Author: MikeBain

For centuries we have based our morality, laws and virtue on God’s word found in the Bible,

For centuries, I am not talking about yesterday but centuries.

Yesterday is this, centuries are this on a time scale.

Recently, my church pastor in a teaching sermon mentioned what is righteous and just regarding the judgement of God.

This means when it comes to judgement day, mankind’s behaviour will be judged on what is accordingly to be right and fair.

If you are a believer, then this judgement would be fair.

We see many examples of God’s judgement in the past based on what is believed to be right and fair.

The issues I see is the belief on what is right and what fear is have changed.

Let me give you some examples,

Yesterday, if you committed a crime against society, you were apprehended, judged, and punished in a just and fair way, according to the rules accepted by society.

We all know, for example we have speed limits on our roads.

They are there as a guide and not a target but for some they are a hindrance, because they know better and will drive faster.

These drivers are often caught and will accept their punishment because it’s the law and deemed to be accepted and just.

Here’s the problem and I quote from the book of Judges 21

 In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.

These are the conditions we see in the world today as many reject the word of God.

We see a population now believing they can drive not just their cars but their lives the way they see fit.

We are seeing the rejection of God in all levels of our culture as the world does it the way they see fit.

The Bible points to the second coming of Jesus who will judge the nations but hang on.

The world no longer accepts the principles he will use to judge the earth.

We see this in all facets of life when people don’t accept something they move the goalposts.

So often we see it being used by this and subsequent governments and you do it yourself in everyday life.

Moving the goalposts is an informal fallacy in which evidence presented in response to a specific claim is dismissed and some other (often greater) evidence is demanded.

 That is, after an attempt has been made to score a goal, the goalposts are moved to exclude the attempt.

Society today spurred on by many radical groups like the jumbled alphabet group LGBTQI+, the women’s right, Black Lives Matter, pro-abortion groups in fact anyone or any group opposed to decency, democracy, and Gods law are excellent at moving goal posts for their own agendas.

So, it’s true, without God, everyone is doing what they see ft and what is right.

I’m curious to know what happens when their strong belief of what is right clashes with a similar belief, but believe they are right.

 Now with everybody doing what they see fit to do, everyone has different goalposts.

When it comes to the law of the land where do you get the base line. Who is responsible for making it, good grief imagine how it would look if everyone insisted the law reflected their differing forms of beliefs?

Back to Gods’ values on morality, law, and life, these are now so far removed from what society accepts.

It hasn’t moved the goalposts, it destroyed them.

So how dare he judge us on the premise of an outdated belief system which no one believes in anymore

This is the world we have become, but thanks for popping in Jesus, but who are you to judge us on what you see is righteous and just, because we have our own,

HMMM Let me ponder that for a moment.

To those of you who say the laws of God are no longer relevant, do so at your own peril.

Your new laws, your new way of doing what is right in your own eyes is meaningless.

The law of God handed to Moses were carved in stone meaning they cannot be changed.

If you are reading this, and you are one who rejects the word of God, then can I say, take another look, take a moment to think about whether you want to live in a world and to be honest with you, a world which is so unsettled, so unstable, a world where tomorrow you have to run with the crowd, or be left behind.

Pick up the scriptures and read for yourself why God has etched his laws in stone, why Gods people have them etched in their hearts and submit to the word of GOD.

For centuries we have based civilization on these laws,

What makes you think you are wiser than the one who created the earth for you to live on

You CAN change the world, your world, you can stop being the driver in a car speeding towards an Ethiopian intersection.

Let God be your driver, Let God be you reason and accept God is righteous and just.

Jesus asked a guy who had lain on a mat beside a healing pool for 38 years,” Do you want to get well?”

After 38 years day in day out doing the same thing of just turning up, what do you think his reply would have been?

The story reminded me of a scene from the Monty Python movie “The Life of Brian,” where a disgruntled beggar walked through a crowd bemoaning the fact, he had now lost his income because some do-gooder healed him of his ailment.

” Do you want to get well?” Jesus asked the man at the pool.

I guess it’s a question we could ask of several people who today are reliant on government aid for an income.

Before I go any further, I want to acknowledge there is a considerable number of people in this country who are unable to take a full active role in life.

But there is also a number who are capable but refuse help to get up off their mats, or couches.

The bible account doesn’t tell us how this invalid got to the pool daily, but he laid there for 38 years.

The account tells us he tried to get into the pool at the right time but was unable to without some aid.

In New Zealand, especially over the past three years a substantial number of people have received help from the government.

Help in this form has been available for over a century.

It was designed as a hand up rather than a handout.

Over the last decade and beyond, New Zealand has experienced huge growth in its economy, at the same time increased dependency on the state has continued to rise.

Fudging figures, all governments grapple with the numbers, because when you have industries calling out for more workers to aid with growing the economy, strangely we see them importing workers.

It’s said repeatedly, there are jobs and opportunities for many New Zealanders to make a better life for themselves and their families.

