From the dawn of human history to the headlines of today, the idea of a “new world order” has resurfaced again and again, each time promising unity but delivering control. Pastor John Hagee traces this pattern from Nimrod’s Tower of Babel all the way to modern institutions like the United Nations, showing that behind every political movement lies a spiritual battle for our allegiance.
Pastor Hagee reminds us that “the new world order is not a new concept. Its objective from the Genesis until today is to rebel against the authority of God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob because there is no other.” He points back to Genesis 11 at Shinar, where some historians believe it was Nimrod, whose very name “means revolt,” who “proposed to build the Tower of Babel” as a bid for absolute power. Quoting the historian Josephus, Hagee observes: “He gradually changed the government into tyranny to turn men from the fear of God and to bring them into constant dependence on his power.”
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That first rebellion did more than erect bricks; it launched the world’s first organized idolatry. Nimrod’s wife, Semiramis, “made herself and her son the objects of worship” by promoting what Hagee calls the “mother–child cult,” a system that endured from Babylon to Pergamus (called “the place of Satan’s throne”).
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Fast-forward to our own era, and the same impulse for centralized control resurfaces in political ideologies. “COVID-19 has politicized control to turn Americans from God,” Hagee argues, noting how governors and mayors “violated the Constitution of the United States” by locking down citizens—“You can’t leave your house for six weeks… your salary is cut off if you don’t go to work.” He warns that “socialism must attack the church” because “a socialist dictatorship cannot stand a Bible-preaching ministry.”
Yet the message doesn’t end in despair. Hagee points believers to their true citizenship: “We are in another government with another king with another constitution. And we’ll stand on this. We are submitted to God Almighty and to his Son Jesus Christ.” He holds fast to the promise of the Rapture, “the trumpet of God is going to sound and we’re out of here,” and the return of Christ in power.
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Ultimately, the clash between earthly powers and divine authority finds its resolution in Jesus alone. “There is one mediator between God and man… It is the Lord Jesus Christ who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords… His name is above every name, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.”
In a world tempted by every new “order,” that unchanging truth remains our bedrock.
James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.
