Photo: “These tower builders determined to keep their community united in one body, and to found a monarchy which should eventually embrace the whole earth” (Review and Herald, December 10, 1903).
By The Remnant Herald
In the opening article of the last edition of The Remnant Herald, the subject of confederacies was raised in connection with the developments now accelerating under the COVID crisis for the implementation of a new global order, to which all nations must submit. This confederation of forces — both religious and secular — are uniting to compel humanity to surrender its conscience to the dictates of the ruling “elites.” The Jesuit maxim — “the end justifies the means” — has been brutally harnessed to create fear amid the coronavirus crisis and condition society for a …
“…new conception of government — one that will embrace all the collective activities of men, one that will postulate the need of scientific control and operation of economic activities in the interests of all people” (The Great Technology, p. 271, Harold Ruggs, The John Day Company. New York City, New York, 1933).
What are the characteristics of a confederacy?
“You know what a confederacy is — a union of men in a work that does not bear the stamp of pure, straightforward, unswerving integrity” (Manuscript 29, 1911).
The work of confederation was begun by Lucifer in heaven and subsequently transplanted to this world:
“Cast out of heaven, Satan set up his kingdom in this world, and ever since, he has been untiringly striving to seduce human beings from their allegiance to God. He uses the same power that he used in heaven — the influence of mind upon mind. Men become tempters of their fellow men. The strong, corrupting sentiments of Satan are cherished, and they exert a masterly, compelling power. Under the influence of these sentiments, men bind up with one another in confederacies, in trade unions, and in secret societies” (Letter 114, 1903).
The Tower of Babel was fallen humanity’s first attempt, after the Flood, to build A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT — a confederacy devised in rebellion (the symbol of which is used by the European Union in its quest for a united Europe, in defiance of Daniel 2:43):
“Among the men of Babel, there were living some who feared God, although they had been deceived by the pretensions of the ungodly, and drawn into their schemes. These men would not join in this confederacy to thwart the purposes of God. They refused to be deceived by the wonderful representations and the grand outlook. For the sake of these loyal ones, the Lord delayed His judgments, and gave the ungodly time to reveal their true character. But the great majority were fully united in their heaven-daring undertaking. They heeded not the counsel of the Lord, but strove to carry out their own purposes.
“This confederacy was born of rebellion against God. The dwellers on the plains of Shinar established their kingdom for self-exaltation, not for the glory of God. Had they succeeded, a mighty power would have borne sway, banishing righteousness, and inaugurating a new religion. The world would have been demoralised. The mixture of religious ideas with erroneous theories, carried out and perfected, would have directed minds from allegiance to the divine statutes, and the law of Jehovah would have been ignored and forgotten. Determined men, inspired and urged by the first great rebel, would have resisted any interference with their plans or their evil course. In the place of the divine precepts, they would have substituted laws framed in accordance with the desires of their selfish hearts, in order that they might carry out their purposes” (Review and Herald, December 10, 1903).
Photo: “Gaia/Mother Earth.”
In the first volume of the Conflict of the Ages series, we are told that the city in which the Tower of Babel was its dominant landmark would have been the capital of a “universal empire” (Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 119) — the metropolis of a “new religion.” Many of our readers are aware that a powerful spiritualistic element propels the advancing “New World Order” — an intermixture of apostate Christianity with other religious faiths, including the New Age Movement. The proposition of “oneness” buttresses all ecumenical-interfaith initiatives, upholds the “qualities” of universal “inter-dependence.” Pantheism and paganism (the worship of “Gaia/Mother Earth”) bewitch the senses, beguiling millions of people to elevate nature above their Creator. “Science” is being used to justify every measure considered “necessary” to bring people together into an ecological-humanist-globalist interconnectedness, in which biblical truths are held subservient to popular errors, power and authority used forcefully to control the conscience, and the claims of God through the precepts of His government rejected by the laws of the land and the edicts of the churches.
