From a presentation by Jeff Pippenger

"The Bible is its own expositor. Scripture is to be compared with scripture. The student should learn to view the Word as a whole and to see the relation of its parts. He should gain a knowledge of its grand central theme, of God’s original purpose for the world, of the rise of the great controversy, and of the work of redemption. He should understand the nature of the two principles that are contending for supremacy and should learn to trace their working through the records of history and prophecy, to the great consummation. He should see how this controversy enters into every phase of human experience; how in every act of life he himself reveals the one or the other of the two antagonistic motives; and how, whether he will or not, he is even now deciding upon which side of the controversy he will be found." Mind, Character; and Personality, vol. 1, 346.

Sister White says we should learn to trace history and prophecy, in order to understand the conflict of the Great Controversy that’s going on in our world today and the powers that are involved. In our study of Babylon the Great, we’re going to do an overview which we should as Adventists all be familiar with.

At the time period of the building of the tower of Babel by Nimrod there was instituted a religion that came out of that time period; and the book that I like the most is ‘The Two Babylon’s" by Alexander Hislop, and he goes back into that history and he tells us that one of the reasons that Babylon ultimately becomes a mystery religion is that it allows a hierarchal religion to keep the lower echelons of the religion in the dark about the true worship, the true aim and the true purposes of that religion.

Another reason that it became a mystery religion is that it went underground. After the flood, when Nimrod was becoming stronger and more famous. Shem, Noah’s son, was under great conviction that if Nimrod’s religion and his growth and reputation wasn’t halted then the condition of the world before the flood would be very quickly repeated. Shem, under holy unction, chased down and found out where Nimrod was and slew him. In fact, Hislop says that he cut his body up into ten pieces and sent them around to different cities of the kingdom, conveying in that action the message that anyone who enters into the religious experience of Nimrod will receive the same.

The Bible tells us that Nimrod at this time period was the great hunter, the great warrior, the most respected and powerful man in the world. History tells us that he did have many great worldly accomplishments. He was the one that invented wars, he built the first cities, so when Shem had the ability to slay Nimrod there was a fear that came over the worshippers of the religion of Nimrod and the religion went underground. It became the mystery religion along with hierarchical structure which allowed those at the top to keep those at the bottom in darkness.

At the confounding of the languages that took place in judgment against Babel, as people of the same language went to the different areas of the world where they were going to live, they brought with them this religion of the worship of Nimrod and his wife. The same religion was taken up by them only it had different languages to identify the relics and the gods and the forms of its worship. So we find in the world today a variety of religious expressions that still exist and some in history that used to exist and they are nothing more than the original religion of the worship of Nimrod and his wife.

Through time of course there are some minor variations but ultimately they are the same. In our previous study, ‘The Final Rise and Fall of the King of the North’ we looked at how the three fold make up of modern Babylon is identified in the prophecies. Different Bible prophets describe this three-fold nature of modern Babylon in three symbols. John the Revelator uses the Dragon, the Beast and the False Prophet.

Daniel, describing modern Babylon, uses Edom, Moab and the children of Ammon. In ‘The Final Rise and Fall of the King of the North’ we noted one of the characteristics that allows a student of prophecy to identify these three symbols as representing modern Babylon, is that one of the three always is found in the plural form. As we go through our study of these three powers that exist at the end of the world the Dragon, the Beast and the False Prophet, we’ll find that one of these powers is plural. Paganism which began at the Tower of Babel is this entity and it has two aspects, a political and a religious aspect. ‘Paganism’, ‘Heathenism’, ‘New Ageism’, ‘Hinduism’, all the ‘isms’ of the world, ultimately are nothing more than the worship of Nimrod and his wife and can be traced back to Babel and its overspreading of the land.

this is why when this power is symbolized by John as the Dragon, Spiritualism, or by the prophets of the Bible, it’s identified as plural because the same religion, the religion of Nimrod, comes in many different names—whether it is Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Spiritualism, Paganism, Pantheism, it is all the same religion. When you look at the political side of the Dragon power, it also comes in a variety of ‘isms’ but they’re all the same political structure which we know as Socialism. Socialism is also Communism, Nazism, Bolshevism, and all the isms that are just catch-words for the basic philosophy of Socialism. This is why the Dragon is portrayed as plural whereas Catholicism is singular, both in its religion and political structure, a Monarchy.

