Like nature with its storms and seasons, the world around us has always been changing. Some of those changes were less obvious a few decades ago than they are now. Today's America -- a nation accustomed to peace and comforts -- may soon face unthinkable turmoil, scarcity and lawlessness. Some reports indicate that we're headed for World War III and global tyranny.

In the midst of these threats and uncertainties, many Christians around the world face rising hostility, persecution and death. We are surrounded by moral corruption, and our freedom is fading fast. Once again we find ourselves on the downside of the timeless cycle (below) dating back to ancient Israel.

But be encouraged! All these dangers make the promises of our sovereign Lord and Savior all the more precious to us:

“In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” John 16:33

A Glimpse into History & Change

Some of you may still remember the year 1940, when the world stood at the brink of World War II. Japan had been ravaging China and Korea. The Italian armies of Mussolini had occupied Ethiopia and were persecuting its Christians. And Hitler, who had already "annexed" Austria and Czechoslovakia, invaded Romania and planned to conquer all of Europe -- and much more.

Meanwhile, elite leaders on the opposing side of the war would use the spreading turmoil to build support for their vision of a United Nations and a worldwide global union.[2] After all, the historical record is full of hidden agendas, clever deceptions, expedient lies and deadly destruction.

Let's look at some old clues to today's changes. The following quotes from our Chronology of the United Nations shed light on the power and secrecy behind the familiar scenes. Remember, the timeless cycles of peace, compromise, rebellion (against God), war, and repentance continues to shape the world we inhabit. So do the elite leaders behind the scenes.

1913 (January). President Woodrow Wilson wrote in his book, The New Freedom: "We are in a new world.... We stand in the presence of a revolution.... (which) will come in peaceful guise..." He continued:

"Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.... 

 

"We have been dreading all along the time when the combined power of high finance would be greater than the power of government ....

 

"We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world—no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men.... We are in a new world. ... We stand in the presence of a revolution...."[3] 

1922 . Nine years later, New York City Mayor John Hylan gave us a glimpse of the mutinous shadow government behind elected leaders in Europe as well as America. Their goal was a New World Order -- and the dissolution of the old:

"...the real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, State and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of self-created screen. It seizes in its long and powerful tentacles our executive officers, our legislative bodies, our schools, our courts, our newspapers and every agency created for the public protection."[4] 

1931 (November). Arnold Toynbee delivers a speech to the Institute for the Study of the International Affairs at Copenhagen in which he explains,

"We are at present working discreetly with all our might to wrest this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local nation states of the world. All the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands, because to impugn the sovereignty of the local nation states of the world is still a heresy for which a statesman or publicist can... be ostracized or discredited."[5]

1932.  Rockefeller Foundation president Max Mason tells trustees that "The Social Sciences will concern themselves with the rationalization of social control... the control of human behavior."[6]

1932. Dr. Ernst Rudin, the Nazi director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry (funded by Rockefeller), was appointed president of the global Eugenics Federation. His most infamous experiments took place in Nazi concentration camps!

"The movement called for the killing or sterilization of people whose heredity made them a public burden.  ... Hitler took over Germany and the Rockefeller-Rudin apparatus became a section of the Nazi state. The regime appointed Rudin head of the Racial Hygiene Society. Rudin and his staff...chaired by SS chief Heinrich Himmler, drew up the sterilization law....Under the Nazis, the German chemical company I.G. Farben and Rockefeller's Standard Oil of New Jersey were effectively a single firm. ...In 1940-1941, I.G. Farben built a gigantic factory at Auschwitz in Poland, to utilize the Standard Oil/I.G. Farben patents with concentration camp slave labor... "[7] See Population Control, Nazis, and the U.N!

1933 & 1934. In a report presented at the 72nd annual NEA meeting, Willard Givens (later NEA executive secretary) wrote:

"A dying laissez-faire must be completely destroyed and all of us...must be subjected to a large degree of social control.... The major function of the school is the social orientation of the individual. It must seek to give him understanding of the transition to a new social order."[8] Remember, Biblical Christianity has no place in this planned system!

1935. The Masonic symbol of the eye in the pyramid is officially added to the U.S. dollar bill. Henry A. Wallace, President Roosevelt's Secretary of Agriculture (a Socialist and Theosophist who later became Roosevelt's vice-president) explained:

"Roosevelt as he looked at the colored reproduction of the Seal was first struck with the representation of the 'All Seeing Eye,' a Masonic representation of The Great Architect of the Universe.... Roosevelt like myself was a 32nd degree Mason. He suggested that the Seal be put on the dollar bill." Henry A. Wallace."[9]

1937. John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State and former chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation and of the executive committee of the Federal Council of Churches (replaced by the National Council of Churches) praised totalitarianism saying:

"...Communism and Fascism [are] changing almost overnight the characteristics of entire peoples....There is a conscious  subordination of self to the end that some great objective may be furthered."[10]

1939. In a speech to the YMCA, future Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles (a CFR member) said,  "[There must be] some dilution of sovereignty, to the immediate disadvantage of those nations that now possess the preponderance of power...."[11]

 

1945. "On June 28, 1945, President Harry Truman said: "...we live, in this country at least, in an age of law and an age of reason, an age in which we can get along with our neighbors. Now we must do that internationally. It will be just as easy for nations to get along in a republic of the world as it is for us to get along in the republic of the United States."[12]

Norway, my homeland, didn't expect a Nazi invasion in early 1940. It had good reasons to favor Germany over Great Britain: In the wake of World War 1, countless Norwegian families had opened their homes to German orphans. Some returned before the rise of Hitler; others simply maintained a warm relationship across the distance.

