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“How The West Was Lost”

It is not often that I come across an article which sums up much of what I have written in previous blogs, but now that the fruits of those warnings over the years are becoming more apparent, recognition of the truth  is emerging in some of the media. (Except for the left leaning media).

One such article appeared in ‘The Australian’ on Monday May 14th by Kevin Donnelly, entitled ‘Our 21st Century Tragedy – How the West Was Lost” and here I will simply condense it, and thank God that the truth is emerging :-

‘The fact that Europe is committing suicide is revealed by  the thousands of young Islamic men pouring into  that continent and the failure by many within academia, the media and politics to acknowledge and defend the unique strengths and benefits of Western Civilisation, on which  Europe is based.

The common recognition that Europe will no longer be the Europe we know, in the next fifty years, may not apply to Australia so quickly, but here too our institutions and way of life are also threatened by Islamic immigration and a campaign by the cultural left to denounce and undermine Western civilisation.

We’ve already seen Islamic terrorism here in Australia and the reality is that Australia’s non-discriminatory immigration policy and multiculturalism is leading to a separatism where Islamic immigrants reject the institutions and values that have created our peaceful and prosperous society and assume that their customs and beliefs should be given priority.   Thus the bedrock that makes  Australia unique is threatened, and also undermined by the cultural left, looking to overthrow a society it condemns as inequitable, racist, sexist, misogynist and hetero-normative.

Now even Michael Gove, British Secretary of State refers to the Frankfurt School, [which I wrote about years ago in the article ‘Satan’s Political Correctness’] which planned to infiltrate our key institutions and undermine the West by political correctness, in order to bring about a socialist utopia.

Australia’s education system has thus been led to prioritise indigenous, environmental and Asian perspectives instead of the heritage and ongoing significance of Western civilisation and Judeo-Christianity.

Our whole political and legal systems are imbued with Christian morals and ethics, and to deny such a reality is to jeopardise the rights we take for granted. The Bible’s teaching that we are all made in God’s image, explains our commitment to the inherent dignity of each individual and our rights to “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

The refusal to acknowledge our history  and heritage, means that our acknowledgment of truth based on logic and rationality are being lost, subsumed by the cultural left’s radical redefinition of marriage and what to means to be a woman or a man. Their acknowledgment that Marxism lies behind such as the ‘Safe Schools Programme’ and gender diversity, reveals their success in condeming a liberal education which is concerned with the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.

The irony is that those in education deconstructing and undermining Western civilisation, are destroying the very institutions, beliefs and values that guarantee their freedom to mount a critique in the first place.’

Thankfully, the time is soon coming when political correctness will be no more, replaced by the word of God, at the return of Jesus Christ.  Isaiah 29:20-21,  ‘ ….the scorner will be finished, Indeed all who are intent on doing evil will be cut off; Who cause a person to be indicted by a word, And ensnare him who adjudicates at the gate, And defraud the one in the right with meaningless arguments.’   

Palestinian Protests

No doubt you have been aware of the Palestinian protests against Israel and President Trumps opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem.

We are told by the media that the indigenous Palestinians are protesting against the loss of their ancestral homelands, which according to Mahmoud Abbas they have held for 7000 years. That their righteous peaceful  ‘march’  has been mercilessly  shot at by the Israelis. Well, if you have watched the huge crowds pressing towards the Israeli border throwing petrol bombs, stones and sling shots, and flying kites designed to cause fires, all hidden by huge clouds of burning tyres, you might come to a slightly different conclusion. Yes, the Israelis have been forced to use live rounds, because the Palestinians are encouraged to martyr themselves and their children by their Hammas provocateurs to gain sympathy from naive Westerners.

But what about those Palestinian land claims? Let PLO executive Zahir Muhein speak – in a march 1977 interview. He said : “The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian State is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity.  In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians. Palestinians, Syrian and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people. Since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism.”

So it is no surprise that Fathi Hammed, the then Hamas Interior Minister said in March 2012, “Who are the Palestinians?. We have many families called al-Masri [ the Egyptian], whose roots are Egyptian ….We are Egyptians, we are Arabs, we are Muslims.”

Hadrian Relandi, a geographer and language expert during the Ottoman rule in the 1600’s, wrote a whole book about his tour of the land and reported that most of the inhabitants were descendants of the original Jewish population and the Greek speaking population which the Byzantines imported to Christianise the land.  There were few Muslims – mostly nomadic Beduins whose descendants, with their back tents freely wander over Israel today. He found the land almost empty and desolate, still laid waste,  centuries after the Roman destruction of Judah.

