SHILLUM

INTRODUCTION

	The sound of dripping water is heard.  Other than that, silence. Crumpled buildings mark the landscape.  Now one can hear a moan. Far off can be heard a siren wailing its sad song.  Is this the Balkans? Oklahoma? Korea? Yes, but more than that, it is the whole world-one vast asylum of pain.  
	This document is not designed to awaken anyone to the knowledge that the world is violent and disintegrating.  That is not news.  One would have to be blind not to know that already.  The intent of this document is to explain the causes and show where these causes will lead.  One need not consider what he can do to change the things that are taking place.  No change is possible, no solution is offered.  It is too late for that.  
	Why is it that it is too late to change our world?  There is an answer to this question.  Mankind has too long resisted the Spirit which makes for unity and peace.  Mankind has grieved away the only solution to its problems.  One may not be able to change things, but he can be made to understand why.  
	It is true that some politicians in office like to parrot glowing reports of new jobs and wonderful opportunities in the "greatest country in the world," but there is a certain knowledge in the country as a whole that things are not right.  Something ominous is about to transpire.  Perhaps something ominous has already transpired.  
	For those who have prepared themselves for this time, there is nothing to fear.  The author will share what that preparation was.  If you have that preparation, you need not concern yourself with the outcome.  If you have not prepared yourself, and no desire for preparation is present, then no preparation is now possible.  
	The author will write frankly and speak specifically in many instances.  He invites the reader to set aside offense and simply consider whether or not these things are true.  If the propositions in this book are true, then take courage or gather blackness, whichever applies, for the day of judgment has arrived.
	Finally, if one lives in the land of stories, then this document may seem like fiction, but if one is willing to tell the truth and tell it at all times, the document here written will serve that person well.  These days fantasy and make-believe are the cornerstones of our society.  Just one moment's truth-telling sweeps away the refuge of lies.  
	Men must now reap the results of their democracy.  That is-the spiritless, lifeless, corrupt majority make their will felt throughout the world and enforce this will by their laws.  God's people have often been the few who have been forced to speak against this mob.

CHAPTER ONE
OUR PERSONAL STATEMENT

	In our country today there is often heard the wonderful words of hope for
the future as the "greatest nation on earth" prepares for the next century.
Men have been followers of make-believe for so many generations now that
few men can truly see anything anymore.  We believe it is time for the
light to be turned on.  That light will uncover all that is covered.  The
prophecy of Jesus is fulfilled. "So have no fear of them; for nothing is
covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known."
(Matthew 10:26, RSV).
	When men are not free to live according to their conscience but must be
forced to follow state dictates, one can know that the end of everything is
at the door.  After centuries of experience, mankind still fails to see the
signs of its demise.
	When Jesus was born and when He was killed,  few recognized who He was,
yet, now, in these modern years, so many think they know who He was.  Could
that be so, or is it that equally few recognize Him today?  This may be
considered by some as unimportant, but it is highly relevant.  The failing
of Jesus' generation to recognize Him only guaranteed the destruction of
that generation not many years later.
	History repeats itself and all men are tested now as they were two thousand
years ago, but few are aware of that test when it comes.  Jesus reveals
Himself to the generations in different ways-ways appropriate to their
time.  Jesus said He would come as a thief.  That is-few would be aware of
Him when He came.  They would not realize His coming because they would be
asleep to spiritual realities.
	What was it that happened with believers two thousand years ago when the
Christian church began?  They, too, were not recognized as the children of
God and they, too, experienced dispossession as Jesus did.  Because of
this, they shared everything in common.  They gave up houses and lands and
finally left Jerusalem just before it was destroyed by the Romans.  This
was not a curse for them, that they should give up everything; it was truly
a blessing, for it freed them from the false ideas that rule the hearts and
minds of worldlings and it saved their lives as well.  They began to see in
a clear light what is truly the worldly motivation.  They ascended above
the world.
	God's children have recently experienced dispossession again.  It is
happening in many places, but, specifically, I write now of the
circumstances that surround our own congregation.  This is not a sad day
for us, since dispossession from the earth is that for which Christians
pray.   We call it the coming of Jesus.  Dispossession causes Christians to
see what truly motivates the world, by that, making themselves free from
the world and ascending above it.  It is a sad day for the world though.
When God's people, or anyone else for that matter, are by law not allowed
to follow their conscience without losing their homes or their living, it
means the end of civilization as we know it is at hand.  For the Christians
it is the time for their ascension and for the world it is the time for its
destruction.
	Concerning our own congregation this is revealed in the following way.  In
the past year our church recognized that our property taxes were helping to
support young children in learning things that would be to their detriment
for life. We could see that the public schools were not educating the
children for their good but, instead, creating a system of child abuse.
Because of this, our church sought a property tax exemption on the land
owned by the church to free the church from having to support those things
that are openly against God's government.  This was denied us, though
exemption is justified according to the law.
Specifically, the principles Christians cannot conscientiously support are:
	1.  Competition.  Competition is not according to God's government.  The
competition of grades or sports, prizes and awards are against the truth as
it is in Jesus.  We would not subject our own children to these abusive
practices and it is against the truth to pay to have the children of others
subjected to them.  What people do with their children may be considered
their business, but when we are forced to pay for that abuse it becomes our
business.  Competition sets up the idea that others are to be beaten.  It
fosters the notion that others are one's enemies and one must gain the
upper hand and win.  In competition it is viewed that some are better than
others especially if one can beat someone else.  This is all desirable from
the worldly perspective; the world sees nothing wrong with it and this is
one reason the world is in the condition it is.
	In our church the children are taught that all humankind is blessed of God
and none are better.  If there is one who has lesser abilities, he is to be
helped and not beaten.
	2.  Unbelief.  The children are educated so that doubt in God's Word is
fostered.  Instead of creation as taught in the Scriptures, evolution is
taught as truth, by that, making the Word of God a lie.  God's Word
specifically states that God created the world in six days (evenings and
mornings).  Children learn in public school to disregard what God said and
accept the suppositions of men.  These suppositions take faith to believe.
Evolution from lower to higher species has never been proven.  It is only a
worldly theory that one takes by faith.  It is a theory that also changes
periodically.  So it stands that the faith of the world may be taught as
truth in public schools but not the faith that the Scriptures teach.  That
is promoting the religion of man over the religion of God.  This is
discrimination of the highest sort.  God created the world, yet humankind
discriminates against Him.  Such arrogance will soon receive its just
payment.  We cannot in good conscience pay to educate children that God's
Word is not true and cannot be trusted.
	3. Immorality.  Children are subjected to "sex education" that compromises
our best instincts how girls and boys should behave.  Their familiar
association also brings them into temptation that should be avoided.  Much
of the country's woes regarding unwed mothers and welfare can be traced
directly to this.  It can often be heard that the youth should practice
"safe sex."  Where in the Scriptures is safe sex mentioned?  Sex will be
safe if in marriage and only with one's mate.  Children learn that sexual
activities outside marriage is alright if it is safe.
	4.  Atheism.  Public schools are Godless by federal law.  You may pass out
condoms but not Bibles.  You may speak about spiritualism and celebrate
satanic holidays such as Halloween, but not the truth as is found in God's
Word.  We are not saying that public schools should be a place to teach the
Bible,  but they should not exclude the truths that are in the Bible.
Public schools may allow individuals to go into a room and pray if they
like, but the system of itself is against the true things of God.
	5.  Degeneration.  Finally, largely attributable to the aforementioned
principles, the general low moral state of the public schools creates the
atmosphere for child abuse between children, sexual harassment between
students, disrespect for authority, violence and a general declension of
those attributes that make for a strong and enlightened society.
Jesus was taught at home. In our church we homeschool our children because
it is high on our list to keep our children from child abuse.   Child abuse
takes many more forms than sexual and we must exercise our God-given
responsibility to educate our children to God's glory.
	In the public school system great efforts are made to protect children from
physical harm.  They provide flashing lights on buses with crossing guards
and stop signs, but almost nothing is done to protect their souls, the true
worth of the child.
	God holds those who pay for these abuses responsible for the results of
them.  This country today is filled with crime, vice, hatred, violence and
fear.  We know some of the causes of this condition.  This general
condition cannot be blamed on bad TV programs alone.  One's basic
educational foundation is primarily responsible.  Society today seems
hardly aware that it is itself responsible for these things because society
chooses to ignore them rather than end them.
	As a church, this is a large issue to us.   By supporting the education of
children contrary to our faith and in support of the faith of those
contrary to ourselves, we, in principle, pay for our own destruction of
faith in God.  This is unconscionable from our standpoint.  Can one imagine
that any church in the community would actively evangelize against its own
existence by paying for the activities of those who evangelize against
them?  This may be happening with some professing Christ, but this cannot
happen with those who truly have Christ.  With us this has not been a
preference but a conviction for which we will sacrifice our houses, lands
and lives.
	Believers in the Soviet Union experienced dispossession when they stood for
their convictions.   Although the Soviet constitution said there was
freedom of religion, it did not turn out that way.  Freedom of religion is
often interpreted to mean one has freedom of religion as long as one's
beliefs do not go against any personal whims of the ones who govern.
	In the Soviet Union, Christian land was confiscated and the members
scattered unless their activities were approved by the state and in harmony
with the state goals, ideals and attitudes.  In America we have had a
higher profession than that.  As it turns out, it has only been a
profession.  When a nation must force its citizens to support its practices
or else lose their homes or livelihood, it no longer can be considered a
free country, but, instead, a dictatorship.  In this country it has become
a dictatorship of law rather than a dictatorship of man.  The dictatorship
of law has gone unrecognized for what it is.  If it were a pure
dictatorship of law, it may not be so tragic, but it is not pure.  The laws
are interpreted to say whatever the enforcers of those laws decide.  This
is true because truth or principle is no longer the governing factor of our
nation.  The governing factor is money.  Truth and justice are no more
appreciated in this country now than in any other fallen civilization.
Gandhi wrote: "When a man submits to another through fear, he does not
follow his nature but yields to brute force.  He who has no desire to
dominate others by brute force will not himself submit to such force
either.  Recognizing, therefore, that man who fears brute force has not
attained self-knowledge at all."
	You may remember the story that is in the Bible about Moses and the
children of Israel.  Moses asked Pharaoh if they might be free from those
things that enslaved them.  They wanted to go out a little way and worship
God according to their conscience.  Pharaoh was not happy with that request
and that the children of Israel would express some independence from his
government, so he refused to let them go.  He used brute force to keep them
enslaved.  Pharaoh did not realize the effect his refusal would have upon
himself.  Pharaoh's greed and desire for power would cost him everything he
had.
	It is the prerogative of the county officials to deny us our request as
they have done.  God has given them authority in this matter.  They are His
civil ministers as was Pharaoh.  But when force and the threat of loss is
used to entice us to give up our convictions, the cost to the county and
the state will be far more than the few hundred tax dollars that might have
been collected.  If our convictions had been respected, the benefits would
have far outweighed the few hundred dollars in taxes.  God simply rewards
every man and government according to their ways.
	This is not a tax issue with us.  We believe that citizens should pay their
fair share of the public burden, but when citizens are forced against their
will to support with their labors the corruption of young minds which
someday must rule the nation, we must protest.  If we do not protest, we
make ourselves responsible for those destructive effects which exist in our
country today and for the destruction of the world in general.
	If we fail to pay our taxes, our land will be confiscated from us.  If we
fail to vacate, police will come to encourage us to leave.  If we still
refuse, the threat of weapons will be employed or we will be forcibly
removed so our land can be sold for taxes.
	We choose, instead, to vacate our land and find a home wherever God may
lead and in a place He can bless.  This will be with the knowledge that the
expected benefits will not be realized by those who govern.
After the sons of God experienced dispossession from Jerusalem, it was not
many years until the city was destroyed and there was not one stone left
upon the other.
	Cause and effect has a way of working itself out.  Some call it Karma.
Others say, "what goes around comes around."  Jesus said, "As you have done
it unto the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me."
The Tax Code clearly states what property is exempt from property taxes.
It reads: "The following property is exempt from taxation: Property
belonging to any religious corporation or society of this state, used
exclusively for and in connection with public worship, and any parsonage
belonging to such corporation or society and occupied as such, and any
recreational hall belonging to and used in connection with the activities
of such corporation or society; and this exemption shall extend to property
owned by any religious corporation or society which is used for any
combination of religious worship, educational purposes and recreational
activities, not designed for profit. ...And real property utilized by
religious organizations for summer encampments should be exempt from ad
valorem taxes, since all activities conducted thereon, although in some
aspects charitable, and in some aspects educational, are nevertheless
directly related to the religious purposes for which such groups are
organized."  From Revenue and Taxation 63-105B.
	You see, the tax code authorizes churches to be free from taxation on
church land it is using for "purposes for which such groups are organized."
This was denied us.
	The motivation behind these laws is separation of church and state.  The
county may justify its human rights violations for one reason or another,
but God sees these violations.  The state is to have no authority over the
conscience.  The state is not to regulate the affairs of the church of God.
We make this case because we believe most people do not know the
consequences of coercing the conscience.  God cannot bless a society
governed by the principles of force.
	This nation has enslaved the blacks, decimated the native Americans,
subjugated the world through the so-called United Nations and now it grinds
down its own citizens.  It does this by reinterpreting the meaning of its
constitution and its laws for its own purposes.  Men cannot buy or sell
except they are marked with the characteristics of this nation.  They must
have "the mark of the beast."  Citizens will be dispossessed or even killed
for their desires to be free of unrighteous controls.  The Word of God
speaks truly of our nation.  "Neither shall he regard the God of his
fathers, nor the desire  of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify
himself above all." Dan. 11:37.
	There is only one power that has authority regarding the conscience of man
and that is God's power.  When men seek to control the conscience of
another, they lay claim to the prerogatives of God.
	The Scriptures speak again of this land.  "I beheld another beast [the
United States] coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a
lamb, and he spake as a dragon. ...And he causes all, both small and great,
both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand
[the labor] or the forehead [thinking], so that no one can buy or sell
[keep his home] unless he has the mark, or the name of the beast or the
number of his name." Rev. 13:16-17.
	This poem was found on the Internet.  It seems to speak well to the issue.
It is called,
	"A Visitor From the Past"

"I had a dream the other night, I didn't understand.
A man walking through the mist, with flintlock in his hand.
His clothes were torn and dirty, as he stood there by my bed.
He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low, he said:

"We fought a revolution, to secure our liberty.
We wrote the Constitution, as a shield from tyranny.
For future generations, this legacy we gave.
To the land of the free and the home of the brave.

"The freedom we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep.
But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep.
Your freedom gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave.
In  the land of the free and home of the brave.

"You buy permits to travel, and permits to own a gun,
Permits to start a business, or to build a place for one.
On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent.
Although you have no voice in choosing, how the money's spent.

"Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate.
Your Christian values can't be taught, according to the state.
You read about the current news, in a regulated press.
You pay a tax you do not owe, to please those who assess.

"You've given your control, to those who do you harm,
So they can padlock churches, and steal the family farm,
And keep our country deep in debt and put men of God in jail,
Harass your fellow countrymen, while corrupted courts prevail.

"Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oath they've sworn.
Your daughters visit doctors, so their children won't be born.
Your leaders ship artillery and guns to foreign shores,
And send your sons to slaughter, fighting other people's wars.

"As I awoke he vanished, in the mist from whence he came.
His words were true, we are not free, we have ourselves to blame.
For even now as tyrants, trample each God-Given Right.
We only watch and tremble, too afraid to stand the sight."

