The Empire Versus The Republic
Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 5:55AM 
This article has been slightly edited - originally published in April 2008
The course of history for the past 500 years has been dominated by an ongoing conflict between the forces of tyranny and the human struggle for liberty. For over a millennium following the collapse of the Roman Empire Europe was dominated by a bestial Feudal system, enforced by the Roman Catholic Church, which enslaved the vast majority of the population in perpetual poverty and ignorance. But the Renaissance began to change that miserable situation.
The Renaissance eventually gave birth to the political expression of the sovereign nation-state. As opposed to the continent being fragmented into dozens of fiefdoms, modern nations began to take shape that were more committed to the populations they ruled over. France, under the reign of King Louis the XI, was put on a course of nation building and thus became the first nation to emerge from the Dark Ages and the Hundred Years War to become a recognizable republic, devoted to the commonwealth.
But, of course, the newly emerging nations were still dominated by a feudalistic oligarchy. It was not until the colonization of the New World that the opportunity presented itself to create a new nation – a free nation with an ocean between it and the tyranny of the European monarchies.
After the break away American colonies formed the first sovereign nation in the New World, two competing systems of political economy began to emerge – The British System and the American System.
The British imperial system is a monetary system based upon exploitation, usury and speculation; whereas, the American System of economy is based upon true nation building. As an example of the British system, the East India Company, which had a charter from the government to bring in the booty from the far reaches of the sprawling empire, promoted opium production in India. The narcotic was then sold to Chinese peasants. Millions of Chinese became addicted to opium as a result of British “free trade.”
The British Empire was also profiteering in the slave trade and even though Parliament outlawed trafficking in human souls in the 1830’s, London was, nonetheless, allied with the Confederacy during the American Civil War and intended to break the union of the United States.
The fact of the matter is, the imperial system of looting made many people fabulously wealthy. Many of the mansions in Holland Park and other affluent areas of London were built with the riches acquired through the business activities of the British East India Company during the 1800’s. HSBC, one of the largest financial institutions in the world today, first got its start processing the profits from the lucrative drug trade. And to this day the plethora of hedge funds and banks located in London’s offshore pirate coves, such as the Cayman Islands, are still deeply involved in laundering drug money for their wealthy clients.
The American System, on the other hand, seeks to nurture and empower people to become productive members of society. It does so by means of education, infrastructure development, protecting domestic industry, fostering scientific progress, and by suppressing the rapaciousness of the British System.
These two competing, antagonistic systems of political economy are what is symbolized in prophecy by the iron and clay and the kings of the north and south leading up to the time of the end.
Since the end of the Second World War and the emergence of the United States as the preeminent world power, the Lord’s of London have sought to subvert America from her stated mission of freeing the world of colonial rule. In this they have succeeded. Particularly since the early 70’s, when President Nixon abolished the post war Breton Woods agreement, which effectively handed over control of the U.S. dollar to the London-based currency speculators and oil merchants, the American economic engine has been effectively throttled.
But the parasitical British system of globalization is incapable of sustaining itself. That is because a parasite only lives as long as its host thrives and the host – in this case, the underlying physical economy of America and Europe – has been on life support for sometime now. Because the population of the earth is steadily increasing the physical means of sustaining the growing human family must increase as well. If not, then there will be a chaotic, rather unpleasant population collapse, which is what the Biblical prophets long ago foretold. (For example, the book of Habakkuk)
The pyramidal scheme of amassing hundreds of trillions of dollars of debt predicated on extracting an income stream from a relatively miniscule few trillions of actual productive labor is manifestly unsustainable and doomed to collapse. So leveraged is the massive half-quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble, likened to a ticking time bomb, that a mere two percent notional loss could create a reverse leverage effect and virtually wipe out all of the world’s capital. That is why the system is now in an advanced state of economic breakdown – as a few sober observers are aware.
In further evidence of that fact, commenting in the New York Times on the Federal Reserve’s temporary bailout of the now-defucnt investment bank, Bear Sterns, James L. Melcher, president of Balestra Capital, a hedge fund based in New York, said. “If the Fed hadn’t acted this morning and Bear did default on its obligations, then that could have triggered a very widespread panic and potentially a collapse of the financial system.” But as the title of the New York Times article suggests, Bear Sterns is just one of many toppling dominos in the financial daisy-chain.
But the rolling temblor now shaking the financial system is merely a harbinger of a seismic event that will shake civilization to its foundation and more importantly, herald that the day of Jehovah has commenced.
So, what does the near future hold?
The financial oligarchy are determined to use the collapsing dollar to finish off – once and for all – the American republic and the nation-state system globally; otherwise, they run the risk that the United States and other sovereign nations may unite in their common interest of self preservation and act against the financier’s interests, as the global financial system careens toward the abyss. Will the forces of empire succeed?
In a word, Yes. The present democratic nation-state system is destined by the prophetic Scriptures to be crushed by the last empire. That calamity will herald the beginning of the end for the entire unsatisfactory system and commence a transitional phase that will culminate with the complete takeover of earth's governance by the Kingdom of God in the hands of Christ.
