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everybody welcome to radio looks lucid episode 42 the title of today's episode is

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Pope Francis calls for the new world order and welcome to the program this is

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Steve Matthews thanks for joining me I really appreciate that I guess I should start maybe calling myself late night

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Steve or something like this because it seems like about the only time I get a chance to actually do one of these programs is late at night right now it's about oh gosh it's about 20 after 20 after 1 on a

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Sunday morning it's Sunday let's see it's March 28th 2021 so so welcome for anybody up late watching this live thanks for joining me and also welcome to those who are are listening to this as the podcast it's always great to have all of you here well

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I have I have some actually some good some good news here some good personal news here anyway

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I'm on vacation this next week I guess this is kind of like the the adult version of spring break or something like that I wasn't sure

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I was gonna be able to take time off I've been so backed up at work and and behind I wasn't sure that I'd be able to take time

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I've actually managed to accrue a fair amount of vacation time just and things have been so busy I haven't been able to take any of it but I was actually able to get caught up some here over the past couple weeks and things are in pretty good shape so so Lord willing them

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I'm I've taken some some time off here this next week and I intend to enjoy myself

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I don't have any big plans as far as going anywhere but I do have I do have a lot of plans though this is always one of the things it's kind of interesting about taking vacations

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I always come up with this list of things that I'm gonna get done this big long list and I'm really ambitious and I usually find

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I get maybe I think about a quarter of the things done that I'm going to get done and then boom you know it's the weeks gone and I'm I'm back at work and I don't know how that works that way but it's amazing how time flies on your week off and well you know

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I guess if I get a quarter of it done I guess that's something right at least it's it's not nothing it's it's getting something done so I'm gonna enjoy this next week off enjoy the nice weather and maybe get a chance to get out and do some things and and also do some work too

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I want to have some fun but I also want to want to get some stuff done it's about that time of year to where where I live that it's about time to start mowing the lawn you know it's

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I know it was officially spring last week but it's not for me officially spring until you get that smell of cut grass and in mulch and all of that other stuff and and you know sometimes

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I think working in the yard is kind of a pain and sometimes honestly I kind of like it

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I mean it's just nice I I work in my particular job I spend all my time at a computer screen typing stuff up sending emails all of this kind of thing it's it's sometimes nice just to get out of the house get outside do something that that kind of thing and I guess that's one of the reasons why

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I like to go bicycling on the weekends as well which I did today had a chance to go out and and ride some oh

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I guess it was on on Saturday I should say and that's always such a great time just get out clear my head get out and you know feel the

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Sun and and all that type of thing so that was that was a great time today I hope that this podcast

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I hope that I'm able to finish this thing here and I hope it doesn't get too noisy it seems like there's a little bit of a thunderstorm side to roll into the area so if you hear some some rumbling in the background it may be maybe that or hear some rain coming down because it's coming down kind of hard right now hopefully the electricity will hold up here so we won't have won't have a problem anyway so let's get into today's topic here the the title of this this episode is

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Pope Francis calls for a new world order and I got this particular title here it's actually just from a from an article that I found in Breitbart this actually this article dates of a couple weeks ago this is

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March 15th 2021 and in fact let me go ahead I'm gonna gonna bring that article up here and let's see if we can get this get this going here do a screen share let's see we got that and we got that and there we go okay so here we go here we go you can see the the article in Breitbart Pope Francis calls for new world order after the pandemic so you know it's truly an amazing thing the way the globalists and the authoritarians have have used this pandemic and and I would say it's a fake pandemic you know

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I think that this has been been oversold by by a lot and I think it's been oversold for the purpose of pushing a an agenda and I think we're seeing here that the the basic agenda that the

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Pope's pushing I really do think that this is is the main thrust behind the agenda is to push globalism to push a new world order and Breitbart is actually one of the few that might be the the most high -profile organization that has covered this story it's been buried and ignored by by all of the major mainstream news outlets at least that I've been able to find

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I couldn't find any coverage of this story in in any of the mainstream publications

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I'm talking about the New York Times you know the the Wall Street Journal NBC ABC CBS here in the

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United States or even some of the major organizations overseas whether you're talking about the BBC or or some of the the

