“Not Christianity, but Communism will bring peace on earth.  A Communist world will be a unified, organized world.  The economic system will be one great organization, based upon the principle of planning now dawning in the USSR.  The American Soviet government will be an important section in this world organization.”  Those are the words of William Foster, head of the Communist Party USA, in his book, Toward Soviet America, written in 1932.  Compare his assertions with the following statement made in 1953 to foundations investigator Norman Dodd by then-president of the Ford Foundation, Roman Gaither:  “Mr. Dodd, we operate here under directives…which emanate from the White House…The substance of the directives under which we operate is that we shall use our grant-making power to alter life in the United States so that we can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union.”
            For those of us who are possessed of any good sense (and especially for those of us who are Christians) such a prospect can easily be a source of trepidation and anxiety.  What kind of “unified, organized” world could possibly come forth from the merger of the United States and the Soviet Union?  In Russia this is known as perestroika, in the United States it is called restructuring—it was the ‘collapse’ of the Soviet Union that made it all possible.  Some of the practical results would be a single military force, a single monetary system, and a single government implementing a single system of law.
            Under a single government implementing a single system of law on a global basis there will be no escape, no ‘safe haven’ to defect to, no independent power to counter and challenge tyrannical excesses.  Thomas Jefferson expressed the folly of putting confidence in man, and said man must be bound down by the chains of law (the Constitution).  You can be assured the principles of liberty will not prevail in this merger.  For the Christian, prophecy declares that the world power—‘the beast’—will “make war with the saints.”  (Revelation 13:7)
            A single monetary system would be necessary to the success of a unified economic system, and satellite technology makes an electronic credit/debit system feasible as the most expedient for global transactions.  The electronic system also permits total surveillance and control over the general population:  “…that no man might buy or sell, except he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”  (Revelation 13:17)  The NAFTA agreement, interestingly, contained a provision requiring employers to make their federal employment tax deposits by electronic funds transfer.  A letter sent out by the department of the treasury says:  “The mandatory use of this system will be gradually phased in over a period of years for all depositors of federal employment tax.”  When a global government requires the mandatory use of a thing, what options will you and I have?  And what has been tucked away to be ‘gradually phased in’ in 22,000 pages of GATT?  We shall see…gradually.
            Finally, a world military would have no real military rivals, and so would be a police force for all practical purposes—used to maintain (by coercion and intimidation, no doubt) ‘civil order.’  Reports indicate that multinational UN forces currently training in the US and other countries are, in fact, focusing on various strategies to be employed against civilian populations:  search and seizure, crowd control, rounding up of targeted groups, etc.—not as aggressors, you understand, but only to keep the peace…”and all the world wondered after the beast…and they worshipped the beast, saying, ‘Who is like unto the beast?  and who is able to make war with him?’ “  (Revelation 13:3-4)
            Yes—who can make war with the beast?  I’ve pondered the implications of such power and evil motive many times, frequently with a greater or lesser degree of fear and anxiety:  “God, why are you letting them succeed and prosper?”  Consider the bold-facedness of men like Newt Gingrich, pleading for your vote and getting it, and turning around at once and hustling GATT through a lame duck Congress.  Friends, GATT—the World Trade Organization—is the very type of ‘one great organization’ that Foster made note of—the economic system—in his description of a Communist-unified world.  When I use the term Communism, I’m talking about the philosophy of government where man rules over man in open contempt of God, refusing to take Him into account at all, and actively seeking to destroy all remembrance of Him from among mankind—the political philosophy of humanism at its apex of power.  It is in this philosophy that the enmity of the United States and the Soviet Union once consisted—today the United States is more soviet-socialist than Russia, thanks to the traitorous behavior of innumerable politicians and other citizens and public servants, and the ignorance of us as a people in matters of our own government and political legacy based upon the fear of God and reverence for His law as supreme.
