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Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
* SIGN OF THE TIMES: NOT AN INFANT BUT KING OF KINGS
When Jesus was born more than 2000 years ago, he came into the world in the humblest of circumstances. He was born in a stable because there was no room for him in the inn. His earthly father was a carpenter. For some time he and his earthly family lived in Bethlehem and then in Egypt, staying away from the evil Herod before returning eventually to live and grow up in Nazareth. Jesus surely was trained in and learned Joseph’s craft of carpentry, and when he was thirty he left home to become an itinerant preacher.
For three years he went around teaching, preaching, and healing, bringing the kingdom of God to those who would believe, amazing people with his healings and miracles and with his casting demons out of people. Finally, he went to the cross, carrying all the sins, sicknesses, diseases, pains of the human race and overcoming all that, along with death, shame, regret and more. He overcame all that by his death and resurrection, restoring the right for people to have a relationship with God – if they will just recognize who Jesus is and have him as their Lord.
People this Christmas season again are in so many ways celebrating the baby that was born in the manger so many years ago. And surely that event deserves all the celebration we can muster! But that baby is not there. He has not been there for more than 2000 years. Several years ago Cathy and I were sitting in a Moravian Church on Christmas Eve, and while the service was underway the Lord spoke to me so clearly: These people are celebrating my birth, and here I am getting ready to return.
In our day this Lord is returning to earth, first to collect his believers and take them with him and then to lead an army of his holy ones – his angels and believers – to fight at Armageddon against all the evil forces arrayed against him. He is not returning as a baby in a humble situation. He is returning as the King of the Kingdom of God and the ruler of the government of that Kingdom. He is the King of all kings. Everything is under his feet. At Armageddon he is completely victorious, destroying the enemy with the sword coming from his mouth, the WORD. All soldiers in the opposing army are killed, the antichrist and the false prophet are thrown into the lake of fire for eternity, and the devil is locked in a deep pit. The Lord then sets up in Jerusalem the government of the Kingdom of God, with believers holding positions of authority in that government. He will be King over the whole earth.
And we will then see the line in the Lord’s prayer fulfilled: thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
And also the words of Isaiah written so long ago:
…the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7 Of the greatness of his government and peace
there will be no end.
He will reign on David’s throne
and over his kingdom,
establishing and upholding it
with justice and righteousness
from that time on and forever. – Isaiah 9:6-7
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7 Of the greatness of his government and peace
there will be no end.
He will reign on David’s throne
and over his kingdom,
establishing and upholding it
with justice and righteousness
from that time on and forever. – Isaiah 9:6-7
Be ready. Stay in the right relationship with the Lord.
December 2023
Copyright © 2023 by John Newlin
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Monday, November 20, 2023
* SIGN OF THE TIMES: THANKFUL
For this Thanksgiving, all believers should BE THANKFUL…
- That you know Jesus
- That Jesus knows you
- That you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus
- That you will be going with him when he returns to collect his believers
- That you will soon be getting that glorious new body
- That you will return to earth with Jesus at the end of the Tribulation as part of his holy ones
- That you will in some way be involved in the establishment and operation of the Kingdom of God government from Jerusalem after Armageddon
Be sure to ask the Holy Spirit to guide you and to orchestrate all the discussions with family and friends!
We hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
November 2023
Copyright © 2023 by John Newlin
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Friday, November 10, 2023
* SIGN OF THE TIMES: PUBLIC HATRED OF THE JEWS - TAKING A STAND
What we are seeing now in this widespread public and sometimes violent display of hatred against the Jews is heartbreaking and terrifying to all believers! And surely to the Jewish people! Imagine how they feel, especially those still alive who directly were or indirectly had family members caught up in the horror of the holocaust!
Imagine!
If you are not a Jew, I doubt you
fully can. But seeing how I feel, I
think we can come close.
It is astounding and shocking to
see so many mentally and morally and spiritually blind people on college
campuses and on street corners in big cities and elsewhere chanting horrible
slogans and being so threatening against the Jews.
And why?
Because of the history of the
Jews, of course. Because they are God’s
original chosen people. (We Christian
believers have been grafted onto the root that is this group of people as Paul
tells us in Roman’s 11, so that today we are also God’s chosen people.)
