WATCHMAN WARNING: REMEMBERING 9/11 - IT’S MESSAGE TO US

 

Today September 11 we remember again an atrocious day twenty-five years ago, a horrible day.   That was a day when absolute evil committed horrible acts attacking the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, in the process killing more than 3,000 people there and on three hijacked airplanes who were just involved in their daily work activities or transportation to work.  More than 9,000 others have died since then from 9/11 related illnesses (injuries and the effects of smoke, chemicals and more). 

 

That attack was committed by a group of non-American Muslims.

 

I have written more than once of the obvious centuries old objective of Islam of taking over the world.  I write about this often because most in the West I think don’t realize it.  That long term objective of Islam began after Mohammed’s death many centuries ago. At that time a Muslim army swept out of Arabia through northern Africa and into Spain and eventually France, conquering the northern African countries and converting them by force into Muslim nations. Thankfully for all Western civilization Charles Martel of France led an army against the Muslims and defeated them in Tours France, stopping this rolling victory parade for Islam. But as we see even today, that is only temporary.  Large numbers of Muslim immigrants into European countries today are changing the character and culture of many of those nations.

 

In the USA Muslim immigration has been at a smaller number but we now see pockets where they have had a terrible impact.  Dearborn Michigan is like a Muslim city, with minarets blaring calls to prayer five times a day.  Parts of Texas and elsewhere continually have to fight back and squash efforts to have sharia law apply.  And Minnesota, sadly, we all see what that state has become.

 

The overall objective of Islam has never changed.

 

Islam is a false religion.  Allah is not God, the God of Christianity, of Judaism.  Muslims do not know if they go to heaven when they die.   Their savior is the Mahdi, a mysterious being who comes in a time of great conflagration.  That expected coming in part is what is behind the extraordinary fanatical leadership and determination of Iran’s regime.

 

Americans surely should never forget 9/11.  They also should never forget who committed this atrocity.  Radical Muslims.  This whole action was one led by the evil one of course, the devil.  There is nothing good at all in this horror other than the noble acts of individuals who sacrificed their own lives to save others that day.

 

The fundamental kindness and openness of Americans and indeed of many Westerners leads them to be so vulnerable to Islam and welcoming to Muslims, most of whom of course are only a passive part of the movement toward world control.

 

Citizens of the US and Europe must be alert and aware of what is going on in their countries.  Yes we are clearly living in the very last days, the time of Jesus’ return to collect his believers.  But we do not know specifically when that will be even though all signs point to it’s being soon.  And all believers must work to stand up for the Lord and his truths and their civilizations and nations right up to that return.  We must be doing the Lord’s work, telling people who Jesus is and that he is coming soon.  Muslims indeed surely can also change and accept Jesus as their Lord.  There are reports from time to time of that happening even in Muslim nations.  We should pray for God to lead them to Jesus.  And as with all other lost people, we should ask and be led by the Holy Spirit in our doing our part to help God in this leading.

 

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September  2026 

 

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ALL AROUND US - PEOPLE PERISHING IN OUR MIDST

In our day many people are perishing because they refuse to love truth and so turn and be saved. Despite God’s great patience, they just never recognize the truth of life – e.g., God and the gospel message of the Bible. So God gives them over to a depraved mind and they do what ought not to be done. He gives them over to a spirit of delusion. 

These few sentences summarize the essence of 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 and Romans 1:28-32. There is more to read in both chapters about the subject. But this certainly gives an explanation for many of those in society who seem truly lost, unable to engage in rational discussion of issues and unable to see and recognize basic truths, at times leading very bizarre lifestyles. We see these troubled people in our daily lives, in the news, in their at times violent and irrational behavior in support of dangerous ideas. God has given them over to a spirit of delusion, and that is the dark place from which they view life and the world. To the extent any of these achieve any positions of power and authority in government or other significant organizations, all people are at risk. 

Here are the core scriptures: 

… and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness. – 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

 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. 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, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 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. – Romans 1:28-32 

Of course there are still many more who are just spiritually lost and have not yet heard or realized the truths of Jesus and the gospel. And many of these have been led astray by the deception that Jesus warned all of us of in these last days.

[This article is taken from the March 2025 John Newlin Ministries newsletter]

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* 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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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 

 

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* SIGN OF THE TIMES: LIVING IN THE DAYS OF NOAH AND LOT

  

Those who are not born again, spirit filled believers just do not know what is happening on earth today.