Like the beggar from the Monty Python movie, they cannot see past their current lifestyle.

The question Jesus asked at the pool is still relevant today,” Do you want to get well?”

In the case of the mat man, his answer was yes after 38 years, but what about those long-term dependents on the state. “Do you want to work?”

We can all draw a conclusion to the answer.

There are many lessons which can be drawn from this account in John 5.

The one that stands out for me is the fact that this guy laid on his mat for 38 years.

He said there was no one to help him into the pool despite being surrounded by a multitude of people.

It was a fair question from Jesus,” Do you want to get well?”

I can’t help thinking that some Christians are like this man.

There are many who sit or lie beside their own pool of misery, because the Church has offended them in some way.

They wait and wait for an apology or is it that they don’t want to be healed and are content with where they are, on the outside.

Are you the Christian who has sat in the same seat for 38 years in a church service on a Sunday, still raising your arms in worship, nodding in agreement with the message, then goes home and never thinks about God until the service next week?

But here’s the thing, both of you are content with where you are.

There is a multitude of people who surround you but neither of you are willing to raise your hand and ask for help.

You both don’t want to get your feet wet; you are not that much different to the person who relies on the government cheque each week.

” Do you want to get well?” Jesus asked?

If you have had a long-term relationship with the government and there really is nothing apart from your laziness, “do you want to be healed:” get up and take your mat and find some work and contribute to society.

If you are the one who is offended by the church,” Do you want to get well?”? get off your mat and go speak to the person who offended you and put the matter right.

If you sit in your seat on a Sunday but haven’t grown in your faith, “do you want to be healed of your complacency?”  Then get out of the seat and ask your Pastor or anyone in that church, for help and guidance.

Without a doubt this account in John has many lessons contained in it.

I have centered only on one, but I encourage you to read it for yourself. and to ponder on the lessons it has

This my friends are not the time to just occupy a space.

Throughout the centuries many Christians have looked towards the second coming of Jesus.

But this is time, we have all be waiting for.

Yes, we can sit on a couch, mat, fence, chair, or even righteous indignation. unless we get of it, we cannot progress.

Right now, we need to be well of what is holding us back from working.

We need to be working, some for their families, some just for their own self-esteem.

For the Christian, we need to work to save as many as we can and point them towards our lord and saviour Jesus Christ.

Before I go, I just want to ask another quick question.

You may not be the one who is the one who needs help, but are you the one who will step over that person as you rush to receive the blessings of Jesus?

” Do you want to get well?” Jesus asked? Only you can answer that question.

If our world is not on a direct path to the fulfilment of Revelation 13, the only alternative is to assume that something with a most uncanny resemblance to the mark of the beast is coming our way. 

In other words, if what the globalists propose for our world is not the prelude to the mark of the beast, I do not know what it would look like. The plans they have for our future fit like a glove with what John wrote in Revelation 13:15-18:

“And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.

Also, it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.

This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.”

Please understand that this passage does not reach its complete fulfilment halfway through the seven-year Tribulation, well after the Rapture of the church.

What we see today is NOT the mark of the beast, but it’s most certainly both a prelude to and a conditioning for it.

John 8:44 is another key passage that’s essential for understanding the agenda of the elite powerbrokers.

Though not a prophecy, it speaks directly to what we see in our world today because the devil and his demons control the globalists who wield great power in the governments of the world as well as in the business world.

“You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires.

He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him.

When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”

The Luciferian elite of our day have two basic goals: First, they plan to reduce the world’s population and second, they intend to deceive and control those who remain through the means of transhumanism.

Both objectives are essential to their final goal of forming a one-world government over which they hope to rule and enslave humanity.

WHAT IS TRANSHUMANISM?

Wikipedia describes it this way:

“Transhumanism is a philosophical movement, the proponents of which advocate and predict the enhancement of the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies able to greatly enhance longevity, mood and cognitive abilities . . . Some transhumanists believe that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into beings with abilities so greatly expanded from the current condition as to merit the label of posthuman beings.”

Leading the way to bring about this change is a group called the World Economic Forum (WEF) with Klaus Schwab as its founder and CEO. Here is a quote from the group’s website regarding the changes they wish to impose on the world:

“The Fourth Industrial Revolution [the WEF term for transhumanism] represents a fundamental change in the way we live, work, and relate to one another. It is a new chapter in human development, enabled by extraordinary technological advances commensurate with those of the first, second and third industrial revolutions. These advances are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds in ways that create both huge promise and potential peril. The speed, breadth and depth of this revolution is forcing us to rethink how countries develop, how organizations create value and even what it means to be human.”

The globalists of our day do not hide their objectives; they are in plain sight for all to see if one is willing to investigate. Is it not shocking that they intend for us to “rethink . . . what it means to be human?”

Believe me there is much more to this subject than I have time to discuss now. Just go to the WEF website, it’s all there.

