How do we fight when the battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms?
Put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Ephesians 6:10-17
This is no ordinary fight, for there is spiritual wickedness in high places. When you are battle weary, come watch this and be refreshed.
Remember, “The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.” 2 Corinthians 10:4
What strange days we’re in. Who would have thought 18 months ago we’d be facing these trials?
This year, 2021, is “the year of the vaccine.” I warn you not to take it. The reasons based on science and data are on my other blog. I recommend you read the testimony from Dr Sucharit Bhakdi and Dr Michael Yeadon. I’ve spent months looking into the heart of darkness to get the information out to people. Fortunately, or unfortunately I’ve had the time to do this evidence based study while I’ve been going through cancer treatment.
Recently I learned of the sad death of my healthy, 36 year old dentist from a massive brain haemorrhage after taking the vaccine. He died on the 23rd June 2021. The worst part is it was a needless waste of life. There’s no Covid in my country and the so-called vaccine doesn’t prevent you from catching or spreading it.
Be aware, this is not a conventional vaccine – mRNA is injected into the human body to tell the cells to create spike proteins, and it’s competing with the immune systems that God gave us. The spikes are not staying in the arm, they’re getting into the bloodstream creating things like blood clots, strokes, uncontrolled shaking, bleeding under the skin, and myocarditis.
This is genetic manipulation and it’s going to become the norm for vaccines. I did wonder why some people are fine after having the shots and others like my dentist not?
Dr Michael Yeadon explains the process. It’s a multi-step thing like an Apollo rocket. There’s four or five steps involved. Some will not be affected very much, but some may get loads of the vaccine taken up in large quantities, expressed at high amounts, in dangerous parts of the body. And he thinks that’s why some people are fine, and other people get blood clots.
As for our governments, they are appointed by God and they’re supposed to be God’s ministers to us for good. This genetic manipulation was presented to us as a vaccine with the words “safe and effective.” We weren’t given an informed choice by our leaders. It’s their crime. Those who have sinned are the ones with the agenda who knowingly put us in harm’s way.
If you’ve had the vaccines, just be thankful you haven’t been harmed. Dr Sucharit Bhakdi warned against booster shots. He said if you get a third shot, write your will.
I believe in medicine. Chemo was used in my cancer treatment and it didn’t do me any harm, apart from losing my hair. People everywhere prayed for me. But this gene editing is playing God, and we’re not being warned about their practices. Right now the whole world is undergoing an mRNA experiment and no-one knows how it’s going to end up.
Will those who refuse the vaccine be persecuted for their choice?
I was praying about what to do if the Covid vax becomes mandatory and God replied with this Bible verse; “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.” 1 Corinthians 10:13
The temptation which is common to man is to follow the crowd, to fit in, to be a team player. Our prime minister even mistakenly calls us New Zealanders her “team of 5,000,000.”
The temptation with the Covid vax is to take it so we can be free to travel again. We may be required to take it for work. We’re promised that if we take it life will go back to normal.
Do you really think we’ll be going back to normal?
Let’s turn our TVs off and look at this thing. Do you see the serpent that’s wrapped itself around the pole? Thanks to globalism, the World Health Organisation and GAVI (the powerful Global Vaccine Alliance), that serpent is now wrapped around the world, choking the life out of our freedoms, our economies and our livelihoods.
Do you feel constricted yet?
The name Satan is written with three Hebrew letters: The letter Shin, which means to consume or destroy, the letter Tet which means a snake, or to surround, twist, entwine and ensnare, and the letter Nun, which means life. So Satan means ‘the snake which surrounds, ensnares, consumes and destroys life.’
In Revelation 12:9 the snake is defined as “that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray.”
Yes the snake on the pole is a medical symbol. It’s commonplace, we’re used to seeing it. It relates to Asclepius, a son of Apollo. Medicine and healing are associated with Apollo, whether it’s from him or mediated through his son Asclepius. The mother of Asclepius is Coronis.
Apollo is a god of plagues. He delivered people from epidemics, yet he is also a god who caused them. Apollo could bring ill-health and deadly plague with his arrows. The invention of archery itself is credited to Apollo. He’s usually described as carrying a bow and a quiver of silver arrows.
He is a high ranking demonic prince.
In Revelation 6:2 we see the first horsemen to ride out in the seal judgements. He’s carrying a bow and it’s unusual – in that the Greek word for bow is ‘toxon’ and it’s only mentioned once in the Bible. The word toxon has its origins in the Greek “toxikon pharmakon” – the lethal poison that the ancient Greeks would smear on the points of their arrows. Toxicon was the arrow and pharmacon, poison. In today’s usage pharmacon is defined as a medicine or drug; also, a poison.
Does this signify the beginning of the apocalypse? No I don’t believe so, but we can hear the hoof beats.
