Edge of Apocalypse Today

Washington D.C.   News is now breaking on three separate issues. But they may be more related than meets the eye.  Here they are:

• The European Union is urging the United Nations to upgrade its presence in the international assembly. If the EU’s demand is met, it means that it will be able to address the UN on behalf of all of its member nations. While it would still not be a full voting member, the EU would be able to give the appearance of increased stature on the world stage. Significance:  This is just one more sign of the steady increase in the influence of global coalitions of nations, and the trend toward the decline of individual national identity and sovereignty.
• In Basel, Switzerland last week, banking regulators of 27 nations agreed to new global banking regulations. These new rules were instigated by the recent  passage by the U.S. Congress, and the signing into law by President Obama, of sweeping new banking laws, including the creation of a new federal agency which will oversee international financial markets around the world.  Significance:  For the first time in history, the banking systems of the world are uniting to create a single, global set of rules for banking and investments, with the United States leading the way.
• This week the U.S. Senate is considering the START nuclear weapons treaty negotiated between Russia and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. If passed it would bind the U.S. to a system that could impair America’s ability to develop defensive anti-missile weapons. Significance: A separate statement by Russia, attached to the treaty, says that Russia expects the U.S. to refrain from expanding its anti-missile defenses, and that if we don’t, then Russia will withdraw from the treaty. This could well be used by the Obama Administration and others to cow-tow to Russia and to limit America’s development of anti-nuclear protections. But beyond that, the treaty provides for the creation of a shadowy joint Moscow-Washington panel that could decide ongoing matters of national defense without submitting those terms to the Senate for ratification as required by the Constitution.

All three of these events have prophetic implications, and interestingly, are also themes in our new futuristic novel Edge of Apocalypse.  The first shows the clear trend toward an eventual global political system, something the Bible clearly lays out as a feature of the End Times. The second, a unified global economic system, is also a hallmark of the description in Scripture of the state of world affairs just before the return of Jesus Christ to establish His kingdom. And the third, the potential rise of a new Russian dominance, is consistent with biblical prophecy, particularly in the book of Ezekiel. Readers of our End series should know that the expansion of Russian influence and power will be a major theme in the second book in our End series which is underway right now and is expected to be released by our publisher, Zondervan, early next year.

In the meantime, read Ezekiel  38 and 39 and watch the manipulation of the “progressives” who currently control the U.S. government. They seek to legislate away our national sovereignty as they usashamably position us for a one-world government to be headed by the U.N.  Bible prophecy is being fulfilled right before our eyes.  

(c) 2010 Tim LaHaye and Craig Parshall

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Washington, DC.  Week before last, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s State Department filed a report with the UN Human Rights Council. Stunningly, it names Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law by name, treating it as a human rights violation in the report, and has told the UN that the law has sparked concern “around the world.” The Obama Administration has already filed suit against Arizona, trying to shut down the state law that is simply trying to enforce the federal standards that the federal government has refused to honor.  But now, with this report to the international body, the Administration is appealing to the world community for backing and is hanging one of our sovereign states out to dry. This is not entirely surprising, given the penchant of the current President and his Administration to bow to global values rather than American constitutional ones,  and to seek international approval at every turn. This globalistic fervor is noted in the introductory words of the State Department report, which promises a U.S.  comittment to help to build “institutions that can usher us toward a more perfect world.” In the conclusion of the report, the State Department solicits from the UN human rights  group “recommendations that can help us on that road to a more perfect union.”  That latter phrase is borrowed from the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution; so apparently the Administration believes that America needs the world community to help us interpret our own constitutional values.

This is additional proof of the radical turn in American policy. The United States is still the most liberty-loving nation on the face of the earth at present. Yet our current leaders continue to give a bowing, subservient deference to our global critics. In our new futuristic novel, Edge of Apocalypse, we envision what can happen if this trend continues. Imagine for a moment UN “human rights” monitoring offices posted in America’s major cities so they can prosecute us for violating international values; or U.S. courts being forced to implement international treaties of “tolerance” that conflict with our own Constitution. The media has been fixed recenly on hurricane Earl, as it threatened to batter the coast of the United States. But a far more deadly storm is brewing: one that threatens to sweep away the foundations of our unique legal system, and to drown our historic American values in a tsunami of globalism.

(c) 2010 Tim LaHaye and Craig Parshall

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