit is expressed also in art that has no natural structure or

esthetic norms. Paintings and sculptures, that are publically accepted and highly

priced, are abstract, asymmetric, distorted bizarre and grotesque. Expressionism

reveals the ecstatic, confused, lost, depressed, empty, rebellious or violence

effected soul of the artist.

Here are just a few examples:

Rolf Nesch, Elbe Bridge I

Franz Marc, Fighting Forms, 1914

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Picasso, “dancer”.

Picasso's most erotic year laid bar

Best Picasso paintings and sculptures ...

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New Music, using the 12 tone scale expresses revolution, disharmony, and is

unpleasant to many good music lovers. In general, modern music has become

laud and annoying noise. Some vocalists shock you with the voice they lack.

Much of modern art has become decadent.

Drug abuse:

“Every day, more than 130 people in the United States die after overdosing on

opioids.

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The misuse of and addiction to opioids—including prescription pain

relievers

,

heroin

, and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl—is a serious national

crisis that affects public health as well as social and economic welfare. The

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the total "economic

burden" of prescription opioid misuse alone in the United States is $78.5 billion a

year, including the costs of healthcare, lost productivity, addiction treatment, and

criminal justice involvement.”

2 National Institute on Drug Abuse. Here are some of the addictive drugs:

Alcohol Ayahuasca Central Nervous System Depressants Cocaine DMT GHB Hallucinogens Heroin Inhalants Ketamine Khat

Kratom • LSD • Marijuana (Cannabis) • MDMA • (Ecstasy/Molly) Mescaline (Peyote) • Methamphetamine Over-the-Counter • Medicines-- Dextromethorphan (DXM) • Over-the- Counter Medicines- -Loperamide PCP Psilocybin Rohypnol® (Flunitrazepam) Salvia Steroids (Anabolic) Synthetic Cannabinoids Synthetic Cathinones (Bath Salts) Tobacco

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Prescription Opioids Prescription Stimulants

Teens Using Vaping Devices in Record Numbers. Nearly 2 in 5 students in

12th grade report past-year vaping, raising concerns about the impact on brain

health and potential for addiction. In 2018, past-year vaping for each grade was: 8th grade: 17.6% 10th grade: 32.3% The survey also asked students what they thought they were vaping. These were their responses: Nicotine:

8th grade: 10.9% 10th grade: 24.7% 12th grade: 29.7% Marijuana or hash oil: 8th grade: 4.4% 10th grade: 12.4% 12th grade: 13.1%

Addictive behaviors are among the greatest scourges on humankind.
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An estimated 4.9% of the world's adult population (240 million people) suffer

from alcohol use disorder (7.8% of men and 1.5% of women), with alcohol causing

an estimated 257 disability‐adjusted life years lost per 100 000 population. An

estimated 22.5% of adults in the world (1 billion people) smoke tobacco products

(32.0% of men and 7.0% of women). It is estimated that 11% of deaths in males

and 6% of deaths in females each year are due to tobacco. Of ‘unsanctioned

psychoactive drugs’, cannabis is the most prevalent at 3.5% globally, with each of

the others at < 1%; 0.3% of the world's adult population (15 million people) inject

drugs.

America’s path to imperial power:
The American-Mexican War:

In the late nineteenth century, the United States abandoned its century-long

commitment to isolationism and became an imperial power. After the Spanish-

American War, the United States exercised significant control over Cuba, annexed

Hawaii, and claimed Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines as territories.

The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) marked the first U.S. armed conflict

chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily

unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of U.S.

President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a “manifest

destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. A border

skirmish along the Rio Grande started off the fighting and was followed by a

series of U.S. victories. When the dust cleared, Mexico had lost about one-

third of its territory, including nearly all of present-day California, Utah,

Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.

On Feb. 2, 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, establishing

the Rio Grande and not the Nueces River as the U.S.-Mexican border. Under

the treaty, Mexico also recognized the U.S. annexation of Texas, and agreed

to sell California and the rest of its territory north of the Rio Grande for $15

million plus the assumption of certain damages claims. Casualties estimated

at 25000. Digital History.

Annexation of Hawaii:
In 1893, a small group of sugar and pineapple-growing businessmen, aided by the American minister to Hawaii and backed by heavily armed U.S. soldiers and marines, deposed Hawaii's queen. Subsequently, they imprisoned the queen and
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seized 1.75 million acres of crown land and conspired to annex the islands to the United States.
On January 17, 1893, the conspirators announced the overthrow of the queen's government. To avoid bloodshed, Queen Lydia Kamakaeha Liliuokalani yielded her sovereignty and called upon the U.S. government "to undo the actions of its representatives." The U.S. government refused to help her regain her throne. When she died in 1917, Hawaii was an American territory.
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When Captain James Cooke arrived in Hawaii in 1778, there were about 300,000

Hawaiians on the islands. Today, about 20 percent of Hawaii's people are of

native Hawaiian ancestry, and only about 10,000 are of pure Hawaiian descent.

