David Hathaway No 71 Spring 2014
We’re living in the most critical, most important period in world history. We’re in the days immediately preceding the return of Christ. Proverbs 29:18 says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish’ (KJV). But I want to say, ‘Where there is a vision, the people will NOT perish!’ I pray I never become so absorbed in the ‘prophetic’ that I lose sight of the fact that my vision and my call is to win people for Christ! But the church is in danger of being asleep. Christians are not aware how close we are to Christ’s return. Daniel, in Chapter 2:40-45, saw the European Union broken by the return of Christ! He says, in the days of ‘those kings’ – the European Union – Christ will come and set up a Kingdom and rule the whole world! We’re living in the days of ‘those kings’ when Daniel saw the EU broken, not by politicians, or an army, but by Jesus Himself! We are living in the days of Bible prophecy being fulfilled. What shall we do? – Preach Jesus! Our task is to save our families, our cities, our nations. That’s the challenge! Jesus said, “Preach the Gospel! Go into the whole world, but begin at home!” Jesus is coming, call others to repent! If you have been baptised with the Power and the Fire of God, they will repent! If they don’t repent, is it because you have not received the Holy Spirit according to Acts 2? Church, re-read Acts 2, then call the fire down! We need a revolution to change the way we believe the Bible until we become an army of ‘Holy Ghost fired-up’ witnesses! My father, (a great man of God, converted in 1905 in the Welsh Revival, a great Bible teacher), taught me when I preached as a boy of 13 and no one repented – that Jesus said, “When the Holy Spirit is come, HE will convict the world of sin and righteousness and of judgement to come!” He said, “Son, you haven’t received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit yet!” It was a lesson which changed my life – because what I needed was the fire and the power of the Holy Spirit to bring conviction, conversion and a changed life when I preach! I asked my father to lay hands on me. He did, but I didn’t receive the Holy Spirit. As a result I spent the next three months in an agony, 13 years old, crying out to God, fasting and praying that God would give me FIRE and POWER through the Holy Spirit. When finally I received the Holy Ghost just days before my 14th birthday – it totally revolutionised my life. From that moment God took control, things began to happen, people began to repent. My unbelieving religious education teacher repented and together we started prayer and Bible study in the school; two boys in my class went on to be preachers. As a student in Bible College I used to go every Friday to Hyde Park Corner in London. We’d set up a ‘soap box’, preach the Gospel, and every week, right in the centre of London, people would repent. The reason why, as a young evangelist I went to Jerusalem in 1961, is that though I had received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit aged 13, I still didn’t have enough fire, enough power! I heard there was to be a Pentecostal Conference in Jerusalem, on the Day of Pentecost, for the first time in 2000 years! People were coming from all over the world but I didn’t have the money to go. I was married with two children, spending all my
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money on evangelism, I couldn’t afford the airfare. But I determined I would get there for one purpose only, to receive more of the Holy Ghost! The only way I could think of was to make an overland expedition and go by road. It took me two years to plan. Everybody said it was impossible: we had to travel behind the Iron Curtain through the communist countries, face bandits in Turkey, risk being shot in Syria... It had never been done before. But I believe the Word of God, and the Bible says that the things which are impossible with men are possible with God! So I put my faith in God’s Word to the test, to prove it! I organised everything, taking ten people with me because I was determined to get this power, this fire, this greater anointing in my life! And something happened. Again my life changed. After this there was a new power, a new fire in me. I now burned with a new passion to preach the Gospel and win the lost. We need to become passionate about what we do! We talk about anointing, but where’s the passion? The Bible says God loved the sinner enough to send His Son to die! Why do I love sinners? – I spent a year in a communist prison with sinners. My best friend was a murderer, some were drug addicts and drug smugglers, every kind of criminal. And when I saw them, I realised these are the people for whom Christ died! – They had done terrible things. But they were men! Your sons! Your brothers! Your husbands! Yes, the devil had got
