It seems that in the last 150 years, the Bible and prayer were included in the public school system, although some historical facts reveal that most public schools intended to be atheistic in their thinking.

As we’ve already seen, the Common school program, which is the precursor to today’s state’s school system, wasn’t a failure of the then predominantly Christian institutions.

Instead, this system was exploited by utopian socialists and Unitarians, who were concentrated in the New England area, especially Boston. They wanted a school system they would control as an instrument for remaking society in their own image.

John Dewey (1859 –1952)

One of the leaders of these groups was a humanist, professing atheist, and socialist, John Dewey, whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. He proposed an educational system that is devoid of morality and faith in God.

John Dewey’s goal was to use the public school system to mold our children’s minds into becoming obedient citizens of the state. He was quoted as saying,

You can’t make socialists out of individualists. Children, who know how to think for themselves, spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent.

Part of his blueprint was to break the mother’s bond by getting the kids to state schools at an early age, which, I might add, is being implemented today at an exponential speed.

John Dewey and his contemporaries knew that if the schools could keep the children from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., if they could keep the children preoccupied with sports from after school till around 6:00 p.m., if they could keep children busy with homework all evening, then they could keep parents from having more than thirty minutes to an hour per day with their children.

For Dewey, within one generation schools could break the influence of the parents and their religion off the children. He said, “It is up to the public system to recapture our threatened religious heritage.”

For Dewey that heritage was not biblical Christianity but that which was common to society. He was critical of the past and its traditional teaching methods:

The traditional notion of ‘discipline’ was developed under these circumstances. The little red schoolhouses of our ancestors were a struggle of wits and often a means of strength between pupils and teachers.

He then continues,

There is only one way out of the existing educational confusion and drift. That way is the definite substitution of a social purpose, controlling methods of teaching and discipline and materials for study, for the traditional individualistic aim.” And again, “Schools do have a role—and an important one—in the production of social change.

He declared, “change was constant in society and that anyone who did not recognize this point was under ‘a self-imposed hallucination.’” Therefore, educational methodology and content must constantly change to keep up with the constant and usually unpredictable flow of social attitudes. He was critical of those who “as a rule opposed the studies called “modern and the methods called progressive.”

His philosophy of education merged well with the liberal theology of the churches. The liberal clergy had no trouble supporting the governmental school system.

With the development of government schools, the humanists succeeded in accomplishing several things, and one of them was undermining the biblical faith of the children.

Horace Mann (1796–1859)

Under the influence of another humanist, Horace Mann, compulsory education in government schools became a reality. Most historians regard him as the most important and beneficial leader of education reform in America. Historians have also credited him as the father of the common school movement.

In 1852 Mann was instrumental in the decision to adopt the godless Prussian education system in Massachusetts. The practical result of his work brought a revolution in the approach used in the school system of Massachusetts, which in turn influenced the direction of other states. Shortly, New York State set up the same method in twelve different schools on a trial basis.

Another primary architect of today’s godless public school system was Dr. G. Brock Chisholm (1896–1971). He was the first head of the World Federation of Mental Health, and later head of the World Health Organization of the United Nations. He is honored and recognized by many as a great humanitarian, but he despised God, morality, and the Christian family.

Chisholm had a strong view that children should be raised in an “intellectually free environment” as possible. That environment was the state school system where children would be independent of the prejudices and biases—political, moral, and religious—of their parents.

He said, to achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their  “individualism’ loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.” Sounds familiar?

The Best Things in Life Are Never Free

Most Christian parents in the West did not discern what was going on, and they sent their children to public schools due to mandatory attendance laws. It is now painfully obvious that government schools have adopted an all-inclusive religious system that claims all religions lead to the same path.

There is nothing free in this society. Sooner or later there is going to be a price that had to be paid. What was that price? A rejection of teaching God as Creator, removing the Bible, prayer, and the Ten Commandments from schools, and replacing biblical morality with worldly secularism and humanism.

They had to mix Christian denominations with the Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and many other world religions, and their main object was to exclude from the curriculum anything that any of these groups found offensive.

By embracing all faiths, a new secular humanistic “faith” was introduced to replace them all. How do we train our children to follow Christ while they are being trained to reject the God of the Bible from the classroom?