Digital History

United States Public Law 103-150, informally known as the Apology Resolution,

is a Joint Resolution of the U.S. Congress adopted in 1993 that "acknowledges

that the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii occurred with the active

participation of agents and citizens of the United States and further acknowledges

that the Native Hawaiian people never directly relinquished to the United

States their claims to their inherent sovereignty as a people over their national

lands.” Wikipedia

The Cuban occupation:

The debate over America's global role intensified when Cubans began to fight for

their independence from Spain in 1895. Americans were sympathetic to Cuba's

struggle for independence.

Then a respected U.S. Senator, Redfield Proctor, after returning from a visit to Cuba, announced that he had reversed his position from
isolationism to intervention "because of the spectacle of a million and a half people, the entire native population of Cuba, struggling for freedom and deliverance." After ten days of debate, Congress declared war.

United States defeated Spain in the 144 days war, it set up a military government

But after the

on Cuba and made the soldiers' withdrawal contingent on the Cubans accepting

the Platt Amendment. The amendment gave the United States the right to

intervene in Cuba to protect "life, property, and individual liberties."

The Philippine American War:

fought from February 1899 to July 1902, claimed 250,000 lives and helped

establish the United States as a power in the Pacific.

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More than 4,000 American soldiers and about 20,000 Filipino fighters died. An

estimated 225,000 Filipino civilians died during the war, mainly of disease or

hunger. Reports of American atrocities led the United States to turn internal

control over to the Philippines in 1907 and pledged to grant the archipelago

independence in 1916. Digital History.

America Has Been At War 93% of the Time – 222 Out of 239 Years – Since 1776,

i.e. the U.S. has only been at peace for less than 20 years total since its birth.

Global Research.

Historian Sidney Lens argues in his 1971 book, updated in 2003, that "the United

States, from the time it gained its own independence, has used every available

means—political, economic, and military—to dominate other nations."[11

Political theorist Michael Walzer argues that the term "hegemony" is better than

"empire" to describe the US' role in the world.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck, no matter what you

name it.

Despite recent closures of hundreds of bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United

States still maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and

territories abroad—from giant “Little Americas” to small radar facilities. Britain,

France and Russia, by contrast, have about 30 foreign bases combined.

The idea of American hegemony is as old as Benjamin Franklin, but has its practical roots in World War II. The United States emerged from that war as the dominant economic, political and technological power.

sense of the word, a hegemon.

America today still constitutes a globe-spanning

It became the postwar

home of the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund and the World

Bank. And, of course, the United States had the bomb. America was, in every

hegemon enabled by the tiny specks of land it controls across the globe. The

concept of “empire” is fundamentally about political and economic control.

Since the adoption by the UN General Assembly of Resolution 1514 [XV] on 12-14-

1960

Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples

integrity of their national territory shall be respected, any territorial annexation

and that the

was forbidden. By that time the US had its safe borders established.

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American leaders have used the two-lamblike defensive and offensive horns, that

is their superior military technology and the power of their money, in their quest

of global control and the spread of their ideological version of democracy.

“Who controls the food supply, controls the people; who controls the money,

controls the world.”

U.S. Defense Spending Compared to Other Countries. The United States spends

more on national defense than China, Saudi Arabia, India, France, Russia, United

Kingdom, and Germany combined. As the world’s Superpower, it claims the right

to preemptive and preventive strikes and is the only country that has actually

used nuclear weapons in warfare. In any international controversy, their warning

states: “All of our options are on the table”. If a foreign government is not

complying with US policies, it is black-listed and the empire demands regime

change. If covert strategies fail, a military strike follows, as the world has recently

seen with the nonnuclear nations like Iraq and Libya. The other eight nuclear

nations provide some deterrence to any first strike aggressor and are, even by the

empire, treated with greater respect.

The US dollar becomes the World’s Reserve Currency.

Before it entered world war II, the United States served as the Allies’ main proprietor of weapons, supplies and other goods. Collecting much of its payment in gold. By the end of the war, the United States owned the clear majority of the world’s gold. This precluded a return to the gold standard by all the countries that had depleted their gold reserves. In 1944, delegates from 44 Allied countries met in Bretton Wood, New Hampshire, to come up with a system to manage foreign exchange that would not put any country at a disadvantage. It was decided that the world’s currencies couldn’t be linked to gold, but they could be linked to the U.S. dollar, which was linked to gold. The arrangement, which came to be known

as the Bretton Woods Agreement, established that the central banks would maintain fixed exchange rates between their currencies and the dollar. In turn, the United States would redeem U.S. dollars for gold on demand. As a result of the Bretton Woods Agreement, the U.S dollar was officially crowned the world’s reserve currency, backed by the world’s largest gold reserves. Member

nations would peg their currencies to the U.S. dollar, and to ensure the rest of the

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world that its currency was dependable, the U.S. would peg the dollar to gold, at a price of $35 an ounce.

