WHAT TO DO RIGHT NOW TO HELP THIS COUNTRY AND ALL PEOPLE

I hope all of you write down anything you ever hear from God – whether received in prayer, while you are reading the Bible, while you are just sitting quietly, while you are walking down the street, maybe in a dream or vision. Any word, any communication from God to you is golden. And it has value not only when you receive it but later, sometimes much later. Be sure from time to time to look back at your notes of words you have received from God.

Taking that advice and looking back over past writings, I found two accounts of dreams God sent about a year ago that bear directly on our time right now. I had actually included them in a Watchman Warning back then.

First, in the wee early hours of May 2, 2016, I had a dream in which I saw the action before me. I was not actually a character in the dream, just an observer.

As the dream began, the scene was in Congress. Three men were walking pointedly down a corridor, very purposefully, determinedly. One was a senator and was carrying a briefcase.

In the dream I saw as if from behind, and I saw these three walking. To the left of these along the corridor was an area that continued the length of the corridor. It was full of people watching and murmuring. Murmuring. There was a sense that the senator and Congress don’t know what they are doing.

The senator was walking to vote on a very important matter – environmental, economic, something like that, something important.

And this murmuring from the crowd continued.

Suddenly the senator turned to the crowd and spoke:

“Yes, we don’t know what to do.

But here’s the truth.

You don’t know what to do either.

None of you.

No one on earth knows.”

And in the background these three words came forth:

“Only God knows.”

And then this message: People have to get on their faces and ask God – all people!

And the dream ended.

That was a direct message from God.

The key of the whole thing is obvious: This situation we the people are all in now cannot be solved by people. The people do not know what to do. The organizations and the world systems just are not working well.

 And then my wife Cathy just a few days after my dream had a dream clearly from God. In it people sat in a theater watching a play about a fire burning a building. All the while, the theater itself was on fire! Can you think of a better description of our situation in America today? People all the time watch movies and programs and activities with violence, mayhem, wild disasters, immoral behavior, and more, all the time they themselves are living in the midst of and at risk of that very thing in this society.

It is time for all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ to get down and pray seriously. Get down on your knees and pray. Get on your faces and pray. Go to your prayer closet and pray. Sit in your favorite chair in the corner and pray. However you spend time with God, do it.

Pray for God to remove the veils from the minds of the people, that they will be able to see and to receive and to understand the truth – to understand who the Lord is and the times we are living in and to receive the Lord as their Savior, their King. Pray for revival. Pray for the Holy Spirit to touch everyone. Pray for everyone to be able to discern truth from falsehood.

Help yourselves and all people! Yes, the Lord is coming soon. But surely we don’t have to sit by and let America totally fall to shreds before he comes.

We all have to answer to the Lord.

Keep Your Eyes on Jesus! 

                                                                                                (June 2017)
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* GOD MOMENT: THE TRIP HOME

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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* THE COSMIC BATTLE OF GOOD AND EVIL IN OUR TIME

The cosmic battle between good and evil has reached epic proportions in our day.  What we see being played out in our world, in our nation and throughout the planet, is but the local physical manifestation of a gigantic struggle in the spiritual realm.

Good.  And evil.

Our battle, the battle of those in the good camp, is not really against flesh and blood but against all those various hierarchies in the spiritual realm who are in the evil camp.  In Pauls’ words in Ephesians 6:12… we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.  These are all ranks and positions in the evil spiritual world.  But of course the physical manifestation of that battle is most assuredly physical as well.

Good.   What is good?  For our purposes, for our understanding, it is all those who ascribe to the values and standards and commandments of God himself.  That is the good side.  Evil therefore is obviously all those who do not, knowingly or not.

Suddenly, shockingly in our day, we are now confronting a large number, a great number we had not heretofore recognized as so obviously in the evil camp.  For earlier decades in the lives of people living today, evil was apparent in violent crimes, in the behavior of a certain few national governments that were so antagonistic to a peaceful world, and on a more personal basis in the more private inner struggle of individuals not to sin, not to give in to impulses that obviously are wrong.

But we had not yet recognized the mammoth scope of evil on earth.  Now that is apparent.

The evil side has always been led by a cunning being who is sophisticated in his presentation.  He uses deception above all else in his leadership, and appears himself at times as an angel of light.  He leads people astray, people who do not know the truth, who do not have the rock solid foundation of God deep in their hearts and souls.  He is a murderer and has been from the beginning.

