From the Romanovs to Revolution… from Glasnost to Perestroika… the Cold War to Cuban missile crisis… Sputnik I to Yuri Gagarin… Chernobyl to Ukraine
now …
RUSSIA 2025
20th Century Russian Roots
The Romanov family was the last imperial dynasty to rule Russia. They first came to power in 1613, and over the next three centuries, 18 Romanovs took the Russian throne - including Peter the Great - until the Russian Revolution!
“November 6-7, 1917: The violent Russian Revolution marks the end of the Romanov dynasty and Russian Imperial Rule, as the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, take power and eventually become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1929-1953: Joseph Stalin becomes dictator, taking Russia from a peasant society to military and industrial power.
1939: World War II begins, and, in accord with a pact between Stalin and Adolf Hitler, Russia invades Poland, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland. Germany breaks the agreement in
1941, by invading Russia, which then joins the Allies. The Russian army’s win at the Battle of Stalingrad serves as a major turning point in ending the war.
March 5, 1946: In a speech, Winston Churchill declares ‘an Iron Curtain has descended across the Continent’ and the Cold War grows as the Soviets promote revolution in China, Asia and the Middle and Near East. In 1949, the Soviets exploded a nuclear bomb, hastening the nuclear arms race.
October 4, 1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite that orbits the Earth in about 98 minutes and spurs the Space Race.
In 1961, Soviet Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to fly in space.
October 1962: The 13-day Cuban Missile Crisis leads Americans to fear nuclear war is at hand with the installation of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev eventually agrees to remove the missiles, while President John F Kennedy agrees to not invade Cuba and to remove US missiles from Turkey.
July-August 1980: The 1980 Summer Olympics are held in Moscow, with several countries, including the United States, boycotting the games in protest of the December 1979 invasion of Afghanistan.
March 11, 1985: Mikhail Gorbachev is elected general secretary of the Communist Party, and, thus, effectively Russia’s leader. His reform efforts include perestroika (restructuring the Russian economy), glasnost (greater openness) and summit talks with US President Ronald Reagan to end the Cold War.
April 26, 1986: The Chernobyl disaster, the world’s worst nuclear accident, takes place at the Chernobyl nuclear plant near Kiev in Ukraine.
June 12, 1991: Boris Yeltsin wins Russia’s first popular presidential election, urging democracy.
December 25, 1991: Following an unsuccessful Communist Party coup, THE SOVIET UNION IS DISSOLVED and Gorbachev resigns. Yeltsin begins lifting Communist-imposed price controls and reforms, and, in 1993, signed the START II treaty, pledging nuclear arms cuts. He resigns in 1999, naming former KGB agent Vladimir Putin, his prime minister, as acting president.
March 26, 2000: Vladimir Putin is elected president, and is re-elected in a landslide in 2004. Because of term limits, he leaves office in 2008, when his protege Dmitry Medvedev is elected and served as his prime minister. Putin is then re-elected as president in 2012.
March 2014: Weeks after Russian soldiers in unmarked uniforms seized control of government buildings in the Crimean Peninsula, Putin announces Russia is annexing the region, which had been part of an independent Ukraine since the breakup of the Soviet Union.
On March 18, Russian voters re-elect Putin as president for a fourth time, which under Russian law at the time is his last possible six-year term.
July 1, 2020: Russian voters overwhelmingly vote in favor of a referendum proposing constitutional changes that would allow Putin to potentially remain in power until 2036, rather than when his current term ends.
February 24, 2022: After eight years of conflict between Ukrainian government forces and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, Russia launches a full-scale invasion of Ukraine with dozens of missile strikes on cities around the country.
March 17, 2024: After 25 years in power, Putin wins re-election by a landslide, capturing more than 87 percent of the vote. The Kremlin proclaims the victory a sign of support for the war in Ukraine and Putin’s defense of the nation from a hostile and dangerous West.” (history.com)
False Fear
November 1982
The warning went out.
“Now, we are a long ways from Russia; and WE ARE FEARING THE SOVIET UNION. The two great powers in the world are the Soviet Union and the United States – the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic and the United States; AND WE ARE REALLY FEARING RUSSIA. Let me say right here: I know of no prophecy in the Bible that speaks specifically of any war between Russia and the United States; and I have been saying for years and years that is not the way that World War III will come.” (Sermon - United States Of Europe Is Coming)
This wasn’t new information, back in 1950 Mr Armstrong wrote:
“Contrary to most self-professed ‘authorities’ on Bible prophecy, NO ALL OUT FULL SCALE WAR IS PROPHESIED BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES.” (The Plain Truth, August 1950)
The Real Threat
This is what should be feared!
