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6|One-World Religion, Part 2By Dave Robbins

It is prophesied that, just before the Second Coming, a one-world religion will be established, demanding the allegiance of every person on earth. Unbeknownst

to many, the formation of this entity has been in the works for years, with great strides taken over the last several months. It will be a false religion

of which true Christians will never want to be a part.

18|Understanding Anti-Semitism in EuropeBy Herb Keinon

The recent killings of twelve people at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, along with the murder of four Jewish men at a Kosher supermarket in the French

capital, has illuminated the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe. Yes, Jews should be concerned about their future home in Europe—here’s why.

24|The Brutal Advance of ISIS and World War IIIBy Rick Brinegar

Known for their fierce brutality expressed through mass murder, execution, rape, dismemberment, enslavement and most recently the beheading of 21 Egyp-

tian Christians, ISIS is terrorizing the Middle East. Where did they come from, what do they want and is their reign of terror the beginning of WWIII?

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Pope Francis is greeted by Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, before delivering a speech at the European Parliament, on November 25, 2014 during a short visit at the

European Parliament and the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, eastern France. Pope Francis began a lightning visit to European institutions in Strasbourg where he was expected to call for

a ‘tired’ Europe hit by economic crises and surging nationalism to reclaim a leadership role.

For the last twenty-five years, peace negotiations have been conduct-ed, on again and off again, between Palestinians and Israelis with the United States as the chief mediator. Progress has been almost non-existent. What the Israelis have offered, the Palestinians have been unwilling to accept. What the Palestinians demand-ed, the Israelis were unwilling to give. The result? Stalemate. The Palestinians say they are giving up on negotiations. The Israelis won’t give them what they demand and they’re not strong enough to force Israel’s hand.

But Now Things have ChangedOn November 29, 2012 the UN

General Assembly voted to recognize Palestine as a non-member state. This enabled the Palestinians to apply for membership in the International Criminal Court where they intend to file criminal charges against Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu. Their application for membership was approved on April 1, 2015.

On December 30, 2014 a reso-lution was introduced at the UN to require Israel to withdraw to the borders as they were before the 1967 War and to surrender east Jerusalem to the Palestinians for their capital. Eight members of the Security Council voted in favor of the resolution, two voted against and five abstained. If one of the five abstentions had voted in favor, the resolution would have passed. However, the United States had let it be known that it would use its veto against the resolution if it had

obtained the necessary votes.Palestinian leader Mahmoud

Abbas says he will bring the resolution back to the Security Council, and he believes this next time it will have the votes to pass.

Israel vs. the WorldMartin Indyk, Obama’s special

envoy to the Middle East, said it best. “The government that emerges from the recent elections in Israel had better move quickly to an agreement establishing a two-state solution with the Palestinians or the International Community will move to impose a two-state solution.”

Indyk also indicated that the international action would not be en-dangered by a U.S. veto, since America would be a full participant in producing the international initiative. He added that he expects this initiative would be “against Israel’s will”. Jerusalem Post February 21, 2015

Peace Agreement by Negotiation or International Action?

A peace agreement is coming. The only questions are: Will it be by negotia-tion with the Palestinians? Or will it be done by a UN resolution arrived at with the reluctant acceptance of both sides?

What Form will Netanyahu’s New Government Take?

At press time, the jury was still out on the form the new Netanyahu government will take.

Most political pundits say a right-wing coalition made up of those parties opposing a two-state solution is most likely. That coalition, if achieved, would have a solid majority in the Knesset of about 67 seats. It takes 61 to establish a government.

However, there are many political observers that are predicting Netan-yahu will turn away from those parties that would block him from negotiating

a two-state solution to a national unity government with the liberal Zionist Union. This would please the Obama administration to no end and would immediately put peace negotiations with the Palestinians back on track.

Will it be a Government of the Left or of the Right?

In the end, it won’t matter. If Netanyahu puts a right-wing coalition together and then a peace deal is of-fered, some of the coalition members will probably threaten to bring the government down. However, the lib-eral Zionist Union would offer to vote with Netanyahu in order to see the agreement implemented.

If a coalition with the left is formed, the race to a peace agreement will be on from the outset.

The Bottom LineWhichever form the new Netanya-

hu government takes, the same thing will ultimately happen. World pressure is moving Israel toward a peace agree-ment with a two-state solution. The United States is for it. The European Union is for it. The United Nations is for it. And half of Israel is for it. A two-state solution is coming. It’s proph-esied in the Bible and therefore it will happen. The only question is: “When”?

What are the Odds?What are the odds that a peace

deal between Israel and the Palestin-ians will take place during Netanyahu’s 4th term, which is about to begin? Probably better than 50–50!

And remember—the coming agreement will mark the beginning of the Final Seven Years to the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ! e

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Vatican II—A Call to Unite!After Vatican Council II, the

Catholic Church issued two docu- ments that called for a new era of interfaith and ecumenical relations, and that call is very much alive today. In essence, the church no longer saw itself in opposition to other faiths. The goal was to seek a common ground between the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations, as well as other religions.

The first document, “Unitatis Redintegratio”—The Decree on Ecumenism (1964), issued a call for the unity of all Christian churches. The second, “Nostra Aetate”—The Declaration on The Relation of The Church to Non-Christian Religions (1965), for the first time, encouraged interreligious dialogue.

As previously stated, this is an effort by the Catholic Church to unite every religious entity, both Christian and non-Christian. The question is, why?

The goal isn’t to bring Protestants and those of other religions to salva-tion. We know this because the church is declaring that these people are already saved. For instance, the new Catholic Catechism, issued in 1994, states that Muslims are saved:

“The Church’s relationship with the Muslims. ‘The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.’”1

However, Muslims deny that Jesus was God or that He died on the cross.

Remember that global leaders see the unification of the religions of the world as a solution to global religious conflicts. At this point, conflicting doctrines are seen as a stumbling block to the ultimate goal of a world govern-ment. Hence the quest for unity, by the Catholic Church, that is still being promoted today!

Pope Francis’ Quest for UnityWhile serving as Cardinal Jorge

Mario Bergoglio in Argentina, Pope Francis sought to promote both interfaithism and ecumenism by forg-ing relationships with Muslims, Jews

and Anglicans. During that time, he endorsed what later became known to some as the “Argentine Model”, which based all interreligious dialogue on friendships rather than theological agreement.2 It is this same belief sys-tem that Pope Francis is now attempt-ing to implement on a global scale.

One of Pope Francis’ Anglican acquaintances was Tony Palmer. Mr. Palmer was a British-born South African evangelical minister who later became a priest and then a Bishop of the Communion of Evangelical Episco-pal Churches (CEEC).

It was on a trip to South America, while working with the Catholic Church in the Catholic Charismatic and Evangelical Renewal Movement, that Mr. Palmer met Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who eventually became one of his spiritual fathers. In 2009, before the election of Pope Francis, Palmer ac-tually considered becoming a member of the Catholic Church through the “ordinariate”. However, fearing that this move would make Palmer ap-pear too Catholic, Cardinal Bergoglio advised him against it because he saw Palmer as a future “bridge-builder” between Catholics and evangelical Christians.3

A few short years after meeting Palmer, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergo-glio was elected Pope on March 13, 2013 and assumed the name Pope Francis. Just like his predecessors, he continued the Catholic Church’s quest to unite with not only non-Christian religions, but also with the world’s different Christian denominations as decreed at Vatican II.

January 2014 – Miracle of UnityIn January of 2014, Tony Palmer

met with Pope Francis in Rome. Mr. Palmer informed the Pope that he was to attend a large meeting of evangeli-cal leaders in Fort Worth, Texas the following week. As a result, Mr. Palmer recorded a video of Pope Francis on his iPhone, to be shown at the conference.