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British publications I haven't been able to find any coverage of this except in the the alternate press and Breitbart is the most prominent of all the the outlets that I could find this story and so let's kind of dive in here and and see what it has to say

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Pope Francis insisted a new book things will never be the same in a post -pandemic world calling instead for the establishment of a new world order in a book like the interview with journalist

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Domenico Agasso titled God in the world to come scheduled for release in Italian on Tuesday the pontiff reiterates his case for the great reset with a shift away from financial speculation fossil fuels and military buildup toward a green economy based on inclusiveness now this should come as a shock to absolutely no one at least a few followed any of the work that I've done on this podcast or in some of the the articles that I've written on on the blog and in fact what we see here really is the

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Pope echoing the very same kind of language that is coming out of the World Economic Forum as well as other globalist organizations in an attempt to use this so -called pandemic as an excuse for a massive power grab and the article continues here after the coronavirus pandemic quote no one today can afford to rest easy end quote the

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Pope declares and a lengthy extract from the book published by Vatican News the world will never be the same again says the

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Pope but it's precisely within this calamity the almost grasp those signs which may prove to be cornerstones of reconstruction let us all keep in mind there's something worse than this crisis the drama of wasting it now that's kind of interesting there is he sounds he sounds just like Rahm Emanuel he was

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I think I guess he was brought one of Barack Obama's chiefs of staff during his

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Barack Obama's term in office and in the famous quote that's been attributed to Rahm Emanuel is never let a good crisis go to waste so I guess the the

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Pope might maybe he's he's learning from Rahm Emanuel and he he doesn't he wants to make sure they never let a good crisis go to waste and let's see here's a tweet from Breitbart here it says the

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Great Reset is real it's happening now and will lead to devastation worse much much worse than the

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Weimar Republic a German economist is warned so yeah I mean the Great Reset basically what it is it's it's a a reordering not just of the world's financial system but really of the whole world economy and it's being pushed by some of these very elite organizations such as the

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World Economic Forum such as the the Roman Catholic Church people like you know individuals such as say

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Bill Gates and and the whole globalist the whole globalist entourage out there of which there are a number of people and the

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Pope continues here we can heal injustice by building a new world order based on solidarity you notice that building a new world order based on solidarity studying innovative methods to eradicate bullying poverty and corruption he adds all working together each for their own part without delegating and passing the buck this new world order will be based on eradicating inequalities and attending to the environment the

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Pope affirms we can no longer blithely accept inequalities and disruptions to the environment he declares the path to humanity salvation passes through the creation of a new model development which unquestionably focuses on coexistence among peoples in harmony with creation so I guess he wants to wants everybody to the sing kumbaya it appears now what

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I think is particularly interesting here is is at the very end of this this article

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I'm just going to read this it's the last paragraph in the article and this is again quoting the

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Pope against this planetary discord is nipping the future of humanity in the bud we need political action that is the fruit of international harmony he declares urging for an end to quote short -sighted nationalism in quote and other forms of political selfishness in favor of multilateral solutions so you know once again here the the

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Pope comes out not only does he come out for the Great Reset which is just another term for a world government we talked about the you know the the

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New World Order the Great Reset you know these are all terms that are favored by by the people that that promote world government you know that that's that that's this is the argot this is the lingo that the the globalist use and of course the the

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Pope has to to put down or denigrate nationalism which you call short -sighted and political selfishness you know this is all a very very bad thing apparently and and the

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Pope he's not he's not too happy about that which is not surprising and that should surprise exactly no one now what

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I'd like to do here too is is I want to kind of move on and talk a little bit about the the

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New World Order and its opposite the Westphalian World Order the the

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New World Order is geopolitical Romanism the Westphalian World Order is geopolitical

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Protestantism so let's kind of dive into that a bit here Rome loves the idea world government and the

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Popes of Rome and other church officials are not shy at all about expressing expressing this

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I mean one of the the worst -kept secrets in the entire world is that the the

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Roman Catholic Church loves global government loves world government that the Pope's love world government you know and sometimes you say that to people

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I think well that's just conspiracy theory how can you say that well the the reason that I can say that is because the the

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Pope's and other church officials say this and they say it repeatedly and they say it explicitly in the most in in in the clearest possible terms so this is you know if it's a secret if the the

