NATURALISM – A DEAD PARADIGM: CELLS ARE PRODUCTS OF A MIND

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A major error occurred when scientists decreed that only naturalistic explanations could be used to explain the origin of life and how it operates. Decades of molecular biology research have produced an extraordinary catalogue of cellular details, yet a coherent, unified explanation of how cells function as a whole is lacking.1 Rafelski and Theriot pointed out that2

“The living nature of the cell inherently means that we cannot make the same simplifying assumptions that we typically use for many other complex dynamical systems, and we cannot assume that we fully understand the nature of the laws that govern cell behavior.”

The naturalistic scientific community insists that only purely material, undirected chemical processes must account for the emergence of life. However, this focus on chemical reactions has sidetracked from the fundamental biological questions that needed to be answered. Cells are the foundation of life, and it is precisely their defining properties that require an explanation. They must autonomously grow, adapt, self-protect, self-repair, recycle components, manufacture their own hardware, and reproduce with astonishing fidelity across countless generations.

No collection of abiotic chemical reactions has ever been observed to bootstrap itself into this kind of integrated, purposeful system. More than 99% of reactions relevant to biological systems are catalyzed by tailor-designed genetically encoded protein catalysts. EcoCyc version 24.5 records 1,682 curated metabolic enzymes (those directly catalyzing small-molecule transformations) for the model bacterium E. coli K-12, plus 288 transporters catalyzing transport reactions. In addition, there are many nucleases, proteases, kinases, and other classes of enzyme. Without these enzymes the reactions would be too slow and inefficient. Details like these should have shown the disconnect between prebiotic chemical research and living systems.

Truman et al. addressed this misdirection by proposing a top-down computational paradigm: cells are best understood as integrated multiprocessing analogue computing devices. Daughter cells inherit cryptic computational logic that directs biochemical processes, anticipating future requirements with flexible responses.

Cellular design interpreted as analogue computing

Unlike digital computers, pure analogue processors do not require software code separate from the hardware; the physical construction is the programme. The implications for cells are profound. Cells operate through thousands of molecular Recognition Elements (REs) that can be viewed as sensors, which respond to continuous gradients of Specificity Factors (SPs), which are sometimes called ‘signals’. These REs function as programming variables—dynamic biological elements capable of initiating and regulating cascades of downstream processes. The outcomes depend on the magnitude, duration, and context of the SPs they detect. Truman et al. documented many examples of this principle, with SP effectors ranging from transcription factors and glucose to calcium ions and mechanical strain, each producing graded, continuous regulatory outputs. This analogue character is pervasive: it is observed in signal transduction pathways, metabolic feedback inhibition, cell cycle control, chromatin dynamics, developmental gradients, immune responses, etc.

Furthermore, the responsiveness of REs can be modified. Ligand attachments, chemical modifications (phosphorylation, methylation, glycosylation), cofactors, pH, and temperature all fine-tune the response to the same concentration gradient. This represents a qualitatively richer form of programming than anything available in digital systems.

The logic of cellular programming

Identifying cellular REs as programming variables is a key conceptual advance of this framework. In digital computing, variables are abstract locations in memory where values are stored and retrieved. In cells, REs are physically positioned at specific molecular locations—on DNA, RNA, proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates—where they respond to SPs. The logical operations are directly implemented physically: SP binding to RE constitutes the assignment of a value, and this assignment initiates downstream processing.

This relationship has properties that transcend ordinary chemical interaction. Cellular variables must be unambiguous, are used to communicate intention, can perform operations, and may recursively represent collections of other variables.

A further key insight is the distinction between the immediate goal and the major goal of a cellular variable. The immediate goal is the physical recognition event: a codon identifying the correct anticodon; a receptor, tyrosine kinase, recognizing its extracellular ligand; or a TATA-binding protein recognizing its eight-nucleotide promoter sequence. This physical recognition event is only the initiating step—Step 1. The major goal—Step 2—is the downstream functional outcome: protein synthesis, gene activation, chromatin remodelling, signal transduction cascade, etc. The entire downstream machinery is assembled in response to the RE–SP interaction. This just-in-time assembly and disassembly of processing hardware ensures efficient use of cellular resources.

