The French connection

In the movie, “Now you see me”, the actors are at pains to remind us that illusionism is about keeping your mind focused there while they do their thing here. It is about distraction.

I might add that the modern illusionist has taken such deception to unprecedented levels, to make planes or bridges disappear, while others walk on water or drive coins through glass.

During the French revolution, the illusionists were never seen. They used a stage hand, Robespierre, to do out there what detracted from what the puppet masters did over here. 

When they had had enough of Mr R, his head rolled as well.

Now, as the world turns to Paris and the courageous singing of La Marseillais in the face of such pain, but just before I was about to release a bit of dry humor about French alert levels (it wouldn’t be appropriate now), I find myself asking what is really happening?

Perhaps it is just radicals being radical. Perhaps it is just a gang of loose cannons, for their actions serve no cause. They have demanded nothing really, except by implication that all infidels should die and that Sharia should be implemented. That is so unrealistic that their efforts are futile.

Perhaps it is just an indirect way to get rid of a bigger problem in France, the way conspirators perceived over the 911 attack as a necessary pretext for Bush’s war on the Axis of Evil. As such, the headlines declare this as an act of war, but against what, whom?

It invokes as much second-guessing as it does to work out how an illusionist replaced the pretty young blond in the front row with a purse-lipped frog. 99.99% of all of us will follow the magician’s misdirection even when we think we don’t. Advertising works for the same reason.

That brings me to the rub. The bible does not point to an Islamic threat in the last days. Oh it sure predicted what is happening in Iraq and Syria, which it extends to Russia and Iran. It predicted the rise of a massive Middle East threat to Israel, in Ezekiel 38, but the global threat? Not so much.

Rather, the global threat is just couched together with other global threats, all of which are in the news daily – weather, earthquakes, wars and rumors of war, economic woes, and more.  

No, the real threat is far more subtle and has been slowly pulling strings to shape the world, over the centuries. Look, I don’t want to be conspiratorial, so let me just illustrate the idea.

During the Napoleonic era, Nathan Mayer Rothschild wooed European royalty while installing a network of private spies across Europe. When Arthur Wellesley faced his rival, short-fat corporal with a belly itch, for a sixth repeat match, Meyer was waiting.

He leaned on his favorite pillar in the British Stock Exchange and waited for the government to get the news that the Duke was flushing the French at Waterloo, but the government refused to believe it and prepared for the news that would devastate the British economy.

Nathan knew better. He nodded at his own traders and British bonds went into panic sell. Then, when he had confirmation that the tide of war was assuredly in their favor, he nodded again to buy up all the sold securities, at basement prices.

He was last heard saying, “I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England. The man who controls Britain’s money supply, controls the British Empire … and I control the British money supply”. Indeed, HM government was bankrolled by Meyer when cash ran out.

No I am not speculating on that now, except to illustrate what is possible to the powerful in the face of far bigger threats than a French corporal – huge climate issues, a meltdown in global economics, massive migrations, joblessness, disease and more.

Many Californians fear the next San Andreas jolt, but many are now buying rescue pods to escape a bigger threat from the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which will yield a mega-thrust to beat Chile’s 9.5.

How do you manage all that and the resulting mass hysteria? 20 years ago Mikhail Gorbachev spoke about a world order that is now being touted by the Pope and by the UN – a socialist order in a global system that will do away with many of the economic problems we now have.

David Rockerfeller added, “all it will take is the right kind of global crisis to usher in a new order.”

Is that necessary? I see very little choice in the matter. 

The issues of our time are either the biggest and most elaborate hoax of all time or real enough to demand significant reorganization of the world and its scarce resources. Someone will have to regulate whaling, forest decimation, carbon emissions, extinctions, poverty, global inequity, and myriad other global issues.

That is all being fueled by the apparent threat, the Robespierre’s of our age, as grand illusionists misdirect world attention to a perceived threat that belies a far more insidious threat. In part they have to do so to buy time and to preserve order.

I have more to say. Not now. I think I am pragmatic, for a long walk with God has broadened my mind and spared me the myopic and idealistic dogmatism of my younger years. A season in a tough wilderness helped me see the world and its complex issues in more perspective. So, no, I am not trying to be alarmist or unreasonable. I see change as inevitable and largely necessary.

Indeed, even bio-metric identification on the hands or foreheads may be a necessary evil in the pursuit of order and resource management – but I doubt I could accept it personally.

However, as they say of guns in America, “guns are not dangerous, people with guns are”, so I say about technology, an unbelievably powerful resource that could really help solve our collective problems, that “technology is not evil, but in the wrong hands it could be”.

Bottom line: the great threat is not Islam. All monotheistic faiths will be ostracized in the future, because to the likes of Gorbachev and Lenin, “religion is the great evil”. What will replace it is a godless culture devoid of the greatest gift of God: the moral law that informs human consciousness.

Proof of that is found in 2 Thessalonians 2:7, “He who now restrains us (the moral conscience invested in us by God’s spirit), will restrain until He is withdrawn”. Why would God do such a thing? Because a Godless world will exercise its free will to follow its own moral course. 

(c) Peter Missing: bethelstone@gmail.com