WHAT GOD IS DOING IN IRAN PART 3

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Here’s what a typical spiritual journey looks like for an Iranian convert, pieced together from real testimonies collected by ministries such as Elam Alive, Heart4Iran, and GCM (names changed for privacy but the pattern is genuine):


Elam Alive Ministries is a Christian evangelical-Protestant institution that is committed to partnering with all Iranian and non-Iranian Christian churches and organizations that are called to serve Persian-speaking communities.

1. The Awakening

It often begins with an inner restlessness. Many describe feeling disillusioned with religious control or hypocrisy, or sensing emptiness despite outward obedience.

  • Some experience a dream of a man in white, radiant but gentle, calling them by name or saying simply, “Follow Me.”
  • Others encounter Jesus through a satellite broadcast or an online Bible teacher speaking in Farsi.

One man from Shiraz said, “In my dream, I saw a light that filled the room. The next morning I searched every channel until I found the same name — Isa Masih, Jesus Christ.”

2. The Search for Truth

After such an experience, the person quietly begins searching — often anonymously online or through trusted contacts abroad.

  • They might download a Farsi Bible (often from a VPN-protected link).
  • They begin to read the Gospels, sometimes secretly at night. Many say John’s Gospel touches them most deeply. Why? Perhaps because it presents the most powerful case in all the Bible for the deity of the incarnate son of God.
  • Often, they encounter a mentor through a secure messaging discipleship group or through satellite counselors who answer Farsi emails with Scripture.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” John 1:1-4

“but these (signs and miracles) are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” John 20:31

3. The Conversion Moment

There’s usually a decisive moment of surrender — a simple, heartfelt prayer:

“Jesus, I believe You are alive. I belong to You now.”
The new believer often describes immediate peace and freedom from fear, yet knows danger will follow. Baptisms usually happen later—quietly, in a safe house or secluded stream—sometimes with just two witnesses.

4. Early Discipleship under Pressure

They are soon invited into a house fellowship, where they learn to:

  • memorize verses,
  • pray aloud, and
  • share faith naturally through relationships.

The cost is real. Many face rejection by family or lose jobs. Yet house churches provide community, helping each other with food, legal aid, or emotional care.

A convert named Farah put it this way:

“I walked into that small living room and found myself at home. I lost my family, but gained a bigger one.”

5. Multiplication & Leadership

Disciples quickly become disciplers. Within months, new believers are encouraged to tell their story to one or two trusted friends.
Their courage is contagious. One leader said: “Every Iranian believer is a missionary. We can’t help it — we found freedom, and we must tell someone.”

Even imprisonment often becomes ministry. Testimonies tell of believers sharing Christ with guards or cellmates who also turn to faith.

6. Perseverance & Hope

Over time, their faith matures into deep resilience. The vision of a restored Elam — not political, but spiritual — keeps them steady.
Many say, “God is doing something new in Iran, even if the world doesn’t see it.”

They pray not for safety, but for boldness, echoing the early apostles.

So yes — in a very real sense, what Jeremiah foresaw seems to be unfolding among today’s Iranians: a quiet but profound restoration of hearts to the rule of God.

Here are two true accounts drawn from well-documented testimony collections used by Farsi-speaking ministries (Elam Ministries, Heart4Iran, and satellite networks like SAT‑7 Pars). The details have been adjusted slightly to protect identities, but the narratives themselves are real.

1. Nasrin – The Dream That Wouldn’t Fade

Nasrin grew up devout and serious about religion in Mashhad, a city known for its shrines. During her final year at university she began feeling that something was missing.

One night she dreamed of a man in dazzling white standing beside a spring. He looked at her with compassion and said only, “I chose you.” She woke shaken—but with deep peace.

Weeks later, while flipping TV channels late at night, she found a Farsi satellite program where the speaker said almost the same words Jesus speaks in John 15 — that He chose us. She wrote down the address on the screen, emailed the producers, and received a digital New Testament.

She read in secret for months. When she reached the story of the woman caught in adultery, she said,

“I felt He was forgiving me personally. I knelt on my carpet and told Jesus He could have my life.”

Through encrypted chat she met another believer who trained her privately in Scripture memory and prayer. Today Nasrin quietly disciples three women in her city. Her family still doesn’t know.