Adaptor molecules and if–then logic

Cellular decision-making is implemented through a recursive, cascading logic in which each RE–SP interaction generates a new microenvironment that serves as a new RE for the next step. This is exemplified by adaptor molecules. The tRNA is a canonical single-adaptor molecule: one end identifies a specific mRNA codon while the other end carries the correct amino acid.

More commonly, cells implement logic through multi-component adaptor complexes, in which each recruited protein or RNA possesses both an RE for its upstream partner and an RE for the next component in the assembly chain. The concept of adaptor molecules and complexes is shown in figure 1. This recursive, stepwise logic describes many key cellular processes.

The power of the framework was demonstrated through many examples of REs, placed on DNA, RNA, and proteins. In every case, the RE possesses a distinctive recognition feature embedded within a supporting molecular housing, which optimizes binding, excludes false binding partners, and ensures the interaction is coupled to a specific downstream process. The engineering required to regulate a multitude of processes concurrently—in the same cellular volume, and without catastrophic interferences—is far beyond current human technologies.

Advantages of analogue design in cells

Four advantages of using analogue technologies in cells include:

  • Analogue regulation permits fine-tuned, graded responses, which avoid waste and optimize resource allocation.
  • Responding directly to concentration-gradients is simpler than discretizing gradients into discrete intervals and computing separate logic for each interval.
  • Analogue binding interactions—relying on multiple small non-covalent contributions (hydrogen bonds, van der Waals forces, hydrophobic interactions, ionic bonds)— confer robustness to individual mutations. No single point change abruptly abolishes function; the system degrades gracefully.
  • The use of thousands of dedicated, simple, modular molecular machines—assembled just in time and dismantled when no longer needed—is far superior to a monolithic general-purpose processor. For example, up to 10 million ribosomes operate concurrently in human liver cells, while red blood cells have none; up to 100,000–200,000 spliceosomes are active in many cell types concurrently. The copy number of each machine can be regulated dynamically according to cell type, stage in the cell cycle, and immediate cellular needs. This modularity enables rapid scaling, precise replacement of defective components, and efficient recycling of molecular raw materials.

Implications for origins: design, not chemistry

The cumulative force of this framework carries direct implications for the origins debate. A cell is not merely a complex chemical system; it is an integrated, multiprocessing, self-manufacturing, self-repairing, self-reproducing collection of analogue computing devices (fig. 2).

Chemical systems, however complex, do not produce REs that encode intended outcomes unrelated to their own physical binding properties. They do not assemble just-in-time machinery. They do not regulate copy numbers of their own processing hardware. They do not implement recursive if–then logic across thousands of concurrent programmes. They do not pass all of this in a fully operational state to daughter systems, generation after generation.

The gulf between regulated cellular biochemistry and abiotic chemical processes is qualitative, not merely quantitative. No incremental sequence of undirected chemical steps bridges this gulf, because the gulf is not one of chemical complexity but of information architecture—the very thing that origin-of-life models are least equipped to explain.

The research programme initiated by Truman et al. points towards the concept of analogue metaprogramming in cells: the phenomenon whereby parametrized cryptic encoded information unfolds to generate complex programs. This intuition has been proposed by computer science professor Uwe Assmann during several creation science workshops in Germany and will be communicated in later papers. This recursive generativity—hardware that builds hardware—is a hallmark of sophisticated, intentional engineering. It is the kind of feature that, if found in an extra-terrestrial location, would unhesitatingly be attributed to an intelligent designer.

REs are used by all biological codes and usually in vast copy numbers. This enables massive parallel processing. A well-known example is DNA replication in mammals, that relies on tens of thousands of replication origins, so that billions of base pairs can be copied in parallel sections. In a paper in this edition, I argue that the probability of correctly positioning enormous numbers of REs through random mutation and selection is prohibitively low. The paper further points out that evolving new biological codes would require large amounts of additional non-functional genetic material, which population genetics predicts would impose selective disadvantages that make fixation in populations prohibitively unlikely.

