Prophetic Vision, Autumn 2017, #85

David Hathaway No 85 Autumn 2017

Interviewer: I have a question about mass media and information technologies. We can see that the understanding people have about their lives is not based on real facts but on a picture created by the mass media. How does this interpretation of facts, tailored for some purpose which we do not know, influence our understanding of reality?

Where is the journalistic responsibility for this? Information technologies surround us everywhere – gadgets, phones, computers – we even have churches on the internet. Will this destroy normal human relationships? How dangerous do you think it is?

David: This is a very big question with no simple answer! My perspective as an older person will be very different from the younger generation! What is clear – and Donald Trump has played on this – is that there is ‘false news’. There has always been propaganda and biased news. But today the media is distorting, changing facts, on an unprecedented scale. You can search Google for anything, but the answers you get are not necessarily correct – only some person’s unconfirmed opinion. There are so many voices!

Before modern means of communication, in the old military days, the commands were given by a trumpet, and the Bible says, if the trumpet gives a false sound, the army doesn’t know whether to go forward – or go back!

Today we have that kind of confusion in the media. Something happens, many witnesses, many opinions – informed and uninformed! One section of the media is very positive, the other totally negative, this spin and that spin – but they’re looking at the same thing! With the rise of mass media, many people are only communicating this way! I’ve got grandchildren and greatgrandchildren – they’re no longer communicating face to face, but doing it on the smart phone, on the social network sites. Even the adults! We’re losing the sense of reality in our communication; through the mass media it becomes distorted. Mass social movements are being manipulated this way.

‘False news’ is a very serious problem. It is said that elections in any country are affected by ‘false news’. Information is

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released – by someone – and circulated – to influence the outcome… In America, Hillary Clinton claims that, if it wasn’t for ‘false information’ on the media, she would have won the election. You and I don’t know… But it does illustrate the interference of the media.

There is no election in the world today where this is not happening! Our Labour leader in Britain complained bitterly about this and said, “I must appear in public and speak to the people myself so that they can see who I really am.”

Then see what happened – within four weeks, people’s opinions changed!

Apply this in a spiritual sense. The danger, even in the Church, is that our relationship with God is not direct, it’s through somebody else. Whether in the Catholic Church through the Pope, or independent movements with their man at the top, it’s not right that you look to a substitute for your own direct relationship with God! The Bible is clear on this.

It even speaks about ‘media’ because it speaks of a ‘mediator’ – in English these words share the same root meaning.

The Bible says, if you want the Truth, the Biblical, spiritual Truth – then Jesus, the Son of God, is the only Mediator between God and you. Not a priest. Not a man ‘holier’ than you. This is dangerous. In my ministry, I try to stress that YOU must have a direct personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ. I see thousands of miracles of healing, but I always tell the people, “I’m not a healer! I’ve never healed anybody. Jesus is the Healer!” I’m turning people to Jesus.

Not to look at me. I want to disappear.

I want people to see Him! Because you only get the Truth direct from Him! If you want to find Him, go to the Scriptures, because the written Bible is the Word of God! I trust it as the Word of God! But you must find an accurate translation!

And what better for you than to talk to Him personally! A personal relationship!

This is one of the difficulties with the mass media – indirect, confused communication.

But I see a bigger danger in the future, because the Bible says there will come a time when nobody will be able to buy or sell without a mark (a chip), in the forehead or in the hand. This chip exists.

In England it has to be put in every horse, every dog. In some companies,

or secure installations, you can only get in if you have a chip in your hand. In Sweden, an implanted chip can be used instead of a ticket on the trains and buses!

Computers and mobile phones can be hacked. Recently someone hacked into Microsoft and affected 99 countries, even shut down the British Health Service, closed factories – even Russia was affected! This is so dangerous because we are too dependent on computer systems. Can you see the danger if we had the chip? It could control us. CONTROL by something, someone, unseen.

On the positive side, the mass media has been an important means of presenting the Gospel. How did I reach Russia? Through secular television, we reached 80 percent of Russia! I visited over 200 individual cities. But with television, I reached all the places I could never go to! Now we use the internet and social sites, very positively. But we have reached a dangerous situation when an ‘unknown’ source can control our systems. Recently when my office computer was ‘faulty’ I allowed the company which installed the system to ‘take control’ from another city and examine my computer! And what about these downloads which come overnight? It is Microsoft – but who is in control, we don’t know…

As a Christian I have some serious concerns. Science and technology are developing too fast! Where is it going? Where will we end up? Nobody knows. I have spent a lot of time in prayer and my conclusion is, somewhere there must be some power that is taking CONTROL – and the Bible shows, there is a spiritual battle going on for the CONTROL of this world!

The Bible says GOD CREATED THIS WORLD, Genesis 1:1. But according to the Bible, the Archangel Lucifer is Prince of this world! He REBELLED AGAINST GOD, was cast out of HEAVEN and cast down to the earth where he sought to make this world his kingdom in opposition to God – and God destroyed it, Genesis 1:2! Empty. Void! Then, in verse 3, we have the new creation – 6,000 years ago – God recreates and restores the earth, Genesis 1:3-19, and refills it

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David Hathaway interviewed in Israel with life, Genesis 1:20-28. The Bible only accounts for these last six thousand years – but way back in the beginning (maybe millions of years ago), the battle was between God and Lucifer! This does not conflict with science – but we do not need to know what happened under Lucifer, dinosaurs etc. I do not believe in evolution. I believe only God is the Creator.

