WHY LIVING ETERNAL NOW?

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Ron Edwards

“Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” Romans 12:2 instructs: “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.“, and 1 John 2:15 states, “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”

Jesus said during the Sermon on the Mount, “You cannot serve two masters” Matthew 6:24. Repeatedly, Scripture talks of the perishable and the imperishable, the temporal and the eternal. As Christians, we simply cannot give our attention to both. We either live in this world with eternity in mind or we don’t. As Blakey put it, we must ask ourselves: “Do I want the new Heaven and new Earth later or this world now?”

Asking the question, however, is just the beginning. We should have an answer to it as well. Especially because our answer to that question says a lot about what we love, where our hope is placed, and, perhaps most strikingly, where we may be headed when we’re no longer walking the earth. Our answer is a matter of life or death; obedience or rebellion; truth or deceit. Our answer may well determine whether we truly understand the difference between being in the world and being of the world.

To desire this world implies a desire for the temporary. Fading pleasures and perishable goods often lure people astray. Instant gratification and selfish ambition cause many to feel as though this world offers more than it really does. After all, life is a highway, right? “We only live once,” as they say, so why not make the most of it by doing whatever we want whenever we want?

To choose this world now inevitably means whatever lies beyond the grave is a mere afterthought — if even a thought at all. The author of Ecclesiastes makes this point throughout the whole book: “All is vanity.” Ecclesiastes 8:15a states, “And I commend joy, for man has nothing better under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful.” Within its proper context, this verse is not advocating for a hedonistic lifestyle — one that places pleasure as the highest good and aims for pleasure. Rather, the point it’s making reflects the primary theme of Ecclesiastes, namely, that nothing really matters apart from God.

All is vanity when we try to live separately from our Creator and rely on our own devices. Our purpose is uprooted and lost in a flood of uncertainty. Hopes and dreams may live on, but to what end? Without objective truth in mind, love, joy, peace, and all biblical fruit carry completely different meanings. In fact, at the heart of some of the most secular ideas is this sense of “I can be my own god,” “no truth is final,” and “this life is ultimately about me.” Almost anyone can walk around believing they’re not voluntarily choosing hell. Who in their right mind would boast about such a choice? However, by choosing this world, one is, in effect, choosing that which we dare not consider.

It’s easy to laugh off the decisions we make in our day-to-day. “Oh, I didn’t know any better.” “I was just having a bad day.” “We all make mistakes, right?” Sure, we are allowed to make mistakes and have bad days. The natural conclusion of living as sinners in a fallen world is that we will make mistakes and have bad days. But for those who are called to righteousness, we cannot allow that to become our excuse for letting poor decisions and misguided priorities be the norm.

As Christians, we should not crave the world we currently reside in but look to God for what He has for us when Jesus Christ returns first to rapture the Saints and then to pour out His wrath upon an unrepentant world. Biblical end-times prophecies reveal that Satan’s rule over planet Earth is coming to an end. What is next on God’s agenda for planet Earth is Jesus’ Millennial Kingdom. Jesus and the glorified Saints will rule and reign on this Earth for 1000 years to complete the Abrahamic, Davidic, and New Covenants. This Earth still has 1,000 years with Jesus and the Saints ruling with a rod of iron. “

“She gave birth to a male child (Jesus), one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days.” Revelation 12:5-6

“The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father.” Revelation 2:26-27

“From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron.“ Revelation 19:15a

It is obvious that on the new Heaven and new Earth where only righteousness dwells Jesus and the Saints will not need to rule with a rod of iron. Jesus Millennial Kingdom is a transition period. Jesus must reign over his kingdom until he has defeated all his enemies. Once this is accomplished, Jesus will hand over the kingdom to the Father. When the Kingdom of God is handed over to the Father, it will be free of sin and death, identifying it as the Eternal State (Revelation 21:4, 8).

” Peter described us as “sojourners and exiles” (1 Peter 2:11). The truth is, we don’t actually belong here. When we were born again we were made to be with Christ, worshipping and having fellowship with Him and His people. As Christians, we understand we have a role in this world and should strive to walk in a manner worthy of our calling. We should be salt and light, using our gifts and abilities to serve, bless, and care for others. Christians should be trying to have influence, and we do so by tying everything back to the gospel.

As forgiven sinners, Christians should be defined by our gratitude for what Christ did on the cross for our sake. Believers should be bursting at the seams to share this gloriously Good News with those who are of the world! We do this because we are not of the world. We’re merely in it for a time. We’re just passing through. The church cannot choose this world now because our entire existence is rooted in what comes next – Jesus’ Millennial Kingdom.

END OF YEAR PROPHETIC ROUND-UP 2024

Posted on January 1, 2025 by Ron Edwards

Jonathan Cahn reviews the key prophetic events and mysteries of 2024 as we head into the next.

Apostasy in the church is a major Biblical end-times prophecy. Jonathan shows us that the Pope has led the way with apostasy and that most institutional/denominational churches have also fallen away from Biblical truth. Could the Pope be the Biblical False Prophet? More recently, the pope’s decision to have a special pilgrimage for the LGBT community in the 2025 Jubilee Year, titled “Church: Home for All, LGBT+ Christians and Other Existential Frontiers” proves he has departed from Biblical faith and is leading the Catholic church into apostasy. What he is proposing will involve a prayer vigil for LGBT Catholics on September 5th, 2025 at the Church of the Gesù in Rome. They will then pass through the Holy Doors of St. Peter’s on September 6th.

The world cannot see it but the choice is clear. It is repent or perish, revival or ruin, Christ or chaos.

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

Posted on December 31, 2024 by Ron Edwards

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.

