By Ken Raggio

God often speaks, even though it may not make sense to us at the time.

Take a trip with me - back in time. Somewhere in the night sky, a sign was appearing. Since the ancient days of the prophet Balaam, a star was scheduled to appear.

The sheep fields outside Bethlehem are so poignantly plain, it is difficult to believe any earth-shaking event could ever have happened there.

But suddenly, without warning, a crowd of angels appeared to a motley crew of sheep tenders -- the most ordinary men. The whole scenario defies the imagination.

In the near distance, rising above the pastures was a tiny village enshrouding the local hill. Just a meager dome of dirt, a few hundred villagers and a barren sky.

But God can make a theatrical event out of rags.

He can take a mound of dirt, and a few measly animals and some pitiful nomads, and produce a spectacular show.

Turn on a brilliant star. Spread angels out in every direction. Turn the reverb up really high. And SING them to the high heavens!

Everyone on the ground surely must have shivered in excitement. Mouths dry. Eyes glazed. Heart rates racing.

This had to be a freeze-frame. Nobody could move. The angelic message was clear, and everybody was paying serious attention.

Why all the fanfare?

God just showed up in the flesh.

Irony from the Beginning

Already, it doesn’t make sense. This is no way for God to make his debut on earth!

People have been waiting for thousands of years to see God in the flesh. Moses was obsessed with desire, but never really got to see God.

God always appeared in some temporary form - like thunder and lightning, or a pillar of fire or a cloud. He ventured out temporarily as a man and as an angel at times, but He never took on a permanent form, and never told His full name.

So this event in Bethlehem was not just news. It was BIG news. REALLY BIG news.

And that was the puzzling problem. Why on earth would He go to Bethlehem? Why not a spectacular, glorious setting to more closely represent the regency and splendor of His Deity?

Why didn’t God show up in the Swiss Alps, or at Niagara Falls, or the Grand Canyon? Why not some gorgeous backdrop where tropical Palm trees swayed, or in a lush flower garden, or on some spectacular white-sand, blue-water sea shore?

On second thought, why didn’t God choose a stately palace of some wealthy, powerful king, where servants would be in attendance, a lavish banquet hall could be prepared, and dignitaries from around the world could participate in His inauguration as King Over All The Earth?

The reason is clear. We do not think the way God thinks. His ways are not our ways. They are higher.

I know it doesn’t figure, but it is His way. If God thinks that it is best for Him to come to a shepherd field, amidst a flock of sheep, in the near distance to a town of lowly estate - so be it.

Amazingly, the more thought you give to it, it actually begins to make sense.

This is the same field where a little boy named David had watched his daddy’s flocks hundreds of years before. It was also his home town. And David was the same guy of whom God had said long ago, I will establish his throne forever.

So it makes a lot of sense for the King of Kings to touch down right there.

In one majestic swoop, an eternal covenant has been sealed. A testimony to the entire world has just been choreographed for all the history books in every generation.

God knew exactly what He was doing, and He did it exactly like He intended to from the beginning. We just have to get used to it.

"If I was God…"

It would be arrogant of us to think that God could have done things better than He has already done them.

We just cannot comprehend how infinitely complex His workings already are. How often have we found ourselves day-dreaming, "If I was God, I would have done it differently…"

If you were God, you would have done it exactly the same as He has already done it. If you were God, you would know the reasons and the timing and all the other ramifications.

And you would not expect mortals to understand.

That speaks directly to the things that are presently happening in the world.

Every smidgen of today’s headlines were full-blown facts in the mind of God eons ago. His entire providence is structured around those events.

That does not necessitate a doctrine of predetermination that robs a man of his free will. It merely says that God is so infinitely omniscient that we can do anything and everything we want to do - either right or wrong – and the results will nevertheless come out exactly the way God wanted them to come out.

In the end, the only casualties will be our own. He knew exactly what His losses would be from the beginning, and has made all His calculations accordingly.