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Roman Catholic Church advocating for world government is a secret it's probably the worst -kept secret ever and you can take them at their word

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I mean they're telling you what it is that they want to do but that's so many people seem to to want to ignore that now let's take a look here and this is a quote out of the papal encyclical

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Laudato Si and it's also re -quoted by by Pope Francis in in his latest encyclical

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Fratelli Tutti this is a quote here from Pope Francis quote given this situation is essential to devise stronger and more efficiently organized international institutions with functionaries who are appointed fairly by agreement among national governments and empowered to impose sanctions so you got that empowered to impose sanctions now another quote and this is something that let's see this is from this is also from Fratelli Tutti Pope Francis says this in this regard

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I would also note the need for a reform of the United Nations organization and likewise of economic institutions and international finance so the concept of the family of nations can acquire real teeth so you know they want the

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United Nations to have real teeth by which they mean that they empower to impose sanctions apparently now again you can find probably dozens and in one of the things

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I guess I need to do here one of these days when I get the time and I'm probably not gonna have the time when I'm off maybe

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I can at least start it I don't know but to compile a list of all the quotes by by popes and by other officials of the

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Roman Catholic Church in calling for world government because it's not hard to find these things at all they don't it's maybe the worst kept secret in the world they they make this very explicit what are my favorite now one of my favorite examples of of of claims of statements for world government is out of an article is written by Rod Dreher in the

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American Conservative and this actually was an article that dates back to 2011 and and the title of this this particular article it's called

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Vatican calls for world government really and it's kind of interesting because it's written by Rod Dreher and Rod Dreher is he's a

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Bigfoot columnist I mean he was at the time of course he was writing for the American Conservative and I know that he's gone on he's his work appears in a lot of major publications so so he's a guy that's pretty well known as a as a columnist

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I think he started out life he was some kind of a some kind of an evangelical

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I don't recall whether he was a Baptist or a Methodist and I think it was one of those two and he went on became a

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Roman Catholic and I believe now he is he is Orthodox but in in 2011 and I don't know what what his what phase of his his religious beliefs were at the time but but he wrote this article and he sounds almost a little bit breathless when you read through that and let me just just read through a bit of his article here here's news about a new economic policy statement from the

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Vatican lots of good stuff in the document about abuses in the neoliberal world economy in need for reform but then there's this from Reuters the

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Vatican calls for the establishment of a supranational authority with worldwide scope and universal jurisdiction to guide economic policies and decisions such an authority should start with the

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United Nations as its reference point but later become independent to be endowed with the power to see to it that developed countries were not allowed to wield excessive power over weaker countries and and Rod Dreher seems actually pretty amazed by this and he writes here a little bit later he says

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Lord have mercy it was once only in the febrile prophetic imagination of Jack Chick and Hal Lindsay is now a press release in the

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Vatican a friend who's not an evangelical writes this is going to freak the evangelicals out but it makes me wonder what the heck is going on in the minds of these

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Vaticanites don't they have a clue how the world will perceive this one world authority really and then then

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Dreher comes back and he says count me with the evangelicals it freaks me out too and I'll freak out many

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Orthodox Christians I bet it has the same effect on not a few Catholics as well maybe

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Malachi Martin wasn't such a conspiracy freak after all all right so I guess a few things about this

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I think it's interesting that this this this friend of Rod Dreher says this is gonna freak the evangelicals out well

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I don't know that it really did it should freak the evangelicals out I mean Protestants should absolutely be be talking about this all the time but what do you hear from Protestants you hear thunderous silence you know

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Protestant pastors are afraid to criticize Rome and it's it's almost theologically incorrect to do so I remember one time

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I was at a at a men's oh it was just a men's

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Bible study and and I don't even remember how the topic came up but with this some talk about Roman Catholicism and I made the comment you know that the

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Roman Catholic Church believes in the real presence of Christ in the mass and I got the sense that it was kind of an uncomfortable topic to bring up and then some of my my the the fellows that were there actually tried to push back on it they say oh well well no they don't they they don't teach that and and there was and there are some people there who should have known better and yet they they insisted that that I was was wrong in characterizing the teaching of the

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Roman Catholic Church as one of the features of the teaching anyway is that they believe in the real presence of Christ in the mass well that is one of the most important distinctives of Roman Catholic teaching and and you can find that they're very open about this but you know there you kind of get this sense that so many even people who would call themselves