PROOF JESUS IS WHO HE SAID HE WAS

Posted on December 30, 2024 by Ron Edwards

Scripture

Prophecy

Fulfillment

1. Gen. 3:15	Seed of a woman (virgin birth)	Galatians 4:4-5, Matthew 1:18
2. Gen. 3:15	He will bruise Satan’s head	Hebrews 2:14, 1John 3:8
3. Gen. 3:15	Christ’s heel would be bruised with nails on the cross	Matthew 27:35, Luke 24:39-40
4. Gen. 5:24	The bodily ascension to heaven illustrated	Mark 16:19, Rev. 12:5
5. Gen. 9:26, 27	The God of Shem will be the Son of Shem	Luke 3:23-36
6. Gen. 12:3	Seed of Abraham will bless all nations	Galatians 3:8, Acts 3:25, 26
7. Gen. 12:7	The Promise made to Abraham’s Seed	Galatians 3:16
8. Gen. 14:18	A priest after the order of Melchizedek	Hebrews 6:20
9. Gen. 14:18	King of Peace and Righteousness	Hebrews 7:2
10. Gen. 14:18	The Last Supper foreshadowed	Matthew 26:26-29
11. Gen. 17:19	Seed of Isaac (Gen. 21:12)	Romans 9:7
12. Gen. 22:8	The Lamb of God promised	John 1:29
13. Gen. 22:18	As Isaac’s seed, will bless all nations	Galatians 3:16
14. Gen. 26:2-5	The Seed of Isaac promised as the Redeemer	Hebrews 11:18
15. Gen. 28:12	The Bridge to heaven	John 1:51
16. Gen. 28:14	The Seed of Jacob	Luke 3:34
17. Gen. 49:10	The time of His coming	Luke 2:1-7; Galatians 4:4
18. Gen. 49:10	The Seed of Judah	Luke 3:33
19. Gen. 49:10	Called Shiloh or One Sent	John 17:3
20. Gen. 49:10	Messiah to come before Judah lost identity	John 11:47-52
21. Gen. 49:10	Unto Him shall the obedience of the people be	John 10:16
22. Ex. 3:13-15	The Great “I AM”	John 4:26; 8:58
23. Ex. 12:3-6	The Lamb presented to Israel 4 days before Passover	Mark 11:7-11
24. Ex. 12:5	A Lamb without blemish	Hebrews 9:14; 1Peter 1:19
25. Ex. 12:13	The blood of the Lamb saves from wrath	Romans 5:8
26. Ex. 12:21-27	Christ is our Passover	1Corinthians 5:7
27. Ex. 12:46	Not a bone of the Lamb to be broken	John 19:31-36
28. Ex. 15:2	His exaltation predicted as Yeshua	Acts 7:55, 56
29. Ex. 15:11	His Character-Holiness	Luke 1:35; Acts 4:27
30. Ex. 17:6	The Spiritual Rock of Israel	1Corinthians 10:4
31. Ex. 33:19	His Character-Merciful	Luke 1:72
32. Lev. 1:2-9	His sacrifice a sweet smelling savor unto God	Ephesians 5:2
33. Lev. 14:11	The leper cleansed-Sign to priesthood	Luke 5:12-14; Acts 6:7
34. Lev. 16:15-17	Prefigures Christ’s once-for-all death	Hebrews 9:7-14
35. Lev. 16:27	Suffering outside the Camp	Matthew 27:33; Heb. 13:11, 12
36. Lev. 17:11	The Blood-the life of the flesh	Matthew 26:28; Mark 10:45
37. Lev. 17:11	It is the blood that makes atonement	Rom. 3:23-24; 1John 1:7
38. Lev. 23:36-37	The Drink-offering: “If any man thirst”	John 7:37
39. Num. 9:12	Not a bone of Him broken	John 19:31-36
40. Num. 21:9	The serpent on a pole-Christ lifted up	John 3:14-18; 12:32
41. Num. 24:17	Time: “I shall see him, but not now.”	John 1:14; Galatians 4:4
42. Deut. 18:15	“This is of a truth that prophet.”	John 6:14
43. Deut. 18:15-16	“Had ye believed Moses, ye would believe me.”	John 5:45-47
44. Deut. 18:18	Sent by the Father to speak His word	John 8:28, 29
45. Deut. 18:19	Whoever will not hear must bear his sin	Acts 3:22-23
46. Deut. 21:23	Cursed is he that hangs on a tree	Galatians 3:10-13
47. Joshua 5:14-15	The Captain of our salvation	Hebrews 2:10
48. Ruth 4:4-10	Christ, our kinsman, has redeemed us	Ephesians 1:3-7
49. 1 Sam. 2:35	A Faithful Priest	Heb. 2:17; 3:1-3, 6; 7:24-25
50. 1 Sam. 2:10	Shall be an anointed King to the Lord	Mt. 28:18, John 12:15
51. 2 Sam. 7:12	David’s Seed	Matthew 1:1
52. 2 Sam. 7:13	His Kingdom is everlasting	2Peter 1:11
53. 2 Sam. 7:14	The Son of God	Luke 1:32, Romans 1:3-4
54. 2 Sam. 7:16	David’s house established forever	Luke 3:31; Rev. 22:16
55. 2 Ki. 2:11	The bodily ascension to heaven illustrated	Luke 24:51
56. 1 Chr. 17:11	David’s Seed	Matthew 1:1; 9:27
57. 1 Chr. 17:12-13	To reign on David’s throne forever	Luke 1:32, 33
58. 1 Chr. 17:13	“I will be His Father, He…my Son.”	Hebrews 1:5
59. Job 9:32-33	Mediator between man and God	1 Timothy 2:5
60. Job 19:23-27	The Resurrection predicted	John 5:24-29
61. Psa. 2:1-3	The enmity of kings foreordained	Acts 4:25-28
62. Psa. 2:2	To own the title, Anointed (Christ)	John 1:41, Acts 2:36
63. Psa. 2:6	His Character-Holiness	John 8:46; Revelation 3:7
64. Psa. 2:6	To own the title King	Matthew 2:2
65. Psa. 2:7	Declared the Beloved Son	Matthew 3:17, Romans 1:4
66. Psa. 2:7, 8	The Crucifixion and Resurrection intimated	Acts 13:29-33
67. Psa. 2:8, 9	Rule the nations with a rod of iron	Rev. 2:27; 12:5; 19:15
68. Psa. 2:12	Life comes through faith in Him	John 20:31
69. Psa. 8:2	The mouths of babes perfect His praise	Matthew 21:16
70. Psa. 8:5, 6	His humiliation and exaltation	Hebrews 2:5-9
71. Psa. 9:7-10	Judge the world in righteousness	Acts 17:31
72. Psa. 16:10	Was not to see corruption	Acts 2:31; 13:35
73. Psa. 16:9-11	Was to arise from the dead	John 20:9
74. Psa. 17:15	The resurrection predicted	Luke 24:6
75. Psa. 18:2-3	The horn of salvation	Luke 1:69-71
76. Psa. 22:1	Forsaken because of sins of others	2 Corinthians 5:21
77. Psa. 22:1	“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”	Matthew 27:46
78. Psa. 22:2	Darkness upon Calvary for three hours	Matthew 27:45
79. Psa. 22:7	They shoot out the lip and shake the head	Matthew 27:39-44
80. Psa. 22:8	“He trusted in God, let Him deliver Him”	Matthew 27:43
81. Psa. 22:9-10	Born the Saviour	Luke 2:7
82. Psa. 22:12-13	They seek His death	John 19:6
83. Psa. 22:14	His blood poured out when they pierced His side	John 19:34
84. Psa. 22:14, 15	Suffered agony on Calvary	Mark 15:34-37
85. Psa. 22:15	He thirsted	John 19:28
86. Psa. 22:16	They pierced His hands and His feet	John 19:34, 37; 20:27
