Australian Prime Minister John Howard got the world’s attention when he recently told Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law to leave the country.

Among his comments were these pointed statements: “Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is a part of our culture.”

However, in contradistinction to Howard’s comments, it appears to me that the United States is rapidly losing its national sovereignty and headed toward a one-world government as outlined in Daniel 7 and Revelation 13. In fact, many are calling for a New World Order that supposedly will usher in an era of global peace and security.

Some would point to the United Nations as a stepping-stone toward this one-world government. The UN has attempted to gain consensus for the Charter for Global Democracy, which would in effect, attempt to transform the UN into a world government.

Others contend that the UN World Heritage and Biosphere Reserve programs infringe on American sovereignty. Others would cite the plethora of “free trade” agreements that United States politicians have endorsed as a step toward a global government.

The Trilateral Commission is believed by some to be diligently and methodically working to destroy the sovereignty of this nation and put the United States under foreign rule.

Of course, there are many who look at America’s open borders and lament the impact the illegal immigration issue is having upon our national sovereignty.

The liberal view towards immigration today is quite a departure from the view expressed by President Theodore Roosevelt 100 years ago. Roosevelt said, “In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.”

The twenty-sixth president remarked, “But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language; and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”

Furthermore, there are those who are concerned about the possible formation of a North American Union, the move that would integrate Mexico, Canada, and the United States by erasing the southern and northern borders. Some suggest a tri-national “North American Union” ID card is in the works, containing sensitive biometric information via the “REAL ID Act of 2005” which is supposedly to be set in place on Dec. 31, 2009.

Kelly Taylor, writing for United for a Sovereign America, declares, “The planned NAFTA Super Highway (providing transportation corridors from Mexico to Canada) would radically reconfigure not only the physical landscape of these United States, but our political and economic landscapes as well. All across America, mammoth construction projects are preparing to launch. The NAFTA Super Highway is on a fast track and it’s heading your way.”

There are also those who advocate the creation of a new currency for North American countries called the Amero. Herb Grubel, economics professor and Canadian politician, published a paper titled, “The Case for the Amero”, and stated his case by writing, “Sovereignty is not infinitely valuable – every nation in the world, even the mighty United States, has traded off elements of sovereignty to multi-national associations such as the WTO, NAFTA, and the United Nations.”

Alan Keyes, an American political activist, author, and former diplomat, stated the situation rather succinctly by explaining, “The great temptation is to believe that we are being threatened from outside the United States. But our problem is not bad people somewhere ‘out there’ trying to get us; our problem, right now, is us.

“Our problem is with our own fading grasp of our heritage of liberty, our own fading devotion to our national principles, our own increasingly incompetent job of educating our young in that heritage and those principles, and our own willingness to tolerate leaders who are corrupt and without allegiance to our national identity.”

It appears that in America we have placed an inordinate value on cultural diversity and universalist religious pluralism. In the name of religious pluralism some are advocating that all religions offer an equally valid path to God. In the name of cultural diversity others are stripping away our nation’s unique, rich heritage and way of life. Pluralistic mentalities like these will ultimately de-Christianize America and reduce our national convictions to the lowest common denominator and usher in the one world government that so many seem poised to embrace.

In Daniel 7:23 the Bible prophesies the one world government that will emerge just after the rapture of the church. This one world government is described as a Gentile empire. It will be portrayed as a solution to all the world’s problems; and the leaders will convince the world that it will bring peace.

It will bring a false peace for a short time, but it will be followed by tribulation. The most likely cause of a one-world government would be a worldwide crisis to cause panic. This could be something like a natural disaster, war, terrorist attack, financial crisis, or a supernatural event.

Individuals wanting to take over the world so they can gain power could engineer some kind of crisis or simply take advantage of one when it occurs. The scriptures suggest that this empire will continue until it eventually dominates the whole world during a time of tribulation.

This is no time for passivity. We are to watch (be diligent) until the Lord comes; and I believe we have a responsibility to do everything we can to prolong our sovereignty and thus our freedom. Remember the words of our Savior who said, “I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work” (John 9:4).