The theme of merging “the physical, digital and biological worlds” runs through many of the articles on the WEF website.

They ‘re their evil intentions are not even kept secret, but openly broadcast them to all who are paying attention.

Before the dawn of this century, it would have taken an army of several hundred thousand to control the buying the selling across the planet and even then, it would not have been foolproof. Now with artificial intelligence and all the many advances related to transhumanism, the technology exists for one person to do this. 

That person will be the antichrist. The globalists will have everything in place before he steps onto the world stage.

Because of the speed at which technology and transhumanism are advancing, everything will be ready for him when the time comes for him to appear on the world’s stage. 

Last word: you know if I am being honest, learning about this stuff leaves me with a real unease about the future, but because I have faith in Jesus, I know these things must happen before he before he ushers in the kingdom of God.

If you are feeling uncomfortable, I have said it many times, but just look up to the heavens, and accept Jesus Christ today as your saviour, for this is where your salvation comes from.

I have heard it asked so where is God in all of this?

It’s a question people often ask in times of disaster, buts it can also be a question on a day-to-day basis.

Naturally anybody who pastors a church will say God is here.

But even when people visit a church they don’t see or experience GOD.

New Zealand’s last census in 2018 confirmed what most churches already knew- numbers were dwindling.

Breaking down the figures from those who ticked the box from just having a belief to those who believe, and practice is far different.

While 36% of the population claim to be have a belief in a higher authority but remove from the figures those affiliated churches who have a following which were lumped into the figure and its quite a surprise the Church of the Spaghetti Eating Monster, The Jedi’s and others which made up a considerable figure.

In that 36% I have not factored in Muslim, Buddhists, and other Eastern religions.

The downturn in New Zealand is not unexpected.

A similar survey from the USA showed a similar decline but a recent survey out of the United Kingdom has seen the trend continue.

Its authors say  It “answers what people think of Jesus; how non-Christians view any practicing Christian friends they might have; and the evangelism landscape in the United Kingdom today”,

Furthermore, a part of the report “also shows how practicing Christians come to faith and will help church leaders to be strategic for growth”.

The authors wanted to look at positive outcomes and look at how to reverse the trends with the first survey undertaken in 2015, enables them to look over 7 years and see trends that will help strategically with church growth.

The survey reaffirms that, post-pandemic, there has never been a better time, or more need, for us as Christians to invest in making Jesus known”,

Head of Mission at the Evangelical Alliance United Kingdom, Rachael Heffer, stressed that “the report presents good news both for the church across the UK and for us as individual Christian witnesses. It goes to reaffirm that our non-Christian friends think well of us and like us, that there is an ever-greater openness to hear our stories of faith”.

The report revealed only 6% of adults in the UK identify as practicing Christians, while 42% say they are non-practicing Christians. It also found that 4% identify as agnostics, and 12% as atheists.

It also says that 20% of the UK population believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and the majority (33%) sees him as a as a prophet or spiritual leader, but not God. Moreover, 45% of the respondents believe in his resurrection.

According to the report, while in 2015, 68% of non-Christians in the UK said they knew someone who was an active Christian, in 2022, that has fallen to 53%.

Doesn’t matter where you are in the world, you must agree that’s a significant drop and take it as a warning.

Churches need to look out and as individuals, we need to make sure that we have got some great life-giving friendships with people who don’t yet know Jesus”,

The encouraging thing about no Christians according to the survey, 33% want to know more about Jesus Christ after a conversation with a Christian.

“I wonder if the pandemic and a slightly wobblier world when people don’t know what’s happening, has actually made people more interested in faith, but it makes this an even more important moment for us to talk about our faith.

One of the key facts found in the 2015 research was that conversations with Christians are one of the most important influences in bringing people to faith.

And surprise, surprise they discovered that Christians are not always confident in putting their faith into words.

So keeping all that in mind, I was pleased to see the Churches in England prepared to do something positive about the field which is ready to be harvested, to create a course to inspire Christians to share their faith naturally and relevantly

Six percent of believers is not a great number, but hardly surprising

When you look at the decline in numbers in Christianity, its exactly as it was foretold many times in scripture especially in the last days

Jesus words recorded in Luke 8 says “Those on the rocky ground are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root.

They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away.

For the many who may have fallen away, have they been tested? Or were their roots not planted in the word, and were they left in the full blazing sun of this world with out nurture and care from the shepherds of the church.

Were they not given solid food but just milk?

Like I said it’s encouraging to see the church in the UK doing something to encourage those who have a belief but not putting it into practice.

When I look at the decline of the church in New Zealand, I ponder what positive steps are they taking to find the spiritually lost in our communities.

⁴ It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, ⁵ who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age ⁶ and who have fallen^[c] away, to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace. ⁷ Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God.

Since the beginning of 2022 we posted three podcasts relating to the concerns facing the world like the global cost of living crisis.

