The Last Conspiracy

What kind of time do we actually live in? There won't be a person who doesn't wonder that. We see so much breaking down and so much changing and wonder if this will continue, or maybe we can get back to normal after all. We are going to look in the Bible for the last world empire and see what it tells us for the time in which we live and how it will end.

Daniel described the four world empires there will be in world history. The last world empire is that of the Romans. It is an empire that will first be made of iron, but in a later form will consist of iron and clay (Daniel 2:40-43). We have written a bit about this empire before (see here). Maybe good to read again first.
This Roman empire ruled Emperor Augustus at the time of the birth of Jesus Christ (Luke 2:1,2). In the last days, this same Roman empire will be restored but crushed by the God of heaven and Christ will set up His kingdom (see Daniel 2:44,45).

Christ appears twice in the Roman Empire

Het is belangrijk te zien dat het Nieuwe Testament ons bevestigt dat Christus twee keer naar deze aarde komt. Beide keren is Hij zichtbaar voor iedereen en beide gelegenheden worden aangeduid met ‘His appearance'.

About His first appearance is geschreven: “(…) genade is geopenbaard door de verschijning van onze Zaligmaker, Jezus Christus” (2 Timotheus 1:10). Dit gebeurde in de tijd van het romeinse keizerrijk en wel aan het begin, bij de eerste keizer van het rijk. “En het geschiedde in die dagen dat er een gebod uitging van keizer Augustus dat heel de wereld ingeschreven moest worden.(…) En het geschiedde, toen zij daar waren, (…) zij baarde haar eerstgeboren Zoon” (Lukas 2:1, 6-7). Hier komt Hij – hoewel Hij God is – in de gedaante van een arm mens, een slaaf (Filippenzen 2:7).
We know how it ended: He was rejected by the Jews and crucified by the Romans. There, between heaven and earth, He completed the work His Father gave Him to do and brought reconciliation to everyone who believes. After His resurrection, He ascended to heaven, where He is now until He returns and will appear again.

About His second appearance is geschreven “And then the lawless one will be revealed. The Lord will consume him by the Spirit of His mouth and destroy him by the appearance at His coming.” (2 Thessalonicenzen 2:3,8). Deze wetteloze is degene die we normaal aanduiden met ‘antichrist’; hij wordt in de confrontatie met Christus door Hem Zelf verteerd.
Dit is de vervulling van wat in Daniel staat: “En het vierde koninkrijk zal sterk zijn als ijzer, want het ijzer verbrijzelt en vergruist alles. (…) Dat u verder de voeten en de tenen, gedeeltelijk van leem van een pottenbakker en gedeeltelijk van ijzer, gezien hebt (…) In de dagen van die koningen zal de God van de hemel echter een Koninkrijk doen opkomen dat voor eeuwig niet te gronde zal gaan en waarvan de heerschappij niet op een ander volk zal overgaan. Het zal al die andere koninkrijken verbrijzelen en tenietdoen, maar zelf zal het voor eeuwig standhouden.” (Daniel 2:40-44).
In het boek Openbaring staat het als volgt: “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse, and He that sat upon it was called faithful and true. And He judges and makes war in righteousness. (…) En ik zag het beest en de koningen van de aarde en hun legers bijeen verzameld om oorlog te voeren tegen Hem Die op het paard zat, en tegen Zijn leger. En het beest werd gegrepen, en met hem de valse profeet (…). Deze twee werden levend geworpen in de poel van vuur, die van zwavel brandt.” (Openbaring 19:11, 19-20).
De antichrist, de wetteloze, wordt hier ‘het beest’ genoemd; hij is de aanvoerder van de koningen van de aarde, de aanvoerder van het vierde rijk uit Daniel 2. Hij is de keizer van het herstelde romeinse rijk, maar hij zal vernietigd worden door Degene Die tweeduizend jaar geleden in datzelfde romeinse keizerrijk gekruisigd werd.