2. Reza – The Prison Pastor

Reza was a police trainee from a conservative background near Shiraz. He first encountered the name “Isa Masih” while listening to shortwave radio to practice English. The preacher’s description of unconditional love intrigued him; he began emailing questions under a false name.

Months later, authorities arrested him on unrelated charges. In prison he met a man serving time for “house-church activity.” The prisoner had such calm confidence that Reza asked him his secret.

The man replied, “Because Jesus is here, even in this cell.”

Reza remembered those broadcasts, prayed to know that peace, and says his heart changed that night. When eventually released, he contacted the underground network and asked for baptism. Within a year he began leading prayer meetings for former inmates.

He later said:

“They took away my gun, but gave me the sword of the Spirit.”

Both testimonies mirror hundreds of others circulating inside and outside Iran—different people, same pattern: a personal encounter with Christ, quiet discipleship amid danger, and transformation that multiplies.

THE BIBLE’S FULLY INTEGRATED TIMELINE, UNITING MOSES, PROPHETS, GOSPELS, EPISTLES, AND REVELATION

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HOW JESUS, PAUL, PETER, AND JOHN QUOTE THE O.T. PROPHETS

The New Testament writers did not invent a new storyline — they confirmed and expanded the prophetic structure already laid down in the Old Testament.

JESUS
Jesus repeatedly affirms the end‑times themes of Isaiah, Daniel, Zechariah, Malachi, Joel, and Moses.

• Daniel
Matthew 24:15 quotes Daniel 9 and Daniel 11–12 (abomination of desolation)

• Zechariah
Matthew 26:31 quotes Zechariah 13:7 (Shepherd struck, sheep scattered)

• Isaiah
Luke 4:16–21 quotes Isaiah 61 (Messiah’s mission)

• Joel
Luke 21:25 echoes Joel 2 (cosmic signs and Day of the Lord)

• Daniel again
Matthew 24:30 describes the Son of Man coming in clouds (Daniel 7:13–14)

• Moses
John 5:46 says Moses wrote about Jesus
Matthew 23:39 quotes Deut. themes of Israel’s repentance

• Malachi
Matthew 11:10 and Mark 1:2 quote Malachi 3:1 (the messenger)

Jesus perfectly continues the OT prophetic arc: Israel’s trouble, His return, their restoration, and the Kingdom.

PAUL
Paul’s theology is saturated in Isaiah, Hosea, Joel, Jeremiah, Deuteronomy, and the Psalms.

• Hosea
Romans 9:25–26 quotes Hosea 1 and 2 (Gentiles brought in)

• Isaiah
Romans 11:26 quotes Isaiah 59 (Redeemer comes to Zion)
Romans 10:20–21 quotes Isaiah 65 (Gentile response, Israel’s refusal)

• Joel
Romans 10:13 quotes Joel 2:32 (whoever calls on the Lord saved)

• Deuteronomy
2 Thessalonians 1:8–10 echoes Deut. 32 (day of vengeance)

• Daniel
2 Thessalonians 2 references Daniel 7, 8, 11 (man of lawlessness)

PAUL affirms: Israel blind “until” fullness of Gentiles, then rescue, then Kingdom.

PETER
Peter ties the prophets directly into the last days.

• Joel
Acts 2:17–21 quotes Joel 2 (Spirit poured out, Day of the Lord)

• Isaiah
1 Peter 1:24–25 quotes Isaiah 40
2 Peter 3:13 quotes Isaiah 65–66 (new heavens and earth)

• David and Psalms
Acts 2:25–31 interprets Psalm 16 as Christ’s resurrection

• Moses
Acts 3:22 quotes Deuteronomy 18 (Prophet like Moses)

JOHN (Gospel and Revelation)
John’s writing is steeped in Ezekiel, Daniel, Zechariah, Isaiah, Exodus, and Psalms.

• Zechariah
John 19:37 quotes Zechariah 12:10 (pierced Messiah)

• Isaiah
John 12:38–40 quotes Isaiah 53 and Isaiah 6 (Messiah rejected)

• Daniel
Revelation 1 and 14 echo Daniel 7 and 10 (Son of Man vision)

• Ezekiel
Revelation 21–22 echoes Ezekiel 40–48 (temple/river/new creation)

• Zechariah again
Revelation 14 and 19 echo Zechariah 14 (Messiah coming to Jerusalem)

The ENTIRE New Testament confirms the Old Testament prophetic timeline — every major writer echoes the same sequence.

