A New World Order Watch Media Publica(cid:21)on Special Complimentary Issue The Vision Report Watch is a publica(cid:21)on of Rema Marke(cid:21)ng www.remamarke(cid:21)ng.com Welcome to the Vision Report Watch I cannot tell you how much that Its great to be back. Many of you may not have known that I suffered a back injury which put me out of action for much of August and so I was unable to review much of the editorial that had been submitted for August. I apologize for this but can reassure you that the edition is ongoing twice per month for September onwards. I appreciate any inconvenience this may have caused. However there is nothing more frustrating than back pain and if any of you have this I can sincerely empathize with you and pray that Gods healing touch will see you through. The first of this months edition focuses on “Armageddon” I can assure you that if you were to randomly ask ten people from the public what their understanding of “Armageddon” is that you would get back a whole myriad of different explanations and conjectures. Much of the publics conceptualizing of Armageddon is to a large extent influenced by what they see in the media. Therefore in this edition we will first examine the media’s perceptions of Armageddon and then contrast it to a true biblical perspective to identify the significant differences. This exercise is important because for many editions we have been focusing on world government and the plans and strategies of the global elite and secret societies. However whatever the diabolical nature and intent of these plans there is conclusive proof that their implementation will be temporary. It is likely that not all of you will agree with our assertions since even within Christendom there are significance differences of opinion regarding the meaning and application of Armageddon but we hope you will follow our sequence of thoughts and let us know your feedback. All the best now. Daniel Bailey Chief Editor Vision Report Watch D THE SECULAR VIEW OF ARMAGEDDON The publics fascination with the Armageddon concept has resulted in a number of blockbuster movies released from Hollywood over the last twenty years. These movies having grossed collectively billions of dollars have played on the publics psyche of the earth being at threat from extinction. However the definitions applied to Armageddon in the media especially in Hollywood have been generally used to describe a doomsday scenario where the earth faces destruction due to either major ecological or universal factors. Four of the biggest selling box office movies, Armageddon, Deep Impact, The Day After Tomorrow and 2012 all were based on a doomsday apocalyptic scenario. Harry and his team reoutfit the mobile drillers ARMAGEDDON NASA plans to use on the asteroid, and Harry comes to realize that his crew needs to be part of When a meteor shower destroys the Space Shuttle the mission to assure success. NASA puts Harry's Atlantis and bombards parts of New York City, crew through a shortened rigorous training NASA discovers a gigantic asteroid will collide with schedule. When fragments from the asteroid wipe Earth in 18 days, creating another extinction event. out Shanghai and Paris, NASA is forced to reveal With the military, NASA scientists plan to embed a its plans to the world; they soon launch two military nuclear device hundreds of feet within the asteroid Space Shuttles, Freedom and Independence that, when ignited, will split the asteroid in two parts that will both safely fly past the Earth. Once in orbit, the shuttles dock with a Russian NASA contacts Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis), one space station manned by Lev Andropov (Peter Stormare) to refuel. A.J. encounters a problem while trying to stop the fuel pumps, and the station is evacuated before it explodes, with Lev and A.J. safely aboard the Independence. The shuttles continue the plan, slingshoting around the Moon in order to land on the backside of the asteroid. However, while traveling through the debris field behind the asteroid, the Independence is punctured by debris and appears to crash onto the asteroid. Grace, watching from NASA headquarters, becomes distraught over A.J.'s apparent death. of the best deep-sea oil drillers in the world. Harry returns to NASA along with his daughter Grace (Liv Tyler) in order to keep her away from one of his young and more rambunctious drillers, A.J. (Ben Affleck), who has fallen in love with her much to Harry's dismay. Harry and Grace learn of the critical issues of the asteroid, and Harry explains he will need his team members, including A.J. to help advise NASA. Once they have been rounded up, Harry's team offers to help but only after being assured of being rewarded from an esoteric list of demands. 