87. Psa. 22:17, 18	Stripped Him before the stares of men	Luke 23:34, 35
88. Psa. 22:18	They parted His garments	John 19:23, 24
89. Psa. 22:20, 21	He committed Himself to God	Luke 23:46
90. Psa. 22:20, 21	Satanic power bruising the Redeemer’s heel	Hebrews 2:14
91. Psa. 22:22	His Resurrection declared	John 20:17
92. Psa. 22:27-28	He shall be the governor of the nations	Colossians 1:16
93. Psa. 22:31	“It is finished”	John 19:30, Heb. 10:10, 12, 14, 18
94. Psa. 23:1	“I am the Good Shepherd”	John 10:11, 1Peter 2:25
95. Psa. 24:3	His exaltation predicted	Acts 1:11; Philippians 2:9
96. Psa. 30:3	His resurrection predicted	Acts 2:32
97. Psa. 31:5	“Into thy hands I commit my spirit”	Luke 23:46
98. Psa. 31:11	His acquaintances fled from Him	Mark 14:50
99. Psa. 31:13	They took counsel to put Him to death	Mt. 27:1, John 11:53
100. Psa. 31:14, 15	“He trusted in God, let Him deliver him”	Matthew 27:43
101. Psa. 34:20	Not a bone of Him broken	John 19:31-36
102. Psa. 35:11	False witnesses rose up against Him	Matthew 26:59
103. Psa. 35:19	He was hated without a cause	John 15:25
104. Psa. 38:11	His friends stood afar off	Luke 23:49
105. Psa. 38:12	Enemies try to entangle Him by craft	Mark 14:1, Mt. 22:15
106. Psa. 38:12-13	Silent before His accusers	Matthew 27:12-14
107. Psa. 38:20	He went about doing good	Acts 10:38
108. Psa. 40:2-5	The joy of His resurrection predicted	John 20:20
109. Psa. 40:6-8	His delight-the will of the Father	John 4:34, Heb. 10:5-10
110. Psa. 40:9	He was to preach the Righteousness in Israel	Matthew 4:17
111. Psa. 40:14	Confronted by adversaries in the Garden	John 18:4-6
112. Psa. 41:9	Betrayed by a familiar friend	John 13:18
113. Psa. 45:2	Words of Grace come from His lips	John 1:17, Luke 4:22
114. Psa. 45:6	To own the title, God or Elohim	Hebrews 1:8
115. Psa. 45:7	A special anointing by the Holy Spirit	Mt. 3:16; Heb. 1:9
116. Psa. 45:7, 8	Called the Christ (Messiah or Anointed)	Luke 2:11
117. Psa. 45:17	His name remembered forever	Ephesians 1:20-21, Heb. 1:8
118. Psa. 55:12-14	Betrayed by a friend, not an enemy	John 13:18
119. Psa. 55:15	Unrepentant death of the Betrayer	Matthew 27:3-5; Acts 1:16-19
120. Psa. 68:18	To give gifts to men	Ephesians 4:7-16
121. Psa. 68:18	Ascended into Heaven	Luke 24:51
122. Psa. 69:4	Hated without a cause	John 15:25
123. Psa. 69:8	A stranger to own brethren	John 1:11; 7:5
124. Psa. 69:9	Zealous for the Lord’s House	John 2:17
125. Psa. 69:14-20	Messiah’s anguish of soul before crucifixion	Matthew 26:36-45
126. Psa. 69:20	“My soul is exceeding sorrowful.”	Matthew 26:38
127. Psa. 69:21	Given vinegar in thirst	Matthew 27:34
128. Psa. 69:26	The Saviour given and smitten by God	John 17:4; 18:11
129. Psa. 72:10, 11	Great persons were to visit Him	Matthew 2:1-11
130. Psa. 72:16	The corn of wheat to fall into the Ground	John 12:24-25
131. Psa. 72:17	Belief on His name will produce offspring	John 1:12, 13
132. Psa. 72:17	All nations shall be blessed by Him	Galatians 3:8
133. Psa. 72:17	All nations shall call Him blessed	John 12:13, Rev. 5:8-12
134. Psa. 78:1-2	He would teach in parables	Matthew 13:34-35
135. Psa. 78:2	To speak the Wisdom of God with authority	Matthew 7:29
136. Psa. 80:17	The Man of God’s right hand	Mark 14:61-62
137. Psa. 88	The Suffering and Reproach of Calvary	Matthew 27:26-50
138. Psa. 88:8	They stood afar off and watched	Luke 23:49
139. Psa. 89:9	He calms the wind and the sea	Matthew 8:26
140. Psa. 89:27	Firstborn	Colossians 1:15, 18
141. Psa. 89:27	Emmanuel to be higher than earthly kings	Luke 1:32, 33
142. Psa. 89:35-37	David’s Seed, throne, kingdom endure forever	Luke 1:32, 33
143. Psa. 89:36-37	His character-Faithfulness	Revelation 1:5; 19:11
144. Psa. 90:2	He is from everlasting (Micah 5:2)	John 1:1
145. Psa. 91:11, 12	Identified as Messianic; used to tempt Christ	Luke 4:10, 11
146. Psa. 97:9	His exaltation predicted	Acts 1:11; Ephesians 1:20
147. Psa. 100:5	His character-Goodness	Matthew 19:16, 17
148. Psa. 102:1-11	The Suffering and Reproach of Calvary	John 19:16-30
149. Psa. 102:25-27	Messiah is the Preexistent Son	Hebrews 1:10-12
150. Psa. 109:25	Ridiculed	Matthew 27:39
151. Psa. 110:1	Son of David	Matthew 22:42-43
152. Psa. 110:1	To ascend to the right-hand of the Father	Mark 16:19
153. Psa. 110:1	David’s son called Lord	Matthew 22:44, 45
154. Psa. 110:4	A priest after Melchizedek’s order	Hebrews 6:20
155. Psa. 112:4	His character-Compassionate, Gracious, et al	Matthew 9:36
156. Psa. 118:17, 18	Messiah’s Resurrection assured	Luke 24:5-7; 1Cor. 15:20
157. Psa. 118:22, 23	The rejected stone is Head of the corner	Matthew 21:42, 43
158. Psa. 118:26	The Blessed One presented to Israel	Matthew 21:9
159. Psa. 118:26	To come while Temple standing	Matthew 21:12-15
160. Psa. 132:11	The Seed of David (the fruit of His Body)	Luke 1:32, Act 2:30
161. Psa. 129:3	He was scourged	Matthew 27:26
162. Psa. 138:1-6	The supremacy of David’s Seed amazes kings	Matthew 2:2-6
163. Psa. 147:3, 6	The earthly ministry of Christ described	Luke 4:18
164. Prov. 1:23	He will send the Spirit of God	John 16:7
165. Prov. 8:23	Foreordained from everlasting	Rev. 13:8, 1Peter 1:19-20
166. Song. 5:16	The altogether lovely One	John 1:17
167. Isa. 2:3	He shall teach all nations	John 4:25
168. Isa. 2:4	He shall judge among the nations	John 5:22
169. Isa. 6:1	When Isaiah saw His glory	John 12:40-41
170. Isa. 6:8	The One Sent by God	John 12:38-45
171. Isa. 6:9-10	Parables fall on deaf ears	Matthew 13:13-15
172. Isa. 6:9-12	Blinded to Christ and deaf to His words	Acts 28:23-29
173. Isa. 7:14	To be born of a virgin	Luke 1:35
174. Isa. 7:14	To be Emmanuel-God with us	Matthew 1:18-23, 1Tim. 3:16