Yes, we are frightened and troubled by the highly violent without limit terrorist organizations in the world.  That is readily apparent evil.

But what I focus on here is the giant evil movement that has now become public in America and in other lands.  It has captured a mass of the population.  Half?  Who knows?  Maybe.

Of all the scriptures that fit our time, the one in 2 Corinthians 4:4 that the god of this world [the devil] has blinded the minds of unbelievers is the most accurate and to the point.

In past years we could conveniently ignore that many around us - including many who go to traditional Sunday church services - really did not know the Bible and did not know Jesus, did not know God.  We as a nation went forward under some general understandings of a set of civil values that enabled at least on the surface a somewhat harmonious discourse and relationship among the people.

That was always a false bubble of course, but the nation continued on in it.

Now, in these last days, the bubble is gone.  We see that thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of people are so apparently deluded.  Their minds do not work as ours.  They do not see the truths in situations that we believers see.  They take stands and espouse positions that to us are insane at the core and dangerous to the very existence of our society and nation.

Yes, that is what is going on and has happened dear believers.  The devil has blinded the minds of the unbelievers.  And there were always and are now a lot more unbelievers around than you had thought.  They make up the majority of the nation and world.

These massive groups of people – political groups, social groups, groups of young people, most of the media, most of the entertainment world, large numbers of the religious world – that are so irrationally vocal and virulent, that is the evil side.  They cannot see the truth because they don’t know nor recognize the truth.  They don’t know because they truly don’t know.

Right to our face, right from the TV screen or the Internet or the newspaper or in public meetings or on university campuses they say and shout things we know are a hundred percent wrong and dangerous and harmful, evenly blindly stupid.  Yet they cannot see.

These are the physical manifestation of the efforts of the evil one to move to that one-world government for which he has labored for so long.  In past centuries he has at times gotten far in building this only to be turned back – in the days of Rome, in nazi Germany in the last century, in the communist Soviet Union under Stalin, in isolated pockets such as Cambodia in the last century, in parts of the arab muslim terrorist world.  But now with all the benefits of modern electronics and communications he has reached much further – in Europe, in America, and elsewhere.  He is oh so close, and he knows that.  The serious powerful human leaders of this movement that rarely if ever are public have been pulling strings and developing organizations for this purpose for centuries.  They and their leader can taste the prize.  It is close.

But suddenly in just the last couple years there was pushback, maybe a final pushback, from the remnant of God’s people and their impact on those still not overcome by the evil one.  In Britain, then the US, and perhaps elsewhere, pushback.  An effort to stop the tide to this controlling worldwide bureaucratic, evil government.  And that effort has infuriated and enraged the evil one and all those millions in his camp.  It has pushed them over the edge.  No longer are they concerned with maintaining the charade of civility and harmony.  No longer do they want to appear as part of a larger peaceful society.  No.  It is full steam ahead no matter what.  Destroy any effort to the contrary, and any people in the way.  They appear insane in their views and words and actions.  They are, evil and apparently insane under the influence of the evil one.  They are lost.

And that is happening and it is going on.  It is terrifying and it is in front of our faces and it is rolling.

This last great push of the evil side and its leader will result in some form of one-world government, whether it ever really gets completely to that point or not.  It will result in the maniacal leadership of the anti-christ and his false prophet.  And they and it will be destroyed in short order.

One day the anti-christ will be revealed, the Lord will collect his believers, the seven year Tribulation will occur with God’s judgement on the world playing out and ending in the final battle at Armageddon, the establishment of Kingdom rule from Jerusalem, and the move into another era.

And what is our role?  To clearly recognize the times we are living in.  To utilize the gifts God has given us to discern the truth in every situation.  To keep our eyes fixed on the Lord, on Jesus.  To represent the Lord and tell others about the Lord every opportunity as the Holy Spirit guides.  To watch, to be alert.  And to realize that the days of this current world and American society are numbered and dwindling rapidly, like sand through an hourglass.

Keep Your Eyes on Jesus!

                                                                                                            (May 2017)

                                                                                                            Copyright © 2017 by John Newlin

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* GOD MOMENT: VANISHED, NOT TO BE FOUND AGAIN!

