{"id":41557,"date":"2022-05-19T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=41557"},"modified":"2022-05-19T12:05:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T18:05:31","slug":"isaiahs-prophecy-of-communism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/isaiahs-prophecy-of-communism\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah&#8217;s Prophecy of Global Communism","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-41578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/commrevolution.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/commrevolution.jpg 856w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/commrevolution-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/commrevolution-768x897.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/commrevolution-640x748.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WE<\/strong>\u00a0are nearing the end of our family and ministry&#8217;s move to another province. It&#8217;s been quite an upheaval&#8230; but I&#8217;ve managed to keep one eye out for what is rapidly taking place in the world as self-appointed global &#8220;elites&#8221; wrestle power, sovereignty, supplies and food from the world&#8217;s population\u00a0through manufactured crises.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Church Father Lactantius called it &#8220;one common robbery&#8221;. This is the sum of what all the headlines today are pointing to:\u00a0<em>The Great Robbery<\/em>\u00a0at the end of this age \u2014 a neo-Communist take over under the auspices of &#8220;environmentalism&#8221; and &#8220;health&#8221;. Of course, these are lies and Satan is the &#8220;father of lies&#8221;. All of this was prophesied some 2700 years ago and you and I are alive to see it. The victory will be Christ&#8217;s after this great tribulation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>First published in July 2020&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>WRITTEN <\/strong>over 2700 years ago, Isaiah is the preeminent prophet of the coming Era of Peace. The Early Church Fathers often cited his works when speaking of a coming &#8220;period of peace&#8221; on earth\u2014prior to the end of the world\u2014and as also prophesied by Our Lady of Fatima.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Yes, a miracle was promised at Fatima, the greatest miracle in the history of the world, second only to the Resurrection. And that miracle will be an era of peace which has never really been granted before to the world.<\/strong> \u2014Cardinal Mario Luigi Ciappi, October 9th, 1994 (papal theologian for Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, and John Paul II); <em>Family Catechism, <\/em>(Sept. 9th, 1993), p. 35<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Church Fathers also understood this period Isaiah spoke of to be one and the <em>same<\/em> as that of the &#8220;millennium&#8221; that St. John foretold in the 20th chapter of Revelation\u2014what the Fathers also called the &#8220;Day of the Lord&#8221; or &#8220;Sabbath rest&#8221; for the Church:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Behold, the Day of the Lord shall be a thousand years.<\/strong> \u2014Letter of Barnabas, <em>The Fathers of the Church, <\/em>Ch. 15<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They interpreted both Isaiah&#8217;s and St. John&#8217;s symbolic language to refer to the end of a wicked global reign, after the &#8220;beast&#8221; and &#8220;false prophet&#8221; are cast into Hell (Rev 19:20), and a <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/judgment-of-the-living\/\">Judgment of the Living<\/a><\/em> takes place. Then, the Scriptures will be vindicated, peace will reign for a time, and as Our Lord said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">This gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the world as a witness to all nations, <em>and <em>then the en<\/em>d will come<\/em>. (Matt 24:14)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Most significantly, the words of the &#8220;Our Father&#8221; will be fulfilled at last when Christ&#8217;s Kingdom will come in a new modality, and the Father&#8217;s <em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-41569\" style=\"margin: 1px 4px 1px 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/hurricanerasy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/hurricanerasy.jpg 917w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/hurricanerasy-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/hurricanerasy-768x838.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/hurricanerasy-640x698.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/>&#8220;will be done on earth as it is in heaven.&#8221;<\/em> This hope was beautifully expressed by St. Louis de Montfort who said the saints during that time &#8220;will surpass in holiness most other saints as much as the cedars of Lebanon tower above little shrubs.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_41557_1('footnote_plugin_reference_41557_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_41557_1('footnote_plugin_reference_41557_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_41557_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_41557_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><em>Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin,<\/em> Art. 47; cf. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-coming-new-and-divine-holiness\/\">The Coming New and Divine Holiness<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_41557_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_41557_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Your divine commandments are broken, your Gospel is thrown aside, torrents of iniquity flood the whole earth carrying away even your servants\u2026 Will everything come to the same end as Sodom and Gomorrah? Will you never break your silence? Will you tolerate all this for ever? Is it not true that your will must be done on earth as it is in heaven? Is it not true that your kingdom must come? Did you not give to some souls, dear to you, a vision of the future renewal of the Church?<\/strong> \u2014St. Louis de Montfort, Prayer for Missionaries, n. 5; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewtn.com\/library\/Montfort\/PMISSION.HTM\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">www.ewtn.