Second Thessalonians 2:3 warns: “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition [Apoleia; Apollyon, Apollo]”
Beware of Apollo’s priests. I believe this so-called pandemic was caused by people in league with the devil, and they promise to deliver us from it. They created the problem, caused a reaction, and now they’re offering a solution. Are they into the occult? In the Merriam-Webster dictionary the definition of the word occult means to shut off from view or exposure : cover, eclipse. It’s not revealed, it’s secret, hidden from view. There’s a hidden agenda.
Jesus said, “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household! Therefore do not fear them. For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.
Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops. And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” Matthew 10:24-29
I wish people had a fear of God rather Covid. The fear of the Lord leads to wisdom. That’s what we need right now with this so-called vaccine. Who are you going to put your trust in?
The devil has a counterfeit for everything that God has provided for us. Before the invention of Asclepius, God provided the symbol of the snake on the pole for the Israelites in the desert who were bitten by the serpents sent among them. If they looked at this symbol, they would live. Numbers 21:8-9
After the Israelites reached the promised land, it became an idol called ‘Nehustan,’ meaning “a worthless thing.”
Jesus referred to it when He said, “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:14
In the face of temptation, remain faithful. This is a test.
James the brother of Jesus wrote, “Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.” James 1:12
Jesus wrote to the church of Smyrna saying, “Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.” Revelation 2:10
To the church of Philadelphia He wrote, “Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.” Revelation 3:10
So hold on tight to your genes. And keep the faith.
Notes / Links
Apollo, Apollyon, Abaddon is a high-ranking Satanic prince. His name means “to destroy.” The Greeks most often associated Apollo’s name with the Greek verb ἀπόλλυμι (apollymi), ‘to destroy’.” And “Apollyon is the active participle of apollymi (ἀπόλλυμι, ‘to destroy’)”.
Dr Sucharit Bhakdi, Blood Clots and Beyond : “What is happening now, I fear is the immune system is being trained to do something that it would do very well on it’s own – and now if the real virus comes in, or a virus that is related, it is ready to attack.”
With events in the world heating up as they are, you may have questions about the time we’re living in. When will Jesus return? Until then, what can we expect?
Normally I focus on the Kingdom of God, but I have to write about what comes before the Millennial kingdom.
We’re on the cusp of the kingdom of the fourth beast – a technocracy that will arrive with “the fourth industrial revolution.” The framework has been built. There are five pillars : Information and Communication Technology for the internet and telecommunications, military putting up the satellites, big pharma making the mRNA injections, the media pouring out the propaganda, and the central bankers engineering us out of currencies and into the crypto monetary systems. They’re trying to keep the five pillars separate to keep us from seeing it come together into an integrated system – the smart grid. Transparency can blow the game. (See the link on my other blog: The end of currencies and a new control system.)
Eventually the nations will be dismantled and there will be seven kings and ten leaders. The fourth beast is described in Daniel 7 and Revelation 13. Daniel said it would be different from the previous empires. He told Nebuchadnezzar, “the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything.” (Daniel 2:40)
The teeth are iron and the ten toes are iron mixed with clay. “And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay. Daniel 2:42-43
Technocracy is a system of government in which unelected decision makers are appointed on the basis of their expertise in a given area of responsibility, particularly with regard to scientific or technical knowledge. These leaders are globalists, they have no regard for people or national boundaries. They are Malthusians, having a belief that the earth is over-populated, and since the 1970’s they’ve been using fear: the fear of overpopulation, global warming, and now pandemics to control the population.
They want a global government which they will achieve through what they term “the great reset” which will bring in the fourth industrial revolution. The UN backed Great Reset is a proposal by the World Economic Forum to rebuild the economy sustainably following the so-called COVID-19 pandemic. The man heading up the WEF organisation is Klaus Schwab. Klaus is very much a product of Hitler’s Germany.
The phrase Fourth Industrial Revolution was first introduced by a team of scientists developing a high-tech strategy for the German government. This thing has come out of Germany, and no wonder, for Satan’s throne is still in Berlin at the Pergamum Museum. That doesn’t mean Daniel’s Beast is the EU. It’s a global empire. The fourth era technologies combine hardware, software, and biology. When the technate assembles, I believe it will do so rapidly. It will work with the anti-semitic United Nations.
The UN’s agenda is Agenda 2030, 17 very high-minded goals put in such a way that people accept them. However, the devil is in the details. The 17 goals are attached to 169 sustainable development goals (SDGs) which are currently being made law in each nation. These impose draconian top down management from the UN which is interfering with the rights of citizens in each nation and community. Immunisation is key role in achieving 14 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Why 169 sustainable development targets? 169 = 13 x 13.
Daniel describes this kingdom as something that devours and breaks in pieces, and stamps the residue with it’s feet. It will be a technocratic dictatorship combining the worst elements of socialism, communism and fascism. There will be no privacy, private land ownership or even any say over your own body. Dissidents and vulnerable people will be mistreated, abused, consumed and utterly broken by this regime.
It is frightening, but take heart from this, Daniel prophesied that in the days of the ten kings the Kingdom of God will come.