hold of them, yet I learned to love them, it opened my eyes to the love of God for the sinner. That’s the passion, that’s the fire that we need! That fire’s in me. We need to understand what Pentecost CAN and SHOULD DO in our lives! Take Peter, that disciple who became so weak that when Jesus was on trial in front of the High Priest, and the servant girl said, “I’m sure you are one of this man’s friends”, he lied... “No! I don’t know Him, I’ve never been with Him!” He denied Christ, not once, not twice – but three times! God help you, Peter! Can you imagine how Peter, one of the closest of the twelve disciples, who has spent three years witnessing the miracles, seeing the power, recognising who He was, the Christ, the Son of the Living God – and yet now in such desperation and fear that he denies even knowing who Jesus is? How amazing then that only 50 days later, the same Peter was one of 120 disciples in the Upper Room, the doors locked, the windows barred for fear that they would be arrested and killed. Suddenly there was a sound from Heaven of a mighty rushing wind – they were filled with the Holy Ghost and fire – you could see the fire literally on their heads! When this fire of the Holy Ghost fell, Peter was so transformed, he threw open the doors, climbed up on the roof – and began to declare the Glory of the resurrected Jesus, whom he had so vehemently denied! So powerful now, that three thousand men, plus the women and children, repented! What a transformation! It was the fire – real fire – of the Holy Ghost! Come on, Church! That’s the kind of Baptism we need, that
takes the weakest, the humblest and transforms us into men, and women, on fire for God! When I was in a communist prison, they told me, “If you deny your faith, we’ll let you out of the prison.” But how can you deny your faith, how can you turn your back on Jesus? But now Peter, who did, is up there, preaching and declaring the glory of God! What transformed Peter was the FIRE and the POWER of the Holy Spirit! We need to get back to the reality of what transformed the early Church! We need the same baptism of fire and power that TRANSFORMS OUR EVERYDAY LIVES, until we become the witnesses – and we are the ONLY witnesses in the world – of the power and the glory of God! The church today needs to be challenged, to get up and do something! There’s something missing. We talk about the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, we read books and articles about it, we think we’ve ‘got it’ – but the tragedy is, where is the evidence?! Yes people talk in tongues, but there has to be something more! 1 Corinthians 12 tells us about the gifts of the Spirit – gifts to those that receive the fire and the power of the Holy Spirit – SO ASTOUNDING, SO PHENOMENAL – gifts of healing, working of miracles, the gift of faith – we’ve got to see these in operation! We’ve got to get back to the practical experience and demonstration of the power of God! I tell people I’m not a ‘healing evangelist’, because it is God who heals the sick. I want to say very strongly, it’s not me, it’s the Holy Spirit in me doing the miracles. Today the Baptism of the Holy Spirit seems to have lost the significance of the Biblical experience. When
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people are prayed over to receive the Holy Spirit and they then speak a few words in tongues – that’s not it! Jesus said, in Acts 1:8, “You will receive POWER when the Holy Ghost comes on you!” Do we really understand the Baptism of the Holy Spirit? Whether you are a man or a woman, someone just like Peter – you and I have to think again and ask God to baptise us again WITH FIRE, TO PUT POWER BACK INTO US! TO PUT THE FIRE AND THE POWER BACK INTO THE CHURCH! In the Old Testament, in Leviticus 6:9,12-13, God gave the command to the priests: when you bring the meat offering to the altar – you light a fire and it burns the sacrifice. But the command of God was that THE FIRE ON THE ALTAR MUST NEVER GO OUT! Today, if you want to receive this Fire from God, then your life needs to be the sacrifice on the altar of service to God. I believe that the command given thousands of years ago still applies today, that fire must NOT go out. At the age of 13 years, I was baptised with the Holy Ghost and FIRE! I will not let that fire in me go out! I’m over 80 years old and this is the secret: what the priests had to do to keep the fire burning on the altar was to KEEP ADDING TO THE SACRIFICE! You’ve got to keep putting more sacrifice on your altar, more and more – that’s what we need today! The tragedy today is that too many believers claim they are baptised in the Holy Ghost – but where is the evidence of the fire?! The challenge to the Church is this: YOU light the fire under the sacrifice, and when you light that fire, THAT FIRE MUST NEVER, EVER GO OUT! And there is only one way to feed fire, throw more onto it, put more sacrifice on the fire! If the fire is not burning in your life through the Holy Ghost, it’s because you are not putting enough sacrifice on the altar! We’ve got to have the same transformation in our lives as Peter had! Our God is a God of power and authority. The Holy Spirit will not only give us fire, but also the power and authority that God has. If you don’t have enough power in your life, if you don’t know God well enough, then the
