Latest Audio - 2025-08-09
Several million migrants… from totally different cultures… with totally different religions… and totally different concepts… invade the Western nations…
But most are:
Totally Culturally Incompatible
Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong, Could It?
It all started to go wrong in late 2015, when the then German chancellor, Mrs Merkel, allowed over one million migrants into Germany. Several million migrants made the dangerous journey to Europe fleeing war, poverty, and natural disasters. By far the greater majority were young male Muslims. They have a totally different religion, and come from a totally different culture. In general, they do not assimilate into local society. This leads to conflicts.
JD Vance: Europe Is Engaging In Civilisational Suicide
“Vice-President JD Vance has accused Europe of engaging in ‘civilisational suicide’ by refusing to control its borders. ‘Europe is at risk of engaging in civilisational suicide. If you have a country like Germany, where you have another few million immigrants come in from countries that are TOTALLY CULTURALLY INCOMPATIBLE with Germany, then it doesn’t matter what I think about Europe,’ he continued. ‘Germany will have killed itself…’” (telegraph.co.uk)
Henry Kissinger
‘It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of A TOTALLY DIFFERENT CULTURE, religion and concepts because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that.’ (dailymail.co.uk)
Germany, We Have A Problem!
“When 1.1 million migrants arrived in Germany in 2015, Bild Zeitung launched a ‘welcome’ campaign, echoing the sentiments of then-Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had unilaterally opened the country’s borders to Syrians fleeing civil war in their homeland. The German people answered the call. They hung bunting on lampposts, waved balloons, offered food parcels and put up camp beds for the newcomers in sports halls, churches — and even in their own homes.
Which makes the new campaign by Germany’s favourite paper, known to everyone simply as Bild, quite extraordinary. Under the front-page headline ‘GERMANY, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!’, it has published a highly controversial 50-point manifesto telling migrants how to behave as the country experiences a national culture clash.
‘OUR WORLD IS IN CHAOS, and we are in the middle of it,’ says the paper. ‘Since the terrorist attack of Hamas on Israel on October 7, we are experiencing A NEW DIMENSION OF HATRED, against our values, our democracy and against Germany. In our country, there are many who oppose our way of life.
‘People who celebrate the murder of innocent civilians. Those who teach their children to hate others because they are “infidels” (non-believers), those who forbid women from wearing trousers; those who listen to radical preachers because they want a different society. Germany must say no!’ Though Bild calls its manifesto a ‘sort of house rules’ for everyone living in Germany, it is clearly aimed at migrants. And its significance cannot be overstated.
With its racy pictures and eye-grabbing headlines, Bild — which sells one million print copies a day — has a massive impact on the German people’s mindset. Twenty regional editions serve every corner of the country and each month its website attracts 25 million visitors, almost a third of the nation’s adult population. ‘It is the chosen literary fodder of politicians,’ I was told by a seasoned commentator in Germany this week.
In October, just weeks before his death on Wednesday aged 100, Kissinger gave what turned out to be his final interview to German media outlet Die Welt. Appalled by German street celebrations for Hamas atrocities, he said: ‘It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of A TOTALLY DIFFERENT CULTURE, religion and concepts because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that.’” (dailymail.co.uk)
Support For German Right-wing Party Rises
Since the start of the problem, support for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party grew. Now they are Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls. This swing to the right is sweeping across Europe!
2015: “Support for the Alternative for Germany (AfD), a right-wing party that backs a tough line on immigration, has risen to its highest level in nearly four months as an influx of refugees from the Middle East gathers pace, a poll showed on Tuesday. ‘The refugee crisis is pulling the conservatives down and pushing the AfD over the 5 percent threshold,’ INSA head Hermann Binkert told Bild.” (uk.reuters.com)
Europe’s Open Borders Give Way To Islamic Conquest
“Starting in the 18th century, European colonialism took over vast territories in Africa and Asia. Since the second half of the 20th century, and with the independence of European colonies, most European countries granted citizens of their former colonies the right to immigrate to the ‘motherland.’ This led to mass immigration from African and Asian countries into Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and Sweden.
