Intranational Government. How close are we? Peter Sammons considers.
Docility gas
The very last Man From U.N.C.L.E. film (original series, aired 1968), “How to Steal The World”, had a simple plotline; concerned scientists, convinced that the world is on a trajectory to disaster, believe that only science and scientists can ‘save’ the world from itself.
They plan to take over the entire planet using a ‘docility gas’, and then to run the world in an enlightened and humane fashion, giving orders to a permanently cowed people lacking independent decision-making power. These will now live secure, choreographed, and ‘happy’ lives. Unknown to the idealistic scientists, their sophisticated project is financed by T.H.R.U.S.H., which intends to steal the project and run the world for its own evil purposes! Eventually, agent Napoleon Solo saves the day and averts global takeover. Mankind remains free …..
Closer to home, and in our world of politics, both Communism and social-ism also aim to take over the world and to build a ‘happy’ society in Mankind’s image. We have explored this before: https://christiancomment.org/2024/10/28/is-jesus-a-socialist/ .
Control freaks?
Political scientists speak of the State as an organism wherein ‘men’ are merely parts of the whole, with the State being greater than the individuals who make up that State. The converse theory is the State as machine which ‘men’ create for their own purposes which is “therefore no other than they are” (C.L. Wayper, M.A., PhD.). These competing concepts, the organic versus the mechanistic, underscore – at least in part – the divergence of worldview between the political Left and Right, with the Left holding the organic worldview, and the Right the mechanistic.
Let’s stick with this abstract concept a moment longer: continental Europe lives under a largely “Civil” legal system wherein the State tends towards comprehensive control, whereas Britain lives in a “Common Law” system wherein there resides the ability to ‘flex’ the law to suit particular circumstances without legislating specifically for it.
Under Civil Law systems, the judiciary tends to have greater latitude to ignore the (narrowly defined) law, or essentially to develop the law with only superficial acknowledgement of prior ‘case-law’, whereas in Common Law systems the judiciary is expected to place emphasis on (usually) broadly defined primary legislation, backed by case law precedent. Common Law gives less room for Judges to develop case law ‘on the hoof’, and in that sense it is more ‘conservative’.
Viva la difference !
So fundamentally different are these concepts, the organic versus the mechanistic, and Civil Law versus Common Law, that the practical out-workings seep into other areas of Statecraft. Civil Law systems can take a rather creative approach to e.g., the interpretation of so-called ‘international law’, and to the meanings of intranational treaties. There are big practical implications in all this that go largely unnoticed (and unreported). We cannot say that one ‘system’ is superior to the other, perhaps, but it is at least helpful and healthy to recognize and be aware of them.
Taking this one step further, most religions lean towards the State as organism (think, ‘liberation theology’, think ‘social gospel’, in the Christian sphere) and perceive this as being God’s ‘will’. In turn this has led to philosophies such as the divine right of Kings on the one hand, to the umma (of Islam) and to dharma (of Hinduism and Bhuddism). Each sees the individual as somehow subsumed into, and subservient to, the State represented by the Ruler. Roman Catholicism historically has seen the world through this philosophical lense. Communism, as a god-less religion, likewise sees the relationship of individual to State in an analogous way.
Save the world, please!
There has long been an undercurrent of belief in intranational government as a way to ameliorate or eliminate the world’s problems, especially over the past 150 years. Some proponents of the early United Nations had ambitions in this direction. The European Union (EU) made little secret that the creation of a European “USE” (United States of Europe, modeled on – and analogous to – the USA) is the ultimate purpose of its “European Project”, and that this Project advances only through crisis (as it has insufficient popular, electoral appeal). The EU is blighted by a recognized ‘democratic deficit’.
In intranational ambition there is little agreement as to whether the State is ultimately organic or mechanical. Approximately one third of humanity live in broadly Common Law systems, the balance living in Civil Law systems.
Amongst the global elite there is a now well-honed view that “the world” requires salvation (religious undercurrent) and that the hoi polloi – or ordinary citizens – have neither the intelligence, willpower nor common sense to achieve this necessary salvation, so the global elite must achieve this for them and on their behalf. A docile hoi polloi is necessary for this to be achieved.
The world right now, and in prospect
We know that the world lives in dangerous times. Geopolitically, China aims to bring Taiwan to heel as soon as 2027. Russia continues its effort to bring Ukraine equally to heel. India and Pakistan have skirmished twice in the past year – both are nuclear armed. Civil wars are ongoing in Africa, within the ASEAN region, and we presently witness ongoing sporadic fighting within ‘Gaza’. Some South American nations suffer gangland internecine conflict that in practical outworking is not far short of civil war. How tragic.
Ethnically we see unsustainable population movements and associated rising social tension. Environmentally we appear to be headed into unchartered waters with that phenomenon dubbed ‘Climate Change’ and the desire to reengineer that same climate.
Politically, the West is unraveling. Chinese Confuscianism bred within the Chinese a worldview that ‘politics’, howsoever defined, was to be left to “superior men”, and was not a subject to concern ordinary folk. The predominance of State as organism across the globe means that a majority of people are willing to remain on the sidelines and trust their leaderships to deliver for them tolerable living conditions, yet even this acquiescence is fraying thanks to the internet and the visible evidence that life in other countries is so much more advantageous. Political revolution is a real threat (think, the Arab Spring). Some people aver that Mankind is “too stupid” to survive, and that ‘all are doomed’! The global elite seem to echo this downbeat assessment but counter that the world requires to be remade and ‘saved’ – from itself. They are on an intentional trajectory to achieve this.
