The more I learn about the Alliance of Civilizations (AOC), the more serious I feel the need for us to get the information out. 

This morning I had an email waiting with more information. It turns out that the AOC is endorsed by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Since the US is a signatory to the OSCE, it makes the US "politically" bound to enforce the AOC's political/religious agenda when it becomes fully operational in 2010.

There has been some confusion on the wordage used for the the AOC's proposed starting date. So, let's take a look at page 46 of the document.
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1. Time frame: 2009- 2019, starting and ending on 21 September, the International Day of Peace. That launching date would give 12 months to prepare and promote a final proposal and to win political support from member states, in order to present the corresponding project of resolution to the General Assembly in its 62nd session (September 2007), with another 24 months for formal preparatory activities. The Decade would then overlap by only one year with the ongoing Decade for a Culture of Peace, and could learn from that experience AOC Report (pdf).
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The key to understanding the above words is knowing the term of the UN's Decade for a Culture of Peace (DCP), since the start of the AOC is to "overlap" the DCP by one year and allow an additional 12 months to prepare. It turns our the DCP is from 2001 to 2010 Read about it here. That means the AOC is to be fully operational in 2010. Evidently, the 2007 date is for presenting the necessary resolution to the Security Council.

This brings up another interesting question. Could this UN resolution set the stage politically for the resolving of that final issue -- the Temple Mount? If so, this could provide additional support to the possibility that 2007 could be the beginning of Daniel's 70th week. More on that later.

Researching the AOC is like falling into an ocean of information that you didn't know was there. That's why it's important for us students of prophecy to keep our feet firmly on the Rock of the written Word of God. If the AOC is what I think it is, very soon now those among us who don't know the Word of God intimately may be in danger of being swept away.

The Bible warns us that in the time of the end there will be a great falling away from the true Christian faith. And, over and over again we are told to hang on to it with all our strength. On our wall we have a picture that Linda and I bought at an antique store when we were first married. The frame someone made from sea shells and the picture is of a woman in a raging sea and clinging to a cross jutting from a rock.

The picture reminds me of the woman in Revelation chapter 12. You see, God's true people are the people of faith. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way. That's why, after reminding us what the message of our salvation is, Paul tells us to hang on to it. Paul says:

Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

And, here's the message of which we are to hang on.

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep; then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles; and last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared to me also (1 Corinthian 15:1-8 New American Standard Bible).

Friends, it doesn't matter what the AOC may be bringing in 2010.

God wants us to stay tuned.