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Friday, May 14, 2021

* WATCHMAN WARNING! - COME TO JESUS TIME!

It’s come to Jesus time!  That’s a popular expression, more often heard as a come to Jesus moment.  What it means is that time when a person realizes he has no help in a current situation other than Jesus, that time when a person is totally honest with the Lord about himself and his situation, that time when a person has totally repented of any sins he has committed.

 
A come to Jesus moment is the time when there is no dependence on self and total dependence on the Lord.
 
And that is where we are today, where we must be.
 
For some months I have stayed a bit away from all the shocking things happening about us and have focused on all the spiritual help the Lord has given us, such as all the protection tools, the authority to cast out demons, divine healing, other tools in fighting evil, who we are in Jesus, and the authority we have that Jesus has given us.
 
Well, it’s come to Jesus message time now.  This is a come to Jesus message. 
 
Surely you must realize where we are in God’s time.  Surely you must see all the evil going on around us in the various levels of government, media, business, education, and more.  Surely you must recognize all those people calling evil good and good evil.  Many of the big popular issues being put forward by the government and popular media and entertainers are nothing short of absolute insanity.  They make no sense.  (Yesterday I saw an advertisement for a movement to do away with all prisons and all police in the country.).
 
Jesus warned us about this time.  When the disciples asked him about the time we are living in, his first warning in three different gospels was to watch that we are not deceived.  Deception.  It is out there in a big way.  Now I don’t want you to be confused.  Yes, of course, it is true that many of these persons putting forward bizarre actions and propositions hope to deceive us.  But this deception goes deeper than that.  Many of those putting forward these views are deceived themselves.  They can’t see the truth.  That is why as so many have discovered that it is impossible to hold rational discussions on the popular subjects of the day.  People who might be described as woke persons, cancel culture persons, progressives, cannot discern the truth and cannot enter into rational discussions.
 
I hope you must realize by now that these troubling persons and their irrational agendas and actions and behaviors cannot be from God.  They cannot know God.  Of course not.  That is why they have been so deceived by the evil one, the devil.  They do not have the ability to discern truth.  America is a nation with a great number of godless people in key leadership positions.  A rabbi in Israel just said America is “tiny people with lots of money and power but no wisdom.”  Well, that’s one way of putting it.  My way:  America is led by godless people, in government, in media, in business, in entertainment and sports, in education.  Now we clearly see the results of having godless people in charge. 
 
Sadly, the people on earth who truly have that discerning ability are small in number indeed.  These are the born again, Spirit-filled and baptized persons who have the gifts of the Spirit and operate in those, such as the gift of discernment.  They immediately discern the complete falsehood of so many of those in leadership in the country today; and sadly, even though they may understand what I just wrote, they still marvel at how so many can believe so many lies. 
 
Yesterday I spoke with a believer who kept expressing frustration at persons she would speak to about God’s truths and yet they had no comprehension of what she was saying.  I pointed out that she knew why these people couldn’t comprehend.  She said yes she knew, but it was just so frustrating!  And I would add frightening!
 
While we believers know Jesus is coming soon and we have the great joy of knowing him now and having the Kingdom of God in us even now, we still have the physical reality on earth of seeing this country move steadily to being a totalitarian, socialist, authoritarian government where those wonderful individual freedoms we once cherished vanish one by one.  Godless people have the government as their god, and so they make that government all powerful.
 
Someone asked me yesterday why are Christians being attacked so much here and around the world, while other religious places such as mosques don’t seem to be so attacked?  Why are preachers under such threat for what they say in Canada, for example, while imams in mosques seem to be free of threat?  Well, the truth is obvious.  Jesus is the only way to God, the only hope for people.  These other religions have no meaning and no hope for their followers.  The devil is only threatened by Christians.  They are the only ones he really will attack and hopes to eliminate.  
 
The things happening now are terrible.  To use the term Paul used in communicating to Timothy about this age, they are perilous.  We believers do have the protections God has for us and we cannot afford to be idle and not use those protections.  And we must represent Jesus is all situations.  Remember again his statement that whoever disowns him before others, he will disown before his Father in heaven.
 