The religion of Nimrod comes down through history and we can pick the story up early in history. Albert Pike is recognized as the most well respected historian of Masonry. He was from the United States and is dead now, but he wrote more about free-masonry that any of their authors and is considered the leading expert.

In his well known book ‘Morals and Dogmas’, speaking of Masonry, he says: "By whatever name it was known in this or the other country, Masonry existed as it now exists, the same in spirit and heart...from the cradle of the human race (ancient Babylon]." Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry; 217-218.

So Albert Pike, one of the leading experts on Freemasonry in the world today, traces its activities, its religion back to the very cradle of the human race which we would identify as Babel. This is where Masonry comes from and when you understand the worship of Nimrod and his wife, you understand that Masonry is nothing more than a modern day manifestation of this.

In the same book Albert Pike says, "We reproduce the speculations of the Philosophers, the Kabalists, the Mystagogues and the Gnostics." Ibid. 329.

We’ll look at a couple of these manifestations that he mentions here, the Kabalists and the Gnostics. Kabalism traces its roots back to Babylon of Nebuchadnezzar’s time. Now remember what we’re dealing with here is nothing more than Spiritualism that began in the days of Nimrod. History tells us when the children of Israel were taken captive into Babylon for the seventy years, that many of them chose to remain in Babylon when the call came for them to leave Babylon, and that they incorporated into their lifestyle the religion of Babel. Little by little, when they migrated back to Israel through time or visited former relatives, this religion of Babylon migrated into the Jewish economy and it became known as Kabalism.

Kabalism, Cabalism—however you want to pronounce it—found its strength in taking the spiritual exercises from the religion of Babylon and applying them to the Old Testament, the holy book of the Jews. They would take the passages of the Old Testament and spiritualize them in the technique used by the religion of Babel. Albert Pike traces Masonry back to this Kabalism, but he also traces it back to the Gnostics. The Gnostics was a religious sect that also sprang up in Palestine, the Jewish part of the world, around during the New Testament time period.

Gnosticism did the same thing that Kabalism did, except that it included in its spiritualizing of the Bible, not simply the Old Testament but the New Testament. It was the more modern manifestation of this same spiritual technique that comes right out of Nimrod’s religion. New Ageism today makes Jesus nothing more than a holy man, a guru for a certain millennium of time. This is the spiritual technique applied by the Gnostics to the New Testament.

Albert Pike traces Masonry back to the tower of Babel and identifies other mystery religions as predecessors which partook of the same religion and philosophy of Masonry. The occult teachings of Nimrod’s religion were spread and handed down from generation to generation eventually to be adopted by a small minority of Jews. The occult religion of these Jews was called Kabalism which was eventually put into written form called the Kabalah, which provided a Satanic version of the truths of the Old Testament. The religion of Kabalism was adopted by Gnosticsm which provided the Satanic argument against the truths of the New Testament. Together Kabalism and Gnosticism provide the occult parallel to the Old and New Testaments. Beginning with the Jews, Gnosticism spread to the Gentile world and continued to resist the truths of the New Testament church.

Albert Pike states: "The Gnostics derived their leading doctrines and ideas from Plato and Philo, the Zend-Avesta and the Kabala, and the sacred books of India and Egypt; and thus introduced into the bosom of Christianity the cosmologic and theosophical speculations, which had formed the larger portion of the ancient religions of the Orient, joined to those of the Egyptian, Greek, and Jewish doctrines, which New-Platonists had equally adopted in the Occident." Ibid., 248.

