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On British television on 28th June, in the first of a new series Revelations: How to Find God, the Alpha course was featured and given a lot of publicity. But in a programme of 1 hour it was hard to find out what they actually believed. One of the ministers present gave a demonstration of speaking in tongues. However, as someone said in the programme, it was gibberish. In the book of Acts it is crystal clear that it is speaking of other languages, not of mixed up sounds and noises that no one can understand.
[Note: the TV program did not mention that Alpha's founder, Nicky Gumbel, was inspired by the Toronto Blessing.]

 

In the London Sunday Times for 28th June there were two news reports concerning the first atheist summer camp for children, which is to be held over 5 days in Somerset in July. It is being backed financially by the High Priest of Evolution, Richard Dawkins, and is modelled on the Camp Quests, which are summer camps in America. At present there are 6, with another opening in Florida at the end of the year.

These camps, in addition to familiar activities such as canoeing and swimming, will each evolution and critical thinking. (I suspect that the critical thinking will not be applied to evolution!) What ideas are these vulnerable young people to ingest? How can they be taught morality? Morality is a biblical concept. So is right and wrong. Family, marriage, not committing adultery, not having sex relations outside marriage, all these are biblical concepts.

It is no wonder that, with the growth of the theory, which is what it is, of evolution, there has been a collapse in moral standards in every way. The one inevitably has led to the other. If ever there was a Satanic creed, it is that of evolution. We would be amazed if we really knew how much damage has been done by this godless theory.

God, the Father of us all, warned us through the pen of the apostle, Paul, as he wrote to Timothy and said this, and I quote the Amplified bible: “Understand this, that in the last days there will set in perilous times of great stress and trouble – hard to deal with and hard to bear. For people will be lovers of self and (utterly) self-centred, lovers of money and aroused by an inordinate (greedy) desire for wealth, proud and arrogant and contemptuous boasters. They will be abusive (blasphemous, scoffers), disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane. (They will be) without natural (human) affection (callous and inhuman), relentless – admitting of no truce or appeasement. (They will be) slanderers – false accusers, trouble makers; intemperate and loose in morals and conduct, uncontrolled and fierce, haters of good. (They will be) treacherous (betrayers) rash and inflated with self-conceit. (They will be) lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements rather than lovers of God.”

Tell me that is not a perfect rundown of today’s world and especially of Britain and America. We are now in the days of which the apostle Paul wrote. We are in the last days.

John Jewell

 

The Miracle of Myanmar

On 5 Feb 1812, Adoniram Judson married Ann Hasseltine.  Exactly one week later, they set sail to go on a missionary trip to India.  They became convinced that baptism is required of believers, so they courageously cut off all support until they could receive support from other sources.  Furthermore, they were frustrated by not being allowed entrance into India.

 

Finally, they found an open door to Rangoon, Burma.  More sorrow followed, though, as Adoniram was imprisoned allegedly for being a spy.  Ann’s persistence won him freedom, but she had brought their newborn as proof for why she was away so much of the time.  Adoniram was freed, but not without their newborn catching smallpox and dying.  They went six long years without any converts.  Finally, on 27 June 1819, they had their first convert.

 

Finally, in 1828, Judson made contact with the Karen tribe.  One day, Judson went to the bazaar in Moulmein and found a young Karen slave for sale named Kho Tha Byu.  Judson bought Tha Byu and tried to teach him and possibly convert him.  It turns out he was a hardened criminal with quite an attitude.  Judson kept treating him with kindness, though, and eventually Tha Byu was baptized.  Through Tha Byu, many Karen were converted.

 

It was not because Tha Byu was a convincing speaker.  It wasn’t even because of his remarkable conversion, although that undoubtedly helped.  Certainly, a man who was a thief and a murderer suddenly changing is impressive, but is it enough to convince others that their manner of worship is wrong?  No, it was because of a group of legends.  One legend was about 2 people in a garden.  Even more remarkable was another legend:


Long, long ago the Karen elder brother and his young white brother lived close together. God gave each of them a Book of Gold containing all they needed for their salvation, success and happiness. The Karen brother neglected and lost his Book of Gold and so he fell into a wretched type of existence, ignorant and cruelly oppressed by the Burmese. The white brother, however, prized his Golden Book, or Book of God, and so, when he sailed away across the oceans, God greatly blessed him. Some day the white brother will return, bringing with him God's Book, which, if the Karen people will receive and obey, will bring to them salvation and untold blessings.

John Carmack              Read full story ....



The 'Great Commission' of Matthew 28:19

If Christ commanded the apostles to baptize disciples into the name of the triune God, why did Peter, on the day of Pentecost, having been baptized with God's holy spirit (Acts 1:5), disobey Christ, declaring to the crowd that they should repent and be baptized into the name of Jesus Christ? Acts 2:38 Why did the apostles continue to baptize into the name of Jesus Christ only?


Ignorance in High Places


Some time ago, I heard a very senior UK politician say that he supported marriage and the family. Because of the erosion of these basic institutions through legislation, tax laws and increasingly immoral behaviour, I was really pleased to hear him be so supportive - until his next utterance. He continued that he supported marriage between a man and a woman, a man and a man, and a woman and a woman! And this was from someone with aspirations to govern the country at the highest level.

 

Is it any wonder, therefore, that with such ignorance in high places, Godly morality is shunned and ignored by those in power and by those who follow these leaders? In the ancient nation of Israel, the king was to "write for himself a copy of the law [of God] in a book” (compare Deuteronomy 17:18). The reason for this is given in the following verse: "And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes..."