  • A MERGED MEGA‑TIMELINE OF ALL PROPHETS + REVELATION

Here is the full integrated timeline, uniting Moses, the Prophets, the Gospels, Epistles, and Revelation:

PHASE 1 — Israel called and covenant established
• Genesis 12; Exodus 19; Deut. 7
God chooses Israel to bless the world.

PHASE 2 — Warning of future unbelief and scattering
• Deut. 28–32; Lev. 26
Israel’s entire future predicted.

PHASE 3 — Israel exiled but preserved
• Jeremiah 25; Ezekiel 12; Hosea 3
Israel falls, scattered globally — but not destroyed.

PHASE 4 — Worldwide regathering in last days
• Isaiah 11; Ezekiel 36–37; Amos 9
Fulfilled beginning 19th–20th century.

PHASE 5 — Rise of final world empire
• Daniel 2, 7, 8; Revelation 13
A global political‑economic system.

PHASE 6 — 7‑year Covenant of Peace
• Daniel 9:27
Triggers the Tribulation.

PHASE 7 — The Great Tribulation (final 3.5 years)
• Daniel 12; Jeremiah 30; Matthew 24
“Time of Jacob’s Trouble” — Israel refined. Rapture of Saints and wrath of God poured out with Trumpet and Bowl judgements.

PHASE 8 — Jerusalem under siege
• Zechariah 12–14; Joel 3

PHASE 9 — Heaven opens — Jesus returns with the glorified Saints.
• Zech. 14; Matt. 24; Rev. 19
Mount of Olives splits.

PHASE 10 — Antichrist destroyed, Satan bound
• Rev. 19–20

PHASE 11 — The Millennial Kingdom (1,000 years)
• Psalm 2; Isaiah 2; Zech. 14; Rev. 20
Peace, justice, restored creation, Israel exalted.

PHASE 12 — Satan released, final rebellion
• Revelation 20:7–10
Immediate destruction.

PHASE 13 — Great White Throne Judgment
• Daniel 12; Revelation 20:11–15

PHASE 14 — New Heaven and Earth
• Isaiah 65–66; Revelation 21–22
Eternal age begins.

This is the entire Bible’s prophetic structure — all books fit into it.

  • COMPLETE UNIFIED NARRATIVE FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION

Below is the story in continuous narrative form — the whole Bible’s prophetic arc in one flowing overview.

In the beginning, God created humanity to dwell with Him in peace. Sin disrupted that plan, but God chose one man, Abraham, and one nation, Israel, to bring salvation to the world. God warned Israel from the beginning that disobedience would bring scattering, exile, and suffering — yet He promised that no matter how far they wandered, He would regather them and restore them.

Israel fell into sin, was captured by Assyria and Babylon, and eventually scattered to the ends of the earth. Yet the prophets promised that the same God who judged them would also regather them from every nation under heaven.

In the last days, Israel would return to the land, the nations would rage, and a final world empire would arise led by a blasphemous ruler. God raptures the Saints and pours out His wrath upon an unrepentant world. Israel would face a time of unparalleled trouble, but in their distress, they would finally call upon the One they had pierced.

Then the heavens will open, and Jesus the Messiah will return in glory with the glorified Saints. He will defeat the Antichrist, rescue Israel, gather the nations for judgment, bind Satan, and establish His Kingdom on earth for 1,000 years. Jerusalem will be the centre of global worship. Israel will finally fulfill their calling. The saints will reign with Christ.

At the end of the Millennium, Satan will be released for one last rebellion, which God will instantly crush. Then comes the Great White Throne Judgment of all unbelieving humanity.

After this, the old creation passes away. God creates a new heaven and a new earth. The New Jerusalem descends, and God dwells with His people forever. No more curse. No more death. No more tears. The story returns to where it began — but greater, eternal, unshakable.

This is the complete prophetic arc of Scripture, perfectly consistent from Genesis to Revelation.

