Edition 24. 1st January 2010

In this edition:

●Preparing for Messiah.

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Preparing your heart and mind for the soon coming of our Lord

I'm not really into new year's resolutions, but there is something to be said for picking a point of identification for new things in life. Time is short, so the sooner we all get radical in our pursuit of the Lord, the better. The word radical comes from the root word radix, which means "to go to the root"

I can assure you dear reader, that my aim and objective in these editions is not to prove myself right and others wrong or to impress with any fancy words. It is to help you in whatever way possible to be right with God and be ready for Him at His coming. These are all eternal issues with eternal consequences!

God's plan for you in perilous times:

Some things are unique for each individual while others are universal. In this edition I'll deal with the more general issues.

Perilous times are here and will intensify greatly from here on. But you need to have something other than what is all around us as a measure. if your standard of comparison is the icy-cold average church today, then you are in grave danger! "If you compare yourselves among yourselves you are not wise" - 2 Corinthians 10:12

If your standard of measure is what you think and what the world is saying and doing, you are on a slippery slope to hell. You see, the world is moving. The Bible talks about the "course of this world". Its moving at great speed ever further away from God. If your Christian life is essentially no different to the world, you are a monumental failure and a fast growing one at that. You will then be moving, on course with the world away from God.

Whenever I see a funeral and hear the sobbing and wailing, I wonder where that person in the coffin is now. People at funerals always pick on the good things to say. "What a wonderful person he was". Nothing wrong with that, But at death you meet God. What's important is what He says, not the people left behind! Their words are powerless. God will say either "Well done good and faithful servant" or "depart from Me into hell" Imagine the regret, the OOPS of discovering that your whole life was on the wrong course and wasted.

No one ever said on his death bed, that he has spent too much time studying the Bible and preparing himself for God.

God has a plan for every human on earth and it's not His fault if people won't come to Him and go His way.

God's plan for you is to be a leader! Yes all of you. No not a leader in the normal sense, but a leader of your own life. He wants you to lead your life led by His Spirit, to glory and not to be a follower of the world! Be careful of being a dumb sheep of the world and a stupid traditionalist!

I once (actually eight times) read a wonderful book by A.W. Tozer called "The set of the sail" It's all about how you need to set and constantly adjust the sail to move forward. You need to set the sail in a particular way to move forward against the winds of this world. The easy way is to do nothing and go with the wind, but your end will be a big nasty surprise to you!

The necessity of solitude:

Eagles never fly in flocks, they fly alone. The Bible uses Eagles as a type for believers in a few places. Deep divine fellowship with our God of glory can only be experienced by you alone as you separate yourself to Him. People who forsake the world's ways and abandon themselves as they push, alone into the presence of God, are those that are romanced by Him and come out forever changed.

I'm not talking about independence from God, just the opposite in fact; but I am talking about spending a time removed from all the noise of the masses and opinions of people. You can't live on second hand revelation for long.

You can't hear the voice of God for yourself in the midst of multitudes of voices. Single mindedness with our Lord comes in our own private faith.

Another important factor relating to solitude with God is that it teachs us to shut-up and listen to Him. It sets our focus on Him alone. The busier you are the more hectic your world. You can only really bow your life to God when you see Him as He is and you can take no one with you to do this.

A.W. Tozer said this: "Stay in the secret place until the surrounding noises begin to fade and God's presence envelops you."

Psalm 91:1 "He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty"

God's presence is in the "secret place" you can only go there alone. This is where you will find the "path of life" and receive visions of eternal glory?

●Moses was most affected as he spent time alone with God separated from the people. Even his face was 'burned' with glory!

●Jacob wrestled alone with God. He was 'branded' by that encounter, which saw him physically impacted for the rest of his life. This encounter saw his name being changed to Israel and resulted in him dying to the old as he moved in a new dimension with God afterwards. He became the forefather of Israel.

●As Daniel separated himself alone to God, he received spectacular celestial visions, full of incredible meaning even for our day.

●Yeshua / Jesus Himself often separated Himself alone unto God in the desert. In fact He fasted alone for 40 days before His ministry began.

●Paul had deep encounters alone with God. In fact, after salvation, he spent 14 years alone in the desert before his ministry began.

●John spent his last days alone on the island of Patmos, where he sought after God with great zeal. This resulted in more amazing, incredible visions from the heart of God than anyone in history has ever had.

No one can do this for you, you need to press into the presence of God alone. This is the way to the place of perfect peace. This is the place of transformation. People can give you information and even inspiration, but only a lone divine encounter can really transform you and leave you forever gloriously changed.

A single glimpse through the prison windows of this world to eternity has life-changing power. You can only do this in the solitude of your own faith.

The Christian life is a journey pictured in the feasts of the Lord. We go from Passover (salvation), through Pentacost (filled with the Sprirt) to Tabernacles, which represents being in His presence.

The richness of God's experiences for us doesn't end at Pentecost. After Pentecost comes Tabernacles!

On the other side of the solitude coin is fellowship and relationship with other believers. This is essential in terms of balance. But be careful, don't think you will advance with God if you are in close, friendly fellowship with a bunch of half- baked believers, in love with the world and its ways.

What is needed is a clear distinct separation in terms of time between fellowship with people and fellowship alone with God.

It's a good idea to seek out some radical believers, who are seriously intent on seeking the Lord no matter what and relate to them.

The single life:

The Bible exalts the single life. There are very many very successful singles in the Bible. Here are some of them: Yeshua / Jesus, Paul, Daniel, Jeremiah and many others. Marriage is for the majority, but there is much to be said for the single life.

By way of testimony, in 1980 I set my heart after our Lord in a new way. Through much prayer and fasting, the Lord impressed upon me and birthed in me the desire to be single. I set my life then in dedication to Him as a single. But it came with great pressure from people who had no understanding of this. Celibacy is a gift and calling from God. It's a glorious life. Of course marriage can be successful as well.

Here is an interesting discourse. 1 Corinthians 7: 26- 33 "Because of the present distress its good for a man to remain as he is. If married don't seek to be loosed, if single don't seek to be married. If you marry you haven't sinned...but I say this, time is short...I want you to be without care, he who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord and how he may please the Lord."

The implication in the above portion of scripture is that the closer we get to the coming of the Lord the more we should be concerned with doing his will and being single really sets you free to do this.

Mathew 19 speaks of the fact that single life can be by birth, calling or choice!

If you're not called to be single and want to by choice, God will come into your life like a flood and fill the gaps. He will be your partner in a special way, I can testify to that.

By the way, the 144,000 of the Revelation, who will impact the whole world with their ministry, will all be singles. (Revelation 14: 4 and 7:4-8)

The issue here is that to be right with God at His coming, you need to be in your right calling. You need to know it and walk in it.

Please don't send me emails, I'm not against marriage. This is just for those few who want to be free to do God's will un-restricted as they see the soon coming of the Lord.

Young people out there, this may not be easy; but let me tell you that a life of calculated, deliberate abstinence is the way to a powerful life! You'll be able to live a life without the stress of regret and become the apple of God's eye! He will use you and reward you.

Know your Bible:

As we get closer to the Revelation of our Messiah of glory, we need to be ready. Weather we go in the rapture, stay here or die first, we are very near to our Lord's coming. The way to be right with God is to have a soft and broken heart before Him and to know your Bible backwards. We need both. The Bible itself will help greatly in our transformation. It'll help us transform our way of living. Die without its influence and you'll regret it forever!

Very few people today take the Bible seriously. They play with it. They're enslaved to nice Christian fun and games and they worship the world. Actually you're a giant fool if you play with a two edged sword! If you have the Bible deeply rooted in your heart you are free from any and all enslavement.

The Bible is alive and eternally wise, it will never reveal its secrets to the, the casual enquirer, the curious, the irreverent, or the sceptic. To them it's a hidden, dark, confusing mystery. This is one of the divine qualities of the Bible. You can't know it or hear its voice outside of its spirit or its requirements. "The things of the Spirit are spiritually discerned", says the Bible.

The Bible is the only book in the world that certainly and accurately plots the future for the world and all those who will be ready for heaven. It's the only book in the world that gives you and I the way into the future and spells out the peril of going the wrong way. It's the only way to real deep peace with purpose.

You don't need to know everything in the Bible, but there is much that you dare not misunderstand.

I must say in my own pursuit of my God and the more I've studied His Word in the last 30 years or so, the more I've had untold peace in my heart. It's also left me with an ever growing understanding that there is a whole new world out there.

If you are approaching your spiritual life correctly it will have Godly results.

The Bible declares that those who are ready, will be rewarded. These rewards are eternal. In eternity we will all be different. Yes, we will be equal in terms of the foundation of salvation, but some will scrape in by the skin of their teeth and have their futile works burned up like fire hitting straw. Others will be like those adorned with gold and jewellery and wear crowns of glory forever. Some will have great authority relating to future worlds, kingdoms and other places in the universe!

Did you know that there is special eternal reward given only and exclusively to those that look for the coming of our Messiah.? Here it is 2 Timothy 4:8 (amp) "Now there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, for being right with God, which the Lord the righteous judge will give me on the great day; but not only to me but all who have loved and yearned for and welcomed His return."

If you don't know your Bible in this time, you are in much greater danger than you can imagine.

Dr. Derek Prince:

There's a lot to be said for 'last words'. I want to share with you a very interesting true story. Brother Derek Prince, whom I consider one of my spiritual fathers, died at about 90 a few years ago. He was arguably the greatest Zionist Christian of modern times. He was British, with his ministry headquartered in the US, but he lived in Jerusalem. He had an extremely profound, radical and prolific ministry, which started in the Second World War. He was loved, adored and hated by the traditionalists. Thousands of people carried his coffin down the streets of Jerusalem. I actually met him in the 1970s.

