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(time for cool heads to prevail)

Like you I am closely watching the news coming out of Israel and while many are grabbing their bibles and some of today’s so-called prophets are trying to make pieces of the jig saw fit bible prophecy.

If you are a regular subscriber to Christian Voice New Zealand, you will know we have been watching and warning about the clear indicators relating to the world situation and the time we live in.

Without getting too excited about the times I asked a friend yesterday “If this is the beginning of the end then, why are we still here.”

His answer was simple, as God’s people we have work to do, this conflict gives you and I the opportunity to speak and speak freely about what is to come.

My friend suggested it’s time for Christians to hit others in forehead with a 2×4 plank, he was speaking hypothetically, but given his background in the armed services, I’m not so sure.

However, I think the church itself needs a hit with the plank to awaken it from the state of slumber it finds itself.

Throughout the Bible you will find the word Selah noted about 74 times.

Sela is a musical term to take a pause and that is what I am saying to you today, to take a pause, take a breath before racing in and tell everyone the sky is falling.

When I first heard the news of the conflict my mind immediately went to the question “what is behind this?”

Today I received an explanation from a Christian in the United States which I am about to read it.

Before I commence, I personally agree his explanation is sound, call me a conspiracy theorist, I don’t mind, but at the end of it, you make up your own mind, but I think we can agree, there is evil intent in what is happening right now in the middle east, and it is the work of Satan.

My correspondent writes He has kept his eye on the Israel situation for the past few days.

Here’s what I’ve learned, & here are my blunt & honest thoughts:

1. Israel chose to ignore intelligence from Egyptian officials about a major attack coming from Hamas.

2. Multiple former IDF soldiers & Israeli intelligence personnel have come forward online and said there’s a zero percent chance Israel was unaware of this attack beforehand or couldn’t have prevented it.

3. We just watched unsophisticated terrorists on hang gliders soar into one of the most heavily defended & surveilled countries on the planet.

4. Within 48 hours of the attack, we’re now suddenly seeing enormous support for an American war with Iran and the genocide of the Palestinian people.

I’m witnessing American pastors and formerly level-headed influencers in our world completely lose their minds and call for genocide.

It’s unsurprising, but insane to watch. If the events of the past three years have taught me anything, it’s that when people get whipped into an emotional frenzy, critical thinking completely goes out the window.

People become highly suggestible and will rush to extremely dangerous conclusions without thinking about the consequences.

This is what we’re all witnessing with this situation in Israel.

I’m reminded of Pearl Harbor and 9/11. In both scenarios, the American government received intelligence in advance of the attacks but chose not to prevent the attacks. Why?

The American government was willing to sacrifice the lives of American citizens in order to advance its geopolitical goals.

Pearl Harbor gave the justification to enter WWII. 9/11 gave justification to invade the Middle East & drastically expand the American military industrial complex & our surveillance apparatus.

They were brutal & extremely traumatic events for the American public to witness.

The emotional trauma caused people to get whipped into an emotional frenzy. America wanted ONE THING in response to these attacks: The blood of our enemies. I see the same scenario playing out now.

People are whipped into a frenzied bloodlust. In their frenzied bloodlust, people are overlooking some SERIOUSLY important facts here, notably:

 1. The fact that none of this adds up,

2. innocent civilians are being threatened with genocide, and

 3. Escalated violence in the Middle East and a war with Iran both risk ***the rest of the planet getting dragged into WWIII. ***

 What happened in Israel this weekend was obviously gut-wrenching and awful to witness, but I do not trust Israel’s so-called “intelligence failure”, nor do I trust the snakes in Washington calling for war with Iran, & I no longer trust any of the emotionally frenzied influencers calling for explicit genocide of innocent civilians.

This was a defining moment in history, like Pearl Harbor, 9/11, COVID, the beginning of the Ukraine war, etc., and a lot of people just got played.

People responded by going full mask-off, exposing themselves as reckless & incapable of exercising sound judgment in moments of chaos and heightened emotion. And we’re now at the brink of WWIII because of it. This is all worth noting.

There’s a high likelihood there will be more chaos throughout the rest of this decade. There will be more psychological operations.

There will be more moments in time in which cooler heads ought to prevail, but people will get whipped into an emotional frenzy instead.

Keep your wits about you & be cautious in whom you allow yourself to be influenced by.

Recognize that governments & intelligence agencies spend enormous resources waging psychological operations on social media nonstop when stuff like this goes down.

Remember that when chaos is at its peak, history shows there is ALMOST ALWAYS a hidden agenda being played out, & that hidden agenda is ALWAYS designed to prey on our base emotions to facilitate a desired end-result.

As I mentioned at the outset, there are many opinions about what is happening in the Middle East.

As Christians we are not to sit on our hands and hope that someone else will preach the Good News.

The spirit of Haman is in the air just as it was in the days of King Xerxes found in the book of Esther.

Back then, it was just one person who had the courage to speak the truth into the ear of the king.

One person, Queen Esther for whom such a time was this.

This is “our moment, it is our “Such a time” when we should be speaking.

If there is only one thing you do in your Christian walk with God.

Be faithful to his word and preach the good news.

Your future and the future of your neighbours is dependent upon you simply speaking.

For such a time as this, you are a part of the generation that will see this through, but you cannot be passive in your belief.

You need to stand firm in the word of God. Yes, my brothers and sisters, I am hitting you with a 2×4 plank and encouraging you to put on that suit of Armour God has provided and speak the truth, speak the words in the ears of anyone who will listen about the Good News and the coming of Jesus Christ.

The choice is yours, make the right one, pray for the strength you need but this my friends is the time God has ordained for you. This was the plan he had for you.

Pray for world peace tonight.

By Michael Snyder- October 3, 2023.

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Will a “peace covenant” soon be announced that will permanently alter world history in a major way?  For months, Israel and Saudi Arabia have been quietly negotiating a deal that would normalize relations between the two nations.  But they aren’t the only parties involved.  Israel and Saudi Arabia both want formal security agreements with the United States as part of any agreement.  

In other words, if either of those two nations get attacked, the U.S. military would be required to intervene.  The Saudis also want to develop a nuclear power program, and they want U.S. assistance with that.  But the biggest barrier to a deal was always going to be the Palestinians.  

The Saudis are insisting that any agreement must include major concessions from both the U.S. and the Israelis.  And the Palestinians are publicly making it known that they will not accept any outcome that does not involve formal U.S. recognition of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations.  At one time, such a demand would have killed negotiations, but the Biden administration is incredibly open to making such a move.

So much could change during negotiations, and there is still a long way to go.

And if an agreement can be reached, it will not happen until 2024 at the earliest but you can be sure President Biden would love to promote himself as the man who brought “peace to the Middle East”.

But at this moment something will happen.  In fact, on Friday National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told the press that “a basic framework” for an agreement has been “hammered out”…

“All sides have hammered out, I think, a basic framework for what, you know, what we might be able to drive at,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters.

“But, as in any complex arrangement, as this will inevitably be, everybody is going to have to do something. And everybody is going to have to compromise on some things,” Kirby said.

I was absolutely floored when I first saw that.

After all these years, the sort of Middle East peace agreement that we have been anticipating could come to fruition.

But the Palestinians must be willing to accept the deal, and right now they are playing hardball.  It is being reported that the Palestinians are demanding the transfer of territory in the West Bank from Israel and “recognition of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations” from the United States…

Last month, a US official, a PA official and a senior Arab diplomat told The Times of Israel that Ramallah is seeking “irreversible” steps that will advance its bid for statehood in the context of the US-brokered Saudi Israeli normalization talks.

Those officials said the PA proposals have included US backing for recognition of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations, the US reopening its consulate in Jerusalem that historically served Palestinians, the scrapping of congressional legislation characterizing the PLO as a terror organization, the transfer of West Bank territory from Israeli to Palestinian control, and the demolition of illegal outposts in the West Bank.

Will Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be willing to give up the territory that the Palestinians are asking for?

And will the Biden administration shock the world by formally recognizing a Palestinian state at the United Nations?

