The Coming Cosmic

Collision Between

Man and God

Alwyn Hartwig

The Coming Cosmic Collision Between Man And God

Copyright © 2011 Alwyn Hartwig

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This book is written for the glory of

God and the good of mankind.

Acknowledgements

I honour and thank the God of Israel and His Son Jesus Christ, the only God, who revealed the destiny of nations to Nebuchadnezzar and Daniel, His prophet, over 2500 years ago. I represent Him and write for Him and rely on His Spirit to lead and guide me to reveal truth. I believe it was God who gave me the title for this book.

I wish to thank my family and friends who support and help me as I step out by faith to write books for the glory of God and the temporal and eternal good of mankind.

Contents

1. My background and my testimony.

2. A Kingdom not a religion

3. God’s plan revealed by God through man not by man!

4. So here is the dream and interpretation:

5. The New World Order

6. The Power of the Kingdom that is coming!

7. Signs of the end of the age.

8. God’s coming collision with the world’s religions

9. What do you need to do to prepare for His return and the establishment of His eternal Kingdom?

10. Prepare for His Kingdom and coming by being led by the Spirit.

11. Two unexpected events.

12. The door into the Kingdom will close

13. The great tribulation coming or past?

14. The greatest hope is still before us.

Preface

Welcome to the post-Christian era! Many people are boasting that this era is post Christian, as the religious church loses its influence, humanism and political correctness are taking over and sin and lawlessness is rife. Man is continuing to cut himself loose from God and the truth which is in the Word of God! Welcome to more stress, pain, grief and sorrow.

Let me state as strongly as possible, while there may be a post religious church era, there will never be a post God era! There is a very big difference! God is involved in every human era, even if He is silent! He Himself does not change, and He relentlessly pursues His purpose in His creation! Even though the truths given to us by God in the Bible are continually being suppressed by man, the fact is you can only shut out the truth from God for so long, and then He will act! History and the bible prove this time and time again! When He acts, He Himself intervenes! Man is on a collision course with the God of the cosmos!

Many cultures are expecting some great coming event. Others are talking about a collision of asteroids, comets, small planets or the like with the earth. Any such collision would be catastrophic, even possibly destroying the earth as we know it. Great speculation is taking place, like global warming, climate change and the pole ice caps melting causing flooding world wide. Besides all this, there are also threats of a third world war which will wipe out much of humanity! All these speculations come from the earth realm, from man imagining and working out with his finite mind what he thinks might be real for the future or answers for our planets sheer existence!

I am a very insignificant person in the eyes of the world and its governments, education, religions, or financial powers that exist. However, I have not written this book as one who represents a certain view from this earth realm, or one of many views, or even a church denomination view, but I am representing God to you! I work for and write for God! The God who sent His Son with His words, declaring an eternal Kingdom, which will replace all other kingdoms and last forever! The truth I bring in this book is from outside this earth realm. It came direct from God in dreams and words to many of God’s people, and from the Son of God who came from the realm of God, and I also write from what God has spoken to me.

Truth does not come from or through man unless it is authored by God! For example if we ask man to define life we will have thousands of opinions, but if a number of people who have heard from God give their definition of what life is about, they will give a very similar answer. If God defines life, it will not be what a man without the knowledge from God says, but it will be a true definition of reality, which is truth eternal! Only God has life as it truly is. It is this life God offers to man through Jesus Christ His Son. God makes this offer because man once had this life from God but lost it as he fell spiritually into the realm of death!

So when you read this book ask God to reveal the truth to you, which comes from Him and He will keep you safe with Him during His collision with man on His planet earth! Jesus Christ said, "And whoever falls on this stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.” Matthew 21:43-44; Luke 20:17-18.

Foreword

The times that we are living in, are times that require great understanding and insight. (The sons of Issachar had understanding of the times and knew what Israel ought to do (1 Chron 12:32).

Although the author, Alwyn Hartwig has penned some very useful thoughts in this book there are three things in this book that I personally find very relative and of great importance to all readers.

Firstly, our Christianity is not to be a religion but a genuine working relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. We are not just to be believers who go to church, but we are meant to be functional members. in the Kingdom of God. Alwyn’s own story of how he moved from religion to a real living faith is inspiring.

Secondly, the events of the times that we now live in were foretold by the prophets of old. Nothing that is happening around us needs to be a surprise to those that know Jesus. This book gives a very helpful and accurate interpretation of the dream given to King Nebuchadnezzar in the book of Daniel. The dream foretells the establishment of a Kingdom that shall never be shaken whose King is Jesus Christ.

Thirdly, we are approaching the time when God will fulfil His purposes on earth. We are now well into the night hours. This is a time when we all need to be in strong relationship with God, in regular fellowship with other believers and strongly established in His Kingdom (Heb 10:25).The bottom line is that we need to have our heart right. We also need the wisdom and grace to have our friends and family well prepared.

Alwyn’s writings confirm what many prophetic voices around the world are saying. "Get ready – something is about to happen.”

God Bless,

Brian Heath

Pastor

Sale City Church

www.salecitychurch.com

CHAPTER ONE

A little about myself as author.

My background and my

testimony.

I include this part in my book to show that what I am writing about has not come from my great knowledge, learning or education but by revelation from the Spirit of God.

I was born in Gympie in the state of Queensland, a northern state of Australia. Gympie is in the sub-tropical south eastern corner of Queensland. I can only say I had a very enjoyable childhood being raised on dairy farms and small crop farms. I very much enjoyed the warm to hot climate.

As Christmas drew near each year, I can still remember my Father saying, "It is hard to beat the boss to the shade tree now”! As children we knew it was near Christmas each year when the temperature would climb to 100 degrees Fahrenheit or even more. Gympie’s climate can be fairly steamy and hot in December to February, but we were very fortunate to live on the Mary river for a number of years, and I have fond memories of fishing from sunset into the night, and walking home with a lantern following our Father on a white horse. We often fished with friends or other relatives who lived in the Gympie district.

The amazing thing was that prior to our college days none of us wore shoes, except when we went to church on Sundays or had to visit the shopping centre. It was always a great relief to get home and take off the excess clothes and shoes and get back to normal life of only shorts and a short sleeve shirt! We were raised in a very basic way. Sweets or treats were rare, mainly given at Christmas and Easter. I was born in a family and a community of no importance or significance.

I must say at this point, I am extremely grateful to God for being born in the family that I found myself in. As I grew up I learned that I was an Australian. In my early days I did not really know what that meant, but as I have grown older and became more aware of what it means to be Australian in a very troubled world, I am very thankful and grateful to be living in The South Land of the Holy Spirit. Australia is the English word for the Spanish word Australis, meaning South Land!

I was born number five in a family of nine children, that placed me right in the middle of the family of six boys and three girls, and I had reasonable knowledge and contact with the older and the younger members of the family. To this day eight of us are still alive and well, praise be to God.

Higher education was not much spoken of at that time in the late forties and early fifties. We were a Lutheran family and we all attended Church when services were on in Gympie, which occurred fortnightly, until a Parish was established and a full time Pastor was called.

At that time the Lutheran Church of Australia founded Concordia College in Toowoomba, and my parents saw the opportunity to give us a chance at higher education. However, the founding of the college was too late for the two eldest children but the rest of us were all sent off to College when we finished the Scholarship examination at the end of grade seven. I was not a brilliant student and I just managed to pass the year seven exams and so became eligible for secondary level. However, I somehow improved under good teachers and passed Junior Level years of eight and nine grades with mediocre marks. I do not have a high education and I did not learn from man what I now know.

My parents had a strong desire for their sons to become Lutheran Pastors and so preach the Gospel as they understood it. My older brother and the one younger than me were very brilliant students and so ended up in the University and the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Adelaide. However I had a lot of difficulty with learning languages and so at the end of two years it was decided by my parents that I could not be educated any higher and so I was sent home to the farm! I was not considered suitable material for a Pastor. Wow! I could not have been any happier and I can remember my last journey home from Toowoomba to Gympie on the train. I was so excited that at last I was going home to where I loved being!

At that time I had been baby baptized and confirmed as a Lutheran communicant member, but I was not regenerated by the Spirit of God (or born again of the Spirit, reference John Chapter 3:3-7). I did not have the Divine eternal Life in me! However, at that time I did not know one could be born of the Spirit of God, so I continued attending the Lutheran church and participating in the services and communion. I was also involved with the Lutheran youth. I continued like any normal person a slave of sin and weaknesses always feeling unworthy and guilty before God.

After some years on the farm at Gympie I became restless when I was about twenty years old and began to look for a job. This led me to being accepted in the Commercial Bank of Australia, now part of Westpac Bank. After a couple of years working in Queensland, I was transferred to Victoria on relief duties and so I traveled around Victoria to different branches of the Bank for a couple of years. It was during this time that I met my wife to be, Ruth Nuske. Ruth came from Dimboola in the Wimmera district of Victoria, however she was training as a Nursing Sister in mid-wifery at Queen Elizabeth hospital Adelaide.

Looking back over our lives now, we both know God brought us together, because we had opportunity to be married before we met each other, but it never worked out because the Lord had other plans for us. We met because I was attending St. James Lutheran Church in Melbourne, and so was Ruth’s sister Pat. So Pat had a party one weekend and invited me and some other young people from the Church to the party. This was a Saturday night and of course Pat had invited her sister Ruth from Adelaide to be there also! A little romance began that weekend which led to our marriage on my birthday in January 1964.

We started our married life with nothing much, like most young people in those days, and much to Ruth’s mother’s dismay we moved to Queensland to live. She thought she would never see her daughter again! We soon found work and after a few years bought our first house for the princely sum of $8750 brand new! I suppose you could say those were the good old days! But, I was not happy with the city life in Brisbane, although I quite like Brisbane as a place to live. The urge was in me to return to the land and try my hand at farming. So we sold our home in Brisbane and made a good capital gain which made it possible to buy fifty acres and an old house at Chevallum near Nambour on the Sunshine Coast!

It was all very exciting for me but somewhat hard on my beautiful young wife Ruth! Most of the mod cons were gone, although we did have electricity and the phone! But God was good to us as we went through many hardships and trials crop farming and contracting. After five years an American man bought the property next door to us to grow avocadoes and through a series of events he offered to pay us double what we paid for our property. So we said yes and moved to a bigger farm of near 200 acres at Eumundi where God continued to prosper us.

At that time we were still attending the Lutheran church at Nambour and then at Cooroy just north of where we lived. At this time I was not yet born of God’s Spirit even though I believed in God and had the knowledge of God, which was influencing my life but only externally. I believed with my head but my heart and spirit was not regenerated. About that time I began to sell real estate in the Nambour office of L.J Hooker. While I was there a new Lutheran Pastor called in and invited me to do a course he was running at the Nambour Church, called The Bethel Bible study. Somehow I felt led to accept and join the classes. This led to a better presentation of the Gospel of God’s Kingdom and the influence of the Word of God on my life, because we had to memorize scriptures and read whole sections of the bible! So I completed the classes and along with others became a teacher of the series to other church members. This was amazing because I still did not know the Lord or have the Holy Spirit!

It was during this time one night on my own laying in bed reading the Bible, that I read in Revelations 3:20. "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in with him and dine with him, and he with me”. As I read this, I put the open bible down on my chest and prayed. "Lord I know what I am supposed to live like, I know what your commandments say, but I can’t keep them. Will you come in and live in me and give me the power to live right.” That was the crux of what I said and immediately I felt something inside of me changing, something I had never felt before. I fell to sleep and the next day I felt so different, I said to my wife, "something happened to me last night and now when I pray I know I am talking to God!” It was only sometime later I realized I had invited Christ into my life and of course I was now born of the Spirit of God! Now God was my Father! This fulfilled for me what is written in John 1:12, "but as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God!”

From then on radical changes and understanding of God’s word began to take place, so much so my wife Ruth said, "you seem to be going ahead of me don’t leave me behind”! So I told her to go to the bedroom and get on her knees and pray and she did and came out a born again person. I must say God had already been at work in her heart and she was ready for the Lord’s work of regeneration at that time! All praise is given to Jesus!

After some time a big change occurred in our family. I sat the family down at the kitchen table and said to our three children. "We have been teaching you the wrong way, telling you to obey the commandments by yourself, in your own strength, instead you need to ask the Lord Jesus Christ into you hearts to live in you and to help you keep the commandments”. So after some discussion we all prayed together the sinner’s prayer and I gave our children to the Lord Jesus Christ, to be His forever! This is one of the best decisions I have ever made, and let me tell you He (Jesus) has been faithful to them and kept them through thick and thin unto this day! I was worried about how our children would grow up, would they stay faithful to God and the church? Would they live good well adjusted lives, free from drugs and alcohol etc. Well once I surrendered their lives to His keeping, I had peace about them from then on. I can remember one of my brothers saying my son would live a reprobate life when he grew up, but I kept telling him my son would not because he had Jesus in his heart! So to this day they all still have a good relationship with the Lord, having been born of God’s spirit in their teenage years! This does not mean they all have lived a perfect life, but they have stayed submissive to The Lord Jesus and always turned back to him when needed! Truly, a continual surrender to Christ the Lord is the only way to live safely in this world and also to be assured of your eternal salvation!

At that time an evangelist Bill Newman had a tent crusade in Nambour. I asked the Lutheran Pastor if it was alright to attend, and he said yes, and much to my surprise I found many other Christian people from a range of churches there. This was something new to me because up to that time we Lutherans had pretty much kept to ourselves, somewhat believing we were the only ones who held the truth from the reformation onwards! However, I can remember the joy of fellowshipping with believers from other church groups. It was the first time I had heard a soloist sing songs of worship to the Lord. I was so impressed I asked her later in the night, if she really meant what she was singing! She was very gracious to me, but I am sure she must have thought I had asked her a strange question, or that I was strange myself! I had never seen or heard anything like that in the Lutheran churches! What happened at that crusade built a desire in me to open my heart to other Christians and to see what God was doing in their lives.

