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Armageddon: Christianity provokes a worldwide change in “warfare”

February 23, 2010 – 6:48 PM

A new look at an old subject: “Armageddon” (Part I)

The Bible anticipated a change in “warfare” not readily understood even by the finest scholars. The reason for such a lack of understanding is due to our assumptions. We are so used to hearing that the battle of Armageddon will be a literal battle in the Middle East, it just didn’t occur to previous generations of Bible scholars and pastors that war would change drastically, necessitated by changes in the world itself.

No one scholar could anticipate how the world would change so radically. After all, everyone can be just an email or phone call away, for example. Note the following changes that will accompany the rise of God’s Kingdom, as it will be exalted in prestige and presence worldwide 

 Two movements – unrelated directly to one another – would lead to the modern worldwide culture carrier war… the first of its kind in history. Those two movements are… 1) The changes in war itself, where the much more powerful culture carrier war (worldwide) is flanking the concept  of military warfare . 2) The Second major movement – epitomized in the  humanism and philosophies of three men – was the rise of what came to be called "humanism" … and all its surrogates in Socialism, Darwinism, Hegelianism, Marxism, Keynesianism, Higher Criticism, Psychology, Sociology, etc.

We will consider "Warfare" first… and its current propensities  toward its own elimination.

1. Warfare: Nations will move from weapons to tools. The Law and the Gospel will go out from Jerusalem. Then God will bring terrible judgments throughout the world. The result? The world will  reject war as a means of economic gain or even as a means of defending itself.  Why? Three reasons come to mind:

1) Like Vietnam, Iraq, and other wars, confusion reigns as to the meaning, purpose, and goals of these wars. Peoples all over the world are war-weary … and they are beginning to understand through the Internet HOW and WHY these wars are financed and made profitable to an elite.

2) Wars are becoming too expensive to fight. Afghan fighters, fighting with little more than basic weapons and explosives, defeated Russia in the 1980s… and are causing immense cost to  the  burdened American taxpayer. Indeed, in Vietnam, the Viet Cong "policy" was to inflict our troops with "wounded" in stead of killing them, often times. Why? Because the wounded drew in expensive evacuation helicopters, and many other American personnel within gunsight of the Cong. Furthermore, each wounded soldier needed the attention of a whole line of medical staff extending from the fields  of Vietnam to the hospitals in Korea, Japan, Hawaii, and mainland USA. The expense drove us from the field, though we had the far superior soldiers (but treasonous diplomats).

3) The Gospel teaches the moral cost and Judgments of God, as well as the necessity of teaching nations the necessity of getting gain with tools (capital goods), as opposed to the plunder of warfare.

 

2. Humanists See Christianity Prevails through Culture Carriers…

Those who led the antichristian leadership in Europe began to realize they needed to capture the  culture carriers to thwart Christian advances in society. War and persecution hadn’t worked. That process began with…

1) the modern philosophers , especially the thinking of Voltaire, D’Lambert, and Frederick II… and …

2) then moved to the French Revolution.

3) Of course, philosophers such as Hegel, Kant, Hume, and Marx all had their turn in changing the world.

But, let’s consider just three men… men in their intense, internal hatred against Christ and His people.

3. Brief Backdrop… From Failed Persecution to Successful Worldview Attack…

The wars of religion in Europe, foretold by the book of  Revelation, mostly initiated by kings and prelates with the intent to destroy the Christianity of the Protestant Reformation, failed to accomplish that “mission”. Instead, kings and papacy, Holy Roman Empire and despots, fell from power, ultimately consumed by their own fire (See Ezek. 28:18 for an example of what God provokes in the Devil, in the latter days). 

The Jacobins of the French Revolution PRECEDED their alleged founder, Adam Weishaupt, by well over a century. The Jacobins grew out of the leagues formed in France by the nobility and priests who persecuted and fomented multiple wars against the Huguenots of France. It is no secret  that all those organizations who eventually formed the “Jacobins” of the early 1700’s, like them, utilized Jesuit organizational structure and tactics. 

Philosophers such as Voltaire, D’Lambert and Frederick II all saw nothing had  stopped the rise of Christianity.  But, these master humanists were not the ultimate cause of  Christianity’s woes in the 18th and 19th centuries. The real problem was to be found in the increasing apostasy of the churches of Europe. Thus, God’s wrath would raise up cunning, skillful men to chastise them, a principle announced in the Old Testament several times, including the prophet Ezekiel (later illustrated in the New Testament as well):

God raises up FOR His Church men with supernatural gifts, skillful in building the “Temple of the Lord”. In like manner, He will raise up men of  His wrath, skillful (supernaturally endowed by the Devil – See I Kings 22) in their ability to undermine the civilization Christianity may be holding at any given time. That is the way the Devil is able to achieve a dominion "for a time."

 

Roman Catholic priest and historian (in the Jesuit mold), Abbe Barruel, definitely associated the resurgence of Jacobinism with the rise of Voltaire and his impact in leading a movement to destroy Christianity. Being that he was familiar with the Jesuit organization and strategies, he was quite able to pick up upon the Jacobin counterfeit of same. 

 

Barruel’s description begins with those who were at the heart of a resurgence of Jacobin activism:

4, Voltaire, D’Alembert, and Frederick II (the Great) (by A. Barruel):

 

What distinguished these men was the mutual recognition that Christianity could not be destroyed by military and persecutive means. Christianity is a culture carrying religion. As such, it always forces its enemies to fight it on the cultural-economic-political “battlefield”. 

The result, as we will see, will be the rise of a global culture-carrier “War” never before seen in the history of the world, for its extent, range and depth. We will see how such a culture-carrying conflict will unite anti-christian elements worldwide against the rise of the Christian faith… in our generation. 

-submitted, Wayne C. Sedlak, ICHR