SIGN OF THE TIMES - ANOTHER STEP TAKEN TO DANIEL 9:27, THE FINAL GREAT PROPHECY THAT STARTS THE TRIBULATION

He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him. – Daniel 9:27 NIV

So we have just now seen another step on the way to Daniel 9:27.  Israel has signed a peace agreement with the United Arab Emirates.  Way back in 1978 you should all remember Israel and Egypt signed a landmark peace agreement.  Then in 1994 Israel and Jordan did the same.  Now after all these years we see another step, but this apparently will not be the only step.

This signing with the United Arab Emirates has brought surprisingly positive comments from several quarters in the Middle East.  It appears now there may soon be more signings.  The Sudan is one such possibility.

Evidently this agreement in Daniel 9:27 may in effect be made up of several smaller agreements that eventually come to form the whole that is the confirmed agreement.  We didn’t know that in the past but now the playing out of events is making this apparent.

So it appears a snowball effect may be about to happen with other Arab nations joining in.  We all refer to the Daniel 9:27 agreement as a peace agreement because elsewhere in Ezekiel 38-39 we find Israel living in unwalled villages – i.e., they obviously feel at peace because they don’t need protective walls around their villages.  How could they feel at peace but for this whole peace agreement being approved?  (And you know that is when the attack on Israel from Russia, Turkey, and Iran comes, an attack God himself repels dramatically.)

The confirming of the agreement in Daniel 9:27 begins the seven year Tribulation.  The one who confirms that agreement, who makes it happen, who brings it about, is the Antichrist.  In the middle of the ensuing seven years he ends the sacrifice and offering in the Temple in Jerusalem and sets up in the Temple an abomination that causes desolation until the end (that would be when he is captured at Armageddon at the end of the seven years and thrown into the Lake of Fire.).

This abomination is his declaring himself God, as we are told by Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2:4 he does.
No, as of right now at this moment I do not know who that individual is. Obviously you and others can speculate.  In not very long it will be apparent.

Dear Partners and Friends, I write all these things because the Lord back in 2005 told me to tell people who he is and that he is coming soon.  Not many years ago he guided me that the return of Jesus is my message now.  Nothing could be more important.  And for you, nothing can be more important than your personally knowing the Lord, being in right relationship with him, being alert for his return as he has indeed guided us, and of course doing whatever you can as guided by the Holy Spirit to help God lead others to Christ.
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*AN IMPORTANT FOLLOWUP TO OUR LATEST NEWSLETTER - YOU MUST READ THIS!

This is a really important document.  I ask you to read it through and to think and pray about it.  Our September newsletter touched just a bit on what you are about to read, but by no means the whole account.  This is important for all of you and your families.

Some of you have known me a long time.  Some of you I think know pretty clearly how I have been called by God and given certain assignments.  Some of you have seen the healings and miracles and heard various revelations regarding all Jesus is and who we are in him and his imminent return.  Some of you, probably most, know how dramatically God stepped into my life years ago and called me to this new life we have led for so long.

Over the years the Lord has spoken many things to me in various ways – direct words, Holy Spirit guidance, words spoken to others, dreams, visions, circumstances.  And he has done so many healings and miracles.  Among the words he has shared are many concerning his return and specific prophecies sometimes that I have considered just for me and for Cathy.  Then there are those that clearly I was to share with all and I have done that.  And the third category is those that perhaps should be shared but when …?   I needed guidance on that.

In this writing I am sharing some startling things, one from years ago and the others from just the past few days.  After you read this, and as you consider all written here, please pray about it all.  Seek God’s guidance for yourself on the matters covered. 

With that background here we go:

Last fall Cathy and I, after 20 years of living down on the shore really close to the beach, had a real sense, and understanding, that we needed to move.   So we began to write down the reasons why we should move.  When we got to number 8 we said, wow, and we realized it was time.  There were several good reasons.

We prayed about the move and about putting the house on the market to sell.  And the Holy Spirit guidance was clear.

 

Now pay special attention:

As we went through the process, our minds turned back to a prophecy, a word, the Lord gave me several years ago.  In fact it was in December of 2005.  I have only shared this with a few of those closest to us, but now I am sharing it with all.  These are the Lord’s words:

“This whole island will be covered with water.  The coastlands will be covered with water.  But I will move you and your family before then.  Put it all in my hands.”

We had thought about this over the years but the Lord had not moved us.  Now it was happening.  And it did.