Known only to God are the great hidden secrets

Some people believe that God is a Mystery - unfathomable, unknowable. And there is a certain amount of truth to that statement. But we must also reckon with the fact that "it is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter." God wants us to search Him out. He wants us to know Him.

Paul said in 1 Corinthians 13:12, "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." In the eternal presence of God, those of us who arrive there will "know even as we are known".

That is a really big statement, considering the omniscience of God. For me to know in that day as He knows now – yes, that is unfathomable. But to say that it cannot be so – that is foolishness.

Who can know the Mind of God?

We come to the sobering nature of events in the world today. On the surface, our world appears to be hopelessly scrambled with chaos and confusion.

People earn Doctorate Degrees for learning to analyze society’s complexities. Economics, psychology, sociology, and dozens of other "-ologies" attempt to force all the answers into perfectly aligned columns.

But when they are done, these EXPERTS argue and squabble among themselves as if none of them knows what in the world they are talking about - refuting and denying even their respected peers.

The Wall Street soothsayers are hardly any better off than the country boy with his water-witching stick.

One of the most abhorrent phrases I have ever heard is "the foreseeable future" -- an oxymoron if there ever was one. Only to God is the future foreseeable, certainly not to one of us.

That last statement, however, is pivotal to our comprehension of the way things are. Truth is, God CAN see the future. Not only can He see it, He dwells in it.

God dwells in the Past, Present and Future

When Albert Einstein submitted his Quantum Theories of Physics, he included the fact that there are at least four known dimensions: 1. Height, 2. Width, 3. Depth, 4. Time. He was the first to explain in-depth the relativity of time. He proposed that time is based upon the speed of light, and that beyond the speed of light, time slows.

Modern science has demonstrated that in far reaches of our galaxies, events occur on a thoroughly different time base that what we are acquainted with on earth.

I am neither a scientist nor a quantum physicist to venture any further into the complexities of those details. But I do intend to make the point that if time is flexible at all, it can certainly be experienced in a different baseline than what we are acquainted with.

And that, I believe, is God’s perspective. He can experience time in any dimension, past, present and future - simultaneously.

I am convinced that Almighty God not only CAN but HAS known the end from the beginning.

Prophecies are NOT Predictions!

I am of the opinion that God never predicts anything. Any time we ever see or hear God defining the future, we must remember that the dynamics of prophecy are anything but predictions.

First of all, God has the full capacity to speak things into existence out of nothing. He calls those things that are not as though they ARE. Then, lo and behold, they ARE! The creative force of God’s Word dictates the future with absolute accuracy.

Secondly, because God is timeless, and because of the nature of His infinity, we can be confident that what we call prophecy is more accurately called His infinite foreknowledge.

A Lesson from Josiah

Let me give an example. In the days of King Jeroboam, an unnamed prophet declared, "Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee," (I Kings 13:2).

Three hundred and twenty-two years later, far beyond the lifetimes of either Jeroboam or the prophet, there was a king born named Josiah, and he did in fact tear down the pagan altar that Jeroboam left behind. "And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchers that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchers, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words," II Kings 23:16

How did the prophet manage to foretell the very name of a man far future to his own lifetime? By the foreknowledge of God.

God already knew Josiah by name over three hundred years before anybody else could possibly have known.

Two Kinds of Light

In the book of Genesis, when God said, "Let there be light", the thing that came into existence was not light as we know it in the physical world.

That light of the physical world (e.g., the light of the sun, moon, and stars) was not even created until the fourth day of creation.

The first light God created was not even in Einstein’s four dimensions. Einstein theorized that God, if He existed, would be in the fifth dimension, at the quantum or sub-atomic level. That is where true light exists. You cannot see it with the natural eyes. But it is there alright. Count on it.

The Material World versus the Spirit World

In that quantum world, that sub-atomic world of spirit, everything happens in a mysterious way. Mysterious simply because we do not know how it all works. I believe that they are hidden from us. The spiritual things of God can not be discerned with the carnal mind. Eye has not seen, ear has not heard.

