World War III?

Fighter-jet in trouble: A Russian SU24 shot down by Turkey

The world's beginning to learn that it's unwise to cross Russian President Vladimir Putin. After Turkey recently shot down a Russian SU-24 fighter-jet when the plane allegedly violated Turkish airspace, Putin vented his anger at Turkey and threatened repercussions.

Putin called Turkey's action "a stab in the back by accomplices of terrorism." Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan responded that if the Russians continue to violate Turkish airspace, there will be "serious consequences." Thus, the war of words began between the two, and it's likely that Putin will respond against Turkey with more than just words at some point in the future.

Russia has been bombing ISIS fighters in the Latakia region of Syria which is in close proximity to Turkey's southern border. While the Russians claim that they've been careful to avoid Turkish airspace, the Turks claim otherwise. To compound matters, Turkey is a NATO member and a predominantly Muslim nation. 

And so, Putin believes that Turkey is using its NATO status as a shield to support ISIS terrorists. Putin sees NATO as a giant serpent with the United States at the head and nations such as Turkey as part of the serpent's long tail. 

Remember that Putin blames the United States--and specifically the Obama administration--for trying to coerce the Ukraine into NATO in 2014 so the U.S. and NATO could exert political and economic pressure on the Bear. Putin believes that the U.S. was behind the Euromaidan Revolution that ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych who was a de facto Russian puppet. 

It's no secret that the U.S. wanted to cutoff Putin's power by admitting the Ukraine into NATO. Why? Because the U.S. believes that Putin has a vision to create a new Russian empire in the eastern world on the ashes of the old Soviet Union. That's a legitimate concern because Putin indeed wants to build an empire to counter and ultimately put an end to American hegemony. 

Although Putin certainly isn't a nice guy, he's not the crazed, power-hungry madman that the west's media hacks who masquerade as journalists portray him. He's a pragmatist who's concerned about the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in the eastern world and the west's desire to build a one-world government behind the ruse of global warming-climate change. 

Putin wants to drive Islam out of the eastern world, and he needs a coalition of nations to do that. He understands that unless Islam goes, Europe, Africa and Asia will be conquered by Islam. And he needs a coalition to protect the eastern world from being coerced into a one-world government. 

Make no mistake about this: the climate agenda has absolutely nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with a one world government. And Putin knows that better than anyone. He doesn't want Russia being dragged into a world government that would have absolute authority over every nation on earth. 

Thus, Russia's involvement with Syria in its war against ISIS and American-backed Syrian rebels trying to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is literally the beginning of a new world war between the eastern world and the west. Remember that Syria's civil war is the handiwork of the Obama administration that armed the rebels and abetted ISIS by pulling American troops out of Iraq while leaving military hardware and weapons behind for the terrorists to inherit. 

Putin knows that if Assad falls, then nothing will prevent ISIS from marching into Russia. Russia sits to the northeast of Syria and is separated by several nations that are all Islamic and would offer little defense against the burgeoning caliphate. The U.S. wants to see Assad fall because that could eventually lead to Russia's downfall.

And so, Russia's fight against ISIS in Syria is not only a fight against a terrorist organization, but it's also a fight against the west and the U.S. that made that fight possible. And don't think for a second that Putin's not aware of that.

How does this fit into biblical prophecy? The Bible reveals that Russia is eventually going to prevail and build its dreaded political-economic-military coalition that will dominate the world. (Daniel 11, Ezekiel 38-39) That will take several years because Russia currently doesn't have the economic resources to expand its fight beyond Syria into Turkey and other NATO nations. 

While Putin recognizes that the west has become weak and is dominated by pacifists such as Barack Obama and David Cameron, the west still possesses a lot of military firepower and might use it against Russia if necessary. Thus, the time for Russia's big move in the east hasn't yet arrived.

But it's coming. Realize that Russia has a wealthy ally in China, its southern neighbor. And realize that Russia possesses a lot of energy in natural gas, oil and coal that China needs to fuel its growing heavy industries. The Russians need money while the Chinese need energy. Certainly, the Chinese buy energy from other sources, particularly America. But the Chinese hate the U.S. almost as much as the Russians do, and the Chinese will eventually stop buying American energy and buy more from their northern neighbors in order to hurt the U.S.

China will help finance Russia's expansion into the dreaded monster that the Bible warns us is coming in the very last days directly preceding the return of Jesus Christ. The Bible identifies that monster as "Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshek and Tubal." (Ezekiel 38:1) The Bible identifies the other members as Persia, Cush and Put. Persia is now Iran; Cush is now Ethiopia, and Put is now Morocco. These nations will be joined by many Asian, African, eastern and western European nations.

