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Funny thing when I say I’ve been thinking at home, my wife braces herself for the trip down a rabbit hole, good news is there isn’t any today.

 Over the past month or so we have received a fair bit of traffic on some of our videos related to Dr David Jeremiah, Brian Tamaki and issues confronting New Zealand.

So let me make a start with Dr David who is revered in Christian circles.

While we as an organisation sought clarification from his organisation and broadcast their comments stating what most of us in our hearts were true, it wasn’t him, which was a relief to everyone.

I will say this in our defence, had everyone had watched the video to its conclusion, the message became obscured by the outrage you had, you may have missed the point of the message.

We stated clearly the bible waning regarding the rise of false teachers and false doctrine in the final days and a warning not to be deceived.

All things in the gospels indicate the apostles were unaware of the motives and actions of Judas Iscariot.

There are a couple of things we learned from this exercise, although we ourselves checked the source, we were content it had come from a source which promotes Turning Point videos.

As expected, we searched Dr Jeremiahs recent discourses especially those related to his current series regarding the rapture and because of the statements impact, we searched for a public denial, which is still absent.

When we contacted Turning Point, they were aware that videos and there were more than just one in circulation and were attempting to have them taken down and obviously rejected it was Dr Jeremiah’s teaching, but it sure did sound like him.

A comment we received from one viewer as an explanation was generated by artificial intelligence. If so, it really does make you question anything in the future.

At about the same time actress Scarlet Johansson was in the news because what sounded like her voice had been used in a product endorsement.

What all the comments we received amount to is a culture of straight-out acceptance of teaching without question.

Like I stated we were just as surprised by the 2024 call of the rapture, at least we tried to ascertain its validity hoping Dr Jeremiah was wrong, at the same time hoping he may have been correct.

Your criticism that we rebroadcast his comments to take down a great servant of God we feel are unfounded, we also used the names of other well-known preachers who had made similar claims.

The claim, which we now know to be false could have been true, so, I come back and ask the question, if it had been him and the statement were true, would you still discount the message, just like many in Noah’s day on the day he loaded up the Ark.

Those who believe pre, mid or post rapture teaching will, or they must look at least two of these teachings as false doctrines.

I have heard the discussion on Matthew 24/ and the argument it relates to the end, but then many sat the rapture has no timeline.

It’s a rabbit hole I am not wanting to address but our intent is to assist you with defining today’s culture though the lens of the bible and that includes calling out false hood.

Given the response we received from Turning Point, we accept the video used was a fake and have apologised directly for doubting.

This whole episode and comment’s regarding the question raised was, Brian Tamaki: is he good for Christianity and our messages relating to race relations has highlighted some only hear and see what we want to hear.

As a Christian organisation, our messages regarding the division of this country are focussed on unity.

With regards to Brian Tamaki, some felt by asking the question we were attacking him, I guess those who attacked us failed to hear how we applauded his actions and hoped many more church leaders would speak out the same way.

We all don’t agree with the method but applaud his answer to the call of action.

Thank you for watching to the end, which is what we encourage everyone to do, in order to hear the whole story.

Thank you as well to the passion you have shown towards the issues we have raised and pray you will continue to be showing this in what already is a darkened world which it will remain until the arrival of our lord and saviour, Jesus Christ.

It certainly wasn’t the then, National Party leader Simon Bridges finest moment when a recorded private conversation became very public where he described, a member of his own caucus. West Coast list MP Maureen Pugh, as f… useless.

For Bridges, the leak, the lack of discretion, the judgment, the opinion certainly was a wakeup call for him.

However, it is somewhat ironic that, six years later, the same MP, Maureen Pugh, who now serves as the Assistant Speaker of New Zealand’s Parliament, has inadvertently done us a favour by giving New Zealand a wake-up call.

She has faced criticism from some quarters because she failed to ‘read the room’ instead she had adhered to the rules of the house recently by closing down a speech given by a member from the public gallery.

The man from the iwi of Whakatōhea. Proceeded to speak ahead of a waiata which would have been a fitting and approved celebration following the third reading of the treaty settlement between the crown and the iwi.

I’m not going to discuss the rights and wrongs as it has been thrashed out in parliament the press and iwi.

In the course of shutting down, the alleged speech, someone from the gallery called out to Pugh to “read the room”, indeed had she done so, to allow it to continue would have been a breach of the rules of behaviour set out in parliaments standing orders.

Read the room is an expression which has been around for an exceedingly long time and both politicians and comedians have been adept at, some, better than others.

But what does read the room mean, like really what does read the room actually mean.

To answer that I sought an explanation from the most reliable source available, in this case it was google it means is to pick up on the subtle, nonverbal cues of a group of people.

