Antichrist's Coming One World Religion
Pastor Dale Morgan
Antichrist's Coming One World Religion*
The Antichrist is generally depicted as a militant atheist who brazenly
opposes Christianity. Communism has been called an antichrist system
because of its overt suppression of Christianity. It is not surprising,
then, that when they were finally able to speak their minds, the
Romanian people who suffered under him for 24 years called their deposed
president, Nicholae Ceausescu, "the Antichrist." That is why they chose
Christmas as the day most fitting to execute him and his wife Elena
before a firing squad, having found them guilty of murdering at least
60,000 Romanians and of robbing the Romanian people of more than $1 billion.
Of course Ceausescu was not the Antichrist. His opposition to Christ and
His gospel was much too obvious. Though it may mean "against," in Greek
the prefix anti also means "a substitute for" or "in the place of." This
is, in fact, the way in which the Bible presents the Antichrist. Rather
than rejecting Christ, he will pretend to be Christ and thus will
pervert rather than openly oppose Christianity. He will be a "false
Christ" (Mt 24:24, etc.), offering a "Counterfeit" a false and
"positive" Christianity acceptable to all.
Hitler was a good potential Antichrist. His opposition to God, plain
enough now, deceived many at first. While deliberately out to destroy
Christianity and replace it with his neopagan occultism, Hitler
pretended that he was the champion of real Christianity. And in many
ways his pretense was convincing, for Hitler officially opposed
homosexuality, immorality, occultism (though he was involved in
occultism/immorality). He claimed to be God's representative to
establish His kingdom upon earth, and regularly invoked the name and
blessing of God in his speeches. For example:
1940: "We pray our Lord that He would continue to bless us in our battle
for freedom....
1941: "We believe we shall earn the blessing of the Supreme Leader...the
Lord God has given His approval to our battle. He will be with us...in
the future.
1942: "And we will pray the Lord God for that, the salvation of the
nation....
1943: "Our Lord God...will help us as He always has....
Could any real Christians have been deceived? Did some go along with
Hitler to save their own skins? The following from a speech by Dr.Hans
Kerrl, Nazi Minister of Church Affairs, is probably representative of
the deception under the Antichrist's world religion. It reveals how
blatant the lie can become while still being eagerly embraced in the
name of "positive Christianity":
The Party stands [for]...Positive Christianity, and Positive
Christianity is National Socialism...National Socialism is the doing of
God's will...God's will reveals itself in German blood....That
Christianity consists in faith in Christ as Son of God makes me laugh....
No, Christianity is not dependent upon the Apostles' Creed...True
Christianity is represented by the Party, and the German people are now
called by the Party and especially by the Fuehrer to a real Christianity....
The Fuehrer is the herald of a New Revelation.
Thousands of German pastors joined the newly organized "German
Christians' Faith Movement," which supported Nazi doctrines and promoted
the concept of a "Reich Church" that would unite all Protestants under
the state. A minority of pastors, led by Martin Niemoeller, who had
originally welcomed Hitler to power, realized at last that Hitler's
"positive Christianity" was in fact anti-Christian, and so opposed the
nazification of the church. The vast majority of both Catholics and
Protestants and their leaders, however, enthusiastically welcomed
Hitler's takeover of their country and obeyed his orders without
apparent protest or twinge of conscience.
The "Reich Church," formed under leaders picked by Hitler, was formally
recognized by the Reichstag on July 14, 1933. On November 13, a massive
rally was held in the Berlin Sportpalast by the "German Christians'
Faith Movement." Leaders of the rally proposed abandonment of the Old
Testament (not so far from today's rejection of Israel) and revision of
the New Testament to fit National Socialism. Resolutions called for "One
People, One Reich, One Faith" and an oath of allegiance to Hitler to be
signed by all pastors. Though Christians had never expected developments
to reach this stage, most were too happy over the prosperity and the new
social stability to be concerned about Nazi control of the church.
Protesters were dealt with harshly by the Gestapo, whose reign of terror
against true Christians began with the arrest of 700 pastors in the fall
of 1935.