In the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. Daniel 2:44.
The great sign
Before the return of Jesus Christ and the arrival of His Kingdom, there’s a great sign. Israel will be in travail and there will be cosmic disturbances. The sign is described in terms of a big red dragon and a damsel in distress: Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.
Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.
She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up (harpazo) to God and His throne. Revelation 12:3-5 (NKJV)
At this time, the rapture will happen. Why do I say that? The term “caught up” is “harpazo” in Greek, which translates as the “rapture” in Latin. Harpazo means to catch up, take by force, catch away, pluck, catch, pull. The Bible context is to seize, carry off by force, to seize on, claim for one’s self eagerly, to snatch out or away. What would the parent of a toddler that’s run out onto the road in front of a vehicle do? That’s what the Holy Spirit will do when the time is right.
When the child is snatched up to the throne, war breaks out in Heaven and Satan is thrown down to earth. After being confined to earth Satan will be full of rage. “Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child.” Revelation 12:13.
Israel will be persecuted. Those in Judea who have heeded the warning will flee to a place in the wilderness to shelter in for 1260 days. We know the woman is Israel, but who is the child? There is confusion about just who is being caught up to the throne. Some think it’s a reference to Jesus – but Jesus doesn’t need to be snatched away from danger, He’s already seated on a throne at the right hand of the Father and has been for 2,000 years.
The Child
There are two words for the child: Teknon and Huios. The definitions are taken from the Blue Letter Bible:
Teknon means a male child, a son. It means an intimate and reciprocal relationship formed between men by the bonds of love, friendship, trust, just as between parents and children. In the Old Testament of “the people of Israel” as especially dear to God, in the New Testament, in Paul’s writings, all who are led by the Spirit of God and thus closely related to God.
a son, in a restricted sense, the male offspring (one born by a father and of a mother), in a wider sense, a descendant, one of the posterity of any one, the children of Israel, sons of Abraham.
Son of man, a term describing man, carrying the connotation of weakness and mortality. The son of man, symbolically denotes the fifth kingdom in Daniel 7:13 and by this term its humanity is indicated in contrast with the barbarity and ferocity of the four preceding kingdoms (the Babylonian, the Median and the Persian, the Macedonian, and the Roman) typified by the four beasts. In the book of Enoch (2nd Century) it is used of Christ. Jesus used the term to identify himself as Messiah and also that he might designate himself as the head of the human family, the man, the one who both furnished the pattern of the perfect man and acted on behalf of all mankind. Christ seems to have preferred this to the other Messianic titles, because by its lowliness it was least suited to foster the expectation of an earthly Messiah in royal splendour.
son of God, used to describe Adam (Lk. 3:38) , used to describe those who are born again (Lk. 20:36) and of angels and of Jesus Christ, of those whom God esteems as sons, whom he loves, protects and benefits above others
in the Old Testament used of the Jews
in the New Testament of Christians
those whose character God, as a loving father, shapes by chastisements (Heb. 12:5-8). Son of God means those who revere God as their father, worshippers of God, those who in character and life resemble God, those who are governed by the Spirit of God, repose the same calm and joyful trust in God which children do in their parents (Rom. 8:14, Gal. 3:26 ), and hereafter in the blessedness and glory of the life eternal will openly wear this dignity of the sons of God. Term used preeminently of Jesus Christ, as enjoying the supreme love of God, united to him in affectionate intimacy, privy to his saving councils, obedient to the Father’s will in all his acts.
Using a concordance and lexicon, I looked up the original words in Revelation 12. “Her Child” in Revelation 12:3 is translated as Teknon. The male child she bore who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron translates as Huios. The Child who was caught up to God and His throne translates as Teknon.
So Teknon, Huios, Teknon. Why the two meanings?
Huios declares a position as rulers and judges.
Jesus promises the church of Thyatira in in Revelation 2:26 that he who overcomes, and keeps his works until the end, will be given power over the nations— ‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron.’ So right there is the Huios, the male child who is to rule all nations with a rod of iron in Revelation 12:5. The Huios is not just confined to Thyatira, the church at Laodicea is promised, “To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.”
Paul wrote, “Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Do you not know that we shall judge angels?” 1 Corinthians 6:2
In the world to come, those serving in the Millennium government will be the ones who overcame and kept his works. Finally, the terms Teknon and Huios are not confined to males. Paul defines who are sons and heirs in Galatians..
“For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” Galatians 3:26-29
42 is the answer
Finally, can we know when in the Tribulation the Harpazo will happen? The key is “The Woman.” After her child is snatched up to the throne of God, Israel she has to run for the wilderness where she will be taken care of for times, times and half times. That’s half way through the Tribulation. Jesus means what he says. He needs us to understand the time period, and so he’s expressed it three different ways – 42 months, 1260 days, and times, times and half times. So while we can’t know the date of the rapture, we can know at what point in the Tribulation the Harpazo will happen.
Paul speaks of the rapture occurring at the last trumpet and this leads to confusion with the seven trumpet judgements;
“Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.” 1 Corinthians 15:51-52.