At the meeting held in Kenneth Copeland’s facility, just ahead of the video presentation, Mr. Palmer gave a very rousing speech concerning the unity of the Catholic and Protestant evangelical churches.

He began by saying that he had made a covenant with Pope Francis to work together for the unity of the “church”. This statement was follow- ed by his definition of the Catholic Church’s history and the various denominational splits that have oc-curred over the last several hundred years. However, according to Palmer, it is necessary that the doctrines which originally separated these churches now be set aside in the name of church unity because, as he stated, “…it is the Glory that glues us together, not our doctrine.”

His absolute goal for this meet- ing of mega-church leaders, as a bridge-builder, was to reconcile these reformed institutions back to the original Mother Church.

Toward the end of his speech, Mr. Palmer proclaimed that his meet-ing with Kenneth Copeland and the other ministers was a historic one. He referenced the signing of a joint dec-laration of faith between the Catholic Church and both the World Federa-tion of Lutheran churches (1999) and Worldwide Methodist Church (2006), which supposedly brought an end to the Protestant movement.

In 1517, Martin Luther believed

“I challenge my Protestant pastor friends, if there is no more

protest, how can there be a Protestant Church? Maybe now

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that individuals were saved by grace through faith alone, while the Catho-lic Church taught that people were saved by their works. This led to the Protestant Reformation. According to Mr. Palmer, the joint declaration of faith married the two definitions and ended the Protestant dispute with this statement, “Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ’s saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works.”4

After this, he made this ecumeni-cal challenge to the congregation, “As of today we have had no Protestant evangelical that will stand up and sign this agreement. I believe that is some-thing that needs to be fixed. There’s a challenge for you.”

He went on to say, “I challenge my Protestant pastor friends, if there is no more protest, how can there be a Protestant Church? Maybe now we are all Catholics again? We are not protesting the doctrine of salvation by the Catholic Church anymore. We now preach the same gospel.”

After this, the video was shown in which Pope Francis asked the Pen-tecostal ministers to, “Pray to the Lord that he will unite us all…let’s move forward, we are brothers; let us give each other that spiritual embrace and allow the Lord to complete the work he has begun. Because this is a miracle; the miracle of unity has begun.”

June 2014 – Evangelicals “Joint Declaration of Faith in Unity for Mission”

In June 2014, as a result of the Kenneth Copeland minister’s confer-

ence, Tony Palmer took a group of evangelical leaders to have lunch with Pope Francis at the Vatican. These included Kenneth Copeland, James Robison and Geoff Tunnicliffe (head of the Worldwide Evangelical Alliance), among others. They told Pope Francis that they wanted to accept his invita-tion to seek visible unity with the Bishop of Rome.5

At this luncheon, Pope Francis was presented with a proposed “Dec-laration of Faith in Unity for Mission” drawn up by the evangelicals. The proposal was to sign the document with both the Vatican and leaders of major Protestant churches in Rome in 2017, on the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the reformation and the 50th anniversary of the Catholic Charis-matic Renewal.6

The declaration has three ele-ments (1) The Nicean-Constantinople Creed—the core of the Catholic-Lutheran declaration of 1999 making clear there is no disagreement over justification by faith. (2) Assertion that Catholics and evangelicals now teach the same gospel. (3) A freedom of con-science clause stressing the need for Catholics and evangelicals to respect each other’s mission fields and treat the other with respect, not as rivals.7

May 2014 – Common Declaration Signed by Pope Francis and the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

In May 2014, yet another move to-wards ecumenism was reported by the Vatican Radio, “Pope Francis and the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of the Orthodox world, signed a Joint Declaration reaffirming their desire to overcome the obstacles dividing their two Churches.”

Housed in the declaration was the true purpose of the meeting, “…to intensify our efforts to promote the full unity of all Christians, and above all between Catholics and Orthodox.”8

The Daily Sabah reported that, “The Mass was interpreted by some as cementing efforts to heal the 1,000 year-old schism between the 300 million followers of Orthodox Christi-anity and the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.”

June 2014 – Joel Osteen Visits the Vatican

In June 2014, Pastor Joel Osteen, evangelical pastor of America’s fast-est growing megachurch, “Lakewood Church”, met with Pope Francis at the Vatican, along with several other religious and political leaders.

As a result of the meeting, Mr. Osteen showed his approval of the Pope’s call for unity among the church-es when he stated, “I went there to ex-pressly feeling for unity and to let [the pope] know that the American pastors support what he’s doing. There’s noth-ing wrong with denominations, but just don’t let it separate us.”9

He added, “I like the fact that this pope is trying to make the church larg-er, not smaller. He’s not pushing people out, but making the church more inclu-sive. That resonated with me.”

June 2014 – Pope Francis Hosts Interfaith ‘Peace Gathering’

In June 2014, Pope Francis invited Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, to the Vatican, in an ecumenical prayer gathering to promote peace in the Middle East.

At the meeting, attended by lead-ers of Christian, Catholic, Muslim, Jewish and Druze religions, Pope Fran-cis stated, “We have heard a summons, and we must respond. It is the sum-mons to break the spiral of hatred and violence, and to break it by one word alone: the word ‘brother’.”

September 2014 – Shimon Peres Proposes Pope Francis Lead a United Nations of Religions

In September 2014, Pope Francis received former Israeli President Shi-mon Peres to the Vatican, for a second time in just a few months, where Peres

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proposed the idea of a United Nations style organization he called, “the United Religions”.

According to the Catholic News Ser-vice, Mr. Peres, “…asked Pope Francis to head a parallel United Nations called the ‘United Religions’ to counter reli-gious extremism in the world today.”

He went on to say, “In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.”

Peres said, “Pope Francis would be the best person to head such a world body because perhaps for the first time in history, the Holy Father is a leader who’s respected, not just by a lot of people, but also by different religions and their representatives.”

“‘In fact, perhaps he is the only leader who is truly respected’ in the world.”

He went on to say that the United Nations had run its course and that, “…what we need is an organization of United Religions to counteract these terrorists who kill in the name of their faith...What we need is an unquestion-able moral authority who says out loud, ‘No. God doesn’t want this and doesn’t allow it.’”10

December 2014 – Rick Warren Speaks on Catholic and Protestant Commonalities

In December 2014, Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, spoke of the commonalities of Protestants and Catholics during an interview for the Catholic News Service in which he said, “We have far more in common than what divides us.”

He continued: “When you talk about Pentecostals, charismatics, evan-gelicals, fundamentalists, Catholics, Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians...well they would all say we believe in the trinity, we believe in the Bible, we believe in the resurrection, we believe salvation is through Jesus Christ. These are the big issues.”

“Sometimes Protestants think that Catholics worship Mary like she’s another god. But that’s not exactly Catholic doctrine.”

“Now there are still real differenc-es, no doubt about that. But the most important thing is if you love Jesus, we’re on the same team.”11

January 2015 - Oriental Orthodox and Catholics Work to Conclude Joint Document

In January 2015 – Pope Francis received representatives from the Joint International Commission for Theo-logical Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches.

The major achievement of the meeting was the final approval of a document titled, “The Exercise of Com-munion in the Life of the Early Church, and its Implications for our Search for Communion Today.”12

It examines the full communion that existed before the split of the churches in the 5th century and is the continuation of dialogue between the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Pro-moting Christian Unity and Oriental Orthodox churches.

Yes! The move towards a one-world religious authority is alive and well today. It almost seems like the right thing to do…or does it? No matter what happens, one must always remember the ultimate goal. It is not to unite the religious institutions of the world un-der one biblically based belief system, even though the Bible clearly states that there is only one way to Heaven:

John 14:6, “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

No. This is an effort to corral the belief systems of every individual on earth. Once that occurs, everyone will be asked and eventually forced, by this religious system, to pledge allegiance to the Antichrist and his world govern-ing system.

