I have no use for paranoid expositions regarding the Masonic secret society that rules the world, the Bilderbergers, Rothschilds, Illuminati, or Luciferian worshipers. I have doubts about their existence in the manner that the flat earth society people rant. Those folks give me no reason to spend my time in that pursuit.
If they do exist, or if these are the end times, then so be it. We have no control over those potentials and I choose not to waste my time debating them. I have done business all over the world and not one person has ever asked me for the secret handshake. My entire experience leads me more to blame ignorance, laziness, and corruption for our problems instead of massive obscure conspiracies.
Yes, I have encountered members of the Illuminati in my international business dealings. I have found them to be irritating and disruptive, but inevitably powerless. It is my opinion that it is a scam, promoted by the charismatic corrupt to convince people to give them money in exchange for salvation. I am also aware that people worship Satan, and even sacrifice humans to their lower-case-‘g’ god. Although their associations are heinous, again, I find no global governance in such fraternities, although I do not doubt that they exist.
Before we begin the “deep dive,’ into the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, let’s talk for a moment about the segment of our faith that focuses on the book of The Revelation To John, and the suggestion that human society will reach the point of an apocalypse, where upon such time God will return and intervene.
I had a beloved uncle who enjoyed endless hours of biblical argument about The Revelation To John. I never found that kind of unending circular debate useful. The writing itself is vague and fantastic, and there is no ability to define or make use of it to solve the temporal problems we face.
While I certainly agree with that possibility, I can’t get past the fact that the book itself is extremely vague and clarity is impossible. I also have little assurance, based on the history of the faith and how its canon came into being, that this book deserves the attention we put on it. I’m sorry, but as we are going to discover, there is a tremendous amount of bias and agenda in how the current version of The Bible was created. Questioning and debate is at the base of our faith and always has been. If we can’t question and research as a means of uncovering wisdom, then what is the point of scripture’s existence?
Finally, we are instructed that we can’t measure the time of such things. The final verses in 2Peter: 3 are clear about that. Every generation for 2,000 years has believed that they live in the end times. Meanwhile, we have evidence of dozens of major societies that are either completely gone or are diminished to the point of being relatively inconsequential. I find no conviction in John’s revelation as it pertains to what we face. If this is indeed the brink of the apocalypse, then so be it. If not, then we need to attempt to decipher some solutions that are based on what we know to be successful. This is where a study of history and scripture is helpful in a scientific sense.