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2. Predictive Prophecy • A famous prediction: • “The senseless ire of the furious combat will cause steel to be flashed at the table by brothers: To part them, death, wound, and curiously, the proud duel will come to hurt France” Nostradamus (Century II Q 34) • = the Camp David accord between Isreal and Egypt and the assisnation of Anwar Sadat! • “proud duel” = international terrorism

3. Pseudo- Predictive Prophecy • A famous prediction: • “The senseless ire of the furious combat will cause steel to be flashed at the table by brothers: To part them, death, wound, and curiously, the proud duel will come to hurt France” Nostradamus (Century II Q 34) • = the Camp David accord between Isreal and Egypt and the assisnation of Anwar Sadat! • “proud duel” = international terrorism

4. Real Prophecy • So far in Daniel: • Israel will reappear after centuries of world dispersion (tonight) • A great empire will one day appear in Europe based on 10 nations (Dan 2, 7, Rev. 13, 17) • Within that nation a world-ruler, “the Beast” will appear (Rev. 13) • The world will come under a single global government (Rev. 13:7)

5. Real Prophecy • So far in Daniel: • Isreal will reappear after centuries of world dispersion • A great empire will one day appear in Europe based on 10 nations • Within that nation a world-ruler, “the Beast” will appear • The world will come under a single global government  

6. Is it really plausible that ancient nations that disappeared for centuries would reappear?

7. Reappearance: Israel • Is.11:11 Then it will happen on that day that the Lord Will again recover the second time with His hand The remnant of His people, who will remain, From Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, And from the islands of the sea. • Context = the reign of king Messiah

8. Reappearance: Israel Ezekiel 37:1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones. 2 He caused me to pass among them round about, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley; and lo, they were very dry.

9. Reappearance: Israel 3 He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord GOD, You know." 4 Again He said to me, "Prophesy over these bones and say to them, 'O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.' 5 "Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones, 'Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life.

10. Reappearance: Israel 6 'I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin and put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will know that I am the LORD.'" 7 So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.

11. Reappearance: Israel 8 And I looked, and behold, sinews were on them, and flesh grew and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them. 9 Then He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they come to life."' "

12. Reappearance: Israel 10 So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.

13. Reappearance: Israel This predicts the regathering of Israel in the last days 10 So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.

14. ? Reappearance: Israel This predicts the regathering of Israel in the last days 10 So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.

15. Reappearance: Israel 10 So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army. 11 Then He said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried up and our hope has perished. We are completely cut off.'

16. Reappearance: Israel 12 "Therefore prophesy and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, My people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel. 13 "Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, My people.

17. Reappearance: Israel 14 "I will put My Spirit within you and you will come to life, and I will place you on your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken and done it," declares the LORD.'"

18. Reappearance: Israel • 21 "Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land;

19. Reappearance: Israel 24 “My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them.. . . and David My servant will be their prince forever.” Context = the reign of king Messiah

20. Reappearance: Israel • Jesus: Luke 21:20 “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near. 21 Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those who are in the midst of the city must leave, and those who are in the country must not enter the city

21. Reappearance: Israel 22 because these are days of vengeance, so that all things which are written will be fulfilled. 23 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days; for there will be great distress upon the land and wrath to this people;

22. Reappearance: Israel 24 and they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations;

23. Reappearance: Israel 24 and they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles

24. Reappearance: Israel 24 and they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Context = Great Tribulation

25. Reappearance: Israel • Consider this prediction 1. Completely unique 2. Easy to interpret 3. Objective 4. Fulfilled!

26. Reappearance: Israel • Consider this prediction 1. Completely unique 2. Easy to interpret 3. Objective 4. Fulfilled! WOW!!

27. Is it really plausible that a one-world government could arise?

28. Globalization • The logic of globalization rapidly becoming irresistable: • Ecology • Media & Entertainment • Economy & Business • Information and technology

29. Globalization • 1. Ecology

30. World Population in Billions 1830 2000 BC 1000 BC 0 1000 AD

31. World Population in Billions 1999 1985 1975 1960 1930 1830 2000 BC 1000 BC 0 1000 AD

32. World Population in Billions 1999 Headed to 10 Billion +!!! 1985 1975 1960 1930 1830 2000 BC 1000 BC 0 1000 AD

33. Globalization • Dr. Norman Borlaug, agricultural scientist at Univ. of Minnesota, winner Nobel Peace Prize, • “I think it is folly to expect science to pull a rabbit out of the hat in the 11th hour to solve the food production problem. The hunger and misery of millions will provoke a great global holocaust.”

