(Updated August 13, 2007) The British luxury liner, Titanic, was once described as a floating palace. Because of its enormous size and construction, it was even considered by some to be nearly unsinkable. But, of course, the Titanic was not unsinkable, and on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic in 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the sea.
The Titanic tragedy is the perfect analogy for the fate that awaits one of the leading nations of this system of things – Great Britain. For the past two centuries London has served as the capital of a vast maritime empire and more recently a financier empire. Along with her American partner, the Anglo-American dual world power is considered by many to be unsinkable. But, the prophets of Jehovah indicate otherwise.
According to Ezekiel, all the nations of the earth are like trees planted in the Garden of Eden. One tree, though, the Egyptian cedar, is grander and more majestic than all the other trees in the garden of God. The description of that symbolic cedar accurately depicts the United States of America on the eve of God's judgment against it.
However, just as Eden had a cherubic overlord, so too, God's garden of nations has an overseer as well. The overseer of nations in Ezekiel's prophecy is the king of Tyre. Ezekiel 28:13-14 says of the king of Tyre: "In Eden, the garden of God, you proved to be…You are the anointed cherub that is covering"
While it is evident that Jehovah was referring to Satan, why does God link the king of Tyre with the Devil? The answer has to do with the fact that the real rulers of our world are not human. The apostle Paul revealed that wicked spirits in heavenly places are the true authorities and principalities of this system. In Revelation, Satan is pictured as a seven-headed dragon. What is the significance of that? Apparently, the seven heads of the dragon correspond to the seven heads of the wild beast, which would indicate that the seven-headed political beast upon the earth is merely a reflection of the invisible cosmocracy that emanates from Satan's heavenly throne.
Ezekiel's prophecy makes this same connection between Satan and the earthly kingdom of Tyre; that is evident in prophesy because their judgment occurs simultaneously; so that the fall of one coincides with the fall of the other.
Although the prophecy against Tyre was fulfilled long ago, a careful examination reveals that the prophecies apply in amazing detail to the British Empire and the City of London. But, since the Devil and his demons were not judged at the time that Babylon or Alexander the Great destroyed Tyre, we may be sure that the prophecies against Tyre and Egypt have a much grander future fulfillment related not only to Jehovah's forthcoming judgments against the modern Anglo-American dual world power, but, more profoundly, against the wicked god of this system.
“O you who are dwelling at the entrances of the sea”
In the 27th chapter of Ezekiel, the prophet is commanded to compose a dirge for the passing of Tyre. The opening words of the dirge say of Tyre: "O you who are dwelling at the entrances of the sea, the tradeswoman of the peoples for many islands."
The Phoenician coastal city of Tyre is recorded in history as dominating the Mediterranean Sea with her fleet of merchant ships, even plying the waters of the north and south Atlantic. Yet the description of Tyre as one "dwelling at the entrances of the sea" applies more especially to Great Britain.
During the days of Great Britain's formal empire, she controlled virtually every major waterway in the entire world. One of the most important entrances of the sea is the natural sea-gate through the Straits of Gibraltar. The Straits of Gibraltar are, of course, the vital entryway connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Interestingly, that sea gate was once held by the Phoenicians, or Tyrians, and for the last several centuries it has been a British held fortress. Gibraltar was a strategic British asset during both world wars.
The Suez Canal is another vital waterway that makes it possible to travel from the Indian Ocean, through the Red Sea and into the Mediterranean Sea, without looping all the way around Africa. It was particularly vital for British imperial interests to control the Gibraltar and Suez sea gates because that allowed Britain more direct access to her most important colony at that time – India.