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Holy Spirit in you will give all of that to you. I have an experience with God, which is not academic, it’s practical. My God is the God of the impossible who works miracles! Why do I say this? Because we’re living in dangerous and difficult times, we are moving so fast through Bible prophecy now, that the Lord will be here before the Church has woken up! Much of the Church is sleepwalking into the Kingdom while Bible prophecy is being fulfilled on every hand! This is important because Bible prophecy is NOT speculation. What God spoke to the prophets is what HE SAW HAPPEN – in the future! When we go out and look at the stars at night, some stars that you see no longer exist, because their distance from us is measured in light years, the time that the light takes to reach us. If the star is 1000 light years away, what you are looking at is 1000 years in the past! Probably it’s not there now! But because God is everywhere, He can see past, present and future! In Genesis, ‘in the beginning’, time did not exist. God only created time when He created day and night, which began with the ending of the perpetual day! So evening and darkness and morning were the first day – not the dawn. That’s still remembered in Israel today. So in prophecy God is seeing and revealing to us through the prophet WHAT HE ALREADY KNOWS. The certainty of God’s Word, the power of God’s Word, the authority of God’s Word is that it is NOT speculation, but fact. When God says something to you, GOD WILL ALWAYS DO IT! Because God, who sees everywhere sees the past, the present and the future. When I had lung cancer, I prayed for three months for my healing, but God was teaching me that when He says something, HE DOES IT! Numbers 23:19 tells us, Balaam, paid by Balak to curse Israel, can’t curse Israel. So he’s bribed more, and more sacrifices are made. But Balaam says, “I cannot curse whom God has blessed! God is not a man that He can lie,” – and he goes further than many Christians go today, he says – “GOD CANNOT CHANGE HIS MIND! WHAT HE SAYS HE DOES!” If God
has promised you blessing, God will bless you, your life, your family, and He WILL answer your prayers! God does not change His promise, He does not change His mind! WHAT HE SAYS, HE DOES! When that truth sank into my spirit, and when God said to me from Psalm 89, “I will not lie to David”, when that truth sank in, that WHAT GOD SAYS WILL BE FULFILLED IN MY LIFE, I was healed of the lung cancer! I had gone to bed, and I began to choke to death, the cancer had gripped me! It was blocking my airways. But I had the promise! In desperation I cried out to God – no audible voice, I couldn’t even breathe – but in my spirit I’m crying, “Oh God help me! You said it, now do it!” That cancer came out like an explosion – so great, so much, the bed had to be burned! I had learned the secret – WHAT GOD SAYS, HE DOES! God doesn’t change. He keeps His promises to us. When I was in the communist prison, I prayed for ten months, and God revealed to me from the Scripture that He would get me out, on my birthday, and that I would speak three days later on Easter Monday in the Royal Albert Hall. The day before my birthday, 16th April 1973, the guard called me out and was angry with me, “Why are you telling the other prisoners you are going home?” – Well, I wanted to confess Christ and, when it happened, I didn’t want the other prisoners to think it was the communists, I wanted God to get the glory! I had been preaching Christ in the prison, now this had to be the demonstration, that the God who delivers from sin CAN break open prison doors! If God could do it for Paul and Silas – Acts 16 – He could do it for me! The guard was screaming at me, showing me the 7 metre high walls, the machine gun towers, the electric fences, the vicious dogs, “Nobody ever gets out of this prison alive!” I went back to my work bench – I was in a labour camp – and I put my head in my hands and cried out, “Why? Oh God, You said I’m going home tomorrow, and it’s absolutely impossible! They’re cursing and swearing at me, saying it’s impossible to get out.” And then God asked me a question, “How do you know you are saved?!” I began to argue, “I’m an evangelist, of course I know I am saved! I don’t depend on my feelings,
David Hathaway or my circumstances, or on what people say – I depend on Your Word! – Your Word that says ‘Whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord shall be saved’! Romans 10:13. That’s it!” And God answered me, “Right. Did I tell you that you are going home tomorrow?” I said, “Yes. You said it in Your Word. But it’s impossible.” At that moment, the guard was calling my name, “Hathaway! I’ve just had a call from the Foreign Ministry – you are to be released!” That was the very guard who had cursed at me and sworn and said, “You can’t get out!” What it taught me was the absolute certainty of God. It’s not your feelings, your circumstances, the people around you – it’s when you know what God has said in His Word, because God doesn’t lie, doesn’t change His mind, doesn’t make a mistake. That same God took me home on my birthday in fulfilment of what He had said, and three days later I was preaching in the Royal Albert Hall to ten thousand people, just as He said! This is God! GOD IS FAITHFUL TO WHAT HE SAYS. But we need to find the answer in the Word of God. When I am praying over issues, I don’t want somebody to ‘prophesy’ over me, I want to know what GOD prophesies, what GOD says. And if it’s in the Book, GOD DOES IT! AND HE DOESN’T CHANGE! So we have to look at prophecy, Bible prophecy, in a totally different way. People laughed at me when I first produced the documentary, ‘The Rape of Europe’. But we’re living in that period now. Daniel 2:40-45. God is setting up His Kingdom now, in the days in which we are living! In Luke 14:16-24, Jesus tells a story: A certain man made a great supper and he bade many to come and his servant went out to say the meal was ready. But all the invited guests made excuses why they couldn’t come! But this is the Wedding Feast of the Lamb! When Christ returns! The invited guests made excuses! The master of the house was angry and said to the servant, “Go out into the streets and lanes of the city at once and bring in the poor, the lame, the blind – bring them off the streets!” The servant went out and brought them off the streets, but the house is still not full. So the mas-