Theosophy 1: teaching about God and the world based on mystical insight. ...Buddhist and Brahmanic theories esp. of pantheistic evolution and reincarnation. Webster Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary; 1988.

What he is saying here is that the Gnostics developed their own version of Nimrod’s religion but brought it into the New Testament setting, the New Testament time period. They took the passages of the New Testament and tried to spiritualize them away.

I am choosing to trace this history which is easy to document for yourself, because we’re going to look at a group of Knights that get drawn into this environment of Gnosticism and trace a little bit of their history.

Gnosticism flourished for centuries under many different branches of its occult religion. One branch of Gnosticism was a military and religious order established in AD 1118 in Jerusalem by a group of French knights led by Hughes de Payens of Champagne and Godefrol de Saint Omer. Their stated mission was to protect pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land during the crusades. Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem, gave these knights quarters in his palace which was built on the site of Solomon’s temple. From this they derived their name—Knights of the Temple. This order grew rapidly and in 1128 was taken under special protection by the pope. By receiving gifts and offerings for protecting the pilgrims the Knights of the Temple became wealthy and powerful.

At the fall of Jerusalem to Saladin in 1187, the order moved to Acre, and were forced to move again in 1291 when Acre fell to the Muslims. They then moved to Cyprus. By this time the order was no longer a military and religious order, but had progressed into the bankers of Europe.

Pike states: "Their watchword was, to become wealthy in order to buy the world. They became so, and in 1312 they possessed in Europe alone more than nine thousand seigniors." Ibid. 819-820.

Seignior: A man of rank and authority; the feudal-lord of a manor. Ibid., 1063.

They began buying up the different castle properties available in Europe at that time, because of the flow of events, and they became the primary owner of castles and the holdings of land that went with them in Europe during that time period.

Some of the lands didn’t have castles on them and they were building castles and repairing castles. This brought about a relationship between them and those who built castles, which we know are Masons.

They developed the philosophy that if they could gather the wealth of the world, they could control the world. During the time they were in Palestine, they had entered into the religion of Gnosticism and they kept this secret because they were an order of the Papacy. They were under ‘divine’ protection of the Pope and Gnosticism was a type of religion that Catholicism could not put up with, so they were secretly a Gnostic believing group of people with the purpose of attempting to control the world financially.

In 1307 the Templars were charged with heresy and immorality by a former member and Philip the IV of France began an investigation which culminated in Pope Clement V abolishing the order in 1312, and the 18th of March, 1314 the Grand Master, Jacques de Molay was burned at the stake with three of his highest ranking officers. De Molay is still an order in Masonry for young children to be involved in is nothing more than honoring De Molay. This diabolical knight is where the Masons derive the name for the special order for their young men called, the Masonic Order of De Molay.

Now initially when the king of France accused the Templars of Gnosticism and immoral rites associated with Gnosticism the Pope refused to believe it; and then after the King of France persisted, he did do an inquisition and found that the charges were true and he took Jacques de Molay and other of the leaders and had them executed. But many, if not most of the knights of the Templar saw this coming and they went underground.

When the Pope had them executed, much of the Knights wealth was confiscated, but not all, and the order went underground and migrated with their finances to a part of the world that at that time in history was off the map, an untraveled part of the world outside the grasp of Rome, Scotland.

There are certain characteristics associated with the Knights of the Templar, they were the ones that we read about in books or see in movies about the knights in armor. While the Knights of the Templar were in power before they were brought to the inquisition by the Pope of Rome, they were the most well known people in the world. The little boys that grew up in Europe in that time wanted to be a knight of the Templar and many of their emblems that were exclusive to their particular sect were well known and envied during that time. They were looked up to in that time and then they went underground.

