The Perfect Storm Is Coming – Part VIII

Coming Soon – A One World Order

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In the Scriptures, the reader is urged to compare the prophetic end-time visions given to the Old Testament prophet Daniel, with the apocalyptic, last-day visions recorded by the Apostle John, in the New Testament book of Revelation. (The Apocalypse).

A simple comparison of the symbols and actions of the powers described in Daniel chapter 7 and Revelation chapter 13 is fascinating.

The fourth “terrible beast” and its arrogant “little horn” of Daniel 7, are represented with expansion and emphasis as “two beasts” in Revelation 13 the “leopard-like composite beast” and a second “beast with lamb-like horns.”

The prophetic “beast” power, or system, predicted in these visions, doubtless represents the fearsome One World Order of the end-times. Prophetically, this “evil system” will be comprised of secular governments, or “state powers,” represents in Revelation 13: 1 as “ten horns with crowns.” These yet-to-be-identified governments will be joined in confederacy with “seven heads,” or “seven religious powers” (world religions), depicted in the prophecy as “heads wearing the names of blasphemy.” Revelation 13:1.

Thus, in the coming “Beast World Order,” the oppressive powers of Church and State will once again unite. History will repeat, and just as in the past, the inevitable result will be intolerance and persecution. A crisis of global dimension is here predicted; one that will especially threaten the United States of America and its civil liberties, as the Constitution of the United States (unique in world history) forbids the merging of Church and State powers.


The great kingdoms that have ruled the world were presents to the prophet Daniel as beasts of prey, rising when the “four winds of heaven strove upon the great sea.” Daniel 7:2. In Revelation, an angel explained that waters represent “peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.” Revelation 17: 15. Winds are a symbol of war and strife. The four winds of heaven striving upon the great sea represent the terrible scenes of conquest and revolution by which kingdoms have attained to power.  

After describing the leopard-like composite beast of Revelation 13: 1-10, the prophet continues: “I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed….saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had been wound by a sword, and did live.” Revelation 13: 11-14.  

However, what is the “image to the beast?” and how is it too be formed?  The image is made by the two-honed beast, and is an image to the first, leopard-like beast. This beast with two lamb-like horns also “Causeth [commands] all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” Revelation 13: 16,17.

To learn what the image is like, how it is to be formed and how dreadful the “mark” may be required; one must consider the characteristics of the beast.

When departing from the simplicity of the gospel, and accepting heathen rites and customs corrupted the early church, she lost the Spirit and power of God. Then in order to control the consciences of the people, she sought the support of the secular power. The result was the Papacy, a church that controlled the power of the state, that employed it further her own ends, especially for the punishment of “heresy.”

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.”

- Winston Churchill

NO KING AND NO POPE

Whenever and wherever the church has obtained secular power, she has employed it to punish dissent from her doctrines. Protestant churches that have followed in the steps of Rome by forming alliance with worldly powers, have manifested a similar desire to restrict liberty of conscience. The Church of England gives an example of this in the long-continued persecution of dissenters. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, thousands of non-conformist ministers were forced to leave their churches, and many, both pastors and people, were subjected to fine, imprisonment, torture, and martyrdom.

The Bible declared that before the coming of the Lord there would exist a state of religious declension similar to that in the early centuries.

Paul said, There shall “come a falling away…and that the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2: 3,4.


Therefore, a great apostasy will corrupt the last-day church. The “Man of sin” (Antichrist) will prepare the way for the image to the beast and the mark that will be required of all men and all nations.


The Christian exiles and brave settlers first fled to America from the Old World, sought asylum from royal oppression and priestly intolerance, and they determined to establish a government upon the broad foundation of civil and religious liberty.

The Declaration of Independence sets forth the great truth that “all men are created equal,” and endowed with inalienable right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Moreover, the constitution guarantees freedom of religious faith, every man being permitted to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience.

In time, Republicanism and Protestantism became the fundamental principle of the nation. These principles would become the secret of America’s power and prosperity. As a result, the oppressed and downtrodden of the world have turned to this land with interest and hope. Millions have sought its shores, and the Unites States has risen to its place among the most powerful nations of the earth.

In the future, in order for the United States of America to form an image to the beast system, the religious powers must so control the civil government that the authority of the state will again be employed by the church to accomplish her own ends. When this state of ungodliness shall be reached, the same results will follow as in the first centuries.

The founders of this nation wisely sought to guard against the employment of secular power on the part of the church, with its inevitable result-intolerance and persecution. The Constitution provides that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” and that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust under the United States.”

Only in flagrant violation of these safeguards to the nation’s liberty, can civil authority enforce any religious observance. However, the inconsistency of such action is no greater that is represented in the symbol.

It is the beast with the lamb-like horns-in profession pure, gentle, and harmless-that speaks as a dragon.

Not all is made plain yet pertaining to the “mark of the beast.” Reasonably, the mark will not be perfectly understood until the scroll unrolls. Nevertheless, the prophetic visions found in Daniel and in Revelation, depicting the “evil beast” of the end times and the “miracle-working little horn” (Antichrist), offer clues regarding the beast, his image and his mark.


The angel said to Daniel, concerning the “beast,” and especially the “little horn,” HE SHALL SPEAK AGAINST THE MOST HIGH…AND TRY TO CHANGE THE SET TIMES AND THE LAWS.” Daniel 7:25, NIV.

Here is the plain to see that the “Man of Sin” is at war with the Most High, and that he purposes to change the “set times” and the “laws.” This is precisely the record of the past. The Roman Church boastfully presumed to change God’s Law, including the very commandment that “sets time.”

“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” –Ecclesiastes 1:9, NIV. After the warning against the worship of the beast and his image, the prophecy declares, “Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” “Since those who keep God’s commandments are thus placed in contrast with those that worship the beast and his image and receive his mark, it follows that the keeping of God’s Law, on one hand, and its violation, on the other, will make the distinction between the worshipers of God and the worshipers of the beast.

The Bible plainly teaches that a time is approaching when the laws of the state shall so conflict with the Law of God that whoever would obey all the divine precepts must brave censure, even arrest.

As the claims of God’s Law are urges upon the people, it is found that the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath is enjoined in God’s Word. Then some will reason: “We have always kept Sunday, our fathers kept it, and many good and pious men have died happy while keeping it. If they were right, so are we.” They will urge that Sunday keeping has been an established doctrine and a widespread custom of the church for many centuries. Against this argument, it will be shown that the Sabbath and its observance in Scripture are more ancient and widespread, even as old as the world itself.

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