MARKETING WAR
War, both real and simulated, is very BIG business indeed!
According to a press release issued by game developer Activision, the latest video game in the Call of Duty series sold more than 6.5 million units in North America and the United Kingdom alone racking up a record-breaking $400 million US on the first day of sales. This amounts to the most profitable first day of any game, movie, or other entertainment product in history.
War games generally attract male participants between the ages of 14 and 40 revealing this form of entertainment is much more than child’s play. In fact, some take this game rather seriously as evidenced by the 6,000 copies stolen in a truck heist in Paris and the Denver man who threatened to blow up Best Buy for giving away his pre-ordered edition.
So why draw attention to what many view as entertainment when very real war drums are presently beating? It’s just a game right? Can’t a person have a little fun? Real people aren’t being killed so no harm is done. Or is there? Any medium that attracts a cult-like following and generates revenue of this magnitude demands that one take a closer look at what exactly is being presented to the masses.
Symbolism is a powerful tool used to send messages to the subconscious mind and I can’t help but wonder if the prominent occurrence of the number 3 in this game is being used to both soften and prepare players for WW3.
Following are just some of the references to ‘3’ that I noted regarding this game.
- It was released at midnight on November 8th, 3 days before Remembrance/Veterans Day on 11/11/11; 3 elevens.
- The number 3 is used in place of the letter ‘e’ in spelling Am3rica, 3ngland, Franc3 and G3rmany.
- Video promos of the game animate the ‘M’ in MW3 and flip it to spell WW3.
- This is the 3rd consecutive year the Call of Duty franchise has set records with first day sales. In 2009 Modern Warfare 2 brought in $310 million and Call of Duty: Black Ops grossed $360 million in 2010.
“The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the “agentur” of the “Illuminati” between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.”
(Cmdr. William Guy Carr: quoted in “SATAN, Prince of This World“)
Anyone following current events in the Middle East can easily see how the stage for WW3 is now being set just as Albert Pike predicted over 100 years ago. However, according to the Bible, Christianity will never be destroyed and Lucifer’s end will not be as glorious as Pike suggests.
Revelation 20:1-3
1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
In the Call of Duty “Worldwide Reveal Trailer” the narrator makes the following statement. “It doesn’t take the most powerful nations on earth to create the next global conflict; Just the will of a single man.” This sounds an awful lot like how the Bible describes the antichrist. Is it a coincidence?1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Daniel 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
Yes, war is BIG business. WW3 is looming on the horizon and future soldiers are being trained for duty in the comfort of their own homes. Yet no amount of war games will be able to prepare them for what is coming as this battle will not be won by conventional weapons. Only those who have surrendered their lives to the Lord Jesus Christ will be victorious in this war. God is our only hope and refuge for what lies ahead.
Until That Day…
Ecclesiastes 9:18
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