The last trumpet occurs with the Feast of Trumpets in September when one hundred trumpet blasts are blown. This was the only festival where the Jews did not know the day or hour it would be, as it was dependent on the first sighting of the new moon. When Jesus said, “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father,” he was not only being literal, he was also using a Jewish idiom.
Before the rapture, there has to be a world leader heading a globalist government of seven kings and ten leaders and there has to be a Jewish temple in Jerusalem. Until that time, stay alert, and keep the faith. Run from forced vaccinations and live for the day. “Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof,” as Jesus said in Matthew 6:34.
Hello from second lock down. Yes, I am deprived of my liberty again. What a year. There are lots of jokes about 2020. I’m sure we’ve all got some. Here are my favourites …
All jokes aside, I see 2020 as the dawning of a new era – the day of world government which must come before Jesus returns.
It’s an evil day. The world government is being aided and abetted by the World Health Organisation. Did you notice it has for its logo a snake on a pole? It signifies Asclepius, a son of Apollo.
In Revelation 12:9 the snake is defined as “that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray.”
The serpent has different names according to the culture where it was worshipped. In Egypt it was Uraeus, the sacred serpent. In 2018 a sculpture called Uraeus was installed at the Rockefeller Center in New York. It consists of a gigantic open book with eagle’s wings 30 feet in span, both made of lead, on top of a 20-foot-tall lead-clad stainless steel column. Clustered around the base of the column are further outsize lead books, while a large snake coils up the column.
Does it remind you of anything?
I see that serpent wrapping it’s coils like a python around each country, constricting us in the name of health, and choking the life out of our economies and our livelihoods.
After this vision, I learned that Satan is written with three Hebrew letters: The letter Shin, which means to consume or destroy, the letter Tet which means a snake, or to surround, twist, entwine and ensnare, and the letter Nun, which means life. So Satan means ‘the snake which surrounds, consumes and destroys life’.
It’s time to put on our armour and make a stand.
The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Romans 13:12-13
My brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For 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. Therefore put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Ephesians 6:10-13
We are up against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world. The principality making itself felt worldwide is in Geneva, where the headquarters of the World Health Organisation and GAVI are.
GAVI is the Global Vaccine Alliance that Bill Gates started in 1999. It’s a mix of private-public partnerships, i.e. government and big pharmaceutical companies.
The WHO is a United Nations organisation. Bill Gates is the second biggest donor, which gives him an inordinate amount of influence. Neither he nor the head of the WHO are doctors. Gates wants to marry a universal biometric ID with vaccines, as part of Agenda 2030. The initiative is called ID2020. You can check it out on my other blog, the one I use for warning people. I began warning about this in November last year, and again in January, before the Covid thing kicked off.
The UN has an agenda for us all. As part of Agenda 2030 the World Health Organisation intends to use vaccines to replace our God-given immune system with theirs. The goal is called Immunisation Agenda 2030. That’s why you’re now hearing about “global health.”
Who is behind the WHO? Satan is described in the Bible as the god of this world, or of this age. I believe it’s his symbol on the WHO logo.
The serpent on the pole is a counterfeit healer. The devil can also perform miracles, but Jesus was the one who was lifted up on a pole; “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even somust the Son of Man be lifted up,that whoeverbelieves in Him shouldnot perish buthave eternal life.” John 3:14
The account is in Numbers 21, where the Lord sent venomous snakes among the people who spoke against God and Moses. The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” Numbers 21:8
The snake god is ancient, and the Lord took it on in Egypt. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ then say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a snake.”
So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake.Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts: Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. Exodus 7:8-12
As God’s ambassador, Moses staff was more powerful than those in the court of Pharaoh.
The magicians’ names were Jannes and Jambres. Their names crop up again in the last days, when Paul warned there will be perilous times in the last days.
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth.” 2 Timothy 3:1-9
Society is going to be very divided. There are churches who have abandoned God’s eternal truth in favour of a social justice gospel. Their ministers are false teachers, wolves in sheep’s clothing. Do you think they’ll help if people are forced to take mandatory vaccines? Will they warn about not-so hidden agendas if people start trusting the World Health Organisation for their health and healing? When people put their faith in a counterfeit, it’s called idolatry.
How do we stand? How do we battle this thing?
First, we should submit to the government as far as we can. Now that’s a radical idea, but in Romans 13:1-2 we’re commanded to be subject to the governing authorities, unless their laws demand that we disobey the Lord. When that happens we can practice civil disobedience.
In the name of Covid-19, we’ve been forced to put a Ministry of Health Covid-19 tracking app sign on the entrance to our business. Do I like it? No – but I have to obey the government.
Second, we need to pray for discernment.
The image of the serpent on the pole that Moses had made was supposed to prepare Israel for Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross – but when the people turned away from God and started worshipping the image instead, it was destroyed.
You can read it in 2 Kings 18:4: Hezekiah the king of Judah broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it.