Conclusion

The analogue computing framework presented by Truman et al. offers what no chemistry-first model has provided: a coherent, top-down, systems-level account of how cells actually function. Thousands of sensors, implemented across DNA, RNA, proteins, and other biomolecules, respond to continuous signal gradients and initiate cascading, purposeful, recursive programmes. Hardware and software are inseparably integrated. Molecular machinery is manufactured, deployed, and recycled on demand. The entire system reproduces itself faithfully across generations, the result of a top-down design set in motion with each class of original cell. Importantly, complex processes like cell cycle, morphogenesis, immunity, and neurobiology require coordinated regulation of multiple subprocesses,15 all relying on analogue coding programmes.

This image contrasts the view of cells as a collection of chemical reactions vs a sophisticated information-processing technology. Cells are not plausibly the result of prebiotic chemistry. The analogue computing paradigm describes cells more accurately and reveals them, unmistakably, as the products of a mind.

Article – Viewing cells as integrated multiprocessing analogue computing devices by Royal Truman, Journal of Creation. Vol 40, Issue 3

NO REASON TO OVER-REACT TO CURRENT GLOBAL WARMING

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Past global temperatures substantially warmer than today. Article by Michael J. Oard in Journal of Creation Vol 40, Issue 3.

Present-day global warming is said to be so high that alarmists postulate that a global catastrophe looms. This worry is fed by a barrage of exaggerated statements by scientists, politicians, and the media.1 Some advocates even say that the ‘unprecedented’ global warming is the greatest threat that mankind has ever faced. They make comparisons with the extremely hot global climate of the Paleogene as an analogue. People are increasingly being pressured to act now to ‘save the planet’. Many alarmists have little regard for the economic or political consequences of this war against global warming.

We need to first examine the facts.2 First, global warming is real; the warming is around 1° to 1.5°C in the last 150 years. The polar areas have warmed significantly more than this because of reinforcing feedbacks. Second, about half of this global warming is likely due to natural processes involving the sun, differences in volcanism, oceanic heat cycles, and other climate effects on Earth.3 Third, the computer models that predict the temperature in the future with a doubling of carbon dioxide are seriously flawed. Alarmists especially rely on these models to come to outrageous conclusions, indicating little understanding of how models work. These models predict that a doubling of carbon dioxide will cause anywhere from 1.5 to about 5˚ C warming of the planet. However, models have too many unknown variables that need to be estimated and hence add error. For instance, modellers have difficulty estimating the effects of clouds, solar and infrared radiation, ocean processes, snow and ice aging, among others. If all the greenhouse gases are included, we have come close to doubling ‘carbon dioxide’ already. And if half the global warming is due to natural processes, then even the lowest estimate from a doubling of carbon dioxide is too warm.

Even the claim that the present-day warming is unprecedented except in the Cenozoic, especially the Paleogene, has been shown to be false. A report recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the earth was once substantially warmer than today only several thousand years ago in the uniformitarian dating scheme. Such a warmer period can have nothing to do with increased carbon dioxide due to man’s activities.

A patch of ice in the Beartooth Mountains of south-central Montana and north-central Wyoming, USA (fig. 1), has been melting from present-day global warming. Interestingly, the top of the Beartooth Mountains represents the planation surface of the Great Unconformity, which is found at the bottom of the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona. As the ice patch melted, 30 downed/fallen whitebark pine trees became exposed. These trees are found 180 m higher than the current tree line! The trees were tall-standing and not the type of scruffy trees usually found near the tree line. This would indicate that the tree line was once significantly higher than 180 m above the tree line of today.

The trees were carbon-14 dated to 5,950 to 5,440 years old within the uniformitarian dating system. This would place them just after the early Holocene warm period, between about 10,000 and 7,000 years ago. Carbon-14 dates are good to about 3,000 years ago within the biblical timescale. Dates of 3,000 to the maximum practical limit of 50,000 years can be telescoped from 3,000 to 4,500 years after the Flood. Thus, the warmth occurred in the post-Flood period, and the present-day warmth is not unprecedented.

It is possible that there was more than one warm period in the post-Flood era. Glacier fluctuation in the mountains of coastal British Columbia has revealed about a half dozen short periods of warmth greater than today. One of these warm periods was carbon-14 dated at 7,300 to 5,300 years ago, bracketing the time for the warmth in the Beartooth Mountains.

