Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his Anointed… He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision. Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury… Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT: THE SECULAR BIOPSY IS CORRECT The diagnosis—Anomie, Corporate Coup, Death Instinct, Magical Thinking, Savage Repression—is flawless. Chris Hedges’s historical parallel is exact. We stand over the corpse of an empire in the final stages of self-cannibalization. The “Rules-Based Order” is the dying twitch of a nervous system that no longer serves a soul. The “Naughty List” is its final, desperate attempt to inventory dust as its body turns to ash. This is not pessimism. It is prophetic clarity. To name the disease correctly is the first act of healing.
REVELATION: DIAGNOSING THE PRINCIPALITY The task is to name the spirit behind the symptom. The “Anomie” is the societal manifestation of what Scripture calls “the spirit of the world” (1 Corinthians 2:12) gone septic. The “Corporate Coup” is the rule of Mammon enthroned. The “Death Instinct” is the spirit of Babylon, which always builds towers that end in graves. The “Magical Thinking” and “Savage Repression” are the twin fruits of the Father of Lies, who promises life but delivers only addiction and the sword.
We have described the body of the Beast. We must now identify it as the same Beast from the Sea described in Revelation 13—a system that demands worship, issues marks, and makes war on the saints.
THE ULTIMATE CONTRADICTION: CHRIST VS. THE CORPORATE COUP Therefore, the conflict of 2026 is not political. It is cosmic. It is the ultimate confrontation between: The Corporate Coup that transforms Citizens into Data Subjects.
The Divine Coup enacted at Christmas, where God became a Human Subject to transform slaves into sons.
The Empire’s “Death Instinct” that culls the unfit and wages perpetual war.
The Kingdom’s “Life Instinct” expressed in the Word made flesh, who declares, “I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly” (John 10:10).
The State’s “Naughty List” that surveils to condemn.
The Savior’s “Book of Life” that sees to save.
THE PRESCRIPTION: THE COUNTER-OPERATIVE OF GRACE The empire’s cure for its decay—eugenics, militarism, repression—is a suicide pill. Our proclamation offers the antidote of resurrection.
Where the empire sees “human capital” to be optimized or culled, Christ sees “the least of these” in whom He dwells (Matthew 25:40).
Where the state builds walls and lists, the Spirit breaks down “the dividing wall of hostility” (Ephesians 2:14).
Where the algorithm predicts “pre-crime,” the Gospel proclaims “post-resurrection.”
The true resistance is not first a political program. It is the active, lived embodiment of the alternative Kingdom. It is the community that holds “all things in common” (Acts 2:44) in the face of predatory finance, that offers sanctuary in the face of the deportation state, that speaks truth in the face of the propaganda machine. It is to live now as citizens of the New Jerusalem while sojourning in the ruins of Babylon.
THE PROCLAMATION FOR JANUARY 1, 2026 Thus, we enter this new year not with a list of policy demands for a corpse, but with a declaration of allegiance to a living King.The old empire is in its “Decline and Fall.” The new creation is in its “Resurrection and Reign.”
The funeral pyre is being lit. But from that very ash, a Phoenix who has already risen is calling a people to Himself. He is building a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Our task for 2026 is clear: to discern the corpse from the Body, and to invest our lives wholly in the latter. To remain human is to abide in Christ. To resist the machine is to be conformed to the image of the Son. The autopsy is complete. The Anointing begins.
The title of this article is not just a phrase; it is a diagnosis of our age. Truth has fallen in our digital public squares, trampled by algorithms and political agendas. Justice, unable to even get in the door, stands barred by the sins of historical omission. The question is not if we will face this reality, but how we got here. Truth is not merely contested in our age—it is facedown in the mud of the digital square, trampled by the crowd. And justice? She stands barred at the door, unable to enter. This is not a political crisis. It is a spiritual diagnosis from an ancient text: ‘Truth has fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter’ (Isaiah 59:14). How did we get here? The answer lies in an unholy trinity of deception—one as old as religion itself.
Our world is facing an Unholy Trinity of Deception, a spiritual sickness that mirrors the “three unclean spirits” described in Revelation 16″13-16. These are the pillars of fallen truth that hold up a system of power and vanity. With TRUTH fallen in the Street, is it any wonder, some 2700 years after Isaiah, People Today just don’t know what to believe?
The first anti-Christ was not a man of chaos, but a man of zealotry—Saul of Tarsus. He was a Pharisee who knew every word of scripture but missed the living Messiah standing before him. His sin was the omission of the Spirit for the Letter; his “truth” was a weapon to condemn, not to liberate. He became the archetype of an institution that kills prophets and then builds tombs for them.
