WE’RE WORKING FOR THE KINGDOM!
David Hathaway No 73 Autumn 2014
Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 15:1-8: ‘I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, that He was seen of Cephas, then the twelve, after that of above 500 at one time, then of James, then of all the apostles, and last of all He was seen of me also.’ Our Gospel is based on three things: Christ died, rose again and He’s coming again. In Dewsbury, the town where I live, I recently attended a simple ceremony on the 102nd anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. The reason for the celebration is that the Bandmaster, famed for playing the hymn, ‘Nearer my God to Thee’ as the ship went down, came from Dewsbury. None of the bandsmen survived, but the body of Wallace Hartley, the Bandmaster, was recovered, and, strapped to his body, the violin which he played. Last year that violin – an ordinary one, but bought for the Bandmaster by his fiancée – went up for auction. It was sold for just under £1 million! A waterdamaged violin that can’t be played! But Wallace was a Christian. Instead of saving his own life, he struck up this hymn! How amazing that a violin so simple, from one man, can be worth so much! And here we are, remembering the death of Jesus! But the miracle of Jesus is not just His death, but His life! He rose again! They saw Him! We don’t talk to a dead man, He’s alive, we have a living Saviour! We have an
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empty cross and an empty tomb, because Christ is risen! The very day that I was at the memorial in Dewsbury remembering the Titanic, people were filling the football stadium in memory of the Hillsborough Stadium Disaster 25 years ago when 96 were crushed to death and 766 were injured. And in the same week as these anniversaries, there was the tragic sinking of the South Korean ferry with those hundreds of teenagers on board. When they finally got into the hull, they found nobody alive. Yes we can have a memorial of death. But we have a living Christ. We can rejoice in the power of God and the power of the Gospel! And we can celebrate His death! Romans 6:2-3 says: ‘How shall we that are dead to sin live in it any longer? Don’t you know that those of us who were baptised into Jesus Christ, were baptised into His death?’ Forty years ago in Hungary in the communist era, I was asked to speak at a baptism of young people. I’m so used to water baptism – but in Hungary they had never heard preaching like that on water baptism! They all wanted audio tapes of what I had said. Forty years after that baptismal service I met one of the pastors who had been there. He said that he has memorised and preached that message time and time again ever since. I’ve baptised people in Israel, in the Jordan. But two years ago I was present at a baptism in Israel and I wasn’t taking the service. This evangelical pastor never really mentioned the truth of what water baptism is about! But we can celebrate death! I’m a dead man! In water baptism we
are buried with Christ in death that, just as Jesus was raised from the dead, so we come up out of the water into new life! Our water baptism is not just a testimony, or an act of obedience, it is literally the death of the old nature beset by the devil: “Devil, you can’t touch me, I’m dead!” So I’m rejoicing, praise God, I’m a dead man! Just as Jesus came out of the grave, so I rose from the water and participate in the resurrection of Christ! Physically, literally, absolutely part of the resurrection! Isn’t that wonderful!!! – Romans 6:4-5. Read on, vv 6-9, Paul says if we are dead, we are free from sin! And if we are dead with Christ, we shall also live with Him; knowing that death has no more dominion over Him, so also reckon yourself dead to sin and alive unto Jesus Christ! Death of the old! Life of the new! This is a tremendous miracle! Everything about Jesus is a miracle – His birth, His death! God created the world – it’s a miracle! But one of the hardest things for religion is to accept miracles. There are some churches that won’t have me preach because of the miracles. It takes faith to believe in miracles. Without faith you have no miracles; if you have miracles, you need faith! Our whole Christian faith is based on the miraculous! My whole life has been formed by miracles, almost everything I do involves a miracle. For me ‘Easter’ is a triple celebration: the death and resurrection of Christ – and my release from a communist prison! Oh, and my birthday. Easter means so much to me because 42 years ago in the difficult days of communism I was in prison in Czechoslovakia for taking Bibles into the East Bloc. A Czech historian has found that in London there is an enormous file on me, called ‘Operation Shakespeare’! He found that, whilst I was shut up in prison, the British government was doing nothing to get me out, and the Russians (who were behind my arrest) didn’t want to release me! The West was trying to get the Russians to sign what was to be known as the Helsinki Accords, guaranteeing human rights and freedom from persecution – and this historian said, they were not bothered about me! I had been found guilty, not of
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smuggling Bibles, but of the content of the Bible! They said it attacks the state! I was charged with ‘sedition’. Jesus was crucified on that same charge! But we’re not of this world, we’re of God’s Kingdom! We’re strangers and pilgrims going to a promised land! We have Jesus Christ as Lord! So now it comes down to miracles and faith! The miracle of my getting out of prison was that two days after my trial and sentence God gave me a dream. They had said, “You’ll never get out alive” – the utter despair of that moment – no remission for good conduct in those prisons – and I knew that they were already preparing further charges against me, including preaching the Gospel in the prison. I was in shock. But in that dream I saw myself out of the prison, in the Royal Albert Hall in London. In those days the Elim Churches that I belonged to had a big rally every year at Easter in the Royal Albert Hall with 10,000 people. I saw myself preaching! I said, “Oh God, this is impossible! I’m an unknown Bible smuggler, and I’ve just been sentenced to what could be up to ten years in prison!” But I began to pray into it. I was forbidden to have my Bible, but nine months into my sentence, something impossible happened, I was able to smuggle my Bible back into my cell! I read Ps 35:18, ‘I will give Thee thanks in the great congregation.’ I jumped up and down! Royal Albert Hall. Easter Monday. I’m going home! Suddenly I had concrete evidence in the Word of God! God had spoken! I will give God thanks for my release in the Royal Albert Hall! But I wasn’t satisfied. I said, “Oh God, if You can work a miracle so big that You can get me out of this stinking prison for Easter, then why don’t You do a bigger miracle? This year my birthday comes four days before Easter, send me home for my birthday! If You can do this, show me another verse in the Psalms where You talk about releasing a prisoner who’s in chains.” I read on and in Ps 68:6 it said, ‘God sets the solitary in families and brings out those in chains’! I’m going home on my birthday! And the miracle is, God did exactly what He said! I flew home on my birthday with Prime Minister Harold