I recall someone scoffed in the comments section at the idea of paying a week’s wages for a loaf of bread.

Today we see the cost of bread is stable but other items are not.

A post on Twitter exclaimed a 1 kg block of cheese which is not imported but manufactured in New Zealand was costing $21.95 at their local New World.

It wasn’t helped by someone suggesting instead of buying 1 KG cheese maybe they should buy 500g instead as it would only be half the price, there’s always must be a clown somewhere.

There are many stories emerging where people are saying they had spent more for less in their supermarket trolley.

Who, six weeks ago would have believed the price of fuel would exceed $3 a litre, let alone see the government reduce the size of its take in excise tax?

 Right now, all I can say is If you’re waiting for things to “return to normal”, you can stop waiting, because a perfect storm has arrived, and things are definitely not going to be “normal” for the foreseeable future.

What is obvious it’s not just New Zealand facing these issues.

One thing is for sure what we are experiencing today is not just a New Zealand problem – its affecting everyone on our planet, and the one Jacinda Ardern is on.

As we warned in previous podcasts, 2022 is going to see famine like conditions.

We spoke last November about China stockpiling as much grain it could get its hands upon.

One of the world’s biggest suppliers of grain, Ukraine is preoccupied at the moment and the harvesting of an export product is the least of its worry.

But what about other food producers in the world?

The US has been hit by drought like conditions, In the Middle East a bomb wiped out grain storage facilities and suddenly what grain is available has rocketed in price.

Add onto the issues of transport with delays at ports, then the cost of fuel at the pump.

In New Zealand, our farmers have seen rises in the cost of fertilizer, increased costs to harvest and they are not the ones who are going to absorb the costs.

The New Zealand government could foresee the issues we are facing today.

I’m not sure but haven’t we just finished a government enquiry into fuel companies and supermarket profits?

Ironically, it’s the corporations who are making a profit that are the ones responsible for how much you are paying while the government absolves itself of all responsibility for the economy.

While New Zealand pours money into climate change and other idealistic ideals – its people are going without.

We may well have to wait another 18 months or so for a change of government but even then, they will not resolve the crisis we are facing.

I’m sorry what we are going through is just the start of the perfect storm, just watch the money markets as they start to crash.

We can put all our faith, and hope, in politicians to help us rise again, but let me tell you this and watch what happens.

Jesus foretold to watch out for things like, famines, pestilences, war, just to name a few from Matthew 24, you can read about those yourself, but he was talking about the end.

While we are starting to go through challenging times, we cannot look to our worldly leaders for an answer.

We are living in the end times but before the return of Jesus Christ, the bible foretold of a time of tribulation.

An answer will come in the form of just one man who will solve all the problems and then create mayhem on the earth during his seven-year reign

You have heard of him He is the antichrist.

Believe me, paying a week’s wage for a loaf of bread will be the least of our problems.

My message today is simple.

Times are getting tougher, but our hope should never diminish.

Simply look up, believe that Jesus is your saviour, then know your salvation is near.

There’s a good proportion of us, New Zealanders who have stopped breathing into our facemasks and putting up with foggy glasses are starting to see what is happening both at home and abroad.

At home we’re living with a huge increase in the cost of living, we have concerns over our economic future, we’re worried about the decreasing state of our health, education, and welfare systems, the growing divide between the races, increases in gang related crime, housing shortages, empty shelves at the supermarket, climate change. Security concerns of Chinese military based in the Pacific. And on it goes.

We hear daily reports from abroad about the war in Ukraine, the ongoing pandemic, the downturn in the world’s economy, the escalation of power the world economic forum, the removal of sovereignty from countries, the rights of the individual, food shortages, transport hold ups, climate change, and political instability.

Yeah Nah, nothing has really changed since the beginning of the Pandemic.

Well, that is not quite true.

Prior to the pandemic we had things happening at home and abroad which were out of our control.

Some of us raised an eyebrow of concern but really that was it.

But since 2020 we have been taught a new thing by the very people who are there to serve and protect us.

We have learned how-to live-in fear.

Statements like kids if you don’t wear a mask nanna and grandads’ going to die.

If you’re not vaccinated, Covid is waiting for you just outside your door.

And let’s not give credit to the modellers, for getting it wrong, Covid is going to account for the lives of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens.

You need to be vaccinated to save yourself, you need to be boosted again and again.

Nanna and Grandad are still alive.

Every time I went out the back door I looked, but all I saw was the neighbour’s cat and I’m sure his name wasn’t Covid.

Almost everybody is still here, even the unvaccinated.

Many have had Covid and yes, some people fatally succumbed to it, in fact, someone watching this today may have, had or going to have it tomorrow.

While I don’t mean to be flippant about the pandemic, but I look at the millions of dollars poured into “keeping us safe,” but to be fair after two years are we not over it.

Fear is the biggest tool this government has in abundance in its toolbox.

Thomas Jefferson said when the people fear their government, there is tyranny, but when the government fears the people there is liberty.