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">This renewal, Isaiah foretells, involves a certain restoration of creation through a triumph over evil, sickness, and division, <em>for a time<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>These are the words of Isaiah concerning the millennium: \u2018For there will be a new heaven and a new earth, and the former will not be remembered nor come into their heart, but they will be glad and rejoice in these things, which I create\u2026 There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor an old man that shall not fill up his days; for the child shall die a hundred years old\u2026 For as the days of the tree of life, so shall be the days of My people, and the works of their hands shall be multiplied. My elect shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth children for a curse; for they shall be a righteous seed blessed by the Lord, and their posterity with them.<\/strong> \u2014St. Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, Ch. 81, <em>The Fathers of the Church<\/em>, Christian Heritage; cf. Is 54:1<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, what is coming then is the chaining of Satan (Rev 20:4). But then that also means&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><b>We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through\u2026 We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel, of Christ versus the anti-Christ\u2026 It is a trial\u2026 of 2,000 years of culture and Christian civilization, with all of its consequences for human dignity, individual rights, human rights and the rights of nations.<\/b> \u2014Cardinal Karol Wojtyla (JOHN PAUL II ), at the Eucharistic Congress, Philadelphia, PA; August 13, 1976; cf. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholic.org\/news\/national\/story.php?id=57376\">Catholic Online<\/a> (confirmed by Deacon Keith Fournier who was in attendance)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This final battle is steadily progressing toward its <em>peak\u2014<\/em>a\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/clash-of-the-kingdoms\/\">Clash of Kingdoms<\/a>.<\/em> Indeed, just as St. John foretold the rise of global totalitarianism under a &#8220;beast&#8221; before an Era of Peace (Rev 13:5), so too did Isaiah. And just as St. John emphasized how the beast would dominate through the <em>economy<\/em> by controlling who could &#8220;buy or sell&#8221; (Rev 13:17), Isaiah reveals how this Antichrist will likewise dominate over the world&#8217;s wealth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A PROPHECY OF GLOBAL COMMUNISM<\/p>\n<p>In this past Wednesday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/071520.cfm\">first Mass reading<\/a>, Isaiah warns a stubborn and unrepentant Israel (which is a type of the Church who is the &#8220;new Israel&#8221;; cf. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scborromeo.org\/ccc\/para\/877.htm\">Catechism of the Catholic Church<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>n. 877) how a king will come from Assyria to purify their nation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Woe to Assyria! My rod in anger, my staff in wrath. Against an impious nation I send him, and against a people under my wrath I order him <\/strong><strong>to seize plunder, carry off loot, and tread them down like the mud of the streets. But this is not what he intends, nor does he have this in mind; <\/strong><strong>Rather, it is in his heart to destroy, to make an end of nations not a few. For he says: \u201cBy my own power I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I am shrewd. I have moved the boundaries of peoples, their treasures I have pillaged, and, like a giant, I have put down the enthroned. My hand has seized like a nest the riches of nations; as one takes eggs left alone, so I took in all the earth; no one fluttered a wing, or opened a mouth, or chirped!\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-41570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/acsyria.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/acsyria.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/acsyria-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/acsyria-640x960.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/>According to some Early Church Fathers such as Hippolytus,<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_41557_1('footnote_plugin_reference_41557_1_2');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_41557_1('footnote_plugin_reference_41557_1_2');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_41557_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_41557_1_2\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">&#8220;&#8230;lo, the Lord brings up upon you the water of the river, strong and full, even the king of Assyria. By the king he means metaphorically Antichrist&#8230;&#8221; \u2014 &#8220;On Christ and the Antichrist&#8221;, n. 57; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/fathers\/0516.htm\">newadvent.org<\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_41557_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_41557_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> Victorinus<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_41557_1('footnote_plugin_reference_41557_1_3');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_41557_1('footnote_plugin_reference_41557_1_3');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_41557_1_3\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[3]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_41557_1_3\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">&#8220;There shall be peace for our land&#8230; and they shall encircle Assur [Assyria], that is antichrist, in the trench of Nimrod.&#8221; \u2014Commentary on the Apocalypse, ch. 7<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_41557_1_3').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_41557_1_3', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> and Lactantius, the Antichrist may originate from present day Syria (Iraq), which was ancient Assyria.