We were invited to a film of an Evangelist working in India, which was to be shown at the Christian Outreach Centre Nambour. There were a lot of people there that night and I was very impressed to see fairly new believers preaching the gospel in the streets of India! They seemed to have a lot of boldness and courage which I did not understand at the time, because I had not yet been baptized in the Holy Spirit. I remember thinking if they could do it so could I! The aim of the film that night was to recruit people to go to India to preach during an upcoming crusade, so Ruth and I put our names on the list and began to pray for the finances we needed for the trip. We had set aside money to buy another car and could not see our way to doing both the trip and the car. While attending a meeting, the Pastor of Christian Outreach Centre, asked me was I going to India? I said I would like to go. He asked what is stopping you? I said finance, and before anything else could happen he laid hands on me and prayed for the finance to be released!

So God worked in this way! I had owned an old Mercedes Benz, which was presently not on the road, and I noticed a similar model for sale advertised in the paper. This man was going overseas and wanted a quick sale, but when I saw it I did not want to buy it at that price. A couple of weeks later he rang and said I could have it for $1250 because he just wanted to get rid of it! Suddenly it dawned on me that I could buy it instead of spending $6000 on another car and use the rest of the money for our trip to India! I believe God gave me favor, and the old Benz went well for over twelve months. I then took the motor out of it and put it in to the other one I owned which was not previously going! It went for years after that! So we were blessed both ways, a trip to India and a car all for the same price!

We saw thousands of people respond to the preaching of the gospel in India, as well as miracles of healing and demons being cast out. We had to pray over lines of people until well into the night. Much to our surprise, the people we prayed for said they were healed, even deaf ears opening!

One day we were sent into an area of the city that seemed to be very unresponsive to our preaching! People just stared at us, not receiving prayer or taking part in any way at all! When we returned to the camp for lunch, the organizers said "we thought you would get stoned today”! We were told that the area we went to was a Muslim area. I thought it would have been nice to be forewarned!

Well, we survived our trip to India very well except for a little sickness and toothache! But when we arrived home to our local congregation, they did not seem to want to know anything about it at all! It got to that place, where our leadership positions were taken away from us and we had to have a meeting with the church eldership, because we had been involved with Pentecostals and Charismatics. But, I believe the Lord was in all this at the time, because we had been baptized in the Holy Spirit and we had a call on our lives to serve the Lord Jesus Christ full time!

So we started to look around at other churches to see where we might fit. Not so long afterwards we settled at the Christian Outreach Centre, who had their church at Woombye. They had bought an old pineapple farm and converted the large shed which was on it into an attractive meeting place. During our time there, we saw many people converted to a life following Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord! It was like being in the middle of a revival there was such an outpouring of The Holy Spirit. People were also healed and delivered by God’s power under the ministry of Pastor Niel Miers! We experienced great growth in the church and school which had been founded. We actually felt like we were living the book of Acts in the 1980’s. It was during these years I attended a six months bible College at Redcliffe run by Christian Outreach Centre. Here I learnt ministry skills, and faith and vision!

After some years in the new church, Pastor Clark Taylor, the founder of the Christian Outreach movement, visited our church and ministered very powerfully. Besides preaching the gospel he talked about the call of God and answering that call. I found myself going up to talk to him after one meeting and saying, "I want to go out and plant a church”. His response was quick, "just come to the training school in January next year”. So we registered with four other couples from that congregation and ended up doing a six week ministry training course. During that time Pastor Clark imparted the Holy Spirit, faith and vision so I was fully convinced I could pioneer a church. My older brother said that it was impossible to start a new church just like that, but by faith I just kept saying it was possible!

The amazing thing was this, all to God’s glory. I was the one who was rejected by man for Seminary training and one of the least educated, but God chose me and empowered me by His Spirit to do what education and knowledge cannot do! Just as it is written, Zec 4:6 (NKJV) …..’Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the LORD of hosts.

My parents dream to have their sons as Pastors was fulfilled first in my younger brother John. He became ordained and received a post to New Guinea, where he had a very successful ministry, growing the parish from some 200-300 members to around 1500 in the time he was there. Unfortunately he was drowned in an accident while on his own.

This was a great tragedy and a very great grief and loss to us all, but particularly to my parents. It meant the loss of their dream. No Pastors among their six sons. But God was not finished with His will in all of us! Once I was regenerated, I felt the call to minister and so did my brother Trevor. I was a Pastor for 18 years, having answered the call at age forty eight. We are both still ministering, not necessarily as Pastors of a church but as a lifestyle!

It was during the year of 1987 that we sold our beautiful house, and it was a beauty, having a forty six square roof with a verandah all around laid with rough hewn slate, exposed cathedral beams and many other features. It was a great cost to my wife Ruth and our children to leave our brand new beautiful home. Besides we were leaving the beautiful sunshine coast of Southern Queensland for the Latrobe Valley Victoria. This was quite a climatic change considering I did not like the cold at all! Of course, there are beautiful places in Latrobe Valley also, and we have become acclimatized now having lived in the Latrobe City for 23 years.

After we settled in and got organized after a few weeks we started our church in Traralgon, at a small state school. I must say the Lord was very good to us considering I did not really know what I was doing. But with a lot of prayer, enthusiasm, fasting and some ads in the local paper our church began to grow as God added people to the congregation even though I was immature as a Pastor. We had an evangelistic thrust and saw some new converts added from time to time. One of the highlights of our church was the wonderful music team led by our son-in law Wayne Johnston and our daughter Kathy Johnston. Looking back, I now realize how awesome the presence of God was in our worship services, just because of their love, dedication, anointing and leadership in music! Besides that, God had led to us other wonderful musicians and singers. We were just blessed! The church grew to a place where my leadership skills needed to improve for the church to grow further. Many prophecies, dreams and visions had come to us from outside the church and also from within, about a mighty outpouring of God’s Spirit and Fire. But to this day we are still waiting for God’s timing and fulfillment which will surely come!

It was during this time as Pastor, that I sought the Lord with much prayer and fasting, and surrendering to Him the best way I knew. It was during this season that I made a decision to believe the Lord God and His prophets, just like King Jehoshaphat did when He and Israel were facing annihilation.

You can read this account in 2 Chronicles chapter 20. I also decided to put the words of Jesus Christ, who came from God, who is truth, above all other words spoken by men. I also decided to daily ask the Holy Spirit of God to lead me into all truth, and He does, because Jesus said He would!

CHAPTER TWO

A Kingdom not a religion

At that time, I became more and more convinced that most of the church, and certainly the unbelievers, knew very little about God’s Kingdom and the two thousand years that had passed since Jesus Christ announced the founding of God’s Kingdom. The Son of God spoke about the new Kingdom calling people to forsake this world’s systems and its kingdoms, and to join His Kingdom even at the cost of their lives! Jesus Christ, God’s Son did not found a religion but an eternal Kingdom. This was prophesied some 500 years before Christ came to earth! I quote:-

Isa 9:6 (NKJV) For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Isa 9:7 (NKJV) Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

Man has taken his message of the eternal Kingdom of God and turned it into another form of religion. Much of the Christian church today offers people rites and rituals instead of life in the Kingdom of God which is eternal. They have altars, rails and priests and the people are separated from God’s presence by these practices. But God’s offer is a spiritual rebirth into His Kingdom, giving us His life, and the gift of the Holy Spirit of God, to fill us while we live here on this earth! God has chosen to dwell in man now, and man is meant to have direct worship to God in the spirit where He is in heaven. This can happen for any human being from any race or culture no matter where he or she is on earth. When Jesus, the son of God, was on earth he spoke of this to a woman at a well in Samaria.

John 4:23-24 (NKJV) "But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. {24} "God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

From this statement Jesus made you can see there is no need for altars, rails and priests to be between you and God! You can go directly to God now from your heart through Jesus Christ! I remember one day purchasing petrol and while at the counter an Asian man asked me what I had been doing. I said I had been at a Christian conference. Then I asked him, "Do you know Jesus?” He said, "How can I know Jesus I am a Buddhist?” So I replied, "You can speak to Him from your heart because He is a Spirit now”. He was very happy and thanked me very much. You know it really is that simple. I would like to know what has happened to him since our conversation.

Nearly all of Jesus Christ’s teachings were about the Kingdom of God, not a religion. Here are some of His teachings.

Mat 6:33-34 (NKJV) "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. {34} "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”

In the above quote Jesus is teaching us that we need to seek first God’s Kingdom and the righteousness which He gives to us through our faith as a gift. We need to put our entry into His Kingdom as a priority above all else. Why? Because this life is very temporal but His Kingdom is eternal!

Luke 9:11 (NKJV) But when the multitudes knew it, they followed Him; and He received them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who had need of healing.

Here Jesus not only spoke about the Kingdom of God but He demonstrated it by healing all the sick. This means in His Kingdom there is no sickness or curse and we can through our faith receive the benefits of healing and blessings now. But in eternity there will be no sickness, sorrow or death!

Luke 13:18-21 (NKJV) Then He said, "What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it? {19} "It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and put in his garden; and it grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches.” {20} And again He said, "To what shall I liken the kingdom of God? {21} "It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened.”

Here Jesus is teaching that the Kingdom of God will influence every area of our lives if we apply the teachings to our daily lives. The Kingdom of God will bring so much great blessings to our lives so that other people will be able to receive from us as well! Our lives will be like a very big fruitful tree.

This is the Kingdom of God within us, until Jesus Christ returns to reign on earth for a thousand years. When He comes there will be peace on earth during this time, because Satan and evil angels will be cast into a bottomless pit for that period of time!

Rev 20:1 (NKJV) Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

Rev 20:2 (NKJV) He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;

After Christ’s reign for a thousand years the end will come. Satan is released from the pit and again deceives the whole world to try to overthrow Christ and His people. This is foretold in Rev 20:7 (NKJV) Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison

Rev 20:8 (NKJV) and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.

Rev 20:9 (NKJV) They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.

After this event the new Heavens and earth are revealed and Christ and His people live in it, eternally perpetuating The Kingdom of God! This is definitely not about a religion!

Please do not let the religious churches and other religions stop you from entering the Kingdom of God and receiving the gift of eternal life. This is what Jesus the son of God came to give you.

CHAPTER THREE

God’s plan revealed by God through man not by man!

So where did all this begin?

It all began in the mind and heart of God before the creation of the world as we know it. God had said, " Let us make Man in our Image and Likeness”. This was Gods plan and purpose, that man should live life like Him and reflect His nature and character in the power of an endless life! All of this creation of God is to bring glory, honor and praise to God forever! Now, I ask you to remember this knowledge did not come from man out of this earthly realm, but from God who is in the Heavenly realm to man, and it was written for our good and use.

Today if you ask man’s opinion, he would say we evolved, but if we evolved from nothing into life, where did death come from? Evolutionists will never be able to explain why, when there was nothing or death in existence, and life accidentally came into being, why does it end in death? Can you follow the logic in this reasoning?

Rather, we were given life from God and fell into spiritual death through sin and separation from God. The establishment of Gods Kingdom is to restore man back to the life he once had with God before his fall! This life which God gives is eternal and has no sickness or weaknesses in it. There is no sin or death in God’s Kingdom. To do this, God has to give man a spiritual rebirth and to place man in Himself. The bible calls this "in Christ” and "Christ in us”. When this happens to an individual they receive the life of God again which gives them eternal life with God.

This is what God’s message to us, tells us! It is not a religion! This message did not originate from man or this earth realm, because darkness cannot bring forth light. The whole of mankind was in spiritual darkness and light (truth) from God’s realm has to penetrate the darkness and dispel it! Death cannot bring forth life, but rather life has to enter where death is and bring back to life what is held by death! This is what happens in the resurrection. This is what happened when Jesus Christ rose from the dead and when others are raised from the dead by the power of His Name! When I speak about life I mean the Life of God, which is eternal…perfection, perfect light and perfect spiritual existence. This is something man dreams about having within himself. We crave for it in everything we do. In the natural we are looking for eternal youthfulness in this world. But God is offering us the spiritual life He has in the Heavenly places.

But all of mankind is under a spiritual law of sin and death! This cannot be broken by man or from within the earths sphere. We have had at least six thousand years of civilization to effect a radical change in our behavior but have failed! Education and technology has brought physical change, but no real spiritual or life change! We are still morally depraved. Just look at our entertainment and behaviour today and you will be convinced! We love watching murder, seduction, violence and immorality!

So, even though man fell into death and spiritual darkness, powerless to change or reach back into that realm of eternal life, God did not abandon His original plan to make man in His image and likeness, who would live as Sons of God, eternally like God! Why did He not abandon us? Because God is love!

So He visits a man called Abram and makes a promise to him that God would bless him and through his Seed to come, bless all nations of the earth! See Genesis chapter 12. Once again I remind you, this change which is for mans good, is being instigated by God not man. This is not something man thought of to remedy his spiritual condition! Man does not have this power or life in him, so how could he?

So God birthed the nation of Israel through Abram and Sarai who were barren, and had no children. He changed their names from Abram to Abraham, which means a father of many nations, and from Sarai to Sarah. God said to Abram, "I have made you a Father of many nations!” You see, there it is again. God has to bring life to a barren couple. These people were unable to accomplish what God had planned for them and the whole world, unless He spoke it and performed it through them!

You can read the history of Israel in history books and also in the Old Testament books of the bible. After many years, a nation is formed with Kings and many peoples, just like God had said to Abram. However, many tragic events came to pass because they did not always follow the Laws and precepts which God had given to them to live by.

It was during one of their rebellions against God, and their worship of other spirits and idols, that God gave Israel into the hand of the King of Babylon who came and destroyed their temple and their city. He also took some of the leading and well educated people back to Babylon to reeducate them and use them in his courts!

Among these exiles were four young men named, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. These young men became famous for their stand as God’s people even while they were in exile, and Daniel became the prime minister of The Empire of Babylon and later of the Medo-Persian Empire.

