Prophetic Vision, Spring 2016, #79

David Hathaway No 79 Spring 2016

When I was in Jerusalem at the beginning of November 2015 this last year, it was as if the Holy Spirit, drew back a curtain, a veil from my eyes.

I was in the Temple Institute where they are making all the preparations for the rebuilding of the Temple, and I got talking to a rabbi, an Orthodox Jew who works there every day. He showed me a chart on the wall, showing all the dispensations from Creation to the final Messianic Age! He said, “The six days of Creation are six days of the week. A day is as a thousand years. The seventh day, the millennium, is the Sabbath.

We are living in the sixth day, in the year 5776.” But now this is very interesting – the rabbi told me it is possible for the start of Sabbath to be declared, not at sunset according to the wording of the Creation account in Genesis Chapter 1, but when only 75% of the sixth day has passed! This is because in different time zones, Shabbat starts at different times. So according to rabbinical law, I was told, a chief rabbi can declare Shabbat at any time after three quarters of the day has passed!

The rabbi continued, the Jewish year 5750 marked the three quarters point in the 1000 years of the sixth day. – That was the year 1990 in our Western calculations! Listen! We’re looking at this chart, and the rabbi said to me, “We are just over 25 years into this period, this last quartile, 5776 in the Jewish calendar, still 2015 in the Western calendar. Messiah could come at any time!” I found this so significant. This was not a Christian, not a Messianic Jew, but an Orthodox Jew saying we are NOW living in the days when Messiah can come! The whole of Israel is EXPECTING Messiah to come!

ANY TIME! I wanted the chart, he said it was the only copy they had, but he took it off the wall for me and I bought it for 143 shekels!

But what about the Church?

The Church is asleep! And what is the purpose of the Church? Let me challenge you! What kind of Church are you in? Are you in a New Testament or an ‘Old Testament’ Church? So much of what we see in the traditional churches is

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nothing to do with the New Testament. How can you have priests? Incense? Altars? Sacrifice?

Christ was the fulfilment of all that!

The New Testament tells us we’re ALL priests! God has made us all kings and priests in Christ! –What was the original concept of the Church?

Jesus said in Acts 1:8, “Wait in Jerusalem until you receive the Holy Spirit. And when the Holy Spirit is come, you will receive POWER, and you will become WITNESSES to Me in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and to the ends of the earth!” That is the purpose of the Church! To be witnesses of Jesus Christ!

The Church is supposed to be a body of EVANGELISTS! Not just a cosy group of Christians sitting together and singing songs! The Church has lost its sense of ‘witness’. You can ONLY be a witness to something you have seen or heard! You cannot be a witness to something somebody else told you, something second-hand... You can only be a witness in a court of law if you can say, “I saw, I heard!” As a young pastor God told me to shut up and go out and do the things I was telling other people to do. The result is that now, all these years later, I can tell YOU what God has done in MY life, I have seen round the world what God can do, the power of God, the greatness of God. I serve a God of power and authority, a God who works miracles, who changes people and touches nations – I’m a witness of the power and glory of God! David said in Psalm 63, “I want to see Your power and your glory in the battlefield of MY life as I have seen You in the Sanctuary!” I challenge you in the Church, if you have seen the power and the glory of God, you have got to bring that glory and power to the people outside, on the ‘battlefield’!

But if you have never seen the power and glory of God, what can you do?!

Daniel 11:32 says in the King James Version, those who KNOW their God will be STRONG and do EXPLOITS! – What kind of a God do you have? I go into some churches and they have nothing to offer me! The Bible says the world outside should want

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David Hathaway what you have! I can fill stadiums and arenas across Europe and in Israel with unbelievers. Why? Because they see the power of God and they want what I have. We can’t be witnesses just by sitting in a pew listening to a dreary old sermon by someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about! We’ve got to come alive in our Churches, we’ve got to become the witness to the power of God that the world outside wants!

We need to have a revolution! God has called us ALL to evangelise!

When you go to Heaven, the first thing Jesus will say to you is, “Who did you bring with you?! How many?!”

You see, the Church dies out because we don’t evangelise! I read recently that the average congregation in the churches in Cumbria in Britain is eight! Who wants to go to that kind of church?! It’s dead. But we’ve got to come alive in the power of God! And we’ve got to evangelise! The call of God to evangelism is for everyone! YOU are the only witnesses God’s got left! And unless we change, the Church will die because we are not seeing the power of God. And there will be no more witness!!

But I serve a God of power who answers prayer and works miracles.

I’ve proved it in my life! I want YOU to become witnesses of His power in YOUR lives. Get at least somebody into the Kingdom of God, don’t go in alone! I’m 83 and I’m still evangelising, more now than ever! I shall never stop! It’s the ONLY purpose of the Church, the ONLY commission.

People think it’s for the ‘evangelist’, for people like David Hathaway. No! It’s a call to every one of you. Why did God save you? Why did Jesus die for you? So that you can ‘squeeze’ into Heaven?! No! So that we can win the world for Jesus!!!

Dealing with Islam today is not just a political or military problem, it’s a spiritual problem. Islam would not succeed if Christians KNEW the power of their God! There is coming a time when there will HAVE to be an ‘Elijah challenge’, a confrontation – when only the God who answers by Fire is the true God. When Baal didn’t

answer, Elijah said he must be out hunting, or asleep – Elijah was joking!!! Then what did Elijah do? He prepared the stones, the wood, the sacrifice and poured 12 barrels of water over it to make sure no fire could burn up the sacrifice! In the 1960s when I was first going to Israel I had a very good friend, a British archaeologist who lived out there, who had found a piece of blue stone at the site of the sacrifice on Mount Carmel. Intrigued, he sent it to the atomic research centre in Britain for examination. They said that blue stone could only have been formed by an atomic explosion! The fire that burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stone and the water in Elijah’s day was atomic fire! Yet it did not destroy Israel, they had repented and turned back to God. We’ve got to get the fire back in the Church. The fire is available. It’s here.

You’ve only got to ask. You can have the same POWER AND AUTHORITY I have. Many times what I have! Get to KNOW God! He will change your life, revolutionise your life! Let’s stop arguing and get down to business with God! We CAN save the lost, but not until we KNOW God. We have to reach the nations for Christ whilst there is still time. We have to understand that the whole purpose of our salvation is the Kingdom of God. The preaching of Jesus was – the Kingdom! The preaching of the early Church was – the Kingdom! The last thing the disciples asked Jesus before He ascended into Heaven was, “Will You at this time restore – the Kingdom?!” Today our preaching is about our personal problems, about prosperity – we’ve lost sight of the Kingdom! I work for the Kingdom! I work for the King! I’m an Ambassador for the King! I’m preparing for when King Jesus comes in power and authority!