If those two things happen, it will have enormous implications for all of us.

A year ago, it seemed impossible that such a comprehensive agreement could happen before the next presidential election in the United States.

But now leaders on all sides seem optimistic.

For example, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman recently told Fox News that an agreement is getting “closer” with each passing day…

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) said that his country was moving “closer” each day toward reaching a normalization deal with Israel, the first time he has publicly acknowledged the process.

“Every day we get closer” to reaching an agreement, the 38-year-old heir to the Saudi throne told Fox News in an interview that aired Wednesday. “It seems it’s for the first time a real one, serious. We’re going to see how it goes.”

And during a speech to the UN General Assembly on September 22nd, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sounded like a man that is ready to make a deal…

In an address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 22, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was “at the cusp” of a transformative peace agreement with Saudi Arabia. “Such a peace will go a long way to ending the Arab Israeli conflict,” said Netanyahu. “It will encourage other Arab states to normalize their relations with Israel. It will enhance the prospects of peace with the Palestinians. It will encourage a broader reconciliation between Judaism and Islam, between Jerusalem and Mecca, between the descendants of Isaac and the descendants of Ishmael.”

Of course, there are many in Netanyahu’s coalition that would not welcome such an agreement, especially if it means giving up land in the West Bank.

But would their minds change if the agreement also made it possible to start rebuilding the Temple in Jerusalem?

This has been a dream of Jewish religious leaders for decades, and so making their dream a reality may be enough to get them to agree to a deal that formally divides the West Bank.

If the Temple is to be rebuilt, the Jewish government will inevitably be heavily involved, and we know that government agencies were already involved in transporting five red heifers to Israel from the state of Texas…

According to Jerusalem-focused non-profit Ir Amim, the Israeli government authorities helped the temple mount activist group, the Temple Institute, and Boneh Israel, an Evangelical organization, import five cows from the United States last year to be used for the red heifer sacrifice.

The Ministry of Agriculture allegedly assisted in bypassing standard regulations to import the live cows from the U.S., which is prohibited. In a press release, Boneh Israel and the Temple Institute claim they received permission to import the cows through the Ministry of Agriculture.

The Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage also assisted in the project. The Ministry’s Director General, Netanel Isaac, disclosed in a speech at the cows’ welcome ceremony in September 2022 that the agency has been funding the development of the Mount of Olives area where Temple Mount activists plan to initiate the red heifer ritual sacrifice.

So much is happening right now, and the days ahead are likely to be filled with lots of twists and turns.

All sides seem pretty determined to make an agreement happen, and once it is signed our world will never be the same again.

Originally published at End of the American Dream- reposted with permission.

Transcript of meeting presented on line via YouTube, Bitchute, Oddysee and Rumble.

Last month in our Town Hall meeting I made the statement we should ask ourselves what sort of a country we want to be.

Hello, and welcome I’m Mike Bain from Christian Voice New Zealand and thanks for joining us for this, our last Town Hall Meeting before what is being said to be the most important election in our time.

As we Incorporate our theme of Pray, Vote, Stand, as we have looked at the state of this nation in previous meetings, today I want to look at three questions about New Zealand.

• What sort of country did our forefathers want,
• What sort of country should we have become,
• What sort of country we ought to be?

Hopefully by the end of this meeting you will agree with each other and if you don’t you will ponder the thoughts expressed, and I welcome any thoughts, good or bad, you will leave in the comments section.

• What sort of country did our forefathers want.

It’s always been fashionable to look at the past and the reason why many people look in the rear vision mirror and that is to see how far they have come.

But what sort of country could we have been the question.

Jacinda Ardern talked about being aspirational and I think there is a great place to start.

A new colony of the British Empire was looking to aspire into nation built on Christian values and principles.

The underlying foundational principles are a bit vague, obscure to say the least.

It’s believed though by scholars they would have included relevant statutes based on

• The 1297 Magna Carta,
• the 1688 Bill of Rights,
• the 1700 Act of settlement which would have regulated succession to the throne among other matters.
• As well as the Treaty of Waitangi 1840.

The underlying principle was one of democracy.

• where the monarch of the day, in this case it was Queen Victoria, Today King Charles, he or she is represented by the Governor General, whose decisions are upheld by acting members of the crown such as the judiciary.
• But it was the place of Parliament where the power of the country was to sit and make the decisions for the country and by a majority of consensus from parliamentarians would then be signed by the Monarchs representative, The Governor General.

Once established other foundation principles could be adhered to such as

• the rule of law,
• The principle of legality—the dignity of the individual and the presumption in favour of liberty …

• Respect for property …
• Natural justice …
• Access to the courts …
• The spirit and principles of the Treaty of Waitangi …

It was on these foundations New Zealand became a part of the British Empire.

The Treaty of Waitangi was signed in good faith by the queen’s representative and many Māori tribal leaders.

To say New Zealand underwent some growing pains as settlers and Māori clashed over lands, is a bit of an understatement, an issue which is slowly being settled.

However, around the turn of the century all were living and working towards building a nation.

In its first 100 years a lot happened with the Great War, then the second world war, but both European and Māori along with the growing generation worked harmoniously together.

Some people from other parts of the Pacific arrived in New Zealand and established a place to call home.

It was kind of like a eutopia with differing nationalities working together.

This was the real foundation of New Zealand and one which could have gone on and been aspirational to other lands such as the US with its civil rights issues and South Africa and its apartheid regimes.

But the rumblings of discontent were just starting to rumble with new generations starting to voice their discontent, it wasn’t just a New Zealand thing, as we see many indigenous peoples from all parts starting to rise.

And this really does bring us up to about the turn of the century.

We started to see people no longer accepting what had gone before, we started to have a culture of blame, it was like a cancer spreading across the land, everyone started to exert their own rights and yesterday’s agreements started to look a bit shoneky amongst the growing generations to the stage where discontent was everywhere.

Instead of a society built on Christian principles one of which was Love your neighbour as yourself became one where everyone started to love themselves and want what they thought was rightfully theirs.

Everything was wrong in this country where brother began arguing and exerting their rights against each other, where they chased God and common sense from the public square, out of parliament, out of education and dare I say it, off the marae and homes.

Any aspirations our forefathers had that we would become a land where everyone was welcome, a land where we would live in peace with each other was shattered.

I asked the question as to what sort of country did our forefathers want us to become, there was no real decisive plan, except to be an outpost of the British Empire.

New Zealand suffered hard times like other nations around the world with the great depression, it sent its young to distant shores to be sacrificed in the name of the realm and freedom.

Following the war New Zealand servicemen returned home and just got on with it.

They married their long-time sweethearts, producing a boomer generation and the country drifted along.

Either no one knew the word aspirational or knew how to spell it, but it was a great time for those who remember it.

The country was a safe place for everyone to live, all races, both brown, white, or any other color lived in harmony.

In 1840 after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi it was recorded there was a loud hurrah and a declaration made “we are all one people.” A sentiment that lasted well over a century.

In 1975 the Treaty of Waitangi Act was passed by parliament and altered again just a decade later.

Amendments were made to right the wrongs of the past and so they should.

I don’t think anyone in this country would disagree Māori may have been shafted at that time.

But this appears to be not enough among some members of Maoridom and the cracks in the cultural peace and harmony started to appear.

Which brings us to our lowest point in history thus far.

In 2017 democracy changed when New Zealand underwent its first political coupe where the majority party with the most votes were unbale to continue to rule.

We all remember Winston Peters wouldn’t allow National take the treasury bench and allied himself as the kingmaker and hitched his wagon to the Labour Party.

The transition from a country which championed democracy was about to change and we were to become a country which looked the same, felt the same but there was a differing agenda in the air.

We heard the word aspirational and fell in love with a Prime Minister who as history has recorded was clearly out of her depth as a leader.

Instead of the aspirational goals of Jacinda Ardern failure was starting its creep.

Before the pandemic there were signs despite all the promises, Housing, lifting people out of poverty, and improving the lives of ordinary citizens could not and still six years later been delivered.

Without a doubt Covid changed many countries around the world but here we saw things happen which we would have never accepted in any other time.