 

Today, our leaders and rulers have little or no knowledge of the law and the way of God; so much so that they ignore the valuable wisdom that is so readily available. Instead, they develop their own ideas, which often have little or no biblical foundation whatsoever. This is yet another case of doing what is right in their own eyes (compare Judges 17:6; 21:25). If our leaders had "written for themselves a copy of the book of the law" -- or even just read it -- they would know that marriage is only between a man and a  woman and not any other combination that emanates from the mind of man.  They would also not implement legislation that contradicts clear Bible teaching and which requires that, in case of a conflict, the law of the land always takes legal precedence over God’s Word.

 

The UK government continually boasts of the highest educational standards  in our history, with more students obtaining degrees than ever before. But alongside that is, perhaps, the greatest ignorance that we have ever had in terms of Godly knowledge and understanding. Ignorance in high places has seeped right down through every strata of society, so that the knowledge of God and His way is little known or understood, and that is a very dangerous position to be in. Politicians always seem to think that they have all the answers. In truth, only God has!

 

Brian Gale

 

John Meakin, a minister and writer for the Church of God, an International Community (COGIC), resigned in September 2008, following an undisclosed 

'difference of opinion' with its president, David Hulme.

 

John Meakin then joined the Living Church of God, since which time the number of congregations in the UK has increased from 7 to 15, prompting Douglas Winnail, Director of Church Administration, to declare, "It is certainly encouraging to see the Church growth in that area of the world—especially in light of social trends that seem to be moving in an increasingly secular and anti-Christian direction."

 

How then has such spectacular growth been achieved in "an increasingly secular and anti-Christian" UK? read more


The Hebrew Yeshua vs. the Greek Jesus

In a 2 hour video, Nehemia Gordon, Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, Semitic language expert, and former Pharisee, shows how:

"The issues over which Yeshua wrestled with the Pharisees are simply not understood by modern Christians; nor are his most important instructions followed by those who claim to be his disciples...."

 

 

A 'blog' on the Israel National News web site refers to a famous prophecy from the book of Isaiah : 

 

We'll Teach the Pope a Thing or Two

Yes, it’s true that the Catholic and Christian world is responsible for the murder of millions of Jews.

Yes, it is true that the Vatican stood by and did nothing to prevent the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust.

Yes, it is true that the belief in Yeshu is idol worship with all of its statues and polytheistic trinities.

Yes, it is true that Christianity and is offshoots have led the world astray from G-d and His commandments, to follow after a false religion.

Yes, it is true that the empty and misleading doctrines of Christianity are the source of the moral decay of Western culture and its incessant world wars.

Yes, it is true that no representative of the Vatican or the Catholic Church should be allowed to step foot in the Holy Land until they beg the Jewish People’s forgiveness and renounce all of their errant and evil ways.

Yes, all of these things are true.


Nonetheless, allow me to shed a glimmer of light on the present pompous and pontifical visit, seeing it as the forerunner of a prophecy that is sure to come to pass.

Isaiah Wall

Inscribed on the famous Isaiah Wall outside of the United Nations is the prophecy:

“THEY SHALL BEAT THEIR SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES, AND THEIR SPEARS INTO PRUNING HOOKS; NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION. NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANY MORE” (Isaiah, 2:4).


Of course, the anti-Semites at the UN left out the preceding verses of Isaiah’s prophecy which explain how this ideal situation will come to pass:

“And it shall come to pass in the end of days, that  the mountain of the L-rd’s House shall be established on the foremost of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and all the nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come and let us go up unto the mountain of the L-rd, to the House of the G-d of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth Torah, and the word of the Law from Jerusalem” (Ibid, 2:2-3).


In simple words, the goyim will come to Jerusalem and learn from the Jews how to serve G-d. Only then will nations no longer lift up sword against fellow nations.


The current visit is a preview of what will be in the near future as all of the repenting imposters crawl on their hands and knees up the road to the House of G-d in Jerusalem to learn from the Jews the true way of serving Hashem.

May it come soon!

 

The Hebrew word goyim means peoples or nations - as in Isaiah 2:2,4 - but for Jews goyim means peoples or nations other than Jews.

 

They conveniently forget verses such as:
Gen.12:2 "And I will make of you a great nation <goy>...";
Josh.5:6 "For the children of Israel walked forty years, in the wilderness, till all the people <goy> ...";
Zeph.2:9 "... and the remnant of my people <goy> shall possess them."

 

Time For Action!

Recently I received a request from one of the church pastors we serve in Kenya for help in reaching Muslims in an area of Northern Kenya where we have previously had no contacts.

 

Having spent some time reading the Qur'an, I wrote a leaflet, entitled
For Those Who Fear God, that could be printed on one sheet of A4, and we financed its printing. The leaflet has enabled him to reach many Muslims with the gospel, and we are told that so far seven people have been converted.

 

Recently I gave a message at church entitled  'Sleepwalking into Disaster', about Western civilization's need to waken up to the threat to our freedom and beliefs from the religion of Islam. I hope you will view this short video on youtube to see the evidence that our grandchildren may find themselves in the same position as persecuted Christians in Islamic countries around the world today.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU

 

Truly there has never been a more urgent need for Christians of all kinds
to join together to defend our faith and reach out to the Muslims with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

 

From the Pastor of the North West Church of God (UK)