 

They cannot fathom why there is so much violence and evil and lying and corruption and general disorder and mayhem.  They cannot comprehend why things steadily are getting worse and worse.  They put their hope in humans and in electing new leaders even though they know intrinsically that human leaders have failed greatly in the past.  And since they do not know the Lord and do not have the gift of discernment, they do not know how to pick the best of the candidates for any office anyway.

 

I wonder sometimes what all these people are thinking.  In the US so many continue to work hard to support their families and live, yet the increasing cost of living is great and this is all so very hard. 

 

Those in false religions such as Islam and Buddhism and Hinduism just don’t know.  They are led by false gods, really demons from Satan’s dark kingdom, and they are just lost…eternally lost unless somehow they hear the truth of Jesus and turn and are saved.  That will take an act of God, for as Jesus said no one can come to him unless his Father draws that person to him.

 

For believers, living in the midst of such national and international confusion and violence is difficult indeed.  We all know what is going on and where we are all headed, yet we live in the midst of all the mayhem and confusion and evil.  We see the continuous deception of so many leaders and others, the obvious falsehood, and we still ponder why others cannot see all that even though we know why.

 

Hopefully, the Lord will be here any moment.  We know this is the season of his return.  We know he is coming very soon.  We know that.  It could not be soon enough for us.  The only possible reason for any delay on his part must be that there are still some in that group God chose before the creation of the world to be in the Kingdom who have not yet come to the Lord.  But when I think that, I realize that they could still come to Jesus during the Tribulation or even during the Millennium. 

 

Soon.  I expect soon.  But how are we to live right now in this period.  Well, Jesus himself said his coming would be like the days of Noah and Lot.  Now, putting aside all the terrible immoral behavior of those times, the days of Noah and Lot also had people going about their regular life activities right up until when the flood came and when Sodom was destroyed.  So I take from that we are to be about our normal activities.  For believers, that includes telling others about Jesus and his return as always. 

 

Still, big decisions for some  are looming, such as whether they should move for various reasons, or maybe should they trade in their old car, or how are they going to be able to send their child to college soon.  What do they do about all this?  My only answer is just to continue to live the basic life activities right up to the instant the Lord returns.  If they have just moved when he comes and they are taken to be with him, that move and all that effort won’t matter at all will it?  No, they will just be overjoyed to be with him.

 

I have shared so many words the Lord has said to me in the past about his return, about the surprise and the instantaneousness of it all, about how things will be changed.  He is coming for his CHURCH, his true CHURCH – that body of people who have been called out of the world society into a new organization of which he is the head.  This CHURCH has nothing to do with any of these brick buildings on street corners with all the denominations and organization affiliations and such, other than that some in the CHURCH surely are involved with some of those places.  The CHURCH is the collection of Jesus’ true believers, those who have been born of water and the Spirit, those who seek to do his father’s will, those who have the same innocent faith as little children.

 

How are you to survive all the turmoil and falsehood I referenced at the beginning of this piece?  My suggestion is to keep your eyes on Jesus, keep your spiritual ears attune to hear him and the Holy Spirit and the Father, live in the protection God has for us, ask for more wisdom and guidance always, and listen out for that command from the Lord when he comes.  And of course to keep telling people who Jesus is and that he is coming soon!!!

 

May God keep all of us in the palm of his hands, safe from harm and ready to go, actively doing his will for us now in these final days.

 

                                                                                                      

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* SIGN OF THE TIMES: THE INCREASING HEAVINESS OF OUR DAY FOR TRUE BELIEVERS (DESPITE ALL THE JOY WE HAVE)

 

There is an increasing heaviness to my life that I haven’t been able to shake.

 

It’s not depression.  It is a heaviness, an increasing sadness.  It is real and it is here.  Despite my great joy at knowing Jesus, at having the Kingdom of God inside me.  Despite all I know about that future.

 

At times walking down the street or sitting quietly or hearing of an event or seeing a report, sometimes I am moved to tears.  It is a sadness that grips my inner being, my heart, my soul.  I have no doubt I am sharing in the sadness the Holy Spirit is feeling.