But Lucifer comes back on the scene.

He’s the one we call Satan or the devil.

After the first creation was destroyed, GOD PUT MAN – ADAM AND EVE – IN CONTROL OF THE WORLD, Genesis 1:28.

And Satan comes along, Genesis 3:1.

He tempts Adam and Eve – it’s not really about eating ‘apples’, it’s about REBELLION against God’s authority. This is what Satan said, “Has God said?”

Doubt! “Did God say, ‘Don’t’? – Do you believe Him? – REBEL! Eat the apple! Eat it!” – And they did! REBELLION! Against God! So suddenly LUCIFER HAS GOT CONTROL OVER MAN! And for 6000 years this battle has been fought, God on one side, the devil on the other side, man in the middle – WHO CONTROLS YOU? After 2000 years there was another flood (see Genesis 1:2, then Genesis 7:17). But it didn’t stop the REBELLION. Two more thousand years – still REBELLION. And God sends His own Son. It’s very interesting what the Bible says: GOD SENT JESUS AS A SECOND ADAM! The first Adam failed, sided with the devil – in REBELLION against God. So after 4000 years, God sent a second Adam, Jesus. He is the only one – because He is literally the Son of God – who is in total obedience.

But it’s a fight. And at the moment, the devil’s winning. I see mass media in this context. What is it doing? It’s spreading REBELLION against God. As an evangelist, I have to study people. I have to assess what my job is, what the problem is. The mass media has made God irrelevant. Communication? Don’t ask God, ask Google! Ask Alexa, ask Siri. Today you get all your answers, not from the Bible, from Google! People don’t talk to God, they don’t need Him! The whole of society lives without God! But the central thing that is forgotten is SIN! The message of the Bible is not only obedience to God, but before obedience, there must be repentance, then forgiveness and then relationship. WHEN WE REPENT OF OUR SIN, WHEN WE ASK GOD FOR HIS FORGIVENESS – WE BECOME PART OF HIS KINGDOM! So with mass media, I take a much wider view, because I know that very shortly, the battle for control will be finished – Jesus comes back and rules the world! And the devil is put in chains and held in prison! For 1000 years there will be no temptation, no problem, no sin, no sickness, the world will be perfect, the lion and the lamb will lie down together, no more guns – only farming and agricultural equipment – the world will be at peace – it’s wonderful! Bible Believing Christians can see this.

But if I ask the question of politicians and people, “How do you see the future?” –

Who knows, with mass media, what IS going to happen?!! Right now, mass media has more power than our governments! Russia does not allow political rebellion – but recently through the mass media, huge numbers of people on one single day gathered in cities all over Russia to protest! In the West, how is terrorism spreading? Through the mass media. There is a powerful undercurrent in society which cannot be controlled, radicalising people, morally and politically. In England, a man born here, is radicalised, kills people… It’s coming from the mass media... IF WE ARE NOT CAREFUL, IF GOD DOES NOT INTERVENE, THE WORLD WILL BECOME CONTROLLED, NOT BY KNOWN POLITICAL POWERS, NOT

BY ARMIES, BUT BY AN UNSEEN POWER. LUCIFER! For the Christian, it’s so different. Our future is in Jesus. I believe in my lifetime Christ will come. I believe it so strongly, I will not allow myself to grow old, or to die, because I have such a clear picture of what went wrong, of what God’s purpose is, and of what God’s future is.

The only solution is when God demonstrates His final control in Christ, overthrows the world’s governments, defeats the power of Satan – and for 1000 years the earth will be restored to what it was on the Day of Creation in the Garden of Eden. My future is with God – when He comes. NOT IN HEAVEN – BUT HERE ON EARTH – with Him!

THE WHOLE CALL OF EVANGELISM, THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF EVANGELISM, THE WHOLE MESSAGE OF THE CHURCH IS TO STOP THE REBELLION, AND FOR US TO SUBMIT OURSELVES AND SURRENDER TO GOD’S WILL, GOD’S PLAN, GOD’S PURPOSE.

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David Hathaway interviewed in Israel Interviewer: October 31 2017 is a very – it was the old building David Hathaway on ‘Reformation 500’ Cathedral 2017 significant date. Protestants all over the before it was destroyed by the Great world are celebrating 500 years of Fire of London and there were no seats – Reformation since 1517. What does this with another 20,000 who couldn’t get in, mean to the Church, remembering that standing outside – desperate to hear the the reforming theologian of the twentiTruth of the Word of God! eth century, Karl Barth, said, ‘The Church is ALWAYS being renewed’? What do But when I look at the Church today, I you think he meant? And what do you do not believe it reflects the Church of think it means to be renewed nowathe New Testament! My own strong perdays? sonal belief is that we should be living in the power of the Holy Spirit as in the David: I have spent some time studying days of the Acts of the Apostles. I would this whole question and I believe it is so say, that of all the books of the Bible, the important. In England 500 years ago, the Acts of the Apostles was never finished – Church was never fully reformed. But difbecause you and I should be still writing ferent Bible Truths were brought in at difit until Christ comes! I was recently in a ferent times: in 1641 the Baptist movechurch claiming to be in renewal. After I ment in Britain restored water baptism had finished preaching and giving my by full immersion for believers (not infant testimony, one of the leaders of the baptism as practised in the Church); in church challenged me. He said he the 1700s the Methodist movement couldn’t agree with me completely, nor restored mass evangelism resulting in a believe my testimony of the power of personal changed life; in the 1820s the God in my life and ministry – because in Brethren brought the focus back to the his experience with God, (as also so absolute importance of the Word of many others today), God’s power is less God; in 1907/8 the Pentecostal movethan it was 2000 years ago, His power is ment restored the Baptism in the Holy weaker, diminished... I don’t agree.

