- Sidonia, a character from the novel Coningsby by British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, 1844
Why do things happen the way they do in politics? We often witness the strangest things. Laws are passed that are no good for the citizens. Judges hand down ridiculous rulings. Presidents issue bizarre executive orders. Recently we are witnessing politicians that are acting with total disregard to their constituents. Why? If it's not clear by now, let me plainly say that I believe there is a power working behind the scenes to influence political decisions. This power is supernatural, and it does not have our best interests in mind. In fact its ultimate aim is "to steal, and to kill, and to destroy" (John 10:10). We know from the Bible that there will eventually be one who will sit in the temple of God and demand to be worshipped as God (2 Thess. 2:4). He will make war with the saints and prevail against them (Dan. 7:21). His kingdom will be exceedingly dreadful and violent (Dan. 7:19).
So is there any evidence of such a supernatural influence? I want to reveal more evidence in future posts, but for now I will once again show what influential and powerful people have said themselves.
"The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans." - British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, Sep. 10, 1876
"It is not emperors or kings, nor princes, that direct the course of affairs in the East. There is something else over them and behind them; and that thing is more powerful than them." - Henry Edward Manning, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, Oct. 1, 1877
"It bends governments to its will sometimes by promises, sometimes by threats. It has found its way into every class of Society, and forms an invisible and irresponsible power, an independent government, as it were, within the body corporate of the lawful state." - Pope Leo XIII, 1902
"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." - President Woodrow Wilson, 1913
"...the real menace of our Republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self-created screen ... At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as 'the international bankers.' The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States Government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties." - John F. Hylan, mayor of New York City (1918-25), March 26, 1922
"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson." - letter dated November 21, 1933, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Colonel Edward House
"Fifty men have run America and that’s a high figure." - Joseph Kennedy, patriarch of the Kennedy family, New York Times, July 26, 1936
"The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes." - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 1952
"There does exist, and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960’s, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments ... my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known ... because the American branch of this organization (sometimes called the ‘Eastern Establishment’) has played a very significant role in the history of the United States in the last generation." - Dr. Carroll Quigley, a professor of history at the Foreign Service School of Georgetown University, in his book Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, 1966 [This is the same Carroll Quigley to whom Bill Clinton referred in his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention in 1992.]
"The government of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which … pushed the masses of the American people into the cauldron of World War I." - British military historian Major General John Frederick Charles Fuller, 1941
These quotes do not necessarily show the character of the supernatural power which is behind the "kings of the earth," but it does demonstrate that there is in fact something which controls the affairs of men. I don't want the reader to misunderstand me though. I do believe that God is sovereign. The book of Job shows that nothing happens to the righteous without God's permission. Romans 8:28 is still in effect. My purpose here is to show that Satan is building the kingdom of Antichrist by stealth, and he is using world leaders to do so. Most of them probably have no idea that they are being used for this purpose. Those at the top level of this conspiracy, however, know exactly who their master is.