Hitler preached the thousand year ‘Reich’, the thousand year Kingdom – the devil was attempting to preempt the Kingdom of God! Why was Jesus crucified? Because He was the King! That’s the accusation against Him written on the cross in Hebrew, Greek and Latin: ‘The King of the Jews’! Why did Herod kill all the babies when Jesus was born? To kill the King! But the Church has forgotten its basic message, the Kingdom of God on earth!

Christ’s return will be sudden. It’s nearer than you think! He will return to the Mount of Olives, that’s where the last battle takes place, in the Valley of Jehoshaphat between the Mount of Olives and the Temple Mount – Joel 3:1-2 and Zechariah Chs 12,13,14. When His feet touch the Mount of Olives it will split in two and water will pour out from the Temple Mount – Zechariah 14:8 and Ezekiel Ch 47. On my last visit to Jerusalem I was shown, first in the Moslem quarter, then in the Christian quarter of the Old City, two deep shafts going down to the vast ancient water cisterns under the city...

The devil knows Scripture. He’s determined to get there first and stop Christ’s return, that’s what we’re seeing in the world, in the news today – the devil in action. The Jews know their Scripture, they believe Messiah is coming any time, but they don't know Him. Moslems know and believe their Koran, they will die for their faith, but their 'messiah' is not ours. And the Church wants to live in comfort…

Oh God, give us men who KNOW You, Oh God, give us martyrs. Oh God, I will give my life to see the power of God here on earth, in Israel, in Europe. Do you have the same desire I have? Is Jesus and His Kingdom the centre of your life?

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WHERE IS THE POWER?!

Message of David Hathaway – to the Jerusalem Summit of Conservative Apostolic Bishops 31.10.2015 Paul says in Romans 1:16, ‘I am NOT ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ because it is the POWER OF GOD!’ Under communism in the days of the Soviet Union, the churches went underground, they went into survival mode. I know, I was visiting them in those days. But in the Gospel of Jesus Christ is ALL the Power of God! The power is not in a ‘Church’ – but in the MESSAGE of the Church! The rock on which the Church is built is not Peter, but on the REVELATION that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God!

home, to London, with the British Prime Minister! As a result, I was invited to speak in the Royal Albert Hall to 10,000 people, and for 2 years I travelled the world telling my story to two million people!

The Church began on the Day of Pentecost when the first apostles were baptised in the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the power of God motivating the Church! The ministry of the Church has to centre where the power is – in the preaching of the Gospel! When I was first invited to speak to Holocaust survivors in Israel, the condition was – based on the Scripture – that if this Yeshua (our Jesus) is the Jewish Messiah, He will work miracles like He did 2000 years ago. (That is a tremendous challenge to us as the Church. If Jesus is alive, then He can still – though us – work the same miracles!) And the miracles happened! People who have been in my evangelistic meetings know that we see many healing miracles.

My Bible says, ‘I am the Lord your God who heals you.’ I’m a living testimony. Twice God has healed me of cancer with no medication, no treatment, by a miracle.

Throat cancer, in 1964, so powerfully healed, that the doctors, when they examined me, asked, “Who did it? Somebody has cut it out with a knife!” It was incredible, God did it and left the scar where He had operated! You see the evidence?! God doesn’t fail! I KNOW God, I KNOW His power! Thirteen years ago I had lung cancer. Again no medication, no operation.

God totally healed me, one night in Germany, when the cancer came out of my mouth... They had to burn the bed!

In 1972 I was thrown into a communist prison when I was found, on my way to Russia, with 5000 Russian Bibles in a secret compartment in my tour bus. But I’m an evangelist, so I carried on preaching the Gospel in the prison! I faced the same problem the Church faces today: how could I convince these people, these criminals, of the truth and the power of the Gospel I was preaching? The difference between our faith and other religions, is that our God is alive and He is a prayeranswering God. I determined I would not stay for the 10 years I should have spent in the prison. I was determined to prove – in the 20th century – the truth of the power of the Bible. But how could I get out? In my praying I remembered Paul and Silas, and Peter. I said, “Oh God, if You could get them out of prison, send an earthquake, break the chains, set them free, You have the same power today, get me out of this prison!” In my life I’m attempting to prove that the power God had in the Bible is still available today! He’s the same God! I was determined to pray my way out of the prison! But it was impossible! It’s a long story, but briefly, within one year, God worked a miracle, answered my prayer and I flew

So you see, God does actually demonstrate and prove that He has power to work miracles and do the same things He did in the Bible – TODAY! So many people in the Church tell me, “David, you can’t do it, you can’t evangelise like you do!” But we CAN! God works the same miracles today!

Daniel 11:32 says in the English, ‘Those who KNOW their God will be strong and do exploits!’ Exploits are things other people don’t do, can’t do. Things that are miraculous. The witness of the Old Testament is that those who KNOW God will be STRONG and do EXPLOITS! It comes back to knowing God in a personal way. Relationship. We have to be extremely careful here. More wars have been fought in the name religion than for any other reason – whether you go back to the crusades, the wars between Catholics and Protestants, or today, Moslem killing Moslem, Sunni against Shia...

I’m not talking about religion, I’m talking about relationship. I believe in the Living God, a prayer-answering God. Go back to Elijah. The only way he could convince apostate Israel of the truth of the God of Israel, was by the miracle of a prayeranswering God! I believe in the God of Creation. In Britain today it is against the law in our schools to teach that God created, you have to teach evolution. As believers we cannot accept evolution. Hebrews 11:3 teaches us that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made from things which are seen! Our faith

in God is faith in a God who created all things, seen and unseen. The reason for changing the belief in creation to the doctrine of evolution is an excuse not to believe in God! If all of Creation simply evolved by itself, then we have no evidence of God, but only if He is the Creator, does He have all power and authority – and we are compelled to believe in Him – and judgement – and life after death!!!

I work with all denominations because I believe in unity amongst the Churches. The ‘Body of Christ’, should be one and not divided. But we can only unite on the basis of faith in God, faith in the Word of God. We have to come back to the Word of God, not to tradition. It shocks me that Jews put the traditions of Judaism above the written Scripture. As Christian believers we must not make that same mistake, we must not put tradition above the Word of God. The Word of God must be supreme in our teaching, our preaching and our living. As an evangelist, I am seeking to demonstrate this, that when we come back to the basics of the Word of God, the simplicity of our faith – IT WORKS! FAITH WORKS! I have demonstrated this all my life, in my ministry, in my own healing from cancer twice, in my release from the communist prison... Because FAITH IN THE BIBLE – IN GOD’S WORD – WORKS! Unbelievers and young people want something that WORKS. Unless you have a faith in a living God who is a prayer-answering God, you have NOTHING to give! We cannot just give tradition, ideas, religion, we’ve got to present CHRIST! The centre of our faith is Christ – the person, Jesus! I KNOW Jesus! I love Him. He’s reality. He’s my life, my forgiveness, my hope, my joy! The Church must come back to the teaching of the Kingdom of God! Everything is based on His resurrection and on life after death!