A sampling of quotes from prominent internationalists, evolutionary scientists, and radical environmentalists highlight what this confederacy would do if all its values, aspirations, and plans were put into action:
Population Reduction – Sterilization, Vaccination, Forced/Mandated Birth Control
“The first task is population control at home. How do we go about it? Many of my colleagues feel that some sort of compulsory birth regulation would be necessary to achieve such control. One plan often mentioned involves the addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food. Doses of the antidote would be carefully rationed by the government to produce the desired population size…We must have population control…by compulsion if voluntary methods fail” (The Population Bomb, pp. 135, 166. Paul Ehrlich. Ballantine Books. New York City, New York. 1968).
“The next most humane way to reduce the population might be to put something in the water, a virus that would be specific to the human reproductive system and would make a substantial proportion of the population infertile. Perhaps a virus that would knock out the genes that produce certain hormones necessary for conception” (Website of ABC News (Australia): Apocalypse Now. December 10, 2006. Dr. John Reid, Melbourne neuroscientist).
“Some of America’s leading billionaires have met secretly to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population and speed up improvements in health and education.
“The philanthropists who attended a summit convened on the initiative of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, discussed joining forces to overcome political and religious obstacles to change. Described as the Good Club by one insider, it included David Rockefeller Jr, the patriarch of America’s wealthiest dynasty, Warren Buffett and George Soros, the financiers, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, and the media moguls Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey…
“They gathered at the home of Sir Paul Nurse, a British Nobel Prize biochemist and president of the private Rockefeller University, in Manhattan on May 5. The informal afternoon session was so discreet that some of the billionaires’ aides were told they were at ‘security briefings’…Stacy Palmer, editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy, said the summit was unprecedented. ‘We only learnt about it afterwards, by accident. Normally these people are happy to talk good causes, but this is different — maybe because they don’t want to be seen as a global cabal,’ he said…Why all the secrecy? ‘They wanted to speak rich to rich without worrying anything they said would end up in the newspapers, painting them as an alternative world government,’ [another guest said]” (The Sunday Times, May 24, 2009. “Billionaires Club in Bid to Curb Overpopulation,” London, United Kingdom).
“We believe that unbelievable progress can be made, both in inventing new vaccines and making sure that they get out to all the children who need them…The benefits in terms of reducing sickness, reducing the population growth, it really allows society a chance to take care of itself once you made that intervention.” Website of YouTube: Bill Gates’ New Objective. February 5, 2011. (Interview hosted by CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Remarks from 6 to 26 second mark)
“We’re all five billion of us on this little earth swimming around in space. And there’s too many of us, and most of us are living incorrectly…If we had a much smaller population, and over time we could have an ethic where we had only one child, and over maybe 300 or 400 years, we could cut back to 250 million-350 million people.” Audubon, November-December 1991, p. 113. The National Audubon Society. New York City, New York. (Ted Turner, of CNN, in an interview with Bruce Stutz).
Photo: Georgia Guidestones. Elbert County, Georgia, USA Unveiled March 22, 1980. Contains inscription, “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.”
Global Governance & the Police State
“As a lifelong socialist, he [the late Maurice Strong, one time Canadian oil and mineral entrepreneur, who later served as Under-Secretary General of the United Nations] saw the potential of the environmental movement to fight capitalism and introduce a system of ‘global governance’ that would co-ordinate all human activity” (The National Post, November 29, 2015. Toronto, Canada).
“The issues are not about if a global politics is necessary. The question is how do we achieve binding agreements in Law complete with effective programs for applying sanctions against non-compliance that would oblige each nation, regardless of size, to abide by a set of principles that are required to guarantee the survival of life on this earth. Perhaps we will find that there is no alternative to a system of rigid controls that some would equate to a police state…The constraints must transcend national boundaries, be world-around and enforceable. There would be a need for an agency for preventing eco-vandals from acting unilaterally.
“Enforcement agencies would need the power to act without being invited by the offending nation. Therefore, there needs to be an agency that is acceptable to all nation states on the planet. We can probably accept the fact that there will always be one or more nations that will not go along but there must be effective sanctions in place. If sanctions do not work, then physical occupation and the installation of a World Trusteeship would be imposed on the offending nations.” (Sustainable Development For A New World Agenda, p. 15. UNESCO and The International Council of Associations for Science Education. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 1990, Jim Bohlen, of Greengrass Institute. Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada).