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Bible believing or conservative evangelicals or Protestants will not don't either don't understand what

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Rome teaches or if they do they they seem to be embarrassed to talk about it or to criticize

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Rome for the teaching that they have for the anti -christian teaching of the Roman Catholic Church the

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Rome by all means teaches that teaches the real presence of Christ in the mass that and that's not a side doctrine for Rome that's that is central to to Roman Catholic to the

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Roman Catholic liturgy it's not something that that is a is an option for for the

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Roman Catholic Church and and and for the the the Roman Catholic people now that they are required to believe this and I'm not going to get into a big long discussion about about the mass right now but I simply just wanted to point out the fact that there's first of all a lot of ignorance about Roman Catholic doctrine among evangelicals and again even people who should know better seem to to not know and you know the you know this comment by by Rod Reyer's friend that you know that this idea of a one -world government that's gonna manage our finances and it's universal in scope and all this other stuff and that's gonna freak people out well yeah it should freak people out but it doesn't and in fact it doesn't seem most evangelicals are even listening to what

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Rome is saying and they should listen to them because they're telling you what they you can take them at their word and this is you know the the

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Pope's the in various Vatican officials they repeat this kind of thing on a very regular basis and they do so in very clear language so I mean it's not something there there should be any question about but instead of being freaked out and asking questions and preaching against this stuff it seems like evangelicals it seems like Protestants are willing to go out of their way to try to make alliances with the

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Roman Church state and one of the the reasons why

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I say this is you know there was a headline a few years ago I think it was when the

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Pope Pope Francis came to to the United States for a visit in the fall of 2015 but it was an article in Christianity today it was called from Antichrist a brother in Christ and it was chocked full of all these quotes from supposedly representative you know big -shot evangelical pastors or or figures leading figures you know talking about how great the

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Pope was and and the the Pope's teaching the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church cannot be reconciled with the

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Bible you know at the very heart of the Bible is justification by faith alone or justification by belief alone as as John Robbins liked to put it and and what that means is that we are our sins are forgiven that we are considered acceptable in the sight of God not based on anything that we do but by faith in Christ in his finished work on the cross and his righteousness imputed to us it's not something that we do it's not the work of our hands that saves us it's the work of Christ that saves us and that was the central doctrine of the

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Reformation and that's something that that the Bible teaches it's something that the

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Protestants affirmed and it's something that the Roman Catholic Church denies and in something that the

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Roman Catholic Church when we talk about that I mean it is not a Christian Church and and for that reason it isn't and there are a lot of other terrible doctrines that are out there and and of course one of them is is the globalism but you know the the globalism of Rome really comes from the denial of the gospel of Jesus Christ so yes the the

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Roman Catholic Church is very clearly a a globalist organization and but there are very few not only just churches that won't point this out or not only they're very few churches that will point out the globalism of Rome there are very few news organizations as well that will do this

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I think it's interesting that Breitbart pointed this out every now and then even

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Alex Jones will talk some about about the globalism of the Roman Catholic Church now he doesn't lay the axe to the root the way that he should but he does at least occasionally talk about this and in fact

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I think that that InfoWars did cover this particular story a couple weeks ago as well now one thing that you know this is something that is is worth pointing out

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I talked some about the New World Order Romanism versus the Westphalian World Order Protestantism so the

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New World Order is basically just globalism think of it like that and the the biggest the biggest purveyor not the only one but certainly the biggest purvey of globalism is the

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Roman Catholic Church the New World Order is essentially geopolitical Roman Catholicism it's opposed on the other hand by the

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Westphalian World Order which is geopolitical Protestantism and let's learn a little bit about that there's an article

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I found out out on the web it's a pretty good article it's from the Constitution Party written by a gentleman named

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Darrell Castle and the title of it is The Peace of Westphalia and the New World Order so let's just read through a little bit of this we hear the term

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New World Order all the time we are afraid of the term and I would add that he didn't write this but we should be afraid of the term but if there's a

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New World Order then what of the Old World Order the political order which has existed for hundreds of years if we are suspicious of and resistant to the

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New World Order what order are we trying to conserve to find out the history and character of the