If you go to Scotland today, to old, old towns built during the times when the knights of the Templar went underground, you’ll find graveyards where their emblems are the only things on the grave stones. This is consistent with the theology of the knights of the Templar and their Gnosticism, they would not put their names or anything on their gravestones, they’d simply put the emblem of their sword. In these old towns in Scotland you can find many graveyards that have simply these knights of the Templar insignia on the gravestones dated from that very time and you can find churches in that area that go back to that time that represent the same kind of churches that they built.

When they fled, they never changed from their former conviction that if you can control the wealth of the world you could control the world. In Europe after this time period there was another secret society that came into being called the Rosicrucians in about the 15^th century. later on this movement turns into Freemasonry and there’s a rite of free masonry that’s associated with Scottish freemasonry. The Templars also either merged or formed a new order called the Rosicrucians.

Pike states: "The successors of the Ancient Adepts Rose-Croix. ...became a Mystic Sect, uniting with many of the Templars, the dogmas of the two intermingling." Ibid., 821.

Rosicrucian: Christian Rosae Crucis reputed founder of the 15th century movement. 1. An adherent to the 17th and 18th century movement devoted to esoteric wisdom with emphasis on psychic and spiritual enlightenment. Ibid., 1024.

Esoteric: 1. a. Designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone. b. Of or related to knowledge which is restricted to a small group. Ibid. 424.

Then Freemasonry which they had infiltrated begins to become prominent in Europe during this time and particularly a branch of Freemasonry known as Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. And if we go back into the history of the French Revolution we’ll see that prior to the French Revolution time period there was a philosophy brought into France primary from was a branch of a secret society associated with Freemasonry which today we know as the Illuminati.

The illuminati not only began to propagate the seeds of Atheism which contributed to the overthrow of France in the French Revolution but Illuminati also had the same keystone of beliefs that the knights of the Templar did, that if you could control the wealth of the world, you could control the world.

The secret order of the Rosicrucians surfaced with a different name in London, in 1717 at the official birth of Freemasonry. The Rosicrucians had previously infiltrated the stone mason guilds of Europe and quietly merged their order with the Masons, while slowly assuming control of the new organization. They had come out of hiding with Freemasonry, but remained a secret organization within the Masons which would later be exposed under the name, "Illuminati."

The Masonic historian, Albert G. Mackey, describes the Illuminati as a "secret society, founded on May 1, 1776, by Adam Weishaupt, who was professor of canon law at the University of Ingolstadt." Mackey’s Encyclopedia of Freemasonry; 346.

Weishaupt was also a Jesuit who some say was disillusioned with Catholicism and therefore entered into this other secret society.

In the book, Proofs of a Conspiracy, page 60, written in 1798, John Robison states of the Illuminati: "The express aim of the Order was to abolish Christianity, and overturn all civil government." Quoting Weishaupt he states. "In no other way but by secret associations, which will by degrees, and in silence, possess themselves of the government of the States, and make use of those means for this purpose," Ibid., 106.

Of course this is what it contributed to in the French Revolution.

Weishaupt’s plan was little by little you infiltrate the different governments of the world until the advisors of the leaders of the governments were surrounded by people who were inside men of the illuminati and in this way you could control the policies of the different nations of the world.

By 1782, Weishaupt was firmly established as the leader of the secret societies of Europe which were dedicated to bringing in a one-world government. In this year Weishaupt also merged the order with a growing banking network owned by the Rothschild family. Wieshaupt merged with the Rothschilds in order to finance the plans and accomplish their goals of the Illuminati. Within 10 years of its inception the Illuminati was exposed and it went underground, but continued to thrive as history marched on.

This brief history was gleaned from the book by Gary H. Kah, En Route to Global Occupation, 93-110. As Gary Kah continues his historical narrative into the 1800’s he specifically identifies one of Weishaupt’s main ploys to accomplish a one-world government as "ecumenism."

Historians identify the philosophies, which were introduced into Europe at the time period of the Illuminati as the foundation principles, which brought about the French Revolution and continued to develop into the communism of our day.