	Bravery and nobility are traits that only exist when a nation is sensitive
to morality and the conscience of its citizens.  When a nation is no longer
sensitive to the conscience of its citizens, but, instead, dispossesses
them or even attacks them with weapons of war, one can know that nation's
heart of bravery and nobility has turned to a heart of despotism.  It may
profess to be a lamb and a peace lover but, in reality, it speaks as a
dragon.  It may paint its weapons of war white and call its armies "peace
keepers" but it is still a dragon.
	It may very well be that the heart of a dragon is what this nation wants,
but it also should be understood, that heart will always lead a nation to
its end.  One cannot oppress without being oppressed.  Eventually, the
nation turns against itself and national ruin is the result.
God's ways are the only ways that truly work and lead to the well-being of
all.  If a nation turns from that, there will be no well-being for anyone
who lives on the earth.
	This small book is not intended to change things.  Humankind has no
intention of giving up its insensitivity to the truth.  The purpose of this
writing is to bring judgment that this nation is not at all what it
professes itself to be, "the land of the free and the home of the brave."
It is the home of citizens who are fearful to stand for what is right and
just if it is not financially expedient or if someone may think ill of them
for believing what they do.  It was the same in Jesus' day.  When freedom
for any man is gone, freedom for every man is gone.
	So, "The hour of His judgment is come" as Jesus said. "Your house is left
unto you desolate".  The nation has revealed her hypocrisy.   As for God's
true sons, they shall ascend by obeying the command:  "Come out of her, my
people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of
her plagues." Rev. 18:4.

CHAPTER TWO
INSTITUTIONS OF HYPOCRISY

	It is not a mystery that this world is in confusion.  The political
parties, financial competition and the many religious denominations all are
in confusion.  Unity is only a goal and an impossible idea which is never
reached.  Why is this?  What has caused this state of things to exist?
Everything in life can be traced to cause and effect.  We are who we are
taught to be and we are taught to be what we want.  The human being is
capable of being taught to believe many opposing ideas at the same time.
We may believe in unity one moment and then believe in competition the
next.  We can believe in evolution and creation at the same time.  We can
give assent to opposing ideas depending on our company.  We can believe in
saving life, yet prepare for war and death.
	Humans cannot but follow their teacher and the teacher they follow only
echoes the desires of their own hearts, but it does not seem to occur to
them that their own ideas are in conflict.  We are creators of what we
place before us and if our own thoughts are in conflict, then it stands to
reason that our environment will reflect that back to us.
	From our earliest years we are taught that almost everyone outside of
ourselves is an enemy.  We start to think this way when our sibling takes
our rattle away.  We begin to believe that life is about competition and
taking what one can get by force.  As we grow older and enter school we are
taught to compete for grades.  In times of recreation and play we are put
into game situations which teach us to compete again.  We must fight to win
the game.  The winner may get a prize and the loser is disgraced to a
degree.
	When the student graduates, he may join a business firm competing for the
market share.  His whole focus is to sell his product at the expense of the
competition.  In sales and political races it all boils down to making
one's self or product look better than the competition so one can win the
customer or race.
	To the world today this all looks nice, fair and right.  The truth of the
matter is that it is corrupt, wicked and wrong.  Men are taught to view
others as enemies.  All an enemy is, is someone seeking to take what you
think belongs to you or someone who you think might hurt you.  When men are
turned into enemies, then general confusion and war is the result. Cause
creates effect.  We have been trained from our earliest years to compete
with others and that has been one of the causes for the condition our
society is now in.  There is no hope for such a society, for it has as a
foundation the principle that it is against itself and every society
against itself cannot maintain its form and cohesion.

THE POLITICAL

	See the political conventions.  See the Congress and its actions in the
halls of government.  Listen to the political candidates accuse and abuse
each other and then when one is elected he does the same things as his
predecessors before him.  If there is one thing that is certain, it is that
the political parties will not change, neither will they change things.
Indeed, they cannot change nor can they change things. Change is only a
story concocted to make the electorate believe that they are bringing about
a new order of things.  This simply never occurs.  There is never a new
order. There is only a constant degradation.  Each man and woman is
energetically involved in the world of competing with other individuals to
build their own kingdom and for the sake of money.  No man is motivated
unselfishly to better his constituents, except that he is rewarded for it
in some way. The Scriptures read: "For I beheld, and there was no man; even
among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could
answer a word.  Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their
molten images are wind and confusion." Isa. 41:28-29.
	Politicians have waged wars, set upon man the atom bomb, caused financial
collapse, burdened the poor and those in need, stripped and burned the
innocent, raided their homes and compounds, and taxed until there could not
be another cent drained from the population.  They have bludgeoned,
accused, abused and demoralized the nation, all for the sake of personal
gain. "They bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not
valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil,
and they know not me, saith the Lord."  Jer. 9:3.
	Modern politicians say, "We want to protect the children." After seeing
what happened with the gassing of the Branch Davidians this statement seems
incredible.  The politicians say,  "We want to send in peace keepers;"
then go about sending in men with weapons such as tanks and long range
guns.  Of course, these tanks are painted white and the army wears little
blue hats to create a picture of peace, but it is an army of war just the
same.  Men say, "We must fight for peace."  Whoever heard of such a
ridiculous proposition?  It is like saying, "Starve for fullness. Lay in
filth for cleanness."  The politicians say, "We should cut taxes," then go
about to raise taxes.  The politicians say, "We want to preserve life,"
then they go about providing for millions of abortions.
	Has it never occurred to some the hypocrisy of modern day politics?
Abortions have been declared legal according to the Constitution of the
United States because a woman should have control over her own body.  That
is the argument.  If that be so, why is it that so many people are thrown
into prison for taking drugs?  Do they not have the same right over their
own body?  I can kill my unborn child, but I cannot take a drug.  Partial
birth abortions describe the murder of a young child mostly born.  The
brain is then sucked out of the skull.  Should not that young child have
control over his or her own body?  You hypocrites, Jesus spoke well of you.
You strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.

 RELIGION

	It is probable that the religions of the world are most responsible for the
state of things that exist.  The most guilty would be the religions that
condone competition and support war efforts.
	It is no secret how in religious circles the moral state of things is at
the bottom.  As a minister, I have personally sat in ministerial meetings
where ministers were rebuked by the president of the conference for their
adultery and for sneaking in to watch x-rated videos while their family was
sleeping.  I knew one young man right out of college who became a pastor
and the ink was hardly dry on his diploma when he had seduced one of the
women in the church right on the church pew. (I am not saying that seducing
her somewhere else would have been right either).
	I personally approached the conference president in charge of my district
to handle a child molestation situation in the church and was told to leave
it alone since the molester might sue the church.  The so-called
"Christian" denominations of this country are so far from Christian it is
not even worth mentioning. Most people, however, already know this.  Today,
ministers fake being good and pretend to pray for the sake of gain and
advantage.
	The denominations have wonderful financial systems all set up to lift up
their poor, corrupt institutions.  Millions of tithe dollars are used to
support corrupt, self-centered, political ministers in their positions of
authority.  They are paid thousands of dollars a month and they do almost
nothing in labor for it.  Does it take all those many hours to write a
sermon?  When a lay person gives a sermon does he get paid? Do the
ministers visit the sheep?  Don't the lay members visit the sheep? What
does a minister do that the members of his congregation should not be able
to do?  The ministers certainly do not know any more about God than their
congregations do.
	The payment of the ministry was designed for the purpose of evangelism.
This was meant to help men take care of their families when they had to
travel long distances and had little time to hold a job at the same time.
God did not intend for churches to have high paid baby sitters to hover
over their congregations.  He intended that the people of God would be
mature enough to take care of the local church themselves.
	As with the pharisees of Jesus' day, so it is today.  He said, "All their
works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries,
and enlarge the borders of their garments." Matt. 23:4-5. Jesus also said
of them, "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass
sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him
twofold more the child of hell than yourselves." Matt. 23:15.  Busy church
folk compass the globe to make converts for their churches but what good is
it when they are made to be just like those pretenders who convert them?
Some church members boast of how many converts they are making but if they
could see as God does, they would turn away from themselves in shame.
	In religion it never occurs to some folk that killing is wrong. The Ten
Commandments say, Thou shalt not kill.  Jesus told us to turn the other
cheek.  He told us to resist not evil, so bold, pious preachers send their
young men off to a Desert Storm or some other United Nations' conquest with
their blessings.  "Go and kill and God be with you."  After that the wolves
and their sheep tie yellow ribbons to trees.  What a grand mockery of the
Word of God is religion today.  What a total waste of a good man's time.
Man's so-called "Christian" religion today is for the spiritually ignorant
who have no mind for truth.
	Compromise is the byword of the professed children of God.  The Scriptures
say, "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is
abomination." Lev. 18:22.  Today's ministry ordains those who practice
these things.
	On the other hand, it may be heard today in many professed Christian
circles, "we must do away with homosexuals in the military and stop
abortions."  I ask why?  Have not professed Christians for years been
proclaiming from their polluted pulpits that the law has been done away
with.  When one mentions the Sabbath as the fourth commandment this often
evokes that decree.  "The law is done away with." Then might I ask, what is
wrong with someone breaking a law that does not exist?  If the law of the
Sabbath has been done away, is not also the law against homosexual  activity done away?
Why is there all the fuss about abortions?  If the law is done away, then
what could be wrong with abortion?  I say that modern day Christians are
only getting the fruits of their own sowing.  Now modern day preachers can
get a good look at what they have done to the world, for the responsibility
is largely lying at their door.
	The Scriptures say, "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." Ex. 20:8.
Modern day ministers say, "Go to church on Sunday instead."  Modern
religion has made up its own way and there will always be a price to pay
when mankind does that.  That price is even now being paid.
"And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the
whore (modern religion), and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall
eat her flesh, and burn her with fire." Rev. 17:16.  There is a strange
touch of irony in that so many churches are being burned these days.

MEDICINE

	Medicine is another profession that merchandises people. It is not a secret
that large numbers who are admitted into hospitals die from accidents while
there.  These individuals are either given wrong drugs, the wrong dosage or
they catch a disease which they did not have when they went in.  Modern
medicine having many wonderful scientific abilities is largely a business
for getting money.  The medical profession has virtually been given a blank
check and they use this check quite readily. They administer drugs, the
names of which they alone understand.  Hospitals freely add costs to paying
patients to cover those who cannot pay. There is a science to increase
costs so that the grand money machine can continue its process of gain.
Many of the operations of today's modern medicine are simply extortion and
if some medical professionals were candid and would share their true
heart's knowledge, that is what they would have to say.
	If a family practices medicine at home and refuses the regular medical care
and their family member dies, they may be fined or imprisoned even if their
practice is according to their religious faith.  But let a man, woman or
child die in the hospital and it is accepted as alright-even if the
hospital causes the death through some accident.
	If a religious cult practices medicine and a member dies, there will be a
great show of force against such a group, but let a hospital practice
medicine and it does not matter how many people are dead, the world still
sings their praises. It seems as though it is illegal to die anywhere but
in a hospital. Who is this grand and noble personage who made this decree?
Yes, it is true that some good things take place in modern medicine, but
there are so many more evil things present within it that one would need
many volumes to describe them all.
	If an individual happens upon an herbal remedy that can cure cancer and he
sells this remedy, he may be fined or imprisoned for "practicing medicine"
even if his remedy works.  But let a hospital "practice medicine" and try
many things that don't work and that is considered acceptable.  At least
they made many thousands of dollars practicing.
	Take your automobile to a mechanic.  He will fix it.  If he does not fix
it, he does not get paid.  Take your body to a doctor.  If he does not fix
it or even breaks it, he is still paid handsomely.
	It should be noted that many physicians believe they are doing the right
thing in promoting the modern methods of healing.  Many of them may very
well have good motives, but the system is not that hard to discern if one
will only take a candid look.

 LAW

	The legal profession is composed largely of a multitude of paid liars and
extortioners.  They use what they call "legal language" that no one can
understand but themselves.  Why is it that they do not speak plainly as
other men?  As with all professions, there may be an honest man here or
there, but I propose that if a man were always totally honest in every
transaction, he could not be in any one of the aforementioned professions
for long.  Tell the truth at all times and you are put out of this world's
affairs.  Instead of simply following law and truth, lawyers work to
distort and change the meaning of things so that those who pay them might
get the advantage they desire.
	One can hire a lawyer at great expense and if he can outmaneuver the
adversary, it is possible to receive a monetary reward.  Honesty and truth
are not the prime goal, but, instead, financial reward.
	This document is not intended to deride any single man or profession.  The
intention here is to show that all men, in any profession, who are not
governed by the Holy Spirit of God will corrupt themselves and are
corrupted. It can be shown that our world is well nigh empty of God's
Spirit and ripe for judgment.   These few things mentioned are still in the
realm of effects. The primary causes are almost unseen.  We will now look
at some of these causes.
	Daniel the prophet warns of a power which is to arise.  "In his place shall
arise a contemptible person on whom royal majesty had not been conferred;
he shall come in without warning and obtain the kingdom through intrigue.
Armies shall be utterly swept away and broken before him, and the prince of
the covenant as well.  And after an alliance is made with him, he shall act
deceitfully and become strong with a small party. Without warning he shall
come into the richest parts of the province and do what none of his
predecessors had ever done, lavishing plunder, spoil, and wealth on them.
He shall devise plans against strongholds. ...He shall have intelligence
with them that forsake the holy covenant. ...They shall place the
abomination that maketh desolate. And such as do wickedly against the
covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries. ...And the king shall do according
to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every
god.  ...In his estate shall he honor the God of forces. ...But he shall
have power over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious
things of Egypt." Dan. 11.
	These are the facts mentioned.  (1)  A contemptible person shall arise who
has not been voted in.  (2)  He shall have power to sweep armies away and
even destroy the prince of the covenant (true religious faith).  (3)  He
shall work with deceit and become powerful with just a few individuals.
(4) He is rich and can lavish wealth on whomever he likes.  (5)  He shall
place the abomination that makes everything desolate.  (6)  He works
through flattery. (7)  He will use force to get what he wants.  (8)  He
will have power over the treasures of money.
	If a mystery is what you like, this is a very elementary one. There is only
one power that can fulfill all of these things mentioned.  It is the power
that now rules over the earth.  There is a power which involves a few men.
It controls all of the financial powers and secrets of intrigue.  The
armies of the world and the United Nations are at its command.  It works
secretly through political parties and financial institutions.  It is not
voted in, but, instead, actually designs who will be voted in.  It can
sweep armies away such as in Desert Storm.  It has had power over the
religious faith by providing for laws which make it virtually impossible to
speak true righteousness without fear of lawsuit or some other media
attack.  This power can lavish wealth on whomever it likes. It uses
flattery in the form of prizes, awards or grants to reward those who serve
it. The force of the state or states is used to subdue its enemies.  It
controls all the money.  It has set up an abomination that has made our
nation and world morally and spiritually desolate.  According to Revelation
17, the great whore, which is modern apostate religion, rides on its back.
	"Let no man beguile you in any wise: for it will not be (the coming of
Christ), except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be
revealed, the son of perdition, he that opposeth and exalteth himself
against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in
the temple of God, setting himself forth as God. Remember ye not, that,
when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know that
which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.
	"For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: only there is one that
restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall be
revealed (exposed) the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the
breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his
coming; even he, whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all
power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceit of unrighteousness
for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that
they might be saved.  And for this cause God sendeth them a working of
error, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be judged who
believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." (2 Thes.
2:3-12, ASV).
	There is a little book which was printed about 100 years ago which is the
expression of this new lawless power.  In the following chapter are
excerpts from that little book.