Dan 1:4 (NKJV) young men in whom there was no blemish, but good-looking, gifted in all wisdom, possessing knowledge and quick to understand, who had ability to serve in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the language and literature of the Chaldeans.

Dan 1:6 (NKJV) Now from among those of the sons of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

It was during this time, when King Nebuchadnezzar was King of Babylon, that he had dreams of future events in the world.

Dan 2:1 (NKJV) Now in the second year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was so troubled that his sleep left him.

Now, you need to remember, the dream came from God, who was working in the history of man for His own purposes. He had allowed Israel to be in captivity, and the right people whom He will use to bring the desired results into being, are now in Babylon itself.

King Nebuchadnezzar was so troubled by the dreams that he was desperate for an answer! I quote:-

Dan 2:2 (NKJV) Then the king gave the command to call the magicians, the astrologers, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.

Dan 2:3 (NKJV) And the king said to them, "I have had a dream, and my spirit is anxious to know the dream.”

Dan 2:4 (NKJV) Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic, "O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”

Dan 2:5 (NKJV) The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, "My decision is firm: if you do not make known the dream to me, and its interpretation, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made an ash heap.

This is an amazing situation! The King claims to have forgotten the dreams and insists that the magicians reveal to him the dream and the interpretation! They say it is impossible and cannot be done. The King responds and says, if you can’t do it you will be cut in pieces and your houses destroyed! The magicians respond with the following words:

Dan 2:10 (NKJV) The Chaldeans answered the king, and said, "There is not a man on earth who can tell the king’s matter; therefore no king, lord, or ruler has ever asked such things of any magician, astrologer, or Chaldean.

Dan 2:11 (NKJV) "It is a difficult thing that the king requests, and there is no other who can tell it to the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”

They end up admitting that they cannot do what the King is asking. They even suggest only the gods could reveal this! This is a truer statement than they knew! Remember God has His man in Babylon for His purpose! Of course, their negative response to the King only makes Him angry and even more furious! In those days nobody says "no” to the king and lives to talk about it!

Dan 2:12 (NKJV) For this reason the king was angry and very furious, and gave a command to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

Dan 2:13 (NKJV) So the decree went out, and they began killing the wise men; and they sought Daniel and his companions, to kill them.

When Daniel found out, he asked the King for some time, and went with his friends to pray, seeking God for mercy and to reveal the dream and the interpretation, so they all would not die! To God’s honor and to fulfill his will, Daniel received a vision of the whole matter. So he very quickly went to the King to reveal it to him!

Now you could be asking where am I going with this account of history? What has this to do with me, or a cosmic collision between God and man? Well, do not switch off yet! This dream from God reveals the future which impacts the whole world until this collision takes place! You are living close to this time!

The proof of this is that nine tenths of the prophecy and dream has already been fulfilled in world history. The Empires, some named in the bible, came into being after Babylon and the Roman Empire was divided and remains divided until this day. Dan 2:41 (NKJV) "Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay.

This message revealed by God showed that there would never again be a world empire after the Roman Empire. Europe has always remained divided since Rome ruled. Many leaders have tried to unify Europe again into an Empire. Napoleon, who tried to unite Europe, wrote in his diary there will be one Europe, there will be one currency, there will be one language and there will be one government. But when he was defeated at the battle of waterloo, he said, "God Almighty is too much for me”. The Word of God spoken by Daniel blocked him and his ambitions! Dan 2:43 (NKJV) "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.

Besides Napoleon, there was King George the fifth, Charlemagne and Hitler who tried to unite Europe but failed. The Royals even tried intermarrying (they will mingle with the seed of men), to bring Europe together but they also failed! God’s word of prophecy cannot be broken by the best of men!

Now you may well be saying this is only a Bible story! My friend, I ask you to do a search on King Nebuchadnezzar and you will find that he existed and his tomb and the writings of his age have been discovered by archeologists. Before his tomb was found many critics denounced the Bible account of the book of Daniel, saying that King Nebuchadnezzar never existed, but now it has been proven to be correct!

CHAPTER FOUR

So here is the dream and

interpretation:

Dan 2:26-30 (NKJV) The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, "Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and its interpretation?” {27} Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, "The secret which the king has demanded, the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, and the soothsayers cannot declare to the king. {28} "But there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head upon your bed, were these: {29} "As for you, O king, thoughts came to your mind while on your bed, about what would come to pass after this; and He who reveals secrets has made known to you what will be. {30} "But as for me, this secret has not been revealed to me because I have more wisdom than anyone living, but for our sakes who make known the interpretation to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.

Dan 2:31-35 (NKJV) "You, O king, were watching; and behold, a great image! This great image, whose splendor was excellent, stood before you; and its form was awesome. {32} "This image’s head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, {33} "its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. {34} "You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. {35} "Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

Now here is the interpretation:-

And remember, the message of this dream has already affected you and will affect you now, and eternally!

Dan 2:36-45 (NKJV) "This is the dream. Now we will tell the interpretation of it before the king. {37} "You, O king, are a king of kings. For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, strength, and glory; {38} "and wherever the children of men dwell, or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all; you are this head of gold. {39} "But after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours; then another, a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth. {40} "And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others.

{41} "Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. {42} "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. {43} "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. {44} "And 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.

{45} "Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.”

Please notice some things here. The dream came from God to reveal the future kingdoms of men, which were still to come, and then the coming of the Kingdom of God, which God himself would set up! Jesus Christ announced the commencement of this kingdom when He came to earth during the Roman Empire!

When He returns, Jesus Christ the Son of God will strike the world government and religion on the feet and destroys it all and set up His one thousand year reign! This is what God has revealed will happen to any one world government and religious system that man sets up. The Kingdom of God will come, it is a certainty!

Even United Nations and their peace efforts have failed. The world’s nations are still in great turmoil and there is never a time when there is not a war or some conflict somewhere. Surely Jesus Christ is the only one with the power and authority to bring peace on earth!

The dream also required a vision from God through a prophet to be revealed to mankind! Notice this information did not come from a physic or a soothsayer from this world, but it had to be obtained from the realm of God by a prophet of God!

Please note also that the stone which struck and smashed the statue was cut out of a mountain without hands. This means it did not come by the work of men, but it came supernaturally out of God himself! The stone, after destroying the kingdoms of this world grew so large that it covered the whole world! This kingdom will stand forever and it will never fade away or be taken over by some other people as we see happens in the history of world empires today!

I announce to you, this kingdom is the one that Jesus Christ preached about and there is coming a day very soon when its fullness will be manifest on the earth for a thousand years! Are you born again of God’s spirit and a member of that Kingdom?

Now if you want to authenticate this dream and its interpretation, just read the history books and you will see that after the Kingdom of Babylon and King Nebuchadnezzar who was the gold head on the statue, came the Kingdom of the Medes and Persians which represented the silver breast, after them came the Kingdom of Greece by Alexander the Great, this was the brass kingdom, and then came the Roman Empire which was the legs of Iron. This empire was very strong and it broke all others before it. All this was revealed by God through a dream hundreds of years before it happened! The Babylonian Empire ruled from 605 BC to 539 BC. The Medo-Persian Empire ruled from 539BC to 331BC. The Greek Empire ruled from 331 BC to 168BC. The Roman Empire ruled from 168BC to 467AD and was the last world Empire to exist, because Jesus Christ came during the Roman Empire announcing the commencement of God’s Kingdom, an eternal Kingdom which would eventually end all other kingdoms! He also said very emphatically, "My Kingdom is not of this world”. This means it was not from men or this earthly realm! The Kingdom Jesus founded comes from and belongs to God and is eternal.

Here is something outstanding! Jesus Christ God’s Son came during the time of the Roman Empire declaring the Kingdom of God had come and that men should change their minds and be born of the Spirit of God to enter that kingdom! This was the beginning of the fulfillment of the dream and interpretation which Daniel gave to King Nebuchadnezzar, hundreds of years before!

Here are Jesus’ words:- John 3:3-5 (NKJV) Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” {4} Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” {5} Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

God’s Kingdom is a spiritual kingdom, because God is Spirit. Natural man cannot enter that realm without a rebirth in the spirit! A natural man must be spiritually translated from the realm of death into the realm of Life. This happened to me when I was thirty eight years old. That is why I write representing that realm! That is why Jesus Christ is not about religions, which come from this world, but about God’s Kingdom which is eternal!

Jesus Christ literally fulfilled the prophetic dream given to King Nebuchadnezzar, and explained and interpreted by Daniel. However, His Kingdom is not yet physically on earth, but the time is drawing very near!

Dan 2:44 (NKJV) "And 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.

The last part of the above verse has not yet been fulfilled but it is coming very soon. I hope to reveal this to you as you continue to read.

When the last part of the above verse is being fulfilled this will be the coming cosmic collision between God and man!

Man has set himself to have a one world Government and religion without Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. They want to do it with out the King God has appointed to be king forever. King David prophesied this in the following verses:-

Psa 2:1-6 (NKJV) Why do the nations rage, And the people plot a vain thing? {2} The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying, {3} "Let us break Their bonds in pieces And cast away Their cords from us.” {4} He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The LORD shall hold them in derision. {5} Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, And distress them in His deep displeasure: {6} "Yet I have set My King On My holy hill of Zion.”

Despite all attempts of man to govern the earth without God’s Son Jesus Christ, in the above prophesy, in the last verse quoted, it is revealed that God accomplishes His plan to set Jesus Christ on the holy hill of Zion in Jerusalem!

As far as God is concerned man imagines vain things. Later in this book we will note some of the vain things that have been done and said! The reason God sees it this way is because no one can restrain Him and preempt Him! He sits in heaven having a good laugh at their puny attempts! It is vain to think we can thwart the purposes of God! You see, mostly we are focused on what man is doing, because of unbelief and the media wanting a story to market. But behind all the doings of man, God is at work on His eternal purpose.

The great King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had to learn this lesson the hard way! We read in Daniel’s account, that after the first dream of Nebuchadnezzar being the head of gold on the statue which he saw in the dream, he proceeded to make a gold statue of himself and demanded that everybody bow down before the statue when certain music was played!

However, there were the three Jewish friends of Daniel who refused to bow to any image set up by man! This was because they knew the law of God concerning idolatry! Do not make an idol or bow down before it! The King became so furious with them, he had them bound and cast into the fiery furnace. They said their God could save them, but even if He did not they would not bow down! Because of their stand, one like the Son of God appeared in the fire with them and saved them:-

Dan 3:23-25 (NKJV) And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

{24} Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors, "Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?” They answered and said to the king, "True, O king.” {25} "Look!” he answered, "I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.”

In the King’s pride he demanded worship. He had gotten so puffed up by the dream he had, that he became willing to kill anyone who would not bow down to his statue. But after he was humbled by the mighty deliverance of these Jewish men, for a short time he declares that the God of the Jews is the only God. Hear what he said:-

Dan 3:28-29 (NKJV) Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying, "Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who sent His Angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and they have frustrated the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they should not serve nor worship any god except their own God!

{29} "Therefore I make a decree that any people, nation, or language which speaks anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made an ash heap; because there is no other God who can deliver like this.”

Here we see that God humbled the King from his pride, by intervening on behalf of the Jewish young men who honored God and not man! But alas, this experience the King had with the Eternal God did not last very long. Because of the pride in the King, God sent him another dream warning him that he would be removed as king for seven years, and become like an animal in the paddock. But the King did not heed the warning from this dream and so it came upon him! The word of God does say:-

1 Pet 5:5-6 (NKJV) Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” {6} Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time,

The trouble with having pride in ourselves is that when we have it we do not know we have it!

During my lifetime, I have noticed that where a leader in particular, or even an individual gets too puffed up in pride, God will act to humble them, some times even causing them to be removed off the earth. Here are a few stories I have heard of such instances:-

The man who designed and built the Titanic was asked by a reporter how safe the Titanic would be. He answered, "Safe, even God could not sink it”. We all know it went down on its maiden voyage with many lives lost!

A young teenage girl was picked up in a car by her friends who had been drinking. The mother of the girl begged her not to go with them, but the girl insisted she would go. So the mum lovingly said, "God go with you”. The girl replied, "Only if He (God) goes in the trunk of the car, because there is no room in here for Him”. The worst fears of the mother were realized and the car had a fatal accident and the girl died. Amazingly, the boot of the car was not damaged and eggs in a carton in the boot were not broken! The Police said this was impossible. However with God nothing is impossible!

One President of a republic said that if his party gave him five hundred thousand votes, even God could not stop him from being the President at the next election. The out come? He got the votes, but one day before being installed as president, he became sick and died!

Here is an account from the Bible. Acts 12:20 (NKJV) Now Herod had been very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon; but they came to him with one accord, and having made Blastus the king’s personal aide their friend, they asked for peace, because their country was supplied with food by the king’s country.

Acts 12:21-23 (NKJV) So on a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat on his throne and gave an oration to them. {22} And the people kept shouting, "The voice of a god and not of a man!” {23} Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and died.

Now there are many other such stories. I am sure you have heard something similar. King Nebuchadnezzar suffered something similar, but he did not die. We read the account:-

Dan 4:28-37 (NKJV) All this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar. {29} At the end of the twelve months he was walking about the royal palace of Babylon. {30} The king spoke, saying, "Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?”

{31} While the word was still in the king’s mouth, a voice fell from heaven: "King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: the kingdom has departed from you! {32} And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. They shall make you eat grass like oxen; and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He chooses.”

{33} That very hour the word was fulfilled concerning Nebuchadnezzar; he was driven from men and ate grass like oxen; his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.

{34} And at the end of the time I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me; and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever: For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, And His kingdom is from generation to generation. {35} All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; He does according to His will in the army of heaven And among the inhabitants of the earth. No one can restrain His hand Or say to Him, "What have You done?”

{36} At the same time my reason returned to me, and for the glory of my kingdom, my honor and splendor returned to me. My counselors and nobles resorted to me, I was restored to my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added to me. {37} Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all of whose works are truth, and His ways justice. And those who walk in pride He is able to put down.