Just before he died, a US senator visited him and asked him what he believed was the main thing God was doing now. Brother Derek struggled for breath and said, " He is restoring Israel and the Jews and starting to judge the nations of the world. He then slipped into eternity.

Many times I have been left with his profound words ringing in my head for ages afterwards. When I heard this, these words rang loud and clear and still are!

If God is starting to restore the Jews and Israel now, be very sure that the nations of the world will determine their own destiny by how they respond to God's work. This principle is just as valid for the individual.

If I may add one thing to Brother Derek's words: The Bible declares that judgement begins in the house of God. So yes God is restoring Israel, starting to judge the nations AND He is now starting to judge the church. Part of His judgement on the church (only the lukewarm and non-spirit filled churches) is to withdraw His Spirit and let them continue in their own strength motivated by the spirit of the world.

The leadership of many churches today IS the judgement of God on lukewarm Christians!

This entire issue of the salvation of the Jews and the land of Israel on the one hand and replacement theology on the other hand will be a fence of division rising higher and higher. Those on the side of Gods work will go on in glory, while those on the other side will grow in deception as they work for and with the devil.

If ever there was a man who was ready to step into eternal glory it was this man. In a future edition I'll share amazing key points within the testimonies of a few men of God who dramatically impacted the world. (None will be modern living preachers)

I encourage you to study the teachings of Derek Prince. There is a link to his material under the "links" button.

Truth and error:

If your church is into replacement theology or neutral towards these things, it and its pastors need to fear greatly what is coming upon them. On the other hand when you fear God, and His entire Word, you have nothing else to fear. The fear of God gives you confidence and contentment.

Let me share this with you. I know an individual, a pastor, who says he loves the Jews. But when asked what he thinks of the basic human rights of the Palestinians to a part of Israel and Jerusalem, he says; "yes of course they have these rights. This is the world's roadmap to peace" he says.

Incredibly, this is exactly the sort of absolute cow dung that is so prolific today. He knows that the Bible says something about the Jews somewhere, so he proclaims this like a sort of insurance policy. He knows very well, all about human rights. These he exalts above God. This pastor has set himself up as God's judge! What a big surprise he has coming soon!

Of course I'm not against human rights generally, but where they conflict with God's rights, guess which one to chose?

Many church leaders will not be ready for the Lord at His coming. They will be found working with and for the devil in disguise, promoting the ways of the world. The shocking thing is that the implication within the Laodicea church of Revelation chapter three, is that huge amounts of churchy people will be spewed out of the mouth of the Lord like vomit! It's not just a few.

There is coming a time very soon where the pressures on Israel will intensify dramatically. Much of the church will stand against Israel with the forces of darkness. Will you? When the pressure is on, will you identify yourself with Israel and God's work? I know I will.

God may well use the hatred of Islam to drive Bible believing Christians and Jews closer together in the days ahead. Islam has a an eternal hatred for both the Jews and Bible believing Christians. Please read edition 16 for a liberating detailed view of this. Israel is now beginning to recognise more and more that its true eternal friends are Messianic Bible believing Christians.

Benjamin Netanyahu, the President of Israel, who is also on the board of Christians United for Israel (link above left) recognises this and has often said exactly this.

You can never be right with God while being wrong in the major, big, foundational doctrines of the Word of God. Jeremiah 15:16 "When I discovered your words, I devoured them and they became my heart's joy and delight."

I know an individual who has been a believer for many years. He always battles with worldliness. He doesn't own a Bible!

The key of David:

The book of Revelation is the Revelation of Jesus Christ and it has within it the revelation of the body of Christ. God presents His view of the church. God's entire summation of the church is contained in the seven letters in Revelation chapters two and three. The message to the church of Philadelphia is the only one with not one word of condemnation and has only commendation. It's worth taking note of what God thinks of the church in these letters.

If you have any interest in following our Lord and being ready for Him, you should seriously consider this letter. Use it as a measure or standard. Don't bother about what this person or that says about this church or that. Consider God's view! You may stand before your church leadership now, but you WILL stand before God, answerable to Him soon. He judges according to His Word and not according to your church's word.

Here are some incredible and wonderful keys to glorious success with God. These are the issues that define a successful church, from God's point of view. These are the ingredients that you need to be right with God and ready for Him. They are found in  the message to the church of Philadelphia in Revelation 3: 7-13

●The big thing about these believers as opposed to others is that they are associated by God with the key of David and as a result, our Lord says that He sets before them "an open door, which no one can shut"

The "key of David" is further described in Isaiah 22 :20- 23  This key refers to the unlocking of the wisdom of David and the scriptures in general, but also relates to authority. This key refers to those who "are a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah" In other words these believes are identified with the Jews and Israel. These are they who will have a compassionate involvement with the Jews and this great end time move of God. Jeremiah speaks of this in chapter 33: 14-16 saying "I will fulfil My gracious promise which I made to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah...In those days Judah will be saved."

Can you see it now? These believers are the ones, who will see with God's prophetic eye what He is doing in Israel, Jerusalem and with the Jews. This is a Messianic church with an Abrahamic, Hebraic expression. THE KEY OF DAVID OPENS THE DOOR THAT NO ONE CAN SHUT! No one can shut the work of God; people can only destroy themselves trying to.

Do you want to be ready for our Messiah when He comes? Good, me too. We need to be doing what He is doing and working with Him. Remember that neutrality actually sets you against our Lord's work. Our Lord says that "if you are not with and for Me you're against Me."

This powerful Godly church is further identified with the following characteristics.

●"You have little strength" This implies that "self" has been crucified and defeated by the application of the cross by these believers. Self - strength and human effort has been brought down. "It's not I that live but Christ" "I must decrease and He must increase."

●"You have kept My word and not denied My name." This implies that these have studied and devoured the Word of God and keep it in their hearts. They are singular in belief, with the gods of this world kept out.

●These reject those of the "synagogue of Satan". These would be the rabbinical Jews who reject Yeshua / Jesus. It also implies that they know the difference, meaning that they have a Messianic, Abrahmic expression.

●These are commended a second time for keeping the word of God "You have kept My word to persevere". They are told that they will be kept out of the "hour of trial that will come upon the whole world to test it" The original words used here are very enlightening. "Kept out" actually means kept completely clean out away from. and the "hour of trial' is a reference to the tribulation period."

●These believers are informed that they will be made a "pillar in the temple of God" A pillar holds up the whole building! Talk about a success!

This church is contrasted in a most horrific way with the next church in Revelation 3, called the church of Laodicea. This word comes from two root words meaning people and opinions. This is the self motivated and opinionated church. These are the ones who are lukewarm to the things of God and His word. They are mixed with worldliness and end up being spewed out of the Lords mouth. You can read more about the seven churches in edition 11.

To be ready for Our King of glory at His coming involves knowing and following our Messiah and His word; all of it!

When is the Lord coming?:

I would encourage you to read edition 9, which has a lot more on this subject. Our Lord is coming soon. There are so many issues all dovetailing together now. It is very likely that 2011 may be the start of the tribulation. If it isn't, we are still instructed to look for His coming. Titus 2:12, 13 "Denying ungodly and worldly lusts we should live soberly, righteously and godly...looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our Lord and God." We need to be ready and looking all the time. We are commanded to know the signs of the times.

You see, if you get run over by a bus tomorrow, then the coming of the Lord arrives for you tomorrow! You have one day left to get ready! It's too late after the bus has moved off.

Summary:

●To be ready for the Lord means to be found doing what he has called you to do. This involves doing His work relating Israel. ●To have the cross applied to all areas of life and to have died to the world, the flesh and the demonic. ●The Bible says that the Lord is coming for a "spotless church, without blemish" ●The way to be ready is to know your Bible very well. ●Part of being ready involves "looking for His coming" ●Being ready involves cultivating a deep romance with our Lord in solitude. ●Find likeminded believers and relate to them regularly. ●You set your eternal "brightness" or "reward" state here on earth now. ●The greatest (in the truest sense of the word) greatest tragedy of all time for any person is to have a life wasted to the world when God arrives!

Isaiah 33:6 "Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times and strength of salvation; The fear of the Lord is His treasure." What an incredible verse of scripture! The original word 'stability' is the word for a gyro. A gyro is a fast spinning wheel which was used in the hull of ships. When set in motion it would keep the ship on course. Storms could come from this side or that, but the ship would stay on course. Gyros are used today in many direction finding instruments. Wisdom and knowledge of our great God and his Word is the way to stability in our times. The conditions of today are unstable to say the least. Many people are as unstable as a blind, one legged drunkard with a broken crutch. Sadly, many Christians too. But there IS a wonderful way to stability in our time. Added to the requirement of wisdom and knowledge is the fear of God.

Do you want to be ready for Him at His coming? Do you want to be "His treasure"? That's great, I do too. The way is to fear Him! "Ahh, come now Joel, that's old fashioned hogwash. Don't you know fear is no way to live?" Maybe so in the general sense, but not with God. Only those that have a good healthy fear of Him will move forward. In fact the very reason for the instability of the world is that it has no fear of Him. Here's the formula for glory: Wisdom, knowledge and the fear of God. That will make you a very valuable and eternal treasure and ready for heaven!!!!!

