Chapter 18 – LONDON, SATAN’S THRONE

Just as all the nations of the earth are likened to symbolic trees planted in the Garden of Eden, Jehovah’s forest of treelike nations has an appointed overseer, as Eden originally did. The overseer of nations in Ezekiel’s prophecy is the king of Tyre, of whom Ezekiel 28:13-14 says: “You were in Eden, the garden of God. You were adorned with every precious stone —Ruby, topaz, and jasper; chrysolite, onyx, and jade; sapphire, turquoise, and emerald; and their settings and mountings were made of gold. They were prepared on the day you were created. I assigned you as the anointed covering cherub. You were on the holy mountain of God, and you walked about among fiery stones.”

While it is evident that Jehovah was referring to Satan the Devil before his rebellion, why does God link the king of Tyre with the anointed cherub of Eden? The answer lies in the fact that the real rulers of our world are not human at all. Jesus and his enlightened apostles revealed that wicked spirits in heavenly places are the real authorities and principalities that have dominated this wicked system of things since Adam and Eve listened to the treacherous cherub of Eden.

It is only logical, then, that any judgment against the spirit rulers in the invisible realm would also become manifest upon the earthly powers under their control. That is why Jehovah’s judicial decision against the king of Tyre is intertwined with the judgment against the evil spirit creature now known as Satan, the Devil.

But what relevance could this ancient prophecy possibly have today? Although God’s judgments against the maritime empire of Tyre were fulfilled long ago, the prophecies apply in amazing detail to the British Empire and the modern City of London in particular. Since the Devil and his demons were not judged at the time that Babylon or Alexander the Great destroyed Tyre, it is apparent that the prophecies against Tyre have a much grander future fulfillment related to Jehovah’s forthcoming judgments against the entire wicked system of things—both heavenly and earthly.

In the 27th chapter of Ezekiel, the prophet is commanded to compose a dirge for the passing of Tyre. The opening words of the dirge say of Tyre: “You who dwell at the gateways of the sea, the merchant for the peoples of many islands.” The Phoenician coastal city of Tyre is recorded in history as dominating the Mediterranean Sea with its fleet of merchant ships, even plying the waters of the north and south Atlantic.

However, whatever dominance Tyre once exerted over the world, the description of one who dwells at the gateways of the sea and an international merchant applies more especially to London’s British Empire. During the colonial era, she controlled virtually every major waterway in the world. This was vital, given that London was a maritime empire.

One of the most important “gateways of the sea” is the natural sea-gate through the Straits of Gibraltar. The Straits of Gibraltar are, of course, the vital entryway connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Interestingly, the Phoenicians and Tyrians once held that sea gate too, and for the last several centuries it has been a British-held fortress. Gibraltar was a strategic British asset during both World Wars.

The Suez Canal is another vital waterway that makes it possible to travel from the Indian Ocean, through the Red Sea, and into the Mediterranean Sea without circumnavigating Africa. It was particularly vital for British imperial interests to control the Gibraltar and Suez sea gates because that allowed Britain more direct access to her most important colony at that time—India.

By 1900, British naval bases were maintained around the world at strategic choke points, which gave London a presence on virtually every major sea-lane on the planet. For example, since around 1860, the Royal Navy’s Pacific fleet has been harbored at Esquimalt, British Columbia. On the Atlantic side of the Western Hemisphere, a British naval presence was maintained in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as well as Bermuda, Jamaica, and St. Lucia. On the opposite side of the Atlantic, the Royal Navy was based at Gibraltar and Freetown in the African colony of Sierra Leone. From 1814, after wresting control from the Dutch colonialists, the British established a naval presence at Cape Town, South Africa, which allowed them to control the shipping lanes around the southern tip of Africa. On the east side of Africa, at the turn of the 20th century, the Royal Navy was harbored at Mombasa, Kenya. Other critical choke points included Aden and Yemen, which were at the entryway of the southern end of the Red Sea where it joins the Indian Ocean. From bases in Bombay, Ceylon, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Sydney, Britain controlled the vital waterways of the Indian subcontinent and the entire Orient, as well as the sea-lanes of the countless islands of the South Pacific. And, of course, the English Channel itself has been the main waterway that has set the Island kingdom apart from the tumultuous continent. Unquestionably, Great Britain once sat at the “entrances of the sea,” and to a great extent, it still does.

