(From
Chapter 1: Kings on Parade: A Steady Progression Towards the Kingdom)
The idea of a New World Order was perhaps most famously captured in the January 1991 State of the Union address of former United States president George H.W. Bush. An excerpt (with added emphasis):
Halfway around the world, we are engaged in a great struggle in the skies and on the seas and sands. We know why we’re there. We are Americans – part of something larger than ourselves. For two centuries we’ve done the hard work of freedom. And tonight we lead the world in facing down a threat to decency and humanity.
What is at stake is more than one small country, it is a big idea – a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind: peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law. Such is a world worthy of our struggle, and worthy of our children’s future.[1]
Good talk, you say? And ambitious indeed, I add. It’s all about stabilising the world, putting things under control and making them more predictable. Not a bad idea in itself. Really, they are aspiring to that same utopian future time we intend to preview in this book! Move closer and let me whisper it into your ears: This bold ambition of our political leaders is one fulfilment of the prediction of the “gods,” that some will “exalt themselves to establish the vision”! (Daniel 11:14.) See it? But it was also declared, “They shall fail.”
Yes, with the way this New World Order thing is being pursued, I care to say that it will not turn out as envisioned. The quest is for peace, but if any peace results from the racket, it would be the type you find in the graveyard, the kind that can only be disturbed to the eruption of the most dreadful sights. That’s the decree: “And both these kings’ hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end [of the present world system] shall be at the time appointed” (Daniel 11:27). The “accords” and “resolutions” of their many “talks” and “negotiations” just won’t last, for they are founded on lies. As the famous poet William Butler Yeats predicted in his poem The Second Coming, the time would come when “things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”
There’s only one provided way to lasting “peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law,” and that’s what we want to find out in this book. As our present leaders continue their pursuit of a New World Order, we would be looking ahead at another. For when you stand on the shores of the turbulent sea, beholding the surge and retreat of the violent waves; when you lift up your eyes to survey the palms, swaying and struggling with the howling wind; when with a pained heart you watch the terrified birds flying swiftly for refuge – you can hear a small, still voice saying, “There is another place where it is not like this.”
There is coming another world order of the Anointed One and His redeemed saints’ reign.
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