CHAPTER THREE
THE SECRET HAND
(Excerpts from the little book)*

	"What has restrained the beasts of prey who are called men?  What is it
that has guided them so far?  In ancient societies they were kept in line
by brutal and blind force; after that, it was law.  Law is the very same
force, only disguised.
	"...There was a time when faith ruled, but in our day, the power which has
replaced the liberal rulers is the power of money.
"It makes no difference whether a government is exhausted by its own
convulsions, or if its internal discord and strife allows its enemies to
take it over - the result is the same.  It is irretrievably lost: it is
then in our power. The iron-fisted rule of money, which is entirely in our
hands, holds out a straw to the government that it must, eventually, reach
out and accept - for if it does not, it goes to the bottom.
	"...There is nothing in common between politics and morality. Any ruler
governed by morality will be unstable on his throne because he cannot be a
skilled politician.  Anyone wanting to rule over men must have three
things. He must have cunning.  He must also have ourselves, who are in the
shade-that is, mostly invisible, thanks to the news media under our
control.  And, thirdly, he must utilize fantasy or make-believe. Great
national qualities, like frankness and honesty, are destructive qualities
in politics. They topple rulers from their thrones more effectively and
more certainly than the most powerful enemy.  Those qualities must be the
attributes of kingdoms of the nations, but we must, under no circumstances,
be guided by them.
	"Our right to do what we desire lies in force.  The word 'right' is an
abstract illusion and cannot be proven by anything.  The word means no more
than: when you give me what I demand, it proves that I am stronger than
you.
	"...Whenever there is a government that has poorly organized authority, and
that has lost the personal nature of its laws and rulers because of
liberalism's flood of so-called 'rights', I find that there is a new right.
That is, it is our right to attack merely because we are the stronger. Also
included in that right is to scatter to the winds, all existing forces of
order and regulation; to reconstruct all institutions. We, then, also
become the sovereign lord of those who gave up their rights of power,
voluntarily, in their liberalism.
	"In the present chaos caused by the tottering condition of all forms of
power, our own power will be more invisible than any other.  This is
because it will remain invisible until it has gained so much strength that
no cunning can possibly undermine it.
	"...The citizens of nations are stupefied with alcohol and drugs; their
youth have grown stupid on classic literature and novels, and from
immorality learned at early ages.  That immorality was taught to them by
our special agents - teachers, mindless servants, governesses in the houses
of the wealthy, by ecclesiastics and others; also by our women in the
places of dissipation commonly used by the citizenry.  I include in the
last category, the so-called 'society ladies,' who are voluntary followers
of the others in corruption and luxury.1

	1It now may be noted that this order of things has worked quite
effectively.  In the days when this little book was written this corruption
was spread by personal contact.  These days it is expanded to include the
movie and television industry which is rife with immorality and violence.
All of this is inculcated to lead minds in that direction with the added
effect of make-believe.  Fantasy and unreal drama has well-nigh ended
reasonable, clear thinking.

	"The signature of our power is - force and make-believe.  Only force
conquers in political affairs, especially if it is concealed under the
cloak of statesmanship.  When governments do not want to lay down their
crowns at the feet of the new power, we must respond with violence, cunning
and make-believe.  These evils are the only means by which to attain the
end, the good.  Therefore we must not stop at bribery, deceit and treachery
when they will help towards attaining our goals.  In politics it is
necessary to know how to seize the property of others without hesitation if
that will win for us submission and sovereignty.
	"Our State, marching along the path of peaceful conquest, has the right to
replace the horrors of war by less noticeable and more satisfactory means.
That is, by the sentences of death that are necessary to maintain the
terror which leads to blind submission.  Merciless justice and severity [as
with the Branch Davidians] is the greatest strength in the State: not only
for the sake of profit but also in the name of duty.  For the sake of
victory, we must keep to the program of violence and make-believe.  In the
name of squaring accounts or making things 'right', it is necessary to use
severity and harshness that have the appearance of justice [as in Desert
Storm].  It is by this means that we shall bring all governments into
subjection to our supergovernment [the United Nations]. When they know that
we are merciless in exacting our form of justice, all disobedience will
cease.
	"Far back in ancient times we were the first to proclaim to the masses of
the people the words 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity'.  Those words have
been repeated many times since by stupid human parrots everywhere, who
greedily take the bait.  When they did that, they also eliminated the
well-being of the world - that is, the true freedom of the individual which
had, until then, been protected from the mindless mob.  The would-be wise
men of the nations, the so-called intellectuals, could not make anything
out of those words in their abstractness.  They did not note the
contradiction of their meaning and how they related to each other.  They
did not see that in nature, there is no equality, and there cannot be
freedom.  They do not see that Nature herself has established inequality of
minds, of characters, and capabilities.  She has done this just as
unchangeably as she has made everything else adhere to her laws.
	"...In all corners of the earth the words 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,'
brought into our ranks whole legions who bore our banners with enthusiasm -
all thanks to our blind agents.  And all the time these words were
cankerworms at work boring into the well-being of the nations, putting an
end everywhere to peace, quiet, solidarity and destroying all the
foundations of the nation States.  As you will see later, this helped us
triumph; it made it possible for us to get our hands on the real master
card.  ...On the ruins we have made of the natural and family line of
ruling powers of the nations, we have set up the educated class to rule by
the kingdom of money.  To qualify to rule in this kingdom requires wealth,
which we control, and knowledge which comes from the power of our learned
elders.
	"...That abstract illusion called freedom that we have used to infect the
minds of the mob in all countries, we have used to convince them that they
are the ones that choose their government.  It has also enabled us to make
the mindless mob think that they are the true owners of their country, and
that their government is only their elected servant and can be replaced
like a worn-out glove whenever they desire.
	"It is precisely the idea that they think they can replace their
representatives when they don't like what they are doing that has put them
under our control.  This has given into our hands the power to set up and
replace so-called elected representatives, by our appointment.
	"It is exceedingly important for our purposes that whenever there are wars
they should not result in one side or the other gaining territory.  By
doing this, war will become an economic tool that will cause the nations to
whom we give assistance, to recognize our strength and dominance.  This
will result in putting the sides of the conflict at the mercy of our
international organizations which possess millions of eyes, ever on the
watch, and are under no one else's control or limitations, whatever.  Our
international right to govern will then wipe out the individual nations'
rights.  We will rule the nations in exactly the same way the nations rule
their subjects-by an international form of civil law.
	"We shall choose those to run the governments from among the public. The
main qualification for these positions will be their willingness for
unquestioning, servile obedience.  They will not be persons trained in the
art of government and will, therefore, easily become pawns in the hands of
the men of learning and genius who will be their advisers.  Those advisers
will be specialists, bred and reared from early childhood to rule the
affairs of the whole world.  As you well know, these specialists of ours,
in order to make them fit to rule, have been receiving all the information
they need from our political plans.  In addition, they learn from history
and from closely observing current events.  The nations are not guided by
the practical use of unprejudiced historical observation as they should be
but, rather, by a routine derived from a theory.  They do this without any
forethought or regard for the consequence or results.  Because of this we
need not even consider them at all.  Let them amuse themselves until it is
too late, or go on looking for some new form of enterprising
self-indulgence, or just live in the past on the memories of all they have
accomplished and enjoyed. They will do this because we have persuaded them
to accept their role.  We have done this by convincing them that science or
theory is the principle value system to which they should adhere.  It is
for this purpose that we continually use our control of the news media to
arouse blind confidence in these theories.  The intellectuals of the
nations will puff themselves up with their knowledge.  They will do this
without any logical verification of those theories we present to them as
fact.  They will then put into effect all the so-called scientific
information available that our agents have cunningly pieced together for
the purpose of educating their minds in the direction we want. [An example
of this is the theory of evolution].

THE DAILY NEWS

	"...In the hands of the national governments today, the greatest force for
moving the minds and thoughts of the people is the news media. The primary
purposes of the news media are: to keep pointing out things that we want
the people to believe are indispensable; to give voice to the complaints of
the people; and to express and create discontent.  It is in the news media
that the illusionary triumph of freedom of speech begins to look as if it
is real.  But the nations have not known how to make use of this potent
force, and it has fallen into our hands.  Through the news media we have
gained the power to influence and control the minds of the people, while
remaining hidden.1

	1It may seem strange that a power can boast of so much control over men and
leaders, but one need only to consider the difficulty that surrounds
getting on the national ballot.  Two major parties can manage to present
their candidates before the public but even their image and message is
formed by the news media which makes them whatever the dictators of the
media decide.  People are then left to vote for one of the two presented
before them and either one of those chosen will do the will of the true
power which remains hidden.  The people then believe they have had the
chance to elect a leader.  The so-called freedom boasted of in this society
is only freedom to do whatever the secret forces dictate.  Men still remain
locked into the slavery of debt and legal controls that make their
"freedom" seem like mockery.

	"Today I may tell you that we are only a few steps away from achieving our
goal.  There remains a small space to cross and the whole, long path we
have trodden is now ready to close its cycle of the Symbolic Snake-that
symbol that represents our people.  When this ring closes, all the nation
states...will be locked into its coil as in a powerful vice.
	"The constitutional scales of balance in these days will shortly break
down, for we have created them with a certain lack of accurate balance.
This is causing them to oscillate continually until they wear through the
pivot on which they turn.  The nations are under the delusion that they
have welded them strongly enough and they believe that the scales will
eventually come into equilibrium.
	"...In order to cause those who want power to misuse that power, we have
set all forces in opposition to one another.  This is breaking up their
liberal tendencies towards independence.  To accomplish this we have
stirred up every form of individual ambition, we have armed all parties and
we have set up official authority to be a target for all that ambition. We
have made gladiatorial arenas out of the nations.  In those arenas we have
introduced a host of confused issues over which they may contend. Just a
little more, and bankruptcy and disorder will be universal.
	"All people are chained down to heavy toil by poverty [and debt] more
firmly than they were ever chained by slavery and serfdom.  A few, by some
way or another, might free themselves, but we can handle them.  However,
they will never be free from desiring material possessions.  We have
included in the constitution certain rights that seem to the masses as
fictitious and not real rights.  All these so-called 'people's rights' can
never really exist except in the thin vapor of an idea.  An idea which can
never be realized in practical life.  What does a common laborer care who
is bowed down under his heavy toil, crushed by his lot in life, if talkers
get the right to babble and journalists get the right to scribble any
nonsense right beside really genuine issues? Once the common man can gain
nothing from the constitution except a few pitiful crumbs which we fling to
him from our table in order to get him to vote for what we dictate-for men
we place in power-he is our servant.  To a poor man, the rights that he
supposedly gained from political conservatism are no more than a bitter
irony because he finds nothing but the necessity of toiling all day which
never gives him the opportunity to exercise those rights.  On the other
hand, they actually rob him of all guarantee of a secure and regular income
by making him dependent on labor strikes by his co-workers, or lockouts by
his employer.
	"...We now appear on the scene as apparent saviors of the common worker,
saving him from this oppression by enrolling him in the ranks of our
various forces fighting for imaginary civil liberties.  The upper class,
which enjoyed by law the labor of the workers, was interested in seeing
that the workers were well fed, healthy and strong.  We are interested in
just the opposite-in the diminishment, the killing out of the nations.  Our
power is in the chronic...physical and mental weakness of the worker.  What
that results in is his being made the slave of our will, and he will not
find in the authorities of his own society either the strength or energy to
oppose us. Hunger, in whatever form it comes, causes money to rule over the
worker more certainly than any aristocracy or the legal right of
government.
	"By creating poverty, whether imaginary or real, we, in turn, create an
envy and hatred between those who have and those who have not.  With that
hatred and envy we shall control the mobs and use their hands to wipe out
all those who hinder us in achieving our goals.
"When the hour strikes for our sovereign lord of all the world to be
crowned, it is these same hands of the mob which will sweep away everything
that might be a hindrance for him.
	"...Because of the present state of public information that we have
directed and developed, the people cherish a blind hatred towards all
conditions which they consider above themselves, because they have no
understanding of the meaning of class and condition.  We have brought about
this state of affairs by causing the people to blindly and ignorantly
believe whatever the news media tells them.
	"This hatred will be still further magnified by the effects of an economic
crisis, which will stop dealings on the exchanges and bring industry to a
standstill.  With all the secret, underground methods available to us, and
with the aid of money which is all in our control, we shall create a
universal world crisis whereby we shall send mobs of workers into the
streets, simultaneously in all countries. ...These mobs will rush with
delight to shed the blood of those whom, in the simplicity of their
ignorance, they have envied from childhood, and then will be able to loot
their property. They will not be able to touch our property and families
because we will know the moment the attacks will come and take appropriate
measures.1

	1When men are in control of the wealth of the nation, they need not fear
for their own riches.  In October of 1987, the stock marked took a serious
plunge.  Many lost their entire retirement and savings.  Yet, those in high
places who know how to control financial markets were left untouched.  The
markets can be manipulated to bankrupt the little man while enriching the
super rich.  The speculative markets are only speculative for the
unsuspecting.  The final crash soon to come will be well planned and leave
everyone destitute except those behind the scenes.

	"...Because the common people see that all sorts of concessions and
indulgences have been given to them in the name of freedom and equality,
they come to imagine themselves to be sovereign lords and storm their way
to power.  But, naturally, like every other blind man who has come upon a
host of stumbling blocks, they rush to find a guide.  They have never had
the sense to return to the former condition and have laid down their
rightful power at our feet.  Remember the French Revolution and how it was
we who gave it the name of 'Great'-the secrets of its preparations are well
known to us, for it was completely the work of our hands.
"Ever since that time we have been leading the peoples from one
disenchantment to another.  This has been done so that in the end they
should turn even from us, in favor of that King whom we are preparing for
the world.
	"At the present day we are, as an international force, invincible. This is
so because, if attacked by some nation, we are supported by others. It is
the common, low nature of the nations to crawl on their bellies to force
while, at the same time, being merciless towards weakness and faults and
indulgent to crimes.  They are unwilling to bear the contradictions of a
free social system but are patient to the point of martyrdom when a bold
dictator inflicts violence upon them.  It is these qualities which are
helping us on to independent power.  The peoples of the nations will bear
patiently under the abuses of a charismatic dictator things which they
would have cut the heads of kings for doing.
	"...It is explained by the fact that a cunning dictator, through his
agents, will whisper to the peoples that these abuses inflicted upon them
are actually inflicting injury upon the nations for the very highest good-
that is-to secure the welfare of the peoples, the international brotherhood
of them all, and their unity and equality of rights. Naturally, they do not
tell the peoples that this unification must be accomplished only under our
sovereign rule.
	"And thus the people condemn the upright and acquit the guilty, and are
persuaded ever more and more that they can do whatsoever they wish. Thanks
to this state of things, the people are destroying every kind of stability
and creating disorders at every step.

WE MUST UNDERMINE FAITH

	"...It is absolutely necessary for us to undermine all faith, to tear out
of the minds of the nations the very principle of the Godhead and the
Spirit, and to replace it with scientific and social calculations and
material needs.
	"In order to give the nations no time to think and realize what is going
on, their minds must be diverted towards industry and trade.  Thus, all the
nations and peoples will be swallowed up in the pursuit of material gain.
While deeply involved in this, they will not take note of their common foe.
But again, in order that the communities of the nations may be finally
disintegrated and ruined by freedom, we must place industry on the basis of
speculation such as a stock market or commodities exchange.  The result of
that will be that whatever is taken out of the land by industry will be
invested in speculation and thus will pass into our control.1

	1The news media, under the control of this new power, creates the general
impression that the religious elements are somewhat ridiculous; that
Christian ideals are for radicals and conservatives.  At the same time,
jobs, jobs, jobs are the watchwords.  This, so mankind can lavish upon
themselves the luxuries dangled before their unsuspecting minds.  The
television ads always show how happy the families are that can acquire some
new thing.  The ads show how new and wonderful products are attained by
healthy, happy, well adjusted families.  The population is hardly aware
that all of this is to prepare them for their slavery and final
destruction.

