Transcript The world wars in the providence of restoration

The world wars in the
providence of restoration
What causes historical events?
Purpose
Real
situation
Free will
Historical
event
Internal and external causes
Internal cause God’s providence
Historical
event
Which is expressed as:
External cause Clash of political and
economic interests
What are the providential
causes of the world wars?
1. Satan’s attempt to preserve sovereignty
2. Worldwide indemnity condition to restore
the three blessings
– Satanic imitations of the three blessings
• Individual champion of Satan’s causes
• Multiplication of Satanic children
• Conquest of the world under Satanic domination
Three world conflicts to restore 3 blessings
What are the providential
causes of the world wars?
3. Overcome on the world level the three
temptations of Jesus
– WW 1 – 1st blessing -- 1st temptation
– WW 2 – 2nd blessing -- 2nd temptation
– WW 3 – 3rd blessing -- 3rd temptation
4. Indemnity condition to restore God’s
sovereignty
– Cain and Abel restoration through 3 stages
– Abel world prevails over the Cain world
Who is on God’s and who is
on Satan’s side?
God’s side
Satan’s side
Support God’s
providence
Abel view of life
Support
Christianity
Attacked
Oppose God’s
providence
Cain view of life
Oppose
Christianity
Aggressor
The First World War
1914-1918
What were the causes of WW I?
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Archduke Ferdinand, heir to Hapsburg throne,
assassinated by Serbian nationalists 28th June 1914
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Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia 28th July
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Russian mobilisation 30th July
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Germany declares war on Russia 1st August
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Germany and Ottoman Empire sign treaty 2nd August
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Germany declares war on France 3rd August
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Britain declares war on Germany 4th August
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Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia 6th August
Where is all this happening?
What was behind this?
• Alliances of support
• Unresolved territorial disputes in Balkans
• Shifting balance of power
– Germany vs. France
• Imperial rivalry
– Colonies, power, raw materials and trade
• Arms race
• Growth of nationalism e.g Serbia
What were the providential
causes?
Providential causes of WW 1
• Restore the 3 blessings on the formation stage:
Satanic imitation of the 3 blessings:
– Anti-type of Adam – Kaiser Wilhelm II
– Pan-Germanism
– World domination
• Overcome 1st temptation of Jesus
– Foundation for birth of the messiah
• Restoration of God’s sovereignty through
expansion of democracy and Christianity
Wilhelm I
Frederick and Victoria
Bismark
Wilhelm II
Who’s who in World War I?
Abel Side
Adam’s
Family
Cain Side
Russia
Adam
Position
Germany
Great Britain
Eve Position
AustriaHungary
France
Archangel
Position
Ottoman
Empire
1917
Revolution
America joins the war 1917
Adam’s
Family
Cain Side
Adam
Position
Germany
Great Britain
Eve Position
AustriaHungary
France
Archangel
Position
Ottoman
Empire
Abel Side
April 1917
USA
First World War ends - 1918
Allies
Central Powers
USA/Russia
Britain & Empire
France
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
Military casualties
Military casualties
Dead 5.5 million
Wounded 12.8 million
Missing 4.1 million
Dead 4.3 million
Wounded 8.4 million
Missing 3.6 million
Armistice Day
11am 11th November 1918
Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points
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“Peace without victory”
Free trade and freedom of the seas
Self-determination of colonies
No reparations
Armaments reductions
League of Nations
Germany agreed to peace upon this basis
BUT Wilson didn’t consult Allies
What happened at Versailles?
• Germany and allies held responsible for
the war: ‘War Guilt Clause’
• Reparations for the damage and loss of
life (£217 billion in 2010 money)
• Rhineland occupied by Allies
• Military restrictions on Germany
• Germany lost territory and colonies
• Germany felt humiliated, ‘stab in the back’
Different reactions
"We know the full brunt of hate that confronts us
here. You demand from us to confess we were
the only guilty party of war; such a confession in
my mouth would be a lie.”
German Foreign Minister Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau
"This is not Peace. It is an Armistice for twenty
years.”
French Field Marshall Ferdinand Foch
The USA refused to ratify the treaty and did not
join the League of Nations
What were the providential results
of the First World War?