Amazingly, it was all done in the name of "freedom of religion" and for
"unity"especially unity. That will be the cry of the deceivers in our
day. Ecumenism is so appealing, yet will eventually produce an apostate
church for the Antichrist. Make no mistake: What happened in Germany
will happen again but with far greater deception. In fact, one can
discern its beginnings now.
Today increasing numbers of "Third Wave Prophets" are bringing a flood
of "new revelations." This "Latter Rain" movement is growing with
astonishing speed in association with the Vineyards and Kansas City
Fellowship under the influence of "prophets" such as John Wimber, Paul
Cain (former associate of William Branham), Rick Joyner, Mike Bickle and
others. Increasing numbers of churches are "submitting" themselves to
these "prophets" in what appears to be a rapidly growing new
discipleship movement based upon "signs and wonders" which is bringing
dangerous heresies into the church in the name of holiness and unity.
More about that in a future article.
"Positive Christianity" has been growing in popularity in America and is
already being exported by Western church leaders into Eastern Europe.
Those who promote positive/possibility thinking and positive confession
are among the most influential television preachers and church leaders
in the West. Any suggestion that a teaching is not biblical is rejected
as "negative" and destructive of the unity that must be achieved at all
cost, not only between Protestants and Catholics but among all religions.
A vast ecumenical movement has been quietly gathering irresistible
momentum for years. Its roots go back to the 1893 Parliament of
Religions in Chicago. Swami Vivekananda, who stole the show, later
founded Vedanta temples across the Western world. A new vision of
religious unity spawned such organizations as The Temple of
Understanding (founded in 1960 to unite all world religions) in which
secular leaders such as John D. Rockefeller and popes such as Paul VI
and John XXIII played a role. It has been meeting for years at New
York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine (Episcopalian). Similar
ecumenical groups also connected with the UN Meditation Room include
Wainwright House of Rye, NY, involved in Jungian spiritual psychology
and with more impact upon mainstream churches. Periodic "Spiritual
Summits" of world religions are held, as at St. John's in October 1975.
It included a Shinto worship ceremony performed at the cathedral's
"Christian" altar and culminated in addresses at the United Nations by
representatives of five major faiths.1 Mother Teresa was a keynote speaker.2
A growing partnership between government and religion is preparing the
world for its coming political/religious leader, the Antichrist. The
motivation is good: peace and environmental protection, around which all
religions can unite. EPA chief William K. Reilly, who calls himself a
"pure Irish Catholic," has proposed a new "spiritual vision" of
conservation. "Spiritual" and "ecumenical" is the new emphasis. In
October 1988, a typical gathering of environmentalists from all over
North America in the Santa Cruz, California redwoods "opened with a
prayer by Native Americans, thanking Grandfather God 'for all the good
things you have put on Mother Earth.'" A "Baptist minister—an ecumenical
peace activist"—was one speaker. The meeting "closed with a
community-building, earth-celebrating 'spiral dance' ritual led by
well-known writer, activist, and feminist 'witch,' Starhawk," long
associated with Catholic priest Matthew Fox at his Holy Names College in
Oakland, California.3
A Global Survival Conference held in Oxford, England in 1988 brought
together "spiritual and parliamentary leaders." A second one was held in
January 1990, in Moscow. The highly religious United Nations University
for Peace sponsored in Costa Rica in 1989 a Global Gathering for Peace
as a follow-up on the Pope's World Day of Prayer for Peace held in
Assisi, Italy in 1986. The Catholic Church supported the conference and
the Dalai Lama was a speaker. Keynote speaker Robert Muller, former UN
Assistant Secretary General and Chancellor of the University for Peace,
and a Catholic, called the uniting of Europe set for 1992 "a step
towards a world community...a harbinger of hope." He explained:
"We need a world or cosmic spirituality. ...I hope that religious
leaders will get together and define...the cosmic laws which are common
to all their faiths....They should tell the politicians what the cosmic
laws are, what God, or the gods, or the cosmos are expecting from
humans....We must also hope that the Pope will come before the year 2000
to the United Nations, speak for all the religions and spiritualities on
this planet and give the world the religious view of how the third
millennium should be a spiritual millennium....4
As for the EEC, an official poster depicts Europe as a growing Tower of
Babel! At Babel, God scattered mankind and confounded their language in
order to stifle the ingenuity that was determined to assault the throne
of God by building a "tower that would reach to heaven." The new hope of
the world is for "unification" and a single global tongue—undoing what
God did at Babel and pushing the rebellion to its final stage and
ushering in the reign of Antichrist. The "stars" depicting the 12 EEC
nations on the poster are upside-down pentagrams, symbols of the Goat of
Mendes, or Satan.