New Zealand became a nation which looked totally different because of emergency powers which were enacted under the guise to keep its citizens safe.

As I mentioned its always good to look back to see how far we have come and now hindsight tells us we, the New Zealand Public were sucked in by forces from offshore and we were ruled by fear.

The Covid years will be remembered as a time when left wing Marxism collided with straight out Fascism with lockdowns, border security, restrictions on everyday life, we were encouraged to report on the actions of friends’ neighbours and family members.

Society was separated into the haves and have nots over the mismanaged Vaccine roll out.

New Zealanders were signed up to become guinea pigs in a worldwide grasp for control.

It was during this time we heard the words “be kind” put a Teddy in the window, many put them at their gates and weren’t kind, they left them out there in all sorts of weather, Be Kind, it was the mantra of a smiling Prime minister who was indeed a Marxist, but also a puppet with her strings being pulled by the World Economic Forum and the United Nations.

My friends if you had told me in 2017, we would have censorship across our country with army checkpoints I would not have believed you.

Life after Covid is no better as the divisions in this country have become worse.

From the declaration of we are one people we are definitely not as one.

Although Jacinda Ardern has gone away Marxist ideals are still held by the governing party, Smile all you like Prime Minister Hipkins, a return to power for your government and what it stands for will see civil war, if not greater civil unrest as the divisions of the entitled come to the fore.

This is the country we are today, A country bent on destroying everything previous generations wanted for us.

We are a country with no aspiration because a country divided cannot stand. This is who we are, this is where we are, and all I can say is good luck to those fleeing from this land.

I asked at last months meeting, what sort of country do we want in the future and today I have changed that and ask what sort of country should we “out” to be?

For us to be a great little country at the bottom of the world we have, we must get along.

We need to put the past behind us and live with a sense of decency towards each other.

• Bob McCroskie from Family First will love this one.We need to bring families back to the dinner table,
• We need to take responsibility for our families, if you are going to let the village raise your child beware the village produces idiots as well, and there are plenty of them these days.
• We need to have a culture of dignity and acceptance of each other as we are all different and our families, tribes, we were all strangers to this land we call home.

With the forthcoming election we need to have strength, wisdom, and fairness back in parliament, above all we need leadership, not popularity.

If it means we need to change our constitution, then let’s start the discussion.

There is so much we can do, but it takes someone to make a start if we are to heal our nation and become what it ought to be. Can you be that person? Can you accept your fellow worker is different, has differing opinions, maybe even has different skin color, it doesn’t matter we need to accept and let others know we accept them.

So let me come to our theme of these meetings throughout the year Pray, Vote, Stand.

Without a doubt, if we as a nation return to God, his love, his mercy, and his sovereignty we as a nation will be blessed.

We need to pray for that to happen, it won’t just suddenly be all Kumbaya in the morning but if we took a biblical attitude to the way we treat each other, You won’t but help notice the difference, so yes, I ask you pray for this nation to become what it “out to be.”

Other ways we can make change is to ensure who we vote for has the country’s best interest at heart.

We, all of us, can send a message to our wannabe politicians that we reject the state and culture of this country, and encourage them to work towards a goal of being the country we ought to be.

Finally, the word stand, I am going to make an addendum here and say stand Firm.

New Zealand, we have a great country, one with its natural beauty, its climate, its cities but above all its people.

• We need to stand together, without entitlement, and adopt the old mantra and return to be a great country with its number eight fencing wire attitude.
• We need to continually pray for this nation, for each other, and ourselves.
• We need to return to democracy the way it was intended, one man one vote.
• We need to guard against anything else which will creep into and change this great country of ours.
• We need to stand, stand firm on the blessings God has given us by way of life, family, and home.
• We need to lift our voices as they did after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and declare “We are One People.”

That is the type of country we ought to be, and that would truly be aspirational.

A sermon, maybe it’s a prayer call but people will respond to the word of God.

But us old timers see it almost every week where a dozen or so go up front of the auditorium ang give their hearts to the lord.

And while its not always a stampede to the front its almost like that out of the back door of churches.

A friend of mine boasts he’s seen thousands of people in one night give their hearts to the lord.

Even in good ole America we recently heard the R word being bandied about, The R word? Revival.

Yep, the early days of February, something was happening on campus at Ashbury University.

What started out as an ordinary chapel meeting ended up being a weeklong gathering with what Time Magazine called fervent prayer and worship.

News of the gathering which soon became known as a revival spread globally gaining notoriety on social media and mainstream news.

What was happening to this university in Kentucky where he town was overwhelmed by a rush of media, outside and visitors.

And suddenly there was other universities reporting their own enthusiastic campus gatherings, leading excited Christians to contend this is the evidence of an unprecedented movement of God across the nation

Even here in New Zealand we were hearing about Ashbury from some of our church leaders.

Yeah look, I don’t know what was going on, I really think it’s too late for revival, we are too far down the path towards the return of God, but something obviously did happen, but was a movement of God across the nation.

Jesus gave us a marker for truth when he said in Luke 6:44 Each tree is recognized by its own fruit.

Question, in Ashbury what were the fruits from the week long pray in at the University.

When the harvest was done, did we hear about hundreds, thousands of lives changed across America.

After all Christians were claiming it as evidence of an unprecedented movement of God across the nation.

Reality it was just wishful thinking, and I am going to be really blunt about these people who witnessed Ashbury.

Yes, there was some form of euphoria happening at the University and then did you note, other universities were reporting they too were seeing something happening, but it was the universities, not the people in the towns, not the people in between, were the streets awash with people giving their lives to Christ,  there was no obvious change in the culture of American people, really what was the fruit from the revival.

Perhaps no American speaks of the hazards here as incisively as Frederick Douglass.

In his 1845 Narrative, the then-enslaved Douglass discusses his enslaver, who had just experienced conversion at a Methodist revival.

Douglass reports his hope that the revival might make his enslaver kinder, or even lead him to consider emancipation.

But it did the opposite, making him “more cruel and hateful in all his ways.”

But for Douglass, the answer wasn’t to reject revival or Christianity outright.

The answer was to point toward the “Christianity of Christ,” a religion characterized by love of neighbour and concern for the oppressed.

We might then carefully embrace the possibility of spiritual awakening even if we aren’t exactly sure from whence it came or where it’s going.

Some approaches to evangelism assume that people are ready and waiting to accept Christ as soon as they hear the message. We give Pastors too much credit.

We all have people we know who have made an instant decision and are still beside you each Sunday but there are many who aren’t.

After Church on Sunday some one may suggest heading of to Macca’s for a feed but when you’ve had it, sometimes you get buyer’s remorse.

Let’s not forget we live in an ‘instant society.’ We’re used to getting what we want almost immediately – from fast food to instant credit ratings.

I would not be surprised to hear we have churches doing fast-food type evangelism leading to quick commitments to Christ.

There’s a tendency for us Christians to presume people are ready to surrender to Jesus the very first time the Gospel is explained to them. This is rarely the case.

Of course, beautiful music and gathered community affect us; there’s a reason why even the most avid secularist is moved at the sight of natural beauty, why we appreciate the well-honed rhetoric of a speaker we also happen to agree with, or why it’s possible to feel moved (as I have been, I admit) amongst a bunch of grooving despots at a Dire Straits concert.

Usually, the person whose going to come next week is the one where the seeds have been sown by someone other than your pastor, John 4:38

Not saying it doesn’t happen but in New Zealand today, it is rare to find someone who is ready to accept Christ on their very first encounter with an evangelist!

And for those who do commit on Sunday, like I said my friend tells me he has seen thousands give their lives to the lord, on the day, but what was the follow up, he said he wasn’t sure, with such a large number its always going to be hard.

In New Zealand we know there’s evangelists like Tauranga’s Jesus Reigns whose outreach ministries are on streets and parks; they are unsure how many hearts have been turned to the Lord, but there creating an environment for people who can.

But like churches, when they follow up, sometimes they find they have been given false particulars, phone numbers and addresses, but it still doesn’t deter them, they’re there next week, but hey for them to react the way they did may have just been the seed being planted.

