Mystery Babylon and the Stone Kingdom, part 65—Ancient Conspiracies
Welcome back! Hey, you adults (and babes in Christ), kids are cute, aren’t they? But sometimes, they can be exhausting and exasperating, especially around 4-6 years old, when they have a million questions.
“Why is the sky blue, mommy?” “Well, because such and such…,” she answers. The child then follows up, “Okay, but then why…” as the child fine-tunes the question, or goes on to another. Childhood curiosity, it’s a good thing, isn’t it? It assures us that their little minds are normal and they are soaking up everything they experience.
And perhaps the curiosity is accompanied by a child’s version of incredulity and skepticism as, for example, when the parents tell them the bald-faced lie of the big, fat guy in the red suit trying to squeeze down the chimney with a big bag of gifts for them.
Parents, think about this! There is no need to lie to them! A few years later when they realize you lied, how can they ever again trust you completely?
Since at least my late teens, I have always prided myself on being skeptical of many things. Too bad I did not employ skepticism thoroughly enough when I was being indoctrinated at the Ohio State University.
Fact: one cannot be indoctrinated with false ideas if we “become as little children” (Matthew 18:3) and always ask mommy, daddy, or the professors, “But why…?” The biblical equivalent of that is to “be as the Bereans.” (Acts 17:11). If we do not employ skepticism and we go through a process of indoctrination in our educational system, then we get our diplomas and go merrily (or depressingly) through life never realizing we have been brainwashed, programmed, indoctrinated!
In my case, I believed many things that the professors taught me that turned out to be lies. Things about history, things about the supposed integrity and objectivity of the news media (as I was in training to be part of it), things about the Left vs. Right political spectrum, and about the fools and idiots who believe in conspiracy theories!
So, within a year of graduating from OSU in Columbus, I learned that Santa Claus was a lie. That is to say, using a more recent metaphor, I was taking the red pill, red standing for the reality of how the world truly operates. I discovered that I had been thoroughly indoctrinated in my schooling, especially at the university level!
In my own independent study I came to realize that most of what I had been taught in history, political science, and in journalism school was just lie upon lie. Now let’s pick up where we left off in the previous installment of this series. To back up just a paragraph or two…
“Well, it sounds like you are telling me that this was a conspiracy then!”
Again, yes, I am. You see, our hypothetical skeptic here represents the outcome of many decades of programming our population through the controlled news media (the Lying Legacy Media, aka the Medianites), and through the entertainment media, and through our educational systems. We have all been programmed to ridicule and scoff at the very notion of conspiracies.
And yet, once again, when you (the skeptic) discipline yourself to actually investigate and try to disprove it, as many have, you will—if you are intellectually honest with yourself—you will find that conspiracies are S. O. P. Conspiracies are Standard Operating Procedure throughout the history of the world.
Since this is an important point, let us embark on a brief historical review to get the neurons firing in the gray matter of any skeptics out there. Let us go to the most accurate and factual history book in the world to begin our study of conspiracies in history.
Since we are a Bible-teaching ministry, and especially since our subject in this series concerns the conspiracies of those behind the empires prophesied in Daniel, it would be wholly appropriate then to derive the meaning of the word conspiracy from the Bible itself.
Turn to Genesis 37. We will obtain the meaning of conspiracy from the Bible because the Bible is our standard of truth. By the way, what is yours? ...If your standard of truth is not the Bible, then who or what is your standard of truth? Is it yourself? Hmmm, if it is, may I suggest you re-think that, because how reliable has your standard been throughout your life to date?
The word conspiracy, or its various forms, appears 30 times in the King James Version. In most cases, it is from the Hebrew word H7194 {kaw-shar'} and it has its origin in the idea of binding together, as in a compact or a league; hence, to conspire.
The English verb to conspire derives from a compound Latin word which literally means “to breathe together.” To conspire is generally meant in an evil sense, although it has a tertiary meaning which simply means that two or more people are in agreement or purpose.
I am certain that if we could ask the Rothschild family, they would probably assert that they work together for the good of mankind overall. Under their breath, however, they might also add that, well, if that means a few million people are killed in a war here and there, well, that helps keep the population in check and that’s a good thing, they would declare.