In parliament that evening, those in the Gallery were in a celebratory frame of mind, but as King Solomon put it, there is a time and place, this may have been the time, but it was not the place.

As a society we have rules, guidelines and laws in place to not only as protection, but to set boundaries between what is acceptable and what is not.

When you are a guest in someone’s house, it is the done thing to accept the rules of the house.

A quick example is in a church setting, there is a certain reverence and decorum expected from attendees, likewise, on a marae setting, or in this case parliament.

The abandonment of rules whether they are small or large are fraught with all sorts of dangers.

Now there are some.no, everyone flaunts rules every day, it’s just in our nature, but on the whole, society accepts rules laws and occasionally we like to break through the boundaries as every teenager tries to.

The issue has become, not about bumping boundaries but breaking through to the other side.

If you allow the mood of the room to dictate in society, where they abandon centuries of decorum and allow all out freedom, the result is anarchy/revolution or another simplistic explanation – mob rules and haven’t we seen just how well that has gone.

A good example or the results reading the room can be found in all periods of time but the most well-known was when the fifth governor of the Roman province of Judaea, Pontius Pilate went against his conscience knowing Jesus to be innocent allowed the room, in this instance the crowd whose fervour had been whipped up by Jesus’s opponents to decide on his fate.

Today is no different, instead of Jesus opponents we see opinion being whipped up primarily by agitators who believe their rights supersede everyone else’s, and instead of the Pharisees and Sadducees, today’s agitators are those who control today’s media.

We know and expect boundaries, every society has their own, break it down, right down, to your own self.

We all know when we cross the line to the dark side, we feel a little uncomfortable, one of two things happen, you either feel convicted and make amends, or you start to feel comfortable, its not so bad, but the next time the boundary crossed is a bigger one and that little fall, that mis step becomes a slippery slope and who knows where it leads,

Do you know there was a time in history that there was only a moral code society lived by, but then one-person moral code became different to those around them.

It came to the stage in time where people cried out for rules, laws they could live by.

Everyone is aware of the Ten commandments, heard of them, don’t feel as though you have to phone friend to give you an answer to what they are.

What is not widely known was the receiver under inspiration of the giver, in this case Moses the receiver, and God the giver wrote what today is called the Mosaic Law in essence setting out the rule, the rights and wrongs, the boundaries of society. And the people asked for judges to administer this law.

New Zealand’s governance, based on the Westminster system and Mosaic Law, stands as a testament to the importance of rules.

If the government of the day were to listen to the room, it merely underscores the danger of abandoning these principles, suggesting that allowing the loudest voices to dictate societal norms could lead to chaos.

Imagine for a moment a country governed by those currently who shout the loudest about colonisation, sovereignty, past wrong, racial inequality, climate change, individual rights, gender issues and whatever toys they no longer find acceptable in the toy box.

But what happens to this type of governance when other voices grow louder?

Let’s go back to our reference in Google to read the room is to pick up on the subtle, nonverbal cues of a group of people.

These people are called “the silent majority” and there in lies an issue, we all know the squeaky wheel gets oiled, but when good men say and do nothing, that is what the result we will see.

What The silent majority does in its action to remain silent is exactly that silence.

Christian writer Dietrich Bonhoeffer summed I up in the days when the fascist was gaining power in Germany, he said ‘silence in the face of evil is evil itself’.

In his ‘Letter from the Birmingham Jail,’ King said in his silence complicity argument “we will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”

If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done? Proverbs 24;12

So, reading the subtle nature of the country, just what is the mood of the room of all new Zealanders.

The majority I am sure is for this country to agree to disagree and move towards unity which will bring about prosperity.

Maureen Pugh in her role as the speaker of parliament to my mind, in administering the rules of standing orders relating to decency and decorum should be applauded when faced with opposing voices and opinions.

We today are still fortunate where our rules, our society, even our country, our foundation was set up on the word of GOD and for that one reason we should be thankful.

I am disheartened by the many New Zealanders who understand that but choose to remain ignorant or just defiantly refuse to acknowledge the source of moral values and ethics.

By doing so, they do not see, they still are blinded by what is happening.

Unlike Maureen Pugh, who indeed read, not what was in front of her, but had read the rules of her environment, todays culture does not understand, the weight of the actual time period in which we live.

From a cultural perspective, our inability to recognize, comprehend, and accept the divinely ordained principles for behaviour results in our nation’s failure to accurately gauge the societal climate.

Go back to the US presidential campaign of 1992 where the incumbent president George H W Bush had an approval rating of 90% of the job he was doing.

So how was it, the young democrat Bill Clinton unseat him?

Regardless of where you live and your leader may be the most popular person to ever hold office as did George Bush, but when your country is in a recession, someone has to fix it.