	"By causing an intensified struggle for superiority and by the shocks we
deliver to economic life, we will create, nay, have already created
communities that are disenchanted, cold and heartless.  Such communities
will foster a strong revulsion towards the higher political and religion.
Their only purpose is personal and material gain-money-which they will make
into a veritable cult for the sake of those material delights which it can
give.
	"...We shall create a concentrated, centralized government in order to grip
in our hands all the forces of the community.  By using new laws, we shall
rigidly and mechanically regulate all of the political life of our
subjects.  These laws will withdraw, one by one, all of the liberties and
indulgences which have been permitted by the nations. Our government will
be distinguished by a despotism of monumental proportions.  This government
will be in a position, at any moment and in every place, to wipe out any
nations who oppose us by deed or word.  Some will tell us that a despotism
such as I am talking about will not fit in with the progress of these days,
but I will prove to you that it will.
	"...The art of controlling and directing the masses of people and
individuals is done by means of cleverly presented theory and wording, by
creating regulations to rule their lives and by many other means.  The
nations largely understand nothing about this art which belongs to the
specialists of our administrative brain.  We have been brought up on
analysis, observation and delicacies of fine calculation and in this area
we have no rivals-any more than we are rivaled in the creation of plans of
political actions and solid unity.  In this respect the Jesuits alone might
have compared with us, but we have conspired to discredit them in the eyes
of the unthinking, mindless citizenry.  We have caused them to be an open
and known organization while we have kept ours a secret-in the shade, as it
were.  However, it probably makes no difference to the world who is its
sovereign lord, whether the head of Catholicism or our despot.  But to us,
the chosen people,  it is very far from being a matter of indifference.
"...We have taken the personal and national desires of the nations and set
them against each other.  We have bred religious and race hatred into a
huge growth in the course of the past twenty centuries.  This is the reason
why there is not any country, anywhere, that would rise up against us
because they would not receive any support for it.  Every one of them must
bear in mind that any alliance against us would be quite unprofitable to
them.  We are too strong-there is no getting away from our power.  The
nations cannot even come to a small, private agreement without our secretly
having a hand in it.
	"...In this present age it is more important to disarm the peoples than to
lead them into war; more important to use, for our advantage, the passions
which have burst into flame than to quench their fire; more important to
understand the ideas of others and then interpret them to suit our own
purposes than to eradicate them.  The central purpose of our directorate
consists in this: to debilitate the public mind by criticism; to distract
it from any serious considerations that are calculated to arouse
resistance; to divert their minds to engage in conflicts whose issues are
eloquently presented but hollow and meaningless.
	"In all ages the peoples of the world, collectively and as individuals,
have accepted words in the place of deeds because they are content with a
show.  They rarely pause to take notice whether promises are followed by
performance, especially in the public arena; therefore, we shall establish
institutions that are nothing more than show and will give eloquent 'proof'
of beneficial progress.
	"...In order to bring public opinion into our hands we must cause it to
experience great bewilderment.  This will be done by giving expression to
so many contradictory opinions, and for such a length of time, that the
nations will become dazed in the confusion of the maze of voices.  This
will result in their realizing that the best thing is to have no opinion of
any kind in political matters which the people and even their governments
do not understand.  Those things are only rightly understood by him who
guides the public.  This is the first secret.
	"The second secret that is required for the success of our government is
expressed in the following:  to cause an increase of the national failings,
habits, passions, conditions of civil life, so that it will be impossible
for anyone to know what his place is in the resulting chaos. This will
result in utter failure of the people to understand one another. This
course of action will also serve us in another way, namely, to sow discord
among all factions, to dislocate all organized forces which are still
unwilling to submit to us, and to discourage any kind of personal
initiative or enterprise which might hinder our progress in any way.  There
is nothing more dangerous than personal initiative.  If it is directed by
genius, such initiative can do more than can be done by millions of people
among whom we have sown discord.
	"We must direct the education of the nation's communities in such a way
that whenever they encounter a situation requiring initiative they will
throw up their hands in despair and impotence.1  The stress and confusion
which results when the freedom of one comes in conflict with the freedom of
another drains the energies of both.  From this conflict arise intense
moral shocks, disenchantments and failures.  By all these means we shall
wear down the nations so effectively that they will be forced to offer us
international power.  That power will be of a nature that it will enable
us, without violence, to gradually absorb all the national forces and power
of the world.  From that we will form our super-government [the United
Nations]. In place of the ruling governments of today, we shall set up a
rigidly controlled system which will be called the super-government [UN]
Administration.  Its hands will reach out in all directions like pruning
shears and its organization will be of such colossal dimensions that it
cannot fail to subdue all the nations of the world.

	1Initiative is a great barrier to the goals of the new order.  For this
reason, many conflicting laws and regulations, as well as policy in
general, is promoted to exasperate individual initiative.  Business will be
best suited to large enterprises controlled by those behind the scenes.
Small ventures requiring individual initiative often find themselves
surrounded by many frustrating hindrances.  These take the form of
environmental "concerns," endangered species regulations, and the ever
present competition from large corporate interests who are largely
controlled by the new power.  The goal is to bring everyone into humble
submission to this new order of things.

THE KINGDOM OF MONEY

	"We shall. . . establish huge monopolies, reservoirs of colossal riches
[International Banking], that even the large economies of the nations will
depend on it to such an extent that they will go to the bottom together
with the credit of the nations on the day after the political smash.  You
gentlemen here who are economists, just make an estimate of the
significance of this combination. In every possible way we must develop the
significance of our United Nations by representing it as the protector and
benefactor of all those who voluntarily submit to us.
	"The suitability of the nations as a political force is dead - we need not
take it into account; but those who possess and exercise control over land
can still be harmful to us.  This is because they are self-sufficient due
to the resources of the land on which they live or have control over. It is
essential, therefore, for us at whatever cost to deprive them of their
land. This goal will be best attained by increasing the pressures and
burdens upon land-real property, by loading lands with debt [property
taxes,  environmental protection issues].  These measures will severely
limit landholding and keep it in a state of humble and unconditional
submission.
	"...At the same time we must intensively patronize trade and industry.
First place, however, must be given to speculation, that part which
provides a controlling opposition to industry.  An industry that is not
deeply involved in speculation will multiply money in private hands and
will serve to restore agriculture by freeing the land from indebtedness to
the banks. What we want is that industry should drain off from the land
both labor and money, and by means of speculation, transfer into our hands
all the money of the world.  This will throw all the nations into the ranks
of the lower-class workers.  Then the nations will bow down before us, if
for no other reason than to get the right to exist.
	"To complete the ruin of national industry we shall, in addition to
speculation, add the lure of luxury which we have developed among the
nations.  We have created a greedy demand for luxury which is swallowing up
everything  [through artfully constructed advertising].  ...We shall raise
the rate of wages which, however, will not bring any advantage to the
workers, because at the same time, we shall stimulate inflation to bring
about a rise in prices. ...We shall further very skilfully undermine the
sources of production by stimulating the workers to drunkenness and making
them think they are in control of everything.  We shall accompany this with
every effort to eradicate all national educated influences from the face of
the earth.
	"It is important that the true meaning of what is happening should not be
understood by the peoples or nations before the right time has come.  In
order to accomplish this we shall hide it under a pretended zealous motive
of serving the working classes and the great principles of political
economy. For these economic theories we are carrying on a strong program of
propaganda.1

	1This propaganda could be seen in the political and in the media during the
push for the GATT and NAFTA treaties recently enacted by the nations.  One
need make no mistake about it, the secret forces get what they want no
matter who apparently holds the reigns of power.

	"The intensification of military armaments and the increase of police
forces are all essential for the completion of the aforementioned plans.
The end result which we seek is that in all nations of the world there
should, other than ourselves, be only the masses of the common worker, a
few millionaires devoted to our interests, police and soldiers.
	"We must create upheavals, discords and open hostility.  By this we shall
gain a double advantage.  First off, we will be able to keep all countries
under our control.  They will submit to this control because they well know
that we have the power to create disorders or to restore order whenever we
like.  All these countries are quite used to the fact that we possess the
indispensable force of extortion [economic sanctions].  Secondly, by means
of conspiracies and scheming we shall cause utter confusion by the strings
we have tied into the cabinets of all nations.  We have created these
controls within the governments by means of political and economic treaties
or loan obligations.  In order to create all this discord and confusion of
power, we must use great cunning and insight during negotiations and
agreements.  However, we shall use the opposite tactics of masking what we
do under a cloak of honesty and compliancy using the 'official language' or
jargon of government known as legal language.  In this way, the peoples and
governments, whom we have taught to look only at the outside of whatever we
present to them and never examine it in depth, will still continue to
accept us as the benefactors and saviors of the human race.

WE WILL MAKE WAR

	"Whenever we encounter any nation which dares to oppose us, we must be
prepared to incite war and join with its neighbors against it;  but if
those neighboring countries should also venture to stand together against
us, then we must create resistance by inciting a universal war.
	"...We must force the national governments to act in the direction favored
by our broad master plan which is already approaching its desired goal.
This force will come in the form of public opinion which has been secretly
shaped and molded by us through the means of that so-called 'Great
Power'-the news media.  That power is, with a few exceptions that may be
disregarded, already entirely in our hands.
	"...The representatives of the nations sign papers and treaties without
bothering to understand them because they are only in their positions of
service for either material gain or from ambition.
	"...We shall surround our government with a whole world of economists,
constellations of bankers, industrialists, capitalists and - the main thing
- millionaires.  The latter because in material substance every difference
between parties or business transactions will be settled by sums of money.
"For a time, until conditions are safe for entrusting responsible posts in
government to our brothers, we shall occupy them with persons whose past
reputation has created a great alienation between them and the peoples.
These will be individuals who, if they disobey our instructions, will face
criminal charges or disappear.  This threat will make them defend our
interests to their last gasp because they know that the people, to whom
they have been unfaithful in their past dealings, will not come to their
aid.
	"When working out our plans and principles in any particular country, you
must pay attention to the character and social standards of the people and
adhere to them.  This must be done until such time as the people shall have
been re-educated to our way of thinking.  By approaching the people's
social and moral standards with caution, you will see that not a decade
will pass before the most stubborn character will change and we shall add
yet another people to the ranks of those already subdued by us.
	"...For us there is nothing to restrict or to limit the range of our activity.  
Our Super-Government [the U.N.] actually abides above and outside any
laws.  It would, therefore, be described more accurately by the energetic
and forcible words - benevolent dictatorship.  I am in a position to tell
you, with a clear conscience, that at the proper time we, the lawgivers,
shall execute judgment and sentence.  We shall kill and we shall spare. We,
as head of all our troops, are mounted on the steed of the leader.  We rule
by force of will because in our hands are the fragments of a once powerful
system which we have conquered, and the weapons we have gathered from among
the conquered peoples are limitless ambitions, burning greediness,
merciless vengeance, hatred and malice.
	"It is from us that the all-consuming terror proceeds.  We have in our
service persons of all opinions, of all doctrines.  Included are those who
desire to restore monarchies and kingships; those who would be leaders of
the peoples by inciting them to discontent: socialists, communists, and
utopian dreamers of every kind.  We have harnessed them all to the task of
serving our purposes.  Each one of them, on his own, is boring away at the
last remnants of authority and striving to overthrow all established form
of order.  By these acts, all nations and societies are in torture.  They
try to reason with the people to restore tranquillity and are ready to
sacrifice everything for peace, but we will not give them peace until they
openly acknowledge the United Nations and fully submit to it.
	"Without much altering the existing laws, we have twisted their
interpretations so as to make them contradict each other.  We have
succeeded in erecting great and magnificent results by perverting the laws.
The first result was that the interpretations of the laws actually masked
their true intent.  Afterwards, those laws were entirely hid from eyes of
the governments because it became impossible to make anything out of the
tangled web of legislation.
	"This is from where the theory of arbitration comes.  You may say that the
nations will rise up against us, guns in hand, if they guess what is going
on before the time comes; but in the West we have established a plan of
such appalling terror that the very stoutest hearts will tremble.  The
undergrounds, metropolitan transit systems whose subterranean corridors
will, before the time comes, be driven under all the capitals, will be
blown into the air with all their organizations and archives.
	"When we have accomplished our coup d'etat, our grab of all political
power, we will just tell the peoples, 'Everything has gone terribly bad.
Everyone has been brought down by suffering, but we are merely destroying
the causes of your torment which are nationalities, frontiers, differences
of coinage and money.  You can, of course, judge us prematurely, but would
it be a righteous judgment if you have not given what we are offering you a
fair chance?'  This will result in the mob bearing us up in their hands and
exalting us in unanimous triumph of hopes and expectations.  'Free'
elections and voting, which we have made one of the means of our success,
will set us on the throne of the world.
	"...To bring this about, we must have everybody without distinction of
class or qualification.  This is the only way we can establish an absolute
majority which cannot be gotten from educated property owners alone.  In
this way, we manage to give everyone a sense of self-importance and destroy
in the nations the importance of the family and its educational value.  It
also eliminates the possibility of individual minds separating from our
planned course.  The mob, which is controlled by us, will not let them get
any attention or even allow them to be heard if their opinions differ from
our own.  They will listen only to us because it pays them to obey and give
us attention. In this way, we shall create a blind, mighty force which will
never move in any direction without the guidance of our agents, the leaders
of the mob.  The people will submit to this regime because they will know
that their income and all of their benefits depend upon these leaders.
	"...These schemes will not turn existing institutions upside down just yet.
They will only affect changes in their economy and consequently in the
whole combined movement of their progress which will thus be directed along
the paths laid down in our schemes.
	"...When we introduced the poison of liberalism into the national organism,
its whole political complexion underwent a change.  States have been seized
with a mortal illness - blood-poisoning.  All that remains is to await the
end of their death agony.
	"...We ourselves shall tell presidents what their responsibility is. By
that time, we shall be powerful enough so that we can disregard normal
channels of action in carrying out our desires.  We will make our personal
puppet responsible for all of that.  ....
	"In order that our scheme may produce this result, we shall arrange
elections in favor of those presidential candidates that have some dark,
undiscovered stain in their past, some food for scandal.  Then they will be
trustworthy agents for the accomplishment of our plans.  This 'trust' will
come from fear of being exposed and from the natural desire everyone has
who has risen to such political power, namely to retain the privileges,
advantages and honor connected with the office of president.  The chamber
of deputies will elect presidents and provide cover and protection for
them; but we shall take away from them the right to propose new legislation
or to make changes in existing laws.  This right will be surrendered to us
by our puppet president.  Naturally, the authority of the president will
then become a target for every possible form of attack; however, we shall
provide him with means of self-defense.  That will take the form of the
president's right to appeal to the people for their decision over the heads
of their representatives.  Of course he will be doing nothing more than
appealing to that same blind bunch of slaves of ours - the majority of the
mob or masses. Independent of this, we shall invest the president with the
right of declaring a state of war.  We shall justify this on the ground
that the president as Commander in Chief of the armed forces must have the
military at his disposal in case he must defend the new constitution which
is his right to defend as its sworn representative.  It is easy to
understand that under these conditions, the key to the shrine of government
will rest in our hands and no one, apart from ourselves, will ever direct
the force of legislation.  The president, at our direction, will make
interpretations of existing laws that are vague enough to be twisted to say
what we desire.  He will also annul or make of none-effect those laws when
we indicate to him the necessity of doing so.  Besides this, he will have
the right to propose temporary laws and even new directions in how the
government works with the constitution.  His justification for all of this
he will give as the supreme welfare of the people and the nation.1

	1The president has power to change national conviction at will.  One case
in point was the issue over China's most favored nation status.  For years
the presidents argued against granting this status on the basis that China
had a poor human rights record.  The new order has no concern for human
rights at all.  This argument is merely a ploy for manipulation.  The truth
is that China was not cooperating economically.  After China began to
buckle under and enter into the financial scheme of the New World Order,
President Clinton dropped the condition that China conform to any human
rights requirements.  The New World Order is concerned with money and
control, not human rights.