I would say that pride in man is to a very high degree today. Whenever there is tragedy in the earth today, leaders do not say, "Let us all call on God for help”. When leaders are elected today, we do not hear them saying, " I can only do the job with God’s help.” Rather they make lots of promises, of which many cannot be achieved. Even worse than this, is the fact that many people expect leaders to be God for them, doing for them only what God should be asked to do!

I live in Australia and I often hear pride speaking in different ways! I remember when tragic fires destroyed many homes and lives in Victoria on black Saturday. When the people started giving, the next thing I heard them saying over the media, was that Australians are the best givers in the world! These broadcasts were going world wide and I remember thinking how offensive these remarks would be to other wonderful nations! I am not saying Australians are not good givers, but to name ourselves the best in the world is not for us to proclaim!

I remember the history of the World War two, when Britain had one hundred and forty thousand troops at Normandy in France needing to be transported to England. They had no, or not enough, troop carries available to rescue their soldiers. The English Channel is a treacherous crossing for small craft making it too dangerous for the people of England to help the soldiers return safely. But, the King of England, seeking God’s help, called a national day of prayer and fasting. They humbled themselves to seek God’s help. It is reported that the seas became like a mill pond or like glass for the next two days while thousands of small boats accomplished the task of rescuing the soldiers from Normandy. This man and the nation acted in humility before God, and He gave them miraculous deliverance!

On one occasion, when others and myself were seeking God in prayer for Australia, the Spirit of the Lord said to me, "The degree you fall before God is the degree Satan will fall before you”. This is putting into different words that which the Word of God already states. "James 4:7 (NKJV) Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”

It is pride in man, personally or nationally, that puts us on a collision course with God! So let us look at the current world politics and religion to see if we are in fact on a collision course with God and the coming of His eternal Kingdom!

Always remember, at this time it is still not too late to enter His Kingdom through faith by accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour.

CHAPTER FIVE

The New World Order

This phrase, New World Order, is being used by many of the political leaders today. They claim that a New World Order will solve the many problems the nations are facing today. These problems include the lack of peace, distribution of wealth, food production and distribution, and land rights. For this world government to be effective, they are saying the nations will have to give up their sovereignty. The New World Order or government will have total power to control all the above issues!

Where did all this start? Well, as we all know there have been wars and rumors of wars as predicted by Jesus Christ. So after World War one, the leaders of the western nations, started the League of Nations as an attempt to prevent further wars! This has now become the United Nations and has been strengthened to include most nations of the earth. This has not been very effective so far, but now they are willing to go one step further even to a total world government! Besides all this, with the world wide web and technology, they will be able to achieve this kind of control!

This is what some of the world leaders have said recently.

It has been reported that twenty of the leading nations attended the G20 summit, where they spoke of creating a global banking system and a global currency for all humanity. The current speculation is that this will occur some time in this year 2011!

The new President of the EEC, has spoken of global governance and global management of our planet at the conference on climate change. He is saying this is how we will manage our problems.

The President of America is always using the term, "New World Order”.

There are too numerous reports to record in this book. Neither do I want you to rely on what I might say, but I advise you to do a search on the web, just put in the words, ‘oneworldgovernment’, and watch and listen to the video clips.

The very root of this desire to govern the whole world comes from Satan and man who are independent from God! When Satan tempted Jesus Christ he made his intention clear!

Luke 4:5-6 (NKJV) Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. {6} And the devil said to Him, "All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.

Satan knew the Son of God was not under his dominion, because Jesus had come from God and he had never sinned like all other men. So Satan showed Jesus all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time and offered him all the power and glory of the earthly kingdoms, if Jesus would only bow to him.

Luke 4:7 (NKJV) "Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours.”

Both Satan and Jesus knew Jesus the Christ had come to set up God’s Kingdom and to destroy Satan and his kingdoms. Therefore Jesus said to Satan,

Luke 4:8 (NKJV) And Jesus answered and said to him, "Get behind Me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve.’"

Jesus then went on to redeem mankind from sin and from Satan’s kingdom and to begin to build God’s eternal kingdom. He also demonstrated the power of that kingdom by healing the sick, casting out demons and even raising the dead! He did this to show that in God’s eternal kingdom there is no curse or death or disease or lack of any kind!

It is very interesting to note that Jesus acknowledged Satan as being the ruler of this world, but He did this only before His death and resurrection. He said,

John 12:31 (NKJV) "Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

But after His resurrection and just before His ascension into heaven He said,

Mat 28:18 (NKJV) And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

This indicates that there had been a transfer of the power and authority of all control over the earth, from Satan to the Son of God. Jesus literally wrested the control Satan had over men through sin and death from him! He did this by dying in our place and rising from the dead to give eternal life to all who call on His Name! The cry of the human heart should be, "Jesus Christ save me”! That is why the early apostles announced to the Jews,

Acts 2:36 (NKJV) "Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”

Please note that it was God who made Jesus Christ Lord over all! What an incredible changing of the guard if you like! The whole world has been given a new master or king! It is Jesus Christ! Satan has now become the anti-Christ. He was deposed as spiritual ruler and now he works against Christ and His Kingdom as the spirit of anti-Christ. Satan has not given up his intention to rule over the earth through man, and he is still working through deception and lies, to form a one world government and religion with the intention of possessing a man who will be known as the Anti-Christ! This one world religion will not include a belief in Jesus Christ, but only a belief in God. This is what God has revealed, for us all by the Holy Spirit in His Holy Word.

Men may believe in a god or gods, but most of them do not accept the coming Kingdom of God as revealed by God through Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar, and as announced by Jesus Christ and His Apostles! They do not accept Jesus Christ as the King whom God has appointed who will be King of Kings! This means they stay under Satan’s dominion through lies and deceptions!

As a matter of fact they are advocating a one world religion as well, saying that all faiths lead to God. Much of the church has capitulated to political correctness and humanistic philosophy and this is where they will collide with God and His plan and purpose. The Son of God who came from God said explicitly, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father except through me. I refer to his teachings in John chapter 14.

This is a fundamental error men make, to base their beliefs on what other men say and not on what God has revealed, or on what the Son of God has said. God is almighty and sovereign and will accomplish His purposes in creation and the establishment of His eternal kingdom, despite Satan, evil angels and willful men! Jesus Christ will make Himself known to any man or woman who will humble themselves and believe on Him. The choice is always yours, whom will you serve?

CHAPTER SIX

The Power of the Kingdom that

is coming!

Jesus said very emphatically to Pontus Pilate after he was arrested, ‘my Kingdom is not of this world’

John 18:36 (NKJV) Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.”

Jesus said this in answer to Pilate’s question, ‘are you the king of the Jews?’

What Jesus Christ the Son of God was saying here, is that the kingdom he represented did not originate from this world. It originated from where he came from, that is from God. This kingdom is completely different from any other kingdom there has ever been on this earth! It comes from another realm completely and is governed by completely different principles and power! We have only experienced the world’s governments and kingdoms, but to understand this kingdom and its power we need to be born again of the Spirit of God and have a completely different mindset!

This kingdom will not be established by physically fighting! It is a kingdom that comes by God’s Spirit and power. It has power which is far above earthly physical power, just as the physical or earthly fire could not have any effect on the four men in the fiery furnace because of the presence of the fourth man, one like the son of God! Someone from the higher realm of God and the spirit world appeared and blocked the violence of the earthly fire!

Another instance of the power and effects of the higher realm of God on the natural world is recorded in the Prophet Elijah’s life. Israel had turned from the knowledge of the true God and they were serving an earthly god called Baal.

The prophet Elijah called the King and people of Israel to a challenge on Mount Carmel. It is recorded in:-

1 Ki 18:17-24 (NKJV) Then it happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, "Is that you, O troubler of Israel?” {18} And he answered, "I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house have, in that you have forsaken the commandments of the LORD and have followed the Baals.

{19} "Now therefore, send and gather all Israel to me on Mount Carmel, the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.” {20} So Ahab sent for all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together on Mount Carmel.

{21} And Elijah came to all the people, and said, "How long will you falter between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” But the people answered him not a word. {22} Then Elijah said to the people, "I alone am left a prophet of the LORD; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men. {23} "Therefore let them give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, but put no fire under it; and I will prepare the other bull, and lay it on the wood, but put no fire under it. {24} "Then you call on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD; and the God who answers by fire, He is God.” So all the people answered and said, "It is well spoken.”

So here is the challenge set out very clearly. A group of four hundred and fifty prophets believed in the earthly god and they were to call on their god, while the prophet of God called on the name of the true God! The God that answered by a supernatural fire falling on the sacrifice would be the true God. All the people agreed to the conditions of the challenge! And so the proceedings begin:-

1 Ki 18:25-26 (NKJV) Now Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one bull for yourselves and prepare it first, for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.” {26} So they took the bull which was given them, and they prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even till noon, saying, "O Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice; no one answered. Then they leaped about the altar which they had made.

This is an incredible piece of history, a real challenge by the prophet to the people to see who the one true God is. The gods men make up or the one true God who reveals Himself! The prophet begins to mock the other prophets who have cried out to their so called god to answer, but there is no answer! Perhaps he is busy talking, or is traveling, maybe he has gone to the toilet or he is even asleep and is not awake yet! This riles up the other prophets and stings them into action:-

1 Ki 18:28-29 (NKJV) So they cried aloud, and cut themselves, as was their custom, with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them. {29} And when midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice. But there was no voice; no one answered, no one paid attention.

So far there is no supernatural fire or power or response of any kind from the god of Baal! Now it is time for the prophet of God to call on the true God:-

11 Ki 18:30-39 (NKJV) Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come near to me.” So all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down. {31} And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come, saying, "Israel shall be your name.” {32} Then with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD; and he made a trench around the altar large enough to hold two seahs of seed. {33} And he put the wood in order, cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood, and said, "Fill four waterpots with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice and on the wood.” {34} Then he said, "Do it a second time,” and they did it a second time; and he said, "Do it a third time,” and they did it a third time. {35} So the water ran all around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.

{36} And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said, "LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your word. {37} "Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that You are the LORD God, and that You have turned their hearts back to You again.”

{38} Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench. {39} Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, "The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is God!”

Even though the prophet had made it very hard for fire to be ignited under or upon his sacrifice a supernatural fire fell and consumed not only the sacrifice, but the wood, stones, water and the dust! This is a demonstration of the violence and power of the God and the kingdom that is soon coming upon the earth!

Have I experienced the power of this kingdom? Oh yes, but not for harm but for good. It happened like this.

One day I was in a meeting with several people and we had been discussing the evil of sickness and disease and how we should curse it and cast it out of people who were suffering. At that time a woman came into our meeting because she had a real problem. After some time I asked her what I could do for her. She explained that she had been diagnosed as having a blood clot in her left arm and that she had a lot of pain from the disorder. This was a very dangerous problem as the blood clot could move and cause a heart attack or even death. I said to her, "look at me”, then I addressed the evil power causing this problem, I said, "you evil spirit trying to kill this woman go out now!”

The power of the Kingdom of God came on her and she fell to the floor and remained there for a few minutes. The power of God does not hurt us when we are being delivered from Satan’s power. When she stood up again, I asked her what had happened. She said all the pain had gone and she felt quite well!

Sometime later she came and told us that she had gone back to the doctors and they examined her but could find no evidence of the clot! This is only one of the many experiences I have had.

The Kingdom of God is certainly a realm of power for the good of mankind while we live on this earth, and to all who believe in Jesus Christ and His kingdom they will eternally experience perfect love, perfect peace and perfect power!

CHAPTER SEVEN

Signs of the end of the age.

Please note that what is coming is not the end of the world but rather the end of this age. The new age will be the establishment of God’s Kingdom on earth for a period of one thousand years. The rule of man over man will end and the benevolent rule of Jesus Christ will begin.

There is much debate about the harsh climate changes we are experiencing at the present time! There have been incredible droughts and crop failures, along with fierce heat waves and devastating bushfires. On the other hand there have been incredible freeze overs and snow falls in the Northern Hemisphere, even grounding aircraft for days! There have also been amazing downpours and floods including cyclones and hurricanes with destructive winds! These phenomenons are occurring world wide.

To sum up a lot of the debate going on about all this, it would be fair to say that the blame for climate change is being laid fairly and squarely at the feet of man and his activities! They are saying we are emitting too much carbon into the atmosphere. So it follows that if we, mankind are causing the problem, we also have the power to fix the problem. So they are proposing a carbon tax to induce a reduction in carbon emissions. It is amazing to think that people actually believe that by emitting less carbon we will change weather patterns.

Yet, there is no concrete evidence regarding how carbon emissions affect weather patterns and whether it is what man is doing that is causing all the changes we are experiencing. I have heard that solar flares or the lack of them affect our weather patterns more than anything else. When there are solar flares we have hotter summers and dryer summers and the reverse is also true when there no solar flares the summers are not as hot and the winters are colder. There is also more rain experienced in the absence of solar flares. You do not have to believe what I have just said, but you can do research of your own and you will find there is a lot of evidence to support the theory.

We have to ask the questions, "Have there been extreme weather conditions before there was an industrial revolution? Have there been extreme weather conditions before there ever was six and a half billion people on earth causing greater carbon emissions?” The answer to these questions is a definite resounding yes!

The estimated world population at AD 30 was about two hundred and fifty to three hundred million people, yet great famines were recorded well before this time, such as in Abraham and Jacob’s day. The population would have even been considerably less at their time, being about fifteen hundred years BC. I quote:-

Gen 12:10 (NKJV) Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Gen 26:1 (NKJV) There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, in Gerar.

Gen 41:30 (NKJV) "but after them seven years of famine will arise, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine will deplete the land.

