Showing posts with label The Imminent Return of Jesus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Imminent Return of Jesus. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

* SIGN OF THE TIMES: THE FACTS AND TRUTH OF OUR EXISTENCE


 
When someone dies, and you are there with them – whether a dear family member or friend or someone else- at the moment of death that person’s life leaves the body.  It just goes somewhere else, and the body that is left is just an inanimate piece of material as is the chair you have been sitting in.   That person is no longer there.
 
Now, that person if they are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ will at some point in the near future, at the coming of the Lord to collect his believers, receive a glorious new body to live in.  And if the person is not a believer, that person will after the white throne judgement be sent off to eternity in the lake of fire, hell.
 
As the popular saying goes, “them’s the facts.”  Like them or not, those are true facts of this creation of God in which we live.  Life on earth exists under the commandments and rules and laws – spiritual and physical – of God.  Beyond that, the lives of people while on earth are of course under constant attack from the evil side, and those who do not truly know the Lord and all that is theirs through that relationship are easily led astray.  As John says in 1 John, the world is under the control of the evil one.  It will be so until Jesus wins the battle at the end of the Tribulation and sets up Kingdom government in Jerusalem, with that evil one having been thrown into a deep pit.
 
The only exception to the dominance of the evil one in the current world is the fact that believers in the Lord Jesus already have the Kingdom of God within them.  They are living in a totally different way than others all around.  And they have the power of that Kingdom, and all God’s promises, to use and apply while existing in this truly lost world.
 
Believers of course anxiously await the return of the Lord to collect them and take them with him.  They look forward to the new glorious bodies.  And they wonder what their lives will be like in the future.  That of course we will soon know.  This long period, this temporary pause in God’s calendar since Jesus left earth during which believers have been added to the Kingdom, will soon be over.  And God’s timing and plan will resume.  Seven years of Tribulation for those left behind, for the world.  Then a thousand year period under the government of the Kingdom of God based in Jerusalem, which believers will participate in.  And then finally the truly new Jerusalem described in chapter 21 in Revelation. 
 
Everyone, keep your eyes on Jesus.  Stay focused on all of God’s word.  Read again the promises, the truths, the commands, and more.  Read the gospel accounts over and over.  God’s word works.  We can do the same things Jesus did, even greater.  We can heal the sick, cast out demons, preach the gospel, and on and on.  But we must be persistent.  We must live in the right relationship with Jesus, we must operate in faith and in truth, we must rely on the truth and power of the Word, we must apply that Word to our lives and situations.  We can’t waiver.  If we slip up, if we stray away from the truths, we must ask for forgiveness which we will of course receive.  And we must be patient. 
 
God really does know what is going on in your life.  Every day ask the Lord Jesus to orchestrate your life, to bring glory to himself and the Father through you.  Ask the Holy Spirit to arrange divine encounters, conversations he would have you have with others, with nonbelievers.  Stand on the promises of health, and provision, and more.  Remind the Lord in prayer of things he has said to you and of promises in the Bible for believers.  He of course knows all this, but it is always good for you to talk about it in prayer.  Listen.  For guidance.  Don’t miss the Holy Spirit’s leading.  If you get a check in your spirit about something you are thinking of doing, don’t do it.  Stop and reconsider and pray.  Seek guidance.
 
All these many things on earth in our lives are all secondary to Jesus and our relationship with him.  The only thing that really matters is Jesus and your relationship with him.
 
I have greatly enjoyed the ministry God has led Cathy and me in.  I have wondered and marveled at things that have happened, that we have seen…healings, miracles, the fulfillment of God’s call and promises to us,  and so much more.  And I like you eagerly await the Lord’s imminent return.  But in the meantime we just can’t stop what we are doing.  Not you and not us.  It all continues, right up to the Lord’s return.  And then we will see what comes next for us, won’t we.  I can’t wait. 
 
 
 
Always remember, the only thing that really matters is Jesus and your relationship with him.
 
  
April 2024
 
  
Copyright © 2024 by John Newlin
  
 
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Tuesday, February 7, 2023

WATCHMAN WARNING: THE BASIC MESSAGE TO ALL PEOPLE

 

The high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, 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,”

 


The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he



Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”

Jesus answered: “… Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.”



Jesus Christ is God.  He is one of the Trinity – Father God, son Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit.