Professor A. A. Hodge gave a message that would seem to be prophetic, and unfortunately history has proven him to be right. He saw the effect this system of government run education system would have on Christianity, and then came back and reported:

I am sure as I am of Christ’s reign that a comprehensive and centralized system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief, and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, individual, social, and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen….

It is capable of exact demonstration that if every party in the State has the right of excluding from the public schools whatever he does not believe to be true, then he that believes most must give way to him that believes least, and then he that believes least must give way to him that believes absolutely nothing, no matter in how small a minority the atheists or the agnostics may be.

It is self-evident that on this scheme, if it is consistently and persistently carried out in all parts of the country, the United States system of national popular education will be the most efficient and wide instrument for the propagation of atheism which the world has ever seen.

Indeed, the education system in the West has been expensively financed, advocating a philosophy that begins with man and ends with man, just as A.A. Hodge predicted.

When the Bible and the knowledge of God were abandoned, it was easy for alternatives such as the theory of evolution and Darwinism to take over the school system, as we shall examine in the next post.

Part of the article is adapted from Reclaiming the Forgotten Biblical Heritage~Volume 2 Copyright 2014, Watchman Media Publications

Image credit: Teach 4 the Heart

Every time a tragic shooting happens, it takes about five minutes for renewed cries of “Gun control!” to come echoing down the line. The loudest cries come when the softest targets are hit – most poignantly schools, which are notoriously gun-free zones and therefore attractive to nutcase criminals.

After the horrific school massacre in Parkland, Florida last February, a reader sent me a link to an essay entitled “What did we think was going to happen?”

The author of this piece (who calls himself “El Borak”) essentially argues school shootings will never end. Not because guns are too available; not because teachers aren’t armed; not because Trump is in office. No, shootings will continue because there’s nothing to stop them. There are no longer any social barriers to control behavior.

“We purposely tore down every protective social wall that humanity spent the previous five millennia constructing,” notes El Borak. “No one ever thought to ask why they were constructed in the first place. Because no one ever thought.”

Point by point, this writer highlights the old-fashioned fuddy-duddy ideals leftists so eagerly dismantled – and what happens as a result:

We built a culture that promotes confusion. We tore down all barriers related to morality, especially sexual morality. We started with serial monogamy and hookup culture and moved right into married gays and bent genders. Now after 12 years of sex education our kids don’t even know what sex they are. We purposely tore down every protective social wall that humanity spent the previous five millennia constructing. No one ever thought to ask why they were constructed in the first place.

Because no one ever thought. We built a culture that promotes unresolvable interpersonal conflict. No more are we one nation under God; we are not under God at all, nor are we a nation. We are but intersectionalities of aggrieved classes, competing for the most oppression points by demonizing our fellow citizens for the original sin of being born white or male or straight or with two legs. We have set an entire generation against itself with manufactured claims of oppression. Did we truly not think that some of them would take up arms against the others or that a few would seek to destroy the many? We did not think at all.

El Borak points out the generation of “angry, bitter, drug-addled, under-developed aspiring rappers who don’t know who they are and never learned how to deal with life’s most common setbacks” that resulted from the progressive desire to eradicate those old-fashioned fuddy-duddy morals that once underpinned our nation.

Yes, the whole column is well-written, and I urge you to read it in its entirety; but one thing in particular caught my eye. In offering personal (as opposed to societal) solutions to raising kids who aren’t “angry, bitter, drug-addled, under-developed aspiring rappers,” he states: “Homeschool or die.”

The inflexibility of this startled me. Homeschool or die? I mean, you’ll never find a bigger supporter of homeschooling than yours truly – but “homeschool or die”? That seems a bit extreme.

But El Borak doesn’t see it that way. “Homeschool or die,” he states. “I don’t want to hear why you can’t do it. In three decades as a homeschooling parent, I’ve heard your excuse. Either it’s important enough to you that you work through your roadblocks, or it’s not. Your choice.”

There are many people who lament the homeschooling trend, arguing we can better fix schools by getting involved rather than withdrawing. To this I counter: Twelve years (the years your kids are in school) will pass in a flash. You can spend those 12 years battering your head against the brick wall, futilely arguing for change. Or, you can simply keep your kids home and educate them yourself – not just with the academics they need, but with the moral compass that is necessary for adults to function in society. Let’s face it, most homeschooled kids do not turn out as “angry, bitter, drug-addled, under-developed aspiring rappers.” They become leaders.