Wilson, and because of all the publicity, I was asked to speak in the Royal Albert Hall on the Easter Monday to 10,000 people! As God had said. This experience has coloured the whole of my life, because God proved that what He says, He does! When I pray over so many crises – like my lung cancer in 2003 – my confidence is this, that God says, ‘My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is one out of My lips’ – Ps 89:34 – this is the whole basis of our faith! When I received the Holy Spirit as a boy, I knew that 1 Corinthians 12:31 says, ‘Covet the best gifts.’ Of the nine gifts, the one gift I have sought after all my life, more than any other, is the gift of faith. Everything in my life is based on faith. Jesus, approaching His crucifixion – the world’s greatest evangelist, the Son of God, here on earth with power to heal the sick, raise the dead, work such mighty miracles – knows that after three and a half years of ministry, He has got to die! All His disciples rebelled against His death. They spoke against it, their whole intent was to stop Him! Why did Judas betray Him? He believed Jesus was going to be the King, the Messiah, get rid of the Romans and rule Israel from Jerusalem – and that he, Judas, was going to be Chancellor of the Exchequer. When he realised Jesus was going to die, that all his hope, all his future was gone – he had staked everything on Jesus becoming the King – he went out in shock and betrayed Him! Even the other 11 had their whole minds on this; even after the resurrection, when Jesus told them to wait in Jerusalem for the Promised Holy Spirit, the first thing they said, in Acts 1:6, was “Will You at this time restore the Kingdom to Israel?” Jesus knew that when He died He would rise again – He died in absolute faith. When you come to Christ, you are saved by faith – don’t get away from it! Saved by faith in the death of Christ, faith in the forgiveness of sin, faith in the resurrection, baptised by faith, knowing you will come out of the water alive with Him! Faith in miracles, faith in the power of God, faith in what God can do! I’m always pleading, “Oh God, give
me that gift of faith!” From my earliest days I’ve always lived by faith. When I had throat cancer I said, “If You want me to stay in my church, don’t heal me – I’ll learn to speak with my stomach muscles. But if You want me to leave everything and go to Israel and Russia, then I need a miracle!” That day I was healed, I refused to take another penny from the church. I went out, bought a piece of land, built a new home for my family, then bought a brand new tour bus that cost twice as much as the house. I had no money. But God had said “Go!” Today I am facing the biggest challenge of my life. I’m being told by a donor, a businessman, “David, you cannot live by faith anymore! It was alright when your mission was small. But it’s too big now to run by faith! You have to have substance, not faith.” But Hebrews 11 says faith IS the substance! I don’t know any other living man who has seen as many miracles as I have! Read my book ‘Why Siberia?’ – it’s the story of just 3 months in Siberia in 1994. We took 400 people with us – we had no money – everybody told me I couldn’t do it, it’s impossible! I went and God met every need, paid every bill. Within one year, you couldn’t do it again! The whole situation had changed. Why did I go? Because God spoke to me in the 1980s and told me the Iron Curtain would open. Nobody believed it. But I held the great prophetic East/West Confer-
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ences in West Germany in 1988 and 89 – the Iron Curtain opened – that’s how my ministry went into Russia so fast. We’ve evangelised Russia literally from one side to the other so strongly, visiting over 200 towns and cities from east to west, we reached 80% of Russians with the live TV crusades, with the call to repentance on their own state national TV. God had spoken, I believed it, and God did it! But God warned me from the beginning, the Iron Curtain would not remain open. For 25 years people have said, the Iron Curtain has gone, it can never come back. But just look at the news today! All the countries I have been evangelising in these 25 years are under threat. Almost every one of those towns in East Ukraine where you have seen an uprising, people killed – I’ve been there to evangelise! I say, thank You Lord, You sent me there! I’ve preached the Gospel, I’ve called the people to repent. Whatever happens there, they had a chance! I went in faith! From Russia, God sent me to the Baltic countries. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. They’re also under threat from Russia. Our aircraft are patrolling the sky over the borders. But we’ve seen the greatest revival in those countries. Hundreds of thousands coming to Christ. I may never be able to get back. In September I’m in Poland evangelising. Poland has demanded 10,000 NATO troops because they’re afraid – they have such a large border with Belorussia and Ukraine. I was there in Krakow in 2012 – 80,000 came. And God paid the bills. Now for 2 years we’ve had 250 people working for us, evangelising the whole of Poland before we get there, stirring up the churches – the Catholics, the Protestants, the Evangelicals. By April, with 6 months still to go, already 603 bus loads were booked to come to the Festival in Katowice! The cost is enormous! The budget is over £2 million! People are challenging me, “How can you do it? It’s impossible!” But I believe in God! If I can believe that God raised Jesus from the dead, that He could forgive my sin and transform my life – then nothing is impossible! In Israel the Russian-speaking Holocaust survivors listen to me and receive Christ, only because God allowed me to be in
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one of their communist prisons! On one of my last visits to Israel, my taxi driver was asking all the way to the airport, “Why did we kill Him, Yeshua? He was a good man, He worked miracles. Why did He die? All Israel is asking this question!” Jesus died to set you free from your sin. The rejection of the Jews was so that the Gentiles could come into the Kingdom – God’s plan to save YOU! God has a purpose and a plan – the Easter story is a picture of a God who has a plan, who knows the end from the beginning. In your times of crisis, you’ve got to trust Him. I have to trust God for Poland this year – for the enormous finance, and that God will bring over 100,000 people under the sound of the Gospel. My ‘advisors’ are telling me, if I do it so big this year, I’ll never do it again. No! I shall be back next year – and do it bigger still! Why? Because I know how short the time is! The EU was set up to stop war in Europe – but they didn’t reckon with Russia. The threat is that Russia is seeking to take back all the territory she lost to the West when the Iron Curtain opened. In a summit in Geneva they said they will resolve the crisis by diplomacy, but Putin said, “I reserve the right to send my army into the Ukraine!” So is there peace in Europe? No! So how long have we got to preach the Gospel, to win people for Christ? Whatever God is calling you to do, do it! 1 Corinthians 15:13-14 Paul says emphatically, if there is no resurrection then Christ is not risen, and if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain – meaningless! Our whole faith is based on the death and resurrection of Christ. He died and rose and He’s coming back! And if God could do that with Jesus, look what He can do with you! Nothing is impossible. All my life I have trusted God. I trust God with my family, with my ministry. Without faith it’s impossible to please God, without faith you do not reach the heart of God. Faith in my life is the substance by which I live, the evidence by which I preach. I go by faith.