It reminds me of the throwaway comment by Goldman Sachs (CEO at that time), Lloyd Blankfein, when he said that he was “doing God’s work.” Well, as a matter of fact, Mr. Blankfein and the Rothschilds and the rest of the Insiders of the cabal are doing God’s work.
But it must be understood that just like the Pharaoh at the time of Moses, these modern financial pharaohs are all raised up by God to play the part of the bad guys in order to demonstrate God’s power and glory, among a host of other purposes in the process.
So in Genesis 37:18 we find the very first of appearance of a form of the word conspiracy, and lo and behold, it happened to be in the very family of Jacob-Israel himself. Yes, a conspiracy in the good guys’ family. When Joseph’s brothers grew so jealous, bitter and angry at him that...
Genesis 37:18 And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.
Then in 1 Samuel 22 we find the next two occurrences of the term. We spent a couple of hours of lectures about this incident in our 54-part series on the Character of Saul and David. (This series is available for free listening here.) This is where King Saul accuses David and his cohorts of conspiring against him.
By using that term, Saul meant that he was persuaded that they were plotting to dethrone him which would be treason. It was a false accusation, of course, for David would not touch Saul because the Lord had anointed him to be king. I wonder who planted the idea in Saul’s mind that David was conspiring against him? Hmmm.
Therefore, based on his false assumption of a conspiracy, Saul allowed one of his chief servants to take care of the situation for him. And so Saul’s man went to the village of Nob and supervised the slaughter of 85 priests of Yahweh, not to mention all the other men, women, children and animals in the town. Truly a massacre!
This trusted assistant to King Saul was a man named Doeg, and the Bible describes him as an Edomite. Now, do you recall how we saw that God said that two manner of people were in the womb of mother Rebekah? It was an indication that there would be enmity and warfare between the descendants of these two people groups throughout history.
Furthermore, one of Esau-Edom’s grandsons was named Amalek and in Exodus 17:16 God said this about his particular branch of Edom’s family tree:
Exodus 17:16 For he said, Because the LORD [Yahweh] hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
So what better way from Edom’s perspective to carry out warfare against the people of Israel than to be one of the chief advisors to the king of Israel! It is a tactic that has been used countless times throughout the centuries and is still in operation today. We will cite examples, naming names later. Right now, we are citing examples of conspiracies in history, the history of Israel in particular.
In 2 Samuel 15 we find the example of David’s son, Absalom, devising a plot—which the Word of God calls a conspiracy—to overthrow his father. David’s own trusted counselor, Ahithophel, had even joined in the plot.
If you have studied history to any extent—even in the public school system when I was there—you could not help but learn that palace plots have been with us since time immemorial. Just because we have presidents rather than kings here in America does not exempt us from high-level conspiracies. They can be discerned everywhere, if you care to investigate and open your mind.
Liberals like to pride themselves on being open-minded. Bumper stickers tell us that minds are like parachutes; they only work when they are open. Well, I believe in being open-minded to new ideas and to receiving new information concerning positions and beliefs I already maintain. I am a great believer in change. But not change for change’s sake, but in order to refine my understanding and to be guided on the path to more truth.
Sadly, many of those who consider themselves to be open-minded are simply dupes ready to swallow anything that comes down the pike. They lack critical judgment and discernment when it comes to morality and the philosophy of government, usually because they have no standard of truth higher than themselves.
As much as I admired the prescience of Ayn Rand in her magnum opus called Atlas Shrugged, I could discern that the fatal flaw in her philosophy was just that: that the mind of man was our highest source of truth and morality.
If you keep that philosophical flaw in mind as you read the book, or listen to it on CDs as I did for my latest “read” of it, it is well worth the time; especially in view of how it relates to the decline of our nation today. The first third of it is now a movie on DVD, and it is quite faithful to the book, which is unusual for films. (A few years later, the movie versions of part 2 and 3 came out. They blew it. Don’t waste your time on the movies. Read or listen to the book.)
Now, speaking of King David, there was another conspiracy during his lifetime which the Bible goes into some detail about, but never uses the actual word conspiracy. Does this mean it was not a conspiracy? No, it does not mean that at all. Of course, it was a conspiracy!