By 1900, British naval bases were maintained around the world at strategic choke points that gave London a presence on virtually every major sea-lane on the planet. For example, since around 1860, the Royal Navy's Pacific fleet has been harbored at Esquimalt, British Columbia. On the Atlantic side of the Western Hemisphere, a British naval presence was maintained in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as well as Bermuda, Jamaica, and St. Lucia. On the opposite side of the Atlantic, the Royal Navy was based at Gibraltar and Freetown in the African colony of Sierra Leone. From 1814, after wresting control from the Dutch colonialist, the British established a naval presence at Cape Town, South Africa, that allowed them to control the shipping lanes around the windswept Horn of Africa. On the east side of Africa, at the turn of the century, the Royal Navy was harbored at Mombassa, Kenya.
Other critical choke points included Aden, Yemen, which was at the entryway of the southern end of the Red Sea where it joins the Indian Ocean. From bases in Bombay, Ceylon, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Sydney, Britain controlled the vital waterways of the Indian subcontinent and the entire Orient, as well as the sea-lanes of the countless islands of the South Pacific. Unquestionably, Great Britain once sat at the "entrances of the sea," and to a great extent it still does.
But besides controlling crucial shipping lanes, sea-gates and other vital infrastructure, the island nation of the United Kingdom maintains a virtual empire composed of dozens of islands scattered across the oceans of the globe. (Click here for complete list of former and current British territories and islands)
To whatever extent the Phoenician city-kingdom of Tyre may have colonized the Mediterranean region, we may be sure that the prophet's words apply even more so to the far-flung British Empire: "In the heart of the vast seas are your territories." (Ezekiel 27:4a) Also, Ezekiel 27:15 accurately describes the British maritime system, saying of it: "Many islands were merchants in your employ."
Ezekiel appropriately likens the city of Tyre to a ship--what we today might call a 'ship of state.' For example, Ezekiel 27:5-6 says: "Out of juniper timbers from Senir they built for you all the planks. A cedar from Lebanon they took to make a mast for you. Out of the massive trees of Bashan they made your oars. Your prow they made with ivory in cypress wood, from the islands of Kittim."
“All the ships of the sea and their mariners”
For over 100 years following the decisive Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the British Royal Navy dominated the vast seas. For a certainty, a powerful navy and merchant marine was the key to Great Britain’s dominance. And even though the Royal navy is no longer the single most dominate naval presence in the world, combined with the navies of the Commonwealth nations, NATO and the United States, Great Britain still projects her power over the sea.
A sailing vessel is therefore an appropriate symbol for the maritime empire of the British Isles. Not only because she maintained her far-flung empire by means of an extensive navy and merchant marine, but also because Britain was once the world's leading shipbuilder, and not just of warships. At the time of the First World War, British-built merchant ships accounted for 60% of the tonnage of all the world's ships. And because the Royal Navy dominated, being larger than the combined navies of the next two contenders, London was able to control merchant-shipping globally.
Like her Tyrian forerunner, London, too, is aptly likened to a sailing vessel that is manned by skilled sailors and craftsmen from many lands. That's because Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and many other territories in the imperial realm, have made significant contributions to the upkeep of the British Empire, especially during times of war. Hence, Ezekiel 27:8-10 says: "The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad themselves were your rowers for you. Your skilled ones, O Tyre, happened to be in you; they were your sailors. Even old men of Gebal and her skilled ones happened to be in you as chalkers for your seams. All the ships of the sea and their mariners themselves proved to be in you, in order to exchange articles of merchandise. Persians and Ludim and men of Put—they happened to be in your military force, your men of war. Shield and helmet they hung up in you. They were the ones that caused your splendor."
One difficulty ostensibly confronting the Bible student concerning the parallel between ancient Tyre and the modern British Empire is the fact that Great Britain no longer has such a far-reaching land-based naval presence. But, one of the reasons is that it is no longer necessary due to the fact that nuclear submarines have reduced the need for land-based control of strategic choke points. That reality came to the fore during the First World War when the first British submarines were used in the campaign to control the strategically important Bosporus Straits and the Dardanelles.
