* WATCHMAN WARNING: LIVING IN THE VERY ENVIRONMENT DESCRIBED BY JESUS AS THE TIME OF HIS RETURN

 

Nothing has to happen before Jesus comes to collect his believers.  Nothing.

 

Today, right now, we are living in the very midst of the time which has the characteristics he himself described and presented as the time of his return.

 

Look at the very words Jesus chose to describe that moment in Luke 17.  There he said the times in which he would come would be just as it was in the days of Noah and Lot!   That is where we are living now.  Right there.  Seriously.  You need to focus on that and all it means!

 

What were those days like?  In terms of basic activities, Jesus says the people then were buying and selling, eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, planting and building.  Certainly, people do all those things in our time now.

 

But what else does the Bible say about the times of Noah and Lot?  That they were overwhelmingly evil, immoral, in my words outrageously bad.

 

In Ezekiel God says about Sodom:

 

⁴⁹ “‘Now this was the sin of … Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the                      poor and needy. ⁵⁰ They were haughty and did detestable things before me.  – Ezekiel 16

 

Remember when the angels visited Lot in Sodom and they were inside his house?  Then

 

…all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. ⁵ They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out   to us so that we can have sex with them.” – Genesis 19

 

Remember too what God said about the times of Noah? 

 

⁵   The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.  ⁶ The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled... ¹¹ Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence.¹² God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. ¹³ So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.  – Genesis 6

 

Certainly we all remember what happened next.

 

God of course can and no doubt will judge the level of evil on earth today.  Surely we know it is monstrous.  It is everywhere, in front of our faces.  Countless stories of atrocious behavior on the part of what appear to be human beings but are obviously lost, delusional souls.

 

In 2 Thessalonians 2 we see that God eventually turns over to delusion truly evil people who are perishing because they just refuse to love the truth.  In Romans 1 we see how he gives such evil people a depraved mind.  The last paragraph of the Romans section on this presents a really shattering description of the evil people:

 

²⁸ Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. ²⁹ They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity.   They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; ³¹ they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. ³² Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

 

We have now significant numbers on earth who do not know truth and cannot recognize it.  They pursue irrational, bizarre points of view that make no sense.  These delusional, lost people range from those in the far left lunatic violent groups all the way to leaders in any field – including the church field – who just do not know the truth and miss the mark.

 

Scanning a daily newspaper or an Internet news posting presents one horrible incident after another.  Established organized groups in society like the justice system try their best to cope with this while opposing, out-of-control large numbers seek to limit their response.

 

God you know will not be mocked.  He does have great patience but not endless patience where outrageous sinful behavior is concerned. 

 

It is difficult to see why the Lord has not already come, other than that great patience is still trying to draw a few more into the Kingdom. 

 

I cannot tell you precisely the day and hour of Jesus’ return.  No one can do that that I know, at least not now.  I do not discount the Lord might give a last second warning to some.  He surely has told me several times his views on the return and what will happen, and I have reported much of that to you.  Always, the point is that the time is soon.  And when he comes, things will be different.  He actually said that.  It will be swift, no light surprise. He said that too. 

 

Long ago he told me to tell people who he is and that he is coming soon, so that has become the focal point of our ministry.  And he told me not to let people go into the night.  You can imagine my reaction to that, and I – and my wife Cathy – and our ministry have tried to do just that.  But even so there are so many apparently determined to go into that night, even though they blindly and stupidly do not know what it is.

 

I hope you and all you have influence with are ready for the Lord’s return.  I hope you are watching, as he warned in Luke 21:36.  Our short video on that scripture and the ten virgins account of Matthew 25 just reached almost a million and a half in four days in Malaysia, Hungary, and New Zealand.  It must be a scripture, a truth, the Lord wants understood!

 

You do know, I hope, that God chose those he would have in the Kingdom of God way back before the creation of the world (Ephesians 1:4).   Yes.  Really.  But to be there, a person must at some point recognize who Jesus is and ask him to be and accept him as the Lord of their life.  They must repent, change what they are doing, move from their wicked ways, and seek to do the Father’s will always.  They must have the innocent faith of little children. 

 

No one can come to Jesus unless the Father draws him.  You must realize surely that the Father does take steps to draw  those he chose way back before the beginning.  It is just that some of  them don’t respond.