 

It is a sadness of seeing what is happening all around: Seeing lost people play out the charade of their existence.  Seeing their sincere and misguided goals and hopes. Seeing Europe crater.  Seeing America apparently coming apart at the seams, relentlessly attacked by unbelievers in the Lord who cloak themselves as reporters, congressmen, college professors and students, bureaucrats, even violent rioters, lemmings all who are following the pied piper of evil right over the cliff and trying to take one of the grandest of human achievements with them.

 

What will be here when the Lord returns?

 

Remember, in truth, it really doesn’t matter so long as you really know Jesus and are ready to go with him.  What happens around you is just so much filler of time and space…that is, except for the people you see caught up in all this evil, no doubt some close to you that you wish knew the Lord, knew the truth.

 

How are we to go on?  Well, we know the Lord.  We do know truth.  We will be here when Jesus comes unless we have already gone to join him.  Our eyes should and must be on him.  Our hopes and our future are all in him.

 

There is nothing wrong or strange about suddenly feeling sad these days; about needing a moment to compose yourself.  We really are in the last days.  It is difficult watching organizations and institutions  we have held dear in our lives crumbling and falling apart, losing their focus.  It is really hard watching people in key positions calling good evil and evil good.

 

And it is difficult seeing so many churches and the people going there on weekends thinking they are doing what they are supposed to, churches that are not teaching about the imminent return of the Lord, churches that don’t teach about how the Holy Spirit is for each of us right now today with all his gifts, churches that don’t even teach the need to be born again.

 

In this time and seeing all the confusion and evil that is evident everywhere, no doubt we all feel called upon to do more and more to help others know the Lord, to know the truth.  And this is surely what we should be doing, part of Jesus’ assignment to all believers in his Great Commission at the end of Mark.  So we go forward asking the Holy Spirit to arrange divine encounters, to guide us in our efforts.  And still as we intend to do all we can we have the heaviness of realizing just how many don’t know the truth of the gospel.  And we have the heaviness of realizing just how many apparently don’t really want to hear or know the truth. 

 

The overwhelming majority of people do not know.  We who are looking forward to the imminent return of the Lord truly are a remnant; hopefully, a growing remnant, but still a remnant.  It was always thus.  Jesus himself explained how hard it is for people:

 

….wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.  But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. – Matthew 7:13-14

 

For all believers who strive to do the Lord’s work, to be his follower, there is of course the great cost of following him.  So many – even close relatives and friends – may look with disdain on your faith and your activities and priorities.  I know Cathy and I have on many fronts seen a separation from others who at times were friends and from some relatives and family members who just cannot understand what we are about or are scared by it all.

 

But for us and for you, there is the great internal joy of knowing the truth.  We know the end of the book.  We live every day with the great assurance from Jesus that he is never going to lose us.  And we seek always to go forward in the presence and guidance of the Holy Spirit.

 

 

September  2023

 

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* SIGN OF THE TIMES: OUR TIME

 

Think about it. Of all the people who have ever lived, you have been blessed to live in the time during which the Lord Jesus himself will come again and collect his believers to take them with him. You, in fact. are living during the time that is the end of the current human age, the time from Adam’s creation to the return of Jesus to collect his believers. If you are a believer in Jesus, you will go with him when he comes and will miss the terrible seven-year tribulation that follows. At the end of that is a great battle called Armageddon.  An army led by Jesus defeats the evil army opposing him led by the Antichrist. Really, Jesus is the one who defeats the enemy with the sword coming out of his mouth, the word of God.  And thereafter begins a period of 1000 years with the Kingdom of God actually being based in and ruling from Jerusalem.

 

Human history from Adam all the way through the tribulation is about 6000 years. The Millennium that begins after Armageddon is an additional, or 7^th, 1000 years. We really don't know a great deal about that other than again it appears God is giving humans who somehow survive the tribulation and their descendants the opportunity to come to know Jesus and be in the Kingdom.  

 

At the end of this Millennium, the devil, who has been imprisoned in a deep pit, is released for some reason. He goes about gathering up followers (amazing to me there would be anyone like this, but then we see in our day what humans are capable of) and leads another battle against God, during which he is totally defeated and is himself thrown into the lake of fire.

 

Following that, a truly new Jerusalem of enormous dimensions - you might call it the new heaven and earth - comes into being.  God himself as well as Jesus will be based in this new Jerusalem, along with all believers.

 

We really don't know what happens next. Or what happens in the rest of all creation – the universe, the galaxies.  But does that really matter? God will be with us.