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Old World Order we need to travel back in time to the 17th century to the time of the 30 Years War the 30

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Years War was fought in Europe from 1618 to 1648 it began when the Austrian Habsburg Empire tried to impose

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Roman Catholicism on the Protestant subjects in Bohemia so there was this terrible pan -european war is what took place is this pan -european war there there are many

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I mean it there are many nations involved you know we sometimes think of World War one or World War two as being very devastating which they were but there was a war that took place back in the 17th century that was maybe just as devastating it was it was terrible and it went on not just for four years or four

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I guess what World War one was was four years and and World War two I guess that was six years well this war went on the 30

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Years War went on oddly enough for 30 years believe it believe it or not it lasted for 30 years and it was settled by the

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Treaty of Westphalia and that's why the you know what they call the old world order here in this article the old world order even the existing world order is really the

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Westphalian world order and it is geopolitical Protestantism because it was the

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Protestants that won the 30 Years War you know the good guys won that fight and what came out of that was was the the world order and if I would

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I'm gonna describe it to you in just a minute but you might be asking okay well what a what does the Westphalian world order mean what what what are the chief ideas of the

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Westphalian world order and I'm gonna tell it to you I'm gonna actually read through them this article it doesn't a very nice job sort of summarizing what the

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Westphalian world order is and you're probably gonna say well that just sounds like common sense well remember it took 30 years of warfare to establish these principles and throughout most of human history these ideas have not prevailed so it's not common sense

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I mean this is actually something that I and I think you can argue and find this this in the scriptures themselves but let's just take a look at how the how

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Darrell Castle summarizes the the Westphalian world order and he gives us four bullet points here first each state could keep its own religion without outside interference second the international affairs of each nation -state was to be left alone so you didn't you know you didn't have one country trying to meddle in the affairs of another of another country the nation -state was to be the highest form of government and these nation -states would not be governed by clerics or religious leaders so we have the separation of church and state each nation agreed to to only attack other nations if it was immediately and strategically threatened they would no longer attack each other just because one nation did not like what the other was doing no preemptive attacks only immediate threats so you know that's that's a

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I think a pretty good summary of the Westphalian world order and and get let's go back to number three there you know the nation -state was to be the highest form of government and these nation -states would not be governed by clerics or religious leaders okay so I mean right there and right there we can see how the

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Westphalian world order is is adamantly opposed to to the

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New World Order because the New World Order is all about globalism you know we read earlier about how how the let's go back to that article there by Rod Dreher and he quotes this press release that you find this press release from from Reuters so let's read that the

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Vatican called for the establishment of a supranational authority with worldwide scope and universal jurisdiction to guide economic policies and decisions such an authority should start with the

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United Nations as a reference point but later become independent and be endowed with the power to see to it that developed countries are not allowed to wield excessive power over weaker countries and you can see in this quote here from from Pope Francis he says in this regard

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I was also note the need for reform of the United Nations and likewise of economic institutions and international finance so that the concept of the family of nations can acquire real teeth you know we go back to that quote from Laudato si this is again

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Pope Francis given this situation is essential to devise stronger and more efficiently organized international institutions with functionaries who are appointed fairly by agreement among national governments and empowered to impose sanctions so you can see all of this is about global government in about subjecting nations to a a world government that sits above all of the other national governments and embosses all of these these recalcitrant nations around but in the

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Westphalian world order the nation -state was to be the highest form of government and these nation -states would not be governed by clerics or religious leaders so if if you are a if you're somebody who favors national the nation -state is the highest form of government you are at least in a geopolitical sense of the word you're a political

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Protestant and that's one of the things that the that Donald Trump did that I thought was quite good

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Donald Trump was a a champion of the Westphalian world order and I don't think he ever came out and specifically talked about the

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Westphalian world order but he definitely championed what sometimes called the national sovereignty you know that the

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United States as well as other nations had the ability to make the run their internal affairs the way they wanted to without outside interference and of course he was hated by the political establishment in part because of that and not just the political establishment the

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United States but also the political establishment around the world all of these globalists

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I mean I remember when Donald Trump was running for president back in 2016 you know what first got me interested in in actually supporting

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Donald Trump was when he punched back on the Pope you know the Pope made some comment you know the that you know those who want to build walls not bridges you know that man you know isn't