It means churches and evangelists must follow up on the individuals to ensure the next step they take is towards God but alternatively they must not, and I reiterate this point, they must not forget the members who make up their congregations.

I have witnessed churches who throw everything at newbies, while established members who are looking for true teaching, some meaty sermons become despondent and quietly slip out the back door.

Sometimes newbies are in the congregation, not necessarily for God although its hoped the spirit touches them, but even I can admit going to church as young man in the hope I could impress a girl.

Above all we must, all of us keep in mind what we are about as Christians, In 1 Thessalonians Paul in v 5  For we know, brothers and sister, loved by God, that he has chosen you,

Why did he choose them, choose us because our gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction. You know how we lived among you for your sake. ⁶ You became imitators of us and of the Lord,

We want people to accept Christ with power and passion.

It is up to us, for we are the church to ensure these people see us with that same passion Paul spoke about, that they will want to come and worship with you next week.

And dare I say it, it is up to the church organisation, and we should demand that we are equipped in order for us to ensure these new converts that they too are equipped with understanding, with passion that won’t be swayed, and knowledge  of God’s word, his love, his mercy and his sense of justice as they head out amongst the wolves of this world, out into the world of Satan.

Revivals like Asbury’s and even church on Sunday are simply sites of emotional manipulation, where participants are being swept up in charismata that is artificial, designed to induce chill bumps-on-arms responses.

If a revival or your church service is simply the powerful surge of collective emotion, or the product of stagecraft, is it really real?

If sexual abuse was an Olympic event, then I am sure the Catholic Church would make a clean sweep of the podium regardless of what category they would be in.

No other organisation can even come close, but the sad thing is, other Christian organisations are trying.

We have heard of the cover ups in the Pentecostal church like Hillsong, many evangelical churches in the USA, closer to home we have the west coast commune Gloria vale and now shock, horror, Jehovah’s Witnesses covering up eleven pedophiles’ who walk freely amongst the children of believers.

The scandals continue to make headline news, every organisation bury their heads in the sand and hope it goes away, we have seen that from the Catholics for years.

Jehovah’s Witnesses states its position is that it abhors child sexual abuse, and that “the incidence of this crime among Jehovah’s Witnesses is rare.”

This may be why the organisation sought leave not to be included in the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse by seeking a judicial review and High Court declaration that the church does not assume responsibility for the care of children, young people, or vulnerable people.

And yet here we are with a scandal in this organisation is in the news with allegations of cover ups where it’s been reported by both the New Zealand Herald and Radio New Zealand a Jehovah Witness elder claims was told to destroy confidential church documents, including those relating to child sexual abuse cases.

Their siege mentality only makes the scandals and the claims even more pronounced.

But is just not all about sex, its bad business practices, and exploitation which we have seen from the Arise megachurch, then there’s the medias obsession with making everything Brian Tamaki’s Destiny Church does as cultish and bizarre.

But back to the sex and we acknowledge sexual abuse has happened in the confines of Christianity, and still happens, in a vast range of contexts, all around the world.

It happens in families, neighbourhoods, schools, institutions, workplaces, clubs, sports, in armed forces, and in wars.

July saw the end of a seven year long Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) concluded by publishing its final report in Britain.

Among the horrifying accounts are plenty from those who suffered as a result of “hands on” vicars and priests, pastors, bishops, and monks.

An investigation by the Associated Press in the US claimed nearly 1,700 priests and other clergy members that the Roman Catholic Church, considers credibly accused of child sexual abuse, are living under the radar with little to no oversight from religious authorities or law enforcement.

Here in New Zealand the Crime and Victims Survey from the Ministry of Justice reveals the situation is still business as usual where almost 30 percent of New Zealand adults experienced intimate partner violence, or sexual violence, at some point in their life, with women three times more likely to experience sexual violence than men.

Can I suggest, holding inquiries is one thing but doesn’t stop the abuse from happening.

But what can be done?

The Brits are looking at the introduction of a new law which would see mandatory reporting.

This new law would create criminal penalties for anyone in a designated position (mostly those working with children or in a position of trust) who becomes aware of child abuse and doesn’t report it to the police.

It has long been a demand from victims’ groups and many children’s charities but has also been resisted by some within the Church, especially traditions which value the historic confidentiality of confession.

There is some good news with the Catholic Church in New Zealand has voluntary agreed to report cases of sexual abuse which may have been heard in the confessional.

Whatever laws are brought in to place to protect the victims I’m sure, all would support it.

But what can we do as an individual.

We need to understand sexual abuse reflects not just lustfulness, but our dark human capacities for         

•  selfishness,
• delusion,
• exploitation,
• domination,
• violence,
• and deceit.

It is a glaring manifestation of our human sinfulness.
Sexual abuse is never innocent, justifiable, or right.

It almost always leaves an enduring legacy of great harm.
It is utterly tragic that considerable sexual abuse has clearly taken place in some Christian churches, church-going families, and church-run institutions such as boarding schools and orphanages.

Sexual abuse is always 100% wrong.

But for it to happen in church-related contexts is doubly appalling and shameful, because it goes against everything Christian faith stands for, including God’s calls to love, mercy, holiness of heart and mind, integrity, and renewal in Christ.

The scandalous and inexcusable failings of some continue to bring huge reputational harm upon the church at large.

• Deplore what has happened.
• Empathise with and pray for those who have been victims.
• Be compassionate.
• Support justice.
• Be vigilant.
• Ensure our churches have very robust systems, to help protect everyone from harm.
• Disciple our people well.

And be determined to follow Christ in love, integrity, and purity.

Without fear of being called a doomsday merchant, conspiracy theorist, guilty of misinformation let me give you some real facts about the world situation and keep in mind what happens elsewhere has an impact on this tiny little nation at the bottom of the world.

By way of introduction and to grab your attention I am prepared to say time is running out for humanity. 

Our world and we see it her in this country has become a little bit more like a bad science fiction movie with each passing day, and our self-destructive tendencies are slowly but surely transforming our society into a living nightmare. 

Given enough time, we would destroy ourselves and everything around us. 

On a very basic level, most people can feel that global events are starting to spiral out of control. 

Evil is growing all around us, and just about everything that our leaders do to solve our rapidly growing problems seems to make them even worse.  

The pace of change just keeps getting faster and faster, and many fear that this will soon lead to widespread chaos all over the globe.  

Let’s look briefly at the list of reasons and see if you agree.

#1 Leaders all over the world seem to be catching “war fever”, and the Biden administration just made a military conflict with China even more likely by announcing a 345-million-dollar weapons package for Taiwan.

The announcement was made in response to the news from China standing firm, they will not back down over Taiwan.

New Zealand’s Defence Minister Andrew Little announced he will be making recommendations to his government regarding our defence capability.

When pressed as to where the threat was from, he blundered around but it was obviously China, but couldn’t say. New Zealand is under pressure to choose a side.

#2 Both sides just continue to escalate the war in Ukraine, and now the Russians are openly warning that they could potentially use nuclear weapons.

The former Russian president and Putin ally, Dmitry Medvedev, warned there is ‘simply no other way out’ and said that Kyiv should ‘pray to our warriors’ that they do not ‘allow the global nuclear fire to flare up’.

#3 More pain at the supermarket.

According to the United Nations, 2.4 billion people already do not have enough food to eat.  And now that the Black Sea grain deal has broken down and India has placed severe restrictions on rice exports, we are being warned that global food prices could soon go much higher.

India has now restricted most exports on rice, and now the World Bank is warning we are likely to see “considerable increases in world prices and induce price volatility”.

#4 Be prepared for another pandemic, lockdowns vaccination drives as pestilences are raging all over the globe, and many old diseases are now making stunning comebacks. 

For example, Florida has now become the epicentre for an outbreak of leprosy in the United States.

Covid hasn’t gone away, and scientists are warning of another pandemic next year.

This depends on whether the lab wherever its being manufactured are ahead of schedule or not.

#5 Global weather patterns have gone completely nuts. 

