Holding Back the Antichrist
World To Be Segment 4
John S. Torell With Charles M. Thorell
The political landscape is always shifting. There are many nations, but only the powerful ones are able to dominate development on earth. One of the earliest was Nimrod, who responsible for building the city of Babel. A number of nations down through the centuries have also tried to dominate the world.
1. The Assyrian Empire – 21st century B.C. to 14th century B.C.
2. The Babylonian Empire – 626-539 B.C.
3. The Persian Empire – 550-330 B.C.
4. The Greek Empire – 336-323 B.C.
5. The Roman Empire – 27 B.C.-476 A.D.
6. Byzantine Empire – 330-1453 A.D.
7. The Inca Empire – early 13th century-1572
8. The Ottoman Empire – 1481-1922
9. The Russian Empire – 1721-1917
10. The British Empire – 1497- 1997
11. The Soviet Union – 1922-1991
12. Nazi Germany – 1933-1945
Only the British Empire had a global reach and it was said that the sun never set on it because of their territories in every time zone. But they never strove for a worldwide empire. They were more business oriented about bringing riches to the homeland. Regardless, none of the aforementioned empires could have served as the powerbase for the Antichrist because none of them controlled the entire world and the technology did not exist to support the Beast system.
There are several contenders for power centers; the United States, European Union, Russia, and China. However, since the Book of Revelation states the capital of the Antichrist is going to be Jerusalem, and the Kabbalistic World Government consists of Jews living and operating in Europe, United States, and Israel, it means Russia and China are not part of their plan and out of contention.
The Russian people are weary of Jews since the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 was a Kabbalistic takeover. All the major players were Jewish except for Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. President Vladimir Putin and his political party dream of a new Russian empire where all the land which has been lost is restored. Putin has zero interest in the Kingdom of Israel.
The same goes for Communist China and Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China. He is a ruthless leader and under his regime Christians have been severely persecuted. Xi has no interest in the Kingdom of Israel; his goal is to restore China’s greatness and become a dominating factor in world politics.
It is interesting that Vladimir Putin traveled to North Korea and forged a treaty between the two nations. Putin has also visited Communist Vietnam and developed close relations with that government. Xi Jinping has traveled to Russia and Putin has also visited China. I believe an alliance exists with Russia, China, North Korea, Vietnam, and Iran. Russia, China, and North Korea possess nuclear weapons and the means to strike any place throughout the world. Iran was seemingly months away from becoming a nuclear power and Israel’s sneak attack has delayed those ambitions by two years.
The Kabbalistic world government does not have any armed forces. They rely on the militaries of the United States and the European Union. There is tension building between the Eastern block and the Western nations. I believe that in time it will lead to World War III.
A VISION ABOUT WORLD WAR 3
An examination of the list of the twelve aforementioned empires reveals they did not align with other empires. Thus far we have witnessed two world wars, (1914-1918 and 1939-1945) which were fought with nations divided into two camps. The major players were the same in both wars: Germany with its allies on the losing side and France, England, Russia and the United States on the winning side.
The death toll for World War I is estimated at twenty million deaths due to trench warfare, chemical warfare, starvation, and disease. World War II saw an estimated seventy-five million people die; the majority of them were civilian due to warfare, the holocaust, bombing of cities, and famine. The higher death rate was due to the more advanced weapons than in the first one. Military aircraft in the first war were very small and simple. During the second war the nations had developed deadly fighter aircraft and heavy four engine bombers, which were used to do carpet bombing of the cities.
From the time the Jewish Kabbalists took over Russia and formed the Soviet Union, the policies have been to conquer all nations and spread communism. The United States formed a coalition of nations in 1949 and named it the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to contain the efforts of the Soviet Union in Europe and North America. There were twelve original founding nations; there are currently 32 nations, with Sweden joining in 2024.
The Soviet Union responded and organized its own alliance called “The Warsaw Pact” in 1955. It consisted of eight communist nations. The Warsaw Pact was dissolved with the disbanding of the Soviet Union in 1991. Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, and Slovakia applied for membership to NATO between 1999-2004, which caused great anger in Russia. NATO now controls Europe from the Scandinavian countries to the Mediterranean Sea. Europe has experienced peace for 79 years, except for uprisings in the Balkans in the 1990s.