Here are recorded three different famines that Abraham, his son and great grandson went through some one thousand five hundred years BC. These famines were severe! We could ask, "What caused these famines?” We certainly know the population and pollution was much less because there was no industrial revolution! Just think about it, there were no cars, planes or factories at that time. What level of carbon was in the atmosphere at that time? We all have no idea!

Why am I pointing this out? I would like you to see the real reason why we have climate change.

Was there ever a time when there were no bad climate changes on our earth? Yes. It is recorded that when the earth was formed, God said it was very good! I quote:-

Gen 1:31 (NKJV) Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

The climate conditions of our planet could not be called good today, since every continent has experienced harsh conditions in the last twelve months!

Today it is very hard for man to believe in or even have a concept of a pristine planet without pollutions or decay or death, because of what we see around us. We like to think it has all ways been this way, but that is not so according to the Bible records.

According to the Holy Scriptures the earth was created with a "firmament” around it. This separated the waters in the atmosphere above it from the waters which were on the earth below. This firmament was clear and the sunlight’s harmful rays were filtered out as the light went through on to the earth below. This made the earth a beautiful hothouse with perfect conditions all around.

Gen 1:6-7 (NKJV) Then God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” {7} Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so.

Imagine no ice caps at the poles? Could this be possible? Well, if you search archeology, you will discover that in the frozen tundra or in Siberia they have found large frozen mammoths with food still in their mouth and stomachs. It is as though they were snap frozen while grazing on lush tropical pastures. As far as we are concerned lush tropical like pastures have never grown where the Mammoths were found and yet they were found there. How could this have occurred?

Remember, we are talking about a time pre-climate change, which has to be pre-flood. There are no famines recorded in the history of the earth before the flood which is recorded in the Bible. It is recorded that a mist went up from the ground to water the earth. It seems like the earth was watered from beneath by something like a spring.

Gen 2:6 (NKJV) but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.

It was completely different to the planet we know now. The people of Noah’s day knew nothing about rain or flood because the earth was always moist, and so they mocked Noah when he preached to them that God was going to flood the whole earth!

How is climate change recorded in the Bible? I quote:-

Gen 7:10-11 (NKJV) And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth. {11} In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Here we see the very cause of climate change.

- The fountains of the deep were broken up. This means the earths formation was broken so the waters beneath could come to the surface of the earth. This breaking of the earth’s formation explains why the earth’s tectonic plates are moving and we experience earthquakes and why we also experience volcanic eruptions! There were no such things recorded before the flood.

- When the windows of heaven were opened. I believe the firmament was broken up or removed by God, and so the waters which were above the firmament came down as rain. When this firmament was removed it also caused the freezing air from above to come on the earth, instantly freezing the poles where the sun was not shining. This explains the existence of snap frozen Mammoths which have been found by archeologists.

Ever since this time the planet has been experiencing climate change!

So I ask you, is it really man and what he is doing that is causing all the changes? Very most likely not! Jesus, the son of God, spoke of what it would be like at the end of the age. Listen to his words. I quote:-

Luke 21:25 (NKJV) "And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring.

These words were spoken about thirty three AD, yet they speak of what we are experiencing right now. The sea and waves roaring sounds like a Tsunami to me. Or even a great surge from a cyclone or hurricane. When He said there would be distress of nations, I would not have to convince you of this reality today! He also said:-

Luke 21:26 (NKJV) "men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of heaven will be shaken.

Mat 24:6-8 (NKJV) "And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. {7} "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. {8} "All these are the beginning of sorrows.”

The history of the world, since that time, is nothing but a fulfillment of Jesus Christ’s words. Read his words recorded above again and think about all the wars, famines, diseases and earthquakes that have ravished the earth! Surely we cannot deny that his prophecy has been, and is being fulfilled and will be completely fulfilled! Our history for the last two thousand years is nothing but what He said it would be! But then He said all these are the beginning of sorrows. In other words it will be worse yet.

Listen to the greatest claim He ever made. I quote :-

Mat 24:35 (NKJV) "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.

We can count on Jesus Christ’s words coming to pass. What He said was that when these things begin to happen in a big way, He is about to return and establish a one thousand year kingdom reign. The things that are happening physically to the earth and politically, particularly in Israel, are the signs of His imminent return!

CHAPTER EIGHT

God’s coming collision with the

world’s religions

Jesus Christ did not found a religion but a Kingdom!

The greatest conflict Jesus had with people on earth was with the religious ones. These people were stuck in rules, regulations, rituals and self righteousness. Those who had put God in their theology box could not think outside of that box!

Jesus did not come from God in heaven to add another religion to the world’s list of religions! He came to establish the eternal Kingdom of God. This is evidenced in all his teachings and also in prophecies concerning the kingdom he would establish. He also had the witness of those who followed him who wrote their accounts for us to read. I quote:-

Mark 1:14 (NKJV) Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,

Mark 1:15 (NKJV) and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”

Mat 9:35 (NKJV) Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

No mention of religion here.

When they use the term "gospel” it means "good news”, and the good news was of the arrival of the Kingdom of God which men could enter by having a spiritual rebirth. The good news included the forgiveness of sins and healing and deliverance from spiritual oppression from evil spirits! The good news also includes a demonstration of the power of the Kingdom of God over death. He did this by raising people from the dead! He also raised His own body from death and showed Himself to hundreds of people after His death and burial! This showed the people that God, in and through the Kingdom of God, could give all men an eternal existence after death! These are the words he said:-

John 5:24 (NKJV) "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

John 6:40 (NKJV) "And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

You can be sure Jesus and His message of the Kingdom of God does not mix with the world’s religions! Jesus Christ’s message is a stand alone! There is no other like it, because it came from heaven and not from the earth. Jesus often made this very clear when speaking to the religious leaders of the day. I quote:-

John 8:23 (NKJV) And He said to them, "You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

John 3:12 (NKJV) "If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

John 3:13 (NKJV) "No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven.

Here Jesus is making it very plain! I, Jesus, did not come from the earth and my message is not from the earth, it is from heaven!

What is the real difference between the sons of God in the Kingdom of God, and other world religions?

Number one is that their origins are different. As I have said the Kingdom of God is from God in heaven and religions are from man and the earth realm. Man has a desire to know God or eternity, and so he goes about trying to reach God in ways that he thinks would please God. Religions are about God without God!

Number two is that, the Kingdom of God is God’s rescue of man in his fallen state, or plan of salvation from heaven for fallen man who defaults to sin. It is about the restoration of people into God’s image and likeness. This is done by God Himself. But the religions of men are about man’s beliefs and efforts to please or appease God, or how we can ascend in our own strength, by meditation or self realization, into the likeness of God. Reincarnation is a belief that we journey from one existence to another form of life until we are complete, or like God. A religious man often thinks his religious duties makes him better than those who are not in his religion, and so he may persecute or even kill others who do not conform to his particular way! But the Kingdom of God is a loving offer of the gift of eternal life to all who will believe in the Son of God’s rescue mission for them in their spiritual weakness and sin.

Number three is that the Kingdom of God is based on the word of God. Man’s religions are based on man’s words. There is too much at stake for you to base your beliefs and your life, for now and all eternity, on the words of man which are fallible! But God often says His words are eternal! I quote:-

1 Pet 1:25 (NKJV) But the word of the LORD endures forever.” Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.

Isa 40:8 (NKJV) The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.”

Mat 24:35 (NKJV) "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.

Seeing that the only thing in this world that has not changed is the word of God, surely you would not want to base your life and eternity on anything else but the eternal word of God? Have you noticed, that man is constantly coming up with new theories or even religions and or beliefs and that what comes from man is in constant debate or instability. The word of God may be interpreted by man differently but the truth in the word of God itself never changes. The person of Jesus Christ never changes! What the early manuscripts said two thousand years ago the bible still says today! Wow, in a world of inconsistency, surely this should give you a lot of hope.

Heb 13:8 (NKJV) Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

The number four difference between God’s Kingdom and the world’s religions is that the Kingdom of God functions by God’s power and spirit. Man’s religions function by rites and rituals and by self appointed priests.

The restoration of man into His image and into His Kingdom is done by God’s power and Spirit! The only part man has in it is to believe and surrender to the influence of God’s Spirit and word, to receive forgiveness, and a spiritual rebirth with an infilling of the Spirit of God. This means a knowing of God and a willing love for and obedience to God from within. Where as in religions it depends on our own efforts to live right or please God by an external service or law. This observance of rules and rituals also affects many who call themselves Christians. I can point out a clash that, Jesus the son of God, had with the religious leaders of His day. The sect called the Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection and so disputed with Him about the subject. I quote His answer to them:-

Mat 22:29 (NKJV) Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.

Here Jesus tells them the reason they are mistaken is because they do not know the eternal word of God that never changes or the awesome creative power of God that can give a body that has been dead for a thousand years immortality!

Will God’s Kingdom coming on earth also clash with the religious churches? I say yes indeed, just as Jesus clashed with the religious leaders of His day. When I listen to the religious leaders of today I do not hear many of them proclaiming the coming Kingdom of God, or even the return of Jesus Christ. Neither are they proclaiming a spiritual rebirth and baptism of the Holy Spirit to be experienced, but all this has been replaced with rituals and ceremonies. This leaves an unbeliever or sinner disillusioned with God. Most of the churches have bowed to the politically correct spirit or culture that is prevalent today! Much of the religious Christian church today does not claim what Jesus Christ, the founder of the Kingdom of God says, that He is the only way for all people to the Father God. They have fallen into syncretism, which means all religions or all faiths lead to God. This is certainly not the message of Jesus Christ or His followers. I quote Jesus’ words:-

John 14:6 (NKJV) Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

John 17:2 (NKJV) "as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him.

John 17:3 (NKJV) "And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

These are the words of Apostle John.

1 John 5:11 (NKJV) And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

1 John 5:12 (NKJV) He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

Notice the writer did not say, "He who has a religion or a belief has eternal life.”

Some churches proclaim that if you are not in their group or under their leadership you will not be saved. This is contrary to what the Son of God and His followers taught. Jesus will clash with anyone who usurps His place or is anti to Him as the king of the kingdom!

God never fails and has never been a victim of man or circumstances, but He relentlessly pursues His eternal plan and purpose to establish, through His Son and His people, His kingdom which is eternal.

May you be numbered in His Kingdom.

CHAPTER NINE

What do you need to do to

prepare for His return and the

establishment of His eternal

Kingdom?

Humble your self, because God gives grace to the humble. No man or woman will ever be accepted by God on their own merits. We all are not good enough and we should not need convincing about this. One person said, "Most of us are like the rest of us”, meaning we are all displaying human frailty and moral weakness.

Change your mind and believe in the good news of the coming Kingdom of God and in the Savior and King, Jesus Christ the Lord. Everyone must enter this new kingdom by their own faith not by how good they are. Each ones faith in Jesus Christ will connect them to God and His Kingdom. When a person puts their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, they are forgiven of all past sins, and they have a spiritual rebirth in to the eternal Kingdom of God. This is just what Jesus, the Son of God, taught a religious man who came to Him one night. I quote:

John 3:1-3 (NKJV) There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. {2} This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, "Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.” {3} Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Nicodemus was a very good person and he kept the law to the best of his ability. He was a man of learning and of prayer and he would have attended the Synagogue regularly. But Jesus Christ pointed out to him that he needed a spiritual rebirth to enter God’s Kingdom, and that it was an absolute necessity! A man is born from the seed of a man and woman, which is the natural or earthly birth. But to enter into a spiritual kingdom we must be born again of the Spirit of God. Jesus ended up concluding his discourse with Nicodemus with these words:- John 3:6 (NKJV) "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

In other words, we are born an earthly man or woman, but we have to become a spiritual man or woman.

After you have a spiritual rebirth, you need to be water baptized to identify with the Lord Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection, and then you need to be clothed with God’s Spirit.

When you accept Jesus Christ you are given the gift of righteousness, which means you have right standing with God. You are no longer guilty of sins and no longer are you spiritually separated from God. This is wonderful and you have peace with God. However, now you need the empowering of the Holy Spirit to help you live like a son of God and to enjoy all the benefits of being a member of God’s Kingdom. The Holy Spirit is given to be your teacher and to lead you into all truth. He will give you the new life of the Kingdom of God within you! Many years ago a prophet of God spoke of God pouring out His Spirit on all peoples. I quote:-

Joel 2:28 (NKJV) "And it shall come to pass afterward That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions.

Jesus Himself also spoke of this promise of God the Father for His people. I quote:-

John 7:38-39 (NKJV) "He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” {39} But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

This baptism of the Holy Spirit is really being clothed with God’s own ability. The Holy Spirit will teach you about God and His Kingdom. He will help you understand your new life in the kingdom and will reveal to you everything God has given you as a son in His Kingdom. The Holy Spirit will also help you to overcome sin and to have answered prayer in Jesus’ Name. He will give you a supernatural ability to worship God both naturally and spiritually.

The more you hunger for God the more you will receive from God. I remember when I was first born again, I was very hungry spiritually and so I was led to seek after the baptism of the Holy Spirit. When I received, suddenly the reality of God became so clear to me and I started to experience the supernatural presence of God. This is generally the testimony of everyone who is born into His Kingdom. Seek and you shall find! Ask and you will receive! God is so generous.

The Holy Spirit will work the supernatural gifts of God through you as listed in 1 Cor 12:3-11:-

(NKJV) Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit. {4} There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. {5} There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. {6} And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. {7} But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: {8} for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, {9} to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, {10} to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. {11} But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.

I have highlighted the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit in bold print. Now I will explain how they operate.

The word of wisdom is a supernatural word from God giving wisdom in a certain circumstance. It will always benefit all concerned. It may be to solve a problem or to show the way out of a problem. An example of this is as follows. A man was told by the Holy Spirit to drive on the wrong side of the road on a corner of a mountain road. On the second prompt from the Holy Spirit he did just that and to his amazement a log truck came around the corner also on the wrong side of the road and narrowly missed him. The driver had lost control of the truck. He could only thank God that a word of wisdom saved him from a head on collision with a timber truck! If he had been on the right side and the truck on the wrong side of the road he most certainly would have collided.