Do you know the King of the Kingdom of God? Do you know Jesus Christ?  This is the question of your life.  This is the question of the ages for each and every person.  If you do not truly know him, you will not go on in a good way.  Unless somehow you come to know him and accept him as your Lord, your eternity will be in the Lake of Fire, which is the eternal hell.

If you are unsure, ask him to forgive you your sins.  Ask him to be the Lord of your life.  And do it seriously.

Now is not a time for discussion and conjecture.  Now is the time of the real deal, the time right  before the imminent return of the Lord.  A dividing line is being finalized, separating those who truly believe and know Jesus from those who don’t.   

 
[Note:  The three brief discussions from scripture above can be found in Mark 14:61-62, John 4:25-26, and John 14:8-9.]





February  2023                                                                                                                  
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Wednesday, October 19, 2022

WATCHMAN WARNING: MOMENTOUS

 
A momentous election is upon us in the United States.
 
Far more important than that of course is the imminent return of Jesus.  But surely all believers want Jesus to find us out there working for him and the gospel right up to the time he comes.  And don’t we all want to be living in as good and decent a place as possible these remaining days?
 
This election gives us all that opportunity.  It gives us a chance to take a stand against the out and out evil and wrong-thinking of many politicians in our government these past months.  It gives us all a chance to vote for what we can perceive are the best candidates, the ones who are true Christians or at least have basic Christian values and who have the backbone to stand up for honesty and decency and truth.
 
On the local and national level we have seen action after action supporting issues that bring the country down, destroy the economy, damage the basic fundamental values of America that come from the Bible and the Constitution.  We have seen apparently confused or flat out evil politicians take stands that support criminals over the victims of crime, with the result that in many cities today citizens fear to go about the city, to ride public transportation, basically just to live.  We have seen local district attorneys elected who will not support law and order but over and over release terrible criminals onto the streets. 
 
Throughout the land many good citizens are volunteering to take positions such as poll observer during the election in the hope of having fairer and more honest elections than we have seen in recent years.  Let’s pray that indeed happens.
 
The goals right now should be to turn around many governments at all levels – governor, mayor, local school boards and councils, and Congress itself.  Many Americans throughout my lifetime have tried to focus on working to support their families, on having a home and a car and a vacation and perhaps going to sports events or some other recreation.  Those are all good things in themselves.  But these Americans have not wanted to focus on issues of politics and government, with the result being we have ended up with the atrocious leaders the nation and many cities and states have now.
 
There are still people who think the nation is doing well, and we only have to wonder how they think.  We still even have some Christians who just seem not to be aware of all that is happening.  Well, we know from prophecy and scripture what I have written often about, how Jesus warned us not to be deceived in these last days in which we are living.  Deception is rampant on earth today. 
 
I just write to encourage you to vote and to think seriously about each position.  Seek God's guidance.   It is not about whose personality you like the most.  It is about who you think would do the best for you and your family, for your children, for your community, and for the nation.  We all should try to make these last days as good as we possibly can, instead of a steadily deteriorating society heading toward an apparent lawless, godless, out of control hell on earth.  We know from the Bible that times get tougher and tougher as we near the return, but surely we can stand against that tide to the extent possible and be doing so when the Lord returns.  And of course, always, we surely can and should be representing Jesus in all opportunities and as the Holy Spirit guides.
 
                                                                        OCTOBER  2022
 
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Saturday, August 29, 2020

* RECOGNIZING WHAT IS HAPPENING AND THE TIMES WE ARE LIVING IN


I hope you will read this through to the end.  We are at that time I have spoken so much about over the years.  It was thirty years ago that God came into my car and called me away from the life I had been pursuing.  No longer would I be an international business executive but rather someone following the Lord and doing whatever he said and going wherever he led.

Over the years we have seen all sorts of signs and wonders, such as the healing miracles with which many of you are familiar.  I would have been happy just to continue to hold healing services. Many of you have seen or experienced the joy of God’s divine healing.  And then there were other miracles I have shared with you, how he orchestrated my meeting all sorts of his generals or going forward in various ministry ways.

