Writing on the Wall
Writing on the Wall
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Daniel chapter 5v5-30 reveals that the time for the Babylonian empire was at an end. Lieutenant-General Sir John Glubb was a British soldier, scholar and author who studied the life cycle of world empires throughout history and discovered that all empires have a lifespan of about 250 years on average. He argued that empires go through seven steps. The age of outburst (or pioneers), the age of conquests, the age of commerce, the age of affluence, the age of intellect, the age of decadence and finally the age of decline and collapse. The king of Babylon in his arrogance and pride is drinking from the vessels from the Temple of God.Unlike his father Nebuchadnezzar, this king did not acknowledge the one true God. Even as the king and a thousand of his nobles are getting drunk and praising the gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone suddenly there appears out of the blue some writing on the wall. The message is from God....Your days are numbered, you have been weighed in the balance and found wanting, your kingdom is at an end and given to another kingdom, which also fell and was given over and on and on. All empires have their lifespan. The West has been travelling in a direction of soft Totalitarianism, and has become harder from March 2020. Are the leaders of Western Governments as arrogant and proud as this king who did not acknowledge that the Most High God alone rules in the kingdom of men. Is the Writing on the Wall for Western Culture? Is a new Globalist empire being formed to take over from the 'democractic' Western empire to terminate the nation state and impose a Globalist One World Government? This is what this podcast is about......All empires have their 'Writing on the Wall' moment. We are called as followers of Jesus to understand the times in which we live. Writing on the Wall attempts to do that from a Biblical Worldview perspective.
STORIES FROM THE YOUTH OF GAZA
A young talented rap singer called MC Abdul- has become prominent amongst black rappers in the States....because they know the real thing when they see it. The context for this young kids' rap songs is the Genocide on the people of Gaza by Zionist Israel that the whole world has been protesting about. Think of the courage that this takes to go out on the street and sing his rap songs to get it out to the world. He could be killed anytime and yet he is letting the world know of what they are living through. This is to honour this young 'warrior'. This is what he declared himself to be, a warrior, And that is indeed what he is, a true warrior at 14 years old. When 14 year old Middle Class kids in Suburban England worry about their exams and what A Levels to aspire to......keep perspective.
Nov 18, 2023
20 min
The Resilience of Palestinian Christians Part 2
How does the Servant of the LORD establish Justice on earth? Developing Part 1 of these two podcasts reading from a paper that I myself wrote back in 2016 on 'The Resilience of Palestinian Christians in the face of military occupation, apartheid and the silence of Western Governments'.
Nov 13, 2023
22 min
The Resilience of Palestinian Christians Part 1
This short series is relevant right now in November 2023 after nearly five weeks of relentless bombardment of Gaza in one of the most horrific Genocides in the 21st century let alone the 20th. Zionist Israel is the creation of Empire, first the British with the help of the Rothschilds and then the American Empire. There is one people group that are profoundly and almost totally forgotten and neglected and this is the Palestinian Christians.
Nov 13, 2023
25 min
SOME OF THE STORIES OF THE YOUTH OF GAZA
Here is the next few stories from the NGO in Gaza We Are Not Numbers....
Nov 9, 2023
22 min
SOME STORIES FROM THE YOUTH OF GAZA
We Are Not Numbers is an NGO is Gaza which was the idea of and subsequently founded by an American Journalist called Pam Bailey. Pam inspired countless numbers of young people in Gaza to write and tell their stories of living under a brutal miliary occupation. This short podcast series retells the stories of some of the Youth of Gaza from the We Are Not Numbers Website.