 

We are living in the time all who ever knew the truth would have loved to live, the time of Jesus’ return.  The world around us – still under the control of the devil as John reminds us in 1 John 5:19 – is hardly a marvelous place right now.  But we are soon to finally go home.  We won’t be aliens on planet earth anymore.  We will be with Jesus and the Father in Heaven, in the Kingdom of God on earth during the millennium, and in the new Jerusalem.

 

 

August 2025 

 

Copyright © 2025 by John Newlin

 

   

 

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* SIGN OF THE TIMES : GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT FOR BELIEVERS!

  

A short note of encouragement in this really difficult world:

 

For some time we have been hoping to promote in several countries our video Episode 2 – “Watch! Be Alert!” - from our The Imminent Return of Jesus series.  That video focuses on Luke 21:36 and also tells the wonderful ten virgin story.  But unlike other videos we have been sending out, there were real technical issues with X in doing that with this particular video and it seemed impossible.

 

Monday of last week I suddenly saw how we could do a simple promotion of this video with minimal technical criteria.  We began that in Malaysia, a primarily Muslim country, and it worked!  In four days we reached 677,000 people!!! That is just astounding and is the highest total reached for one video in a short period in any country thus far!!!  And again, this is a Muslim country!

 

So today we have begun a promotion of the same video in the same way in Hungary.  In just two hours we have reached almost 24,000!!

 

Think God is moving today?  I’ll say.  These are the very last of the last days, and God is reaching out to the lost.  Think about that.  Pray about it.  Pray that everyone God would have come to Jesus do so.  Pray these videos reach all God would have reached.

 

Oh, and don’t forget to do what the title of the video says:  “Watch!  Be alert!”

 

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PS    To watch this video now click on this link to see it on our YOUTUBE account:

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfI6PHQtvZA&list=PLaf_txWaHyoY__TDjEr7zMgWcSaI-V-nm&index=2&t=2s

 

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                                                                                                            July 2025

* Real Life Illustrations of Being in the Presence of God

 

Many years ago on a dark night on the southern New Jersey Turnpike I cried out, “Help me Jesus!  I don’t know what to do!”

Instantly the car filled with an overpowering presence.  I could not move.  My hands were frozen to the position they had been on the steering wheel.   My arms did not move.  I stared straight ahead, but I really did not see the road or anything.

God had come into the car.  Instantly he had answered my call.  The air was intense, electric.  It was as if a giant hand were on my back, from my shoulders down to the end of my spine, and it was hugging me.  It was warm, and pulsating.  The feeling of love in that car was overwhelming.  And for perhaps thirty minutes it continued.  I know it was thirty minutes, because when I suddenly was able to move again, I looked down at the odometer and I had gone thirty miles.  God had been driving the car.  Certainly not me.

The anointing came that night, and the gifts of the spirit.  Gifts like the gifts of healing and miraculous works and prophecy and faith and more.

Following that night God came often, and began guiding me specifically.  He began giving out assignments, and as I would do them he gave more.  Gradually they moved into the major statements I refer to as the call on my life. 

That was God in the car.  Whether Jesus was sitting there beside me I do not know, for I could not turn my head. 

It was overwhelming.  I had had a direct, enormous encounter with God.  Now I had had a couple amazing things happen to me before, like the intercession of the angel in the car accident in Beverly Hills when a giant truck fell on our car.  Or a time many years ago in Houston when suddenly a voice spoke a prophetic word into my heart and mind, one I was shocked by and didn’t understand completely.  But this experience in the car was life-changing. 

I had encountered God.  He was there.  He was real.  No going back into the old standard life with church on Sunday for an hour but no real spiritual thoughts otherwise.  I knew first hand God was and is real and that he answers prayer and that he communicates now, today, with us. The Holy Spirit had come in force and power.  It was as Ephesians 1:3-4 says.  I had been marked in Christ with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing my inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession.

I was like the born again, spirit filled Christians of the early Christian centuries.  They willingly would go to their deaths rather than deny Jesus.  Why?  Because they knew God was real.  They had met him.  They had the Holy Spirit.

The world today likes to refer to some Christians as fundamentalists, and they deride those who just won’t let their Biblical principles be moved.  But you see, the world doesn’t know God.  Those who do can’t be moved and won’t give up their faith, which is absolute.