A few years ago I was sitting in a church chapel while another man led a healing service.  A woman came to the front for healing.  She had a large lump in her thigh, a tumor the size of an orange.  Her sister had died from a similar such tumor.

The man put his hand on the tumor, and I got up, walked to the woman, and put my hand on top of his hand on the tumor.  We then spoke healing words over this and in Jesus' name ordered the lump to be gone. 

A couple days later my telephone in the office rang. It was the church secretary.  They had been trying to reach me.  The woman had called the church to report what had happened.

After leaving the chapel service she had gone to see her doctor.  He could not find the lump!  So he sent her to the hospital for an MRI.  That procedure confirmed it: the lump was gone!

Vanished!  She had been instantly healed!!!

There is even an interesting addition to this wonderful event.  Some years later a woman and her husband came to our office for healing prayer for the husband.  While there she said she believed in healing, that some time back she had had a lump in her thigh and she had gone to a service and she then proceeded to repeat what I just wrote above. 

I told her, "I was there.  That was me, along with the other man." 

She rightfully did not even remember who I was, for it was Jesus who had healed her so long ago, and she had just received it that day.  It is always Jesus.  By his stripes, we are healed and made whole.

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* WHAT IS A BELIEVER IN JESUS CHRIST TO DO TODAY?

For many years now we have sent out through various channels lots of information and revelations about Jesus’ imminent return

Why?

Because the Lord has specifically told me to tell people about his return. 

Because the Lord really is coming very very soon to collect his sheep, his true believers, his CHURCH.

What does it matter that we send all this out, beyond of course that we are fulfilling God’s assignment that the return message is my message right now? 

It matters that this is the time that the Lord is returning.  It matters that most people do not know the Lord and most certainly are not ready to go with him.

(We still of course heal people as they ask and teach on all the gospel subjects, all very important, but that is not the primary focus.  Jesus has made it patently clear to me that our ministry focus now is his return.  Think about it.  What does it matter if a person is physically healed but doesn’t get into the Kingdom?  That person is still lost and set up for a horrible eternal existence.)

One hope – if all this we send out indeed reaches people who are not true believers or perhaps are just on the fringe of belief – is that all the shocking evidence that the return is upon us will press them to seek the Lord themselves, to seek more truth in whatever sources are available to them.  God can use this to wake them up to where we are in time and that they are in a precarious position.

The other hope, perhaps even the major impact, is that these writings will encourage believers and equip them to get out there to reach more with the gospel truths of Jesus and his imminent return.

The challenge for all believers today is to do all they can to reach those who do not know the Lord and thus will miss him when he comes to collect his sheep.

There is little time left.  The events of our day and recent years make that patently clear.  If you are one of Jesus’ true believers, you are a member of a royal priesthood.  Christ’s priests and missionaries are not just for taking the good news to distant lands; they are also for taking that news right here to those around us.  Where you live is a huge mission field.  Most you encounter in daily life probably do not know the Lord and will not be going with him unless things change in their lives.  I’m talking about some of your neighbors, your friends, your family, your relatives, your co-workers, many of those you know and encounter.

Now I realize how hard it is to know how to reach others for Christ, to get to those who are so difficult to engage with, to listen and consider.  And it is not fun to have people rebuff you when you are talking about the most wonderful thing in your life.

Since Jesus is returning soon, it should be obvious that when he picks that small group of true believers in him and takes them with him, the rest of humanity will remain to suffer the wrath of God spelled out in Revelation and the atrocious behavior of the evil one, the anti-christ, and the false prophet.  So if you care at all for other people, at least those in your network of family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, relatives, you should seek how best to get the truths of the gospel message to them.  Pray for the Holy Spirit to orchestrate encounters, to soften hearts to receive, to arrange whatever he would.  It may not be easy for you to engage in head to head evangelism, but the Holy Spirit can set up situations that work even for you.  Don’t force things.  Let the Holy Spirit be your guide.

Aside from meeting other people in a head to head discussion, you can do such as some of our ministry partners do.  One sends our CDs on Jesus’ return (Prophecies Fulfilled, The Importance of Israel, What Happens Next?, and Where Are They?) plus our other CDs about Jesus and about the Holy Spirit to those she knows throughout the country.  Another prints out copies of our newsletter and gives them to neighbors.  Another forwards them by email to a large number and tells them how to be added to our distribution list.  Another in a national ministry actually sent one recently throughout the country to her network.  And another at times includes our newsletter in his publication. 