It is obvious there is no chance for Satan to usher in the Antichrist and set up the Kingdom of Israel since no nation is willing to give up its sovereignty and become provinces of a World Federation. Most people are nationalistic in their thinking and only a nation with the chronic challenges of a poor economy, political instability, natural disasters, mediocre infrastructure, and widespread poverty would even begin to consider yielding its sovereignty and freedom.
The United Nations (UN) was formed in 1945, and as of 2025, it has 193 member states. The problem is that the UN does not exercise political control of its members, and in fact is very fractured. There are two main factions within the UN as NATO and Russia with its allies strive for control. The tension between these two blocks is high, and the possibility of members agreeing to a World Federation is impossible at this time. Only a global catastrophic event has a chance at making this a reality.
THE VISION
This vision was given to a woman in Norway, who at that time was in her 90s. She was a member of the Lutheran Church in Valdres, Norway, the southern part of country. Since she was a Lutheran, she had no knowledge of the gifts of the Holy Spirit because no one in that denomination speaks in tongues or receives visions from the Lord. It was in 1968 that a Pentecostal evangelist named Emanuel Minos came to Valdres for a series of meetings that he was contacted by this ninety-year-old woman and listened as she recited the prophetic vision.
Minos recorded her words but did not do anything with the information. He forgot about the vision until 1993 when he was going through old files in his office. The papers had become yellow with age, and after reading through the notes, he became terrified when he realized that many of the details had been fulfilled. He remembered that the woman had asked him to warn people because the end times were approaching. He made the decision to publish them in 1993. Emanuel Minos died in 2014.
I learned about the vision in 2014 from the Swedish magazine, Midnattsropet 1 who republished it from a magazine in Finland that printed it in 1998.
[Beginning of the vision]
I saw the time just before the coming of Jesus and the outbreak of the Third World War. I saw the events with my natural eyes. I saw the world like a kind of a globe and saw Europe, land by land. I saw Scandinavia. I saw Norway. I saw certain things that would take place just before the return of Jesus, and just before the last calamity happens, a calamity the likes of which we have never before experienced.
She mentioned four waves:
1. First before Jesus comes and before the Third World War breaks out there will be a “détente” like we have never had before. There will be peace between the super powers in the east and the west, and there will be a long peace.2In this period of peace there will be disarmament in many countries, also in Norway and we are not prepared when it (the war) comes. The Third World War will begin in a way no one would have anticipated – and from an unexpected place.
2. A lukewarmness without parallel will take hold of the Christians, a falling away from true, living Christianity. Christians will not be open for penetrating preaching. They will not, like in earlier times, want to hear of sin and grace, law and gospel, repentance and restoration. There will come a substitute instead: prosperity (happiness) Christianity.
The important thing will be to have success, to be something; to have material things, things that God never promised us in this way. Churches and prayer houses will be emptier and emptier. Instead of the preaching we have been used to for generations -like, to take your cross up and follow Jesus, – entertainment, art and culture will invade the churches where there should have been gatherings for repentance and revival. This will increase markedly just before the return of Jesus.
3. There will be a moral disintegration that old Norway has never experienced the likes of. People will live together like married without being married.3 Much uncleanness before marriage, and much infidelity in marriage will become the natural (common), and it will be justified from every angle. It will even enter Christian circles and we pet it – even sin against nature. Just before Jesus return there will be TV programs like we have never experienced.4
TV will be filled with such horrible violence that it teaches people to murder and destroy each other, and it will be unsafe in our streets. People will copy what they see. There will not be only one “station” on TV, it will be filled with “stations.”5
TV will be just like the radio where we have many “stations,” and it will be filled with violence. People will use it for entertainment. We will see terrible scenes of murder and destruction one of the other, and this will spread in society. Sex scenes will also be shown on the screen, the most intimate things that takes place in a marriage.6There the old woman said: It will happen, and you will see it. All we have had before will be broken down, and the most indecent things will pass before our eyes.
4. People from poor countries will stream to Europe.7 They will also come to Scandinavia – and Norway. There will be so many of them that people will begin to dislike them and become hard with them. They will be treated like the Jews before the Second World War. Then the full measure of our sins will have been reached.8
The tears streamed from the old woman’s eyes down her cheeks. “I will not see it, but you will. Then suddenly, Jesus will come and the Third World War breaks out. It will be a short war.” (She saw it in the vision.) “All that I have seen of war before is only child’s play compared to this one, and it will be ended with a nuclear atom bomb.