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Three amazing testimonies of healing given in Chita, May 2013 – to encourage YOU to believe! Valentina In May 1993 I came to the Lord, weary, wounded, downtrodden. I had incurable multiple sclerosis. My left side was paralysed. I could not even carry a bag in my left hand. If I stood a long time, my knees would buckle and I would fall. I could be walking, then all of a sudden collapse. A few months after I put my faith in Christ, God gave me strength in my left hand. Then David Hathaway came to Chita and we had an evangelistic meeting in Victory Square. I was asked to be an usher! I was worried, how could I stand for so long?! My legs were weak, my knees could give way and I would fall. But –
Vladimir Some time ago I came across a magazine, ‘Prophetic Vision’. It’s from David Hathaway. To my great surprise, there was a picture of me! I thought: “Wow, I’m a popular person!” And I started to recall the distant past. I was working in construction. It was winter 1996, and to get warm by the fire quicker, I jumped down from a height of 4 metres. And broke my leg! The doctor said, “You’ll be in plaster for three months.” But I was preparing for water baptism. I wanted to be baptised so much, but now how could I? You can’t just take the plaster off, and you can’t immerse it in water! And I imagined that I could be lowered into the water, and keep my broken leg out! But then one of my legs would not be baptised! I’m worried that I’ll be baptised, freed from all sins, and my broken leg would drag me back into the old life! My head was filled with stupid thoughts. But praise the Lord, David Hathaway came to Chita and friends took me by car to his evangelistic meeting. I had only recently come to know God, and I was ‘on fire’, I wanted to ‘eat’ the Word, the preaching. Everything to do with the Bible, with God – I just wanted it so much. On the way to the meeting my friends asked me: “Have you got the other boot with you?” I asked: “Why?” They answered: “But how are you going to walk home tonight?!” To me, David Hathaway was just a preacher, and healing was not a priority – fear began to creep into my heart! When we got to the hall, you have to walk down steps, there are seats on both sides, and the aisle is down the middle. And I’m walking down the steps, on crutches, looking to the left and right. Suddenly I see the believers are full of expectation! And suddenly I realise: Wow! I’m in the spotlight tonight! Fear gripped me even more. I couldn’t run away on crutches! We found seats and the service started. David Hathaway preached. People repented and then lined up for healing.
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God touched me! When, at the end of the service, everyone began to dance and rejoice, I did too! – After standing in the heat of the day for two hours, suddenly I began to jump! I was healed, my soul was healed, I had strength in my legs! And still today I’m dancing. Praise the Lord! He healed me! I was registered disabled; twice a year I had to go to the hospital and take very powerful medication. The doctors didn’t believe I was healed. They said: “Who is God, what can He heal? Now we will check!” Several doctors examined me and confirmed the miracle. And they took me off their register! Glory to God!
My home group leader says: “Let’s go to David Hathaway.” I say, “Why?” He says: “He will pray for your leg.” I’m thinking – oh oh, NO! Now I’m really caught! I said: “But look how many people there are! There are old women... They need healing!” He says: “Hey, it’s OK! Come on! We’ll get you through!” You know, there is such a thing as a ‘Christian priority line’. They took me to the front and I stand there on crutches. David points his finger at my leg and says: “What happened?” I say: “I have pain in my kidneys.” Michael translated. David said: “Yes, yes, I understand, but what about your leg?” I said: “Well, it’s... I broke it...” And David said: “Come on, let’s pray!” And he says to Michael to take my crutches. He took them. There was nothing I could do! And I’m thinking – what should I do now? Here I see my leg in plaster. I see the eyes of David Hathaway, the pastor and the interpreter. I could not see anything else at this point. And David Hathaway prays in Jesus’ Name and says: “Come on, walk!” There was nothing I could do – I walked! And then I see the congregation in the hall shouting: “Wow! Hallelujah!” And I see the eyes of all the believers full of excitement, they have been SO waiting for this moment! Well, because you can see something... When they pray for pain in the kidneys, you can’t see how the kidneys are transformed and made new. But here you’ve got someone who came with crutches and leaves without crutches! And people shout “Hallelujah! Glory to God.” And I am so... Yes... yes... I walked up the steps, my leg was still hurting. I got to my seat. And at the end of the meeting my home group leader comes up and says: “Let’s walk!” And I say: “No, I’d rather sit.” And I had the crutches with me. Michael wanted to take them from me, but I said, “I can’t give away. They’re not mine. I have to return them to the owner.” So I keep these crutches. And we sit. Everyone is going home. My leg still hurts. I saw that David Hathaway was alone, so I went up and asked him to pray. He prayed. No
one was in the hall, all gone. And I walked away shouldering the crutches to the street. You go through the park, through the arch, and get to Lenin Street. I’m shouldering these crutches. My leg hurts. And I think – it’s dark in the park, there’s no one here, the car’s waiting for me there, I can use my crutches – there’s a chain you need to climb over – it would be easier for me to climb over the chain with my crutches. But I stepped over without them! There are my friends in the car waiting for me, they called me and honked. I sat down and went with them. But what is my point? I was baptised – both my legs! It was so wonderful!
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I was referred to Moscow so that they could diagnose what was wrong and get me back on my feet. I was examined in the medical research institutes. It didn’t help. And when I was on my last appointment with the leading medical professor, he looked at me: “What can I say? Once you were happy and healthy. Now you have to suffer. Because Christ also suffered.” I replied in shock: “But Christ knew why He had to suffer! He volunteered to sacrifice Himself!”