You can read more about this encounter in the car on our web site.  Just punch the testimony button in the menu column.

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Hearing from God is wonderful, life-changing!  A word, a sentence.  A verse of scripture suddenly coming alive as you read it, made real by the quickening power of the Spirit.  All this changes a person instantly.  It is worth more than gold.  Far more.  Just one such incident can lift a person high for days and weeks, and drive him forward in life.  And the more received, the further the person goes.

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The Lord speaks at diverse times and incidents, often of his own choosing and not while you are specifically sitting quietly in prayer.  Sometimes while you are walking down the street or working on something else.

A few years back I was attacked horribly by the evil side.  As we stepped out ever further in ministry, I had experienced attacks from the devil or his demons in various forms, and we had learned to apply the truths of God, to stand on the word, to cast out demons.  All that.  But this was much more.  Some of you know about it.  The attack was physical and direct and severe.  The pain was enormous.  There were moments I was not sure I would be here longer.  Several prayer warriors prayed and interceded.  Help came from the most unusual sources.  For several weeks I was dreadfully weak, so weak I did not even shave.  And I even conducted meetings unshaven, but the word of God coming through was strong.  I learned a great deal through all this.  One thing I learned is that someone in great pain and distress cannot pray, other than shouting out help me Jesus and short phrases like that.  The pain is so intense.

So a couple months after this happened I had just finished a time of reading the Bible and praying at home, and I walked into our kitchen.  Suddenly I was aware of the presence of the Lord on the other side of the counter that separates our kitchen from our dining area.  And he spoke:  “I’m never going to lose you, John.”  He said.  My eyes filled with tears.  My whole body was overcome by his presence.  My eyes are filling with tears as I write this even now.

And I said, “What did I do wrong, Lord?”

He replied, “Nothing.”

That was it.  No more words.  I have never forgotten that conversation.  I learned too that attacks come in this life from the evil side even if I did nothing wrong, and I needed to learn as much as possible as to how to protect myself and my wife and family and friends and partners and so on.  And to fight evil.  God has shown me much in that area.

But you see, he just began talking as I walked into the kitchen.

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Especially for a period of a few years some time back, God would speak to me in the middle of the night.  I would wake up about 3 or 4 am, or maybe 5, and I would go into another room and sit in my favorite chair with my favorite Bible and begin reading.  Usually I read Isaiah.  I have found that God comes often when I read Isaiah.  I started one night and read through the ninth chapter when he suddenly came.  In such times I have found he is sometimes open to conversation.  Not only does he pass on something he wants me to know, but I can ask a question.  Even about seemingly lighter matters.

One night we were talking about healing, and I said something about his healing in the temple, his healing everyone.  “Not everyone,” he said.  And in a minute he said, “the Pharisees,”  and I knew instantly he was referring to their religious spirit that blocked the healing of some, a situation we have encountered in various places, those who pay attention to man’s religious rules and ideas of how things should be rather than to being open to God’s truths and his presence and actions.

That particular night for some reason the subject of golf came up, and I remember Jesus saying, “It’s a silly game.”

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A last example of the Lord speaking to me:  We were sitting in a ministry meeting in Charlotte.  A large crowd was present, and a famous minister was teaching on the Holy Spirit.  Suddenly I heard the voice, “What are you doing here, John?”  and I realized I should not have come.  I don’t really seek out such sessions anymore, unless directed by God to do so.  My neck was hurting some at the meeting, and the Lord put his hand on my neck.  I said something about his hand being rough, and he said,” you don’t know how many times I hit that hand.”  Of course Joseph had been a carpenter, and no doubt Jesus had worked as a carpenter for years and had hit his hand many times!

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God is real.  Jesus is real.  The Holy Spirit is real.  The Bible is true.  The Lord is returning soon.  He has called me to preach good news to the poor, to heal the broken hearted, to give sight to the blind, and to tell people he is coming soon.  He is.  He really is.  He also has called me to write, to give my testimony, to have a prayer, preaching and healing ministry with my wife, and to feed his sheep. 

Do you know him?  Have you been in his presence?  He tells us we will find him when we seek him with all our heart. 

When you have a personal encounter with the Lord, everything else in the world recedes in importance.  It is as if everything else becomes shadows, and God is in brilliant color.  And you realize just how insignificant all the issues of the secular world are.