Spirit with the evidence of speaking in When we BELIEVE God, His power is tongues and all the gifts of the Holy stronger!

Spirit; in the 1960s the Charismatic movement – the gifts of the Holy Spirit availAs an evangelist, I HAVE to think about able to all – in any denomination. But I these questions, I HAVE to spend a lot of would say, after 500 years since the time talking to God in prayer. I don’t ‘Reformation’, the WHOLE CHURCH want to follow any other man, I just want NEEDS A REFORMATION NOW, DESPERto be following Jesus, and the example ATELY! Not just a renewing, or refreshing, of who He is and what He did! I don’t ask it HAS to be a REFORMATION. people to follow me, I am not a holy man, I am as Paul said once, ‘chief I discovered that in Britain, twenty years among sinners’! I just want you to follow before Luther’s famous 95 Theses, an Jesus! We should not be following Oxford Professor, Thomas Linacre, learnt Bishops, Archbishops, Popes nor great Greek in order to compare the original Greek text with the many, many corrupted manuscripts of the Church’s Latin translations. It was in the early 1490s.

When he read the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles in the original Greek, he was so shocked with what he found, he wrote in his diary, “Either this (the original Greek) is not the Gospel… or we are not Christians!” – That is, if the Church was right, then the Greek New Testament was a lie! If the Greek New Testament is right, then the Church is wrong. That’s an incredible statement! The Church’s teaching at the time of the Reformation was so far from the Scripture!

preachers and evangelists. Surely their purpose, their ministry is to point us to Jesus so that we can simply become followers, disciples of Jesus! No one can take His place!

What Jesus said to His disciples, very clearly, was: “Wait in Jerusalem until you receive the Holy Spirit. When He – that is the Person of the Holy Spirit – is come, YOU WILL DO THE SAME THINGS I DO, IN FACT YOU WILL DO MORE!” So the expectation of the Church should be that you will do the same things Jesus did – and more! And more! And more!

My ambition – is to do what Jesus did! To show the world the power of God! The Church today NEEDS ANOTHER REFORMATION! The sayings and teachings of men cannot be equal to or superior to the Scripture. And we cannot revise Scripture to conform to modern thinking.

We need to get back to the Authority of the Bible. The Church after all has only ONE Authority – it’s the Word of God! Whatever Church, whatever denomination! It’s not the word of men, it’s the Word of God. When you put the teachings and opinions of men above the Word of God – you need REFORMATION! We MUST get back to the original Word of God! Yes, some say the Church needs a constant renewing. I would go further. I don’t want to see the Church just celebrating 500 years since the Reformation on October 31 this year, I would like to see another, REAL, reformation – I would like to see the Church get back to the Authority of the Word of God!

At the very same time as Thomas Linacre was studying the original Scriptures, another Oxford Professor, John Colet, began to translate the Greek New Testament, publicly, out loud, directly into English, in St Paul’s Cathedral in London. People were so amazed at what they heard, that 20,000 would stand packed inside the

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David Hathawa The seriousness of the war situation in Ukraine concerns me – I have watched for four years the fighting in the East – the military and the politicians cannot stop it – last December I was on the frontline, preaching the Gospel, the guns were firing, the shells were going over my head – but I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! It IS the power of God! My whole life is to see the demonstration of God’s power – I see so many miracles, so many people healed, every kind of miracle – because the miracle is in the Gospel I preach! The power is not in me, I’m not a ‘holy’ man. The power is in the Word of God! The Authority is in the Word of God! The whole purpose of my life is to demonstrate, wherever I go, the love and power of Jesus Christ with signs following. Jesus is alive today! He has power today! AND – WITH HIM – NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE! Last year, seeing the devastating effect of the war in Ukraine, I challenged the whole nation with 2 Chronicles 7:14 – where God says, “If My people who are called by My Name will humble themselves and pray and confess their sin, I will hear from Heaven and heal their land.”

That’s the promise of God, the Word of God! I challenged the religious leaders in Ukraine, separated because of their different traditions and doctrines, “Let us unite on the Authority of the Bible and in the Name of Jesus and let us pray together!” On 27 May this year 9000 people came together in one place, with – on the platform – the heads of every Christian denomination, men who, until the first National Day of Prayer last year, had never publicly prayed together before – united on the Authority of the Bible, the Power of the Word of God, and the Name of Jesus!

I was the last speaker. I said, “I was with you under communism. I brought

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you Bibles, two tonnes at a time!

I suffered with you. I was in one of your communist prisons. But I KNEW you would be set free – and God delivered you – it was not by military or political power – it was the power of praying Christians! And today, here in this Sport Palace, is a miracle – a nation united on the Truth of the Word of God and in prayer! There is no other Western so-called ‘Christian’ country where all denominations are ready to come together on the Word of God and Salvation ONLY in the Name of Jesus! The Bible says, there is NO other Name under Heaven by which men shall be saved! That’s the Word of God! The miracle in Ukraine is only beginning, God WILL heal this nation – and Ukrainians will bring the power of God, the power that is in the Name of Jesus, to the rest of Europe!”