In the world today, we know that conspiracy theories are kind of ridiculed and scoffed at. I’m hoping that as Seventh-day Adventists with the insight that we have in the Spirit of Prophecy, where Sister White was divinely allowed to overhear Satan and the fallen angels discussing their plans and how they would defeat God’s work and corrupt God’s people, that we realize that the spiritual powers that we are battling against as Christians definitely have conspiracies.

They make sinister plans that they attempt to carry out without anyone else having the knowledge of those plans. To think that Satan, who has his representatives in mankind, doesn’t use these same principles is, I hope, something that Seventh-day Adventists are very cautious about not doing, because we know in the Great Controversy that conspiracy is one of the main ways that evil men accomplish their purposes.

I want to read a passage out of a book that speaks in a very logical way about what goes on in our world today.

"Governments are not nearly as important as most people think. Since we live in a post-barter economy, a money economy; those who control the money supply, effectively control the planet. Governments gave up all attempts to coin or control money in the nineteenth century; mostly because they did not trust one another, that is, no nation had faith that the coinage or currency of another nation was really worth what it claimed to be worth.

"The great international banks stepped into this vacuum and by demonstrating more physical rectitude than governments had in the past, became the creators of money in the modern world. After the banks had control, they no longer needed to be quite so prime in the physical rectitude. Nobody could challenge them.

"This means that governments cannot do anything, good or ill, wise or foolish, unless the banks first lend them the money for the project. The power is in the banks. The governments survive on the permission of the banks. If the banks cut off their credit, governments die. Any government that resists, has its credit cut off and dies.

"As Buck-minister Fuller stressed in his writings, this means that in the modern world, banks act and governments only re-act to the situations the bankers have ordained. Even earlier, historian Brookes-Adam wrote of the British financier Samuel Lloyd, in ‘The Law of Civilization and Decay’, "He comprehended that, with expanding trade, an inelastic currency must rise in value. He saw that with sufficient resources at command, his class might be able to establish such to rise almost at pleasure; certainly they could manipulate it when it came, by taking advantage of foreign exchange."

"In other words as soon as the great multi-national banks had control of the money supply, they saw that they could manipulate cash and credit to maximize profits; they would have been rather dense if they had not seen this. None the less, while these financiers quite sanely and legally maximize profit, the rest of us are at their mercy but we never elected them to this position of power and by and large, we do not even know who they are.

"In the present decade it costs 50 million to run a campaign for the presidency of the United States; 10 million to run a campaign for the Senate and 5 million for the House of Representatives. This means that the US, the strongest country in the West, is not only owned, in trillion-dollar debt to the banks, but also governed by persons who are either millionaires or heavily in debt to millionaires.

"In the words of ex-senator Pedigrew, "we now have a government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations."

"As Edward Ludwalk documents in his cheerfully Machiavellian little text, ‘The Coupe de Tab’, "More governments have been changed since World War II by the ‘Coupe de Tab’ than any other method. More governments have been changed by ‘Coupe" than all the revolutions combined. Since every Coupe is by definition a conspiracy, this means that conspiracies have had more effect on the past 40 years of world history than all the electoral politics and all the popular revolutions added together. This is rather ominous in a period when ‘educated opinion’ holds it’s infamous, nutty, eccentric, or downright paranoid to think about conspiracies at all. We are in effect, forbidden to think about how the planet is actually governed.

"If Governments cannot act without permission of the banks, without loans or lines of credit granted by the banks, and if the US government is owned by the multi-millionaire or billionaire banking incorporate elite, and if other governments are, more often than not, changed by conspiratorial coupe, the major potion of humanity, is economically, politically, controlled by persons who are largely unknown to the general public, and/or have never been elected to any office.

"Democratic theory is beautiful and inspirational but it has nothing to do with the actual situation of the people of this planet."