ter says, “Go out into the highways and the hedges and COMPEL THEM TO COME IN, THAT MY HOUSE MAY BE FILLED! For none of those who were invited shall taste of my supper!” That’s the age we’re in now when we HAVE TO PREACH THAT GOSPEL! Critics of my work in Israel tell me to stop evangelising and instead do all the follow-up work. Yes, this is being done, but not by me. The people I am ministering to are the Holocaust survivors who are old and dying in their hundreds – what God is doing is opening their eyes to receive Yeshua and then they pass on. But they are going into the Supper! Because the message of Scripture is, ‘Whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord – those are the ones who shall be saved!’ That’s why God is opening the door to me in Catholic Europe. They are coming by their thousands, and tens of thousands, they say it could be hundreds of thousands, even millions. In Europe they say, “David, our young people need this Gospel!” Because they have seen the power of God to change a nation, change a people. The devil is pulling the strings today, but God defeats the devil. God says to us, “I have set before you an open door and no man can shut it!” But it’s a fight. Christian Church, we’ve got to stand up and fight! We’ve got to stand up for the faith in the God we believe in! God needs YOU, He needs us, to stand on His Word! Church, we don’t have time to play! We’ve got a challenge. I’m over 80. I’ve had cancer twice, the second time only 10 years ago. I lack money to do the job. Yet people say to me, Oh, I’m too weak, I can’t do this, I can’t do that. But with God, nothing is impossible! Daniel 11:32 says, ‘Those who know their God will be strong and do exploits – the most amazing incredible things ever seen on the earth – exploits!’ Bigger than anything you can imagine! You should be doing more than anybody else! Church, we’ve got to get on FIRE! If you’ve got no fire, get the Holy Ghost! When God lit the fire in my life aged 13, it does not go out! I keep putting the fuel on the fire – sacrifice, sacrifice. Yes, sacrifice. Sacrifice yourself, your personal dreams and ambitions, everything for Him! We’re going to win a Kingdom! You’re going to lose a dirty old world and gain the Kingdom of God! Which do you want? Do you want this world? Or the Kingdom of Christ? Come on! We have to sacrifice, we have to pay the price. I used to argue with God, “Now that I’m 80 years old, don’t You think You should make my life a bit easier?” He says, “NO!” – It gets harder, but it gets more glorious! To have this privilege – WOW! The world has to see God’s power! He’s a God of power and authority, a God who enables me to do exploits! Jesus said to His disciples, “You see the miracles I do, but when I go to Heaven, you’re going to do bigger!” – John 14:12. Are you seeing bigger miracles than Jesus? But that’s what we need! We need a baptism of fire and power! The fire of God, the power of God – that’s the challenge. God has called us to receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit and do exploits! There is a song, ‘God raised me up to stand on mountains, He raised me up to walk on stormy seas’ – God raised YOU up to stand on mountains, He raised YOU up to walk on stormy seas! God raised YOU up to heal the sick, raise the dead, work miracles and preach the Gospel – and He sent the Holy Spirit to do this through YOU! When you’ve got the Holy Ghost, God does everything! – Because it’s the Holy Spirit who gives you the gift of faith to do it! ‘Those that know their God will be strong and do exploits! – Daniel 11:32 KJV. We’ve got to be changed. Transformed, by the fire and the power of the Holy Spirit. Then work as if Christ is coming!
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At the end of November David spent 3 days and 4 meetings ministering to different Russian-speaking Jewish groups in Israel – Holocaust survivors, new converts from earlier meetings, drug addicts in rehab, and young people. David said, everything about the God of Israel is a miracle! Israel today only exists because of Him! He explained Jesus, Yeshua HaMessiach, from Isaiah 53, and the greatness of our salvation! That the evidence Yeshua is the Messiah is in the miracles: “Oh God, stretch out Your Hand over Israel and prove who Messiah is – heal the sick in His Name, deliver Israel, forgive their sin!”
bone of his little finger to a pulp. The first X-ray showed the bone in smithereens, beyond repair, the only thing was to amputate. But Assaf called on Yeshua for a miracle – and when he was X-rayed the second time, the bone had become whole! Now only the skin is still ‘chipped’ – but amazingly it is not bruised! Now he just wants to serve the Lord and His people through the church.
Most touching for us was to hear testimonies from those who had heard of Yeshua their Messiah in earlier meetings and now are learning to walk by faith in Him:
Second (2) was a Holocaust survivor who had heard David speak on the greatness of the God of Israel. She did not believe at that time – until she suddenly had to undergo 17-hr emergency surgery and was expected to die. But now she remembered what she had heard and called on Yeshua – and was completely healed!