And if you believe in life after death, you believe in judgement, Heaven and hell. The reward for those who believe in Jesus is Heaven. The judgement, for those who reject Him, is hell. Resurrection to life is only through Jesus Christ, for there is only one Name under Heaven whereby men shall be saved!

Our message is of eternity, of the Kingdom of God – and it all centres on Jesus. If we want to reach the world, we must have a message, centred on Jesus, that is powerful and changes lives!

The Jerusalem Summit met to prepare and sign an International Interdenominational Charter in support of Israel, Biblical family life and persecuted Christians.

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I’m not a ‘prophet’ in the accepted sense with words of knowledge, but people are at last beginning to realise that the things which God has revealed to me over the years have happened and do happen. When I published the first edition of this magazine, Prophetic Vision, in Spring 1995, this is what I wrote: ‘God has given me a clear vision. It’s like looking down on a map. I can see the devil’s strategy, and I can see God’s strategy. This puts an awesome responsibility on us to ACT!' Let me show you the picture that I have of Europe, Russia – the Middle East and Israel.

Fifteen years ago we produced the film, ‘The Rape of Europe’. Most of what I said in that film has been fulfilled, and I will explain why we called it the RAPE of Europe. People didn’t like the title and didn’t like what I was trying to say prophetically. In my early years I also spoke a great deal on the Second Coming of Christ, having inherited that mantle from my father. What I am talking about is what is happening – NOW – in my lifetime and yours. If I believe what I am saying, and if I believe it is from God, I have to ACT on it! I don’t prophesy in general and say, that’s the warning, and do nothing. I believe SO strongly in what I am saying, that my whole life is dedicated to acting on it. As a teenager I was already preaching on the streets, by the time I was 18 I was preaching every Friday at Speakers Corner, Hyde Park, in London. It was an extremely good training in evangelism! You had to learn how to draw the crowds! And I’m still evangelising even more today.

Let me remind you of some of the things which God revealed to me which have already been fulfilled. I first started travelling in the communist countries behind the Iron Curtain (on my way to Israel) in 1961. It was those experiences in East Europe which opened my heart to the people. I had licenses from the communist governments to take tourists through all their countries. But at that very time Christians were in prison and dying for

their faith – that’s what touched me, that’s why I committed myself to work with those countries. Then after 13 years I ended up in a communist prison myself.

So I have a very deep insight. I learned to understand the people and the countries I was working in.

Years later, in 1993, I had an experience which still strongly directs what I do. I had been evangelising in Chita, a former city of exile in Siberia, and on the Sunday we had the church service in a communist Culture Hall. Before the meeting the intercessors were praying at the back of the stage. When the service began, I felt constrained to continue praying. The pastor had told me that, since they had moved to this building, they had no freedom in worship and couldn’t get any breakthrough. I went behind the back curtain and in the corner I saw a huge bust of Lenin. As I prayed, I saw a green light come in its eyes and it began to speak to me: “I am the spirit that was in Lenin. People think I’m dead, but I’m not.

I am the spirit that controls Russia.” I took action, rebuked that spirit, broke its power and spoke over it the Name of Jesus. At this point the pastor had rejoined me – he, and others, saw the light in the eyes of the statue, but didn’t hear the voice.

We began to do some research, and we produced the first edition of this magazine in Spring 1995, only to publish the background of what we discovered!

There is a very strong evil spirit controlling Russia which came through the invading Mongol Hordes with Genghis Khan. The armies had penetrated not far from Chita and swept across Russia right through into Europe. This evil empire reached to within 60 miles of Jerusalem, came to the doors of Vienna; and I discovered, that in the post war years when Germany was split into East and West, it was the Eastern part that had been dominated by that same evil spirit. God does reveal things to us!

Ministering in Russia, as I did and still do, I needed to know what controlling power, what influence is at work.

From my earliest days, God called me very clearly to Russia and to Europe. God has revealed so many things to me in prophecy relating to where I am working and what I am doing. Having worked in the communist countries during the years

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of the Cold War, in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, God showed me that the Iron Curtain would be broken. But it wasn’t enough to know, or to say this was going to happen, God challenged me to do something about it! I took me two years to plan what we called our East/West Conferences, in Karlsruhe West Germany – and in 1988 four thousand came, many of them from behind the Iron Curtain!

How they got there was absolutely incredible! On foot, by train, in broken down cars, without visas... The power of God came down! I had to borrow the equivalent of half a million pounds to hold the conference – I was alone, nobody supported me in the vision – it was a phenomenal step of faith. I announced God was about to melt the Iron Curtain. That was impossible – the whole of our military might was built on the fact that we were going to have a nuclear war with Russia. That was the tension. We held the second conference in 1989 and within days, the Iron Curtain in Europe had begun to break!

In 1991 and 92, we held two more East/West Conferences in West Germany.

On the opening night in 1991, God showed me a picture. I saw Russia on the edge of a precipice. Russia was still under communism. As the first speaker in my conference, I referred to the vision. On the last day I had that same impression, so in my closing message I again spoke about it. Within 24 hours there was a putsch, Gorbachev and communism in Russia finally fell.

I tell you this to show you that, because of my involvement with these countries, God has over many years given me an insight and an understanding of what is happening. God does not show me things that will happen a long way off in the future... In this article and on p10-11, I want to share with you what God has been showing me in these last few weeks and months, what is happening and about to happen... Usually a prophet is speaking today about something that is going to happen in the future. So the prophet on Saturday is prophesying about what is going to happen on Monday. But when God reveals it to me, it’s as if I’m already standing on Tuesday and looking BACK and seeing it DONE! And in every case where I see this, the challenge is: I have to ACT!

Turn to p10-11: GOD REVEALS

David Hathaway – Patcham, UK, October 2015 We’re the largest evangelistic mission in Europe.

Wherever I evangelise now, it is nationwide with the support of the governments, and the opening day is a VIP meeting for an invited audience. In September I was in Slovakia – members of the government, MEPs, church leaders, influential business people – and they were repenting because I preached Christ. Everywhere I go, the secular national TV channels broadcast us LIVE – even in Israel! Potentially every person in the nation has the chance to hear the Gospel!

Christians are looking to the future, waiting for revival. But I’m walking in the future now, we’re seeing things happen in Europe that have not happened in two thousand years!