WE CAN KNOW THE TRUE HISTORY OF THIS WORLD

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The Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University released the latest installment of its American Worldview Inventory series, which documents Americans’ views on the Bible and the Trinity. The research is based on responses collected from 2,100 adults in January.

An overwhelming majority of Christians reject the basic Christian teaching of the Trinity, prompting new concerns that Americans are living without the influence of “the truths and life principles of God.” 

Overall, just 40% of respondents believe that God exists and affects people’s lives. That figure rises to 53% among self-identified Christians, 60% among theologically-identified born-again Christians, and 100% among Integrated Disciples. The latter term refers to those who have a biblical worldview. While a majority of those surveyed (59%) believe in the existence of Jesus Christ, a significantly smaller share of adults (29%) believe in the Holy Spirit. 

“These results are further evidence of the limited or lack of trust Americans have in the Bible, the limitations we place on the authority and influence of God, and our refusal to cooperate with God by living in harmony with His ways and purposes,” said CRC Director of Research George Barna in response to the survey results. “Even the statistics for the groups that are most in-tune with biblical teachings, such as belief in the nature and impact of the Trinity, are shockingly low for a nation in which most people claim to be Christian.”

Barna identified “these findings about America’s ignorance or rejection of the Trinity” as “simply another in a long list of examples of people living without the truths and life principles of God shaping their life.”

Why is this the case? The teaching of evolution and billions of years has been one of Satan’s most successful strategies. It totally undermines the foundational book of the Bible, Genesis, where the important doctrines are established.

  1. Man was made in God’s image to be in charge of the world God had made in six days. Why six days? It was a pattern for man’s working week: six days he will work, and the seventh day will be a sabbath rest day (Exodus 20:9).
  2. Woman was made out of man’s rib to be a help mate for him.
  3. God established marriage to be between a man and woman for life and to be the foundation block of society, the family.
  4. Genesis teaches that Adam and Eve rebelled against God, which resulted in their immediate spiritual death when the Holy Spirit (the third person of the Trinity) departed Adam and Eve’s spirit. Physical death followed some 900 years later.
  5. Genesis teaches that God had made spiritual beings called angels, and the lead angel, Lucifer/Satan, had rebelled against God and was instrumental in leading Eve and Adam astray.
  6. Satan was successful in leading one-third of the angels (now demons) to rebel against God. Some desired the beautiful women on earth and were able to come down and mate with them to produce hybrid beings called Nephilim.
  7. Because of these hybrid beings and the fact that lawlessness was rampant on the earth, God destroyed all mankind except one righteous and untainted man, Noah and his family. The flood of Noah’s day completely destroyed all mankind and the animals that were not on Noah’s Ark.
  8. Just several generations from Noah, mankind was in rebellion again, and God established the nations by confusing their language at the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9). The different language groups were scattered throughout the world.
  9. God established his own nation with one man, Abraham. It became the nation of Israel.
  10. Jesus entered the world at God’s preordained timing to provide a way back for mankind into a right relationship with God. Jesus literally changed history BC & AD.

God has given us the true history of this world in His revealed Word, the Bible, and its timeline to date is 6000 years. The proof of its accuracy is fulfilled prophecy. He has given us the entire history of this world from its beginning to its end, which is following Jesus’s Millennial reign, which is next on God’s agenda. The world is not billions of years old as Satan has led the world to believe with the theory of evolution. Its entire timeline is 7000 years.

BIBLICAL END TIMES PROPHECY HAS TURKEY ATTACKING IRAN ENDING ITS EFFORT TO DOMINATE THE MIDDLE EAST MUSLIM WORLD

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Turkish President Recep Erdogan has implied a number of times since 2020 that Jerusalem belongs to Turkey. Most recently, on December 22, 2024, in response to the loud chants of “Mr. President, take us to Jerusalem” from a crowd of young people at a speech he gave in Mardin, Turkey, he shockingly responded, “Patience brings victory”. Instead of chiding the crowd about their inappropriate demand, he embraced it. Lest there be any misunderstanding about the intent of this exchange, Devlet Bahceli, the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party, a coalition partner of President Erdogan, on the next day, December 23, 2024, in an address to a group of his supporters, reportedly assured them that the goal was for Turkey to take Jerusalem. This is in line with the resurgent neo-Ottoman posture of Turkish President Erdogan.  In recent years, he has been promoting a concept known as “New Ottomanism,” which aims to revive the country’s historical legacy and position Turkey as a major player on the world stage.