Heaven or hell:

I always loved your hairstyle Prof. Einstein, you were really different. I've always had a strong attraction to controversial people like you. Your brilliant insight into nuclear fusion was really behind the invention of the atom bomb. I think we're very close to seeing that blast onto the world scene again. You had such knowledge and wisdom; much more than most people, but did you understand the reality of heaven and hell? I know you believed in God, but did you fear Him enough to be your Jewish Messiah's treasure?  I know you were very critical of the church for its murderous history of the Jews at first. I'm with you on that! Then in 1940 you softened to the church, because it had started to allow intellectualism. But did you consider that brains can't save you? You know all about that now, don't you?  You knew that the Yeshua / Jesus is King of the Jews. But even the demons believe that and shudder at their destiny, says the Bible. So what's needed is more than an intellectual belief. Oy vey, Professor Einstein, where are you now, did you make a very big mistake in your life's calculation?

Hey, young girl, if brains couldn't save the old man next to you, why do you think that beauty can save you? "Well, I'm basically good" you say. Oh yes, well, that can't save you either. "Well, I don't believe a loving God would send me to hell". Oh yes, that won't change anything. "Well, I don't actually believe in God, you know". Do you seriously think that will make Him disappear? "Well I want to be happy, I'm still young". Do you know that what God offers you with salvation is much better than happiness? It's called joy and stays deep within your heart in happy times and unhappy times. Young woman, the winds of God's Spirit are blowing your way. Don't be so foolish as to ignore Him. You don't know when you will step into eternity. You need to be ready now. Once you get to your eternal destination, that's it...signed, sealed, delivered!

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In closing here is a painting by Marc Chagall representing God's defence of Israel. It is titled "The face of Israel" The original is a lithograph done in 1954. It shows the angel Michael with sword in hand defending Israel. In this day are you going to stand with Michael and Israel as the world comes against her? I know I will!

Kind regards and many blessings...Shalom and grow in grace!

Edition 23. December 26th 2009

In this edition:

●The power of the media

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The incredible power of the media

For the purpose of this article media is: TV, radio, print media, advertising, movies, social media, music and the Internet.

It influences everyone with few exceptions and is a major tool of both evil and good. Media has within it the power to lead untold millions to hell and to be a tool in the hand of our Lord for His purposes.

The media is essentially responsible for the shaping of the world through manipulation by the god of this world, Satan himself.

The world has drifted so far from God's ways in recent times its really shocking. 2 Timothy 3:1-4 prophecies this: "In the last days there will be perilous times for men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of Godliness, but denying its power, and from such turn away."

The incredible thing about the above passage is that every single word of that discourse perfectly fits almost every movie, soap opera, and bit of entertainment today. The tragedy is that the verse actually refers to so-called Christians and not the world at large. It's those that have a form of Godliness, but deny its power. What a clear description of non spirit-filled, worldly church goers today!

In the tribulation period, and yes professing Christians who aren't born again, will be here on earth, that's for sure, a group of young, single, Jewish men (only) will lead a world revival to rival them all. These young virgin-guys will follow the Lord blindly, they'll be those that speak only truth and they'll be pure and holy, without fault!! You can read about them in Revelation 14: 1-5, with a further description identifying them in Revelation 7:1-10

"What" you say, "you mean God will use a bunch of 'pure' young Jew boys, who don't even know what's on at the movies, and not us!" "Don't you know, we celebrate Chrissmiss and Easter!" "We're worldly wise, we know all about the Hollywood celebrities and we know who's having sex with who on TV". "We keep up with the world, after church we go to the movies and watch and listen carefully to the foul language and blasphemy, (and then proclaim it good) we've even just seen the Michael movie!"

Dear Jewish reader, you need to know that no matter what the media says God is about to use you in a very powerful way. Right now as we speak, God is secretly raising up what will be a spiritual super-army. Yes that's right. People don't know that God has groups of people around who are already separated to Him in holiness...waiting. Now, its a secret hidden work, but these will burst onto the world stage soon.

The world's media has created a world perfectly in line with the character of its god, but it has also created a world of compromised self-orientated Christians who are essentially no different to the world. The reason is simply because they've never learnt what it is to be "crucified to the world." They've never even been taught it!

Today we're in a global wave of self indulgence, self absorbed pleasures, self seeking, greed and violence which has been propagated and disseminated by the mass media. There was a day not long ago when the media had some self-control in it as a result of strong Christian influences, now that's all gone, and the media is completely released from Godly influence. It now manifests the power behind it.

"Self seekers" are told in Romans 2:8 that they "won't obey truth, but will obey unrighteousness and will receive indignation, wrath, tribulation and anguish"

Daniel 12:4 -9 "Shut up these words and seal the book until the time of the end, many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall increase...These words are sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, made white and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly and none of them shall understand, but the wise will understand"

We are now in this time of an explosion of knowledge and information like never before, thanks to the various media. But note in the above verse that only one type of person really understands things and these are the wise (obviously, wise from God's point of view) The wicked are specifically told that they shall not understand what's going on. They will not see what is of God and what isn't. They will be unable to see the ever widening impassable gulf between the kingdom of this world and the Kingdom of God as they head for hell.

Media is all about mind control and its been overwhelmingly successful. Actually, to be more accurate, the spiritual power behind media is all about mind control. Most people are completely blinded to the presence of a big spiritual force, the devil himself lurking behind the media, intent on control.

Satan wants control. If he can get your mind, he's got access right into your heart and he's got you! You see, its not so much that the media has destroyed the morality of the world, its Satan behind the media at work. Its essentially a spiritual issue.

What the world is and how it works:

Its very important to understand what the world is and how it all works. God did not create the world. He created the earth. The world can be defined as the socio-political, economic, order residing upon the earth. It's like the adornment of the earth, which is all headed for destruction, to be replaced with the true new world order, soon!

Masquerading behind the world system is its power, Satan himself. He is the master of deception and camouflage.

The Bible uses the original Greek word 'kosmokratos' to describe Satan in the world. This word means 'world power'. There is another interesting Greek word, it is 'Hupokrites'. This word comes from ancient Greek theatre and is the name for the person who would come onto the stage to introduce the next act. If a tragedy he would wear an 'angry' mask. If the next act was to be a comedy, he would wear a smiley mask. We still have these associated with theatre today. This is the origin of the word hypocrite as well, but the word actually means 'the one behind the mask is not the same as the mask he portrays.

This is the big key to identifying the very nature of the world system. Satan is the deceiving, two-faced 'hupokrite' hiding behind masks of good and evil.

Satan comes as an angel of light. The world's media is blind to this and in fact blind to his existence and presence right in their own hearts.

Satan as the god of this world has a loud booming voice and its the media. The mass media is his voice pushing you always to conform to his ways. He wants to neutralise you as a believer and suck you into his world. He wants your mind and your thinking to be filled with his garbage. He wants you to be neutral to all the evils of the world. He does it gradually, bit by bit and he's very successful at it!

Here is a collection of powerful verses of scripture that speak absolute volumes:

2 Corinthians 4:4 "The god of this world (Satan) has blinded the minds of them that believe not"

2 Corinthians 6:17 "Come out from among them (the worldly) and be separate says the Lord and be removed from the unclean"

James 4:4 "Friendship with the world is enmity with God, whoever then wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God"

1John 2:15 "Do not love the world nor the things of the world, if anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him"

1 John 4:4 "You are of God little children and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world."

1 John 5: 4 "Whatever is born of God overcomes the world and this is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith"

1 John 5:19 "We know that we are of God and the whole world lies under the power of the wicked one."

How then can all of this be reconciled with John 3:16, which says that "God loves the world"? Good question, lets have a look at what this portion of scripture really says!

John 3:16-19 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life...He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, and this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light, because their works are evil."

Can you see it? Its conditional. God's act of love for the people of the world was the coming of The Light and the cross of Calvary. Reject it and you're in trouble. Outside of the cross, the world is doomed.

If you just take John 3:16 on its own, you're taking it out of its context which gives it a different (wrong) meaning. God does not love the world, in the sense of acceptance. His love was and is the offer of salvation. Read it again and re-read the verses just above it!

The gods of the media world:

The god of this world has created many gods in his image that are blindly worshipped today, even by the majority of Christians. The world of celebrity is a world of gods created by the media and its god, but devoid of truth, holiness and godliness except for a few who've been wonderfully saved.

Today many blind, deceived Christians worship the world of celebrity in a shocking way. Because of the status and fame behind celebrities, ignorant believers accept, receive and worship them as gods. Yes they are gods, but gods of evil, especially the Hollywood types.

What does it mean to be separate from the world (2 Corinthians 6: 17) ?

Obviously this doesn't mean physical separation like living as a pauper in a monastery. Although it often can involve physical separation for a time. Our Lord often went off alone into the desert for a time. Paul the apostle spent 14 years almost alone in the desert before his ministry really started.

It most certainly does mean physical separation from the evils of the world, unless of course you're going into some of those places for ministry purposes or something like that.

It doesn't mean living in poverty. God wants His people to be successful in what he has called them to do! This may involve being successful in business or with money, but being inwardly separate from the world in heart.

I does mean getting out of the unwinnable race to keep up with the Joneses, which the media constantly drives us to be participants in.

Separation from the world is essentially a heart issue. We are in the world but not of it and that's the key...being not of it!

Neither you, I, nor anyone can ever be separate from the world unless you can see it and the power behind it.

How to get victory over the world:

Galatians 6:14 "The world has been crucified to me and I to the world" This is THE answer. Its the cross. The application of the power of the cross breaks the power of the world and sets us free from its grip. Its the application of the cross and its power that gives us eyes to see the great gulf between the kingdom of the world and the kingdom of God. Its the application of the cross that gives us the power to move forward in new resurrection life.

Oh, and let me throw this in for good measure. The application of the cross into your life will make you strange in the world's sight! It will hate you as a result!