Irina I’m so happy that I’m alive, healthy, a child of God, my life belongs to the Lord! 15 years ago I could have died. I had been very sick since 1987. I was registered disabled. I went from one doctor to another, from one hospital to another. I was examined by professors, doctors, physicians. Nothing helped. My legs refused to work, I often blacked out. I was just a body, not human anymore! In 1987
Watch the testimonies: eurovision.org.uk/healing It was in Siberia, in Chita 1993 that God spoke to David and gave him a strategy to win Russia for Christ. Communism in Russia had only just finally collapsed. Chita itself had been a closed city,
I left the room in despair. When we flew back to Chita, my life was over. I didn’t see any prospect, any hope. I was alone with my grief, my tragedy. My marriage broke up, my friends left me, forgot all about me. The only person who supported me all those years, helped me, cried with me – was my mum... I couldn’t walk on my own, I was holding on to the walls. My mum used to bring me by taxi from my home to hers. One time we took a taxi, and in the front seat were some posters. They were in a heap, but I saw a picture of a person. He was so full of joy, so happy, so full of life. It was David Hathaway! These posters were an invitation to evangelistic meetings in the stadium, August 1995! I asked for a poster. The driver was a believer. It was not by accident! People rejected me, doctors gave up on me. But God had not given up! When it came to August 14, my son and my mother brought me to the stadium by taxi. There were so many people. There were songs that I immediately liked. It was a fateful day in my life. I met Christ. I repented, gave my heart to Jesus! At the end of the service they prayed for healing. There were many people. I was like that woman in the Bible, I knew that I absolutely had to get through the crowd
to get prayed for. I just believed that the Lord would help me. Believers and members of the team helped me through the crowd, and David prayed for me. I know that it was the prayer of the Lord, a prayer in the power of the Holy Spirit, a prayer in faith and in love. Instantly I felt life and joy flood my heart, and my body was filled with strength. It was unbelievable! I was so happy! They checked me. I could walk by myself, without support! I went up and down the stadium. Something had happened, amazing, lifechanging, because Jesus came, hallelujah! I left the stadium, walking, on my own! I caught a trolleybus and saw all the happy faces. People were smiling, saying how good the service was. My heart was full of joy and excitement. I had strength in my body. I was healed! The sickness did try to come back and steal my faith. But I realised now I have God! I prayed as I best I could, like a newborn baby. They told me: ‘Read the Psalms. Even if you don’t understand – still read! Proclaim the Word of God in your life!’ And I did! But the most important thing that I had – was faith! I believed, and I believe there is a God who helps, who saves, who heals, who gives life. Life in abundance, happy life, free life. I believed. I thank my pastor, my spiritual father, Pastor Andrei. You took me in your hands in this spiritual birth. You cared for me as your child. And today I stand before you all, a living testimony of God’s love, of His glory on this earth, of His faithfulness to His people [Irina is Jewish]. I am a living testimony of God’s faithfulness to His Word. Praise be to God our Creator! Praise be to our Lord Jesus! Hallelujah!
David and his team were the first British to enter!
acles of healing. This was only the beginning.
In 1994 for 63 days we battled the impossible and lived by miracles every day! We visited 17 cities, held 55 meetings, planted new churches, travelled 30,000 km on scheduled and chartered flights and, despite rampant inflation with costs going up overnight as we slept, we paid all the bills! It was estimated that 50,000 repented, the spirit of conviction so strong, that practically everybody, including many Russian Jews, streamed forward to receive Christ, many weeping! Standing at David’s side with the interpreter, I personally recorded over 1000 amazing mir-
But as David foresaw 25 years ago, the window of opportunity to evangelise Russia has closed. Nevertheless, in May last year, David went back to the missionary church in Chita, where they gave thanks for the real revival his ministry brought to the whole of Siberia, a revival that has not gone out. The powerful miracles that happened then have never been forgotten, nor have they stopped.
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The world is in crisis, the church also. Romans 1:3-4 burns into my soul: ‘God’s Son, Jesus Christ, made of the seed of David according to the flesh – but declared to be the Son of God with power’! This is what touches me – a declaration of power! I must admit I like driving fast cars, and for my 80th birthday my family paid for me to drive an Aston Martin round a race track! I enjoyed that feeling of power! People are looking for power, for authority. As Christians in the church, we should be looking for power. I have power and authority – but this is missing in some sections of the church – the realisation that we are the ambassadors of God, His representatives, on earth! As such we have authority. In my life it is amazing how I have seen that authority work against the devil. Twenty years ago I took 400 people to evangelise in Siberia for 3 months. It was an incredible step of faith – we didn’t have the money – but all those years ago the budget was £2 million! I appointed a former naval officer to supervise the logistics. Half way though he came to me and said, “David, I need a clear understanding of where the money is, so that I can plan the budget and I can spend it.” I said, “I’m sorry, it only comes as God sends it, we don’t have any money!” – He couldn’t cope! He was used to working with budgets of millions, but we were to go simply by faith! Can you imagine, 400 people in the far side of Siberia for 3
months with no money?! As the money came in we bought one way tickets, and the people asked me why one way tickets? I said, “Jesus told His disciples ‘Go!’ – Go into all the world and preach the Gospel. He never once said ‘Come back!’” Well, the Lord who gave the money for the tickets up there, also gave the money for the return! The next year in Siberia, we had shipped our sound system into St Petersburg, and from there it was to be flown to Ekaterinburg to join us. The system was enormous, for football stadiums! It was second hand, but my office had insured it for $100,000 – it wasn’t worth that, but my staff thought, if anything happened to it, we would get enough money to replace it! But the Russians, when they saw it, demanded 100% tax! After a long battle it was flown in to Ekaterinburg, and there it was on the tarmac – but they refused to release it unless I paid $100,000! I didn’t have it! Our charter aircraft was waiting to be loaded. These are practical issues – we needed a miracle! I said, “We can’t pay $100,000, can we send it back?” “No, you still pay $100,000 even if you send it back!” – Can we destroy it? – You still must pay!
your own personal stereo!!” Well, I AM Eurovision, so it IS mine! I said to the official, “But this is my own personal system and on those grounds I don’t have to pay tax! I’m allowed to bring in personal goods.” Standing in front of me he absolutely refused. It was a spiritual battle, I had to win it, I was going for 3 months to Siberia, I needed the sound system! I faced that man and I called on the Holy Spirit to change his mind! I took authority against this wrong spirit, and in Jesus’ Name I commanded that man give me the equipment. I was looking straight into his eyes and I saw the change come over him. He just looked at me and said, “Alright, give me $10!” The equipment was piled up on a truck outside – enormous speakers weighing a quarter of a ton! I told my guys, jump on that truck and get it loaded on our plane before he changes his mind! You see, we have authority. When I see big miracles of healing, they do not come so much from a ‘healing ministry’, as from authority – taking authority against the devil, binding those evil spirits by the authority we have in Jesus’ Name. We must use that authority in our lives; we need this boldness.
