I never saw it before, what hinders the Antichrist from manifesting himself.

There is going to be a war, everything is working towards Israel taking unilateral action against Iran, the fall-out will be enormous.

The battle of Gog Magog as described in Revelations and the battle of Gog Magog in Ezekiel. 38 is so very different that they cannot possibly one and the same. I am sure we are about to witness the battle of Gog Magog as shown in Ezekiel.

This is the battle that God intervenes supernaturally to utterly destroy Israel's enemies. When that happens the Jews are going to go home, ALL the Jews, and they are going to build the fourth temple.

In the ensuing chaos Antichrist will arise in the west and will set about his mission to totally irradicate all religion from the face of the earth, militant atheists are his fore-runners and prophets.

Ac will sign a treaty with Israel, now a superstate, for 7 years but once he feels himself strong enough he will break his pact after 3.5 years and invade Israel and will march into the temple and take his seat proclaiming himself to be God.

Michael the mighty archangel who is in charge of defending the Jews who will have stood up to defend Israel in the upcoming war, will now be taken out of the way to allow Ac to invade and desecrate the temple.

This is a breakthrough in prophecy, Michael is therefore He who Paul says prevents Ac from making his appearance.

All the while the Jews have been dispersed throughout the nations [as they still are largely] they have not been able to build the temple therefore there has been no temple or temple seat for Ac to usurp. Once Israel has achieved superstatehood it will suddenly be on.

These events are set to begin VERY soon.   

A couple of years ago I was staying in London and one night passing through Kensington Gore which is at the southern end of Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens on my way to Earls Court Road where I was holed up. I espied walking down Exhibition Road a man who was very drunk, it was 2.30 am.

He was the most drunken man I have ever seen still on his feet, he was making a perfect Z reeling from one side of the pavement to the other then pulling up short before going on what was like a headlong plunge. And God said "go and talk to that man about his soul."

I set off at once, with God it is always best to do first and think later. I always carry a few gospel tracts with me which are good for opening a conversation.

He was about half way down Exhibition Rd with me steaming up behind him, tract at the ready. But when I got up close behind him I saw how big he was, I mean like HUGE, he was about 6' 4 ins and 5' across and so instead of speaking to him I bottled and hurried on by scuttling up the first sideroad, there leaning against the wrought iron fence I watched him stagger by and cried to the Lord "Oh Lord please send someone braver than me to talk to him and help him."

God said "go and talk to that man about his soul." Those who know the Lord know that He is a great King and He expects us to obey Him, you don't always get a second bite at the cherry, so off I goes again, this time a bit more circumspectly.

So there he was on one of his headlong thrusts and me hard on his heels clutching my tract but as I came alongside him I bottled again and walked smartly on and scuttled up the next nearest sideroad and leaning against the wall watching him go by I wheedled and whimpered to the Lord. God said a third time "go and speak to him" so off I goes again.

When I caught up with him this time he had turned into the Cromwell Road and I got in front of him and thrust my tract out at him "I would like for you to have this."

This brought him up short and he stood there swaying in the breeze, his mouth dropped open and he blinked at me owlishly, towering above me.

"It's about Jesus" I said and then broke into babbling, but I managed to convey how that Jesus would transform his life, stressing that He changed our lives from inside of us not from outside when we recieve Him into our hearts by faith, He sets up His rule within us and starts to bring people and stuff into our lives to help and bless us.

All this time he had stared at me blinking, I took a deep breath and said "now I want you to pray and ask the Lord into your heart."

He had taken my tract and now he shlurred "I'm too stoned to pray, I will read it in the morning and think about what you said." heyy he turned out to be the sweetest guy, a Canadian.

He went to pass me but I stood in his way, " I promish, he said, I promish..."

It was three weeks later in Kensington Temple at morning meeting the Pastor came to the mike lifting up a tract and letter he had recieved through the post. It was from Canada from an air pilot cadet who on a visit to London had been dumped by his girlfriend and was on his way back to his hotel, totally smashed, determined to kill himself and he would have done it but he wrote, a member of your fellowship stopped me in the street and told me about Jesus and I got saved instead. He told about his new found peace and joy.  

