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One worlders promote televangelists 'last days' and global g
 Wed Aug 13, 2003 5:34 am
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One Worlders Promote Televangelists, ‘Last Days,’ Rapture to Lay Foundation for Global Government
http://www.americanfreepress.net/01_08_02/One_Worlders_Promote_Televange/
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Powerful globalist forces are promoting high-powered television evangelists and religious publishers who teach “end times” and “last days” religious dispensationalism talking of an ultimate “rapture” in order to help lay the groundwork for one world government.
That “controversial” proposition was put forth during a lively interview on Nov. 18 between Radio Free America host Tom Valentine and his guest, John Anderson, producer of the thought-provoking new video, The Last Days.
Anderson contends that true Christian fundamentalism, based on the teachings of the Bible, has absolutely nothing to do with the “end times” and “last days” theory (first enunciated in the late 18th century and popularized in the 19th century by Darby and Scofield). Instead, true Christian fundamentalism takes the Bible at its word and accepts that Christ accomplished all that he intended to do while on Earth and that His kingdom is here and is now.
What follows is an edited transcript of the interview. Comments by Valentine are in boldface. Anderson’s responses are in regular text.
A host of television evangelists preach that “we are living in the last days,” that we are “facing Armageddon” and “the end times are upon us,” that the modern-day political and geographic state of Israel is “the handiwork of God.”
In the Nov. issue of Insight magazine, which is published by Korean cult leader Sun Myung Moon [the owner of The Washington Times], writer Don Feder criticizes President George W. Bush for pressuring Israel, saying the fate of America and “the seed of Abraham” are intertwined, that the United States has to treat Israel as the “handiwork of God” or else America will go down the tubes.
When I first became a Christian and began reading the Bible on my own and not listening to others’ interpretations, I realized there is no such thing as “Israel.” “Israel” was wiped out in 70 A.D. and God had a hand in it. Your excellent videotape, The Last Days, explains precisely that.
We are on a campaign to get people back into the Bible. We get so much of our theology today from movies and television. We have best-selling icons out there, such as The Late Great Planet Earth, by Hal Lindsay, the number one selling book for a long time. Now Tim LaHaye’s Left Behind series has sold over 40 million copies, and is a feature-length film. We are getting our Biblical information from these types of people. As a result, we are getting a fictional account which they are portraying as being Biblical.
Today you have more evangelical “end time” Christians in office than any other obvious “religion” in the world. So when people talk about God saying, “I will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel,” this rings down the corridors of Congress. Political decisions are being made based on this faulty interpretation of the Bible that only came into popular teaching in the mid-1800s.
The bottom line fundamental Biblical truth—contrary to the so-called “fundamentalism” taught by the modern-day false prophets who teach that we are in the “end times”—is that Christ did everything he said he was going to do and as he said he was going to do it. Anything other than that is absolute heresy.
So how could Cyrus Ingerson Scofield come along in the 19th century and footnote the Bible and claim the Bible says what it doesn’t say?
Let’s look at human nature. People say, “Why polish the brass on a sinking ship? We’re going to be raptured anyway.” What’s easier to sell: responsibility and doing what Jesus Christ commanded you to do to make a difference, or to sit back and say, “Hey, we’re in the last days and getting ready to be raptured. Why worry about what’s happening in our world today?” Which is easier to sell? The escapist mentality, obviously.
If you want to bring about a one-world government and you have this huge Christian force out there, you must get them to believe that prophecy has not been fulfilled yet and that a one-world government by the Anti-Christ must come before Jesus Christ will return and destroy all of this. All of the land promises to Israel were conditional—and fulfilled.
Scofield’s Reference Bible was first published by the Oxford Press controlled by the Rothschild family of Britain who have been major forces promoting a New World Order.
A book, The Amazing Scofield, written by Joseph Can field deals with Scofield. I am going to produce a video on Mr. Scofield and give the history of this “dispensationalism” and how it first came into popular teaching.
Canfield shows that Scofield, and, earlier, his mentor, John Darby of the so-called Plymouth Brethren, brought this in. Morgan Edwards taught this philosophy here in the United States in 1799, the first documentation of such a message being given here. Where did they get their information from? A Jesuit priest. If we are going to have a one-world government, Christians are going to have to believe that prophecy has not been fulfilled. So dispensationalism was brought forth into the Dallas Theological Seminary and the rest is history.