First (1) was Assaf, a young man brought as a complete scoffer to meet David two years ago when he was in the military. He told us that he did not believe at that time, but began to follow David’s ministry on the internet. Recently he was deeply touched when he saw footage of an 11-yr old girl miraculously healed in Armenia. Then just one week ago he had a horrific accident at work, a heavy weight smashing the skin and tip
The third miraculous testimony (3) was from a father whose son got cancer. He said, “We prayed day and night – and God totally healed him!”
When the people left for home on the buses we had hired for them, there were believers on every bus to give out Bibles, to counsel them and to follow them up.
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The churches in Lithuania invited David Hathaway to celebrate the birth of Christ, ‘the greatest gift’, by holding evangelism in the National Congress Hall in the capital city of Vilnius on Christmas Day itself. Approximately one thousand five hundred filled the hall, 90% of whom were non-believers. After the preaching almost all stood to receive Christ as their Saviour! David said: “Today there is no peace on earth. But Jesus IS the Prince of Peace. He died on the cross to take away your sin and your sickness and to bring you peace with God. He taught about His Father’s Kingdom on earth. And He’s coming back to bring that Kingdom. He said, ‘Unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom – the only way you can get into the Kingdom of God is by a miraculous new birth!” Jesus the Son of God was born into this earth by a miracle; and if He was born by a miracle – you can be born again by a miracle tonight!”
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One young woman (*) came to the meeting to thank David. Four years ago when he came to Lithuania and took the Siemens Arena to preach Christ, she was a backslidden Christian, looking for ‘God’ in all directions. She had badly injured and sprained her leg practising yoga. She cried out, “Oh God, if You are the only true God, the only way of salvation, heal me completely now!” And God did! And she returned to faith in Christ.
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David Hathaway Faith in Jesus Christ is the key to release the power of God in your life. But not enough people use this key to the power and glory of God. And faith is NOT faith until it has been tested! Some people get quickly discouraged when their faith is tested. They feel they have failed, done something wrong, and they are tempted to say God’s Word doesn’t work and want give up if the answer does not come right away. But many times the reason for the delay is to test the reality of your faith, because only faith which has been tested is true faith, anything less is presumption. According to 1 Peter 1:7 this faith is much more precious even than gold which has been tested with fire. And when your faith has PASSED THE TEST, when it has been PROVED like gold in the fire, it will be praise, honour and glory WHEN JESUS CHRIST APPEARS! Apostle Peter says in 1 Peter 1:5 that through FAITH we are kept by the power of God unto a SALVATION WHICH IS TO BE REVEALED IN THE LAST TIME. The Bible is clear we only have part of our salvation now. There is a greater salvation which is to be revealed in the future – we will only experience the real glory of God when His Kingdom comes. But we have the beginning of that salvation now, enough to take us into the Kingdom! Please understand – we only experience the real glory and power of God when we are together with Jesus. But we have enough power now to get us there! It’s like sending a rocket into space. When the rocket is fired and leaves the earth, you cannot add any fuel to it – it has to have enough energy when it blasts off, to escape all the pull of gravity and get up there. The moment we receive salvation, when we put our faith in Christ, God puts His ‘fuel’, His energy and power, into us! His power is so explosive, every born-again man, woman and child becomes like a rocket with enough power to blast through all the power of the devil, into Heaven! The power that we receive is the power that raised Christ from the dead! Romans 8:11; Ephesians 1:19-29. To put this simply, today we are saved from the penalty of sin – and the power of sin. – When the Rapture takes place we shall be saved from the presence of sin! Peter says, simply and frankly, faith is only faith when it is tested. 1 Peter 1:7. Peter’s own faith, to all intents and purposes, had failed him in the palace of the High Priest when three times he denied knowing Jesus! But Jesus had already warned him, “Satan has desired to have you and sift you as wheat, BUT I HAVE PRAYED FOR YOU THAT YOUR FAITH FAIL NOT – AND AFTERWARDS YOU MUST STRENGTHEN THE OTHERS.” THIS IS WHY THROUGH HIS OWN VERY BITTER EXPERIENCE OF TESTING, PETER WRITES SO PASSIONATELY TO YOU WHOSE FAITH IS BEING TESTED RIGHT NOW. DON’T GIVE UP! That is why Peter could confidently say: Through FAITH you are kept by this power, this energy of God, unto salvation! This means that from the moment you were saved, God put enough spiritual energy in YOU, to blast you through all the power of Satan – everything that can stop you – to take YOU into the Kingdom of God. How does this happen? Through faith! FAITH is the energy in you, is the driving power, the force. The motivation is something else, in your heart, between you and God; it comes from the goal and the vision God has given you. When you have the right vision, the right motivation, then faith becomes the driving force to fulfil the motivation, to reach the goal, because faith links us directly to God Himself! When your
