Part 6 of 11: The Coming One-World Religion

Equipping God's Saints (Followers of Christ) through the Prophecies of the End Times …

We are discussing the Bible prophecy and the coming one-world religion ~ when all religions become one. The prophecy is Revelation 13:8:

“And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”

So, all will worship the Antichrist and his one-world religious system except those whose names are in the Lamb's Book of Life.

The Bible teaches us there's a penalty for all of those people that, in fact, do end up conforming to this one-world religious system. Revelation 13:15 says:

“And he (False Prophet) had power to give life unto the image of the beast (Antichrist), that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.”

And Revelation 13:16-17 tells us another penalty. It says:

“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”

Those who will not conform to or worship the one-world government and the one-world religion will be killed or will be placed under economic boycott.

The prevailing theory today is that there are two root causes of war on earth:

1. Conflicts between Nations
2. Conflicts between Religions

The perceived solution is to abolish nations and move into a new era of global governance. And in order to get rid of the religious conflicts, bring some form of religious agreement on earth. With one-world government and one-world religion, we will have banished war from the earth and then we can have peace.

Previously, we studied the prophecies about the coming one-world government. It is going to happen. It's happening now.

We are now going to learn what the prophecies actually say about the coming one-world religion.

To understand how this is all going to unfold, Mikhail Gorbachev wrote a book in 1987 called “Perestroika”. In his book he discussed the dangers of religious exclusiveness. On page 231 he put together an all embracing system of international security. He sent a copy to every head of state at the time.

Item 4ii of this list was the “extirpation (to kill off) of genocide, apartheid and religious exclusiveness”. He was saying we must kill off, we must abolish all genocide, apartheid and religious exclusiveness.

It's interesting that he places religious exclusiveness in the same category as genocide. We know that genocide is the causing of physical harm or mental harm to a minority, whether it's a racial minority, a religious minority, a sexual minority, or whatever it may be. To cause physical harm or mental harm. We are reaching the time in society now when you can perform a hate crime without ever hurting anyone. All you have to do is say the wrong things.

Not only is there genocide mentally, but there is also harm against a person for religious exclusiveness. You are considered religiously exclusive if you believe that your religion is the only way and that people must be saved through a certain religion, or else they are not saved at all. For example, Jesus Christ said,

“If you do not believe I am the Messiah, you will die in your sins.”

Also in the scriptures it tells us,

“Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”

These types of beliefs would be considered extreme religious exclusiveness. Because Jesus was religiously exclusive, He said:

“I am the door to the sheephold. Anybody that climbs up any other way, the same is a thief and a robber.”

However, Mikhail Gorbachev said, “We must abolish all religious exclusiveness and you need to embrace my religion as valid. I need to embrace your religion as valid, whether we believe it or not because nobody knows the truth anyway. So, my truth may not be your truth.”

That's the concept that's afloat today among the intelligence of our world. It's filtering down into the general populous.

What's the perceived solution for religious exclusiveness? It's religious inclusiveness, or interfaithism. That means, if it's your religion, I respect it and I don't argue against it. You respect my religion, everybody respects everyone, we validate everyone and thus we remove religious conflict.

This term, interfaithism, is somewhat of a new term among us. Many of our huge political leaders today actually embrace interfaithism. One of those is President George W. Bush. In an interview, he was asked if we all worship the same God, Christian and Muslim. He said, “I think we all do. We have different routes of getting to the Almight.”

He was then asked, “Does Ben Ladden? Does Abu Musab al-Zarqawi pray to the same God that we do?”

To that, he answered, “I think that they pray to a false god, otherwise they wouldn't be killing innocent lives that they have been.”

He was then asked if Christians and Muslims go to heaven. He answered, “Yes, they do. We have different routes of getting there, but I want you to understand, I want your listeners to understand, I don't get to decide who goes to heaven. The Almighty God decides who goes to heaven.”

So, President George W. Bush says Muslims, Jews, Christians all pray to the same God and are all going to heaven. That's what we call religious inclusiveness or interfaithism.

Our present President, Barack Obama, also believes in interfaithism and pushes it at every opportunity. At his inauguration, there were three inaugural services. At the first service he had Muslims and Jews to pray. At the second inaugural service, he had a homosexual Episcopalian, Bishop Gene Robinson, to pray. At the third service, he had Evangelical, Rick Warren, to pray. President Obama was sending a very powerful message. All of these religions are legitimate and that he believes in interfaithism.

Before we really understand interfaithism, we are going to look at the forerunner of interfaithism, ecumenism.

Resources: The anointing of the Holy Spirit and God Almighty, who I am accountable to. I have prayed diligently and am led to follow and support the teachings of Pastor Irvin Baxter from Endtime Ministries and his teachings of Understanding the End Times. I encourage you to visit his website at endtime.com.