Obviously, the earth survived. There is no reason to overreact to current global warming. And there is plenty of time for unbiased research to learn more about the possible trajectory of global warming and to determine a realistic course of action. Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg recently advocated that, whatever global warming throws at us, we can mitigate the effects much cheaper than any war to stop and reverse global warming. Although Lomborg believes in the results of the flawed global climate models and that we will not be able to stop or decrease global warming no matter what we do, he has spent considerable time developing thoughtful strategies worth considering.

We are fast approaching the time of Jesus return to set up His Millennial Kingdom when the whole topography of the Earth will be changed during the time God pours out His wrath upon an unrepentant world. Jerusalem will be on the highest mountain in the world. We won’t be worried about climate change but nations will need to be concerned about giving Jesus honour and due otherwise there will no rain on their land and the possibility of plagues as well. Go to http://www.millennialkingdom.net for more on Jesus coming Millennial Kingdom.

SEVENTH BOWL JUDGEMENT:

“And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there had never been since man was on the earth, so great was that earthquake. The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath. And every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found. And great hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, fell from heaven on people; and they cursed God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so severe.” Revelation 16:18-21

EUROPE IS IN FLAMES – IS THERE ANY HOPE LEFT?

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More prophesied demonic warfare against Europe and the West.

Author: Bill Muehlenberg. Article in The Daily Declaration 3rd November 2026.

You can always tell it is the weekend: European cities are again being torched by the Islamo-Marxists. Whether it is Brussels or Paris or Lyon or Marseille or Barcelona or Milan or Florence or Bologna or Rome, the continent is now a war zone. Rioters have even stormed the Colosseum in Rome.

Europe Is in Flames Again — Is There Any Hope Left?

As someone who had lived in Europe for five years, and been to all these countries, it is, of course, absolutely heart-breaking to witness what is now happening there. The many centuries of the slow building of Western civilisation are now being undone in a matter of days and months.

And most Western leaders are either fully pathetic and useless about all this, or are in fact complicit in it. Whether it is Burnham or Macron or Sanchez or others, they seem to be simply pouring more fuel on the flames. And letting in millions of unvetted and unchecked migrants from the third world simply guarantees that Europe will end up just like the third world.

I just saw a post on social media that nicely sums all this up in a short video. A motorcade said to be of Macron and his people is being chased out of a community by rioting Muslims shouting “Allahu Akbar!” As I said about it: “If true, will this finally wake him up? I doubt it. He is fully complicit in all this.”

This is a civilisation struggle of the highest order. These miscreants will stop at nothing until all of Europe is levelled, along with the rest of the West. What we are dealing with here are savages, barbarians and criminals who are all part of the demonic Red-Green alliance.

I and so many others have warned for years about the unholy alliance of Islam and the political left. See this piece from 15 years ago. And this piece from 6 months ago. Both sides think they are using the other to achieve their own ends. But anyone with a modicum of discernment knows exactly how this devilish alliance will end: Once Israel and the West are destroyed, then the Muslim hordes will quickly eliminate the useful idiots of the left.

This is a temporary alliance, designed to help the political ideology of Islam achieve its clearly stated goals of seeing a universal caliphate established with everyone enslaved under sharia law. The war on Europe is just part of the jihadist aim of eliminating the Little Satan, Israel, and the Great Satan, America, and then taking complete control.

This is the war we are in. This is the battle for civilisation that we are now living through in real time. The left might think they are on the cusp of their much-desired revolution, but they are simply fools. The left claims to be all for human rights, the rights of women, and so on.

But they ignore all that to achieve their socialist paradise — something that has never happened and never will. So they turn a blind eye to the crimes of Islam. As Will Kingston put it: “Leftists will always minimise Islamic terrorism and maximise the political capital they can extract from ‘far-right’ violence. After all, they’re the ones who let the barbarians through the gates.”

Satan’s War Against Christian Civilisation

And as I have to keep repeating, behind the left and behind Islam stands the REAL agitator: Satan. He is the malevolent being utterly set on death and destruction. He is the malignant monster who hates God, hates God’s people, and hates everything God cares about.

So no wonder Western civilisation is fully in his crosshairs. Western civilisation, for all its faults, has overwhelmingly been Christian civilisation. The Judeo-Christian worldview which helped to birth Europe and the West is what Satan despises with all his repellent being.