THE MIRACLE OF THIS SECOND NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER is that, this year, it was supported even by the Ukraine Government! In the morning, before the prayer, several leaders of the Baptist and Pentecostal evangelical denominations and I, because we had taken the initiative to bring ALL the denominations together, had a private meeting with the Representative of the President of Ukraine. He presented each of us with an award from the President himself in recognition of our work for the nation!

But this meeting was filmed and shown on several of the main TV channels! The Representative of the President said on his behalf, live to camera and broadcast to the nation, something that I have never heard said in any other European nation: “THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE HAVE CHOSEN THE CHURCH AND GOD – NOW THE GOVERNMENT MUST DO THE SAME, WE MUST RESPECT THE CHOICE OF THE PEOPLE!” – This comes from the President of a nation that, until 25 years ago, was for seventy years ruled by a totally atheistic, anti-God com-

munist regime!!! A nation where Christians were denied normal human rights and imprisoned for their faith and died in their hundreds of thousands! A nation where Khrushchev boasted he would parade the last living Christian on television! But after only 25 years since the freedom came in 1991, the power of God has come upon this nation! And this nation is so touched by the Spirit of God, that in the Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast a few days after our National Day of Prayer, every member of Parliament, every member of the Government who spoke, quoted from the Bible and prayed to our God! After ONLY 25 years such a change has come! “I BELIEVE GOD WANTS TO TAKE UKRAINE AND DEMONSTRATE TO THE WORLD THE POWER OF GOD TO CHANGE A NATION!” – This is what I declared from the platform on 27 May in the National Day of Prayer!

But this is my prayer for the whole of Europe! France was the first European country to reject God when the French Revolution brought about a separation between Church and State. When I was a boy at school, it was written in our history books that the only thing which saved Britain from the French Revolution was the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ by John and Charles Wesley! My teacher was an ungodly atheist, but he taught this! Our history in Britain records the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to save a nation! That’s why I love to say with Apostle Paul: I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, for in the preaching of the Gospel – the Good News – is ALL the power of God, all the wisdom of God, all the miracles of God, all the glory of God – it’s in the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus!

If you want to release the power of God, this power is in the Name of Jesus!

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“The people have chosen God, the Government respects this!”

“If My people who are called by My Name will humble themselves and pray and confess their sin, I will hear from Heaven and heal their land.”

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National Day of Prayer broadcast seen by the President of Ukraine. Government Ministers attended.

Every part of the National Sport Palace in Kiev filled: nine thousand attended, supported by the leaders of every Christian denominations, a mass choir and orchestra of over 250 musicians, over 400 ushers, also police and security.

LIVE broadcast: on New Christian Channel and Hope-TV Channel across whole of Europe; on CNL Ukraine across whole of Ukraine; and on Radio Emmanuil across whole of Europe.

News reports about the National Day of Prayer carried by major Ukrainian News Channels: NewsOne; TV24; Five Channel; and Kiev Municipal Channel – TRK Kiev.

LIVE Facebook link: watched by more than 30,000 viewers.

LIVE YouTube link: watched by more than 4000 viewers.

Yuriy Bogutskiy, representative of the President, Petro Poroshenko, said live on TV: “THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE HAVE CHOSEN THE CHURCH AND GOD – NOW THE GOVERNMENT MUST DO THE SAME, WE RESPECT THE CHOICE OF THE PEOPLE!”

All this – in a nation where one of the leaders of one of the Pentecostal Unions today, was told in front of his class at school, “Better to be the son of a criminal than the son of a Christian!”

All this – in a nation where Khrushchev, former leader of the Soviet Union, boasted he would parade the last living Christian on television!

All this – because, as David says, “The Kingdom of God is not in word alone, it is in power, 1 Corinthians 4:20! Power when a whole nation, from the Government, to the poorest orphan, will humble themselves and unite together in prayer

to God on the Authority of the Bible – 2 Chronicles 7:14 – where God says, “If My people who are called by My Name will humble themselves and pray and confess their sin, I will hear from Heaven and heal their land.” That’s the promise of God, the Word of God! Ukraine is a powerful miracle!

God – HAS touched the whole nation! Five days after the National Day of Prayer David was a guest at the Presidential Prayer Breakfast in Ukraine. There were over 300 there, members of the government, church leaders, key leaders in society. Members of the Parliament read from the Bible, even expounded the Word of God, and all prayed!

AND IN THIS NATION, UKRAINE, THE GOVERNMENT HAS DECLARED NEXT YEAR, 2018,

‘THE YEAR OF THE WORD OF GOD’!

David has never experienced anything like this, where a nation, from the Government to the poorest orphan, has turned to God – as this nation is doing! Yet from the steps where the President’s Prayer Breakfast was held, with his old friend Bishop Anatoliy Gavriluk, David looked across the road to the Dynamo Stadium. In 1992 he was the first ever in the history of this godless atheistic nation to take it – with Anatoliy’s help – for evangelism! It was still less than one year after the freedom had come in Ukraine! The next year David rented it again for one day – there were several thousand people outside, waiting to get in, but the police had blocked the gates! No one was allowed in! But David had the contract, it was signed and

fully paid for! At the very moment when he announced a March for Jesus through the streets of Kiev instead, the atheist Minister of Religious Affairs stood by his side as if he had appeared out of the sky. “No, out of the bushes,” Anatoliy corrected him. “Better in the stadium than in the streets,” the Minister said – and threw open the gates to let everyone in for the preaching of the Gospel! But after that public confrontation, the Minister had the KGB follow David everywhere we went to hold evangelism, to hinder him, and twice sent assassins to kill him – in 1997 in Kherson and 1998 in Lvov. Today even they admit, in those days David was ‘Public Enemy No 1’! Now the present Minister of Religious Affairs tells David with a smile, “We are like a subdivision of the Biblical Society – we want Bibles to be distributed in every school and college!” And 2018 is to be the Year of the Word of God!!! See what God can do in a nation that turns to Him!

