A Clash of Kingdoms
Skydiving the Frontiers
A Writing from the Prayer Room
A peculiar people can be found hidden behind closed doors, providentially positioned upon celestial walls of an unseen Kingdom. Poor in spirit and invisible to the world, they are called by their Master to keep watch and pray. From their posts on the wall, occasionally He calls them up to His counsel chambers to reveal things to come.
The One Jesus Loved, Exiled to an Island Called Patmos
I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.” – Revelation 1:9-11
Exiled to a political internment camp on the island of Patmos, the disciple Jesus loved did not escape persecution for his belief in the word of God. The totalitarian authority of the 1st-Century world order governed the known world with a merciless iron fist. Demanding unwavering loyalty to their regime, this singular world order worshiped their supreme leader as god. As a result, they aggressively persecuted and proactively exterminated all who confessed Jesus as Lord.
A Move to Order, A Chaos to Come
For the better part of the last century the world has been moving towards an order, that when complete, by many subversive workings of terror, will once again demand unwavering allegiance to an ideological system that gives no place for the Lordship of Jesus. The bible speaks of this order. In the book of Revelation, John sees a time in the earth when the rulers of this world will impose a mark on humanity. This mark is a sign that identifies those who belong to the order, who have chosen to remain friends of the world, its system of provision, and willingly submit to its blasphemous rulers and authorities. The rulers and authorities will be part of a singular global governance that will subject existing national and local governments to themselves, much like the governing model of the Roman Empire. During this time, James 4:4 will become a fiery line of demarkation, “You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” All who choose the mark, make themselves enemies of God.
[continued below]“No one will be able to buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name” - Revelation 13:17
Return to an Island Called Patmos
The ultimate enforcement of this governance will be through a singular global financial system.
During this time, “no one will be able to buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name” (Revelation 13:17). For the believer, that will mean he or she will have to choose to remain in the world system or face the consequences. Those who choose to continue following Christ will no longer be able to work, to pay the mortgage, to provide for their children or to put food on the table by the contemporary and commercial means of the last 100 years. Jesus’ words recorded in Matthew 16:25-26 will come to life as multitudes find themselves in the valley of decision, “For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?”
Many may think that they will lay low, keep their faith in Jesus undisclosed and do their best to blend into this singular world order. After all its just a mark, its external and means nothing to them. “I have too much to lose and Jesus’ knows my heart,” will be the grounds of their justification. However, there is another tool of enforcement. This tool will eventually become weaponized as it is used to monitor every citizen of the world. When this mechanism has reached maturity, it will eventually surveil the entire world and its inhabitants, all at once, and in real time.
The technological network used to gather data on everyone has already rolled itself out upon the world. Its seductive tentacles have offered us ease, convenience and entertainment while subversively gathering information and data sets on every person who is connected. Daily it digs deeper – through all of our financial transactions, emails, text messages, Facebook posts, social media disclosures, phone conversations and the like. You will not be able to hide, everything you have already posted, emailed and purchased has already been gathered and assembled into a personality profile stored on the great system. Follower of Christ, everything you have said and ever will say, can and will be used against you. To Patmos we will return.
This technological global network, or information gathering tool, is the central nervous system of the beast and is in its infancy stages.
Today, we call it the internet. In the days to come, the singular world order will tightly censor all speech, communications, self-expression, financial transactions, movements and eventually even thought. It will have the capacity to predict future patterns of behavior through advanced algorithms, coded to process our data points by artificial intelligence, and take preemptive action. Global laws erected in the name of safety, security, peace and radical inclusivity will govern the world as its rulers work to overthrow the laws of God and his divine creative order. The rebellion will be marked by those who “call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter” (Isaiah 5:20). The world will be monitored by the all seeing eye of the beast in his quest to become like God.
This day will be known as “god in the machine,” or “deus ex machina,” meaning, god from the machine.
From this omnipresent platform of trans-humanistic power, the man of lawlessness will rule the world. He will exalt himself against Christ and his people and every so-called god or object of worship on the planet. Like the Caesars of the Roman Empire, he will proclaim himself to be God.
Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. – 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4.
[continued below]Albert Pike
In 1871, a man by the name of Albert Pike received a vision. In the vision he outlined three world wars to come.
These wars were to plow the landscape of the nations, to reposition and prepare the world to receive a singular order of governance. Albert Pike was a 33rd degree mason and one of the original architects used by Satan to frame the New World Order. The blueprint he received in the vision strangely took shape with a degree of accuracy in the 20th Century.
In a letter sent by Albert Pike to Italian politician Giuseppe Mazzini on August 15, 1871 he explained the vision in detail. The letter was once confirmed in history as in existence by Cardinal Caro y Rodriguez of Santiago, Chile in 1925. According to Cardinal Rodriquez the letter was catalogued in the British Museum Library, but has since strangely disappeared and been disavowed by the museum. Currently, there is no original source for the letter.
The letter written in 1871 supposedly said:
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World War 1 was to overthrow the Tsars in Russia and make Russia a communist stronghold.
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World War 2 was a catalyst to destroy Nazism, so communism could take over wearier governments, weaken religion, and finally to set up a sovereign state of Israel to be established in Palestine.
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World War 3 will be fought between the West and leaders of Islamic war, designed to weary and weaken all remaining world powers.
Pike suggested that World War 3 must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Muslim World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, again divided on this issue (terrorism, war, Israel) will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economic exhaustion.
William Guy Carr (1895-1959), a naval officer and prolific writer of the 20th Century, further expanded on Pike’s letter in his book, Satan Prince of this World.
We shall unleash the nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.
– William Guy Carr, Satan Prince of this World, pg. 29
The Valley of Decision
God gave the prophet Joel a vision of a valley filled with scores of people. Massed together in mental turmoil, these multitudes face a weighty decision. This apocalyptic picture is painted in a valley – a low point in human history – where rampant rebellion to the King and his Kingdom is openly pronounced. Just behind this valley, Joel sees the day of the Lord, the second coming of Christ.
“Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their evil is great. Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.” – Joel 3:13-15
Could this valley be filled with God’s people? Have they heard that a day is coming when they will neither be able to buy or sell without taking the mark of the beast? Has the mark been set before them? Do they gently hear the Holy Spirit whispering to their hearts? Can they hear the Word of God calling out to remain faithful and patiently endure unto death? Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision.
they going to take the mark? Can they hear the words of Jesus, “For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?”
.Return to the Island Called Patmos
“I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.” – Revelation 1:9
The disciple that laid his head on Jesus’ chest suffered tribulation on account of the word of God and his unrelenting testimony of Christ. John, the man whom Jesus left care of his mother as he hung on the cross, is not only our brother but our partner in the sufferings of Christ. If Jesus did not spare the disciple whom he loved, he surely will not spare us.
Revelation 13:4-10
“And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?”
And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven. Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation, and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain. If anyone has an ear, let him hear:
If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain.
Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.”
Dear brothers and sisters, prepare your hearts and fill your midnight lamps, for our journey to the island called Patmos is to come.