But of course, his days are numbered. We know that the purposes of God will stand. Things might keep getting really ugly for a while, especially in Europe. But in the end, God wins. Scripture throughout makes this clear.

I just read again the account of a famous post-resurrection appearance of Jesus, on the road to Emmaus. Found only in Luke’s Gospel (Luke 24:13-25), it tells us of the great sorrow and bewilderment of two followers of Jesus. The three years of his amazing teaching and miracles have seemingly all come to nothing.

All the long-awaited biblical promises of a Messiah who would come to deliver God’s people seem to be smashed. But in this story, we read about how Jesus appears among them, even though unrecognised. He has to tell them that they were amiss to not believe what God had revealed to them in the Hebrew Scriptures:

“And he said to them, ‘O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?’ And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.” (verses 25-27)

And then He departed from them as mysteriously as He had met them. Verses 32-34 tell us what happened next:

“They said to each other, ‘Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?’ And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem. And they found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together, saying, ‘The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!’”

The Risen Christ Is Our Hope

As R. Kent Hughes says about the immediate aftermath of the crucifixion of Christ:

In the late afternoon when the darkness lifted from Golgotha and the sun was full upon Him, Jesus cried out in triumph and breathed his last breath. But those gathered around the cross did not recognize His victory. As Christ hung motionless, the warm sun spread over his spilled blood.

As those who had hoped in Jesus slowly trudged away from the scene, the icy fingers of death tightened about their hearts in chilling, numbing grief. Despairing hands prepared his cold body for burial and laid it in the tomb. So deep was their despair that no one possessed even the slightest thought of resurrection.

When at dawn on the third day the women found the tomb empty, still no one suspected resurrection. It appears that they didn’t even believe after the angels announced he had risen. And when Peter inspected the empty tomb, instead of believing, he went away wondering.

But their despair soon turned to rejoicing. The risen Christ DID fulfil all the Old Testament promises. And with that reality firmly in place, the early church went on to conquer much of the world — not with the edge of the sword, as Islam had done and still does — but by sharing the good news of the love of God in Christ.

We believers may well feel like these disciples. With Europe in flames and the West looking to be doomed, heavy despair, panic and worry can easily overtake us. It might seem that all is lost. But God is working out His purposes, and He is still on the throne.

Yes, we must do what we can to resist the satanic agenda of Islam and the left, but at the end of the day, we put our hope in the only one who can really save us from all this darkness and destruction. Because He is risen, we can trust that even this evil we see all over Europe is only temporary and will one day come to an end.

Great article by Bill Muelhenberg but let me add to “and will one day come to an end” that day is not too far off as Biblical end times prophecies are playing out in our day. Next on the agenda is the peace treaty offered to Israel, watch for it.

DARWIN CITY COUNCIL DENIED “MARCH FOR JESUS”IN CITY’S 2026 CHRISTMAS PAGEANT

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Darwin City Council has denied March for Jesus (M4J) permission to promote Christ in the city’s 2026 Christmas pageant. NT News (NTN) said that the group handing out free Bibles and freely singing worship songs at the 2025 Christmas pageant were reasons for the decision. According to NTN, the Council’s “careful” decision to deny the request was made on the grounds of feedback. Although M4J was free to participate in 2024 and 2025, apparently, some people complained.

Perhaps the 2025 theme “AND THEY TOOK THE CITY” was too much for the Darwin City Council. It was based on Joshua 6:20 “So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city”. Based on Joshua they prayed and shouted praise, to glorify the NAME OF JESUS, and in doing so they prayed for spiritual strongholds in the city to fall down flat. They prayed to take back the city for the LORD and give hope to the people of Darwin. As Jesus return draws near spiritual warfare is becoming more intense and it will only get worse.

“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake. And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.” Matthew 24:9-10

The MARCH FOR JESUS is a worldwide event where Christians come together to celebrate and lift up the name of JESUS in their city. It’s a joyful walk filled with singing, prayer, and unity as believers publicly share their faith. This is a chance for people of all backgrounds and denominations to come together and show their love for Jesus in a way that brings hope and encouragement to the community.

NT’s governing Country Liberal Party Attorney General and minister for major events, Marie-Clare Boothby, seems to think so. She slammed the council’s call. In a short statement, Boothby said the decision “can only be described as un-Australian and it’s a decision that will outrage Territorians. “Christmas is all about celebrating faith and family and the very best of our community, and any move to ban anyone from taking part is completely unacceptable and against everything that Christmas stands for.”