The word of knowledge is where God gives knowledge to an individual about sickness or disease in others so they can be healed. An example of this is where two women came to me for help. The younger woman was fearful that her husband would soon begin to punch her and beat her, because he had started to become angry and often punched the walls in their house. So their visit to me was to receive prayer for herself and her husband. The husband was not a believer and did not come with her. In the natural I did not know what to do for her, so I asked the Lord what was causing her husband to be angry. Suddenly knowledge came to me that she was unable to become pregnant. So the Lord said to me, "Ask her if she has any children”. When I asked her she said "no”, because she had not been able to become pregnant. I then told her, that is why your husband is angry. He thinks you have let him down, but has not told you about his feelings. That is why he is punching the walls. I then said, I will pray for you and ask the Lord to remove your barrenness. I did this commanding the curse of barrenness to leave her womb in the name of Jesus Christ. We then chatted for some time and then the two women left. As they were leaving at the door, I gave her a command. I said, "Go home and get pregnant”. The amazing thing that happened was that within a few weeks she was pregnant, and the last time I heard about them was when they were in the supermarket with a number of children. Her husband was too busy to be punching walls anymore.

The gift of faith is where supernatural faith from God comes to an individual so they can accomplish an extraordinary event. When the gift of faith operates nothing is impossible to the person who has received the gift of faith! This gift operates when God wants something specific done which requires more than human resources. King David experienced this as a young man. He had faith to fight Goliath the giant when he was only a youth. All of the army and the King of Israel were afraid of this giant. The account is told in 1 Sam 17:4-11 (NKJV)

And a champion went out from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. {5} He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze. {6} And he had bronze armor on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders. {7} Now the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and his iron spearhead weighed six hundred shekels; and a shield-bearer went before him.

{8} Then he stood and cried out to the armies of Israel, and said to them, "Why have you come out to line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me. {9} "If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.” {10} And the Philistine said, "I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.” {11} When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.

1 Sam 17:20-37 (NKJV) So David rose early in the morning, left the sheep with a keeper, and took the things and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the camp as the army was going out to the fight and shouting for the battle. {21} For Israel and the Philistines had drawn up in battle array, army against army. {22} And David left his supplies in the hand of the supply keeper, ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.

{23} Then as he talked with them, there was the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, coming up from the armies of the Philistines; and he spoke according to the same words. So David heard them. {24} And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were dreadfully afraid. {25} So the men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel; and it shall be that the man who kills him the king will enrich with great riches, will give him his daughter, and give his father’s house exemption from taxes in Israel.” {26}

Then David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, "What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?” {27} And the people answered him in this manner, saying, "So shall it be done for the man who kills him.” {28} Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger was aroused against David, and he said, "Why did you come down here? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the insolence of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.” {29} And David said, "What have I done now? Is there not a cause?” {30} Then he turned from him toward another and said the same thing; and these people answered him as the first ones did.

{31} Now when the words which David spoke were heard, they reported them to Saul; and he sent for him. {32} Then David said to Saul, "Let no man’s heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.” {33} And Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.” {34} But David said to Saul, "Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, {35} I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it. {36} "Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.” {37} Moreover David said, "The LORD, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, "Go, and the LORD be with you!”

1 Sam 17:38-51 (NKJV) So Saul clothed David with his armor, and he put a bronze helmet on his head; he also clothed him with a coat of mail. {39} David fastened his sword to his armor and tried to walk, for he had not tested them. And David said to Saul, "I cannot walk with these, for I have not tested them.” So David took them off.

{40} Then he took his staff in his hand; and he chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag, in a pouch which he had, and his sling was in his hand. And he drew near to the Philistine. {41} So the Philistine came, and began drawing near to David, and the man who bore the shield went before him. {42} And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him; for he was only a youth, ruddy and good-looking. {43} So the Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. {44} And the Philistine said to David, "Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”

{45} Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. {46} "This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. {47} "Then all this assembly shall know that the LORD does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands.”

{48} So it was, when the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, that David hastened and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. {49} Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it and struck the Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.

{50} So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. But there was no sword in the hand of David. {51} Therefore David ran and stood over the Philistine, took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.

This is a great example of the gift of faith. In the natural it was impossible for David to kill the giant who was a seasoned man of war. But David knew the supernatural power of God that comes with the gift of faith. He had already killed a bear and lion while guarding his father’s sheep.

The gift of healings works like this. A man, who had recently become a believer in Jesus Christ and His Kingdom, came to me one night for prayer. He had a neck problem and a lot of pain and was unable to work. He had so much pain that he had to wear morphine patches. When I prayed for him I felt nothing happen, but he said that the pain had gone. I thought nothing more about it until a few days later when he reported that he still had no pain and that he had not worn a morphine patch since the prayer. To this day he is still healed. This certainly was a gift to him as there was no human effort on our part to make it work.

The working of miracles is a creative act by God’s power.

I remember a man who came to a meeting. This man had already had a heart attack and operation on his heart. This had left him with a murmur in his heart. He said he could always feel his heart beat and especially when he laid down. It was like his heart had a wobble in it. When I prayed for him the power of God came on him and he fell to the floor and he kept saying my heart, my heart. I said to him, "Be quiet God is healing your heart”. At that time a woman from the audience came to us and said she could feel heat in her hands. I told her to lay her hands on his chest and pray, which she did. About ten minutes later he got up of the floor with tears in his eyes and I asked him what had happened. He said, "I can’t feel my heart any longer, I can’t feel my heart beating any more”! I told him God had healed his heart and not to worry. He was so used to feeling his heart beat that he left the meeting that night saying, "I do not know whether I am alive or not because I can’t feel my heart anymore.”

The good news came to us a few weeks later after he had been to the Doctors again. When they examined him they could not find the irregular heart beat with the instruments they were using, so they decided to put a camera up his arteries and have a look at his heart on the inside. He told us they could not see anything wrong and that his heart was like new again.

This was indeed a miracle of God.

The gift of prophecy is the supernatural ability of God to confirm or give direction for a person’s life. Or prophecy may even speak of future events, which only God could reveal. For instance, there were many prophecies made hundreds of years before Jesus Christ came. All of these were fulfilled in His life, even how He died with no broken bones but instead a pierced side.

John 19:33-34 (NKJV) But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. {34} But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

John 19:36 (NKJV) For these things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, "Not one of His bones shall be broken.”

One of the greatest prophecies concerning Jesus was His virgin birth. I quote:-

Isa 7:10-13 (NKJV) Moreover the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying, {11} "Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God; ask it either in the depth or in the height above.” {12} But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, nor will I test the LORD!” {13} Then he said, "Hear now, O house of David! Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also?

Isa 7:14 (NKJV) "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.

This prophecy concerning Jesus’ birth was made many hundreds of years before it came to pass, but it surely did come to pass! The greatest testimony Jesus had was that He was the son of God, which means He did not have an earthly Father! A virgin did conceive by God’s miracle power, just as the Lord spoke through Isaiah.

Prophecy is not something that used to happen in the past but is still widely used where people are baptized in the Holy Spirit. God still speaks through the gift of prophecy.

The gift of discerning of spirits is used to identify the presence of evil spirits and cast them out. It is important to discern what spirit people are operating in. Is the spirit from God or from the demonic realm? The bible gives us a guideline in this matter. I quote:- 1 Cor 12:3 (NKJV) Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.

This means when we curse the name of Jesus Christ or use it in a vain way we are not speaking by the spirit of God. Besides this no one can know Jesus as Lord except it is given to him by the Holy Spirit.

The gift of speaking in different kinds of tongues is given by God to communicate messages to different ethnic groups. A friend of mine was in Kenya some years ago and this gift operated through him. He spoke a message in a tongue which he did not know himself, but his hearers heard him in their local dialect. They then told him in English what he had communicated to them by the gift of tongues.

The gift of interpretation of tongues is given, to bring the meaning of a message spoken in an unknown tongue, to a person or a group of people in their own language. If there is no one to interpret the message it is better not to even speak the message, but speak to them in a known tongue.

To sum up, you need to humble yourself and by faith in Jesus Christ enter God’s Kingdom through a spiritual re-birth, be baptized in water and receive the Holy Spirit baptism so you can live for the Lord. When He comes we must be ready!

CHAPTER TEN

Prepare for His Kingdom and

coming by being led by the

Spirit.

Besides being born of the Spirit and then Baptized in the Spirit we need to be led by the Spirit. The Holy Spirit will always lead us to yield our complete life, our thoughts, desires, words and actions to be pure and holy. This process is called sanctification. This means setting our life apart from the old nature of willful selfish desires unto the new holy nature of Christ Jesus.

Rom 8:14 (NKJV) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. Gal 5:18 (NKJV) But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

God desires to lead His sons by the Spirit from within them. He no longer wants us to live by an external law or a ritual, but rather by the life of the Spirit within us! This is very radical and is a complete change from the old covenant under the law! This new life within us is called a new law, "the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus”. It is the liberating life force of the Spirit of God living Christ’s life through His people.

Rom 8:2 (NKJV) For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

This presence of the life of Christ within us will lead us if we are willing to be obedient. The Holy Spirit will lead you away from sin and temptation. By the Holy Spirit you will know what you can and cannot watch on TV and media. If the films have lust of the eyes, pride of life and the lust of the flesh in them the Holy Spirit will convict you to change what you watch. You will still have to make the decision yourself because the Holy Spirit will not force you to change.

He can only lead willing people. If you continually quench or grieve His Presence, after a while you will think there is nothing wrong with watching violent, lustful and immoral viewing or even doing sinful things. This means you are not being led by the Holy Spirit anymore, as yet He has not left you, but His Presence is quenched or grieved by your conduct!

This is a dangerous spiritual condition to live in, not being able to discern between good and evil, or even not knowing which spirit you are watching or listening to. The remedy for this condition is repentance. Change your mind, confess your sins and read the word of God again and pray in the spirit until His presence returns to lead you again. I quote:-

Acts 3:19 (NKJV) "Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,”

I know of a young couple who came to our fellowship recently. They made a fresh committal to follow the Lord. After the service they shared with me that they had both given their lives to Christ previously, they were born of the spirit, but they had not been attending fellowship and they were leaving God and His word out of their lives on a daily basis. The result of these choices was that their marriage began to suffer. They were fighting often and arguing a lot, peace had gone from their home and their love for each other was waning. One day it dawned on them that they had lost their way and should return to a fellowship and to following the Lord Jesus Christ, which they did. Amazingly, their decision brought a complete change to their lives and the peace and presence of the Spirit of God returned to their marriage and they are experiencing God’s blessing on their relationship once again!

It is very important to be led by the spirit of God, because He will lead you into being a real son of God, not just a Christian by name. The bible teaches us that to be carnally or fleshy minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace!

Rom 8:6-9 (NKJV) For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

{7} Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.

{8} So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

{9} But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.

Here we are being taught that the natural mind of man is against God and refuses to be subject to God, it likes doing it’s own thing. It does what it thinks is right or wrong, and does not live according to what the word of God says. The writer concludes by saying, when we are like that we cannot please God.

The young couple I referred to above had reverted back to operating in the natural mind and they were unable to please God any more, even though they had been born of the Spirit. But when they set their mind on the things of the Spirit everything changed for their good!

Rom 8:5 (NKJV) For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Jesus Christ taught a parable about the importance of having the Holy Spirit in our lives when He comes. I quote:-

Mat 25:1-9 (NKJV) "Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

{2} "Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

{3} "Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, {4} "but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

{5} "But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. {6} "And at midnight a cry was heard: ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!’

{7} "Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. {8} "And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’

{9} "But the wise answered, saying, ‘No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’

This story is told to warn us not to be without oil in our lamps and vessels. Virgins here, refers to people waiting for the bridegroom to come, and the bridegroom those who are waiting for is Jesus Christ the Lord. Oil here refers to the Holy Spirit or the anointing of God’s Spirit on our lives, and the lamps refers to our spirits, which must be lit by God’s Spirit. Our vessels, refer to our souls, our mind and emotions which the Holy Spirit lives through.

Why did Jesus call the ones who only had oil in their lamps foolish? What happens to a lamp with no reserve of oil? It means the light will go out. This is exactly what was happening to the foolish virgins. This means without the Holy Spirit the light of the word of God will go out in the church. People will still go on with their rituals and traditions, but the truth in the word of God is not understood any more! Many churches refuse to have the Holy Spirit in them and do not preach the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Thus the people do not have the light of the Spirit of God on the word of God any more!

Following are the results of not having the Spirit of God in the church today:-

- The ordination of homosexuals for the work of ministry. Humanism says homosexuality is a sexual preference, but the word of God says it is an unclean act of sinful lust. Jude 1:7 (NKJV) as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Now, God loves the homosexuals and sent Jesus Christ to save them from their sin just like anybody else. Their sin is no worse than any other, but no one living in open sin should be ordained to ministry, whether it is adultery, addictions to alcohol or drugs or covetousness and the love of money. The Apostle Paul’s words expressed in his letters to Timothy, who was in ministry, are very clear. 1 Tim 3:2-7 (NKJV) A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach; {3} not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; {4} one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence {5} (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?); {6} not a novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condemnation as the devil. {7} Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Jesus Christ came to set us free from sin! He said,

"John 8:34-36 (NKJV) Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. {35} "And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. {36} "Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. This does not mean free to sin but to be free from sin! When any Christian continues to live in sin they do not have a testimony of the delivering power of the Living Christ. Some Christians choose to remain in slavery to sin others never really know they can be free.

- The rejection of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. Isa 7:14 (NKJV) "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel. Jesus always taught that God was His Father. If he had an earthly father He would not have been able to help the human race at all. He had to have a virgin birth otherwise His origin would have been from sinful man. On His mothers side He was Jesus the son of man but on His Fathers side He was Emmanuel, the eternal word of God in a person. Therefore, because He was the sinless Son of God He was able to offer himself as a sacrifice for our sins. He also has the power of God to bring his body and the whole world to the resurrection from the dead! No ordinary man could do this.