There was no way out! I’m praying, facing an obdurate customs official, absolutely adamant, “You’ve declared the value on the manifest and you pay $100,000!” One Russian who was with me whispered in my ear, “Tell them it’s
GOD REVEALS WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW! I want to deal with the fact that the world is in crisis, and with what the Bible says. At my age, I can look back on so much that God has done! As a young pastor, one day when I had finished preaching, God said to me, “David, shut up, I’m tired of listening to you. Go out and do everything that you preach about! Only talk about it when you have done it! Then you can tell people how it works!” Now I want to pass something of that on to you. I have seen the power of God, I’ve seen the miracles. I only talk about the future in the light of what God HAS already done. From my youth, God called me to Europe (including Russia and Israel), He has always given me the guide posts, and He has always revealed in advance what is happening. I knew prophetically, from
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the Bible, before I went to Russia, that God says the last great revival begins in Russia. I saw in Deuteronomy 4:32 that the greatest miracle that had ever happened on the face of the earth was when God delivered the Israelites – a whole nation – out of Egypt! But Jeremiah said (Jer 16:14), there’s going to come a day when there will be a greater miracle, in the land of the north (Russia), so great that the whole of Israel will forget coming out of Egypt, and only remember the escape from the land of the north! This has driven me. What I have seen in my lifetime is the beginning of the most incredible miracles all over Russia. I did not just go in after the freedom came – I’ve been working in Russia for 53 years – I was imprisoned 42 years ago by the communists! I’ve been working in Israel
for 53 years. Every time God was putting something in my spirit, He was telling me what to do, and I didn’t know why. Now when I look back I can see the timing, I can see why I went to Israel, why I went to Russia, why I was imprisoned, why I can work in Israel now. With my notoriety in Russia – the KGB know more about me than I know myself – how is it I still have a 12 month multiple entry visa with freedom to preach in every city? You see, God has a purpose and a plan! The Bible is prophecy. You can see the future from the Bible! According to some calculations, there are 137 prophecies
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about the first coming of Christ – His birth, His death, His resurrection; and more than 200 about His return! When Jesus was here, He was always saying ‘...in order to fulfil the Word spoken by the prophets’. Even when He was healing the sick, He said ‘...in order to fulfil the prophecy of Isaiah’. Everything about the life of Jesus was prophetic. And still is prophetic. What God has revealed to me, time and again is usually fulfilled in my lifetime. I look back and see what God has done! After working for 30 years in Eastern Europe, God revealed to me that the Iron Curtain would break. People didn’t believe me. But God told me to set up an East/West Conference in West Germany to bring the Fire of God into the East behind the Iron Curtain, and to invite people from all over Europe to come. That first year, 1988, 4000 came, 600 of them by a miracle through the Iron Curtain! God told me to tell the people that He would break the Curtain by the Fire of the Holy Spirit, and He told me to call the people back for a second conference the next year. Two weeks after the end of that second conference, the Iron Curtain opened! The result was, I was ready to go into the East and evangelise with miracles. God showed all this to me so clearly!
am the spirit controlling Russia. I was in Lenin and in Stalin. They think I’ve been destroyed, but I am the same spirit.” It was challenging me. Others came up at that point, saw the fire in its eyes, but I was the only one who heard the voice. In that moment I used the authority I have to bind that spirit. The amazing thing is, that in binding that spirit, God has given me an unparalleled freedom in Russia down through all these last 20 years! We HAVE power and authority!
God called me to continue the conferences in 1991 and 92. I had held evangelism in Ukraine in 1991 and 92, but Ukraine and Russia were still not free. Praying before the start of the last conference, God gave me a vision in which I saw Russia going over the edge of a precipice. I spoke on it in the opening and in the closing meeting. Within 24 hours there was a putsch against Gorbachev, and Russia opened!
God revealed to me the power that spirit had, and where it came from (Genghis Khan and his conquests from Mongolia to Russia, to China, to Israel, to Europe). But He also revealed to me about the European Union, that it is the Last Empire described in the image that Nebuchadnezzar saw in Daniel 2. From the head of gold to the legs of iron (the Roman Empire), all those empires had been fulfilled by the time of Christ. But then there is the revived Roman Empire, the Last Empire before the Return of Christ, the feet of iron and clay. It’s fractured, iron doesn’t mix with clay. The European Union IS that last empire! God showed me the spirit that is in Europe: the European Parliament Building in Strasbourg is modelled on Brueghel’s painting of the Tower of Babel (Babylon)! They produced a poster of the Tower of Babel with the slogan, ‘Many tongues, one voice’, because, they told me, “We’re finishing the job we began 3000 years ago!” The spirit is REBELLION AGAINST GOD!
By 1993 I was evangelising in Siberia. The pastor told me, “Since we moved our services into the City Culture Palace we have no ‘freedom’. There’s a terrible spirit we can’t overcome, the worship doesn’t work, the preaching doesn’t work.” The meeting started, but I stayed behind the stage praying. There in the corner I saw a bust of Lenin. Suddenly I saw a green light in its eyes and it began to talk to me, “I
Why did God reveal to me the spirit controlling Russia, and the spirit controlling Europe? Because I need to take authority against them. The spirit in Europe comes through Germany, because the German Kaiser Wilhelm II (the favourite grandson of Queen Victoria), had the original Ishtar Gate of Babylon and the Processional Way brought to Berlin! And in the same museum is the ‘Seat of Satan’ –
Revelation 2:13. It was the altar of the Temple in Pergamon dedicated to human sacrifice and the worship of the Emperors! Kaiser Wilhelm celebrated its erection in 1902 with an extravagant festival to the pagan gods! When Hitler, as Kaiser (Emperor), announced the ‘Final Solution’, the annihilation of the Jews, he did it from a massive replica of Satan’s Seat that he had built in Nuremberg for his great rallies! God reveals these things so we can understand. Shortly after the 1904 Welsh Revival, the real Pentecostal outpouring of the Holy Spirit fell in Azusa Street (USA) and Monkweirmouth (Britain) in 1907-08 – and spread right across Europe and into Russia. But the leaders of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany met and declared that everything to do with the Holy Spirit – tongues, healing – was from the devil! This is known as the 1909 Berlin Erklärung (Declaration). My father used to tell me as a boy when I asked him about sin, “There is only one unforgivable sin. Jesus said, ‘All manner of sin, all sin against Me, can be forgiven’, (hence He could say on the Cross, “Father, forgive them”), but He said, ‘the one sin that cannot be forgiven is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit!’” (Matt 12:31-32.) Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is attributing the works of the Holy Spirit to the devil, or the works of the devil to the Holy Spirit. What the German Church did in Berlin in 1909 was blasphemy. As a result, when the First World War broke out in 1914, the German Churches supported it. And in the Second World War, the Churches supported Hitler. Because of this demonic spirit.