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Another king shall arise out of Syria, born from an evil spirit&#8230; and he will constitute and call himself God, and will order himself to be worshipped as the Son of God, and power will be given him to do signs and wonders\u2026Then he will attempt to destroy the Temple of God, and persecute the righteous people; and there will be distress and tribulation such as there never has been since the beginning of the world.<\/strong> \u2014Lactantius (c. 250-330 AD), <em>Divine Institutes<\/em>, Book 7, ch. 17\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To be certain, the Antichrist is an actual <em>person,<\/em><span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_41557_1('footnote_plugin_reference_41557_1_4');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_41557_1('footnote_plugin_reference_41557_1_4');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_41557_1_4\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[4]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_41557_1_4\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">&#8220;&#8230;that Antichrist is one individual man, not a power\u2014not a mere ethical spirit, or a political system, not a dynasty, or succession of rulers\u2014was the universal tradition of the early Church.&#8221; \u2014St. John Henry Newman, <em>&#8220;The Times of Antichrist&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/newmanreader.org\/works\/arguments\/antichrist\/lecture1.html\">Lecture 1<\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_41557_1_4').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_41557_1_4', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script><\/em> but he also comes to reign through a global empire\u2014a &#8220;beast with seven heads&#8221;.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_41557_1('footnote_plugin_reference_41557_1_5');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_41557_1('footnote_plugin_reference_41557_1_5');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_41557_1_5\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[5]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_41557_1_5\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Rev 13:1<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_41557_1_5').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_41557_1_5', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> What is most notable in Isaiah&#8217;s passage is what this &#8220;him&#8221; whom God sends to chastise the nations does: he seizes plunder, carries off loot, moves boundaries, and snatches the riches of the nations. In other words, this is precisely what Communism does: it seizes private property, confiscates wealth, stifles private enterprise, and annihilates the boundaries of nations.<\/p>\n<p>In her 1921 book exposing the plot for a Communist &#8220;world revolution,&#8221; author Nesta H. Webster tackled the underlying root philosophy of the secret societies of Freemasonry and Illuminatism who are driving today&#8217;s present upheaval. It is the notion that &#8220;Civilization is all wrong&#8221; and that salvation for the human race lies in a &#8220;return to nature.&#8221; Not only is this clearly nuanced in the United Nations&#8217; 17 &#8220;sustainable development&#8221; goals,<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_41557_1('footnote_plugin_reference_41557_1_6');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_41557_1('footnote_plugin_reference_41557_1_6');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_41557_1_6\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[6]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_41557_1_6\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-new-paganism-part-iii\/\"><em>The New Paganism-Part III<\/em><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_41557_1_6').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_41557_1_6', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script><\/a> but it was also highlighted\u2014and condemned\u2014by Pope St. Leo XIII:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>At this period, however, the partisans of evil seems to be combining together, and to be struggling with united vehemence, led on or assisted by that strongly organized and widespread association called the Freemasons. No longer making any secret of their purposes, they are now boldly rising up against God Himself \u2026that which is their ultimate purpose forces itself into view\u2014namely, the utter overthrow of that whole religious and political order of the world which the Christian teaching has produced, and the substitution of a new state of things in accordance with their ideas, of which the foundations and laws shall be drawn from <em>mere naturalism<\/em>.<\/strong> \u2014POPE LEO XIII, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/holy_father\/leo_xiii\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_l-xiii_enc_18840420_humanum-genus_en.html\">Humanum Genus<\/a>, <\/em>Encyclical on Freemasonry, n.10, Apri 20th, 1884<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The philosopher Fran\u00e7ois-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, was one of the most powerful French Masons whom one man described as \u201cThe most perfect incarnation of Satan that the world ever saw.\u201d Voltaire supplies the vision and reason why so many popes condemned and warned about their plot for a global revolution&#8230; which, clearly, is well underway:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>\u2026when conditions are right, a reign will spread across the whole earth to wipe out all Christians, and then establish a universal brotherhood <em>without<\/em> marriage, family, property, law or God.