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motivation is ONLY for the fulfilment of GOD’S purposes, you can ask God for the gift of faith, because faith is something which does not occur naturally in you, it is a gift from God, something given from outside, like fuel, put into you to fulfil His purposes! Faith is not something in your mind, it’s not something intellectual – it’s a gift from God! It cannot be made or produced by man. Peter had protested his faith to Jesus, “Lord, I am ready to go with You to prison and to death.” But Peter, in the natural as he was at the trial of Jesus, failed miserably. What happened on the Day of Pentecost was not a formula or ceremony, but something personal which changed Peter. Faith in you only becomes real faith when it’s tested, and if it fails, then you need a personal experience of the Holy Spirit to give you Faith as a Gift. 1 Corinthians 12:711. And it’s not the devil alone who is testing your faith – God also tests your faith! It’s too easy to say everything is the fault of the devil, but it’s not true – God tests us, He’s doing it all the time. But He’s put a power in us that is strong enough to take us through all these hard testings into His Kingdom! Where are you without faith? God wants this power in the church! Jesus performed many miracles of healing, but this is what He said to His disciples, “You see all the things that I have done? You’re going to be able to do these same things that I do, AND MORE!” John 14:12. Greater miracles, bigger miracles! So we should expect,
have the faith, to see more miracles than Jesus saw! Why? Because He said so! How? Through the Holy Spirit! We don’t do it in our own power, it’s the power of the Word of God in us! So that Faith along with Healing and Miracles are all Gifts from God through the personal working of the Holy Spirit in us! Faith is more valuable than gold! 1 Peter 1:7. Gold will not perish even though it is tested in fire and all the dross is burned away! And faith!!! – The Bible says, when we get into the Kingdom, when Jesus comes, the first thing that Jesus will see is our faith!!! Praise and honour and glory!!! It is our faith that will mark us, it’s our faith that He will see! The more I read the Bible, the more convinced I am that the most important thing after your salvation, is your relationship with Jesus Christ. And how can we define or explain our relationship with Jesus Christ? I’ve never seen Him, you’ve never seen Him, so how can we explain our relationship with Him? I believe that there is one strong definition of our relationship with Jesus Christ – it’s not just our worship, nor the length of our prayers, nor how much we read the Bible, it is our faith in Him! Faith not only to believe what He has done for us, but faith to do what He says! That is the greatest thing that clearly, unmistakably marks our relationship with Jesus Christ. Faith is trust. Do you trust Him? Do you believe Him? Only your life will tell how much you trust Him. There is one gift I want more than anything else – it’s the gift of faith! Ever since I received the Holy Spirit, aged 13, I’ve been asking God for the gift of more faith! I regularly take a week of prayer at the beginning of each year. One such prayer time had such an effect on me, it was as if God said that 2002 would be like flying in an airplane at about 3000 metres, opening the door and jumping
out – without a parachute – that’s the best description, jumping out without a parachute! Now you will understand what kind of year 2002 was! Many times during the course of that year I had to jump out of this ‘plane’. I like a bit of sport, but I wouldn’t have the courage to jump from an airplane – I would be frightened if I just looked! Someone would have to come behind me when I’m standing at the door and push me! That’s what testing your faith is! It’s trusting God enough to let Him push you out of the door without a parachute! Now maybe you don’t want this faith, but I do! In 2002 I had to jump out not once, but many times. And every time God rescued me before I got to the bottom! If you want to release the power of God in your life, then you’ve got to do it too – trust Him! With God nothing is impossible. And I live every year like this! Last year God gave me two Scriptures on which I staked my faith: Daniel 11:32, which says ‘Those that know their God will be strong and do exploits’ – KJV – and Numbers 23:19, ‘God is not a man that He can lie, neither the son of a man that He can change His mind, what He says He does, what He has said, He makes it happen.’ Has it been easy? No. It has been the hardest year of my life since the year I spent in a communist prison, 1972-73. Has God been faithful? Yes. God tests our faith. But our God is the God of the impossible! People are fearful that a day is coming when we will be compelled to receive the chip if we want to buy and sell, could this be the Mark of Beast that leads to the wrath of God that cannot be turned away? – Revelation 13:16; 14:9-10. What will we do? But Church, we can have – and I want – the MARK OF FAITH that will keep me safe by the Power of God until Jesus comes! – 1 Peter 1:7, Revelation 14:1,12.
