The Mystery of Iniquity

Paradise Lost, Gustave Doré

"They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate, With dreadful forces thronged, and fiery arms Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way."

Paradise Lost, Book XII.






The Wall Street Journal‎ reports; "The National Security Agency’s targeting of Israeli leaders and officials also swept up the contents of some of their private conversations with U.S. lawmakers." The report continues: "Soon after, Israel’s lobbying campaign against the [Iran nuclear] deal went into full swing on Capitol Hill, and it didn’t take long for... [Congressional] intelligence officials to realize the NSA was sweeping up the content of conversations with lawmakers."

The WSJ further suggests that the NAS’ covert surveillance presents world leaders an insurmountable hurtle: “The NSA was so proficient at monitoring heads of state that it was common for the agency to deliver a visiting leader’s talking points to the president in advance. “Who’s going to... say, ‘No, I don’t want to know what world leaders are saying,’ ‘ a former Obama administration official said.’” So in the international card game of diplomacy, "one" man "literally" holds all the cards.

The President has appropriated for himself the ultimate power, a power revealed in the Snowden chronicles, that comes from knowing the thoughts and intents of the heart of every cyber-connected soul on earth. Something a "Watergate" world could never conceive in it wildest dream.

As the year draws to a close it is difficult not be amazed by the grandiose national and international subterfuge, intimidation, and blackmail consummated by "one" man. A "prototype" of what is yet to be:

"The mystery of iniquity": a man of sin, "the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God" (cf. 2 Thessalonians 2:3-7).