- The belief that other religions are of equal value to Jesus Christ and that all religions lead to God. This teaching is a rejection of Jesus Christ as the Way, the Truth and the Life. I quote Jesus’ words:- John 14:6 (NKJV) Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If we do not believe the One whom God sent and the words that He spoke, what hope do we have? John 6:29 (NKJV) Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” John 12:49 (NKJV) "For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak. When we say that other religions lead to God we are dragging the Son of God down to human level, or we are exalting the sons of men to be equal to the son of God Jesus Christ. Only Jesus has said that the Father in Heaven sent Him and told Him what to say! When we say all religions lead to God, we are also saying that we can be saved by your own religious beliefs or our own good works and not only by the sacrifice which the sinless son of God made for us all. Please give Jesus Christ the honor and respect He alone deserves!

- The rejection of the word of God, the bible, as absolute truth. 2 Tim 3:16 (NKJV) All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. This is what the Apostles taught by the Spirit of God. 2 Pet 1:21 (NKJV) for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. If we move away from the word of God as the revelation of truth, then we are at the whim and speculations of any man or evil spirit. One man’s speculation is as good as any others, but the word of God is not speculation it is Truth!

- The doctrine that miracles and healings and or signs and wonders are not for today. The word of God clearly states:- Heb 13:8 (NKJV) Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. What He did while on earth He is still doing today. People are experiencing miracles and healings everyday. I am a witness to this truth because Jesus Christ has worked quite a few miracles through me in the twentieth and twenty first century!

- The doctrine that there is no hell. This is a rejection of Jesus Christ’s teachings that the lake of fire was prepared for the devil and his angels. Mat 25:41 (NKJV) "Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: There is a hell because Jesus Christ revealed it to us, but God sent His Son Jesus Christ so every person could choose not to go to where He is sending the devil and his wicked angels! This is good news!

- The doctrine that God is love and so he will not judge anyone. Love always demands justice to be done and so it is no different with God. If God does not judge anyone for unbelief or sins committed, then why do we have a justice system to punish people who have done wrong? The good news is that God’s mercy triumphed over judgment when he offered His Son as a sacrifice for everybody’s sins, and justice has been done! But this mercy can only be obtained, when we believe and receive His Son as our Lord and Savior. This will deliver whoever believes from the judgment God has against Satan and sin, as Jesus himself taught. John 3:18 (NKJV) "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Jer 9:24 (NKJV) But let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising loving kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” says the LORD.

- The doctrine that we are born again of God’s Spirit when we are baby baptized. This is just not so! If anyone is born again of God’s Spirit they have a witness within themselves. A baby has no inner witness of the Spirit of God at all. I have met many people who have been baby baptized and yet they do not know God and have no witness within themselves. I remember when sharing with young people on the streets in Australia, they would always ask me, "But how do you know what you are saying is right?” I would always tell them it is because I have the Spirit of God in me. That is how I know. It is not something I worked out with my head. I also remember one of my Uncles telling me that God lived in Him. He also recounted to me how and when he was born again of the Spirit of God. The word of God also agrees with experience we have when we are born again of the Spirit of God. I quote:- (NKJV) 1John 5:10. He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself;

What do you want to believe? Man’s speculations or the words of the Son of God?

Now back to being led by the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit will lead you away from your forefather’s traditions and religions which are not of the Kingdom of God. This is often very hard for us to let go of the things we learned when we were young. When I was born again of God’s Spirit it took me about two to three years to let go of my traditional religion and mindsets which did not fit into the new life I had in the Kingdom of God. The way to discover what is not of God is to read the Bible and let the Holy Spirit show you how to live now you are a son of God. Many people who hang on to their past either fail to go on to maturity, remaining in bondage to lies and deceptions, or they end up returning to their old ways.

Many people today are honoring all cultures and spirits whether they are from God or not. People often worship ancestral spirits as gods. Or they may even make an idol out of wood, stone or metals and then they worship them.

The Apostle Paul on a missionary journey came to Athens and found many altars to different god’s. This is what he had to say about these so called god’s.

Acts 17:22-33 (NKJV) Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious;

{23} "for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you:

{24} "God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.

{25} "Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.

{26} "And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,

{27} "so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;

{28} "for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’

{29} "Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising.

{30} "Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,

{31} "because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”

{32} And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, "We will hear you again on this matter.”

{33} So Paul departed from among them.

When Paul first came to Athens his spirit was provoked because he saw that the people of Athens were given over to idols. Today many people idolize entertainers, sport, cars, saints, churches, money, careers, pleasures, houses or property and even ancestral spirits.

The best way to be free from your past is to renounce all vows made to religions, churches, lodges, ancestral spirits or spirits of witchcraft or divination and the like and make a lifetime committal to Jesus Christ and His Kingdom. Then, offer forgiveness to your forefathers and any authority figures who have given you any wrong concepts about God, about life and about love. Ask God to pull down those wrong concepts that are within you, and lead you by the Holy Spirit and His word into all truth. These are famous words to remember which Jesus spoke:- John 8:32 (NKJV) "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

The only way to be completely free is to seek the truth until you are able to live in it fully. This means being free from any other spiritual contamination, and having a renewed mind from God’s word and a clear subconscious mind from all past sins and trauma.

I had just listened to a testimony of a man who had been set free from a subconscious lie which he believed. The lie he believed was that God would bless others but not him. This subconscious belief had been put in him because of his past. His father was very generous to others and during the depression years had given away so much to other people that it caused his own son to go without. Because of this he suffered a certain amount of poverty. Now he was unable to receive blessings from others, because he believed that God would bless others but not him! To obtain freedom from this subconscious lie, he had to forgive his father for giving him wrong concepts about God, life, money and love. He had to change the image and belief he had about God for himself. After he did this his life changed and he began to be a blessed man because he was free on the inside. The truth inside of us does make us free just like Jesus said it would!

After hearing this testimony I got down on my knees and prayed for myself to be set free. I said, "Heavenly Father I forgive my father and mother, the church authorities, teachers and any others who have given me wrong concepts and beliefs about God, about life, about money and about love. I forgive them on earth and you forgive them in heaven. I ask you to pull down all these wrong concepts and lies that are in me, and build the truth up in me so I can be free and receive all your blessings.” Ever since that time my faith and confidence towards God has grown and I am experiencing greater freedom and blessings than I used to.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Two unexpected events.

The last two greatest events from heaven on earth were the birth and life of Jesus Christ the Son of God and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost day. These events signaled the coming of the Kingdom of God within us. However before the physical kingdom comes on earth during the millennium reign of Jesus Christ, two very significant events will take place.

I do not say this because of what I think but because of what the Son of God said and what He has revealed through His Apostles and Prophets. My opinion and your opinion surely will not change events which are planned from heaven by God Himself.

These two events are the catching up of the believers, called the rapture, and the first resurrection of all the dead believer’s bodies. Jesus spoke of it in this way.

Mat 24:40-42 (NKJV) "Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left. {41} "Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left. {42} "Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.

Luke 17:34-36 (NKJV) "I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left. {35} "Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left. {36} "Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left.”

Jesus had previously taught that the event would come unexpectedly. Just like the flood came when people did not believe and just like fire rained down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot, who lived in Sodom, warned his son-in-laws but they said he was dreaming. Right at this present time most people are not expecting God to do anything and because they do not believe in Jesus Christ and His kingdom they will be caught out unexpectedly. Do people expect to pass into eternity when they are driving and have a sudden car accident? Do people expect to pass into eternity when they go out one night and are murdered? Do people expect to pass into eternity when they go swimming and are accidentally drowned? There is a mass delusion today that the words of the Son of God mean nothing! Jesus said to watch and pray so that day does not come on you like a thief, which is unexpected!

Mat 24:43-44 (NKJV) "But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. {44} "Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

Rev 16:15 (NKJV) "Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.”

Jesus is not a thief but He is coming unexpectedly just like a thief does. Do you believe and are you ready for His coming?

Below is the teaching about this by the Apostle Paul who had an encounter with Jesus after His resurrection.

1 Th 5:2-4 (NKJV) For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. {3} For when they say, "Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. {4} But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.

Dear reader, whether you belong to a church, whether you are of another religion, whether you are agnostic or atheist, whether you have never heard this information before, you do not have to be caught out unexpectedly. All you have to do is simply put your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and prepare your heart for His coming.

There are those believers who are expecting Jesus Christ to return for them, but the rest of the population is not expecting any such thing. They are all looking for an earthly peace and prosperity, but when man says peace and safety then comes on them sudden destruction. Today’s greatest distraction from having faith in Jesus Christ and His coming is the television, internet, entertainment, sports and pleasures.

Today most people are looking for some great world leader to rise and somehow bring peace, safety and prosperity to the world. There may be a world leader rise up who promises peace, safety and prosperity, but this will never happen in this sinful world. The best they can do is only promise these things. The Bible predicts a man whom Satan enters and proclaims himself to be God as an anti-Christ figure, who will come and promise peace, safety and prosperity. Maybe he will appear as a great political and religious leader, but he will not be the one whom God has appointed to judge and to rule the world.

The second great event is the first resurrection. I say ‘first’, because there are two resurrections taught in the Bible. The first one is the resurrection of all believers who have died. The second is the resurrection of all who did not believe. The Apostle Paul taught it this way.

1 Cor 15:51-54 (NKJV) Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed; {52} in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. {53} For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. {54} So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory.”

Here the apostle is saying not all will die, but there will be a company of believers who will be changed from having a corruptible body to an immortal body. At the same time the dead in Christ will be raised and we will meet the Lord in the air. He also states this in the following verses.

1 Th 4:16-17 (NKJV) For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. {17} Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.

This first and second resurrection is also spoken of in the book of Revelations. This is what the resurrected Jesus Christ showed John His Apostle.

Rev 20:4-5 (NKJV) And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. {5} But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

Rev 20:6 (NKJV) Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

It is vital and of eternal consequence to be a part of the first resurrection or the company of people who are caught up to be with the Lord! The above scripture says that the second death has no power over those in the first resurrection! The second death, referred to here, is being cast into the lake of fire and eternally separated from God’s love, peace and life forever. This place is a place of torment for the devil and his wicked angels. No place for you to ever be and not designed for human beings!

Please believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, because this is not a message religious people cooked up but this message came from God himself!

We are living in the last dying hours of this age before these two events take place and usher in the reign of Christ’s millennium.

CHAPTER TWELVE

The door into the Kingdom will close

There is a day fast approaching when the offer of salvation into God’s Kingdom will end. This is a teaching which Jesus the Son of God taught. He spoke about it in many different ways. There are teachings around that offer salvation after the rapture of the living people of God, (the church), and the first resurrection. This is simply not true and I will show what Jesus Himself taught, so you won’t be deceived.

Jesus taught that the church age or gentile age would end. I quote:-

Luke 21:24 (NKJV) "And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Here Jesus is talking about the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in AD 70, He then adds that this will continue until the end of the gentile age.

This scripture was fulfilled in 1967 when the Jews again took over Jerusalem as their capital. Before that the gentile nations controlled the streets of Jerusalem for nearly 2000 years, but now that time has ended! So listen very carefully to what I am saying. We are living right at the end of the gentile age and God is about to close the door of grace to the gentile nations, (those who are not Jewish), and again establish His Kingdom through His chosen people of all races. When the Jewish people rejected the message of His eternal Kingdom through the Messiah Jesus Christ, God offered His salvation to all races, (the gentiles), but now that time is swiftly closing! It is urgent for you to enter His Kingdom now by accepting Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and Lord. The word of God says:-

2 Cor 6:2 (NKJV) For He says: "In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

The emphasis in the above quote is the word "now”.

This door of opportunity is going to close soon! It is God who will shut the door, just as He did before the flood came and destroyed the people who did not believe in God and were living in gross sins.

Gen 6:13 (NKJV) And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Gen 7:16 (NKJV) So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.

I emphasize once again it was the Lord who closed the door of the ark so no one else could be saved from that judgment. So it will be when Jesus Christ returns for His people. God will close the door of grace. He taught this in the Gospel of Matthew.

Mat 25:6-10 (NKJV) "And at midnight a cry was heard: ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!’ {7} "Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. {8} "And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ {9} "But the wise answered, saying, ‘No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ {10} "And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut. Mat 25:11-13

(NKJV) "Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ {12} "But he answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ {13} "Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

This parable Jesus taught was about His return for His people. He likened it to a Jewish wedding. The people would wait for the bridegroom to come to get the bride and her entourage. The exact time of his coming was always unknown and unexpected. Sometimes this could be days before he came and could even happen late at night or even midnight, but once he came and they all went into the feast the door was closed. No one else could enter after that. If you were not ready you missed out. That made it a lot of fun in those days, but there will be no fun at all if you miss Christ’s coming, because after that there is a period of seven years of the judgments of God against the unbeliever and the ungodly. These judgments coming on the earth are foretold in the book of revelation. I quote:-

Rev 15:5-8 (NKJV) After these things I looked, and behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened. {6} And out of the temple came the seven angels having the seven plagues, clothed in pure bright linen, and having their chests girded with golden bands. {7} Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever. {8} The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power, and no one was able to enter the temple till the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

Rev 16:1 (NKJV) Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out the bowls of the wrath of God on the earth.”

There are many signs that this time of the door of the Kingdom being closed and the wrath of God against unbelief and ungodliness coming on the earth is very close. I list some of them for you to consider.

- Israel again a nation, returning after being scattered to the nations. This was promised by God and has never happened to any other nation that has disappeared.

- Jerusalem now under the control of Israel. Prophesied by Jesus.

- Violence, bloodshed and immorality on the increase just like the time before the flood. Foretold by Jesus.

- Frequent earthquakes, volcanoes erupting, tsunamis and great floods and extreme weather conditions. Also foretold by Jesus.