Then came that moment in 2005 while I was preaching to a group in Wilmington NC.  Right in my ear the Lord said “John, tell them who I am and that I am coming soon.”  Well, we had been telling people about Jesus but now I began more and more focusing on the return as well.  And the Lord over time has revealed more and more about that return – in late conversations in the middle of the night, in dreams and visions, and through other people like the Nigerian pastor who received a long word from the Lord about me and thankfully shared it.

So over the years I have spoken and written more and more about Jesus’ imminent return.  Years ago he had asked me to write WAKE UP AMERICA, and I had tried.  Finally after years of revelations and experiences, that book was written and came out a couple years ago.  I wish all of you had a copy.  I wish everyone had a copy.  People need to know the truths of where we are in God’s time and how the prophecies of things to happen before his return have happened.  But, alas, so many just are not interested or have a deaf ear.

In recent months events have escalated leading up to his return.  A few months ago the Lord guided me through a dream to the fact that we only have hours.  In other words, while for a long time we had talked in terms of the last “days,” now we should talk in terms of the last “hours.”  How many we have left before he comes to collect his believers I do not know, but I do know it is very very soon. 

Any of you who have not gotten a copy of our book WAKE UP AMERICA! I encourage to get one, because I cannot reproduce here all the prophecies fulfilled and all the description of what is about to happen and what you need to know.  You can get that book from our ministry or from Amazon.

Perhaps the greatest thing and most obvious thing to happen since the book came out is the great explosion in deception and delusion in our society.  Huge numbers now go about acting and believing and doing things that believers know are wrong, are not true, are not only against God’s law but also against the Constitution and the foundations of the United States.  Yet – and this is most shocking – many senior leaders of the nation have not only not recognized this but have taken steps to aid and support frightening anarchic groups bent on destroying the nation.  How do I know that is their goal?  Because they say it is.

Back before WWII Hitler told of his plans, but the world did not listen.  Well, now, these violent truly criminal groups are destroying buildings, monuments, memorials, businesses, and even people, so all that is obvious evidence of what they are doing, yet so many leaders have not taken the steps of their absolute responsibility to protect the people. 

The fundamental reason for the existence of a government is the protection of the people.  That is first and foremost.  Many governors and mayors in recent weeks and months have failed this test.  So too a great number of Congressmen and Senators.  It has been shocking to those who know the history of America and know the role the country has played in such gigantic world events as WWI and WWII and the moon landing and countless other efforts to help other people and countries to realize there are large groups of people who understand nothing of that and in fact see America as a great evil.  It has been a slow realization on the part of many to understand that many of our young people have been in universities and colleges where they were literally brainwashed in this regard.

For some time now many have been concerned about the so-called “woke” society and the “cancel culture,” that view from the left  to do away with basic views and words and other things of society they do not agree with and to not listen or discuss opposing viewpoints.  But most did not know this had gotten to the point of wanting to tear down society and to not even be able to recognize the greatness of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Columbus, and so on. 

Early this summer the horrible murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis instantly brought about protests and demonstrations rightfully against police brutality in that situation.  And most right thinking people saw that death as horrible and realized there should be some changes.  But while people were thinking about this, suddenly the protests turned horribly violent, so violent that people of all races were shocked.  No right thinking people in America want to destroy the country!  This is still the greatest nation on earth in terms of individual freedoms and opportunity.   Hundreds of thousands come into the country every year, some legally, some illegally.  Why do they come?  Because they recognize how wonderful America is in comparison to other nations.  You don’t see hundreds of thousands trying to get into Russia or China or Cuba or one of the Middle Eastern countries do you?  Of course not.

Now that this violence has been permitted to continue for so long, we also see other expanded individual and group violence in cities throughout the country.  Murders are way up in NY City for example.  Chicago continues with horrible murders and shootings every weekend. 

NOW THE POINT:
What we are witnessing right now is the spread of a massive delusion over large numbers of people, that following great deception in the educational system and elsewhere for so many years.  We now have a large number of persons bent on destruction.  They don’t in some cases know what they are destroying.  As someone said, they just hate and are angry.

In some cities and states where the violent groups amidst the protestors destroyed businesses and took over police facilities and harmed and even killed several, liberal governors and mayors responded by not protecting the great majority of the citizens of all races but rather allowed the destruction to continue and even announced support for the violent groups, inaccurately calling it peaceful protests.