“We must work for the establishment of a world authority sustained by moral force and physical force — a world government capable of enforcing worldwide law” (The Saturday Evening Post, February 3, 1962. New York City, New York. Edward Teller).
Coercion, Fear, Exaggeration, Lies Permissible to Ensure Compliance, Peruse Agendas
“The President [of the Philippines] made the remarks before ordering the police and local village officials to prevent people reluctant to get vaccinated [against Covid 19] from leaving their houses. According to the President, the anti-vaxxers or those hesitant to receive the vaccines would ‘be escorted back to your house because you are a walking spreader…We have to come up with a law punishing a guy, a person, who has not been vaccinated and going around,’ he said.” Website of The Manila Bulletin, (The Philippines: Duterte: Vaccinate The Willing; Limit Anti-Vaxxers Movement. July 29, 2021).
“…[bioethicist Parker Crutchfield] suggests that widespread administration of psychoactive drugs could provide ‘moral enhancement’ that would make people more likely to adhere to social norms such as wearing masks and adhering to social distancing guidelines” (Website of Forbes, USA: Could a “Morality Pill” Help Stop the Covid 19 Pandemic? August 30, 2020).
“There is a phase in which the issue needs to be strategically exaggerated in order to establish it firmly on an agenda for action” (Empowerment For Sustainable Development: Toward Operational Strategies, p. 51. Fernwood Publishing. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 1995. Robin Mears, co-founder, Environment Group, United Kingdom).
“The secret to [the late Canadian environmentalist] David McTaggart’s success is the secret to Greenpeace’s success: It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe to be true” (Forbes, November 1991, “The Not So Peaceful World of Greenpeace,” Jersey City, New Jersey, Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace International, who left in 1977).
“Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing — in terms of economic policy and environmental policy” (Website of The Atlantic, USA: Breaking the Global Warming Gridlock. July 2000, Timothy Wirth, U.S. senator from Colorado).
“Fear has been used all through history to gain control of people’s minds and wallets and all else, and the climate catastrophe is strictly a fear campaign — well, fear and guilt — you’re afraid you’re killing your children because you’re driving them in your SUV and emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and you feel guilty for doing that. There’s no stronger motivation than those two…And so you’ve got the green movement creating stories that instill fear in the public. You’ve got the media echo chamber — fake news — repeating it over and over and over again to everybody that they’re killing their children. And then you’ve got the green politicians who are buying scientists with government money to produce fear for them in the form of scientific-looking materials. And then you’ve got the green businesses, the rent-seekers, and the crony capitalists who are taking advantage of massive subsidies, huge tax write-offs, and government mandates requiring their technologies to make a fortune on this. And then, of course, you’ve got the scientists who are willingly — they’re basically hooked on government grants” (Website of Breitbart, USA: Greenpeace Founder: Global Warming Hoax Pushed by Corrupt Scientists “Hooked on Government Grants,” March 7, 2019, Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace International, who left in 1986).
“Some of my colleagues who share some of my doubts argue that the only way to get our society to change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe, and that therefore it is all right and even necessary for scientists to exaggerate. They tell me that my belief in open and honest assessment is naïve. ‘Wolves deceive their prey, don’t they?’ one said to me recently. Therefore, biologically, he said, we are justified in exaggerating to get society to change” (The Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2007, “Global Warming Delusions,” New York City, New York, Daniel Botkin: biologist, environmentalist, lecturer, and author since 1968).
“‘Global warming the greatest scam in history’ — founder of Weather Channel” (Daily Express, June 9, 2015. UK).
Can we not see how the Spirit of Prophecy’s definition of the word “confederacy” — “a union of men in a work that does not bear the stamp of pure, straight-forward, unswerving integrity” — accurately depicts the moral bankruptcy of the coming “global order”?
Photo: Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) – British mathematician, orator, peace activist, noted atheist, one-world government advocate.