	"By such measures we shall obtain the power of destroying little by little,
step by step, all of the things we introduced into the constitutions in the
first place.  This will prepare for the transition to an unperceived
abolition of every kind of constitution.  When the time has come, we will
turn every form of government into our despotism.
	"The revelation of our dictator may actually come before the destruction of
the constitution.  The moment for this revelation will come when the
peoples, utterly wearied by the unpredictability and incompetence of their
political leaders - a matter for which we shall arrange - will clamor and
cry, 'Away with them and give us one ruler over all the earth who will
unite us and eliminate the causes of discord, frontiers, nationalities,
religions and national debts who will give us peace and quiet which we
cannot find with our present rulers and representatives.'
	"You, yourselves know perfectly well that to cause the peoples of all
nations to desire such a thing, it is absolutely necessary to cause trouble
and discontent in the relationship between the people and their
governments. It is critical that the people become exhausted with
dissension, hatred, struggle, envy, even the use of torture, starvation,
inoculation of diseases, and poverty - leaving the nations no other vision
than to take refuge in our complete sovereignty which is the control of
money and everything else.  But if we give the nations of the world any
breathing room, the moment we long for will likely never arrive.
	"...The nations are a flock of sheep and we are their wolves. And you know
what happens when the wolves get hold of the flock?  There is another
reason also why they will close their eyes to what we are doing; we shall
keep promising to give them back all the liberties we have taken away as
soon as we have quelled the enemies of peace and brought into control all
of society.  It is not wise to make any mention about how long they must be
kept waiting for this return of their liberties.  For what purpose then
have we invented this whole policy and then grafted it into the minds of
the nations without giving them any chance to examine its underlying
meaning?
	"...We shall deal with the news media in the following way:  what is the
part played by the news media today?  It serves to excite and inflame those
passions which are needed for our purposes, or else it serves the selfish
goals of groups of individuals.  It is often flat, dull and insipid,
unjust, intellectually dishonest or even outright lying, and the majority
of the public have no idea what purpose it really serves.  We saddle and
bridle the news media with a tight bit.  We also do the same with all
publications of the printing press because there would be no sense in
ridding ourselves of attacks from the news media if we are still the target
for newspapers, pamphlets and books.
	"...No one shall get away with laying a finger on the glowing radiance of
our reputation for government infallibility.  The excuse for stopping any
publication will be the alleged plea that it is agitating the public mind
without reason or justification.  Please take note of this, however: among
those who will be making attacks upon us there will be organizations
established by us;  but they will attack only things that we have already
decided to change.  Not a single announcement will reach the public without
our control.  Even now, this is already true because all news items are
received and disseminated by a few agencies covering all parts of the world
[national and international news wire-services].  These agencies will then
be already entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to
them. If we have already conspired to possess and control the minds of the
peoples and nations to such an extent that they all look at world events
through the colored glasses we are placing over their eyes; if there is
already not a single nation where there are any barriers for us to look
into what national stupidity calls state secrets, what will our position be
when we shall be acknowledged as the supreme lords of the world in the
person of our leader who will be ruler of all the world?
	"...Literature and journalism are two of the most important educational
forces, therefore, our government will become proprietor of the majority of
the journals and news media productions.  This will neutralize the
injurious influence of privately owned news media and publishers, and will
put us in possession of the greatest influence upon the public mind. . . .
If we allow ten journals not controlled by us to be published, we shall
counteract them with thirty of our own and keep that ratio throughout.
This, however, must never be suspected by the public.  To accomplish this,
all publications and productions put out by us will appear to give a
variety of opposing viewpoints.  They will be quite different from each
other in appearance, political leanings and editorial opinions. This will
create a confidence in us and attract unsuspicious opponents to us who will
thus fall into our trap and be rendered harmless.
	"...All of our newspapers and media productions will be of all possible
complexions and viewpoints - aristocratic, conservative, liberal,
revolutionary, some even advocating anarchy.  Of course, these will only
exist as long as the constitution exists.  ...Like the Hindu idol, Vishnu,
they will have a hundred hands and every one of them will have a finger on
any one of the public opinions as necessary.  When the pulse quickens,
these hands will lead public opinion in the direction of our desire, for an
excited patient loses all power of judgment and easily yields to
suggestion.  Those fools who will think they are repeating the opinion of a
newspaper or media of their own camp, will actually be echoing our own
opinion or any opinion that seems desirable for us.  In the vain belief
that they are following the party of their own ideals, they will in fact be
following the flag which we hang out for them.
	"In order to direct our news media and newspaper 'militia', we must take
great and intricate care in organizing this matter.  Under the title of
central department of the News Media, we shall organize literary
conventions.  At these gatherings our agents will, secretly and
unobtrusively, issue orders and watchwords of the day.  They shall engage
in controversial discussions on a superficial level, taking care not to
touch the true substance of the matter.  By this method, our organizations
will carry on a sham fight with the official media.  This will be done
solely for the purpose of giving us the occasion to express ourselves in a
more legitimate-looking manner than we could if we merely made some
announcement of editorial opinion.  That way it will appear as if we are
defending truth, rather than just proclaiming it.
	"These attacks upon us will also serve another purpose, namely, that our
subject will be convinced of the existence of true freedom of speech and
freedom of the press.  It will also give our agents the opportunity to
affirm that all organizations and individuals which oppose us are empty,
vain, babblers since they are incapable of finding any substantial
objections to our position.
	"Methods of organization like these, invisible to the public eye, are
perfectly effective and they are the best calculated to bringing public
opinion and confidence to favor our government.  Because of such methods we
shall be in a position, when necessary, to excite the public mind or to
tranquilize it concerning political questions.  We can either persuade or
confuse.  We can accomplish this by publishing first truth then lies, facts
or their contradictions, depending on how they will be received, to produce
the public confusion that will finally result in the masses out of
desperation, depending on us to tell them what to think.  When doing this,
we must always carefully feel our ground before stepping upon it.  This
will give us sure victory over our opponents because they do not have the
various factions of the news media at their disposal by which they might
give full expression to their views.  We shall not even need to refute
their opinions except on a very superficial level.
	"...From all this, you will see that, by bringing the masses to agree with
us, we are only helping the working of our machinery.  It will also appear
to you that it is not our actions but our words for which we seek approval.
This is true because words are the true force by which we create and
manipulate public opinion, and those words are constantly designed to
convince the masses that all our purposes are founded in a hope on a
conviction that we are serving the common good of the people.
	"...In order that the masses themselves may not understand what is the
truth about their lives, we further distract them with amusements, games,
pastimes, and professional sports.  ...Through the news media we shall
propose competitions in art, in sports of all kinds-these interests will
ultimately distract their minds from any issues in which we might have to
oppose them.  Because people will grow more and more mentally lazy and
unused to forming their own opinions, they will begin to talk the same way
as do we.  They will do this because we alone shall be offering them new
directions for thought...of course, we will do this using persons they will
never suspect of being in league with us.
	"The part now being played by the liberals, utopian dreamers, will finally
be finished when our government is established.  Till such time they will
continue to be of use to us.  Therefore we shall continue to direct their
minds into all sorts of worthless concepts and ridiculous theories that
appear to be new and progressive.  We shall continue in this manner because
we have had complete success in causing the brainless leaders of the
nations to be dazzled with progress-thinking it is progress that is the sum
of achievement.  While they are so enraptured with it, there is absolutely
no one among them that sees that beneath the cloak of progress there has
been a departure from truth.  They do not understand that truth is
unchangeable and does not allow for progress in a manner that violates it.
In this way, progress, like a false ideal, serves to obscure truth so that
none may know it except us.
	"...Who will ever suspect then that all these peoples were so perfectly
stage managed by us according to our political plans?  No one has so much
as guessed at all of this in the course of many centuries.
	"...Our philosophers will discuss all of the shortcomings of the various
beliefs and religions of the nations, but no one will ever be able to
discuss our faith from an accurate point of view.  This is because it will
be fully understood by no one but us-and we will never dare to betray its
secrets.
	"We shall at last definitely come into our kingdom by the aid of multiple
coups d'etat arranged to occur everywhere on the same day.  This will take
place after we have demonstrated the worthlessness of all existing forms of
government and the peoples have acknowledged that truth. We shall take
great measures to assure that no such thing as a plot or a conspiracy will
ever exist.  For this purpose we shall kill, without mercy, all who dare to
take up arms to oppose our coming into our kingdom.  Any and every kind of
new organization or institution that is anything like a secret society will
also be punished with death.  ...Decisions by our government will be final
and without appeal.
	"...Death is the inevitable end for everyone.  It is better to bring it to
those who hinder our affairs than to ourselves, who are the founders of
this affair.  We execute men in such a way that no one but we of the
brotherhood will ever suspect it.  Not even the victims themselves know of
our death sentence  and what is happening.  They all just die when required
and it appears as if from a normal kind of illness.  Knowing this, even the
brotherhood themselves dare not protest.
	"...Under our influence the execution of the laws of the nations has been
reduced to a minimum.  The prestige and honor of the law has been destroyed
by the liberal interpretations made in the courts.  In the most important
and fundamental legal affairs, judges make decisions the way we dictate to
them.  They see matters in only the light we shine upon them in order to
run the national governments our way.  While doing this, we do not appear
to have any connection or anything in common with them.  We alter their
thinking by newspaper and media opinion or by many other means.  . . . Even
senators and those of higher administration accept our counsels.  The
purely animalistic mind of the nations is incapable of analysis and
observation-and even less are they capable of the foresight necessary to
see the end result of altering the presentations of certain questions.
	"The true seal of ourselves as the chosen people and of our higher quality
of humanity is clearly seen in the difference between our capability of
thinking as opposed to the almost animal level on which the peoples of the
nations think.  Their eyes are open, but they see nothing though it is
standing right in front of them.  They invent nothing, unless perhaps
material things. From this it is plain that nature herself has destined us
to guide and rule the world.
	"...Our absolute dictates will all be in logical, consecutive order.
Therefore, in each one of our decrees our supreme will must and will be
respected and unquestionably fulfilled.  We will ignore all complainings
and discontents of every kind and will destroy, to the very root, every act
resulting from them.  We shall do this with punishment of the most extreme
nature.
	"In order to destroy all organized forces except our own, we shall
emasculate the primary example of such organizations - the universities.
This will be accomplished by reeducating them in a new direction. Their
officials and professors will be prepared to do this by detailed secret
programs of action.  They will not be allowed to depart from these
programs-not by one iota-without suffering the consequences.  They will be
appointed with special care and caution, and will be in a such position so
as to be completely dependent upon our government.
	"...For a long time we have taken great care to discredit the priesthood
and religious leaders of the nations and, thereby, to ruin their mission on
earth which, in these days, might still be a great hindrance to us. Day by
day the influence of the clergy upon the peoples of the world is falling
lower. Freedom of conscience has been declared everywhere so that now only
a short time separates us from the moment of the complete wrecking of that
Christian religion.  As far as other religions are concerned, we shall have
still less difficulty in dealing with them, but it would be premature to
speak of this now. In the eyes of the peoples we shall place all ministers
and clerics in such narrow frameworks that their influence will decrease as
fast as it formerly increased.
	"When the time comes, finally, to destroy the court of the Pope, the finger
of an invisible hand will point the nations towards this court. However,
when the nations begin to fling themselves upon it and attack, we shall
come to its rescue in the guise of its defenders-this, of course, under the
pretense of averting excessive bloodshed.  By this diversion, we shall
penetrate to its very bowels and we shall certainly never come out again
until we have gnawed through and destroyed the entire strength of the
place. Our king...will be the real pope of the universe, the patriarch of
an international church.
	"However, in the meantime, while we are reeducating the youth in new
traditional religions-and afterward in our own-we shall not openly lay a
finger on existing churches.  We shall fight against them by criticism
calculated to produce splits among them.
	"Generally speaking, then, our modern news media will continue to bring
reproach and disrepute to national affairs, religions, ineptitude of
governments, always using the most unprincipled terms of expression in
order, by any means, to lower their prestige.  This can only be done by the
genius of our gifted tribe.
	"...Increasing the rate of income taxes in direct proportion to how much a
person earns will give us a broader revenue base.  These present taxes
serve our purposes for almost no other reason than to excite trouble and
discontent among the nations.
	"...We have created economic crises in the nations by no other means than
the withdrawal of money from circulation.  Huge amounts of money have lain
stagnant, thereby depriving the nations of its use. They were then caused
to have to continually apply for loans to those in control of that money.
With the payment of interest, these loans then place a burden on the
national finances making them the bond slaves of these various money
accounts.  The concentration of industry in the hands of powerful
capitalists and out of the hands of small business owners, has drained away
all entrepreneurial spirit from the peoples and also from the nations.
	"...It is a proof of the genius of the minds of the chosen ones that we have
contrived to present the matter of loans to them in such a light that they
have actually believed they are an advantage to them.
	"When the proper time comes, we shall present to the nations the
superiority of our ways, gained in the light of centuries of experience and
experiments made by us on the nations." (End of little book).

CHAPTER FOUR
THE FULFILLMENT

	Can you not notice the fulfillment of Daniel 11?  Here is a power who sees
itself above every other power or God. They boast  and rule the earth by
the power of money which is in their hands. Through the power of the media
and of money they have demoralized the entire earth as they have stated
they would.  Soon they plan to end the system of things which has been
before.  Faith in God has been abolished by their decrees. These things are
the prime movers in all our society today.
	This is not a secret, however, for one of the media's own highly respected
sons has confessed this very thing.  John Swinton, a former Chief of Staff
at the NEW YORK TIMES, was asked to give a toast before the prestigious New
York Press Club in 1953. Swinton was called "the dean of his profession" by
other newsmen who admired him greatly.  He made this candid confession.
	"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, as an
independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who
dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand
that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest
opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid
similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish
as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another
job.  If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper,
before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the
journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify,
to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread.
You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent
press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We
are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our
possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are
intellectual prostitutes."
	Stupid politicians, ministers and news professionals have forsaken their
good conscience and sold the multitudes who follow them into the slavery of
money which is ruled by these new masters.  This is the primary cause of
the confusion in the world today.  The prophets who have been raised up by
God have been driven away and even killed leaving the people to hear the
soothing, flattering sophistries of their guides.  The antichrist has
arisen and the mark of the beast has been received.  Alas, the time
prophesied so many years ago has come and few men know it.