Nehustan
The serpent on the pole was called Nehushtan, which in Hebrew meant “a worthless thing of brass.”
Third, we need to turn away from the worthless thing, stand on the Word of God and shield ourselves with faith in His Word.
Psalm 91 promises that “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. In verse 3-6 we read, “Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence. He shall cover you with His feathers,And under His wings you shall take refuge;His truth shall be your shield and buckler (small shield.) You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,Nor of the arrow that flies by day,Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.”
Verse 9 promises, “Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge, Even the Most High, your dwelling place, No evil shall befall you,Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling.”
The shield of faith is one of the six pieces of the armour of light. So put your faith in Jesus, be wise, and don’t listen to those who employ deception. Turn off the TV if you have to, it’s broadcasting fear.
Jesus said,“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves.Therefore be wise as serpents andharmlessas doves.” Matthew 10:16
Third, we need to remember this while making our stand, “owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.” Romans 13:8
In New Zealand, our Socialist prime minister Jacinda Adern urged us to be kind in the so-called Covid-19 pandemic, while setting up a police line to dob in our neighbours if they were seen to be breaking the government’s restrictions.
Teddy bears in windows aren’t a substitute for kindness. Jordan Peterson said that “Kindness is the excuse that social justice warriors use when they want to exercise control over what other people think and say.”
The snitch line is another thing I chose not to use, because we’re told in 1 Thessalonians 4:11 to make it our ambition to lead a quiet life: we should mind our own business and work with our hands,so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that we will not be dependent on anybody.
So what do we have to do to make a stand?
#1 Submit to the authorities, but not if they contradict what God says, #2 Pray for discernment, #3 Turn away from the snake on the pole and trust Jesus instead, and #4 Love one another.
Links
People will betray each other in the last days.
But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! 2 Timothy 3:1-4
Ardern minions have filed “4,200 reports to police”, reporting on their neighbours who breach New Zealand’s house arrest rules. As The N.Z Herald quipped, “curtain-twitchers outing members of the public crashed the new police reporting site within an hour of it going live yesterday.” Neighbour devouring neighbour under a cloud of suspicion and fear, in an eerie echo of the kind of public denouncing, carried out by Soviet Stasi, and Nazi Gestapo, collaborators.
Know that we have the power of Christ’s blood, and in his blood is immunity: “Did you know there is proof for the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ? We even know his blood type, from the cloth wrapped around his head.
The cloth, called the ‘Sudarium’ is kept in a Cathedral in Oviedo, Spain. And here’s something from the evidence room: The blood stains match those on the Turin shroud …
How essential is it for a nation to know their identity, their DNA, who they are and what they stand for? What have we been taught about our origins from the academic and scientific establishment?
God says “my people perish for lack of knowledge”, Hosea 4:6. It’s followed by a solemn warning about the consequences of rejecting knowledge. Again, he says “people without knowledge will come to ruin.” In Proverbs he urges us “Whatever you do, get knowledge, get wisdom.”
I’ve just finished reading for the second time a book “After the Flood” by Bill Cooper, an English historian. This book shows how European history can be traced right back to the flood and the descendants of Japheth, the son of Noah, through contemporary accounts and the table of nations.
The third chapter opens with a quotation from Nennius, a Welsh monk from the 9th Century; “I Nennius, pupil of the holy Elvodug, have undertaken to write down some extracts that the stupidity of the British cast out; for the scholars of the Island of Britain had no skill … I have therefore made a heap of all that I have found …”‘
Bill Cooper suggested the word Nennius used for stupidity would have been better translated as “complacency” or “lethargy,” the mood of the Britons that followed in the wake of the massacre of the monks at Bangor.
You see, their knowledge had been taken away from them.
“The profound cultural shock of seeing their finest scholars and spiritual leaders massacred by supposedly fellow Christians at the instigation of a Roman Bishop no less, would have left a very deep wound indeed, and it is this state of mind amongst the British or Welsh that Nennius laments and which lead to the neglect and loss of many records and books.”
Christianity was already established in Britain before Rome arrived. “That Christianity was firmly established in even remote parts of Britain at the close of the second century is shown by Tertullian stating “the Britons in parts inaccessible to the Romans, Christ has truly subdued.”
British Bishops attended the Council of Arles in 314AD, before the Roman Catholic church was formed. When Augustine went to Britain in 601AD as a representative of Rome, he could not get them to convert. The Welsh already had the true faith, given to them by the early church, and they did not need any new innovations from Rome.
When the monks refused to accept the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, he instigated the Saxon army to attack the monastery at Bangor-is-y-coed, killing 1200 monks and scholars.
Much was lost, including the history of the early British kings. To regain what was lost, I recommend you read the book “After the Flood.”
And now here we are at the end of the age. Has Britain abandoned its Christian heritage? Is Britain again in the grip of a culture shock following political correctness and imposed multiculturalism, with the resultant Islamic attacks in its cities?
