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Group photo of the 2017 G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany. 

To one and all, happy belated Independence Day. Yes, this past week Americans celebrated the fact that, twelve score and one years ago, “our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

As a kid, July 4th was always one of my favorite times of the year. How could it not be. It was summer. School was out. And it was all about baseball, backyard barbeques with family, and lots of stuff that went boom!

America’s Bicentennial year of 1976 I remember as if it were yesterday. Recently I was reminded how long ago it really was when President Trump made some comment about the upcoming 250th anniversary of America’s independence. Good grief! Where did time go?

Well, even thought a lot of Independence Days have come and gone since 1976, I still love the day for all the same reasons I did back then. An a few more to boot.

You see, when I was a child, I didn’t really grasp the importance of liberty and freedom from tyranny. But as an adult, and one who has been eyewitness to the kind of gross usurpations of liberty governments are capable of, I have come more and more to appreciate the bold stand for liberty of America’s founding generation.

One important facet of the American Revolution that is almost entirely forgotten in the present day is that it represents the political flowering of the Protestant Reformation. Simply put, no Reformation, no United States of America.

In the beginning all America was Protestant – 98 percent of the people. The numbers we have for church affiliation in the seventeenth and eighteenth century America show that three – fourths of Americans were Calvinists of one flavor or another. Puritan, Pilgrim, Presbyterian, Baptist, German Reformed, Lutheran, Congregationalist, and Episcopal. There were few Catholics, almost no Jews or Methodists, and no Muslims, Mormons, Moonies, Buddhists, Confucianists, Hindus, or atheists. Had there been any large numbers of these groups, there would have been no America as we have known it, not because the people who hold these views are somehow inferior, but because the views themselves are inferior: They are logically incapable of creating and sustaining a free society (John Robbins, Rebuilding American Freedom in the Twenty-First Century).

It was biblical political philosophy, not the thought of ancient Greece and Rome, that is the cause of America’s historic, if not present, commitment to limited constitutional government and private property.

The widespread preaching of, and belief in, the Gospel of Justification by Faith Alone created a whole new civilization in the nations influenced by the Reformation. And not only that, but the political implications of the Reformation created a whole new system of international relations called the Westphalian World Order (WWO).

Pre-Westphalian Europe was a mixture of declining empires, retreating feudal lords and an emerging class of traders and capitalist entrepreneurs with the Church remaining very influential as an instrument of European governance. The Treaty of Westphalia of 1648, brought to an end the Thirty Years’ War, the first pan-European war in history. Under the terms of the peace settlement, a number of countries were confirmed in their sovereignty over territories. They were empowered to contract treaties with one another and with foreign powers. In a nutshell the central authority of the empire was replaced almost entirely by the sovereignty of about 300 princes. The Peace Treaty was a turning point in the mutual recognition of sovereignty rights. Although the signatories of the treaty had only the peace of Europe as their ultimate objective, the unintended consequence of their efforts was to create a global order based on a “State System” (KImon Valaskakis, Westphalia II: The Real Millennium Challenge).

While it may seem like common sense to some, the idea that a nation state has the right to conduct its own affairs free from outside influence was a revolutionary idea in its time. Inspired by the Reformation, the vested powers of the day, most notably the Roman Church-State – note well that Valaskakis mentions that “the Church remain[ed] very influential as an instrument of European governance – fought against Westphalian Sovereignty and the emerging WWO with all their might. But simply put, the good guys won, the bad guys lost, and a new and better civilization emerged from feudal darkness.

Rome’s New World Order

The Protestant WWO represented a huge blow to the political ambitions of the Roman Church-State. By its very nature, Rome is an empire. That a secular ruler could or should govern apart from the oversight of the pope is anathema to Rome’s globalist pretensions.

As such, the Church and its popes have worked tirelessly to bring about the day when the Babylonian Harlot once again rides the beast of empire, not on a merely regional level as she did during the middle ages, but on a world-wide scale.

