You wake up in the morning and everything is fine. You could watch a beautiful sunrise and listen to birds singing, then pour a cup of fresh coffee that you thoroughly enjoy. Life is good! Then you turn on the television and the peace of mind you had is shattered by the latest “crisis” of the day. You watch in horror as terror attacks, one after another, occur around the world with mass carnage and loss of life and limb, lives devastated by the hatred of religious ideologies. The U.S. stock market by fraud, deceit and manipulation soaring to new highs for bankers, hedge fund traders and politicians; while the ordinary citizens see their jobs eliminated or their wages reduced at work and the purchasing power of those reduced wages eroded by the insane policies of the Federal Reserve in collusion with White House Executive Orders and the Treasury Department. We watch as the last bastion of law, the Justice Department of the United States, colludes with “elitist” politicians to avoid the penalty for selling our nation’s secrets down the drain to foreign adversaries.
You think to yourself, “These bankers and politicians are crazy, just plain nuts.” Thinking people are amazed that world leaders and governing bodies keep borrowing their way into crisis. They keep spending the wealth of our children and grandchildren. Don’t these aforementioned leaders and bankers understand what they are doing? Can they not look back into history and see what happened to the empires and nations that borrowed more than they could pay? Is it just possible that they no longer can think rationally, and the little guy is actually a lot more astute at these issues than those in high places?
For years we have watched the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank put Third World nations into bondage of debt. These nations, though lost as colonial possessions from 1940 through 1965, were later brought back into bondage and servitude to the Western banks and governments by virtually forcing them to take out loans. These loans are so big, and the interest so powerful, that these Third World nations can only service the debt forever.
Every so often, the World Bank would be called to a Third World nation to counsel them on how to pay their debt down. The World Bank would send a guru who would always demand that they cut services and benefits to their citizens, and stop funding the infrastructure, so that they could pay their debt. This resulted in virtual starvation during famine, and roads and railways were left in decay as nations paid more back to the World Bank. If these nations chose to pay off their debt, the World Bank would take another role. They would do a “survey,” or the United Nations would, and tell the nation targeted that they had a great future if they would only take out another loan. Then the cycle would repeat itself.
Does this sound at all like the way European nations, Greece, Spain, Japan, and the USA have been living in recent years? Ironically, the former World Bank Chairwoman, Christine Legarde read the riot act to Europe and the USA four years ago. She warned that if we do not stop financing our lush materialism (political speak for the skimming of revenues in pork legislation), we will tank.
How have the USA and Europe come to this condition? Something must have changed. And indeed it has! The only thing that can change is one’s mind and it can only change in one of two directions.
The recorded story of Adam and Eve in rebellion against the directive of God is the beginning point for mankind. We find in the 2nd and 3rd chapters of Genesis that they could eat anything God provided except the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. With their disobedience in eating of the fruit of that tree they now faced what all mankind faces; a choice to do good or to do evil. Any student of history full well knows that the track record of man’s relationships and dealings with each other is one of vanity, jealousy, lust and greed. Every dictator, despot, king, queen, president, potentate, and tribal leader in obscure villages is motivated by one desire: to rule over and control the people around them.
Where does that mindset come from? Is it limited to people of higher education or status in society or does it exist in all of us? There is an answer and it is found clearly defined by the Apostle Paul in Romans 1:28, “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.”
From Adam and Eve to our current generation, mankind has increasingly removed God from its society. It has been, and still is, man’s choice to reject his Creator and thus the answer to our original question is clear. A “reprobate” mind is a mind “void of judgment.” No matter what approach men take in attempting to solve the tidal wave of destruction staring us in the face today, it is one “void of judgment.” The only solution they suggest is to have another conference, summit or meeting in which they propose to have yet another conference, summit or meeting about the same problems, resulting in another conference about the same problems. This example of men’s thinking could be defined as, “Losers working with other losers to create loss.” Therefore kingdoms and empires come and fall on the ash heap of history and mankind plods on, void of judgment, to his next attempt.