But besides controlling crucial shipping lanes, sea-gates and other vital infrastructure, the Crown maintains an empire composed of dozens of islands scattered across the seven seas of the globe—Anguilla and Barbuda, Bermuda, the Falklands, British Virgin Islands, Jamaica, the Solomon Islands, Saint Helena and the Cayman Islands, to name a few. Of these, the Cayman Islands appear to be the most important—serving as a virtual modern-day pirate cove for offshore drug money laundering, tax evasion, and other illegal operations carried out through the thousands of hedge funds registered there.

As of 2026, there are approximately 30,000 hedge funds registered in the Crown’s Cayman Islands.  That means there is more than one hedge fund for every three inlanders.

But perhaps the most strategically important island in the realm of the empire is the one London no longer controls —Hong Kong. Once an offshore staging area for the importation of opium into the mainland, Hong Kong became a very wealthy British colony. And the Chinese who ruled Hong Kong up until London’s 100-year lease expired in 1997 were trained colonial masters. When communist China adopted Western capitalism in the early 1980s, it turned to the British-vetted Chinese tycoons. The British bankers’ connection to China may yet prove to have far-reaching implications, as has already been considered in connection with the king of the north.

At any rate, to whatever extent Tyre may have colonized the Mediterranean region, we may be sure that the prophet’s words apply even more so to the far-flung British Empire: “Your territories are in the heart of the sea, and your builders have perfected your beauty.” (Ezekiel 27:4)

Also, Ezekiel 27:15 accurately describes the British maritime system, saying of it: “…You employed merchants on many islands.”

Ezekiel appropriately likens the city of Tyre to a ship —what might have called a ship of state. A sailing vessel is an appropriate symbol for the maritime power of the British Isles. Not only because she maintained her far-flung empire by means of an extensive navy and merchant marine, but also because Great Britain was once the world’s leading shipbuilder—and not just of warships. At the time of the First World War, British-built merchant ships accounted for a staggering 60% of the tonnage of all the world’s ships. And because the Royal Navy once dominated, being larger than the combined navies of the next two contenders, London was able to control merchant-shipping globally.

Like her Tyrian forerunner London is aptly likened to a sailing vessel, manned by skilled sailors and craftsmen from many lands. That is because Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and many other territories in the imperial realm, have made significant contributions to the upkeep of the British Empire, especially during times of war. Hence, Ezekiel 27:8-11 is relevant for Tyre’s modern incarnation as the British Empire: “The inhabitants of Sidon and of Arvad  were your rowers. Your own skilled men, O Tyre, were your sailors. The experienced and skilled men of Gebal caulked your seams. All the ships of the sea and their mariners came to you to trade merchandise. Men of Persia, Lud, and Put were in your army, your men of war. They hung their shields and helmets in you, and they brought you splendor. The men of Arvad in your army were stationed on your walls all around, and brave men manned your towers. They hung circular shields all around your walls and perfected your beauty.”

One difficulty that may present itself to the Bible student concerning the connection between ancient Tyre and the British Empire is the fact that Great Britain no longer has such a far-reaching static naval presence. But, one of the reasons is that nuclear submarines have reduced the need for land-based control of strategic choke points, of which the United Kingdom maintains a fleet of  Trident submarines based at Faslane, Scotland.

As is the case with its American military partner, at least one of His Majesty’s submarines is prowling beneath the oceans of the earth at any given moment, armed with the most lethal weapons ever devised.