3 D THE SECULAR VIEW OF ARMAGEDDON Freedom safely lands, though they find they have President of the United overshot their target area and now are facing hard States Tom Beck iron plate to drill through. They lose a significant (Morgan Freeman) amount of time and spare equipment in their reveals to the public attempt, and then lose their entire driller and that the United States another crew member when they strike a gas government learned a pocket. year ago from scientific records about A When they report their failure to NASA, Harry's comet's existence and team learn that the military had implemented a announces the grim facts: The comet—named Wolf backup plan of igniting the bomb on the surface of -Biederman—is 7 miles (11 km) wide, large enough the asteroid regardless of the team's safety. Both to destroy all life if it strikes Earth. The United Harry and Dan work to disable this option, knowing States and Russia have been secretly constructing it would have no effect on the asteroid's path. They in orbit the spacecraft Messiah, which they plan to all soon discover that A.J., Lev, and send on a mission to destroy the comet with "Bear" (Michael Clarke Duncan, another of Harry's nuclear weapons. Life changes drastically crew) made the Independence crash alive, and worldwide, and both Leo and Lerner become have driven the other driller to the drilling site. Harry celebrities. puts his trust in A.J., who is able to drill to the required depth for the charge. After landing on the comet, the Messiah crew members plant nuclear bombs 100 meters beneath As the asteroid moves dangerously close to the the surface; one crew member dies while another is earth, it begins to heat up and make the surface seriously injured. When the bombs are detonated, conditions extremely dangerous. When they try to Messiah is damaged and loses contact with Earth. plant the bomb, the triggering mechanism is Instead of being destroyed the comet splits into two damaged, and one person will be forced to stay smaller rocks nicknamed "Biederman" (1.5 miles behind to trigger it manually. A.J. draws the short (2.4 km) wide) and "Wolf" (6 miles (9.7 km) wide), straw, but as he and Harry descend to the air lock, both still world-threatening. Harry rips part of A.J.'s suit and tells him that he trusts him well enough now to marry Grace, and Beck acknowledges then takes the responsibility of detonating the Messiah’s failure, declares bomb. martial law, and announces that governments worldwide Harry contacts Grace and says his last goodbyes, are building underground then recounts his life as the Freedom moves to shelters. The United States' safe distance, before triggering the bomb. The national refuge is in the asteroid, as predicted, breaks into two and both limestone caves of Missouri. halves miss the Earth. The Freedom lands, and the The US government surviving crew are treated as heroes. conducts a lottery to select 800,000 ordinary Americans DEEP IMPACT aged 50 and under to join 200,000 pre-selected scientists, engineers, Deep Impact is a 1998 science-fiction disaster- teachers, artists, soldiers, and officials. drama film released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks in the United States on May 8, 1998. A last-ditch effort to use Earth's missile-borne It was directed by Mimi Leder and stars Elijah nuclear weapons to deflect the two chunks of the Wood, Téa Leoni, Morgan Freeman and Robert comet fails. The Biederman fragment impacts in the Duvall. The plot describes the attempts to prepare Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda, creating an for and destroy a 7-mile wide comet, which is enormous, supersonic megatsunami. Millions of expected to collide with the Earth and cause a people along the Atlantic coasts of North and South mass extinction. America, Europe, and Africa die. 4 D THE SECULAR VIEW OF ARMAGEDDON The world braces for the impact of Wolf in western causes anything in contact with it to instantly Canada, which will create a cloud of dust that will freeze, thus heralding the predicted ice age in block out the sun for two years. This in turn will seven to ten days. destroy all remaining life aside from that which has been evacuated underground, but Messiah— Unfortunately, the storm worsens, forcing subways believed lost—reaches the fragment and enters a and Grand Central Station to close. As the storm fissure to blow itself up, which breaks Wolf into worsens in Manhattan, a tidal wave of much smaller pieces; these burn up in Earth's overwhelming size (up to the neck of the Statue of atmosphere, sparing humanity. Liberty) impacts the island, causing major flooding. THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW While the survivors in the Northern United States are forced to stay inside due to the storm, the President orders to evacuate the southern half of the country, The U.S. President's motorcade is fatally caught in the superstorm, leaving the U.S. Vice President in charge. The eye of the superstorm begins to pass over New York city with its −150 °F (−101 °C) temperatures, and the entire New York City skyline begins to freeze. The movie concludes with two astronauts looking down at Earth from the International Space Station, showing most of the northern hemisphere covered in ice, and a major reduction in pollution. 