That friendship turned to fury when Nazi warships began their journey up the Oslofjord in April 1940. Blocked by Norwegian resisters, the invaders arrived too late to stop our air force and parliament from moving their headquarters to England. With its government in exile, Norway was never forced to officially surrender to Hitler.

But that was almost 70 years ago. Today Norway is a secular country with little or no appreciation for our heavenly King. Ivarfjeld gives us a recent glimpse of the foolish pathway its leaders have chosen:

Norway: Cashless blind and devilish: "'Norway wants to go totalitarian, demanding all monetary transactions to be traced. Users of cash are already portrayed as criminals.'... The financial institutions of Norway demands that the government shall make the use of cash a criminal act. If you do not want the authorities to be able to trace all your moves and purchases, you are in principle a suspicious person.

    "The gross error of the Norwegians, are their total rejection of the Bible. The Post-Christian Norwegian society walks right into the ultimate trap of Satan.

    "We are approaching the time when people can not buy and sell without using an electronic device, based on a numeric code. In the scriptures, this code is called the mark of the beast...."

 

"...so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark..." Revelation 13:17

In the Wake of World War II

The war ended in the spring of 1945 and brought peace and reunions! My gentle father had been a leader in the Norwegian "underground" resistance movement. We didn't know that until the day he was captured, interrogated and sent to Grini, Norway's Nazi concentration camp. But now he was home! It was time to celebrate!

Eastern Europe was excluded from such joy. Instead -- thanks in part to Communist Alger Hiss, President Roosevelt's main consultant at Yalta -- Stalin gained control over vast sections of Europe. The horrors and cruelties of his spreading Communist armies were beyond comprehension.

To understand a kind of depravity that Americans could hardly imagine 70 years ago, please read Chapter 3 in I Found God in Soviet Russia by John Noble, an American who was in Dresden, eastern Germany, when the war ended and Russia's ravages began. John Noble knew well that when people reject God and His ways, evil spreads like cancer:

"The terrible truth is that when you remove God from a society, you remove the basis for a moral code; and when men live without a moral code, they live in violence and sin. Sin is never without its penalties. From the standpoint of long-range Soviet policy in Germany, no greater blunder could have been made than to permit the Russian army to behave as it did.

"Our German neighbors in Dresden did not expect easy treatment at the hands of the Red Army, for the dreadful rumors that had reached them from the East left no doubt that things would go hard with them..... But no one could have expected, or imagined, what actually took place in the form of rape, murder, and drunken barbarity of all kinds."[1]

Norway's union leader, Trygve Lie, had visited Russia and met with Lenin long before he became the Labor Party Secretary. Then, on February 1, 1946, this far-left socialist was elected the first Secretary General of the United Nations.

My father was not pleased! In 1952, he moved our family to America, and we celebrated our arrival in New York with our very first hamburgers -- only 25 cents each.

Man's foolish vision -- and God's ultimate victory

I wonder how many Americans back in the fifties saw the ominous pathway ahead. For example, months before Trygve Lie rose to UN headship, Julian Huxley [brother of Aldous] became the first Director-General of UNESCO, a specialized UN agency headquartered in Paris. In his book, UNESCO: Its Purpose and Its Philosophy, he wrote,

"The general philosophy of UNESCO should be a scientific world humanism, global in extent and evolutionary in background. ... In its education program it can... familiarize all peoples with the implications of the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a world organization....

 

"Tasks for the media division of UNESCO [will be] to promote the growth of a common outlook shared by all nations and cultures... to help the emergence of a single world culture."[13]

Please take time to read the quotes in the links that follow. We rarely hear the whole truth behind major world events, and the real perpetrators of change may not be the people who seem to be in charge. Believe it or not, there is an inner sanctum of powerful, super elite, incredibly rich, anti-Christian masterminds behind the United Nations, the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR), the Bilderbergers, the controlled mainstream media, Skull and Bones, and all the other power centers that are pushing nations toward their planned New World Order.

In other words, major decisions concerning our future are often decided outside the visible realm of presidential elections and congressional approvals.

But America is waking up! Obama's presidency has exposed large parts of this deceptive facade. Genuine freedom, justice and equality simply don't fit the elitist dream. People may deny it, and many do -- to everyone's detriment. Step-by-step and year-by-year, we come closer to global tyranny.

Islamic violence fits the purposes of the elite masterminds well. It's no accident that our current president is being used to empower the Muslim Brotherhood. In fact, much of what Obama has done in the Middle East would probably fit right into Hitler's faded old dream of a vast and violent Islamic territory submitted to his Nazi reign and trained to serve their mutual oppressive goal. [See The Nazi/Arab plots to exterminate Jews]

Hitler is gone, but his cruel vision lives on through his fascist devotees and the Muslim Brotherhood. Now as then, the main target is Israel. But America may be next in line.  

The signs of change and spiritual warfare are all around us. But our God reigns in the midst of it:

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?...

     "... in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. " Romans 8:35-39

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