Who is Gog? Gog was one of the ancient names for the Caucasian tribe of Rosh that many modern Russians are descended from. And Meshek and Tubal? They were part of what is now modern Turkey. Thus, Russia's current problems with Turkey aren't going to last.

And the U.S. and NATO aren't going to last either. The U.S. is going to collapse as a superpower and NATO is going to disappear. We're seeing the beginning of the fulfillment of biblical prophecy concerning Russia's rise to world dominance in the last days. It will take time--perhaps many years. But it's coming. 

The Nightmare on the Horizon

Out of Many: A New Order of the World

Most folks consider the topic of a new world order to be the paranoia of lunatic conspiracy freaks and amillennialists. Few people take that topic seriously because they're convinced that it's never going to happen.

But it's going to happen and in fact, it's been happening for many years. The world is slowly being transitioned from 193 individual nations toward a massive single entity that will have absolute authority over every human being on the planet.

And that's hardly a conspiracy. A world government has been openly discussed for nearly 150 years, going back to the time of Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), the 18th president of the United States who said this: Influential individuals and groups are pressing for global economic co-operation, global taxes to support the backward territories, a global army and a world government, even for a world-wide moral consciousness. Whatever the future prospects of these recommendations, there is no doubt that the tactics, the methods, the announced aims, fall under the category of social engineering.

Does that sound like a conspiracy? Only to those who aren't paying attention. Fast forward to the 20th century and President John F. Kennedy who said this during a speech he presented to the Newspapers Publishers Association on April 27, 1961: The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and secret proceedings...For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice...It is a system which has conscripted to cast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.

Not so ironically, Kennedy was assassinated two and a half years later. Did that happen because he exposed something that he was told to keep secret? We'll never know. 

However, we do know that biblical prophecy revealed an end time global government nearly 2,800 years ago in an allegorical prophecy recorded by Isaiah in the 8th century B.C. Isaiah used the King of Assyria as a metaphor for the Antichrist and his global government: "By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, because I have understanding. I removed the boundaries of nations, I plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their kings. As one reaches into a nest, so my hand reached for the wealth of the nations; as people gather abandoned eggs, so I gathered all the countries; not one flapped a wing, or opened its mouth to chirp." (Isaiah 10:13-14)

About two centuries later, the prophet Daniel described an allegorical vision he received from God concerning the rise of global government in the last days. Daniel described this government as the final of four world empires that would rise and fall before the return of Jesus Christ. Here's what he wrote: "After that, in my vision at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth beast—terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten horns." (Daniel 7:7)

And the apostle John, who recorded the Bible's final book, the Revelation, in about 90 A.D., described this vision he was given by God concerning an end time world government: "And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority." (Revelation 13:1-2)

The 10 horns or crowns represent the 10 nation-group confederacy of this coming global government. And the seven heads that John saw represent seven rulers or kings who will govern these groups. And of course, they'll be under the authority of the Antichrist.

How close are we to a world government? Michael Snyder of the economiccollapseblog.com writes this: From September 25th to September 27th, the United Nations launched a “new universal agenda” for humanity.  Those are not my words, they actually come directly out of the core document for this new agenda.  The Pope traveled to New York City to give the address that kicked off this conference, thus giving his considerable endorsement to this new plan.  Virtually every nation on the entire planet willingly signed up for the 17 goals that are included in this plan, but this stunning turn of events made very few international headlines.

What is this new agenda? Snyder continues: The UN is not asking permission, but issuing a command that the entire planet will commit to 17 sustainable development goals and 169 sustainable development targets designed to radically transform our world by 2030. The UN 2030 plan promoted by the Pope (Francis) will advance Agenda 21 on steroids. Through a controlled media the mass populations will be told that this is all about saving the environment and “ending poverty.” But that is not the true agenda of Agenda 21. The true agenda of Agenda 21 is to establish a global government, global economic system, and global religion. When UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon spoke of “a dream of a world of peace and dignity for all” this is no different than when the Communists promised the people a “workers paradise.”

Indeed. The apostle Paul wrote this concerning those who will be convinced that they've saved the world and humanity by creating a world government: "While people are saying, 'Peace and safety,' destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape." (1 Thessalonians 5:3)

A world government that possesses absolute authority over every human being will result in tyranny, oppression, persecution and mass murder. And that's coming. The U.N. wants that in place by 2030. That's only 15 years away. It remains to be seen whether that will happen that soon. But it will happen eventually. And God have mercy on those who are around to see it happen.