The coming of the lawless one

“The coming of the lawless one is according to the workings of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

For any antagonist who is reading this, whether you are a politician or a general or a police officer or a judge or a stockbroker or a lawyer or anyone, understand that there is an underground movement of people in action. You may not be able to see it, but there is a grassroots organization of the independent that will not roll over and die. We want only what everyone wants, and that is the essence of liberty on which this country was founded. Every year we play by your rules, and every year the forces of evil overcome. But we shall never give up as long as there is a will to live, and life is the most precious thing we have. You label us a threat, and you condemn us to a stereotyped life of heresy, but one day “subverts will become politicians, and finally get the upper hand.” We will not prevail through violence or military aggression, but rather through a common understanding of peace, love and understanding.We will hound you with the truth about the corruption and violence that you practice. We are all and none of your common labels for us: peace freaks, beatniks, hippies or punks, leftists, liberals or whatever you have chosen for the day… rather a collection of sensible people who understand that your ways of suppression through an installation of fear and lies are no longer logical or effective. As the truth of your ways becomes more apparent everyday, we become stronger through solidarity. One day a revolution will come. A revolution of the mind. A new renaissance will triumph. It may not come in our lifetime, but eventually a reformed way of life will be necessary, as the pillaging of human spirit and the earth on which we live on becomes intolerable. As lightning spreads from the East to the West, so will this revolution of the mind. The stock markets and greed machines and mindless consumerism will come crashing down by the decadent hand of your own megaton corporate bombs. The only option after your demise will be ours, that being freedom. And in case you don’t know what that is. Freedom and liberty are what you have used as a cloak for covetousness in order to worship your images and idles of power, what you deceived us into fearing we might loose, but all the while you have done this, we have grown stronger, growing immune to that fear. We have learned from your mistakes. We have listened from the bottom up, rather than from the top down. And when you who have finally floated to the top as the impurity and imperfection of our race, and are finally skimmed off and discarded into the abyss, we are here, waiting to fulfill what has been predestined from before the foundation of the earth. We will be waiting to give vision for vision, teaching for teaching, loyalty for loyalty, love for love, and life for life. So take for yourself all you are able to hold. Fill yourself up now to fatness and overflowing abundance till your arms are so full you cannot hold another thing. And when you have done this, we will kick you in the knees until you stumble and are crushed by the weight of what you hold, and then return it to the ones you stole it from.

The demise of every Empire’s was brought about through internal decline as each one expanded out into the rest of the world until they came to nothing. In their effort to control, their lust for more power, their greed for control of the resources of the world in order to feed the prosperity of their own nations elite, many emperors and kings plundered the resources of their own nation until they had nothing left to squeeze from their own people, who eventually revolted, overthrowing the present forms of government in favor of one that better suited the people.

Decline came slowly and from within as a princely vision of egotistical destiny supported by religion of some sort, substituted for good old fashioned ethical politics that favored those who were governed. Outward morality of the self-righteous type became a royal image to be presented to the people in an effort by some to appear as gods…but inwardly, lusts and greed ruled their heart and eventually the hypocrisy was exposed by the truth. But not before lofty words were spoken to whole nations who bought their causes with blood and watched as the vision of its king brought these nations to ruin.

“Because the LORD has sworn: the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.” Exodus 17:16

America is not the first nation-empire to think that it has a destiny to rule the world…it is in crowded company. But just as this destiny may one day be fulfilled, so too will the words that God spoke to Moses for a memory of Joshua in the book.

Today this nation , the United States of America, goes out to conquer, to destroy, to rape, pillage, plunder, and rob…all for the lofty and noble cause and a vision by its Commander-In-Chief of a world governed by democracy with America as the enforcer of the rule of law.

But this nation will be destroyed by its own vision. The plunderer will become the plundered, the conqueror, the conquered…blessings will be turned to curses and America will take its place in a long list of nation-empires who have gone before it.

It will have its place in the history books…but so does Babylon…so does Hitler…so too will George w. Bush, Pax Americana, democracy, neo conservatives, the moral majority and all who set themselves up as the self-righteous voice of America and the world in substitution for God and the worldly empire they attempted to dictate from.

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any doctrine, whether religious or secular, that relies on force or fears to establish it, is a false doctrine. If it is not willingly embraced with a voluntary compliance to adhere to its precepts, then it is a doctrine of devils. No one can force upon another a way of life and expect them to willingly adhere to its methods.

Eventually the force will fold back upon the enforcer because eventually fear will be overcome, and the masses forced into compliance will revolt as they see and understand the hypocrisy of the craftsman of this folly.


In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists,
And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t communist.

Then they came for the Jews,
And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,
And I didn’t speak up because I was Protestant.

Then they came for me,
And by that time there was no one left to speak for me.

Poem by Rev. Martin Niemoeller called ‘First They Came for…’

“Even now all created things declare the glory of His excellence. There is nothing, except the selfish heart of man that lives unto itself. No bird that cleaves the air, no animal that walks upon the ground, but ministers to some other life. There is no leaf of the forest, or lowly blade of grass, but that has its ministry. Every tree and shrub and leaf pours forth that element without which no man nor animal could live; and man and animal, in turn, minister to the life of tree and shrub and leaf. The flowers breathe fragrance and unfold their beauty in blessing to the world. The sun sheds its light to gladden a thousand worlds. The ocean, itself the source of all our springs and fountains, receives the streams from every land, but takes to give. The mists ascending from its bosom fall in showers to water the earth, that it may bring forth and bud. Ellen White from “The Desire of Ages”

However, man is still attempting to create himself, in the image that he would like to be in order to sit as king of this world to rule over its people…the usurpers to God’s throne...he has yet to discover that he is mortel...he has yet to discover that he is merely and simply, man.

When Jacob brought his family down to Egypt to live, because of Jacob’s son, Joseph, Pharoah, the ruler of Egypt at that time gave Israel the best of the land, the land of Goshen. Israel was to remain in their portion as shepherds of sheep, something the Egyptians found to be an abomination because a shepherd leads his flock rather than lord over them, understanding that this flock is part of God’s creation...this is something that those who are in darkness have yet to fathome.

But rather than do this, stay in their own place and do what they were instructed to do, the people of Israel intermingled and intermarried with the Egyptians.

For many decades there was a peaceful relationship between the people of Israel and the Egyptian rulers…that is until one ruler came along who let his fear of the multitude of aliens in the land cause him to forget the peaceful coexistence that Egypt shared with Israel. The face of Pharaoh changed from one of recognition of the contributions of these aliens to one of fear of them. And because of his fear, he enslaved and oppressed the people who shared his land. He did not acknowledge Joseph’s descendents as legitimate residents of Egypt even though they had lived in Egypt for several hundred years. The leaders of this nation view all other nations and people, to be as Pharaoh viewed Israel and his people.