2012 The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science-fiction disaster film that depicts the catastrophic effects of global warming in a series of extreme weather events that usher in a new ice age. It did well at the box office, grossing $542,771,772 internationally. Domestically, it is the sixth highest grossing movie not to be #1 in the US box office (behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The The Movie “2012” was released in November 2009 Squeakquel, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Sherlock and in doing so has intensified the debate Holmes, and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs), but regarding the year 2012 as being the year when a worldwide, it is third behind only Ice Age 3 and major ecological change will take place which will Casino Royale. The movie was filmed in Montreal, have significant ramifications for making. and is the highest grossing Hollywood film in history to be filmed in Canada (if adjusted for inflation). The movie begins in the year 2009, when Dr. Adrian Helmsley, an American geologist, visits Across the world, violent weather causes mass astrophysicist Dr. Satnam Tsurutani in India and destruction, including a snowstorm greatly learns that neutrinos from a massive solar flare are impacting New Delhi, a hailstorm ultimately causing the temperature of the Earth's core to destroying Tokyo, Japan, and a large outbreak of increase rapidly. Adrian informs White House Chief tornadoes wrecking Los Angeles. The U.S. of Staff Carl Anheuser and United States President President (Perry King), authorizes the FAA to Thomas Wilson that this will trigger a catastrophic suspend air traffic over the United States due to chain of natural disasters. In 2010, Wilson, along severe turbulence. The situation worsens when with other international leaders, begins a massive, three massive hurricane-like blizzard superstorms secret project intended to ensure humanity's begin to form over the northern hemisphere, with survival. their eyes pulling down super-cooled air that 5 D THE SECULAR VIEW OF ARMAGEDDON Approximately 400,000 people are chosen to board Arriving in China in a crash landing that kills Sasha, ships called "arks" that are constructed at Cho the group is spotted by the People's Liberation Ming, Tibet in the Himalayas. Additional funding for Army. Yuri and his sons, possessing tickets, are the project is raised by selling tickets to the private taken to the arks. The Curtis family, Gordon and sector for €1 billion per person. By 2011, they start Tamara, none of whom possess tickets, are picked secretly moving humanity's valuable treasures to up by Nima, a Buddhist monk on his way to the the Himalayas under the guise of protecting them arks. They stowaway with the help of Nima's from terrorist attacks. brother, Tenzin, who has been working on the ark project's construction crew. As a megatsunami In 2012, Jackson Curtis is a science fiction writer in approaches the site while thousands of people Los Angeles who works part-time as a limousine attempt to board the final ark, a large impact driver driver for Russian billionaire Yuri Karpov. Jackson's becomes lodged between the gears of the ark's ex-wife Kate and their children Noah and Lily live hydraulics chamber, preventing a boarding gate with Kate's boyfriend, plastic surgeon and amateur from closing and rendering the ship unable to start pilot, Gordon Silberman. Jackson takes Noah and its engines. In the ensuing chaos Yuri, Gordon and Lily camping in Yellowstone National Park, where Tamara are killed, Tenzin is wounded and the they meet Charlie Frost, who hosts a radio show flooding ark is set adrift. Jackson and Noah free the from the park. Charlie references a theory that impact driver from the closing mechanism and the suggests the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar crew regains control of the ark, preventing a predicts that the 2012 phenomenon is going to collision with Mount Everest. occur. He has a map of the ark project in addition to information of government officials and scientists After floodwaters from the tsunamis recede, three from around the world who were murdered after arks set sail for the Cape of Good Hope in South discovering information about the ark project and