            So—why do these consolidators of exploitative power enjoy continued success?  and who can make war with the beast?  While reading in Exodus, I saw a marvelous parallel in the words spoken to Pharaoh by Jehovah:  “…In very deed, for this cause have I raised you up, to show in you My power; and that My name may be declared throughout all the earth.”  (Exodus 9:16)  God deliberately raised Pharaoh up and established him in his tyrannical power, in order to demonstrate upon Pharaoh the surpassing power of Jehovah, the Almighty!  That same God has a desire to manifest His power in a mighty way again, and is raising up a beast that appears to be indomitable—that His surpassing power may be clearly displayed in the eyes of all the earth:  “For God has put it in their hearts to fulfill His will, and to agree, and give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.”  (Revelation 17:17)  Who can make war with the beast?  God Almighty holds their amassed, global power in derision.  (Psalm 2:4)
            When God was preparing to deliver His people Israel from this very Pharaoh in Egypt, He first of all subjected them to cruel bondage under Pharaoh’s hand.  I’m sure they, too, felt there was no power that could challenge the power of Pharaoh that held them in such slavery.  They were afflicted with their burdens until their cry at last came up to God.  God then called Moses and sent him back to Egypt to lead Pharaoh’s slaves out of Pharaoh’s land in the name of Jehovah.  However, when Moses first approached Pharaoh, Pharaoh only became angry and asserted his tyrannical power by inflicting impossible and intolerable requirements upon the slave nation of Israel…but this was part of God’s plan—to show the greatness of Pharaoh’s apparently absolute power, and the abject helplessness of Israel under his hand.  Israel was not impressed, of course—they wanted their deliverer to leave them to their slavery at that point and stop stirring up trouble for them.  That was not the end of the story, though.  God had a triumphant purpose in it all.
            God proceeded, through Moses and Aaron, to bring a series of plagues upon Pharaoh’s land, all of them designed to expose the gods of Egypt as false and impotent.  In this way, the Almighty manifestly displayed how much greater was His own power in contrast to the greatest power of man on earth.  Ultimately, Pharaoh sent his erstwhile slaves out as free men, and even demanded that they bless him before they went!  In leaving, it is said that Israel “spoiled the Egyptians”—they took a great deal of the wealth of Egypt with them, not by force, the Egyptians voluntarily gave it over—they took a lot of Egyptians with them, too!  (Exodus 12:31-36)  “It is a night to be much observed unto Jehovah for bringing them out of the land of Egypt…”  (Exodus 12:42)
            Even at that, God was not finished.  Israel went out rejoicing, but God intended to subject them to one more display of His great power.  He told Moses to have the people camp over by the Red Sea, “and I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honored upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am Jehovah.”  (Exodus 14:1-4)  God deliberately and purposefully put His people in a defenseless and vulnerable position and then stirred up Pharaoh’s heart to come after them with all the force of his military power.
            Moses obediently ordered Israel to make themselves ‘sitting ducks’ for Pharaoh to be tempted by.  Pharaoh was tempted, and when the children of Israel saw the Red Sea behind them and “all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army” coming against them, they believed they were all dead men and were, again, angry with their deliverer—desiring slavery rather than death.  But all this was according to God’s deliberate design, and Moses told them:  “Fear not, stand still, and see the salvation of Jehovah, which He will show you today:  for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall see them again no more forever.  Jehovah shall fight for you and you shall hold your peace.”  Thus, God’s people, utterly defenseless in the face of the world power’s full military might became witnesses to the salvation of this great God.  The Red Sea parted, God’s children crossed on dry land in the midst of the sea, and God made war against the beast of that day:  “…and Jehovah overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea…there remained not so much as one of them.”  Israel, on the other side, saw their dead bodies washed up on the shore.  “…and the people feared Jehovah, and believed Jehovah, and His servant Moses.”  (Exodus 14)  We serve the same God today.
            Chapter 15 of Exodus records the song that was sung by Moses and the children of Israel following this glorious salvation, extolling the mighty God, who is Able:  “Jehovah is a man of war:  Jehovah is His name…Your right hand, O Jehovah, has dashed in pieces the enemy.  And in the greatness of Your excellency You have overthrown them that rose up against You…”  As I read this, the phrase “the song of Moses” came into my mind—where was it referred to?  I pulled out my concordance and found it in Revelation 15:3-4…“they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, ‘Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty:  just and true are Your ways, You king of saints.  Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name?  for You only are holy:  for all nations shall come and worship before You; for Your judgments are made manifest.’ ”  And do you  know who is singing this song of victory—of exultant triumph and glory to God?  “…them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name…”  (Revelation 15:2)
            Yes, there is One who can make war with the beast:  “…and the Lamb shall overcome them:  for he is Lord of lords and King of kings:  and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.”  (Revelation 17:14)  Are you with him?

“For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: 
and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.
Who is he that overcomes the world,
but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?”
1 John 5:4-5 

“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb,
and by the word of their testimony;
and they loved not their lives to the death.”
Revelation 12:11