Romans 12:1 "Be not conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind" This portion of scripture relates to an ongoing work after salvation, but  it doesn't happen automatically. its an ongoing discipline that only comes by your choice. The word 'renew' should actually be translated 'exchange" Its an exchange of my old way of thinking for His.

Colossians 3:2 "Set your mind on things above and not on things on this earth." I've heard so many say things like: "He's so heavenly minded, he's no earthly good." Actually according to this verse, the truth is the opposite. You will be no good in God's hands unless you are heavenly minded!

To really be able to see the world and its power, you need to be a believer made and constructed God's way. He has set up the way to build your life. It involves going through three transitions. 1) The new birth, as a deliberate decisive act. 2) Adult water baptism, which is not infant sprinkling. That is a Babylonian occult practice introduced by the Catholic church. The original word baptism (baptismo) means to be immersed. It is used also in reference to burial. You immerse a dead person completely into the grave. There is not one single example of infant sprinkling anywhere in the Bible, while there are dozens showing adult baptism. Adult baptism is a type of dying to the world and being raised up into new resurrection life. 3) Baptism in the spirit as a deliberate act of choice in obedience to the Word. This immersion in the Spirit obviously gives us greater clarity of Spiritual sight.

These are like the three legs of a tripod. If one or more is missing it wont be long before you fall on your head. Its also the reason why so many Christians are so defeated by the world...they're incomplete in their very foundational make up.

Israel and the media:

The media has played a massive role in deceiving the whole world. The Satanic powers of the world media have portrayed the Palestinians as the rightful owners of the land. They are seen in the eyes of the world as poor victims of an evil aggressor. According to the devil, they are fighting for their land. The truth is the exact opposite. I'm not going to go into this subject here because I have covered it in many previous editions. The bottom line though is that God's truth will endure and the Jews will stand in their own land (all of it) and the Palestinians together with the armies of the world will be destroyed! How about that for a turn of events!

The world's "roadmap to peace is actually Satan's roadmap to false peace and will end in world war.

Its sort of enlightened self interest to go with the winning side you know!

Israel went from the Godliness to bondage and captivity and will finally return to Godliness. The world, with many religious types in tow, is now in the death throws of bondage and captivity to an empire of evil, destined for hell.

As far as Israel and the Palestinians are concerned, a pretty good rule of thumb is to take what the media says, reject it and apply the opposite! Put that in your pipe and smoke it CNN.

Personal testimony:

I've been involved in the media world all my adult life. I worked for top newspapers around the world covering everything from wars and conflicts to fashion and entertainment and just about everything in between. I've been shot at, shot and hit once, thrown in jails, dined with presidents and celebrities and lived in the fast lane with front row seats to the extremes of life. I was involved in the music world for years as well. I've also been involved in Christian documentary work, magazine work and the advertising industry. Today, I still have contacts with some generals and leaders of the armed forces of a few countries and keep a keen eye on the news, but only as it relates to prophecy or the Bible in some way.

In many respects I was really privileged to have my finger on the pulse beat of the world system and have been through more experiences than ten lifetimes. I've seen the extremes of the good, bad and ugly close up.

There did come a time when my Lord led me to step out of the news media world and separate myself to Him in a deeper way. This was in 1980, some four years after salvation. I then went into full- time Bible college. I've studied the Bible thoroughly and deeply since then and read it through cover to cover three times. I'm constantly amazed at just how inexhaustible it is. It always speaks freshly and gives new insights. It really is alive!

1980 was a monumental year for me. It marked the last time I went to a movie. I also broke completely from the entertainment and music world, which I was very much involved in. 1980 also marked the start of years of regular fasting in my pursuit of our Lord and His ways.

Now what I see more clearly than anything is that the hand of our great Messiah was at work leading me in all this time. He has given me eyes to see the power behind the world and its voice - the media, which I was so much a part of. I see so clearly how easy it is to influence people with words and images.

It was no accident that I spent my life in the media world. I see now that this has been the purpose and call of God as it all comes to His conclusion.

I can testify to the fact that standing separate from the world and its ways brings untold peace, satisfaction, rest and joy. Oh and did I mention it also makes you an oddball, but a glorious one! On the other hand being a Christian in love with the world brings stress, torment, unhappiness and slavery.

These are not fancy words to impress. They are real, so very real! I saw it just yesterday, as I met with an ex-girl friend, who is a half-baked believer, on the verge of suicide. She is one with the world and its ways and lives under a dark cloud of heavy stress.

An address to the critics:

I fully realise that there are many people who wont receive this message, but my responsibility isn't to people but to my God. In the soon-coming tribulation period, true believers will be removed and untold masses of professing non -born again Christians will be left. Many of them will get saved in the tribulation period. Many of those will be martyred. Many of the half-baked Christians anchored to the world will become the actual murderers and  persecutors of those that wont serve the god of the world. There will of course be an easy way to escape martyrdom and that's to simply go with the flow of this evil world, of course at immeasurable cost.

The media has been extremely effective in neutralising untold masses of Christians. Spineless pastors and deceived teachers are too chicken to stand against the world system these days. Many don't even know that they need to.

The days are becoming fiercely dangerous, deception and compromise with the world is everywhere, even in the midst of much of the church. Today believers really need some solid determination and spiritual guts to stand against the things of evil and to stand for the TRUTH.

I know that there are many who will grab the essence of this message and move forward with our wonderful Lord, but many won't because of their enslavement to the world through it's media and its god.

Galatians 4:16 "Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?"

Thankfully there is a growing number of believers who can see the division between the world and the Kingdom of God and have separated themselves in growing holiness to our Lord. It is these that God will use.

Summary:

The media will be used significantly in the coming of the antichrist and the setting up of world control by the new world order. It will play a pivotal role in all these things. The media will be the main force of manipulation, in the soon coming tribulation period. It will be involved in every single area.

Complete control is the desire of the devil. He is already well on his way to achieving this. The answer is to question things. Controllers don't like being questioned because it undermines their control, but this is what you need to do with almost everything media related. Question what the media says, don't accept it all blindly like an idiot. Don't be an average dumb sheep swallowing all the traditions of the world, question them all, from a Biblical perspective.

Today the world worships "ME NOW". If it feels right do it now! That's the way of the modern world, thanks to media and its god. Me now is actually the cry of Satanism, but the media has subtly infused it into the thinking of many Christians.

It takes a brave person to reject the influence of the media. In this day and age, it seems that the accepted, average thing to do is to become a Christian and add Jesus to all the idols of modern life. Just conform to the ordinary and average and don't rock any boats of traditional modern worldly thinking.

You can't add Yeshua / Jesus to a life filled with idolatry. if you try, it will be another Jesus that you have. If you don't stand for the pure truth, you'll fall for everything.

I vividly recall being shattered after reading a book by Watchman Nee, many years ago called "The normal Christian Life" It was so shocking to me because it presented a picture of normality that was a million miles from anything we have today. Thank you so much for that, Watchman! (By the way, you can read some wonderful quotes from him in edition 17)

You see, today. the normal Christian is filled with a mix of Christianity, paganism, devil worship, the occult and anything else the world says is acceptable.

There are huge pressures starting to intensify now, designed by the devil in disguise, to drag down believers and keep billions imprisoned to him.

Colossians 2:8 "Beware, lest anyone take you captive, through philosophy and deceit, according to the traditions of men, according to the basic principles of the world and not according to Christ." If this was written today here is what it would say:

My version "Beware lest anyone take you captive through the deceit of the world's media, according to its movies, TV, entertainment and traditions, which are according to basic principles of the world and not according to Christ."

The huge problem is that few can even see the devil behind the world. If you can't see the problem how can you fix it?

Let me close with a radical statement. If you want to be a successful believer in this day, you need to be able to see through the smokescreen of the media to the power behind it and be removed from its influence!  And likewise you need have spiritual eyes to see and know our Great King and Lord and His ways.

There is no substitute for the most powerful and glorious media work the world has ever had...The Bible itself. In these dangerous days it is needed more than anything else. Reading  and studying the Bible may seem old fashioned today, but it will fashion you well and prepare you for these days and for eternity. The cost of Bible-ignorance is far too high to contemplate.

Wise words:

Psalm 16:8 -11 "I have set the Lord always before me, because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved...You will show me the path of life; In your presence is fullness of Joy"

Heaven or hell:

Adriana, you've reached the pinnacle of your modelling career, in fact I've heard you being called a super-model. Well done, my friend! You know, I was also involved in your fashion world many years ago, I know it well. Let me give you some news: You're not going to stay so pretty for ever, but you are going to live forever. I see you're wearing a cross around your neck now. Interesting isn't it. Hey, you sultry-eyed Brazilian beauty, that little cross can't save you. I do know that you love our Lord, but have you actually made Him the Lord of your life yet? I would love to see you in heaven, I think we will meet again there!

Hi Anthony, its been a long time since we first met and had lunch together. You've had many amazing roles. You starred in The Ten Commandments, Jesus of Nazareth, you played one of the popes and the uncle of Mohammed. But, Zorba, did you make Yeshua/ Jesus your Lord before you died at 86? You now know that Oscar can't save you. Fame, fortune and being a nice guy won't get you to heaven. In fact there'll be many "great" people at the Great White Thorne Judgement. They all go to hell for rejecting the free gift of salvation. It would really be great if you're not at that Great White Throne event! I have a sneaking feeling that you are in heaven. We'll find out soon won't we.

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In closing here is a Gustave Dore woodcut impression of Lucifer being cast down to the world, where he became its deceptive god (and still is). This is one of a series titled 'paradise lost'. (Thanks to the Adelaide University Library)

Kind regards and many blessings...Shalom and grow in grace!