175. Isa. 8:8	Called Emmanuel	Matthew 1:23
176. Isa. 8:14	A stone of stumbling, a Rock of offense	1Peter 2:8
177. Isa. 9:1, 2	His ministry to begin in Galilee	Matthew 4:12-17
178. Isa. 9:6	A child born-Humanity	Luke 1:31
179. Isa. 9:6	A Son given-Deity	Luke 1:32, John 1:14, 1Tim. 3:16
180. Isa. 9:6	Declared to be the Son of God with power	Romans 1:3, 4
181. Isa. 9:6	The Wonderful One, Peleh	Luke 4:22
182. Isa. 9:6	The Counsellor, Yaatz	Matthew 13:54
183. Isa. 9:6	The Mighty God, El Gibor	1Cor. 1:24, Titus 2:13
184. Isa. 9:6	The Everlasting Father, Avi Adth	John 8:58; 10:30
185. Isa. 9:6	The Prince of Peace, Sar Shalom	John 16:33
186. Isa. 9:7	Inherits the throne of David	Luke 1:32
187. Isa. 9:7	His Character-Just	John 5:30
188. Isa. 9:7	No end to his Government, Throne, and kingdom	Luke 1:33
189. Isa. 11:1	Called a Nazarene-the Branch, Netzer	Matthew 2:23
190. Isa. 11:1	A rod out of Jesse-Son of Jesse	Luke 3:23, 32
191. Isa. 11:2	Anointed One by the Spirit	Matthew 3:16, 17, Acts 10:38
192. Isa. 11:2	His Character-Wisdom, Knowledge, et al	Colossians 2:3
193. Isa. 11:3	He would know their thoughts	Luke 6:8, John 2:25
194. Isa. 11:4	Judge in righteousness	Acts 17:31
195. Isa. 11:4	Judges with the sword of His mouth	Rev. 2:16; 19:11, 15
196. Isa. 11:5	Character: Righteous & Faithful	Rev. 19:11
197. Isa. 11:10	The Gentiles seek Him	John 12:18-21
198. Isa. 12:2	Called Jesus-Yeshua	Matthew 1:21
199. Isa. 22:22	The One given all authority to govern	Revelation 3:7
200. Isa. 25:8	The Resurrection predicted	1Corinthians 15:54
201. Isa. 26:19	His power of Resurrection predicted	Matthew 27:50-54
202. Isa. 28:16	The Messiah is the precious corner stone	Acts 4:11, 12
203. Isa. 28:16	The Sure Foundation	1Corinthians 3:11, Mt. 16:18
204. Isa. 29:13	He indicated hypocritical obedience to His Word	Matthew 15:7-9
205. Isa. 29:14	The wise are confounded by the Word	1Corinthians 1:18-31
206. Isa. 32:2	A Refuge-A man shall be a hiding place	Matthew 23:37
207. Isa. 35:4	He will come and save you	Matthew 1:21
208. Isa. 35:5-6	To have a ministry of miracles	Matthew 11:2-6
209. Isa. 40:3, 4	Preceded by forerunner	John 1:23
210. Isa. 40:9	“Behold your God.”	John 1:36; 19:14
211. Isa. 40:10.	He will come to reward	Revelation 22:12
212. Isa. 40:11	A shepherd-compassionate life-giver	John 10:10-18
213. Isa. 42:1-4	The Servant-as a faithful, patient redeemer	Matthew 12:18-21
214. Isa. 42:2	Meek and lowly	Matthew 11:28-30
215. Isa. 42:3	He brings hope for the hopeless	Mt. 12:14-21; John 4:1-54
216. Isa. 42:4	The nations shall wait on His teachings	John 12:20-26
217. Isa. 42:6	The Light (salvation) of the Gentiles	Luke 2:32
218. Isa. 42:1, 6	His is a worldwide compassion	Matthew 28:19, 20
219. Isa. 42:7	Blind eyes opened.	John 9:25-38
220. Isa. 43:11	He is the only Saviour.	Acts 4:12
221. Isa. 44:3	He will send the Spirit of God	John 16:7, 13
222. Isa. 45:21-25	He is Lord and Saviour	Philippians 3:20, Titus 2:13
223. Isa. 45:23	He will be the Judge	John 5:22; Romans 14:11
224. Isa. 46:9, 10	Declares things not yet done	John 13:19
225. Isa. 48:12	The First and the Last	John 1:30, Revelation 1:8, 17
226. Isa. 48:16, 17	He came as a Teacher	John 3:2
227. Isa. 49:1	Called from the womb-His humanity	Matthew 1:18
228. Isa. 49:5	A Servant from the womb.	Luke 1:31, Philippians 2:7
229. Isa. 49:6	He will restore Israel	Acts 3:19-21; 15:16-17
230. Isa. 49:6	He is Salvation for Israel	Luke 2:29-32
231. Isa. 49:6	He is the Light of the Gentiles	John 8:12, Acts 13:47
232. Isa. 49:6	He is Salvation unto the ends of the earth	Acts 15:7-18
233. Isa. 49:7	He is despised of the Nation	John 1:11; 8:48-49; 19:14-15
234. Isa. 50:3	Heaven is clothed in black at His humiliation	Luke 23:44, 45
235. Isa. 50:4	He is a learned counselor for the weary	Matthew 7:29; 11:28, 29
236. Isa. 50:5	The Servant bound willingly to obedience	Matthew 26:39
237. Isa. 50:6	“I gave my back to the smiters.”	Matthew 27:26
238. Isa. 50:6	He was smitten on the cheeks	Matthew 26:67
239. Isa. 50:6	He was spat upon	Matthew 27:30
240. Isa. 52:7	Published good tidings upon mountains	Matthew 5:12; 15:29; 28:16
241. Isa. 52:13	The Servant exalted	Acts 1:8-11; Eph. 1:19-22, Php. 2:5-9
242. Isa. 52:14	The Servant shockingly abused	Luke 18:31-34; Mt. 26:67, 68
243. Isa. 52:15	Nations startled by message of the Servant	Luke 18:31-34; Mt. 26:67, 68
244. Isa. 52:15	His blood shed sprinkles nations	Hebrews 9:13-14, Rev. 1:5
245. Isa. 53:1	His people would not believe Him	John 12:37-38
246. Isa. 53:2	Appearance of an ordinary man	Philippians 2:6-8
247. Isa. 53:3	Despised	Luke 4:28-29
248. Isa. 53:3	Rejected	Matthew 27:21-23
249. Isa. 53:3	Great sorrow and grief	Matthew 26:37-38, Luke 19:41, Heb. 4:15
250. Isa. 53:3	Men hide from being associated with Him	Mark 14:50-52
251. Isa. 53:4	He would have a healing ministry	Matthew 8:16-17
252. Isa. 53:4	Thought to be cursed by God	Matthew 26:66; 27:41-43
253. Isa. 53:5	Bears penalty for mankind’s iniquities	2Cor. 5:21, Heb. 2:9
254. Isa. 53:5	His sacrifice provides peace between man and God	Colossians 1:20
255. Isa. 53:5	His sacrifice would heal man of sin	1Peter 2:24
256. Isa. 53:6	He would be the sin-bearer for all mankind	1John 2:2; 4:10
257. Isa. 53:6	God’s will that He bear sin for all mankind	Galatians 1:4
258. Isa. 53:7	Oppressed and afflicted	Matthew 27:27-31
259. Isa. 53:7	Silent before his accusers	Matthew 27:12-14
260. Isa. 53:7	Sacrificial lamb	John 1:29, 1Peter 1:18-19
261. Isa. 53:8	Confined and persecuted	Matthew 26:47-75; 27:1-31
262. Isa. 53:8	He would be judged	John 18:13-22
263. Isa. 53:8	Killed	Matthew 27:35