One-World Religion Calls for a One-World Government

With the goal of a one-world gov-ernment in mind, it is easy to see why a call to unite all the religions of the world was issued decades ago. Global elitists realized early on that a global economic system could be imposed on the world’s citizens through federal banks and identification number-ing systems, but that religious values controlled the very mind, soul and spirit of billions of people. Therefore, the world’s religions must somehow be unified under one global religious authority that will align itself, along with its followers, to that one-world government.

With the formation of the Parlia-ment of World’s Religions originally, and now the interfaith and ecumenical efforts by the Catholic Church since Vatican II, it is clear to see the inten-tions of the global elite. They want to unite all the religions of the world under the leadership of the Catholic Church, which has repeatedly issued calls for a one-world government:

“Today the universal common good presents us with problems which are world-wide in their dimensions; problems, therefore, which cannot be solved except by a public authority with power, organization and means co-extensive with these problems, and with a world-wide sphere of activity. Consequently, the moral order itself demands the establishment of some such general form of public authority.” Pope John XXIII (PACEM IN TERRIS) APRIL 11, 1963

“This goal undoubtedly requires the establishment of some universal

“…Who can fail to see the need and importance of thus gradu-

ally coming to the establishment of a world authority capable of

taking effective action on the juridical and political planes?”

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public authority acknowledged as such by all and endowed with the power to safeguard on the behalf of all, secu-rity, regard for justice, and respect for rights.” Pope Paul VI (GAUDIUM ET SPES) December 7, 1965

“…Who can fail to see the need and importance of thus gradually com-ing to the establishment of a world authority capable of taking effective action on the juridical and political planes?” Pope Paul VI (POPULORUM PROGRESSIO) March 26, 1967

“Looking ahead to the long and productive future of humanity for which we all hope, we feel that a more all-inclusive and final solution is need-ed. We speak here of the truly effective international authority for which Pope John XXIII ardently longed in Peace on Earth.” The Challenge of Peace: God’s Promise and Our Response (A Pastoral Letter on War and Peace by the Na-tional Conference of Catholic Bishops) May 3, 1983

“…there is urgent need of a true world political authority…” Pope Benedict XVI (CARITAS IN VERITATE) June 29, 2009

It is easy to see the formation of a one-world religion taking place with the Roman Catholic Church at the helm. It is also clear that this organiza-tion fully supports the implementation of a global authority to govern the citizens of the world.

Many see this call for unity by the Catholic Church and its support for a world government as a good thing. But is it? What does the future of this arrangement look like, and what will become of those who submit their life to such an entity?

The Future of the One-World Religion

This alignment of a one-world reli-gion with a global governing authority is exactly what the Bible prophesies will occur in the very near future. It is the very union of politics and religion that the Antichrist and False Prophet will hail from.

With that said, how will Bible believing Christians recognize it to ensure that they never pledge alle-giance to such a system—in any way, shape or form?

Alliance of Two BeastsThe Book of Revelation provides

us with two specific snapshots of the world during the final 3½ years preced-ing the Battle of Armageddon.

Revelation 13 depicts two beasts in alliance together. The first beast represents the one-world government of the Antichrist and the second beast portrays the one-world religion led by the False Prophet.

This same picture that is given in Revelation 13 is also given in Revela-tion 17 through 18. It prophesies an alliance between a world government and a world religion. Both of these prophecies portray the world as it will be just before Armageddon and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

Three Chapters of Revelation Devoted to the False One-World Religion

It is very important for all of us who live in the end time to understand the role of this one-world religion. It will not be the true religion, but a false religion. So, it is as if there is a warning

coming from God. It is so important that out of the twenty-two chapters in the Book of Revelation, God devoted three whole chapters to the one- world religious system and the destruction thereof.

Warning: Most Christians, Both Protestant and Catholic, will Become Part of this One-World Religion

The Bible prophesies that most Christians, both Protestants and Catholic, will become part of this one-world religion.

“And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” Revelation 13:8

The Bible is very clear that in the end time, there will be those that think they are saved, but are not. Along with the rest of the world, they will join themselves with and pledge allegiance to the one-world religion. The best way to avoid this is to recognize this institution for what it is and to obey the true plan of salvation given by the apostles in the New Testament.

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Warning: Judgment is Coming!In Revelation 17:1-3, we see a very

specific prophesied judgment that will befall the end time one-world religion:

“And there came one of the seven

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angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judg-ment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilder-ness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast [a red beast], full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.”

Remember that the seven-headed, ten-horned beast in Revelation 17 is the same seven-headed, ten-horned beast that represents the one-world government in Revelation 13. Notice that the angel tells John, “I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot.” Therefore, this is a warning that judg-ment is coming to the “harlot” who has formed an alliance with the one-world government. So, who is this “harlot”?

God Always Uses a Woman to Symbolize a Church in Scripture

In Bible prophecy, a beast always represents a nation or the ruler of that nation. The seven-headed beast in Revelation 13 and 17 represents a union of many nations that will form a world-governing body.

On the other hand, in scripture, God always uses a woman to symbol-ize a church. The true church of Jesus Christ is depicted as a virgin:

2 Corinthians 11:2, “For I am jeal-ous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.”

A false church or backslidden church is referred to as a woman, but as a “harlot”. When Israel, in the Old Testament, backslid, God said that, “…she committed whoredom.” For example:

Judges 2:17, “And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.”

So, the prophecy of a harlot (worldwide false church) riding a seven-headed, ten-horned beast (one-world

government) is simply describing the alliance of the two that will occur in the very near future.

Now that we know what the “har-lot” is, let’s answer the question of who the “harlot” is.

The Harlot God wanted to make absolutely

sure that the people of the end time understood who the shepherd and the flock of the one-world religion would be. That is why Revelation 17 gives six specific clues, which clearly identify the “harlot”.

1. The Woman is a City “And the woman which thou

sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.” Revelation 17:18

The first clue is that the woman is a city. However, the Bible says in Revelation 17:1 that the woman (city) sits on many waters. What do the waters symbolize?

2. The Woman Rules an Interna-tional System

“And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.” Revelation 17:15

The second clue lets us know that the woman is a city and yet she presides over a vast international system of peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues.

In 2011, the Catholic Church was the third largest owner of land in the

world with roughly 177 million acres.13

It is believed by many that with its priceless art, land, gold and invest-ments across the globe, it is one of the wealthiest institutions on earth.14

3. Rome, the City of Seven Hills“And here is the mind which hath

wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.” Revelation 17:9

Clue number three says the city sits on seven hills. Is there currently a city that is known for residing atop seven mountains or seven hills? Yes!

Rome is famous globally for being the most recognized city that sits on seven hills. Each of the hills has its own name. According to Oxford Dictionar-ies, “The seven hills on which the an-cient city of Rome was built: Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Quiri-nal, Viminal, and Palatine.”15

4. Arrayed in Scarlet and PurpleAnother clue to the identity of the

woman is verse 4.“And the woman was arrayed in

purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:” Revelation 17:4

We know that there are two rul-ing bodies in the Roman Church, the College of Cardinals and the College of Bishops. It is church official policy that Cardinals wear red while Bishops and non-Cardinal Archbishops wear purple.

“The cardinals wear red because they are considered the closest advis-

“And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,

and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her

hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:”

Revelation 17:4

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ers to the pope and therefore should be ready to shed their blood for the church and Christ.” Charlotte Sector ABC NEWS16

“…both bishops and archbishops wear purple stoles, fascia, zucchettos and capes.” Catholic New World – Archdiocese of Chicago17

5. Drunken With the Blood of the Saints

“And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.” Revelation 17:6

Since the woman is symbolic of

a church, then clue number five tells us that this religious organization will have slaughtered Christians.