The demand for Treasury securities coupled with the deficit spending needed to

finance the Vietnam War and the Great Society domestic programs caused the

United States to flood the market with paper money. With growing concerns over

the stability of the dollar, the countries began to convert dollar reserves into gold.

The demand for gold was such that President Richard Nixon was forced to

intervene and delink the dollar from gold, which led to the floating exchange rates

that exist today.

After the collapse of the Bretton Woods gold standard in the early 1970s, the United States struck a deal with Saudi Arabia to standardize oil prices in dollar terms. Through this deal, the petrodollar system was born in 1974, along with
a paradigm shift away from pegged exchange rates and gold-backed currencies to non-backed, floating rate regimes.
The petrodollar system elevated the U.S. dollar again as the world's reserve currency and, through this status, the United States enjoys persistent trade deficits and is a global economic hegemony.

In return for invoicing oil in

dollar denominations, Saudi Arabia and other Arab states secured U.S. protection

and mediation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The petrodollar system also provides

the United States’ financial markets with a source of liquidity and foreign capital

inflows through petrodollar "recycling." The petrodollar system also creates

surpluses of U.S. dollar reserves for oil-producing countries, which need to be

"recycled. These surplus dollars are spent on domestic consumption, or invested

in U.S. dollar-denominated assets. This last point is the most beneficial for the

U.S. dollar because petrodollars make their way back to the United States. These

recycled dollars are used to purchase U.S. securities such as Treasury bills.

With this status, the U.S. dollar enjoys what some have asserted to be an

"exorbitant privilege" of perpetually financing its current account deficit.

Despite of having become the world’s greatest debtor nation, its printed paper

money still buys what the world produces. The US did not need to manufacture

and compete; it just printed more money. Most goods the American consumer

bought, were made in foreign countries.” Investopedia

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Economic warfare:

Economic war has a more benign appearance, with less military and property

damage; but it has been brutal on the civilian population. Embargos, sanction,

asset freezes, blockades, starvation, propaganda, fake news, covert support and

financing of rebellion, hyperinflation and civil war, are in the empire’s arsenal to

bring regime change or defeat of the opponent government, even proclaiming

their newly selected interim president legitimate and paying revenues, owed to

the beleaguered state, to him. Blocking the import of food and other life

essentials, and blaming the regime of corruption and disregard for the people to

foment revolution to overthrow. The entire world is in the empire’s national

interest and it has an unlimited supply of printed money to buy its friends and

allies globally.

In the international theater, “No one can buy or sell, unless one is on good terms with the beast that thinks, speaks, like the beast inspired by the master dragon, Satan.”
America has become a secular humanistic, capitalistic, materialistic, apparently democratic, militaristic superpower under the “Babylonic”-“Christian” Cloak, with a mission to bring its ideology, one way or another, to the world.

The end of the last uncivil civilization, under the godless Zeitgeist of the 8th head of the beast with 10 horns, that returned from the abyss. Rev 9:1-11 9 The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss [bottomless pit]. 2 When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. 3

And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. 4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. [prophetic time scale: 1 day = 1 year, 5 month =

150 day-years] And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion

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when it strikes a man. 6 During those days, men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them. 7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads, they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. 8 Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth. 9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. 10 They had tails and

stings like scorpions, and in their tails, they had power to torment people for five months. 11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon. [Destroyer] Scripture does not give us the exact beginning time of the “five month” or “150 day-years”, so we need to pay close attention to all the indicators provided. But at their end, at the blast of the 6th trumpet Rev. 9:13-21, and 6th bowl of judgement Rev.16: 12-16, the last world war and the end of this world will be upon us. The abyss, the confinement of Satan’s forces of evil, was opened, and like the smoke of a furnace, vile spirits darkens the minds of men and drives them toward insanity. Indicator:

World War 1, was to end all wars. 14 million were slaughtered and peace never returned. Besides the smaller overt and covert wars, economic conflicts continued until World War 2 began, when “all hell” broke loose. No mercy on children and their mothers, nor on the elderly. Whole cities laid in ruins. America started the first nuclear war with Japan; Hiroshima and Nagasaki was devastated. The world has never seen such horrific brutality. 70 million were slaughtered in World War 2. “Apollyon”, the king of the abyss, is now in charge of mankind and their leaders. War is still in progress, and preparations for World War 3, are in full swing. The world is now capable to “Self- destruct”. Statistics on continued war: See “Global

Research” by Washington’s Blog 20 Feb.2015.

Casualties of the Korean war, 1950-1953:
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but exceptionally bloody. Nearly 5 million people killed. Almost 40,000

The Korean War was relatively short

Americans killed in action in Korea, and more than 100,000 were wounded.

