John Newlin

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

* SIGN OF THE TIMES - ON OUR WAY HOME

Sometimes in a world in turmoil we just need a moment of quiet and reflection, a moment of peace. So here it is.

We believers in Jesus are on our way home. We are always on our way home and have been ever since (1) he rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven, and (2) we accepted Jesus as our Lord. Up to now this going home has always involved the process of physically dying, but now we are so close to the Lord’s return to collect his believers that we realize many living believers will never die physically but will go with Jesus when he comes to collect his believers.

We have never felt truly at home here have we, not on this planet with so much mayhem and confusion and godlessness and evil around. The whole world is under the control of the evil one, as John tells us in 1 John 5:19. Our true home is where Jesus and the Father are. Eternal life is being with them.

Over the years I’ve written often about home, and I’ve been thinking about that wonderful subject again. One of my favorite writers, Robert Frost, wrote about home long ago in his Death of the Hired Man poem. In a conversation there between a husband and wife, one says:

'Home is the place where, when you have to go there,

They have to take you in.'

The other replies:

'I should have called it

Something you somehow haven't to deserve.'

These two incredible sentences capture it all, don’t they. Home is a place you don’t have to deserve. Heaven is our home, being with the Lord, with God. We can’t deserve that. We don’t deserve that. But we believers get in anyway. Why? They have to take us in, because we are believers in Jesus!

We don’t deserve to be there, but because of Jesus and our faith in him they have to take us in.

Home. I’m ready for that place, and I expect you are too.

Here is my own poem on this subject written years ago. You may have already seen it.

WE ARE NEVER HOME

by John Newlin

We are never home.

Not now. Not here.

No matter how we try.

We cannot get there.

The moments of joy

Family and friends bring

Cannot dispel

The longing of our hearts.

Harsh though the words,

God’s children are

Strangers in a foreign land,

Aliens on planet earth.

This is not our world.

But we will soon be home,

That we know.

Our hope is secure.

There is no doubt we believers are on our way home.

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March 2026

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Tuesday, January 20, 2026

* SIGN OF THE TIMES: DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE

Surely this is true for the Jews even today. Few indeed of them know who Jesus is and have accepted him as their Lord. So the overwhelming bulk of the Jews on earth will have to live through the horrors of the Tribulation; Jews living in Jerusalem will have to suffer all the horrors described about that time in Zechariah 14 and elsewhere.

But this verse also applies to some believers in Jesus today who just do not know all that God is and what he has for us. So many are just unwilling to spend the time studying or reading the Bible and being guided by the Holy Spirit. They prefer to attend church like going to a theater, to watch and hear what some other person has to say. Even if that person is an excellent teacher and preacher, he has only a limited amount of time in these formal services to teach a point.

Without knowledge, so many of God’s believers do not know all the tools he has for our protection. They do not know the reality of divine healing. They do not have revelation of what is happening and soon to happen. And they make life decisions without the divine guidance that is so crucial and valuable.

I know of a very famous pastor who was led into his life’s work by the above verse. He was sitting in an audience at some type of religious service. People were called forward for some reason, and as they went forward he saw them as stick figures, as line pencil drawings. He was horrified and called out to God, what is this? God answered with the above verse from Hosea. And his ministry really was born.

In the book of Jeremiah, God describes his people then (the Jews, for there were no Christian believers then) as being foolish, not knowing him, being stupid children, not having any understanding (Jeremiah 4:22) . The book of Isaiah explains why the northern Israeli tribes had gone into captivity by saying they have no knowledge (Isaiah 5:13).

In this most difficult of times in which we are living, do your best to read and meditate about the Bible every day. Ask the Holy Spirit to guide your understanding, reveal truths, even to guide you to the specific section you should be reading at a particular time. Use our materials and those of other serious Bible based ministries to help. You don’t want God applying Hosea 4:6 to you.

January 2026

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Tuesday, November 25, 2025

* THANKSGIVING IN THE UNITED STATES

This Thanksgiving I thought it worthwhile to send again the following short piece which has been sent out at several previous Thanksgivings.