Roman Catholicism is recognized for killing millions of true saints because they refused to believe her false doctrines.

Former Catholic Priest Walter Montano stated in his book, Behind the Purple Curtain that “fifty million people died for the Christian faith under the Papal Inquisition during Rome’s seven hundred year reign of terror.”18

William Tyndale, the translator of the Tyndale Bible, was tried at a church trial. He was accused of heresy for translating the Bible into the language

of the common man. His punishment was carried out in 1536 when he was strangled and burned at the stake.

Martin Luther was also sentenced to death by the Roman Catholic Church for the crime of heresy. However, he escaped into the Protestant controlled part of Germany, and the sentence was never executed.

6. Reigns Over KingsRevelation 17:18, “And the

woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.”

The Roman Catholic Church believes that she has the right to guide the political thinking of any and all of her members. Therefore, if a Pope should choose to issue an order to a particular head-of-state who is Roman Catholic, that leader would be bound to obey. Many nations have leaders who are Roman Catholic, along with very powerful politicians and extremely wealthy influential families. Imagine the implications of a papal call for obeisance to a global governing authority.

During the Middle Ages (500-1500 A.D.) the popes named, removed and replaced kings in Europe at will. The Roman Catholic Church believes that popes have the right to remove kings and emperors.19

When the pope is crowned, he

Cardinals, Bishops and priests attend a mass on St Peter Square at the Vatican.

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is pronounced, “Father of kings and princes, the pastor of the universe, and the vicar of the earth of our Lord Jesus Christ.”20

In light of these six clues, here is what we know:

Rome is the city on seven hills. Rome rules over a vast international system. The two ruling bodies of the Roman Catholic Church are arrayed in red and purple. The Roman Church has shed the blood of Christians through-out history and the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church is the self-pro-claimed ruler of the kings and princes of the earth.

It’s simple—the Roman Catholic Church will be the ruling body of the one-world religion in the end time. However, she is not alone in this quest.

She is Called “Mother of Harlots”“And upon her forehead was a

name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HAR-LOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” Revelation 17:5

She is called the “Mother of Harlots”. Therefore she must have daughters. Remember, this harlot is a false church. She has daughters who are false churches as well. The daugh-ters are the Protestant churches that have broken off from the Catholic Church throughout history, but they retained much of the Mother Church’s false doctrines.

This prophecy was written around 2,000 years ago before Roman Catholi-cism even existed; and yet today, Rome still refers to herself as the Mother Church and to the Protestant churches as her daughters:

As the two met in Rome on December 2, 1960, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury reported that Pope John at one point read from

an address, in which he referred en-thusiastically to that time when other Christians could return home to the Mother Church. The archbishop courteously corrected him: “Not return....none of us can go backwards.” He then explained, “We are looking forward until, in God’s good time, when our two courses approximate and meet.” After a moment’s pause, Pope John replied, “You are right.” The Catholic Review21

“It must always be clear, when the expression sister Churches is used in this proper sense, that the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Universal Church is not sister but mother of all the particular Churches.” – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger22

Cardinal Ratzinger went on to become Pope Benedict XVI. He believes the Roman Catholic Church is the Mother Church and that all the Protestants are the daughters. You can see the quote for yourself.

Backslidden Christianity, Both Protestant and Catholic will Par-ticipate in the Great Tribulation

The most shocking thing about all of this is, the Bible actually teaches that backslidden Christianity will participate in the Great Tribulation as supporters of the Antichrist and will be instigators in the persecution of the saints.

“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” Revelation 13:15

Those of us living in the 21st cen-tury can’t seem to grasp the thought of Christians killing Christians, but if the Bible says that it is going to happen, then we can count on it. The

prophecies always come to pass!Is there any time in history when

Christians persecuted Christians? Absolutely. There are many examples of Protestant Christians persecuting Catholic Christians and vice versa.

In 1563, anti-Catholicism in England flamed when John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs was published. Also in 1844, in Philadelphia, the “City of Brotherly Love,” Protestants besieged Catholic neighborhoods with cannon fire and pistols, and also set houses aflame, because the Catholics had pro-tested the use of the Protestant’s King James Bible in public schools. Martial law was declared, and it took two thou-sand federal troops to quell the rioting; eighteen people were killed and scores more were injured.

In addition, Catholics persecuted Protestants for hundreds of years. During the Inquisition people were often burned at the stake just for being of the Protestant faith. No religion outside of Catholicism was allowed during the Holy Roman Empire’s reign.

Come Out of Her, My PeopleSo, what do we do then? What

does the Bible tell us to do if this is happening in Christianity today? Here is the answer in Revelation 18:4:

“And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” Revelation 18:4

We must have a return to true Biblical Christianity. How can we do this? We need to return to studying our Bibles (not necessarily our reli-gious books), humble ourselves in daily prayer and return to the pattern set for us in the book of Acts. Let’s have a true, end time Christian revival, and let’s do it together! e

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LESSON 1 United States Discovered in the Bible This lesson gives absolute proof that 2,600 years ago the U.S. was foretold in the Bible, and that it would come out of Great Britain. It includes specific prophecies about Russia, Germany, the European Union, and Great Britain. Modern nations are so clearly depicted in scripture that it will shock you! This lesson is essential to under-standing all other prophecies being fulfilled.

LESSON 2 New World Order is World Government Have you heard of the World Court? How about the World Bank? International law? Did you know that the Bible specifically states that there will be a world government set up on earth just prior to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ? This lesson proves the New World Order is that world government, that we are subject to its laws right now, and that it is the government over which the Anti-christ himself will soon rule.

LESSON 3Islam in Bible Prophecy - The Four Horsemen Conversions to Islam have increased since the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Our leaders have bent over backwards to call Islam a religion of peace, even while suicide bombings continue on a regular basis. In this lesson we reveal the identities of the four horsemen of the apocalypse; the white horse, the red horse, the black horse and the pale horse, and how they are moving in our world right now. You will discover that God Himself foretold the force called Islam over 2,000 years ago.

LESSON 4 WWIII - Entrance Ramp for the AntichristAccording to the Bible, one out of three people on the earth will die in this war of all wars! After this global holocaust people will beg for a strong man to lead the way out of the chaos and destruction and into peace and security. Such a man already exists, and at the right moment he will step onto the world scene. He will offer leadership and direction, but his price will be absolute obedience.

LESSON 5 Israel’s God-Given DestinyWhy is the whole world focused on one small area of land with less than one-tenth of one percent of the world’s population? In this lesson you will learn the history of Israel from its birth to its final 1,878-year exile. It was foretold in the Bible that Israel would live again and you will see its miraculous rebirth. Scripture clearly explains Israel’s destiny and why the Temple Mount is the most important place on earth!

LESSON 6Israel - God’s Prophetic Time ClockTwenty-five hundred years ago God gave a prophecy whose fulfillment will be completed in the very near future. This prophecy foretells the beginning of a seven-year period that will end at the Battle of Armageddon. The beginning of this final seven years is just ahead. That’s the reason this prophecy is called, “a prophecy with a date on it.” This lesson gives you a clear understanding of God’s destiny for Israel!

LESSON 7Holy Roman Empire RebornMost people completely missed one of the five greatest prophetic fulfillments in the last 2,000 years, which took place on November 3, 2009. The Holy Roman Empire was declared dead in 1806, but this lesson gives absolute proof that it was reborn on November 3, 2009. The prophecy also reveals where the Antichrist and his reli-gious partner, the False Prophet, will come from.