We will continue to see how far the Roman Empire is now restored.

After World War II

In 1945 zijn de Verenigde Naties (VN) opgericht met allerlei ‘nobele’ doelen, zoals de wereldvrede, in het vaandel. Sinds die jaren is stap voor stap op allerlei manieren – zonder dat we het in de gaten hebben gehad – gewerkt aan het herstel van het romeinse rijk.

That this last empire is now almost 'finished' became clear to me when I realized a few things that have struck me in recent years.

  • The political contrast is no longer as it used to be between 'left' and 'right'. The political struggle today is between 'globalists' and 'nationalists'. That is why parties such as VVD and D66 can also rule together in the Netherlands; they are both for the same globalist agenda. Nationalist parties such as PVV and FVD have been sidelined for many years; they are not allowed to participate and are labeled as 'populist'. This is now called 'democracy'.
  • In most countries today, international law takes precedence over national law. So agreements with and legislation from organizations such as the UN and EU take precedence over national legislation. Poland is in fact one of the few countries within the EU that (still) rejects the primacy of supranational legislation.
  • In the covid pandemic it suddenly turned out that almost the entire world dealt with a virus in the same way. All kinds of agreements made with the countries from the WHO were followed, as well as all kinds of guidelines and regulations that subsequently came from the headquarters in Geneva. Isn't it amazing that worldwide, just like nothing, people think, decide and execute in the same way? It is inconceivable that the vaccination obligation is 'just' introduced in all countries? The chances of that being a coincidence are incredibly small. It's not accidental and it can't do without a global 'network'.

A little in between about the religious Roman Empire.
When we see 'the Roman Empire' as 'the Empire that is governed from Rome' we are not only thinking of the political event, but also of that other Roman Empire, of which the Vatican is the capital. A lot has happened there after the Second World War.
Het second Vatican council was held from 1962 to 1965. It was aimed at 'bringing up to date', the modernization, of the church so that, for example, the mass could also be held in the national languages ​​(instead of in Latin). Vatican II is seen by the Roman Church as 'the basis for ecclesiastical and religious life in the 21th century' but at the same time it launched an attack on the Protestant churches on several fronts with the aim of bringing them back to 'the mother church'. We know, for example, what this has led to:

  • The Reformation really shouldn't have taken place, See here.
  • Mary must be given a much more important place. See here.
  • Monastic practices are also practiced by Protestants in the contemplation and
  • Protestant churches should be adorned with statues. See here.

The ancient roman empire

The old Roman empire breidde zich vanuit het oorspronkelijke gebied in Italië uit door verovering van volken om hen heen en daarna werden de grenzen steeds verder verlegd. In de veroverde gebieden werd dan het gezag van Rome gevestigd. Ze stelden voor het bestuur hun eigen mensen aan. Zo kom je in het Nieuwe Testament bijvoorbeeld stadhouders en centurions (‘hoofdman over honderd’) tegen.

Estates in Roman society

The population of the Roman Empire was made up of a number of estates or classes (see for example here or also wikipedia), which were quite separated from each other and which differed mainly in the amount of money and possessions. If you search the internet for the names of these classes you will come across some different terms and classifications. From this I distill the picture below of society in the Roman Empire.

  1. The highest class were the Patricians; the senators (members of the senate, large landowners) and the so-called horsemen (originally the knighthood, later wholesalers and entrepreneurs).
  2. The so-called Plebeians. Those were the businessmen, craftsmen and wealthy farmers
  3. The Proletarians, being the workers, peasants and servants. People without money or possessions. All they possessed were their children, hence the name proletarians (from proles = progeny).
  4. The slaves belonged to the lowest class. They were not citizens and thus had no civil rights and property, let alone. Slaves were important to the economy, which largely depended on them. You could become a slave by birth, but prisoners of war were also sold as slaves.