All these screaming know-nothings
are just that: know-nothings. They hate for no reason. They have no knowledge or depth of
understanding.
Throughout history, from God’s
calling Abraham, the original patriarch of the Jews, there have been all sorts
of incidents that have led groups to hate the Jews. You can read about these. Early on there is the birth of Isaac through
whom God’s direct line for the Jewish people was transmitted. But that birth pushed aside Ishmael, born to
Hagar – a servant of Abraham’s wife Sarah – and Abraham. Ishmael eventually becomes the father of the
Arab people (Genesis 16).
And then there is the next
generation and Jacob’s supplanting the inheritance of his twin brother Esau
(Genesis 27). Again this is God’s line
for the people. But again Esau and his
descendants were pushed aside. Esau is
the ancestor of the Edomites who lived east of the Jordan.
From the very beginning the devil
has obviously hated the Jews. Somehow he
seems to have understood that reconciliation of people to God came through the
Jews, but he obviously did not understand how this happened or was to
happen. Apparently he thought he had
victory when he got Jesus onto the cross, but as we know that was in fact God’s
plan. Jesus was the perfect sacrifice
for our sins. He earned forgiveness for
us, and opened the way back to God for all who believed in him.
This evil one obviously thought
if he could just wipe out the Jews he would be ok. We see his surrogate in the leader of the
Nazis in WWII. What a horror. And we see the same sentiment and approach
all the way back to a couple hundred years before Jesus was born, to the nation
of Persia where the king was almost led to exterminate the Jews but God saved
the people through Esther. Persia, by
the way, is modern-day Iran.
We believers in the Lord Jesus
Christ who so eagerly await his soon return cannot sit idly by and let this
hatred of the Jews by so many spiritually and intellectually lost ungodly
people continue and build. Even in this
short time that remains before the Lord returns, we must all do our best to
stand against such outrageous evil. Pray
for peace and protection for the Jews.
Pray that this ungodly evil will dissipate and be gone. Take whatever steps you are led to take to
speak out or write or even – let’s hope this is not necessary – to physically
protect and shelter the Jews in an increasingly ungodly and lost world.
And take comfort in all this:
Jesus Christ is coming soon!
Thank God!
November 2023
Copyright © 2023 by John Newlin
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forward copies of this to whomever you would.
Note:
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Be
sure to watch our new videos on X (Twitter) and YOUTUBE focusing on aspects of
the imminent return of Jesus. Encourage
others to watch. So many just don’t know
the gospel nor the time. So many just
don’t know Jesus.
KEEP YOUR EYES ON JESUS!
JOHN NEWLIN MINISTRIES
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CARY, NC 27518
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
* OUR TENTH VIDEO HAS POSTED ON X (FORMERLY TWITTER) AND ON YOUTUBE - REACHING THE END OF THE BOOK: JESUS RETURNS
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Wednesday, October 11, 2023
* SIGN OF THE TIMES: THE HORRIFIC ATTACK ON ISRAEL AND THE THREE REMAINING PROPHETIC WARS
By now surely all have heard of the horrific surprise attack on Israel by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, an attack on innocent men, women, children, and even babies that resulted in more than a thousand murders. It was dreadful and terrifying. And now Israel is engaged in fighting to root out the terrorists in the Gaza strip, and it remains to be seen whether the other Palestinian terrorist group Hezbollah located north of Israel will get involved. Adding to all this are the reports that Iran was involved in the initial planning of the Hamas attack.
This all leads us to look again at the three wars prophesied in the Bible to happen involving Israel before the end of the seven-year Tribulation. In other words, these three wars must happen fairly soon!
When speaking of prophecies of the last days, Jesus says there will be wars and rumors of wars (Mt 24:6). Indeed there are wars taking place in various locations in the world now and seemingly all the time. But specific to Israel are the three prophetic wars of which I speak. I wrote about these several times in the past, including in chapter 6 of our book WAKE UP AMERICA! JESUS IS COMING SOON. Let’s look at these three:
PSALM 83
This psalm describes a war that at least until the last few days had not yet happened. In the Psalm several nations that surround Israel are involved in attacking Israel. We have to wonder if the current attack on Israel is the precursor of this war. In the Psalm 83 war prophecy, the Palestinians are one of the groups identified as attacking Israel, and they are the attackers that instigated this current war.
