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Rick Warren continues to amaze and dazzle the unregenerate by preaching business strategies for corporate growth and profit while completely ignoring the gospel.  He appears before Jews and Muslims instructing them how to grow and enhance their numbers without offering the message of salvation.

Particularly odious is his exhortation that Christians join hands with Muslims in community service projects and put their differences behind them for this greater good.  As this article “Rick Warren: A Voiced for the Regenerate Church or the Degenerate Church?” by Moriel Ministries shows, it is not difficult to see the true spirit behind Rick Warren.

At the rate the Federal Reserve is printing money China is concerned that the resulting inflation will significantly erode their wealth.  China happens to be the world’s largest holder of US dollar financial assets, and is looking at a transitional index of all currencies to take place at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).  Once all nations set their reserves to that index system, sovereign reserves would eventually be replaced by the new IMF reserves.

With the whole world eventually relying on this IMF standard a new world currency could be issued to replace all others.  According to an official at the People’s Bank of China, the only thing missing in the scheme is a man of “extraordinary political vision and courage” to bring the process about.¹  According to the Bible, It may not be a long wait before he appears.

This extraordinary man of fantastic political and diplomatic skills was foretold about in the book of Daniel (Dan 7:8).  He will be an economic genius and be adapt at solving the world’s financial crisis. He is referred to as the Beast in the book of Revelation, and will receive his power from Satan, the dragon, who will require all the world to worship him in order to use his new currency (Rev 13:4).

It will not be printed, but imprinted in the right hand or forehead.  All who refuse this mark will be unable to buy or sell, and will be hunted for extermination.  All who do trade in this coming new currency, or take the mark, will suffer eternal damnation and torment with fire and brimstone forever (Rev 14:10-11).

^1. Jamil Anderlini, “China calls for new reserve currency,” Financial Times, FT.com, March 23, 2009. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7851925a-17a2-11de-8c9d-0000779fd2ac.html

Historians never tire of studying the phenomenon of Adolph Hitler and the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Everything from the origin of the swastika to the pharmacopeia behind the Nazi madmen has been delved into, and now a new work examining the “The Hitler Salute” by German sociologist Tilman Allert puts together 128 pages of fascinating details on “Hiel.”

What is probably little known to most contemporary teachers is that the Nazi Salute was, among other things, an acknowledgement of Hitler’s divine status. It was made mandatory for civil servants, and used in public to display fervent devotion to the master race, and to mark any who lacked enthusiastic reverence and commitment. It could only be used by pure Germans, and it was illegal for Jews to use it.

The sociological dynamics of grouping an entire country and modifying their behaviors by the salute merit this interesting study. It also makes interesting comparison of the “mark” that will be required by the coming world leader for all to prove, not only their right to commerce and citizenship, but of outright worship of the man the Bible describes as the Antichrist. While the Nazi salute could be discontinued by surviving dissidents after the defeat of Germany in WWII, those who take the mark of the beast will be doomed forever (Rev.14:9-11).

Notes:

Richard J. Evans, “All Hailed: The Meaning of the Hitler Salute,” review of “The Hitler Salute” Tilman Allert, New York Sun, April 16, 2008.

http://www.nysun.com/arts/all-hailed-meaning-hitler-salute

Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama believes that there is a new “awakening taking place in America” which does not emphasize salvation of the soul, but satiation of the flesh. He praised social service campaigns of Rick Warren, T.D. Jakes, and Catholic Charities for uniting to fight hunger and comfort the diseased, but did not include preaching the Gospel as a mission for this new world religion. Instead, Obama spoke of a new divine commission, or “simple truth,” bringing different religions together, and which he expressed in the simple phrase “we are all connected.”

It is a new starting point for church membership determined solely by being alive on planet earth. The new religious tenants would be those dictated by a union of church and state governments conscripting members into social services and environmental programs. There are also new religious liberties to be enjoyed in this new brotherhood of man, and they include, well, just about everything; and for which sins the state will give absolution in the form of abortion on demand, and medication for AIDS

There is no room for dissenters in the new religious landscape. Obama included the Southern Baptists with the Willow Creek, National Association of Evangelicals, and emergent church models already co-opted. Everyone else better join up soon: being accepted as “good stewards of God’s creations” leaves no room for “hate,” or disapproval of sin, in the heart of these new believers, and consequently no room Bible-believers anywhere else.

Obama is a well oiled, smooth politician who chooses his words carefully for their imagery power, and heavy connotative value. He is continuing to attack Bible-believing Christians who oppose him by characterizing them as terrorist hijackers, and divisive hate-mongers. Accurate reporting must lay bare these well-crafted implications and expose them for the explicit assertions and schemes that they are. Like all demagogues, Obama claims knowledge that “God is speaking,” but these overtures to unite the world in a secular state religion make it clear that the god who has Obama’s ear is the Anti-god making way for his son, the Antichrist.

David Dansker

Read about it in The Christian Post