In recent decades, immigration has also come from asylum seekers, refugees from Syria and Afghanistan, and economic migrants from Africa seeking a better future. Governments believed that the immigrants would assimilate into local society, but in reality, for many, the opposite occurred.
Many immigrants feel a deep hostility toward and contempt for the local culture. They exploit the generous social benefits, the strong economies, and all the advantages democratic societies have to offer, while working to conquer Europe religiously and culturally, even from within the political institutions of their host countries.
The open borders of Christian Europe, which welcome Muslim immigrants from the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, are driving an ethnic, religious, and cultural transformation, WHICH IS A DE FACTO ISLAMIC CONQUEST OF EUROPE without the need for war or bloodshed.” (jpost.com)
Europe’s Open Borders Dream Over
“Europe’s dream of open borders has turned into a ‘shambolic’ nightmare as the migrant crisis reaches unmanageable levels - with even Germany saying it can no longer cope. The Schengen Zone, which allows passport-free travel between many EU countries, was on the brink of collapse as nations across the continent tightened up controls amid the growing influx of desperate refugees.
But it is now clear that many European member states are now blaming the EU’s Schengen Agreement for the scale of the crisis now overwhelming several of them. The Schengen system of passport-free borders means traffickers are driving people across the Continent to reach the countries of their choice.” (express.co.uk)
Britain’s Population Growth Is Now Unsustainable
“Our island’s population continues to soar. In the year to June 2024, the numbers living in England and Wales rose by more than 700,000 – almost all because of immigration. Such a scale of demographic change is unprecedented and unsustainable. The sheer numbers are staggering, but the pressures on our infrastructure, public services and accommodation are hugely compounded by the impossibility of integrating so many migrants from utterly different cultural backgrounds.
The biggest single challenge is housing. Angela Rayner, the minister responsible, talks constantly about cutting red tape and setting targets for housebuilding. But her plans are dwarfed by this influx of migrants, few of whom are interested in living far from London and the South East.” (telegraph.co.uk)
The Disgraceful Link Between Crime And Immigration
The cost of keeping foreign-born criminals in prison is beyond £500 million every year. This is helping to destroy the British economy.
“The recent crime data shows what we’ve long-suspected, but it is staggering nonetheless. Foreign-born prisoners in UK jails are at record highs, with foreign prisoners making up 85% of the population in some London prisons. This direct link between migration and crime is there in black and white for all to see. Let’s not forget, those arriving here by small boat are people who are entirely unchecked, undocumented and unvetted.
Knowing this, successive Conservative and Labour governments have continued to place them in properties and hotels in the hearts of our communities. Yet, we have no idea who they are. The statistics show that we are filling up our town centres with criminals who are a drain on our economy, a strain on public services and a danger to our communities.
Of the 10,722 foreign criminals and suspects imprisoned in this country at THE COST OF £580 MILLION A YEAR to the public purse, 1,731 are in prison for sex offences. The simple fact is that the British taxpayer should not be footing the bill for other countries’ criminals.” (express.co.uk)
The European Country Leading Continent’s Anti-immigration Charge
We now have a change of direction in Germany. Germany is leading the European nations on immigration control.
“Soaring migration figures are a common theme across Europe, yet one country is leading the way on reducing spiralling numbers. While previous German governments had a softer approach to the issue, Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s hard-line stance has cut asylum seeker numbers down drastically. ‘Germany is leading in some of these very important talks,’ Denmark’s immigration minister Kaare Dybvad said. The EU country’s Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt recently hosted government officials from several countries with a similar tough stance on migration, such as Poland, Denmark and Austria. ‘We want to make it clear that Germany is no longer in the brakeman’s cab when it comes to migration issues in Europe but is part of the driving force,’ the minister said.” (express.co.uk)
The King’s Diversity Drive
“A Ramadan meal and an LGBT+ History Month lecture at Windsor Castle this year have been hailed as exemplifying THE KING’S ‘MOMENTOUS’ COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY. The Royal Collection Trust – which oversees the upkeep of the royal palaces – said in its annual report, released on Tuesday, that ‘INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY WAS A KEY PRIORITY THIS YEAR’ as it hosted a series of religious and LGBT+ celebrations.