It is easy to document the history of this philosophy that has come down to us right out of Babel, through the religion. Along the way in history, the Knights of the Templar were first noted in history realizing that if they could control the finances of the world, they could control the world—if there wasn’t some before that were involved in this worship of Nimrod and his wife who thought of this. History tells us that the King of France exposed them and the Pope of Rome executed them and drove them underground. History also tells us in a few hundred years they resurfaced in Europe and a few hundred years beyond that, they began to finance and propagate a philosophy that we know as Atheism, which brought about the French Revolution, thus retaliating against the king of France, who had driven them underground, even though it’s hundreds of years later.

History attests as well that after the French Revolution, Napoleon took control of France and, among other things, sent his general to the Vatican and took the pope captive thus delivering the deadly wound. Thus carrying out the will and mandate of the people that had placed Napoleon in his position of power, as they not only retaliated against the King of France, but they retaliated against the Pope of Rome, the two power players that had driven them underground. We must recognize this history for what it is. Since the deadly wound was delivered in 1798, this power associated with Masonry as we know it today, and other names before that time, has continued on.

From the mystery religion of Babylon were spawned the secret societies which evolved into a secret movement with plans to bring the entire world under one government with one religion reminiscent of the designs of Nimrod. As this one world movement began to raise its ugly head, the mystery religion of Rome was coming to the end of its 1260 years of world domination. The United States was beginning to rise to its position as the leader of the world and eventually will force the world to worship a reborn Papacy. Globalism, Communism, Freemasonry and secret societies, Catholicism, and the New Age Movement are forces which impact the understanding of what is illustrated in Daniel 11:40-45.

We have a magazine that we carry to go along with this presentation and it is produced by the John Birch society. I am not a member of the John Birch Society and I do not endorse every position of the John Birch Society, but there’s particularly one article in here written by a Catholic Priest, and the point of the article is that those people who identify a role of world dominance for the Papacy at the end of the world are ridiculous and have no reason to come to that conclusion. That article shouldn’t be in here, but this magazine does an excellent job of documenting how this mystery religion, its political aspect is still in the world today.

It talks about the people who have been the leaders of this country who have been members of organizations specifically set up by the one-world bankers. People that have been striving to bring in a one-world government. In here as an example, is a chart that shows the executive branch of government, defense dept, judicial branch and legislature; here’s listed the different presidents, vice presidents of the United States, different people in the state department, congress and the supreme court that have been members of these secret organizations, who’s known intent is to bring in a one world government. We know that one world government today as the United Nations.

As we approach the end of the world, not to recognize that there is a one world government coming is not in agreement with the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy. Let me just quickly show you why I have this conviction; The Spirit of Prophecy tells us that the Image of the Beast symbolizes the combination of Church and State. Sister White says that the Image of the Beast will be formed by the United States when the secular power is used to enforce religious dogma. Some people don’t recognize that in Revelation 13 there are two images of the Beast. If you look at Revelation 13:11 it is speaking about the United States:

"And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon." And this beast we’ve always understood to be the United States and Sister White tells us the speaking of a nation is the action of its legislative and judicial branches. So here we see the United States speaking as a Dragon in the sense that it passes a Sunday Law. The Sunday Law is the Mark of the Beast; it is not the Image of the Beast—it is the Mark of the Beast’s authority. That’s what the Sunday Law is and it takes place when the United States speaks as a dragon—when their legislative and judicial branches pass the Sunday Law.

When the United States passes a Sunday Law it has formed the Image of the Beast completely. The Image of the Beast has reached its total maturity because the definition of the Image of the Beast is when secular power is used to enforce religious dogma or to sustain its institutions. So when the United States passes the Sunday Law addressed here in verse 11, it has taken a decision where secular power of the United States is going to enforce the religious dogma of Sunday keeping.

Verse 12 continues on describing the role that the United States will play in healing the deadly wound of the Papacy. Verse 13 identifies that at this time miraculous powers will be added to the role of the United States and if you look closely at what the Spirit of Prophecy says about the time of the Sunday Law, that the marvelous working of Satan begins in earnest, even though he’s doing marvelous works before that time. He’s doing marvelous working right now in the apparitions of Mary and the things that are going on in the New Age movement, etc. But it begins in earnest at the Sunday Law.