I want to be part of the prophetic action, I’m not passive! If we believe in prophecy, if we believe Jesus is coming, if we believe the Day of Judgement is coming – suddenly – then we must not just sit down and wait, we’ve got to do something! The church does not believe in the return of Jesus Christ! If it did, you would be out there winning people into the Kingdom! How can we let all those people go to hell? The church doesn’t believe in hell, and if you don’t believe in hell, you don’t believe in Heaven either. How little we know of the truth today! There is no purgatory, there’s no second chance. There are not ‘many’ ways into the Kingdom – only one! That’s why I preach Christ with such passion. Most people have no idea what hell is like. I do. If hell is half as bad as the year I spent in a communist prison, if hell is worse than the Holocaust, I will fight with my last breath to save people from that hell. That’s why I preach with such emotion.

What God is showing me about Europe, Russia, the Middle East – is happening NOW! But we CAN have an influence – we’re supposed to be salt and light in this world! When I was a boy I was arguing with my father over predestination. My father gave me the simplest illustration. He said, “There is a father on the top of a cliff with his son playing football. The boy kicks the ball in the wrong direction and it’s going over the edge and he’s running to save it. When the father sees this, does he predestinate his son to fall over the cliff?!

No! He shouts out, his foreknowledge is stopping the boy going over the edge – “Don’t!” God sees the future, and when God is speaking prophetically, He is warning, “Don’t! Don’t fall off the cliff!

Don’t go into hell!” But the world is going headlong over the cliff…

After I had started going into Russia, I heard the prophecy of Hudson Taylor, the great British missionary to China. In 1889, preaching on furlough in a church in Britain, he had a vision, in which he saw a great war that encompassed the world. He saw this war recess and then start again, actually being two wars (1914-18 & 1939-45). Then he said, “After this I saw much unrest and revolts that will affect many nations. I saw in some places spiritual

awakenings. In Russia I saw there will come a general all-encompassing, national spiritual awakening, so great that there could never be another like it. From Russia, I saw the awakening spread to many European countries.

Then I saw an all-out awakening, followed by the second coming of Christ.”

– Those two world wars happened, Hudson Taylor was speaking from God! And I have seen and been part of that revival in Russia… You don’t understand, I have been able to evangelise in the whole of Russia from one side to the other! At one time we were reaching 80% of the nation on secular TV – with the Gospel – and showing healings live on every programme! Now I’m working in Europe, in Israel – but who are my key workers? – Russians! – Russians will bring that revival into Europe. They have seen what God has done! I believe I am called to see the fulfilment of Hudson Taylor’s prophecy.

What God reveals to me I am seeing fulfilled! That film we produced fifteen years ago, ‘The Rape of Europe’, is now being fulfilled! In Europe they all know that the continent takes its name from a Greek myth: a woman, Europa, raped by Zeus, the father of the pagan gods, having taken the form of a bull. The Rape of Europe! Jesus and John refer to this myth in Revelation 17, the woman on the beast! Europe took its name from a woman who was molested and raped by a false god! One of the symbols of Europe today is this woman on the beast: wherever we have been in Europe, we have found this depicted in statues, paintings, on stamps, on the old ecu coin, and on euro coins in France and Greece today. But this rape is actually happening right now, in the days we are living in, at this moment – the fulfilment of what I said fifteen years ago!

Look at the escalation of terror attacks! Look at what happened in France last November, look at the millions of Moslem refugees pouring into Europe!

What am I doing? I’m evangelising, saving people from the hell that is coming, stopping them going over the edge. You cannot pray against prophecy.

Much of what is happening now is foretold in Scripture. You can’t change it. When God says it, it’s because He has already seen it. Jesus healed the sick in order that the Word of the prophet might be fulfilled – Matthew 8:17. His whole life, death and resurrection was a fulfilment of prophecy, the Word of the Lord fulfilled! – And I’ve seen the moment when Christ comes back, when in desperation the people of Israel cry out to their Messiah, “Oh that You would rend the Heavens and come down!” – Isaiah 64:1. So what do I do? My whole life is to bring people to Jesus, to Messiah!

THE FUTURE – TODAY!

On the first day of this 3-day celebration in Israel, David and his delegation were welcomed by prestigious members of the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament). They had been in session until 4 o’clock that morning, voting through the Budget, failure to come to an agreement on any of the 70 motions could have led to the collapse of the Coalition Government. – And yet only a few hours later, they came to meet with David. We were touched by their warmth and emotion. They too were touched almost to tears by David’s enduring love of Israel during all the difficult years since he first came in 1961, when he and his Christian tour buses were routinely shot at by the Arabs in divided Jerusalem, and in Galilee,

from the Golan which they controlled. One member of the Knesset said, “In Israel, if you don’t believe in miracles, you are not realistic!” Israel exists as a nation today only by the power of the Word of God, as written in Bible prophecy.

We were hosted throughout the day and into the evening by Senior Members of the Knesset, amongst others by: the Director General of the Knesset; Dr Anat Berko, lifetime military expert and advisor to the Government on counter-terrorism; and finally Dalia Itzik, former Speaker of the Knesset and one time acting President.

Holocaust Survivors hear the Good News of Messiah Over two days, two thousand attended David’s meetings in the Maxi Dome in Tel Aviv During the preparation for the Saturday night alone, this is what one of the Russian Jewish pastors wrote: ‘We will be taking 60 buses packed with people to this special event that we have organised specifically so that people get a chance to hear the Gospel and after the event, we will be taking everybody on a special biblical tour to visit some of the amazing sites where the Gospel comes alive. Initially we planned to gather 500 people, and even that was a stretch for us, but the response was so overwhelming that the number quickly grew to 800, and eventually 1000 people – all non-believers! Imagine now, with over 1000 people together in one place on one day, gathering just to hear

the Gospel for the first time in their lives! This is a recipe for a miracle and we expect God to do mighty things during this event.

Many would say this is a sign of the last days, when people in Israel respond so overwhelmingly to the call of the Gospel, especially during such troubling days.’

Follow up and discipling is a vital part of the work the local congregations in the post-conference period. They bring the people, and they continue to minister to them afterwards! Once they hear the Gospel and receive Jesus, the fruit must be gathered and must endure. Please keep this in your prayers.

David’s Message and Live Broadcast David said, “Come back to your God, the God of Israel. Your hope is in Him, not in your military or your politicians! 137 times your Scriptures foretold that Messiah would come to suffer, more than 200 times that He will come as King! I believe in the God of Israel who can forgive your sin and heal your sickness. What kind of man can forgive and heal? – Yeshua! He is the Son of God, He IS the God if Israel, He was born here, in Bethlehem, He grew up in Nazareth, He died on a cross in Jerusalem – and He’s here today! I want you to know Him!” Sitting behind one of our Trustees was one Holocaust Survivor, it seems one of their leaders. At the end of David’s preaching, he was calling out loud, “Thank you David, thank you!”

The opening night was transmitted live by Yes TV, the major Russian language cable network in Israel. During the filming of David’s preaching, their Stage Sound Director caught hold of our TV Director, saying with big eyes, “What a strong man, what strong words – Israel needs to hear this!”