Parents who are committed enough to homeschool usually emphasize personal responsibility and accountability – and this is the lack which is turning society on its head. Most people put the dearth of accountability firmly in the camp of liberals.

“The final failure of accountability for the left is a failure of moral organization, while for the right it is a failure of personal character,” notes Daniel Greenfield in an essay called “Gun Control, Thought Control, and People Control.” He continues, “The right asks, ‘Why did you kill?’ The left asks, ‘Who let him have a gun?’, ‘Who didn’t provide him with a job’ and ‘Who neglected his self-esteem?’ … The only possible answer to reactive behavior is to find the thing being reacted to and condemn it.” (Emphasis added).

Greenfield continues: “This is the society that the left is creating, a place filled with as many social problems as there are people, where everyone is a lab monkey except the experts running the experiments, and where no one has any rights because freedom is the enemy of a system whose moral code derives from creating a perfect society by replacing the individual with the mass. It is a society where there is no accountability, only constant compulsion. It is a society where you are a social problem and there are highly paid experts working day and night to figure out how to solve you.”

Now we learn that Common Core, forcibly implemented nine years ago in public schools with promises to improve student achievement, has proven to be a wildly expensive scam and a failure. Or wait, maybe it wasn’t a failure after all. If the goal was to produce stupid, brainwashed students who would unthinkingly vote the straight socialist ticket, then it’s been a brilliant success.

And progressive lawmakers still try to paint homeschoolers as child abusers since, of course, parents must only be interested in hiding the bruises, right? Predictably, California is taking the lead in this attitude, with attempted legislation that would require home visits, interviews and other government oversight.

No one will ever admit the obvious: Homeschooling parents are raising children who will lead our nation, not destroy it. Why is this obvious? Because while everyone else’s kids are wandering around aimlessly, lost and confused, homeshooled kids were taught using a map and a compass.

Homeschool or die? Maybe this guy is onto something.

Copyright © 2018 Patrice Lewis WND–All rights reserved.

The global persecution of Christians continues to escalate dramatically, and yet the mainstream media in the United States is virtually silent about it.  In this article, I am going to quote a lot of sources, but they are all either overseas news outlets or Christian websites in the United States.

To a certain extent, I think that the mainstream media is extremely hesitant to report about the global persecution of Christians because it may cause the general public to feel sympathetic, and that would definitely be counterproductive to what they are trying to accomplish.

Ultimately, the elite are trying to demonize Christians, conservatives, patriots and anyone else that would attempt to oppose their radical agenda for America.  So they are banning us from their Internet platforms, they are mocking us on their news and entertainment programs, and they certainly don’t want to highlight the fact that the persecution of Christians is escalating rapidly around the globe.

In this article, I would like to share with you 8 recent examples of Christians being persecuted that you probably never heard about from the mainstream media…

#1 In Kenya, two Christians were recently pulled off a bus and shot dead for failing to recite the Islamic creed…

International Christian Concern reported on the statements of witnesses and heartbroken families a month after the two Christians, Fredrick Ngui Ngonde and Joshua Ooko Obila, were shot dead by Somalia-based terror group al-Shabaab for refusing to recite the Islamic creed.

“The armed Somali fighters ordered all of us to [get off of] the bus and produce our identity cards. They singled out three passengers and ordered them to remain down the bus as we boarded. They asked them if they were Muslims and if they knew the Shahada and the seven verses of Suratul Fatiha. One of them recited part of the Shahada and was allowed to [return] to the bus,” a witness who wasn’t named told the watchdog group.

“The other two kafir men refused to obey the jihad fighters and remained adamant that Christ is their savior and they cannot deny the Christian faith. They were shot dead.”

#2 In Nigeria, the death toll for Christians “continues to rise to catastrophic proportions” as radical groups continue their genocidal campaign…

The death toll for Christians in Nigeria continues to rise to catastrophic proportions as the nation seems helpless or unwilling to stop bloodthirsty Islamic radicals targeting Christians in the region.