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“THE PEOPLE HAVE CHOSEN GOD – THE GOVERNMENT RESPECTS THIS.” David says: God’s power is the same today as 2000 years ago! Our God is alive! He is a prayer-answering God! In Deuteronomy 4:29, God says, “If, from where you are” – in your pain, even in your sin, not ‘if you are in a holy place’ – the biggest miracles I see are not in a church, but outside, in the street, in my communist prison – God says, “IF, from where you are, you will call on Me, I will answer

you!” Miracles will happen! God answers me when I pray, not because I’m a ‘holy’ man, but because I believe the Bible, I believe the Word of God, the Power of God – and God always keeps His Word! God does not fail! God loves YOU, whoever you are, whatever your problem – IF, from where you are, you will call upon HIM, He will answer you.

God so near! He’s here!

HOSEN THE CHURCH AND GOD!”

So much of the Bible is prophecy – and so much has already been fulfilled! I was taught at Bible College that the Old Testament contains 137 prophecies about the First Coming of Christ – and over 200 prophecies about His Second Coming as King to rule the world.

When Jesus was born, wise men from the East came looking for He who was ‘born King of the Jews’. When Christ died, the inscription on His cross, written in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, declared, ‘JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS’. The prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27, given by Gabriel to him towards the end of the exile in Babylon and upon which all calculations of the coming of Messiah have been based, refers in verse 26 to this very moment of His crucifixion, ‘Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself’.

Jesus’ entire message was the ‘Kingdom of God’. Judas, being in charge of the common purse and believing so strongly that Jesus would be King over Israel in his life-time, thought he would become Minister of Finance! When Jesus told His disciples He must first suffer and die, that He was not yet going to set up the Kingdom, Judas was so disappointed, he didn’t just quit, he sold Him to the Chief Priests for 30 shekels of silver! Not only Judas believed in the immediate Kingdom. After the resurrection, when Jesus appeared to the disciples in Acts 1:4-8, saying, “Wait in Jerusalem until you receive the Holy Spirit and power and become My witnesses all over the world!” – their first reaction, verse 6 was, “Will You at this time restore the Kingdom to Israel?” Today there is a danger in the

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Church that too many are interested in the money and the worldly power and so many don’t understand, the purpose of the Holy Spirit is to prepare for the coming Kingdom of God on earth!

From beginning to end the Bible is the story of two cities – Jerusalem and Babylon – two kingdoms, the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ (Revelation 11:15) and the ‘kingdoms of this world’, Antichrist’s.

Today we are living in a prophetic age.

The continent of Europe has its origins in pagan Greek culture. In the days of Jesus, Greek was the common international language in the Middle East, as the Jews had been under Greek rule for nearly 300 years (the Romans with their Latin language did not seize control of the Holy Land until 68 BC). For this reason, the whole of the New Testament was not written in Hebrew (or even Latin), but in Greek. The name of the continent, Europe (Europa), comes from Greek culture, from the myth known as ‘The Rape of Europe’ in which Europa is a princess raped by the father of the gods in the form of a bull who rides off with her on his back; she becomes the ‘Queen of Heaven’, and in the night skies is the constellation of ‘Taurus’ – the bull, the father of the gods who went back into Heaven! Shortly before the time of Christ, there were Greek coins in circulation showing this woman Europa riding on the bull! The identical image is on the Greek 2-euro coin today! In the New Testament, in Revelation 17, John is shown this very same woman from the Greek myth of the Rape of Europe – on

the beast – and she is named ‘MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT, MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH – with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication’! The European Union openly identifies itself with this revelation given to John: all over Europe you find this image of the woman on the beast – sculptures outside the Council of Europe in Brussels and in the squares of many European cities, on the ECU and euro coins, on the old 5 Deutsch Mark bank note, on stamps, telephone cards, it was even painted on the Berlin Wall! To fully understand, see my film, ‘The Rape of Europe’!

The other major symbol of the EU comes from the Old Testament, the Tower of Babel (or Babylon). In Genesis 11, shortly after the flood, Nimrod builds the Tower of Babel – in REBELLION against God! He was developing a world empire, which God had to destroy and scatter the people across the face of the earth, confusing their language lest, in their unity, it would be easier to renew and continue their REBELLION against God’s authority on earth. In 2000 why did the EU build the Parliament Building in Strasbourg as a replica of the Tower of Babel? I’ve been there, seen it! When I asked, they told me, “We built the Parliament Building in the image of the Tower of Babel to finish what we failed to do 3000 years ago!” – REBELLION against God! They also produced a poster showing the Tower of Babel (as in a computer-generated image with robot-like computerised people), surrounded by the stars of the European Union, but inverted, with Satan in the ascendency, and the words written on it, ‘MANY TONGUES ONE VOICE’! The demonic purpose – to bring the nations of this world into REBELLION against God! God gave Daniel, whilst serving the King of Babylon during the Jewish exile, the gift both to tell Nebuchandezzar the details of the dream that had troubled him, and give him a clear interpretation – Daniel 2. In the dream Nebuchadnezzar had seen an image representing succeeding world empires, beginning with himself, the King of Babylon, the head of gold, then the chest and arms of silver (the MedoPersian Empire), the belly and thighs of bronze (the Greek Empire), then the legs of iron (the Roman Empire – fulfilled in the days of Christ on earth), and finally the feet, part iron, part clay (the

David Hathaway European Union today). You should see my film! By the third century AD, the Roman Emperor declared Christianity as the ‘official religion’ of the Roman Empire, Church and State became one!