Edition 22. December 17th 2009

In this edition:

●Coming cataclysmic catastrophes

●Coming glorious global calm

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The judgement of God is close at hand, be warned!

The book of revelation is essentially THE revelation of our Messiah Yeshua / Jesus in His risen form. This is not a revelation of the suffering servant and lamb of God. It is a spectacular, wonderful, glorious revelation of our Messiah the Lion in all His Glory and Majesty.

The book is also a revelation of what it will take to bring an end to the wrath of the devil and the wrath of man against God. It reveals the wrath of God in the form of ever increasing waves of judgement one after the next. Amazingly God offers His hand of friendship to any who will repent along the way, and many will. Just as amazingly, much of humanity driven by Satan himself will not repent and bring doom upon themselves. John 3:19 "This is the condemnation that the light has come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light, because their works are evil"

The funny thing is that most people have an interest in the future and want to know what's coming, but few want to prepare themselves spiritually. This subject, although not nice, is a very powerful tool for evangelism, don't underestimate it!

God sometimes uses the environment and nature to bring about His purposes, but don't for one minute think that He is limited to the natural world. He is supernatural and many of the coming catastrophes upon this world will be purely supernatural and will come right out of the blue with no warning.

It's important to understand that God works with and deals with mankind in different ways at different times. Some people reject dispensationalism because it doesn't suit their pre-conceived ideas. But it is a Biblical truth. Hebrews 1:1 "God who in different dispensations of time, spoke in different ways..." We are now in the age or dispensation of grace or the longsuffering of God. The Old Testament was characterised by the demonstrative power of God in a monumental way. we don't see those sort of judgements now. The times of Noah, Lot, Babylon, Egypt and the exodus and others are examples of how God worked with mankind back then.

The Bible teaches that the seven year tribulation period is actually the culmination of the Old Testament. Daniel 9: 24. "Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and your holy city" The word used for "weeks" is the word shabua, which means group of seven. In context it is referring to weeks of years. This passage of scripture outlines a 70 x 7 year time period cut out in time for the Jewish people. It is divided into two periods one of 69 x 7 years and the final 7 years, also called the time of Jacobs trouble and the seven year tribulation.

The entire character of this seven year time period makes it distinctly part of the Old Testament, it has the same characteristics. This is why we see the most incredible waves of judgements hitting the world in the seven year tribulation. It would not be in God's character to do this now during the current age of grace.

This is one of the many reasons why the true church will not be here during this time of God's wrath. The Bible says "God reserves His wrath for His enemies."

The seven year tribulation period sees a return to the same sort of spectacular, severe judgements on the whole world that we saw in Old Testament times.

But in the time period running up to the tribulation (now) we will see small forerunners of these judgements but because we are still in the age of grace, these are minor in comparison to what's coming.

In this edition I've listed the tribulation judgements in the order in which they will roll out. Some will run the entire course of the tribulation and others not. These come in three waves of seven each. They are the: seven seal judgements, the seven bowl and seven trumpet judgements.

Some teach that the first three and a half years will be a time of peace. This is wrong. It will only be a time of political (deceptive) peace with Israel. The tribulation kicks off with a peace pact signed between the antichrist and Israel, but that's as far as it goes. Most of the judgements of the Revelation run throughout the tribulation and have a much wider scope than the peace pact with Israel.

There are many other portions of scripture throughout the Bible also dealing with these judgements. Some add other aspects or expand on them, but The Revelation lists most of them in order.

Why the catastrophes:

Before we get into this subject, its important to understand why they will come about. The Bible says that God does nothing unless He reveals it to His prophets first.

We need to understand that the coming catastrophes are essentially the final conflict of a spiritual battle. It began with Lucifer wanting what God has, which is worship. The battle went all the way through time and now reaches its culmination. Its also very important to know how Satan works. He always starts with gentle persuasion or manipulation. If he cant get worship and servant hood that way, he turns up the heat and works through intimidation and finally domination. We see this clearly when he offered Yeshua / Jesus the kingdoms of the world (which are his to give) if only He (Messiah) would bow down and worship him. When this failed he moved on to inspire the crucifixion of our Lord. 

The big overriding reason for the coming judgements is simply because when you break the laws of God, judgment follows. That's it in a nutshell, plain and simple. The good news for believers is that God's judgement has already fallen on Yeshua / Jesus at the cross and we who believe are no longer under judgement, but its a completely different story for the world. The whole world has and is moving further away from God's ways and purposes in rebellion to Him at an ever increasing rate, motivated by Satan himself.

God has set up various institutions for a strong nation under God. These are church, government and family. All three are falling apart fast, due to Satan's infiltration.

Its primarily the responsibility of the church to be the bastion of truth in the world. Today much of the church has moved very far away from this. The church has largely abdicated in its responsibility to the truth.

Many churches started off well, but as they grew bigger and bigger so they became more and more respectable and compromised with the world! Tolerance is one of the last evil virtues of a collapsing society. Much of the church, in its desire to become respectable and acceptable in the world's eyes has become tolerant of and relevant to the world and lost all traces of true Godly power. As a result, silently and unbeknown to blind pastors, a counterfeit power full of lying signs and wonders has crept in. The problem is that when a believer casts the truth down, he doesn't stay in a vacuum. The devil will always fill those gaps.

Today led by blind deceived leaders, much of the church regularly and ignorantly bows down to the great Satanic god Hollywood and worships at the shrine of the Satanic god of entertainment.

The collapse of those three institutions that God set up for a strong nation is one of the reasons why the devil is having his way.

Its the job of church leadership to keep the devil at bay, and to stay separate from the world. if they won't he will say thank you very much and walk right in camouflaged as an angle of light, which will end in judgement!

Matthew 5:13 "You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt loses its savour its good for nothing except to be cast out and trodden under foot."

Yes, today there is a growing uncompromised church of genuine truth. It stands separate from the world and its ways and the compromised church of today.

Its worth bearing in mind that the way to be right with God is this: You need to have a soft broken and contrite heart before Him and be right in doctrine. The two go hand in hand.

Over the years I've heard many ministers say "don't worry about doctrine." I've also heard many teach very little on the heart of man and plenty on keeping their little church doctrines. That's a sure way to get shipwrecked!

Anyway, the world is on a collision course with God. The coming judgements are a direct result of a compromised church and a world gone off into relativity where there are no absolutes any more.

Satan, the god of this world is using modern man to gain control of the political world, the economic world, the technological world and the military world. This full spectrum of world dominance will never come to complete fruition though, simply because God will destroy it all in its tracks.

Perhaps the greatest tragedy of all is that because much of the present-day church has cast down the "spirit of the truth" the "spirit of error" has flooded in, led by the prince of darkness (that's not Ozzy) The tragedy is that the antichrist will arrive on the world stage directly associated with the church! Untold millions perhaps billions will fall for his cunning deception. 1John 2:18 implies that he (the antichrist) "went out from us but was not of us".

God will very soon remove His true church ending the age of grace and will begin a deadly outpouring of the greatest worldwide judgements ever seen on this planet.

Israel:

Another very significant reason for the coming cataclysmic judgements on the world is because it has tried to interfere and change God's plan for Israel and the Jewish people. There is much about this in previous editions, so I won't go into it here.

A principle of judgement.

Judgement is only hated by the law breaker. If we didn't have the laws of the road, there would be anarchy on the roads. The purpose of the law is to keep us in check and maintain an environment of calm and peace. You could accurately say that when a criminal is thrown into jail, the environment is now a little bit better. Likewise the coming judgements and catastrophes are actually designed by God to cleanse the world and bring about His glorious new world!!!!

The judgement of God only comes when His longsuffering and patience has been tested to the limit. God will not strive with man forever - Genesis 6:3. God is slow to anger, but it does have a limit!

The coming cataclysmic judgements of God, seen in the Revelation

1)The seven seal judgements:

●The opening of these seals releases the four horsemen of the Apocalypse

The first horseman of the Apocalypse is the rider on a white horse. This speaks of the arrival in deception of the antichrist on the world stage. Satan himself will at this point enter and inhabit one individual person, who will be the head of a world government. He will come in on the wings of peace, making peace with Israel and the Arabs and bringing in a whole lot of incredible, brilliant plans, systems and ideas. The kingdoms of the world will gladly give their authority over to him as will the church headed by the antichrist's sidekick, the false prophet.

●Then comes the rider on the red horse. This seal releases world war and conflict. "He will take peace from the entire earth"

●The third is the rider on the black horse. This seal releases worldwide famine on a massive scale.

●The fourth is the rider on the pale horse. This seal releases a massive increase in death. The pale horse implies death from sickness, plagues, pestilence and disease, but not limited to that. This will see a fourth of the world's population dead. (A staggering amount)

●Then comes the mass martyrdom of those who get saved during the tribulation period. They are told to "wait a little longer until their blood is avenged."

●The sixth seal releases the most incredible geological and astronomical upheavals the world has ever seen. We see earthquakes, signs in the sun, moon and stars. We see stars falling to the earth. This speaks of a bombardment of many meteorites hitting the earth. So severe is this wave of judgements that many people including leaders, will try to hide themselves from "the wrath of the Lamb" They will wish to die, but death will escape them for now.

●The seventh seal releases a chilling, stunned silence in heaven. What follows is another wave of massive earthquakes and storms on earth.

2) The seven trumpet judgements:

These trumpet blasts release incredibly huge judgements on a massive scale on the earth.

●The first trumpet releases massive hail stones and fire on the earth which destroys one third of the trees and grass on the whole earth.