I also think it good to reflect on these scriptures at this time:

I will praise God’s name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving. (Psalm 69:30)

Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. (Psalm 95:2 )

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. (Philippians 4:6 )

THE HISTORY OF THE THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY 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 2025

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Monday, November 17, 2025

WATCHMAN WARNING: THE FUNDAMENTAL THREAT TO ALL ON EARTH THESE LAST DAYS

When Arab Muslims rode forth from Arabia after Mohammed had died many centuries ago, they took Islam to the world. They focused on areas near to them, riding and conquering the northern African nations before moving across into Spain. Always, fundamentally, it was convert or die.

Thanks to the French leader Charles Martel, this attacking hoard was stopped in Tours France, and Europe and the West survived to bring about the modern word. But the Muslim goal has never gone away.

Now in our day more and more Muslims steadily move into all the western nations and elsewhere, establishing roots, having children. And the naïve residents just let it all happen. So in England there is a Muslim mayor of London. And NY City now has the same. The real fear for NY City is not that the new mayor is a socialist; it is that he is a Muslim.

In places in Europe sharia law effectively is already enforced.

Slowly but surely, illegal and legal Muslim immigrants have invaded France, and Ireland, and the United Kingdom, and Germany, and Sweden, and so on. Widespread assaults on women become the norm, assaults that the elected authorities there amazingly just will not clamp down on. Evidently they are too frightened and intimidated by these Muslim immigrants or too fundamentally ignorant of what is going on. Surprisingly the citizens are just too meek or too stupid to rise up and respond, as is their government, and their nations are being lost. They just can’t seem to grasp what is happening or be willing to pay the necessary cost to confront it.

And now in the US certain pockets have already been taken over, like Dearborn Michigan. There are places in Dearborn where the Muslim call to prayer five times a day is heard loudly. That is under consideration elsewhere as well. Imagine hearing the blaring, loud, shattering call to Muslin prayer blasted out everywhere from a minaret in your town. I have experienced that blaring call in several Arabian cities, followed by the religious police searching to make sure the Arabs go to the mosque.

This movement is not our culture, not our truth, not our God. This centuries old Muslim movement wants to take over. Quite obviously it is of the devil. The Muslim god is not God, the creator of the universe. There is no great love and forgiveness in the Koran. And gullible naïve westerners – both everyday people and leaders - continue to just focus on their narrow personal worlds as their entire nations and societies are being taken over.

Yes, individual Muslims you may know can be warm and friendly. But yes too, Islam, the most successful of the false religions, continues its goal of world domination. Convert or die. The devil never stops. He will not, until the end of this age. Everywhere steady progress is being made by the Muslims, sometimes violently, sometimes quietly.

With all this as background, I tell you now in these very clear words – this is how the one world government of the Antichrist comes about soon during the Tribulation.

Let me share now this revelation:

The Antichrist is a Muslim Arab. Not someone from Europe as so many have supposed over the years. How do I know? The Lord told me. Very clearly in very specific words.

Several years ago late one day my wife Cathy and I sat in our ministry office in Wilmington NC praying. Suddenly, as he is apt to do at times, the Lord spoke to me and said the Antichrist is a Muslim, an Arab from an Arab country.

The Lord went further. He said that I know him. Now I don’t know a name and I don’t know to whom the Lord was referring. But I have worked with many Muslims several decades ago, in Saudi Arabia and Egypt and the Sudan. And I have been thinking about all this ever since, but so far I cannot think who it might be and the Lord has not told me. But I do share this for you to think and pray about.

[You might be interested – just after the Lord told me this and I had shared it with Cathy, suddenly the outside metal door to our office shook violently for several seconds. It was as if someone was shaking it by the outside door handle. We were really startled. It was night and no one was in the parking lot outside. I checked through the windows and no one was there. I checked the back of the office too, and no one was there. Clearly the evil one did not like our conversation.]

One other confirming message from God on the Antichrist: About twenty years ago I was in a television studio waiting to appear as a guest on a program. At the moment taping was underway of a woman hosting a program on Israel that at the time I think was on Daystar. I stood in the dark in the wings watching it all. Soon the taping was finished. The woman host got up and walked over to me. She was carrying an old VHS video tape. The woman said, “I was supposed to bring this tape today. I think it is for you.” I had never seen her before. The tape was titled Unveiling the Man of Sin and identified the Antichrist as an Arab Muslim!

