The Emerging Global Community
By Dr. Thomas Ice
Focus
on Jerusalem, in its continuing endeavor to make available interesting and
doctrinally sound articles associated with Bible Prophecy offers this very
insightful article on the ongoing efforts by some spheres of world power
structures to forge a system of Global Governance. The Bible indicates that “ten
kings” will submit their authority to the Antichrist. (Revelation 17:12-13
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no
kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have
one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.) Daniel
conveys that this Last Days world empire will be “divided,” partly iron and
partly clay, and encompassing the whole earth. This article is by Dr. Thomas Ice
of the Pre-Trib Research Institute and provides some insights into the emerging
Global World Order. FOJ hopes that this presentation will inspire your further
interest in the wonderful study of the amazing prophetic world of the Holy
Bible, and the glorious majesty of our Coming Lord. (11-15-2006)
The Emerging Global
Community
The
Bible teaches that during the seven-year tribulation there will be a global
government for at least the final three and a half years. Revelation 17-18
indicates that the Babylonian globalization will be built upon three major
planks: economic trade, false religion, and centralized government. Obviously we
do not yet live in the time of the coming seven-year tribulation. But we do live
in a time where God is setting the stage for events that will take place after
the Rapture, during the tribulation. Globalization is one of those things
that will characterize the tribulation. We are seeing it take place daily,
all around us. Everywhere you look institutions, whether private or public, are
moving toward Globalism.
The EU Model
The
intermediate steps that are now being taken appear to be along the lines of
developing the world into regions such as we have seen during the last two
decades in the European Union. Robert Congdon, who lives in Scotland, presented
an excellent paper at the December 2005 Pre-Trib Study Group dealing with the
European Union. Congdon demonstrates that the ultimate goal of the EU is not
just the unification of Europe, but to use that as a steppingstone for eventual
global governance by the Europeans.
Publicly, the European Union describes itself as "a family of democratic
European countries, committed to working together for peace and prosperity."
Since its six-nation beginning, the European Union has increased to 25
countries. Based upon the European Union's own expansion plans, they see the
union growing in the near future to 80 countries with over 430 million people.
Looking to the future, the Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European
Reform projects the ultimate growth of the renamed "Union," to include 109
nations of the world-including both North and South America. Such a Union
certainly fits Daniel's description of "the whole earth" as seen in verse
23.
The
goal of the European Union is to unite all of Europe into one union that will
also promote peace, harmony, and prosperity and prevent future world conflicts.
This "European Dream," as it is often labeled, proposes a single government that
will eliminate national rivalries and conflicts within Europe. Beginning with
the Utopian dreamers of the 1920's, the European Union of today is an
established government over 25 countries in Europe. Many within the government
envision an eventual 109 nations under the umbrella of a renamed "Union." The
instrument making this present 25-member union functional is its unique
supra-national authority.
Congdon
noted that the EU model of gradualism and regionalism was the one that many
others would follow in pursuing the path to eventual Globalism. He says:
It is impossible to know if the European Union is the embryonic form of the
government that will ally itself with a final global religion as described in
Revelation 17. However, at the very least, it serves as a powerful example of
just how such an alliance could develop.
In
order to understand how a global supra-government could form an alliance with a
global supra-religion, one must first understand how the European Union evolved
from the 1920's Utopian dream of a few men into its current position as a unique
supra-national government seeking to unite 109 nations of the world.
It is
not farfetched when many prophecy teachers today speak of the Revived Roman
Empire as the description to describe the first-phase of the antichrist's
kingdom during the first-half of the tribulation. Congdon notes that this is
where the EU seems to be heading at the present time:
A
study of the European Union's "Neighborhood Policy" reveals its goal is to
absorb the Middle East, Egypt, and North Africa (all of the nations that were
once a part of the ancient Roman Empire). Added to this, is its embryonic work
with Mercosur, the Southern Common Market created by four South American states
in March of 1991. The European Union is fast moving to a modern-day, worldwide
Roman Empire with "the emergence of a world of regions." By replacing nations
with governed world regions, the Globalist's believe that national rivalries and
conflicts will be avoided. This concept could be that described by Daniel
in Daniel 7:24
The Monnet Method
One of
the important contributors to the development of the current European Union was
a Frenchman named Jean Monnet. Monnet became a banker in the 1930s and developed
what came to be called the "Monnet method" or engrenage.