It is also true that Great Britain no longer controls maritime commerce to the extent that she did during her glory years. However, while that may be the case, London still dominates the world in significant ways. The power that the British Empire acquired during the past 300 years has not been squandered. For instance, it has been observed that in Africa the formal colonial empire has merely transformed itself into the kingdom of the multinationals. So, it is apparent that through the shrewd maneuverings on the part of the leading lights of the Empire London has been able to position itself as part of the most powerful alliance on earth – the Anglo-American dyad.
The British Empire certainly fits the description of being the tradeswoman of many lands. In times past, the British East India Company, in conjunction with numerous other commercial enterprises, brought in the booty from the far reaches of the Empire. While the East India Company no longer exists, many of the world's largest corporations today began years ago as part of London's global trading monopoly.
The Bank of Scotland and the Bank of England are two of the oldest financial institutions in existence and sit at the center of London's financier/mercantile system. Names like Barclays Bank, which, incidentally, is accused of having aided Hitler and the Nazis and the recently defunct Barings Bank and Hambros, are associated with the empire of yesteryear. HSBC (Hong Kong Shanghai Bank Corp.), which was the 3rd largest corporation in the world in 2000, got its start in 1865 as the Crown’s Oriental bank, tasked with processing the proceeds from the lucrative opium trade. (List of UK banks)
Lloyd's of London, which was started in a coffee house in 17th century London, is the oldest and largest insurer in the world.
Even Wall Street's J.P. Morgan & Company has an Anglo pedigree that extends back to 1838, and which has been instrumental in supplanting the American system of economy with the British system of usury.
The giant pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline, originated as a drug store in London nearly 300 years ago.
These are just a few well-known companies that have roots that reach back to the heyday of Queen Victoria's British Empire; many of which still presently control enormous riches on a global scale.
Precious stones, silver and gold
Ezekiel 27:12-25 lists all of Tyre's many trading partners and the numerous "articles of exchange" that they traded. For instance, the 12th verse reads: "Tarshish was your merchant because of the abundance of all sorts of valuable things. For its silver, iron, tin and lead your stores were given." The 22nd verse continues: "The traders of Sheba and Raamah themselves were your traders; for the finest of all sorts of perfumes and precious stones and gold, your stores were given."
British imperialist, Cecil Rhodes, after whom the former African colony of Rhodesia was named (now Zimbabwe), was one of the founders of London’s De Beers company, which has maintained a virtual monopoly over the sometimes-bloody diamond industry for over a century, has been a key component of the British Empire.
In the modern era, companies associated with the British Empire of old continue to dominate raw materials and precious metals trading. The Anglo-Dutch-Australian company, BHP Billiton is the world’s largest mining company.
Anglo-American – founded in 1917 by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, is now the second largest mining company in the world. (London’s Guardian newspaper just recently published an article shining a light upon the company’s abuses in Africa.)
AngloGold and Ashanti, which recently merged, oversee mining operations on four continents.
Lonmin (formerly Lonrho, short for London/Rhodesia), has been in business for over a century.
Anglo-Australia’s Rio Tinto Group was originally founded in Spain but was bought in 1873 by London’s N.M. Rothschild and has since been a key contributor to London's domination of precious metals markets globally. For that matter, for the past 200 years N.M. Rothschild has been at the core of London’s financial domination of the world.
Whereas England itself has no raw materials except coal, as of 1997 British and Commonwealth-allied firms controlled a staggering 60% of the world's annual gold production, amounting to a stake of nearly 15 billion dollars! Furthermore, London-centered groups control fully 60% of all diamond production; 25% of the world's copper; 29% of silver production and 78% of the mining of the precious metal platinum. Ten years ago British Commonwealth companies controlled 80-90% of Africa’s raw materials. Today, London's share is even greater than it was in 1997. Like Tyre, London has also amassed silver and gold in great quantity. The Scripture says: "And Tyre proceeded to build a rampart for herself, and to pile up silver like dust and gold like the mire of the streets." (Zechariah 9:3)
Originally called the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, British Petroleum has been one of the world’s leading oil production companies since the discovery of petroleum. BP and Dutch Royal Shell are the Crown's flagship oil companies that trade in that precious commodity.