Only when the spirit of man honestly and diligently searches for God, can he ever hope to find the keys to unlock the great hidden secrets.

In Luke 10:21, Jesus said, "I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes."

The implication is there: God takes pride in concealing things from people who do not genuinely intend to give Him full credit for the discovery.

Jesus dealt in mysteries

Jesus’ entire ministry showed that He was exercising hidden laws from another dimension.

We just do not open blind eyes, or deaf ears, or raise the dead, etc., in this dimension.

He was the Master of eternal wisdom. He could cause things to happen that no other man in the history of the world had ever done.

As such, He is our teacher, master, and mentor. But we must press our way into His intimacy.

Wheels Within Wheels

In every secret society in world history, a common thread appears, that of circles within circles.

From the day a person is initiated into any secret order, he can expect to progress gradually from one degree of understanding to the next. Only the loyal initiates become adept and have the opportunity to progress to the next level.

Those who attain the highest masteries are known as the INNER CIRCLE.

Only the most loyal, the most faithful, and the most diligent can ever hope to become the grand masters of their order. In virtually every secret order, the compelling spirits are diabolical, evil.

God's Inner Circle

Yet in the Kingdom of God, His Spirit has been known through the ages to speak repeatedly to anyone who has an ear: "Come up higher."

Two things can be deducted from that invitation. One, there is a higher dimension. Two, we are not in it.

Unfortunately for the average person, the Bible is written off as over-complicated, antiquated, impertinent collection of pious mumbo-jumbo.

Tragically, the hidden treasures of the Bible remain undiscovered to most people for no other reason than that they are unwilling to sit down and take the time to crack the code.

Biblical insight - a priceless treasure

If only every man could patiently consider this sobering fact: No matter how difficult the pursuit may be, the treasures that are there to be found are infinitely more valuable than the cost of their discovery could ever be. The scripture calls it a treasure hidden in a field.

I believe that Biblical insight is more valuable than a Pirates Chest full of gold and jewels. They are the secrets of the universe, and they are there for the taking.

One must only take care to appease the Author in such a way as to gain unlimited access to His priceless riches.

People are destroyed by a lack of knowledge

Before I wax too romantic in my appeal, I will digress to say that I am personally horrified by the lack of interest I observe in our modern American society for the things of God.

Only those of us who have tasted of the good things to come can even partially appreciate the immeasurable store of wealthy wisdom and knowledge that is nestled into the text of God’s Holy Word.

God's Word is all wisdom

The eighteenth century rabbi, the Genius of Vilni believed that "all the wisdom of all the ages is contained in the Torah," (the Old Testament). I concur. And in addition to that, we multiply wisdom exponentially when we open the New Testament beside it.

The wisdom and knowledge of which I speak is not only of religious platitudes, foreign but to the most adept scholars. Quite the contrary. Every literate man on earth has the potential to expand his understanding into the far reaches of God’s eternal wisdom and knowledge. Merely by taking the Word of God, line upon line, precept upon precept, a revelation of the Living God will begin to unfold.

The past, the present and the future are at your fingertips in the Word of God. If you think that the principle reason the Bible exists is to maintain a historical record of ancient characters, how much you miss!

God’s Word can read YOU like a book. It can speak to you more plainly than can a friend standing in the room with you. God has, time and again in every age, spoken directly to the hearts and minds of men through the pages of that Book.

I am referring to communicative techniques far more sophisticated than mere poetic licenses or metaphors or hyperbole. Most explicitly, I declare that the Living God can speak in living words and phrases to our present time and place and condition through the published pages of His Word.

Mortal words are painfully inadequate when trying to express to you, as I am now, the litera/lly miraculous nature of the Word of God.

The Bible is its own greatest proof of its genuineness and validity.

The Bible Code

In the 1990s, it was revealed that the original Hebrew text of the Bible contains countless hidden messages from ancient times, many of them pertaining to events, people, places and dates of modern times.