It is now sadly apparent that many from the “woke” world or “cancel culture” world have been elected to high positions of government.  Either that is true or these governors and mayors are incredibly spineless individuals.  They are not going to protect the citizens nor the Constitution nor society.

This has been shocking to most Americans.  Equally shocking has been the deafening silence of the Democrats and of many Republicans in Congress.  Where are they?  Are they too in this deluded group?

We have seen some actions by the presidency and the administration to provide support for law and order, but only in limited ways in a couple cities.  I would remind everyone that back in 1957 when there was serious unrest in Arkansas, President Eisenhower sent in the 101st airborne division of the military!

I expect a lot more from our elected leaders than we have seen.  It is obvious that many of the governors and mayors were not fit nor qualified to hold their positions.  Of course, the absolute responsibility for this comes down to the population who voted them in.  Americans for the most part have never like politics and pay little attention to matters of government.  Well now this attitude has come home to roost.  The foxes have taken over the henhouse.

In a spiritual sense, we have these points to make:
1)      Jesus’ first and primary warning about the time in which we live is that we should watch not to be deceived (Luke 21:8 and elsewhere).  Deception is rampant in our nation.  These violent groups are obviously deceived, as are so many in the state governments and in the national media who support this wild behavior.  Many church leaders are deceived as well.  I hear many talking about dealing with civil rights concerns, racial issues, but the fact dear friends is that these rioting anarchists are not interested in civil rights.  They are not interested really in changing the laws or modifying the police.  They are first and foremost interested in tearing down society.  That is a communist, socialist approach to life.  The goal is destruction, not modification.

2)      Scripture tells us in II Thessalonians 2:10-12 that as we get deeper and deeper into the last days God will send a spirit of delusion to people who just have refused to accept the truth (i.e., Jesus, the gospel, salvation).  So the point is that at some point God’s patience does run out.  I had first thought this would happen early in the Tribulation period after the Antichrist had become active, but it is obvious now there is a great spirit of delusion active in this world.  These “woke, cancel culture,” violent anarchic groups wreaking havoc on our cities right now while pretending to be part of a legitimate protesting group are full of deluded people.  They cannot see the truth.  They cannot hear it.  It is obviously impossible to have a rational discussion with them.

3)      Beyond the above two points, 2 Timothy 3:1-5 stresses the rise in lawlessness in this time and II Thessalonians 2:3 the falling away from God which is so evident.
SO WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN? 
Obviously Satan must be enjoying all this.  He and his minions are working extremely hard in these last days to destroy as many lives as possible, to keep as many as possible out of the Kingdom of God.

Here is what will be happening in the coming period leading up to the return of the Lord and why it is happening:

As some of you know, in the Tribulation period there is a leader of evil called the Antichrist.  Somehow he is so appealing initially that he is able to take over many nations.  He seeks to take over the world and run a one-world government.  At the midpoint of the Tribulation he takes up residence in the temple in Jerusalem.  He has an assistant called the false prophet who works to put together a one world church.

Now there are many in the world and in the United States who think that government always knows best.  They would like to take away individual freedoms and turn most things over to the government.  That point of view is opposite to the fundamentals of America.  If there is to be a one world government, America must be changed.  It must be weakened.  Its people must change.  A weakened America might eventually be willing to submit to a one world government, something the historical USA would have never done.

That is the objective of the devil in all this mess today – the continued building of the one-world government.  Not only are the violent demonstrators deluded and deceived, so too are many incredibly wealthy people and many academics and bureaucrats, all who apparently would be willing to move in that direction.  And apparently quite a few officials in high positions.

I think this is all going to happen so very fast.  Look at how the population of the USA was cowed and readily submitted into staying at home and staying away from social gatherings where we might have all discussed what was happening and come to a better understanding!  Look at how we are all cowed even further by now wearing masks wherever we go, so we cannot see people’s expressions and sometimes have difficulty understanding them, so we look almost like aliens to each other.  This coronavirus disease has had a great effect in setting the country and the world up for a one-world government.  Now this violence and anarchy in the USA adds another great blow.

All the while this is happening the true believers in Christ are even further isolated, in their homes, apart from others.  Some churches are back meeting but many are not willing to go right now.  Attacks on churches have increased greatly and statues of Jesus and Mary have been damaged in several places.