(F. William Engdahl’s book, A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics is a must read for anyone interested in the history of the development of the Anglo-American system.)
Prior to London’s dominance in banking, petroleum and mining, much of the wealth of the modern Tyre was established by means of the slave trade – even as Ezekiel 27:13 says: “For the souls of mankind and articles of copper your articles of exchange were given.” Although officially abolished by Parliament in 1807, a less overt but more pernicious form of slavery continues today under the British system of globalization.
Another fascinating parallel exists between ancient Tyre and London’s Empire regarding the production and exchange of textiles. The Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries began in Great Britain. Advances in production methods gave rise to the textile industry in England; the secrets of which were zealously guarded so as to preserve England’s textile-making monopoly. In fact, the first modern factory was built in England to produce textiles. Because of Britain’s sprawling Empire merchants had a vast market at their disposal. Hence, Ezekiel 27:16-24 applies to the modern Anglo-Tyre: “For turquoise, wool dyed reddish purple and material of various colors and fine fabric and corals and rubies, your stores were given in exchange…and the wool of reddish gray… Dedan was your trader in garments of woven material for riding… They were your traders in gorgeous garments, in wraps of blue material and material of various colors and in carpets of two-colored stuff, in ropes twined and solidly made, in your trading center.”
Interestingly, Ezekiel 27:19 says: “Iron in wrought works, cassia and cane—for your articles of exchange they proved to be.” The production of steel (from iron) was an important development for mankind. And the so-called Bessemer process of steel production was first implemented in Britain. Also, although the cane mentioned in the Bible was not sugar cane, sugar cane was one of the main commodities of the colonial plantation system and Great Britain once dominated the sugar cane trade throughout the world.
“It came to be the profit of the nations”
Besides controlling a large percentage of the raw materials of the earth, a handful of companies hold sway over the most important commodity of all — food. Unilever, for example – headquartered in London and Rotterdam – is the one of the oldest and largest food production companies in the world.
In the orbit of the House of Windsor is the combine of interlocking London/Dutch/Swiss companies that are the world's leading merchants of essential food commodities. London also exerts an inordinate level of control over the nations by virtue of exerting control over numerous London-aligned multinational giant food processing companies, such as Cargill and Archer Daniels.
According to Isaiah's prophecy against Sidon, the merchants of Tyre and Sidon enriched themselves off of the harvest of the nations. Isaiah 23:3 says: "And on many waters has been the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, her revenue; and it came to be the profit of the nations." How true that has been for the modern Tyre as well.
It is noteworthy that Tyre was not even a nation in and of itself, but it was merely an island city. In the same way, London has proven itself to be an island city that surpasses the importance of even Great Britain. For that matter, metropolitan London is not the real London. The one-mile square financial district in the heart of London is called the City of London. Sometimes it is simply called — The City. (The City is the heart and soul of today's global financial system. However, due to the growth of its global operations many financial institutions have headquarters outside The Square Mile of The City, such as in Canary Wharf section of London.)
Whereas in the past, commerce between peoples and nations depended upon either overland trade routes or navigating the seas and waterways, today, much of what passes for economic trade has very little to do with the actual exchange of goods, but is merely what is called "global financial turnover." Today, because of structural changes in the monetary system, money has itself become the most bought and sold commodity and it is exchanged electronically around the world, 24 hours a day.
In times past, some tangible asset backed a nation's currency – usually gold and silver. But in 1971 the gold standard and the entire post WWII Bretton Woods system was scrapped and a so-called floating exchange rate system was implemented, which allows the world's various currencies to 'float' in their value relative to each other. The destruction of the Bretton Woods agreement marked the beginning of the modern global financial system, as it presently exists.