Although Great Britain no longer controls maritime commerce to the extent that she did during her glory years, London still dominates the world in significant ways. Contrary to popular myths, the power that the British Empire acquired during the past 300 years has not significantly diminished. London has merely transformed itself into a financial center, what might be referred to as an invisible empire. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom itself remains part of the most powerful alliance on earth—the Anglo-American dyad.

“THE MERCHANT FOR THE PEOPLES”

London certainly fits the description of being the merchant for the people of many islands. In times past, the privately owned British East India Company and the British merchant marine and navy brought in the booty from the far reaches of the realm. While the East India Company no longer exists, many of the world’s largest corporations today began years ago as part of London’s global trading enterprise. For example, the Bank of England, founded in 1694, is one of the oldest commercial institutions in existence and sits at the center of London’s mercantile and financial system. Names like Barclays and HSBC, otherwise known as The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, was founded in 1865 in order to process the money taken in from selling opium to the Chinese peasantry. Headquartered in London, HSBC is now one of the largest financial institutions on the planet, touting itself as “the world’s local bank.”

Until selling out to Anglo-American, De Beers had a virtual monopoly over diamond production in Africa and was a key component of the empire. Lloyds of London is the world’s oldest and largest insurer. Wall Street’s J.P. Morgan & Company has an Anglo pedigree that extends back to 1838. GlaxoSmithKline originated as a drugstore in London nearly 300 years ago and has grown into the fourth-largest pharmaceutical company in the world. These are just a few well-known companies with roots that reach back to the heyday of Queen Victoria’s British Empire, and that still control vast riches on a global scale.

In the modern era, companies associated with the British Empire dominate raw materials and precious metals mining. Companies like Anglo-Gold-Ashanti, Anglo American PLC, and the British-Australian companies Rio Tinto and BHP are recognized as key components of London’s dominance of precious metals and raw materials production globally.

But London’s dominance in the production of raw materials is enhanced by trading mere contracts for such materials. As an example of the global reach of the City of London’s financial district, until a few years ago, the international price of gold was fixed twice a day at exactly 10:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. by the office of London’s N.M Rothschild. Furthermore, until recently, futures contracts controlling more than two-thirds of the world’s oil were traded on the floor of London’s International Petroleum Exchange. Now it seems the London silver traders are in a bit of a bind because it turns out that pretend silver is not the same thing as the element Ag.

It has been estimated that once an oil tanker leaves the Persian Gulf, its cargo may be bought and sold a hundred times in the virtual oil markets before it ever reaches its final destination. Also, the London Metal Exchange is the world’s leading trading platform for non-ferrous metals. In 2024, LME facilitated contracts with a notional value of more than $ 18 trillion.

While England itself has no raw materials except coal, as of 1997, British and Commonwealth-allied firms controlled 60% of the world’s annual gold production, amounting to a stake of nearly $ 15 billion! Furthermore, London-centered groups control fully one-half of all diamond production; 25% of the world’s copper; 29% of silver production; and 78% of platinum mining. Today, London’s share is even greater than it was in 1997. Like Tyre, London has also amassed large quantities of silver and gold. The Scripture says: “Tyre built herself a rampart. She piled up silver like dust and gold like the dirt of the streets.” (Zechariah 9:3)

In addition to mining, British Petroleum and Dutch Royal Shell are the Crown’s flagship oil companies that trade in that precious commodity. And since all international oil contracts are denominated in what is called petrodollars, currency traders and hedge funds control the value of the U.S. Dollar. And undoubtedly, ever since the industrial age created an insatiable thirst for petroleum, Anglo-American interests have exerted a strong controlling hand in the affairs of the oil-rich Middle East.

Besides controlling much of the earth’s raw materials, a handful of companies hold sway over the most important commodity of all—food. Unilever, headquartered in London and Rotterdam, is one of the world’s oldest and largest food production companies. The interlocking British, Dutch, and Swiss companies are the world’s leading merchants of food commodities and constitute a cartel by virtue of owning controlling interests in several giant food processing companies. And just as with metals and petroleum, food commodities contracts are a substantial part of the trading strategies of London’s hedge fund managers and brokers. Ominously, London’s food cartel can create food shortages and starvation.

