Hortator wrote:I can't tell if you're serious or not about the existence of a NWO.
I mean, if you are, by all means give me your best shot trying to convince me and I'll listen with an open mind.
I do not know if you were asking me or ACB.
It would depend on your particular view of Christian eschatology.
2 Corinthians 2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
In my opinion, I believe there are two plans at work in the realms of human history and human society.
One is God's Master plan. The other is Lucifer's plan to thwart God's Master plan which he has been attempting to usurp for millennia.
I believe God sentenced Lucifer to death a long time ago (Ezekiel 28). God just hasn't executed him. Yet. Lucifer knows the time of his inevitable destruction is coming and he is using everything in his power to prevent his prophesied demise. That includes the world economic, educational, political, religious social system; the NWO. In Zechariah 1 and the book of Daniel, this system is allegorically described as four horns or powers, essentially four dynasties. Just as an animal horn is used to describe its power, a dynasty is a power that controls a large number of people over a long period of time. In Matthew 4:9 and Luke 4:6 Lucifer tells Jesus that all the kingdoms of the world have been given to him. Jesus does not dispute that with him.
Jesus calls Lucifer, "the prince of this world" in John 12:31 and John 14:30.
The apostle Paul calls Lucifer, 'the god of this world" in 2 Corinthians 4:4.
Lucifer is called Abaddon and Apollyon in Revelation. Both those names means destroyer.
What did Lucifer do to receive such titles?
I suppose you could say, "Well that's just the way it is. The human race is filled with sinful human beings who do as they wish and no one is controlling them." I firmly believe that if a person is not worshipping Christ, then they are worshipping Satan. And if they are not worshipping Christ, then Satan is using that person in order to fulfill his plan because those people are ignorant of his devices.
There are a whole series of events that have to happen before Christ's return. I do not believe in a rapture of any kind, therefore the world economic, educational, political, religious social system has to reach it's zenith. But when it reaches it's zenith then it fails. (See Revelation 13, the deadly wound). And when it fails, Lucifer is going to show up and fix the system and demand that he be worshipped as God. Then he is going to make an image of that system, with him as its religious head. And because there are so many that are unfamiliar with what the Bible actually teaches, they will worship him as God.
Shortly after Lucifer comes here, then Christ is going to return and most of the human race will wish to die because they thought they were worshipping Christ, when it was Lucifer disguised as Christ they were worshipping. That is why Jesus' first warning in Matt 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21 is a warning about deception and in 2 Thess 2:4, Paul warns that the day of the Lord isn't going to happen until the son of perdition (the son that perishes), the lawless one, Satan, Lucifer (he is called by many names), comes here first before Christ.
Lucifer's deception will be so great, so underhanded and so thorough that most of the human race will worship him. They will all take the mark of the beast, (which I believe to be a spiritual mark of deception in a person's mind.) And he will use the NWO, (the economic, educational, political, religious social system), to achieve his means, which is still in the process of forming to its full extent. However, as much as he attempts to thwart God's plan, he is simply an instrument in a much greater plan, the end of which, not even he can imagine, which will lead to his ultimate destruction.
That is what I understand about the NWO.