Don’t miss the Lord.  Don’t let Jesus pass you by.  He is coming very, very soon.
 

                                                                                                                                                                                           Copyright © 2013 by John Newlin

(originally published in 2013, this article is way too important not to publish again)

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* SIGN OF THE TIMES: JESUS AND THE CROSS

It is at this very time of the year almost 2000 years ago that Jesus took upon himself all our sins – all our iniquities – as well as all our sicknesses and diseases and pain and more and overcame it all.  Imagine the burden he bore.  He overcame death.  He overcame the world.  Yes, he was the son of God and indeed that is why his death on the cross, his sacrifice, could accomplish what it did.  He was the only sinless person ever to live.  He alone could atone for the sins and corruption of humanity.

 

I thought perhaps for a moment it might be really beneficial to look at a few less quoted aspects of the resurrection story.  All are from the Bible.  Consider:

 

(1) When Jesus was arrested in the garden, the soldiers and officials who came for him said they were looking for “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus responded “I am he” and the power of that response and his presence knocked them to the ground!  They all knew they were dealing with something and someone beyond anything they had ever known.  Obviously, Jesus could only be arrested by his allowing it to happen. (In the original Greek of the New Testament, what Jesus actually said was “ego eimi,” or “I am,” the same words identifying himself that God said to Moses in identifying himself.) 

When Jesus said, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground. (John 18:6)

 

(2) After his arrest, Jesus responded to the high priest’s questioning him by affirming that indeed he was the Christ, the Son of God.

The high priest said to him, “I charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God.”

 

“You have said so,” Jesus replied. “But I say to all of you: From now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven. (Matthew 26:63-64)

 

Jesus is quoted on the same moment in Mark 14: 61-62 this way:

 

Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?”

 

“I am,” said Jesus. “And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming   on the clouds of heaven.”

 

Jesus did not hide who he was, and was specific in dealing with these blind religious leaders.

 

(3) Pilate’s wife warned him to have nothing to do with the innocent Jesus:

 

While Pilate was sitting on the judge’s seat, his wife sent him this message: “Don’t have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him.” (Matthew 27:19)

 

(4) In Mark, Matthew, and Luke Pilate asked Jesus if he was the king of the Jews, and Jesus is quoted in each book as answering: “Yes, it is as you say.”

 

In John, Jesus was more specific –

 

Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.”

 

“You are a king, then!” said Pilate.

 

Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” (John 18:36-37)

 

 

(5) It is horrible to contemplate, but in going to and through the cross Jesus’ appearance eventually became disfigured beyond recognition as a human being, as a man. Are you aware of that?  So the movie a few years ago called THE PASSION did not begin to show how horribly he was beaten.  Part of the disfiguring no doubt also had to do with the incredible burden of corrupt humanity that he was bearing, the sins and sicknesses of all people forever.

 

Just as there were many who were appalled at him.  His appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and his form marred beyond human likeness (Isaiah 52:14)

 

 

(6) Jesus died at three in the afternoon.  When that happened tombs broke open and people who had died in the past rose from the dead and walked about encountering people in Jerusalem.  And not just any dead people – no, holy people!  Imagine what that might have been like!  The dead rising and walking about.

 

At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life.  They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.  (Matthew 27:51-53)

 

The tearing of the curtain from top to bottom signifies God’s now opening the way to him for people.

 

 

(7) The centurion and those guarding Jesus at the cross exclaimed at seeing all that happened after his death that surely he was the Son of God.

 

When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, “Surely he was the Son of God! (Matthew 27:54)

 

May God bless each of you as you again celebrate the monumental accomplishment of the Son of God and the Son of Man.  And may you have an ever greater revelation of who he was and is and who you are in him. 

 

 

 

                                                                       APRIL 2025

 

                                                                      Copyright © 2025 by John Newlin

 

 

 

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To watch our television programs on the many things Jesus did, click on this link:

 

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Those with copies of our book WAKE UP AMERICA! can read about all this in chapter 10 there.

 

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“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. – Matthew 7:21

[No subject is more important than how a person gets into the Kingdom of God, into Heaven.  Below is an article from a newsletter three years ago that focused specifically on this.  I think it is time right now to post it again here.]