<\/strong> \u2014Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire, Stephen Mahowald, <em>She Shall Crush Thy Head <\/em>(Kindle Edition)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25775 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Revolutionheart-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Revolutionheart-1-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Revolutionheart-1-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former USSR president, Michael Gorbachev, who founded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcint.org\/who-we-are\/our-people\/mikhail-gorbachev\/\">Green Cross International<\/a> to promote the UN\u2019s initiatives and who remains an avowed atheist and communist, stated on the PBS Charlie Rose Show:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>We are part of the Cosmos\u2026 Cosmos is my God. Nature is my God\u2026 l believe that the 21st century will be the century of the environment, the century when all of us will have to find an answer to how to harmonize relations between man and the rest of Nature\u2026 We are part of Nature\u2026<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2014October 23, 1996, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/canadafreepress.com\/article\/gorbachev-among-first-to-pounce-on-an-america-in-distress\">Canada Free Press<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Webster emphasizes how the elimination (ie. plundering) of private property is <em>key<\/em> to a new world order. Quoting French philosopher and Freemason Jean-Jacques Rousseau, she summarizes how the philosophy behind these secret societies is the idea that <em>private possession<\/em> is the root of discord.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>&#8220;The first man who bethought himself of saying &#8216;This is mine,&#8217; and found people simple enough to believe him was the real founder of civil society. What crimes, what wars, what murders, what miseries and horrors would he have spared the human race who, snatching away the spades and filling the ditches, had cried out to his fellows: &#8216;Beware of listening to this imposter; you are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one.'&#8221; In these words [of Rousseau] the whole principle of Communism is to be found. <\/strong>\u2014<em>World Revolution, The Plot Against Civilization, <\/em>pp. 1-2<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Of course, the best deceptions always have a kernel of truth, if not a lot of truth. This is why the young today are being so easily drawn into <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-41278\" style=\"margin: 1px 4px 1px 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/revolutionaryspirits2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/revolutionaryspirits2.jpg 1402w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/revolutionaryspirits2-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/revolutionaryspirits2-1024x839.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/revolutionaryspirits2-768x629.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/revolutionaryspirits2-640x525.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/>Marxist principles once again. But Webster exposes the insanity of this sophistry for what it is:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Destroy civilization in its entirety and the human race sinks to the level of the jungle in which the only law is that of the strong over the weak, the only incentive the <em>struggle for material needs.<\/em> For although Rousseau&#8217;s injunction, &#8220;Go back into the woods and become men!&#8221; may be excellent advice if interpreted as a temporary measure, &#8220;go back into the woods and remain there&#8221; is a counsel for anthropoid apes&#8230; As to the distribution of the &#8220;fruits of the earth&#8221; one has only to watch two thrushes on the lawn disputing over a worm to see how the question of food supply is settled in primitive society.<\/strong> \u2014Ibid. pp. 2-3<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Which is why Our Lady appeared at Fatima to beg for the consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart, lest the errors of Russia <em>(<\/em><em>Communism) <\/em>about to take hold there through the Bolshevik revolution, would begin to spread throughout the entire world. Our Lady was not heeded. As Pope Pius XI pointed out in his powerful and prophetic encyclical, <a href=\"https:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/pius-xi\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_p-xi_enc_19370319_divini-redemptoris.html\"><i>Divine Redemptoris<\/i><\/a>, <em>Russia<\/em> and its people were <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-34238 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/communistoppress-1024x894.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/communistoppress-1024x894.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/communistoppress-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/communistoppress-768x671.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/communistoppress.jpg 1522w\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"259\" \/>usurped by those\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><b>\u2026authors and abettors who considered Russia the best-prepared field for experimenting with a plan elaborated decades ago, and who from there continue to spread it from one end of the world to the other\u2026 <\/b><b>Our words are now receiving sorry confirmation from the spectacle of the bitter fruits of subversive ideas, which We foresaw and foretold, and which are&#8230; threatening every other country of the world.<\/b> \u2014POPE PIUS XI, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/pius-xi\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_p-xi_enc_19370319_divini-redemptoris.html\"><i>Divini Redemptoris<\/i><\/a>, n. 24, 6<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">THE PLAN IN REAL TIME<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Indeed, this radical agenda for &#8220;the utter overthrow of that whole religious and political order of the world&#8221; is proceeding as planned. A proposed United Nations blueprint called Agenda 21, pushed by radical but influential environmentalist Maurice Strong and signed onto by 178 member nations, has been absorbed and retooled under the current plan: Agenda 2030. Its predecessor called for the abolition of \u201cnational sovereignty\u201d and the dissolution of property rights.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Agenda 21: <strong>\u201cLand\u2026 cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes.\u201d<\/strong> \u2014 &#8220;Alabama Bans U.N. Agenda 21 Sovereignty Surrender\u201d, June 7th, 2012; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/editorials\/alabama-fights-un-agenda-21-land-grab\/?ntt=Agenda%2021\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">investors.