October 1964: “Germany — a UNITED GERMANY with her former territories restored — is ready to emerge as the strongest nation on earth at the head of a revitalized… Europe! THIS POWER COLOSSUS IS THEN GOING TO DEAL A DEATH BLOW TO THE UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN.” (The Plain Truth, October 1964)
…And that was the same message in the very first edition of the Plain Truth magazine, written nearly 30 years prior (in 1934)!
A German-led Frankenstein Monster
Talking about the Holy Roman Empire, Mr Armstrong wrote:
“In its final phase, to appear in our day, will merely be a restoration of that ancient Roman Empire – a United States of Europe which we are beginning to foster within the confines of the ancient Roman Empire! We are building the Frankenstein Monster that is destined to destroy us!” (The Plain Truth, June 1955)
The Game Changer!
On 25th February, 2022, President Putin declared war on Ukraine. The response from Germany was both sudden and dramatic. Just two days later …
Fear Goes into High Gear!
“Something dramatic, even historic, happened in the Reichstag building in Berlin on February 27th. Olaf Scholz, Germany’s chancellor, announced a plan to spend an additional €100 billion ($111 billion) on defence; to support imposing sanctions on Russia to export weapons to Ukraine and to consider acquiring the American-made F-35 as the next generation of nuclear-capable German aircraft.
This was a massive and ALMOST COMPLETE POLICY TURNAROUND, with a number of German foreign policy’s sacred cows slaughtered.” (economist.com)
Germany Has Woken Up
11/03/2022
“Nowhere has the change in policy been so stark as in Germany, where decades of policy have been cast aside virtually overnight. War has firmly united the transatlantic alliance. Germany’s decision to prioritize energy security over climate goals speaks volumes. Russia has awakened Germany from its slumber.” (heritage.org)
‘We Need Stronger Europe!’
13/03/2022
“The European Union has been sent a huge warning by former European Parliament Brexit Coordinator Guy Verhofstadt. ‘We need stronger Europe!’ EU sent huge warning by Verhofstadt to ‘defend our interests’. The former Belgian Prime Minister was speaking after attending the Conference on the Future of Europe in Strasbourg where Ukrainian citizens spoke about the recent Russian invasion. ‘We need a stronger, more sovereign, more united Europe to defend our values and interests.’” (express.co.uk)
The German Military — Europe’s Best Hope
27/03/2022
“Germany is the only country that can provide the necessary army forces to secure NATO’s eastern flank against Russia. With the return of a territorial war in Europe, the point has been reached where the security situation has changed so drastically that all options must be examined without taboo.” (worldcrunch.com)
‘Germany Needs Hard Power’
11/04/2022
“Power is what Scholz decided his country needed, after diplomacy failed to bring Putin back from the brink. The chancellor said, ‘Germany needs hard power.’” (msn.com)
The European Union Needs Its Own Army
20/05/2022
“Europeans have neglected their own security for far too long. It has been all too comfortable delegating its security concerns to the United States, which provides military cover through its NATO commitment.” (washingtonpost.com)
1982 - The Russian Threat To Europe
Over 40 years ago, in 1982, Mr Armstrong warned that fear of Russia would cause Europe to unite.
“Now one of the great things that is urging Europe on, and perhaps the greatest thing that WILL CAUSE THEM TO HURRY AND GET TOGETHER on this, is their FEAR of what’s going on in the Kremlin and the Soviet Union [Russia]. And Andropov [now Putin] is frightening them, and that is going to rush them.
They are losing confidence in the United States as having a military umbrella over them to protect them, and they want their own military force to protect themselves.” (Sermon - United States Of Europe Is Coming)
War In Ukraine
In February, 2022, when President Putin declared war on Ukraine the German response was both sudden and dramatic.
This was the ‘Fear of Russia’ in action!
Meanwhile, Russia and China are forging a new trading alliance with the founding of the BRICS nations – challenging both the EU and the West financially. Interesting to remember that the European Union was also initially formed based on trade! Right now, BRICS is also all about trade. But given a common enemy, this group too could form a formidable military force. And we know the eastern nations will ultimately attack the resurrected Holy Roman Empire according to Bible prophecy.