And after the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fourth century AD, the power of the Roman Empire entered into the Church, ‘two legs’, the Roman Catholic Church in the West, and the Orthodox Church in the East! Both these Churches exist today.

But what about the feet of iron and clay?

The feet are the final Empire – which, Daniel says, will only be destroyed by the ‘Stone not made with hands’! The Rock, Christ Jesus! The European Union will last and cannot be destroyed – until it is destroyed by Jesus Christ when He sets up His Kingdom on His return! So today we’re living in this last Empire, a European Empire. But you cannot mix iron and clay, the strong with the weak.

Even now the EU is breaking apart.

Britain is coming out; there is no agreement between the remaining 27 nations!

The certainty is, the EU is a fractured Empire.

Where is ‘Babylon’ today? Yes, in Iraq, but since the end of the 1800s – it’s in Berlin! Babylon is still there! Some years ago I was shocked to see in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin two things.

First, the original Ishtar Gate of Babylon and the Processional Way – through which the Jewish exiles were led in captivity to the Temple of Marduk, the Tower of Babel they had rebuilt! Kaiser Wilhelm II had it brought to Berlin, stone by stone, and celebrated its erection with a great festival to the pagan gods! And more! In Revelation 2:13, the Angel says to the Church in Pergamon, “I know where you live – where the Seat of Satan is!” What was the ‘Seat of Satan’? It was the altar in Pergamon dedicated to Emperor worship, and where a certain Antipas was martyred for his faith in Jesus! This altar was also brought to Berlin by the same Kaiser! Hitler had a gigantic model of this altar made in Nuremberg – from where he announced his ‘final solution’ of the ‘Jewish problem’ – the Holocaust in which six million European Jews perished!

As a direct result of this Holocaust, in 1948 the United Nations voted to recognise Israel as a nation after 2000 years of exile around the world! Israel was born in a day in fulfilment of Isaiah 66:8! In fulfil-

ment of Bible prophecy, before Messiah comes!

Almost on a daily basis more prophecy is being fulfilled. Revelation 9:13-16 says that the four demons which were bound at the River Euphrates for an hour, a day, a month and a year – are to be loosed!

In 2003, when the British and Americans invaded Iraq (geographical Babylon), I saw the moment on television when the troops crossed the Euphrates! God turned my mind to Revelation 9! Now, years later, the politicians and world governments agree, the problems we have today in the Middle East – ISIS, problems in Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Syria – ALL began in Iraq! It was a terrible mistake; in 2003 when we crossed the Euphrates something terribly wrong happened.

Verses 15-16 say the four demons that were prepared for an hour, a day, a month and a year (the time is so specific) were loosed – and it will end with the destruction of a third part of the population of the world! – And the number of the army is 200 million! There are three other places where I find a reference to such a vast army – Joel 2:2, Jeremiah 4:13 and Ezekiel 38&39 – and the attack is against Jerusalem! If it is true that when the British took Bagdad in 2003 they released the four demons, is it Islam? You cannot stop what has happened. I don’t want to frighten you, but what has begun will not stop until two things are fulfilled: mass killing throughout the world, and the attack on Jerusalem.

Let me go back to the prophecy in Revelation 17 and the woman on the beast. The woman is Europe. I called my film ‘The Rape of Europe’ – because the woman Europa in the Greek myth was raped by the bull. Is the bull Islam? – The symbol on every mosque is the crescent moon, the horns of the bull. Since 2003, Europe has been opened to a floodtide of Islamist refugees. Will extreme Islam rape Europe? Revelation 9 tells you one third of the world population will die, but the attack ends in Jerusalem – and only after, Jesus comes.

Only Europe and the Middle East are mentioned in End Time Prophecy in the Bible. Where is America? I DON’T KNOW. Putin, Russia is determined to break the power of America in the Middle East, this is what she is doing in Syria. The danger is that when Russia has solved the problem in Syria, the Moslem Arab nations will

say, the real problem is not Islam or ISIS – the real problem is Israel. And Ezekiel 38 and 39 tells us, the king of the north will come against Jerusalem. What is the northern kingdom? Russia. When will the attack come? I don’t know. – Watch the signs!

The Bible speaks of the ending of the times of the Gentiles – then all Israel will be saved. – Luke 21:24, Romans 11:2526, Revelation 11:2. Jesus warned, “A night is coming when no man can work…” – John 9:4. ...We need to pray for the Rapture, that God would take us out of the terror that is coming. When the ‘mark of the Beast’ comes, you will not be able to buy or sell without the microchip in your hand or forehead. In 1998 British scientist Kevin Warwick became the first known ‘human cyborg’, but later had his implant removed. British scientist Mark Gasson had an implant fitted in 2010 to demonstrate the human body accepts the technology as an integral part, and how a computer virus could wirelessly infect his own implant and transmit the virus to other parts of his body... The technology is already in use in humans and in animals. I don’t want to be part of this hell on earth.