LESSON 8 The Antichrist and the False ProphetThe Bible prophesies that two individuals will rule over a system of world government just before the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. One will be a political leader, the other a religious leader. The prophecy lets us know that these two personages will come out of the reborn Holy Roman Empire. This lesson gives proof that the power-base of the Antichrist is now established and awaiting his arrival.

LESSON 9 666 – Mark of the BeastThis prophecy has lurked ominously for over 2,000 years, warning us that a day will come when every person on earth will be forced to worship Satan through his agent, the Antichrist. Every person will have to worship the Antichrist in order to receive their personal number, and without the number no one will be able to buy or sell. The time for the Mark of the Beast has arrived!

LESSON 10The Coming One-World Religion, Part 1 The Secret Pact Between Gorbachev and the VaticanThe Bible prophesies a one-world religion in the endtime. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the march toward one-world religion accelerated dramatically. This was not a spontaneous event; it was carefully planned far in advance. You will learn how the world’s fore-most political leader and most powerful religious leader worked to-gether to bring down the Berlin Wall; the greatest story never told.

LESSON 11 The Coming One-World Religion, Part 2 When All Religions Become OneDo Muslims, Jews, and Christians all worship the same God? The belief that all religions are equally true and valid is called Inter-faithism. The Bible prophesies such a belief system during the time of the Antichrist and the False Prophet. This lesson explains how religious unification will evolve and the form of religion that will be enforced during the Great Tribulation.

LESSON 12The 7 TrumpetsThere are seven angels with seven trumpets in the Book of Revelation. When each of the seven angels sounds his trumpet, a major prophetic fulfillment is unleashed upon the human race. These events include World War I, World War II, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and the 1991 Gulf War. This lesson gives proof that five of the seven trumpets have already happened and the sixth trumpet could happen at any time.

LESSON 13The Second ComingThe Second Coming of Jesus to earth will be the capstone of all hu-man history. It is so important in the plan of God that He devoted the entire Book of Revelation to dramatize this event. Since all the prophecies that will occur just before the Second Coming are com-ing to pass right now, every person on earth should have a clear un-derstanding of what happens at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

LESSON 14 Kingdom of GodThis lesson reveals what Jesus said a person must do to enter the Kingdom of God, along with what the world will be like when Jesus Christ personally rules on earth. The Bible reveals that there won’t be one war on earth during the entire 1,000-year reign of Jesus Christ. Viewing and obeying the instruction in this lesson is the most crucial action you will ever take to understanding how to enter the Kingdom of God.

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Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky spoke with the ‘Post’ on Monday, analyzing recent European trends and what they mean for both Europe and the Jews.

A few days before terrorists in Paris mowed down 12 people at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, and killed four more at a Kosher supermarket in the French capital, Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky told The Jerusalem Post that the discomfort French Jews feel in their own country should be a strong signal to Europe of the dangers in its midst.

And how does Sharansky know French Jews are feeling discomfort? Because more than 7,000 of them moved to Israel last year; because some 50,000 sought out aliya information in 2014; because the Jewish Agency is running two aliya seminars a night in France, compared to one a month a year ago; and because – according to his estimates – “hundreds of thousands” of France’s estimated 600,000 Jews are thinking about leaving the country.

Rather than all of this only being of interest to Israel and the Jews, those figures and that trend should also be of immense interest to the Europeans themselves, he maintained.

Whereas Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman declared this week that the

biggest challenge facing Israel in 2015 is not Iran, Palestinians or Hezbollah, but rather Western Europe, Sharansky took those comments a step further and said the biggest challenge facing Europe in 2015 is Europe. And to un-derstand that challenge, it is important to understand the discomfiture felt by the Jews.

Sharansky is a thinker. If Plato’s ideal ruler is the “philosopher king,” the Jewish Agency – with Sharansky – has found itself in the grips of the “philosopher chairman of the Jewish Agency executive.” To hear him speak about Europe is to hear an intellectual discuss a topic he has obviously spent much time pondering.

During a late afternoon interview on Monday, Sharansky did not spew out someone else’s talking points, instead articulating a learned analysis of the various trends in Europe, and how they impact on both the Jews and European society as a whole.

Growing hostility there toward Israel – the challenge Liberman re-ferred to – speaks more about changes in Europe than in Israel, Sharansky intimated, and those changes should send alarm bells ringing all across the continent.

“If I were a European politician, I would think day and night about why Jews feel uncomfortable in Europe,

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and what it means for Europe, what has changed in European society,” he said.

His words are a variation on the old theme that the Jews are the world’s “canary in the coal mine” – and what happens to the Jews today, happens to the world tomorrow.

If the Europeans are not willing to fight for the traditional values of the liberal national state they them-selves brought into the world, which demands all its citizens accept without reservation the principles of human rights and liberty – and in light of the attack on Charlie Hebdo, one should also add freedom of expression – and if the Europeans “are not ready to close mosques where people are preaching hatred,” then Europe is “doomed”, Sharansky warned.

Linking the fate of the Jews to the fate of Europe, he said that “the Jews are leaving Europe. And in histo-ry, we always see that the Jews are the harbinger. Europe is losing the value [it ascribes] to the national state, and the first to feel the discomfort are the Jews – but in the end, it will be all of Europe.”

Sharansky said that in a recent conversation with French Jewish phi-

losopher Alain Finkielkraut, he asked him whether he thought there was a future for Jews in Europe.

“He said that my question is more serious,” Sharansky recalled. “Is there a future for Europe in Europe, for France in France?” WHILE EUROPE’S worsen-ing attitude toward Israel is a problem for Israel and the Jews, it also signals a larger, more fundamental problem for Europe – the loss of identity, the loss of a sense that there is anything worth fighting for.

“Why do Jews feel so uncomfort-able in Europe?” Sharansky asked, launching into the first part of his analysis. “It is true that the first exter-nal reason is the big Muslim communi-ty, and the resulting increasing feeling of insecurity.”

Sharansky stressed that this insecurity is not only due to terrorist attacks, but also to Jews’ underlying feeling of estrangement and fear – a feeling concretized 12 years ago when Paris’s chief rabbi told students not to wear their kippot when they left school at the end of the day.

There is no doubt, Sharansky said, that Jews in Europe, especially in France, feel there are large neigh-borhoods near them – the “House of

Islam” – which are “not friends”.This alone cannot explain

the Jews’ sense of discomfort, nor why French Jews are leaving in record numbers.

He noted that historically, Jews leave the lands of their birth – even when there is anti-Semitism – only if they sense that the authorities are not on their side. The French anomaly is that the Jews are leaving even though the French authorities are very much on the Jews’ side, having the tough- est anti-Semitism laws in Europe, and being very cooperative with the Jewish community.

So why leave? This is because, according to Sharansky, in addition to the House of Islam, Jews are faced on the other side with the “House of conservative, traditional Christian Europe,” a house represented – at least in France – by Front National leader Marine Le Pen.

While at the moment this particu-lar house is not overly unfriendly or haunted, Sharansky said historically, every Jew knows the denizens of that particular house see the Jew as the “other.” “You could live with them, you could work with them, but you don’t really feel at home with them.”

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Alternatively, the Jews generally found their home in the warm embrace of traditional European liberalism, a home they helped build.

The problem is that now this home is chilly, as liberal Europe is increas-ingly turning its back on Israel.

“The liberals of Europe today have a very negative attitude toward Israel,” Sharansky said. And while for Jews who want to assimilate, and do not care about Israel, this might not be a problem – for those Jews for whom Israel remains important, it presents a huge problem.

“There are only two anchors that have prevented assimilation,” Sharan-sky said, “faith and Zionism, a connec-tion with God and a connection with Israel. If you have two anchors, great; if you have one, you can manage. If you don’t have any one of them, you will assimilate in one generation. We have seen that everywhere.”