THE GOSPEL WENT OUT
(as per Matthew 24:14)
In a co-Worker letter in 1981, Mr Armstrong wrote:
“As John the Baptist prepared the way, in the PHYSICAL wilderness of the Jordan River for the first coming of the HUMAN Jesus (both man and God), then coming to His MATERIAL temple, and to His PHYSICAL people Judah, ANNOUNCING the Kingdom of God to be set up more than 1,900 years later, SO God would use a human messenger in the SPIRITUAL wilderness of 20th-century religious confusion, to be a voice CRYING OUT THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, about the SPIRITUAL CHRIST, coming in SUPREME POWER AND GLORY to His SPIRITUAL TEMPLE, to actually ESTABLISH that spiritual KINGDOM OF GOD.
Brethren, HAS THAT BEEN DONE BY THIS CHURCH?
Did God raise up a one-man LEADERSHIP to be used by Him in building this spiritual TEMPLE and in proclaiming after 1,900 years the true GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD in ALL THE WORLD – to even go to kings and heads of nations (Rev. 10:11) – in bringing the Church back to the FAITH ONCE DELIVERED (Jude 3)?
HAS THIS HAPPENED, IN YOUR DAYS, AND HAS GOD BROUGHT YOU INTO THIS PROPHETIC FULFILLMENT AS A PART OF IT?
HAS ANYONE ELSE DONE IT?
Brethren, HOW did the living Christ prepare me from youth to lead you? … In that first beginning six months’ deep study of the Bible, I learned I had believed the very opposite of WHAT GOD SAYS.
In that period God OPENED MY UNDERSTANDING to most of the MAJOR BASICS OF GOD’S TRUTH THAT THE CHURCHES AND RELIGIONS OF THIS WORLD HAD LOST – indeed, even the flickering remnant of the TRUE Church had lost!
He opened my mind to HIS LAW. Not only the Ten Commandments and the Sabbath, but the annual festivals and Holy Days. I learned the truth about God’s GOVERNMENT having been established on earth under the archangel Lucifer, and the origin of Satan and PURPOSE of God in restoring God’s Government over the earth. I learned Jesus was born to be a KING, which traditional ‘Christianity’ seems not to know. I learned our identity as being of the lost tribes of Israel, and the difference between the kingdoms of Judah and Israel.
THIS GAVE ME THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING PROPHECIES!
God revealed to me the symbols and truths of the book of Revelation as revealed through Matthew 24 and Daniel. I learned the Kingdom of God will be ON EARTH.
NO MAN taught me these truths. As the original apostles were taught by Jesus IN PERSON, so was I taught by Jesus Christ IN WRITING. It is the SAME WORD – the SAME TEACHING.” (Co-Worker Letter – March 19, 1981)
We Were Informed … Just As God Had Promised!
“Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.” (Amos 3:7)
We Were Informed of Upcoming Events Long Before They Happened!
And because we were warned in advance
We remained alert! We Watched! We Waited! We witnessed!
We watched the sudden fall of the Soviet Union, the old USSR.
We watched as the Berlin Wall was torn down.
We watched as East and West Germany was united.
We watched as the Eastern European nations joined the EU.
We witnessed Matthew 24:14 - The Gospel was preached to all nations as a witness
We witnessed the apostasy come unexpectedly from inside the church – from the top!
We lived through the Falling Away (II Thessalonians 2:3)
We witnessed the shattering of God’s people (Daniel 12:7)
We see Russia and China joining forces + the BRICS nations.
Now we see fear pushing Europe to rearm to protect itself from Russia…
Right now, we also see the "far-right" AfD's rising popularity in Germany. Who knows what the upcoming elections will bring?
We are told to watch in a spiritually alert way as God’s plan unfolds.
“Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.” (Matthew 24:32-33)
Upcoming Events
Now, we watch for:
- A very probable worldwide financial collapse (as detailed by Mr Armstrong in Prophecy Part 1 - 7 July 1984)
- Followed by the final rise of the Holy Roman Empire
- God’s people fleeing into the wilderness (Revelation 12:14)
- The Great Tribulation – the time of Jacob’s trouble
- An attack by the eastern nations on the Beast power
- Getting almost to the point of blasting life off the earth
- The return of Jesus Christ to take over world government!