THE MARK OF THE BEAST

	What is this mark of the beast?  It is written, "And I beheld another beast
coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake
as a dragon.  ...And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come
down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men [atom bomb], and
deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles
(wonders) which he had power to do in the sight of the beast ... and cause
that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
	"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to
receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man
might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or
the number of his name.  Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding
count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his
number is six hundred threescore and six." Rev.13:11-18.
	As we have read in the mysterious book, a series of circumstances arise
which take away the people's will to resist.  "Then the nations will bow
down before us, if for no other reason but to get the right to exist." Here
is a power that has been able to bring about a set of conditions where
people could not buy or sell except they have the mark of the beast.
	The Scriptures shed light on this mark and how people are blind to it.  It
is written: "Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in
your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as
frontlets between your eyes."  Deut. 11:18.
	This mark or sign reveals who one's master is.  If one has the mark of God,
he is one who lays the word of God up in his heart.  That is-he will always
and only obey the word of God which is in his heart.  On the other hand, if
he has the mark of the beast, he will lay up the beast's words in his heart
and obey them.  In the Scriptures a "beast" is the symbol used for worldly
governments.
	To receive the mark of the beast on one's hand is to work for the support
of the beast or earthly kingdom when that kingdom is opposed to God's law.
To receive the mark of the beast in the forehead is to give mental assent
to the actions of the earthly kingdom while it is opposed to God's law.  To
receive the number of his name is to think like the beast thinks.  Any of
these actions disqualify one from the kingdom of God.
	The motivation for receiving the mark of the beast is to receive rest and
peace promised by the world and its kingdom. That is essentially the
world's sabbath or rest. This mark of the beast is ratified when an
individual cannot be moved from this position.  The mark or seal of God is
experienced when one trusts in the Lord with his whole heart and rests in
Him.  It is also true that this mark is ratified when the soul cannot be
moved from his purpose of obedience to God and His commandments.  This is
the Lord's Sabbath or rest.  The issue involved is whether a man will keep
the Lord's Sabbath or the world's sabbath-the mark of God or the mark of
the beast.  This is what the great controversy involves.
	In our nation's history we have had the odious distinction of practicing
slavery.  Americans enslaved other humans for personal gain.  There were
also laws on the books of the state which made it a crime to harbor escaped
slaves.  If a man found an escaped slave, it was the law of the land that
he had to be returned to the owner.
	Let us suppose a man was enlightened regarding slavery and an escaped slave
arrived at his door.  If he were God's son he would be bound to disobey the
law of the land in favor of the law and Spirit of God.  Let us suppose this
man understood this principle, yet knew he may get into trouble for hiding
a slave, so the slave was returned to the supposed owner.  If this were the
man's character and he could not be made to do otherwise, he would be
revealing he had the mark of the law of man rather than the law of God.
	Suppose you have realized your government is enforcing a law which is
opposed to God's law.   Paying to support corruption is the same as doing
the corruption yourself and God will hold an individual responsible for
those corruptions when they are revealed to him. You consider withholding
your financial support but it occurs to you that you may lose your home or
even go to jail, so you go on paying, justifying your position by claiming
you cannot be responsible for what other men do.  In this, you receive the
mark of the beast on your hand.  You go on supporting the corruption
financially while knowing you should not.  You may understand how difficult
it is to buy and sell in this world's economy without supporting the beast.
That is-without paying those taxes which support these things.  God's
people must practice civil disobedience when the law of the land opposes
the law of God.
	If you take a position that your government is doing well in waging wars,
killing the unborn, or partially born children and supporting immoral
sexual activities, and the Word of God cannot dissuade you, then you
receive the mark of the beast on your forehead.  When your government's
policies are wrong and you keep that government supported with your labors,
you are held responsible by the powers of heaven.  Your money is your
activity and your labor.   If you think in earthly ways and refuse to be
moved to think in heavenly ways, even though you are shown the truth, then
you take the number of his name:  "for it is the number of man and his
number is 666."  These things mentioned are on the political arena.  On the
religious, the same principles apply.
	If one sends his children to public school, even though he knows that his
children are being educated to wrong principles, but continues to do so
because he is afraid of having his children taken away by the state, or
some other inconvenience, and he cannot be turned from his error, he
receives the mark of the beast.  Receiving the mark of the beast comes from
the motive of seeking peace or rest at the expense of doing what is right.
Resting in the truth and obeying that truth is the mark of God. It is His
Sabbath. Compromising one's conscience so that one might receive the rest
of the world from his church or government is receiving the mark of the
beast.  These individuals receive the plagues which are the natural result
of choosing the rest which the world promises.
	There are now many issues facing today's professed believers.  God's true
people separate from those who practice corruption.  Many churches today
teach their congregations to keep Sunday rather than God's Sabbath.  The
man with the mark of God will separate from this.
	Some religions support the corruption in the public school system.  Certain
sects have their own educational system which is a copy of the world's
system.  Some give approval that mothers may destroy their unborn or
partially born children.  Still others acknowledge the faithfulness as
Christians of those who practice homosexual activity.  These receive the
number of the beast or take his mark on the hand or forehead if they cannot
be turned from their course.
	Six is the number of man.  Six hundred sixty six is the number given to a
man who cannot be moved from human corruption.  It is the number of a man
who has removed himself from God's influence and, instead, follows his "own
good sense".
	Some of these things may seem like nonsense to the reader, but that is only
because the mind that is resting in the Spirit of God can grasp it. "But
the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are
foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are
spiritually discerned."  1 Cor. 2:14.
	There is another basic cause to the dilemma men find themselves in today.
They have missed the real Christ.  He is not discerned or understood by man
and He is especially misunderstood by the modern day preacher.  Jesus is
not who they think He is.  Modern professors of faith seem to view the
Christ as historical.  He professed to be God and the Savior of the world
and some men today accept that.  They hardly consider that Jesus looked as
any common man.  He did not look like a God.  It would be well for modern
day professed Christians to gain a new look at who Jesus really was and to
consider how He actually came.  Would they acknowledge Him as Savior today
if He came in the same way?

CHAPTER FIVE
 THE CULT

	The word that seems to strike fear into the hearts of men today is the word
"cult".  This word brings up terrible images of Jonestown, Waco, and the
Japan gas attack among others.  In this generation one seems to draw back
at any suggestion they may belong to a cult.  Yet, almost the whole earth
worships at the feet of men and contemplates the religious inspirations of
men who in their beginning were leaders of cults.
	The most widely known in this country is Jesus Christ.  Can you imagine
what response this man would have in today's world?  He claimed to be God.
He worked miracles of unknown origin.  He led a small group of followers
sometimes staying in secret locations.  One of His disciples committed
suicide.  He was finally executed for antigovernment activities.
	If Jesus came today, as He came two thousand years ago, He would be
considered a dangerous cult leader.  Yet, it is fashionable today to
worship Jesus as the Christ.  He has become acceptable.  That is-man's idea
of Him is acceptable because His image has been transformed into an
American product for merchandise.  "Christianity" is a most wonderful
business and fortunes are made with this product which bears no semblance
at all to the real Christ.  Movies are made about this image and men are
bought and sold within various religious denominations for the purpose of
gain.  In the time of Christ, He was looked at with great suspicion by
"normal" society.
	"Christian" is a term that means "Christlike" or Christ follower. This term
was first coined as a degrading accusation against members of this cult.
To say Christian then would be like saying, David Koreshite or Jim
Jonesite.  The plain truth is that any true Christian today will be
considered a cult member precisely as they were during the time of Christ.
Why is this so?  Consider for a moment the descriptions of the sons of God
provided in Scripture.
	Jesus said, "I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them,
because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." John
17:14. The world hates authentic Christians today because they are viewed
as cultists.  They are cultists because they are not of the world. They
stand out separate from the world.  They have their own CULTure. This
causes them to be viewed as separatists and somewhat secretive as Jesus
was.
	Actually, the truly worldly person does not care that much about cults
except that the worldly religions create fear in their hearts against the
Christians.  It was not the Romans that gave much notice to Jesus.  It was
the church of the day.  They were the instigators of hate against His cult.
They were the "hate mongers" of His time.  The Pharisees and Sadducees of
today are the various religious sects of this age.
	It would surprise most professed "Christians" to know that they were not
Christians at all, but only Pharisees and Sadducees of various persuasions.
How does one know this?  It is because Christians are not of this world.
Their bodies are here but they are not of the worldly mind. They do not use
worldly policies and forms nor participate in popular holidays. They do not
engage themselves in worldly amusements and society. They have no use for a
worldly education and they do not use the world's methods of healing.  Let
us look at some examples.  Did Jesus go to a university? No. Did He go to
public or private school?  No.  He was taught at home. Christians today
would have their children in home school. They would be separating their
children from earthly influences and impressions.
	Did Jesus go to the doctor to maintain His health?  Then what would a
Christ follower do? Would worldly medicine and drugs be His way of keeping
Himself well?  I think most thinking men would have to acknowledge that
Jesus did not participate in these things.  He was separate from them. He
was not involved in politics or labor unions. He stood apart from society
in their worldly aspirations and dreams. He was not of them.  He did not
store weapons for the future war.  He simply was not of this world.
	Men today are suspicious of true Christian cults because they seem to be
exclusive.  Actually, they appear this way because the world has driven
them away.  The world looks at the children of God as enemies, therefore,
these children find it necessary to dwell apart from the world.
	It has been said that cults seem to insist one must be of their group in
order to be saved or at least to be right.  Did Jesus do that?  He said, "I
am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by
me."  Can you imagine someone saying that today: someone like the man next
door?  Jesus said, "Follow me."  Here was a cult leader who told others to
follow Him.  He said that He was the only way to the Father.  There was no
other way to heaven.  Certainly this should be enough to give one the
picture of who Jesus really was.
	Was Jesus a cult leader?  Decidedly yes.  The dictionary definition for
cult is:
	1.a. A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or
false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under
the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader. b. The followers of
such a religion or sect.
	2. A system or community of religious worship and ritual. (AHED)
Certainly Jesus exercised authority.  He was generally considered extremist
and false.  He lived in an unconventional manner.  Certainly He led in a
system of religious worship and He was the leader.
	There are many worldly cults today.  The largest cult is Catholicism.
Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Seventh-day Adventists and the Jewish
religion, among others are smaller cults.  These are religious cultures.
When religious cultures have worldly ideas and use worldly methods in their
services and education, they would be considered worldly cults or cultures.
	The worldly cults today are those who believe that they are the true
church and by assenting to certain rituals or doctrines of the church you
are counted saved.  Jesus warned of these.  He said, "For many shall come
in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. ...Then if any man
shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there
shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs
and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the
very elect. Behold, I have told you before.  Wherefore if they shall say
unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the
secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the
east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son
of man be." (See Matthew 24).
	Jesus warned against false saviors; men who would seek to have you join
their group as a way of salvation.  If men say, "the way of salvation is
over here or over there" or if men say, "our group is the right one; we are
the true church over here, come join us and then you will be in the true
church also," one can know that they are claiming to be a messiah or
savior. These would be false or worldly cults.  Jesus clearly taught that
He comes to a soul as lightning across the sky and not through earthly
means.
	Jesus' religion was nothing like one finds today in religions around the
world.  Salvation does not come by church, doctrine or creed.  It does not
come by good behavior or one's beliefs.  It comes alone as the lightning of
God floods the soul and one receives eyes to see the truth as it is in
Jesus Christ.  This is the only salvation there has ever been. Men are
saved because they are filled with God.  They are filled with God because
they have yielded to His Spirit and have become possessed of His Spirit.
When this occurs, they will do the right things and do the good works that
God does. They do them because they are now a medium for God to work out
His will in them. When they are seen by men, it is God that men see because
it is God who is the life and not the man.
	Jesus taught that men do not get to heaven by following this or that man or
religion.  One enters heaven only by becoming the Son of God as He was.  It
is written, "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become
the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name."  John 1:12.
	While religions today teach some of these things, they do not know what
they mean.  It would surprise most religious leaders today to hear that the
Bible means what it says, "to become sons of God."  What does that mean?
Simply this, "For those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be
conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn
among many brethren."  Rom. 8:29.  This is exactly as stated.  Jesus was
the "firstborn" among many who would be like Him. The many who would be
born like Jesus are conformed to the image of Jesus. What is an image? "One
that closely or exactly resembles another; a double." (AHED).  It is
written again, "And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the
Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same
image...." 2 Cor. 3:18. In other words, Christians are Christlike or like
Christ.  They are the same as Christ.  That was the message of Jesus.
Jesus put it this way, "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and
drink his blood, ye have no life in you." John 6:53.  This statement
shocked the people of His day.  It certainly brought up cultish thoughts in
those who listened.  In fact, the record states that when He said this,
many left Him who had heretofore been followers.
	If you lived in Jesus' day, would you have followed this cult leader? Would
you have followed a man?  Not very many did then and equally as few do
today.
	The religions of the world are at the very best a false hope. The Father
will only save His Son and if one is not His Son, then salvation is not
received.
	According to the cult leader, Jesus, one cannot do something to get saved.
That is-he cannot join something.  Salvation is a transformation. It is
being transformed and translated into the same image as Jesus.  We think
like Him and our obedience to God is as His obedience.  We are like Jesus
and not like man. There is no other way.  This life comes from God alone.
The Spirit of God does the transforming so that we actually partake of the
"fullness of Christ."
	This is true Christianity.  Jesus gives us His perfection. The Christian is
as perfect as He is because that is the life He gives them. Now you may see
more clearly why it is that few men follow Him.  Jesus wondered Himself if
there would be anyone who believed this when He came. He said, "When the
Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?" Luke 18:8. The world is
full of the worldly religion of the Pharisees and Sadducees, but there are
precious few Sons of God-men who obey God and who obey Him all the time
with a loving, thankful heart.
	We have been told that there is another sign of a cult.  A cult is
apocalyptic.  The imminent coming of Christ or the imminent end of the
world is cited as one of the main ingredients of cultish doctrine.  There
are numerous religions that hold that Jesus is going to come back some day
but only a cult believes it is imminent.
	"Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and
saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent
ye, and believe the gospel." Mark 1:15.  John the Baptist believed and
preached the same thing.  Yes, John the Baptist would be considered a
separatist and cultish figure also.  This was the very nature of the early
Christian movement.
	It may be that the leaders of a movement might be seen as somewhat forceful
and strange, and that the members of the cult would only be followers, but
not really dangerous since they were following a man.  After Jesus was
executed, the power and strange cultish behavior did not end. It is
recorded in Scripture that two members of the main church dropped dead for
telling a lie.  "But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife,
sold a possession,  and kept back part of the price, his wife also being
privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the
Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?  Whiles it
remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine
own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not
lied unto men, but unto God.  And Ananias hearing these words fell down,
and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these
things.  And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and
buried him.  And it was about the space of three hours after, when his
wife, not knowing what was done, came in.  And Peter answered unto her,
Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much?  And she said, Yea, for so
much.  Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to
tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried
thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.  Then fell she down
straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came
in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these
things. And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders
wrought among the people."  Acts 5:1-12.  Consider this for a moment.
Imagine that happening in America now.  Suppose the news media reported
that two members of a cult did not pay the leadership what they had
promised so they dropped dead.  Can you imagine the headlines over that
story?  Peter would probably be arrested for using some unknown power to
kill those who did not give him the money he wanted.  At least that is how
the media would report it.  The stories would be wild.  It would be
reported that there were people killed for not turning over their land;
there was a suicide of one of the principle disciples; Jesus threatened to
destroy the temple (that is how it was reported), and now they were
speaking in strange languages and seemed drunk.  No, the Christian church
would not be popular these days. Christ would be branded a cult leader of
the most dangerous kind.  He would be accused of some crime and then
executed.  His disciples would probably be treated the same way.  Jesus
would be accused by those who consider themselves Christians.
	It has been said that a cult will cause division and divide families. Jesus
said, "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send
peace, but a sword.  For I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law.  And a man's foes shall be they of his own
household.  He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of
me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of
me.  He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life
for my sake shall find it." Matthew 10:34-38.   Jesus went on to say, "If
any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and
children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot
be my disciple." Luke 14:26.
	Yes, the leader of the Christian church said these things.  If any man said
these things today, he may well be jailed as Jesus was.  He would be
considered a danger to society.
	The great distortion of the Christian religion came as the world's point of
view was introduced into it.  The world's idea of religion is that when one
is good he gets to go to heaven.  One must especially be nice and smile a
lot. To be good and nice, you must work at it over a period of time and
then one day you finally get good and you can go.  The world also has the
view that one cannot really be good all of the time so it does not matter,
after all; but if you do good things as best you can, you still get to go
to heaven.
	This strange religion is in some form in all of the denominations that name
the name of Christ.  The various sects have different doctrines and good
deeds to be done but the bottom line is the same.  Some sects believe one
should wear certain kinds of underwear and go through certain baptismal
rites to be qualified for heaven.  Others boast of a prophet or some
apostolic leader.  Some preach that one should keep Saturday holy instead
of Sunday and that will qualify him for heaven.  Others put merit in the
money they give in tithes and offerings.  Many so-called Christians believe
they have joined the true church and that is sufficient for God's approval.
Still others believe that if you speak in some unknown tongue you are
certainly destined for the pearly gates.  This insidious poison was
inserted into the early church and developed into a science by the modern
church.  Men's works and being good would insure one a place in heaven.
This is the basis of all heathen religion. This is not, was not, and never
will be the religion of Christ.  Even though many religions today are
cults, they are worldly cults and work destructively against the gospel of
Jesus. The truth is evident.  It is written: "Beloved, believe not every
spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false
prophets are gone out into the world.  Hereby know ye the Spirit of God:
every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of
God: and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the
flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have
heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.  Ye are
of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that
is in you, than he that is in the world." 1 John 4:1-4.
	Yes, Jesus Christ is not found by men's doctrines and creeds. Men's works
of goodness performed to please God will avail nothing.  Christ Jesus
coming in the flesh, even our flesh, is the only salvation there has ever
been. If men say that Christ is not come in the flesh, that He cannot
really be in us, living His life in us and for us but we can only be men,
then they are classed with antichrist.  And if we know that Jesus Christ is
in us, then we will be as He is, doing the works that He does and having
the testimony He has, for it is Christ who lives and not we ourselves.  For
it is written: "And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make
war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and
have the testimony of Jesus Christ." Rev. 12:17.  Christians will keep the
commandments of God, but it is because God is their life.  They simply do
what God does because it is God doing it.  If a professed Christian is
still following the works of the flesh he is none of His.  (See Romans 8).
	God brought about the Reformation to once again bring the knowledge of
faith to the front.  Even so, the Reformation was short-lived.  While it
began in power and was considered a separatist and fanatical movement, it,
too, by and by, desired the approval of the world.  This very fact, seeking
the approval of the world, is a great destructive force since the world's
approval is not possible for a Christian.  It is written, "If you belonged
to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not
belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world-therefore the
world hates you." John 15:19.
	If the world loves you, you can know beyond any question that you are not a
Christian.  The world cannot love a Christian.  He is considered cultish
and a separatist.  He is heaped with rumors and suspicions. The Christian
does not work at trying to be hated, it just naturally happens if he has
the Spirit of God.  This happened to the early church and later to the
Reformation churches.  Protestants today are not protesting at all. How
dare they use the term to describe themselves?
	In the early 1800's there were many new movements or cults coming forward.
The end of the world was being preached by some and a date for that was
set.  God was awakening the world to search the Scriptures and awaken to
the times.  When the Lord did not come as foretold, there was general
disappointment but that disappointment was only manifest because people
failed to see the design of God.  This world was entering into judgment and
all were being directed to the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
Sadly, Jesus' faith is not something desired by the masses. Men would
rather have the approval of the world.  This is what these movements
gradually sought after.  But as with all previous cults, these Adventists
also sought the approbation of the world.  More and more they desired the
praise of earthly kingdoms.  More and more they distanced themselves from
the Spirit of God.
	The conclusion should be clear.  The Christian denominations of this world
are not truly Christian, even if some of them do pride themselves for going
to church on Saturday.  Their entire function is at counter purposes with
the Spirit of God.  The Scriptures teach of this great Babylon and how this
great city merchandises the souls of men.  This is not news to the world
though.  It is quite clear that this spiritless, powerless, Godless
religion has fallen and fallen into financial and moral corruption.  Her
ministers can preach for an hour and say nothing at all.  They are no
longer a cult in the Christian sense, but fully accepted into the worldly
family of nations and religions.  Modern Christianity may take pride in
that, but it is a shame that it takes the name of Christ, for it is not of
Christ but, instead, of the antichrist which was prophesied to come into
the world.
	Jesus predicted the doom of Jerusalem.  This is a principle factor in a
cult: the prediction of doom.  He said, "See ye not all these things?
verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another,
that shall not be thrown down." Matthew 24:1-2.
	Jesus also rebuked the regular order of things.  This is also cited as a
sign of a cult.  A cult rebukes the regular order of things.  "Woe unto
you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of
heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them
that are entering to go in.  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long
prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. Woe unto you,
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one
proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell
than yourselves. ...Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye
pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier
matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have
done, and not to leave the other undone.  Ye blind guides, which strain at
a gnat, and swallow a camel. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter,
but within they are full of extortion and excess.  Thou blind Pharisee,
cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of
them may be clean also.  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
for ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful
outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full
of hypocrisy and iniquity.  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the
sepulchers of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our
fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the
prophets.  Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the
children of them which killed the prophets.  Fill ye up then the measure of
your fathers.  Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the
damnation of hell?  Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise
men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of
them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to
city: that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth,
from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of
Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.  Verily I say
unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.  O Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent
unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a
hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!  Behold, your
house is left unto you desolate.  For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me
henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the
Lord."  Matthew 23:13-39.
	There is not one thing written here that Jesus does not say against today's
professed churches of Christ.  I suppose if a man said what Jesus said to
the churches of today, they would report that the man was being critical.
Soon enough the congregations of these churches will rise up and tear down
the false shepherds that have been leading them, but after all is said, it
is only liars who are lied to.  While it is true that false shepherds have
misled the people, the people have loved to have it so.  "The prophets
prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people
love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?" Jer.  5:31.
The physical destruction that came upon Jerusalem was only about 37 years
later.  This destruction was by process and this process can be clearly
seen in our earth today.  History is repeating itself in clear detail.
	We can look at some of the circumstances that surrounded the end of the
last age and the beginning of the age that followed.  The destruction of
Jerusalem took place in 70 A.D.  Today, we have seen the spiritual
destruction of the churches which constitute modern Jerusalem.  A little
while after the destruction of Jerusalem, the fortress Masada was attacked
by Roman soldiers.  The people at Masada were religious zealots.  A short
time after the spiritual destruction of our churches in this age was
recognized, government soldiers attacked the Branch Davidian compound near
Waco, Texas.   The Branch Davidians are recognized as religious zealots.
At Masada the people committed suicide and their fortress was destroyed by
fire.  Few survived. In Waco it is reported that they committed suicide and
their fortress was destroyed by fire.  Few survived.  Masada was under
siege a little over 50 days as was the Davidian compound. Masada was
attacked at Passover. "Mount Carmel" was attacked and under siege in the
Passover season also.
	Awhile after that, the supporters of Masada attacked in revenge for the
destruction of their people.  In this age a federal building was destroyed
in retaliation for the destruction which occurred near Waco.
	At this writing, during this Passover season, the Freemen, recognized as
separatists and zealots, are under siege as the Branch Davidians were.  It
is supposed that these small extreme groups are but little enemies in this
location or that.   What is missed is that this is only a symbol of a
general fire that is infecting the entire nation.  The nation is at war
with itself.  The nation no longer respects its leaders or its
institutions.  These examples only foretell the general collapse of every
agency of government.  While sleeping, a thief came in and ruined us.