For the first time in its 1,000-year history, Windsor Castle hosted an Open Iftar meal in its state apartments to mark the breaking of fast for Muslims during Ramadan. Last autumn, it hosted an inaugural Diwali Family Day including prayers from the head priest of the Slough Hindu Temple.
The King’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace also hosted its first event to mark LGBTQ+ History month in October, ‘exploring some of the Queer figures represented within the Royal Collection.’” (telegraph.co.uk)
“Learn Not The Way Of The Heathen”
We are given this warning in the Bible: “Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen…” (Jeremiah 10:2)
“…That thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods?” (Deuteronomy 12:30)
But the leadership has been pushing diversity and inclusion - totally in opposition to God’s commandments!
“For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.” (Isaiah 9:16)
“Governments believed that the immigrants would assimilate into local society, but in reality, for many, the opposite occurred. Many immigrants feel a deep hostility toward and contempt for the local culture. They exploit the generous social benefits, the strong economies, and all the advantages democratic societies have to offer, while working to conquer Europe religiously and culturally, even from within the political institutions of their host countries.” (jpost.com)
Islamic Justice Behind Closed Doors
The British government compounds the problem by making it legal for them to even use their own justice system.
When a ‘stranger’ lived in Israel, they had to be subject to the law of God.
“Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.” (Leviticus 24:22)
Not So In Modern Day Britain!
“At least 85 Islamic sharia courts are operating in Britain, a study claimed yesterday. The astonishing figure is 17 times higher than previously accepted. The tribunals, working mainly from mosques, settle financial and family disputes according to religious principles. They lay down judgments which can be given full legal status if approved in national law courts. However, they operate behind doors that are closed to independent observers and their decisions are likely to be unfair to women and backed by intimidation, a report by independent think-tank Civitas said. ‘Sharia courts operating in Britain may be handing down rulings that are inappropriate to this country because they are linked to elements in Islamic law that are seriously out of step with trends in Western legislation.’” (dailymail.co.uk)
The Attitude Of Assimilation
This is how a person assimilates into another society - it’s called total commitment! The attitude of Ruth is the perfect example:
“And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:” (Ruth 1:16)
Gentiles Never Excluded
To become as “one that is born in the land”, all the males had to become circumcised - and keep the law of God. As Mr Armstrong wrote:
“Always Gentiles could come in and become naturalized citizens of Israel. Thousands did.” (Which day is the Christian Sabbath? - Chapter 5)
“And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD [ie obey God’s law], let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be AS ONE THAT IS BORN IN THE LAND: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.” (Exodus 12:48)
End Time Curse
It all comes down to obeying the law of God! One of the curses for disobedience in Deuteronomy chapter 28 involves migrants. That curse is coming on the nations of modern day Israel - Britain and America.
“The foreigners living among you will become stronger and stronger, while you become weaker and weaker.
They will lend money to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, and you will be the tail!
If you refuse to listen to the LORD your God and to obey the commands and decrees he has given you, all these curses will pursue and overtake you until you are destroyed.” (Deuteronomy 28:43-45, NLT)
That destruction is not far off!
Valuing our Identity
"For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth." (Amos 9:9)
Today it's difficult to avoid media discussion – and condemnation – of the hostilities taking place in Gaza, where the Israelis are being accused of indiscriminate bombing, attacking food distribution points, killing women and young children ... in fact, genocide. Hamas' atrocities seem to have been totally forgotten and it's rare to hear of any nation or political party supporting the Jewish cause. In which case it would seem to make sense for them to back down, receive the approval of the other nations and accept any peace/hostage deals on offer. But people generally don't understand the Israeli psyche – what drives them, and why they are putting their lives on the line for each other – something which is clearly illustrated in a daring hostage rescue that took place 49 years ago this past July.
Operation Thunderbolt
On June 27, 1976, an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris was hijacked after a stop in Athens. Nearly 250 passengers were on board, including 83 Israelis. Of the four initial hijackers, two were from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and two from Germany’s Baader-Meinhof Gang. The kidnappers demanded a ransom of $5 million for the release of the airplane, and for Israel to release 40 convicted terrorists – and 13 additional prisoners in four other countries to be freed. They gave the Israeli government a 48-hour deadline to comply or they said they would begin to execute the hostages. They forced the plane to land in Benghazi, Libya where it refuelled and then continued on to Entebbe, Uganda.