Both nights when David led the Prayer of Salvation in the Name of Yeshua, the audience stood to pray. And there were shouts of joy in the crowd after the prayer for healing, with many signifying that Jesus had not only forgiven their sin, but touched and healed their sick bodies.

Anointed Worship led by Vinesong For the first time in Israel, David was joined by Vinesong, John Watson’s international worship team. Their anointed music ushered the audience, and the internet and TV viewers, into the presence of God, creating a platform for the effective preaching of the Good News of Messiah. As it was at the dedication of the Temple in 2 Chronicles 5:13-14, it is the worship leaders who lift the people into God’s presence – and bring God’s presence down to the people. God needs to be present before David gets up to preach.

Vinesong sang in Russian, the language of the people present – and the words were displayed on the big screens. When the people saw this, the unbelievers understood and joined in the worship. Perhaps this is why the pastor who had brought the 1000 people on the Saturday night, standing at the back, became aware during the meeting that an awesome breakthrough had taken place, greater than ever before!

David’s Ministry to Russian-speaking Jews in Israel Since 2011 David has been holding regular large events in Israel to help Russian Holocaust Survivors. With your help, in addition to bringing them the Good News, we also provide regular financial and humanitarian support. Russian Holocaust Survivors are one of the poorest groups in Israel, rejected by many for not being ‘proper Jews’ because of their Soviet heritage but yet Jewish

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enough to go through the Holocaust. It is estimated that 20 percent of the population in Israel speak Russian. Russians often settle close to each other, forming Russian-speaking neighbourhoods. Between 1990 and 2001, over 100,000 Soviet Jews settled in Ashdod alone, the fifth largest city in Israel. This is one of the cities participating in this great work.

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When God showed me in 1986 that He would break the Iron Curtain that had divided Europe between the communist East and the democratic West, He also showed me that time was short, that another curtain would come down across Europe in three ways: by economic collapse, by spiritual force and by military might. People didn’t like to hear me say this, but we are living in the fulfilment of it now.

We are living in the last empire before Christ’s return; to understand this you must see my film, ‘The Rape of Europe’. The European Union is the feet of iron mixed with clay, the last empire Daniel spoke of in Ch. 2:40-45, that will be fractured but remain until it – and all world empires – will be destroyed by the coming of the Lord! The European Union is a fractured, disagreeing empire – it’s in chaos! Charlemagne tried creating a united European Empire 768-814, Napoleon tried it 1799-1811, Hitler tried it 1939-1945. But although Hitler was defeated, almost every single thing about the European Union today was planned by Hitler! I’m extremely concerned.

World history shows that conflicting powers have always been attempting to create a one world empire. Why didn’t America join the allies against Hitler until the end of 1941? Because between 1932 and 1939, the expectation was that the next war would be between Britain and America! (See the Channel 5 Documentary, ‘War Plan Red’ – war planned by the Americans against the British Empire, the largest world empire ever known, which spanned the globe from the 16th to the 20th centuries.)

The intended outcome was that the British Empire would be dismantled, lose its colonies – and be replaced by an American world empire. With the end of WWII, America oversaw the break-up of the entire British Empire; took control in the Middle East (with its petrodollars); and took control of half of Europe by introducing the Marshall Plan leading to the European Union – which is the fulfilment of Hitler’s plans – and now also includes the whole of Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Empire! And with the collapse of the Soviet Union, America became the world’s ONLY super power! For a short time. Now this too is collapsing.

America doesn’t seem to understand history or different cultures. They believed that in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Egypt and now in Syria, that they could topple authoritarian regimes and set up Western-style democratic governments. When communism collapsed in Russia (with American manipulation), Russia and America were talking about ‘democracy’ – but Russia has no word for and no concept of democracy, no understanding. It has always had autocratic dictatorship! The Russians love Putin! He’s a strong man!

America doesn’t understand the Middle East.

Western policies in the Middle East since WWI have done more damage to the Christian communities than when they were subjugated

under the Turkish Islamic Caliphate and then under secularised Moslem dictators! Now Moslems are seeking to restore the Caliphate we broke up in WWI – with a view to world Islamic domination! They have determined to take Britain, America, Europe by jihad – by peaceful means or by war. All our mistakes have played into their hands. The Moslem influence in America is now tremendous, right up to the White House. They say ISIS has agents in every major American city and could launch an attack any time. The latest report I had at the time of writing is that ISIS is on the point of obtaining nuclear weapons.

But let’s come back to the Middle East and its significance.

Biblical Babylon is in Iraq. It was first built by Nimrod to create a world empire in rebellion against God – Gen 11:1-9. Then 2500 years ago Babylon destroyed Jerusalem, the city of God, and took all God’s people captive! The two key cities in Bible prophecy remain Babylon and Jerusalem! What happened 2500 years ago will be replicated in your life-time and mine!

When Britain and America invaded Iraq in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein, I watched on TV as the troops crossed the Euphrates to enter Babylon, Baghdad. God drew me to Revelation 9:13-15 where the four demons bound in the river Euphrates are loosed. This is the only place in the Bible where a prophecy is tied so exactly to an hour, a day, a month and a year! And those demon angels are loosed – to slay a third part of the population! In 2003 I wrote, in this magazine, that when the British and Americans crossed that river, I believed that those four demons were released. – This tribulation will continue until the return of Christ! In Britain we have a government enquiry into that Iraq War. The conclusion is that all the problems in the Middle East and with the Arabs today were loosed in that war in Iraq in 2003! Saddam Hussein was an evil man, but a strong man. He held the peace between the warring factions in his country. The opposing Moslem groups, Sunni and Shia, lived in peace. Christians could live in peace! Today they are fleeing for their lives!

Look at the Arab Spring (fomented by the Americans, after 2003, in the name of ‘democracy’). Look at Gaddafi whom they toppled in Libya. Under Gaddafi they were so oil-rich, they had need of nothing! Today, like Iraq, there is no stable government...

And Britain and America are on the wrong side in Syria!!! If we succeed in getting rid of President Assad in Syria we will have a repetition of Iraq and Libya! I’m not defending Assad. But shortly after the uprising began, British television interviewed him and he said very strongly, “If I am defeated in Syria, if you don’t support me, the whole of the Middle East will go up in flames!” He repeated that statement only a few months ago.

This last Autumn I saw a BBC reporter speaking from Damascus, saying, “Assad and his family are westernised, he’s a secular leader of a religious sect. Under Assad, Christians were not persecuted. Minorities were not persecuted. Here in Damascus there is no persecution of minorities or Christians. But any group which overthrows Assad will become an extreme religious regime!”