So among Jews who don’t want to assimilate, he pointed out, the link to Israel is very important. “And if Israel is very important to you and your home is liberal France, and every day you read the liberal papers in France giving hell to Israel, and your friends say you are a good guy but they can’t accept the awful State of Israel, it be-

comes unpleasant.”Here, Sharansky moves from an

analysis of the Jewish condition in Europe, to Europe’s changing attitude toward identity and the nation-state.

Liberal Europe, he said, gave birth to the idea of the national liberal state, and nationalism and liberalism were connected. The national identity was the strong glue that kept everyone to-gether, and everybody was guaranteed human rights.

“From Locke, Montesquieu and Spinoza before them, you can see how the idea of the nation-state was born in Europe, together with the idea of liberalism,” he said.

And then in one week in early November 1917, two key events took place: the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Balfour Declaration.

“In a way, the two events are op-posite,” Sharansky explained. “The Bol-shevik Revolution was about eliminat-ing all identities, creating a universe of equal people – and they killed tens of millions of people to create this.”

And Zionism, represented by the Balfour Declaration, was the opposite – it was a national movement based on identity. Ironically, while Britain and much of Europe accepted the idea at the time, when nation-states were seen

as natural and some 20 states were born, most of the Jews – from Ortho-dox to Reform, Bundists to Commu-nists – were anti-Zionists. Only a small number of Jews pushed for Zionism.

And then came World War II, and everything was turned on its head.

The Jews turned to Zionism, while Europe turned away from nationalism.

“What is post-modern, post-national Europe about?” Sharansky asked. “It’s all about them saying, ‘OK, we had hundreds of years of religious wars, and then we had two horrible wars where hundreds of millions of our own were killed, for the sake of what? For the sake of the prejudicial feeling that our religion, our nation, is better and should be in control.’”

The ideal for the post-World War II European liberal, Sharansky said, is not the nation-state of the past, but the ideal put forward in John Lennon’s song “Imagine.”

“The ideal is the god of John Len-non,” he said. “Imagine a world without borders, without God, where there is nothing to die for. National states are things for which people are dying and killing themselves.”

The Lennon ideal helps explain the European antipathy for Israel – for while the idea of Israel was accepted

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in Europe after the Holocaust, as time passes, it seems a relic of a distant past.

The European goal is a new world without borders, and along comes Israel and all of a sudden the Jews – in the mind of the liberal Europeans – are leaving the progressive world and going east to build a national state, trampling on the rights of the Palestin-ians to boot.

Israel, in this analysis, is nothing less than a thorn in the side of Europe – which believes it has moved beyond all those quaint notions of national identity and the nation-state.

Thus, Sharansky said, the Jews in France are faced with a choice: They can either be part of liberal France, which “hates Israel”; be part of conser-vative France, which doesn’t believe the Jews are part of their culture; or become part of Islamic Europe, which is clearly impossible.

Or they can leave... which they are doing.

Sharansky recounted that follow-ing the terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels last year, he met with a group of young Belgian Jews and asked them whether they saw a future for Jews in Belgium. No one wanted to say “no,” he said, nor were they willing to answer with an un-equivocal “yes”.

“Except for one girl,” he noted.“She said there is surely a future,

if we succeed to convince people around us that we have nothing to do with Israel.”

The irony, Sharansky acknowl-edged, is that whereas liberal Europe rejects Jewish nationalism in the form of Zionism, it embraces Palestinian nationalism.

In post-modern Europe, he explained, national identity is a bad thing. “With one exception: people who suffered from colonialism, and whose identities help them fight and catch up with the free world.” This, for liberal Europe, is a positive identity.

Sharansky said that Marx and Engels were wonderful at identifying good and bad identities. “There were good nations who were advancing the development of the proletarian revolu-tion, and the bad nations that were taking it backward.”

Similarly, he said, in today’s Europe there are good and bad identities.

“All the traditional identities which created colonialism are consid-ered bad,” he said.

Post-modern, post-national Europe posits something else as well, he argued: The idea that all identities are relative, that there is no absolute value, that cultures which don’t value human rights have the same right to exist as cultures that do.

“Who are we to impose our values on these people?” Sharansky said, paraphrasing this attitude. “We have to welcome them, because we sinned against them. Who are we to impose our culture on them?” As a result, in something that seems true when looking at that part of Muslim Europe which refuses to integrate, “there is a huge population that didn’t join West-ern culture, and the West feels it has no right to impose it on them.”

In practical terms, Sharansky said, the ideal of living Lennon’s dream means there are hundreds of millions of people who like their freedom and liberty, but don’t believe in identity, nationalism or religion, and don’t be-lieve there is anything to fight for.

On the other side, in Europe there is a not-insignificant segment of the population, which doesn’t believe in liberty and human rights, but has a strong identity and is willing to fight for it. In that clash, he posited, those not willing to fight for their iden-tity, because their identity has been blurred, are “doomed”.

Asked whether he was not perhaps exaggerating when saying Europeans don’t believe there is anything to fight for, and whether he did not think that at a certain point, people would push back and stand up for their way of life, Sharansky said he was an optimist who not only believed in the future of the Jewish people, but in the future of liberty.

“I believe that in the end, people will be willing to fight for their free-dom,” he said. “The question is how far they are willing to retreat, and when they will wake up.”

“The earlier liberal Europe will fight, the better chance it has to pro-tect its liberal values,” he continued.

“Because if liberal Europe will not be ready to fight, then non-liberal Europe will be ready to do so.”

Noting the rise of right-wing

parties throughout Europe, Sharansky added, “The longer liberal France will ignore the threat, and not be ready to defend its liberal and national values, the only defense will be ultra-national-ist and religious conservative forces.”

Sooner or later, he said, liberal Europe will have to fight for its values with full force. The more it engages in that battle, the more it will begin con-necting its identity with its freedom, the more it will come to see Israel as its ally.

Or, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday in response to the attack in Paris, “Israel is being attacked by the very same forces that attack Europe. Israel stands with Eu-rope. Europe must stand with Israel.”

When it does, Sharansky might add, Europe will be returning to itself.

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Where did ISIS Come From?According to Zbigniew Brzezinski,

National Security Advisor during the Carter Administration, American intel-ligence services began secretly aiding the Mujahideen, the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime, six months before the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. In other words, even as they publicly opposed Muslim extremism, United States intelligence was supporting the Muslim “freedom fighters” as a geopolitical weapon to induce a Soviet military invasion. “We didn’t push the Russians to intervene,” said Brzezinski, “but we knowingly increased the prob-ability that they would.”

Clinton Admits U.S. Created Predecessor of Al Qaeda

On April 24, 2009 then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at a hear-ing in the House of Representatives and admitted that the U.S. government created and funded the Mujahideen in order to fight the Soviet Union. “Let’s remember here the people we are fighting today,” she said. “We funded them twenty years ago, and we did it because we were locked in a struggle with the Soviet Union. They invaded Afghanistan and we did not want to see them control Central Asia, and we went to work and it was President Reagan in partnership with Congress,

led by Democrats, who said, ‘You know what, it sounds like a pretty good idea; let’s deal with the ISI and the Pakistan military, and let’s go recruit these Mu-jahideen...’” “We then left Pakistan,” she continued. “We said, ‘Ok, fine, you deal with the stingers that we’ve left all over your country. You deal with the mines that are along the border...’ So we stopped dealing with the Pakistani military, and with ISI, and we now are making up for a lot of lost time.” In February 2012, in an interview with Greta Van Susteren, Hillary Clinton said, “The people we are fighting today, we were supporting in the fight against the Soviets.” The group that Hillary

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Clinton referred to as “the people we were supporting in the fight against the Soviets,” was the Mujahideen, the predecessors of al Qaeda.