Did you know that in World War 2 the nation, led by its King, prayed? When Britain stood on the brink of invasion, with 330,000 men trapped on the beach at Dunkirk, King George VI called for an unprecedented week of prayer. Throughout the country, people prayed on 26 May 1940 for a miraculous delivery.
May 29 was the day of the evacuation of Dunkirk. We know what happened. On the 28 May a storm of unprecedented fury grounded the German Luftwaffe – while the English channel became as still as a millpond, despite the storm in Flanders, enabling a vast armada of little ships, big ships, warships, privately owned motor-cruisers from British rivers and estuaries – in fact, almost anything that would float – to get the men off the beach.
The Queen has the title “Defender of the Faith.” Does she defend it? In 2014 she gave into political correctness, signing into law same-sex marriage, a law that the nation never gave the government a mandate for. Following that, Britain had a series of storms that were described by the British prime minister as “biblical.”
The flooded crypt at Winchester Cathedral, 2014
Who is going to the defend the faith now? British people, you do have a King … the same King as the Polish people.
Here is Poland the following year. In November of 2015 Poland marched in the streets and took a stand for Christianity. They declared boldly to the world “here, Jesus Christ is our King!” It was the biggest march in Poland’s history. The media were silent.
Is it time for the spirit of the nations to rise, to go to war again through intercessory prayer?
John R. Mott, Nobel Peace Prize winner, said “The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer.”
Britain, as the sun sets in the west, may you remember who you are.
This week a priest visited the churches in my small community, along with the elders of the Assyrian Church of NZ. His name was Father Fadi. He needed an interpreter as he did not speak English, he spoke Aramaic – the language of Jesus. He was dressed in a black hassock with a black and silver skufia (soft cloth cap). Why was he so far away from his homeland?
Father Fadi was forced to leave Iraq. His wife and children are still there.
I had never before seen a member of the persecuted church, and we all listened to him very carefully. He carried the hurt of his people.
Realising we were in the presence of an ancient church, one that had been persecuted for centuries, a reverential hush came over us.
St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church at Matakana coming home
It reminded me of the hush I witnessed when a church was moved on a barge from Snells Beach back to Matakana, it’s original community. The waiting crowd had gone silent when the little church appeared around the final bend of the Matakana river.
This is also a church on the move, but there is no home for it. Mosul (Ninevah) is a Christian area, always has been. Father Fadi said things got progressively worse for them in Iraq after Sadam Hussein was deposed, especially since 2010. He said that every day his heart had pain.
There were over 100,000 Christians living on the plains of Ninevah. Isis forced the people out. They had to leave their homes overnight and and have nowhere to go. Some of them are sheltering under highway underpasses and the temperature has got up to 50 degrees C.
Father Fadi said that he wanted us to know that there was a church in Iraq. St Matthews was his monastery. It was founded in the 3rd century. Its 20kms from Mosul, ancient Ninevah. Now there are only two elderly monks left at St Matthews who did not want to abandon the monastery.
Please pray for them. What does God think of their plight? Why has He been silent in the face of the slander, abuse and murder of His people?
For the past two weeks, I’ve been getting a verse from Amos;
The lion has roared—who will not fear? The Sovereign Lord has spoken—who can but prophesy? Amos 3:8.
I’ve been praying for a context. Today He told me the Lord is a God who avenges, and one of His names is “The avenger of blood.”
We’re not used to that concept. All we know is a God who has taught us forgiveness 70 x 7. We know the Lamb, not the Lion.
It’s time for the church to rise up and pray. There is a time for peace, and a time for war. The church couldn’t stand by and turn the other cheek while Hitler was rampaging through Europe and North Africa. In that time, God raised up intercessors like Rees Howells. We need to intercede like that again.
What can we pray?
It can be hard to pray about the enemy. I mean, I’d love to ask God to slaughter the Jihadists and leave their dead bodies strewn across the desert. It would be justice, but then I’d be praying for them to go to hell. A better prayer would be for God to thwart them, or make Himself known to them in dreams. If you don’t know what to pray, pray the word. Psalms are good for this purpose. God delights in us addressing Him using His word, and it never returns void. The devil can’t stop prayer from the word. I used this I used the world from Psalm 94 to pray for His persecuted people;
Assyrian Christian Father Adda prays at St. Matthew monastery on Mount Maqloub, northeast of Mosul in Northern Iraq, Jan 12 2004
O God who avenges, shine forth. Rise up, Judge of the earth; pay back to the proud what they deserve. How long, Lord will the wicked, how long will the wicked be jubilant? They pour out arrogant words; They crush your people,they oppress your inheritance. They slay the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless. They say, “The Lord does not see; the God of Jacob takes no notice.” The wicked band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death. Lord let the enemy know you do see, Let the enemy see you are taking notice. Let them see the futility of their arrogant words and empty boasts, That they may come to fear you. Lord protect the widow, the foreigner, the fatherless. Become the fortress of your persecuted people, the rock in whom they can take refuge. Amen.