Britain is supporting so-called ‘moderate’ Moslems opposing Assad. But out of that has come ISIS! Did you know, Al Qaeda was created by Bin Laden in 1988 – with the support of the Americans?! Al Qaeda received American and Saudi funding – to defeat the Russians in Afghanistan! Can you realise,

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today’s terror organisations have been created by us?!! ISIS has only come out of the chaos we Western nations have fostered! If we had not interferred in Iraq, in Libya and now in Syria, there would be no ISIS! We are actually creating the very terrorism we set out to fight!

Putin is defending Assad. We in the West are in opposition to Russia! But look how dangerous this is! – The real battle is not a public uprising against Assad, but a war across the whole region, Sunni against Shia. Shia supported by nations like Iran, and Sunni supported by Saudi Arabia! Russia is with Shia. We are with Sunni. It seems that a lot of the atrocities, supposedly committed by Assad, were actually deliberate acts to turn the West against him. So the ‘Christian’ West has entered into a vicious war which is between Moslem factions, Sunni and Shia, and killing the indigenous Christians!

Two million people are fleeing the wars in the Middle East – from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq, Syria – into Germany. Merkel is taking one million of them. And if Turkey will help control the migrant flow into Europe, the EU will allow Turkey free travel in Europe without visas!

77 million! But who are the Turks? Who are the migrants? Moslems. When Mohammed moved from Medina to take Mecca, how did he do it? Not by war, by MIGRATION! The Koran says every Moslem who migrates from their home to another country in order to bring Islam gets double reward in Heaven. Do you understand this mass migration? We are already in the Tribulation, and the four demons released in 2003 were the beginning of it. We are witnessing the beginning of the rape of Europe! Only the true believer in Jesus Christ is saved out of the Tribulation.

America has failed to bring peace in the Middle East. Now Russia has stepped in and is building an Empire with the Arabs.

Why? To take over the control of the whole region from the Americans! That’s why he’s supporting Assad in Syria! But the British and Americans are WRONG in Syria, the whole of the Middle East is exploding in flames just as Assad warned! We should have supported Assad from the beginning. If we had, there would be no ISIS, no migration. We made a terrible mistake. We are in the hands of God, because we are living in the fulfilment of prophecy.

And the next move from the Russians?

This will happen in our lifetimes. To get

influence over the Arab nations, Putin and Russia will eventually be persuaded to destroy Israel – because that is the only intention of Islam! Ezekiel 38:3-4 says, “Thus says the Lord God, Behold I am against you, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal... I will put hooks in your jaws and bring you forth... out of the north... together with Persia (Iran, Iraq, Syria), Ethiopia and Libya… against My People Israel...!”

Before Christ’s return the Temple will be rebuilt and the sacrifice resumed. The Orthodox Jews have shown us they are ready to do it (see my film, ‘The Stones Cry Out’). Three groups – Orthodox Jews, Freemasons, Christians – all have an interest to do it. The Jews have already prepared everything for the sacrifice in this new Temple. They are only waiting for the red heifer so that it can begin.

According to the Scripture, they WILL resume the sacrifices in the Temple.

When the Bible speaks of the rebuilding of the Temple in Ezekiel 44:1-4, it says the ‘prince’ will sit in it. We’ve always assumed that would be Messiah, Jesus.

But if they reinstate the sacrifice – it means Messiah is not there! Messiah WAS the sacrifice, He IS the sacrifice! We don’t sacrifice to Messiah! There is NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR SIN! So who will be in the Temple? – Who is this ‘prince’?

Antichrist! Moslems believe in the return of the 12th Mahdi, but the Koran also talks about ‘Isa’, Jesus... The Moslems say when this Jesus comes back he will convert the world to Islam! That’s their belief!

But that’s NOT our Jesus! – Antichrist will sit as ‘prince’ in the Temple!

I’m warning you. The Orthodox Jews say we are in the Messianic era. The Moslems are expecting ‘Isa’ – their version of Jesus according to the Koran – any time! The battle is close. Jerusalem is the problem. Read Zechariah 12:2-3, Joel 3:2! ALL nations WILL come AGAINST JERUSALEM. The scene is set. The church is asleep.

Take the parable of the 10 virgins, 5 wise, 5 foolish – Matt 25:1-12. If these virgins are the church, the church is asleep and only half get in the Kingdom! I’m sorry to say the ‘Church’ as an organisation is not the solution. God has to raise up people bigger than the Church who are one hundred percent on fire for God!

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Message of David Hathaway to the Jerusalem Summit of Conservative Apostolic Bishops 1.11.2015 We’re here in Jerusalem to remember the beginnings of the Church. The root of the Church is in the Acts of the Apostles, not in the ceremony of the Old Testament. The Church I want to be part of is the Church of the New Testament which began on the Day of Pentecost. Jesus appeared to His disciples after the resurrection and in Acts 1:4 He said, “Wait in Jerusalem for the promise of the Father which you have heard from Me. For John truly baptised in water...” Let me remind you that this baptism of John in water is a baptism of repentance by total immersion. Why? Paul explains in Romans and Colossians that we are buried with Christ in baptism – death! Christ went into the grave and He rose from the dead! We are bapUnder law, you can only be a witness if you have personally seen, heard or experienced something. Not because of what someone else has experienced. But YOU! YOU must be a witness of what YOU have experienced. Many years ago I was a pastor. But one day God challenged me and said, “Stop talking, I’m tired of listening to you!” I was an evangelist, a preacher, ordained, degrees...

But God said, “Forget all that. Go out and do everything you tell other people to do! And only come back when you have done it!” For fifty years I’ve been ‘out there’ doing it! Now I’m the witness of what God has done! It has to begin with a personal experience! When YOU receive the Holy Spirit, it will revolutionise your life until YOU become the witness of all that God has done!

What is my ambition? I’m an evangelist.

In the fivefold ministry, the evangelist is the last. And in the Kingdom, I’ll be the last one to get in, because I’m so busy looking for the lost. My one desire as an evangelist, having received the Holy

tised into water, symbolic of death with Christ, and we rise from the water into new life!

Jesus continued, “John baptised with water, but you shall be baptised in the Holy Ghost... You shall receive POWER after the Holy Ghost has come upon you and you shall be My WITNESSES in Jerusalem, in Judea, in Samaria, and in the rest of the world!” The importance of the Holy Spirit is twofold. First, He is the endowment of the baptism of POWER. Scripture is clear: after you receive the Holy Spirit you receive power, literally the power and the energy that motivated Jesus comes into us! But secondly, the purpose of this baptism is that we must be WITNESSES!

Spirit, is to win the lost sheep! That is the burden of my heart!

When I entered the communist prison in 1972, everything was taken from me. You are STRIPPED, your clothes, everything.

You are left with absolutely nothing.

Naked. That is a powerful experience.

You have NOTHING. Spiritually there has to come a time when we go through that experience before we can go forward.