Al Qaeda, ISI, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State

That which we now know today as ISIS, or the Islamic State, had its origins in the early years of the Iraq War, and they pledged allegiance to al Qaeda in 2004. This group of Iraqi rebels became known as al Qaeda in Iraq. It was made up of various insurgent groups, including its predecessor, the Mujahi-deen Shura Council. Under leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri, al Qaeda in Iraq hoped

to establish a Sunni caliphate in Iraq and Syria. After months of feuding, the group splintered off from al Qaeda and became the Islamic State in Iraq (ISI) under Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. Al Qaeda in Iraq had reportedly severed all relations with ISI because it consid-ered ISI to be “too extreme”. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was killed in 2010 and was succeeded by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Islamic State, as they renamed themselves, which has also been known as ISI, ISIL or ISIS, declared itself a caliphate in 2014. They also proclaimed al-Baghdadi as the Caliph, the world leader of all those who practice Islam.

ISIS Reportedly Funded Via the United States and Its Allies?

The Express Tribune, an English language affiliate of the New York Times in Pakistan, reported in January 2015 that Islamic State commander Yousaf al Salafi had confessed to Pakistani law enforcement agencies that his organi-zation had been receiving funds from wealthy Gulf-region United States al-lies, routed through the United States “to run the organization in Pakistan and recruit young people to fight in Syria.” The Express Tribune’s sources also disclosed that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had been informed of these awkward revelations during a trip to Islamabad. Andrew Tabler, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told The Daily Beast that Kuwait is the pipeline through which funding for ISIS in Syria and Iraq is funneled. “Kuwait’s banking system and its money changers have long been a huge problem,” Tabler said, “because they are a major conduit for money to extremist groups in Syria and now Iraq.”

What has ISIS Done?ISIS has become well known in

recent months for their fierce brutality, expressed through mass murder, exe-cution, rape, dismemberment, enslave-ment and, most recently, through the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya and burning alive the Jordanian pilot. They have created videos of their brutalities for posting to the Internet and social media.

What does ISIS Want?Their ultimate goal is to impose

a worldwide Sunni Islamic state gov-erned by Sharia law, the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed. ISIS has been focusing their attacks in Iraq, Syria, Libya and adjacent areas, but they have also made it clear that they want to extend their control over a territory which extends from Mo-rocco and Spain out to Sri Lanka and the border of China.

Teaming Up for TerrorIn an apparent move to increase

international recognition and recruit more jihadists, Boko Haram, an Islam- ist group which has been active in Nigeria since 2009, has joined forces with ISIS. Boko Haram has caused mayhem in Nigeria, through bomb-ings, assassinations and abductions, in an attempt to overthrow the govern-ment and create an Islamic state. Boko Haram gained notoriety a year ago when they kidnapped 270 girls from the Chibok boarding school in Nigeria. 219 of the girls are still missing.

Enemy of My Enemy, a Mixed Blessing

The White House strategy in opposing ISIS in Iraq increasingly de-pends on Iran. Iranian troops are help-ing Iraq resist the advance of ISIS while the U.S. military trains Iraq’s under-performing armed forces. The New York Times reported in March 2015, that the 30,000 Iraqi forces sent to help fight ISIS in Tikrit are largely trained and equipped by Iran. Iran has deployed advanced rockets and missiles to Iraq but has not yet launched any of them.

What is the significance of the fact that one of the countries join-ing with America in the fight against ISIS is Iran—a longstanding enemy of the United States? U.S. military officials look at it as a mixed blessing. Iran shares a border with Iraq and has its own interest in contending against ISIS. Iran’s leaders have called the United States the “Great Satan”. Washington has been in a standoff with Iran for years over its nuclear program. Yet, President Obama’s goal is to “degrade and ultimately destroy ISIS.” General Martin Dempsey said, “Anything anyone does to counter ISIS is in the main a good outcome.” But Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said

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that the United States is worried about Iran’s role.

U.S. Arming “Moderate” Jihadist Terrorists

In August 2014, Congress ap-proved President Obama’s plan to arm “moderate” Syrian rebels to fight ISIS. Intelligence Chief Clapper admitted that the Obama administration is arming terrorists but calling them “moderates”. He also admitted that the definition of what “moderate” means has so evolved that it has actually come to mean “anyone who is not affiliated with ISIL.” Syrian Archbishop Jacques Behnan Hindo had warned in January 2014, that there is no such thing as a “moderate” Syrian rebel, and that even so-called “moderate” rebel factions in the Syrian civil war intend to turn the country into an Islamist state. So, in essence, the United States had begun providing weapons for one Jihadist terrorist group and had encouraged them to kill another Jihadist terrorist group, hoping that one day we won’t have to fight the terrorists that we gave the weapons to. Then a month later, to add to the folly, the Syrian “moderate” rebels that President Obama armed to fight ISIS signed a Non-Aggression Pact with ISIS so that they could join together to take down the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The U.S. had been arming these very same rebels, even when they were openly aligned with ISIS and al-Qaeda, for over a year.

Islamic ApocalypseFrom a religious viewpoint, it

seems that ISIS’ inhumanities are an attempt to lure Western forces into “al-Malhama al-Kubra”, the “Great Battle”, that leads directly to the Islamic Day of Judgment and the end of the world. This branch of Islam believes that the

Islamic Armageddon will take place as a battle between good and evil in Dabiq, a town in northern Syria.

International CoalitionPresident Obama has said that he

would order U.S. troops into combat if ISIS ever obtained a nuclear weapon. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs, has testified on Capitol Hill that the Pentagon is “certainly con-sidering” whether to embed U.S. mili-tary advisors with Iraqi combat units deployed to the front lines in Iraq.

The military action against ISIS is not just a regional conflict. An interna-tional coalition of some 60 nations has each participated in some way, either with airstrikes, military supplies or logistical support, according to the U.S. State Department. Some of the major contributors to the coalition battle

against ISIS include Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Iraqi Kurdistan, Jordan, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.

Is the 6th Trumpet of Revelation About to Sound?

ISIS has captured population cen-ters up and down the Euphrates River, on both sides of the Syria-Iraq border. The “Sixth Trumpet” prophecy of Rev-elation tells us that World War III will originate in the area of the Euphrates River, which flows through Turkey, Syria and Iraq, and empties into the Persian Gulf, exactly the same region where ISIS is advancing on towns and cities today.

“Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.” Revelation 9:14-15

This war that is coming will kill 2.3 billion, forty times the number killed in World War II. It will be the worst war ever. When these four evil angels are released, their assignment will be to kill one-third of mankind. e

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WORLD REVIEW by Ginger Boerkircher

6TH TRUMPET

New Iranian MissileA new Iranian long-range missile

could extend Iran’s strike capability to a wide swath of Europe and potentially far beyond. With their 2,500 kilome-ter range, the Soumar missile “entails a 25% increase in the range of Iran’s missiles and, if we consider the future possibility that the missiles would be deployed on ships and submarines, we see the ability to project their power worldwide,” according to an Israeli analyst.

Fort Carson Brigade Headed to Kuwait

More than 4,000 Fort Carson soldiers left for Kuwait, where they will take over as America’s largest ground force in the troubled region. The 3rd Brigade Combat Team will serve as U.S. Central Command’s Reserve force in the Middle East. They will be the first soldiers into battle if a major combat force is used to battle Islamic State fighters.

U.S. will Keep Pressure on IranCIA Director John Brennan said

no matter the outcome of nuclear talks with Iran, the U.S. will “continue to keep pressure” on the country and learn from its past mistakes. “The nuclear program is one issue that we’re hoping to be able to halt; but also, we see that Iran is still a state sponsor of terrorism,” Brennan said. Brennan said that Iran and the Islamic State are equal in the threat they pose to the United States.