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Christian and of course he was there was a veiled reference he didn't mention the Pope didn't mention Donald Trump by name but but he was of course talking about Donald Trump who you know whose big probably most prominent campaign promise 2016 is he wanted to build a wall along the southern border of the

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United States between the US and Mexico to prevent all of the the illegal immigration the migration the human trafficking and smuggling drug smuggling all of this this stuff that's going on and he repeatedly talked about Donald Trump that is he repeated once he became president he repeatedly talked about the importance of of national sovereignty

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I mean this was something that that was was very much the case with Donald Trump but of course

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Donald Trump you know I don't believe Donald Trump was a Christian but I do think that he he had a

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Christian understanding of of of national sovereignty and of course this was something that they very much put him at at loggerheads with the

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Pope and of course now we have a Roman Catholic we have Joe Biden Roman Catholic who's who's president and and Joe Biden actually has a picture of the

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Pope in the overall office picture of Pope Francis there was a photo that was taken of of Joe Biden I don't know a month or two back and he's sitting there at the resolute desk in the

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Oval Office and you can see this picture of of Pope Francis behind his right shoulder

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I think it was his right shoulder anyway whatever shoulder you you could actually see this picture of Pope Francis back there and of course

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Joe Biden is working very hard to carry out Pope Francis agenda he's doing that with immigration he's doing that with the

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Green New Deal you know Joe Biden has put us back into the United States he's put the

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United States back into the Paris Accord all of this globalist stuff and basically he's just enacting

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Pope Francis political agenda he's doing it here in the United States and I think this is something that as Christians I mean we very much need to pray against and we need to speak out against and we need to to resist this because it's it's a very evil agenda so you know what

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I what I would say here is all of this this talk that we hear you know about the new world order you know just remember you know the big takeaway is that that's geopolitical

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Romanism and that it's an attempt to supplant the

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Westphalian world order which is the existing world order which was established as a result of the

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Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 and the the Westphalian world order is geopolitical

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Protestantism now one of the things that's kind of interesting maybe in closing and talking about the the comparison between the the new world order and the

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Westphalian world order you might expect that at the time of the

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Treaty of Westphalia that the Pope wouldn't be happy about that and in fact the the Pope was very unhappy about all this this is a quote from Innocent the 10th and in a bowl he wrote called

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Zelo Domus Dei, zeal the house of the Lord is the that that's the

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Latin title but translated zeal for zeal the house of the Lord and this is what

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Pope Innocent the 10th said when in when referring to the the

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Treaty of Westphalia he called it quote null void invalid iniquitous unjust damnable reprobate inane empty of meaning and effect for all time end quote so that's what the

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Pope the Pope thought about the Treaty of Westphalia and I guess you'd have to say well he was a little bit triggered he didn't like that one bit and in this and of course it's understandable why he wouldn't like it one bit because it it it was a major blow you know we talked about the

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Reformation dealing a a mortal blow to the Roman Church state and and it did and it was it was it was very devastating for the power of Rome but of course

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Rome is now an institution recovering from a mortal blow or mortal wound I should say so where's all this heading you know so we you know we talked about the new world order we talked about the

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Westphalian world order and we talked about the the big push for globalism so where is all this heading well in his book and this is actually one of my sorry about the little microphone noise there this is one of my all -time favorite books it's called hold it up here for those who are watching it's called ecclesiastical megalomania the economic and political thought of the

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Roman Catholic Church this was written by John Robbins in 1999 it was published then anyway so it's a little bit over 20 years old

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I guess 22 years old but it's it's an exceptional book and if you want to understand the politics and economics of the

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Roman Catholic Church you have to read this book it's available from the Trinity Foundation and it's a very reasonably priced

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I think you can get a paperback version for about $10 that's worth every penny you pay for it I highly highly highly recommend this book but let's see there's a chapter in chapter 19 it's just titled world government so I'm just read a little bit out of this for you this is a quote here quote what the

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Roman Church state accomplished on a small scale during the Middle Ages is what it desires to achieve on a global scale in the coming millennium end quote so what

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Rome's trying to do is they're basically trying to impose scalable tyranny on the world you know of course they they ran

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Europe up until the time of the Protestant Reformation when they you know they received their a mortal wound from the the widespread preaching of and belief in the gospel of justification by faith alone but what they're trying