It is clear that there was a small elite, consisting of the patricians and the plebeians. Then there were the poor, the people without money or possessions. These were the proletarians and the slaves. The poor were there to work for the wealth of the elite.
Iedereen had burgerrechten, behalve de slaven; zij hadden geen rechten en geen bezittingen. Het waren eigenlijk degenen die er op geen enkele manier bij hoorden; het enige ‘nut’ was hun werk dat ten goede kwam aan de elite.

Rebuilding the world on the model of the Roman Empire

To get straight to the point: what is happening under the flag of and together with the United Nations with, for example, the WHO (World Health Organisation), the European Union (EU), the World Economic Forum (WEF) and many others. organizations going on is nothing more than converting the present world to the model of the Roman Empire.
Om te beginnen staan het internationale recht en internationale afspraken al boven het nationale recht, waarmee praktisch de soevereiniteit van de afzonderlijke landen niet meer bestaat. Dat betekent dat de ‘wereldregering’ de landen feitelijk al ingenomen heeft, alleen nu niet met militaire macht zoals de romeinen vroeger, maar met een leger van diplomaten en ambtenaren. Een voorbeeld hiervan is ook de migrantenstroom naar Europa en naar ons land; dat is ook niet iets wat ons bij toeval overkomt. Het wordt op een of andere manier allemaal geregeld onder het ‘Marrakesh pact’ van de VN, ook al is dat formeel ‘niet juridisch bindend’. De Numbers show little coincidence.

What remains to be done is the conversion of the population to the model of the Roman Empire. This is where the role of the World Economic Forum comes into play. This is not the place to devote a great deal of text to it here, yet we should try to briefly summarize their ideas. For the enthusiasts: see here the WEF-site or download the WEF book here, The Great Reset.

For several reasons, people believe that the world needs to be changed drastically. The financial system is rattling (mainly due to a huge mountain of debt), we consume far too much and that is bad for the climate. Of course we also produce too much and that is also bad. Moreover, due to further automation, ordinary work will increasingly disappear. That means an entirely new economic system has to be created. This has been considered within the WEF for the past ten years (or perhaps even longer), but now it will have to be implemented and it is not that simple.
The Covid pandemic is now being used to bring about changes worldwide. I don't know exactly how they will do that, but if this heralds the restoration of the Roman Empire, the result will be that

  • rich getting richer (we've seen that happen in the past two years; see here);
  • small businesses can no longer exist and big companies (the companies of the elite) grow;
  • unemployment is rising and more and more people are becoming dependent on the government;
  • the common people are getting poorer; prices will rise and the livelihood will be hard to do;
  • bezit wordt ontmoedigd of zelfs onmogelijk gemaakt; wat je nog mag hebben of consumeren (vanwege ‘het klimaat’ weet je wel?) wordt door de overheid bepaald
  • changes in the monetary system can directly affect people's property; think of bank accounts and mortgages.
  • mensen die zich hierin niet willen schikken, zullen geen rechten meer hebben en ‘slaaf’ worden. Ze mogen niet meer meedoen
  • eventually a control state exists in which the elite, using technology, call the shots and keep the population under control, the worker owns nothing and the slaves have no rights. We have already written about this in this blog: Homo God.

A world in chaos

We can well imagine that the changes in the economic world are causing tremendous chaos. That it will lead to riots, violence and possibly even civil wars is not inconceivable and even probable.

At the moment there is social unrest surrounding the vaccination problem. The first thing to note is that there is the question of truth and lies. What is true what is being told and what is a lie? This causes great division in society, even to the extent that a certain group (the unvaccinated) is in danger of being excluded. Governments force citizens to obey and if not they deprive them of further rights. In Roman terms they are then declared slaves.

This is what many residents of the (European) countries fear. People who do not want to be vaccinated will not receive an access pass and will be banned from society. It has already been announced that way in most European countries and the US. A few years ago it was decided in the European Union that the digital identity document will be introduced in 2022 (see here the EU timetable until 2022 and a EU page on the same topic).

