Exploring The New World Order From A Christian Perspective - Mark Fairley
“Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness;
instead, EXPOSE them” Ephesians 5:11
1.Introduction
In early 2009 I was browsing a photo album that one of my friends had posted on Facebook. One photo in particular caught my attention as she, along with a friend, were in the far north of Scotland standing in front of a war memorial in the shape of an obelisk. If you can’t picture one off the top of your head, don’t worry about it – we’ll get to it later. Suddenly it struck me how prevalent these things were. There is one in the middle of the Vatican in Rome and an identical one towering over Washington DC. As I searched my mind I remembered that I'd even seen one in a local park.
Why this Facebook photograph particularly piqued my interest on that day was because in late 2007 I had done a study that had shown obelisks to be connected with the worship of Baal and Asherah – the chief pagan deities of the Bible. I don't know why it took me a year to realise how prevalent they were, but I found myself asking the question: "Could it be that, in some sense, these deities haven’t ever gone away?" We hear about them so often in the Old Testament as the chief antagonists of God but they are never thought of in a modern context. Yet here we have these “Asherah poles” that God so despises all over our nation and all over the world. In significant locations too. How did they get there? What was the story behind this?
The investigation that I had closed in 2007 was now re-opened and I found
myself scouring websites and books that would help answer the questions that now filled my head. As I searched, I found more connections, which led to more questions. As I pursued those, still more connections were opened up. I began to see links between different eras. A picture on a grand
scale was coming into view.
A story that spanned from the beginning of time until the end; from Genesis to Revelation. The same ideas were recurring time and time again. I knew the information I was finding pieced together somehow. This couldn't just be coincidence.