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">I&#8217;m sure the prophet Isaiah would be blowing a very large trumpet were he alive today. Especially when you consider what is happening in <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-39625\" style=\"margin: 1px 4px 1px 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/trumpet-angel-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/trumpet-angel-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/trumpet-angel-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/trumpet-angel-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/trumpet-angel-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/trumpet-angel-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/trumpet-angel-640x853.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/>plain sight under the cover of COVID-19 and radical quarantine measures for the &#8220;common good&#8221;: one of the <em>greatest wealth transfers in history. <\/em>Market analyst, Jim Cramer, notes that corporations and the stock market are suspiciously thriving while small businesses are &#8220;dropping like flies.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_41557_1('footnote_plugin_reference_41557_1_7');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_41557_1('footnote_plugin_reference_41557_1_7');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_41557_1_7\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[7]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_41557_1_7\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">June 5th, 2020; <a href=\"https:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/news\/stocks\/record-stock-rally-big-companies-edge-coronavirus-pandemic-jim-cramer-2020-6-1029284194?op=1#\">markets.businessinsider.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_41557_1_7').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_41557_1_7', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> The reason is that the Federal Reserve and other central banks are &#8220;printing money&#8221; in order to buy up government and corporate debt thus hiding what is really happening\u2014the collapse of the global economy and a steady flow of assets to the Reserve. In April, <em>Bloomberg <\/em>reported that the Fed is &#8220;buying $41 Billion of assets daily&#8221;; Morgan Stanley analysts estimate that the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan and Bank of England will expand their balance sheets by a cumulative $6.8 trillion when all is said and done. And stock analyst Greg Mannarino of Traders Choice claims:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>We have not seen anything yet. In order for the Federal Reserve to finish it\u2019s plan [to own the planet], which we\u2019re in the heart of it right now, they\u2019re funnelling trillions of dollars around the world to other central banks to buy assets.<\/strong> \u2014July 16th, 2020; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/greg-mannarino-the-fed-is-about-to-sell-you-another-massive-lie_07162020\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">shtfplan.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">In other words, the worlds wealth is quickly being concentrated into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-federal-reserve-cartel-the-eight-families\/25080\">handful of powerful banking families<\/a>, who are Freemasons.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_41557_1('footnote_plugin_reference_41557_1_8');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_41557_1('footnote_plugin_reference_41557_1_8');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_41557_1_8\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[8]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_41557_1_8\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corbettreport.com\/federalreserve\/\">&#8220;Century of Enslavement: The History of the Federal Reserve&#8221;<\/a> by James Corbett<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_41557_1_8').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_41557_1_8', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> Consider the words of the prophet Micah (this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/071820.cfm\">Saturday&#8217;s first Mass reading<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">Woe to those who plan iniquity, and work out evil on their couches; in the morning light [ie. &#8220;broad daylight&#8221;] they accomplish it <em>when it lies within their power<\/em>. They covet fields, and seize them; houses, and they take them; they cheat an owner of his house, a man of his inheritance&#8230; (Micah 2:1-2)<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>That will be the time in which righteousness shall be cast out, and innocence be hated; in which the wicked shall prey upon the good as enemies; neither law, nor order, nor military discipline shall be preserved\u2026 all things shall be confounded and mixed together against right, and against the laws of nature. <em>Thus the earth shall be laid waste, as though by one common robbery.<\/em> When these things shall so happen, then the righteous and the followers of truth shall separate themselves from the wicked, and flee into <em>solitudes<\/em>.<\/strong> \u2014Lactantius, Church Father, <em>The Divine Institutes<\/em>, Book VII, Ch. 17<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Perhaps this is the saddest tragedy of the present hour as we watch rioters burning buildings, looting, toppling statues, attacking police officers, calling openly for Marxist rule to reign: they are essentially handing power over to a banking cartel who are increasingly calling the shots. The irony of this revolution was not lost on Benedict XVI:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><b>A new intolerance is spreading, that is quite obvious\u2026 a negative religion is being made into a tyrannical standard that everyone must follow. That is then seemingly freedom\u2014for the sole reason that it is liberation from the previous situation.