There’s a lot more to the Psalm than I’ve prayed here. I recommend you read the whole Psalm. I will write more about the Lion of God in the next post.
We’re in a war, and it involves our homes. I should know. I come from four generations of broken homes on my mother’s side. I never knew my own grandmother.
The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down. Proverbs 14:1
I repeated the broken home pattern myself, but unlike my maternal grandmother I refused to abandon my children.
My children did not have an ideal home as the father was missing, but unlike the previous generations, I turned to God and he turned this family around. He gave me strength, self worth, boundaries and a lot of practical help. When the children reached their teenage years I was given a second chance at marriage. The man I married is a good man who loves my children like they are his own.
I put two things on hold while I was raising the children on my own – dating and a career.
Did I earn as much money? No. Did I have any romance? No, just temptation.
Was it worth it? Yes! I still got to where I wanted to go, my children have safely reached adulthood, happy and well adjusted. They are navigating life for themselves now. I pray to God that the unhappy pattern of divorces has been broken, to be replaced with happy marriages.
I now respect the home maker profession more than any other. Although I’ve had two careers and now I’m a self employed business woman, I realise it is the most important job you ever get to do.
Satan targets women as they run the most important place – the home. Mothers have the most influence on children – if a mother is broken and can’t raise her sons and daughters, he wins.
He will look for where you are most vulnerable, and tempt you there. Be careful what you let into your home.
There are lots of sharks swimming in the sea of life, and you don’t always see their fins.
2 Timothy 3:1-9 gives you a list of them.
Here are some I encountered;
1) The narcissist who wormed his way into my home with charm, and destroyed it.
2) Religious wolves dressed as sheep – having a form of godliness but denying its power. The ones that are easy to spot are the ones who turn up on your doorstep holding Bibles. Not so easy to spot are the “apostles” who want a percentage of your income as “tithes”.
3) A friend of my daughter who was disobedient to her parents, unholy, and ungrateful. She tried to get my daughter to shop lift.
4) A gossip who slandered a loved one. Covered in an earlier post.
1) I invited in, 2) I did not invite in 3) My daughter invited her in 4) Got invited in with a group of people
Have nothing to do with them.
In 2 Timothy 3:1-9 they are described as “the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires …”
Weak willed? If they gain control, you have been weak willed.
Loaded down with sins? Is there stuff in your life or family of origin stuff that hasn’t been dealt with?
Evil desires? Just look at what is on your TV that may sway you, or your child.
So watch yourself. If you are a mother, you are the gate keeper of the home. Its dangerous times we’re living in.
Psalm 101 is a great piece of scripture for a gate keeper. My advice is make it intentional. Learn it, memorise it, and use it. If you put it into effect, it will save you a lot of grief.
Also, Gate Keepers need discernment. You can ask God for this gift.
When I was a child, Sundays were spent having a midday roast and watching WW2 war movies on our only TV station. My father was a 4th generation New Zealander of mixed German and English descent (half and half), so I’d ask him which half was winning. He didn’t think it was funny. No-one of his generation with German blood did after WW1 or WW2.
Not all Australians or Kiwis are descended from the British, and there were ANZAC soldiers who fought against their own relatives. It was a bad time under the Nazi jackboots where the devil rampaged through Hitler, and Christians in Europe were swept up in the conflict. Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Ephesians 6:12.
The war movies never showed us the battles that went on behind the scenes in the Kingdom of God. The King raised up intercessors in that time to carry out His will and fight against the enemy in the spirit realm.
One of the intercessors was a man called Rees Howell, a convert from Wales. He was caught up in the power of the Welsh revival that swept throughout Wales in 1904, transforming communities as thousands joined the body of Christ. The powers of darkness were forced back as the Kingdom of God advanced forcefully. He realised there was a great need to be able to intercede for the new converts to be true disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. Rees and his wife Elizabeth Howells were commissioned to build and sustain the largest Bible College in Wales by prayer and faith alone. At that time, the founders had only two shillings, (NZ 20 cents).
During World War II, he would lead his Bible College in intercession to defeat the Nazis. He and 120 intercessors vowed to give their lives over “to fight the battles of the Kingdom, as really as if called to fight on the Western Front.” As the Nazis poured through Europe, the College stood daily before God. Rees Howell said “We are going up to the battle, and I am as sure of victory as of the dawn. If you know you have faith for something, would you not go on until you got it? I would like this to ring out to the world: ‘The Lord, He is the God!'”
After Holland fell Britain stood on the brink of invasion, and the advancing German Army had trapped the British and French armies on the beaches around Dunkirk, 330,000 men, and they were a sitting target for the Germans. The beach at Dunkirk was on a shallow slope so no large boat could get near to the actual beaches where the men were. Due to war-time censorship and the desire to keep up the morale of the nation, the full extent of the unfolding “disaster” around Dunkirk was not publicised.