The solidifying of power and authority in the hands of vested interests is dependent upon a selective distortion of science, statistics, factual evidence and faith. Nothing must obstruct the birth of a new type of government enforced by “scientific” control. Bertrand Russell, in his book, The Impact of Science On Society (Psychology Press, Hove, East Sussex, United Kingdom, 1994 ed. — reprint of 1952 ed.) described how “science” will reduce the common person to unresisting compliance with the edicts of the “elites”:
“Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so” (Page 62).
“It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fichte laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished. as their schoolmasters would have wished” (Page 61).
“The completeness of the resulting control over opinion depends in various ways upon scientific technique. Where all children go to school, and all schools are controlled by the government, the authorities can close the minds of the young to everything contrary to official orthodoxy…All this is not imaginary, it is daily and hourly reality. Nor, given oligarchy, is there the slightest reason to expect anything else” (Pages 57, 58).
Bertrand Russell then offered an extraordinary insight into the astonishing indifference of “really high-minded people” (seemingly shared by himself) to the suffering, misery and death which would result from large swathes of the world’s population being affected by epidemics, pestilences, germ warfare, etc.
“War, as I remarked a moment ago, has hitherto been disappointing in this respect [inability to reduce the world population], but perhaps bacteriological war may prove effective. If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. There would be nothing in this to offend the conscience of the devout or to restrain the ambition of nationalists. The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of it? Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people’s” (Pages 116, 117).
Photo: Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910-1997) – French naval officer, environmentalist, scientist, photographer, author, population- reduction advocate.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, in an interview released by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in 1991, amplified the sentiments of Bertrand Russell when he expostulated:
“What should we do to eliminate suffering and disease? It’s a wonderful idea but perhaps not altogether a beneficial one in the long run. If we try to implement it, we may jeopardise the future of our species. It’s terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilised and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn’t even say it, but the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable” (Website of UNESCO: The UNESCO Courier — Interview With Jacques-Yves Cousteau, November 1991).
It is very difficult to comprehend the mindset of this confederacy which believes that “the end justifies the means,” “do whatever it takes to get what you want,” even at the destruction of human life. Our God, on the other hand, has placed His love, His care, His estimation upon the whole human race — so much so that we read in the Spirit of Prophecy, reflecting the truth of Christ’s words in Mark 8:36, 37 and Luke 15:
“One soul is of more worth to Jesus than the whole world.” Bible Echo, March 1, 1893
“One soul for whom Christ has died is worth more than a whole world.” Website of EGW Writings: Lt. 6, 1893
“All heaven is interested in the working of saving the lost. Angels watch with intense interest to see who will leave the ninety and nine and go out in tempest and storm and rain into the wild desert to seek the lost sheep. The lost are all around us, perishing and sadly neglected. But they are of value to God, the purchase of the blood of Christ.” Review & Herald, June 30, 1896
“…the saving of one poor soul was worth more to me than all the wealth of Denver and all the gold and precious ore of the mountains of Colorado. The value of the world sinks into insignificance in comparison with the value of one soul saved by the blood of Jesus Christ, one soul to live through the ceaseless ages of eternity.” Website of EGW Writings: Manuscript 21, 1889
Human life is always held in low estimation by every totalitarian regime, brought into subjugation by those who care infinitely more for power, control, and money, and extinguished by forces that never respect the value God Himself has invested upon every single human being. Whilst it is not surprising that countless numbers of people who believe in Darwinian evolution — “the survival of the fittest” — contend that human life is utterly cheap, expendable, and of less value than slugs and bugs and the bacteria of the earth, to the extreme point of declaring that:
“The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing.” The Economist, December 28, 1988. London, United Kingdom
“It seems quite clear that in the contemporary world, the extinction of the species Homo sapiens would be beneficial to the Earth’s Community of Life as a whole…
“Our presence, in short, is not needed. And if we were to take the standpoint of that Life Community [nature] and give voice to its true interest, the ending of the human epoch on Earth would most likely be greeted with a hearty ‘Good riddance!’” Respect For Nature — A Theory of Environmental Ethics, pp. 114, 115. Paul W. Taylor. Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey. 1986 edition.