These attacks happen elsewhere in the world too, as well as the tearing down of statues and the sheltering of people in their homes.  In England, for example, a statue of Winston Churchill of all people was torn down.  No one did more to save England in WWII than Winston Churchill!  When asked why he was doing this, a person tearing down the statue said he did not know why.  That is likely the answer of all the people doing the tearing down.  They just hate.  They are angry.  They are deceived and confused.

Along with the Antichrist this false prophet mentioned above has a major role.  He does perform signs and wonders in support of the Antichrist.  This government of the Antichrist requires people to have a mark on their forehead or hand so they can participate in commerce – so they can even buy food for example.  Notice all the efforts today of high tech firms and wealthy individuals and others to come up with ways to track people, to mark people.

Notice also how far down the road the move to a one-world religion has gone.  Just recently the Pope called for every Muslim, every Buddhist, every Christian, every person in every other religion, to pray to his or her own god for an end to the coronavirus.  That is about as lost as one can be.  There is only one God.  These other religions are as false as they can be.  And any gods there would be demonic.

SO THE TIMELINE
Again I encourage you to get the book and read more of all that is going to happen and the specific steps.  There is even an appendix with six or more pages of characteristics of the Antichrist and the false prophet listed.

Basically, the situation will continue to deteriorate.  I know believers and those with great love for America and the Constitution will strive to stand up.  I do hope that we believers and all who love America will be successful in keeping the country from completely falling apart so that it and we will still be standing and fighting for the side of the Lord when he comes to get us.

Paul says the Day of the Lord will not come until there is a falling away from God and the man of lawlessness – the Antichrist – is identified.  The falling away from God has been going on for some time now and is escalating.  At the same time, hopefully, people will continue to come to Christ.

At some point before long an agreement will be signed with the nation of Israel, with the Jews, that they will believe brings them true peace.  The USA and others have been pressing a new agreement in the Middle East for some time; I don’t think we are yet at the point of having an agreement the Jews will believe brings them true peace, but that should and could be very soon.
Whenever that agreement is signed, the Tribulation will begin (Daniel 9:27).  One other nugget of information here:  the person leading the signing of that agreement will be the Antichrist.  So when you see this happening, if you are still on earth, you will know who the Antichrist is.

I have long expected to see the Lord come to collect his believers right before or after that signing.  And I still expect that.  There are many scriptures (Revelation 3:10. Romans 5:9, 1 Thessalonians 1:10, 1 Thessalonians 5:9, Luke 21:36) that make the point that believers were not appointed to suffer wrath.  And God’s wrath is what is poured out on the earth in the Tribulation period.  The last half of that period is referred to by some as the Great Tribulation.

If this taking away of believers by the Lord (called the rapture by many) does not happen right around the signing of the agreement or before, I expect it will surely happen during the early part of the Tribulation period.

There is much more about how Jesus collects his saints, such as that he sends out his angels to gather them, and you can read that in the book too.

Aside from all the horrible events of the Tribulation regarding the pouring out of God’s wrath, his judgment on the world described in Revelation from chapter 6-19, there still also remains the Gog-Magog war.  This is the attack on Israel from a group consisting of Russia, Iran, and Turkey, and more.  God defeats this attack instantly.  He just stops it and destroys the great bulk of the attacking forces.  This must be a great shock to those left on earth but you would hope it might wake a few up to become believers.  I expect this to happen very soon, before or after the signing of the agreement.

WE ARE THERE
We are right at the end of the age. It is time to be ready to go.  If you can and as the Holy Spirit leads, do all you can to tell others about the gospel message and salvation…about Jesus!  So many of our churches still are not teaching about the return.  Maybe the pastors that are not are lost, do not have the revelation of the return, or prefer the approval of man over God and therefore do not want to upset people with the return information.  Sadly, the Bible points out teachers are held to a higher standard, so they will have to answer for their not teaching about the return and warning the people of this great event in human history.