Some consider the title above the most frightening verse in the Bible. I expect you haven’t heard any sermons preached on this one, have you? 

 For a very long time in our modern day, the churches have doted on the fact that a person has to do nothing to be in Heaven, in the Kingdom of God, other than just believe in Jesus. 

 Well, certainly, a person physically does not have to do anything to be in Heaven, in the Kingdom. Jesus paid the price for each of us to get there. That is the basis for the statement that it is by grace we have been saved and not by works. 

 But Jesus did say several verses that bear on being in the Kingdom of God. In the Bible, all these verses have to be considered. They are all said by Jesus. We have to put them all together. You can’t just read one and ignore the others. You can’t pick and choose scripture. 

There is the most famous verse in the Bible – John 3:16 – 16 

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 

I have said over and over in so many paces that this “belief” here is solid belief, like you believe there is enough oxygen in the room in which you are living to keep you alive; otherwise, you would be running out the door. In other words, absolute belief. Not that modern way we often use the word believe in normal conversation, which is much weaker. 

But then there is this fundamental verse, the one Jesus said when he was speaking to Nicodemus in John 3:5:

  “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. 

So there has to be a real spiritual rebirth. Back in John 1 the writer notes that it is as if God himself becomes our father. In fact, the Good News Translation actually says that directly: 

Some, however, did receive him and believed in him; so he gave them the right to become God's children. 13 They did not become God's children by natural means, that is, by being born as the children of a human father; God himself was their Father. (Good News Translation) – Emphasis added by me. 

And then we have the verse in the title. This is said in a section where people have come to tell Jesus all they have been doing in his name. Unfortunately for them, he says he never knew them. So they don’t get into the Kingdom obviously. They may have been doing good works but they missed the point. They weren’t doing the will of God. They didn’t focus on knowing Jesus. Here is the full section from which the title was taken: 

21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’ – Matthew 7 

 Now if that isn’t disturbing enough, there is one more verse in Matthew 18: 

2 He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. 3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 

 In other words, a person must be as innocent and believing as a little child. 

So we have several key scriptures right out of the mouth of Jesus himself, reported to us by the disciples John and Matthew. Pretty good witnesses, I’d say. 

Yes, we of course must have absolute belief. But we also must live to fulfill God’s will as we understand it. And we must be born again, born anew. We must have that new spirit in us. We have to become the new creation Paul refers to when he says in 2 Corinthians 5 that the old has gone and the new has come. 

This is all serious business indeed! Really serious. 

Just going and sitting in a church week after week and hearing sermons does not do it. And just saying you believe in Jesus apparently on its own is not enough, at least not unless you have that rock solid belief. I fear so many of those who think they are Christians are going to have a big surprise soon. Back to the title scripture. Just how does anyone do the will of God? Well, I think Jesus put it best when he said these two scriptures: 

14 You are my friends if you do what I command. – John 15:14  

15 “If you love me, keep my commands.– John 14:15 3 

Basically, do what Jesus tells you to do if you want to be his friend and if you love him. I would think that would fit in with doing God’s will. 

If you have the Holy Spirit living in you, if you have been baptized with the Spirit, you want to do God’s will and you will generally know that in the situations you encounter. That all comes with being born again and being filled with and baptized with the Holy Spirit. 

I wrote about what it takes to get into Heaven in Chapter 11 in our book WAKE UP AMERICA! And we produced a CD on that and also did two television programs titled “Getting into Heaven” which you can watch on YOUTUBE and our website. It’s an incredibly important subject, not one to be ignored. And surely not at this time. 

Only two real groups of people are on earth now: Those who know Jesus and already are his believers, members of the Kingdom of God, and those who don’t and aren’t. This second group is lost. Unless something happens that opens the eyes of people in this second group so they can see the truth and receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior, they are not going to have a good future. KEEP YOUR EYES ON JESUS!

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SIGN OF THE TIMES: THE HISTORY OF THE THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY IN THE US

 

 

I thought this year we should all look again at the history of Thanksgiving in the US:

 

Throughout the 1700’s individual colonies evidently held periodic days or times of thanksgiving.  Thomas Jefferson did this while governor of Virginia.

 

In 1777 right in the middle of the Revolutionary War the Colonial Congress recommended a day of thanksgiving.