264. Isa. 53:8	Dies for the sins of the world	1John 2:2
265. Isa. 53:9	Buried in a rich man’s grave	Matthew 27:57
266. Isa. 53:9	Innocent and had done no violence	Luke 23:41, John 18:38
267. Isa. 53:9	No deceit in his mouth	1Peter 2:22
268. Isa. 53:10	God’s will that He die for mankind	John 18:11
269. Isa. 53:10	An offering for sin	Matthew 20:28, Galatians 3:13
270. Isa. 53:10	Resurrected and live forever	Romans 6:9
271. Isa. 53:10	He would prosper	John 17:1-5
272. Isa. 53:11	God fully satisfied with His suffering	John 12:27
273. Isa. 53:11	God’s servant would justify man	Romans 5:8-9, 18-19
274. Isa. 53:11	The sin-bearer for all mankind	Hebrews 9:28
275. Isa. 53:12	Exalted by God because of his sacrifice	Matthew 28:18
276. Isa. 53:12	He would give up his life to save mankind	Luke 23:46
277. Isa. 53:12	Numbered with the transgressors	Mark 15:27-28; Luke 22:37
278. Isa. 53:12	Sin-bearer for all mankind	1Peter 2:24
279. Isa. 53:12	Intercede to God in behalf of mankind	Luke 23:34, Rom. 8:34
280. Isa. 55:3	Resurrected by God	Acts 13:34
281. Isa. 55:4	A witness	John 18:37
282. Isa. 55:4	He is a leader and commander	Hebrews 2:10
283. Isa. 55:5	God would glorify Him	Acts 3:13
284. Isa. 59:16	Intercessor between man and God	Matthew 10:32
285. Isa. 59:16	He would come to provide salvation	John 6:40
286. Isa. 59:20	He would come to Zion as their Redeemer	Luke 2:38
287. Isa. 60:1-3	He would shew light to the Gentiles	Acts 26:23
288. Isa. 61:1	The Spirit of God upon him	Matthew 3:16-17
289. Isa. 61:1	The Messiah would preach the good news	Luke 4:16-21
290. Isa. 61:1	Provide freedom from the bondage of sin	John 8:31-36
291. Isa. 61:1-2	Proclaim a period of grace	Galatians 4:4-5
292. Jer. 11:21	Conspiracy to kill Jesus	John 7:1, Matthew 21:38
293. Jer. 23:5-6	Descendant of David	Luke 3:23-31
294. Jer. 23:5-6	The Messiah would be both God and Man	John 13:13, 1Ti 3:16
295. Jer. 31:22	Born of a virgin	Matthew 1:18-20
296. Jer. 31:31	The Messiah would be the new covenant	Matthew 26:28
297. Jer. 33:14-15	Descendant of David	Luke 3:23-31
298. Eze.34:23-24	Descendant of David	Matthew 1:1
299. Eze.37:24-25	Descendant of David	Luke 1:31-33
300. Dan. 2:44-45	The Stone that shall break the kingdoms	Matthew 21:44
301. Dan. 7:13-14	He would ascend into heaven	Acts 1:9-11
302. Dan. 7:13-14	Highly exalted	Ephesians 1:20-22
303. Dan. 7:13-14	His dominion would be everlasting	Luke 1:31-33
304. Dan. 9:24	To make an end to sins	Galatians 1:3-5
305. Dan. 9:24	To make reconciliation for iniquity	Romans 5:10, 2Cor. 5:18-21
306. Dan. 9:24	He would be holy	Luke 1:35
307. Dan. 9:25	His announcement	John 12:12-13
308. Dan. 9:26	Cut off	Matthew 16:21; 21:38-39
309. Dan. 9:26	Die for the sins of the world	Hebrews 2:9
310. Dan. 9:26	Killed before the destruction of the temple	Matthew 27:50-51
311. Dan. 10:5-6	Messiah in a glorified state	Revelation 1:13-16
312. Hos. 11:1	He would be called out of Egypt	Matthew 2:15
313. Hos. 13:14	He would defeat death	1Corinthians 15:55-57
314. Joel 2:32	Offer salvation to all mankind	Romans 10:9-13
315. Jonah 1:17	Death and resurrection of Christ	Matthew 12:40; 16:4
316. Mic. 5:2	Born in Bethlehem	Matthew 2:1-6
317. Mic. 5:2	Ruler in Israel	Luke 1:33
318. Mic. 5:2	From everlasting	John 8:58
319. Hag. 2:6-9	He would visit the second Temple	Luke 2:27-32
320. Hag. 2:23	Descendant of Zerubbabel	Luke 2:27-32
321. Zech. 3:8	God’s servant	John 17:4
322. Zech. 6:12-13	Priest and King	Hebrews 8:1
323. Zech. 9:9	Greeted with rejoicing in Jerusalem	Matthew 21:8-10
324. Zech. 9:9	Beheld as King	John 12:12-13
325. Zech. 9:9	The Messiah would be just	John 5:30
326. Zech. 9:9	The Messiah would bring salvation	Luke 19:10
327. Zech. 9:9	The Messiah would be humble	Matthew 11:29
328. Zech. 9:9	Presented to Jerusalem riding on a donkey	Matthew 21:6-9
329. Zech. 10:4	The cornerstone	Ephesians 2:20
330. Zech. 11:4-6	At His coming, Israel to have unfit leaders	Matthew 23:1-4
331. Zech. 11:4-6	Rejection causes God to remove His protection	Luke 19:41-44
332. Zech. 11:4-6	Rejected in favor of another king	John 19:13-15
333. Zech. 11:7	Ministry to “poor,” the believing remnant	Matthew 9:35-36
334. Zech. 11:8	Unbelief forces Messiah to reject them	Matthew 23:33
335. Zech. 11:8	Despised	Matthew 27:20
336. Zech. 11:9	Stops ministering to those who rejected Him	Matthew 13:10-11
337. Zech. 11:10-11	Rejection causes God to remove protection	Luke 19:41-44
338. Zech. 11:10-11	The Messiah would be God	John 14:7
339. Zech. 11:12-13	Betrayed for thirty pieces of silver	Matthew 26:14-15
340. Zech. 11:12-13	Rejected	Matthew 26:14-15
341. Zech. 11:12-13	Thirty pieces of silver cast in the house of the Lord	Matthew 27:3-5
342. Zech. 11:12-13	The Messiah would be God	John 12:45
343. Zech. 12:10	The Messiah’s body would be pierced	John 19:34-37
344. Zech. 12:10	The Messiah would be both God and man	John 10:30
345. Zech. 12:10	The Messiah would be rejected	John 1:11
346. Zech. 13:7	God’s will He die for mankind	John 18:11
347. Zech. 13:	A violent death	Mark 14:27
348. Zech. 13:7	Both God and man	John 14:9
349. Zech. 13:7	Israel scattered as a result of rejecting Him	Matthew 26:31-56
350. Zech. 14:4	He would return to the Mt. of Olives	Acts 1:11-12
351. Mal. 3:1	Messenger to prepare the way for Messiah	Mark 1:1-8
352. Mal. 3:1	Sudden appearance at the temple	Mark 11:15-16
353. Mal. 3:1	Messenger of the new covenant	Luke 4:43
354. Mal. 3:6	The God who changes not	Hebrews 13:8
355. Mal. 4:5	Forerunner in spirit of Elijah	Mt. 3:1-3; 11:10-14; 17:11-13
356. Mal. 4:6	Forerunner would turn many to righteousness	Luke 1:16-17