A further discussion of this view of history, as it relates to Bible prophecy, is presented in the chapter King of the North in Jehovah Himself Has Become King
Reader Comments (6)
Hi,
As for the sentence: " These two competing, antagonistic systems of political economy are what is symbolized in prophecy by the iron and clay and the kings of the north and south leading up to the time of the end. ",
I'm bit confused about what is the role of the 8th king on this image since I have understood that those feet are last one before Jehovah God destroys the image? Thanks in advance any explanation.
Actually answer found from the book "Jehovah Himself Has Become King" (page 459).
It does not seem likely that the Anglo-American world power is “the dominant horns of the unusually fierce wild beast” mentioned in Revelation 13:11. Concerning this beast, John reports:
“And I saw another wild beast ascending out of the earth, and it had two horns like a lamb, but it began speaking as a dragon.”
It should be noted in Rev 13 that the first wild beast that John saw, ascended out of the sea or the tumultuous sea of confused humanity. He describes this beast as having “ten horns and seven heads, and upon its horns ten diadems, but upon its heads blasphemous names.” However, before it comes out of the sea, one of the seven heads must undergo a healing process. This is why John said “I saw one of its heads as though slaughtered to death, but its death-stroke got healed,” so that at the point of its resurrection, “all the earth followed the wild beast with admiration.”
To date, no nation or group of nations has met all the specifications given in Rev 13. Therefore, the seven-headed wild beast has not yet made its appearance on the world scene; neither has the wild beast with horns like a lamb ascended out of the earth. That means the Anglo-American world power is not “the dominant horns of the unusually fierce wild beast,” neither is it the head that suffered the death stroke.
The assumption that the Anglo-American king represents the head that has already suffered a death stroke or will yet suffer a deadly wound in the future is inconsistent with the ordering of events presented in Revelation 13. So it is out of the question that the Anglo-American king will morph into the 8th king.
The wild beast with lamb-like horns does come from any preexisting empire. That is why John said it comes out of the earth. All nations [including England and the United States] will be made subject to it. The 8th king is the same king of fierce countenance mentioned in Daniel 8:23 and the king of the north of Daniel 11:40.
As people and nations fill their cup of iniquity, spurning Jesus’ redemptive sacrifice, they are allowing the Devil to take away Christ’s daily intercession as God’s High Priest on behalf of mankind. (Daniel 11:40) Consequently, the land will vomit its inhabitants out, as God will then allow this 8th king to flood the land--that is the whole earth. –Daniel 11:40; Leviticus 18:25.
When the “incense vessel” is hurled to the earth, God’s judgment in the form of seven trumpets will commence. (Rev 8:2-6) Later the seven bowls judgment are poured out undiluted, culminating at the war of Armageddon. The first four trumpet blasts brings about the great tribulation and creates the condition that brings about a crisis world government, the seven-headed wild beast and subsequent appearance of this 8th king or lamb-like wild beast that comes out of the earth.
So, the unusually fearsome beast with lamb-like horns, the king of fierce countenance, the king of the north and the man of lawlessness all meet the specifications identifying the Devil as the 8th king and also as the star John saw that fell from heaven to the earth. John reports in Rev 9:1:
“And the fifth angel blew his trumpet. And I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to the earth, and the key of the pit of the abyss was given him.”
This “star” is none other than the Devil. (See Isaiah 14:12) The fact that he comes out the abyss or out of the earth, substantiates that he is the same wild beast that John saw coming out of the earth, portraying itself as a lamb. However, when it speaks, its identity is shown to be that of the dragon.
So the “fallen” star is not Jesus as taught by the Watchtower. A careful reading of Rev 9 shows that this star whose name is Abaddon and Apollyon, Hebrew and Greek names for “Destroyer,” more aptly represents Nebuchadnezzar’s modern-day counterpart at the sounding of the 5th trumpet during the great tribulation, as it leads an army of locust-like invaders, similar to Joel’s prediction of the Chaldean when they executed God’s judgment against ancient Jerusalem and the surrounding nations.
So where is the king of the north now at this juncture of man’s turbulent history? World-wide conditions and developments point to its future emergence as a global tyrannical world power, “the image of the wild beast.” It will take a world shattering event to occur to bring it out in full view, such as the unleashing of the four winds of the great tribulation. –Rev 7:1.
Correction to paragraph 6: The wild beast with lamb-like horns does not come from any preexisting empire. That is why John said it comes out of the earth. All nations [including England and the United States] will be made subject to it. The 8th king is the same king of fierce countenance mentioned in Daniel 8:23 and the king of the north of Daniel 11:40.
As I read two latest comments, just came to my mind the question how Bible passages Revelation 20:1 , 9:1,11 and 8:10 relates each other? I mean what is meaning of persons on those verses i.e. "angel coming down of heaven with the key of the abyss", "a star that had fallen from heaven" , "the angel of the abyss", "a great star burning as a lamp fell from heaven". How those verses fits together and what is the connection between them ?
Hi CLAUDE
I am inviting you to see a few words of mine regarding the star and the king of locusts
I can't be too explicite in english,
but you may think and can make the connexions
see the link at my signature -->
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rus v.