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I first started working in Israel in 1961, but in those days the only converts we saw, (the nation of Israel at that time was only 13 years old), were Arabs. It was so very difficult to see Jews converted. But the Bible is very clear. It says the Gospel will be preached to the Gentiles until the ending of the times of the Gentiles, then Israel will be saved (Romans 11:25-26). I have seen the change in Israel! It came with the Russian Jews, converted in Russia, moving to Israel – everyone will tell you that the biggest move in Israel is amongst the Russian Jews! They have the biggest number of messianic congregations. They invited me to evangelise – it’s because of the Russian Jews that I have freedom in Israel! I’ve had thousands of unbelieving Russian Jews in the meetings and led them to their Messiah! People ask how can you? But the Holy Spirit CAN and HAS and DOES! God revealed the Gospel will be preached to the Gentiles until the ending of the times of the Gentiles. The whole question is, are we at the ending of the times of the Gentiles? Israel is opening! We are holding the largest gatherings of unbelievers listening to the
Gospel since Jesus preached to them in their thousands. From that time till this, it has never been possible. Until now! Yet it is actually happening! The argument in Israel is about the Peace Process. Do they give land for peace, go back to pre-1967 boundaries? The pressure is building. But Israel is the fig tree that Jesus refers to, the symbol of the end of the age, when it puts forth its leaves (Matt 24:32). I was in Jerusalem when the Six Day War broke out in 67 – I know what the situation was like before – you cannot give up land for peace! It’s against Scripture – woe to those who divide up My Land!
When we look at the world today, the world is in trouble! Wherever you look. Syria – 2 years ago President Assad said, ‘If you depose me, if you overthrow me, you will bring a far worse dictator than me!’ The whole Middle East will explode in conflict – Hamas, the PLO, the Iranians, extreme Islam! One of the greatest mistakes America ever made was to support the rebellion in Libya; today it is in absolute chaos. Look at Iraq. At the time of that war, I prophesied from Revelation 9:13-15: ‘I heard the voice...saying to the sixth angel, ‘Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.’ And the four angels were loosed, which were pre-
WE’RE WORKING FOR THE KINGDOM! The Kingdom of God will come on earth! Christ will rule the earth from Jerusalem for 1000 years! My hope and my prayer is that this will be in my life-time! We will have to take over the whole world – can you imagine – who on earth today could solve all the economic problems, the problems with Boko Haram in Nigeria, war in Sudan, in Syria, Egypt, all these terror spots, who is going to feed the hungry, who is going to bring what the Bible says is 1000 years of peace when the sword shall be beaten into ploughshares, the lion will lie down with the lamb – 1000 years of Eden on earth?! Dead or alive, we who believe in Him, we’re all going to be raised, we will meet Him in the air, come back with Him – there will be a judgement, we will receive our reward... What did Jesus say? To those to whom He gave talents He said, “I will make you rulers over 10 cities, 5 cities...” We will run the world with Christ! With His power and authority, we’ll solve the problems, and for 1000 years the earth becomes as it was before the fall of man! I’m not concerned about Heaven, but about the here and the now! I want to stir you into action! Wake up! Prophecy is being ful-
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filled every time you get out of bed; every time you go to sleep, more prophecy; you see it in your newspapers, you see it in your Bible; God is moving! We’re getting closer and closer to the Return of Christ to the earth!! I was 7 years old when World War II started. Seven times when Britain was facing an insuperable crisis, the King called the nation to prayer – the whole nation prayed – and God changed the course of history. The miracle of Dunkirk in May 1940, when the whole of our army was stranded – France and Belgium had capitulated – and the Germans had encircled our troops in the Pas de Calais. No escape. The nation went to prayer and God sent a great calm on the English Channel, and every little boat set out and 338,000 were rescued, only 5000 lost! Then Summer 1940, the battle of the air, the Battle of Britain – my bedroom window overlooked Croydon Airport – all our Spitfires were destroyed, only a handful left, we couldn’t hold out against the Luftwaffe for more than 2 days. The nation went to prayer, Hitler made one of his strategic mistakes
and turned his air force in a different direction! God spared Britain. Why? Because the nation prayed. If only we realised the power that we’ve got! Christian believers, we have to pray as a nation again – God will answer! God is a prayer-answering God! History demonstrates it! The battle of El-Alamein 1942, the Germans were sweeping right through North Africa – we had two godly Bible-believing generals and the nation prayed – God worked a miracle, the tide of the War turned. Until that day Churchill said, we had never won a battle, after that day we never lost a battle. God is calling us, stirring us, challenging us. Last year, same-sex marriage, was legalised in Britain. Why did God destroy Sodom and Gomorrah? You know why.
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pared for an hour and a day and a month and a year, for to slay the third part of men.’ This is the only time I find in Scripture where a prophecy is for a precise year, month, day, hour! When the American and British troops crossed the Euphrates all hell broke loose. Yes, I believe those four spirits were released! The biggest tragedy was not just 9/11 and destruction of the Twin Towers in New York, but what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan. Because the result of that war was not ‘democracy’ in the Middle East, not an Arab Spring, but extreme Islam, terrorism unleashed. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Syria – are only the beginning of the evil
released with those four angels! It is feared that now 600 of our British nationals are being trained in Syria to bring terrorism back to the UK. But the Bible does warn, and does predict, and does show the future!
But why do so many thousands come to listen to me preach the Gospel? Because I love people. I love sinners. I was a year in a communist prison with drug smugglers, criminals; the murderer became my best friend – without him I would have been in difficulty. They listened to the Gospel and I learned to love them. I saw them as somebody’s brother, son, husband, who had made a mistake – I saw them as men for whom Christ died, to deliver them from that curse, that sin. It changed my whole attitude – God loves the sinner enough to send His Son to save them. Jesus spoke about the shepherd who had 99 sheep in the church, and for the sake of only one outside, he leaves the 99 and goes out to rescue one! That’s our job, to rescue the sinner! Why did same-sex mar-
riage get voted through so quickly? It was a vote-catcher! But they’re a tiny minority. Where is the Church? Which parliament passes laws to protect you, to get your vote? All the time we are silent and sit down in our pews and dance and sing, the world will ignore us!
The world is in crisis, but I don’t want to speak despair. Because Paul says in Romans 1:16, ‘I’m not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to all who will believe!’ We have the power of God ready to be outpoured now! The power of God is stronger than the power of the devil! When God wins the battle, the devil will be defeated. Islam, secularism, will be defeated. The European Union – can and will be broken… How? The Bible tells us who breaks it. It’s not Tony Blair, nor any politician or world leader. It’s Christ at His Return! He breaks it (Daniel 2:44-45), and sets up His Kingdom on earth!