In this
method, each new advance of supranationalism is "regarded as a means of gearing
up for the next." Monnet's method was to propose a seemingly minor treaty or
agreement. Within that treaty was hidden a principal, which once made law,
opened the door to a much larger application and expansion of the granted power.
It is this ongoing method, utilized by the European Union, that will bring the
EU to either success or failure in achieving the dream of becoming a global
empire and possibly fulfilling two characteristics noted in Daniel's prophesy of
the final form of man's fourth kingdom in Daniel 7:23. This form of gradualism
can be applied to any institution, whether public or private, and contributes to
the step-by-step process of regionalism that then contributes to Globalism.
The North American Union
For the
last 35 years as a student of Bible prophecy I have known from day one that
during the tribulation there would be a one-world government under the
Antichrist. I have always known that in my lifetime things would move in the
direction of Globalism, as the pre-rapture world would become increasingly
prepared for this eventuality. I formerly tended to think that these are things
that would be going on over there, in Europe, but not so much here in America. I
tended to think that real developments in America would likely happen after the
rapture, that American's, especially the large number of evangelical Christians,
would only give up their national sovereignty while kicking and screaming in
opposition. Even though I still think we will put up some level of resistance to
these developments, it appears that after 911 things are now on fast forward.
I
cannot begin to chronicle all the developments toward Globalism since 911, but
recently Jerome R. Corsi, (who is probably best known as one of the author's of
the book on behalf of the swift boat vets against John Kerry) has announced some
startling revelations about attempts to merge the United States, Canada and
Mexico into the North American Union. How many of you know about this? Corsi
said, "Despite having no authorization from Congress, the Bush administration
has launched an extensive working-group activity to implement a trilateral
agreement with Mexico and Canada."
The
merger is not just a proposal as there has already been a signed agreement
between governments. "The groups, working under the North American Free Trade
Agreement office in the Department of Commerce, are to implement the Security
and Prosperity Partnership or SPP, signed by President Bush, Mexican President
Vicente Fox and then-Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Texas, on
March 23, 2005," reports Corsi.
The
Clinton administration adopted the practice of not bringing multi-national
treaties and proposals before the Senate, as the Constitution instructs, but
simply implementing the details of the treaty, as if it had been ratified,
through the administration's bureaucracy. Now the Bush administration is doing
the same thing within the Department of Commerce. "The SPP report to the heads
of state of the US, Mexico and Canada,-released June 27, 2005,-lists some 20
different working groups spanning a wide variety of issues ranging from
e-commerce, to aviation policy, to borders and immigration, involving the
activity of multiple US government agencies," according to Corsi. Similar
offices have also been set up with the Canadian and Mexican governments.
These
kinds of bureaucracies are set up outside of Constitutional prescriptions and
usually function to overrule legitimate state and local authorities on various
matters. Thus, the trend is to set up these new kinds of jurisdictions that
simply come in and overrule the elected governments that we have in place on
things like environmental issues, land management, etc. All of these kinds of
things undermine our traditional governmental structures and replace them with
unelected bureaucrats. You can see how these things contribute toward
regionalism and eventually globalism as they gradually bring in the new way of
doing things that will gradually push out the old.
Conclusion
Corsi
quotes the following from a Task Force document:
The
Task Force is pleased to provide specific advice on how the partnership can be
pursued and realized. To that end, the Task Force proposes the creation by
2010 of a North American community to enhance security, prosperity, and
opportunity. We propose a community based on the principle affirmed in the March
2005 Joint Statement of the three leaders that "our security and prosperity are
mutually dependent and complementary." Its boundaries will be defined by a
common external tariff and an outer security perimeter within which the movement
of people, products, and capital will be legal, orderly, and safe. Its goal will
be to guarantee a free, secure, just, and prosperous North America.
They
are even proposing a new currency by the year 2010 for North America called the
Amero, like the Euro. When one learns of the
North American Union it is not surprising to also learn that this is likely
the reason why the Bush Administration is not worried about the illegal
immigration "problem." It could all be a mute issue by 2010. We now see how
regionalism is paving the way for Globalism. Maranatha!
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