It is this freedom of the individual that is being taken away and against which there are demonstrations all over the world. You can see that the 'bourgeois counter-movement' is becoming more and more massive worldwide. You hardly hear or see anything about it in the official media, but the unrest and resistance are growing and the demonstrations are getting bigger.
Many have the hope that together they can turn the tide. But it is to be feared that this is a vain hope and that this 'fighting for freedom' is a hopeless task.

If the major societal changes envisioned in the 'Great Reset' are to be brought about, it can only be successful with a servile population.
If what is happening is really the Bible's foretold restoration of the Roman Empire, then human resistance will not stand up to it. The empire consists of iron and its hardness will become more and more visible in the near future, especially where resistance is offered. After all, the Romans also made short work of that time: prisoners of war were sold into slavery and rioters faced a cruel death on the cross (Luke 23:19,33). It will be no different in the Roman Empire that is recovering.

One more time: slaves and freemen

De oordelen die we in het boek Openbaring vinden, gaan over de hele wereld. Opmerkelijk is dat in dit boek alle klassen en termen die we ook m.b.t. het romeinse rijk zijn tegengekomen, gebruikt worden. Op drie plaatsen komen deze uitdrukkingen voor, op verschillende manieren gegroepeerd, maar altijd gaat het ook over ‘slaves and freemen‘. Zelfs een verwijzing naar de horsemen staat er in: ‘the horses and those who sit on them'.

  • "And the kings of the earth, and the great, and the chiliarchs, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains." (Revelation 6:15)
  • "And it causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bondmen, that they should give them a mark upon their right hand or upon their forehead." (Revelation 13:16)
  • "..that ye may eat flesh of kings, and flesh of chiliarchs, and flesh of strong men, and flesh of horses and of those that sit upon them, and flesh of all, both free and bond, and small and great." (Revelation 19:18)

Zou dit kunnen bevestigen dat het herstelde romeinse rijk, zoals dat door Daniel werd gezien, inderdaad in de laatste dagen weer gestalte krijgt en geoordeeld wordt? De beschrijving van de standen in de romeinse maatschappij is zelfs heel concreet en compleet. Gemeenschappelijk daarin is steeds het kenmerkende ‘vrijen en slaven’. Ik vind dat weer een bewijs van de nauwkeurigheid en betrouwbaarheid van het Woord van God.

The first and the last emperor

The first emperor of the Roman Empire was Emperor Augustus. With his arrival it came into being empire. Daarvoor was het romeinse rijk een republiek, maar dit was een bestuursvorm die niet goed meer werkte voor zo’n groot rijk. Vandaar dat de 1e eeuw voor Christus een roerige tijd van burgeroorlogen was waarin Augustus zijn persoonlijke macht uitbreidde en uiteindelijk keizer en alleenheerser werd. Oorspronkelijk heette hij Octavianus, maar toen ook de senaat zich aan hem overgaf, werd hij benoemd tot Augustus, dat is ‘Verhevene’.
Met Augustus brak inderdaad ook een tijd van vrede in het rijk aan, zodat hij ook ‘vredevorst’ genoemd werd.

Het herstelde romeinse rijk zal weer een leider krijgen die we vanuit de bijbelse gegevens ‘the antichrist‘ noemen (1 Johannes 2:18; 4:13). Hij wordt ook wel genoemd ‘the man of lawlessness, the son of perdition‘ (2 Thessalonicenzen 2:4) of ‘het beest uit de zee‘ (Openbaring 13:1-10) dan wel ‘a ruthless king‘ (Daniel 8:23). Op het toppunt van zijn macht ‘he exalts himself above all that is called God or is worshiped as God, so that he sits as God in the temple of God and pretends to be God.’ (2 Thessalonicenzen 2:4).
Vanuit het perspectief van het romeinse rijk dat hersteld wordt zien we hier de eerste keizer van het herstelde rijk, een nieuwe Augustus, de ‘verhevene’. Maar tegelijkertijd zal hij de laatste keizer blijken te zijn, want de Heer Jezus Christus verschijnt in heerlijkheid om hem te oordelen.