But you know the truth.  You can tell others.  You can go forward.  Right now.
·       -  Please make sure you and yours are in a right relationship with God. 
·       Read the sections of the Bible so important to the return – Luke 21, Mark 13, Matthew 24, Daniel 9, Daniel 12, Revelation, Luke 17, Zechariah 14, and much more.  Ask God to guide your understanding of all this.
·        Get our book WAKE UP AMERICA! and read it!!!  Read the scripture references!
·      - Go to our website and go to the Return of Jesus Resources page listed in the Menu column on the home page
·       - Go to our blog and search on all the return subjects.  There are many there
·         - If anyone is interested, we will add them to our distribution list – no charge.
·       - Operate always in the gifts of the Spirit, especially the gift of discernment which is so important today.
·        - And stand up for Jesus whenever you can.!!!!!

Remember the great scripture:

If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. – Isaiah 7:9

Putting this in modern English and applying it to our time right now, I would say this:
·            -  If you will not stand up for your culture, you will lose your culture.
·            -  If you will not stand up for your country, you will lose your country.
·        -  If you do not stand up for your life, you may indeed lose your life (your physical life – your spiritual life can never be lost if you are a true believer in Jesus, for Jesus has said he will never lose you).

Nobody ever said the last days would be easy.  Already they aren’t.  Already 2020 is the worst year I have seen for humanity in my life.  I do wonder just what the remaining months have in store.
And keep in mind the greatest stand up statement from the Bible:

 “Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.
-          Jesus in Matthew 10:32-33
Why do you think God called you to be in the Kingdom led by his son?  Was it to sit and cower and be silent?  Hardly.  You are an adopted son of God, a member of the Kingdom of God.  Most people are not.  If you do not stand up for truth and do not speak out in this wicked world, who will? 






LOOKING AT THE TIMELINE FROM TODAY (some of these may happen simultaneously):
·         Increasing lawlessness and falling away from God.
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        Jesus comes in the air to collect his believers.  A shofar is blown.  A shout is given.  Angels are sent out to gather the believers

·         An agreement is signed with the Jews, with Israel, one the Jews believe brings them peace.

·         The seven year Tribulation begins.
·         The Antichrist makes his appearance along with the false prophet.

·         Sometime early in the Tribulation the attack on Israel by Russia, Iran, and Turkey is turned aside by God.

·         The one world government comes more and more into being.

·         By the midpoint of the Tribulation the antichrist has taken up residence in the third temple in Jerusalem.  That temple is built during the first half of the Tribulation.

·         All the horrors described in Revelation 6 – 19 are poured out on the world during the Tribulation period.  All those humans still on the earth suffer from all this as well as the rule of the Antichrist and the false prophet.

·         Huge numbers of people are killed.

·         At the end of the Tribulation the armies of the world amass at Armageddon to face the Lord and his holy ones – his believers and his angels.

·         At Armageddon the armies of the world are totally destroyed by the sword in the mouth of the Lord – the word of God.  All the members of those armies are killed.  All.  No one is left.

·         At Armageddon the Antichrist and the false prophet are seized and thrown into the Lake of Fire.  Satan is seized and thrown into a pit for a thousand years.

·         The earth now continues, with the Lord’s rule from Jerusalem.  Details of this are not known although we know he is assisted in this by his believers. 

·         The population of the earth at the beginning of this thousand years is greatly reduced.  It is a mere fraction of what it was before the Tribulation.

·         How the members of God’s Kingdom will be utilized, what we will all be doing, is not specified, although the Lord has given us great guidance in his letters to the churches in Revelation.  For example, we know that Jesus gives his true believers who persevere until the end:
o   Hidden manna
o   White stone with new name on it known only to him who receives it
o   Authority over the nations
o   Acknowledgement of their name before God and angels
o   Never having their name blotted out of book of life
o   White clothes
o   The right to be a pillar in the temple of God
o   Name of God written on them
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Friday, June 5, 2020

* SIGN OF THE TIMES: WAKING UP TO A SHOCKING REALITY


I have been trying to think of what to write and say about all that has happened in recent days.  It has been difficult.  I think the recent months and especially the past week or so have been the worst I have seen in this country in my lifetime.

What makes it the worst?  The terrible disease?  No, we have had bad diseases before.  Well, what then?  The murder of that man in Minneapolis by a police officer?  No, although horrible, we have sadly seen that before.

Well, what then?                                                                                                                                                 
I think it is the abject failure of those elected to leadership positions in this country to protect the citizens of the country and preserve the basic rights and liberties of the people.  I think it is the shocking recognition by all of us that they really weren’t going to do anything to stop the violence, that we have some really terrible governors and mayors who just do not understand some essential things.