Where do you believe New Zealand is today?

Governments aided by the media need to keep the population in fear, it’s true, look at how we came out of the pandemic and straight into headlines about rising sea levels.

I hear you if you’re living on the coast, not much has really changed since you moved there.

And there’s the distressful war in the Ukraine, but before Covid wasn’t there a long running war in Afghanistan.

Before Covid did we not have growing crime because of gangs.

The management of multiple ram-raided retailer Huffer, reckon Auckland was no longer a safe place, has it ever been?

Do we need to live in fear?

The answer is both yes but no.

The yes is we need to have a certain amount of fear as a safety mechanism for things like spiders in the bath, clowns, balloons, open and closed spaces, heights, dark, light and I can put my hand up to being in fearful of my dentist, not so much the treatment, but being turned down for the mortgage I must have approved to pay him.

But while these are minor fears, it is both wrong and immoral governments like they have done forever they have no right to unnecessarily exacerbate and heighten the level of fear for its citizens.

Franklin Roosevelt said there is nothing to fear but, fear itself.

A look through the pages of history you can read about how people rightfully lived in fear other nations or tribes, there were the plagues, even back in Jesus’s day people rightly feared the Roman Empire.

When asked about the signs of the last days, Jesus told his apostles about some things which will cause us fear today.

He spoke about war, natural disasters, how we will be deceived, a time when truth and integrity would be in short supply, when we would see a major rise in people and leaders who would lead us astray, when we would be hungry because there isn’t enough food, a time when plagues will take their toll on many, and death may be a better alternative than life.

He spoke about things which hold us together like the destruction of the family, about how we will accept false teachings into our churches and schools. and a time when we won’t even value ourselves.

What! Why is this all coming and, in most cases, happened.

In the bible book of Judges, we read about a time when there were no judges in the land everybody was doing what was right in their own eyes.

And this is what everyone who doesn’t have God in their lives is doing

People are living with the idea they have nobody or higher authority to answer to.

There’s a couple of well-known instances in the bible where people thought that.

If I mentioned Sodom and Gomorrah or what about the days of Noah before the flood.

These were times where nobody had any fear.

If we are to be afraid and be fearful in our lives

The fear we feel should not be hinged on things we cannot control but should cantered on the things we can.

For example, our families, our community, and our country.

It’s good to am afraid, it’s natural, and at times because of it – it can be lifesaving.

But there is a type of fear we should have.

It’s what is known as reverential fear

Reverential fear is the type a child has towards their parents, fear of displeasing them, likewise each one of us should have this reverential fear towards the creator of this earth, the God of heavens.

It’s a frightening government who uses fear to control its people.

But Jesus said we should not fear the things we hear in the world.

He said, about those Know that when you see the twigs on a tree start to grow you know summer is near and likewise when you hear of these things then know, the son of man draws near.

All those things from home and abroad I mentioned will all pale into significance.

Today I am encouraging you to open your bible and read.

You will soon find out there is no need to fear what is happening in the world,

Like a parent draws their frightened youngsters to their bosom when the skies let loose with rain, thunder, and lightening.

Come to an understanding of why you should have a reverential fear of God.

After all he is your saviour, let him draw you nearby.

Let him draw you into his bosom

Let him be your protector from the things you fear.

Psalmist said in chapter 60 “Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him.”

A recent announcement that the United Nations to bring about a change in their agenda 2030 plans ratified the motion to work with closer ties with the World economic Forum passed by with barely a mention.

In this country, you shouldn’t be surprised you haven’t heard about it.

Clearly reporting the news, the PM has been chased by her toddler, Neve around the house with a banana is of far greater importance.

Hard on the heels of this is the World Health Organization’s Pandemic treaty which will have been presented by the time this podcast goes to air the WHO assembly in Geneva.

The ramifications of this backdoor Trojan Horse will have a significant impact on the future direction of who holds the world’s power in the future.

Some countries like Ireland and Greece are waking up and alarmed as to what signing up to a simple world response to future pandemics will mean to them.

On the surface a global response to any future pandemics looks to be a good thing, given the shemozzle the last response has been.

There is an expectation, New Zealand as a member nation will be a signatory to this treaty.

In summary this is what has both the Irish and the Greeks alarmed.

The draft of the World Health Organizations global pandemic treaty on pandemic preparedness would grant it absolute power over global bio security.

This then gives the World Health Organization the absolute power to implement digital identities, Vaccine Passports, (have a listen again to the NZ governments latest release on why they are gearing up more use of the passports) mandatory vaccinations, travel restrictions, standardized medical care and much more.

I can still hear you say, look it’s not a dreadful thing but the World Health Organization really is just not qualified to make global decisions.

Just one example of their ineptitude was when they didn’t publicly admit SARS-CoV-2 was airborne and continued to ignore early advice about transmission until the end of December 2021.