Forty years ago when I came out of the communist prison, for 2 years I travelled the world because everyone wanted to know the story why Prime Minister Harold Wilson came to rescue me. But before I left the prison, they pleaded with me, “David, you are the only one who knows what’s happening here, help us!” So after 2 years I set up a massive organisation to get Christian believers out of prison. What I built up in 1975 and 76 is on record as being the largest Christian
demonstration ever held at that time; 60,000 signatures on a petition, the biggest cross-section of society ever seen, all the important people, lords, ladies, actors and actresses (Joanna Lumley), musicians (Yehudi Menuhin), I went to the most communist trades unions and got the general secretary to sign! We held a great march and demonstration in Hyde Park, we gave the petition to the Soviet Embassy and using the Helsinki Accord – freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom from fear (which Russia had just signed), we changed history and got freedom for believers in Soviet Russia! Recently a Czech historian from Prague University visited me in England. He’s been researching my case and he was astonished at the size of the file on me in London. At the very time that Britain and America were negotiating religious freedom with the Soviet bloc (what was to become the Helsinki Accords), I was in the Czech prison. The historian was amazed to see the inactivity, the indifference over my case – Russia, Britain and America arguing over human rights – whilst there I was, in prison only because I was a Christian and took Bibles into Russia!
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Wake up, speak up, pray up! Until the world knows we’re here! All the time we remain silent, Islam and secularism are getting foothold after foothold in Britain, in Europe; can you imagine where Antichrist is going to come from? It’s time to stand up and preach Christ, and declare the power of the Gospel! The first time those unbelieving Russian Jews in Israel came to hear me, they said, “Yes, we will come to hear David talk about Yeshua, on one condition: if your Jesus is our Messiah, then He must work miracles and heal us.” They brought the sick – all these people are my age and older – and God worked so many miracles! I asked them, “Did God do what you wanted?” They said, “More than we could ask!” A former KGB Colonel who heads up one of these Russian Holocaust Survivor Organisations said, “All my people must hear the words of this preacher!” You see, our Jesus is Israel’s Deliverer! That’s why they come! Because there is power in the Gospel! God works miracles! We’ve got to stand up and be counted! We’ve got to learn how to pray, we’ve got to know the power of God! We’ve got to know our authority, who our Jesus is! The most militant Moslem group in Britain is situated in the town where I live and we have our office. The local Anglican curate was travelling in my car and he said, “David, I have found in Dewsbury that if you stand up for what you believe in, the Moslems will listen to you! But they have no respect for you unless you stand up for your faith.” The Moslems in Dewsbury invite this curate to speak on their local radio, he’s allowed to argue his Christian faith and they encourage him to debate and put the Christian viewpoint and show them where he thinks they are wrong – because they respect a man who has the courage to speak what he believes! Why do you think the Russians have a respect for me and renew my multiple entry visa every year? A lot of communists in the revolutionary days fell out of favour and were put in prison – and they respect me because I was prepared to go to prison for my faith. They respect me also, because after my imprisonment I didn’t give up, I went back and carried on the work. The devil will respect you when you stand up against him! Church, rise up! Be counted! But don’t be known for what you oppose. Let the world know you for what you are, what you have! The Bible says there will come a day when the unbeliever will want what you’ve got! If I listen to some Christians, I wouldn’t want what they have!!! The world will want what you’ve got when you demonstrate the love and the power of the God you serve! When I was before the Czechoslovak court, they were afraid of the Bible and its contents!
We’ve got to stand up for the truth of the Word of God! The biggest miracles I see are amongst the unbelievers. Who did Jesus heal? The sinner. What was the effect? They recognised the authority that He had, the power of His Word. What moves me is the testimony of miracles down through the years that have lasted and changed lives. Six years ago a young woman came to our evangelism in Tallinn, and she prayed because she had a cough. Next day she went to the bathroom to clean her teeth and coughed up two handfuls of tumour! She posted this story in May this year on our Russian Facebook site. It’s reality! We’ve got to demonstrate the reality of our faith! Moslems, before they kill you, say Allahu Akbar, Allah is great. But my God is greater! There is only one prayer-answering God. Look at Elijah. He mocked the prophets of Baal, because he knew their god could not answer them. But our God answers by fire! Like Elijah, you’ve got to call upon Him, you’ve got to believe Him! I’ve been healed of cancer twice, of osteoarthritis, many other things – I go to the Word of God, I believe the Word of God, I take the promises of God, I stand on them – AND GOD DOES WHAT HE SAYS! (Numbers 23:19.) God is a God of His Word, a God of action! I know what He says, and I know He’ll do it! The world is in turmoil until we, as Christians, show the truth of the Word of redemption through Christ, and demonstrate it in our own lives! Let your life be a witness. Pray until you get the answers, see the miracles. I can’t live without the miraculous – I need a miracle every day! Just to get out of bed, to do the job I do! I want to leave you with two things. Firstly we’ve got to learn to live by faith – that is the mark of the believer! The just shall live by faith. Without faith it’s impossible to please God. Let’s live by faith. And secondly, forgiveness. I read a secular report which said that the greatest message the Church could offer is forgiveness. It’s true. “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do!” The biggest lesson from the Cross is forgiveness! As long as God gives me breath and life and strength I will never retire, never stop. I want to live to see the Kingdom of God on earth and Israel converted! Christians, be united in Christ, stand up and be counted, for we are salt and light to the world. Salt is a preservative that cures and heals. Light is for a dark place. Don’t let it be said we have lost our salt and our light.
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those towns in East Ukraine where you have seen an uprising, people killed – I’ve been there to evangelise! I say, thank You Lord, You sent me there! I’ve preached the Gospel, I’ve called the people to repent. Whatever happens there, they had a chance! I went in faith!