Africa, where the Drakensberg Mountains have trying to alert the public. risen in relation to sea level. Jackson reconciles with his family and Adrian starts a relationship with The family returns home as seismic activity Laura. The Earth is shown from space, revealing a increases along the west coast of the United radically changed continental landscape. States. Jackson grows suspicious and rents a plane to rescue his family. He collects his family THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL FACTOR and Gordon as the Earth crust displacement begins, and they narrowly escape Los Angeles The secularisation of the Armageddon theme has using a Cessna 340 as the city slides into the also resulted in several blockbuster movies which Pacific Ocean. incorporate the involvement of extraterrestrials. Independence Day, War of the Worlds and As millions die in cataclysmic earthquakes Knowing are three huge box office hits where the worldwide, the group flies to Yellowstone to retrieve apocalyptic theme has been in contrast to the Charlie's map, escaping as the Yellowstone ecological disaster pattern commonly seen. Caldera erupts. Staying behind to broadcast the eruption, Charlie is killed in the blast. Learning the arks are in China, the group lands in Las Vegas. They meet Yuri, his twin sons, girlfriend Tamara and pilot Sasha. The group secures an Antonov 500 aircraft and departs for China. Also heading for the arks aboard Air Force One are Anheuser, Helmsley, and First Daughter Laura Wilson. President Wilson chooses to remain in Washington, D.C. and is killed by a megatsunami which sends the USS John F. Kennedy crashing into the White House. With the Vice President dead and the Speaker of the House missing, Anheuser assumes de facto leadership of the United States. 6 D THE HISTORICAL VIEW OF ARMAGEDDON The word Armageddon appears only once in the Greek New Testament in Revelation 16:12. The word comes from Hebrew har məgiddô ,(ודיגמ רה)meaning "Mountain of Megiddo". Megiddo was a site of great importance in the ancient world, as it guarded the western branch of Via Maris, an ancient trade route from Egypt to Mesopotamia. The town Megiddo in Israel is approximately 25 miles (40 km) westsouthwest of the southern tip of the Sea of Galilee (or Lake Tiberias to the Romans) in the Kishon River area. The exact location of the valley of Armageddon is unclear because there is no mountain called Meggido. However, since “Har” can also mean hill, the most likely location is the hill country surrounding the plain of Meggido, some sixty miles north of Jerusalem. Known as the Mount of Megiddo it is located in the plain of Esdraelon or Jezreel, a valley fourteen by twenty miles in size located to the southwest of Nazareth. Here, it is believed by many, a great final battle will be fought at the end of time. Because of its strategic location at the crossroads of several major routes, Megiddo and its environs have witnessed several hundred battles which have been fought in that region. The valley of Armageddon was famous for two great victories in Israel’s history: 1) Barak’s victory over the Canaanites (Judges 4:15) and 2) Gideon’s victory over the Midianites (Judges 7). Armageddon was also the site for two great tragedies: 1) the death of Saul and his sons (1 Samuel 31:8) and 2) the death of King Josiah (2 Kings 23:29-30; 2 Chronicles 35:22). Ancient Megiddo's gates and walls witnessed the armed struggles of Assyrians, Canaanites, Egyptians, Greeks, Israelites, Persians, Philistines, and Romans. Although Megiddo was not a fortress in the days of World War I, note that the critical battle enabling the British Field Marshal Edmund Allenby to wrest control of the Holy Land from the Turks occurred at Megiddo where he began his offensive against them on September 18, 1918. The site was inhabited from 7000 BC to 500 BC. Modern Megiddo is nearby. The neighboring Mount Megiddo (Har-megiddo in Hebrew), gave its name to the Armageddon of the Christian Bible. Today, Megiddo is an important junction on the main road connecting the center of Israel with 7 D THE HISTORICAL VIEW OF ARMAGEDDON lower Galilee and the northern region. An interesting conclusion that can be drawn from a historical understanding of the origin of the word “Armageddon” is that is implicates the country of Israel. This therefore provides a significant basis to understanding the end times, the relationship of the New World order to Armageddon and understanding why Israel is an important piece of the puzzle. Whereas the general media perception of Armageddon has nothing to do with Israel and everything to do with mankind trying to save himself from the forces of nature or in some cases an external extraterrestrial species, the biblical perspective of Armageddon paints a significantly