Stripped of EVERYTHING. I found myself with the worst criminals. My best friend was a murderer. Without his help, I wouldn’t have survived. I shared a cell with drug smugglers, every kind of criminal. Then I understood the Gospel, that for God to love you and me, He had to send His Son, STRIPPED of everything – divested – STRIPPED like I was in that prison! He came with no extra power.

Eighteen months ago I was in prayer, walking around a lake in Austria, saying, “Oh God, I want to live like Jesus, I want to do what He did!” Now, before Jesus went to the cross He said to US, “YOU will do everything I have done, and more!”

Come on! How many of us are doing what Jesus did?! Let alone the greater things! I was walking around this lake, talking with the Lord. To me, praying is not reciting set prayers, it’s a conversation with an intimate friend who knows all your inner faults, who doesn’t see you just from the outside... My family do not see me as an evangelist – I’m their dad!

They know the real me! God doesn’t look on your bishop’s trappings, He doesn’t see the clothes you wear, He sees inside your heart!

My experience with God is a very personal one. I wouldn’t have survived in the prison for one month, let alone a year, if I didn’t have a very close relationship with the Lord. It was only 18 months ago, walking around that lake in Austria, that I was saying to Him, “Father, I want to do more than Jesus did!” It was then that I realised, Jesus did not come with all the glory of Heaven. He came as a baby, born of a woman. But don’t believe the pictures you see in some churches! He didn’t stay like that, as a baby. My Jesus is a man, with power and authority, who could bind and defeat the devil, who could fight every battle, a strong man, who died and rose as the Son of God. But He came in humility, with NOTHING! Everything that Jesus had on earth He received through His relationship with His Father through the Holy Spirit! Everything that I have MUST come from HIM! Not from my birth, not from my education. I don’t care if you are born poor, an orphan, a reject. Or born a king, a prince. What you are is NOTHING to do with your clothes, or your office, NOTHING to do with your position. All you have when you go out into the world is what you have and receive in your heart!

That’s all. It’s a very personal relationship.

Jesus said the Kingdom is not filled with

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the holy, the righteous! He said the invited guests never come into the Kingdom!

Jesus said the Kingdom is filled with the people from ‘out there’, the rejects, the outcasts – they are the ones we have to bring in. My first desire is to bring the lost into the Kingdom… …My other desire is this: to KNOW who God is. The Church doesn’t know Him! Religious ceremony is NOTHING to do with God. I HATE religion with a passion, because religion turns people away from God. The world out there does not like what it sees, and I don’t like it, because my God is not like this. The God I know is a God of power, of love, authority, a God who answers prayer, works miracles – that’s my God! My desire is to show THIS God to an unbelieving world! I challenge you, YOU have to show an unbelieving world who our God is! What kind of a God is He? Is He the God people see in religion? All dressed up – and empty inside?! That’s NOT my God! I have a burning passion to show the world who God is really is. To show His power. That’s why I want to see miracles of healing!

How else will the world out there know?!

What does the Bible say about Jesus? It says He was a man like you and me. But anointed of God. By miracles, by signs, by wonders. We have to show a world that sees God as a religious figure – that He is a God of love, power, forgiveness, a God of miracles! I’m emotional about it!

But you can never do it because of your clothes, your universities, your colleges, your religious education, your status…

I have seen university destroy the faith of some of my friends, including former pastors. Born again, strong Bible Believing Christians! Baptised in water, baptised in the Holy Spirt, went to Bible College, entered into full time ministry. But they let religion take over. It destroyed everything they had and left them with only the formality. Oh God deliver us from that kind of religion. Oh God, give us Jesus! The whole of everything you can have and everything you can want is only Jesus.

There is no other name under Heaven whereby men can be saved, only Jesus!

No other name, no other power. I only live because He lives! I want to show the unbelieving world out there – whether it’s Israel, Russia, wherever it is – I want to show them the Son of God, Jesus, in reality! In my life! And YOU have to live like that, until they see Jesus – in YOU. Not religion. Not empty words. Oh God, shake us, change us! We need a baptism of FIRE! The Holy Ghost and FIRE! Until we

burn up and explode with the Fire!

I first started preaching in the church when I was 13 years old. I printed flyers, invited the people in, got the musicians, preached the Word – and nobody repented. The only purpose of my preaching was to bring men to Christ.

Can you tell me any other reason for preaching?! I went home disillusioned.

My father, a great man of God, converted in the Welsh revival, sat me down and said: “When the Holy Spirit is come, He – not you David, not you Bishops – He, the Holy Spirit, He will convict the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgement. Shut up until you have received the Holy Spirit.” From that moment I fasted, I prayed – for three months. I learnt the biggest lesson of my life: In the early days of my going to Russia, the milk cart would arrive in the street, the housewife would take her own jug, and they would fill it up. What did she take? She emptied the dirty water out of the jug, cleaned it, so that when it was filled, it was filled with pure milk. If you want the Holy Spirit, empty everything out! If you want the same baptism of Fire that I have, don’t come half full of the world, the flesh!

Clean yourself up first! Then God will fill you. It will transform your life! I came here to Jerusalem in 1961 because I still wasn’t satisfied. I was a pastor, an evangelist, baptised in the Holy Spirit when I was 13.

But I wanted more! Another baptism of Fire! And why do I pray now? – Because I still want more Fire! Prayer is no formality to me. I look at the desperate world out there and I want more authority, more of the Fire and the Power of God. Now look at the Church. The Church is the Body of Christ – and the Bride of Christ!

God help you if a man gets married to a girl unless he’s in love with her! When I married my wife, she was in love with me.

There used to be a beautiful song, ‘The Bride sees not her garment, but her dear Bridegroom’s face!’ Yes, the Bride is beautifully dressed, but she’s only got eyes for the Groom! – That’s how it should be with the Church and Christ! The Greek word for

Church, ecclesia, means ‘called out and chosen’. The Bride of Christ will not be the Catholic or Orthodox Church, or the Lutheran or Charismatic Church – the Bride of Christ is called OUT! Out of the world, out of religion... I don’t want to go back. I want to go forward – to meet Jesus! And if you have met Jesus, you will want to introduce Him to everybody else!

You need to have a very personal relationship with Him! It’s not Church, it’s not religion, it’s Jesus! The only thing that is important is not how you dress up, it’s not your office or your position, it’s your relationship with Jesus, and how you share Him with others!

My life and my ministry is to show who the real Jesus is. I didn’t like the image I saw in the church here in Jerusalem – a woman, ‘Queen of Heaven’, with a small baby on her lap, saints gazing adoringly up at HER – do you realise the idolatry?

Mary more important than Jesus?! Who called the disciples, healed the sick, raised the dead, died and rose again?

Who said He would baptise them with the Holy Ghost and Fire?! No I do not pray to saints and images, I only want to know the MAN Christ Jesus, Son of the Living God, who is the only Lord of my life! Nothing, no one else!