Nov 9, 2023
30 min
Facing the Challenge: Becoming Whole Life Missionary Disciples
In this final podcast in Part 1 of this presentation 'Facing the Challenge- Becoming Whole Life Missionary Disciples in a Culture of Captivity' I recap from the previous podcast and then complete Part 1. Worldviews and some ideologies related to Globalism are highlighted here. Finally, the reason why Western Culture has become comprehensively Babyloninian Neo-Pagan across the spectrum of culture. I finish by drawing attention to the fundamental and foundation problem with Western Christianity and that is Dualism, marked by an unbiblical Sacred-Secular Divide. The effects of this has been disastrous and so the surrender of the public arena to various man made ideologies is why Western culture is Neo-Pagan today, it is because the Western Church simply was not equipped to challenge the onslaught of Humanism since the Enlightenment of the early 18th century known as Modernity. The Church in other words is largely responsible for the state of the culture because it exists in its own privatised ghetto and so the public arena is not permeated whatsoever with the Biblical Worldview.
Sep 25, 2023
21 min
Facing the Challenge: Becoming Whole Life Missionary Disciples in a culture of captivity
Following from the previous podcast, in this one I cover: Worldviews and the criteria for a Worldview to be validated, credible, verifiable and that corresponds with all reality as it really is. 3 main Worldviews in the history of Western Culture: Biblical Theism, Deism and Secular Humanism; The Roots of Western culture in Ancient Greco-Roman Paganism. The difference between Classical 6th century BC -5th century AD Greco-Roman Paganism and 21st century Western Babylonian Neo Paganism. The result of this is that Western culture in particular its institutions lives in a Room without Windows meaning there is no Transcendence, no spiritual realm, no personal infinite Creator God who is also Immanent meaning perpetually involved in His creation. Ideas have consequences and bad ideas have victims. Related ideologies to Globalism, especially Statism and Utopianism. The Leaven of Herod meaning the Exalting of Civil Law above God's Law/Word- Jesus told us to beware of this in Mark 8v15..
Sep 25, 2023
51 min
Facing the Challenge: Becoming wholelife missionary disciples in a culture of captivity
Developing how Western culture is a Culture of Death- how in particular? This then will develop into evaluating the ideologies that Western Culture today is built upon, which is a foundation of sand. Two ideas in particular can help us as followers of Jesus to evaluate the language of the culture we live in and the times we live in. These two ideas are Structure and Direction. There are many structures but only two directions. Western culture especially since the Enlightenment in the early 18th century, has progressively and aggressively dismantled the Creational Structures that God built into creation and therefore has been moving intentionally in a direction AWAY from God. Human beings, individually are either oriented TOWARD God or AWAY from God. Every ideology that I discuss here is fundamentally oriented AWAY from God. As Alexander Solzheniitzhen said 'We have forgotten God, that is why all this has happened to us'.
Sep 10, 2023
1 hr 1 min
Facing the Challenge: Becoming whole life missionary disciples in a culture of captivity
This is a documentary/presentation that I am currently working on, which will consist of 3 parts. Welcome to Part 1. Western culture today in 2023 in thoroughly and comprehensively a Babylonian Neo-Pagan culture- and this is the captivity that the culture and the Western Church captive to....without even realizing it. How did we get here? The challenge we face as followers of the Lord Jesus Christ the Creator and Redeemer of the universe, is to combat the individualism that fundamentally defines Western people whether you follow Jesus or not. This is just a symptom of the worldviews that we live in captivity to. This series is based on a British Theologian and Church historian's response to returning to the West after 40 years in India with his wife as missionaries and spent the rest of his life writing, speaking and lecturing on what a Missionary encounter with the West needs to look like.
Sep 7, 2023
56 min
The Two Witnesses Part 2: The Remnant and the Synagogue of satan
The 7 Golden Lampstands are the 7 churches in Asia Minor. 7 is symbolic of completion meaning these 7 churches represent the universal church throughout the church age. Out of the 7 churches, only 2 do not receive any complaint or rebuke from the Lord Jesus. Revelation 11v4 speaks of Two Olive Trees and Two Witnesses which are lampstands. Both faithful remnant churches of Smyrna and Philadelphia are persecuted by the Synagogue of satan as Revelation 2v9 and Revelation 3v9 show clearly. What are the implications of this then for the true spiritual temple because they call themselves Jews but Jesus knows that they are not because they lie. They lie and persecute the true spiritual temple, the remnant ecclesia. How does this apply to the days in which we live?
Apr 11, 2023
37 min
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