<\/b> \u2014<i>Light of the World<\/i>, A Conversation with Peter Seewald, p. 52<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">As I have written before, war and division are from the playbook of Freemasonry: stoking international tensions, funding both sides of a war, fomenting racial and gender divisions, breaking everything down in order to eventually build it up again&#8230; <em>Ordo ab chaos<\/em> (order out of <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-41572\" style=\"margin: 1px 2px 1px 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/anonymousfinancial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/anonymousfinancial.jpg 465w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/anonymousfinancial-140x300.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/>chaos&#8221;) is the secret society&#8217;s <em>modus operandi<\/em>. Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Wayles Eppes Monticello:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>[T]he spirit of war and indictment&#8230; since the modern theory of the perpetuation of debt, has drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating.<\/strong> \u2014June 24, 1813; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.let.rug.nl\/usa\/presidents\/thomas-jefferson\/letters-of-thomas-jefferson\/jefl219.php\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">let.rug.nl<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Sound familiar?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>We think of the great powers of the present day, of the anonymous financial interests which turn men into slaves, which are no longer human things, but are an anonymous power which men serve, by which men are tormented and even slaughtered. They<\/strong> [i.e., anonymous financial interests]<strong> are a destructive power, a power that menaces the world.<\/strong> \u2014POPE BENEDICT XVI, Reflection after the reading of the office for the Third Hour this morning in the Synod Aula, Vatican City, October 11, 2010<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">One could not end this meditation on Isaiah&#8217;s prescient words without noting one other key aspect by which Communism is spreading again throughout the world: &#8220;Green&#8221; politics. As an official on the UN&#8217;s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) quite candidly admitted:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>\u2026one has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute <em>de facto<\/em> the world\u2019s wealth\u2026<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014Ottmar Edenhofer,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2010\/11\/19\/climate-talks-or-wealth-redistribution-talks\/\">dailysignal.com<\/a>, November 19th, 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And again,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><em>This is the first time in the history of mankind<\/em> that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years\u2014since the industrial revolution.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014Chief Climate Change official of the United Nations, Christine Figueres, November 30th, 2015; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unric.org\/en\/latest-un-buzz\/29623-figueres-first-time-the-world-economy-is-transformed-intentionally\">unric.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-41595\" style=\"margin: 1px 4px 1px 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sortos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sortos.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sortos-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sortos-768x938.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sortos-640x781.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/>Just listen to one of the architects of the &#8220;new world order&#8221; (whose mission is to promote precisely what Isaiah prophesied: &#8220;open&#8221; borders of nations):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>This is the crisis of my lifetime. Even before the pandemic hit, I realized that we were in a <em>revolutionary<\/em> moment where what would be\u00a0 impossible or even inconceivable in normal times had become not only possible, but probably absolutely necessary. And then came Covid-19, which has totally disrupted people\u2019s lives and required very different behaviour. It is an unprecedented event that probably has never occurred in this combination. And it really endangers the survival of our civilization\u2026 we must find a way to cooperate on fighting climate change and the novel coronavirus.<\/strong> \u2014George Soros, May 13th, 2020; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/business\/comment\/george-soros-coronavirus-interview-trump-eu-pandemic-a9508186.html\">independent.co.uk.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the same Soros openly funding these violent revolutionaries, according to an undercover expos\u00e9 by Project Veritas.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_41557_1('footnote_plugin_reference_41557_1_9');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_41557_1('footnote_plugin_reference_41557_1_9');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_41557_1_9\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[9]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_41557_1_9\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/06\/antifa-secret-funding-exposed-project-veritas-follow-trail-dark-money-video\/\"><span class=\"footnote_url_wrap\">https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_41557_1_9').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_41557_1_9', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, we are entering what the United Nations-backed World Economic Forum calls the &#8220;Great Reset&#8221; and &#8220;Fourth Industrial Revolution.&#8221; According to their website, it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>&#8230;a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another. In its scale, scope, and complexity, the transformation will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before. We do not yet know just how it will unfold, but one thing is clear: the response to it must be integrated and comprehensive, involving all stakeholders of the global polity, from the public and private sectors to academia and civil society. <\/strong>\u2014January 14th, 2016; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2016\/01\/the-fourth-industrial-revolution-what-it-means-and-how-to-respond\/\">weforum.