According to Isaiah’s prophecy against Sidon, the merchants of Tyre and Sidon enriched themselves from the harvest of the nations. Isaiah 23:3 says: “Over many waters went the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, her revenue, bringing the profit of the nations.”

How true that has been for traders in modern Tyre as well. The British system is designed to extract the wealth of nations.

Tyre was not even a nation in and of itself, but it was merely an island city on the Phoenician coast, even as Isaiah 23:7 acknowledges, saying: “Is this your city that was exultant from long ago, from her early times? Her feet used to take her to distant lands to reside.”

London certainly qualifies as having existed from long ago, “from her early times.” The Romans originally established an outpost called Londinium on the Thames. But metropolitan London is not even the real London. The one-mile-square financial district in the heart of London, called the City of London, or simply The City, is the actual nexus of today’s global financial system. The City even has its own mayor who carries the title of The Right Honorable Lord Mayor of the City of London. (Due to the rapid growth of the financial industry in recent years, the City of London has spilled over into Canary Wharf.)

“SKILLFUL TRADING BROUGHT YOU GREAT WEALTH”

Whereas, in the past, commerce between peoples and nations depended upon either overland trade routes or navigating the seas and waterways, today, much of what passes for economic trade has very little to do with the actual exchange of goods, but is merely what is called “financial turnover.” Because of structural changes in the global monetary system, money itself has become the most bought-and-sold commodity, and it is exchanged electronically around the world, 24 hours a day. In times past, some tangible asset backed a nation’s currency, usually gold and silver. Since 1971, the gold standard has been scrapped, and a so-called floating exchange rate has been adopted, allowing the world’s various currencies to “float” in value relative to each other.

The present financial system has allowed modern money-changers to make enormous profits by selling one currency and buying another, as the floating exchange rates of each currency ebb and flow daily, like the lunar tides. And there are all sorts of levers insiders can pull to manipulate the rise and fall of any currency relative to the others. The relevance of this, as it relates to the Tyre-on-the-Thames, is that London dominates today’s global financial system, which it invented to replace the mercantile system Britannia used to monopolize.

As reported by the Bank of International Settlements, as of 2025, daily global financial turnover is shy of $10,000,000,000,000, and nearly half flows through the banking houses of London.

Whereas London used to dominate mercantilism by means of the sea, today even greater control of the world’s business and financial affairs is exercised through London’s domination of the electronic floating exchange rate system and the associated banking and equity markets. In that way, London still sits at the heart of an informal empire. How true Ezekiel’s words in the 33rd verse: “When your goods came in from the open sea, you satisfied many peoples. Your abundant wealth and your merchandise enriched earth’s kings.”

“THE BESTOWER OF CROWNS”

Isaiah 23:8 poses the question: “Who has decided this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose tradesmen were honored in all the earth?” The next verse answers: “Jehovah of armies himself has decided this, to profane her pride over all her beauty, to humiliate all those who were honored throughout the earth.”

To Jehovah, a timeless Being in a realm far above the comings and goings of our tiny planet, there is no such thing as yesterday and tomorrow. What from our standpoint appears to be the future, to God is as yesterday. That is why Jehovah knows the future, because he has already been there, so to speak.

So, while Jehovah’s Word was written down thousands of years ago and originally applied to primitive nations and peoples, due to Jehovah’s unfathomable insight and foresight, the patterns established in Scripture make God’s counsel relevant for the judgment to come.

No wonder the apostle once exclaimed: “O the depth of God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How unsearchable his judgments are and past tracing out his ways are!”

As for what Jehovah has decided against Tyre, this aspect of prophecy applies to London in greater measure. Just a brief glance at the history and origin of many contemporary nations reveals that London is indeed the “bestower of crowns.”

The following is a partial list of a few nations that were originally established in their modern form by the Crown: Zimbabwe, Botswana, Malawi, Malaysia, India, Egypt, Sudan, and Aden. Nations such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Kuwait, Qatar, Kashmir, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Iran exist in their modern form as a legacy of British imperialism.