We have now seen many such leaders clearly not being able to differentiate good from evil, right from wrong.  In the coronavirus we saw many – including the whole national government – overreact and suppress the people, taking away basic rights.  Now some governors have moved to restore freedoms  while others seem to delight in holding the people down where there is no cause.

And in these past few days we have discovered many of these leaders do not understand the first responsibility of any of them is to protect the citizens and their property.  While pretending to be empathetic in a horrible situation, they turned the streets of the cities over to violent, evil, horrible thugs and felons to destroy and beat up and create general mayhem.  Stores destroyed.  Famous stores and little stores of individuals who worked their lives to have a business.  People beaten horribly – men, women, police.  People killed.  Monuments that mean a lot to the nation defaced – like the Lincoln Memorial and the WWII monument.

Peaceful protests are absolutely fine and represent an expression of the freedoms that come with being an American.  Horrible violence is not fine and represents flat out evil being acted out in harm to others.

The failure of leadership by the governors in many states and the mayors in many cities should create shivers down the spines of all citizens.  This shows America that we have the wrong people in positions of authority.  We should have known that.  We do now.  Most of the lack of response and understanding of what to do came from liberal governors and mayors who just couldn’t bring themselves to act.  Or didn’t have any idea what executive decision-making means.  And then the horrible violence which hid under the pretense of legitimate protests was supported by so many of the awful wealthy know-nothing Hollywood entertainers and liberal news media.

And too we cannot fail to note the national government did little either other than to give speeches and offer to send troops if the local leaders requested.  Surely there must have been more they could have done.

Surely all law-abiding Americans who know the Lord have seen enough of the news media and the Hollywood entertainers to last a lifetime.  We don’t need to see them anymore, do we?

But what is the country to do when its leaders will not enforce its laws, when there is no accountability for violence?  (What did the country expect when areas began to release prisoners or not even to hold felons arrested by police who were immediately released by the local magistrates?)

As you and I know, all this fits in the various prophecies for life in the last days before the Lord’s return.  The general increase in lawlessness.  The falling away from God.  Still, it is sickening to live through.

I have not written of other things going on simultaneously that perhaps you should know of.  There have been many earthquakes in key places.  Just two days ago a fairly strong one in southern California and a very very strong one in northern Chile.  In the days preceding, there have been many strong earthquakes, from New Zealand to Idaho.  Pretty alarming.

And of course those locusts keep attacking parts of the world.

The countries of the world today live in various states of fear, being locked down by governments that just do not know what to do.

You know the time is near for the Lord’s return.  Still, no Antichrist has appeared or been identified.  Still, no peace agreement has been signed with Israel that will begin the seven year Tribulation.  So there seems to be some time left.  Things don’t look good, do they, for the quality of life on earth.  The simple answer is no they don’t.

Keep your eyes on Jesus, as always.  Pray for God’s mercy for the United States and the world.  Pray for wise and skillful believers to be elected to positions of leaders in the states and cities.  And pray that the American citizens have now waked up to the dreadful quality of so many of those in “leadership” positions in this country.
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Monday, May 18, 2020

* WATCHMAN WARNING: HERE WE ARE AND THE TIMES ARE NOT GOOD


So for years I have written of the imminent return and of the full gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Now we are here in the last of the last days before that return, and things are becoming increasingly difficult.

Most of us didn’t think about that, did we, that the times approaching his return would be so difficult.  But then they had too.  With all the unbelief, the increasing immorality, the fall away from God, what could we expect?  And so we have it.

Certainly all born again, spirit-filled believers should be using that great spiritual gift of discernment to see what is happening all around them.  Regardless of how anyone might think this mysterious covid-19 coronavirus began and spread, such believers must recognize that those evil forces we have spoken of so much that operate in the last days and the Tribulation period have jumped in on so many fronts to seize the day for their objectives.  Increasing government control of the people, diminishing religion, ending the basic freedoms even guaranteed in the Constitution, moving ever closer to that one-world government.  Anyone who has lived a few decades and has a grasp of history must still be shocked at the behavior of Americans who initially so readily acquiesced to the end of their rights and the loss of their freedoms.

Are you free to go get a haircut?

Are you free to go outside with your friends to play tennis?