• Indemnity condition to restore 3 blessings
• Overcame first temptation of Jesus
– Rejected the temptation to submit to the
Kaiser and German domination of Europe
• God’s side made indemnity condition for
birth of the Lord of the Second Advent
• Victory of Abel over Cain
– Democracy over authoritarianism
Some other results
• Establishment of the League of Nations
• Break up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
– Balkan problems, nationalism
• Break up of the Ottoman Empire
– Problems in Middle East
• Establishment of a Jewish homeland
• Russian revolution
– Spread of communism
The Second World War
1939-1945
How did World War 2 start?
• Japan invades China 1931
• 2nd Sino-Japanese War 1937-45
• Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact 1939
– Germany and Soviet Union non-aggression pact
– Divided Poland between them
– Divided Northern and Eastern Europe into German
and Soviet spheres
• German-Soviet Axis talks November 1940
– Discussed Soviet Union joining Axis Powers
– Divide British Empire between them
Signing Molotov-Ribbentrop
Pact August 1939
Ribbentrop welcoming
Molotov in Berlin
November 1940
How did World War 2 start?
• Japan invades China 1931
• Germany invades Poland 1st Sept 1939
• France, Britain and Commonwealth declare war
on Germany 3rd September
• Soviet Union invades Poland 17th Sept
• Soviet Union invades Finland
• Germany invades France and others 1940
• Italy declares war on Britain and France
• France surrenders 22nd June 1940
To cut a long story short . . .
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Axis powers invade Soviet Union 1941
Japan attacks USA 7th December 1941
Japan conquers south east Asia
Council of Christians and Jews established 1942
Germany defeated in North Africa 1942
D-day northern France 6th June 1944
Soviet Union offensive against Germany
Germany surrenders 7-8th May 1945
Japan surrenders 15th August 1945
Korea occupied by Soviet Union and USA
What were the causes of the
Second World War?
• German resentment at Versailles Treaty
– “Stabbed in the back”
• Great Depression 1929-33
• Rise of nationalism, fascism
• Desire for expansion ‘living space’
– Japan in China
– Germany to the east ‘Greater Germany’
• Racism, Nazism
– Teuton vs. Slav; anti-Semitism
What is fascism?
• National Socialism
• State control of economy and society
• Abolition of democracy, free press, freedom of
speech, association, individual rights etc.
• Personal will of the leader determines policy and
ideology (dictatorship), cult of personality
• Race and nationality highest values
• Individuals exist for the sake of the state
• All power and authority invested in supreme
leader
Mussolini
Ruler of Italy 1925-1944
“I send greetings to
all my followers. I am
Il Duce, your great
leader. I am like a
god. I have done so
much for all the
Italian people.”
Adolph Hitler
Ruler of Germany 1933-1945
• “I am the greatest leader
of all time. I have great
plans.
• “Soon there will be a
special German church
where the Bible is
replaced by my book
called Mein Kampf. The
cross will be replaced by
a sword.”
God’s side and Satan’s side
Abel side
Adam’s
family
Cain side
USA
Adam
Position
Germany
Great Britain
and Empire
Eve Position
Japan
France
Archangel
Position
Italy
Why?
• Britain, USA and France
– Democratic, Christian, religious freedom,
Abel-view of life
• Germany
– Anti-democratic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic,
neo-pagan, Cain-view of life
• Japan
– Militaristic, imperialistic, forced Shinto worship
• Italy
– Fascist, dictatorship
What happened to the
Jews of Europe?
Jews in Europe in 1933
Jewish emigration after Hitler
came to power
"The Holocaust was a Cain inspired action, one of Hitler’s satanic designs
and plans which should have been prevented by a unified front of all
Christian and Jewish forces.”
Sun Myung Moon 1975
How many perished in the
Holocaust?
Country
Jewish pop.
Sept. 1939
Number Jews
murdered
Percentage of
Jews murdered
Poland
3,300,000
2,800,000
85
Soviet Union
2,100,000
1,500,000
71
Romania
850,000
425,000
50
Hungary
404,000
200,000
50
Czechoslovakia
315,000
260,000
82
France
300,000
90,000
30
Germany
210,000
171,000
81
Lithuania
150,000
135,000
90
Holland
150,000
90,000
60
Others
522,000
313,000
60
8,301,000
5,978,000
72
Total
Letter found near a dead child at
Ravensbruch concentration camp
O, Lord,
remember not only the men and women of good will,
but also those of evil will.