After the First World War, the victorious Great Britain received from the newly formed League of Nations, which London was instrumental in creating, what is referred to as the British Mandate. The mandate was for Great Britain to administer the affairs of the Middle East, which had formerly been part of the Ottoman Empire. This led to the eventual establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948. But long before their “mandate,” London had quite literally redrawn the map of a large geographical area of the world.

The success of London in dominating such a vast area of the world was due in part to the British being excellent administrators, who set up local kings and governors (satraps) to rule under the British Crown. By establishing subservient governments, the Empire alleviated the need to continually subjugate people by the edge of the sword.

And even as the cumbersome formal Empire was dissolved, numerous nations have stayed under the Crown as members of the so-called British Commonwealth and other dependent territories. As of 2026, 56 nations are part of the British Commonwealth. 16 nations still have the monarch of England as their sovereign, although each now has a great measure of autonomy.

Besides the nations of the United Kingdom itself, the most prominent members of the Commonwealth are Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Through the Crown’s Privy Council, London’s political power is extended over all the nations in the royal realm. Most people are unaware, but if push comes to shove, the Crown can sack any prime minister of Canada, New Zealand, or Australia.

Besides being the “bestower of crowns,” the scripture says that Tyre’s “merchants were princes, whose tradesmen were honored in all the earth.” True to the pattern of her Tyrian forerunner, many of the most honored men and women in the world today are dukes and duchesses, lords and ladies, barons and baronesses of the British peerage. The British monarchy itself is even known as “the Fount of Honour and the source of all dignities.”

Although a relic of the feudal system, British knighthood is a coveted honor today. Many members of Britain’s House of Lords sit on company boards as directors of some of the most powerful corporations in the world. Others who are not born into British nobility, and hence not considered peers of the aristocracy, may, nonetheless, also receive an honorary knighthood from the Crown.

It is not at all uncommon to find names prefaced by “Sir” listed as CEOs and other high-ranking corporate executives. While perhaps not princes in the traditional sense, such men are nonetheless wealthy merchants and tradesmen who are indeed the honorable ones of the earth under the present Anglo-aristocratic system.

Some well-known American businessmen and political leaders have even been awarded honorary knighthoods in the British honors system. For instance, George H. W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, Ronald Reagan, Brent Scowcroft, and the late Ken Lay, of Enron infamy, carry the honorary title of Sir.

“BECAUSE OF YOUR DISHONEST TRADING”

As the anointed cherub that is covering, obviously, Satan the Devil is not directly involved in commerce. Yet, Ezekiel prophesied against the king of Tyre, saying: “Because of your abundant trade, you became filled with violence, and you began to sin. So I will cast you out as profane from the mountain of God and destroy you, O covering cherub, away from the stones of fire. Your heart became haughty because of your beauty. You corrupted your wisdom because of your own glorious splendor. I will throw you down to the earth. I will make you a spectacle before kings. Because of your great guilt and your dishonest trading, you have profaned your sanctuaries.” (Ezekiel 28:16-18)

Without question, London is one of, if not the most important, commercial centers in the world, but is it guilty of dishonest trading?

Besides the control London has exerted over the world’s raw materials and credit creation and the many wars that have been fought in the last 200 years due to British geo-political machinations, history shows that London’s insatiable desire for global domination has led her to shamelessly exploit mankind’s many vices and weaknesses in order to control her subjects and make them more pliable and submissive. Just as a cunning predator can sense the weakness of its intended prey, in the same manner, the Empire has made it its aim to exploit and cater to debased human inclinations and ignorance. Like their imperial Roman predecessors, who used the bread-and-circuses approach to placate and demoralize the masses, so too London has great guilt for promoting the degradation of mankind and for engaging in dishonest trade. How have they done this?