 

The difficult and burdensome thing for believers now is the great number of unbelievers on earth, including members of their own families, friends, neighbors, prominent people we see on television and in government or media or entertainment or whatever, that do not know Jesus. It is distressing to realize they will be going through the tribulation and further that they will end up in the dreadful lake of fire unless they change.  Each one of us every day of our lives in the time we have left should ask the Holy Spirit to orchestrate all encounters we should have with others.  Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you in all conversations with unbelievers.  We certainly should do our part to share the truths of Jesus, of the gospel. But in the end we must always remember that only God can lead a person to Jesus.  We have that truth given us by Jesus himself.  Certainly we can and should ask God the Father to draw others to Jesus. 

 

From all the Lord has shown me it is apparent his return is very, very, very near. I have written on what he has shown me in so many newsletters and other publications. The February 2022 Newsletter in particular covers the actual timetable for all this which he showed me in a dream/vision. I know this is all challenging. But I know it's all true as well.

 

The best advice? Keep your eyes on Jesus. Stay focused on him. Watch, be alert!  Stay in the right relationship with Jesus so you are ready to go whenever that call comes to meet him in the air.  

 

Pray in the spirit often and on all occasions.  Be specific in your conversations with God.  Talk to God as if you were talking to another person.  You are.  The most important person in your life.  And listen.  Sit and listen.  Or listen when you're walking around and doing other things.  God does answer.  God does speak to his people - sometimes in words, sometimes in dreams and visions, sometimes through other people, sometimes in all sorts of interesting ways.  Remember my telling you all about how God spoke to a Nigerian pastor in a small town in Nigeria about me and told him various things which the pastor then sent to me?  I had never heard of that pastor until he contacted me.

 

Several years ago for about one or two years or so, God would often wake me up in the middle of the night, about two or three or four.  I would go in another room, sit and read the Bible.  At some point the Lord would begin talking to me.  Sometimes it was more a period of guidance and direction.  But other times it was a real conversation back and forth, about important things and also at times incidental things.  That dream/vision I recounted in the February 2022 newsletter was another drastically different way of his communicating to me.

 

Dear friends and partners, fellow believers, yes it is true.  We are living in the last of the last days, the time right before Jesus returns.  In all you do keep your eyes on Jesus.  Stay focused on what counts.  Go about all your necessary activities while always knowing the time you are living in.  He himself said it will be just like the days of Noah and Lot.  People will be going about normal activities and then suddenly…the believers will be gone.  Jesus comes in the air with a shout, a command, and a trumpet blast.  I expect that shout or command will be something like “Come up here!”  The Father and Jesus have used that before – with the two witnesses in Revelation and when Jesus summoned John to come see what was going on in heaven in Revelation.

 

Yes, this is an unpleasant time on earth with all we see taking place.  But you and I know the Lord is coming soon.  The overwhelming majority of people out there don’t know that.

 

 

 

August 2023

 

Copyright © 2023 by John Newlin

 

  

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KEEP YOUR EYES ON JESUS!

JOHN NEWLIN MINISTRIES
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CARY, NC 27518
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* SIGN OF THE TIMES: IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS

 

It had to.  It was the plan all along.

Jesus Christ is returning to the earth very soon to collect his true believers and take them with him.  Shortly thereafter or perhaps even concurrently the seven year Tribulation will begin.  That will be a time of increasing horror and confusion and mayhem on earth.  Think about it.  None of the people left on earth were chosen by Jesus to go with him.  So largely the world will be populated and led by people who are just lost.  Oh, there will surely be some who had some knowledge of Jesus; they will likely start searching earnestly for more information, visiting church and ministry libraries, reading about the Lord and the last days on the Internet.  And at some point many of these come to know the Lord during the Tribulation, for the disciple John sees them in Heaven when he is taken there in Revelation.  I don’t know how they get there.  One likely explanation is being killed by the Antichrist government for their refusal to take the mark the False Prophet requires of anyone who wants to buy or sell.

During that seven years believers will be in heaven.  What are they doing?  We don’t know.  No doubt praising and worshipping Jesus and the Father.  Perhaps meeting past friends and ancestors they never knew.  Maybe being trained for the future?  At some point attending the marriage supper of the Lamb.  And then at the end of the seven years, coming back to earth with Jesus in his army of Holy Ones to fight at Armageddon.  Actually, they don’t do any fighting.  Jesus wins that battle himself by the sword coming out of his mouth.

