Revival Of The Roman Empire
To fully understand what the last kingdom (or nation) looks like during the Great Tribulation it will be necessary to take a look at ancient Rome. Rome was a city that was quite full of itself. "All roads lead to Rome," was a favorable saying back then indicating it's financial dependence on the other nations in the known world to produce it's luxuries, it's goods, and a labor force unlike the world had ever known. And what it could not buy it would conquer and acquire for the good of Rome. Along with these goods and people that came from every nation was every religion and philosophy known to man. They came in like a flood.
Truly Ancient Rome had become a melting pot of different people, religions, and beliefs, to one day be followed by the new Global City (spiritual Babylon) . But to have so many different gods, religions, and beliefs, there needed to to be a different kind of tolerance, a tolerance that would accept everyone's belief on an equal footing. It did not matter how many gods you had in your house. One god was as good as another as long as you did not claim one to be more superior than the rest. To do so would be outright treason and a crime against the state. Even the emperor who one day would claim his own divinity did not claim to be above the rest, but did claim his right to tolerance that all would equally accept his belief just as valid as they would accept the others.
This became a huge problem for Christianity, which claimed only one true God who indeed is above all other God's. This same problem will arise in the last days during the Great Tribulation.
We have already seen the seeds of the rebellion. Christian writers have already written about the new tolerance that has taken the United States by storm, claiming that every person's belief and opinion is just as valid as the next. This has opened a Pandora's Box allowing every imaginable evil to co-exist as valid expressions of one's own belief and practice. Christians are already being assaulted and denied access because of their faith in the one true God.
A characteristic of the new Global City will be a tolerance that embraces every man's religion or non-religion as just as valid as the next. Perhaps it all began under the guise of religious tolerance, but has now developed into a major world philosophy which reduces all the world religions and philosophies to mere personal preferences that must not have any real voice or value in the New Global city of man.
It's their answer in throwing off the "so called" restraints of religion, thus having the freedom to evolve into a perfect society. Yet to evict God from society will lead it back into the dark ages where mankind will grope around in the darkness trying to find it's way. To evict God from the city of man will invite destruction of biblical proportions.
A mandated philosophy of tolerance encourages everyone to develope his own belief system by acquiring principles from each of the world religions, philosophies, psychologies, mythology, Satanism, and a mixed bag of new age thinking.
It is no longer politically correct to challenge a man about his belief system as long as he does not force his beliefs on others or the state. Man is no longer held accountable for his beliefs as long as he contributes to society and willing to undergo a behavior modification if deemed necessary by those in power. We can only imagine where this will lead the new Global City.
If a man believes there is no absolute truth then his freedom to dabble in the world religions and systems of thought will only lead him down a dark alley of confusion and moral degeneration.
I am afraid when we lose our moral anchor by believing whatever seems right in our own eyes and allowing others to do the same, then lawlessness will prevail and the foundations of the city will crumble.
This new philosophy of tolerance and the Global City's aggressiveness to assimilate other cultures and belief systems has become the Trojan Horse of the 21st century allowing every evil and foul spirit to enter the gates of the Global City to it's own demise.
Once the people are separated from their old traditions, religious beliefs, their trust in God, and their traditional family values, then they are ready to be assimilated into the new Global City.
The mass rejection of the truth is referred to in the Bible as the apostacy or rebellion. Those who claim to know Christ no longer follow his way exclusively. They attempt to follow both ways - the way of Christ and the way of the beast. They attempt to walk in light while continuing to walk in darkness.
Rev. Daniel W. Blair