Over 100 years later the British consul in Palestine reported in 1857, “The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is that of a body of population.”

As Jews fleeing persecution began returning and the Ottomans were defeated in Bosnia, Moslem refugees from Russia, Asia, North Africa and other Arab counties  were settled in the North, but their numbers were dwarfed in the 1900’s during the British Mandate by many Arabs keen to work for the successful Jewish immigrants who were restoring fertility to the land. The British PM Winston Churchill, reported in 1939 “Far from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into the country.”

So, far from being indigenous, the now Arabised non-Jewish population are not the victims of Jewish colonialism, but largely recent colonists themselves, which is why the UN declared in 1948 that a fleeing person who had lived there for two years could be classed as  a Palestinian refugee.

(Acknowledgment is given to an article, “Who Are the Palestinians?”  by Tom Robinson in the Beyond Today magazine for his research.)

Those Palestinians who chose to stay in Israel rather than leave, live there to this day as Israeli citizens with equal rights. Israel is far from perfect but compared to most Arab lands it is a free and civilised democratic country.

So, maybe we should not be taken in by our left leaning media who hate Israel because it epitomises the successful Western democratic system they so despise.

The Arab hatred of Israel will not allow them to accept the God of Israel, even when Jesus Christ returns and is victorious at Armageddon. Zechariah 14:17-19, tells us that after Christ’s return, Egypt, symbolising the Muslims, will refuse to go up to Jerusalem to worship with the rest of the worlds representatives . The Palestinians will then once again flee from Israel rather than abandon their moon god Allah, leaving only those of their brethren who have become Christians.

 ‘And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain on them. And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain; there shall be the plague with which the LORD afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.’

Zechariah 14 does not tell us how long it will take for the Islamic nations to recognise that their death loving religion is a hoax which Satan braggs about in the Koran itself.

The Qur’an has this message for its followers, for when Judgment Day eventually arrives; “Satan will say, ‘God gave you a true promise. I too made promises but they were false ones: I had no power over you except to call you, and you responded to my call, so do not blame me, blame yourselves. I cannot help you, nor can you help me. I reject the way you associated me with God before. A bitter torment awaits  such wrongdoers.”  Surah 14:22.

An Update on India

Further to my last blog, some disturbing news has emerged which indicates India is moving into a relationship with countries that many of its people would be concerned about.

I am referring to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, which was originally founded by Russia and China for economic and security reasons, but which grew as many of the ‘-stan’ countries in Asia joined (such as Kazakstan) , and was later joined by India and Pakistan. If those counties do not seem to be as free and democratic as India, two recent additions are even more worrying.

They are Iran and Turkey. Iran has long desired entry into the SCO but was held back by the sanctions imposed by the UN over its nuclear attempts. In coming to agreement under Barack Obama’s Presidency, the sanctions were removed and Iran was welcomed as a member, but as President Trump has now rejected the deal as one sided and not removing the nuclear threat, American sanctions will be re-imposed, though Europe may refuse, allowing Iran to escape total world sanctions and continue in the SCO despite Iran’s funding of worldwide terrorism, its use of proxies in an attempt to gain control of the Middle East and its blatant threats to America and Israel.

According to the Bible Iran will become the leader of an Islamic combine called in the Bible the ‘King of the South’ , Daniel 11:40, ”And at the time of the end, the king of the south shall push at him. And the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind with chariots and with horsemen and many ships; and he shall enter into the countries and shall overflow and pass over.’   

Iran’s belligerent though indirect attacks upon Europe will result in its invasion and defeat by the coming ‘Beast’ of Europe, a dictator the Bible calls ‘King of the North’, who will go on to conquer many countries in the Middle East, Daniel 11;42, ‘ And he shall stretch out his hand also upon the countries and the land of Egypt shall not escape … and the Libyans and the Ethiopians all be at his steps.‘  

That will in turn bring a violent reaction from the SCO  Alliance, which will develop into what the Bible calls  ‘the Kings of the East’ which will attack Europe with an army of 200 million, Revelation 9:16,  16:12,    ‘And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them….  ‘And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.’  

Will India contribute to that huge army because it chooses to become associated with Iran in the SCO?  It is looking more likely, but the Indian people may prevent it by speaking out against associating with such Islamic hatred.

Worse still, that army and Europe’s army will turn to fight Jesus Christ on His return, at the Battle of Armageddon. Of course they will stand no chance and will be totally obliterated, Zechariah 14:12, ‘And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.’  