In today’s world, it is fairly rare for anyone to point out Rome’s globalist ambitions. Even among the alternate media where speculation about the New World Order (NWO) is rampant, only a few commentators seem to have noticed the Rome’s blatant globalist push.

In his 2011 article in the American Conservative
“Vatican calls for One World Government. Really.” Rod Dreher seems genuinely shocked to learn that Rome really, truly, actually wants world government. Dreher quotes the a Vatican policy statement saying, “In the same spirit of Pacem in Terris, Benedict XVI himself expressed the need to create a world political authority” (emphasis Dreher’s).

Had Dreher been paying closer attention to recent papal pronouncements, he would have known that Benedict was hardly the first pope to speak this way. Indeed, such globalist rhetoric is typical of the popes. As John Robbins notes in Ecclesiastical Megalomania, “In its social encyclicals of the twentieth century, the Roman Church-State has frequently called for world government” (187). By way of example, Robbins cites Gaudium et Spes, a Vatican II document which reads,

It is our clear duty, therefore, to strain every muscle in working for the time when all war can be completely outlawed by international consent. This goal undoubtedly requires the establishment of a universal public authority [emphasis mine, these words from Vatican II are nearly identical to those of Benedict XVI cited above] acknowledged as such by all and endowed with the power to safeguard on the behalf of all, security, regard for justice, and respect for rights (187).

It is within the context of Rome’s globalist ambitions that one must understand Pope Francis’ many statements in support of the Paris Accord climate change initiative and mass, taxpayer subsidized immigration, migration and refugee resettlement, for both are weapons Rome has used to further its globalist agenda.

Climate change supposedly is a global problem that can be met only with a global solution, making it a perfect weapon for Antichrist to push for world government. An article in USA Today puts it this way, “The [UN] summit, arranged by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, is the prologue to Pope Francis’ June encyclical – one of the highest forms of papal expression – that will promote climate change action, framing it as a moral and religious imperative.”

As you might suppose, the Vatican was none too pleased with President Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the Paris Accord, saying the move “would be a huge slap in the face for us.”

But a good slap to the kisser isn’t going to stop the pope. Just a few weeks ago, Pope Frances met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss the agenda for the 217 G20 meeting held in Hamburg this week. After the meeting, the Vatican released a statement highlighting the points discussed by Merkel and Francis. The leaders, “agreed on the need to dedicate special attention to the responsibility of the international community towards counteracting poverty and hunger, the global threat of terrorism, and climate change.”

Pope Francis has been one of the principal promoters of mass taxpayer subsidized migration to Europe and North America. Although the ongoing European refugee crisis represents a real threat to the political and economic stability of the entire continent, the NWO pope sees that not as a problem, but as an opportunity.

After all, if Antichrist can flood the nations of Europe with enough third-world welfare cases that they become ungovernable, he has effectively overthrown the WWO. And who better to step in an fill the power vacuum than Mother Kirk herself. It is for this reason, increasing the power of the Roman Church-State, that Pope Francis wrote his letter addressing the G20 summit with the words, “there is a need to give absolute priority to the poor, refugees, the suffering, evacuees and the excluded, without distinction of nation, race, religion or culture, and to reject armed conflicts.”

Just why “there is a need” to do these things, the pope doesn’t say. He merely asserts it, therefore it must be true, which sounds an awful lot like an ex cathedra pronouncement. Translating this claptrap into more direct and honest language, the pope is calling on the heads of state present at the G20 to destroy their nations and force their citizens to pay for it. If you’re a power hungry globalist pope, I suppose that sounds like a mighty good deal. If you happen to be so unfortunate as to live in one of the nations targeted for termination, not so much.

It was the Gospel of Justification by Faith Alone that freed the nations of Europe and North America from the iron first of papal rule, and it is only in the Gospel that they have any hope of remaining free. John Quincy Adams put it this way, “In the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior. The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.”

Happy belated Independence Day.