The chart was taken from http://www.gobible.org

MOST UNLIKELY INTELLECTUALS COMING TO CHRIST

Posted on December 29, 2024 by Ron Edwards

There seems to be a significant movement to Christianity among some of the most influential intellectuals today. This story is taken from an article in The Australian on Dec. 20th, 2024 by Greg Sheridan: “How historian Niall Ferguson became a religious believer“

Pictured below: Douglas Murray, J.D.Vance, Jordan Peterson, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Niall Ferguson

Jordan Peterson famously says he’s no longer an atheist. Last year he told Greg Sheridan he now believes that Jesus Christ is the son of God, not just symbolically but truly. His wife, Tammy Roberts, herself an influential podcaster, this year became a Catholic after a long illness.

US vice-president-elect JD Vance went through a long atheist phase, but he too has since renewed his Christian belief and become a Catholic.

Tom Holland, the brilliant historian who wrote the influential book Dominion, about the Christian origins of the Western mind, has described his journey of belief. Paul Kingsnorth, once a radical atheistic environmentalist and a bestselling author, embraced Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

Niall Ferguson is perhaps the most influential historian, and one of the most influential intellectuals, today. But here’s the most striking thing you’ll learn about Ferguson. Quietly, but with great commitment, Ferguson has become a religious believer. With his wife, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and their sons, he has become a churchgoing Anglican Christian. He is, in his own words, a “lapsed atheist”. Much more important, he’s a believing Christian. Though Ferguson sees profoundly the crisis of our times, and the contribution to that crisis brought about by the abandonment of Christianity, this is not primarily a political conversion. It’s a deeply personal and deliberate turn to faith by a man who was formerly a lifelong atheist.

Prolific author Douglas Murray represents another kind of intellectual who has grown to appreciate more and more the cultural contribution, a necessity even, of Christianity but, while immensely sympathetic to it and therefore opposed to the militantly secular spirit of the age, has stopped just short of actual personal belief. However, he’s moved, he says, from “Christian atheist” to “Christian agnostic”.

I wonder how long it will take for those who have turned to institutional/denominational churches such as Catholic and Anglican to realise that these churches have turned away (apostasy) from Biblical faith and compromised with the world on LGBTQ issues.

PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS AT RECORD LEVELS

Posted on December 28, 2024 by Ron Edwards

Members of religious groups faced harassment by either governmental actors or social groups in a record number of countries and territories as a new Pew Research Center analysis finds acts of hostility against Christians are on the rise.

The release of Pew’s report, “Government Restrictions on Religion Stayed at Peak Levels Globally in 2022,” marks the 15th time it has conducted research examining government restrictions and social hostilities toward religion in 198 countries and territories. Imagine what a 2024 report will show as persecution has escalated in 2023 and 2024. Significant other Biblical end-times prophecies have already been fulfilled particularly the re-establishment of Israel as a nation back in 1948 and now the falling away from Biblical faith by most of the institutional churches (apostasy).

“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

The research revealed that in 2022, “harassment of religious groups by governments or social actors occurred in 192 out of the world’s 198 countries and territories.” This constituted “an increase by two countries from 2021 and a new peak level for the study.”