Jesus IS coming – BUT THE CHURCH IS ASLEEP. Every day, every week He delays, I want to win more people for Christ. Surely the reason He delays His Coming is so more people can come into the Kingdom. I will evangelise till He comes, what will you do?

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David Hathaway People ask me if I can explain the prophetic sequence of events of the ‘last days’ before Jesus comes. It is almost impossible to give a clear chronological answer, partly because we are looking at prophecies from so many different parts of the Bible. Some are from the words of Jesus, some from the apostles – and so many from the Old Testament prophets. What is happening with me is that God is revealing things to me, but only slowly. I’m learning more.

Exactly where all things fit into the picture is almost impossible to say, I can only share things which I know clearly, which WILL take place – I wish I knew the other answers!

Our understanding of Bible prophecy does change, and there are some things over which the church is divided.

My father was a great preacher on Bible prophecy and he took the historicist view – date-fixing the return of the Lord. But he showed me an old book which prophesied that Jesus would come back in 1859 – but that had passed before my father was born! Then they believed Jesus would come back in 1917 – and in fact it was a momentous year in the Holy Land and worldwide. It was the year of the Communist Revolution in Russia; in Europe the deadliest battles of World War I were fought; and, after 400 years of Moslem rule under the Turkish Caliphate, Jerusalem was liberated when British General Allenby dismounted his horse and entered Jerusalem on foot through the Western, Jaffa Gate – in deference to Messiah, the true and final liberator of Jerusalem, who one day will enter in triumph through the East Gate!

But 1917 was not the Lord’s Return! We cannot fix an exact date. People try to calculate when Christ will come based on the weeks in Daniel 9:24-27. But on which date does the calculation begin?!! And end?!! And what’s in

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between? But based on Daniel 9, the Jews were in fact expecting Messiah at the very time Jesus was born! Why then did they not recognise Him?!! I will explain...

I was taught at Bible College that the Old Testament contains 137 prophecies about the First Coming of Christ – and over 200 prophecies about His Second Coming. Another calculation says that for every prophecy of His First Coming there are eight predicting His Second Coming! This is where the Jews got confused!

The Jews in Jesus’ day did not understand how the prophecies were to be fulfilled, and today, Orthodox Jews still don’t recognise Jesus as their Messiah.

This is because most of the Bible prophecies refer to Messiah as King, while others refer to Him as suffering and dying. Isaiah 53 says, He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our sin, and by the stripes of His wounds, He healed us! The Jews are not allowed to read Isaiah 53, it is never read in the synagogue, because they cannot accept that Messiah would suffer and die! They only want to read the Scriptures that refer to Him coming as King – to rule Israel, and to rule the world! This is the fight we have in Israel today, to show that Messiah has already come – and that they rejected Him because they weren’t looking for the suffering Messiah!

But something is happening in Israel today. Three years ago, in 2014, I had been preaching in Tel Aviv, and I took a taxi from the hotel to the airport. From the moment I got in the car, the driver, an Orthodox Jew wearing a kippah, turned his head, and started to ask me, “Did we kill Him?” I said, “Who?” He said, “Messiah!” All the way to the airport, he was so busy talking to me, he kept missing the turnings! I had to tell

him where to go! He was saying, “The whole of Israel is asking this question – did we kill Him? He was a good man, He healed the sick, He did nothing wrong, He only said good things. Why did we kill Him? The whole of Israel is asking, did we kill Messiah?!!” But I can demonstrate, Messiah is not dead, He rose from the grave, He’s alive, He ascended into Heaven – and He’s coming back – as King!

And I can tell you, Jesus is coming sooner than you think! We are in the year 2017. Exactly one hundred years ago in 1917, when Allenby liberated Jerusalem from the Turks, the Holy Land became a British Mandate, recognised by the New World Order, the League of Nations, which came into being at the end of World War I. Only in 1948, after the Holocaust, did Israel become an independent state, recognised by the post-World War II United Nations Organisation. Immediately six mighty Arab nations went to war with the fledging nation Israel, seizing East Jerusalem, the West Bank territories of Biblical Samaria and Hebron, Gaza on the coast, and in the north, the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon. Then, exactly 50 years ago, in 1967, with Arab armies again amassed for war on every border, the Jewish Army launched a pre-emptive strike and retook the Old City of Jerusalem and the other territories occupied by the Arabs in 1948. For the first time the Jews could visit the Wailing Wall (the western wall of the Temple area) and pray. I know, because I was in Jerusalem when the war started, I had two tour groups, one on either side of the frontier!

The problems in the Middle East will not be solved by diplomacy, by political or military means. A day is coming when Israel will be surrounded by her enemies and she will cry out for Messiah – and HE WILL COME!

On 12 May David was invited by Russian-speaking Holocaust Survivor Organisations to speak to them in the prestigious Centre for Progressive Judaism. They organised and paid part of the cost as a gift to thank him for the miracle of last September in Caesarea! What a choice of venue – Progressive Judaism presenting Jesus as the Messiah! The hall, which was absolutely full, had a wonderful overview to the city walls of Jerusalem – and in the far distance, the Mount of Olives. Those attending were unbelievers, an interesting mix of the older generation and the younger ones, which indicates the increasing interest from the wider range of the more than 2 million Russian Jews in Israel! David had absolute freedom to speak of the ministry of Jesus here in Israel 2000 years ago; Jesus, the Son of God who came down with power to forgive sin and heal the sick; Jesus, who was born in Bethlehem, grew up in Nazareth and died here in Jerusalem; Jesus, who said,