Casualties of the Vietnam war 1955-1974:

sides and some 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters. The U.S.

military has estimated that between 200,000 and 250,000 South Vietnamese

As many as 2 million civilians on both

soldiers died in the war. American troops casualties: 58,200.

Casualties of the Iraq war between 2003, when the invasion began, to August

2007: 1.2 million violent deaths. Wikipedia.

As of June 29, 2016, according to the U.S. Department of

Defense casualty website, there were 4,424 total deaths (including both killed in

action and non-hostile) and 31,952 wounded in action (WIA) as a result of the Iraq

War.

Casualties of the US, Afghanistan, Pakistan conflict:

“Combining my estimates for

Afghanistan and Pakistan, I estimate that about 1.2 million Afghans and Pakistanis

have been killed as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.”

Consortium News.

Casualties of the Libyan war:
Syria:

in February 2011, and which continues to the present day.”

“I estimate that about 250,000 Libyans have been

killed in the war, violence and chaos that the U.S. and its allies unleashed in Libya

Consortium news.

, SOHR’s March 2018 report documents the deaths of 353,935 combatants

and civilians in Syria. MPN News.

Somalia: violent death toll in Somalia since the U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion in 2006, I estimate that the true number of people killed in Somalia since 2006 must be somewhere between 500,000 and 850,000, with most likely about 650,000 violent deaths. MPN News

Yemen: The WHO’s total casualties, up to the present would be 11,833. MPN News. And the killings continue.
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World Peace is lost:
Luke 19:42-43
42 and said, "If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace — but now it is hidden from your eyes.
As the time for Israel, as a nation under God had run out, so the time for this world is ending.

Isa 48:22 22 "There is no peace," says the Lord, "for the wicked." Isa 59:8 8 The way of peace they do not know; there is no justice in their paths. They have turned them into crooked roads; no one who walks in them will know peace. Rev 6:4 4 Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take

peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword. Rev 6:8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts [nations] of the earth.

At the brink of world annihilation: The Cuban Missile Crisis

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“Castro wanted to be defended against a full-scale US invasion but Khrushchev's main reason for placing the missiles with his communist comrade was that there were American missiles stationed in Turkey, close to the USSR. It was a game of political brinkmanship, but to this day remains the closest we have ever got to nuclear annihilation. 14 October 1962

Photos taken by US spy plane missions show evidence of ballistic nuclear missiles, transporters and bunkers on Cuban soil. 16 October 1962 ExComm (the Executive Committee of the National Security Council) meets at the Whitehouse to debate how to respond to the threat. Eventually the decision is made to make a public declaration of a naval blockade of the island in order to prevent further missiles from being delivered. 22 October 1962 President John F Kennedy speaks to the American people, announcing the

blockade and challenging Khrushchev to remove the weapons. The biggest US troop invasion force since D-Day, gathers in Florida in preparation. 24 October 1962 US Strategic Air Command is ordered to Defcon (Defence Condition) 2, the highest level it has ever reached. Over Europe, American bombers are in the air 24 hours a day. Each bomber carries nuclear weapons, each one has a target and each one is ready to launch at

a moment's notice. 25 October 1962 14 Soviet ships turn back from the blockade.

26 October 1962

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Khrushchev offers Kennedy a deal by letter – they will remove missiles in return for an end to the blockade, and a promise not to invade the island without direct provocation. 27October 1962 Kennedy replies to Khrushchev's letter accepting the offer. By secret agreement the Turkish missiles will also be removed.

28 October 1962 Khrushchev goes on air to announce the removal of Russian missiles from Cuba. Kennedy thanks Khrushchev by telegram, before publically acknowledging the end of the crisis. Modern day historians note that the standoff nearly turned into a global calamity. With bombers in the air and nearly 3000 American nuclear weapons alone in a state of readiness, the Cuban Missile Crisis could have led to the end of the world in mere minutes. The Week Magazine. “Perhaps the most dangerous moment of the Cuban Missile Crisis came on October 27, when U.S. Navy warships enforcing the blockade attempted to

surface the Soviet B-59 submarine. It was one of four submarines sent from the Soviet Union to Cuba, all of which were detected and three of which were eventually forced to surface. The diesel-powered B-59 had lost contact with Moscow for several days, and thus was not informed of the escalating crisis. With its air conditioning broken and battery failing, temperatures inside the submarine were above 100oF. Crew members fainted from heat exhaustion and rising carbon dioxide levels. American warships tracking the submarine dropped depth charges on either side of the B-59 as a warning. The crew, unaware of the blockade, thought that

perhaps war had been declared. Vadim Orlov, an intelligence officer aboard the submarine, recalled how the American ships “surrounded us and started to tighten the circle, practicing attacks and dropping depth charges. They exploded right next to the hull. It felt like you were sitting in a metal barrel, which

somebody is constantly blasting with a sledgehammer.”