This time jihadists–identified as notorious Fulani Herdsmen–toting guns and machetes slaughtered 17 innocent victims in one evening, including four young children and a grandmother.

All of the victims are said to be members of a local evangelical Christian church.

#3 An American missionary that just moved to Cameroon was viciously gunned down in front of his wife and children…

An American Christian missionary has been shot dead in front of his wife and kids in a volatile region of Cameroon. Charles Wesco, 44, was killed when a volley of gunfire struck his car windshield as he traveled to a local store with his wife, Stephanie, one of his children and a fellow missionary. The ministry worker was rushed to a hospital in the city of Bamenda where he was pronounced dead.

#4 In Pakistan, a Christian pharmacist recently died after a gang of Muslims attacked him with acid…

According to Asia News, Faraz Ahmed Badar was a 26-year-old pharmacist who worked at the DHQ Hospital in Gujaranwala. Before his death, he had been harassed relentlessly by a Muslim colleague, who was reportedly jealous that Badar was in a more senior position than him at work. The understanding was this – if you are a Christian, you should never be allowed to rise above a Muslim at work. And it was this prejudice that resulted in Badar’s untimely death.

On 5 September, the pharmacist was preparing for his shift when he was brutally attacked with acid by a group of men who were wearing face masks. The suspects are still at large. Badar was rushed to a local hospital, where he spent 10 days, before succumbing to his injuries and dying on September 15.

#5 In Myanmar, rebel attacks have “destroyed or closed” 12 churches, and some pastors have even had their heads shaved…

A group of rebels has set its sights on Burmese Christians in a fresh series of attacks, with devastating results. Over the past couple of weeks, Ethnic Wa rebels have shut down churches, destroyed religious buildings and even shaved the heads of local pastors.

The communist United Wa State Army (UWSA), Myanma’s largest ethnic rebel force, launched the assaults in Shan state, according to Morning Star News.

“We confirmed that at least 12 churches have been destroyed or closed as of Sept. 20,” said one church leader of the latest spree of attacks.

#6 In India, the police recently stormed a church service on a Sunday morning and arrested 10 pastors as they were praying because “they had been converting non-members”…

The 10 pastors were detained with their loved ones as they prayed at a church on Sunday in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, following allegations made by Hindu nationalist groups that they had been converting non-members.

Pastor Bahavan Ram was arrested after police burst into his church in Kariyabar in what has been described as a major crackdown on Christianity in the state.

#7 The persecution of Christians in China is the worst that it has ever been in modern times.  According to a British news source, “hundreds of churches” have now been demolished by government officials…

China has imposed a massive crackdown on Christianity across the country, with hundreds of churches demolished and Bibles banned.

Beijing’s President Xi Jinping has previously labelled Christianity as “Western infiltration”, insisting Western ideologies that post a threat to the country’s Communist authority.

In April, China’s religious affairs department published an article stating all churches in country must follow the Communist Party’s rules so that they are “Sinicized” (made more Chinese).

#8 American Christians generally have it much easier than the rest of the world, but incidents of violence are becoming more frequent here as well.  For example, a church in Seattle was recently firebombed with Molotov cocktails…

As a group of about 50 congregants attended a worship service at a Seattle-based church, an arsonist hurled several Molotov cocktails toward the sanctuary.

Witnesses told authorities they saw a person throwing lit bottles filled with an unknown substance at Iglesia ni Cristo just after 8 p.m. Thursday and immediately called 9-1-1, according to KCPQ-TV.

If some leftist group had been firebombed, it would have made front page news all over the country and CNN and MSNBC would have been breathlessly examining every little detail for hours.

In the end, everyone has an agenda to push, and stories about Christian persecution absolutely do not fit with the narratives that the corporate media are trying to propagate.

But just because they are ignoring this global surge in Christian persecution does not mean that it does not exist.  We truly do live in apocalyptic times, and we should expect persecution to continue to rise as anti-Christian sentiment continues to grow.

Thankfully, we don’t have to worry too much about being gunned down or arrested here in the western world, but we can certainly see anti-Christian sentiment rising all around us.  Christians are portrayed as nut jobs on our television shows and in our movies, Christian values are endlessly demonized on our news programs, and now prominent Christians voices are continually being silenced on social media.