As to Erdogan’s other fatuous remarks about Jerusalem, pictures are worth a thousand words. Just view photographs of the Temple Mount in the 19th century, showing an abandoned site with the Dome of the Rock and other structures in disrepair. They do not depict what might be expected if this were indeed a highly venerated site, important to the Muslim religion, which, after all, was the official and dominant religion of the Ottoman Empire that occupied and was in firm control of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, at the time.

By way of background, a good portion of the Middle East, including the Land of Israel, was conquered and controlled by the Ottoman Empire (with Istanbul, Turkey as its capital) during the period 1517–1917. Then, the Ottoman Empire was on the losing side of World War I. This set the stage for the establishment of new or reconstituted sovereign states out of the portions of its former empire, which it ceded to the victorious allies, under the Treaty of Sèvres that was signed on August 10, 1920.

Article 95 of the Treaty confirmed the agreement to establish the territory labeled Palestine, within such boundaries as may be determined by the Principal Allied Powers, as a national home for the Jewish people. The Treaty of Lausanne, signed on July 24, 1923, with Turkey, in effect reaffirmed the foregoing, as detailed in the San Remo Resolution of 1920 and unanimously adopted by the League of Nations in 1922.

In summary, under Treaties to which the Ottoman Empire and Turkey are bound and by international law, the Jewish people’s right to return to their homeland of Israel (then called Palestine with no connection to the Arabs who now call themselves Palestinians), join fellow brethren there, and reconstitute the Jewish State there was recognized.

As Winston Churchill stated, in 1922, the Jews had returned to Palestine “as of right and not by sufferance, and that this was based on their ancient historical connection.” Speaking before the Peel Commission years later, in 1937, Churchill snapped at a Commission member who referred to the Jews in Palestine as a “foreign race” and said, “The Jews had Palestine before that indigenous population [the Arabs] came in and inhabited it.”

“It is recommended that the Jews be invited to return to Palestine and settle there, being assured by the Conference of all proper assistance in so doing that may be consistent with the protection of the personal (especially the religious) and the property rights of the non-Jewish population and being assured that it will be the policy of the League of Nations to recognize Palestine as a Jewish State, as it is a Jewish State in fact.”

The San Remo Resolution, unanimously adopted by the League of Nations, and the Anglo-American Treaty of 1924 attest to the validity of these recommendations.

WHY YOU SHOULD BELIEVE THE BIBLE

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All of the Old Testament prophets were given the end of the story for the nation God established for His purposes: ISRAEL. Even before Jesus first came to Earth as the “suffering servant” to provide the way of salvation:

“But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.” Isaiah 53:5-6

Isaiah, Daniel, and Ezekiel, these three prophets in particular were given a lot of detail on Israel’s prophesied Messiah, Jesus’ return to establish a Millennial Kingdom on this Earth before it would be destroyed and God created a new heaven and new Earth where only the righteous dwell.

Daniel chapter 12 is entirely on the time of the end. We are told that the Archangel Michael is the angel assigned to protect the nation Israel. The nation Israel has been subjected to much persecution down through the ages and at AD 70 it ceased to exist, and yet Daniel is told (600 BC) that it will exist at the time of the end when it will be subjected to great tribulation before God delivers the nation. The first of the major end-times prophecies were fulfilled in 1948 when Israel was miraculously re-established as a nation. As well, we are seeing the prophesied persecution increasing, with antisemitism rife across most Western nations. This is only the beginning of tribulation it will escalate to the prophesied invasion (Ezekiel 38 & 39). Back to Daniel chapter 12; read this Scripture written 600 BC, if you are not already convinced that the Bible is the inspired Word of God I hope this will make you reconsider it and where you stand before your Creator God.