Does India really want to find itself fighting against the returned Christ? Now is the time for Indians to speak out against India linking itself to such a dangerous association! 

India – West or East?

The news that China is militarising its artificial islands in the South China Sea with missiles, reveals the aggressive ratcheting of its control over an international sea gate is not going away and increases its threat to all its neighbours.

One neighbour alone has the numbers to balance China’s weight – India. Will India stand with the West against Chinese expansionism or will it fall into line with the Biblically prophesied Eastern combine which will attack Europe with an army of 200 million?  Revelation 9:16, ‘saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates. ….The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number.’   

India is the world’s largest democracy, with a population of 1.3 billion. Only time will tell whether India’s highly – decentralised government system, with its divers ethnic, linguistic and religious groups in a noisy democracy will be content to ally itself  with the autocratic Chinese communist system.

Current signs of strife over China’s ‘Belt and Roads’ initiative may indicate otherwise, reflecting India’s natural rivalry with its aggressive neighbour, and there are other reasons why such a union could be in doubt.

India has only recently been found to be made up of two ancient genetically divergent groups, half of which are similar to Middle Eastern,  Central Asian and European populations, amongst the speakers of Indo-European languages such as Hindi.

The racial divide between India and China is also influenced by India’s historical links with the ancient Parthian Empire, which included parts of Western India, where Kings with Parthian names (e.g. Gondophares) reigned in the Punjab region, and the great commercial town of Minnagar in the Indus Delta was under Parthian Kings.

The Parthians were actually Israelites and their Empire consisted of the 10 Northern tribes carried away from Israel in captivity by the ancient Assyrians. When Assyria was defeated by Babylon, the liberated Israelites moved North into Asia and built an empire which rivalled Rome at the time of Christ, but they have disappeared from acknowledged history.

Jesus Christ was not in Judaea from age 12-30 (Read our article Joseph of Arimathea). Just as he visited Israelites in England, He may well have visited Israelites  then in Western India, for the same reason,   Matthew 15:24, “He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”  

We see the same thing occurring with one of Christ’s Apostles, who were also sent by Christ to the lost sheep of the House of Israel,  ‘go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ‘ Matthew 10:6.   The Encyclopaedia Britannica states –  “St Thomas (the Apostle of Christ) founded the Christian churches in Malabar [India], and then crossed to Mylapur, now a suburb of Madras, where the shrine of his martyrdom…..  still stands on mount St Thomas, where a cross is seen with Pahlavi [Parthian} inscriptions.

Thus India with its Indo-European heritage, its Western democracy, genetic links, and British traditions is unlikely to sit comfortably  within a Chinese dominated union, whose people do not enjoy India’s freedoms and heritage. Whether they will actually have the choice, is another matter altogether. Much will depend on their reaction to China’s aggressive expansionism.

India has joined the so-calle  Australia Group, aimed at limiting the spread of chemical and biological weapons, and the Quadrilateral Dialogue, a regional cooperation forum that brings together the US, Japan, India and Australia.  Whether these nations have the will to counterbalance the aggression of a determined China is yet to be seen, but we should understand that nations that stand for nothing risk losing all they have.

They Never Give Up

Traditional Australian values are consistently under attack by the media, especially the ABC. Time and again its left wing bias is denied, but the impartiality provision in its charter is blatantly ignored and the conservative values of middle Australia are constantly attacked.

With a new political editor it was hoped that sense would prevail, but no, Andrew Probyn has already been accused by The Australian Communications and Media Authority of a scathing judgmental attack on former Conservative Prime mInister Tony Abbot for his realistic views on climate change. Will he get more than a slap on the wrist? – No chance!

Tony Abbot was betrayed by his back stabbing ministers and the result has been policies which are letting down Australia. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has allowed the glamour of the international high life she has associated with, to seduce her to personal promotion, style and fashion, and neglect of her responsibilities to our region in favour of what goes down well with the UN and the EU.

She has allowed China to begin to replace us in the Pacific and it has been suggested that she has no long term plan for the region except a holding pattern left over from colonial times.

While the small Pacific nations on our doorstep look to us to lead them, our lack of attention has opened the door to the entrenchment of China. These nations share our traditional values, indeed at least one of them shares our currency, but we seem blind to their practical needs for assistance in government, services and education and instead offer to help with the empowerment of women, climate change and less visible help, while China forges ahead with strategic  infrastructure building.