“Governments harassed people for their religious beliefs and practices in 186 countries in 2022, up from 183 in 2021,” the report states. “Social groups or private individuals harassed people due to their religion in 164 countries, the same number as in 2021. Governments and/or social actors harassed religious groups in 192 countries, including 158 countries where both governments and social groups or private individuals engaged in harassment.”

As has been the case in every installment of the study, Christians experienced harassment in most countries, reaching a record high of 166 in 2022.

One example cited in the report was the arrest of a man whose son brought Bibles and other Christian literature across the border into Mauritania from Senegal.

Another example is a Syriac Catholic Church leader in Bartella, a historically Christian town in Nineva province rebuilding after the defeat of the Islamic State, who said militias “sought to ‘seize and occupy Christian properties’ in an attempt to drive out Christians and alter the religious composition of the town.”

The study identified property damage, assaults, detentions, displacements and killings as examples of physical harassment experienced by religious groups. It highlighted how at least one instance of physical harassment toward a religious group occurred in 145 of 198 countries, marking an increase from the 137 measured in 2021.

Governments used physical force against religious groups in 111 countries, while social groups or private individuals were determined to have engaged in such harassment in the same number of countries.

The most frequent form of physical harassment directed at religious groups was property damage, occurring in 61% of countries. Detentions occurred in slightly less than half (47%) of countries, while the share of countries where physical assaults, displacements and killings occurred were measured at 45%, 26% and 25%, respectively.

According to a detailed appendix accompanying the report, the only countries where absolutely no harassment of religious groups occurred at the hands of the government in 2022 were Cape Verde, Fiji, Grenada, Macao, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Portugal, San Marino, Senegal and Suriname. The United States was listed as one of 110 countries where there was widespread intimidation of religious groups “by any level of government.”

Religious groups in the U.S. found themselves subject to property damage and physical assaults, while no displacements, killings or detentions were recorded. Another adverse experience faced by religious groups in the U.S. involves organized groups using “force or coercion in an attempt to dominate public life with their perspective on religion, including preventing some religious groups from operating in the country.”

PROOF WE ARE IN THE PROPHESIED END TIMES

Posted on December 24, 2024 by Ron Edwards

The pope’s decision to have a special pilgrimage for the LGBT community in the 2025 Jubilee Year, titled “Church: Home for All, LGBT+ Christians and Other Existential Frontiers” is evidence he has departed from Biblical faith and is leading the Catholic church into apostasy. What he is proposing will involve a prayer vigil for LGBT Catholics on September 5th at the Church of the Gesù in Rome. They will then pass through the Holy Doors of St. Peter’s on September 6th.

Here we have the Church allowing the categories that are at odds with Catholic teaching on sexuality and the human body — to drive the 2025 Jubilee celebration. However well-intentioned the pastoral motivation may be, the impression is one of either ignorance or contempt not merely for traditional Catholicism in particular but for orthodox Christianity in general.

Before Jesus’ second coming, He prophesied that most of the institutional denominations would fall away and compromise with the world. They have departed from God’s ways on homosexuality, gay marriage, and transgender issues. We are truly in the Biblical prophesied end times and as the following Scripture reveals persecution/tribulation will only intensify for Christians.

God will purify His church prior to the rapture. We cannot say we were not warned.

BECOMING A PEOPLE OF BLESSING

Posted on December 23, 2024 by Ron Edwards

My oldest believer son just sent me the latest edition of the book The Grace Outpouring – Becoming a People of Blessing by Roy Godwin and Dave Roberts. I had read the book in 2008 when it was released and was impacted significantly by its content. It’s the kind of book that changes your perspective of Jesus, His work, and the power of the Holy Spirit to change lives.

Roy Godwin and his wife Daphne through an amazing set of circumstances (miracles) become directors of a beautiful Welsh Christian retreat centre, Ffaldy-y-Brenin. However, Roy, who had been an active evangelist and businessman felt out of place in a retreat centre where Christians came to recharge and reflect.

Daphne was convinced from the miracles that occurred for them to get the posting that they were where God wanted them to be and she convinced Roy that he needed to take it to the Lord. His prayer and how God answered it is amazing. Within hours of Roy’s prayer there was a knock at the door. “The tall and middle-aged couple calling on us were unknown”.

“Hello, I hope you don’t mind us calling like this, but could you tell us what this place is?” The reason for their visit was eventually revealed.

“Well, we were driving along here, and we don’t quite understand it, but we were compelled to come up your drive. From the sign, they knew it was a Christian retreat centre but that meant little to them.

Daphne got them a cup of tea and Roy eventually explained to them that in this place lives get changed because God is real. Roy then took them on a tour of the retreat with its beautiful views of the valley and surrounding hills. The final destination was the chapel. “There they seemed to sense something of the presence of God, although they might not have been able to articulate what was happening to them. They sat down rather speedily, rather heavily, as though their legs had gone weak.” Roy was prompted to create a new tradition. We have a rule here of how we respond to our visitors. We like to bless them before they leave. May I bless you?” They had no problem with that so Roy simply said, “I bless you in the name of Jesus to know God, His purpose for your life and His blessings on you and your family and the situations of your life, Amen.”

They started to weep. The sense of the presence of God was tangible. Roy felt led to leave them alone with God so left the chapel. It was time for God to do what He wanted to do with that couple.

The next day another knock on the door and the same enquiring words. At last as Roy went through the social pleasantries it was dawning on Roy that this was God’s response to his prayer. When Roy eventually took them to the chapel the Holy Spirit came with even more power and the couple wept profusely.

Later that day Roy and Daphne prayed: “Lord we like what you are doing and we bless what you are doing. Lord, would you please do more of it?” And He did. In fact, God started to send so many people that today there is a reception area for them where they are greeted by team members.

If you are not blessing people try it: Asking people, if you can bless them is an offer few people refuse. We are not saying, “Can we pray for you in a general way?” We are not putting a difficult burden on those doing the praying. Blessing someone is simple and easy. The Holy Spirit comes because when you bless, you reflect something the Father is doing and speaking words the Father desires to be said. God desires to bless His creation. A simple prayer is “I bless you in the name of Jesus to know God, His purpose for your life, and His blessings on you and your family and the situations of your life.“

FAKE HISTORY IS FLOURISHING IN THE WEST: JUST CONSIDER THESE THREE CASES

Posted on December 22, 2024 by Ron Edwards

Throughout the English-speaking world, elites are falling over themselves to believe the very worst of their own countries.