Are you free to get a group together for a picnic in the park?

Are you free to take a beach vacation?

Are you free to stay in motels and hotels wherever you want to go?

Are you free to demonstrate publically against government positions?

All of this type of stuff is protected in the Constitution.  Most of it you have lost, at least in many areas of the country (and world too, although I speak here specifically of the USA).

Fear is at play in a big way and has been for months now.  Fear is not from God.  You know where fear comes from.  Leaders and media types who do not know the Lord operate in fear every day.  They hype death rates and case rates.  They ignore facts.

Those people I have written of and the Bible warned of, those deceivers, those evil persons, those who would work to put together a one-world government, they are moving full speed ahead right now.

Yes there are pockets where some governors resisted.  But especially not some of the big population areas.

Californians don’t have freedoms.  School may not open there this fall.  Yet California has had a very low coronavirus occurrence.  The state has been very successful in fending it off.  The mayor of Los Angeles doesn’t think the people can return to “normal” until there is a cure for this virus.  Of course, you know there has never been a cure for AIDS, or for the common cold, or for the flu.  They haven’t stopped us before.

Those in Michigan are living under terribly tight controls – even against the right to petition, to assemble and protest.

The mayor of Chicago wants those who work for her to declare allegiance to the one-world government.

Are you getting the idea?

This lockdown of the country and the world’s countries was never merited.  The model that forecast such a horrible death total for the US and the UK was highly flawed or just a complete fraud.  While the news media every day hype the death totals and the case counts, the fact remains that the death rate is extremely low, not high enough to ever have closed the economy and society down.  Less than two hundredths of one percent of the population!  When some doctors have spoken up on these truths, they have been shut down.  A video of two speaking out in California was removed from YOUTUBE by YOUTUBE.

Well, freedom of speech is a basic right but not on the Internet.  YOUTUBE, GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, TWITTER do not have to operate by those rules.

Years ago a man from the computer world warned me of the godless computer companies.  Now we see them all working to produce means of control, of following each person, of tracking persons.

I see some municipalities in America have acquired drones to track people and to monitor compliance to their unconstitutional regulations.

What drives the people behind all this, behind the international organizations and the country and state governments?  They for sure are not serious believers.  They are marching to a different drum.  They were either ready for such a world problem as this disease and immediately seized it...  or there was even more sinister coordination of all this than we can imagine.

I like to say the New York City area had a pandemic; the rest of America did not.  Most of the hospitals in the rest of the country were never stretched, never overburdened.  As for the world, you could say the USA, France, the UK, Spain, Italy, and now possibly Brazil had a pandemic; the rest of the world did not.  Have you looked at the incredibly small case and deaths rate numbers for the majority of the world?   Yet even there the people are sheltered in place, even in third-world countries where they have no social network to fall back on for food supply.

This all is a work of the devil.  I hope you can recognize that.  He operates where people are confused, where they don’t know the truth.  He operates in fear and in lies.  In John 8:44 Jesus made the point the devil was a murderer from the beginning and that he is the father of lies.  Evil is at work in a big way throughout the world.  We should expect that.  These are the last days.

Certainly this is a good time to get the full gospel message out to others and to teach about the return of the Lord.  Historically people turn to God in times of suffering and distress.    Certainly this is a time we would expect conditions to help in the Father’s leading people to Jesus.

The Bible had some basic scriptures about this time, scriptures of warning and description.  I share a few here:

2 Timothy 3:13
…evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Luke 21:8:
“…Watch out that you are not deceived…” 

2 Timothy 3:1
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.

Daniel 12:10
…the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.

Well, you all know the Biblical prophesies fulfilled, the signs of the times that I discussed in our book WAKE UP AMERICA and in many past writings.  It’s just the details of how it all comes about that is not covered in the Bible.  All the things had to happen somehow.  So we are seeing that and will no doubt see much more.

Hold fast to your faith.  Keep your eyes on Jesus.  As you are led by the Spirit, do whatever you can to share your faith with others and help the Father lead them to Jesus.  And for your own peace and rest in this time, remember Paul’s advice in Philippians 4:8 – “…whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things.”

In all this, do not forget the Lord said he is never going to lose us.

Live in the fullness of a righteous relationship with God all the days of your life.
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