The air will be so polluted that one cannot draw one’s breath. It will cover several continents, America, Japan, Australia and the wealthy nations. The water will be contaminated. We can no longer till the soil. The result will be that only a remnant will remain. The remnant in the wealthy countries will try to flee to the poor countries, but they will be as hard on us as we were on them.
I am so glad that I will not see it, but when the time draws near, you (Minos) must take courage and tell this.
I have received it from God, and nothing of it goes against what the Bible tells.
The one who has his sins forgiven and has Jesus as Savior and Lord, is safe.
[End of the vision]
Let’s examine the waves brought up by the woman and see if they corroborate with the events of what has taken place since that time.
EXAMINING THE FIRST WAVE
From 1968 to 2014 there have been a number of regional wars, but peace has basically been maintained in the world. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia, the United States, NATO and many other nations in Europe have downsized their military capacity. General peace has now lasted for 46 years in the world. Consider the time span between World War I and World War II was just 21 years.
A nation like Sweden has scrapped its national defense and only maintains a small air force, navy and a small army combat force which is basically used for United Nation deployments. There is no mandatory draft of young men for the armed forces anymore.
Most people born after 1960 have no knowledge what life was like from 1945 to 1960. The Soviet Union had more than five million men under arms, and the nation’s belonging to the Warsaw Pact led by the Soviet Union also had millions of men under arms. The United States had more than half a million soldiers stationed in Western Europe and the different NATO countries maintained a large contingent of armed forces. By the year 2000, the armed forces of the East and the West were significantly reduced.
EXAMINING THE SECOND WAVE
The young people’s view of marriage changed with the onslaught of the Hippie movement in the early 1960’s. The hippies on the West Coast of the United States made new rules under their slogan “free love,” and instead of getting married, men and women just moved in together and started to have children. The hippie culture spread rapidly from the American west coast to the rest of the United States, Canada and Western Europe. As of 2014, a large number of people simply prefer to live together without marriage.
The Pentecostal and Evangelical churches in the Scandinavian countries have moved into apostasy. A number of denominations in Sweden have merged into a new multi-denomination, where they accept homosexuals as ministers, allow their members to live together without being married, practice homosexuality and in general live a low morality lifestyle. The use of alcohol and tobacco products is no longer frowned upon.
The Pentecostal and Evangelical churches in Sweden have formed committees to discuss building bridges between themselves, the Roman Catholic Church and the Swedish Jewish community. The topics of salvation, water baptism through immersion, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and living a holy life are avoided in sermons.
Some Christian churches have also started to share their facilities with Islamic congregations since Muslims worship on Fridays.
The Swedish parliament in the year 2000 voted to sever its ties to the State Lutheran Church and since that time it has been in a free fall of immorality. Eva Brunne was installed as bishop of the diocese of Stockholm in 2009 even though she lived as a homosexual and openly flaunted her partner. The church hierarchy voted that same year to allow priests to perform same-sex marriages.
Christianity in the United States has also deteriorated since the 1960’s. First came the prosperity movement led by Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth Copeland in the 1960’s. This was followed by the Discipleship movement led by Don Basham, Derek Prince, Bob Mumford, Charles Simpson and Ern Baxter that lasted from 1970’s into the 1980’s.
The 1980’s was a decade of scandals for American television evangelists who had either sexual misconduct or financial mishandlings. The most prominent of them were Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, Pat Robertson, Paul Crouch, Robert Tilton, and Morris Cerullo.
A number of denominations in the United States today allow homosexuals to be ministers, perform same sex marriages, teach that the virgin birth of Jesus is not true, Jesus was not God, and there is no need for personal salvation.
Let’s not forget John Wimber and the Vineyard churches which ushered in holy laughter and barking manifestations through the so-called Toronto blessing and the Pensacola and Brownsville revivals.
The current destruction of Christian faith in America is being spearheaded by Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, Joel Osteen and many others who are systematically destroying the remaining moral fiber of the church in America.
The vision about a moral decline in the churches has been fulfilled as there is only a remnant churches left in 2025 who are staying true to the Bible.