But do not remember all the suffering
they have inflicted upon us;
remember the fruits we have borne thanks to this
suffering—
our comradeship, our loyalty, our humility,
our courage, our generosity,
the greatness of heart
which has grown out of all this;
and when they come to the judgement,
let all the fruits that we have borne
be their forgiveness.
Jews in Europe in 1950
What were the providential causes
of the Second World War?
• Restore 3 blessings on growth stage
– False Adam – Hitler anti-type of Jesus Christ
– Multiplication – Racial purity and ‘master race’
– Dominion – World conquest
• Overcome Jesus’ second temptation
– Temptation not to oppose Hitler and Nazism
– Indemnity condition to restore 2nd blessing
• Restoration of God’s sovereignty
– Expansion of freedom and democracy
Second World War ends - 1945
Allies
Axis Powers
USA
USSR
Britain & Empire
France
Military dead 16 million
Civilian dead 45 million
Germany
Japan
Italy
Peace
Military dead 8 million
Civilian dead 4 million
1945
United Nations
Tehran Conference – Dec 1943
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Roosevelt weak
UK & USA disunited
Stalin confident
Soviet Union ‘given’
East Europe
Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill
Roosevelt on Stalin
“I just have a hunch that Stalin is not that
kind of a man. . . . I think that if I give him
everything I possibly can and ask for
nothing from him in return, noblesse
oblige, he won't try to annex anything and
will work with me for a world of democracy
and peace.”
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1943
Yalta Conference – Feb 1945
• Reorganisation of
Europe after the war
• Red Army 40 miles
from Berlin
• Free democratic
elections in East
Europe
• Polish self government
to be respected by
Soviet Union
Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
Churchill on Stalin
“Stalin I’m sure means well to the world
and Poland. Stalin has offered the Polish
people a free and more broadly based
government to bring about an election . . .
My hopes lie in a single man, he will not
embark on bad adventures.”
Winston Churchill, after Yalta
What were the providential
results?
• Victory of God’s side over Satan’s side
– Restored three blessings
– Overcame second temptation of Jesus:
indemnity condition to restore 2nd blessing
– Messiah could marry and start his mission
– Restoration of God’s sovereignty through
democracy on growth stage
– Establishment of the State of Israel
• On Satan’s side communism strengthened
Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech
March 1946
“An iron curtain has descended across the
Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of
the ancient states of Central and Eastern
Europe. . . All these famous cities and the
populations around them lie in what I must call
the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one
form or another, not only to Soviet influence but
to a very high and, in many cases, increasing
measure of control from Moscow.”
The Third World War
1945-
Third World War
Nature of conflict depends on human
responsibility
Military conflict
Cain - Abel
Struggle
Fail
Responsibility
Fulfil
Ideological conflict
What is this ideological conflict?
Abel-type
view of life
Cain-type
view of life
Democracy
Communism
Freedom
Totalitarianism
Religious worldview
Atheism
Dual characteristics
Dialectical materialism
Co-operation & reconciliation
Historical materialism
A new ideology is required
• A new ideology to resolve conflict must
arise out of the democratic world which is
rooted in the Abel-type view of life
• This new truth is the essence of the Abelview of life and the core of democracy
• The new truth will conquer the communist
ideology and unify the world
EDP, 377
What is this ‘new ideology’?
• Liberal democracy
– F.A. Hayek, Constitution of Liberty
– Michael Oakeshott, On Human Conduct
– Karl Popper, The Open Society and its
Enemies
What was the providential cause
of the Third World War?
• Completion stage restoration of the three
blessings
– Anti-type of Christ – Stalin
– Class struggle and proletariat
– World domination/state ownership of
economy
• Communism is unprincipled flawed
imitation of God’s ideal
• Overcome Jesus third temptation
• Restoration of God’s sovereignty
God’s side and Satan’s side
Abel side
Adam’s
family
Cain side
South Korea
West Germany
Adam
Position
North Korea
East Germany
Japan
Great Britain
Eve Position
China
USA
Archangel
Position
USSR
What were the origins of the
third world war?
• Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia 1917
• Allied intervention in Russian Civil War
• Establishment of Third International 1919
– Foment revolution in Europe and world
• Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact 1939-41
• Wartime Alliance 1941-45
• Different visions of post-war Europe
– Democracy vs. one party Communist state
– Free market vs. state control of economy
What is communism 1?
• Abolition of the third blessing
– “Communism is the abolition of private
property.” Communist Manifesto 1848
– State control and ownership of all property
– No free markets; planned economy
• Cannot become a true owner
• Cannot become Lord of Creation
• Cannot inherit God’s creativity
What is communism 2?
• Abolition of the second blessing
– “The workers’ state will come to replace the family.”
– “The obligations of parents to their children will
wither away gradually until finally society assumes
the full responsibility.”
– “Marriage . . . has given way to the free and honest
union of men and women who are lovers and
comrades.” Alexandra Kollontai, 1920
• State takes over law, education, health,
welfare and civil society
What is communism 3?
• Abolition of the first blessing
– “Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of
Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific
socialism.” Vladimir Lenin
– “Communism is incompatible with religious faith.”
Nikolai Bukharin
– “In our country, the lie has become not just a moral
category but a pillar of the State.” Alexander Solzenitsyn
• No freedom of speech or religion
• Persecution and suppression of religion
What is communist ideology?
• Dialectical materialism
– Only matter exists - No God or spirit
– Progress based on dialectical conflict
between thesis and anti-thesis
• Historical materialism
– Productive forces determine society
– Progress through class struggle
– Violent revolution justified
Beginnings of the conflict
• Establishment of Eastern
Bloc based on M-R Pact
– States incorporated into
Soviet Union
– East European countries
become satellites
• Marshall Plan 1947
– Revive Germany & economies
– Rejected by USSR
• Truman Doctrine 1947
– Containment and deterrence
The war of ideas
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Radio Free Europe 1949
Radio Liberty 1951
Voice of America
BBC
Washington Times
CAUSA, VOC
Heritage Foundation
Communist expansion
• Berlin blockade and airlift June ‘48- May ’49
– Division of Germany
• Establishment of NATO April 1949
– 12 countries North America and Western Europe
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China becomes communist 1949
North Korea becomes communist 1945-49
South Korea holds elections
Korean War 1950-53
Continuing conflict
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Warsaw Pact established 1955
Start of Vietnam War 1955-75
Hungarian independence uprising 1956
Cuban Revolution 1959
Competition by proxy in Third World
Sino-Soviet split 1956
Berlin Crisis and Wall 1961
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
Berlin Wall scenes
Berlin Wall
Peter Fechter August 1962
Communist expansion
• Prague Spring and Soviet invasion of
Czechoslovakia 1968
• Brezhnev Doctrine
– Right to invade a socialist state to stop it
adopting capitalism
• Soviet support for Arab nations against
Israel
Détente and Peaceful Coexistence
• Chinese – American relations
– President Nixon visits China 1972
– Sino-Soviet split deepens
Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon
1972
Détente and Peaceful Coexistence
• Chinese – American relations
– President Nixon visits China 1972
– Sino-Soviet split deepens
• American – Soviet Relations
– Nixon visits Moscow 1972
– Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty 1972
– Strategic Arms Limitation Talks 1974
– Helsinki Accords 1975
• American defeated in Vietnam 1975
Leonid Brezhnev and Richard
Nixon
Renewed conflict
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1979
• Solidarity in Poland 1980-81
• Thatcher (‘79) and Reagan (‘81) elected
– Falklands conflict 1982
• Arms build up by USA
– ‘Stars Wars’, B-1 bomber etc.
– Invasion of Grenada 1983
• Reagan Doctrine
– Support for Contras in Nicaragua
– Support for Mujihadeen in Afghanistan
The war against communism
“The Reagan Doctrine proclaimed that the truce
with communism was over. The West would
henceforth regard no area of the world as
destined to forego its liberty simply because the
Soviets claimed it to be within their sphere of
influence. We would fight a battle of ideas
against communism, and we would give material
support to those who fought to recover their
nations from tyranny.”