The only thing holding back the immediate return of the Lord right now, this minute, has to be that there are still some of those chosen before the creation of the world to be in God’s elect who have not yet come to a saving knowledge of Jesus or perhaps because of their location have not truly heard the gospel message.  But there can’t be many of those left, can there?  No there can’t.  Time is short.  Relative to the world’s whole history, we only have hours.
 
Stop wasting time.  Do whatever you can as the Holy Spirit leads to get the truths of the gospel out to others.  But don’t be so overcome with dismay when even people close to you will not listen and do not appear to understand or want to understand at all.  Jesus wrote specifically about how he had come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and so on.  In other words, unbeliever against believer.  That is the way it is and will be.
 
Beware of deception.  And beware of those false prophets out there who will tell you things you might want to hear but are not Biblical and not true.  There are preachers who say all people go to Heaven, but you know that is not true.  Jesus was explicit about that in so many ways – such as his words that the gate is small and the road that leads to life narrow, and few are they that find it.  Or his words that not everyone who says to him “Lord Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven but only he who does the will of his Father who is in heaven.  Jesus said he will say to some of these people “I never knew you.  Away from me, you evildoers.”  Obviously, Jesus must know us.  Which happens truly when we are born again and filled with and baptized with the Holy Spirit.
 
Jesus warned of false prophets, shortly after he warned of deception.  And as I gave an example above, there are such people today out there ministering, some very famous.  How about preachers who want to put Christianity together with Islam in the so called Chrislam, or the Pope who wants to get all the religions together.   Maybe you have noticed the recent conflict between the Pope and some American bishops who evidently think the current president should not be served communion because of his obvious evil actions (backing wholesale abortion, strong backing of the LGBTQ movement for example).  The Pope has warned the bishops about their not wanting to serve him communion, even though obviously those actions are not only counter to God and the Bible but also to the basic positions of the Catholic Church. 
 
You have to use the gift of discernment to recognize false prophets.
 
Let me give you one more false prophet possibility which some of you may consider a bit too wild.  Have you noticed all the publicity about UFO’s lately, and the fact the government is giving validity to all this with the release of UFO information soon?  If this continues to increase, don’t be surprised to see something really dramatic in the future such as a “spaceship” landing with someone pretending to be Jesus aboard, or some other similar stunt.  We are living in the age of lies and deception.
 
Put all your trust in God.  You have to take actions on earth of course, but you must do that with the guidance of the Holy Spirit and in line with what you know God’s truths to be.
 
 
 
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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.
·        
        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
o   Right to sit with Jesus on his throne

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Monday, October 21, 2019

*A WATCHMAN WARNING: DECEPTION IN FULL BORE - ARE YOU FOLLOWING JESUS' ADVICE?


“Watch out that you are not deceived.” – Jesus in Luke 21:8

The secular world in the midst of which we are all living today is for believers an atrocious world.  That is true for nonbelievers too, although many do not realize that.

The rampant deception and delusion of so many is now obviously apparent.  Were it not for our faith and understanding of what is soon to come, we believers would be screaming like the person in the painting THE SCREAM that was on our last newsletter.  But we do know what is to come, we do know who we are in Christ, we do know the joy of having the Kingdom in us now and we will soon know the joy of having the Kingdom all around us.

Not so for the mass of humanity that populates the planet and produces the ghastly behaviors and gross deceptions we see every day.  There is not space to list them all but just look at some major examples of massive lunacy – and massive deception:

THE NBA (National Basketball Association) CHOOSES TO SUPPORT COMMUNIST CHINA OVER PERSONAL FREEDOM
The NBA official organization as well as many of its biggest stars has just shown the world that it is money and money only they are all about.  They have thrown America under the bus.  They have supported this communist dictatorship that commits and has committed overwhelming gross human rights violations for decades.  It is astounding what money – and spiritual and intellectual blindness and basic ignorance – can do.  Because one of the staff of one team had the audacity to support those in Hong Kong demonstrating for personal freedoms, the entire league came out in support of this murderous regime, ignoring what it is and has been.  Just consider:
  • It is China that had the one baby per couple policy for so long, eliminating that just in 2015.
  • It is China that is working on a program of following citizen’s activities and thus determining who it will allow to travel and who it will not (within the country!). I have heard there are two million on the “not travel” list so far.
  • It is China that oppresses religion – Christianity, in our case. The formal Chinese church, the one that is visible, is a sham.  People are not allowed to attend until they are 18 years old.  And even then it is a church operating with the approval of the godless state.  Underground, hidden and struggling, are the true Christians there.  Estimates are at least 100 million are in the underground church, taking personal risks to live and worship as true believers in the Lord.  There are missionaries who travel in China and coordinate these underground churches.
  • It is China that will not tolerate demonstrations on the part of its citizens seeking individual rights. Remember Tiananmen Square?  Remember watching the tank roll right over a demonstrator?
  • This is the China of horrible environmental pollution that the green movement seems to conveniently ignore.
  • This is the China of government censorship and theft of intellectual property.
  • This is the China of massive oppression of people.
  • This is the nation that so oppresses the people of Tibet today.
  • This is the nation that currently holds 3 million Muslims in detention camps – That is their way of dealing with today’s radical Islam problem. (June 4, 2019 – THE NATIONAL INTEREST)
  • This is the nation that according to the latest Human Rights Watch World Report
    • “dramatically stepped up repression and systematic abuses against the 13 million Turkic Muslims, including Uyghurs and ethnic Kazakhs, in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region”
    • “hastened their efforts in 2018 to undermine people’s rights to free speech and political participation in Hong King”
    • increasingly deploys mass surveillance systems to tighten control over society. “In 2018, the government continued to collect, on a mass scale, biometrics including DNA and voice samples; use such biometrics for automated surveillance purposes; develop a nationwide reward and punishment system known as the “social credit system”; and develop and apply “big data” policing programs aimed at preventing dissent.”
    • tried to silence Chinese human rights defenders abroad by harassing and detaining their families in China.
    • And much more. You can read the report.
  • This is the China that sends a 200 million person army to Armageddon at the end of the Tribulation period.
  • This is the China that the NBA and its stars are applauding and upholding.
Remember now that basketball was invented in America.  Basketball is an American sport.  The NBA has grown and prospered in America, the land of opportunity.  This professional league has made multi-millionaires of hundreds of athletes.  The NBA has now thrown its support to the horrible government described above.  Americans can and should react by dropping all support to the league.  Whether they will is not likely, for remember so many Americans are deceived themselves.

THIS “IMPEACHMENT” of the PRESIDENT
Regardless of your political preferences, you must recognize the terrible deception playing out in Washington and on the news channels:  Ever since the election of the current president in 2016, and even before, large numbers of people have somehow blindly ignored the election and have sought to overturn it.  This is unlike all previous elections in our lifetime.  One of the examples of American’s greatness has been the peaceful passing of authority over time. 

These opponents of the government proceed in all avenues and take extreme behaviors.  Lying, breaking rules, interfering as much as possible in normal government operations – important issues of the day are ignored so that this crusade might continue.  For two years we were all subjected to a sham story of Russia collusion that turned out to be nothing.  So now the group has moved on to pressing for impeachment.  All of this is an overwhelming example of both deception and delusion.  We who know the Lord and are able to discern truth recognize this for what it is, but millions do not. 
I do not know how this will all play out.  There is so much to say and so much to write.  We are so close to the Lord’s return.  So many leaders and even so many institutions long highly regarded have now been brought into this deception.  Maybe the disarray that is Washington and the national media is indeed America’s lot for the end time period.  Maybe not.  We can still hope and pray.  But I remind you that America is not anywhere to be seen in Scripture in these last days.

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND THE BEHAVIOR ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES
This has been going on for some time but it is too important not to include here.  It is a disaster for American culture, our system of government, and individual freedom and rights. Over and over again all types of accomplished persons from various fields of activity are brazenly stopped from speaking on these campuses by deceived, intellectually blind students and professors.  Freedom of speech is trashed.  The idea of listening to various points of view in order to come to a wise decision on an issue is not understood and totally ignored.  This behavior is the complete opposite of the concept of America that was forged through so much effort and sacrifice by the original founders so many years ago.