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-41593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/fourthindustrial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/fourthindustrial.jpg 1422w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/fourthindustrial-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/fourthindustrial-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/fourthindustrial-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/fourthindustrial-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But did we ask or vote for this? Here, the latter part of Isaiah&#8217;s prophecy is also remarkably coming to fruition; over &#8220;all the earth&#8230; no one fluttered a wing, or opened a mouth, or chirped!&#8221; No, this revolution is happening with our full co-<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-41573\" style=\"margin: 1px 4px 1px 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/shhguy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/shhguy.jpg 909w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/shhguy-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/shhguy-768x845.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/shhguy-640x704.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/>operation as we all connect to the &#8220;internet of things&#8221;\u2014and surrender our privacy and freedom at the same time. Yes, it&#8217;s remarkable how quickly countries, one by one, confined their healthy populations to virtual house arrest with barely any resistance. How no one has asked how those trillions in free government cheques are going to be paid back. And what a strange silence from the hierarchy of the Church as they closed parishes without a peep. The narrative on social media is tightly controlled as tech giants go into hyper-censorship mode. Even mayors and governors have been strangely quiet as rioters occupy and destroy their streets in the name of fighting &#8220;racism.&#8221; And rather than denounce their Marxist tactics, many have quietly joined them out of cowardice, fear, or ignorance. Indeed, people are increasingly afraid to &#8220;flutter a wing&#8221; or &#8220;open a mouth&#8221; for fear of being banned, shamed, or even fired. Isaiah seemingly foresaw this in stunning accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>But so too have several popes and members of the hierarchy. The Vatican&#8217;s study on the New Age called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/pontifical_councils\/interelg\/documents\/rc_pc_interelg_doc_20030203_new-age_en.html\">Jesus Christ, The Bearer of the Water of Life<\/a>&#8221; is a critical prophetic work that explains in more detail the warnings a century earlier of previous popes: of a &#8220;global vision&#8221;\u2014minus Christianity\u2014based on a blend of environmentalism, technology, and playing with the DNA of life altogether.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Deep ecology\u2019s emphasis on biocentrism denies the anthropological vision of the Bible, in which human beings are at the centre of the world\u2026 It is very prominent in legislation and education today\u2026 in the ideological theory underlying population control policies and experiments in genetic engineering, which seem to express a dream human beings have of creating themselves afresh. How do people hope to do this? By deciphering the genetic code, altering the natural rules of sexuality, defying the limits of death.<\/strong> \u2014<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/pontifical_councils\/interelg\/documents\/rc_pc_interelg_doc_20030203_new-age_en.html\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Jesus Christ, The Bearer of the Water of Life, <\/em>n. 2.3.4.1\u00a0<\/span> <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, it is a revolution that will culminate exactly in how Isaiah, St. John, Our Lord and St. Paul said it would: in man putting himself in the place of God.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt;\">&#8230;that day [the Day of the Lord] will not come, unless the rebellion [revolution] comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. (2 Thess 3-4)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But it will be a short reign. The Lord will break the wicked, says Isaiah, and for a time, there will be a period of peace and justice:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-41574 alignright\" style=\"margin: 1px 2px 1px 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/newera.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/newera.jpg 573w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/newera-172x300.jpg 172w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/>He shall strike the ruthless with the rod of his mouth, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">Justice shall be the band around his waist, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">and faithfulness a belt upon his hips. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">Then the wolf shall be a guest of the lamb&#8230; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">In days to come, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">The mountain of the Lord\u2019s house <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">shall be established as the highest mountain <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">and raised above the hills. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">All nations shall stream toward it&#8230; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">For from Zion shall go forth instruction, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">He shall judge between the nations, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">and set terms for many peoples. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">They shall beat their swords into ploughshares <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">and their spears into pruning hooks; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">one nation shall not raise the sword against another, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">nor shall they train for war again&#8230; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">as the waters cover the sea. 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