The present financial system has allowed modern usurers and money-changers to make enormous profits selling one currency and buying another as the floating exchange rate of each currency ebbs and flows on a daily basis like the lunar-driven tides. The Yen-carry trade, which has been the main source of liquidity for speculators in recent years –now in the process of blowing out – is just one example of how the global financial system works. The relevance of this, as it relates to the Tyre-on-the-Thames, is that, not surprisingly London dominates today's global financial system that it has invented to replace the mercantile system Britannia used to monopolize.
According to the Bank of International Settlements, on any given day approximately two trillion dollars are exchanged from one currency to the next. Of that staggering amount, only about ½ of 1% is actually exchanged in purchase of some thing. That means that over 99% of the daily financial turnover, from one currency to the other, buys absolutely nothing, except more money! But because such enormous amounts of money are involved, even slight fluctuations in the relative values of each nation's currency, amounting to mere fractions of pennies, can add up to millions or even billions of dollars of profit per exchange.
Although New York has long been considered the financial capital of the world, the banking houses of London control the lion's share of the lucrative money exchange business, (more than a trillion dollars per day) along with sizable shares of all other so-called hot-money speculative schemes. London controls more than 50% of the daily global financial turnover. (Bank of England report for April 2006 pdf)
Whereas London used to be the "tradeswoman for many peoples" through domination of the seas, today even greater control of the world's business and financial affairs is exercised through London's domination of the free trade, electronic floating exchange rate system and the banking and equity markets. How true Ezekiel's words in the 33rd verse: "When your stores went forth from the open sea, you satisfied many peoples. With the abundance of your valuable things and your articles of exchange you made earth's kings rich."
Isaiah 23:8 poses the question to us: "Who is it that has given counsel against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose tradesmen were the honorable ones of the earth?" The next verse answers: "Jehovah of armies himself has given this counsel, to profane the pride of all beauty, to treat with contempt al the honorable ones of earth."
To Jehovah, a timeless Being in a realm far above the comings and goings of our miniscule planet, and even the vast physical universe, there is no such thing as yesterday and tomorrow. What from our standpoint appears to be the future, to God is as yesterday. That is why Jehovah knows the future, because he has already been there, so-to-speak. So, while Jehovah's Word was written down thousands of years ago and originally applied to primitive nations and peoples, the patterns established in Scripture due to Jehovah's unfathomable insight and foresight make God's counsel relevant for the judgment to come. Truly, as the apostle once said, ''The word of God is alive.'
As for the counsel of Jehovah against Tyre, this aspect of prophecy seems to apply to London in greater measure. Just a brief glance at the history and origin of many contemporary nations reveals that London is indeed the "bestower of crowns." The following is a partial list of a few nations that were originally established in their modern form by the Crown. By clicking on the link you may read a brief history of each nation. In every case, Great Britain has had a major role in the development of the nation. For example: Zimbabwe, Botswana, Malawi, Malaysia, India, Egypt, Sudan, and Aden.
After the First World War, the victorious Great Britain received from the newly- formed League of Nations what is referred to as the British Mandate. The mandate was for Great Britain to administer the region of the Middle East, which had formerly been part of the Ottoman Empire. This led to the eventual establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948.
Since WWI, London has quite literally redrawn the map of a large geographical area of the world. Nations such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Kuwait, Qatar, Kashmir, United Arab Emirates, and Iran exist in their modern form as a legacy of British imperialism. It is no secret that the intervention of the British Empire in the past century is at the root of the seemingly intractable problems plaguing the Middle East presently.
The relative success of the British Empire was due in part to the fact that the British were excellent administrators and they sat up domestic kings and governors to rule under the British Crown. By establishing effective governments, the Empire alleviated the need to continually subjugate people by the edge of the sword. And, even as the formal Empire was dissolved, numerous nations have stayed under the Crown as members of the Commonwealth and other dependent territories called protectorates. Up to the present moment, 53 nations are part of the British Commonwealth of nations. There are 16 nations that still have the Queen of England as their sovereign, although each has a great measure of autonomy. Besides the nations of the United Kingdom itself, the most prominent are Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Through the Queen's Privy Counsel, London's political power is extended over all the nations in the royal realm.