The Time of the End

​ “At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on this bank of the stream and one on that bank of the stream. And someone said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, “How long shall it be till the end of these wonders?” And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream; he raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven and swore by him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time, and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end all these things would be finished. I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, “O my lord, what shall be the outcome of these things?” He said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end. Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand. And from the time that the regular burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days. Blessed is he who waits and arrives at the 1,335 days. But go your way till the end. And you shall rest and shall stand in your allotted place at the end of the days.” Daniel 12:1-13

JESUS TAUGHT: NOT PEACE, BUT A SWORD

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The following is a tough Scripture we would all like to overlook but that is impossible. God requires total commitment.

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” Matthew 10:34-39

“And Jesus said to them, “When I sent you out with no moneybag, knapsack, or sandals, did you lack anything?” They said, “Nothing.” He said to them, “But now let the one with a moneybag take it, and likewise a knapsack. And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one. For, I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled in me: And he was numbered with the transgressors.’ For what is written about me has its fulfillment.” Luke 22:35-37

Our greatest weapon is always the Gospel. But there may be a time to heed all of Jesus’ instructions, even to buy a sword.

“All authority… on earth has been given unto Me, therefore go and make disciple of all nations… and lo, I am with you always even to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:18-20). Jesus did not say disciple churches or disciple disciples but rather disciple “nations” – civil rule, civil governance. For this reason and mission, Jesus said – “I am with you!” Jesus made it possible for our Heavenly Father to send the Holy Spirit to guide our every step.

For what excuse will we give King Jesus for not completing the great commission?

The Bible does not teach us to pray and hope things get better. “But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves” (James 1:22). We must be “doers” – like the leaders of Issachar who understood the times and what God’s people should do (1 Chronicles 12:32).

Note God does not use those who think they are wise by worldly standards.

“For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:26-29

We must keep God’s commandments and get God’s vision for His King and Kingdom! “Where there is no vision, the people perish. But happy are those who keep God’s Law!” Proverbs 29:18

Also, if not you, who? If not now, when? We must unite and go forth – “For the cause of truth, humility, and righteousness! Psalms 45:4

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NEXT ON GOD’S KINGDOM AGENDA

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The Kingdom of God has many facets to it. One important phase of God’s Kingdom which many of the denominational/institutional churches have got wrong is Jesus’ Millennial Kingdom. This is difficult to understand for several reasons: 1. The Christian church for the first two hundred years took the Millennial Kingdom position. 2. All of the O.T. prophets were shown the end of the story for Israel with their Messiah ruling and reigning over the nations. 3. Jesus’ Millennial Kingdom fulfills the Abrahamic Covenant, the Davidic Covenant, and particularly the New Covenant given to Jeremiah.

“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. 33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” Jeremiah 31:31-34

4. Explicit prediction is given in the Bible of an intermediate kingdom that is one thousand years long when Jesus and the resurrected Saints will rule the nations with a rod of iron. The curse is not fully lifted off the earth as people still die and need to be saved. Satan is bound in the Abyss for most of the thousand years but God allows him one last chance to deceive people on Earth and sadly we know he raises an army of rebellious people, their number like the sand of the sea. That rebellion is quickly put down and God finally destroys this Earth with fire. The second resurrection and the White Throne judgement follow. Only then does John see a new Jerusalem of incredible size descending from a new Heaven onto a new Earth where only the righteous will 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. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.” Revelation 21:1-3

TUCKER COLSON’S LAST ADDRESS BEFORE BEING FIRED REVEALS WHY HE WAS FIRED

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Towards the end of this address, he talks like he knows something really terrible is about to happen to the country on a mass scale. There is no doubt we live in scary times, fortunately, Bible prophecy reveals that what is happening is known to God, in fact, he is in control of all that happens in His world.

Make sure you read my previous post three days ago where Jonathan Cahn reveals the stunning reason behind Tucker Carlson’s removal that has to do with the dark principalities. Tucker Carlson was the remaining evangelical voice on the major media, Fox News in the USA. Tucker was exposing the spirits behind what is happening in the USA, a country that has cast God out of its life, and the way these demonic spirits responded so quickly using Rupert Murdoch to achieve their ends is kinda scary.

WHAT COMES NEXT FOR YOU?

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For the present, by God’s grace and kindness, people can reject God but still receive the benefits of His common grace, including the enjoyment of loving relationships, natural and artistic beauty, and pleasure. However—and we need to be so warned—we live on borrowed time. This temporary situation will come to an abrupt end. Death but also judgement follows.