Christianity is not a respectable religion, it's bloody and messy and it's all about hate. I just got called a sick **** on another forum, I'll leave the expletive to your imagination, naturally my friends rushed to my defence but hey don't you think those Roman soldiers cursed and swore when they were nailing Jesus to that tree? sure, that is what the cross is all about, human hate and cruelty.

Jesus said "I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance" we all sinners, do you know someone who isn't? if there is some good respectable saintly person reading this little message you are in trouble, Jesus didn't come for you He only came for sinners like me.

When He hung on the cross the bible says God took all the filth and sin of mankind and heaped it on Him, "Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we being made dead unto sin might come alive unto righteousness, by whose stripes ye are healed." have YOU been made dead unto sin? have YOU come alive unto righteousness? if not then this is for YOU today, you can come to God just as you are, you can call upon Him and ask Him to impart this new life to you today.

It is a life of peace and joy and friendship with God and you can have it for free.

I was reading about the mother of a teenage daughter who was retarded, made utterly desperate by her neighbours taunts and jeering, the bullying was so extremely bad over a number of years that she killed both herself and her daughter.

This is the reality of Britain today, there's little cool or nice anymore about British society, how did people come to be like this? they have turned away from God.

Chatting a while ago to a very sweet lady, she was bewailing the numbers of teenage pregnancies, abortion, the violence in Britain etc she was sure that all that was needed was more education.

That has been the do gooding response to the problem for over two generations now, and the people have accordingly been educated, educated slobs. I pointed out that despite the social engineering and education the problem gets worse year on year not better, people are going from bad to worse.

God's answer is a miracle, a miracle must take place in our hearts. And that is just what He has on offer, YOU TODAY can come to God in simple faith and be miraculously changed, you do not need to go one step further as the old you, you can be transformed, right where you are sitting reading this, people scoff, they always did, that has always been God's answer to the darkness that is in men and women's hearts.

This transformation takes place at the cross, you give to God your rotten old life and He will grant you a brand new life full of joy and glory. It is the new birth.

In telling about this new birth God promised through Ezekiel the great prophet in the old testament.

"Behold the days are coming saith the Lord when I will take out of them their stony hearts and give them new and fleshly hearts, I will walk in them and be their God"

What a message for Britain today, oh that young Britons would allow God to take out of them this heart of stone and He will give them caring, warm, human hearts.

YOU come, come today prove it is true, it is the age old message of God which has worked in generation after generation. Call upon Him now "Lord! save ME, gimme this new heart of flesh, wash the darkness out of MY life, I need Your joy, Your peace. Amen."       

Jesus once said to the religious leaders who opposed Him "when you see a cloud rising in the west you say at once a shower is coming and so it happens, and when you see the south wind blowing you say there will be scorching heat and it happens, you hypocrites! you know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?"

In talking about the end times Jesus said it would come like a snare upon all who dwell on the earth, like a trap, a trap set by a spring that will suddenly snap shut. That trap is being set now.

Neither Communism or Nazism happened quite as suddenly as it seems sometimes in the history books, both these evil powers crept by stealth, increasing step by step their control and with considerable indoctrination their grip upon the people. This process is happening in society now. But in each case there came a defining moment, a point and time when the people realized that they were no longer free, they were no longer even free to speak their minds.

In speaking about the times of the end Jesus warned of a time of ferocious persecution against christians, He said many would be offended and fall away, I believe this will happen because the most christians believe that they are going to be raptured away from persecution, Jesus taught no such thing, nor does any other bible writer.

This mistaken idea comes from a wrong application given to the word tribulation, it is taken to mean the period when God will pour His wrath upon wicked men. Actually the word means persecution, Jesus said "they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death" the great tribulation is the great and last end-time persecution when the enemies of God will try to wipe out all religion, blaming religion for all that is wrong with the world.

The persecution will be so horrific that parents will deliver their own children up to death and children their parents.