Besides being the bestower of crowns, the scripture says that Tyre's "merchants were princes, whose tradesmen were the honorable ones of the earth."
True to the pattern of her Tyrian forerunner, many of the most honored men and women in the world today are knighted sirs and betitled lords, ladies, and baronesses of British peerage and the British Honours System.
Many members of the British parliament's House of Lords sit on company boards as directors of some of the most powerful corporations in the world. Others who are not born into British nobility may receive an honorary knighthood from the Queen. It is not at all uncommon to find names prefaced by "Sir" listed as CEOs and other high-ranking corporate executives. While perhaps not princes in the traditional sense, such men are nonetheless wealthy merchants and tradesmen who are indeed the honorable ones of the earth under the present Anglo-American system of things.
Some well-known American businessmen and political leaders have even attained honorary knighthood in the British system. For instance, George Bush Senior, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, Ronald Reagan, Brent Scowcroft, and Ken Lay (of Enron infamy) carry the honorary title of Sir. Most recently, the name most associated with the British system of free trade and usury, Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, was knighted by the Queen – presumably for services rendered to the Crown.
As the anointed cherub that is covering, obviously Satan the Devil is not directly involved in commerce. Yet, Ezekiel prophesied against the king of Tyre, saying: "Because of the abundance of your sales goods they filled the midst of you with violence, and you began to sin…owing to the abundance of your errors, because of the injustice of your sales goods, you have profaned your sanctuaries." (Ezekiel 28:18)
In what way has modern commerce contributed to violence and injustice? Ezekiel 28:3 says of the king of Tyre: "Look! You are wiser than Daniel. There are no secrets that have proved a match for you. By your wisdom and by your discernment you have made wealth for your own self, and you keep getting gold and silver in your storehouse."
According to the Bible, the wisdom of this world is "earthly, animal, and demonic." Because the king of Tyre is said to be full of wisdom, it can only be the debased sort of wisdom of this world. Because of London's insatiable desire for global domination, history shows that she has shamelessly exploited mankind's many vices and weaknesses in order to weaken her subjects and make them more submissive. Just as a cunning predator can sense the weakness of its intended prey, in the same manner the Empire has made it their aim to exploit and cater to debased human inclinations and ignorance. Like their imperial Roman predecessors used the bread and circuses approach to placate and demoralize the masses, so too, London has promoted destructive "sales goods." How so?
From the earliest times of colonization, London has trafficked in tobacco and dope. Great Britain for the most part invented the tobacco industry and to this day London’s British American Tobacco and Imperial Tobacco Group are the second and fourth largest producers of the noxious weed in the world (excluding China).
It is also well-documented that London established the illicit drug trade. Back during the 1800's, British plantations in India grew the narcotic-producing poppy that was processed into opium, which was then imported by British merchants into China. When the Chinese government resisted and outlawed the destructive drug trade, the British responded with gunboats in what became known as the Opium Wars.
In modern times, it has also been documented that the driving force behind the illegal drug industry does not originate in the jungles of Columbia, or in the poppy-strewn hillsides of Afghanistan, or elsewhere where peasants cultivate dope. The real beneficiaries of the lucrative drug trade are not the street pushers or even the notorious drug lords. When it comes to the so-called 'war on drugs,' what is seldom mentioned, but no less true, is that without the money-laundering services of the banking system, the drug trade would soon choke on its own flood of cash.
The laundering of drug money nets the banks involved billions of dollars of profit annually. British islands such as the Caymans, Bahamas, and the Antilles are well-known for their so-called offshore money laundering and tax evading banking operations. The Cayman Islands also serve as home to the vast majority of hedge funds in the world, many of which launder drug money through their speculative operations. The fact that they are offshore takes them out of reach of the only authorities that could be powerful enough to do anything about the illegal transactions. Being registered offshore also serves as a legal loophole that may serve to put monies of a growing number of bankrupt hedge funds out of reach of their own investors.
