It was stunning to think how this event applied to the supporters the Beast.
The timing of the Beast’s appearance couldn’t have been better for his play for power. After the chaos that followed the collapse of money in the world and the confusion that followed, the masses were ready for a world leader who could bring them peace and prosperity. And such a man was the Beast, a deeply “spiritual” fellow who promised the world a new beginning. The idea was conveniently interjected into their daily diet of media input. He won them with flatteries and false promises. He was a prophet of peace and plenty and a new world order, and clever enough and powerful enough to make it happen. It had all fallen into place so “naturally” that many just accepted it as the expected path of social development.
How he amassed the control of nations was not so obvious. As his power and popularity grew, so did his ego and his blasphemy of God. His rhetoric had gone so far as to openly say that he was God, worthy of the same praise and worship. He claimed to worship forces, but actually he only worshipped himself. He wasn’t even a very attractive individual, but looked like a person with too much hate bottled up within.
He won many through his policy of giving away to the common people the riches he gained from his conquests. Like a modern-day Robin Hood, he appeared to many as an answer to their prayers, declaring an end to many debts and mortgages. On the wave of approval from the population, he introduced his monetary system that promised to regulate all financial transactions so that no one could again oppress others through buying and selling of property. People owned their property for the first time. He was like an avenging angel upon the greedy executives of the earth who exacted huge incomes while their laborers remained in poverty. All of the assets that people personally held needed to be declared by a certain cutoff date or they would become worthless. Money was worthless and littered the streets. Gold, silver, and precious jewels also needed to be declared and were said to have no intrinsic value and were not to be used as an alternate form of currency. If anyone had any valuables, they were to have them appraised and converted to SOL units. The only legal currency worldwide was to be the SOL units [Digital Store of Labor] and all citizens would receive 1000 of these units as credit toward their implant chips if they signed up early. The line ups to receive this free digital cash were incredible. The source of this free money was the huge amounts of cash collected worldwide by declaring all other currency null and void and illegal to use after the cutoff date. The government even set a maximum amount of SOLs that a person could own. Having more than the allotted amount meant having to pay heavy taxes. Stock values were all but wiped out in the economic collapse. Organized crime had to find a new way of operating without cash. The new economic system was hailed by the common people as the true beginning of fair and honest government now that the flow of money could be regulated.
The two rulers had been jockeying their way into world positions for some years, but certain events had catapulted them into power: the worldwide collapse of all national currencies as the medium of exchange, several large banks folding, and stocks failing. But the real seal of world approval on them came when they brokered the seven-year peace settlement in Jerusalem. It had seemed shaky at first but it held together. These two men nursed it along for a full three-and-a-half years.
The Second Guardian had at first been in the shadows, but from the time that they negotiated the historic peace deal in Jerusalem, he became more of a public figure. I suspected that somehow he had gained access to a military satellite armed with the latest in laser equipment, because he put on a spectacular public demonstration of the power of the god of forces by bringing fire down from the sky, striking specific targets and people.
Just as the Bible predicted, at the halfway point of the seven-year covenant the Beast was killed by a deadly wound to his head, and by satanic workings and power, he was raised to life again. This man’s death and resurrection caused no small stir among religious leaders, especially since it happened in Jerusalem during a great public gathering. His healing from this deadly wound confirmed in many people’s minds that he was indeed a supernaturally gifted individual. Some claimed that his resurrection was a sign that he had been sent to the earth to usher in a new era, others said he was the long awaited messiah, others said he was Jesus returned to judge the world and bring peace. That he received a notable miracle no one could deny, and he, of course, credited his healing to the god of forces and insisted that everyone should worship his deity. That is when the saying “Who is like unto the Beast? Who is able to make war with him?” came into popular usage.12
After the assassination attempt, the Beast spoke strongly against the covenant, saying that old religious beliefs needed to be eradicated to truly make it possible for any new ideas to take hold. Everyone needed to be free to embrace an entirely new world order, and we needed an entirely new mindset to embrace a new way of doing business. His position hardened against all religions, and he declared that all religious literature be banned and burned. He declared war on religions, especially Christians, because it was supposedly a Christian extremist who had shot him in the head, claiming that he was the Antichrist. He decreed that books like the Bible were evil, perpetuating the mistakes of the past. They were homophobic, intolerant, old-fashioned, out of date, and against the principles of world peace. He proposed that everyone worship the god of forces, a god that we could see in action.
The Bible spoke of a second beast called “the False Prophet.” And we saw that, as predicted, the second beast worked to cause everyone to worship the Beast and make them receive a mark in their right hand or forehead in order to buy and sell.13 He seemed to complete the unholy trinity of the beastly government. There was Satan behind the whole scheme, acting like a father giving his power and authority to his two sons. Satan seemed to be trying to imitate the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Without the previous guideposts the world had had for markers, the people couldn’t see their way out of the fog of confusion and chaos. The beastly brothers seemed to have incredibly persuasive ways to get people to follow them—if their words and promises of peace and personal prosperity didn’t work, then their dreadful use of force would. The Guardian’s “bee squad” would sweep in and pillage all private collections of wealth, be it art, sculpture, gold plated statues, whatever, declaring it a part of the international treasury. He called them his equalizers, but people unofficially referred to them as the Huns, because they were like the barbarians who had sacked the Roman Empire. In theory his system was reminiscent of the ideals of communism, but in actual practice it was a breeding ground for corruption, bribery, extortion and theft because it had one very weak link in its utopian sounding chain of idealism, and that was the degenerated and self-serving hearts of people.
Part of the deal the Beast worked out in Jerusalem was a plan for the building of a Jewish temple. It was, in fact, one of the major results of the signing of the covenant of peace between Jews and Muslims. The Jews had been planning on rebuilding their temple ever since the Romans burned and utterly destroyed their last one. That was predicted by Jesus14 and occurred in 70 AD. But it wasn’t until the beginning of the time of troubles that they really got serious about it, prefabricating the building and preparing all the implements that would be needed for them to resume operating. The ideal location for the temple was where the previous two temples were believed to have been, and that was where the Dome of the Rock had been built, a holy site where many Muslims believed the prophet Mohammad