Europe is reporting higher than average summer temperatures, here in New Zealand we are hearing about the warming of the oceans, and we have seen a more volatile weather pattern over the summer. Question remains, is it global warming brought about man made climate change or is it just a continuing evolving of natural weather patterns. Jury is still out on that one but follow the money.

#6 Gender confusion

There is growing anxiety amongst the population of the world and confusion as to who they are and what they are.

Such is the results of gender confusion which has been foisted upon the world with no signs of abatement.

A generation of children are being raised confused as to the role they were assigned at birth to carry out and when you confuse these roles then society will break down and we are seeing the result of this confusion everywhere.

#7 The pace of technology has always been hard to keep up with and can I say costly as well.

We no sooner have the latest thing hit the market and there’s an upgrade waiting.

Technology changes has been good but can also be bad.

Good in the way we can communicate, good in how its assisting science in getting medical breakthroughs although the cure for the common cold still eludes them.  

Technology continues to increase at a pace that is breathtaking.

While there is good, we are starting to see the bad as Amazon introduces pay by scanning an inserted chip in the hand.

Companies embrace Artificial Intelligence like there is no tomorrow.

Once again blurring the line of reality and fiction.

#8 Decades ago, we were introduced to Dolly the Sheep, the first cloned living being.

Today scientists are bringing ancient species back to life in the form of worms which have been frozen for a thousand years.

Thought to have lived in the late Pleistocene era, a small group of the worms found 40 metres deep in the Siberian permafrost have been thawed out and revived.

It won’t be long before an attempt is made to bring bodies which underwent cryopreservation back to life.

#9 Does it surprises you that we are hearing reports of Deaths from heart attacks have been surging dramatically in every age group around the world.

It should come as no surprise but figures being released by health authorities show heart attacks between the 22-44 age group is contributing to the 30% increase.

Here’s the thing, while people are dying, the health experts are still trying to figure out why there has been a rise in these types of death since 2019.

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure that one out. Honestly?

#10 Groups like Green Peace and political parties like the Greens have lost the battle as soils and water are heavily saturated with microplastics to the point its now a crisis.

No where is immune, not even the Arctic Ocean nor neighbouring Antarctica to the incessant growth of microplastic pollution.

With the predicted growth of plastics being produced contamination is expected to increase incrementally.

Given enough time, microplastics would completely collapse our civilization even if none of the other very serious problems that we are currently dealing with existed.

Of course, the same thing could be said about nuclear war, global famine, AI, and a number of other cataclysmic threats that we are now facing.

So, there you have it, my top ten today, I’m sure if you sat down, you could produce a similar ten reasons why our society is transforming into a living nightmare.

We really are living in apocalyptic times, and the months and years ahead of us, dependent upon timelines unbeknown to us promise, to be very “interesting” indeed.

pRAY-VOTE-STAND

Full transcript of presentation by Mike Bain, Christian Voice New Zealand

Hello and welcome to this, our seventh Town Hall Meeting based around the topics of Pray, Vote, Stand.

Over the months, during these virtual meetings we have attempted to highlight topics this nation needs to hear and act on.

We have been forthright about the nations need to return to the base our ancestors founded New Zealand on and that was a biblical belief that God is sovereign.

We have discussed on what the country needs in the way of prayer and provided prayer points; things needed in this country where God can assist.

New Zealand can genuinely boast its corridors of power has the largest number, more per capita than any other country in the world of Lesbians, Homosexuals and LGBTQI+ members in its chamber.

An Australian member of Parliament asked me, “How’s that going for you?” 

On the theme of Vote, we have encouraged everyone who can to take the opportunity to exercise the freedom to vote, it’s a luxury few in the world have these days.

Without telling you who to vote for, because we accept it is not our place, but I would like to think we have challenged your thinking.

Under the heading of Stand, we have encouraged both Christian and non-Christians to make a stand, to draw a line in the sand over many issues.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord Ps 33 I think it would be fair to say this nations God is not the one in Heaven who created mankind and this country is as far removed from being blessed.

To live in New Zealand today is like being on a passenger on the train Te Huia on a trip between Hamilton -Auckland, not knowing the engineer has just taken the train through a red light, not knowing if there is another train coming directly towards it.

With not so many days until the election, if you believe the polls, people are starting to wake up, that this government in power

• has not been in control,
• has not been transformational, 
• has not been successful in lifting children out of poverty,
• has not delivered one hundred thousand new homes,
• has not delivered a smokefree New Zealand,
• has not delivered anything which points to a zero-road toll,
• has not achieved better health outcomes for all New Zealanders,
• has not provided a decrease in Crime,
• has not achieved its goals on Climate Change
• has not provided this generation it’s nuclear free moment.  

I do not have time today to list, this governments long list and it’s a very long one of failure after failure.

In the space of five years, we have seen a country go from one of prosperity, hope, and a future to one likened to a third world country,

• divided by race,
• divided by income,
• divided by generation,
•  divided by geography.
• divided by medical status,
• and divided by town and country.

Blessed is the Nation whose God is The Lord.

But you know, we as New Zealanders, and in that statement, I am calling on everyone from every group, whether you be of European descent, Māori, Pacifica, Middle Eastern, Asian, or Indian, If I am being honest, we all came from somewhere, we are all in reality “Strangers in a strange land.

Let’s all come together and sort out and decide just.

• what sort of Nation it is we want to live in and,
• what sort of a nation do we want to be?
• What sort of people we are.
• What sort of future we want, for ourselves and those who come after us.

Before we head to the ballot box in October, as a nation we need to look to the past just as those who came to this country did from across all the oceans, and make some decisions on where, as a nation we want to go.

I want to take you back to the early seventies, for those of you who failed at Maths at school that’s 50 years ago.

The 1970s was a time when I was young a time when we had no sense of fashion, men wore flared jeans, paisley shirts, and were often encouraged by fathers to get a haircut.

The girls were not conservative about dress length, they thought a wide belt around their waist was modest enough as the tripped along on their platform shoes.

All that aside it was a time of resistance to such outward signs of modernity and progress.

And very briefly, it was also the time of Norman Kirk, who became New Zealand’s second Labour Prime Minister between 1972 and 1974.

The first Labour Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage was revered as the leader of the most transformational government ever in this country, so a lot was expected of the man we called “Big Norm.”

Although only in power a short time, before he passed away, Big Norm managed to straddle the generations need for the status quo and the desire to move forward as a nation.

Norman Kirk connected with people’s desires for those who wanted “someone to love, somewhere to live, somewhere to work and something to hope for” – and for those who wanted a state for which those things were also the priority.

Without giving Big Norm a free pass, his belief was that “We came to nationhood with no legacy of bitterness” which doesn’t pass muster today, even if it was orthodox thinking then.

Kirks social conservatism would certainly be ridiculed by the majority today as he lacked support homosexual reform, and it was on his watch we saw the stat of the dawn raids on illegal migrants.

Norman Kirk was both large in stature and heart, but he gave us a framework in which to look at life.

Some of what is seen is familiar: Here is “Big Norm” as the internationalist, cancelling a proposed Springbok rugby tour and driving the first (and to date only) “state-sponsored physical anti-nuclear protest” when the frigates Otago and Canterbury sailed to Mururoa in 1973.

Kirk’s politics around nuclear weapons were attributed to the fact that his father had been a conscientious objector in the first world war.

And here he is as visionary – the first prime minister with a Pacific sensibility and an independent foreign policy, in which New Zealand was no longer “an island off the coast of western Europe”.

Whether you were a National or Labour supporter, it was a time when New Zealand the little nation at the bottom of the world was like the mouse that roared, and the world took notice.

It was a time when New Zealanders knew who they were and where they were going.

We were proud to be a New Zealander, can we say that today, as we watch this country shatter into many pieces, and the question now comes as to who is responsible.

Christopher Luxon recently blamed former leader Jacinda Ardern and has left her predecessor Chris Hipkins with the carnage.

But it’s not fair to put all the blame on Ardern, Covid, nine years of a National Government, colonisation or the economy, the blame must fall on all of us as a government is only in place at the will of the people.