We are going down the same path that much of the rest of the world has already gone down, and it is just a matter of time before the sort of brutal persecution being experienced elsewhere happens here too.

Copyright © 2018 Prophecy News Watch–All rights reserved.

The following is an end-time vision given to an established, seasoned minister of the gospel, Dr. Mark Barclay, and told in his own words. My heart was quickened when I read it and I thought: This vision needs to be circulated to the body of Christ worldwide for we are seeing the increasing effects of it being unfolded in this hour, although it was given more than 25 years ago.

If you are skeptical of these things I would encourage you to listen to your heart as you read it and allow the Holy Spirit to bear witness with you.

“But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. … But the anointing which you have received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. For as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and just as it has taught you, remain in Him” (1 John 2:20, 27)

Here then is the vision told in the minister’s own words:

“In 1987 I was a speaker at a camp meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I spoke during the Thursday evening service. Dr. Kenneth E. Hagin spoke during the Friday evening service. I remember that I had just flown in from meetings in Paris, France. I mentioned to my wife how much I would like to stay and hear Dr. Hagin speak. She agreed.

As Dr. Hagin entered the pulpit, he began to pray in tongues. When he started, I started. A moment later, I was caught up in a vision (I was told later that it was probably more like a trance). As I went into this vision, I remember how Dr. Hagin’s voice was getting quieter and quieter, until I could hear him no more. It was so quiet all around me I felt like I could hear my own heartbeat.

All of a sudden I felt evil, as if it were surrounding me. Anger rose up in me, and fear tried to get a grip on me. Suddenly, something caught my attention out of my left eye. I turned hard to the left to see what it was. I saw the circumference of the earth, from one edge to the other, and this horrible black, dark cloud was rising up over the horizon. Somehow I knew it would eventually fill the entire earth.

An alarm went off in me, screaming to me to run away from it as fast as I could. I felt like I should scream at it, to stop it in its tracks by using the name of Jesus. I began to rebuke it and started to say, “In the name of Jesus … ” I didn’t quite get it out, and the Lord said, “That will do you no good.”

“What?” I said.

The Lord said, “Son, you cannot use My name to stop what I prophesied. I am not causing this dark cloud, but I did prophesy it would happen in the last days.”

I remember in the vision that I asked the Lord “What is this? What is this evil, tempestuous, dark cloud?”

The Lord said, “This is what I showed My prophet, Isaiah (Isa. 60:1-2). This is every evil thing you can name. It is every demon, it is every disease, it is sickness and bacterial attacks that haven’t even been discovered yet. It will cause humans to do things to humans that aren’t even human. It is filled with insanity, and many people will lose their mind and their faculties. It is murder, terror, rape, abuse, terrorism, torture and much worse. It is filled with deceptions, heresies, perversions and filth.

Some things the Lord showed me I have not had permission to speak.

I also saw people—many, many people. Some were running into the dark cloud, and some were being sucked into it. It reminded me of this very powerful Shop-vac I have. It will not only suck up the dirt but also my tools, if I don’t pay attention.

I saw may people screaming with terror and actually being dragged into this cloud. Though they were refusing it and resisting it with all their strength, they still did not possess the power to stop it.

I was so disturbed when I saw a cross on someone’s pocket or jewelry. I remember saying to the Lord, “Who are those people being drawn into this filth and terror, wearing the Christian symbol of the cross? Who are these people, not even resisting? And who are these people, resisting with all their might but it does them no good? They just keep disappearing into this horrible, evil cloud of gross darkness.”

The Lord answered me and said, “Oh, these are those who do not have clean hands and a pure heart. They have been warned but ignored the warnings. Some even wanted this filth as their lifestyle.”

I asked, “Well, who are these wearing the cross?”

“Oh,” the Lord said, “These are the people who claim Me as Savior. Many of them have desired this filth and even fought for it. They make excuses but are not excused. The ones who are resisting thought My prophets were exaggerating and from the old school, and they denied the warnings. Now that this evil has come, they possess little to no power, and certainly not enough to resist and overcome this horrible onslaught of enemy power. Only those with clean hands and a pure heart will be able to totally resist this. It will cover the earth.”

There was much more to this, but I began to come out of the vision and once again heard Brother Hagin speaking in tongues from the pulpit.

