1 Kings 22:1-53
John 14:6
Psalm 89:5-7
Acts 1:7-8
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“The history of recent years proves that the shootings and the chains and the concentration camps are not simply the transient tools but the very altars of modern dictatorships. They may talk of a ‘new world order’ in the world, but what they have in mind is only a revival of the oldest and the worst tyranny. In that there is no liberty, no religion, and no hope. The proposed ‘new order’ is the very opposite of a United States of Europe or a United States of Asia. It is not a government based upon the consent of the governed. It is not a union or ordinary self-respecting men and women to protect themselves and their freedom and their dignity from oppression. It is an unholy alliance of power and self to dominate and to enslave the human race.”
Gary Stearman writing the Forword of the book POWER QUEST by Douglas Woodward summed it up this way:
“The history of Western Civilization is usually condensed into a series of victorious high points. Orthodox Christianity and monarchies maintained the stable march toward increasing democracy. All this is set upon a foundation of Greco-Roman philosophy, literature and language. The thirteenth-century Magna Carta set the trend toward increasing human liberty. This development continued into the eighteenth-century Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. The smooth upward flow of economics, invention and wealth gave the world the appearance of being on the verge of a kingdom of peace! Then came the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century and the instability of the twenty-first. And once again, the end of peace and prosperity seems imminent. What’s happening?
Dr. Michael Heiser “The Unseen Realm”
“The takeaway is that Yahweh rules over the heavenly realm and the earthly realm, with the genuine assistance of his imager-representatives. He decrees and they carry out his commands. These points are clear. What is perhaps less clear is that the way God’s will is carried out and accomplished is open – imagers can make free decisions to accomplish God’s will. God decrees the ends, but the means can (and apparently are at times) left up to the imagers. This balance of sovereignty and free will is essential for understanding what happened in Eden. The choices made by human and nonhuman beings described in Genesis 3 were neither coerced nor needed by Yahweh for sake of his greater plan. The risk of creating image bearers who might freely choose rebellion was something God foresaw but did not decree.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell “1984”