Several notable writers have described this newly discovered phenomenon, unveiled by a Russian Jew, a scientific mathematician and professor at Hebrew University, Dr. Eliyahu Rips.

Using a mathematical procedure to search for hidden messages encoded at "Equidistant Letter Spacing", sophisticated software programs have analyzed the original Hebrew text of the Bible, and have made a most phenomenal discovery.

Words, hidden words, current names and places, many relevant to our contemporaries, and describing many of the most far-reaching facts of modern times are all hidden there.

Miraculous beyond all human comprehension, Moses was writing not only the plain Hebrew text of the Pentateuch, but in a highly sophisticated cryptological language that could not possibly have been conceived in a human mind.

The code itself is infinitely complex, to the extent that all the mainframe computers in the world today cannot replicate the effort. And that miracle is magnified infinitely by the simple fact that the information that was encoded was also unknown in its day.

The information that has been uncovered is very dramatic. In addition to the well-known obvious messages of the Bible, the writers were also writing as it were the history of the human race, from ancient past to modern future.

Precise names, places and dates of significant world events from every age appear almost methodically. Often, the hidden messages appear in the most conspicuous places within the plain text so that they actually complement or validate each other.

And amazingly, this all is given to us from the incredible vantage point of 3,000 years ago.

No matter how miraculous, some will not believe

The discovery is so fantastic that skeptics are furious. The doubting, carnal minds of men are adamantly opposed to any such irresistible evidence of a truly awesome God. They will literally go mad in their efforts to discredit it.

It is the same kind of opposition that Jesus Christ faced in his tenure on earth as a mere man. The religious experts of their day were thoroughly convinced that Messiah could not possibly come in such an unattractive package as lowly Jesus. They finally went mad and murdered Him.

Those kinds of things apparently never change. People do not want to embrace "weird" signs.

In the imaginations of men, God must fit their own molds. Anything God says or does has to cater to their selfish inclinations.

Men refuse to allow for a God whose Kingdom is neither now nor here. If He is not of their bigoted preconceived notions, He simply doesn’t exist. If He doesn’t do what they want, when they want, they will kill Him.

Foolish children, never learning that what He wants will be forever more beneficial to them than if they managed to get everything they want for now, at the expense of everything He would give them later.

It is with that conclusion keenly in mind that we begin to consider a mountain of evidence. I intend to carefully document so many of the profound proofs of God’s foreknowledge and sovereign influence of the affairs of men, in the good faith that everyone who reads these pages will be forced to pause and take note that God is even bigger than we have ever claimed He is.

Even the bulk and sum of most modern Christian prophecy experts have overlooked dramatic evidences that have been amassing for generations. If we can assimilate a significant portion of these hard-to-deny proofs, we will have as strong a case as ever was presented in a court of law on a matter.

The conclusion from the start

I will state my conclusions from the beginning.

1. There is a God. His name is Jesus Christ. He rules over all the affairs of men and will soon return to earth to rule for 1,000 years.

2. Lucifer is His principle adversary. Lucifer is presently assembling his own worldwide anti-kingdom, complete with a hierarchy of high-powered demons and men around the world who are pledged under unbelievable Luciferic oaths to reconstruct and complete his "tower of Babel", a "new" world order, proceeding from ancient times.

3. All the principle means and methods that Lucifer employs in this process are alluded to quite explicitly in the Bible, and the entire outcome of Lucifer’s New World Order is plainly enumerated in the scriptures.

Nothing is hidden from God, and very little is hidden from those who will consecrate themselves to the Doctrine of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God.

In the pages that lie ahead, we will, with remarkable accuracy, identify some of the most amazing activities going on around the world that are especially significant to the establishment of Lucifer’s New World Order.

Accompanying this expose’ of Lucifer and his cohorts, we will also take a look at the works of Jesus Christ in the earth today, and show the ultimately guaranteed successes of His faithful followers, the true Church, as well.