Yet, modern-day “end times” teachers attempt to link the land promises to the physical nation that is called “Israel.” That is the key political point being made by the people who have put forward this one-world scam (in the name of “Christianity” via the fraud of dispensationalism). They can’t have their global government if people believe that Christ has come and fulfilled the Old Testament and is there for every single person and that we should all be out there being better stewards of His planet and His kingdom on Earth and the gifts he has given us.
Anyone who has actually bothered to read the Bible, realizes that the Bible only speaks of one “last days.” There are not multiple last days. There is only one. We find if we go back to Genesis 49:1, it says: “When Isaac called his 12 sons together” (which made up what was known as Biblical Israel in the natural sense), he said, “Come and let me tell you what shall befall you in the last days.” We find this theme all through the Old Testament. The last days were simply the last days of the old Jewish Covenant.
As the writer of Hebrews 8:13 points out: “That which is waxing old and which is ready to banish away.” This appears time and time again. Hebrews 1:1-2 says that God, at sundry times and in diverse manners, spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets, but has “in these last days,” spoken to us by His son, Jesus Christ. These two points were made: the writer of He brews said that he (the writer) was living in the last days and that Jesus Christ’s earthly ministry was in the last days. We have 1st Peter 4:7 saying “the end of all things is at hand.” We find James talking to the rich, saying, “you have heaped together for yourselves treasure for the last days,” and the apostle, John, says in 2:18 that “it is the last hour.”
So we have a choice. If we say that we believe the Bible, that is holy and inspired in both the Greek and in the new language, then we can either believe them or not. As Jesus said to his apostles, He would lead them into all truth. Luke 21, beginning with verse 8, quotes Jesus as saying: “Many will come in my name saying ‘I am Christ,’ and that the end has drawn near. Believe them not.” He then lists about a dozen things that they would see and know and be qualified to say when the end had drawn near. That meant that anyone before them was a false prophet, saying that the end had drawn near, or anyone after them saying that the end had drawn near. Those to whom Christ spoke were the only ones empowered by Christ, God Almighty and the Holy Spirit to say when the last days actually were.
The Old Testament was there to establish the New Testament. After I read the Old Testament, I read the New Testament several times, because I realized that the Old Testament had been fulfilled. “Fulfilled” means that it was over with: everything that God had promised Israel was given to them. It was a conditional promise and they didn’t keep all of it and they ended up paying a stiff price. That was the horrid destruction of Jerusalem in the three and a half years leading up to 70 A.D.
When that temple was destroyed by Titus, the Roman, who said himself that God had a hand in its destruction it tore that whole structure of the original covenant people to oblivion. Even the Jewish leaders were killing their own people, according to Jewish historian Josephus. Your videotape makes this clearer than anything I’ve ever seen.
There was no more. There was no more Zion. There was no more Israel. There was no more Judaism. Christ was now on the throne. Christi anity was the thing. The old order was gone. Yet today, we have the Zionists trying to rebuild the temple in Israel and a whole bunch of people calling themselves “Christians” who say that the rebuilding of this temple has to take place for God’s plan to work out.
My simple mind says: “Hey, wait a minute. Christ doesn’t have to do anything. He has already done it. What’s with you guys? This is a bunch of hokum.” I felt very alone when I came to this realization and stopped talking to people about it because many Christians were outraged that I had concluded this.
However, I met the late Grace Halsell and others who understand the truth out there. It dawned on me that this “Christian Ecumenism” which is teaching the various Christian churches that we are living in “the end times” is a scam—a deliberate scam to worm the Pharisee plan for a world government into the minds of Christians who will be dominated by these Pharisees.
We are committing what I call “the Jewish error” all over again. When Christ came, the Jews were looking for the Messiah to be the one who would break the Roman yoke off them and that he would set up a physical, literal kingdom on this Earth. That was not His intention, contrary to what some of the modern day “prophets” would say.
When He attempted to try to explain it while feeding the 5,000 who came to Him and they tried to make Christ king, He slipped away to the hills, saying, “My kingdom is not of this world. The kingdom of Heaven comes without observation. The kingdom of Heaven is within.”
