Very long, but good read by Pete:
All that we call human history–money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery–[is] the long, terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. – C.S. Lewis
“The Sum of All Fears” (2002) is a political thriller based on Tom Clancy’s novel of the same name. The story follows CIA analyst Jack Ryan, who slowly discovers a plot by a European neo-Nazi group that is aiming to get the two superpowers (the US and USSR) to wipe each other out, allowing them to create a fascist European superstate. The crisis begins with the detonation of a dirty bomb (nuclear) in Baltimore, Maryland. It is further exacerbated by the Russian attack on a US aircraft carrier. As tensions rise, Ryan discovers the bomb’s black-market origin and races against time to prevent a global conflict.
While a work of fiction, this film strangely resonates with the current state of the world. Instead of a neo-Nazi group, we are witnessing the globalist elites from various backgrounds manipulating their populations to foster division and pave the way for a fascist global superstate. Instead of a nuclear warhead, they are using censorship to silence and penalize their critics. And what the governments cannot do legally, they have their corporate confederates in the technocracy enforce upon the public. It’s the Deep State orchestrating conflicts between the left and right, conservative and liberal, black and white, gay and straight, rich and poor, citizen and non-citizen, observing the eruption of civil strife, and seizing control in the aftermath. In essence, it mirrors the enactment of the Hegelian dialectic on a grand scale.
The Times of the Gentiles
“And He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place” (Acts 17:26).
Admittedly, the further back we investigate history, the more difficult it becomes to determine the exact times and details of those ancient peoples. We must also contend with the use of overtly biased historical accounts, the use of multiple calendar systems (e.g., lunar, solar, lunisolar, civil, religious, political, etc.), as well as the devastating effects of war and nature (entropy) in attempting to derive the truth of what was. However, the Bible clearly outlines the prominent human kingdoms that came, and would come, as it relates to the goings on of men toward the end of time (Dan 2, 7-12, Rev. 6, 12, 13, 17-18, etc.).
As to calendars, just before the time of Christ, the Roman Empire embraced the use of the Julian Calendar, which became the primary method of counting time used by the West until the Gregorian Calendar was adopted in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII. Nevertheless, the best we can reckon is that we are nearing the two thousandth anniversary of Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection by the year 2033.
With that said, we should note that the political strategist Karl Rove once said, “Empires create reality.”
In a sense, we would equate that reality with truth because what an empire establishes as law or fact must be dealt with regardless of how true it is. This means that at its height, the Roman Empire created reality for that age. Great Britain, at its geopolitical height, created the reality for that age. And here in our present age, the United States is creating the geopolitical and economic reality the rest of the world must revolve around.
Historians have noted that the average age of the modern empire (since 1AD) appears to be between 200 – 340 years in length. This doesn’t mean right at the 200-year mark, the nation collapses. What it does mean is that nations/empires rarely stay in the same form for more than 200 years. We can see this transition very clearly through the 900-year existence of Rome, which went through five different stages before ultimately becoming an imperial autocracy. The Scottish historian Alexander Tytler chronicled this in his “Cycle of Nations,” which shows in fact that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
www.raptureready.com
All that we call human history–money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery–[is] the long, terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. – C.S. Lewis
“The Sum of All Fears” (2002) is a political thriller based on Tom Clancy’s novel of the same name. The story follows CIA analyst Jack Ryan, who slowly discovers a plot by a European neo-Nazi group that is aiming to get the two superpowers (the US and USSR) to wipe each other out, allowing them to create a fascist European superstate. The crisis begins with the detonation of a dirty bomb (nuclear) in Baltimore, Maryland. It is further exacerbated by the Russian attack on a US aircraft carrier. As tensions rise, Ryan discovers the bomb’s black-market origin and races against time to prevent a global conflict.
While a work of fiction, this film strangely resonates with the current state of the world. Instead of a neo-Nazi group, we are witnessing the globalist elites from various backgrounds manipulating their populations to foster division and pave the way for a fascist global superstate. Instead of a nuclear warhead, they are using censorship to silence and penalize their critics. And what the governments cannot do legally, they have their corporate confederates in the technocracy enforce upon the public. It’s the Deep State orchestrating conflicts between the left and right, conservative and liberal, black and white, gay and straight, rich and poor, citizen and non-citizen, observing the eruption of civil strife, and seizing control in the aftermath. In essence, it mirrors the enactment of the Hegelian dialectic on a grand scale.
The Times of the Gentiles
“And He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place” (Acts 17:26).
Admittedly, the further back we investigate history, the more difficult it becomes to determine the exact times and details of those ancient peoples. We must also contend with the use of overtly biased historical accounts, the use of multiple calendar systems (e.g., lunar, solar, lunisolar, civil, religious, political, etc.), as well as the devastating effects of war and nature (entropy) in attempting to derive the truth of what was. However, the Bible clearly outlines the prominent human kingdoms that came, and would come, as it relates to the goings on of men toward the end of time (Dan 2, 7-12, Rev. 6, 12, 13, 17-18, etc.).
As to calendars, just before the time of Christ, the Roman Empire embraced the use of the Julian Calendar, which became the primary method of counting time used by the West until the Gregorian Calendar was adopted in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII. Nevertheless, the best we can reckon is that we are nearing the two thousandth anniversary of Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection by the year 2033.
With that said, we should note that the political strategist Karl Rove once said, “Empires create reality.”
In a sense, we would equate that reality with truth because what an empire establishes as law or fact must be dealt with regardless of how true it is. This means that at its height, the Roman Empire created reality for that age. Great Britain, at its geopolitical height, created the reality for that age. And here in our present age, the United States is creating the geopolitical and economic reality the rest of the world must revolve around.
Historians have noted that the average age of the modern empire (since 1AD) appears to be between 200 – 340 years in length. This doesn’t mean right at the 200-year mark, the nation collapses. What it does mean is that nations/empires rarely stay in the same form for more than 200 years. We can see this transition very clearly through the 900-year existence of Rome, which went through five different stages before ultimately becoming an imperial autocracy. The Scottish historian Alexander Tytler chronicled this in his “Cycle of Nations,” which shows in fact that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
- From bondage to spiritual growth
- From spiritual growth to great courage
- From courage to liberty
- From liberty to abundance
- From abundance to complacency
- From complacency to apathy
- From apathy to dependence
- From dependence back to bondage
The Sum of All Fears :: By Pete Garcia
All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-- the long, terrible story of man trying to find
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