Conspiracy: A Biblical View, by Gary North - EntreWave

CONCLUSIONexcept for a prayerful specialist who needs more information for aparticular task, not just information for its own sake. The "burned out"conservative who served as a discussion group leader for 15 years is afamiliar casualty in the war.When you get involved in anything, count the long-term costs. "Forwhich of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, andcounteth the cost, whether he hath sufficient to finish it? Lest haply [ithappen], after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it,all that behold it begin to mock him, saying, This man began to build,and was not able to finish" (Luke 14:28-30).The will to self-education is the third stage. The enemy has capturedmost of the tax-financed and non-profit educational institutions of ourera. The enemy has also captured the major communications media:newspapers, book publishers, radio and television. They screen outfacts that are uncongenial to their long-term goal of the politicalunification of mankind. Thus, truth-seekers are forced to find betterinformation by means of "alternative media." Bible-preachingchurches are the place to begin the search, but only a start. They, too,have been compromised. Their ministers and leaders have beeneducated in the enemy's schools and propagandized by the enemy'smedia. They, too, need to get involved in a self-education process.Only a minority are willing to do this. But at least they operate interms of a manual of first principles which is at odds with theconspiracies: the Bible.The will to dominion is the fourth — not the quest for power apartfrom ethical law, but the quest for authority by means of ethicalaction. 1 We need to do more than expose evil in high places. We needto make plans to replace evil in high places. You can't fight somethingwith nothing.This four-stage program, above all else, is what the conspirators fear,and cannot deal with successfully.The Psychology of DefeatThe mentality of the anti-conspiratorialists has been a defensivementality for seventy years. There has been a visible tendency forconservative people to shrivel up and die in the face of previouslyhttp://freebooks.commentary.net/freebooks/docs/html/gnco/html/conclusion.htm (2 of 7) [5/26/2000 1:48:26 PM]