Conspiracy: A Biblical View, by Gary North - EntreWave

PREFACElater in 1986. I have decided to release it again, minus one chapter,"'Convergence': Justifying Surrender." With the collapse of the SovietUnion in 1991, there was no further need for a chapter on the foreignpolicy establishment's long-term pressures to bring together the SovietUnion and the United States under a common one-world government.The issue here is the new world order. Jesus Christ inaugurated a NewWorld Order. His followers call it the New Covenant. No other worldorder will ever replace it. But there are rival orders and would-beorders. They have their spokesmen.On September 11, 1990, President George Bush delivered a speech toCongress. He made these observations:A new partnership of nations has begun. We stand todayat a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in thePersian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rareopportunity to move toward an historic period ofcooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifthobjective — a new world order — can emerge: a newera, freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuitof .justice, and more secure in the quest for peace. An erain which the nations of the world, east and west, northand south, can prosper and live in harmony.A hundred generations have searched for this elusivepath to peace, while a thousand wars raged across thespan of human endeavor. Today that new world isstruggling to be born. A world quite different from theone we've known. A world in which the rule of lawsupplants the rule of the jungle.A hundred generations. Let's see, that gets us back to the era ofAbraham or thereabouts, in the days when Egypt rocked the cradle ofcivilization. From Egypt until 1990, no one had found the solution,not even Jesus Christ. I think Mr. Bush meant every word, asmessianic as his extended timetable may initially appear. I have notseen this messianic a statement by any other major Western leader inmy lifetime. But Mr. Bush learned a lesson in November of 1992:"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall"(Proverbs 16:18).http://freebooks.commentary.net/freebooks/docs/html/gnco/html/preface.htm (5 of 8) [5/26/2000 1:47:59 PM]