Our world right now is under great attack from the evil one. There are lost, ungodly delusional people operating as true anarchists in the US and elsewhere in the world now, seeking to uproot and destroy law and order and government and such. And then there is this giant Muslim movement everywhere leading to ever greater world control and the one world government..

The Lord will soon come to take his believers away. The Antichrist, a Muslim Arab from an Arab country, will then step out and lead Israel into an agreement. This is as described in Daniel 9:27. When that agreement is made, the seven year Tribulation will begin.

November 2025

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Monday, September 15, 2025

* SIGN OF THE TIMES: FINALLY AT LAST RECOGNIZING ALL THOSE PERISHING AROUND US

I hope the terrible murder of widely loved Christian leader Charlie Kirk has finally waked up many believers and even some nonbelievers who strive to live moral lives. Like nothing before, the response of the lost far left element of society has been eye-opening and revealing.

At all levels we have seen persons celebrating this murder. Teachers and administrators, university leaders and professors, media personalities, and many others at all positions of life.

It is one thing not to agree with a person. It is quite another to celebrate the murder of that person.

Paul talked in 2 Thessalonians 2 about all those perishing in our midst. Who are they? People who refuse to accept the truth – the gospel, Jesus. They are lost. And without knowing God and his protection for their lives, they are ready prey for the devil, for the evil one who is running rampant in these very last days.

Not only are these ungodly people clearly lost, but the level of their hate, of the evil within them, is enormous and cannot be missed by any believer.

I have been impressed by the extent to which some organizations have quickly fired people celebrating Charlie’s murder. But can they handle all those behaving thusly? And how many are hiding their ungodly hatred? And firing does not change their views of life.

Surely we all realize we can’t have such people teaching our children in public schools or in college, but that is what is happening. Where do you think these misguided angry demonstrating young people get their ideas from?

Throughout the halls of government and education and elsewhere, wherever you look, there are so many ungodly led by the devil.

We are in the very last days. The Bible notes in more than one place how eventually God gives such lost people over to a spirit of delusion. I doubt any rational person could fail to recognize the delusion among such lost people as we have seen and read about lately.

Add to this all the other horrific crimes we have seen in recent days by truly godless persons such as the murder of the Ukrainian young woman in Charlotte and you realize just how extensive the lawlessness and godlessness is in society.

And not just in America of course. No, in European countries too.

The UK moves ever more to clamp down on free speech, protecting dangerous immigrants who have terribly harmed many Britons while the government ignores the pleas of the citizens. You may not be aware that there are massive demonstrations there now from British citizens who have at last recognized how lost the government is. I would not be surprised to see a true civil war soon there. Other nations like Germany and France are in similar turmoil.

These are the very last days. The Lord is coming soon to collect His believers. Who? Believers. No one else. The mass of the population will be left behind to endure the horrible tribulation period.

As always do all you can to help the Father draw unbelievers to Jesus. And use the tools he has given us to protect yourself and your family. Remember the Lord Jesus is never going to lose you (his believers).

September 2025

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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

* 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. ⁵⁰They 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. ⁵They 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?

⁵The 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. ⁶The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled... ¹¹Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence.¹²God 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:

²⁸Furthermore, 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. ²⁹They 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, ³⁰slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; ³¹they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. ³²Although 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

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Monday, July 21, 2025

* 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

John Newlin

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

* SIGN OF THE TIMES - ON OUR WAY HOME

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

* SIGN OF THE TIMES: DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

* THANKSGIVING IN THE UNITED STATES

Monday, November 17, 2025

WATCHMAN WARNING: THE FUNDAMENTAL THREAT TO ALL ON EARTH THESE LAST DAYS

Monday, September 15, 2025

* SIGN OF THE TIMES: FINALLY AT LAST RECOGNIZING ALL THOSE PERISHING AROUND US

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

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

Monday, July 21, 2025

* SIGN OF THE TIMES : GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT FOR BELIEVERS!

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