The Bible and world governance
In his apocalyptic vision in Revelation, apostle John sees the “beast,” otherwise identified as the Antichrist, rising out of ‘the sea’ having seven heads and ten horns (Revelation 13:1). (The sea is often a metaphor for the peoples of the world).
Comparing this vision to Daniel’s analagous one (Daniel 7:16–24), it appears that some sort of world governance system will be inaugurated by the beast, the most powerful “horn,” who will “wage war against God’s holy people and . . . conquer them” (Revelation 13:7). A ten-nation confederacy is also seen in the statue of Daniel 2:41–42, where the final world government consists of ten entities represented by the statue’s ten toes. Whoever the ten ‘nations’ are and however they come to unite, Scripture is clear that the beast will subdue three of them (Daniel 7:8), and the rest will do his bidding.
John describes the ruler of this vast empire as having power and great authority, given to him directly by Satan (Revelation 13:2). This ruler receives worship from “all the world” (Revelation 13:3–4) and will have authority over “every tribe, people, language and nation” (Revelation 13:7).
This person will be the practical leader of a one-world government that is recognized as sovereign over all other governments. Today nations are willing to give up some of their sovereignty to ‘combat’ climate change; it’s easy to imagine that the disasters and plagues described in Revelation 6—11 , and associated warfare, will create such monumental crisis that the nations of the world will embrace anything and anyone who promises a solution.
Enforced docility
Once entrenched in power, the beast (Antichrist) and the power behind him (Satan) will move to establish absolute control. In demanding worship, Satan edges toward his goal of being like God (see Isaiah 14:12–14). To truly control people, commerce must be controlled. Revelation 13 describes how this will happen. Everyone, “great and small, rich and poor, free and slave,” will be forced to receive some type of mark “on their right hands” or on their foreheads, in order to buy and sell (Revelation 13:16). No doubt the majority of people in the world will receive the mark simply to survive. This new system of commerce will be universal, compulsory, and will be associated with the worship of the beast (Revelation 13:15). There is much speculation as to what form this mark may take and how it will be affixed, but technologies available today could accomplish this easily.
Stealing the world, now !
The Bible, then, appears to confirm that global government is coming. The fact that Antichrist assumes total power rapidly, suddenly, has long puzzed the serious biblical student. How can Antichrist take control (it seems) effortlessly and ‘overnight’? Developments we are seeing right now suggest how this might be achieved. Please refer to our accompanying schematic:
This suggests mechanisms presently being developed will, in combination, have the ability to confer global governance, although it may be a creeping governance and implemented over an extended period of time – yet that time may be relatively short.
Are we today developing ‘control – levers’ necessary for global take-over? Behind – and enthusiastically supporting – these mechanisms are ‘foot soldiers’ being those who are, especially amongst the middle classes and particularly in the West, fundamentally wedded to these concepts. Essentially ‘foot soldiers’ are people who perceive the State to be organic, albeit that the concepts of the organic and the mechanical have considerable overlap, and the arguments for ever increasing ‘integration’ can arise from either political philosophy.
Changing your world
Back in the late 1960s the pop song “We’re Gonna Change the World” was released with Matt Monroe as performer. Supposedly a song about feminism and the Vietnam War, the lyrics do not make this at all clear (Google the title to readily locate the music and lyrics). Rather, the song might be thought of as a cheeky, in your face, statement that Cultural Marxism would be the vehicle to fundamentally alter the way we live. The song’s chorus says
Come with us, run with us
We’re gonna change the world
You’ll be amazed, so full of praise
When we’ve rearranged your world
We’re gonna change your world
The final chorus changes to ….
So, come with us, run with us
We’re gonna change your world
You’ll be amazed, so full of praise
When we’ve rearranged your world
Whilst this song appears to laud Cultural Marxism and it’s social ‘advances’, it seems to speak of an aligned Project, to steal our world such that – step by step – we abandon the mechanical view of society and coalesce around the organic view. We are to surrender hard-won freedoms in the interests of the greater good! We are to be subsumed into a new ‘society’.
Our accompanying schematic illustrates varying sub-projects currently promoted by the global elite. Some of these sub-projects incorporate their own ‘docility gas’ in the form of social control, social exclusion, and even social cancellation. Readers might Google all these “mecahanisms”, if they want to dig-deeper.
Issachar !
Watch these spaces! It is entirely possible that these ambitions will be blown off course. Even limited atomic warfare could delay this by decades, and of course the West may soon cease to be the primary engine driving such change. As Christians our task remains straightforward. Do not be alarmed, but rather, recognize (1 Chron 12: 32, Luke 21: 28). Focus on the primary task (Matthew 28: 19-20). Our job is never to ‘make this world incrementally better’, rather it is to be ambassadors for the Kingdom and witnesses for the King (2 Cor 5: 20 and Acts 1: 8). Praise God! Work diligently! The need for THE good news has never been more pressing.
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Peter Sammons’ book “Last Days and End Times” speaks into some of these questions. Freely downloadable as PDF here: https://christian-publications-int.com/Last_Days_and_End%20Times.html
Steve Maltz’s book “Into The Lion’s Den” speaks of the advance of Cultural Marxism, and its implications:
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