I asked my wife what had happened, and she said, “Nothing, he hasn’t done anything but pray in the spirit.”

I began to realize that nobody seemed to see this vision or get caught up into this trance but me. I held my wife’s hand a little tighter and began to pray fervently in the spirit. As I did, I got caught up in the spirit again.

Just like before, Brother Hagin’s voice got quieter and quieter until it was gone. I found myself alone again. It was so quiet I could hear my own heartbeat. Suddenly, a piercing light hit the corner of my right eye. It was so bright that I instantly shrouded my head with my hands and arms. It reminded me of the intense light that my optometrist uses to examine the back of my eyes. Actually, it was much brighter than that.

Everything within me said, “Turn and look into it. Turn now, and run into it.” Yet there was this hesitation because it was so bright it seemed to shine through me. Finally I gave in to it and looked directly at it. With both eyes I saw the depth of this bright cloud. Just like the dark cloud I had seen before, it was coming up over the horizon of the earth. I could tell that it was going to cover the planet. I just knew that I knew that nothing could stop it.

I remembered asking the Lord, “What is this? What is this massive, earth-consuming, bright cloud?”

The Lord answered me and said, “Oh, this is My glory. This is the glory cloud that I showed My prophet Isaiah (Isa. 61:1-2). This is what I promised, that My glory will fill the whole earth.”

“Well,” I asked, “what is inside the cloud?”

“It is filled with the greatest miracles humans have ever seen. It is filled with healing for every disease, and a cure for every sickness. It is power to overcome sin and filth—to receive the truth and reject error, heresy and doctrines of demons. It is a full manifestation of My Spirit. It is the full anointing of Jesus Christ and more, much more.”

He showed me other things that I have no permission to speak at this time.

I saw people in this vision, just like before with the cloud of darkness. Many, many people were running into it and almost frolicking in it. It was like my first response—too bright to behold, and then I wanted to run into it. There were those who seemed to want to pull away from this glory cloud.

“Lord, who will enter into this great glory of God and enjoy this awesome power?” I asked.

“Those who have a pure heart and clean hands,” the Lord answered. “They are the ones who will escape the horrible vacuum of the evil, dark cloud and be consumed with My glory. I will require you to tell these things to My people at an appointed time.”

Now is that time! As I travel the world over, I see both of these manifestations happening. In fact, I see them beginning to intensify. Sometimes I say that both God and Satan are having a revival among men. We will now see more and more people running to each cloud, causing a great gulf or divide. Could this be the separation of sheep and goats, or the separation of wheat and tares?

I am not a conspiracy-theory person. I am not a fear-based preacher. I am not a prophet of doom. So what I am about to say is none of these. But, I am actually witnessing the spirits of the Antichrist, prepping the people of the earth (including many church goers) for the arrival of the Antichrist himself. I see demons (spirits of the Antichrist) going throughout all the earth. They are slowly re-programming the minds of men (doctrines of demons) to systematically disassemble the work of Christ and disengage the army of God.

You can avoid this, if you choose. If you choose not to, you will suffer the consequences. Please don’t do that!” —Dr. Mark Barclay (marktbarclay.com)

Copyright © 2018 Bert Farias Holy Fire Ministries–All rights reserved

During His ministry on earth, Jesus’ message from beginning to end was the Kingdom of God. He went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, healing every disease and sickness. Matthew 9:35. Before His crucifixion, He taught His dis-ciples, “This Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come.” Matthew 24:14.

Crucified as King – in the 40 days between His resurrection and ascen-sion into Heaven, Jesus spoke to His apostles ‘of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God’ so that they asked him, “Will You at this time restore the Kingdom to Israel?” (Acts 1:3-6).

Even the devil understood Christ’s mission on earth – and sought to subvert it: ‘Jesus, being full of the Holy Spirit…was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being 40 days tempted of the devil…And the devil, taking Him up into a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

And the devil said to Him, “All this power will I give You, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will, I give it. If You therefore will worship me, all shall be Yours.” And Jesus answered and said to him, “Get behind me, Satan: for it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve.”’ (Luke 4:1-2, 5-8).

Notice, Jesus did not say to Satan, “You do not have the power over the king-doms of the earth.” Why? Because He Himself called Satan the ‘prince of this world’.