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Poland in Central Europe – for over 300 years withstood the invasions of Islam – from 1939-1945 withstood the Nazis – and from 1944-1989 withstood the evils of Communism. God bless Poland! The Republic of Poland is situated in Central Europe, bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus to the east; the Baltic Sea, Kaliningrad (a Russian enclave) and Lithuania to the north. The total area of Poland is 312,679 square kilometres (120,726 sq miles), making it the 9th largest country in Europe. With a population of over 38.5 million Poland is the sixth most populous member of the European Union, and the most populous postcommunist member of the European Union. Many historians trace the establishment of a Polish state to 966, when Mieszko I, ruler of a territory roughly coextensive with that of present-day Poland, converted to Christianity. The Kingdom of Poland was founded in 1025. But in 1453 a massive blow was dealt to Christendom when Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II finally successfully wrenched Christian Constantinople from the Roman Empire and the armies of Islam began to advance aggressively into Europe. These incursions deep into Europe continued for over another 200 years, ending with the Battle of Vienna in 1683 when Polish King Jan III Sobieski and his elite Polish Winged Cavalry led a coalition of Central European kingdoms against the Moslem invaders, dealing such a decisive blow to Islam that the Ottoman Empire in Europe never rose again. From 1795, the Polish territory was partitioned between the Germanic tribes of the Kingdom of Prussia and Old Austria, and the Russian Empire. Poland only regained independence at the end of World War I, in 1918. But just two decades later, in September 1939, World War II started with the invasions of Poland on the one side by Nazi Germany and on the other side by the Soviet Union in accordance with the Secret Protocol of their Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. When the German armies overran the Western part of Poland, the first victims to perish were the Polish leadership and intelligentsia. Of the first 611 to die in Auschwitz, 591 were Poles, 20 were Jews. During those war years Poland lost more than six million of its citizens (one fifth of its population) – 3 million of the dead were Polish Christians, predominantly Catholic, and the other 3 million were Polish Jews. Despite the fact that only in
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Poland were people (and their loved ones) immediately executed if caught trying to save Jews, 6,266 Polish men and women nonetheless risked their lives to save the lives of Jews. 450,000 Jews were saved by Poles such as Irene Sendler, who alone rescued 2,500 children. A third of all the ‘Righteous Gentiles Among the Nations’ were Poles, and as a nation Poland ranks first among the 40 ‘Righteous Nations’ – those that supported the Jews during the Holocaust. Historian Richard C. Lukas (The Forgotten Holocaust) observed that ‘So many Poles were sent to concentration camps that virtually every Polish family had someone close to them who had been tortured or murdered there.’ Hitler hated the Poles as much as the Jews. Heinrich Himmler, head of secret police, promised that ‘All Poles will disappear from the world.’ In 1944 as the Red Army swept across Europe to take Berlin, Poland became a client state of the Soviet Union. This was not a liberation for Poland. Many who had served in the resistance during the Nazi Occupation and many of the Christian leadership were for years imprisoned under Communism and, when finally released, disadvantaged in every way. Poland was ravaged. During the Revolutions of 1989, Poland’s communist government was peacefully overthrown and Poland became once again a free democratic country. But for all those years, 19441989, it was the Catholic leadership that steadfastly resisted the communist regime by instilling in the people a strong and disciplined faith. Today, as a member state of the EU, the people of Poland have become materialistic, disappointed in both State and Church. But they have a hunger for Christ. History records Poland as one of the most generous and courageous people in the whole of Europe. Poland – you who withstood the Molsem invasions, who were decimated by the Nazis, ravaged by the Communists, and ignored by the world – may God bless you for having had the courage to do what few other nations have done – to stand up for what is right, no matter what the cost.
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Although I am a British citizen, I am Austrian by birth; born near the hometown of Adolf Hitler, close to Mauthausen concentration camp. I am related to leading Austrian Nazis and war criminals, most of whom died unrepentant of the crimes they committed against humanity. These crimes cannot be excused and must never be forgotten. For this reason I cannot understand that, within living memory of the fall of the evil Third Reich, one can once again hear – within all European nations and throughout the world – the call for Jewish boycotts and the expulsion of Jews. In nations like Greece, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia etc etc, Anti-Jewish movements remind us of Germany in 1938. I am concerned over the future of Israel, to see the rising statistics of attacks on the Jews in Europe and around the world. I am concerned to see Christian clergymen and ministers sleepwalking into replacement theology which denies the Jews their rightful place in God’s plan. I am concerned when I hear the ignorant say: “Well the Holocaust happened so long ago – let’s forget it and move on.” God has not forgotten – Isaiah 44:21. You may remember 2010 when the Icelandic volcano with the unpronounceable name paralysed all air traffic. 6 million travellers were stranded because of the Ash Cloud. I believe this happened as a reminder to the world that God has not forgotten 6 million Jews turned into ashes in Europe. In May 2007 Lord Jonathan Sacks (then Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth), said to key European leaders in Brussels: “Jews and Europe go back a long way.