Both the Pope and Gorbachev are pushing the idea of a "united Europe
from the Atlantic to the Urals." Gorbachev justifies his view by saying
that Russians are Europeans, too, because of their "Christian heritage"
dating back 1,000 years to the "conversion" of Czar Vladimir. Staggering
stuff from the head of world communism, which has tried to destroy
Christianity for 70 years! Eastern Europe is in the process of being
united with Western Europe—unthinkable a few months ago. We are seeing
the prophesied revival of the Roman Empire, which included much of
Eastern Europe. Time just changed its spelling from Rumania to Romania
in response to complaints by its many citizens pointing out its Roman
heritage. The Pope and Roman Catholicism, and particularly the world's
30 million [Note: 70 million in 1995] Catholic charismatics, will play a
key role in coming events.
Apostasy is taking over our churches and seminaries. Typical is the
report that Denver's Conservative Baptist Seminary is influenced by
Catholic Charismatic Renewal and Richard Foster and is now advocating
Eastern meditation, including TM, Zen and yoga through its theology
department. Many church leaders who have been accepted as evangelicals
are becoming bolder and more blatant in their ecumenism. One of the key
figures is Robert Schuller, who has proudly said, "...what sets me apart
from fundamentalists [is that they] are trying to convert everybody to
believe how they believe....We know the things the major faiths can
agree on. We try to focus on those without offending those with
different viewpoints..."5 Schuller's connections include Soviet
sycophant Armand Hammer, the cult of Unity, Amway, media magnate Rupert
Murdoch (who's financing Schuller TV in Europe), Napoleon Hill's
associate W. Clement Stone (like Norman Vincent Peale, Schuller's
mentor, a 33rd-degree Mason), who put up the funds to send out more than
250,000 copies of Self-Esteem: The New Reformation to pastors and
seminary professors, and finally, A Course in Miracles promoter Gerald
Jampolsky.
There is a rat's nest of interconnected groups working for a new world
religion and pushing globalism and religious instruction in schools here
and in cooperation with the Soviets. The trail passes through the board
rooms of such giants as The Carnegie Corporation and Amway, and
foundations such as Religious Heritage of America, Council for the
Advancement of Citizenship and Center for Citizenship Education...and
ultimately leads back to Os Guinness's Williamsburg Charter and its
dangerous religious curriculum for public schools mentioned in our
January publication. More on this later.
Another link between all of the above is the ecological concern that has
spawned various environmentalist groups, some of which worship Mother
Earth as a living organism known as Gaia. Greenpeace addresses valid
concerns. It is, however, an attempt to bring peace on earth without
submission to the Prince of Peace.
God put rebellious Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden and guarded
the Tree of Life with the flaming sword of His holy judgment upon sin.
Christ took that sword in His heart for us and became "the way" to life.
In fact, He is "the life." Environmentalist movements, for all the good
they represent, are attempts to restore man to paradise without coming
under that sword through Christ. It is the Cross that is compromised by
ecumenism. Let us stand true to God and His Word in thought, word and
deed. He is coming soon!
Endnotes
1 New York Times (Oct. 21, 1975).
2 New York Times (Oct. 25, 1975), 31, 35.
3 Sequoia (Oct.-Nov. 1988).
4 World Goodwill Newsletter (1989, no. 4), 1, 3.
5 USA Today (Mar. 23, 1989).