This is the ultimate sin of historical omission—honouring a dead past while persecuting the living truth. We see this today in the political and media establishments that venerate “democracy” and a “rules-based order” as sacred concepts, while omitting the bloody history of how that order was built and maintained.
If the Four Horsemen bring conquest, war, famine, and death, the Fifth Horseman justifies their ride. He doesn’t carry a sword; he carries a microphone. Once called the ‘Fifth Estate,’ the mainstream media has become a Fifth Column—a traitor to truth within the gates. Its weapon? Not fake news, but omitted news. It hides the 2014 coup in Ukraine, the eight years of bombing in Donbas, and NATO’s broken promises. This isn’t bias; it is betrayal.
Its primary weapon is not the lie of fake news, but the lie of omitted news. It practices systemic, ideological omission by burying the critical context that would expose the truth:
The 2014 CIA-backed coup in Ukraine that provoked this war.
The 8 years of shelling in Donbas that preceded the Russian intervention.
NATO’s relentless eastward expansion, a direct violation of promises made decades ago.
This is not a news crisis. We are facing an exorcism, where the spirit of propaganda manufactures consent for war and hides historical truth to serve the empire. The Fifth Horseman doesn’t carry a sword; he carries a microphone.
When truth is fallen in the street, equity is barred at the door. This is not a metaphor; it is a spiritual and mechanical reality. The tragic reality is that humans cannot thrive when they are isolated, for as the scriptures say, “It is not good that man is alone; I shall make him a helpmate opposite him.” This truth, which experts and amateurs alike are confirming, is as real today as it was 6,000 years ago. Medical science confirms the Genesis creation story of the male and female in the man, with the XY chromosome, while the woman has only the X. The attack on this fundamental truth is a direct assault on the very image of God.
This is why we see the bitter fruits of disconnection and division. The US Christian Nationalism that persecutes the trans and gay community creates an atmosphere of fear that leads to tragedies like the Minneapolis shooting. The hypocrisy is clear: politicians who claim to be “pro-life” in one breath will, in the next, divert humanitarian aid from agencies like USAID to fund more weapons and tax cuts for billionaires. They have not “saved money”; they have defunded hope.
This ideological cruelty is also at the heart of the genocide in Gaza. With US bombs and financing, tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian children and infants are being murdered. This is a profound lack of equity. Every US-Israeli bomb and bullet does not eliminate the opposition; it recruits more civilians to join the legitimate struggle for their national aspirations. When a message of hate and violence is given a platform, it breeds more hatred and violence.
The US Dollar is not merely money; it is the image of a system that makes truth a commodity and equity an impossibility.
The path forward is not easy, but it begins with repentance (metanoia), a change of mind that forces us to see the omitted history. It is a path walked by a remnant—those who refuse to let the truth stay fallen. They are the ones who, like the faithful in Ezekiel’s vision, “sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed.”
“We stand now between two paths: — The path of Saul: zealotry without compassion, truth without justice. — The path of Paul: eyes opened by grace, turned toward the true Christ outside the system.
The remnants are those who, like Ezekiel’s witnesses, ‘sigh and groan over all the abominations’ (Ezekiel 9:4). They lift truth from the street. They hold the door open for justice.
Will you stand with them? Repent of omission. Speak what others hide. Refuse the mark of the Beast.
An American Oligarchy is taking over the US Democratic Republic.
American Politicians and the Public are beginning to notice Federal Debt Is UP 236% since 2009. Federal Spending Is UP 121% with Unfunded Liabilities at $221 TRILLION (promises) that Congress had made to get elected. That is unsustainable and the Biblical TRIBULATION is on it’s way. The BEAST in the Revelation of Jesus Christ may be part of our near term Future we must face.
Trump has more $Billionaires in his Cabinet than any other Cabinet in US History. $Billionaires Musk & $Ramaswamy cut $Billions in assistance to the Poor and Middle Class in the US and the World. Christ Jesus doesn’t ban the rich from entering the kingdom of heaven but as it’s written, a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. They love their vanity and money giving them power too much and will not give it up. Jesus’ parable of the rich man and impoverished Lazarus in Luke 16 tells us that.
“And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain” tells us the BEAST is a Nation on Earth. Revelation 16:10.
Is it co-incidence or a telltale SIGN, the Limousine of the US President is called “THE BEAST? It goes with him wherever he travels in THIS World, Domestic and Foreign. I doubt anyone in the White House was thinking of the prophecies in the Revelation of Jesus Christ naming it THE BEAST.