God spoke to me in the 1980s and told me the Iron Curtain dividing Europe in two would open. Nobody believed it. But I held the great prophetic East/West Conferences in West Germany in 1988 and 89 – the Iron Curtain opened – that’s how my ministry went into Russia so fast. We’ve evangelised Russia from one side to the other so strongly, visiting over 200 towns and cities from east to west, reaching 80% of Russians with the live TV crusades and the call to repentance on their own state national TV. God had spoken, I believed it, and God did it! But God warned me from the beginning, the Iron Curtain would not remain open. For 25 years people have said, the Iron Curtain has gone, it can never come back. But just look at the news today! All the countries I have been evangelising in these 25 years are under threat. Almost every one of
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A lot of people are asking me about the relationship between Russia, Ukraine and Europe. Who is right and who is wrong? I have been working in Russia for more than 50 years, and I do know that the current situation is distorted by the media, both in Russia and in the West. I have an interest on both sides, because I understand Russia’s long history. At one time Kiev (now in Ukraine) was the capital of Russia, not Moscow! And there was a long time in Ukraine history when it was divided in two parts – part under Russia, part under Poland. So this is an historic problem. And I understand why Russian President Putin for instance supports Assad in Syria; get rid of Assad, and you will have something worse. And I respect Russia especially regarding traditional marriage; Russia is stronger on some Bible standards than we are in the West! Regarding the present crisis in Ukraine, the EU gave an undertaking to Russia that they would not bring NATO right up to Russian borders. But they have. In Georgia for instance. Then in the 2012 Munich Security Council attended by NATO, the EU and Russia, where the main topic was what to do with Syria, Russia was greatly concerned by the plans NATO presented to extend its defence shield (ie missiles and military bases) into the Baltic States and Finland, right up to the Russian borders! Some years ago I was taken to Kiev Railway Station in Moscow – and I saw for myself that in 2002 they had renamed the Kiev station square, Europe Square, ‘as a token of stronger friendship’ with Europe; Brussels had donated a massive abstract sculpture of the European symbol, the bull, Europa, the ‘woman on the beast’ (Rev 17)! Featured also in the Square was a circle of European flags set out to look like the other EU symbol, the Tower of Babel! In the last 10 years or so, Russia was becoming in effect, sympathetic to the EU!! One of the original
policies of the EU was to create a political empire from the Atlantic to the Urals (where Europe and Asia divide in Russia). This was the vision of Charles de Gaulle back in the 1960s, and a painting of this vision hung in the West German Parliament in Bonn until they moved back to Berlin. Only last year in Astana, the political capital of Kazakhstan, British Prime Minister David Cameron made a speech advocating the EU ‘beyond the Baltics’ ie, in Russian territory and former Russian satellite states! This was and is the ultimate aim of the EU. Under the present circumstances, Moscow is now thinking of re-naming ‘Europe Square’! Because of Russia’s precipitous annexation of Crimea this year and the troubles in East Ukraine, and the Western response of financial and other sanctions, both Russians and Ukrainians write to me and say, ‘With your knowledge of Russia and what you have said about the European Union, surely you cannot support this European Union?!’ There is no question that Putin has lately sought to pull back from the European Union and to build a greater Russia. Now the link with China, which will buy Russia’s oil and gas, is part of a new expansion into Asia. So now, not for the first time in history, Ukraine is in the middle, but looking West and seeking independence from Russian control; they cannot forget Stalin and the enforced famine in the 1930s when more than a million Ukrainians died of starvation. I don’t, on the other hand, support the EU. From a Biblical perspective the EU is demonic. The image that Nebuchadnezzar saw in a dream, was translated by Daniel as successive world empires, from the head of gold to the feet made of iron and clay. Today we are looking at the last empire, the feet of iron and clay; I believe this is the European Union (see my documentary, ‘The Rape of Europe’). We are living in the end of a prophetic age. What is happening today is modern fulfilment of prophecy. On the one side you have the European Union, mentioned in Bible prophecy, on the other side you have a resurgence of the Russian Empire. Should Russia really become part of the EU? And what is written in Ezekiel 38 and 39?
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but still there is tension and fighting. One of the leaders of the parliament in Northern Ireland has recently been questioned on some of the worst murders in the past.
The tragedy is that now Ukraine has become torn in a dispute between two sides. It began last year when then Ukraine President Yanukovych pulled away from the EU to form an alliance with Russia. Inevitably people were going to be on both sides of the divide. Eastern Ukraine has always been more Russian, but West Ukraine was part of Poland and more European in sympathy. Crimea historically was always Russia’s naval base; it was ‘given’ to Ukraine in the days of the Soviet Union, when no one could imagine that would ever be a problem! In Crimea we saw very strong leadership from Putin. But the EU has no strong leadership or authority – it’s a bureaucratic nightmare! You can say the argument is between ‘democracy’ and ‘dictatorship’, but I am concerned that what is happening in Ukraine is lawlessness. What happened earlier this year in Maidan Square in Kiev was lawlessness, what is happening in East Ukraine is lawlessness – no clear government, control is in the hands of ‘bully boys’, people who have no love for either side. It comes down to a spiritual issue. After 50 years of working in Russia, I love Russia; in the early years of working in Ukraine, it was then part of Russia! Forty years ago when I was arrested and put in prison, I was smuggling Russian Bibles through Uzhgorod (Ukraine) into Russia! Ukraine gained its independence from Russia only in 1991. The situation now is extremely complex. I have been invited to go there and I would love to, in order to preach the Gospel Message of peace, reconciliation and forgiveness! We just cannot simply allow the past to divide today. There has to be forgiveness and reconciliation. In South Africa after the bitter years and the atrocities of apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu set up the Commission of Reconciliation. We had a similar situation in Ireland, a peace between two sides – Northern Ireland which is part of Britain, and the southern part which is independent –
In Ukraine right now there is a desperate need for the Gospel of Jesus Christ to be preached with clarity, with power, with authority. I am respected by both sides, Russian and Ukrainian. But from the Biblical perspective we are clearly moving into the last days. The Bible says that before Christ returns there will be wars and rumours of wars. What we are seeing in so many parts of the world – Syria, Nigeria, Sudan, Northern Ireland, Israel, the Middle East – is what was prophesied in the Bible. And this is my main point: there cannot be peace, total peace in this world until Christ returns. He is the Prince of Peace. The same spirit driving the tension in Israel, is driving the tension in Ukraine – a demonic spirit that doesn’t want peace. It is a sign of the times. We need to pray for the soon return of Christ. People are afraid, they don’t know what to do. I have many friends in East Ukraine. I was evangelising in some of the most troubled cities only 2 years ago; there was a tremendous response to the Gospel appeal, outstanding miracles of healing. The tragedy now is that the Russian element and the Ukrainian element within the churches are divided. The only solution is prayer. We have to pray one for another. There is a demonic spirit that is dividing even Christians and we must come against it. Remember, the last prayer of Jesus before He left His disciples was to pray for unity amongst believers. The importance of the Gospel I preach is unity! Unity in Christ. There is division in Ukraine because of politics, and there is division throughout the world because of Biblical, spiritual, political issues. But we’ve got to be prepared for Christ’s Return! We must have unity. We must love one another, work together for the common cause of the Gospel. There is a challenge to us not to get involved in political things; Christians have to be above politics. Politics will divide Christians; the Gospel will unite us. That’s why through all the years of the Cold War between the West and Russia, I loved Russians. That’s why I was prepared to go to prison, and afterwards to go back, still in the Cold War days, to continue to break down these barriers with the preaching of the Gospel. Remember, we are not children of this world, our Kingdom is in Heaven, together with Jesus Christ!
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