So the kingdom he brought and offered them is the one that they rejected because the physical, literal kingdom that they wanted, Christ never intended to establish. Today many people want a physical, literal Jesus and a physical literal temple and a physical literal kingdom that they can point to and say: “There they are.”
Yet, today, we have the most magnificent kingdom that anyone who is a Christian and knows it in his heart can see. The kingdom is there for those who have Christ in their heart. He is on the throne and is there for every individual in the world who chooses to reach to Him. No king, no power on Earth, can take that away. It is already established. Yet, some people don’t think that is enough.
First Samuel, Chapter 8, points out that when they came to Samuel and asked for a king, he told them that they didn’t need one. Samuel took it to God and God said, “Samuel, they have not rejected you but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.” Today people are doing the same thing.
People want to believe this 18th century theory that God is going to come down from Heaven and pave the streets of the literal city of Jerusalem with gold and that He will rule there for 1,000 years. Yet, none of this is going to happen, according to Scripture.
That is correct. One of the problems is that the dispensationalists totally ignore the time statements that are made in the Bible. New Christians always want to study Revelations, but many of them do not study it carefully to find out what it really says. When you look at Revelation 1:3 it says that “the time is at hand,” and you go all the way to the end, Revelation 22:10, where Jesus says don’t seal up the prophecy of this book, for the prophecy “is at hand.” Those are “bookends,” so to speak, on the entire Revelation, which means that everything had to transpire within the “at hand” scenario. “At hand” simply means it is about to happen.
Paul said: “The time of my departure is at hand.” Jesus said, “the time of the passover is at hand.” When we allow the Bible to interpret itself, we have to take a look at the time statement. People constantly use Second Peter to say that the day of the Lord is a thousand years and a thousand years is equal to one day and that God’s time is different from our time.
Well, God is outside of time and not a part of time, yet when He communicates to His creation, He does it in a manner that they can understand and that’s vitally important. When we look at the phrase “at hand,” the consequence of that statement, we have to understand, is that Revelation was “at hand.”
I knew a television minister driven off the air because he challenged the teachings of “the last days.” You cannot be a bigtime television evangelist unless you go along with these “late great planet earth” teachings. This evangelist told me that Revelation was written prior to 70 A.D. as a warning to the Christians of the day about the tribulations to come. Your video explains this very well.
When we look at the book of Revelations, we have to take God’s time statements literally. He says at 1:3 that “the time of Revelation is at hand.” At 22:10 He says that “the time is at hand.” Both the internal evidence of the book itself, and the external evidence, confirms that.
The destruction of Jerusalem and the treatment of the early Christians by Roman emperor Nero are things that were such momentous events that if anyone who had written the book of Revelation and not mentioned it, it would make no sense at all. The case is closed.
Revelation 17:10 refers to the seven kings and says that five have fallen; one is, and one is yet to come. If you count from Julius Caesar forward and count forward, you get to Nero, so you have number six, who was the one who “is” (at the time) and the one yet to come was Vespacious. For that final 42 months, February of 67 A.D. until September of 70 A.D., that was the tribulation spoken of in the book of Revelation.
That is all described in Revelation and in Matthew 24. First John says that the Anti-Christ was present when First John was written. Nero was clearly “anti-Christ.” The Jewish elements that were also “anti-Christ” in their harsh opposition to the teaching that God’s kingdom was already established on earth. Jesus talked about the kingdom of God, not about the physical land of Israel. The reality is the kingdom of God, which was not of this Earth. The new kingdom of God, the new Jerusalem, was a new system that re placed the old system which vanished in 70 A.D.
If the Christian world woke up to this truth, you would see the shock waves go around the world.
Many good people may ask, “Well, if this is true, why haven’t we heard about it?”
I tell them: “I will answer that question if you answer this question: why did it take 1500 years for a man like Martin Luther to come forward saying, ‘the just shall live by faith’ which is what Paul taught in the first century?”
John Anderson’s web site is at: www.lighthouseproductionsllc.com or he can be reached at 1-866-669-9600 or by e-mail at ane@skybest.com. He also broadcasts a weekly program that precedes Radio Free America on the Genesis Radio Network.
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