The New World Order
TimeWatch Editorial
April 18, 2016
H.G. Wells, full name, Herbert George Wells was born 21 September 1866, a little more than three years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, and one year after the American Civil War was ended. Wells' original training was in the area of biology, an attendee of the Royal College of Science in London. Even though he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels, and is called the father of science fiction, along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback, he is the author of a rather serious non-fiction book entitled “The New World Order” published January 1940. Let it be clearly understood that Wells was not by any means opposed to a new world order but rather he expressed the idea that a 'new world order' should be formed to unite the nations of the world in order to bring peace and end war. Mr. Wells’ framework was fashioned by an apparently limited understanding of a militarily competitive world. Notice his opening statement.
“Until the Great War, the First World War, I did not bother very much about war and peace. Since then I have almost specialized upon this problem. It is not very easy to recall former states of mind out of which, day by day and year by year, one has grown, but I think that in the decades before 1914 not only I but most of my generation - in the British Empire, America, France and indeed throughout most of the civilized world - thought that war was dying out.” H.G. Wells, “The New World Order” Page 2
No mention of the continuing, unrelenting competition between the nations that ultimately resulted in the First World War. No treatment of the shadow of the ancient powers that even though some of the names had been changed and their power influence constrained, still dreamed of a return to Global power. Mr. Wells bypasses the human element completely. He seems to ignore that internal human desire that seeks to be dominant, the narcissism that drives those who seek absolute global control, while pretending to be the savior of the world. Here is how Mr. Wells continues his description of the times as he saw them.
“The world before 1900 seemed to be drifting steadily towards a tacit but practical unification. One could travel without a passport over the larger part of Europe; the Postal Union delivered one’s letters uncensored and safely from Chile to China; money, based essentially on gold, fluctuated only very slightly; and the sprawling British Empire still maintained a tradition of free trade, equal treatment and open-handedness to all comers round and about the planet. In the United States you could go for days and never see a military uniform. Compared with to-day, that was, on the surface at any rate, an age of easy-going safety and good humor particularly for the North Americans and the Europeans.” H.G. Wells, “The New World Order” Page 4
Mr. Wells describes the time as a time of “prevailing Peace.” He says that while there were some competitive movements afoot, the general atmosphere was one of peace.
“Apart from that steady, ominous growth of the armament industry there were other and deeper forces at work that were preparing trouble. The Foreign Offices of the various sovereign states had not forgotten the competitive traditions of the eighteenth century. The admirals and generals were contemplating with something between hostility and fascination, the hunger weapons the steel industry was gently pressing into their hands. Germany did not share the self complacency of the English-speaking world; she wanted a place in the sun; there was increasing friction about the partition of the raw material regions of Africa; the British suffered from chronic Russophobia with regard to their vast apportions in the East, and set themselves to nurse Japan into a modernized imperialist power; the United States were irritated by the disorder of Cuba and felt that the weak, extended Spanish possessions would be all the better for a change of management. So the game of Power Politics went on, but it went on upon the margins of the prevailing peace. There were several wars and changes of boundaries, but they involved no fundamental disturbance of the general civilized life; they did not seem to threaten its broadening tolerations and understandings in any fundamental fashion.” H.G. Wells, “The New World Order” Page 4
The thing that is so often overlooked and has been overlooked in this treatment is that the idea of a “World Order” is not new. Beginning with the first city, built by Cain and named after his son Enoch, this was intended to be a new global lifestyle set in opposition to the global governance of the Creator. The rebellion that followed could not be restrained and ended in the destruction of the flood. Nimrod in his construction of the Tower of Babel again reconfigured the rebellious lifestyle in opposition to the rulership of the God of Heaven. Time and time again there has been an attempt made to restructure a ‘world power’ that would replace the frequently dissolved attempt that preceded it.
What we see ahead of us is the enemy’s final attempt to oppose all that is called God. Revelation 13 verses 11 to 17 describe the temporary success of this venture, but we are assured of the final destruction of it and all who worship the beast and his image.
Cameron A. Bowen