We lived along the shore, very close to the ocean, and as we thought of moving off the island on which we lived, we thought we would move to the nearby large city which was a few miles from the shore.  But then those words from the Lord came back to mind and it was obvious we needed to move more inland.  So we did, to a wonderful place more than a hundred miles from the coast.

Now we are away – from a place we loved living but also from a place the Lord himself said would be covered by water, along with the coastlands.

 

While you are recovering from all this, I want to go quickly to another subject that relates directly.  A few days ago I had a dramatic dream/vision, clearly a message from God.  Maybe you have had such a thing, or maybe not.  In such a dream/vision, you feel you are really there, and the words and actions are real.

I will not summarize all, for it is a long account.  But you need to hear the main part.  Cathy and I were walking along the shore in a town just north of our beach town.  Another couple was with us.  As we walked and talked we looked at the water close beside us.  It was full of ships – of all sizes.  Full, like none of us have ever seen before.  They were sitting pointed this way and that.

As we walked I suddenly said: Look at the tugboats!

There were three tugboats sitting together.  Suddenly as we looked, one sank – instantly, quickly. 

And we continued walking.  As we went, from time to time, a ship would sink.  As we neared our town a large ship sank!  The largest so far. 

We rounded a building and the man walking with me said, “You boat is still out there.  It’s riding the waves.”

I turned and faced him.  And in one of those stark moments in such a dream/vision, I (my character in this dream/vision) said:

“You know what this means! 

It’s hours!

We’ve only got hours!”

And at that I woke up startled and highly upset and agitated.  It was perhaps 4:30 AM.  I went downstairs and thought about sending out a warning to all our ministry partners and friends.  I knew that was a message from God.  But as I thought and prayed, I realized I still have not finished one of the assignments God has given me.  So that “hours” must be more than a handful. 

I didn’t send out the immediate warning.  I thought and prayed more, and spoke to Cathy who came downstairs right away.  Later I shared with a few close ministry friends.  

But the message of this dream/vision to me was unescapable:  My instant sense upon awakening was that the time to the Lord’s return is very very short and that the ships sinking was a sign of things falling apart as they indeed are now in our secular world.  I was comforted by the remark by the man that my boat is still out there and is riding the waves.

I need to add that as I sat and prayed I suddenly fell asleep and was again in the same dream.  This time Cathy and I were continuing to walk to where we live, although in this dream/vision it wasn’t a house but rather a second floor apartment in a two floor apartment building along the shore.  We went up to the apartment.  I went in and suddenly I saw through the window facing the ocean a wave as high as the window.  I grabbed Cathy and left quickly.  And I woke up.

I think that coda was just to add emphasis to the primary dream.

Several comments need to be made:

·            We don’t know how many hours we have until the Lord returns.  None of us ever have.  It could be thousands.  But whatever it is, obviously it is a short period.

·         Ever since the Lord called me to begin focusing on his return, all his words – received directly, through dreams or visions, through perhaps others he has spoken to about me – have used terms like days to refer to this time before he returns.   The last days.  Now the term is hours.  I think the message is clear.

·         A few close to us have offered insights they have received regarding the ships, but I think the interpretation I have shared here is the one that most fits.  If you have some guidance from the Lord on this, please forward to us.

SO WHAT DO YOU DO WITH ALL THIS?

·        Pray about it.  Seek God’s guidance for yourself.  Seek God’s confirmation for yourself.

·      If you are living at the coast or on an island, I think it’s time for you to think again about that, to consider where you live and continue to live and to seek God’s guidance.  And looking a bit more broadly, maybe also those of you who live in some other area frequently subject to really violent weather like tornados or earthquakes should do the same.

·     Certainly I don’t know each of your situations and what you need to do or not, but it is time now for you to seek God’s guidance on this.  Pray.  There are just too many signs and too much guidance of how close we are.  And again, the environment both natural and human gets tougher and tougher as we approach that hour of the Lord’s return. 

·        And once again as I say so often, tell others about the Lord and his imminent return.  Give them whatever you think they will listen to on this.  Give them our book WAKE UP AMERICA! or give them some of our CDs or newsletters.  Some people send our newsletter and other writings to others, by email or in paper form.  Pray for all you know do not know Jesus.  Pray for God to lead them to Jesus.  Remember in the end you cannot force anyone to believe.  God must lead them to that point.

