ASIN: B078WF52H3
Thomas Horn, is sadly no longer alive. Fortunately, he has left some of his work behind as a kind of legacy. In The Saboteurs he outlines many pieces of what he believes are connected shadow government entities that are gradually attempting to control America and also the world.
The usual suspects are present. There is the Vatican, Bohemian Grove, Masons, and nearly any other “secret organization” that comes to mind. Where most authors go wrong in this kind of analysis is that they begin to examine a given arm of any of these organizations and then interpret the symbolism of that specific piece. Horn, on the other hand, finds the unifying narrative with Biblical underpinnings that all of them are engaged in doing it would seem, and then explains their behaviors and symbols in terms of that identification. This keeps the work from being a type of fragmented, disjointed narrative that traces nefarious kinds of influence.
This work was written in 2017, and so it naturally looks forward to the Donald Trump versus the globalists narrative that took place. Horn rightly notes the media at first thought Trump was a joke, and then became serious later as the American media is controlled by globalist influences. As Trump came from “outside” the normal political clubs, he was not warmly welcomed by either his own party or the opposing party. The media also disliked this, and so pounced upon him and his administration.
The Saboteurs posits that all these career politicians are under one kind of influence that come from the spiritual conspiracy it outlines. It uses many quotes from the people themselves to prove these facts. One such quote is from Obama wherein he states, “Whatever it is that we were, we are no longer a Christian nation”. There are also references to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and correspondence between he and his vice-president, Wallace, that have stilted, occult, coded verbiage implying something about the nature of their beliefs and what they were doing while they were in office.
Much of what Horn outlines here actually happened in one way or another in the intervening time since 2017. There is, however, one problem with Horn’s scholarship, outstanding as it is, in terms of easily explaining complicated tendrils of nastiness. He tends to give these organizations perhaps too much credit for their plans. An example might be the US Founding Fathers. He correctly notes that Benjamin Franklin had many morally questionable activities. He infers that part of what was motivating Franklin where these kinds of organizations and so Franklin was interested in founding the US in the interests of these entities. On the other hand, Franklin was a politician and an ambassador to France. How many people could hold those positions without being in the kinds of “clubs” Horn outlines?
Indeed, though he is not directly mentioned in this book, it is well known that Mark Twain wrote about Israel as a kind of prophetic fulfillment despite Mark Twain knowing anything about what he was doing. The founder of Bohemian Grove himself, it seems, was used by God to write about the purposes and plans of God. It brings to mind the quote from Corinthians where it is noted that “…the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom.” So, really, it does not matter so much what the plans of all these groups are. One should of course, not be blind to them and what they hope to do. What takes precedence is what God is doing or has done. Therefore, whatever the beliefs of the US Founding Fathers, the question is not so much what they believed so much as it is what God was doing when He used them to found the country. The most nefarious secret plans of the past were confounded by the same God that will confound them again.
Another “Christian problem” this book outlines is the tendency also to see the Anti-Christ everywhere. Again, this is not to say a believer should be blind, but while the book considers whether or not certain organizations or spiritual beliefs might produce such a thing, one wonders if such introspection is being utilized on the sponsors and advertisers that make people like Horn able to be authors in what is a kind of niche, apocalyptic field.
Toward the end of the book, Horn allows some other authors to voice some of their perspectives, rather akin to the panel on Skynews which is a show that Horn helped to found. One of these authors speaks about a concept called Christian Dominionism, which believes that Christians should politically take over the world and impose their morality on everyone else. It is a curious fact that a company called Dominion was heavily involved in the US election as it dealt in software that was supposed to ensure secure voting. Whatever the case with the voting claims, something asserted dominion, whether it was Christian or not (subsequent actions suggest not). The debate is a distraction since one should simply do whatever it is that God is directing them to do. All Power rests with Him, ultimately. For some, that might mean being a politician. For others, it might not be. A Christian, however, ought to be able to recognize that the world surely is not going to be a better place by sitting around and praying and never taking action on the nature of what that prayer life reveals. Taking over the world and imposing Christian morality is not really necessary since the morality there underlies all moral decisions when understood rightly. The Bible is all ready the definition of morality, and righteousness. There is no world to take over, since the only thing required is for the world to recognize what is right, and therefore righteous.