entirely different focus one which is focused on a series of events that are geographically focused within the Middle East. The great prophetical scholar, J. Dwight Pentecost has devoted an entire chapter to the subject, titled "The Campaign of Armageddon", in which he discusses Armageddon as a campaign and not a specific battle (as the Kings James translation “battle” paints an incorrect view of just one military event) which will be fought in the Middle East. Pentecost writes: It has been held commonly that the battle of Armageddon is an isolated event transpiring just prior to the second advent of Christ to the earth. The extent of this great movement in which God deals with "the kings of the earth and of the whole world" (Rev. 16:14) will not be seen unless it is realized that the "battle of that great day of God Almighty" (Rev. 16:14)[9] is not an isolated battle, but rather a campaign that extends over the last half of the tribulation period. The Greek word "polemo", translated "battle" in Revelation 16:14, signifies a war or campaign, while "machē" signifies a battle, and sometimes even single combat. This distinction is observed by Trench, (see Richard C. Trench, New Testament Synonyms, pp.301-2) and is followed by Thayer (see Joseph Henry Thayer, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, p. 528) and Vincent (see Marvin R. Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament, II, 541). The use of the word polemos (campaign) in Revelation 16:14 would signify that the events that culminate in the gathering at Armageddon at the second advent are viewed by God as one connected campaign. —Pentecost, p.340 8 D ALTERNATIVE ARMAGEDDON VIEWPOINTS Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Armageddon is a battle in which Satan unites the kings of the earth against God's appointed king, Christ. Unlike other Christian groups, Witnesses believe that the 'Antichrist' is not an individual, that the war is not one of nations fighting against each other, and that Megiddo refers to a symbolic gathering of all the kings of the earth. According to The Watchtower magazine, prior to Armageddon the United Nations will attack all religions, and then focus their attack on the Witnesses, who will continue to preach. The world's leaders will then battle against God and his forces, provoked by expressions and signs inspired by demons; after they are destroyed God's kingdom will be established over earth for a thousand years. The final judgment and purification of the Earth's sin occurs at the end of the millennium. The teachings of the Seventh-day Adventist Church state that the terms "Armageddon", "Day of the Lord" and "The Second Coming of Christ" all describe the same event. Seventh-day Adventists further teach that the current religious movements taking place in the world are setting the stage for Armageddon, and they are concerned by the growing unity between spiritualism, American Protestantism and Roman Catholicism. A further significant difference in Seventh-day Adventist theology is the teaching that the events of Armageddon will leave the earth desolate for the duration of the millennium. They teach that the righteous will be taken to heaven while the rest of humanity will be destroyed, leaving Satan with no one to tempt and effectively "bound." The final re-creation of a "new heaven and a new earth." then follows the millennium. The idea that a final "Battle of Armageddon" will be fought at Tel Megiddo has had a wide influence, especially in the US. According to Donald E. Wagner, Professor of Religion and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at North Park University, Ronald Reagan was an adherent of "Armageddon theology," and "seemed to blend his political analysis with his Armageddon theology quite naturally." Muslims believe that the Islamic Prophet Muhammad prophesied several events to occur just before the advent of the Day of Judgment (Yawm al-Qiyamah). Al Dajaal (the Antichrist) will fool people into believing that he is God and ask people to worship him. True believers will reject him but will not be able to defeat him on their own. God will then send Isa (Jesus) to earth to fight the Antichrist in the battle of Armageddon, and he will defeat Al Dajaal (the Antichrist) and his followers. This war is given the name "Al-Malhama Al- Kubra" (the biggest battle) in the Hadith (appearing in the Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim collections) In Ahmadiyya, Armageddon is viewed as a spiritual battle or struggle in the present age between the forces of good, i.e. righteousness, purity and virtue, and the forces of evil. The final struggle between the two comes as satanic influence is let loose with the emergence of Gog and Magog. Satan gathers all his powers, and uses all his methods by which to mislead people, introducing an age where iniquity, promiscuity, atheism, and materialism abound. According to Ahmadi teachings, the present age has as a result been a witness to the wrath of God with the occurrence of the First and Second World Wars and the frequency of natural disasters.