Will ISIS Drag Us into World War?Many experts are wondering if we

are heading for another major global conflict. ISIS and its sympathizers have turned up in more than a dozen nations; from northern Africa to the Philippines. One American University professor feels a coming crisis is not so much with ISIS as it is with Russia and its volatile economy, low oil prices and Russian troops in Ukraine.

Bolton: Obama ‘Delusional’ Former Ambassador to the United

Nations John Bolton said President Barack Obama is “delusional” for declaring in his State of the Union address last week that ISIS was on the run. Bolton said Americans are hearing about the ISIS beheadings and reading reports about ISIS gaining strength in the Middle East and wondering, “Who’s defending our country?” Bolton says he is thinking about running for president because “we have to return national security issues to the center of the debate.”

HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE

Juncker Calls for EU ArmyEuropean Commission President

Jean-Claude Juncker is calling for the creation of an EU army in order to show Russia “that we are serious about defending European values.” “An EU army would let the continent react credibly to threats to peace in a mem-ber state or a neighbor of the EU,” he said. The proposal is being cautiously welcomed by many senior German politicians.

Europe’s Sovereignty IllusionAccording to former Secretary

General of NATO Javier Solana, the myth of sovereignty has been perpetu-ated for far too long in the European Union. “European integration has been a harmonious, ordered, and just process,” he said. “There is no going back to a global order defined by isolated nation-states.” EU members are interdependent. “This interdepen-dence stems not only from a shared currency: it is the fruit of endless socioeconomic interactions that weave the EU member states into a dynamic web,” Solana said.

Pope’s Vision for Europe German Chancellor Angela Merkel,

the daughter of a Lutheran minister, met recently with Pope Francis. She said that she and Francis spoke mainly about globalization, the European Union and the role of Europe in the world. “Pope Francis made it clear that

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we need a strong, fair Europe and I found the message very encouraging,” said Merkel.

Jews Feel Unsafe British Premier David Cameron

says he is sickened by recent instances of anti-Semitism. “The idea that the Jewish people once again feel unsafe in Europe is a truly sickening thought that strikes at the heart of everything we stand for,” he said. While the situ-ation in the UK is significantly better than in many other countries, in Brit-ain “we, too, have seen a completely unacceptable rise in anti-Semitism.”

MARK OF THE BEAST

No National ID, No SchoolStarting in June 2017, children in

Uganda will not be allowed in school without a national identity card. In addition, nobody (Ugandan or foreign-er) will be allowed to live in Uganda if not registered and in possession of a national ID. At least 15.9 million Ugandans have registered so far.

State Drivers’ LicensesWashington, Oregon and Idaho are

trying to figure out how to keep their state driver’s licenses from becoming

obsolete in the eyes of the federal gov-ernment. The Idaho House passed a bill that would ask the feds for more time to come into compliance with federal ID security standards. Washington offers an “enhanced” drivers license at an extra cost that meets the standards of the federal law, but relatively few Washington drivers have chosen to get one.

Ecuador Rolls Out Digital CashEcuador is revamping its monetary

system using digital currencies. Once the government flips the switch, the South American nation of 16 million will host the first-ever state-run elec-tronic payment system. Users will be able to pay for select services and send money between individuals. The Ecua-dorean government says the scheme is designed to support its dollar-based monetary system, not replace it.

UK Not Providing Biometric Guidelines

MPs are concerned about the UK government’s failure to introduce proper legislation to regulate the increasing use of biometric data. One topic of particular concern is how the police are allowed to acquire and store biometric data about individuals

who have not been charged for any crimes.

MIDDLE EAST

Netanyahu Sweeps to VictoryIsrael Prime Minister Benjamin

Netanyahu and his Likud party won a clear and decisive victory in Israel’s parliamentary elections. This will be his fourth term as prime minister. “Against all odds, we achieved a great victory,” Netanyahu told his supporters.

Netanyahu Urges Jews to Move to Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged European Jews to move to Israel after a Jewish man was recently killed in an attack outside Co-penhagen’s main synagogue. “Israel is your home. We are preparing and call-ing for the absorption of mass immigra-tion from Europe,” Netanyahu said.

Quartet Urges Revival of Peace Talks

The “Quartet” of Middle East peace mediators has urged prompt resump-tion of talks between Israel and the Palestinians. A statement from the group called on both sides “to refrain from actions that undermine trust or prejudge final status issues.” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, the EU foreign policy chief, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the deputy UN head reiterated that talks must re-spect Palestinian aspirations for state-hood and Israel’s security concerns.

Tony Blair to Step Back as EnvoyFormer Prime Minister Tony Blair

is to step back from his role as a peace envoy for the Middle East according to a recent report. Sources said that he is embarking on negotiations to “recast” his role while remaining involved in the peace process. He is said to have met U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the EU’s Foreign Policy Chief Fed-erica Mogherini to discuss a possible job change.

WORLD GOVERNMENT

UN-EU Strategic PartnershipThe development of a strong

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is increasingly critical as global crises intensify in complexity and multiply in scope, says UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Ban told delegates that the “strategic partnership” between the two organizations “runs deep” as both share “common values”. “It is our responsibility to continue exploring scenarios where we can put our com-bined efforts to use,” Ban said.

Get Ready for UNSC ResolutionMartin Indyk, former peace

talks envoy, says Israel may face a UN Security Council resolution proposed by all permanent members designed to “lay out the principles of a two-state solution.” Indyk expects such a resolu-tion would be “against Israel’s will.” He warned that if Israel’s new government does not launch a diplomatic initiative or if it opposes a two-state solution, there will be “international actions” pursued not by the Palestinians, but by the International Community.

Arming Ukraine on the TableThough the subject is hotly debated, President Obama did confirm that his administration weighed the possibil-ity of sending arms to Ukraine to help the country beat back Russian-backed separatists, if diplomacy fails.  Some say the non-lethal aid presently being sent to Ukraine will be ineffective.

Commit to Two-State SolutionFollowing Israeli Prime Minis-

ter Benjamin Netanyahu’s election victory, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called Netanyahu and urged him to renew Israel’s commitment to a “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. According to Ban’s spokesman, the secretary general reiterated his view that the two-state solution was the only way forward and urged the prime minister to renew Israel’s commitment to that goal.

WORLD RELIGION

Permission to Convert to Christianity? Persecution of Christians and other re-ligious minorities in Burma is expected to worsen if a new religious conversion bill makes it into law. In December 2014, President Thein Sein submitted to Parliament a package of four draft

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laws aimed at “protecting race and religion,” including the Religious Conversion Bill that would require anyone wishing to convert from one religion to another to go before a registration board, supply personal information, and wait 90 days for government permission.

Islamic State is ‘Apocalyptic Cult’In a recent edition of the Islamic

State’s Dabiq magazine, an article touched on the end time theology that experts say drives the Islamic State’s ongoing rampage. The article describes Islam as the “religion of the

sword.” ISIS notes that the sword will continue to be drawn against Islam’s enemies until “Isa (Jesus) kills the Dajjal (the Antichrist), after which, ‘Islam and its justice’ will prevail on the entire earth.”

Three-Way Gay MarriageThe world’s first three-way gay

marriage has taken place in Thailand. Three gay men exchanged marital vows in a wedding sanctioned by the Bud-dhist church. “Some people may not agree and are probably amazed by our decision, but we believe many people do understand and accept our choice.

Love is love, after all,” said one of the marriage partners.

Pope Francis and Climate ChangeEco-theologian and religious

environmental leader Rabbi Lawrence Troster says that Pope Francis plans to issue a papal encyclical on the environment this summer. According to Troster, it will be a document that people of all faiths can use to increase the attention paid to climate change and the environment in their own communities. Key UN meetings on climate change will be held in Paris this December. e

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