"So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand." (Luke 21:31)
The Missing Dimension in Executive Orders
"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." (I Corinthians 2:14)
In last week's edition of the New York Times, Jewish journalist Melanie Phillips wrote an article under the title "The new resistance: How Trump shows the path to saving civilization". Commenting on the sweeping executive orders re-elected President Trump immediately put in place upon his inauguration, and under the subhead "Optimism is Back", she warns:
... Even if Trump’s reforms mean America once again rejoices in only two genders, white people are no longer vilified for the color of their skin and universities return to the free play of ideas, the forces that caused the social fabric to unravel will still be there and capable of repeating the exercise.
That’s because they were part of a seismic and destructive shift in Western society that has taken place over several decades and captured the minds of so many cultural leaders. (nypost.com)
There are indeed certain forces abroad that are capable of the destruction of society, and there are some enlightened individuals that understand there's more going on than meets the eye, and they realise it's more a spiritual issue that needs to be addressed:
The basic problem in our nation is not our politics, or health care, or racial prejudice, or inflation, or polarization, or immigration, or enemy threats, or whatever else you can name. It’s not China or Iran or North Korea. While each of those areas are problems, the fundamental problem is spiritual and moral.
America’s basic problem is not one that we can see in the visible world. It is “underneath” in the invisible world. We are in a cosmic battle between good and evil, light and darkness, truth and deception. The apostle Paul makes it clear… “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 6:12) (harbingersdaily.com)
Cause and Effect
The "seismic and destructive shift in Western society" that Ms Phillips mentioned had its roots further back than just several decades – closer to 6,000 years ago! As Mr. Armstrong continually tried to get us to understand:
Now once again, there are the Two Trees. If I mention it, someone’s going to get up and walk out and say “There’s Mr. Armstrong getting back to those Two Trees.” You betcha! And I’m going to do it again, and again, and again – because you can’t understand salvation, you can’t understand what Christ is doing, you can’t understand the Church, you can’t understand the world or what’s wrong with it, you can’t understand ANYTHING unless you understand the lesson of those Two Trees and the incident of the forbidden fruit ... (Sermon – Sin, 1983)
To the world in general, if they ever think of the Garden of Eden at all, it's something to do with "Adam's apple" and rare that the two trees would figure in their thoughts, let alone the FAR-reaching consequences of choosing the wrong tree. With the Holy Spirit now being cut off from mankind in general, the only way was down:
When God “drove out the man” from the Garden of Eden and barred reentrance – lest he go back and receive eternal life in sin (Genesis 3:22-24), God PRONOUNCED SENTENCE!
God said, in effect, “You have made the decision for yourself and the world that shall spring from you. You have rejected me as the basic source of knowledge – you have rebelled against my command and my government – you have chosen the GETTING, TAKING way of Satan. Therefore I sentence you and the world you shall beget to 6,000 years of being CUT OFF from access to me, my revealed knowledge, my WAY of life – EXCEPT for the comparatively exceeding few I shall specially call for special service preparatory to my Kingdom. Go, and produce your own fund of knowledge with your carnal, hostile minds. Produce your own carnal scholarship and system of disseminating it. Go and create your own gods and religions. Go, form your own human-devised GOVERNMENTS. Satan, in all this, will deceive your world into receiving his ATTITUDE of vanity, lust and greed, envy and jealousy, suspicion and disbelief, competition and strife and violence – into unrealized REBELLION against me and my WAY of outflowing LOVE! (Good News - 1978-11-20 - Seven Proofs Of The True Church)
Make us a King
And God's chosen nation of Israel did just that. Three thousand or so years later, the prophet Samuel was approached by disgruntled elders:
- And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
- But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
- And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. (I Samuel 8:5-7)
Note: Israel did not simply want a king, it wanted a king like the other nations – gentile nations – whose total focus was materialistic. Jesus Christ granted them their wish in Saul – who was most impressive physically, head and shoulders above anyone else (I Samuel 9:2) – but warned them of the consequences (I Samuel 8:8 -22) The prophet Jeremiah was inspired to record the inevitable results of this misguided approach:
- Has any nation ever changed its god (gods that are no gods)? But my people have changed their Glory for a useless thing!