A simple phrase cooked up by James Carville who was a strategist on the Clinton campaign, used by Bill Clinton in a debate with Bush brought people’s attention back to the reality, the country was in the middle of a recession when Bush was in charge.

History tells us Clinton was successful in the end, but history shows us money worries in the USA have exploded ever since.
It’s the economy stupid, and in New Zealand, and every other country in the world.it has always been about the economy.

Without a good economy, without prudent stewardship, without overspending, life just hangs in the balance and nothing else matters.

New Zealand’s economy has just returned into a recession after predictions of reduced export earnings and inflation all factor into a cost-of-living crisis for all New Zealand.

I am not going to comment on the management or lack thereof, or the vandalism brought about by idealistic former student union or left winged progressives, as we all know, they were wrong, just a pity they could not admit it.

Going back to the United States for a moment, their economy is sinking and taking on water faster than the Titanic and will sink sooner than expected.

President Joe Biden just recently had to get approval from congress for the treasury to print another trillion dollars and have it released into its economy, why? Because there wasn’t enough money to pay to keep government services operating.

For those who have paid attention would know that the reserve Bank of New Zealand has also printed money beyond the value of what it held in government stocks and bonds.

In other words, we have more money in our system which results in our dollar having less value resulting in less spending power.

The current coalition government went into this election knowing our economy was in a mess, but it wasn’t until they took control, they could see and perhaps just recently comprehending the economic conundrum they face.

Other world economies have recovered from Covid, but New Zealand is flailing in its recovery and it’s not a quick fix.

As a country we have to pull together in order to get this nations economy back on track, sounds like a political slogan but its true.

Our children’s grandchildren will be paying down on the interest the government of the past six years has either borrowed or created if we don’t.

While the populists jump on every gravy train going where they can find ways for governments to spend money whether it be climate carbon emissions to save the future of the planet.

What good will it be when your economy, hence your spending power is limited.

The USA economy has looked shaky for decades, the Euro is also in trouble as governments look to destabilise their own economies.

For sure there are troubling signs forecasting a major world-wide recession. Let’s add to what we have been speaking about with a world wide shortage of food starting to bite into some countries as we see grain exports from both Ukraine and Russia diminishing, and European Governments forcing farmers from their lands and encouraging those who remain, not to grow food.

I know, it all sounds bizarre, but you simply don’t hear about the protests in Europe because our mainstream media are more interested in navel gazing and their own opinions rather than reporting fact.

It about the economy, and last year we here at Christian Voice New Zealand were mentioning these things, but we also spoke about the effects of the ride of the four horsemen found in the book of revelation and it’s impacts on the world.

We are now in that time period where very soon you won’t need to visit the supermarket, it will only be the rich who can afford a loaf of bread.

Look at the signs. Take a good hard look at what is happening in New Zealand, I mentioned just weeks back, the worlds rich people are divesting themselves of companies and shares and building shelters.

New Zealand’s top companies, the ones who have been a sure bet for investment are doing the same, as they divest their capital.

Let’s face it as we move into this brave new world the economists are all talking about where cheap labour will be gone, your job will carried out by a robot, and you will have nothing and you will be happy.

Just like the storm clouds of war were covering Europe last century, we can see the same thing happening today, and we understand the significance of what is happening in the rest of the world will affect New Zealand.

But right now, the last thing the New Zealand economy needs is for the rest of the world to crumble.

My friends the trumpets in heaven are sounding, heed the call to action, yes its about the economy, but its about you yourself and your understanding of the times in which we live.

In order for us to survive what is to come and they will be dark days ahead, we must know from where our salvation will come from.

The world’s politicians, the world’s leaders can promise the earth, they can scrap about borders, about dominion, but for what end.

They are only in place for one reason and one reason only and that is by the grace of GOD, but what happens when he says enough.

If we can no longer look after this planet, and to do so, it needs money and we know it’s money which make the world go around and we have none, then does the world stop.

So is it really all about the economy, Really the answer is no, yes money and riches aid in today’s world, you have heard the saying from the World Economic Forum who says You will own nothing will be happy.”

If that were true, why is it we all toil for something we cannot achieve.

Is it really about the economy or is it something greater than that.

We are living in prophetic times, and can I suggest you have a look at our video on the ride of the Four Horsemen or you can read it about it yourself, or better still ask your local church for an explanation.

Either way, those divesting in capital may or may not be aware of this piece of prophesy from Revelation 6 which reads

¹⁵ Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. ¹⁶ They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us^[f] from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! ¹⁷ For the great day of their^[g] wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”

James Carville from the Clinton Campaign may have called his opposition stupid when he coined the phrase, it’s all about the economy, but hopefully we are not stupid to understand, its more than that.