Oddbean

If you understand that 'Iran' and 'Israel' are on the same side, then you understand how the world works. The nations are the puppets, the international networks that connect them call the shots, sometimes the stakeholders within those international networks have turf wars, and so you get the illusion of conflict played out through the nations. These are complex networks, federations with shifting alliances, that are becoming more visible because decentralized media is exposing them, but it isn't a homogenous thing. It isn't one all seeing eye, like Sauron, binding everyone to his will. Sauron is just a member of various networks, and sometimes he gets his way, and sometimes he gets shafted and double-crossed while others get their way. He attends the bilderberg conference and davos one year, he's left out the next year... he gets to be inside a government refinancing deal with the rothschilds one month, and he gets dropped from a lucrative arms deal the next. It's a heaving mass of chaos from which they hope to bring order... yes they advance their various agendas through chaos, but they themselves are affected by it. Some try to issue their mandates, for example the UN/SDG and the mystical target of 2030. Others come and flip the table, making their own demands for their particular CDBC to be the ascendant one, and bind the others to it. They carve up the nations prematurely like some kind of settled Bretton Woods or Sykes Picot... but others round the same conference object and redraw the borders to their liking... not the presidents of those countries, but the stakeholders in those international networks who have an interest in those countries. That chaos and rivalry between them is what limits their progress, what keeps them at bay, what gives us hope while more permanent limitations like Bitcoin grow to full term and bind their hands from further mischief. Even in prophecy, the antichrist comes to power on the shoulders of many 'kings of the earth', by which is meant the powerbrokers and kingmakers, not the actual dudes who 'reign'. Eventually, someone will gain enough traction among this heaving band of theives, and unite them under his power... and they in turn will pull all their interests in the same direction after him. For a while it will seem like we're entering the golden age of humanity, and then the mask will drop, and the world will become more desperate than it ever was under the current chaos. The same prophecies tell us that the spirit of God disrupts and restrains their current progress, and that when God's hand is lifted and they are allowed to unite, it will be for a short while... ending in utter futility and humiliation, as the true king returns to take his throne. Imagine a thousand year conspiracy reaching it's climax and then falling apart within three years. It's easy to say 'no King but Christ' now, we might upset a few liberals, or be pointed at as fools, but it's hardly a sacrifice. On the contrary, it gives a flavour to our anarchist edge, and tackles the problem that anarchy must still account for human nature being what it is. But now, try saying it when the federation has anointed a global king, who isnt' Christ, and who demands you worship him as a god... like the ceasers did of old. No longer a maxim but a declaration of loyalty to the point of death, and a proclamation to the imposter that his time is limited. Only then will we see a true golden age, and entry into it will depend on compliance with the protocol that seeded it and will govern it, a protocol we call the scriptures today... and a blessing is promised for anyone who reads the book of Revelation. "Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near", Revelation 1:3