- Well may the heavens be appalled and shudder:
- for my people have done two evils, they have forsaken me, the reservoir of living waters and hewn out cisterns for themselves, leaky cisterns that cannot hold any water! (Jeremiah 2:11-13 Moffatt)
Having rejected the tree of life, which would have given Adam free access to God's Spirit – man's mind is only 'half there', and only has the ability to use physical solutions to what in the main are spiritual problems. Having rejected the invisible God for a human being they can see, touch and hear, now Israel had just their own materialistic and warped judgements to rely on ... judgements coming from the tree of good and evil.
Many of President Trump's executive orders have a lot of common sense ingrained in them, but they cannot address the fundamental underlying problem, because he and his advisors don't understand what it is. The vast majority of these executive orders will fail to one degree or another, because the SPIRITUAL isn't in place, and the EO's are focused on the effect, and not the cause.
1) Protecting the American People Against Invasion
What is the root cause of the "alien invasion" into the US? Whether it's the drug baron problem or the desire to seek a better life elsewhere, both issues have a spiritual basis. Why do people take hard drugs? To escape the misery of their day to day existence, often brought about as the result of an unhappy, broken family life. As long as there is a market for heroin, then the multiple millions of dollars from the illegal drug trade will continue in one form or another.
Both poverty and greed prompts thousands to try their luck in the US, and again, the heart and core of their financial concerns are spiritual – often involving the stability and needs of the family, or living under a corrupt governmental system.
Both of these situations lie beyond President Trump's ability to rectify at this time, because both need a massive injection of spiritual understanding and a change of heart – a "heart of flesh" that can then be molded by God. (Ezekiel 11:19,36:26)
What is needed is for the drug baron to love his neighbour as himself – not drive him into drug dependency and early death; for his family life to be put back on track as a loving, stable unit; and for the wealthier nations to realise who it was who granted them the wealth, and why, and the willingness to share this understanding with the gentile nations round about:
- Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt (Exodus 23:9)
- Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.
- Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you. (Zechariah 8:22,23)
2) Death penalty for police murders
The death penalty in this particular case is being held out as a deterrent – as is life imprisonment, but neither gets to the root cause of murder, which in one way or another is focused on the SELF. And all of us have this drive towards our own interests, although some take it to the extreme of taking another's life. Banning weaponry is not the answer that is needed – guns do not kill ... people do. Knives do not kill ... people do. Banning unsavoury websites and businesses isn't the answer either. What is needed is to change the human heart, which is "deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked" (Jeremiah 17:9) – totally impossible for this particular EO to achieve, and something that only God can do via the Holy Spirit. The bald fact of the matter is that ALL of us are worthy of the death penalty, as we all have sinned (Romans 5:12) – even if we have never lifted a hand in anger to anyone!
DEATH is the penalty of SIN. SIN is the TRANSGRESSION of this LAW! To transgress this Law is to reject the WAY that would CAUSE the GOOD all humans want – to turn to the WAY that CAUSES every EVIL result. God FORBADE Adam and Eve to take the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, under penalty of DEATH!
WHY? Because He wanted them to choose the WAY of every desired GOOD – because He wanted them to avoid causing evils, sorrows, pains, suffering, unhappiness. Therefore, taking this fruit was symbolic of TRANSGRESSING God’s spiritual LAW! To have taken of the tree of LIFE was merely symbolic of receiving the GIFT of God’s Holy Spirit, the very LOVE OF God (Rom. 5:5) which FULFILLS this spiritual Law (Rom. 13:10) and which God gives only to those who OBEY His Law (Acts 5:32). (Missing Dimension in Sex)
As king David wrote in Psalm 51: ... "against thee, and thee only have I sinned" (Psalm 51:4), but he also knew the answer was to change (repent) and to be guided by God's spirit (verses 7-10). The only lasting answer for all of us is a change of heart and submission to a different spirit ... not that of Satan, who "was a murderer from the beginning". (John 8:44)
- Now when they heard this, they were [cut to] their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
- Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy [Spirit]. (Acts 2:37,38)
3) US to leave World Health Organization
The widely accepted theory of evolution has done us no favours at all in the area of our health. Presuming our bodies will adapt to their environment and diet, we bumble on, sicker than ever and reaching for "a pill for every ill". But the only good these pills have done in general is to enrich the pharmaceutical companies. Having thrown God out of the window, there is little comprehension of WHY sickness and disease, as at its heart it's a spiritual concept. Leaving the WHO is a positive step but it's not going to fix the underlying problem; that our bodies were created to operate at maximum efficiency in a certain way, and sickness and disease occurs when physical laws are broken.
