The world's longest and deepest rail tunnel was unveiled with a bizarre ceremony featuring a goat-man who dies and is resurrected, women simulating sex with each other and drone-like human workers marching to a rhythmic drum beat.

The Gotthard Base Tunnel was dedicated in Switzerland with male and female workers wearing orange jumpsuits and marching robotically like soldiers obeying their commands.

Young men and women appear dressed in white underwear, while two of the women engage in simulated lesbian sex. These individuals represent the masses who will ride the trains through the tunnel.

Charisma magazine questioned the motives of the organizers of the ceremony, which was broadcast to millions and meant to celebrate a project that took 17 years to complete, extending 35 miles through the Alps and costing more than 11 billion Euros, making it the longest and most expensive tunnel on record.

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Charisma opined:

"The opening ceremony of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland featured a 'goat-man' that dies, is resurrected, is worshipped and is crowned as 'the king of the world.' "The goat-man that played such a key role in this performance bore a striking resemblance to Baphomet, which in recent decades has become one of the key symbols used to represent Satan in the occult community. So could it be possible that this entire ceremony was actually an Illuminati ritual that was intended to honor Satan? Don't pass judgment until you see the videos."

The tunnel winds through the Swiss Alps and is said to be a sterling example of European unity in an age of rising nationalism and closing borders.

To celebrate the accomplishment, a hair-raising ceremony was presented in front of dignitaries including Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, President Francois Hollande of France and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.

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Emerging from another train is what appears to be a fallen angel. Five orange-clad workers bow before it. The official interpretation is that these represent the five workers who died during the construction of the tunnel.

A man dressed as a horned goat then appears and takes over as master of ceremonies, dancing with the others to the rhythmic beat as they pay him homage.

It was enough for one blogger at VigilantCitizen.com to react saying the "dramatic displays" were "reminiscent of dramas re-enacted in secret society rituals."

There is "something very New World Order" to this militaristic portrayal of the working force, the blogger adds. "As the drums get more rhythmic, the workers get more excited, dancing around and jumping through loops."

Once outside, the ceremony got even stranger. As people bow down to the goat-man, an image appears of a circle of eyes watching over them.

One Christian missionary contacted by WND said he didn't wish to comment on the ceremony because it was "weird and stupid. Does it mean the 'global elite' all worship Satan? No. The article is as dumb as the ceremony itself."

Others weren't as dismissive.

"If there was not actual video footage of this reported occult event, it would be a hard story to believe," said Carl Gallups, a Christian author and radio host who also pastors a church in Florida.

He said the ceremony was clearly demonic.

"People have been writing and warning the Christian world of the truth of this growing demonic phenomenon for years. Before the age of ubiquitous Internet exposure these kinds of rituals and ceremonies were still being performed, but it was much easier to keep them hidden – for select eyes only. But now they are being exposed before the world."

Gallups, author of "Be Thou Prepared" and "Final Warning," said the New Testament repeatedly warns Christians of the coming "demonic outpouring" of the last days.

"Jesus said it would be 'just like' the Days of Noah and the Days of Lot (Sodom and Gomorrah). I believe we are now in those days," he said. "In watching this 'dedication ceremony,' one can almost imagine what the streets of Sodom must have looked like in the days of Lot."

And it's growing more common.

Mirrors Super Bowl halftime shows

Much of that on display in the tunnel-dedication ceremony mirrors what many believe occurred in the last several Super Bowl halftime shows, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics, Gallups said.

"We are watching the open, demonic mocking of the Word of God and the ultimate authority of Jesus Christ, which is soon to come," he said.

Cultural decay on full display

Joel Richardson, author of "When A Jew Rules the World," and the "The Global Jesus Revolution" as well as New York Times bestseller "The Islamic Antichrist," said the ceremony is just one more sign of the times.

"The decay of popular Western culture continues at a rapid pace. The vacuum created when any nation turns away from the one true God of creation, the God revealed in the Bible, is this kind of absolute nonsense," Richardson told WND. "Not only was it perverse, but as a performance it was abominable."

It is exactly as Paul the Apostle warned of long ago, Richardson said.

"Since the time the world was created, God’s invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen by everyone. But they choose to deny it," he said. "The result is their hearts become darkened, and while professing to be so smart, they become fools and begin worshiping men or birds or, 'four-footed animals and crawling creatures,' such as goats. Worse yet, because they refuse to acknowledge God, He Himself has given them over to all forms of sexual perversions."

Gallups said social media gives the demonic a bigger stage from which to spread its allurement and message to the nations. We saw similar media coverage of a satanic Baphomet statue in Detroit last year.

He said there is not necessarily "more" evil in the world today, but it now has a bigger microphone.

Revelation 12:12 warns the ramping up of such blatantly satanic activity will occur as the time draws nearer to the return of Christ.

" ... Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short."

Direct targeting of Christians

"These things have always been among us and, according to the Bible, will grow worse and more prevalent as the Day of the Lord draws nearer," Gallups said. "So will the open mocking of our faith. And the direct targeting of Christians will grow stronger as well.

"We are already experiencing directed targeting of Christians in the United States at the hands of the radical gay agenda and the White House transgender bathroom, shower and locker room order, aimed at millions of America's children and families."

The bottom line is that Christians are involved in a great spiritual war, he said.

"And we are now 'testing whether this nation, or any other nation, so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.' It is time for America's pulpits and pews to wake up and re-engage. We have been called to be the salt and light, not to hide in a corner and not make our voices heard. If we don't shine the light, the darkness will overwhelm us. If we refuse to be the salt, we will be 'trampled under foot.'"