What are the defining characteristics of our present age? What forces are really driving world events?

This book suggests that there is an overall system with an overall agenda. The agenda is cleverly hidden behind a veil of purposely engineered economic, social and technological problems, such that we become preoccupied with these issues to the complete exclusion of spiritual and religious matters.

Issues such as homosexual rights and abortion are presented to us by the media as if they were single issues and as though they warranted single-issue focus, when in fact there is a larger more sinister agenda to which these sub-agendas belong. This book seeks to address the modern "battle of morals" by focusing the attention on the ultimate spiritual forces behind the scenes, rather than on simply arguing each issue on its own. It is the author’s conviction that the crisis we are facing cannot be understood or addressed unless it is viewed from a spiritual perspective, rather than the narrow social, political and scientific perspectives to which the media seeks to confine our discussion. It is a mistake to argue over social, moral and spiritual matters from the standpoint of a "Left vs. Right" political debate, since the real issues at hand are far wider in scope than political orientation. In fact, the very delineation of modern debate along the lines of political ideology is a clever fabrication of the modern media, and is used to confuse us into the belief that all our discussions must take place along pre-defined, media sanctioned "battle lines". One goal of the media is to make our discussion process very narrow and to fix the outcome of every debate, by re-engineering our language and by pre-defining the mood of public discussion. When one player in the game has the means to set the rules, to decide how and when the play will occur, then he will surely use that advantage to make the game go his way. That is what is occurring in the media today. While there is a vast religious population which is tormented by the flow of our culture towards perversion and homosexuality, nevertheless the system seems to be winning, and the conservative religious population cannot seem to prevent the slide. Why is this? It is because we are playing a game by someone else’s rules. We are trying to counter a force which is more powerful than we are, and on top of that we are continually drawn into modes of battle which are completely impossible for us to win. We can only get out of this losing scenario by stepping back and taking a look at the problem from the "Big Picture" rather than being confined to fight each issue within the narrow and restrictive confines which the media is imposing on us. This is the aim of my book - to broaden the view of the reader so that he or she may see what is happening above and beyond the confusing array of media issues which are engineered to distract us.

In order to present such an overall picture I must from the outset declare the terms which are now defining our world and the battle raging in it. We should not believe that there is a battle between men and women, or Muslim and Christian, or Iraq and the US or Conservatives and Liberals. These are distractions which are designed to keep us busy fighting each other while the enemy advances on all of us.

The purpose of the media driven debates over subjects like gun control is to polarize people into two opposing camps. The old divide and conquer technique. We are supposed to be so busy fighting with each other that we ignore the system which profits from our fighting. A familiar theme indeed. Just as war is used to impoverish and oppress us and to justify taxes, so too these engineered "social debates" are used to create conflict and confusion.

The real enemy is Satan the devil, who seeks to destroy all humans whether they are male, female, Muslim, Christian, American or Arab, Liberal or Conservative. Through the news media, Satan the devil has tricked us into believing that the enemy is some human ideological group, perhaps feminists or environmentalists. We are not supposed to view the battle in the spiritual terms which the bible reveals, for that would expose the true master plan which plots our destruction:

4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

2 Cor 10:4

8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

1 Peter 5:8

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