Education in the field of diet/exercise/emotional balance etc is a good starting point, but what mankind is missing out on at the moment is the understanding of not only broken physical laws but also the MOMENTOUS price which was paid to make forgiveness of those laws possible. The World Health Organization cannot heal us – that is the prerogative and will of the Healing God; of Exodus 15:26,23:25, Deuteronomy 7:15, Psalm 103:3 ...
- Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
- But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. (Isaiah 53:4,5)
- For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
- And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. (I Corinthians 11:23,24)
- Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
- And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. (James 5:14,15)
4) Only Two Genders will be Recognised
As Mr. Armstrong brought out in his book The Missing Dimension in Sex, it is revelation from God that is missing – and not only in our understanding in sexual matters but ALL areas of man's fund of knowledge!
There is much vital basic and important knowledge BEYOND THE POWERS OF MAN TO DISCOVER! Such important knowledge as what man IS, WHY he was put on earth and for what PURPOSE. And if there is PURPOSE, WHAT is that PURPOSE? And HOW may we attain it? What is THE WAY to PEACE? All nations seek and strive for PEACE – yet none finds it – they have WAR! What are the TRUE VALUES in life? This world pursues the FALSE! ...
... Those are the most basic and important things man needs to KNOW. Yet he may search for the answers in vain. He can KNOW them ONLY through revelation. (The Missing Dimension in Sex, chapter 2)
It boils down to the question ... "Why Were You Born?"
The purpose of life is that in us God is really recreating His own kind – reproducing Himself after His own kind – for we are, upon real conversion, actually begotten as sons (yet unborn) of God ...
... Do you really grasp it? The purpose of your being alive is that finally you be born into the Kingdom of God, which is the divine FAMILY of God. (Why Were You Born)
This is a truth known by no other religion in this world. And it's a truth that Satan detests, as the children of God will replace him! Satan is an asexual created being and because he is not able to reproduce himself, he has pulled out all stops to muddy the waters in every way he can relative to sex, reproduction and family life. And what could be more effective than confusing individuals over what gender they are, and/or indulging in homosexual practices which cannot result in procreation, and are labelled as an abomination (disgusting, wicked thing) in the sight of God. (Leviticus 18:22, 20:13)
Unless and until the vital importance of marriage and family life is understood – in its overall, eternal picture – then gender confusion, marital disharmony, and the murder of the unborn will continue.
- For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
- This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. (Ephesians 5:31,32)
5) End Working from Home
The picture God paints for us regarding His millennial rule is far more along the lines of an agrarian society rather than one where human beings are confined in an office for 8 hours a day. His Plan for mankind revolves around harvests – reaping the crops we have sown – not dashing into a supermarket at the end of the day to buy some ready-meals to feed the family! We learn a great deal from the whole 'package' of animal husbandry, preparing the ground for crops, planting the seed, hoping and praying for the right weather – and then waiting for the actual harvest of our labours. (James 5:7)
- Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures. (Isaiah 30:23)
It has been said that once mothers took work outside the home, that was when family life started to crumble. But from statistics available on juvenile delinquency, law-breaking and pre-marital pregnancies, more often than not there is no regular father figure in the background, let alone up front to guide and lovingly correct the children.
- But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it. (Micah 4:4)
Making America Great Again
"MAGA" – the catchphrase that has really caught the imagination of many Americans is President Trump's assurance that he will "Make America Great Again". Many of his initiatives no doubt will do some good, but no number of executive orders will achieve this goal of greatness unless and until the heart of man is changed.
Man's problems today are beyond his ability to solve. With the added dimension of the spirit of God, we are able to understand why, but God doesn't leave us at that frustrating juncture. God revealed to His end-time apostle His incredible Plan – laid out in the Holy Days – through which we have the rock-solid assurance that one day soon we shall have a King that will make – not America – but Israel great again, who will teach His Way to all the world. At that time the only 'executive orders' necessary will be those of Christ the King – of "loving God with heart, soul and mind and our neighbour as ourself" (Matthew 22:37-40)
- Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
- And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land (Isaiah 32:1,2)
But between now and the return of Christ, there are some hard times ahead, UNTIL God makes His spirit available to all, lifting the vail presently blinding all of those yet uncalled.
- ... Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
- Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
- Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
- Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
- And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. (Isaiah 32:13-17)
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