Some bible commentators make this tribulation or persecution to apply only to the Jews, this is not correct, for Jesus said "in all nations...for My name's sake." Also if it were only Jews, then parents delivering up their own children would also be putting themselves at peril. No this is the persecution of Antichrist against christians. You do not have to go far to hear the voice of anger and hate raised against the bible and against christians who believe in it, the coming Antichrist is the prince of all such hate.

John the revelator in his vision spoke about a great multitude who appeared suddenly in heaven, from every race, tribe and tongue and he was told that "these are they who have come out of the great tribulation."

It may not seem when you look around very likely that such a persecution could happen, you might have thought it unlikely if you had been Jewish in Germany in 1930 that within 15 years 6 million Jews would have been slaughtered without mercy or compunction and that in a supposedly civilised nation as Germany is. 

What happened to the Jews is a foreshadow of the much more brutal persecution that will take place against christians. This is a time for the church to watch and pray.     

The law is not righteousness, neither is grace, these are only the means whereby righteousness may be attained. The Jews failed to attain righteousness by the law and so will everyone else who attempts to. The way to attain righteousness now is by grace through faith.

God never speaks of us in a derogatory fashion in the new testament, YOU are important, it is through YOU that God is establishing His kingdom in the earth today

God reigns THROUGH YOU through your dreams and aspirations, if Jesus dwells in you then His dream is your dream and His aspiration is your aspiration.

God wills righteousness, peace and abundance for His creation, for YOU and that is why wherever the church has been established, where it has been allowed to be established these are the blessings that have followed. Did you think it was through human governments? rulers and politicians? philosophers? nay all these take credit but it is through the hopes and wishes and heart longings and prayers of God's people whom Jesus dwells in, He IS King of Righteousness and King of Peace. God loves you, you are important.

Perhaps progress seems slow that is because Jesus has an enemy, but His enemy has not been able to prevail, the kingdom has come and is still coming [have YOU recieved Jesus into you heart by faith? call upon Him in prayer He will answer you] This kingdom was promised to Abraham, foretold in the law and the prophets, announced by Jesus, proclaimed by His apostles and believed upon in the world. It will come to fulness of reality when He comes again to establish it. Therefore He bids us pray "Thy kingdom come Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

May God bless you this hour, it is His will to do so.    

The church is not a parenthesis, what a strange thing to say, going against all scripture which tell us that the church was the mystery kept hidden in past ages but now made known.

Ephesians ch.1.vs. 9-10

For He has made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of His will according to His purpose which He sat forth in Christ as a plan for the fulness of time, to unite in Him all things whether things in heaven or things on earth.

When is this fulness of time, we are always taught [and not without good reason] that Christ's coming was in the fulness of time and yet we do not yet see all things, whether things in heaven or on earth united in Him.

J. N. Darby looked at scriptures in Isaiah which promised times of great earthly blessing and rightly concluded that these cannot refer to the church but must refer to a future restored nation of Isreal and this more than a hundred years before Isreal became a nation once more. So he concluded that the church must therefore be an interuption of God's plan, a parenthesis, this is far from correct.

Micah ch.. 4. vs. 1-4.

It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains and shall be raised up above the hills and peoples shall flow to it, and many nations shall come and say "come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob that He may teach us His ways and we may walk in His paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law [no wonder Satan hates Isreal] and the word of the Lord fro Jerusalem.

He shall judge between many peoples and shall decide for strong nations afar off.

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up their swords against nation, neither shall they learn war any more but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree [is this what YOU long for?] and none shall make them afraid for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

This is the fulness of time Epesians spoke about, this IS the kingdom of God which Jesus said was nigh but which the Jews rejected, inasmuch as they rejected Him who is the King.

This is the milennial age, the age of righteousness, prosperity and peace which is prophesied by the prophets but which has not yet been fulfilled. This IS the good news the church should be announcing.

The millennial age is a world age, a gospel age still but an age when the gospel will be in triumph and not hidden as it now is Satan will be bound for a thousand years and all causes of sin taken out of the kingdom.

This age comes after the great rebellion, the great persecution and after the appearing and destruction of Antichrist, the saints of all the ages will have been raptured, they shall reign with their Lord from heaven.

The church is not the parenthesis, [bracketed, sectioned off, set aside] but Isreal now is.