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Unbeknownst to the Americans, the B-59 was equipped with a T-5 nuclear-tipped torpedo. It was capable of a blast equivalent to 10 kilotons of TNT, roughly two- thirds the strength of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Firing without a direct order from Moscow, however, required the consent of all three senior officers on board. Orlov remembered Captain Valentin Savitsky shouting, “We’re going to blast them now! We will die, but we will sink them all—we will not disgrace our Navy!” Political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov agreed that they should launch the torpedo.

The last remaining officer, Second Captain Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov, dissented. They did not know for sure that the ship was under attack, he argued. Why not surface and then await orders from Moscow? In the end, Arkhipov prevailed. The B-59 surfaced near the American warships and the submarine set off north to return to the Soviet Union without incident.” Atomic Heritage Foundation.

9 times the world was at the brink of nuclear war — and pulled back. Business Insider

America spends more of its resources on destructive weapons, than on its human social needs which are enormous. The world mind has become desensitized for the ongoing horrors of war and the suffering of innocent civilians.

Nine countries in the world possess a total of 13,850 nuclear weapons. The United

States and Russia account for 92 percent of them.

Our world is now so advanced, that it’s insane Satan possessed super power’s leaders and politicians have brought us several times to the brink of annihilation. But the sovereign God said: “Not yet” "Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God." Rev.7:3. But soon He will say: Open the

abyss. Release the destroyers. "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates." 15 And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour... were released to kill a third of mankind. 16 The number of the mounted troops was two hundred million. I heard their number. Rev.9:14-16. There will be no more delay! 7 But in the days when the seventh angel is about to

sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets." Rev.10:6-7

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“The Director of the U.N. Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Renata Dwan, warned that all states with nuclear weapons are pushing for weapon modernization programs, while arms control regulations are changing or fading. This restructure of nuclear agreements is partly due to strategic competition between China and the U.S, and a new “arms race” between the North American nation and Russia. With disarmament talks stalemated for the past two decades, 122 countries have signed a treaty to ban nuclear weapons, except states with the weaponized material”.
“As a result, since 2018, the Doomsday Clock marks two-minutes till midnight, something not seen since 1947”.

The Doomsday Clock is a symbol which represents the likelihood of a man-

made global catastrophe. Maintained since 1947 by the members of the Bulletin

of the Atomic Scientists,[1] The Clock is a metaphor for threats to humanity from

unchecked scientific and technical advances. The Clock represents the

hypothetical global catastrophe as "midnight" and the Bulletin's opinion on how close the world is to a global catastrophe as a number of "minutes" to midnight.

The factors influencing the Clock are nuclear risk and climate

change.[2]

The Bulletin's Science and Security Board

also monitors new

developments in the life sciences and technology that could inflict irrevocable

harm to humanity.[3] Wikipedia

“I think that it’s genuinely a call to recognize – and this has been somewhat missing in the media coverage of the issues – that the risks of nuclear war are particularly high now,” the expert added.

The clock was created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947, who had helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project. The experts used the imagery of apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to zero) to convey threats to humanity and the planet.

To counteract, the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons so far has gathered 23 of the 50 ratifications that it needs to come into force, including South Africa, Austria, Thailand, Vietnam, and Mexico. But It is strongly opposed by the U.S., Russia, and other states with nuclear arms. A rather worrying stance by nuclear superpowers, as the 2011 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) treaty, the only U.S.-Russia arms control pact limiting

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deployed strategic nuclear weapons, expires in February 2021. While China has stated it will not participate in negotiations on any trilateral nuclear disarmament agreement with the U.S. and Russia. Due to the fact, the U.S. has recently withdrawn from both the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty) and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned could lead to an “arms race” with likely worse consequences than the Cold War. The decision to move or to leave in place the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock

is made every year by the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board in consultation with its Board of Sponsors, which includes 15 Nobel laureates. The fact that it is closer to midnight than ever should be a warning to all. “Blowing up the Planet” through the use of “peace-making nuclear bombs” is a money- making undertaking, a corporate bonanza for what Eisenhower called “the military industrial complex”: “All three legs of the “nuclear triad” must receive considerable investments to ensure their long-term viability” (Adm. Haney, op cit). The expenditure is for a 30-year program to “modernize” the US nuclear arsenal and production facilities. ... This plan, which has received almost no attention by the mass media, includes redesigned nuclear warheads, as well as new nuclear bombers, submarines, land-based missiles, weapons labs and production plants. The estimated cost? $1,000,000,000,000.00 — or, for those readers unfamiliar with

such lofty figures, $1 trillion.” According to STRATCOM Commander Adm. Cecil D. Haney, “America is quickly running out of time to ensure the viability of its nuclear deterrence and must invest the funds to upgrade not only its nuclear weapons stockpile, but the missiles, submarines and bombers capable of delivering a strike we hope we never have to make”. (Albuquerque Journal, June 22, 2016) Adm. Haney refers to “deterrence”, a Cold War concept which was officially scrapped in 2002 (under the 2001 Nuclear Posture Review). What is contemplated under America’s nuclear doctrine is the first strike pre-emptive use of nuclear

weapons against both nuclear as well as non-nuclear states. The enemies of America were clearly identified. The aggressor nations against which the “preemptive” use (for self-defense) of advanced nuclear weapons is contemplated were explicitly mentioned:

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Adm. Haney presented an overview of the world’s “strategic environment” which he said may be at its most precarious point in history – in large part because of the actions of Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and extremist groups such as the Islamic State and al-Qaida. Russia poses a threat just by virtue of the size of its nuclear arsenal, which it continues to modernize, but it’s also improving its conventional military forces, maintaining a significant quantity of non-strategic nuclear weapons and aggressively pursuing new war-fighting technologies, he said.” (Albuquerque Journal, June

22, 2016)

One would think, that every rational human being would vote for total nuclear disarmament. Then, at the UN, outlaw all warfare and destroy all offensive weapons und give control of defensive weapons to the UN peace keeping force. All international problems could be settled by intelligent peace loving world representatives. All war- mongers and war- profiteers should be incarcerated.
Nationalism and Imperialism have become the curse of humanity.

From the perspective of Russia, China and others, it is the United States of America that presents the greatest threat to world peace, because it’s military budget is by far the highest of any nation, its military bases are all over the world, it is involved in most international conflicts and is the world’s largest arms dealer.

Therefore, it is America’s responsibility to be the world’s leader toward total disarmament and world peace. Sounds too naïve? God is still showing you the way how He will do it. This is your last chance America. Isa 2:4 4 He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.

Tomorrow, His time of grace will end, and the king of the abyss will lead you to annihilation as revealed in these prophecies. The abyss is the realm of the kingdom of Satan, the angel of death, is the destroyer. Humanity has chosen his government by rejecting the God of love and peace as King. Now the abyss is open for Satan and his spiritual host to unleash

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their unrestrained horror on the world. Like the thick smoke from a furnace, the evil spirits will darken the minds of men who are not sealed with the holy spirit, and like enormous, all devouring swarms of locusts, wipe out what is left of their rationality. Godless humanity has received the “Mark of the Beast on their foreheads or on their right hand”. They have, by conviction-forehead, or just by action-right hand, accepted the secular humanistic ideology and lifestyle. The Greek term for “Mark” is “Charagma”, meaning the spirit and characteristics, of the beast, also expressed, as the “Name of the Beast”, name meaning the essence

of the named, or the human number 666, which stands for the ultimate secular humanistic ideology: “God is dead”; “men is the measure of all things”; “God and Satan are nonexistent”. This is Satan’s ultimate triumph. And the appointed watchmen for the people are blind and comfortable with the new state of normalcy. Rev 3:14-22 14 "To the angel [appointed, sent messenger] of the assembly in Laodicea [Laodikeia in Greek, translated: “People of judgement”: laos = people, dike= judgement] write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God's creation. 15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were

either one or the other! 16 So, because you are lukewarm — neither hot nor cold — I am about to spew you out of my mouth. 17 You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are [spiritualy] wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. 18 I counsel you to buy from me gold [truth] refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes [righteousness] to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve [God’s spirit] to put on your eyes, so you can see. 19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. 20 Here I

am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone [this is Christ calling you personally, because He had to fire His sent messenger] hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. [He will break the bread of life personally for you, so you may understand it and live by it.]

21 To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne. 22 He who has an ear, let

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him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. This is Christ’s final call. Be one of the remnant of the Virgin’s seed, who keep “His commandments and have the testimony of Jesus”. Rev.12:17] Rev 13:16-18 16 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, 17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. 18 This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the

number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666. NIV Rev 13:8 8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast — all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb. Rev 14:11-12 There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name." 12 This calls for patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God's commandments and remain

faithful to Jesus. The term here translated as worship, in Greek is proskuneo, it means “submit to”. Please see for greater detail the compendium paper: ”Terminology of biblical prophetic symbolism.” Luke 21:26 men's hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Many despair of life and prefer death, committing suicide.

“In 2016, there were 44,965 recorded suicides in the US, up from 42,773 in 2014,

according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

In 2015, suicide was the seventh leading cause of death for males and the 14th

leading cause of death for females.[14] Additionally, it was the second leading

cause of death for young people aged 15 to 24 and the third leading cause of

death for those between the ages of 10 and 14.[15]

A 2009 U.S. Army report indicates military veterans have double

of all suicides.

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A firearm is used in almost 50%

the suicide rate of non-veterans, and more active-duty soldiers have died from

suicide than in combat in the Iraq War(2003–2011) and War in Afghanistan

(2001–present).[40]

Attempted suicide rates

for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth and adults

in the U.S. are three times higher than national averages.[43]

Close to 800 000 people die globally due to suicide every year, which is one

person every 40 seconds. Suicide is a global phenomenon and occurs throughout

the lifespan.” [World Health Organization]

Godlessness precipitates lifelessness and spiritual death. Rev 7:2-3 2 Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: 3 "Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God." The seal of God is the Holy Spirit, who transforms God’s servant’s minds and lives. They have the mind of Jesus.