It is possible the full Psalm 83 war – maybe this current attack plus more – may be the event that ends with the signing of the peace agreement with Israel described in Daniel 9:27 that leads the Israelites to believe they are living in peace and that really signals the beginning of the seven-year Tribulation. If you are still here on earth then, be sure to pay attention to whomever leads the signing of such an agreement, for that will be the Antichrist as we see in Daniel 9.
Let me emphasize, we do not yet know if this current attack is a precursor to the Psalm 83 war but there surely are signs it might be. And time is running out for this Psalm 83 war to happen!
EZEKIEL 38-39
These chapters describe a dramatic attack by a coalition of powerful nations against Israel while Israel is living in unwalled villages. That description of being unwalled implies the Israelites think they were safe and have nothing to worry about. That sort of naivete is much like this current Hamas attack on Israel which was evidently totally missed by the usually crack Israeli intelligence forces.
Translating the Biblical nation titles to modern words gives the attackers: possibly Russia as leader, Turkey, Iran, Libya, and the Sudan. This attack God very obviously stops, knocking the invading airplanes out of the sky and destroying the invaders. It takes 7 months for the Israelites to bury the dead attackers. The end of this war is a clear indication to all watching of the presence and power of God. Note that Iran is in the group of attackers, and Iran already is identified by some today as being involved in planning the recent Palestinian attack. At the least we know Iran provides a large amount of funding for Hamas.
None of the nations right around Israel are identified as involved in this Ezekiel 38-39 war. This indicates that they are at peace with Israel then, likely because some are or have been greatly reduced in power in a previous war - likely the Psalm 83 war.
ARMEGGEDON – Revelation 19 and Zechariah 14
The last of the three wars is Armageddon, which occurs at the very end of the Tribulation. The nations of the world in opposition to God go to the valley of Jehosophat to fight against Israel and against God. There they are destroyed by Jesus as he leads an army consisting of his holy ones (believers and angels). Revelation notes that everyone in the army opposing Jesus is killed. The Antichrist and the false prophet are thrown into the lake of fire and the devil is locked into a deep pit for a thousand years. Jerusalem suffers horribly in the lead up to and the actual war effort, as you can read in the last chapter of Zechariah.
Time is short friends. Really short. Please be about your role of telling others about Jesus, the gospel, and Jesus’ return. Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you and to orchestrate all encounters he would have you have. Share how people can be in the Kingdom of God. Jesus can and will return at any moment now to collect his believers. Be alert and ready to go.
And do not neglect praying for the peace of Jerusalem as we are guided to do in the Bible.
October 2023
Copyright © 2023 by John Newlin
Please forward copies of this to whomever you would.
Note:
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To get any ministry materials just go to the ministry website or contact the ministry.
Be sure to watch our new videos on X (Twitter) and YOUTUBE focusing on aspects of the return. Encourage others to watch. So many just don’t know the gospel nor the time. So many just don’t know Jesus.
JOHN NEWLIN MINISTRIES
P O BOX 1038
CARY, NC 27518
https://johnnewlinministries.org
email: john@johnnewlinministries.org
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Blog: johnnewlin.blogspot.com
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Thursday, September 14, 2023
* NINTH NEW VIDEO POSTED ON X (TWITTER) AND YOUTUBE: LIFE ON EARTH AFTER JESUS TAKES HIS BELIEVERS AWAY
Our ninth video has just now posted on X(Twitter) and on YOUTUBE:
LIFE ON EARTH AFTER JESUS TAKES HIS BELIEVERS AWAY
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Please share this video with everyone you would have know more about Jesus and how close we are to Jesus' return.
Nothing is more important than Jesus and your relationship with him.
KEEP YOUR EYES ON JESUS!
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CARY, NC 27518
https://johnnewlinministries.org
email: john@johnnewlinministries.org
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Blog: johnnewlin.blogspot.com
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