    (September 2019)

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* GOD MOMENT: THE TRIP HOME

It was late at night a couple years ago, and Cathy and I were driving back from a visit to an off-shore island on the East Coast.  We were far away but hoped to make it home rather than have to spend the night somewhere.

We had crossed over a large sound and were on the mainland, driving through some heavily wooded and swampy area, heading directly westward.  Almost no other cars were on the road.  It was a sparsely crowded area.  We just drove and drove.  I looked at the GPS and the map.  I had realized we would eventually intersect with a smaller highway, not an interstate but an old highway that would go south winding its way through countless little towns.  It would be heading south, the right direction, and it would save an hour or two of driving to get to the nearest interstate heading south.

 

Cathy and I talked about the merits of turning onto the smaller highway.  She wasn’t sure it was a good idea, but I thought it a good way that might save time and would get us heading in the right direction.  We discussed it and drove along.  Eventually we approached the intersection where we would have to turn off to get onto that highway.  We decided to go ahead and take the small highway.  So at the proper exit Cathy turned right up the exit ramp and followed the signs that eventually led to going south on the smaller highway.  So now we drove along, quiet and peaceful that we had made the turn and were on the way south.

Time passed uneventfully.  Maybe a half hour.  Nothing of note and nothing of interest.  It was very dark.  Then I saw a sign.  It mentioned a small city and said sixty miles.  I saw it.   And then suddenly realized …why that city?  We are going south on the small highway.  That city was much further west on the original route!  Why was that sign even there?  I looked up at the compass on the car.  WEST!  It said we were going west!  But we had exited the original route and had turned south onto the smaller highway.  We had been driving many miles since.  I checked again.  I checked the GPS.  I saw more signs.  We were indeed heading west.  We were on the original road!  We were still driving on the original road we had been on before turning off, and we were going west, now much nearer the big interstate. 

Cathy and I were quiet.  You could hear our breath.  Finally one of us made the obvious observation.  “I guess God did not want us to go on that smaller highway.”  For whatever reason we may never know, he did not want us there.  We continued on to the interstate, took it, and eventually got home.

God had not let us turn off to the smaller highway.  We got home safely.  Would we have had a problem, an accident, run into something dangerous, if we had driven on the smaller southbound highway?  Maybe.   Something for sure.  But physically, even though we had turned off on the exit and had driven onto the small highway going south, we were not on it.  God did not let it happen.  Another miracle. 

Years before at a meeting at a university someone praying over me had prophesied miracles would follow me always and that I would not even see them unless I looked back.  That’s pretty much the way it has been.  Sometimes the wonders and miracles are clear and understood.  Sometimes, as in the case of this journey home, I just realize God had better plans for us and he made sure we didn’t get on the wrong route.  He does things like that.  How?  Who knows?  He is God.

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* LETTING GOD BE GOD

It is the early hours of the morning and I am still excited. 

Learning more every day of the Father’s magnificent hand in our lives, of the Lord’s putting together every step of his plan.

I will guide you step by step, he has told me.  I will show you the way.

So often in recent months and years the point has been made.  I can’t do it.  No, I can’t.  For all the best of motives and goals, in trying to go forward and implement what I understand to be God’s call and assignment, I can’t do it.  I can make headway, to be sure.  And good things at times can happen, to be sure.  But to fulfill his plan, his objective, his assignment, he has to do it.  Through me.  Around me.  I have to become nothing.  To give myself up entirely.  To be consciously and unconsciously open to what he is doing, sensitive to him always, not ever pressing or forcing anything that I think must happen but rather letting him work through me to accomplish.

Dying to self.  How many years, Lord?  How long ago did you tell me that, that I would be dying soon?  At least twenty.  I remember talking about that with two wonderful people you put in my path decades ago.  We were pondering.  And yes, I and we all had the right answer.  Dying to the old self, the old priorities, the old interests, the old objectives.  But year after year in all you have taught me and all that we have done together, still learning.  Still learning what that means.

Just not me.  No evidence or glory of or for me.  It is all about you, Lord.  It is all you, Lord. Everything.  And if I don’t know or see how something is to go forward or might happen that you have revealed to me, well, that’s alright.  You will reveal what you want me to know at your time, your perfect time.  It is never my time that counts, but yours.

Surely the Lord does nothing without revealing his plans, his secrets to his servants the prophets.  Yes, the Bible says that.  And how true it is you have shown me.

 

So long ago you revealed your plan.  You made it known.  And then suddenly you act and it all comes to pass.