In verse 14 we see the United States doing this: "And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by [the means of] those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live."

United States has made an Image to the Beast in verse 11 when it passes a Sunday Law, now it’s telling the whole world to do the same, and the definition in the Spirit of Prophecy is when secular power is used to enforce religious dogma. So this verse here demands that if the whole world is going to have an image of the beast, that there has to be some kind of secular power that can apply force to the whole world. There’s a one-world government being identified here. And if you remember the definition Sister White gives for the speaking of a nation and you read on to verse 15:

"And he (the United States) had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed."

This Image of the beast here in verse 15 is going to speak. It is going to be a secular power that enforces religious dogma—a secular power which can speak, which means it has a legislative and judicial branch and we know that the world congress and the world court already exist in the United Nations.

This has been the goal of Masonry and before Masonry, if you get into the history recorded in Masonry and these other secret societies; it had been their intent from the very beginning to bring in a one-world government. When Adam Weishuapt was putting out his information on how this was going to happen, one of the main tools that he intended to bring this about was ecumenism and we see today that the whole world’s religions are being brought together in advance of the time when the United States has the world set up the Image of the Beast. In other words, when the United States sustains and supports ‘One World Government’.

We can see that going on in the world today. The United States in Revelation 13 has two aspects of the power it will use to force the whole world to worship the Beast of the Papacy. One is economic and one is military; you can’t buy or sell if you don’t receive the Mark—economic; you’ll be put to death if you don’t receive the Mark—military. These two aspects are going to be carried out through the world by the United Nations. As we look at what is going on in the world today with the United Nations we see that this is the very mode of operation that’s already being used.

A nation steps out of line from what the United Nations thinks it should be doing and it first put an economic boycott on it; you can’t buy or sell. If that doesn’t bring the effect that they want then the United States and other countries that make up the United Nations military force attack. You’ll be put to death. These two characteristics are already active in the world and they’re active in the confines of this one world government.

Now there’s many ways to document this movement by secret societies through history to bring about this one world government to rebuild the Tower of Babel, so to speak. But remember as it goes through history, it has a religious and a political aspect. Revelation 16 is identifying the religious aspect of these three powers.

In our next presentation we’ll look at how the religious manifestation of the dragon power is working at bringing in the one world government. The Dragon power is the power that we’ve been tracing through history. It’s the power that began in Nimrod’s time. It’s Paganism, heathenism, pantheism, and in our day New Ageism. It began with Nimrod, it goes all the way through time and the Dragon power at the end of the world has a religious manifestation that is guiding and directing it in its spiritual sense, but it also has a political aspect which we see in the United Nations.

One of the books that documents this is a 1300 page marathon read called ‘Tragedy and Hope’ written by Karol Quigley. This book talks about the One World Government and the millennium of peace and prosperity that’s just ahead of us. It talks about the secret societies and the One World Bankers that are working to bring this about. The reason the name is ‘Tragedy and Hope’ is those that resist this coming one world government for them it is going to be a tragedy, but for those that will enter into this one world system with a positive aspect, then it’s going to bring a period of hope and prosperity.

When Bill Clinton became nominated for President, he said in the triumphant speech accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination for President, Bill Clinton indicated that the man who started him on the road to his new covenant was one of his history professors at George Town University. Here’s how he put it: "As a teenager I heard John Kennedy summoned to citizenship and then as a student I heard the call clarified by a professor I had named Karol Quigley". That is the man that wrote this book.

Karol Quigley is clearly agreeing with the history that we just went over and agreeing with the predictions about the future that there is a one-world government coming ahead. Here’s a little review on this book: "Dr. Karol Quigley was a professor of history at the foreign service school of George Town University. (He was a Jesuit. He’s deceased now.) He formerly taught at Princeton and Harvard. He had done research in the Archives of France, Italy and England and he was the author of the widely known text, ‘Evolution of Civilization’. When Dr. Quigley decided to write his 1300 page book called ‘Tragedy and Hope’ he knew he was deliberately exposing one of the best kept secrets in the world.