Other voices at the end of the book do a better job with this in suggesting that faith should produce action. The problem with all of the voices toward the end, though, is they “weaken” the narrative of the book that Horn has developed. It’s rather like listening to several sermons after a guest lecturer. The sermons are, of course, great on their own, but they do not fit well with what Horn has put together. Some of the voices actually detract in that they introduce other elements that are not necessarily relevant. Such are the troubles with panels of speakers. If the focus is not clearly outlined, the product is often commentary that touches on but is not directed at the topic. A book could easily be written about any of the introduced speaker subjects alone, but then, that is not why one is reading Horn’s book. The purchase was not “Reasons the economy is going to be hard to fix for Trump,” but we get that anyway. Curiously absent from the reason that the economy might be hard to fix is the suspicion, normally ubiquitous throughout the work, that the economy itself MIGHT BE RUN BY THE ANTICHRIST. Of course, everybody, one supposes, has to draw their conspiracy shadow paranoia lines somewhere. Where those lines are drawn, though, tells you much about the person supposing them.
If Horn were still alive, it would be great to have a follow-up work to this one. Perhaps one exists that I will find since his death was relatively recent in 2023. What did he think, one wonders, about how things played out during Trump’s presidency and what did it mean to these shadowy orders? What about the medical system? What about technology? What about blue chip stocks, and 401ks? There are many questions this reader wishes Horn’s commentary extended to. For what it did extend to, however, Horn did an excellent job.
ISBN: 9781558250956
This book is published in what might be the most ideal way. The printing press is subsidized by the donations of congregations of the Church from which the book issues. Herbert Armstrong, the author, established a Church, although it appears that that Church has now, as of 2009, rejected those initial teachings and have substituted some other. This is probably “not good” as what Armstrong has to say is more correct than incorrect.
The basis of the book is that there are prophecies concerning Israel that do not appear to have been fulfilled. It is the contention of Armstrong that these promises have indeed been fulfilled, only the identity of the tribes fulfilling these scriptures has been lost. The key to this mystery, suggests Armstrong, is understanding who Israel is.
Armstrong takes careful pains to separate the term “Jew” from the label of “Israel”. The Jews, he argues, are people from the tribe of Judah. The Israelis, he argues, are not the same as the Jews. While this is a great argument in terms of semantics, it is not an especially good one in practice. One need only remember World War II history to recall that anyone that looked a certain way was labeled Jewish. If a person happened to be from the tribe of Benjamin, for instance, that was not a nuance the Nazi regime cared to make. Anything that did not fit the definition of Aryan was placed in a discard pile. Anything that looked Jewish, whatever tribe that might be, was placed first on that heap.
Next, Armstrong reveals who he thinks the identity of Britain and the United States is in terms of prophetic fulfillment. While the idea he presents here is not now perhaps a new one, it was definitely a newer concept when the book was first published back in 1980. The key to unraveling the identity of these places concerns, in part, what the definition of a Jew is or isn’t, along with the identity crisis that the US and Britain are having due to their own self-inflicted amnesia.
Armstrong deduces much about Britain and its role to Israel that are not necessarily born out by history. One need only recall, for instance, that Britain decided to deny the Holocaust survivors a place in the land of Israel after declaring that they supported such an endeavor to appreciate that Britain, whatever role it is playing, is not entirely the one Armstrong believes is occurring.
On the other hand, Armstrong deduces, well before it is more commonly accepted, that Saturday may well be the Sabbath day. He also correctly notices many aspect of the United States and its role in Israel and development and subsequent prosperity. He runs dangerously close, however, in more than a few moments, to instituting a kind of replacement theology that moves the throne of Jerusalem to other places and Kingdoms that are not, by definition Jerusalem. This kind of thinking can make for some unusual prophetic interpretations about who “actually” is Israel and who or what the King or Kingdom is. Ultimately, Armstrong points back at Christ as being this, and even identifies a lot of outward Christianity as a kind of fake version or religion that was instituted, in his accounting, by Simon the Sorcerer. While he makes this case, though, he also has a very pro-industrial attitude suggesting that all the manufacturing and steel industry is a blessing or favor from God. In terms of resources, he is probably correct, but the industrialization of the country could be argued to be a kind of curse as opposed to a blessing. Since Armstrong was born in 1892, it makes sense that he would have this opinion as his life would have been during the development of industry which was seen as a positive force for that generation although the two World Wars in between times should have been a hint that not all was as it seems.
Armstrong is, without a doubt, a kind of spiritual pioneer and he got more right than he got wrong. As someone who lived through the Holocaust period, though, he sounds a little too sympathetic to forces that are not necessarily Israel and in some cases had closer ties with the enemies of Israel and elements of the Catholic Church. Britain had to fight Germany mostly because it had no choice. It then had to have the help of America to finish the fighting. Britain was not allied to America because it wanted to be, but more because it had to be. Once that alliance was over, it was back to “business as usual” which included the typical “we are not especially supportive of America because of that whole American Revolution thing.” Indeed, if we examine the alliances of Britain in the current time period, does it appear to be more aligned with Israel, or Saudia Arabia?