In other ways the British Empire and her compliant American partner, merchandise in violence by being the foremost exporters of weapons of all kinds. For instance, BAE Systems is the fourth largest producer of weapons of all kinds and quite recently the company has been accused by the Guardian of maintaining a slush fund of tens of billions of dollars, which has been used to bribe government officials.
Furthermore, the Anglo-American entertainment industry has obviously set out to intentionally pervert and demoralize entire populations. The Western form of debasing music, and corrupt, violent entertainment, is produced and distributed around the world through Anglo-dominated media channels. So, in light of the above, we can better appreciate why Jehovah denounces Tyre for her "sales goods" which have filled the world with corruption and violence.
Related to the merchandising of corruption and violence, Ezekiel says of Tyre: "O praised city, who became a strong one in the sea, she and those inhabiting her, those who gave their terror to all the inhabitants of the earth."
If you were to ask the so-called 'man on the street' what nation he thought was most responsible for promoting international terrorism, more than likely the respondent would cite Iraq, Iran, or perhaps some Asian nation. However, London itself is known as the preferred haven of terrorists. Egypt's president, along with other world leaders, has officially protested that London provides sanctuary for international terrorists. Many terrorist organizations even have had headquarters in London. These include some of the most notorious terrorist groups known, such as The Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka and the Shining Path of Peru. Numerous Islamic groups that are outlawed in other Western countries find sanctuary in London. It has long been known that even Osama Bin Laden and the Islamic Muhajahddin were originally created and controlled by British and American intelligence during the Soviet-Afghan War. There is really no reason to assume that that connection has ever been severed.
Great Britain long ago earned the name of Perfidious Albion, which means "treacherous England," because she became very adept in the ways of treachery in order to win the Great Game of international geo-politics. In order to stay on top of the heap, it has always been the policy of the Empire to set peoples and nations against each other in order to further its own interests. Should it be surprising that the earthly place of Satan's throne should use terrorism to further its own ends? While America may provide the brawn, London provides the brains of the Anglo-American Special Relationship. In order to weaken the independent nation-states, British imperialism, through its network of operatives, has deployed various terrorists groups so as to create tensions and destabilizations throughout the world. To what extent the Tyre-on-the-Thames may yet 'give her terror to all the inhabitants of the earth' remains to be seen.
At any rate, Jehovah's judgment states: "Your heart became haughty because of your beauty. You brought your wisdom to ruin on account of your beaming splendor.” (Ezekiel 28:17)
Ezekiel 26:21 says: "Sudden terrors are what I shall make you, and you will not be; and you will be sought for, but you will no more be found to time indefinite, is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah."
In what way could ancient Tyre have possibly experienced "sudden terrors"? There was nothing sudden about Tyre's downfall. Bible students know that Nebuchadnezzar waged a grueling and laborious 13-year siege against Tyre. At Ezekiel 29:18-20, Jehovah acknowledges that Nebuchadnezzar performed a service, in behalf of God, against Tyre but received little compensation for his efforts. For that reason, Jehovah said he would give Egypt to the king of Babylon as compensation for Tyre. It is an established fact, then, that Tyre fell many years before Egypt; yet Isaiah 23:5 says: "Just as at the report pertaining to Egypt, people will likewise be in severe pains at the report on Tyre." Isaiah makes no distinction between the two, and in fact seems to suggest that Egypt falls first; which historically was not the case. The seeming discrepancy in the prophecies is because the real fulfillment has to do with the sudden simultaneous fall of the Anglo-American dyad.
Jesus Christ foretold that Jehovah's day will erupt suddenly and that it "will come in upon all those dwelling upon the face of all the earth," so that "men become faint out of fear and expectation of the things coming upon the inhabited earth; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken."