The imperial crown

While searching for this article, I discovered another common symbol, namely the crown of laurel. In the language of Rome, the crown is a corona. It is a crown of laurel awarded to Caesar by the Senate in recognition of his numerous victories. This insignia was retained by his three successors, when they had ascended the imperial throne, as the mark of their supremacy.

Ik ontkom niet aan de indruk dat de logo’s van zowel de VN als de WHO een keizerskroon in zich hebben die de hele wereld omspant en symboliseren dat ze werken aan de komende overwinning van de nieuwe wereldheerser. Die natuurlijk de vrede in de wereld, het grote rijk, zal brengen, net als Augustus dat deed in het eerste romeinse rijk. Tevens passen daarin het corona-project en de Great Reset als versneller van de ontwikkelingen.
Finally, see how the book of Revelation describes the coming of the emperor of the restored Roman Empire; he makes no war, has a crown and conquers. That does sound a bit mysterious.

And I looked, and behold a white horse, and he that sat on it had a bow. And a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.” (Openbaring 6:2)

After the Corona event and the consequences of the Great Reset, chaos, misery and violence will be incalculable. Worldwide attempts will be made to introduce the new world order with brute force and that will cause enormous problems.
Meanwhile, the new emperor works his way up the power structure described in the book of Daniel (7:8, 24) and the whole world follows after him (Revelation 13:3). He is the one who will miraculously deceive the whole world with promises of peace and prosperity. With Israel he creates a peace relationship that makes it possible to build the temple in Jerusalem.

Finally

I remember how a brother once said long ago that our world is becoming more and more like the New Testament world. That is going on: the rebuilding of the western world and the restoration of the Roman Empire.
Whereby the new kingdom arises on the ruins of the old, as it has always been in history.

But the new Roman Empire is short-lived: it will not be shattered by human hands (Daniel 2:45), for Christ comes in great glory to judge and establish His empire that will last 1,000 years.

"But when these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws nigh." (Luke 21:28)

We may look forward to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in the clouds, who will take us to Himself before the judgments break out.
Let's do together what John calls us to in the last chapter of the Bible. Longing for the coming of the Lord Jesus and meanwhile inviting the people to still accept God's offer of grace and take refuge in Christ.

"And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that is athirst come; he that will, let him take [the] water of life freely." (Revelation 22:17)


Notes

*** You will find a critique of the Great Reset, neatly formulated by a professor from Nijenrode here. What he sees as the dangers of the Great Reset are precisely the hallmarks of the Roman Empire.

*** De gedachte dat de “nieuwe keizer” van het herstelde romeinse rijk degene zou zijn die door de Bijbel ‘de antichrist’ wordt genoemd (1 Johannes 2:18) en ‘het beest uit de zee’ (Openbaring 13: ) is, wordt zeker niet door alle bijbelleraren gedeeld. Het argument daarvoor is meestal dat “de Joden nooit een heidense messias zullen aanvaarden omdat de Bijbel hele duidelijke aanwijzingen geeft waar de Messias vandaan komt”. Maar deze redenering gaat uit van de veronderstelling dat de regering van Israel – want zij gaan er m.i. over – de Bijbel hanteert bij haar politieke keuzes en bondgenootschappen. Dat is echter maar zeer de vraag. De uitspraak van de Heer Jezus “(…) een ander komt in zijn eigen naam, die zult gij aannemen” (John 5:43) instead points out that they will accept the wrong one as messiah. What I of my only visit to Israel geleerd heb is dat zij iedereen als messias accepteren die hen vrede geeft van ‘de vijanden van rondom’; een vrede die zelfs zover gaat dat ze in Jeruzalem hun tempel weer kunnen bouwen.
But we don't make it a point of contention; after all, it is not literally stated in the Bible which of the two beasts of Revelation 13 is the antichrist. Maybe they are both or together.