I used to think that the era of the nineteen sixties was an idyllic political era. I was young and in those days Pakeha New Zealand leaned to the right and voted National for the most part. The enemy was communism and the most hated people in the world were those who supported communism, namely the governments of the USSR, Cuba and China.
In New Zealand there was a well known communist figure that the media and the police harassed without mercy. He was lampooned in the papers and arrested with little regard to his rights as a citizen. Looking back, I wonder whether he was a real threat at all or if he actually played the part of a national villain in the media to give the national psyche a focus on what constituted social evil.
Over the last five decades socialism and liberalism have replaced facism and conservatism as the ideologies of choice and although the national psyche retains the same types of place holders. Those who hold those places have gradually changed to be the exact opposite of what they were in those haloed days of memory.
Whereas, the communist ideology and nations were the enemy of old. Today,Trump’s America and Christianity are the enemy of the working class. Whereas the national villain of New Zealand was a communist now he is the Christian, Brian Tamaki. Now, instead of representing a political party, the villain leads a religious organisation called Destiny Church.
Christianity is derided wherever possible in New Zealand and one need only mention the Gloriavale saga to symbolise the insanity that is seen to be contained in Christianity. This narrative combined with evolutionary humanism is used to denigrate the very idea of Christian faith. Rather than a rapid change from conservative to liberal philosophy there has been a gradual reeducation of the population over the last fifty years.
Many people have pointed to George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty Four as being prophetic of the way in which Global powers have gained the ability, largely through control of the news media, to seize control of the popular narrative and to reeducate the masses from one political spectrum to the other. One can only speculate as to how fast this could be achieved but they have tended to take the long road. Gradualism would seem to have been their preferred mode of choice.
Probably the most interesting thing about this situation is that just as the villains of the past were portrayed as being insane. So, today the villains of modern society are portrayed as being equally mad. Take Trump for example. As a young man, he was a wealthy philanderer and womaniser. He was a successful business man and hung out with the rich and famous, but not many people would have considered him a future President of the United States.
In New Zealand, Brian Tamaki presides over a radical sect of Christianity and his discourse varies from sound conservative ideology to a near lunatic fringe diatribe. The same is the case with the political leaders of the right in New Zealand. Both Seymour and Peters range in their conversation from common sense to ideological extremism.
So is it fair to ask the question then. “ Is it by happenstance that the powers that control our government and institutions seem to be type casting the characters that play the public roles in our society?” Is it alright to say that these religious and political role players may not believe what they are saying but they stick to the narrative that they have been given because it would not benefit them to diverge from it.
Can we speculate that ultimately, this will lead to a battle, in the Western world, between the supporters of the right and the left of the political spectrum. At the moment the right have won power and seem intent on blending Church and State and reviving Christianity. Men from Trump’s cabinet like Hegseth, Vance, Cruz and Rubio appear to be strong proponents of dominionist theology and the theories of Doug Wilson and CREC. I believe it is likely that this would eventually result in the reemergence of Roman Catholicism and the power of the Pope, both in America and globally, even though the movement is largely Protestant initially.
On the other hand, the left, if victorious, would put their power behind the nation of China and the World Economic Forum. Citing the model of China as a modern communist power blending the Buddhist and Pagan religious ideologies with socialist political philosophy. Creating a society where being a good and productive citizen is one who works hard to make sane work and life choices to the benefit of the nation. This of course would address issues like climate change, global over population and creating a communist utopian paradise for seemingly everyone but actually the global elite.
Finally, we come to what the bible has to say about all of this? Revelation chapter 17 verses 1-7 describes a scene that was shown to the apostle John and which unfolds in the End Times.
“Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of sexual immorality, and those who live on the earth became drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality.” 3 And he carried me away [a]in the Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and [b]adorned with gold, precious [c]stones, and pearls, holding in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her sexual immorality, 5 and on her forehead a name was written, [d]a mystery: “BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” 6 And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the [e]saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered [f]greatly. 7 And the angel said to me, “Why [g]do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns…”
So, to link this to the current events we look at Trump’s America, and the current right wing shift in the Western World, away from the neo-liberalism and socialism back toward Facism and a more conservative ideology with a traditional Judeo Christian base. This would see the Roman Catholic Church and Papal Authority reinstated into a Church State as existed before the Reformation.
Rome would become the dominant power of the Western World and and with the exception of Russia, China and the Middle East would control most of the globe. Honestly though, through the Jesuits they already control the planet and what is happening in the United States with Trump and Vance is just making it official. Rome is Babylon the Great, The Mother of Prostitutes and of the Abominations of the Earth mentioned in the scripture.
The description given to the apostle John continues. Revelation chapter 17 verse 15-18:
15 And he *said to me, “The waters which you saw where the prostitute sits are peoples and multitudes, and nations and languages. 16 And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire. 17 For God has put it in their hearts to execute His [k]purpose [l]by having a common purpose, and by giving their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God will be fulfilled. 18 The woman whom you saw is the great city, which [m]reigns over the kings of the earth.”
Just when Rome is feeling secure God will allow the Ten Horn Kings and the Beast to destroy the Great Harlot - Rome. What is left of the population of the Earth will then worship the Beast or be put to death. Whether the Beast government is communist in ideology is a moot point but it will certainly be pagan.
The Beast gets three and a half years to reign over the Earth and His dominion is ended at the Battle of Armageddon. When he and his followers assemble to battle the returning King of Kings, Jesus Christ. Jesus then returns and establishes the Kingdom of God and that is the end of the Church Age.
