man, “ the prince o f this world” (John 14:30) who, com ing, will have “ nothing” for Christ, shall be given “ his authority” (Rev. 13 :4 ), and the last world-government will come. But, when it comes, the saints o f God will have been “ caught up” (1 Thess. 4 :17 ) away from the troubles and sorrows of earth. The reign o f Satan will be but “ for a little moment” (Isa. 26:20) during which time the judg ment o f the nations will take place. Then will come the dawn! “ And the kingdom and dominion, and the great ness o f the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints o f the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. Hitherto is the end of the mat ter” (Dan. 7 :27 ,28 ). And so, once again at the close of the age, the gravest danger we face, the most significant trend o f the hour, is the one-world-government movement. Scores o f organized movements are striving day and night to bring in a world government. Men and women o f great wealth and power are dreaming o f world govern ment by night, and working fo r it by day. Millions o f dol lars are being contributed to the cause o f world govern ment. In a recent book on the subject, by Joseph P. Kemp, he says: “ The Representatives o f the people will not find it easy to rely upon their own good judgment on this issue. The ■propaganda fo r World Government has became so power ful that on April 24, 1949, the New York Times declared: ‘The subject has now become so highly emotionalized that a public statement that could be interpreted as in the slightest unsympathetic, brings blows that bow the sturd iest head.’ ” The World Government movement gets the vote of the vast proletarian masses o f the world’s greatest democra cies by promising them practically everything—housing, insurance, hospitalization, education, pensions— under the guise o f social welfare. Any thinking man should know that if such a centralization o f human control should come into the grasp o f one man, or a small coterie o f men, the price every man would have to pay is the coin o f indi vidual freedom. Our own “ land o f the free” will become but a province, a subdivision, subject to the will o f a vast pagan world. More than that, it will signal the drop o f the curtain upon all human government —“ weighed . . . and found wanting” (Dan. 5 :27 ). One o f the saddest facts of the hour is that many churches are yielding themselves to this trend, and pro pose for religion what the rulers o f this world propose for the political world. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick has adopted a slogan that has attracted wide attention and approval: “ One World Or None!” Does anyone delude himself into believing that a “ World Council o f Churches,” such as Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam proposes for the relig ious forces o f the world, would keep itself separated from the world-government that is the goal o f the one-worlders ? History had but one story to tell: every political “ beast” o f the ages past, has regimented the religious world when once he has regimented the political world. It is simply inevitable. More than that, it is the testimony o f the “ sure word o f prophecy” that it will be even so. The hour is coming when once again one man shall rule the world— economi cally, educationally, politically, and religiously. Is it not written: “ And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book o f life o f the Lamb slain from
President Truman giving address at site of United Nations Building the foundation o f the world. If any man have an ear, let him hear” (Rev. 13:7-9). Is it possible that any thinking man cannot see that the whole trend of the world today is a pell-mell rush to the fulfillment o f the prophecies of Daniel and John? No man is so blind as the man who can not see that Satan is now making his bid to bring the world under the control o f the one man who will fall down and worship him. That worship o f Satan that the Lord refused on the mountain-top (Luke 4 :5 ), the devil now offers to another. We do not question the sincerity of purpose on the part o f the men who seek the elimination of the curse o f war by the creation of a system o f world-government. Albert Einstein would assure us that “ There is only one pathway to peace and security: the path o f supra-national organi zation.” Churchill is firm in his opinion that if Europe is to survive— if civilization itself is to survive—-“ it must unite.” Well-meaning men are they, but they know not that they are but chasing a will-o’-the-wisp! Until they give the Prince of Peace His seat at the head o f the Coun cil tables, their search for peace will continue to be in vain. So the story o f the great civilizations o f the past cer tainly gives us no assurance that the centralization o f gov ernment into the hands of a few men will prove to be the panacea for the ills o f mankind. Rather, it will bring to an end all that our American fathers cherished—yea, it will bring on the reign o f the world’s last Satanically in spired ruler—and then only one more great event: the arrival from Heaven (Rev. 19) o f the One to reign “ whose right it is” ! (Ezek. 21:27). Surely, surely, the bell tolls the hour! “ He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus” ! (Rev. 22:20).
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