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ONE WORLD UNDER SATAN A former United Nations Assistant Secretary once made the statement that if Christ came back to earth he would first make a visit to UN headquarters to see if his “dream of human oneness” had come true. Of course, any serious student of Scripture knows very well that Jesus had no such dream. The Lord wants unity among his own children (Psa. 133:1; John 17:11, 21, 22), but most people in the world are not God’s children. They are Satan’s children (John 8:44; I John 3:10), and God’s word offers no command for them to obtain “human oneness.” If Jesus paid a visit to UN headquarters, he certainly would not be looking for unity because he well knows that world unity and peace will not exist until a number of Scriptural conditions are met. The only “Jesus” who would seek unity through the UN would be “another Jesus” (II Cor. 11:4), also known as the Antichrist or “the beast” (Rev. 13). This “Jesus,” the Antichrist, will one day be very happy to see that his “dream of human oneness” has come true because he will use this human oneness to fight against the true Jesus Christ: “And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.” (Rev. 19:19) They are “gathered together” in human oneness so they can feel confident and right in waging war against God and all righteousness. That’s the end result of all “human oneness,” according to the Bible.Think of the term United Nations for a moment. Why would nations unite? Most would suggest that nations would unite for the good cause of world peace, but the Christian can’t accept this because his Bible says that there will be no world peace until Jesus returns. So, if the nations are not uniting for peace (they only think they are), they must be uniting for something else, knowingly or unknowingly. Some 3,000 years ago God’s word told us what the nations will be up to one day: “The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.” (Psa. 2:2-4)God is the God of nations. He sets up nations, and he pulls down nations (Psa. 75:6-7; Jer. 18:7-10). God’s word, not the policies of men, will determine the end of all nations, so it is God’s word that we must believe and follow in developing our views concerning the United Nations.The faithful student of Scripture knows that the very idea of uniting nations is wicked. In the early chapters of the Bible, right after God had destroyed the world with a flood, Noah and his family were told to replenish the earth. They began doing so, as Genesis chapter ten reveals. Verse 5 says, “By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.” Verse 18: “the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.” Verse 20: “These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.” Verse 25: “in his days was the earth divided.” Verses 31-32: “These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.”God’s plan was clear. He wanted nations to be independent of one another. In fact, the first occurrence of the word “nations” is Genesis 10:5 where nations are said to be “divided,” not united. God knows the hearts of men (Jer. 17:9), and God knows that “every man at his best state is altogether vanity” (Psa. 39:5). The last thing that unregenerate men need is unity. Of course, the UN globalist crowd doesn’t believe that men are unregenerate and “altogether vanity”, but the Bible is still true. Men are just plain wicked, so division is God’s plan for the inhabitants of planet earth.This fundamental plan of God holds true throughout the Bible. Deuteronomy 32:7-8 says, “Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.” Please note that God divided, God separated, and God set the bounds. God didn’t unify nations.The New Testament does not alter this divine plan of God, as Acts chapter seventeen makes clear: “And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us.” (Acts 17:26-27) Men are one blood on one planet, but there are God-ordained divisions among us. We cannot ignore this truth without reaping God’s judgment.One who doubts this only has to read the eleventh chapter of Genesis. With Noah’s flood behind the human race, “happy days” were here again, so man began to think about unity and brotherhood, while forgetting to think about God and God’s plan. Consequently, in Genesis chapter eleven we find man trying to establish the first “united nations” in world history: “And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” (Gen. 11:1-4)There was just one problem: they forgot God (just like the UN Charter forgot Him in 1945). They used man-made materials to promote the dreams of man. Much was said about “us” and “we,” but nothing was said about God. Good human intentions cease to be good when God is forgotten. So what happened to this great and ancient “united nations?” Did the Lord come down and reward everyone for their good efforts? Not quite: “And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.” (Gen. 11:5-9)Of the several great truths that we can glean from this event, one is crystal clear: God doesn’t want nations to unite. Any attempt to do so is wicked, including the organization of the United Nations in 1945. This was an evil act of rebellion against the law of God, and God himself will judge those involved. Notice the prophecy of Zephaniah 3:8: “Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.” God does not allow the nations to gather so they can establish peace and unity. He allows them to gather so he can destroy them! Notice Revelation 19:15: “And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.” According to the Bible, God will one day smite the nations. He will do so because he has not authorized any form of world government, except the coming kingdom of his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. All attempts at world government are Satanic counterfeits, and God will judge them.