Once again, Armstrong does conclude that some kind of world government is likely approaching, and it will probably be in Europe. What he doesn’t appear to see, however, is what parts of Europe might be engaged in these activities. If he were seeing it clearly, it might undermine his main thesis.
Still, the book is worth a read, and a valuable addition to any modern Church library. This edition was published sometime around 2007, and that is probably the best edition to get since, as mentioned, after 2009, some heavy revision came into view that reformed the entirety of the Church Armstrong helped to birth.
ISBN: 979-8985170832
Jim Watkins has emerged as a polarizing figure. The reason for his presence being cast in this manner has to do with his internet site that supports the 1st amendment concerning its implementation of free speech. This site is recognized world-wide and is called 8kun. The debate around both his and 8kun’s existence is over what free speech is, specifically on the internet. As free speech is a right, the debate is moot. If anything, the debate should revolve around what is libel and what is slander, and who or what does a person hold accountable in such instances?
When one has the above perspective lens, one can understand the influence behind the creation of the novel of Sliced Americana. Within the pages, we are thrust into the lives of many characters who are not especially good people or even all that likable. The presence of a malignant kind of Narcissism is one of the central issues in the novel. This Narcissism disallows one to follow, in the words of the novel, a person’s “angels”. A quantum perspective of reality is introduced which explains that each of these decisions leads to differing kinds of realities. Missed connections with one’s “angels” influences one’s trajectory through the hyperspace coordinate system. Usually, this missed connection does not end well for those in the book who fail to find or heed the necessary advice.
The beginning of the novel, however, is quick to give us such a moment wherein a central character undergoes a kind of Egyptian Osiris ritual and the object that defines him as a man is removed. The reason for the removal of this organ is due, in no small way, to his pursuit of love in “all the wrong places”. The themes of sex, desire, rape and murder feature heavily within the unfolding narrative. In some cases, the characters in question die. What they all share in common is that their narratives wrap around the existence of a type of ship that cruises around the Earth that is called the ROM or Read Only Memory. Each narrative introduces a character that goes through what is best termed a kind of Sci-fi purgatory complete with a purification process that literally squeezes the corruption of the flesh from the body. The ROM has its own mission, and is crewed by people or entities who have a knack for analyzing the vectors of reality in such a way as to be able to determine who will be a good addition to the team. The plot is vaguely reminiscent of the movie The Matrix although the world in which the events take place is fundamentally darker and more corrupt. Whereas in the movie The Matrix there is belief in a prophecy, in this universe, people have become Godless and are only pointed at the existence of Him fully once they are on board the ROM.
There is a moment in the book where we understand something about the scribe who is writing the tale, or at least we think we do. The writer is caught up in the interference pattern of the work as a whole, and with the collective souls who have come before and after. The reason we cannot conclude anything about the writer, at least within the confines of the tale, is that the work is also entangled with us, as the reader. If we use the metaphysical platform proffered by the author, in reading the work that Green and Watkins have made, are we listening to our angels, or have we ignored their advice? Perhaps the only thing that can be said is that there is the book, and there the reader read it.
The conclusion of the book is a poignant one and the message is important. Suffice it to say that prophecy does eventually enter into a possible version of what America might become. The future this work points to, however, is actually one of the past at least in terms of how the world unfolded. While it is true Spain tried to conquer Cambodia, it is also true that China tried to establish itself as a preeminent enlightened empire to the point that the rest of the world was not in China’s estimation and so a wall was built to keep it (the rest of the world) out. The final showdown then will not be between Egypt in an Osiris ritual and China, but rather China versus that which it rejected at the inception and then consequently aligned itself with Egypt against. Nonetheless, Watkin’s tale does make the story more relatable by cracking open the narrative from the perspective of Alexandria. In an academic world that does not believe in God, making the narrative depend on a more Egyptian mathematical understanding of its operation is a safer bet. Egypt was never a bastion off free speech, however. Here the tale takes some liberties in inviting the symmetrical comparison. Whatever it is that America is, an Osiris rite is not sufficient to convey its ideals. America aspires to be something else. 8kun certainly desires to be something else. Probably, both are closer to the characterization of Voltaire by Evelyn Beatrice Hall:
“Her book described an incident involving the French philosopher Claude-Adrien Helvétius who in 1758 published a controversial work titled “De l’esprit” (“On the Mind”). The book was condemned in the Parlement of Paris and by the Collège de Sorbonne. Voltaire was unimpressed with the text, but he considered the attacks unjustified. After Voltaire learned that the book by Helvétius had been publicly incinerated he reacted as follows according to Hall:
‘What a fuss about an omelette!’ he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning. How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy trifle as that!
‘I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,’ was his attitude now."
Indeed, now that my markdown has both waxed blue and has returned to black, I must place my pen down upon the table and consider this work finished.