It tells the story in 2 Samuel 11, where, after David had lain with Bathsheba, he then, in order to cover up the affair, entered into a plot with his military commander, Joab, to take the life of Uriah, Bathsheba’s husband. It was a conspiracy, and it was only one of numerous conspiracies in the Bible where the word conspiracy is not used.
Want another example of that? Okay, let us refer to the most pivotal conspiracy in all of history. The plot to kill our Lord and Savior! There is no use of the word conspiracy in all of the record of events leading to Jesus’ crucifixion and yet Judas unquestionably entered into a conspiracy with the chief priests to betray Jesus.
The Bible also says that the chief priests counseled among themselves how they might put Jesus to death. Surely we can all agree that the death of Christ came about through more than one conspiracy, that is obvious, is it not? Next, let us turn to the book of The Acts of the Apostles, chapter 23, verse 12.
After Saul had a personal encounter with the risen Savior, he had a name change from Saul to Paul, and over the course of his ministry, he raised the wrath of the powers-that-be by his preaching of the Word of God. They grew so full of hatred towards Paul that, as it says in...
Acts 23:12 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
13 And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy.
There are many more examples in the Bible where some form of the word conspiracy is used, plus countless other examples where the word is not used, but where it was clearly a conspiracy nevertheless.
But these few examples are hopefully sufficient so that any believer in Jesus Christ will no longer be deceived by the indoctrination we received, that to believe in so-called “conspiracy theories” is only for morons and nut-cases.
You see, one of the very best methods for conspirators to hide their nefarious deeds is to persuade the public that conspiracies rarely exist and to ridicule anyone, like myself, who dares to tell you that they are very common in history right up to the present day.
By the way, how many of you know that former Navy Seal, former professional wrestler and former Minnesota governor, Jesse Ventura, had a series of television shows, in a quasi-documentary style, in which he and his team investigated numerous claims of conspiracies? Have you seen any of those?
They aired on the TruTV cable network. I only saw a few of them and in every case, the bottom line was that, after all their investigation, it sure looked like a conspiracy to Jesse and his crew. Let us now turn to secular history and cite a couple examples of conspiracy.
First, let us see how secular dictionaries define the word: Webster’s 1828 dictionary says that a conspiracy is “A combination of men for an evil purpose...” and it goes on for another inch or two in the column, but that is the first and most succinct definition.
From Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary (1977) which is still on my shelf: “To conspire: to join in a secret agreement to do an unlawful or wrongful act, or to use such means to accomplish a lawful end.”
Now that last part is telling, isn’t it? In other words, people secretly working together using unlawful or wrongful acts to accomplish a lawful end. It describes the immoral claim that the end justifies the means, one of the fundamental principles of communists and socialists and totalitarians of all stripes.
On now to cite just a few historical examples. Our first one is an example of where the conspirators did exactly that: they secretly agreed to do a wrongful act to accomplish what they considered was a noble and lawful end.
You see, Julius Caesar was in the process of destroying the Roman republic and converting it into a totalitarian dictatorship with himself as the “el presidente for life,” so to speak. So Roman Senator Brutus and some fellow senators came up with a plot and stabbed “Big Julie,” to death, supposedly to save the republic.
Of course, the conspiracy that brought about the assassination of Julius Caesar did not prevent Rome’s fall into the authoritarian rule of the emperors after Big Julie. In fact, the name Caesar became the title synonymous with emperor.
We even find that that title lasted in other forms until the modern era. For example, the Russian czars and the German Kaiser are simply two modern titles which derive from the word Caesar.
Well, after the ascendancy of Caesar Augustus, the next 400-plus years of Roman history is replete with conspiracies as numerous emperors fell victim to palace plots. The plats were conspiracies by other power-mongers to knock off and replace the current chief power-monger who wore the emperor’s crown.
The same S.O.P., the same modus operandi, occurred numerous times during the centuries of the papal Roman empire, with popes falling victim to schemes and assassination plots. I will not dwell on that earlier history. Unless modern history books have totally expunged these facts, you can easily find them yourself.
Instead, let us jump forward to more modern times and give you some quotations
to ponder from people who would be in a position to know.
(To be continued.)