Speaking the night before His crucifix-ion, Jesus said, “Now shall the prince of this world be cast out!” (John 12:31). But only when the third woe of the Book of Revelation is come and the seventh angel sounds, then there will be a sound of great voices in Heaven say-ing, “The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign forever and ever.” (Revelation 11:15).

The whole world we live in today is under attack from Satan whom Jesus saw cast out of Heaven and fall like lightning to the earth. (Luke 10:18). It was this same Satan who deceived Adam and Eve and so became ‘prince of this world’ instead of God, with Adam now ruling under him, instead of under God. Satan is still seeking to keep control of this world and this world’s systems, and to destroy faith in Jesus Christ. Satan’s name, Lucifer, means ‘light-bearer’.

One of the three Archangels, Gabriel, Michael and Lucifer – beautiful heav-enly beings – closest to God Himself, he was created to worship and serve God. But, through ambition, he want-ed to be equal with God, rebelled against God, and was cast out of Heaven – to earth – falling as a great dragon, sweeping with him one third of all the heavenly hosts of angels! Revelation 12:3-4 tells us this. The Old Testament also gives witness to the rebellion of Lucifer in Heaven and his fall to earth.

Isaiah 14:12-14 shows that, controlling Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, was Lucifer himself – and these verses describe, not Nebuchadnezzar the man, but Lucifer in him, his rebellion against God and his fall: ‘How art thou fallen from heav-en, O Lucifer, son of the morn-ing! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into Heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.’ So controlling the ancient king-dom of Babylon and its king, was Lucifer, the prince of this world and of this world’s kingdoms and empires.

God gave Daniel the clearest picture and understanding of this world’s king-doms in Daniel 2. Whilst serving the King of Babylon during the Jewish exile there, God gave Daniel the gift both to tell Nebuchadnezzar the details of the dream that had troubled him, and give him a clear interpretation. In the dream, Nebuchadnezzar had seen an image representing succeeding world empires, beginning with himself, the King of Babylon, the head of gold, then the chest and arms of silver (the Medo-Persian Empire), the belly and thighs of bronze (the Greek Empire), then the legs of iron (the Roman Empire – fulfilled in the days of Christ on earth). By the third century after Christ, the Roman Emperor declared Christianity as the ‘official religion’ of the Roman Empire, Church and State became inseparable! And after the collapse of the Roman Empire, the power of the Roman Empire entered into the Church, ‘two legs’, the Roman Catholic Church in the West, and the Orthodox Church in the East! Both these Churches exist today.

The Babylonian Empire (the head of gold) was FIRST defeated by the Medo-Persian Empire – in Babylon. The Medo-Persian Empire (the chest and arms of silver) was defeated by the Greek Empire – in Babylon. The Greek Empire (the thighs of bronze) was defeated by the Roman Empire – in Babylon. The Roman Empire (the legs of iron) was defeated by the Germanic tribes – in Europe. The spirit of Babylon that was in the Medo-Persian Empire, then the Greek Empire, then the Roman Empire – is now in Europe. So what about the feet of iron and clay? The FINAL Empire?

Linking the EU with the Roman Empire that Daniel saw, it is significant that it was the ‘Treaty of Rome’ which brought the EU into existence in 1958; the goal, following two world wars in quick suc-cession – to bring a final end to war. Archbishop Welby on June 6 2018 eulo-gised the EU, himself linking it with Rome, calling it the greatest dream realised for human beings since the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD – a perfect restoration of the Roman Empire!

Further evidence that the European Union is the direct descendent of the Babylonian Empire via the Roman Empire, as revealed to Daniel, is the EU’s own choice of symbols. See my film, ‘The Rape of Europe’. Years ago, when the European politicians wanted to advertise the purpose behind the European Union they produced a pro-motional poster based on the painting of the Tower of Babel by the famous 16th century painter Peter Brueghel. The prestigious EU parliament building in Strasbourg is actually modelled on Brueghel’s painting! But looking at the poster, it shows the tower with the slo-gan in French, ‘many tongues, one voice’, inverting God’s judgment on Babel!

