It may be true that we Christians do not fear a one-world government because we will lose our righteousness but because we will lose our liberty. We need to think about this.

Are we, in this article, advocating a one-world government? Not at all. We merely are pointing out that the fears of the Christian community need to be analyzed.

We are aghast at the torture and murder of dissidents in the totalitarian regimes, and well we should be. But it is out from America, not the totalitarian regimes, that the moral filth is pouring and polluting the world. Is this what we are afraid of losing? Are we terrified we will lose our "right" to abort children, practice sexual perversion, amass money, and meditate on pornography? Is this the freedom we are so anxious to preserve?

Just what is it we Christians fear about the move toward the global village? Are we truly afraid we no longer will be able to serve God in righteousness or is it our comfort that is at issue? It is rumored that some saints who had left Russia moved back there again because of the lukewarmness in the churches of Europe.

Now let's turn to the Scriptures and see what God has to say about togetherness. Let's see what really is to be feared from a global village, not just our loss of comfort and political freedom.

We all know the story of the building of the Tower of Babel, but maybe we need to take a closer look at it.

Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. And it came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. (Genesis 11:1,2—NASB)

Now stop to think about this. Everyone on earth lived as one family, a truly global village. They all spoke the same language and used the same words. There were no dialects. There were no wars here, just peace, love, and contentment apparently. It is toward this end that the world planners are seeking to move.

And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. And they said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name; lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."(Genesis 11:3,4—NASB)

The one family of people journeyed eastward until they came to the plain in the land of Shinar, that is, in present-day Iraq.

Notice their comment: "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name; lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."

They had two goals: one was to reach into heaven by their own efforts. The other was to decide on a name so everyone knew where he or she belonged. This suggests that they were all in love with each other in a state of togetherness.

To be continued.