Tower: That first video link was hysterically funny. It very much reminded me of being in a Sunday evening service in my home church as a kid in the mid-eighties. In addition to the Bille Schoebelen citation at the beginning, I also took note of the following:
• 06:00 mark: William Guy Carr's book entitled
Pawns in the Game (3rd Edn.) was published in 1958 by the Federation of Christian Laymen, and can be read in its entirety
here. In the Preface the publishers make the following declaration:
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"The lnternational Communists, and the International Capitalists, (both of whom have totalitarian ambitions) have temporarily joined hands to defeat Christian-democracy. The cover design shows that all moves made by the International Conspirators are directed by Satan and while the situation is decidedly serious it is definitely not hopeless. The solution is to end the game the International Conspirators have been playing right now before one or another totalitarian-minded group impose their ideas on the rest of mankind. The story is sensational and shocking, but it is educational because it, is the TRUTH."
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• 06:11: The word "Illuminati" is not a derivitive of "Lucifer". It is actually from the Latin root "lumino" meaning to give light or reveal; to enlighten. Lucifer is actually Latin meaning "Morning Star", and is an image derived from the biblical Book of Isaiah 14:3–20. Interstingly—as is often the case in Old Testament prophecy—the actual passage has NOTHING to do with satanic beings or the Devil. It was originally uttered in reaction to the very real-life Assyrian campaign under Sennacherib of Assyria to conquer the known world. As part of the ancient program of Scripture interpretation, it was commonly assumed that sacred texts were cryptic and mysterious, and when they said one thing actually meant something quite different. Thus was borne from a Caananite myth the story of "Lucifer", the fallen angel who staged a heavenly coup and lost.
• 08:16: Please note that there is no "Book of Revelations". The biblical Book of Revelation is also known as the Revelation of St. John the Apostle, translated from the Greek Αποκαλυψις Ιωαννου, literally, the "Apocalypse of John". It should be noted that Revelation is not in any way a unique piece of literature, and has its roots in centuries of Jewish and ancient Near Eastern apocalyptic literature.
I have spent years studying apocalyptic writings, which were never written for the purpose of predicting the future, despite that they predominantly all feature angelic and otherworldly beings who deliver messages to obedient scribes. An apocalypse was written as an "
ex eventu prophecy": A series of visions and oracles ascribed pseudonymously to a famous past prophet as a "future prediction," which was in reality only coded language for a religious community's present circumstances. They functioned as sociological, institutional and religious critiques. Some of the more famous pre-Christian apocalypses are the biblical Book of Daniel (c. 170–160 B.C.E.), 1 Enoch (c. 240–170 B.C.E.), the Sybilline Oracles (c. 200–100 B.C.E.), and 2 Baruch (c. 70–100 C.E.). There is also some very interesting apocalyptic literature in the Dead Sea Scrolls.