There is no god but God.  All things are possible with him.  We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

Rest in him.  Live in him.  Use all the tools he has given you, and live in him.

Keep Your Eyes on Jesus!

                                                                                            (May 2016)

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* YES GOD IS LOVE - HE IS ALSO A LOT MORE THAN THAT

I am increasingly concerned with the continuing modern focus on the love aspect of our wonderful God.  Yes, God is love.  We know that.  The Bible tells us that.  Look at Jesus’ actions in going to the cross for us.

Yes, it is true.  God is love.

He is also many other things.  And this is where so many today who profess to be Christians just turn a blind eye.

God is patience.  He is long-suffering, but that patience does not last forever.  Eventually people have to realize who he is and what he expects. 

And he is jealous.  He is a jealous God.  You cannot have other gods before him.  You cannot put other things in life before him.  You just can’t.

And he is a just God who indeed does avenge.  Vengeance is mine, says the Lord. 

If you read the Bible you know that God will only tolerate evil so long, even in his chosen people the Jews.  Notice how he brings all sorts of calamities on the Israelites over the years when they are out of line.  Eventually at one point he even lets Jerusalem be overrun and the leaders taken away to Babylon.

And he makes it clear in the Bible that all these things that happen aren’t just necessarily by accident.  The book of Nahum notes the Lord’s way is in the whirlwind and storm.  And the book of Amos asks has disaster come to a city and the Lord not caused it?

Pretty chilling, is it not – certainly .  Except for the fact that we also do know the goodness and love of God!

Yes, God is God.  I wrote about that quite a bit recently in the newsletter in March titled NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD.  People today just can’t seem to get a grip on the immensity of God.  All powerful.  All knowing.  All present.  He is God. 

We humans can hardly imagine God! 

One approach is to look at some movies where an emperor or other powerful figure is portrayed.  Maybe a movie about Caesar or Genghis Khan or some other powerful historical figure.  I expect you have all seen something like that.  Remember how sometimes a trembling subject or stranger is brought in before the ruler, and the subject is kneeling or crawling on the floor.  They are terrified because of the great power of the ruler.

Well, they should be.  The ruler can just decide to end their lives, or maybe send them off to some battle, or take their possessions away, or whatever.

I tell you, none of those rulers have even a tiny percentage of the power that our God has.  If people fear someone who can take away their life, how much more should they fear someone who not only could do that but also could send them for an eternity into a horrible place to exist?  Here is the actual scripture that makes that point:    “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”  (MT 10:28 NIV)

Most people just don’t appreciate the immensity of God or who he really is because they don’t know him – let’s be honest.  They just don’t.  God to them is someone in a book or someone talked about once in a while or at church.

But we are talking about God.  Yes, he is love.  Yes, he is patient. 

But do you remember when he killed everyone on earth except Noah and seven members of Noah’s family, because he was so upset by the behavior of people? 

And do you remember when he was going to eliminate all the Israelites because of their behavior, and start over with Moses?  Moses interceded and God decided not to do that.

God is love all right.  The actions of Jesus in his first visit to earth were love, all right.  Lots of demonstrations of compassion.  And his love for us comes through in our times of prayer and communication with him. 

But even Jesus is returning as the great leader of the army of angels and saints to win at Armageddon and then to establish his rule from Jerusalem.  Jesus himself kills everyone in the army opposing him at Armageddon.  Jesus.

I am telling you all this because I am so concerned that people today just look at the love aspect of God.  For sure he loves us and he forgives us and he wants the best for us.  But he also wants his plans to be fulfilled and his words to be obeyed. 

We are very near the time Jesus will come to collect his believers and take them away, giving them a new glorious body.  During the time they are away in heaven, the seven year tribulation will occur.  Yes, terrible things are done during that period by the antichrist, the false prophet, and the devil.  See Chapter 13 of Revelation, for example.  But many horrors poured out during that seven year period described in many chapters in Revelation beginning in Chapter 6 are horrors poured out on the remaining humans on earth and on the earth itself by God.  They are the wrath of God.  At the time of the seven year tribulation, God will have been long-suffering for long enough.  He still will be seeking those who will turn to Jesus, but he will also be pouring out his wrath.

Don’t let anyone mislead you so into thinking that God is only love.  Remember, he is absolutely God.  Someone to be feared as well as loved.  And yes, that advice about fearing the Lord is in the Bible too.