In 2020, New Zealand spoke clearly giving Ardern’s government the biggest majority ever under MMP to see transformation, a restart in our future direction for the country.

Their failure to drive change was as successful as driving the Te Hua train from Hamilton to Auckland, they ignored the warning lights, they ignored the signs, they failed to communicate with it’s base and come October, it may find itself derailed.

The failure of our country is perhaps the number one reason, top of the list things we should be praying for, which leads me into our first heading called Pray.

If we want to fix our country, we really do need to fix what we can, the things we can control.

Citizens of the seventies wanted a government who could give them or provide a way for its population to have “someone to love, somewhere to live, somewhere to work and something to hope for.”

Realistically, no government can provide you with someone to love and nor should they.

But if we were to list the things we should pray about, top of the list? You.

Think about this for a minute are you capable of loving anyone and are you the type of person who can be loved.

There are so many people in our country who are in that situation, so My suggestion is put yourself top of the list, ask yourself why you cannot love or be loved?

Look around yourself, what am I doing which is different to others? Let me see, many today live a life by choice a life of solitude.

Their only interaction is by Facebook, text messaging or group chat, and even in the break room at work, what is it everyone is doing.

It’s the same for young people, and when they do, they have no skills in face-to-face communication.

Let me just give you a biblical perspective on this subject by asking this question.

If we carried and spent as much time looking at the Bibles as much as we carry and look at our phones, what sort of a country do you think we would have?

So yes, let’s pray not just for ourselves. We need to pray for our country, we need to pray for our leaders, and we need to pray we can return the nation back toits foundation based on the Bible.

For this to happen we need to have strength in the pulpits in our churches, Germany in the 1930s saw the rise of fascism, a bit like we see the rise of Marxism happening today, in Germany history records what happened to a god-fearing nation when the church remained silent.

We should Pray for the pastors in our country.

Like the prophet Hosea I am calling on the many timid church leaders who have caved – conforming to this world to return to teaching the truth about Gods word. 

Pastors maybe under a lot of pressure to tell people what they want to hear as their congregations aren’t always interested in what God says.

We must stop confusing God’s patience with His approval and preach with conviction from the pulpits again— “as dying men to dying men.”

We do not need hesitancy in our pulpits but strong leadership and united churches in this country to rise.

We need to hear the united voice of the church putting pressure on our government, for weakening what Christians hold as holy,

• Marriage.
• The family.
• Standards on entertainment.
• The moral breakdown of our society.
• Bibles in schools.
• The ten commandments.

We need strong leadership from our pastors today, who need to open a bible and stop neglecting the truth, confusing and deceiving audiences teaching them to live a form of Christianity void of repentance … void of truth…”

We need stop confusing people about Judgment, encourage repentance and stop making excuses for sin.

Moving onto our second topic Vote.

Where do you start? Really where does one start?

This is how I am going to start, with what the expectation of New Zealanders wanted from its leadership half a century ago.

“Someone to love, somewhere to live, somewhere to work and something to hope for.”

Can anyone tell me, have we achieved those goals. We are 50 years on from the day Norman Kirk took control of the treasury benches and still today we are still asking the government of the day for

• conditions we can have which makes it easy to love our families,
• conditions where we can have adequate housing rather than sleeping in our cars or living in temporary accommodation like motels.
• conditions which provide incentive for business to prosper local, nationally, and internationally which will provide an honest day’s wage for an honest day’s work.
• conditions, which will abate the fear of parents today as to what kind of a world will our children inherit. anything which the country has hope for?

What is the definition of “Hope.”

Hope is described as an optimistic state of mind, based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one’s life or the world at large.

I asked where do we start?

As a country we have spiralled downwards over the last nearly six years into a country that has become unrecognisable.

I hear the beating of drums growing louder as New Zealanders are awakening.

There is a mood for change, but I come back to a question I asked earlier, What sort of country do we want to be?

I hear prime minister Chris Hipkins is in it for you, Great but does anyone want to define its.

Really what Labours slogan should read is “We’re all in it, because of you.

Let’s be bold, let’s be truthful for once.

Mr Hipkins where in the proverbial deep.

I’m so glad you have your waders, but if only you took off the red tinted glasses you will see the country has submerged so far into economic ruin, brought about your parties mismanagement secularist, woke, and divisive policies, the only way you can breathe is using a mask and snorkel.

To be fair to Hipkins, he has only been Prime Minister since the beginning after Ardern jumped ship, but have you noticed a lot of our issues are world-wide.

Like many governments around the world, we have been sucked into becoming puppets of the United Nations and the World Economic Forum.

It’s true, look at all the causes, the roots of our problems, then look at the plans of Agenda 2030, The great Reset and tell me our issues don’t come from those initiatives.

Now can I point out, New Zealand’s involvement in Agenda 2030 goes back over successive governments since the turn of the century.

The little mouse that roared back in the seventies is now just a compliant lap dog. Photo:(Hipkins/Schwab)

So, we look for change.

The problems in New Zealand especially the growing racism cannot be repaired overnight.

On the right and centre right Christopher Luxon’s National Party, and David Seymour’s ACT party are desperate to be the government.

Both can sell their souls for power, desperate to please the people with their promises, but therein lies an issue.

Luxon has promised he will repeal legislation which Labour is wanting to enact like three waters, Health, Education, Justice, Law,

He wants to get the economy moving again, it all sounds great until you realise, he too will continue to tow the same line as the previous government- a line attached to the United Nations.

To be fair to both Luxon and Seymour, they will have a tough job ahead of them to convince us they are different, but all we will see are superficial changes to appease the electorate.

We are too far down the road, whatever they do to stop the Maorification of this country will result in some form of anarchy.

Which leaves us with the agenda driven Greens and Te Pai Māori.  Say no more but I am going to.

First The Greens, I like a  lot of what the Greens stand for, a better world, as keepers of the earth we have failed and the Green Party, if they stick to their knitting could be a force to reckon with, but they don’t, they have allowed themselves to be distracted into social, racial issues and now they are trying to teach other parties how to suck eggs on the economy.

The Greens agenda on Climate Change while admirable have been nothing but divisive where they along with Labour have created a division between town and country.

Hard to believe when you go to the supermarket, but we are in the middle of a global food shortage which I have spoken at length about in the past, but for the Greens to suggest we cut back on food production in this country is reckless.

Once again, this type of policy is a part of Agenda 2030. In Europe the governments are trying to buy up farms, they are slowly pushing farmers to the brink of collapse in the name of Climate Change.

Interesting quote from a man once heralded as a leading botanist David Bellamy.

He maintained a view that man-made climate change is “poppycock”, insisting that “climate change is part of a natural cycle, and there’s nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles.” He then went onto say “The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax to try to solve a problem that doesn’t actually exist.”

Interesting, Bellamy was sacked by the BBC because his view did not fit the narrative.

Te Pati Māori. If you believe we have race issues in this country, then look no further for the source.

Here it is, yes, we can all agree, Te Pati Māori disagrees with the Treaty, but this country and previous governments have attempted to resolve and recompense for past wrongs.

But sorry, the leadership of this party, their lack of respect to generations of New Zealanders who have worked to make New Zealand the great country it once was, is out of order.

We were one nation, we should all be one nation, but the actions, inferences, and behaviour like this example are not any way to bring all parties together, but to divide.

Truth is, we don’t really have racism toward Māori in this country, I am not naive to downplay the issue and acknowledge that there is a certain edge of racism in the country, but Māori cannot claim to be the only victim.

Te Pati Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi in Parliament on July 25 suggested in the house that the Westminster form of governance has been forced upon Māori because of its misogynistic views on Māori women.

Parliament is an unsafe place for Māori women and the current form of Government needs to be replaced with a Treaty centric governance.

We are really getting down below the five percent with several parties who have been trying to represent minority voices for years and others which have been spawned from the Covid Mandates.

We must not forget what it is they are standing for and remember the reasons we had so much conflict this nation had seen and how all political parties ignored the voice of freedom.