With the support of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, the passengers were taken to the old airport terminal. Of the 248 passengers the terrorists immediately separated the Jewish and Israeli hostages from the rest of the captives. “Even now, as I am telling you the process by which the terrorists selected their hostages, it hurts me to say it,” Lt. Col. (res.) Avi Mor said, recounting that “it was a similar selection process the Nazis administered when selecting who would go work and who would be sent to the gas chambers.” Eventually all the non-Israelis were released but the Air France captain and crew refused to leave. Negotiations were attempted with Amin but it soon became clear he was supporting the hijackers, so the Israeli government immediately began drawing up a plan to rescue the hostages. In a daring attempt on July 4th Israeli Special Forces killed the hostage-takers in a lightning attack which took just six minutes with only five casualties.
The element of surprise was the biggest edge that Israel held. According to the commander of the operation, Dan Shomron: “You had more than 100 people sitting in a small room, surrounded by terrorists with their fingers on the trigger. They could fire in a fraction of a second. We had to fly seven hours, land safely, drive to the terminal area where the hostages were being held, get inside, and eliminate all the terrorists before any of them could fire.” The fact that no one expected the Israelis to take such risks was precisely the reason that they took them. Four hostages lost their lives in Operation Entebbe,and also one soldier – Lt. Col. Yonathan Netanyahu, the leader of the Operation, and the elder brother of the current Israeli Prime Minister. You can't help but wonder how much the loss of his brother has formed Mr. Benyamin Netanyahu's position on hostage-taking and terrorism!
The raid was so daring that a number of documentaries and feature films were subsequently made about the operation, including Cohen on the Bridge (2010), Live or Die in Entebbe (2012), Victory at Entebbe (1976), Raid on Entebbe (1977), Operation Thunderbolt (1977) and Entebbe (2018). A most interesting youtube production (youtube.com) clarifies the Israeli approach and reasoning:
That is the key factor... "they will not abandon their people" ...they have a NATIONAL IDENTITY, and value it.
Northern Israel's Lost Identity
- Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
- The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. (Isaiah 1:2,3)
In contrast to the Jews, in his book The United States and Britain in Prophecy, Mr. Armstrong clearly and unambiguously explains why the modern day Israelites have lost their identity, now thinking themselves to be gentiles:
Israel Lost Sign
Jeroboam set up two great idols for his people to worship. He ordered the fall festivals to be observed in the eighth month, at a place of his choosing north of Palestine – instead of in the seventh month, and at Jerusalem as GOD ordered (1 Kings 12:28-32). Also Jeroboam changed the Sabbath day from the seventh to the eighth – that is, to the day following the seventh day, which, of course, was actually the first day of the week.” Thus he set the day for worship to coincide with the pagan DAY OF THE SUN, now called Sunday!...
...But in 721-718 B.C., God caused the house of Israel to be invaded and conquered by the kingdom of Assyria. These Israelites were removed from their farms and their cities and taken to Assyria on the southern shores of the Caspian Sea as slaves. But the house of JUDAH – the Jews, a separate and different nation – were not invaded until 604 B.C. ...
...Now why did they come to be known as the “LOST Ten Tribes”? They had lost their national identifying sign!...
As long as they remained in the LAND of Israel and called themselves “the KINGDOM OF ISRAEL” their identity was known. But in Assyria they were no longer a nation with their own government and their own king. They were mere slaves. They took up the language of the Assyrians as succeeding generations grew up.They lost the Hebrew language as biblical prophecy said they would. They lost all national identity.
The TEN TRIBES, known as the house of ISRAEL, lost their identifying tag – God’s Sabbath. (The United States and Britain in Prophecy Chapter 11 "Why Israel Lost Identity")
Judah's Retained Identity
To understand why the Jews by contrast have kept their national identity through a similar captivity when taken to Babylon, it's necessary to understand a little of their history. Note the prophecy against rebellious Judah mentioned in Jeremiah in chapter 25:
- And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
- They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever...
- ... Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,
- Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations...
- ...And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. (Jeremiah 25:4,5,8,9,11)
The thirteenth chapter of Nehemiah is very revealing about the importance being placed on "getting back on track" regarding the laws of God – especially the Sabbath – the breaking of which had resulted in the 70 years of slavery. From Mr. Armstrong:
Seventy years after that captivity, according to Jeremiah’s prophecy (Jer. 29:10), many of the Jews returned to Palestine to rebuild the Temple and restore the worship there. The prophet Nehemiah tells why they had been driven into captive slavery 70 years before: “In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein the sold victuals… Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the Sabbath day? Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? Yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath” (Neh. 13:15-18) (The United States and Britain in Prophecy Chapter 11 "Why Israel Lost Identity")
However, as a result of God having caused the house of Judah to be taken into Babylonian captivity for polluting His Sabbaths, many of the Jews who were allowed to return to Jerusalem 70 years later became excessively strict physically in observing it. Therefore the Pharisees of Jesus' day had a list of about 65 activities defined as “work” that they prohibited. Even today, some orthodox Jews have complied a list of 39 categories of ritual work that is not permitted on the Sabbath, including making a fire or causing anything to burn, so even throwing a toothpick into a fire is deemed a violation of the Sabbath.
These uninspired prohibitions – very much a carnal approach to a spiritual subject – have made the Sabbath observance a "yoke of bondage" to many, but there's still a great benefit – as the saying goes... "More than the Jews keep the Sabbath, the Sabbath keeps the Jews" ...and their national identity!
In the "Christian" World
The shift to Sunday worship in the "Christian" world goes back to the 4th century AD at the council of Laodicea where emperor Constantine made the initial pronouncement and legal decree about the change. In the Encyclopaedia Britannica, under the article, "Sunday", notice: "It was Constantine who first made a law for the proper observance of Sunday and who appointed that it should be regularly celebrated throughout the Roman empire." The Catholic Church reinforced that act in one church council after another and many official statements from Catholic sources are made, claiming that the church made the change from Saturday to Sunday. From the book The Faith of Millions, page 473:
“But since Saturday, not Sunday, is specified in the Bible, isn’t it curious that non-Catholics who profess to take their religion directly from the Bible and not from the Church, observe Sunday instead of Saturday? Yes, of course, it is inconsistency but this change was made about fifteen centuries before Protestantism was born, and by that time the custom was universally observed. They have continued the custom even though it rests upon the authority of the Catholic Church and not upon an explicit text from the Bible. That observance remains as a reminder of the Mother Church from which the non-Catholic sects broke away like a boy running away from home but still carrying in his pocket a picture of his mother or a lock of her hair.” (sabbathtruth.com)
The Curse of Multiculturalism
"Multiculturalism - the view that cultures, races and ethnicities, particularly those of minority groups, deserve special acknowledgment of their differences within a dominant political culture" (britannica.com)
This drive to "embrace diversity" – whether it may be pagan religions or sexual perversions – may be the view of the Israelite nations today, but it flies in the face of God's view of the subject (Isaiah 1:4-6). God's admonition to OT Israel, as they were about to inherit the Promised Land, was to have nothing whatsoever to do with the resident nations: Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. (Deuteronomy 12:30)
History shows that God's people ignored this command ...and the result? A loss of identity.
- Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
- Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. (Hosea 7:8,9)
- The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
- He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. (Deuteronomy 28:43,44)
The UK has witnessed rampant immigration in recent years (costing £5 billion a day to house and feed the so-called asylum seekers) the majority being young men from Iran and Iraq, who bring their religious practices with them – to the detriment of British values, many of which find their origin in the scriptures. In the first ten years of this century, the Muslim population increased almost ten times faster than the non-Muslim population and it appears that each year approximately 6,000 Britons convert to Islam, which is now the second largest religion in the UK.
In contrast, God's view of the stranger in Israel was that he had to fit in with Israel's manner of life, and its laws – including the Sabbath – and not the other way round! (Exodus 12:49, 20:10, Leviticus 16:29, 17:15, Ephesians 2:12,13) If this command had been obeyed Israel would have kept its identity and not become "the lost ten tribes".