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                                                                                                    (APRIL, 2016)

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BEING TRUE TO "THE CALL"

Sometimes God calls you to go “this” way. But another way – “that” way – would be more comfortable, more convenient.

Going that way would line up with the expectations of family and friends. It is where they think you are heading, now they see you have been called. It is what they naturally expect. It fits well with the traditions of the church your family attends. It would be logical.

That way seems like what you naturally would want to do. But Jesus has called you to go this way - - - this way is the call. Perhaps less adulation, less praise, less public recognition. Maybe more hardship and less remuneration. Loneliness in human terms. Strange, even to friends and family.

This is the way you have been called, and this is where you know you must go. And as you go this way, they are watching. They see you heading in a strange direction. They do not understand, at least most of them. A few may. And you, you just keep going… this way.


Comment:

If you are going to be a disciple of Jesus, if you are going to follow him, then you cannot simply choose an attractive course and action. You have to go where he calls you to go and do what he calls you to do. Otherwise, you are following yourself or the interests of others.

Twenty-six years ago for reasons known only to him, God saved me from certain death. Not only that, he also saved three other members of my family from certain death. A few years later, in response to my calling to Jesus for help, God came into my car on the New Jersey Turnpike and filled me to overflowing with his presence, with the Holy Spirit. His call on my life began and continues to evolve even today.

I had been a successful big corporation executive with a really good income, working throughout the world with business and government leaders, serving on international asociation boards. But no more. There was a new overwhelming purpose in life, one that immediately went way to the front of the list.

God is real - I just couldn't get over that. God is real, Jesus is real, the Holy Spirit is real, the Bible is true. God's continuing call on my life took several forms. Primary has been to "feed His sheep," which I do. And to give my testimony, which I do. Also to have a prayer, preaching, and healing ministry with my wife - that's how He said it, and we do. Write - religious poems and hymns and other works, and I have and do. A couple other major calls I do not share publicly.

So I have sought to reveal to people the fullness of who Jesus is. So much more than most know, than is taught in the traditional churches. And miracles just occurred and kept occurring over time. You can read about all this as well as an expanded testimony on our web site, www.johnnewlinministries.org. There you can see articles and newsletters and request CD's and DVD's, even go to video postings of our television program DARE TO BELIEVE!.

AND THEN! - Beginning in March 2005 Jesus specifically began telling me: "John, tell people who I am and that I am coming soon." He elaborated on this many times, saying such things as "this is no joke" and "when I come, things will be different." (God does speak to you in the language that you will understand.). And He just kept bringing this up and pressing me on this. So my life and our ministry turned to focus primarily on this specific assignment. On television and in CD recordings and newsletter writings. Over and over.

You see, all those prophecies in the Bible of events to happen before Jesus returned, which had never occurred, suddenly began to be fulfilled. In the last century and up to today suddenly they were fulfilled one after another. The reestablishment of the nation of Israel. The takeover of Jerusalem by the Jews. (Read the teachings. Get our CD's on this.). It was all so obvious. He indeed is coming, and coming very soon! Later I realized he had been revealing this to some other ministers and individuals in the country. He wanted people to know. Because certainly most don't.

Now, we are right there, right at the point of his return. All the many things he talked about regarding his return have happened or are happening. We are right in that period Paul referred to as the apostacy, or rebellion, the falling away from God. Hard for anyone to deny that is the case in the US today, and certainly much of the world. At the same time that there are great pockets of mission work in the world with many coming to Christ, there are also huge zones where faith in God seems dormant, especially in the modern industrialized world.

The events in our society today should be readily apparent to most. But then most don't know the Bible, don't know the truth, sadly even don't know Jesus, so how can they recognize what is happening. The fear pouring out of Washington and the media, the confusion seen and felt by all, surely some are getting the point. We can hope. We can pray.

Are you ready for that return? Regardless of circumstances or events, the key question is whether you know Jesus. Get our material or that of other ministries truly focused on Jesus and the Bible. Read the book of John and the other gospel books. Ask Jesus to come into your life and be your Lord. Ask his forgiveness for all your wrong behavior in life, your "sins" to use Bible talk. And never stop seeking him. God says you will find him when you seek him with all your heart. He also says that you can call out to him and he will answer you and will show you great and hidden things you do not know. The Bible says if you lack wisdom about something, then ask God for that.

It really is now. Times for the country and world are getting tough. And so very soon, Jesus will be here. You want to be ready.