“If you believe in Me, YOU will preach this Gospel of forgiveness, YOU will heal the sick in My Name!” David said, “This ministry which He gave every one of us who believe will continue till He comes back and His feet stand on the Mount of Olives! – This Jesus is the Only One who can forgive sin, and He is the One who will rule the world from Jerusalem!” David spoke of the miracles he has seen and witnessed, of the power of prayer, and of the fact that Balaam in the Old Testament, who was hired to curse Israel, could only say, “I cannot curse those whom God has blessed!” David said, “I want YOU to come under the protection of the God of Israel, Jesus is praying for you right now before the Throne of God – give Him your heart!” Almost everyone in the hall stood to call on the Name of Jesus, and many raised their hands saying they had been healed during the prayer for the sick. This is why it is so important to continue this ministry in Israel!

JESUS – HEALER, MESSIAH

Katie Morris Waking up on Easter morning this year, I put on the radio. Someone was reading from John 20:15, where the risen Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene in the garden and she doesn’t recognise Him. In a flash, for the first time I understood why she didn’t recognise Him: yes, she was weeping, but last time she saw Him, He was completely disfigured, bloodied all over, bruised and marred, a crucified dead body they had wrapped in a cloth and laid in the tomb. This man in the garden is whole and well! How could she even dream it was Jesus? She thought He was the gardener... BUT WHO WAS HE? Suddenly this Easter morning, I understood for the first time, this was not a mistake Mary made! This was a revelation! Mary Magdalene did not see an ordinary gardener with a spade and hoe... This was THE KEEPER OF THE GARDEN! I knew I had understood something very special and I leapt out of bed with pen and paper to catch my thoughts before they fled. There was something very important hidden in this word: the ‘Gardener’!

I googled on my smart phone the original Greek: kepouros from kepos (garden) and ouros (watchman, keeper).

I discovered this was NOT the same word as used by Jesus when He said, ‘You are the vine, My Father is the gardener’ – the one with the pruning tools.

I found out that this word ‘kepouros’ is

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only used once in the whole Gospel of John, here, of the risen Jesus Himself – because here He is revealed as THE KEEPER OF THE GARDEN! The Keeper, the owner, the ruler of the Garden, like Adam – the first Adam – was supposed to be, but failed. God told him to ‘keep the garden’ – ‘to rule over the earth’ – he didn’t. He disobeyed and REBELLED against God. Now here is Jesus – the second Adam – the only one who, through His obedient life and death, could keep the Word of God! He is the only one who can rule over God’s Garden, over His Kingdom!

Mary Magdalene and Jesus, the Keeper and Ruler of the Garden! This was the first day of the week – the first day of the renewal of the Kingdom of God on earth! Jesus – God’s second Adam – is here, in the garden, the first fruit of the restored Garden of Eden, the one who will restore everything that was ruined in the first garden!

Oh Jesus, You are my Keeper – as Adam should have been over Eve – keep watch over my heart, cut out the thoughts that should not be there, plant in me the thoughts that should be!

Those were my key thoughts – but I do want to add something else, a personal viewpoint, but interesting. I had always supposed, I have no idea why, that the original Garden of Eden was in Mesopotamia – somewhere in the region of Babylon, by the Euphrates.

Sometime earlier in the year, I found myself thinking about the four demons held in the River Euphrates, Revelation 9:13. I was asking God, who were they, why were they there? I didn’t get a straight answer. Instead my mind somehow diverted straightaway to Genesis 2:10-14 and the strange geographical description of the Garden of Eden with its river that went out of Eden to water the garden, and which parted and became four heads, the source of four major rivers, Pison, Gihon, Euphrates and Hiddekel (Tigris). Wikipedia tells you that the Euphrates and Tigris exist today, that satellite pictures show two other dry river beds crossing Egypt and

Saudi Arabia – do these four rivers define the borders of the Promised Land? And is the God’s Promised Land God’s Eden itself? Three times the Old Testament defines the borders of the Promised Land. God said to Abraham in Genesis 15:18, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates...”

Again in Exodus 23:31, “From the Red Sea (Egypt) to the Sea of the Philistines (the Mediterranean), and from the desert (of Sinai) to the river (Euphrates).” Also Joshua 1:4.

Wikipedia even proposes that the Temple area and Mount Zion are the very place from where the river of Eden once flowed out to the four rivers.

In the last days when Christ returns, Scripture tells us that water will again flow out from the Temple Mount and become a great seaway... Ezekiel 47.

This is not Wikipedia thinking, this is Jewish belief – according to the Scripture!

Wasn’t Adam driven out of the Garden eastwards towards the land that was to become Babylon, synonymous with sin in the Bible? Didn’t God place a cherubim and a flaming sword to guard the way back to the tree of life in the Garden? (Genesis 3:24.) When God made His Covenant of redemption with Abraham (Genesis 12), why was it He sent him out of the land of sin and REBELLION to a land that the Bible would call the Promised Land? Was it God’s Garden? And how many times did God have to drive His disobedient people out of His Land because of their repeated REBELLION against Him?!!

Going to Jerusalem in May, hearing David preach Jesus to the Russianspeaking Jews, looking out through the glass wall of the hall towards the walls of Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives, I was thinking: was it here, Jerusalem, the very place where we first sinned?

Was this why Jesus had to become flesh in this land, die in this place – the place where God made us, and where we REBELLED against Him? The place He has chosen? The place from where He will rule the whole earth?

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