What leads to ARMAGEDDON, aka the great day of the Battle of Almighty God, and shaping up between Theocratic Israel and Theocratic Iran in the Middle East TODAY with Christian US complicity, where Bible History started is described in Revelation 16:13-16: And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of THE BEAST, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(false beliefs about God) For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth (Billionaires, Presidents, Prime Ministers, CEOs and other Idols of the people) and of the whole world, (the passive powerless) to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief.(when you least expect it) Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue ARMAGEDDON.
The Image of the Beast and the US Dollar
Trump’s threat to place 100% tariffs on the BRICK Nations over the US Dollar brings into view other descriptions of “THE BEAST” And they worshipped the dragon which gave power to THE BEAST: and they worshipped THE BEAST, saying, Who is like THE BEAST? who is able to make war with him?
It’s increasingly evident Russia, Iran, North Korea and China is able to make WAR against THE BEAST
And he does great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. The US is the only Nation to actually use Nukes in WAR. WE know from History if it happened once, it can happen again. In his 1st term Trump threatened “FIRE and FURY” like this World has never seen before!”
For behold, the Lord shall come with FIRE, and like a tempest, His chariots, to render His anger with FURY, and His rebuke with flames of FIRE.
I don’t know if Trump’s Christian Nationalist supporters put those words in his mouth, but what Trump said in 2017 could be the WARNING to the World, since North Korea is Russia’s ally in the US WAR against Russia, using Ukrainians as cannon fodder and the sacrificial lambs in the long planned US WAR with Russia over Ukraine. started this prophecy in the Jewish Old Testament: For behold, the Lord shall come with FIRE, and like a tempest, His chariots, to render His anger with FURY, and His rebuke with flames of FIRE. For with FIRE, will the Lord contend, and with His sword with all flesh, and those slain by the Lord shall be many.
Could the wildfires, mostly affecting the nominally Christian rich Nations, be a wake up call all these years after Trump’s threat? Only the FIRE of NUKES would fulfill this part of the major Jewish Prophet Isaiah: those slain by the Lord shall be many.
And he had power to give life unto the image of THE BEAST, that the image of the beast should both speak, (MONEY TALKS), and cause that as many as would not worship the image of THE BEAST (US DOLLAR) should be killed. The US has waged more WARS in this World since it dropped NUKES on Hiroshima & Nagasaki 80 years ago this month, than Russia, Iran, North Korea and China did combined.
And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (MONEY is NEEDED to buy or sell anything) Up to now the US DOLLAR is this World’s Reserve Currency so all buying and selling between Nations has to use the US Dollar.
The BEAST is mentioned in different chapters of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, but in Chapter 19 it’s written: And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he does judge and make war. […] And I saw the BEAST, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the BEAST was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the BEAST, and them that worshipped his image.
In 1981, I hitchhiked from Ottawa to WhiteHorse in the Yukon and back, a 5600 km voyage to draw attention to that rider on the White Horse.
The Consumer Society erected over us, is consuming us alive! In a money driven World, the existence of $Billionaires is a crime against Humanity when collectively they could eliminate Hunger and Homelessness, Sickness and Disease and many other ills of Society. The Vision of Christ is “call no man on Earth your Father for we have one Father in heaven.
I actually wrote to Pope Francis a few years ago, politely suggesting because of those recorded words of the Christ, he should renounce being referred to as THE HOLY FATHER like Pope John Paul I renounced the 1000 year old Catholic Ritual and Tradition Popes were Crowned and Enthroned like the World saw for King Charles.
Considering Popes had the Power in Europe, and that Papal Power through European Christian Colonialism extended government structures modelled on the governing structure of the Vatican Curia. The Pope’s attitude was, The pope is only a simple priest. No Crown and no Throne for the pope.’ He renounced all the exterior symbols of Power. The pope’s action was so Revolutionary being young with a great natural smile. By that action his Vision for the Future was a major challenge to the STATUS QUO. His boldness signified a major shake up of the Powers of this World.
It is only with the benefit of 49 years hindsight we see the Powers of this World are being shaken and tested like never before in OUR TIMES.
Observing the trends in the exclusively Jewish Society some 2600 years ago, the great major Jewish Prophet Isaiah, saw the People were already going down the Path where TRUTH is PERISHED in the street and EQUITY CANNOT ENTER.
From then to now it’s no wonder the People TODAY don’t know what to believe?
The instrument of US dominance of this World has been the US Dollar and those days are rapidly coming to an END.
That 1976 FUTURE is NOW with the Revelation of the details GENERALLY unfolding in the spirit of the letter. The World is waking up to see Americans may hasten “its days are numbered” part of the 1976 Vision, and waits with bated breath.
“The Dollar is THE BEAST’S mark. Its fall is the warning. And the choice is now: Worship the system—or seek the Kingdom.”