But we are concerned with today, are we not? Our world is one that has come to our highest intellectual capacities, our greatest achievements in science and research. Psychology has plumbed the depths of the human mind. Culture, knowledge, training and education are on every hand. Every politician cries for “more education.” But instead of bringing knowledge of God, it brings materialism, atheism, and a spurning of the great spiritual values of life. Our institutions become “void of judgment.” Many attend the church of their choice regularly and spout spiritual sounding phrases, having no clue what they are talking about; they are ecclesiastical nuts. If they knew better, they wouldn’t be that way. They are “false teachers,” pseudo didaskolos described in 2 Peter 2:1
But the worst is yet to come, possibly, maybe, perhaps in our generation. The problems we face are insurmountable by normal methods put forth by the world’s leaders. It may soon be time for a different kind of leader. Josephus (Titus Flavius Josephus, 37-100 A.D.), in that famous account of the fall of Jerusalem in the year 70, writes of it in the sixth book of The Wars of the Jews. Josephus was the general of the Hebrew army and he was captured in Galilee. He sat there in the tents of the commanders of the Roman legions and he saw the destruction of Jerusalem. You’ll not find in literature anything more vivid than his description of the blood that flowed in the streets of the city of God. And this is the paragraph of its final destruction:
Book VI, Chapter 5, The Wars of the Jews, by Josephus, 75 A.D., “A false prophet was the occasion of these people’s destruction. He had made a public proclamation in the city to that very day: God commanded him to get up on the temple, and that there they should receive miraculous signs of deliverance. Now there were then a great number of false prophets suborned by the tyrants to impose upon the people . . . that they might be buoyed up above fear and care by such hopes.”
Continuing in Josephus’ writing: “Now a man that is in adversity does easily comply with such promises; for when such a seducer makes him believe that he shall be delivered from those miseries which oppress him, then it is that he’s full of hope for such deliverance. These were the miserable people persuaded by these deceivers while they did not attend nor give credit to the signs that were so evident, and did so plainly foretell their future desolation but like men infatuated, without eyes to see or minds to consider, did not regard the denunciations that God had made to them.” Sounds to me like they were “void of judgment.”
What would that false prophet, that different kind of leader, look like today? What would his mind set be? Where would he come from? What would he believe? The answer is to be revealed possibly, maybe, perhaps in our generation. Regardless it will come, and its description is found once again in the pages of that book that needs to be dusted off and read as it was in a previous time in America, indeed, in the whole Western World.
2 Thessalonians 2:2-17, “That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that 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, shewing himself that he is God.
“Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
“And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
“For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
“And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
“Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
“And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
“And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
“That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
“But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
“Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
“Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
“Now our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
“Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.” (KJV)
The man of sin, which is the man whom Satan provides to rule the world, will be revealed. Revealed to whom? Answer: to whom is this passage addressed? The saints! The revealing of Satan’s man is described in very different terms when speaking of his deception of the nations. Is this the antichrist, or is it the false prophet? I don’t know, but it is not Rasputin, and it is not the President of the United Sates. It is a future man.
The elect are here when this man can be identified, and God has to intervene to preserve the saints from deception. This man of sin is not a political leader; he is not a member of the Hidden Hand or the Anglo Saxon elite. He is a religious man. The reason the elite abdicate the throne of mammon to the Antichrist is that they blew it, they overplayed their hand. We may look back, from early 2008 until the present, finding that the Federal Reserve of the US has held the prime rate at nearly zero for the longest time in modern history. Why? They blew it. They pushed the US and EU economies to the max, gambling with our money, and they are on the brink. Total collapse of the world’s economies is imminent. Very soon you will see a “Great Reset” of economies. As a result, soon you will hear that the world needs a spiritual solution.
Well, the coming man of sin (by Satan’s appointment) will rescue them, and though some of you may doubt it, the conditions of this arrangement will be worship, as verse 4 tells us. They worship, and the man of sin promises power, peace, and wealth. The man of sin wins the world’s elite by flattery. The coming man of sin will offer the ultimate solution to the world elite which will secure their wealth and Utopia. But it will all be trashed by God himself. Why? God hates that coming system, for it is based on power through the fallen church; the Great Whore of Revelation. The man of sin’s time must come on GOD’S schedule, not Jack Van Impe’s or John Hagee’s. Nor are future world wide events chiseled in granite by the Bilderbergers, Illuminati, or any other mystic political entity.
God has or will send a STRONG DELUSION that will combine with the “reprobate mind,” or “mind void of judgment,” resulting in decisions that will bring this world to the very edge of extinction. There is only one hope for all mankind, eloquently described by General Douglas McArthur in his farewell speech to Congress and the nation seventy years ago on April 19, 1951. It is fitting for today.
“Men since the beginning of time have sought peace. Various methods through the ages have been attempted to devise an international process to prevent or settle disputes between nations. From the very start workable methods were found insofar as individual citizens were concerned, but the mechanics of an instrumentality of larger international scope have never been successful.
“Military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness of war now blocks out this alternative. We have had our last chance. If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, our Armageddon will be at our door. The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence, an improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature, and all material and cultural developments of the past two thousand years. It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.”
The “Spiritual Recrudescence” this great General spoke of is from only one source that is able to remove the delusion of mankind’s reprobate, “void of judgment,” mind and save the world. It is found in Isaiah 2:2-4, “And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
“And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
“And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