Yet scientists knew the virus was airborne within weeks of the pandemic being declared.

More importantly, a one-size-fits-all approach to pandemic response simply does not work, because pandemic threats are not identical in all parts of the world.

Even people in the same region do not have identical risks and may not need or benefit from identical treatment.

The World Health Assembly will also vote on amendments to the International Health Regulations, which may also strip away more individual rights and liberties.

Now have I got your attention?

Anything which gives an organization the legal framework to override the sovereignty of New Zealand should be opposed.

But here’s the thing, if you don’t know it’s happening, you can’t do anything and if you can’t do anything then it will happen.

New Zealanders oppose the transpacific partnership agreement (TPPA) in 2016 which would see it could revoke our sovereignty if we defaulted with payments.

We knew about it; we did something about it, and we stopped it happening.

The globalists that brought us the wildly exaggerated COVID pandemic to cement a biosecurity grid into place are now hard at work on the next phase of this New World Order.

Many speak about a new world order, rebranded as the Great Reset.

The great reset is driven by the world Economic Forum which New Zealand is a member.

I mentioned earlier the pandemic treaty is a backdoor, trojan horse, and when you consider why it’s coming through the back door in a stealth like manner is because your government does not want you to know what commitments it is making for its people for the future.

Think hard about how this New Zealand government has tried to introduce change into our country by stealth. He Pua Pua, Three Waters, reforms in health, education, even the interpretation of democracy is undergoing change.

The steps taken for a one world government sets the stage nicely with all its control for just one purpose and that is the ushering in of the Anti-Christ.

In the history of the west over the past 2000 years there has never been a time when someone hasn’t predicted the end of the world.

But today with a seemingly insoluble climate crisis pandemic surges, savage wildfires, hurricanes, and a renewed nuclear arms race, there is no reason to stop

Many may feel as poet John Donne put it in the anatomy of the world in 1611, “Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone.”

As Christians we know the path this world is on, we know all these steps taken, are all for one purpose, its not for our benefit but to pave the way for the man the apostle Paul called the man of lawlessness -The Anti-Christ.

Let me leave you with Paul’s words to the congregation in Corinth from the NIV

1 Thessalonians 5: 2. for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. ³ While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labour pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

⁴ But you, brothers, and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. ⁵ You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. ⁶ So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. ⁷ For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. ⁸ But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. ⁹ For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁰ He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. ¹¹ Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.

“Where do I begin
To tell the story of how great a love can be
The sweet love story that is older than the sea”

No, I’m not going to get soppy or anything like that, but it is a beautiful story.

The story is about this landowner dude who sees a poor girl scavenging for food in his fields, immediately falls for her and then wants to provide for her and protect her.

Now a story like this will have the hankies out and to others, they will be incensed by the stereotypical male who thinks the woman who is quite strong in the story. should be provided for because of her social demographic and she should be protected because she is a woman.

Here goes, deep breath!

What is wrong with a man wanting to provide and protect a woman.

What woman strong or otherwise doesn’t want a man to provide and protect them?

Oh boy I’ll come back to this question later

So, the story is a biblical one and is about Ruth who was married but her husband died, and she went to live somewhere else with her mother-in-law.

Now because there was no man, and in the period, the man was the provider and protector, they were broke.

To get food women could go into a landowner’s field and glean or collect what wasn’t harvested or left over.

Now it turns out that Boaz the landowner turned up on the day Ruth was gathering in the field and the attraction was immediate.

Let’s face it, Ruth was a good-looking woman, and Boaz was a bit of a hunk.

Boaz eventually met Ruth and told her she should feel free to glean all his fields, but this was after he had the conversation with his workers to ensure she was safe and left alone.

His action established he would be her provider and protector.

Now I’m not going to tell you how the story finished, you can read that for yourself.

But the story raises some cultural issues we face today.

We must establish common ground where you accept men and woman are biologically different.

For those of you who disagree I’ll come back to this point before I finish.

Regardless of the current climate and thinking, men and women are biologically and mentally different and I’m happy to debate that view until the cows come home.

There is a thought in the world that we should treat women like men.

Interestingly we don’t hear it from the other side where men should be treated like women.

Although there are some men who want to be women and women want to be men, but that’s altogether another rabbit hole and not what I am talking about.

In 1 Peter 3 husbands are exhorted to be considerate as they live with their wives and treat them with respect
Now I was brought up in a home and community where respect and decency were the norm.

To this day, I will let women enter a door first, stand up and let a woman take my seat on the bus and so forth.

Yep, I get some strange looks especially from younger woman.

But while they want to be emasculated, I want to show them honour, this is the world I was brought up in, this is what I was taught, I try to honour you, but today your reaction dishonors me. I tried to grace you and you just disgraced me.

Who’s to say in 20 years’ time today’s thoughts may have changed and life will be different.

Another rabbit hole.

Before the internet existed, the women’s movement tried to gain respect which I agree some women needed, and to be honest every person needs.