We talk of division in the country, if you want, there it is, brought about by the government of the day and supported by all the opposition parties at the time.

Briefly because I am aware of time, Democracy is under fire, Democracy as we know it is like every other thing which is changing.

Willie Jackson summed it all up when he said on Q &A last year, when he said ”your democracy is not our democracy.”

I am going to put this out there and those who follow and watch our podcasts will know that the agenda of all governments is to move towards a global government.

New Zealand has initiatives already in place to ensure we conform.

We have shown Government our willingness to conform, our reserve bank is in the process of creating a centralized digitalized banking system, so you won’t have money and for those conspiracy theorists among you, you are correct, the government has been monitoring you for years.

Rewind the history clock to the Garden of Eden, the question over governance was raised back then as to whether man should be in charge and not God.

Look at history, mankind has tried every type of government and none, not one model has stood out as lasting, ideal for governing the masses, so where to now?

The drumbeats are beating or as one speaker I heard years ago put, the winds of change are coming. There is without a doubt, a real mood for it.

It is not my intention or place to tell you who you should vote for, but you can have a say in the type of country, the direction you want this country to take, an influence on the hope you can have for coming generations, it is your right to exercise your vote.

Personally, I will be in a polling booth on election day, and I encourage you to do the same and I know many Christians think it’s wrong, but it is biblical, and it was Jesus who told us we should be the light and salt.

By exercising our right to vote we are adding some seasoning into our immediate future and provide some light in a darkening world.

Like you, I am looking upwards for my salvation to come and look forward to the day when King of Kings and Lord of Lords Jesus Christ will reign over the earth.

And moving onto our final subject “Stand”

I am going to make this quick.

If we are wanting change, if we want to love, if we want somewhere to live, and we want somewhere to work, and something to hope for, let me give you an answer from the Bible.

Blessed is the Nation whose God is The Lord,

It’s simple we need a return of basic Christian principles and that means we need to stand on the Bible and all it contains.
The word of God is a good foundation of love, security, and hope on offer.

Nothing else comes close, you may be interested to know, but the Westminster system model of government which we practice in this country is based on the same system Britain, Australia, and many other democratic countries.

It has been the basis for many other countries who have moved onto hybrid systems like Israel, South Africa, and Canada.

Its foundations are rooted firmly on the same law God handed to Moses, The Ten Commandments and expanded from the Mosaic law found in the books of Deuteronomy and Leviticus.

Why would someone like Rawiri Waititi suggest we change it.

When it comes to government, we cannot expect it to provide us with someone to love, and we should not expect our government to provide somewhere to live, we cannot expect the government to provide us with work, but we should expect a government to provide us with something to hope for.

Norman Kirk was able to bridge the wants and needs of generations, today’s leaders now must bridge culture, apathy, race issues, economic woes, security, health, education, but above all it must bring open, transparent and bold leadership for the future.

As a country going to the polls I repeat, we need a government which will lead us to sort out and decide just,

• what sort of Nation it is we want to live in and,
• what sort of a nation do we want to be?
• What sort of people we are.
• What sort of future we want, for ourselves and those who come after us.

To achieve this, I encourage you to continue to pray, exercise your right to vote, and to stand steadfastly on the word of God.

The need for the United Nations to have emergency powers adopted is all part of a bigger agenda.

And I will come to that soon.

As friends do, they often ask me to watch a video, and I always do and then give them feedback, good or bad as to what I thought.

Last week among the 15 or so videos I received one was called MESSIAH 2030, which incidentally is two hours long, just saying, but it was jam packed at looking at differing prophesies to back up the producer’s conclusion that Jesus will return in 2030, I hope he is right. However, my friend who suggested it to me felt the dates given are wrong, which after watching and thinking it through, he was right.

But it did lead me down the rabbit hole to speculate, what if the producers of Messiah 2030 were correct?

It’s hard not to deny we are living in the time of the end and even I have encouraged you to share that belief, but in line with Matthew 24 No one knows the hour, not even the son of man.

But if 2030 is accurate, expect to see some real change in the world before the end of the year.

“Summit of the Future” might be the biggest attempted power grab in the history of the United Nations. If approved, the United States as we know it could cease to exist.”

John Haskins :Researcher

Is it likely we will see the establishment of a new order, a one world government, and the identity of the antichrist?

By man putting a date on the return of Jesus one of three things happen,

• People roll their eyes and scoff at the lunacy of your statement and want to have you committed along with our old friend Harold Camping, who suggested such a thing and then changed the date in the early part of the century.
• Expectation grows wildly among followers of the Bible, and they start to imagine it could really happen, they encourage one another to look busy because Jesus is to return.
• Or others like me, prefer to look closely at the prediction and say, its all in Gods time, and continue to believe and work by telling others they can be saved.

For some time now, I have spoken about the pathway the world is on with the agendas of both the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, and the World Health Organisation.

Add into that mix, the European Council, soon to become the European Government, The International Monetary Fund, The World Bank, etc, etc, etc, etc.

Let me also throw a couple of other organisations, The Catholic Church, The Church of England, and The World Council of Churches.

Why is it you may say are we hearing more talk about the end coming?

Just look at the agenda, look at who it is in control, and what it is, they wish to achieve.

Back in January, I highlighted many steps which are being taken, under the guise of, “The Great Reset.”

A one world government can only be achieved, if the people it wants to control, allow them to do it.

In other words, if those who want it can have the same confidence that Adolf Hitler had in the lead up to his reign, to manipulate the hearts and minds of those they need to control.

The controls put in place recently under the façade of Covid, showed us and them, we will meekly accept, a change in status and sovereignty.

It’s coming, I am not going to sugar coat it, Change is coming, literally it will be like a thief in the night, it is coming and it’s coming so fast, you won’t see it.

Like the Covid restrictions you will wake up one morning and the world you once knew will be, no longer.

Just recently In the United States, Justin Haskins who’s a research director at The Heartland Institute and New York Times bestselling author on Independence Day unleashed a warning to Americans that they may soon be losing their independence.

He wrote of the agenda laid out at Septembers “Summit of the Future” might be the biggest attempted power grab in the history of the United Nations. If approved, the United States as we know it could cease to exist.”

And while Haskins writes about the effect that such a “Pact for the future” would have on the United States, one cannot dismiss, the impact it would have on New Zealand, and the rest of the world.

I have mentioned this before but among the radical proposals being suggested, underlying is the WHO plan for a new ’emergency platform,’ a stunning proposal to give the U.N. significant powers in the event of future uninterpreted ‘global shocks,’ such as a black swan event like,

• worldwide pandemic,
• a major climatic event,
• maybe a global digital connectivity disruption,
• major event in outer space

 but the thing about black swan events is these are now commonplace, rather than a rarity.

The illustration much like a picture of a big Mac looks appealing until you open the box and find expectation and reality are different and unpalatable.

The Summit will mark the half-way point to the deadline set for achieving the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.

This will be the centrepiece of the High-level Week of the General Assembly.

It will respond to the impact of multiple and interlocking crises facing the world.

With an expectation to reignite a sense of hope, optimism, and enthusiasm for the 2030 Agenda.

We are less than 7 years from 2030, and the UN wants to remind global leaders to keep implementing the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.

On the surface, the goals that the UN wants to achieve sound rather harmless, but if you dig into the details, you will find that the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals are a blueprint for creating a far-left globalist utopia.

Let me just recap some of the points I made in an earlier presentation.

If New Zealand or any other country signs this pact it, then forfeits its sovereignty to the United Nations.

Can you now see the agenda being carried out towards a One World Government.

But wait, there’s more.

Add to this, the world’s economic downward spiral, soon you won’t need money because you will have none.

And already what you have is not available to you with New Zealand banks placing limits on the amount of cash you can withdraw.

You are hearing the term “Centralised Digital Banking System” that is because New Zealand is currently working its way to bringing that to fruition. (I refer you back to The Great Reset Series we produced earlier this year)

And if you have ever wondered why our government is so down on our farmers have a look at what is happening overseas to thousands of farms across Europe to meet Climate Change goals, – all during a world-wide food crisis.

