Edge of Apocalypse Today

THE SENATE CONFIRMATION HEARING STARTED YESTERDAY FOR ELENA KAGAN. She was nominated by President Obama to serve as America’s newest U.S. Supreme Court justice.  The odds favor the Senate confirming Kagan and adding her to the High Court. What does that mean for America? Elena Kagan brings with her a globalistic world-view that presents a danger as old as the book of Genesis.

When she was Dean of the Harvard Law School, Kagan struck the requirement that her law students study the U.S. Constitution. Instead, she replaced that course requirement with a new one: the mandatory study of foreign law and international legal standards. In a 2006 press release Kagan explained that the intent was to confront law students with the “larger universe” of legal norms and to study “global networks” of law so they could appreciate law from a “global sphere” rather than strictly from an American constitutional standpoint. During her confirmation as Solicitor General under the Obama Administration, Kagan said that as our nation’s top lawyer arguing for the government before the Supreme Court she would not hesitate to make arguments based not just on our Constitution but also on international law as well.

Elena Kagan’s loyalty to global law is problematic for two reasons. First, if she becomes a Supreme Court justice, she could well be the all-important fifth vote in favor of interpreting our Constitution, not according to the vision of our Founding Fathers, but rather from an international law basis; a concept that would probably have been viewed as treasonous by our Founders. Three justices on the Court have already relied on foreign law in their opinions: Justices Kennedy, Breyer and Ginsberg. Recently installed Justice Sotomayor has praised Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s penchant for international law, so we can assume she will be a legal globalist as well. Five justices create a majority, and with Kagan on board they could begin readically steering us away from a view of the Constitution that honors our Judeo-Christian heritage and founding.

Second, if this happens it will usher America into a new age of global law. With Elena Kagan on the Supreme Court, international legal standards could well be imposed on American citizens by the High Court’s legal globalists even without the need for Senate approval of specific international treaties.

In our new novel, Edge of Apocalypse, we show how this trend could create a legal nightmare for conscientious Christians. We need only turn to chapter 11 of Genesis to see how God opposed the ancient attempt at global unification. The Lord declared the tragic result that would follow if a centralized group of fallen men were to consolidate an unlimited , unrestrained power over the planet.

Keep your eyes on the Supreme Court’s view of global law. It could be one of the most telling “signs of the times.”

(c) 2010  Tim LaHaye and Craig Parshall

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NORTH KOREA THREATENED THE UNITED STATES LAST WEEK when its ambassador, Sin Son Ho said that North Korea would consider using nuclear retaliation against the United States if it blamed that communist regime for the sinking of a South Korean ship recently. You can understand our intense interest in this development, considering the fact that our brand new futuristic novel, Edge of Apocalypse, begins with a North Korean nuclear attack against New York City. But was this threat last week just more “bluster” from North Korea? The Obama Administration apparently thinks so. So far the President has merely continued sanctions against that tyrannical nation. Nothing more. But even the Council on Foreign Relations, usually considered ultra-liberal on national security issues released a report last Tuesday strongly criticizing the Obama Administration’s efforts against North Korea’s ambitions to develop, and use, nuclear weapons. The report called the President’s efforts “half-hearted” and called upon him to be much more aggressive. We think that the rants and ravings of North Korea’s despot, Kim Jong-il, and his deputies need to be taken seriously.  North Korea’s sinking of a South Korean vessel is serious business and may be just the beginning. Wars have started over just those kinds of events.

But there is another side to this too. The  ”half-hearted” approach of America’s ”Commander In-Chief” to threats against us from abroad, may be a signal of things to come.  There is no clear mention of the United States in the prophecies of the Bible concerning the End Times. Considering our status as a world leader, that fact would indicate several possibilites. But certainly one of them is that America may capitulate to a radical form of internationalism and be absorbed into a global community of nations, or that we will fail to defend ourselves against real and present dangers from our enemies. Or possibly both. But Christians should reject as far as they are able, government policies that fail to protect our national security. Bible believing Christians need only read Romans 13 for the explanation of a nation’s right to use force against evil. Likewise, if we read Acts 17 we see Paul, in his speech to the intellectuals of Athens, defending the concept of national sovereignty as part of God’s plan in establishing the “bounderies” of man’s habitation. And in Genesis 11 God defeated a plan for global government, creating seperate people groups, clearly an indication that there is a kind of “checks and balances” by having separate nations looking to their own legitimate interests.   

These are the kinds of issues we confront in our novel Edge of Apocalypse. It is our hope that you will not only find some entertaining, suspenseful fiction, but also some hard-hitting facts about America and the world as we see it unfolding. And of course, most important of all, we trust that our readers will see that the God of prophecy is a merciful God, always seeking to save the lost, and give hope to the hopeless.

(c) 2010 Tim LaHaye and Craig Parshall

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