Boothby added, “I strongly urge Council to reconsider its ridiculous decision.

CELEBRATE AUSTRALIA DAY, BUT REJECT WELCOME TO COUNTRY CEREMONIES SAYS INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL RODNEY RIVERS!

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A lot of what’s passed off as Aboriginal culture today is actually Aboriginal religion — pagan beliefs no longer embraced by most Aboriginal Australians. Christians must use discernment on these issues.

You will see in all the major cities of Australia on 26th January a smoking ceremony being performed. This ceremony is disguised, and is presented to you as ‘Aboriginal culture’, but it is not what it seems. I do not want to criticise or denigrate Aboriginal culture, but I have a serious concern.

This ceremony is Aboriginal religion, linked to diabolical demon spirits, portrayed to the Australian public as ancestral spirits. But when you participate in the smoking ceremony, you automatically open the door to the spirit-world, and you give millions of demons legal access into your life and your family and into society.

The result is the break-up of marriages and families. People will hear voices, have mental breakdowns, even suicides. This ceremony puts a curse on you and, sooner or later — be warned — it will catch up with you and affect your life.

Raised on Kimberley cattle country, Rodney Rivers (68) the author of this article, is fluent in 4 Indigenous Australian languages. He lives in Perth with his wife Glenys. Rodney is a descendant of the Moola Bulla, Gidja and Gooniyandi Indigenous tribes. A talented musician and singer-songwriter, Rodney has performed Australia-wide and has toured with Slim Dusty’s guitarist Barry Thornton.

Working as an ethnic and Indigenous translator for the Summer Institute of Linguists in Darwin, Rodney has been significantly involved in Scripture translation work for Australia’s first Creole Bible translation, published by the Bible Society Australia.

Rodney is on the committee for A National Act of Recognition of the First Peoples of Australia and Torres Strait. A core action is to invite every Australian to gather at Botany Bay at a date to be advised to publically denounce and declare unacceptable any false notion of “a land belonging to no one” that there may have been when taking possession of Australia. “We’re all going to go there and dig a grave and bury that lie of terra nullius and any personal hang ups people got and have a celebration. Black and white, let’s walk away from Botany Bay and rebuild this nation for the Lord Jesus Christ,” said Rodney.

“My passion for Australia is that one day I’d like to see the Glory of the Lord cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. The Lord gave me a vision back in the mid 1980s. He took me up to a different realm and showed me this global move, global outpouring of the Holy Spirit that started here in Australia. There is a wave coming as well for the South Pacific Islands. My role as an Indigenous person is to prepare the way for what is coming.”

Let each of us make sure we know what our role is in preparing the way for what is coming prior to Jesus return to restore righteousness.

WHEN IS THE BIBLICAL END TIMES “HOUR OF TRIAL” COMING ON ALL THE WORLD?

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Are we approaching the hour of trial coming on all the world?

“Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.” Revelation 3:10

Nelson Walters examines scripture to identify when this prophetic period begins and who it affects. Many believers seek clarity on the end times by looking at the Olivet Discourse, yet the specific transition into the great tribulation remains debated. This study analyses the connection between Revelation 14 and Matthew 24 to establish a clearer timeline. By looking at the text, he determines the scriptural markers that signal the beginning of this intense period and evaluates the conditions required for the saints to endure. Nelson also addresses the common questions surrounding the rapture timeline and the distinction between those who are gathered and those who are left behind. Understanding these chapters requires careful attention to the original context, ensuring that your perspective on end times prophecy is grounded firmly in the word rather than speculation. His focus on Revelation 3:10 as a call for patient endurance and faith, provides a biblical foundation for what lies ahead.

WANT THE POWER OF GOD THEN FOLLOW GOD’S ADVICE

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“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free,
and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water,
whose waters do not fail.” Isaiah 58:7-11

The Lord will guide you continually if you follow this advice “Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.” How good is that. Better still ” And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail. I am 90 now and I can testify to the goodness of God to “your healing shall spring up speedily” and “make your bones strong”.