"As one of the elite insiders, he knew the scope of this power complex and he knew its leaders’ hope to eventually attain total global control. Furthermore Dr. Quigley makes it clear throughout his book that by and large he warmly supports the goals and purposes of the network. But if that is the case, why would he want to expose this worldwide conspiracy and expose many of its most secret operations? Obviously disclosing the existence of a mammoth power network which is trying to take over the world could not help but arouse the vigorous resistance of millions of people who are its intended victims.

"So why did Dr. Quigley write the book? His answer appears in a number of places but it is especially forceful and clear on pages 979-80 he says in effect that it is now too late for the little people to turn back the tide. In a spirit of kindness, he is therefore urging them not to fight the noose which is already around their neck. He feels certain that those who do will only choke themselves to death. On the other hand, those who go along with the immense pressure which is beginning to be felt by all humanity will eventually find themselves in a man-made millennium of peace and prosperity. All through his book, Dr. Quigley assures us that we can trust these benevolent, well meaning men who are secretly operating behind the scenes. They are the Hope of the world. All who resist them represent tragedy hence the title for the book.

"To assure us of his own unique qualification for writing this book, Dr Quigley states, "I know the operations of this network because I’ve studied it for 20 years and was permitted for two years in the early 1960s to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims; and have for most of my life been close to it and many of its instruments. I have objected both in the past and recently to a few of its policies, but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known."

I intended for this history of the Dragon Power, Paganism to be brief because it is so easy to document in history. If you are not familiar with that documentation please get a hold of us and order this magazine. What we’re saying is that one of the influences striving for world domination and destined to oppose God and His people and at the same time is striving against the other two counterparts that go to make up the threefold union of modern Babylon, is Paganism and the role that it plays.

Paganism in the form of the New Age, its religious aspect; the United Nations, its political aspect is alive and well in the world today. If you ever looked at the charters of the United Nations, you’ll find something interesting; the United Nations is not structured as a republicanism or democracy or a monarchy as is the United States and Catholicism. United Nations is purely a socialistic structure. It is the type of structure that is associated with the Dragon power of Revelation16, Paganism.

It’s interesting one of the most simple and brief books that you can find on this movement is a book called ‘En Route to Global Occupation’ by Gary Kah. And one of the powerful presentations that he makes in regard to this is he notes of how many people are identified as leaders in corporations that support and sustain the New Age movement. How many of those leaders that you can identify as the prominent people in the New Age Movement, also hold prominent positions of power in the United Nations? It’s easy to document this history and as Seventh-day Adventists it’s easy to see that this is one of the influences that we need to come to recognize and understand as we approach the end of the world.

"The powers of Satan are mustering for battle. Stern conflicts are before us. Press together, my brethren and sisters, press together. Bind up with Christ. ‘Say ye not. A Confederacy; ...neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. And he shall be for a sanctuary to his people; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.’

"I am instructed to say to those who know the truth, ‘Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and 1 will look for him. Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in Mount Zion. And when they shall say unto you seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter; should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.’ ‘And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils. working miracles. which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked,’—without the robe of Christ’s righteousness—‘and they see his shame.’

"‘Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with Judgment and with Justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.’

"These subjects are of the utmost importance. Urge our people to consider them carefully. When they do this, their minds will be so fully occupied with matters of eternal consequence that they will lose sight of the little differences that once annoyed them. They will realize that prophecy is even now fulfilling. If the minds of the people of God were not occupied with things of minor consequence, they would see that the signs of the times are fast fulfilling, and that events of the greatest consequence to them are taking place in the world and in the churches pointed out by the words. ‘Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.’" Bible Training School, December 1, 1902.