EXAMINING THE THIRD WAVE
From 1946 until 1986 there were three television networks in the United States. In 1962 there were 800 cable operators in the United States, serving mostly rural areas with feeds from the three networks. Television broadcasting in the Scandinavian countries began on a small scale in the late 1950’s and for the next 50 years each country had a monopoly on radio and television. For years the Scandinavian nations only had one state run channel which they could view.
With the American space program came satellites that destroyed the European nation’s monopoly on television broadcasting. By the 1990’s people in Sweden could watch television programs from all over the world and today there are thousands of channels available.
In Western Europe and the United States, it is now common for men and women to live together and start a family without being married. Homosexuality is an epidemic that is spreading into the Christian community. Many nations have legalized same sex marriages, which includes giving homosexuals the right to adopt children.
Pornography is rampant and young children are being used to make sex movies for pedophiles. Young women from Eastern Europe are lured into the sex industry and sold as slaves on the markets in the Middle East. Wife swapping and sexual orgies take place without people feeling remorse and the movies and television programs have sunk to such low levels that no one in 1960 could have dreamed would happen. Sexual intercourse, homosexual acts and bestiality are being shown to the general public. Most entertainment shown to people is based upon violence, murder, rape and sex.
This vision of moral decay has been fulfilled.
EXAMINING THE FOURTH WAVE
People in the United States have not understood the massive impact immigration can exert upon a country. Europe has changed a lot since 1990. When I left Sweden in 1963, it had a population of around 8 million people, with 99% of them being native Swedes. The population today has grown to 9.5 million but it is mostly due to immigration. The increase has come from third world nations and most of them are Muslim. Mosques are being built around Sweden, paid for by Saudi Arabia and the clamor for Sharia law is increasing.
The same holds true for the majority of the European nations. Finland, Norway and Denmark are restricting the number of people seeking refuge. England and France are overrun with Muslims, who are building their own enclaves in the cities and demanding Sharia law.
The native population initially accepted some refugees, but with hordes of them coming in and this is a great danger, if the leaders in Moscow and Beijing believe that they can win a war with the West by a nuclear strike. The only thing that we can be sure of, is that World War 3 will be fought between the east block of Russia, China and North Korea and NATO and the United States in the west.
Going on welfare and taking advantage of free services such as healthcare to rent free living quarters, the indigenous people are getting angry, and in a number of European nations, political parties have been formed based upon hatred of immigration policies.
For example, when a woman in Sweden is raped and she reports it to the police, the police cannot by law reveal that the rape was carried out by an Islamic follower. Young Muslim men in Sweden and other nations have no respect for non-Muslim women and rape has increased dramatically.
This part of the vision has also been fulfilled.
WORLD WAR III
The woman from Norway saw there will be a long peace in Europe before another world war starts. Since the end of World War II, there has been a 79-year peace in Europe. That is a long time given the continent has experienced one war after another for the last 1,900 years.
She also stated that this next war will begin in an unexpected place. Since Russia’s aggression against Ukraine started in 2014 with the retaking of the Crimean Peninsula and then the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022, this will certainly not be the focal point for the next global conflict since it is already a war zone and therefore not an unexpected place.
It is impossible to predict the cause of the next world war and where it will start. It could be ignited by China invading Taiwan. It could also come through an aggression by Russia, China and North Korea against NATO and the United States, believing that a nuclear first-strike will overwhelm the defenses of the western nations.
This is a great danger if the leaders of Moscow, Beijing, and Pyongyang believe they can win a war with the West through a preemptive nuclear attack. I believe that World War 3 will involve Russia, China and North Korea against NATO and the United States.
1. The Midnight Cry is published by the Maranatha Church in Bromma, Sweden
2. Remember, that this was in 1968 when the cold war was at its highest. E. Minos
3. I do not believe the concept cohabitation existed in 1968. E. Minos.
4. TV had just arrived in Norway in 1968. E. Minos
5. She did not know the word “channel” which we use today. Therefore she called them stations. E. Minos.
6. I protested and said, we have a paragraph that forbids this kind of thing. E. Minos.
7. In 1968 there was no such thing as immigration. E. Minos.
8. I protested at the issue of immigration. I did not understand it at the time. E. Minos.
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