●The second trumpet sees a massive "mountain burning with fire" which falls from the sky into the sea. One third of the sea turns to blood as one third of all the fish are killed. One third of all ships are destroyed as well. This "mountain" is most likely an asteroid, much larger than the earlier bombardment of meteors.

●The third trumpet releases a "great star burning like a torch" falling to the earth. This is not the "great mountain" of the previous judgement. The fact that this one is called a "great star" means that it is even larger than the other. It contaminates one third of the rivers and waters on earth resulting in the death of "many" This star is called "Wormwood" which means bitterness. It will most certainly have deadly properties to it.

●The fourth trumpet releases a judgement which darkens a third of the sun, moon and stars, leaving a gloomy world.

●The fifth trumpet blast releases  a series of "woes", warned about in the previous one. The first woe sees the bottomless pit opened releasing a plague of demon led locusts. These will not be normal locusts, but animals with scorpion-like bites. They will be commanded not to destroy plant material and led only to attack humans who are not protected by God. They are led by a demon called "Apollyon", which means destroyer. This world-wide attack will be so severe it causes people to seek death, but it will be in vain. They will be prevented from dying. Some believe that these locusts are actually helicopters because of some similar descriptions. This is not so. These will be supernaturally charged, demon led insects of some sort. They may in fact be manifesting demons.

●The sixth trumpet or second "woe" releases four demons that  make way for an 'army' of 200 million. This is perhaps not a literal army, but an army of demon spirits who were previously bound. It doesn't really make much difference who or what they are, the end result is that a third of the world's remaining population is killed by them. One fourth of the world has already been killed and untold millions in other judgements, now we have another third of the remainder being killed. We now have up to about 60% of the world's population dead. Incredibly the Bible declares that even now, the remainder still refuse to repent!

●The seventh trumpet is the final "woe". As heaven begins to rejoice, because we are nearing the end, the last earthquakes and some more great hail is released.

3) The seven bowl judgements:

These judgements release the final "wrath of God" on the earth and are purely supernatural.

●The first is the release of foul and loathsome sores upon all who had previously received the "mark of the beast".

●The second judgement kills every single living thing in the sea.

●The third judgement sees all of the rivers, lakes and waters of the earth, turned to blood.

●The fourth judgement sees the heat being turned up. Supernatural power now turns up the temperature of the sun to such a degree that humans are "scorched with great heat" The result is that the remaining people "blaspheme" God because of their pain.

●The fifth judgement speaks of darkness falling on the kingdom of the antichrist. People  are inflicted with great pain and "they gnawed their tongues because of the pain"

●The sixth judgement now sees the river Euphrates dried up to prepare the way for an army of 200 million men from the east who are preparing to invade Israel. This ends in Armageddon.

●The seventh judgement releases the greatest earthquake ever seen on the earth topped with massive hailstones the size of large rocks. This earthquake re-arranges much of the earth, destroying many island, cities and mountains.

The coming fiscal fiasco:

Early in these shocking judgements (perhaps before the tribulation starts) will come a world economic crisis to put them all to shame. This will lead to a world stock market melt down, wiping out untold trillions of dollars in a flash, preparing the way for world economic control by the antichrist.

The world economic melt down that we saw recently will be a Mickey Mouse event compared to what's coming. Oil and the Arab world will play a major part. The short version is this: For the antichrist to gain control of the world's economy he will have to destabilise it first.

When you can no longer service your debt, you're finished that's it...over. The USA and Europe are empires of growing monumental debt. Like a house of cards or a house built on sand it will all fall down. Talking of building on the sand Dubai is interesting. It now has the tallest building in the world, just like the tower of Babel was at the time. Dubai wants to become a world financial capital, just like Babylon was. Dubai is building a massive hanging garden, just like they did in Babylon. Now, I'm not saying that Dubai is Babylon, but its most certainly a type! It's now on the verge of bankruptcy.

The world's a lot more dependant on oil than most believe and it seems that God has planned it so that most of the oil is in Arab / Islamic control. It's within their financial interests to keep trade going, but as soon as the pressure is really on, through war or something like that, they could easily restrict supply sending the oil price into orbit and crippling the world economy.

Either way, the antichrist will come up with the most brilliant plan ever conceived and devised to bring the world economy into a system of control involving the "mark of the beast" It is very likely that we could see a fresh push for a single world currency soon.

James 5:1 "Go now you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that will come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, your gold and silver is corroded...you've heaped up treasures in the last days".

The big banks of the world will be right at the forefront of the devils new system. Its worth bearing in mind that the banking system was birthed in Babylon. God destroyed it and will again destroy revived worldwide Babylon, which is seen all over the place especially in religious circles. (See previous edition) There has been much talk of bailing out banks that are too big to fail. We will soon see the opposite. Many banks will become so indebted they we will be too big to save!

There is a fiscal  hurricane coming upon the world soon!

Summary:

Most of the above judgements look like something out of a science fiction novel. The reason is simply because we have seen nothing like it at all in the last 2000 years or dispensation of grace. But you only need to look further back to the Old Testament judgements to see that this is perfectly in character with God.

Those worrying about climate change are barking up the wrong tree. Those worrying about global warming are sweating the wrong stuff. That's all a waste of time! What is coming will dwarf anything the world has ever seen. The inconvenient truth is simply that mankind will be totally and completely powerless to do a single thing to prevent what is coming soon.

These cataclysmic judgements will wipe out about 60% of the worlds population. That's about 4 billion people perhaps more, depending on the world population size now. If we are close to 7 billion now then 60% will be just over 4 billion. The Bible does declare in various places that these judgements will be far worse than anything the world has ever seen.

My friends, it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of an angry God! Now of course you can put your head in the sand like an ostrich and say, "please don't give me all these scare tactics, don't you know a God of love would never do anything like this" Well you can reject it all, but that will change nothing at all except perhaps to make your own situation worse and increase your own guilt!

You can also say, like most do; "nobody knows the time, all thing will carry on as normal" These people are called "last days mockers" in Jude 18 and "last days scoffers" in 2 Peter 3:3

Ten to one, the true living born-again church, including the Messianic Jews who have recognised that Yeshua / Jesus is Lord, will not be here during this time period, so we will escape it.

So, when will this all happen? I would encourage you to read edition 9 on page three for a very interesting view on timing. Don't take that edition lightly, these think could well begin in 2011! I also deal with the command of God to know the time in edition 9.

Cool, calm, collected peace is coming soon.

Habakkuk 3:2 "In Your wrath remember mercy"

God will shake everything that can be shaken and everything that mankind puts their trust in. But the catastrophes have within them the mercy of God. No one can stop the soon coming renovation of this earth, but people can stop the judgement coming upon themselves, as individuals, by turning to the free gift of salvation offered in the midst of the trouble.

Right now we are in the calm before the most powerful tumultuous storms the world has ever seen. But immediately after the storms, will come a calm and peace brought down on the earth and transforming it supernaturally by our Messiah.

The dramatic conflict of the ages between Satan and God will soon and finally come to a shocking and incredible climax, with the world going through a baptism of fiery judgements resulting in a new world of calm, peace, love, joy and glory.

Gods glorious eternal purpose is to bring about a millennium of calm and peace and the restoration of the earth to the way it was always supposed to be before the fall in Eden. His purpose is to remove in judgement all evil, rebellion and everything rooted in Satan. He will do and complete this after all of His grace has been rejected.

Revelation 11:15  "The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ and He shall reign forever and ever."

Paradise lost will become paradise restored, but only for those who accept His offer of forgiveness and respond accordingly. All others are destined for cataclysmic catastrophes and then hell eternal.

Heaven or hell:

Old man you died at 110 years old, what a long life! But you're going to live a lot longer now that you're in eternity! What did you do with your life here on earth? Did you prepare yourself for eternity? As you now know, you can't reverse or change your destiny, it's too late now. Did you make Yeshua / Jesus the Lord of your life while you had the opportunity? You know all about the reality of heaven and hell now don't you?

Young girl, if the old man next to you could speak to you now from his eternal habitation, do you know what he would say to you? I can almost hear him pleading and pleading and pleading, with tears of urgency, saying "get saved fast" He is crying for you!  You still have time, what are you going to do with it? What you do with the salvation offered to you, will determine whose neighbourhood you're going to hang out in forever!

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In closing here is Gustave Dore impression of the riders of the Apocalypse. (Thanks to the Adelaide University Library)

Kind regards and many blessings...Shalom and grow in grace!

Edition 21. December 10th 2009

In this edition:

●The damage done to the Jews by the evils of Christian traditions

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Christmas and Easter are designed by the devil to keep the Jews from the church!

The overall purpose of this edition isn't to come against the Catholics or others, but to come against the traditions that have put a stumbling block in the way of the Jews and to encourage any who dare to do so, to break from their traditions and set theirs hearts after our Lord with a fresh, pure zeal and passion. Of course I do have irreconcilable differences with the Catholics, but as said, that's not the central purpose here.

It is a very powerful thing when a Christian apologises to a Jew for the damage the church has done to them in times past. It opens doors which have long been been shut as a result of evil Christian action and tradition.

In fact the Catholics have killed more Jews than Hitler, in their history. Don't be so naive as to think that the Jews at large don't know this. Many Jews will spit before walking into a church building due to all the death and hostility inflicted upon them by the Catholic church and others in times past.

It's a fearful thing to lay stumbling blocks especially those that originate in "the depths of Satan" in front of God's people. God has warned against it. "My servants have been beguiled by the false prophetess Jezebel" Rev 2:20 This is in the letter from God to the church at Thyatira, which relates to the Catholic church. It goes on to identify the strong influence of idolatry and adultery as influencing factors of corruption and unfaithfulness originating in "the depths of Satan"

Israel has fallen into the trap of idolatry many times in her past history, she does not need another dose of idolatry inflicted upon her from the church, just when the Jews are starting to recognise that Yeshua / Jesus is their Messiah!