But today its morphed into just a gender identity confusion in our culture, where there is no difference between men and women.

Biology. It’s defining, but identity confusion is defying gods beautiful design of the two genders.

I have no issues with females wanting to do what was considered men’s work.

This is what equality is, isn’t this the point the women’s movement wanted?

But it’s going too far and sports women agree when we have men who identify as women competing in competitions because they are biologically different.

Now it is getting further out of hand with documentation where pronouns can be used, or you can be nonspecific about gender.

We are now living in a culture of confusion and the internet does not help with all its misinformation and lobby groups promoting and manipulating truth

 Set our hearts and minds on truth and stay cantered in the in the word of God, because God will help us always to know what is right, what is wrong with this, true from what is false,

The Bible is the source of God’s absolute truth.

So, rout out all the confusion by bathing and washing it with the word of God.

And you know in this is a beautiful story here in the book of Ruth.

Boaz says I’m going to support her. This is not like, well, this is sexist, you know?

 The left leaning would say Look at this guy. He’s like, trying to support her, but she doesn’t need providing or protection, you know, she’s a strong woman. OK, well, look.

This beautiful story here. This is a man who wants to protect this woman and he wants to support her.

 Along these lines, if I could just quickly say this to wrap it up, ladies, sometimes you know, if you’re married, if your husband says I don’t want you driving that long distance alone, or if he says to you, I don’t want you going out in, in the severe weather in your car, he’s not trying to be controlling. He’s trying to be protective.

And if your family is going through a tough time and

Your family wants to help financially, but your husband says I’d rather get a second job.

It’s not because he doesn’t appreciate the offer.

 He’s saying it because he wants to provide.

Maleness is not recognized in our culture because of the way our culture has trended.

 When you read this story here, this is a beautiful reminder of a man whose very name means strength. And all he wanted to do was to supply and protect.

I said earlier I would come back to the question of what woman wouldn’t want to be provided for and protected?

I think the answer to that has some bearing on how you view equality and the way you view yourself.

We are all made in the image of God which makes us all special.

In the Genesis account unfortunately, we read the story and downfall of where women first wanted equality.

Like I said men and women are biologically different, we’re wired differently, that is why when I watch something on YouTube my wife loses the will to live, and if she ever wants to watch The Notebook or anything that comes close to it, I’m out here.

Every now and then someone brings up the suggestion we should renew our national anthem.

Earlier this year I received a phone call from a man who is not a New Zealand born citizen but is a Christian.

He asked me several questions but the one which floored me was when he asked if we should sing the national anthem.

My response was yes, it’s a prayer to God, its really the only thing we have left in a secular world, why wouldn’t we.

He then started to explain his reasoning and talked about the author Thomas Bracken who wrote it as a poem and later put it to music by a Lawrence choir master John Woods.

Turns out Thomas Bracken was a member of the Freemasons.

As yet, I haven’t been able to establish to what degree he was.

But he was a Freemason nonetheless and we know as Christians that Freemasonry has been known to worship the devil.

Freemasons would scoff at this point, but then they would.

So going back to my conversation, he then asked me about Satan the Devil and told me Satan’s role in heaven was that of guardian Cherub of angels.

He was given great power and influence.

He was referred to as Lucifer the morning Star.

We are all familiar of how Lucifer became Satan and had free access to and from the heavenly realm.

Hopefully, we all know that in the book of Revelation Satan was cast from the heavens and the door has been firmly shut.

WE read in the Bible where Satan is often referred to as the Ruler of this world and over in Matthew 4 there is the account where Satan tried to tempt Jesus with all the nations of the world.

I’ll give you them all to you if you do an act of worship to me.

Satan couldn’t offer what he didn’t have.

So, my conversation continued about the national Anthem

The first line God of Nations at thy feet my caller recited.

Given the historical background of the writer Thomas Bracken which god are we referring to with these words, and the question is posed – at whose feet do we worship.

Remember Satan’s words to Jesus If you bow down to me, I will give you all the nations.

Is it the God of the heavens or is it the god who rules the nations of the world?

Then the next bit, In the bonds of love we entreat.

When you look at the state this nation is in

Would it be fair to say it has become bound and in bondage to God or Satan?

When we talk of a bond, there are many definitions, but bonds are debts, if the issuer does not pay back their debt, then the bond is in default. However, the issuer of the bond can call for a higher interest or payment to be made.

We are certainly not in bondage to the God of Heaven as Jesus Christ repaid any debt on the cross.

Should the Capital G in the word god be a small g.

I have had many conversations with pastors and theologians.

Following a period of silence their reactions were different.

From “it is worthy of consideration to I’m not prepared to draw a line in the sand over it”

The interesting response was about Thomas Bracken as to whether he authored the poem God Defend New Zealand, before or after he became a Freemason, and if he wrote it as a Freemason, what knowledge did he have regarding the practices.

One suggested that if God should use an ass to speak for him, why not a Freemason.