- Rapid expansion of knowledge in the last days. Foretold by Daniel the prophet.

- People running to and fro on the earth. There has never been a time of world travel like now. This was also foretold by Daniel.

- Signs in the heavens. Man on the moon, manned satellites and planned space adventure. Jesus foretold this.

- A push for a new world order of a one world government that will number and control everybody. Prophesied by Daniel and Jesus Christ in Revelations.

- Jesus Christ Himself appearing in person or in visions to Muslims, Buddhists, unbelievers and Christian leaders. His message to them is mostly something like, "I am coming soon” or "Time is fast running out”.

- Another attempt to unify Europe into a one world Empire. The Roman Empire was divided into the ten toes, or nations, but they do not adhere to each other. God’s word said they would be divided, just like iron and clay will not mix, and to this day despite many attempts by various rulers over approximately 2000 years they have failed to unify into one Empire. God’s word cannot be broken.

I suppose there would be even more signs than the above but these should be enough to show you we are very near the end of this age. The cosmic collision of God and man is coming closer each day!

Simply call on the name of the Lord and you will be saved into His Kingdom and you will have nothing to fear.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

The great tribulation coming or

past?

Jesus Christ told His followers that in this world they would have tribulation. This means great trouble, severe trial, misery and even death. I quote:-

Mat 24:9 (NKJV) "Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.

John 16:33 (NKJV) "These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

There are two main streams of thought on the great tribulation. One is that it is still to come and that it is a seven year period of the reign of the anti-Christ on earth. This period of time will be just before Christ and His people return from heaven and bring the one thousand year reign of peace on earth. The other belief is that it has already been and is almost over, and that Jesus is about to come for His people and take us to the marriage supper in heaven. I want to examine this difference, in the light of what the Son of God, Jesus taught about it, while He was on earth.

One morning when I was again praying about this matter, I was asking Jesus Christ to come and sort out all the various views on this subject. I was asking Him to make it plain, because both views cannot be right. All of a sudden I prophesied out loud, "If you have the great tribulation in the wrong place, everything else will be wrong”. I believe this was a word from the Lord in answer to my prayer. The more I thought about it the more it began to make sense. So let us examine His teachings. Remember I consider the words of the Son of God to be above every other man’s opinions or speculations.

Jesus actually identified when the great tribulation would begin. I quote:-

Mat 24:15 (NKJV) "Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand),

Mat 24:16-20 (NKJV) "then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. {17} "Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. {18} "And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. {19} "But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! {20} "And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.

Here Jesus warns His followers of the coming destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman armies and that they should not be caught in it. This actually happened in AD 70 and is recorded in the history books! It has already been fulfilled. The Roman armies came and actually destroyed the temple and much of Jerusalem. Thousands of people were crucified outside the walls of Jerusalem as they tried to escape. Surely we cannot ignore our history in trying to understand this matter. This corresponds with what was also recorded in Luke chapter 21.

Luke 21:20-21 (NKJV) "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near. {21} "Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those who are in the midst of her depart, and let not those who are in the country enter her.

Here Jesus actually names Jerusalem and an invasion by armies and then warns His followers not to be caught in Jerusalem. Because of Jesus’ warning, many of God’s people did escape as they saw the armies coming. Jesus also refers to this as being the desolation of Jerusalem.

Jesus now links these events to the great tribulation in Matthew 24:21,

Mat 24:21-22 (NKJV) "For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. {22} "And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.

This is a most amazing verse showing us that the great tribulation began with the desolation of Israel and Jerusalem by the Roman armies. Then Jesus said it would be the worst thing that ever happened to God’s people and never ever be like it again. So it follows then, that if the great tribulation started in AD70, and He said it would never be like it again, then it cannot be in the future! He then goes on to say that the days of tribulation will be shortened so that many people will be saved. By saying this we could assume that the great tribulation would be so bad and so long God would have to intervene to shorten or stop it otherwise His plan of salvation for all nations would not be fulfilled!

Most teachers say the great tribulation is only a seven year period which is still coming. If this is the case then consider this, how do you shorten a seven year period so the elect can be saved? The elect are going to be saved after the great tribulation according to Jesus’ words. I suggest to you the tribulation was a great length going from 70AD to about the seventeenth century, after which time there have been many great revivals and outpourings of the Holy Spirit. These revivals and visitations of God’s outpourings were what Jesus referred to as the elect being saved! Since the reformation the Gospel has been more freely proclaimed and now is widely proclaimed by satellite and internet like never before! This fulfills what Jesus said would be a sign of the end of the age. I quote:-

Mat 24:14 (NKJV) "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.

Jesus words are very clear in the above quote. What He is saying is that the end will come during a time of proclamation not a time of tribulation!

You must also consider what the history of the believer is. Read the history books, do internet searches and you will see the great tribulation which came on Israel and the true believer included the following:

- Being crucified

- Fed to the lions

- Disemboweled

- Tortured on racks

- Beheaded

- Burnt at the stake

- Murdered

- Imprisoned

Now the history books show that in the past, untold millions of martyrs were killed because of their belief in Jesus Christ. Many were killed by the Roman Empire and later by the so called Holy Roman Empire. It is all in the history books and on websites for you to discover. How will we be able to say, to the martyrs who have gone before us, "You did not go through the great tribulation?” How else could you describe what they have been through but the great tribulation?

I think it is an insult to those who lost their lives so that we could have the word of God freely available to us today, to say of them, they have not been through the great tribulation.

John the revelator, was given a vision of this very thing, which he described in Revelation chapter 12. He saw a woman who was giving birth to a male child, who was to rule the Nations with a rod of iron. This describes Israel birthing the Christ child into the world. The only one the word of God talks about who will rule the nations with a rod of iron is Jesus Christ. He also described a red dragon waiting to devour the child. Satan tried to kill the baby Jesus through King Herod. This is recorded in the Gospels. Herod failed because God warned Joseph in a dream and they escaped into Egypt until Herod the King died. It then says the male child was caught up to heaven. Well, Jesus is the only one I know about that was caught up to heaven and is to rule the nations! After this John describes a war in heaven and Satan being cast down to earth with his wicked angels. Satan then attacks the woman (Israel), who gave birth to the male child, and her offspring who believe in Jesus.

This is all described in the following verses.

Rev 12 (NKJV) 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. {2} Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.

{3} And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. {4} His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born. {5} She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne.

{6} Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

{7} And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, {8} but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. {9} So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

{10} Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, "Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. {11} "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. {12} "Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”

{13} Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child. {14} But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent. {15} So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. {16} But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.

{17} And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

This is not something that is going to happen, but rather something that has already happened. Why would anyone think Satan would wait for two thousand years to bring a great tribulation on the church?

A futuristic view of revelations and the great tribulation is not sustainable in view of the history of the believers and the words of the Son of God.

Because John the revelator also saw a great multitude in heaven, who had come from every race and tongue, and who had come through the great tribulation, many teachers then say that many people will be saved after the rapture and first resurrection during the great tribulation. But they come to this conclusion only because they have the great tribulation in the wrong place, a coming event instead of a past event. The verses I refer to are the following:-

Rev 7:13-14 (NKJV) Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, "Who are these arrayed in white robes, and where did they come from?” {14} And I said to him, "Sir, you know.” So he said to me, "These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

I put it to you. Ever since Jesus Christ left the world there has been great tribulation on those who believe and live a Godly life! There will be no one saved after the catching up of the church and the first resurrection. The great tribulation and the day of salvation are swiftly coming to an end! The great day of the Lord is nigh! Indeed, when you have the great tribulation in the wrong place everything else will be wrong!

I believe preachers, who offer people who miss out on the rapture a certain prayer or teaching on what to do, are offering a false hope to those who put off their own salvation until it is too late. Jesus taught this very clearly in His messages and I quote:

Luke 12:16-21 (NKJV) Then He spoke a parable to them, saying: "The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully. {17} "And he thought within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?’

{18} "So he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods. {19} ‘And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.”

20} "But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’ {21} "So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

We never know when our soul will be required by God. When we least expect to we may have to give an account of our life to God. Did we believe in the Son of God who gave His life for our ransom? Did we call on Jesus Christ to save us? Did we read His words and obey them? Or, have we been rich in this world but poor towards God?

We are required to be ready when He comes. Mat 24:42 (NKJV) "Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.

Mark 13:37 (NKJV) "And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch!”

Are you watching for His coming?

Luke 13:25 (NKJV) "When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open for us,’ and He will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know you, where you are from?’

Once the door of grace has been shut and the believers have gone, then some people will try to enter the Kingdom of God, but will not be able to do so! Because grace is no longer available!

This is why I have written these words so that you will not be one of those who were not ready for His coming, because you simply did not believe the bible to be true and did not believe that Jesus Christ had truly been sent by God as the Saviour of the world. How tragic this would be?

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

The greatest hope is still

before us.

It may not look like it but God is still in control. He is relentlessly moving towards establishing His eternal Kingdom.

The good news is that Satan’s rule of man over man will come to an end when the Kingdom of God is manifest on the earth. This is called the millennium reign of Jesus Christ. During this time Satan will be bound and cast into the bottomless pit by a Great Angel of God. This is described in John the revelator’s vision.

Rev 20:1-3 (NKJV) Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. {2} He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; {3} and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.

Have you been deceived by Satan because you believe his lies which come through man and not the word of God?

It is very hard for us to imagine a world without any evil in it, and without any bad news. But remember this will not be brought about by man but by God Himself through divine intervention.

So let us take a look at what the word of God has revealed concerning the millennium.

Isa 11:5-10 (NKJV) Righteousness shall be the belt of His loins, And faithfulness the belt of His waist.

{6} "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard shall lie down with the young goat, The calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little child shall lead them. {7} The cow and the bear shall graze; Their young ones shall lie down together; And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

{8} The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole, And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den. {9} They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD As the waters cover the sea. {10} "And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse, Who shall stand as a banner to the people; For the Gentiles shall seek Him, And His resting place shall be glorious.”

The root of Jesse who was the father of King David here referred to is of course Jesus Christ. Jesus is both the Son of David and Christ the Lord of David.

During His reign on earth all of the animal kingdom will revert to what it was before the fall of man into sin and curse. In the above verse it is made very plain that there will be a complete change in their behaviour. They also will be set free from the curse!

All of creation has been groaning under the curse of man’s sin and they will be delivered from this curse when Jesus Christ establishes the kingdom on earth. There will be no need for greenies, or save the whales etc. No need to be trying to preserve the endangered species any more. No more poaching and destruction of the animal kingdom by man anymore! Can anyone say praise God for that! All those who have a soft heart for animals will love the millennium!

There will be no need for environmentalists any more because His resting place shall be glorious! His influence will permeate the whole earth! "For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea”. A true environmentalist will marvel during the millennium!

This reminds me of a place called Almalonga in South America. I saw a video of this town that had experienced a revival and ninety percent of the people living there were born again Christians. The presence and influence of God was so strong over that town that all the vegetables and crops were amazing in size and quality. They had no curse operating on the land and the harvests were huge. Their success was so great that some scientists from America came to see what they were doing to make it happen. They did not realize it was the blessing of the presence of God causing the incredible harvests. The people in Almalonga became wealthy compared to other villages around them. They were also free from the bad influence of drunkenness, drugs and witchcraft. The families who lived there were blessed and on Sundays the whole town worshipped God in various different groups. This was a little taste of the reality of the Kingdom of God on earth.

The Apostle Paul also wrote about this day which is coming. I quote:-

Rom 8:19-22 (NKJV) For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. {20} For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; {21} because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. {22} For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

Paul saw that creation was under great stress as we all know. But he also saw a day when the sons of God would be revealed and the creation would be set free from the stress of curse! He actually said the creation would experience the glorious liberty of the children of God. This liberty referred to here is living free from mortality.

There is a great desire in my heart and mind to see this great day come. Oh happy day come.

During the millennium there will be no anti-Semitic activity. The Lord will call all His people from the four corners of the earth to return to Israel. This is already happening but it will be completed at this time.

Isa 11:11-12 (NKJV) It shall come to pass in that day That the LORD shall set His hand again the second time To recover the remnant of His people who are left, From Assyria and Egypt, From Pathros and Cush, From Elam and Shinar, From Hamath and the islands of the sea.

{12} He will set up a banner for the nations, And will assemble the outcasts of Israel, And gather together the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth.

All the great tribulation against the people of Israel and the people of God who believe in Jesus Christ will end. They will rule and reign with Jesus Christ for the one thousand years. This is foretold in the following verse.

Rev 20:6 (NKJV) Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

Here we must remember that the catching up of the true believers and the first resurrection has already taken place just as the millennium starts. They will no longer be in mortal bodies but they will have been changed to have an eternal immortal body. The Apostle Paul also wrote of this event.

1 Cor 15:51-53 (NKJV) Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed; {52} in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

{53} For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

The first day of the millennium will be an incredible day! When this day has come, then the prophecy and dream of Nebuchadnezzar, revealed by God through Daniel, will be fulfilled. The Rock Christ will have done away with the government and religions of man ruling over man, and He will have established the benevolent Kingdom of God on earth for one thousand years. Only after the thousand years have passed will there be the establishment of a new heavens and a new earth.

May you by your faith, be one who obtains an inheritance in Jesus Christ’s eternal Kingdom.

Rev 22:20 (NKJV) He who testifies to these things says, "Surely I am coming quickly.” Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

Table of Contents

1. My background and my testimony.

2. A Kingdom not a religion

3. God’s plan revealed by God through man not by man!

4. So here is the dream and interpretation:

5. The New World Order

6. The Power of the Kingdom that is coming!

7. Signs of the end of the age.

8. God’s coming collision with the world’s religions

9. What do you need to do to prepare for His return and the establishment of His eternal Kingdom?

10. Prepare for His Kingdom and coming by being led by the Spirit.

11. Two unexpected events.

12. The door into the Kingdom will close

13. The great tribulation coming or past?

14. The greatest hope is still before us.