And so, it goes on as many of those in power coerce us into fearing for life every day, fearing for our homes, our planet, and our future, but hey most don’t realise it’s happening, simply because no one, not our government, nor the mainstream media.

But what is the reason for all this coming to fruition?

It is this. 

Revelation 12:8 ⁹ The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

I said earlier I’m not sugarcoating anything but ask yourself and be honest.

Since 2019 we have seen the world change and ask yourself,

• is it any better,
•  can you afford today, what you could yesterday,
•  When I get sick, will someone take care of me, and why is it,
• my children are as confused, and frightened as I am as we move forward.

The clouds and darkness enveloping this world are here as each day grows darker, I tell you this, the despite the date, predictions of Messiah 2030 are correct and the day of redemption, the day of the Lord is close, but before that, are you ready to accept that this world is heading towards an even darker time in History.

Back in 1933, no one could have foreseen how one man in power could change the landscape of Germany, he did and during that time many looked toward a saviour.

My Friends we are in a similar time, but I can assure you this, it will be unlike any other time in history, following the darkness, all will look up to the clouds and they will know their Redemption is near as the bible foretold as the son of man, King of Kings Jesus Christ returns to the earth.

I leave you with this one thought about the things I spoke of

These things must happen and as Jesus assured his disciples.

but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.

The world has gone mad, and if it’s not, then I need to be committed.

Look, I get today’s generation is so darn perfect they have the answer to everything.

Man, do I sound like my parents when they spoke about my generation, some 50 years ago.

But while the Boomer generation worked to change the world following World War 2, I don’t recall a time when we trod over history blaming anyone for how they acted.

Hitler and the Germans were exempt, but then it wasn’t a time for looking back, it was a time to look forward.

We can all blame our parents for the way we turned out, which is untrue.

Given each generations circumstances, parents would have done their best to provide a roof over your head, and food on the table.

When it came to love, well that appears to have been harder in some cases.

So, what is it that has got me going this week.

It should come as no surprise, it’s the Church of England.

“even for allowances of some of the sort of more extreme views in the Church of England, this is really going too far.”

Nicholas Soames, (Winston Churchills grandson)

Yeah, Yeah, the same organisation which I reported rejected the Bible earlier this year, but their latest crime against history although now rectified went too far.

The Daily Mail reported St Paul’s Cathedral provoked uproar by describing a man voted by the British public, as the greatest -ever Briton, as an ‘unashamed imperialist’ and ‘white supremacist’ in an online post about Britain’s great wartime leader, Sir Winston Churchill.

For a whole year no one and I mean no one, picked up on it until it was noticed by a 72-yer-old member of the Friends of St Paul’s who brought it everyone’s attention.

In his letter to the Cathedral hierarchy, he wrote: ‘I believe that some of the language you have used in Churchill’s profile is too heavily charged, condemnatory to the extent that it demonises Churchill. Perhaps this language is a function of ignorance or of political ideology.

Naturally, you can imagine the furore once it was brought to the attention of the media.

Sir Winston’s family were rightly upset by the comment with his grandson, Nicholas Soames calling the remarks ‘deeply offensive, thoughtless, stupid and ignorant’.

Despite the offending text being removed, Soames went on to suggest “even for allowances of some of the sort of more extreme views in the Church of England, this is really going too far.”

“We’re more democratic in who we believe history belongs to, who from the past it includes, and who in the present can benefit from it.”

Historian” Marcus Colla

And as you can imagine Politicians have had plenty to say on the matter as well.

Lee Anderson, deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, said: ‘It is getting ridiculous. Anyone publicising information like this needs to take a long, hard look at themselves and ask themselves why they hate this country so much, its history and its heritage. They are idiots.‘

 I think the emeritus professor of sociology at Kent University, Frank Furedi, was correct in summing up the whole situation said: ‘Branding Churchill as an unashamed imperialist and white supremacist, is not only an act of historical distortion, but an attempt to discredit everything positive that Britain stood for in the 20th century.’

The language used by the Cathedral was described as a function of ignorance or of political ideology.

But here’s the thing and you can say it’s typical of the Church of England, but no one and I mean no one has taken responsibility for the attack on Churchill.

Winston was not perfect and often made himself, “a hostage to fortune” with his comments and jokes which would be regarded as unacceptable today.

Unanimously, many agreed it was important to judge the man by his achievements in the defeat of Hitler.

There is a historical saying “cometh the hour, cometh the man.”

This is an apt description of Churchill who, when Britain was in trouble and looking at invasion from German forces, was the man of the hour who led Britain to repel and turn the tide of the war.

The Church of England’s attack on Churchill was not the first in Britain as today’s generation have found fault with the national hero.

It would be fair to say, “this was not their finest hour.”

The expression Cometh the Hour is a cliché.

The Church of England’s attack on Churchill is not the first attack on truth.

After all isn’t this the organisation who along with the Catholic Church claimed over centuries, to act as Gods organisation on earth.

And yet we recently reported how it has continually decried the Bible or parts thereof, as not fit for today’s culture.

John 4:26 speaks about the hour that cometh.

Jesus mentioned many times about the hour, which was coming, and in the case of Calvary the hour arrived for mankind sins to be redeemed and it needed a sacrifice in the form of Jesus.

Today people are incensed by the desecration of the memory of Winston Churchill by the Church of England, but why is it the world accepts the desecration of the name of Jesus.

The fate of the Church of England is sealed Matthew 7:22,23 but how about you as an individual.

Are you outraged and possibly guilty of trampling the name of Jesus into the dust?

Are you outraged and possibly guilty by blaspheming his name?

Are you guilty of these actions because of ignorance as to who it is, Jesus is.

And yet, we can blame past generations because they never taught us who God Is, who Jesus is, and while we take a day of as Christians celebrate his birth and remember his death, you have no idea or even bothered to ask.

We cannot alter history, it is what it is, people like Winston Churchill cannot be held responsible for what we see today as their short comings, we should not be so judgmental. Matthew 7.

I find it disturbing that the Church of England was complicit in this character assassination, either by endorsing it or its failure to follow through and check details were correct.

But this one act raises the question about historical events and people, if the Church of England can change history and it’s happening here in New Zealand, who else can?

We all can learn the lesson here as in New Zealand we have seen statues removed, street names changed where people were honoured for their actions in history, whether it was the right thing to do remains a moot point.

In New Zealand we have had several discussions about how our history should look like to future generations, but the conversations are selective rather than factual.

Some want a sanitized version of how the brutality of colonisation altered the Māori people future.

Māori academics want a more Māori centric view of history condemning the actions of British Forces but overlooking their own injustices towards other tribes.

The Churchill issue raises more questions than it answers as to what history is.

Undergraduates continue to find much to unpack in the answers to the question British Historian E.H Carr raised in 1961, but at his base he believed history’s primary purpose is to stand at the centre of diverse, tolerant, intellectually rigorous debate about our existence, our political system, leadership, society, economy, and culture.

The apostle Paul acknowledging the Bible is among many things a historical book wrote in his second letter to Timothy “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 

Departmental Lecturer in European History at Christ Church, Oxford Marcus Colla, stated in an article for History Today.

“We’re more democratic in who we believe history belongs to, who from the past it includes, and who in the present can benefit from it.”

E.H. Carr and I quote said “History consists of a collection of ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger’s slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.” 

Historians today view the relationship between past and present differently and are more subjective to their own views and once again like today’s media we have opinion served up to us in whatever style or political ideology historians hold, rather than fact, and these are being presented today like that in our education curriculum.

It is up to all of us not to remain ignorant, but to take the initiative to search for the truth about history, about historical figures.

But one part of history which should not be overlooked and that is the lead up to, the life and death of Jesus Christ. Isaiah 45:20 -1 Corinthians 15.34

So, I encourage you to make a start, get to know Jesus and what God has instore for the future.

There’s possibly a church in your neighbourhood, not all are equal, but at a minimum they should be able to point you towards Jesus, they may not know the way but the least they can do is point you towards the cross.

For all it’s faults, even The Church of England should be able to do this task.