Way back in the beginning, when Adam walked with God and then God created Eve as his companion, humanity made a fatal step.  Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, the fruit God had warned not to be eaten.  In doing so they and humanity fell away from God, and life on earth entered a “fallen” period.  For hundreds of years, four thousand in fact, life continued like that.  And then God sent his son Jesus to earth to bring the Kingdom of God, to reconcile humanity to himself.  Jesus accomplished that reconciliation by taking your and my sins to the cross and overcoming them, earning God’s forgiveness for us and thus eternity with Jesus and the Father.

But…there is a big requirement here.  A person must recognize Jesus as their Lord in order to be in that Kingdom.  A person in essence must receive that forgiveness and go forward seeking to do God’s will.  It is by grace that we have all been saved, and not by works so that no one can boast.  That is true.  But that salvation does not work for those who never hear about it or never act on it.  And we all know so many in that camp.

We are at the very end of this age.  Remember with God a thousand years is like a day and a day is like a thousand years.  Well, in his time accounting, we have finished six thousand years of human existence and are at the beginning of the seventh thousand.  We have finished six days and are moving into the seventh.  From Adam to now has been six thousand years.  So this all comes to a conclusion of sorts now.  This age ends.  Not the earth.  Not the world.  Not humanity.  No.  At the conclusion of the battle at Armageddon, the Kingdom of God’s rule is set up on earth in Jerusalem, and various of Jesus’ believers occupy positions of authority in that government.

At that point the thousand year millennium begins.  That is the seventh day.  It is at the end of that period that the new heaven and earth come, that God comes to dwell with man in the new Jerusalem described at the end of the book of Revelation.

It all had to eventually reach this point.  This was always the plan.

The Lord spoke to me directly back in 2005 when I was preaching to a group.  Right in my ear I heard “John, tell them who I am and that I am coming soon.” 

Ever since he has periodically shared more about his return, and I have passed on much of that.  There just is not much more time on earth before he comes.  Very little.

It has been astounding to me how small the number who understand and recognize Jesus is coming soon.  The Biblical prophecies of things to happen before his return have happened.  Nothing has to occur before he comes to collect his sheep.  Some things may happen during the Tribulation, like the invasion of Israel by nations to its north or the building of the third temple, but nothing more has to happen now.

I think many people today – including many unbelievers – realize something is highly amiss in our world.  Bizarre things are happening.  Leaders are doing things that do not in any way appear wise.  Groups of people vociferously back positions that are irrational and they really are not open to discussion.  Life is increasingly dangerous on earth. 

But sadly so many churches and church pastors are not teaching and preaching about these days, about Jesus’ return.  Why?  That I don’t fully know.  Some possible answers may be that the pastors themselves do not have a revelation of the return, or that they are afraid of frightening off younger adults who may want their children to have time to grow up, or that the ruling boards of those churches just won’t allow the return to be taught.  In any event, they will have to answer for not preparing their congregations.

Throughout the nation and the world are individuals who do know the truth and who will be going with Jesus.  It is always wonderful to encounter them.  Several of my ministry friends have made the point that where they live there is just no one for them to truly talk with about all this, to share revelations from the Lord.  I have that experience too.  People out there are really lost and unfocused on what really counts.  And the clock just keeps ticking.

Recently we have started producing a series of short videos dealing directly with key points of these last days.  Currently they are available on Twitter.  We have hopes to make them available elsewhere as well soon.  Please tell those you care for about these and encourage them to watch.  Or forward our written material or give them copies of our book WAKE UP AMERICA!  Remember, one of the Lord’s assignments to all believers is to take the gospel to others (see the last paragraph in Mark).

May God bless you and your family and friends aways.  May you all live in the will of God. 

And remember:

The only thing that matters is Jesus and your relationship with him.

          

                               July 2023

                               Copyright © 2023 by John Newlin

 

 

 

Please forward copies of this to whomever you would.

Note:

To get copies of our book WAKE UP AMERICA! go to AMAZON or our website or contact the ministry.

 

 

KEEP YOUR EYES ON JESUS!

JOHN NEWLIN MINISTRIES
P O BOX 1038
CARY, NC 27518
https://johnnewlinministries.org
email: john@johnnewlinministries.org
Twitter.com/johnnewlinmin
Blog: johnnewlin.blogspot.com
tel 910 395 1465