As I flew in to Israel yesterday for this summit, I had a song in my heart, ‘In robes of white I don’t deserve, I live to serve Your Majesty.’ Let’s live to serve Him and show the world who He is! The secret of my evangelism (we are drawing the largest crowds of unbelievers in Europe) is that they want what I have – my Jesus! I love Him! I live to serve Him. And in serving Him I shall preach the Gospel. The coming of Christ is sooner than any of you realise. I want you to be ready when He comes! I charge you with the simplicity of the Gospel. The Gospel Jesus preached was so simple. Not theology. Not religion. I only want to preach Jesus. I’m an evangelist, I don’t wear fancy clothes, I only have Jesus. I want a white robe – but I want Him to give it to me – when He comes.

The Jerusalem Summit met to prepare and sign an International Interdenominational Charter in support of Israel, Biblical family life and persecuted Christians.

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Romans 1:20 Last summer I spent a couple of days with my brother – as a boy he was a mathematical whizz-kid, but not me! This is how I found myself, one evening, watching a programme on quantum physics with him. My brother dozed off and I was struggling to get my head round all this complicated stuff… When suddenly the eyes of my understanding popped open! I was fully awake!

It was not so much what the presenter was saying, but what God began to say that entered deep into my heart…

Scientists know how to change matter into energy, but no one has ever yet discovered how to change energy into matter!

Energy, the scientists say, can neither be created, nor destroyed. It has neither beginning nor end. Energy IS. God IS. His Name – I AM! God IS energy, He is POWER! One of the two words used in the New Testament for God’s power is ‘energeo’ – energy! God is the uncreated energy, without beginning or end, that created this whole visible and invisible universe!

Wow! Scientists recognise that the basis of ALL living things is a written code… Speech! God SAID and it was so! Everything, visible and invisible, has been made out of God’s invisible, incorruptible Word! Our Jesus – Who became flesh, died and rose for the forgiveness of our sins – is the invisible Word of God – without beginning and without end – through Whom and for Whom ALL things in Heaven and on earth have been created – in Whom we live and move and have our being! Don’t take my word for it. Read John 1:1-4,10,14! Read Colossians 1:15-17!

And 1 Cor 8:6! Without HIM – JESUS – was not anything made that was made!!! Wow! That’s POWER! Think about it!!!

How can I describe that night last summer, when I opened my bedroom curtains and in the deep velvet blackness, so close, so large, the full silver moon, as if God Himself had hung this silver disc within my hand’s reach! Wow! My God made that – out of nothing, only by His Word!

How can I describe the tubby sparrow that hopped onto my coffee table on the banks of the Danube this last autumn, eyes darting, breast beating? – I could have stretched out and cupped his life in my hands! Wow! My Jesus made that! And as I looked at all the people strolling up and down the riverside in the warm sunshine, I wondered how Jesus, Maker of all, felt when He, as a man, saw and touched what He had made?!!

I’m thrilled!

And as I think about these things, I’m struck by the tenderness, amazement and passion with which John and Peter wrote about SEEING, HEARING, TOUCHING this Jesus, THROUGH WHOSE POWERFUL WORD ALL THINGS ARE MADE!!! This Jesus is not like you or me, He’s not Mohammed, Buddha, or any other religious leader – He made everything! By the WORD of His POWER! John, the closest disciple, says with emotion in His Gospel (John 1:10), “The WORD was made flesh and dwelt among US! – WE SAW HIS GLORY!” He writes to us in his letter (1 John 1:1-4), “That which was from the BEGINNING (of time, before Creation) – we HEARD Him, we SAW Him WITH OUR OWN EYES, we LOOKED upon Him, and OUR HANDS TOUCHED Him, the WORD OF LIFE – WE HAVE SEEN THE LIFE and BEAR WITNESS, and we want to show you that ETERNAL LIFE which was with the Father and was shown to US! – We declare and write to you what we have SEEN and HEARD, SO THAT YOUR JOY MAY BE FULL!!!”

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Katie Morris And Peter, who was with John on the Mount of Transfiguration and saw Jesus in His Glory, was also passionate to leave behind a true record, that after his death we would ALWAYS to remember these things, writing in his letter: “We didn’t follow cunningly invented fables when we made known to you the POWER and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were EYEWITNESSES of His Majesty! We were with Him on the Holy Mount when we HEARD the Voice from the Majestic Glory, from Heaven saying, ‘This is My Son in whom I am well pleased!’” – 2 Peter 1:15-18.

Back in the late 1990s I remember David was invited to speak in a church, a lovely church, here in the UK – to tell about the power of God, the power that he has seen and experienced all his life. The songs were about the power of God. The banners in the church were about the power of God. Almighty God! But I felt sick and weak inside, because I sensed that in this place, the people, and also I myself who had seen the incredible power of God so many times, were there empty – singing empty words…

I’ve thought a lot about that. Even as born-again, Biblebelieving Christians, so often we believe with our heads. Yes, of course we know God is Creator, He made everything. But in our hearts is a ‘worm’ that comes from our school days and from our godless, materialistic society in which we live. This worm eats away at our faith in the Word of God… Some big bang… evolution… the heavy weights of life which crush us day by day… Even for us who ‘believe’, the reality of what we experience in this world is SO strong… the Word, the Power of God seems SO weak in contrast… We read the Scripture, we sing the words, ‘Nothing is impossible!’ But in our lives, somehow, that’s not true…

But something happened inside me last summer. One morning I crossed the barrier from where it is ‘stupid to believe for the impossible’ to where it’s ‘STUPID NOT TO BELIEVE FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE’! My son saw that moment. He read my eyes as I did his – I had crossed over! And I’m not crossing back!

God planted the seed of this in my heart many years ago, in 1991, when He said to me, “Do not attempt to work things out.

YOU WILL BELIEVE IN THE IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT QUESTION ‘HOW’ – I AM HOW!” – Wow! Finally! I am nearly there… …God has made and makes EVERYTHING from NOTHING, out of NOTHING, by the simple POWER of His WORD – the Holy Spirit and Jesus working together! God’s Energy, God’s Word! That’s HOW! What He says He does! Nothing, absolutely nothing is impossible for God! How STUPID to think that it is! Yes, it may be impossible for me – but with God ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE! He made EVERYTHING! I’ve been seeking God together with a friend who is fighting cancer for the fifth time. Ten years ago, God healed her by a miracle. Now here it is again. A challenge. The reason it’s easier to believe for small things is because our faith in God’s unlimited power is – well, extremely limited!!! It’s easier for us to believe for something as close as possible to the relatively normal… But Scripture is clear, and the whole evidence of our vast universe agrees, nothing is too difficult for the energy, purpose and plan of God! How stupid to think there’s stuff He can’t do!!!

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