Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. [Matt 24:23-24 KJV].
The Devil as he approaches his inevitable judgement is increasing his activity in this world. Everywhere we look today there is corruption in high places and lie after lie being told by politicians and governments. Many of the governments are corrupt. Everywhere it seems many people in responsible and far reaching positions are telling lies and giving false information.
Yasser Arafat once said that if you tell a lie consistently and continually for long enough it will be believed, and the situation between the State of Israel and the Palestinian position stems from lies. The Jews have lived in their land for over 3000 years. Other peoples have also lived there, but Israel is the only nation to have had a king and a government. Conquered by Babylon, Persia, Greece Rome and the Ottomans, they were not their own masters until the British defeated the Ottomans in 1917 and it became a British protectorate. That area was then governed by Britain and France from 1917 at the behest of the League of Nations, until 1947, when the new United Nations Organisation decided to split the area between the Jews and the Arabs, with Syria and Jordon and associated areas going to the Arabs, and Palestine as it was known, going to the Jews, who were emerging from the Holocaust with nowhere to go. The Nation of Israel was allocated by the United Nations as a legitimate identity, and became a Nation in 1948. Israel then had to defend itself against the Arabs, who thought they should have all of it, but Israel won the war, and have been in conflict with them from then on, United Nations Mandate or not. In 1967 the Arabs started another aggressive war with Israel, who beat them, and in so doing recaptured the Golan Heights, West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem. The remaining Palestinians were fine until Mr. Arafat arrived on the scene. An Egyptian by birth, with no rights in Palestine at all, he saw an opportunity and started stirring up the Arabs to get Palestine back. He was so much trouble, that he was thrown out of Jorden where he was living and settled in Israel, where he started stirring everybody up, and saying that it was really the Arabs land and the Jews should get out of it. He had no right to do this and he made up a complete fabrication of lies to implement his strategy, resulting in the PLO and all that has gone on since, with most of the world believing his lies, including much of the Western Church. We come back to what Arafat said, and it has all been one big lie. Jerusalem being recognized by the USA as capital of Israel has not helped, with opposition from the Arabs being extreme. However Israel has every right to call Jerusalem its capital, and now other nations are beginning to realise that Israel is right, and the Palestinians have no authority at all, and were it not for the allowance of Israel, would have no West Bank or Gaza Strip.
Another big cover up being promoted by several Western Governments is that the Nations are OK financially, whereas in fact they all owe billions of dollars to the World Bank, and keep their nation going internally by printing more money. The USA owes at least $8,042,800 million dollars to the IMF and it is increasing day by day. Britain owes $431,454 million and so on, nearly everyone is owing millions. No one can show a positive balance. However no one really knows, how much Russia and particularly China has stashed away. The governments tell their public how much they have reduced their import export gap not how much everyone owes everyone else or in fact how much they owe the World Bank. This will not be missed when the Antichrist takes over. If you are in debt to your bank you have to do as they say and they have hold over you. If a nation is in debt to the World Bank they will have to do as they are told when the Antichrist takes over!!
The press has been accused recently of fake news. How much is deliberate and how much is told them to write is never known. Some may be just plain error. Some time ago a District Nurse was knocked off her bike and killed. As I knew the man whose wife was the district nurse in that area, I rang him to see if it was her and offer my sympathy. Apparently it was, but the newspaper had the wrong name and the wrong address for her. There is lot more you hear through the Christian Press than you hear from the ordinary press. Often the truth puts a whole new meaning on what’s really happened and what the world’s news has said. In a recent skirmish at the Gaza border where women and children were killed they had been paid to demonstrate by Hamas. However it came over that horrible Israel had murdered these people in cold blood. When the Israeli air force went for some rocket launch sites in Gaza, one had been located in a school playground and one on the top of some civilian flats.
Many people ignore the Gospel because of their total ignorance of it. Children are not automatically sent to Sunday school anymore and people just don’t know anything about it. A recent account I heard; was of a woman when spoken to about Jesus and the way of salvation, said: I do not believe the Bible is true. When asked to clarify why, she said I don’t believe Jonah swallowed a whale.
The Devil is desperately trying to stop the teaching of the Bible in schools, here in New Zealand. In the USA there is pressure to separate Church and State so no Scripture is taught in schools and in Britain, it’s no longer Scripture that is taught but religious studies covering all religions and what they believe. Even some Churches are teaching that there are several ways to God. The truth is, there is only one way through Jesus: For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; [1 Tim 2:5KJV]. There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. [Prov 16:25NKJV].
Brian Papworth
Prophetic Witness Movement International Representative in the South Pacific.