We are fast approaching the time of Jesus second coming to Earth, this time to restore righteousness and to fulfill the promises God made to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and David that the nation God established for His purposes, Israel, would finally fulfil its destiny to rule all the nations of this world before God destroys it with fire and creates a new Heaven and new Earth where only the righteous dwell.

“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man.” Revelation 21:1-3

Are you prepared to rule and reign with Jesus in His Millennial Kingdom? If not go to http://www.millennialkingdom.net

ARE YOU USING WHAT GOD HAS PLACED IN YOUR HANDS FOR HIS KINGDOM?

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Great article by Paul McLaughlin. He is is married to Rachel and they have four children. Paul is a farmer, entrepreneur, businessman and follower of Jesus, and who genuinely loves people. He is passionate about every person finding their purpose in who God created them to be. This is his reflection on an important Scripture.

As I reflected on Jesus’ words, “My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me,” I realised how urgently we need to listen to that voice today. The world is constantly changing and full of distractions. It is easy for our surroundings to shape how we think and live. I wonder whether we are truly making time to know Jesus, to recognise his voice, and to follow him.

When I look at the Church and how we are perceived by those who do not yet know Jesus, I am challenged: do we treat evangelism as a task or as a way of life? A personal shift for me has been moving from “let’s go and evangelise” to seeing evangelism as an everyday practice.

Instead of viewing people as targets, I have tried to live as Jesus did — open-hearted, offering rest to those who are burdened. He did not see people as targets. His motivation was love for the lost that simply said, “Come.”

We run a tourist park in the middle of Litchfield National Park. We do not hold ‘outreach’ nights or go out to ‘evangelise’ the campers. What we do is show Jesus’ love practically. For three months during the busy season our family cooks buffalo stew and croc laksa on Wednesday nights for free! We often have 120–180 people on our deck for dinner.

I welcome them as our guests, share a little of our story, and tell them we are Christians who do this because we believe it is what Jesus wants. We love people, and Jesus is interested in people — in families and communities. “We want you to be our family tonight,” I say.

Then I pray a blessing over them, their families, the food and the night. We have had so many opportunities to share afterwards. People are searching for genuineness — for people who are real.

Something I have learnt is that it is easier to say “when I get this or when I go there” than simply to ask God, “What is in my hand? What do I have to share?” When we see our possessions, money and time as seed that God asks us to sow, life becomes simpler.

Whatever you have, sow it and trust God to increase it. We may not always see it, but what lasts is the fruit — eternal fruit.

Time is short, my friends. Don’t let it slip by. Today is the day. God has blessed us in this country with so much. Are you using what he has put in your hand for his kingdom?

Paul’s Prayer: Lord, thank you for every good gift you have given us — for our families, our friends and this nation. Help us to see people through your eyes, to love them with your heart, and to be real and open-hearted with them. Show us what you have placed in our hands so we can reach others for your glory. May your kingdom come, may your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.

BIBLICAL PROPHECY SUPPORTS THE CHURCH IS ASLEEP AS WE FAST APPROACH JESUS SECOND COMING

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I want to share something that is heavy on my heart about the Church and the times we are living in. Church, it’s time to wake up. It makes me sad to see so many people remain spiritual babies year after year, without growing into mature disciples who can help others follow Jesus.

We are called to make disciples—not just gather people. I believe it’s time to start new groups where people can grow, be equipped, and learn to make disciples themselves.

Torben Sondergaad is dedicated to awakening the Church to the coming persecution and to help believers create a movement of disciples who will stand firm in difficult times. Can I suggest you check out his website http://www.thelastreformation.com and listen to his message on this video.

The world is changing so quickly, and we cannot afford to sleep. Let’s follow Jesus wholeheartedly and do what He has called us to do.

WHY IS THERE A HELL?

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Justin does a good job of looking at what the Bible teaches about hell and heaven. I have written a book on hell: Lake of Fire – Terminal Punishment/Second Death; Eternal Conscious Torment; Universal Redemption ? which reaches the same conclusion as Justin, that unbelievers will face appropriate punishment but their ultimate end is a second death. At the moment it is only available as an eBook on Amazon.

“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.” Revelation 2:11

“Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power,” Revelation 20:6

“Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.” Revelation 20:14

“But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” Revelation 21:8