AND HERE WE ARE:
These are the last hours.  I do not know specifically when the Lord will return but I know it is soon.  Very soon.  Sometime between now and a few years.  Keep your eyes on Jesus.  Always.  And use all the tools God has given you  to protect yourself.  Put on his armor as described in Ephesians 6.  Thank God for his angels and for their protecting you (see Hebrews 1:14).  In his name cast out demons, evil spirits always, especially before and after you are around persons and places that surely have many nonbelievers present.  For example, going into and out of a hospital, shopping in a mall, anywhere you go in this secular world.

Please send copies of this article or forward the email to all you would.  How are people who do not know Jesus or do not know of his imminent return to come to the truth without someone telling them?  You can and should be part of that.

It is all as Jesus said about our day, that it would be just like the days of Noah and Lot.  What of those days?  Highly sinful, with people going about normal activities – marriage, business, and so on.  They were oblivious of what was about to happen.  So too with so many today.

Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you always in all encounters and all situations.  Represent the Lord as possible and as the Holy Spirit leads you in every situation.  To the extent possible, seek to help God the Father lead others to Christ.  And always pray for the lost.  Pray that God will draw them to Jesus.  Remember, you cannot make anyone believe.  But you surely can help in all this.

                                                                                                (October 2019)
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019

A WATCHMAN WARNING: THE MAHDI - DO IRAN’S ACTIONS MEAN MORE THAN MOST REALIZE?



All of us have seen over recent days and past years how the leaders of Iran have steadily ratcheted up the conflict between Iran and the US and the rest of the West.  Considering the difference in size and physical might, this seems highly irrational.  Yet it continues, with the recent shooting down of an American drone and the seizing of a UK ship and the holding of the ship’s crew.  Iran continues as a constant threat to the world regarding its potential development of nuclear weapons.  As is well known, Iran is the key state sponsor of terrorism throughout the Middle East. 

I now suggest what very likely is going on.  Some of you may know this already.

Much of Islam believes in a return of a person called the Mahdi, also referred to by some as the twelfth Iman.  It is said this Mahdi was born many years ago – in the 800’s – but disappeared.  When this Mahdi returns he will bring justice and peace.  There is much more to the story but I am focusing only on the key points as it relates to us and our time.  The Mahdi is said to return with “Jesus.”  Remember, that Jesus is a figure in Islam, not Jesus the Son of God that Christian believers know.

Now consider these important points:
·        Most important: The Mahdi returns at a time of great upheaval, of chaos, of injustice, of corruption.
·        The great majority of the Shiite Muslims believe in this Mahdi.  (Islam has two major groups – Shiite and Sunni).  So too do some Sunni Muslims.
·        Iran is a Shiite Islamic Republic, a Muslim nation with most citizens being Shiites.
·        A majority of these Shiites are Twelvers – they believe in this Mahdi, this twelfth Iman.  The founder of modern Iran was in this group.  So too the current Supreme Leader there.

So is this fervent belief a cause for the nation’s leaders to take really extreme risks for their country, to put themselves in an adversarial position against the world’s greatest nation and Western civilization in general?  Is it possible Iran’s top leaders see themselves as paving the way for the return of this Mahdi?  A former president of Iran – Ahmadinejad – said a few years ago at the United Nations that the main mission of the Islamic Revolution is to pave the way for the reappearance of the 12th Imam.

Thus is it possible that creating world or regional chaos, even bringing about massive war and confusion, is something the top religious leaders who run Iran would see as a positive thing - creating the environment for the return of the Mahdi?

I know this is not a new idea, but it may be new to some of you, and I thought I should send it out, especially noting the events of the day.

In light of all the above, I have a warning for all:  This is a time for all of us to be alert, to watch, as our Lord Jesus said, so that we might be ready to go when he returns.  Luke 21:36 is specific to this.  Be alert. 

    (July 2019)
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