The rebellion and disobedience of the Jews led to the Babylonian captivity around 600 BC. This saw them becoming filled with pagan and occult practises of the time and place. BUT after repentance the Babylonian captivity ended with the return to Israel and the rebuilding of the temple according to the exact truth of Gods measurements.

The return from the Babylonian exile speaks of repentance and the rebuilding of the temple speaks of following God and going His way in truth.

The Catholic church is still enslaved to Babylon. Why would the Jews want to go into another modern-day captivity!!

Interestingly there is not one single item or thing in the Vatican or St Peters or in any of their traditions that originate in the Jewish temple. There is plenty (almost everything) that has its origin in Babylon!

Mark 7:8-13  "Laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the traditions of men...all too well you reject the commandment of God that you may keep your tradition....making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down.

Deuteronomy 18: 9-22 "When you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you (the Jews), you shall no longer learn to follow the abominations of those nations...you shall be blameless before the Lord."

Jeremiah 10: 2 "Do not learn the way of the Gentiles". 27: 9 "You shall not serve the King of Babylon."

So many traditions in the church have become part of 'normal life' They are accepted without question. I fully realise that I will be seen as an enemy of those who cling to their traditions blindly. The problem is that all of the traditions I am referring to in this edition are rooted in Babylonian occult worship.

I have heard many say, "That all doesn't matter because we sanctify the secular by our involvement". Apart from that being a statement right out of the heart of Satan himself, it's just so stupid and short sighted. Why on earth would you want to participate in something that is rooted in witchcraft, forbidden by God and cursed from beginning to end?

Besides all of that, let me now really make the traditionalist angry!

Christmas, Easter, the dress of Catholic leadership, the sun worship of the Catholics and their past close association with the swastika and many other pagan practises have a very dangerous tragic consequence. They are all major obstacles in the way of the Jew coming to salvation and entering the church.

The Bible declares that gospel is to go to the Jew first and then the Gentile! Now, again I realise that this may sound like blasphemy to many, but here it is in black and white: Romans 1:16 "The gospel is the power of God to salivation for everyone who believes to the Jew first and also for the Greeks."

There are literally hundreds of other portions of scripture clearly laying out God's wonderful plan of salvation for the Jews.

How did all these occult practises get into the church:

How did things go so horribly wrong and why is there still so much of the occult so deeply rooted in the church today?

Well, lets have a short lesson in church history.

The early church up until 300 AD had a distinctly Hebraic flavour to it. It was founded in Jerusalem and had mostly Jewish converts although many Gentiles started coming in as the church expanded. Satan tried to stamp the church out by bringing intense persecution on it by ten successive Roman Emperors. This only made the church stronger.

Satan then came up with his trump card which was to defeat the church from within and bring error and the occult into it. He did this through the Roman Emperor Constantine who himself was a worshipper of Baal and Babylonian gods. He was apparently "converted" and became a Christian. He stopped all persecution of the church and made it the official state religion. But to make it more palatable to the masses he introduces many forms of Babylonian occult practises to the church.

As these evil practises became more and more entrenched and accepted, so the light went out and the dark ages started. By 600 AD the Catholic church had its first Pope and the church had changed radically from what it was at first. It was now riddled with the occult and its supernatural power was now counterfeit. The key that the pagan Popes used to maintain control of the masses was the removal of the Bible from the laity. The church in the dark ages soon became the most murderous institution the world has seen.

Then came the reformation, an incomplete work, but a great step out of the darkness. This spiritual enlightenment produced the renaissance and the industrial revolution. Unfortunately much of the church has not awakened fully and is  clinging to its occult practises, which sent it into darkness in the first place!

Now of course there is nothing wrong with a church adopting certain modern traditions or cultural activities as long as they are not rooted in the occult.

A forever flawed leadership:

The Bible says "call no man on earth father" ( Mathew 23:9 ) Yet the Catholic priests all call themselves "father" and insist on being called "father" The word Pope means "father".

My father died many years ago, but I still remember him vividly. My spiritual Father is alive and very well indeed. I know Him too, it's Yeshua / Jesus, God almighty. I know for a fact that no Catholic of any description on this earth is my father!!! None of them, not one!!! I reject them all. They are all counterfeits!!!

When the Roman empire collapsed the Popes took on the title that had previously belonged to to the Roman emperors - Pontificus Maximus, forever linking the Catholic church with the Roman empire. This obviously points to the future as well and relates to the revised Roman Empire, the European government.

On a similar subject, Mary is not my mother, nor is she the mother of God! Since when does God have a mother? Mary was the mother of Yeshua / Jesus, or His humanity, but not His deity. Isis was the origination of the mother-goddess cult. Isis was also called "the mother of God" and "the queen of heaven." By the way, Yeshua / Jesus is our "intercessor" not Mary.

And talking of counterfeits, the Catholics do not teach or preach the new birth. To them, being saved is belonging to their hideous church. They have led untold millions down the wrong road and straight to hell. I do concede that there are some in this church that are truly saved. This is indicated at the end of the letter to the church at Thyatira in Revelation 2. But the shocking thing is that the ones that are saved are those within this church who do not 'hold' or 'cling' to its doctrine!

Pagan practises in the church:

The early church which was mostly Jewish observed none of the pagan festivals and practises of the church today, not one of them!

1 Corinthians 10:13 Amp "Shun, keep clear away from, avoid by flight if needs be any sort of idolatry, which is loving or venerating anything more than God"

Christmas:

Jeremiah 10: 2, 3 "Do not learn the way of the Gentiles...for one cuts down a tree from the forest...they decorate it with silver and gold, they fasten it down with nails and hammers, so that it won't fall."

The Christmas tree is riddled with paganism. It was around in Babylonian days hence the warning by Jeremiah above. By the way, the silver and gold balls were originally icons of sun and moon worship! It is a fact that the red suite worn by the slob in the picture does not represent blood, but was first inspired by Coca Cola. (Go and check it out if you don't believe me)

The Babylonians celebrated the birthday of the sun (not son). This was the day after the shortest day of the year, or solstice. This was set as the 25th of December. This was seen by them as the re-birth of the unconquered sun. In fact the word for the Catholic season of advent means 'coming' and takes place in the run up to the 25th December. It means the coming of the birthday of the sun (not son).

The belief of so many is so shallow these days. Yeshua /Jesus is not Lord of their lives. Its just the same as having a plastic Jesus, a sort of nice sponsor in the background just like the fat slob Santa in his ridiculous Coca Cola suite, who only comes out to play and have fun once a year. The reality is that their Ho, ho, hoing slob is more like Frankenstein and will do them all a lot more eternal harm than any monster. Actually "ho, ho, ho" was the friendly cry of the pagan god Thor also called the Yule god.

Easter:

Easter was the Babylonian goddess of sex. The way you worshipped her was by going through the Easter gate into the occult temple to have sex with a whore.

Her original name was Ishtar.

This is the name that the Roman Emperor Constantine chose to replace the Biblical Passover. Sex or fertility symbols were all over this evil Babylonian temple. The rabbit and eggs were the main Babylonian symbols of this form of worship, being symbols of fertility and frequent sex.

Oh what a lovely little bunny, how sweet, and what a big pretty egg it has!

The Bible says that we are to keep the feast of Passover, not Easter. The old King James version of the Bible uses the word Easter, while the new King James used the word Passover. The original Greek word correctly translated is the word Passover! 1 Corinthians 5: 7 "Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us, therefore let us keep the feast" The same original word translated Passover is also used in Acts 12: 4, which is incorrectly interpreted as Easter in the old King James Bible. The original word used is "pascha", which means Passover.

Passover is not about sex and fertility, it's about God's judgement passing over us due to the blood of our Messiah.

Again as with Christmas, Easter is a Satanic ritual designed by the devil to keep the Jews out of the church and of course to nullify the Word in the lives of Christian participants. (Read Mark 7 above again)

The image below is a composite of some of the pagan Easter symbols unearthed and discovered around the ruins of Babylon.

The pressures on short sighted Christians to conform and accept the traditions of the occult without question are extremely strong.

"Be not conformed to the world or its ways". Romans 12:2

Sun Worship

Deuteronomy 4 :19 "Take heed that when you see the sun, the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven you don't feel driven to worship them and serve them."

The Catholic church is riddled with the occult. Yes it does adhere to many wonderful truths, but why on earth go half way with God and half way with the devil? Sun worship is evident in so many of its practises, buildings and traditions. Again all forms of sun worship have their source in Babylon and Satan.

Solar symbols are everywhere in Catholicism. Sol Invictus, meaning 'the unconquered sun' has its roots in ancient pagan astrology practises and is seen throughout Catholicism. The image below is of an early Roman coin called Sol Invictus, which was a dedication to the sun god.

Son worship has changed into sun worship through Sol Invictus. It's interesting that all these Sol Invictus idols are brought out and into the Catholic mass on December 25, the birthday of the sun.

Here we have another occult practise designed by the devil to keep the Jews from the church. The "whore of Babylon" is at work. She has led many in other modern protestant churches to become prostitutes of the truth.

The image on the right below is St Peter's chair in St Peter's basilica Rome, which is just below a bronze and gold depiction of Sol Invictus, also represented in that idol Benedict is holding (left)

The Catholic hat or Mitre:

What a stupid hat! But can you see how closely it resembles a fish in profile (with open mouth). The big question is why such a stupid hat and why is it only used in high-'holy' ceremonies?