CHAPTER SIX
 SHILLUM

	Over and over again we can see the similarities leading to the final
collapse of all things.  Yet, the dead cannot discern what is happening.
The world goes on without care that soon it must be destroyed by its own
hand.
	In the Dead Sea Scrolls there are prophecies that seem to apply to our age.
Jesus said, "When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the
sky is red.   And in the morning, It will be foul weather today: for the
sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the
sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?" Matt. 16:1-3. Why is
it that men are such fools when it comes to reading the signs of the times?
History does repeat itself.
	The Scrolls speak of a final Jubilee.  A Jubilee period is 49 years in the
Bible.  Ten Jubilee periods would be 490 years and four of these epochs
would be 1960 years which would constitute an age of time.  This last age
began in 34 A.D and ended in 1994 A.D.  The final Jubilee period of this
age would be from 1945 until 1994, or 49 years.  The last week (seven
years) of the last Jubilee period would be from 1987 till 1994. The Dead
Sea Scrolls predict that in that week of years God's people would come to
the place of their patrimony.  That is-those good things predicted for them
would come to pass.  They would reach the place in their life when "all is
well".  That is-they are made free of the world and servants unto God.  By
faith they would stand on secure ground.  On the other hand, the wicked
would also come to their patrimony or come to the place designated for them
and that is "all is hell".  Let us read it here from the Scrolls.
	"I take my text from the Law of the Jubilee. In this year of the jubilee,
we read, you shall return, everyone of you, to his patrimony....
	"At the final jubilee, therefore, God will in fact be restoring them to
what is rightfully theirs; they will indeed 'return, every one, to his
patrimony'.  As for the allusion in the law of the jubilee (Lev. 25:10) to
proclaiming liberation to them, this is to be understood also in the sense
that he will remit the full term of the punishment for their misdeeds, for
the (Hebrew) word rendered 'liberation' is also a technical term for the
remission of debts.
	"All this will happen in the final week [1987-1994] of a series of years
involving nine preceding jubilees [441 previous years]. When, therefore,
the scripture speaks of a day of atonement to be observed in the seventh
month, on the tenth day of that month (Lev. 25:9) what is meant, in an
eschatological sense, is that this final jubilee will be marked by a day on
which all the children of light and all who have cast their lot with the
cause of righteousness will achieve forgiveness of their sins, whereas the
wicked will reap their deserts and be brought to an end.
	"This is the era which Isaiah terms the Year of Favor (Isa. 61:2) - that
is, the one designed by God's favor, for the King of Righteousness- which
is what, by his very name, Melchizedek prefigures-to come into his
dominion. He will take the lead among God's heavenly saints in executing
the various sentences of judgment, as it is said in the songs of David: God
has taken His stand in the council divine, among the beings divine, to
render judgment (Ps. 82:1).
	"...The visitation of which I have been speaking is the same as the day of
retribution of which the prophet Isaiah speaks in the words: How fair upon
the mountains are the feet of the herald who proclaims 'Shalom! (peace)',
the herald of good tidings who proclaims 'Salvation'! who says to Zion,
'Your God has now claimed His kingdom!' (Isa. 52:7), for the word shalom
may also be read shillum, 'retribution' as who should say, 'All is hell!'
rather than 'All is well!'
	"...At that time, it will be from Belial, not from God, that men will turn
away in rebellion, and [also] there will be a reestablishment of the reign
of righteousness, perversity being confounded by the judgments of God. This
is what scripture implies in the words, Who says to Zion, Your God has now
claimed His kingdom! (Isa. 52:7), the term Zion there denoting the total
congregation of the 'sons of righteousness' -that is, those who maintain
the covenant and turn away from the popular trend, and your God signifying
the king of righteousness, alias Melchizedek redivivus (revived), who will
destroy Belial.  Our text speaks also of sounding a loud trumpet blast
throughout the land on the tenth day of the seventh month (Lev. 25:9).  As
applied to the last days, this refers to the fanfare which will then be
sounded before the messianic king.
	"When the seal is placed upon the age that is about to pass away [1994],
then I will show these signs: the books shall be opened before the face of
the firmament, and all shall see my judgment together."  2 Esdras 6:20.
Again it is written:  "But the day of judgment will be the end of this age
and the beginning of the immortal age to come, in which corruption [in
God's people] has passed away." 2 Esdras 7:113.
	In the fourth book of Ezra we can see the evidence of the end. The signs to
watch for are now in place.  "He answered me and said, 'Measure carefully
in your mind, and when you see that a certain part of the predicted signs
are past then you will know that it is the very time when the Most High is
about to visit the world which he has made.  So when there shall appear in
the world earthquakes, tumult of peoples, intrigues of nations, wavering of
leaders, confusion of princes then you will know that it was of these that
the Most High spoke from the days that were of old from the beginning. For
just as with everything that has occurred in the world, the beginning is
evident, and the end is manifest; so also are the times of the Most High.
	The beginnings are manifest in wonders and mighty works, and the end in
requital and signs. And it shall be that everyone who will be saved and
will be able to escape on account of his works, or on account of the faith
by which he has believed, will survive the dangers that have been
predicted, and will see my salvation in my land and within my borders,
which I have sanctified for myself from the beginning. Then those who have
now abused my ways shall be amazed, and those who have rejected them with
contempt shall dwell in torments.  For as many as did not acknowledge me in
their lifetime, although they received my benefits and as many as scorned
my Law while they still had freedom and did not understand but despised it
while an opportunity of repentance was still open to them these must in
torment acknowledge it after death.
	"But if the Most High grants that you live, you shall see it thrown into
confusion after the third period [age, (1994)]; and the sun shall suddenly
begin to shine at night, and the moon during the day.  Blood shall drip
from wood, and the stone shall utter its voice; the peoples shall be
troubled, and the stars shall fall.  And one shall reign whom those who
inhabit the earth do not expect, and the birds shall fly away together."
Can we see the revelation of these prophecies? A man would have to be a
complete fool not to see what is happening to our world.  The ominous signs
which increase daily are visible if one has eyes to see.  God will no
longer uphold the nations and defend the many churches who have taken His
name in vain.  The Day of Atonement in 1994 marked the end of this world's
institutions and it marked the strength and power of those who serve God.
>From that day forward this world's governments and churches will be allowed
to fall into the hole of their own making.
	In this last week of years described in the Scrolls are some very ominous
events.  The years started with a symbol for us to recognize.  On October
19, 1987, just two weeks after the beginning of the final week, the stock
market recorded record losses.  While this did not end the system, it was
an ominous portent of things to come.  What it showed was how vain one's
hopes are who places those hopes in speculation.  A great and final
collapse of finance is soon to come.
	In 1989 the Berlin Wall was beginning to be dismantled and the mark of the
fall of communism and the reign of capitalism (money) began to complete its
dominion.  In 1991 the formal dissolution of the Soviet state took place.
All this marks a major change in the world order which has existed in one
degree or another for centuries.
	It was also in 1991 that the United Nations asserted its power and placed
itself right in the midst of middle eastern politics dividing the once
united Muslim states.  So it is written, "And he shall plant the
tabernacles of his palace between the seas (in the midst of the people) in
the glorious holy mountain." Dan 11:45.
	In 1993, the beginning of the seventh year of rest, the Branch Davidians
were attacked resulting in a destroying fire which left the compound in
ruins.  Strange as it may seem, this was the beginning of the end for
America.
	As mentioned before, Josephus records the destruction of Masada. This
Jewish stronghold was under siege for about as long as was the Davidian
compound, and in like manner, it was destroyed by fire.
	This was the spark that would kindle a thousand fires around the country.
Recently, we saw the destruction of a federal building in Oklahoma in
retaliation for the destruction near Waco.  Since this tragedy occurred, we
have seen the evolution of the Militia which is an army designed for the sole purpose of war with the government.
This is highly descriptive of the war that ended the existence of
Jerusalem.  Josephus records that Jerusalem was divided into three
factions. Various zealots fought amongst themselves within Jerusalem and
also fought the Romans outside the city during the siege.  Concerning the
last days the book of Revelation speaks, "And the great city was divided
into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon
came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the
fierceness of his wrath." Revelation 16:19. The United States (that great
city) is also divided into three parts, as it is written.  There are
zealots composing the conservatives, there are the liberals, and there is
the Christian right.  The Militia, among others, constitutes a faction of
the zealots. These factions are fighting among themselves and occasionally
they go out and fight someone outside such as with the bombing of the
federal building.
	These ominous tokens are a reenactment of the events just prior to the
destruction of the Jewish nation.  This city was destroyed because the Jews
refused to accept the message of Jesus and our nation is being destroyed
for the same reasons.  This last week of the Jubilee has sealed the will
and determination of God's people and the will and determination of those
who have refused to accept the way of Christ. The last week of years
between 27 A.D. and 34 A.D. determined the fate of the Christian church
[cult] and the fate of the city that had rejected the message that Jesus
the Christ brought to them.
	In this age, the years between 1987 and 1994 determined the fate of God's
church [cult] today and the fate of the nations that have rejected the
message brought to them.  The nations have turned to the earth for peace
and safety instead of taking up the cross of Christ and now their fate is
sealed in their own blood.  We shall now see the increased destruction of
the nations until there will remain not one person left.
	President Bush remarked that when a nation turns its weapons of war against
its own citizens it cannot stand.  We are now seeing the dissolving and the
falling of our own government as we have seen the fall of the Christian
churches previously.  In spiritual things the world has been destroyed
already.  The strong family ties and the strong moral fiber necessary for a
strong church and government have been dissolved, just as the Dead Sea
Scrolls predicted and at the time they predicted them.
	In regard to God's sons it may be asked how they have come to their
promised place.  Is it not true they are still here?  Do they not suffer
the mocking jests of the world?  What this signifies is that God's sons
have taken the kingdom.  The revealing of Christ has caused their eyes to
see what supports the nations.  In all of this they have been made free.
They have come to their patrimony as it was written.  God's people will do
God's will and the nations have nothing to say about it.  They have risen,
stood up, and will no longer be trodden down by that Wicked one who has so
wonderfully boasted over them.  The sons of God will stand free of this
wicked age and watch as it tears itself asunder.  They are ascending above
this dark world and they will not look back.
	The world's environment for life has been destroyed by man's own
activities.  I do not mean merely his physical environment but his
spiritual.  The apostle Paul wrote: "For we wrestle not against flesh and
blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of
the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
Man cannot live like animals.  Man can only live like God for he is created
in the image of God.  If he breaks down his spiritual power, he must
necessarily cease to exist.  This is the process in which we have been
involved.  It matters little whether or not the physical world turns; what
matters is whether or not our spiritual world is turning.  That is what
constitutes life for us.
	It might be mentioned here that this world has always had its wars,
troubles and plagues.  That is true. One can see how cities have come to
their end and entire nations have been destroyed.  Now we are in a time
when the entire earth is involved in the same struggle.  It is not simply
an isolated city as was Babylon or Jerusalem when the world had far less
population. Now there are billions of us and we are all in the same
caldron.  The spiritual process is come to its end and it is only a matter
of a little time and all of the material form will end itself.
	This is not a statement of gloom and doom.  It is a statement of cause and
effect.  It is the natural process of what happens when men think the way
men think today.  It is true that God is dead in the hearts of men today,
practically speaking, but God is not dead in the hearts of God's
"cultists". He lives, hated by the world, yet all the hatred only serves
the purposes of God, for it strengthens the Godly and destroys the wicked
and unfaithful.
	Everything has its cycle of life.  There is a time for everything. Now that
the garden of this age is harvested with the message of God, Jesus tells us
that the tares are gathered in to be burned.  He says, "Behold, I am
against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord God of hosts: for thy day
is come, the time that I will visit thee.  And the most proud shall stumble
and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his
cities, and it shall devour all round about him." Jer. 50:31-32.
He says, "I will kindle a fire."  This is exactly what has been done. A
fire burns in the midst of our nation.  A terrible scourge of fire is now
kindled.  All honesty and nobility is thrown to the wind and a torrent of
words and accusations is common.  "Men speak evil of dignities" without any
thought of it at all.  This is the fire the Scripture predicted would take
place at the end of time.  It is written,  "For, behold, the day cometh,
that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do
wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up,
saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with
healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the
stall.  And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under
the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of
hosts." Mal. 4:1-3.
	The hell fire that has been predicted has now entered our world. Men
thought it would look like a visible fire, but it is far more meaningful
than fire by match.  No, it is fire by soul.  It is kindled in the midst
because God has been driven from the hearts of men.  Society only stands in
God.  The harvest is completed and there remains no hope for the tares.
They are gathered to be burned.
	We are not told how long this fire will burn.  We can only know that it is
now burning and it will finally leave neither root nor branch.  The world
will be destroyed by this fire as we are seeing.   It became obvious in the
final week of years what is to transpire. We will now watch and see the
increase of fire from the earth and fire from the heavens which will
consume all things.
	Every terror, every revolution, every plague, every catastrophe, every
bomb, every writing which exposes the current order will be recognized for
what it is-the fire that is destroying the world.  Fire from the earth
comes in the form of rebellion and violence.  Fire from heaven comes in the
form of light and truth.  Light in great abundance comes to destroy the
darkness-that is the fire from heaven.  Just as the Lord said, just when He
said it would happen, all things have been judged.  It has not been
according to our bright ideas, it has not been in accord with our great
imaginations, but it has been in accord with God's word.  It is written,
"Just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. Who shall not fear thee,
O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall
come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.  And
after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the
testimony in heaven was opened:  and the seven angels came out of the
temple, having the seven plagues." Rev. 15:4-6.  Our time is up.  The
harvest is ripe.
	Harvest has always been a time of great rejoicing and this harvest is no
different.  Who would possibly weep and moan over a wonderful harvest?
Unless, of course, all you have sown is weeds.  But then, if weeds are what
one has grown, then why would one not be happy with what he has knowingly
chosen?  Every man will know the answer to that within himself.  It is
written: "And he said to me, 'Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of
this book, for the time is near.  Let the evildoer still do evil, and the
filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy
still be holy.  See, I am coming soon; my reward is with me, to repay
according to everyone's work."  Rev. 22:10-12.
	God's people have entered into their rest.  That is-they have learned to
trust Him in all things.  They have taken the kingdom.  The chaff has been
blown to the wind, but the cult (culture) of God stands still (or still
stands) and waits upon His daily instructions.  The world has passed away
in their thoughts and hearts. There is nothing or no one to fight. God's
people need not try to convince anyone against their will.  Everyone has
what he wants. The light has flashed everywhere and all men are acting out
their decision.  No man should be disappointed to have received what he has
wanted, but sorrowfully men will be disappointed.  They will see that their
own righteousness has afforded them nothing at all and they have refused
the righteousness of God.  It is written, "For if we sin wilfully after
that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more
sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery
indignation, which shall devour the adversaries."  Hebrews 10:26-27. The
worldly cults and all their adherents will consume together with the earth
and its adherents.
	"And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an
hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their
foreheads.  And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters,
and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers
harping with their harps: and they sung as it were a new song before the
throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn
that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed
from the earth.  These are they which were not defiled with women; for they
are virgins.  These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.
These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to
the Lamb.  And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without
fault before the throne of God." Rev. 14:1-5.
	Now is the time when these beings know who they are.  The Scriptures do not
lie.  The 144,000 have characteristics which have come by faith in Christ.
They have separated themselves from the women (churches) of earth and have
instead chosen the congregation of God.  They have the Father's new name
written in their foreheads which is THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. These
beings follow the lamb wherever He goes.  In their mouth is no deceit and
they stand faultless before God.  This is the church of the Lord's
righteousness.  This is His cult (culture).  It is written: "In those days
shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the
name wherewith she shall be called, The Lord our righteousness." Jer 33:16.