From the earliest times of colonization, London has trafficked in tobacco and dope. In fact, tobacco once served as currency for English settlers in the New World. Great Britain, for the most part, invented the tobacco industry, and to this day, British-owned tobacco companies are among the world’s largest producers of the noxious weed. For instance, the British American Tobacco Company (BAT) was formed over 100 years ago to promote and profit from tobacco worldwide and is, in fact, the largest international tobacco company. And although now headquartered in New York City, the giant cigarette company, Phillip Morris, began as a tobacco shop on Oxford Street in London.

It is also well-documented that London established the illicit drug trade, and the merchant banks of London have reaped enormous profits, pushing dope on the people of lesser nations.

Back during the 1800s, British plantations in India grew the narcotic-producing poppy that was processed into opium, which British merchants then imported into China. The former British colony of Hong Kong was originally an offshore staging area for the importation of dope into Mainland China. When the Chinese rulers resisted the destruction of their people by the lords of London and moved to stop the destructive drug trade, the British navy responded with gunboats, in what became known as the Opium Wars.

The London-centered financial capital is best described as a vast criminal enterprise with tentacles that reach across the globe. To illustrate the criminal nature of the Empire, in modern times, it has been documented that the driving force behind the illegal drug industry does not originate in the jungles of Colombia or in the poppy-strewn hillsides of Turkey or Afghanistan, or elsewhere where peasants cultivate the plants that produce narcotics. The real beneficiaries and primary promoters of the lucrative drug trade are not the street pushers or even the notorious drug lords. What is seldom mentioned, but no less true, is that without the money-laundering services of the banking system, the drug trade would soon choke on its own flood of cash. Hence, the laundering of drug money is a vital necessity.  And that is where the global financial system comes in. The trillion-dollar per-year drug trade nets the banks and hedge funds involved hundreds of billions of dollars. Without question, dope still is one of the most important parts of the dishonest trading of London’s invisible empire.

Besides dope, the invisible empire promotes pornography and all forms of debasing music, movies, and television programs. The most popular pop stars now seem to have been initiated into a demon-worshipping cult, and their live shows are satanic rituals disguised as entertainment.

SPREADING TERROR THROUGH ALL THE EARTH!

Not only is she guilty of dishonest trading, but Ezekiel also says of Tyre at its demise: “How you have perished, you who were inhabited from the seas, the praised city; you and your inhabitants were mighty on the sea, spreading terror to all the inhabitants of the earth!”

If you were to ask the so-called man on the street what nation might be most responsible for promoting international terrorism, more than likely the respondent would cite Syria, Iran, or perhaps some Asian nation. However, London itself is known as the most welcoming haven for terrorists of all stripes. The name “Londonistan” is not without merit. London has been a Mecca for Islamic radicals and terrorists, including al-Qa’eda.

Terrorist organizations that are outlawed in the United States have headquarters in London itself. These have included some of the most notorious terrorist groups known, such as the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka and the Shining Path of Peru. In recent years, whistle-blowers from inside MI5 and MI6 have detailed how British intelligence goes about recruiting Islamic radicals, who are then injected into larger terrorist groups, which can then be controlled from London and used by the Empire.

A case in point, it has long been known that Osama bin Laden and the Islamic Mujahedin were originally created and controlled by British and American intelligence during the Soviet-Afghan War. There is really no reason to assume that that connection has ever been severed. Bin Laden even applied for asylum in Britain as recently as 1995.

Of course, Osama bin Laden was considered to be the sole mastermind of the most devastating terror attack in history. But the congressional report, the 9-11 Report, indicates otherwise. To date, 28 pages of it have been classified, making it illegal for anyone with knowledge of its contents to speak of it. But those redacted pages most assuredly name the names of Saudi princes who, in subservience to the British Crown, financed and directed the operation.

While these matters have received relatively little press, more recently, it has become plain for all to see that the West is using Israel’s Mossad and Islamic radicals as pretend enemies to overthrow and destroy nations, such as Syria. And while the US is clearly at the center of the spotlight, it is merely following the script handed to it by the British, who have a long history of intrigue in the Middle East, going back to Lawrence of Arabia. But even before that, the British nurtured Wahhabism in Arabia back in the mid-19th century, and it has become the tool of terror.