As a Christian organization we have used the national anthem at all our presentations and on podcasts, but this question has made us reconsider whether we should use it. We have decided not to in the interim.

I have always pondered as to why in a nation which has rejected God but when the All Blacks play, we hear so many people in the crowd singing it with passion.

But I ask which God is it they are asking for protection.

Secularism today fears the God of the bible being taught in our schools

It rejects the premise that there is a God

They reject the bible

And they reject the worship of the God of Heaven the creator of the earth being acknowledged in public.

I can only assume when they stand and sing passionately it is indeed the current GOD of Nations, they are asking to be their protector.

Based on the evidence should Christians continue to sing the current National Anthem.

I’m not so sure?

What are your thoughts?

There is an epidemic happening in this country and the government has no answers.

I am not talking about a spike in omicron cases or winter flu, I am referring to the outbreak of crime conducted by children.

In recent weeks media outlets have carried stories of teenage ram raiders targeting an Auckland shopping mall.

We’ve heard of children as young as seven years of age being found in the early hours in a Hamilton shopping mall targeting a toy store.

Teenagers involved in car jackings, violent dairy robberies and the list is starting to grow.

Why is this outbreak suddenly happening? Is it cyclical as the Police say?

Because of the ages of some offenders, it sounds bad, but children and teenagers have been involved in crime for decades.
think back to the teenage ram raids where dairies were targeted for cigarettes, where teens emulated the movies the fast and furious around city streets with cop cars chasing them, the boy racers particularly notorious in Hamilton using suburban streets for whatever.

Young offending has been going on for a long time, but I even I must admit it is at the stage it is now out of hand and becoming an epidemic.

Small business owners could suck up the loss of profit from the odd shoplifter, but with margins the way they are today, many are now facing uncertainty because of the measures they are having to go to protect their assets.

Across New Zealand there are many dairies owned by people who are open all hours trying to eke out a living, possibly making less than the minimum wage, who are being forced to spend a fortune to erect bollards, smoke canons, metal mesh gates and fences for protection.

They have looked to the leaders of our country, to the law enforcement agencies, and even to their neighborhood for protection.

Apart from the platitudes they hear, nothing gives them assurance that crime will not stop.

The opposition has said several times this government is soft on crime, while the government defends its record of putting more police on the streets.

The Minister of Police has even appealed to the community for more help.

While everyone stands around with their hands in their pockets shrugging their shoulders and staring down at the ground, the answer is obvious. It must come back to a question of parenting.

WE have an ideology promoted by the New Zealand Government where the nanny state knows better about bring up your children.

This is the same nanny state idea where this stupid idea of letting the village raise the children of New Zealand.

Can I say that villages are now filled to overcapacity with people who have no parenting skills left?

So, my question is what type of children is it the village is raising?

The escalation of crime conducted by our children can be put down to, many things.

It can be, the mandate passed down from the government to the cops to be soft on crime,

It could be because of the tough economic times we are facing, but it can’t be because they are hungry. It’s not food these kids are stealing, electronics, cigarettes, toys.

We can blame everyone and everything else for the way our children behave, but let’s not accept parental responsibility.

And yet, if we were to return to the way grandmothers brought their children up, this epidemic would stop.

There are several factors at play but kids, as they do with every generation, only follow the examples that surround them.

They are imitators of the culture they live in.

A culture with a decline in responsibility, a culture where there is a lack of morality, a culture of truly little integrity, and a culture built on self-entitlement.

You cannot sit there and accept you have no responsibility for the way these children are acting.

We let them be taught by an education system which has no moral shame, a place where they are taught, they are nothing special a place which encourages them from an early age where there is no need for respect for one another and where they are taught and encouraged to keep secrets from their parents,

We as adults make available all types of entertainment.

Pornography which objectifies women is freely available as is video games where acts of violence are rewarded.

We have a government who don’t see a lack of truth as a casualty of society, but most of all we have a country which stopped instructing our children of a responsibility to a higher authority through the Bible in Schools program.

We are not blameless in this epidemic.

We as families need to stop and review what our role is.

On the news following a recent funeral for one of the four young people killed in a horrific car accident in Invercargill a spokesperson for this young boy’s iwi mourned the loss of this teenager.

He said he mourned in two ways, one way was for the family for the loss of their son, but he also mourned the loss of the future for his iwi.

It’s true, every time we lose a child, we lose a part of our future.

We need to bring our families back to the dinner table, back to being a family and the first thing we need to teach our young ones is respect.

As parents we need to show respect to our partners and your children. You need to show how it’s done.

We can send the kids off to school, but you, don’t learn how to live and how to act from you.

If your child is a mall in the middle of the night, this is on you, don’t blame society, look in the mirror and ask yourself, how did this happen?

Last word: Many people these days dismiss God, they dismiss the word of God found in the bible, but here’s the thing, when people live in a God honouring way there is peace in the land.