I myself when dealing with people far away often direct them to watch our television programs that are on our web site.  You can do the same.  People then can watch these in their own homes in private and think and pray about it all. We have many there on the return and other subjects.  People around the world have had their lives impacted by those television programs.  How do I know?  By the telephone calls and emails and other communications they have sent.  You can also tell people to go to our blog, search for the “return,” and read many of our writings on this subject (our newsletter archives on the web site are another good source).  I hope you realize that God reaches people in many ways – through one-on-one people interactions, through newsletters and books, through videos and such, and even through direct encounters of the person with God. 

I know it is hard to reach those who do not know the Lord or who just attend church and think they know when you clearly see they do not.  And the truth is that no one can come to Jesus unless God draws that person to Jesus.  The Lord himself said this.  Still, the Lord does work through people.  And that is us, you and me.  The Holy Spirit is your guide and friend in all this.  And if someone does not respond positively, just do what the Lord did when on earth.  Go on to the next person.  Maybe what you have done will have impact in the future.  Or maybe not.  You can always continue to pray for the person to receive the Lord.  You want to help as many of your friends, family, and contacts as possible to at least have a chance to do so.

One final thought.  For those who might be left behind when the Lord collects his believers, you might leave behind in obvious places in your house or elsewhere CDs and writings and such that will help them in their upcoming difficult days and perhaps help in God leading them to Christ even then.  We have for a long time had a copy of our CD Where Are They? in a very visible place in our house.

Keep Your Eyes on Jesus!

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SIGN OF THE TIMES FOR ALL TIME !

No he is not on the cross.  He hasn’t been there for almost 2000 years.  Just like his birth, that’s something he did long ago.  He has moved on.  In fact, he is getting ready to come back down, to collect his saints, his CHURCH.

But what he did on that cross so long ago, that has not changed.  That is forever for all of us who have realized who he is, who have him as our Lord.

He is Jesus Christ, the son of Father God, the version of God that came in human form, spelled out the truth of the Bible in parables and healings and miracles, demonstrated the power of God, and then took upon himself all iniquities, all sickness and disease and pain, and carried it all to the cross.  And he overcame it all.

It is by grace we have been saved.  Grace.  Unmerited favor.  Undeserved gift.  Outrageous cost to the giver, but no cost to the receiver, to us. 

Time is running out.  God’s time.  The Lord is soon to come back.  Get the truths of the gospel to anyone you can.  And make sure you are living in that righteous relationship to God, thanks to Jesus.

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A WORD

[Received Late At Night, February 12 ]

God puts kings in places.

And God takes them from their thrones.

He has people elected to positions.

And he has people lose elections.

And still the people struggle.

Still they wonder,

Those that ask at all.

Over and over the people fail tests.

They do not hear his prophets.

They do not see his words in action.

People ask,

            Has God done anything since

            Jesus and the disciples?

It is all as God has said to Isaiah (Isaiah 6:9-10).

It is all as Paul wrote (2 Corinthians 4:4).

And the few, the remnant, who

See God’s actions, who hear

His voice, who see the miracles

And the healings,

Who live in peace with God but struggle

In distress at the world and those

Around,

They wonder:  How long, O Lord, How Long?

Soon.

I am coming soon.

Yes, He is.

Real soon.  The evidence is in.

The prophecies fulfilled.

He is coming soon.

And still the people stumble.

Still they murmur.

Will they ever repent?

Will they ever learn?

Only God knows.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6).

It is true.

Yet their ears, their hearts

Can’t hear the knowledge,

Can’t receive the truth.

They don’t even give it

An opportunity.

Narrow is the way

And few are they who find it (re Matthew 7:14).

So true.

The Lord will come with a shout,

An angel’s call, a trumpet blast,

And the dead in Christ will rise first.

To do what?  Walk the earth?

Who knows?

Then we who are still alive

Will together with them meet

Christ in the clouds.

And there we will be with Him forever.

God – our God.  Our Lord.

It is a remnant.

A remnant.

With a last second revival.

How many more?

A remnant for now.

And the time is running out.

If you do not stand in your faith,

you will not stand at all (Isaiah 7:9b).

Keep Your Eyes on Jesus!

                                                                                               (March 2017)

                                                                                       Copyright © 2017 by John Newlin

                                                                                                                                        

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