What is Babel? The city of Babylon, or Babel, was built shortly after Noah’s flood by Nimrod as the centre of his kingdom. Genesis 10:10. The people joined together in order to make a name for themselves and to increase in power. This tower was an act of rebel-lion against God – intended to reach Heaven, to be greater than God – or high enough to escape a second flood – if punished for their sin.

God destroyed Babel, and Babylon became synonymous with sin and rebellion. Eventually in 586 BC God even allowed the children of Abraham the Jews, to be driven into exile in Babylon because of their sin. And it was here that God revealed to Daniel the secret of the succeeding world empires – from Babylon, the head of gold, to the ‘feet of iron and clay’ which will finally be destroyed by Jesus Christ.

The Bible is the past, present and future of 2 cities, 2 kingdoms: Jerusalem from where Christ the Great King will rule the earth, and Babylon which rules the earth today. We must not forget Israel’s unique position as a nation chosen by God, in a world full of a multitude of pagan gods, to demonstrate who the God of Israel is – He’s the God who created Heaven and earth.

The whole purpose, the whole history of Israel was to demonstrate the existence of God, to show who He is to a rebellious world. In part because Israel as a nation rejected Christ when He came, God has raised up other people, other nations, because His plan, from the beginning, is to save people out of every nation, tribe and tongue – through Israel, through Israel’s Messiah

There are only 2 nations God has significantly used in world history. I believe, after Israel, Britain is unique. At the time of the collapse of the Roman Empire – the last Roman troops left Britain in 410 AD – Celtic Britain was already a Christian country, now facing invasions from Anglo-Saxons and other barbar-ians.

Known as the ‘Dark Ages’, 400-800 AD, a recent BBC documentary, ‘How the Celts saved Britain’, showed that after the Romans left, the Northern Kingdom in Northumbria was in fact sending out missionaries to evangelise Europe! Ireland played a very signifi-cant part. St Patrick, 385-461 AD, British origin, but called the ‘Apostle to Ireland’, was known for his ministry of miracles and healings, just as in the days of the early Apostles. It was in Ireland that 300 years’ non-stop 24-hour prayer – day and night worship – began in Bangor Abbey, 550-810 AD. From there also missionaries were sent out in apostolic power across all Europe.

From the 6th century however, southern Britain came under the control of the Holy Roman Empire and a different form of Christianity. It was only the spiritual and political separation of Britain from Rome and from Europe at the time of the Reformation that led to the founding of the British Empire/ Commonwealth of Nations, independent from Europe and Rome. From there on, wherever the British Empire went, the Gospel of God’s Word was spread by missionaries great and small, and the Bible translated into every language.

If we accept the Truth of the Bible and the Truth of the prophecies of the Bible– all the empires seen by Daniel have already been terminated – except the final one. And this final one, the feet of iron and clay, which we believe to be the EU, is destroyed ‘by a Stone not made with hands’ – not human – but we believe is the return of Jesus Christ.

Jesus’ entire message was the ‘Kingdom of God’. The forgotten mes-sage of the Church is that when Christ came, His message was not simply the forgiveness of individual sin as we understand it, but the Kingdom of God – on earth!

The more you read the four Gospels and the more you read the New Testament, the more you see how strong this message of the Kingdom is. The very reason Jesus was crucified was because of His preaching of the Kingdom – which the Roman, and the Jewish leaders, couldn’t accept! The Kingdom!

The reason Judas betrayed Jesus was related to this. Being in charge of the purse strings and believing so strongly that Jesus would be King over Israel in his lifetime, Judas thought he would become Minister of Finance!

When Jesus told His disciples that He must first suffer and die, that He was not yet going to set up the Kingdom, Judas was so disappointed, he didn’t just quit, he sold Him to the Chief Priests for 30 shekels of silver!

Not only Judas believed in the immedi-ate Kingdom. After the resurrection, when Jesus appeared to the disciples in Acts 1:4-8, saying, “Wait in Jerusalem until you receive the Holy Spirit and power and become My wit-nesses all over the world!” – their first reaction, v6 was, “Will You at this time restore the Kingdom to Israel?” Today there is a danger in the Church that too many like Judas are interested in the money and the worldly power now, and so many don’t understand, the purpose of the Holy Spirit is to prepare for the coming Kingdom of God on earth. It is not myth, it is fact.

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