However, the grave plight of the troops led King George VI to call for an unprecedented week of prayer. Throughout the country, people prayed on 26 May for a miraculous delivery. May 29 was the day of the evacuation of Dunkirk. Mr. Howells said, “Let us be dear in our prayer that the intercession is gained. The battle is the Holy Spirit’s. See Him outside of yourselves tonight. He is there on the battlefield with His drawn sword.”
Hitler’s first mistake.
Hitler overruled his generals and his armoured columns at the very point when they could have proceeded to the British army’s annihilation. Churchill believed this was because Hitler undoubtedly believed that his air superiority would be sufficient to prevent a large-scale evacuation by sea.
A storm of unprecedented fury broke over Flanders on Tuesday, 28 May, (1940) grounding the German Luftwaffe squadrons. Despite the storm in Flanders, a great calm settled over the English Channel during the days which followed, and its waters became as still as a mill pond. It was this extraordinary calm which enabled a vast armada of little ships, big ships, warships, privately owned motor-cruisers from British rivers and estuaries – in fact, almost anything that would float – to ply back and forth in a desperate bid to rescue as many of the men as possible.
General Haider, Chief of the German General Staff, three days after the High Command had so proudly boasted that the British Army was about to be annihilated, recorded in his diary on 30 May that ‘Bad weather has grounded the Luftwaffe, and now we must stand by and watch countless thousands of the enemy getting away to England right under our noses.’
Hitler’s second mistake.
The next battle of intercession was over the air-raids, and the crisis of the “Battle of Britain. Churchill tells how he visited the Operations Room of the R.A.F. On September 15. He watched as the enemy squadrons poured over and the R.A.F went up to meet them, until the moment came when he asked the Air Marshal, “What other reserves have we?” “There are none,” he was told. Churchill looked grave. The Luftwaffe were about to win the battle.
Then another five minutes passed, and the Luftwaffe turned for home. The shifting of the discs on the table showed a continuous eastward movement of German bombers and fighters. No new attack appeared. In another ten minutes the action was ended.” There seemed no reason why the Luftwaffe should have turned for home, just at the moment when victory was in their grasp. But we know why.
1941 January 28, Rees Howell’s journal stated, “Believed for the protection of the country.” This was followed by the remarkable petition: “Lord, turn the enemy down to the Mediterranean”, and thus relieve the pressure on Britain, by turning Hitler’s attention in another direction. Just over two months later, war was declared by Hitler on Yugoslavia and Greece, and this was followed by the invasion of Crete and North Africa.
Hitler’s third mistake.
The next prayer was greater still. “Lord, bring Russia into the war and deal with Communism.” Six weeks later, without a word of warning, Hitler swung round and invaded Russia. If anything was seen to be an intervention of God to help the Allies, it was that. The secular papers spoke of it in the words of the pagan proverb, “Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.”
The enemy had made two attempts to occupy the Bible lands, the first via Crete, which brought the prayer from the Spirit that the Nazi hordes should be turned against Russia; and the second via. North Africa, which had resulted in the divine intervention in answer to believing prayer at El Alamein.
“Unless God will intervene on behalf of Palestine,” said Mr. Howells on July 4,1942, “there will be no safety there for the Jews. These Bible Lands must be protected, because it is to these lands the Saviour will come back. If I had the choice today, I would say to God, ‘Take all I have, but preserve Palestine.’ We want to say to God today, ‘unless there is a special reason for Egypt to fall, don’t let Alexandria be taken, but give Rommel a setback.’
Between Rommel’s men and Alexandria were the remnants of a British army, fifty tanks, a few score field guns, and about 5,000 soldiers. The sides were equally matched, with the Germans holding the advantage, because of their superior 88 mm. guns, until the Afrika Korps surrendered. 1,100 men of the 90th Light Panzer Division, the elite of the Afrika Korps, came stumbling across the barren sand with their hands in the air.
Cracked and black with coagulated blood, their swollen tongues protruding from their mouths, they crazily tore water bottles from the necks of the British and poured life-giving swallows between their parched lips. The Germans had been twenty-four hours without water, when they overran the British defenses and found a 6-inch water pipe. They shot holes in it and drank deeply. Only when they had taken great gulps, did they realize that it was sea water. The pipe had only just been laid, and the British had just started to test it. Fresh water was never used for tests on pipes, it was too precious. “The day before, it would have been empty. Two days later it would have been full of fresh water…” (Source Major P. W. Rainer, Pipeline to Battle.)
John R. Mott, Nobel Peace Prize winner, said” The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer.
Even as a child I became aware there is a spiritual war raging all around us. Earth is a battleground, and the children of men are the ones being fought over. The soul is the command seat of the person. That’s where Hell attacks. The good news is there is a King who restores souls and leads us to the right road.
Did you know that in World War 2 the nation, led by its King, prayed? When Britain stood on the brink of invasion, with 330,000 men trapped on the beach at Dunkirk, King George VI called for an unprecedented week of prayer. Throughout the country, people prayed on 26 May 1940 for a miraculous delivery.