[ From Bahá'í literature a number of interpretations of the expectations surrounding the Battle of Armageddon may be inferred, three of them being associated with events surrounding the World Wars: The first interpretation deals with a series of tablets written by Bahá'u'lláh, founder of the Bahá'í Faith, to be sent to various kings and rulers. The second, and best-known one, relates to events near the end of World War I involving General Allenby and the Battle of Megiddo (1918) wherein World Powers are said to have drawn soldiers from many parts of the world to engage in battle at Megiddo. In winning this battle Allenby also prevented the Turks from killing 'Abdu'l-Baha, then head of the Baha'i Faith, whom they had intended to crucify. A third interpretation reviews the overall progress of the World Wars, and the situation in the world before and after. D THE KINGS OF THE EAST 12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East. 13 Then I saw three evil spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14 They are spirits of demons performing miraculous signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty. 16 Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon. Over the last year the Vision Report Watch has spent a significant amount of time on providing evidence of plans to implement a New World Order. This has involved understanding various subject matters such as Freemasonry, the Illuminati, the Club of Rome, the Jesuits and providing clear reasoning that the world is heading towards a dictatorial global government. However what will happen when this global world government becomes a reality? Will it just continue forever or is there a specific time that it will operate? If it runs for a limited time then what are the conditions that make its operation limited? The Euphrates is the largest river in Southwest Asia, it rises in Turkey and flows southeast across Whilst there have been many attempts by the Syria and through Iraq. Formed by the confluence secular media to take the biblical account of of the Karasu and the Murat rivers in the high Armageddon and distort it from its historical and Armenian plateau, the Euphrates descends orthodox foundation the Bible is very clear about between major ranges of the Taurus Mountains to what Armageddon is and its context for the end the Syrian plateau. It then flows through western times. The first and only mention of Armageddon is and central Iraq to unite with the Tigris and in Revelation 16 where it makes references to the continues, as Shatt al-Arab, to the Persian Gulf. drying up of the Euphrates River and the military movement westward of a military power known as Additionally, many are unaware of a $32 billion the “Kings of the East”. Anatolia Dam Project in southeastern Turkey which began in the late 1980's & is projected THE EUPHRATES RIVER to be completed very soon. The southeastern Anatolia Development Project (GAP in Turkish), is In Late 2009 the Times Online edition ran the one of the most ambitious development projects in following articles the world. It plans to utilize the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers with the “Throughout the marshes, the reed gatherers, standing on construction of 22 dams and 19 Hydroelectric land they once floated over, cry out to visitors in a passing Power Plants (HEPP). boat. ‘Maaku mai!’ they shout, holding up their rusty sickles. ‘There is no water!’ The Euphrates is drying up. Strangled by It also plans to divert the waters of the basin, with the water policies of Iraq’s neighbors, Turkey and Syria; a two -year drought; and years of misuse by Iraq and its farmers, immense tunnels into the Harran field, where 1.7 the river is significantly smaller than it was just a few years million hectares of land are waiting to be irrigated. ago. Some officials worry that it could soon be half of what it The GAP was created to develop southeastern is now. The shrinking of the Euphrates, a river so crucial to Turkey, a region long ignored by the Turkish the birth of civilization that the Book of Revelation government. The Turkish government, as the upper prophesied its drying up as a sign of the end times, has decimated farms along its banks, has left fishermen riparian, wants to utilize the waters of the basin, impoverished and has depleted riverside towns as farmers which would in return contribute to alleviating flee to the cities looking for work.” Turkey's electricity and agriculture needs. 10