The experience of Jews in Europe has added several words to the human vocabulary – like expulsion, forced conversion, inquisition, blood libel, ghetto and pogrom, without even mentioning Holocaust. That is the past. My concern is with the future. Today the Jews of Europe are asking whether there is a future for Jews in Europe, and that should concern you, the leaders of Europe.” I support Israel and love the Jews. Unashamedly. Not out of guilt, but out of a deep compassion I received during times of great darkness and deepest despair, the demonic legacy of being the son of a man who murdered Jews during the insanity of Nazi Germany. While lying on my deathbed as a young man, in great fear I called upon the God whose existence the Nazis denied. He heard my dying cry and showed me His salvation through the Saviour of the world, Jesus Christ. To this day, I cannot forget my consternation in discovering that the Saviour of the world is Jewish! I will never forget the night I was delivered from the evil of Anti-Semitism, when the finger of God wrote the love for Israel – God’s ancient people – indelibly on my heart. Our future depends on learning the lessons of the past; the lesson is simple. The ancients knew it, the saints lived it, the Jews taught it – and I believe it. The lesson is to: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength and with all your mind – and your neighbour as yourself.’ All men are equal. All are created in the image of God, who commands us to love our neighbour as ourself. History tells us the people who learned this lesson became peacemakers, who abolished slavery, alleviated poverty, built orphanages, opened hospitals, provided education, and risked their lives to protect the Jews. By doing so, they changed the world. Equally important: History shows, (and Scripture foretold, Gen 12:1-3) that through Abraham and the Jewish race all the nations of the world have been blessed with culture, science – and the Word of God. It is the Jews who taught the world this great commandment – to love your neighbour. For this they have been rewarded with pogroms, persecutions, death camps and centuries of Anti-Semitism. I share Rabbi Lord Sacks’ concern over the future. The evil sophistication of their enemies does not just threaten Israel’s future, but ours as well. We know that by the time Iraq was invaded, no Weapons of Mass Destruction were found. The reason was Saddam Hussein transported these secretly to Syria, where they have remained hidden until now, confirmed in December 2005 by one of his own generals, General Hormuz Sada. So, beside the nuclear threat from Iran, Israel faces the horror of rocket-launched
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chemical and biological warfare. I live with the psychological legacy of my father who taught SS Einsatzgruppen the dark secrets of killing techniques which made the Holocaust one of the greatest atrocities in human history. My life was surrounded by the dark conspiracy of silence that kept quiet about the Holocaust and denied all responsibility for killing the Jews. But I was determined to break through this dark cloud, even though I knew it would cost me everything. Yet the price I pay is nothing compared with the blessings I receive when I befriend and defend a people, who have the right to live in peace without fear of being bombed, shot at and hated without cause, of whom God said, “I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curses you; and in you all nations of the earth shall be blessed.” Genesis 12:3. Anti-Semitism is a virus from hell, more contagious than rabies, more deadly than the plague. It causes insanity and attacks the human heart. It enrages the mind and results in moral blindness. It sears man’s conscience and stops at nothing. The Nazis have gone down in history among the most demonic beings in the world. Yet today’s Nazis are far more dangerous and sophisticated than the National Socialism of my forefathers. Today’s Neo-Nazi movement has mutated into an international form of Socialism, similar to Communism, which is Anti-Israel and Anti-Christian. I cannot understand how politicians prefer to make secret oil or arms deals with regimes that call for the destruction of Israel, instead of using their veto to outlaw terror organisations such as Hezbollah and Hamas. Let me inject the thought: If Israel lays down her weapons of self-defence you will have another Holocaust. If Hamas lays down its weapons of aggression, you will have Peace! I close with a tribute to three Jewish people who saved my life from the inherited evil of Anti-Semitism: The Jewish Survivor Simon Wiesenthal who brought my father to justice and thereby enabled me to discover the truth. The Jewish Saviour Jesus Christ, Yeshuah HaMashiach, who delivered me from a life of hell, and the evil legacy of AntiSemitism. The Jewish Writers of the Holy Scriptures which changed my life from the hatred of Anti-Semitism and taught me to love the Lord my God with all my heart, to love Israel and the Jews, and my neighbour as myself. May the God of Israel bless Israel. ©Pastor Werner Oder is the son of a Nazi whose astonishing journey from AntiSemitism to Zionism is published in his book Battling Nazi Demons, available from Amazon.com and Amazon co.uk
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