 

In 1789, the first year of the first presidency of the US under the new Constitution, George Washington issued a proclamation establishing a day of thanksgiving that year.  Here are a few of his words from the proclamation: 

 

• it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour…
• I do recommend and assign THURSDAY, the TWENTY-SIXTH DAY of NOVEMBER next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be…
• we may … unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions

Abraham Lincoln finally established legally the annual holiday we observe on the fourth Thursday of November each year.  Here are a few words from his proclamation:

 

I do …invite my fellow citizens …to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

 

May all of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving and offer thanks then – and everyday – just as these great past leaders of the nation led the nation in doing. 

 

 

November 2024

 

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WATCHMAN WARNING: WHAT IS HAPPENING?

 

That is a question I expect on the minds of many believers.  We are so very close to the return of the Lord.  And now we see a bold change in the government of the US that will surely lead to a move away from the trend to the one world government that was so well underway.  A very few other places have had a similar change in government, such as Argentina, but not many.  The UN, the World Economic Forum, and others all continue to work towards the one-world government.

 

So what does this mean?  Still and most obviously, we all should be alert to all that is happening as the Lord has warned us in Luke 21:36, and be ready to go when he comes.

 

Beyond that, let me say that nothing has changed regarding our being so close to the return of Jesus.  All those prophecies fulfilled, everything is still in line for that.  His coming to collect his sheep could happen anytime.

 

Here are some interesting insights regarding the newly elected government in the US:

 

• There seems to be some talk about encouraging the building of the third temple in Jerusalem. Well, that does need to be ready by the middle of the Tribulation when the antichrist comes to take up residence there, but that building could all happen during the early years of the Tribulation.  Still, it is interesting to hear this being discussed!

• The newly nominated secretary of defense himself has spoken of the need to build the temple on a specific spot on the temple mount.

  

• The newly appointed ambassador to Israel under the new administration is a strong supporter of Israel, as are several in the new administration

• Likely, we shall see a return to the efforts of the previous Trump administration to bring about a peace accord with Israel and its many neighbors. You may remember the successful Abraham accords that brought some Arab nations  to an improved relationship with Israel.

 

 

• In the election on November 5, the overwhelming number of evangelical Christians voted for President Trump. Similarly, the great number of Catholics voted for President Trump.  But, sadly and shockingly, the overwhelming number of Jews in the US voted for the losing side, the socialist government that was leading the US into the one-world government and that does not strongly support Israel.  It seems inconceivable, but then we have to realize these people do not know Jesus.  And for that matter, so many are not even serious Jews, rather being ethnic Jews.  Well, the time of their coming face to face with truth is near at hand, just not yet.

All this is interesting surely.  But then you and I know a bit more.  We know that once a true peace agreement is signed by Israel that the people believe in so much they live in unwalled villages, the seven year Tribulation begins.  In fact, it begins the moment that agreement is signed.  And the individual who clearly leads that to come about is the antichrist.

 

We also have noticed all the interaction between Russia and Turkey and Iran in recent years.  All that is leading up to their attack on Israel in the Ezekiel 38-39 war, an attack that is obviously repelled by God in a way all should recognize his hand.  That attack will happen early in the Tribulation period, for the people are living in unwalled villages when it occurs the Bible says.

 

I do have one other overriding comment:  the new administration is not yet in office.  It seems an eerily quiet period in the US.  We all should be praying for peace and safety for all involved as this goes forward.

 

We should still expect the Lord’s return to collect his believers before the beginning of the Tribulation, for as we have noted so many times, in several places the Bible notes we were not appointed to suffer wrath.  Besides, the antichrist will not be free on earth to work to bring about the famous peace agreement that begins the Tribulation unless the true CHURCH, the true believers, have been taken out of the way. 

 

Keep your eyes on Jesus.  At all times.  Pray in the Spirit.  Seek his guidance.  Remember, the Holy Spirit guides you into all truth, tells you things yet to come, and reminds you of things Jesus has said to you.  If you don’t know the Holy Spirit and his gifts, pray to receive that and the baptism of the Spirit.  If possible, ask a Spirit-filled believer to pray for you for this.  Or contact us and we can pray for you over the telephone.

 

 

 

November 2024 

 

Copyright © 2024 by John Newlin

KEEP YOUR EYES ON JESUS!

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