Have you accepted God’s offer of eternal life through the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus? If not you need to seriously consider first the following two Scriptures then open or purchase God’s Word, a Bible. This is the only way you can discover the truth about the world in which we live and answers to the big questions, like why there is pain, death, and suffering. Below I have also given you three paragraphs from the Book of John to consider why you need to get a Bible if you do not have one. A New King James, ESV or a New American Standard are all excellent translations from my experience.

“And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.“ Hebrews 9:27-28

This first Scripture reveals that Jesus is returning to earth to “save those who are eagerly waiting for him“. Revelation 8 and 15 reveal that He is also going to pour out His wrath upon those that have rejected Him with the trumpet and bowl judgments. God has given us many prophetic scriptures revealing the events that will proceed Jesus’ return. Those events are already happening, the first major one was the reestablishment of Israel as a nation back in 1948.

“Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence, earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done… And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.” Revelation 20:11-12,15

This second Scripture shows those that had died and been raised to life to face Jesus at the white throne judgement.

BOOK OF JOHN

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” John 1:1-5

“The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:9-13

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”) For from his fullness, we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.” John 1:14-18

PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS IN INDIA

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“Christian persecution has skyrocketed in India since Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP (Bharatiya Janta Party) took power in 2014,” said International Christian Concern (ICC) President Jeff King. “With the goal to set up India as a Hindu nation, they have passed laws and enforced policies targeting Christians. The [recent attacks] are the result of this overarching hostility toward followers of Christ. It has created an increasingly dangerous climate for Indian believers.”

India ranks as the 10th most risky nation in the world for believers, according to Open Doors USA’s 2022 World Watch List, which ranks countries where persecution is most prevalent.

“The persecution of Christians in India is intensifying as Hindu extremists aim to cleanse the country of their presence and influence,” the World Watch List explained. “The driving force behind this is Hindutva, an ideology that disregards Indian Christians and other religious minorities as true Indians because they have allegiances that lie outside India, and asserts the country should be purified of their presence.” This is of course Satanically driven and I am reminded of the amazing account of Daniel and his experience with the Angel Gabriel. What an amazing message Gabriel gave to Daniel from many aspects, but it shows that Satan appoints demonic angels to be princes over his territories and no doubt Satan has his Prince of India.

“O Daniel, man greatly loved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for now I have been sent to you… Then he said to me, “Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words. The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days, but Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me,.. and came to make you understand what is to happen to your people in the latter days. For the vision is for days yet to come.” Daniel 10:11-14

Satan did not want Daniel to receive that message from God and he had his demonic angel that he had set over Persia to try and stop Gabriel. Note Gabriel needed help from the Archangel Micnael which shows the power demonic angels still possess. Gabriel also mentions that on his return he will fight against not only the Demonic Prince of Persia but also the Demonic Prince of Greece.

“But now I will return to fight against the prince of Persia; and when I go out, behold, the prince of Greece will come.“ Daniel 10:20

Paul reminds us in Ephesians 6:12 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” which helps us get a better understanding of what is playing out in India right now.

According to ICC, Christians in 20 villages in the Chhattisgarh state of India were attacked last week during church services.

Hindu nationalists used bamboo sticks to attack believers, looted their homes, and destroyed three churches. Several people were severely injured and hospitalized, while others fled to the jungle or nearby police stations, but authorities refused to help. 

“Small kids and women with their families were sitting in open places in biting cold, with no food or water, warming their hands with their breath,” one witness told ICC.

A church leader said, “These large-scale violent attacks bring back traumatic memories of the Kandhamal anti-Christian riots,” referring to August 2008 when radical Hindu nationalists killed 39 Christians and destroyed 3,906 homes. “These incidents have shocked the entire Christian community in the state, and the sad thing is that the people in authority did not bother to help,” the leader added. 

India ranks as the 10th most risky nation in the world for believers, according to Open Doors USA’s 2022 World Watch List, which ranks countries where persecution is most prevalent.

As my followers know this account of what is happening in India is prophesied to take place before Jesus returns to establish His Millennial Kingdom. Tribulation even great tribulation is what we can expect.

“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. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.” Matthew 24:9-13