Eph 4:30-31 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 1 Cor 2:16 16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

Rev 16:12-16 12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East. 13 Then I saw three evil spirits, like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the

mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14 They are

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spirits of demons performing miraculous signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty. 15 "Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed." 16 Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called

Armageddon.

It is not the Euphrates river that presents a barrier for modern warfare, but it will be the Turkish ideology and its population that will form an alignment with the east. But it is also true, that the Euphrates river is drying up.
The drought is widespread in Iraq. The area sown with wheat and barley in the rain-fed north is down roughly 95 percent from the usual, and the date palm and citrus orchards of the east are parched. For two years, rain
fall has been far below normal, leaving the reservoirs dry, and American officials predict that wheat and barley output will be a little over half of what it was two years ago.

drying up. Strangled by the water policies of Iraq’s neighbors, Turkey and Syria; a

two-year drought; and years of misuse by Iraq and its farmers, the river is

could soon be half of what it is now. Along the river, rice and wheat fields have

“The Euphrates is

significantly smaller than it was just a few years ago. Some officials worry that it

turned to baked dirt. Canals have dwindled to shallow streams, and fishing boats

sit on dry land. Pumps meant to feed water treatment plants dangle pointlessly

over brown puddles.

Iraq has plenty of water, but it is a downstream country. There are at

least seven dams on the Euphrates in Turkey and Syria, according to Iraqi water

officials, and with no treaties or agreements, the Iraqi government is reduced to

begging its neighbors for water”. New York Times.

The south Iraqi wetlands are drying up. Water salinity has increased from 200

ppm to 1800 ppm within the last 50 years and has become toxic to the water

buffalo herds. Ankara started building the GAP as a massive hydroelectric and

irrigation project consisting of 22 dams and 19 hydroelectric power plants on both

the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers close to the Syrian and Iraqi borders.

The three demonic spirits:

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Rev 16:13-14

13 Then I saw three evil spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth

of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false

prophet. 14 They are spirits of demons performing miraculous signs, and they go

out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day

of God Almighty.

Three demonic spirits align the world into three camps. The dragon Zeitgeist

represents all the nations that have shed openly their “Babylonic”-“Christian” cloaks. The beast’s secular Zeitgeist of the majority European nations are at this time aligned with the “False Prophet”, the USA who is secularized but still holding on to its spiritual “Babylonic”-“Christian” cloak. These Satanic spirits, though ideological opposed, have one goal: “War”. They will be pervasive like the frogs in Egypt during the second plague: Ex 8:3,4 3 The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs. 4 The frogs will go up on you and your

people and all your officials. This will be the judgement time of God Almighty. But He also has a special message of encouragement to His children, to be vigilant and to abide in His righteousness. God will always have and keep His remnant in His love. Rev 9:13-21 13 The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns of the golden altar that is before God. 14 It said to the sixth angel who had

the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates." 15 And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. 16 The number of the mounted troops was two hundred million. I heard their number.

17 The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled

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the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur. 18 A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. 19 The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury. 20 The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood — idols that cannot see or hear or walk. 21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or

their thefts. How difficult it was for the prophet to describe the vision of 20th century warfare with first century vocabulary. Rev 16:17-21 17 The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, "It is done!" 18 Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since man has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake. 19 The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath. 20 Every island fled away and

the mountains could not be found. 21 From the sky huge hailstones of about a hundred pounds each fell upon men. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible. This will be the final judgement on the nations that are secular but still under the “Babylonic-Christian” cloak. James 5:1-6

5 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. 4 Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry

out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5 You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts

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as in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned; you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.

The coming Greatest Event on Planet Earth: The Center and Highlight of all Prophecy Christ returns and finalizes His Eternal Kingdom. Dan 12:1-3, 12 "At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people — everyone whose name is

found written in the book — will be delivered. 2 Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever”. Dan 2:34,35,44-45 34 While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It

struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were broken to pieces at the same time and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue

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44 "In the time of those kings, [the 10 horns, the European nations] the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. 45 This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands — a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces. This is the grand finale of prophecy. God foretold the history of our world in great

detail and we have seen the accuracy of His Word of Prophecy. God’s eternal Kingdom , the “Rock”, will come “in the time of those kings” and fill the whole earth. Matt 24:27,30,31. 27 For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 30 "At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will wail. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. 31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

Everyone will experience this Event, dead or alive: Rev 1:7 7 See! He is arriving, surrounded by clouds; and every eye shall see him-yes, and those who pierced him. And the nations will weep in sorrow and in terror when he comes. Yes! Amen! Let it be so! TLB Rev 6:15-17 15 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and

every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?" Joel 3:9-13

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9 Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and attack. 10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, 'I am strong!' 11 Come quickly, all you nations from every side, and assemble there. Bring down your warriors, O Lord! 12 'Let the nations be roused; let them advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations on every side. 13 Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full and the vats overflow — so great is their wickedness!'