Valuing Our Identity
Having been hand-picked by God the Father, and given to Christ for training, we in God's Church have taken on a totally new identity – and one that runs so much deeper than that of the most observant Jews!
- But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a [purchased] people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
- Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. (I Peter 2:9,10)
- Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
- And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. (II Corinthians 6:17,18)
At this present time, the world in general isn't aware of our spiritual identity, which is inexorably tied up with the Sabbath and the Holy days (Exodus 31:13-17) We tend to keep somewhat 'under the radar', but that unawareness is not prophesied to last – it certainly appears that the mark of the beast will have much to do with Sabbath keeping, and God's church will no doubt experience the full force of anti-antisemitism, and anti-Zionism, along with the Jewish people.
'To be forewarned is to be forearmed' and we need to appreciate – and value – NOW our collective and personal identity in God's eyes, if we are to cope with the persecution that is to come. We are encouraged by Christ in Isaiah, that God is very much aware of anything that befalls us, and will never leave or forsake us:
- I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;
- And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor? ...
- ...And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people. (Isaiah 51:12,13,16)
Referring to the very first scripture quoted – Amos 9:9 – It would appear that God will very much decide which individuals He will allow to go through to the start of the Millennium and which ones will have to wait until the Last Great Day! So how much more those He is currently training to be the teachers – His family members?
- Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
- For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. (Amos 9:8,9)
The Ultimate Hostage Rescue
The daring Entebbe rescue of 100 or so individuals pales into insignificance compared to the plan of liberation of multiple billions, which God set in motion 6,000 years ago. (Revelation 13:8), And if we hold onto our identity as His "chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation" (I Peter 2:9), then we can have an major and most significant part in this ultimate liberation of mankind. As Mr. Armstrong wrote in a co-worker letter in 1983:
World troubles continue to expand. Among recent news stories have been kidnappings for ransom, and airplane hijackings. There was an extreme precedent 6,000 years ago. The whole world, then yet to be born, was kidnapped by Satan. Adam’s children, now multiplied into about four and a third billion people, have become “A WORLD HELD CAPTIVE.”...
...God the Father paid the ransom price. He GAVE his only begotten Son that they might not perish, but have eternal life as children of God. The Son, Jesus, brought LIGHT into Satan’s world, but men loved the darkness of Satan’s deception rather than the true light.
However, Jesus called 12 disciples as students to be taught the TRUTH by him. He called them OUT of this world of Satan’s, opened their minds to Satan’s deception, sent them forth to teach still others God the Father would call to become HIS children, ransomed, bought and paid for by the blood of Christ. He called them OUT of Satan’s world, as the pioneers starting the embryo of GOD’S world – an entire new and different world... (Co-Worker Letter – October 18, 1983)
Interestingly, Entebbe airport was built by an Israeli construction firm, which provided the IDF with blueprints of the layout, making the rescue attempt that much simpler. We too have our set of 'blueprints' – the Plan of God, which clearly outlines HOW this ultimate rescue will come about, this present stage culminating in the Day of Atonement. In the meantime, as part of the 'underground', the 'advance party', we are collecting vital information of the two ways of life, (the two trees!) which will be of great benefit when we are called into action at the time God the Father decides:
- The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
- The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
- Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. (Psalm 110:1-3)
Currently we are not the only ones waiting for the unrivalled 'hostage rescue' – so also is Christ as brought out in Isaiah 42.
- I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once...
- ... And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. (Isaiah 42:14,16)
Referring to the Bride of Christ in Psalm 45, we're to "forget also thine own people, and thy father's house, (Psalm 45:10) because we've become part of the God family, one that is destined to bring everlasting freedom to all mankind. Let's hang on to our new and priceless identity as the firstfruits – the very sons of God – so we can be part of the ultimate and everlasting rescue plan.
- For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
- For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of [sonship], whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
- The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
- And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint–heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
- For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
- For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
- For the creation was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
- Because the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. (Romans 8:14-21)
“Just what is an APOSTLE?”
Today we find the Church of God in a “wilderness of religious confusion!”
The confusion is not merely around the Church – within the religions of the world outside – but WITHIN the very heart of The True Church itself!
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