Let’s consider Canada. In May 2021 an Indian band in Kamloops, British Columbia claimed ground-penetrating radar had discovered “soil disturbances” that evidenced unmarked graves containing the remains of 215 “missing children” in land associated with an Indian Residential School.

The media quickly sexed up the story into one of “mass graves”, with all its connotation of murderous atrocity. On May 30 the Toronto Globe and Mail published an article under the title “The discovery of a mass gravesite at a former residential school in Kamloops is just the tip of the iceberg”. In it, Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, professor of law at the University of British Columbia, wrote: “It is horrific. But it is not shocking. In fact, it is the opposite – a too-common unearthing of the legacy, and enduring reality, of colonialism in Canada.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered Canadian flags to be flown at half-mast on all federal buildings to honour the murdered children. Because the Kamloops school had been run by a Roman Catholic religious order, some zealous citizens took to burning and vandalising churches, 85 of them to date. The dreadful tale was eagerly broadcast worldwide by Al Jazeera.

Yet, more than three years later, not a single set of remains of a murdered Indian child in an unmarked grave has been found either in Kamloops or elsewhere in Canada. Indeed, not a single attempt to disinter an alleged grave has been made.

Prime ministers, archbishops, academics, editors and public broadcasters are all in the business of exaggerating the colonial sins of their own countries against noble (not-so-very) savages – from Vancouver to London to Sydney. Why?

Judging by the evidence collected by Chris Champion and Tom Flanagan in their best-selling book, Grave Error: How the Media Misled us (and the Truth about the Residential Schools), it looks increasingly probable that the Kamloops story, and the ones that followed it, are myths.

Meanwhile, in Britain, the Church of England has committed itself to pour an initial £100m ($198.4m) of its assets into an investment fund for “black-led” businesses around the world. This was made “to address … past wrongs” in response to the discovery that the Queen Anne’s Bounty, a forerunner of the church’s endowment, had “links” with African chattel enslavement.

A document entitled Healing, Repair and Justice explains. “The immense wealth accrued by the church … has always been interwoven with the history of African chattel enslavement,” it tells us. “African chattel enslavement was central to the growth of the British economy of the 18th and 19th centuries and the nation’s wealth thereafter … The cruelty of a multinational white establishment … has continuing toxic consequences resulting from the denial of equal access to healthcare, education, employment, justice, and capital.” Every one of these claims, however, is either dubious or false. The Queen Anne’s Bounty was hardly involved in the evil of slave trading at all. Most economic historians reckon the contribution of slave trading and slavery to Britain’s economic development as somewhere between marginal and modest.

Consonant with his church’s policy, then archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby preached a sermon in Christ Church Cathedral, Zanzibar on May 12, in which he criticised Christian missionaries for treating Africans as inferior and confessed that “we (British) must repent and look at what we did in Zanzibar”.

That is odd since what the British did in Zanzibar during the second half of the 19th century was to force the sultan to end the slave trade. Indeed, the cathedral in which the archbishop was preaching was built over the former slave market.

Australia’s equivalent is the extraordinary career of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu. Published in 2014, this argues that Aboriginal people, far from being primitive nomads, developed the first egalitarian society, invented democratic government, eschewed “imperial warfare”, pioneered complex fishing technology, and were sophisticated agriculturalists. Such was the morally superior civilisation that white colonisers trashed in their greed, racist contempt, and relentless violence.

Dark Emu was named Book of the Year and received the Indigenous Writers’ Prize in the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. It has sold more than 360,000 copies and has been made the subject of an ABC documentary. And yet, while enthusiastically praised for challenging conventional views about Aboriginal culture and popularising the topic, it has been widely criticised for being factually untrue.

Why is it that prime ministers, archbishops, academics, editors, and public broadcasters are all in the business of telling lies about the history of their own countries that denigrate our forebears – from Vancouver to London to Sydney. As soon as you reject the true history of the world the Prince of this world plays havoc with the truth. A Biblical worldview is the only one that makes sense of it all. It even tells us how it will end with Jesus Christ’s return to restore righteousness.

CHILDREN WITHOUT HOPE

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Ron Edwards

Just days before Christian students’ scheduled vacation to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, a lonely and radicalized high school student opened fire inside Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, killing two people and wounding six more. Police say 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow, who went by the name “Samantha,” opened fire with a 9mm handgun during study hall before turning the gun on herself.

Founded in 1978, Abundant Life Christian School (ALCS) offers classes to students from kindergarten through the 12th grade “in a Christ-focused context,” according to the school’s website.

She opened fire in a room of students of mixed ages, killing one teenage student and one teacher. Six people were injured: one teacher and five students. Two of the victims were released from SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital on Monday. Two victims remain in critical condition.

Rebekah Smith, a fellow student’s mother, told The New York Times that she believed Rupnow had enrolled as a new student in the Christian school at the beginning of the year, hoping it would help her turn her life around.

A purported manifesto may offer insight into the mixture of toxic traits that sent the 15-year-old over the edge. It is obvious from reading it that being at a Christian school had no impact on her worldview. It was totally evolution-led and godless.

After speaking with Rupnow’s boyfriend, a reporter said she verified the authenticity of a six-page manifesto titled “War Against Humanity.” In it, Rupnow expresses her admiration for the Columbine High School shooters, as well as racial collectivist terrorist Patrick Crusius, and Brazilian school shooter Guilherme Taucci.

“Humanity is filth,” she wrote. “My parents are scum.” The document notes her parents divorced, although she claims it did not affect her. “I’ve grown to hate people, and society,” she wrote. “[A]ll of you and the world have done is pick on me and tease me.” Rupnow wrote of “getting teased and pushed around” at school, where “I always got picked on.”

“My so-called family never included me because I was too weird for them. … My father will always make me stand out in the worst possible way,” stated the manifesto. “I hate humanity for forcing me into this little hole.”

The manifesto expresses profound isolation, which observers believe she filled with harmful online content. “[M]y parents admit they didn’t want me. … I’m always the one who sat out or sat in another room because they didn’t want to interact with me at any point in time, then I stayed in my room all day long and all night and after and before school as well,” she wrote.

“I planned on shooting myself awhile ago but I thought maybe it’s [sic] better for evolution” to engage in a mass shooting. Rupnow engages in racially charged rhetoric, indicating another possible motive for her shooting. “The human scum is color, and how people are raised,” she wrote. She also used a racial epithet for black people.

“The Revolution should be well,” she said. “I am part of the real thought and the real revolution.” “We need revolution,” she insisted. “The wolf hunts its prey. … There is nothing more than filth,” the document concluded.

Despite being in a Christian school Rupnow had no concept of the Gospel or a loving God.

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