Rev 6:17 17 For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?" God’s children will be ready and rejoice at His coming: John 14:1-3 14 "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. 2 In my

Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. Isa 25:8-9 8 He will eliminate death forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth. The Lord has spoken. 9 In that day they will say, "Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us. This is the Lord, we trusted in him; let us rejoice and be

glad in his salvation." 1 Thess 4:15-18 15 According to the Lord's own word, we tell you that we who are still alive,

who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a

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loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage each other with these words. 1 Cor 15:50-54

50 I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet, will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory." Matt 25:34-35 "Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation

of the world. Isa 2:19-21 19 Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth. 20 In that day men will throw away to the rodents and bats their idols of silver and idols of gold, which they made to worship. 21 They will flee to caverns in the rocks and to the overhanging crags from dread

of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth. Rev 19:11-16 11 I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, [symbol of victory] whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice, he judges and makes

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war. 12 His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head, are many crowns. Symbol of His great authority, omnipotence] He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. 13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. 15 Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron scepter." He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. 16 On his robe and on his thigh, he has this name written: “KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF

LORDS.” Rev 19:17-21 17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, "Come, gather together for the great supper of God, 18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and mighty men, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, small and great." 19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against the rider on the horse and his army. 20 But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had

received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. 21 The rest of them were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh. Rev 21:3-5 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There

will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." 5 He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" Then he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true."

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This does not suggest that God would evacuate heaven. It just means, that planet earth will no longer be isolated. Heaven will be on earth, and earth will be a part of heaven. The order of Events: 1. Christ, with His heavenly host, returns to planet earth, with great power and glory to a world in the process of destroying itself. Matt. 24:30. Rev.11:18. Every

eye will see Him. Rev.1:7. 2. The dead in Christ are resurrected as spiritual immortal beings. This is the first resurrection. Rev.20:6; 1.Cor.15:44,50,51; while the living in Christ are transformed in like manner. Matt.22:30. All saints are serving with Christ in heaven for 1000 years. 3. Ungodly survivors are killed by His appearance. Rev.19:21. 4. The beast and the false prophet are committed to the lake of fire. Rev.19:20 5. Satan incapacitated, imprisoned in the abyss for 1000 years. Rev.20:1-3 6. After the 1000 years, the godless will be resurrected. This is the second

resurrection. Satan will be freed to lead his followers in their final rebellion to their second eternal death in the all-consuming flames. Rev.20:6-15. Mal.4:1. 7. The whole universe is restored into the perfect “Eternal Kingdom of God”. Life in perpetual peace, joyful contentment in total harmony of love will never be disturbed again. All have the name the of Father written on their foreheads; they think and do as He does.

A few more Signs, that Christ’s coming is imminent: Luke 21:25-28 25 "Amazing things will happen to the sun, moon, and stars. And people all over

the earth will be upset and confused by the noise of the sea and its crashing

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waves. 26 They will be afraid and worried about what will happen to the world. Everything in the sky will be changed. ERV. Rev 16:8-9 8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun. The sun was given power to burn the people with fire. 9 The people were burned by the great heat. They cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues. But they refused to

change their hearts and lives and give glory to God. ERV. Many see and experience the environmental changes with more frequent regional catastrophic effects on its population, but money addicted and possessed individuals are not willing to take responsibility and change their minds and bad habits. Some even blame God for permitting our planet to get hotter with its disastrous effects of fires, draughts and flooding. He has provided you with a most beautiful habitation, but you have abused and polluted it; and now you will suffer the consequences, until: “God will destroy those who destroy the earth”. Rev.11:18 Matt 24:14 14 And the Good News I have shared about God's kingdom will be told throughout the world. It will be spread to every nation. Then the end will come.

ERV. The word of God, with Christ’s invitation to enter the Kingdom of God, has been printed in every language and is distributed globally. Every one, born of God’s Spirit, proclaims that invitation. Luke 21:28 28 When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads,

because your redemption is drawing near." Are you ready? Matt 24:44

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2 Peter 3:11-15 11 Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives 12 as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. 13 But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness. 14 So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this,

make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. Do not linger: Luke 13:23-27 23 Someone asked him, "Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?" He said to them, 24 "Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. 25 Once the

owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, 'Sir, open the door for us.' "But he will answer, 'I don't know you or where you come from.' 26 "Then you will say, 'We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.' 27 "But he will reply, 'I don't know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!' Jesus promised to make you ready, if you cooperate with Him: 1 Thess 5:23-24

23 May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 The one who calls you is faithful and He will do it.

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16 Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you.