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I mean the Rome is is an institution recovering from this mortal wound and they're trying to scale up their tyranny

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I mean they they did this in in Europe on on the on the scale of I guess the the continent or at least the region of of Europe and now they're trying to push us on the whole world can they do it

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I I don't know I mean there you know it depends on certain things the way you understand the book of Revelation I'm not trying to get in in on all of that into all of that right now but there's no question that's their intention is is to do this you know they you know

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Rome once once again you know it wants to be the woman who rides the beast that's the that's that's that's what they're aiming for that that's what they're trying to do and you need to understand this especially as Christians you need to understand that Rome wants to rule the world and that's that's not a joke it's not a it's not conspiracy theory

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I mean they've come right out and they they say it I mean Rome loves world government now

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I think it's very interesting you know that in the Bible you know we see an early attempt to create world government in the

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Tower of Babylon you can see the account of that in in Genesis chapter 11 but God God cut that work short and not only did he confuse the language of the people but he also separated them into two individual nations so instead of one all -powerful kingdom the people were separate you know they they had they were they were separate nations and and they were separate governments and you know the the

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Apostle Paul tells us the reason why he why why God did that and this was in his his sermon on Mars Hill Paul tells us that God did this quote so that they and that's the nations of men should seek the

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Lord and hope that they might grope for him and find him you know it with the with the

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Tower of Babel you know they were it apparently was something where they were they were trying to to reach heaven on their own and it was the sort of giant world government very idolatrous very arrogant and and they wanted to to you know accomplish this this reaching to the heavens all in their own steam you know they they didn't want to do things

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God's way they wanted to do things their way and in God ended that work and and he broke up that that worldwide empire into separate nations you know one of the the most important concepts in in the

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American government that was it was built into our system was was the idea of the separation of powers you have the separation of powers the federal level you know you have the the executive legislative and judicial branches of government but it wasn't even just the federal government where there were separation of powers the the federal system that we have where you have not only a federal government but you have state governments you have local governments you have competing authorities you know in the state governments do not derive their power from the federal government in fact the federal government derives its power from the states and and you also have have local governments that are independent of of the states of which they are a part so you have federal state and local governments and they all have have authority and these are competing spheres of of authority and and by by breaking up government like that it makes it more difficult for evil men to to seize control of the apparatus of government and and impose their their wicked ideas you know and some people get out and they're denounced as you know is legislative gridlock and you know this kind of thing well thank goodness we have that you know praise

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God that we have a government that's where you you have multiple centers of power thank

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God for that because it's these these big huge empires through our world history that have done so much damage and that seems to be you know with with sinful men the the way that we are

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I mean when you get these these giant organizations with with unlimited power or at least at least maybe not unlimited but certainly a great deal of power they also can do a great deal of harm in one conclusion we can take from the whole from the

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Tower of Babel and from Paul's sermon is that God disapproves of world government and he approves of a system of co -equal nation states that is to say that God hates the new world order and he approves of the

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Westphalian world order now we can expect the

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Antichrist Popes of Rome to continue their attempts to impose world government as and as their designs are at odds with the

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Lord's designs of course they're going to lose in the end you know the Popes are going to lose in the end but that doesn't mean that they can't cause a lot of damage between now and the return of Christ they can it almost seems likely that they will you know as believers it's our duty to be salt and light in the world

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I mean in this world seems to be getting darker all the time it's our job to be salt and light it's our job to to duty to pray against a pray against Antichrist I think even

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Charles Spurgeon said that someplace he said it was the duty of every Christian to pray against Antichrist well that is our duty and and that's something that we need to do and it's something that I think for too long we we have not done as Protestants so this is something that that very much needs to change and with that I think

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I'll wrap things up here for today thanks so much for listening I really do appreciate that always enjoy being able to to do these these podcasts and I hope that you got something out of that I pray that you did and we'll look forward to to being back next week maybe with my the week off and and having some extra time

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I don't who knows maybe I might even be able to sneak in an extra podcast or something like that here through the week so so we'll see but anyway any rate until next time

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I wish you a blessed Lord's Day and look forward to to talking to you again here sometime soon so until that next time may the spirit of truth guide you in all truth as you read and study