It is astounding to note how so many who claim to be the children of God hold human life in equal contempt with that of the extreme evolutionists. A leading figure for “The Great Reset,” Laudato Si’, and the initiatives of the Vatican to create a “New Social Order,” Pope Francis, is the potentate of a political-religious hierarchy whose ancient history is stained with the blood of millions of Bible-believing Protestants who defied the papacy’s desire for total control over their own souls. The following quote discloses how Rome is set to unsheathe and wield the sword again:
“But will the Catholic Church give bind that she will not persecute at all? Will she guarantee absolute freedom and equality of all churches and all faiths? The Catholic Church gives no bonds for her good behaviour…She has countenanced violence when more humane measures would have been of more avail. Her children and her clergy have often been carried away by popular passion. But she gives no bonds that such things shall not occur again” (The Western Watchman, December 24, 1908, Catholic journal, St. Louis, Missouri).
Photo: Zbigniew Brzezinski with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, early 1980s.
The papacy will not stand in the way of the implementation of the final stages of an age-old confederacy in which the lives of “the common herd” are totally at the mercy of the ruling “elites.” The late Zbigniew Brzezinski (National Security Adviser to U.S. President Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981) prophesied in 1970 a future which is now fulfilling before our very eyes:
“Speaking of a future at most only decades away, an experimenter in intelligence control asserted, ‘I foresee the time when we shall have the means and therefore, inevitably, the temptation to manipulate the behaviour and intellectual functioning of all people through environmental and biochemical manipulation of the brain.’…
“Another threat, less overt but no less basic, confronts liberal democracy. More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite whose claim to political power would rest on allegedly superior scientific know-how. Unhindered by the restraints to traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behaviour and keeping society under close surveillance and control.” Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Techtronic Era, pp. 15, 252, 253. Viking Pr-ess. New York City, New York. 1970
God intervened in a powerful way to stop the completion of the Tower of Babel, for:
“Had this confederacy been permitted, a mighty power would have borne sway to banish righteousness — and with it peace, happiness, and security — from the earth” (Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 123).
Today’s “Tower of Babel” — so defiantly built up by a confederacy which is openly hostile and antagonistically opposed to the principles of God’s government (which includes truth, equity, justice and mercy) — is to be overthrown by the King of Kings (Revelation 19: 11-21). This satanic confederation in “high places” (Ephesians 6:12), works to maintain the “throne of iniquity,” to frame “mischief” by “law” in order to destroy liberty (Psalm 94:20). We are told:
“The agencies of evil are combining their forces, and consolidating. They are strengthening for the last great crisis. Great changes are soon to take place in our world, and the final movements will be rapid ones.” Testimonies for the Church, volume 9, p. 11
Bertrand Russell’s remarks — “really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people’s” — typifies the spirit of this confederacy: a lack of empathy and respect for human dignity. God’s people can meet this apostate, humanistic, socialistic conspiracy only by preaching the truth of His word:
“…for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds.” 2 Corinthians 10:4 (see also verses 5 and 6).
It is a comfort to the soul to know that Christ is our defence and refuge (Psalm 94:22). He averred that He will be with His people unto the end of time (Matt-hew 28:20). He will cut this time of evil short for His elect’s sake (Matthew 24:22). In knowing the signs of His coming, may we be ready for His soon return!
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So, the Tower of Babel builders have finally got back again now to the place where God destroyed their efforts on the first attempt so long ago!
I pray that God’s people be awake and prepared for what is ahead in the very near future, for once again God will confound these tower builders and their thwart their plans. Before that happens may we be living by “the faith of Jesus” so that we can give the 3rd Angel’s message to a world that needs it so much.
Aloha from the Island of Maui, SMK!
Daniel chapter 2, verses 34-35, and 44-45, along with Psalm 2, is a fitting response to the satanic attitude revealed by those “high-minded people” who want to rule the world!
Our God will deal with those who will not repent of this dispicable attitude!
Also, Psalm 37 is very comforting in these times for God’s children. Just a little while longer….