Margaret Thatcher, December 1997
Final years
• Gorbachev elected 1985
– Perestroika
– Glasnost
• Gorbachev – Reagan talks 1985-87
• End of Cold War
– Withdrawal from Afghanistan 1989
– End of the Angolan conflict 1989
– Fall of Berlin Wall and revolutions in East
Europe 1989
• End of Soviet Union 1991
Reagan and Gorbachev
Third World War in the West over
USA
West Europe
Turkey
USSR
East Europe
Peace
What was the human cost of
communism?
20-60 million in the Soviet Union
65 million in the People's Republic of China
1 million in Vietnam
2 million in North Korea
2 million in Cambodia
1 million in communist Eastern Europe
150,000 in Latin America
1.7 million in Africa
1.5 million in Afghanistan
Stéphane Courtois (ed) The Black Book of Communism:
Crimes, Terror, Repression. Harvard University, 1999
Results of the end of the war
• Peaceful restoration of Cain and Abel on
the worldwide level
• Restoration of the third blessing possible
– Privatisation, free market
• World wide expansion of democracy
How did we contribute to the fall
of communism?
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VOC
CAUSA
Washington Times
Star Wars
Rallies
CARP
PWPA
Third World War in the East
USA
Japan
S. Korea
USSR
China
N. Korea
Ideological War
‘Cold War’
God’s side and Satan’s side
Abel side
Cain side
Israel
First Israel
Iran, Syria,
Hamas etc.
Christian world
Second
Israel
China
South Korea
Third Israel
North Korea
God’s side and Satan’s side
Abel side
Cain side
Judaism
First Israel
Islamism
Christianity
Second
Israel
Communism
Unificationism
Third Israel
Juche
Three religions, three nations
Judaism, is in an elder brother's position.
Christianity, is in the position of the second
brother. The Unification Church, is in the position
of the youngest brother. Israel, the United States
and Korea, the nations where these three
religions are based must be brothers. Because
these three nations have a common destiny
representing God's side, the Communist bloc as
Satan's representative is trying to isolate and
destroy them at the U.N.
Sun Myung Moon, Washington Monument, 1976
What is North Korea like?
• Communist one party
state
– Planned economy
– Most militarised nation
in the world
North
– Nuclear state
– Worst human rights
– Religious persecution
South
Korea at night
What is North Korea like?
• Communist one party
state
• Hereditary dynasty
– Kim Il Sung – “Great
Leader” is the ‘Eternal
President’
– Kim Jong Il – “Dear
Leader”
– Kim Jong Un –
“Brilliant Comrade”
What is North Korea like?
• Communist one party state
• Hereditary dynasty
• Personality cult
– “Adore Kim Jong Il with all your heart”
• Divine ruler
– “Do not believe in God. Believe in the Great
Man.”
• Ruling ideology of Juche
– Juche calendar began 1912
Third World War
Nature of conflict depends on human
responsibility
Military conflict
Cain – Abel
struggle
Fail
Responsibility
Fulfil
Ideological conflict
How is God’s side doing?
• USA and Europe separating from Israel
– Revival of anti-Semitism
• South Korea has economic interests in
Arab world which mean it won’t support
Israel
• Christian and Unification Church supersessionism
How is Satan’s side doing?
• North Korea supplying missile technology
to Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah
• North Korea supplying nuclear technology
to Syria
• Iran sponsoring Hamas and Hezbollah
• Islamist forces have a long term plan for
jihad to conquer the West and make it
Muslim
What is to be done?
• Critique and counter proposal to Juche
• Critique and counter proposal to Islamism
• Rallies to support Israel by Christian and
Unification churches
• Deterrence to guarantee Israel and South
Korea
• Support liberal and democratic forces in
North Korea, China and Muslim countries
Al-Qaeda’s critique of the West
“What are we calling you to,
and what do we want from you?”
- We call you to stop your oppression, lies,
immorality and the debauchery that has spread
among you.
- We call you to be a people of manners, principles,
honour and purity; to reject the immoral acts of
fornication, homosexuality, intoxication, gambling
and trading with interest.”
Global clash of civilisations
Israel
Christian bloc
S. Korea
Palestine
Muslim bloc
N. Korea