The Mitre is a direct copy of the hat worn by important people in Babylon when they worshipped the fish- god Dagon.

The two sketch-diagrams below are from articles dealing with Dagon in ancient Babylon. The other pictures show the similarity.

Here we have yet another practise rooted in the occult designed by Satan to keep the Jews out of the church.

The Babylonia occult swastika and the cross:

Zephaniah 1: 4 "I will cut off every trace of Baal from this place (Israel). The names of the idolatrous priests with the pagan priests, those who worship the host of heaven." (just think about that verse!!)

Isaiah 47: 13 "You are wearied of the multitude of your counsels; Let now the astrologers, the stargazers and the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you. Behold they shall be as stubble, the fire shall consume them, they'll not be able to deliver themselves from the power of the flame."

The swastika is an ancient symbol that has been used for thousands of years by the Egyptians , Babylonians, Chinese, the Mayans and others. It represents sun-power and strength. Hitler was influenced largely by Luther, quoting often from him, but he was also a devil worshipper gaining much of his inspiration from this source. His attempt to wipe out the Jews was actually to an attempt to display his strength in setting up a 'pure' new world. It is no accident that he chose the swastika as his symbol.

The church also used this symbol. The image below is a composite of swastikas from the past. At the top from the left: An Egyptian column, then a Mayan symbol. In the middle right we have one of the Popes and the bottom row are some of the many Nazi symbols associated with the cross.

Again we have another reason for the Jews to steer clear of the church.

Some other occult, pagan practises originating in Babylon, which are in the church, which I haven't gone into include: Mother and child worship, relic worship, infant baptism or sprinkling, prayer for the dead, the sign of the cross, some of the names bestowed on Mary, cakes made to the queen of heaven (hot cross buns) and many more.

God's judgement on the paganism and the occult

The message to the seven churches in The Revelation is God's view of the church. It's worth taking note of what God thinks, I think. The message to the church at Thyatira relates to the Catholics. Rev 2: 23, 24 "I will kill her children with death and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts and will give to each according to your works....as many as who do not have this doctrine and who have not known the depths of Satan, I will put on you no other burden." This church is also told that it will be cast into great tribulation.

Children (verse 23) are those that cling to their mother. In other words those that cling to the mother church and its doctrine are in fierce trouble with God. Note also that this church's doctrine originates in " the depths of Satan", How incredible and tragic is this?

There are hundreds of symbols, traditions and practises associated with the church that are deeply rooted in the occult. It's not my purpose to go into them all here, but simply to draw your attention to the main overriding and very important factor behind this edition. Christian, in participating in these things, you are headed for disaster and and are instrumental in laying stumbling blocks in the path of the Jews.

God has always judged and condemned paganism and the occult. Sometimes His judgement was swift and sometimes it was a long time coming, but it always did and always will.

I simply cant for the life of me understand why so many Christians love the occult so much and refuse to just drop it! The only explanation I can think of is that they are so bound by the traditions of the world that it (empowered by the devil) has blinded them.

The Catholic church (and other similar orthodox churches) will be a very big part in Satan's end time plan. This will be God's judgement on them. I would not be surprised to see the false prophet of the tribulation emerge from this evil institution.

Revelation 18: 2 Speaks prophetically of the gigantic fall and total disaster that is coming on all aspects of modern revived Babylon including large parts of the church. "Babylon the great is fallen is fallen and has become a habitation of devils and the abode of every fouls spirit"

Isaiah 47: 3-7 This is amazing and relates to many nations like Europe, but the subject matter deals with the final humiliation of Babylon. "Your shame will be seen, I will take vengeance...as for our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts (armies) is His name, the Holy One of Israel. Sit in silence, Babylon and go into darkness, for you shall no longer be called the Lady of Kingdoms. I was angry with My people and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy." Verse 15 "No one shall save you"

The lady of Babylon is no lady, she is a whore, and a slut, a pure witch! (Not my opinion but God's opinion contained in many passages of scripture) The counterfeit kingdom of Popes that has arisen out of her in Rome, will become a significant force in tandem with the revised Roman empire (new world government) and will again spearhead, or at least be involved in the mass murder of Jews.

You may say, please leave us alone and don't rock the boat. Don't point out all of these things, just accept that it's the way things are. My answer is NO.

Why would the Jews want another Babylonian captivity?

The Jews have on many occasions been dealt with very severely by God for delving into the occult. God has brought judgement on them, sent them into captivity and allowed them to be defeated every time they fell into the worship of false gods and practises.

Even now religious or Rabbinical Judaism, which rejects Yeshua / Jesus will lead them into judgement again.

Most Jews have an inbuilt fear and resistance to Christian conversion simply because they know all too well that the church has many roots in the occult and paganism. Most Christians think that to get saved Jews need to become Christianised and join institutionalised churchianity!

"Come now Jew boy, now that you're saved, have a ham sandwich with us as we celebrate Chrissmiss"....I think not!

Its interesting to look into the Word of God to see the end of ancient and revived Babylon and the end of the Jews. Babylon ended in the most horrific destruction and judgement of God while the end of the Jews is in wonderful salvation!

Psalm 137 "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion". Oh yes, so why would the Jews again want to have any part with what is essentially Babylonian captivity again, just in a new name...churchianity?

The  pure Judaeo-Christian heritage of most of the Western world has been sold out. Its not going, its gone and what is now arising in its place is a deadly mix of paganism and ungodly worldly humanism in the name of Christianity. Our civilisation is on deaths door step. A time of thick darkness and deception is coming fast, a time of chaos and confusion, to put any drunk to shame. Beware dear reader, of the spiritual pimps out there, who are enemies of the cross of our Messiah and all truth. Perverted truth has been the death knell and path of destruction for Israel many times before.

Jews beware, the spirit of Hitler is not dead and will come to you as a wolf in sheep's clothing this time offering peace. My dear Jewish reader, you have suffered much, but beware you are in mortal danger again.

God will have His Gentile faithful few, who will be voices of dissent and who will stand with and for the Jew and Israel. Only follow those men that follow God and the fullness of truth. These days you need some spiritual guts to head for glory!

A glorious pure future:

Isaiah 61:1,2 This speaks of the glorious future for the Jews."The Lord will console those who mourn in Zion and give them beauty for ashes...you shall be called the Priests of the Lord, you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles...Instead of your shame you shall have double honour, and in their own land they shall posses double. I will direct their works in truth and will make with them an everlasting covenant"

I once stood on top of Masada in Israel with a number of Israeli Defence Force Generals, who regularly go up there to pray and declare..."Never again will Jerusalem fall into gentile hands" ...and that includes Gentile Paganism!

Christian beware, God is already moving forward to bring the Jews to salvation, but He is leaving much of the abominable Christian church behind!! What God is doing now is most remarkable. He is lifting the veil of blindness on the Jews in ever increasing numbers as they see and recognise that their Messiah is the Jewish Messiah of the true church. He is also separating to Himself a pure glorious church. The work of God is always according to pure truth.

The evil traditions of the church may keep the Jews out, but it will not keep them from the glorious salvation which is coming their way in ever growing numbers.

In the coming days the Jews will be reconciled with many of their Gentile, Christian brothers and sisters, and it will be a reunion like Joseph with his brothers. God's heart is and will be for a Jew and Gentile Messianic church with a Hebraic flavour and with all of Babylon rooted out!

The God I know is the God of truth, but He always offers forgiveness and pardon. He offers healing for those who want deliverance from the powers of darkness. He shines His light on the way forward. He offers beauty out of the ashes of repentance. He offers a whole new life full of truth, righteousness, holiness and glory.

The life He offers was bought and paid for with the suffering of the cross and resulting resurrection, which itself delivers power for us to walk in new resurrection life.

Note: My objective is not to get anyone to leave this or that church. Salvation is not dependant on what church you go to or what traditions you adhere to. No church or tradition can save you because no church died for you! Salvation relates to you knowing God and being known by Him. The objective of this edition is to present a simple and dire warning and to offer a much better way.

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For further reading and study on this subject please read the monumental book by Alexander Hislop titled The Two Babylons. In the front of the book, a note from the editor declares; " Its gratifying to know that no one so far as we are aware has ventured to challenge the accuracy of the historical proofs adduced in support of the startling announcement of the title page."   It was written in 1916 and documents the amazing parallels between ancient Babylon and the Catholics as well as many others of the orthodox persuasion.

Heaven or hell:

Long gone head of the Catholics Leo XII, (left) did you take the trouble to get saved. You led your abominable church till you were 97 years old. You issued a decree forbidding your people to own or read the scriptures and you enforced many other doctrines of devils. Where are you now, you blind guide? Yes I know where your body is lying, for all to see, but where are you now. If you were permitted to speak to the living now, what would you say? And what would you say to the current dark, deceived leadership of the Catholic church, knowing what you now know? You know now Leo, that Mary could never help you and your repetitious prayers to her were all in vain. You know now Leo, that your doctrine of the immaculate conception of Mary is an immaculate deception! You know now Leo, that not only were you not infallible, you were an incarnation of evil!

Rabbi Jacob Lipszyc (right) you were murdered in the Holocaust, but did you make right with your Jewish Messiah and chief Rabbi Yeshua/ Jesus before your cruel execution? Where are you now rabbi? If you could address us now, what would you say knowing what you know now?

In closing this edition here is a woodcut by Gustave Doré depicting the construction of the tower of Babel by the occult-rich Babylonians. This was their attempt to reach God, but they were riddled with paganism. We know what the outcome was. Dear reader, do you want to reach up to God also? That's great! But you need to do it His way!

Kind regards and many blessings...Shalom and grow in grace!