The present day preeminent "powers of the heavens" is the Anglo-American dominated system of things. Their being "shaken" can only mean that the present-day world powers are rocked from their place over mankind. The shaking of the present-day powers of the heavens is something entirely unanticipated. That is why Ezekiel goes on to prophesy against Tyre: "At the sound of your downfall, when the fatally wounded one groans, when there is a killing with slaughter in the midst of you, will not the islands rock? And down from their thrones all the chieftains of the sea will certainly come and remove their sleeveless coats, and they will strip off their own embroidered garments. They will put on trembling spells. Upon the earth they will sit down, and they will certainly tremble every moment and stare in amazement at you." Ez. 26:15-16
What would possibly terrify mankind more than the catastrophic crash of the financial and political system that is overseen and dominated by Great Britain and the United States? The simultaneous fall of the Anglo-American kings will mark the beginning of the end for Satan's entire system of things—a time of tribulation that has no equal. It will spell the end of the democratic nation-state system and lead to the implementation of a totalitarian world government; resulting in a global genocidal final solution as Jehovah's judgment upon this wicked world.
The 12th chapter of Revelation indicates that the first order of business for Christ, when his kingdom comes, is that Satan and all of his demons are ousted from Jehovah's heavens and confined to the vicinity of the earth in preparation for the final decisive battle. The prophecy also foretells that Jehovah's organization, his woman, is persecuted by the enraged demonic hordes for a period of three and a half years. The 11th chapter of Revelation similarly depicts God's servants being persecuted by a resurrected beastly political system for a period of 42 months. It is evident that those two periods of time are one and the same. The prophecy of Daniel reveals that the three-and-one-half year period is the actual time of the end, and that at the conclusion of that interval, Satan's world is no more. Satan's foretold "short period of time" is no doubt that three-and-one-half year period of great tribulation, which is the beginning of pangs of distress.
Because Satan is the god of this world, Jehovah's judgment against him naturally has repercussions down here in our earthly realm. The catastrophic death-stroke leveled against the Anglo-American seventh head of the wild beast is actually the indirect result of Jehovah's judgment against the Devil and his angels in heaven. That is evident by the fact that both the ouster of Satan and the death-stroke of the beast initiate the aforementioned three and one half year period of intense persecution of Jehovah's holy ones. When Christ ultimately casts the Devil down to the earth, the entire system will convulse with shudders of death.
And, dear friends: It is already past the time that Jehovah's Witnesses ought to have discarded the absurd notion that the brief incarceration of eight Watchtower officials back in 1918 was the fulfillment of the many prophecies that call for the sons of the kingdom to be trampled underfoot for a three and a half year period.
From Jehovah's standpoint there are no other gods. There are only those demons and humans who have temporarily been allowed to fraudulently assume god-like powers. But, Jehovah's final judgment is as follows: "The gods that did not make the very heavens and earth are the very ones who will perish from the earth and from under these heavens" (Jeremiah 10:11)
In harmony with that judgment, Ezekiel 28:8-9 says to the king of Tyre: "Down to the pit they will bring you, and you must die the death of someone slain in the heart of the open sea. Will you without fail say, 'I am a god,' before the one killing you, whereas you are a mere earthling man, and not a god, in the hand of those profaning you."
Ezekiel 28:17b issues God's judgment against the Devil and his human counterpart. It reads: "Onto earth I will throw you."
In conclusion: Far from being an irrelevant portion of obscure Hebrew prophecy, the prophecies against Egypt and Tyre contain some of the most profound revelations in Scripture. In view of the obvious similarities between the king of Tyre and the modern London-centered British Empire, it is evident that Jehovah's judgment against the covering cherub of Tyre is in reality describing Satan's eventual ouster from heaven. The visible manifestation of the satanic cherub being thrown "onto the earth," will be the sudden and horrifying downfall of the Anglo-American dyad.
The death of a "god" indeed!
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