Another form of terror and thievery emanates from London as well—piracy. The London Guardian of May 11, 2009, reported that the Somali pirates involved in a rash of ship hijackings were being guided to their targets via satellite telephone by a “consultant team” within British intelligence in the “praised city” of London. Captains of hijacked ships have reported that the pirates had detailed knowledge of the ship’s cargo, such as which flag it was flying under and their destinations; the entire layout of the ship, before the pirates ever boarded the vessel. It is hard to believe that a rag-tag team of impoverished Somalis could attain such information without help from insiders.

Predictably, no sooner had the Guardian article hit the press than the official line from London was that the pirate operation was the work of a sole renegade agent. Truly, though, reality confirms what the Scriptures long ago foretold: the modern king of Tyre is the brain center of the manifold forms of terror that threaten the nations today.

Great Britain long ago earned the name Perfidious Albion, meaning “treacherous England,” because she became adept at duplicity and treachery to win the Great Game of international geopolitics and financial warfare. In order to stay on top of the heap, it has always been the policy of the Empire to set peoples and nations against each other in order to further its own interests. Divide and conquer is a time-tested and effective strategy.

Should it really be surprising that the earthly place of Satan’s throne should use terrorism, piracy, and fraud to further its own ends, even against its closest allies if necessary? While America may provide the brawn, London provides the brains of the Anglo-American Special Relationship. In order to weaken the independent nation-states through its network of operatives, the London-centered oligarchy has deployed various terrorist groups so as to create tensions and destabilizations throughout the world and as a pretext for war.

To what extent the Tyre-on-the-Thames may yet spread terror throughout the world remains to be seen. At any rate, Jehovah’s judgment against the Devil applies to his earthly agents as well: “Your heart became haughty because of your beauty. You corrupted your wisdom because of your own glorious splendor.” (Ezekiel 28:17)

SUDDEN TERRORS FOR TYRE

Ezekiel 26:21 says: “‘I will bring sudden terror upon you, and you will no longer be. They will search for you, but you will never again be found,’ declares the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.” But in what way could ancient Tyre have possibly experienced “sudden terrors”? There was nothing sudden about the downfall of Tyre. In reality, Nebuchadnezzar waged a grueling and laborious 13-year siege against the island kingdom. At Ezekiel 29:18-20, Jehovah acknowledges that Nebuchadnezzar performed a service on God’s behalf against Tyre, but he received little compensation for his efforts. For that reason, Jehovah said he would give Egypt to the king of Babylon as compensation for Tyre.

Significantly, even though Tyre fell many years before Egypt, the prophet Isaiah makes no distinction between the two, and in fact, seems to suggest that Egypt falls first, which historically was not the case. Isaiah 23:5 says: “As when they heard the report about Egypt, people will be in anguish over the report about Tyre.”

The seeming discrepancy in the prophecies is better understood in light of the fact that the real fulfillment concerns the simultaneous fall of the Anglo-American dyad.

Jesus Christ foretold that the day of Jehovah will erupt suddenly and that it “will come in upon all those dwelling upon the face of all the earth,” so that “men become faint out of fear and expectation of the things coming upon the inhabited earth; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.”

The present-day preeminent “powers of the heavens” are the Anglo-American kings. The shaking of the powers of the heavens is something entirely unanticipated and unique. That is why Ezekiel 26:15-16 goes on to prophesy against Tyre: “This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says to Tyre: ‘At the sound of your downfall, when the dying ones are groaning, when a slaughter takes place in your midst, will the islands not shudder? All the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones and remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments, and they will be seized with trembling. They will sit on the ground and tremble constantly and stare at you in amazement.’”

The 12th chapter of Revelation indicates the order of events when Christ assumes power in his Kingdom. First, Satan and all of his demons will be ousted from heaven and confined to the lower regions of this earthly sphere in preparation for the final decisive battle. But because Satan is the god of this present, wicked civilization, the judgment against him will have profound, far-reaching repercussions upon the world under his influence.

