#Occupy Reborn – The role of labor unions in prophecy

Mon, Apr 30, 2012

       If you are reading this, I consider you a dear friend that I believe will care about current events in light of Bible Prophecy. I have an urgency to have our hearts and lives in a place where God is our refuge and strength.
I remember the day my dad called while in New York helping an Adventist gentlemen open a vegetarian restaurant last year. He had “stumbled” upon a small group of organizers planning something called “The Occupy Movement”. I have pics and videos on my computer of this small group with a few influential older gentlemen that would not acknowledge their involvement in the movement. My dad found it interesting and was in the midst of the fever pitch of Occupy Wall Street for 2 weeks. He shared with me all his pics which I still have and will cherish.
I say all this to say that as my dad and I discussed these things, we saw in them the fulfillment of prophecy right before our very eyes. My dad told me that day that there was deep pocketed union money behind this thing and the language at the organizing event was that they would take care of the details and funding.
Don’t think for a second this movement will die. Written over 100 years ago, the statements below are chillingly accurate to the warring classes of rich and poor as described as the 1% vs the 99%.
Study, Pray and Share as if we have entered the final months of earth’s history. Yes God may be merciful and hold the winds of strife another 20 years. I pray He continues to be merciful, but the reality is that the climax of the ages is at our doorstep. How will we treat this day differently than any before or after? My dad was working with haste to get all things ready for the crisis.
May God show each of us what to do and how to do it with efficiency and urgency so that the world may see that we like Noah are preparing for the coming storm and that we truly believe this earth is not our home.
Here are the statements and news links to consider in light of Tuesdays planned events around the world:
The trade unions will be the cause of the most terrible violence that has ever been seen among human beings.—Letter 99, 1904, p. 3. (To J. E. White and wife, February 23, 1904.) – {4MR 23
In New York, Occupy Wall Street will join scores of labor organizations observing May 1, traditionally recognized as International Workers’ Day.
-http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-30/occupy-wall-street-plans-global-disruption-of-status-quo-may-1.html
At least 83 groups are listed as endorsing the general strike, many of them unions. Those include several locals from the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, Service Employees International and International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America.
-http://cnsnews.com/blog/dan-gainor/occupy-promises-biggest-shut-down-city-new-york-has-ever-seen-blockade-san-fran
The forming of these unions is one of Satan’s last efforts. God calls upon His people to get out of the cities, isolating themselves from the world. The time will come when they will have to do this. God will care for those who love Him and keep His commandments.—Letter 26, 1903, pp. 2, 3. (To Brother and Sister J. A. Burden, December 10, 1902.) – {3MR 43
The trades unions will be one of the agencies that will bring upon this earth a time of trouble such as has not been since the world began…. – {LDE 116.3}
A few men will combine to grasp all the means to be obtained in certain lines of business. Trades unions will be formed, and those who refuse to join these unions will be marked men…. – {LDE 117.1}
Read Last Day Events CHAPTER 2. All of it
The work of the people of God is to prepare for the events of the future, which will soon come upon them with blinding force. In the world gigantic monopolies will be formed. Men will bind themselves together in unions that will wrap them in the folds of the enemy. A few men will combine to grasp all the means to be obtained in certain lines of business. Trades unions will be formed, and those who refuse to join these unions will be marked men.—Letter 26, 1903. – {CL 10
The trades unions will be one of the agencies that will bring upon this earth a time of trouble such as has not been since the world began.—Letter 200, 1903. – {CL 10.2}
The time is fast coming when the controlling power of the labor unions will be very oppressive. Again and again the Lord has instructed that our people are to take their families away from the cities, into the country, where they can raise their own provisions; for in the future the problem of buying and selling will be a very serious one. We should now begin to heed the instruction given us over and over again: Get out of the cities into rural districts, where the houses are not crowded closely together, and where you will be free from the interference of enemies.—Letter 5, 1904. – {CL 9