	We have come to the time when by experience the Sons of God dwell safely.
That is to say, their faith is stayed on God.  Through experience they have
found heaven in the soul, but more than that, they will not be moved from
heaven back to earth whatever the provocation.
	These Sons, wherever they are on earth, are one with Christ as He is one
with the Father. This is what Jesus prayed for and this is the answer to His
prayer.  "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of My God,
and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of My God,
and the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem, which cometh
down out of heaven from My God: and I will write upon him My new name."
Rev. 3:7-12.
	"Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into
thee the uncircumcised and the unclean...Therefore my people shall know my
name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak:
behold, it is I." Isa. 52:1,6.
	No, God's Sons are not confused as to who is speaking in them. It is the
Father who speaks.  They know the meaning of the words of Jesus when He
said, "Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?
the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that
dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." John 14:10.  This is now fulfilled in
the hearing of all.  God's Sons do nothing of themselves but the Father who
dwells in them, He does the works and He speaks the words.
	Now the time is come.  The earth has been left desolate.  They will not
hear from the Sons of God again until they can say, Blessed is He who comes
in the name of the Lord.
	Now you have it.  Yes, it is finished.  There is now no possibility that
earthly things could be returned to their right state.  Men have
compromised, resisted, and disbelieved the Word of God so long they cannot
reverse it. Men will not keep God's true Sabbath.  They may know how to
count to seven and get to church on Saturday as with some professors, but
they do not keep God's true Sabbath which is to always trust and obey God
at all times under any circumstances.  God's rest means to tell the truth
at all times.  The world has heard the truth, but they receive the mark of
the beast so that they do not suffer loss or become ill thought of.  They
stay in their poor dead churches, taught by poor dead preachers, while
living in a dead country on a dead earth ruled by dead men. Mankind have
taken this road so long they cannot now turn back.  They cannot now repent.
This is the meaning of probation's close. Now you may understand what the
whole battle has been about.  I would hope that the reader of this book has
been one who has prepared for what he or she must now face-The Battle of
Armageddon!  It is the time prophesied when Christ and His people stand
arrayed against the world and its corrupt system of things. You may read of
this battle in Revelation 19:11-21.
	There is a measure of hope in the Scriptures for those who dwell in this
age.  The Scriptures read, "Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy
still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be
holy." Rev. 22:11.  That is to say, if you are living according to your
best knowledge and have obeyed the voice of God with all your heart, you
will continue to do this. On the other hand, if you are compromising
yourself and following practices on occasion you know are not right so that
you might receive a measure of peace or fleshly pleasure, you will continue
to do that. "Let the evil doer still do evil." The word "let" means to
leave them alone, they will not change.
	Men have had hundreds of years to change.  Men have scoffed and mocked God
continually.  Men's hearts are continually following after evil and God
simply says, "leave them alone."  God does not desert men.  What happens is
that men become so hardened through resistance that they can no longer
respond to God.  Is your heart too hard to respond now?  Can you repent of
your life?  This, you will judge.  Right at this moment you will know where
it is you are standing.  It is written, "The hour of His judgment is come."
Rev. 14:7.  The prophecies are fulfilled. That great wicked kingdom has
been revealed.  It has been exposed for what it is by the brightness which
accompanies the coming of Jesus and God's children are delivered from its
deceptions by that brightness.  It is finished!
	This truth is recorded in the book of Revelation.  Chapter ten, starting
with verse seven of the book reads, "But in the days of the voice of the
seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be
finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets."   The seventh
trumpet is now sounding and this trumpet corresponds to the seventh plague.
They declare the Battle of Armageddon.  That battle is the plague of hail
when the word of God sweeps away the refuge of lies.  (See Isa 28:17).
	The sons of God are to take a little book and eat it.  This little book is
now in your hand.  While the message in this book is sweet to the taste for
a believer, the result of sharing this book with unbelievers is bitterness.
Persecution and trial come to those who share the truths found here.  Even
so God's sons are told to "prophesy again before many peoples, and nations,
and tongues, and kings."
	The Battle of Armageddon is now to be fought.  God's sons are standing in
array against the world and its sons.  The battle lines are marked.  You
may now know on which side you stand.
	Those individuals who compose God's army hear a voice which says, "Come out
of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye
receive not of her plagues." Rev. 18:4.  They come out of all apostate
religion and separate from the wickedness of the nations.  They do not
support them with money or time.  There shall now fall upon men a great
hail and the hail will sweep away the refuge of lies.  "And I saw heaven
opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called
Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war."  Rev
19:11.

 APPENDIX

	* The little book quoted from and paraphrased is entitled: "Protocols of
the Learned Elders of Zion."
	It may be of interest to the reader to note the great controversy
surrounding this little book. Through the decades this book has been
touted, vilified, believed or thrown out as nonsense.  It was first printed
about the turn of the century and great upheaval has been the result.
The book indicates that it was written by certain Jewish elders who are
high up in the organization of finance and world politics.  The position of
the author of this document is that it does not matter at all who wrote it.
The thing that should be noticed is that the world's system has followed
right after the principles laid out in the document, whoever was the
author.  If the book was a hoax, it does not matter at all.  What should be
noticed is that if the book was a hoax, it was a very accurate hoax.  After
reading this booklet, it should be clear that the world is a hoax as well.
	It is also the position of the author of this document that some man,
ethnic group, or religion cannot be the cause of this world's ills of
themselves. Men have accused Zionists as being the perpetrators of this
world's woes in regard to the book quoted from.  The true cause of this
world's woes is we, ourselves. It has been said that it takes two to tango.
If we indeed have a worldly conspiracy, unless we are corrupted ourselves,
how can we be hurt by it? So, the principle here is that there is no one
out there doing anything to us.  Instead, mankind is destroying and has
destroyed the world we live in by their very own corrupt hearts.  If we
play into the hands of conspirators, then who is to blame? Now it is too
late to change it.  The end is not coming, it has arrived.
Some individuals may balk at the thought of it being too late to change
things.  Giving the matter a little consideration would bring us to the
conclusion that men really want the new order.  It may not have occurred to
them that they have been stage managed, but now that this can be seen, not
much will change.  As long as the lusts of mankind are satisfied, who
cares?
	One must respect and wonder at this beast whatever one's position.  It is
truly doing all that it states it would.  The middle-eastern countries have
long been united in religion and morals.  With cunning and manipulation the
New Order has succeeded in dividing this once united brotherhood, thus
weakening their abilities to resist the inroads of this new power.  Now is
the time when the so-called United Nations and the behind-the-scenes forces
of control, through the media, explain how superior this New Order is.
They have shown how wonderful it was to stop the old, bad, dictator in the
middle east.  It was not the intention of the New Order to kill Saddam
Hussein.  It needed a villain to keep the middle eastern countries divided.
If he had been killed, there would have been a restoration of unity among
the brethren.  By maintaining a bad man there is a need created to have the
United Nations in the region as a protector. Hardly noticed is the fact
that the U.N. is directly responsible for starving to death 500,000 little
Iraqi children.  Economic sanctions are one of the very effective tools of
this beast.  This fact was revealed by the media.  At the very time the
media revealed that, the gas prices in America shot up.  All of this was
designed to prepare public opinion for the sale of Iraqi oil.   Our lives
are so wonderfully stage managed, yet by appearances we believe we are free
and live in a free and open society.  In reality, we are being used for the
destruction of the world.
	For centuries men have been expecting the great antichrist who would come
into the world.  He would be that "Wicked" one who would ultimately be
exposed to view before the nations.  Indeed, that time has come but the
Scriptures also reveal his end, for it is written: "yet he shall come to
his end, and none shall help him." Dan. 11:45.  "And through his policy
also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify
himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand
up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand."
Dan. 8:25.
	With so great a personal threat in the world, one may question what can be
done?  When one is involved in a game of any kind, what brings that game to
an end?  Only two things.  The first thing that can bring the game to an
end is for one side to win over the other.  The other thing that will bring
the game to an end is when one of the players stops playing.

THE REVELATION CHAPTER 18
THE DECREE AND THE CURSE

	"I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and
the earth was lightened with his glory.  And he cried with a mighty voice,
saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and is become a habitation of
demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and
hateful bird.  For by the wine of the wrath of her fornication all the
nations are fallen; and the kings of the earth committed fornication with
her, and the merchants of the earth waxed rich by the power of her
wantonness.  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come forth, my
people, out of her, that ye have no fellowship with her sins, and that ye
receive not of her plagues:  for her sins have reached even unto heaven,
and God hath remembered her iniquities.  Render unto her even as she
rendered, and double unto her the double according to her works: in the cup
which she mingled, mingle unto her double.  How much soever she glorified
herself, and waxed wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning: for
she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall in no
wise see mourning.  Therefore in one day shall her plagues come, death, and
mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire; for strong
is the Lord God who judged her.  And the kings of the earth, who committed
fornication and lived wantonly with her, shall weep and wail over her, when
they look upon the smoke of her burning,  standing afar off for the fear of
her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city!
for in one hour is thy judgment come.  And the merchants of the earth weep
and mourn over her, for no man buyeth their merchandise any more...for in
an hour so great riches is made desolate. And every shipmaster, and every
one that saileth any wither, and mariners, and as many as gain their living
by sea, stood afar off,  and cried out as they looked upon the smoke of her
burning, saying, What city is like the great city? And they cast dust on
their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe, woe, the great
city, wherein all that had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason
of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.  Rejoice over her,
thou heaven, and ye saints, and ye apostles, and ye prophets; for God hath
judged your judgment on her.  And a strong angel took up a stone as it were
a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with a mighty fall
shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and shall be found no more at
all...for thy merchants were the princes of the earth; for with thy sorcery
were all the nations deceived." (Revelation 18:1-24, ASV).