The death-stroke leveled against the Anglo-American seventh head of the wild beast is actually the indirect result of the judgment against the symbolic seven-headed dragon, which represents Satan, the Devil. In reality, the earthly seven-headed wild beast is a mere reflection of the symbolic, seven-headed dragon in heaven. This connection is evident by reason of the fact that the ouster of Satan and the death-stroke of the beast simultaneously initiate the aforementioned three and one-half-year period of intense persecution of the holy ones.

When Christ ultimately casts the Devil down to the earth, the entire system will convulse with shudders of death. The sudden crash of the Anglo-American kingdom will mark the beginning of the end for Satan’s entire wicked system of things—a time of tribulation that has no equal. The kings of the earth will come down off their thrones in the catastrophic fall of “Egypt” and “Tyre,” which will signal the end of the nation-state system and lead to the implementation of a totalitarian world government as the final gathering of the nations to the place called Armageddon.

The 17th and 18th chapters of Revelation confirm that the kings of the earth will forfeit their own power and authority to an eighth king, whom they greatly fear. In harmony with that judgment, Ezekiel 28:8-9 says to the king of Tyre: “They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the open sea. Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ to the one killing you? You will be a mere man, not a god, in the hand of those defiling you.”

For over two centuries, the British Crown has dominated the world, first through the exploitative, seafaring mercantile system, and more recently, through the sophisticated global financial system. And less overtly, but just as effectively, the Empire has set about to undermine, weaken, and impoverish the nations through a variety of means, such as terrorism, flooding the world with dope, blackmail, extortion, assassinations, and the threat of assassination of political figures, financial chicanery through mafia-like financial and commodities cartels, and so forth.

With its ruling monarchy and a circle of ultra-wealthy European oligarchs known as the Club of the Isles (EIR pdf), London is the operational nexus of a vast criminal enterprise—the most influential power center on earth. London is the location of Satan’s earthly throne. But when Jehovah himself becomes King, and his judgments are executed against the gods of this world—both human and otherwise—then the god-like king of Tyre will come down off his throne!

Ezekiel 28:16-17 issues God’s judgment against the Devil and his human counterpart. “So I will cast you out as profane from the mountain of God and destroy you, O covering cherub, away from the stones of fire. Your heart became haughty because of your beauty. You corrupted your wisdom because of your own glorious splendor. I will throw you down to the earth. I will make you a spectacle before kings.”

In view of the obvious similarities between the king of Tyre and the modern London-centered British Empire, it is evident that Jehovah’s judgment against the covering cherub of Tyre is in reality describing Satan’s eventual ouster from heaven.

While recognizing the coverning cherub in Ezekiel’s prophecy is Satan, it is quite telling that the Watchtower has never offered a single word of commentary on the Tyre/covering cherub of Eden connection; yet it should be evident that the prophets indicate that the visible manifestation of the satanic cherub being thrown “down to the earth” will be the sudden and horrifying downfall of the Anglo-American dyad.

A correct interpretation of relevant apocalyptic prophecies completely debunks the notion that Satan was cast down from heaven in 1914 and that the Anglo-American kingdom suffered its apocalyptic sword-stroke during the First World War. That is evident from the fact that the casting down of the covering cherub results in the sudden destruction of the powers that be.

The last verse of Ezekiel’s denunciation of the king of Tyre says: “I will cause a fire to break out in your midst, and it will consume you. I will reduce you to ashes on the earth before all those looking at you. All who knew you among the peoples will stare at you in amazement. Your end will be sudden and terrible, and you will cease to exist for all time.” — Ezekiel 28:18b-19

But the sudden crash of the Anglo-American duo is not the end. The mortally wounded head of the beast will arise from the abyss in a new form, and begin ominously speaking, as a dragon, and give birth to a totalitarian world government, the last kingdom of man, the eighth king.