34. Globalization • The amount of irrigated land around the world has not significantly increased since 1992, and erosion, the salinization of fields, and other forms of desertification are taking millions of acres out of production each year. Linden The Future in Plain Sight 105

35. Globalization • “Living Planet Report” 1998 London, Cambridge, funded by the World Wide Fund for Nature, the New Economics Foundation, and the World Conservation Monitoring Center at Cambridge, England,reported in Columbus Dispatch, Oct. 6 p.4A. • “Humans have destroyed more than 30 percent of the natural world since 1970” • “Consumption pressure has doubled in the past 25 years and continues to accelerate”

36. Globalization • “Time is running out for us to change the way we live if we are to leave future generations a living planet. . . We knew it was bad, but until we did this report we did not realize how bad.” Nick Mabey World Wide Fund • “One of the most serious is the depletion of freshwater resources, with half of the accessible supplies being used by humans--double the amount of 1960”

37. Globalization • Carbon dioxide emission have doubled in the same period. . . far in excess of the world’s ability to absorb them. . .” • “Wood and paper consumption have increased by two-thirds worldwide. In the same period, marine fish consumption has also more than doubled, and most of the world’s fish resources are either fully exploited or in decline.”

38. Globalization • Carbon dioxide emission have doubled in the same period. . . far in excess of the world’s ability to absorb them. . .” • “Wood and paper consumption have increased by two-thirds worldwide. In the same period, marine fish consumption has also more than doubled, and most of the world’s fish resources are either fully exploited or in decline.” What will we do?

39. Globalization 2. The international entertainment industry • Richard J. Barnet and John Cavanagh, Global Dreams, (New York, Simon & Schuster, 1994) • Unlike American automobiles, television sets, and machine tools, American cultural products--movies, TV programs, videos. Records, cassettes, and Cds--are sweeping the globe. 25

40. Globalization 2. The international entertainment industry • Richard J. Barnet and John Cavanagh, Global Dreams, (New York, Simon & Schuster, 1994) • Unlike American automobiles, television sets, and machine tools, American cultural products--movies, TV programs, videos. Records, cassettes, and Cds--are sweeping the globe. 25 No time for this tonight

41. Globalization 3. Global business • Theodore Levitt, a prof at Harvard Business School says, "the products and methods of the industrialized world play a single tune for all the world and all the world eagerly dances to it. . .” Barnet and Cavanagh168.

42. Globalization • Wendt, “The emergence of a full-blown global marketplace in which goods, money, and people flow easily back and forth across national borders around the world comes as a shock. Suddenly, the volume of world trade has reached staggering proportions.” Global Embrace, Corporate Challenges in a Transnational World, Henry Wendt, (New York: Harpers Business) 1993, p27

43. Globalization • Meanwhile, cross-border mergers and acquisitions and equity flows are the fastest-growing part of international capital movements. . . The world is integrating at a dizzying pace. National borders grow fuzzier and, in many cases, more irrelevant with each passing day. Wendt 31-32

44. Globalization • Factors, such as the staggering costs of developing products in high value-added industries or the emergence of vast free-trade zones like the European Community, virtually demand a global response by many companies. Wendt 45

45. Globalization • The European free-trade zone will number some 380 million people . . . The significance of these trading blocs for large companies has been clear for some time: A serious global competitor must achieve insider status in Europe, North America, and Japan to avoid being frozen out of the largest markets in the world. Wendt 49

46. Globalization • “The men who run the global corporations are the first in history with the organization, technology, money, and ideology to make a credible try at managing the world as an integrated economic unit. . . . What they are demanding in essence is the right to transcend the nation-state, and in the process, transform it.” Richard J. Barnet and Ronald E. Muller, cited in Korten 121

47. Globalization • Korten: • “The past two decades have seen the most rapid and sweeping institutional transformation in human history. It is a conscious and intentional transformation in search of a new world economic order in which business has no nationality and knows no borders.” 121

48. Globalization • Japanese author and consultant, Kenichi Ohmae projects a corporate world without borders and even suggests that ‘national borders are now irrelevant to most companies and consumers.’” 63

49. Globalization • Lester Brown: “In 1947, for example, when the current system of trade laws was established, tariffs worldwide averaged almost 40 percent of the price of each product. Today, they average about 5 percent.”

50. Globalization • “The retreat of government in many places around the world has left a power vacuum that corporations have rushed in to fill.”Barnet and CavanaghGlobal Dreams: Imperial Corporations and The New World Order, (New York, Simon & Schuster, 1994) 342