These nations are crying out for our politicians to put aside their fashionable ideologies and return to basic practicalities, and that should be the case both at home and abroad. Thankfully, due to Tony Abbot, we now have border control, but immigration is still out of control and multiculturalism divides us rather than unites. We are mis-educating our children, neglecting our history and Western Christian heritage and replacing them with destructive social engineering which undermines our traditional values and culture, hardly the pattern the Pacific nations need.

Our society is still cursed with a hand-out culture in the hope of ending exclusion, but it isn’t working, and we have undermined the family and marriage which remain the bedrock of middle Australian society. Political correctness remains a poison which is white-anting  the structure of our nation but its proponents never give up.

The values we need to reclaim are the true values which will stand eternally, but which have been replaced with the evils of political correctness. Its proponents will find themselves in opposition to Christ who will return  ‘to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”  Jude 1:15.

End Time Politics

The Australian liberal party is in trouble. As we approach the next election it will struggle because it is impossible to reconcile both its conservative and liberal ideals. It is usually successful when it concentrates on its conservative strengths but at the moment it is led by a liberal at heart who naturally finds himself in growing agreement with the progressive socialists on same sex marriage, climate change and identity politics. This brings him into conflict with many conservatives in his party who treasure our national and religious traditions, our freedoms and our heritage of Western civilisation. They feel betrayed.

The protection of these values against mass immigration, global governance and socialist anti-colonialism has already seen liberal voters moving their allegiance to Pauline Hanson, and the ‘Australian Conservatives’ , thus the party seems to be heading for self destruction.

This movement mirrors what we have seen in the US  under Trump and  in a  growing number of countries in Europe who are rejecting their traditional parties and voting instead for little known populist parties who are actually prepared to listen to the dissatisfaction  of many who despise the looney left’s agenda of open borders, political correctness and identity politics, which threaten their religious freedoms and Western Christian heritage.

All this adds up to movement towards the right, which in German led Europe does not bode well in the light of end time Bible prophecy about a coming European dictator which it calls ‘The Beast’.  The only thing missing there at this point, is a pope who does not favour the progressive left, for the biblical ‘Beast’ will be assisted in his plan for world dominion by the unifying support of a great false church and its religious miracle working leader.

Despite their temporary success for some three years, the return of Jesus Christ will see their defeat and destruction after the battle of Armageddon, Revelation 19:20, ‘And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone. ‘ NAS.

End Time Soon?

Events in the Middle East seem to be speeding up with Israel’s activity against Iran’s forward tactics against Israel, and even the suggestion  “The Big War is however, on its way” (World Commentary – ‘The Australian’  20/04/18)  Several Church leaders have suggested that this will be brought about by the soon fulfilment of Daniel 11:40 ….’At the time of the end the king of the South will engage him in battle, and the king of the North will storm out against him with chariots and cavalry and a great fleet of ships. He will invade many countries and sweep through them like a flood.’     This refers to a threat by Iran to Europe which provokes Iran’s invasion and defeat, soon to be followed by Armageddon. 

There is no doubt that Iran is building forces which will grow beyond its proxies such as Hezbollah, and its foreign Shia militias from Pakistan and Afghanistan, who are paid US $800 a month and promised residence in Iran in its attempt to destroy Israel, until it controls lands even into North Africa, for these allied nations will be defeated by Europe in its coming war with Iran.

Those things are prophesied and will occur, but not for a good while yet. What these church leaders have not taken into account are other prophecies which clearly indicate that the King of the North, the Biblical ‘Beast’, of Europe will first strike a protective treaty with Israel, which he will then break by its invasion 3 1/2 years later, while instigating that war with Iran, Daniel 9:27, ‘He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven’  [of years ] but in the middle of that seven he will put an end to sacrifice and offering …..’.  (Read our article “Understanding Daniel’s 70th Week”)

Even before any of those events will occur, an amazing miracle will astound the whole world, and introduce those last seven years of ‘tribulation’ – world war, famine and pestilence, Revelation 14:6-7, ‘Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people. He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.”  To understand more please refer to the ‘End Time’ articles on this website, and be assured that none of these events will occur until after that world -shaking miracle, designed by God to warn the entire world to repent before God’s punishment falls. But even then, most will leave it too late to escape with their lives, Matthew 24:22,

“If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.’   

Fracking the Northern Territory

It seems our government is not able to think beyond the immediate future, unable to consider the generations ahead as some of our earlier, more far sighted leaders achieved, with projects like the Snowy Mountains scheme and the delivery of  pipeline water from Perth to Kalgoorlie.

So now they have actively encouraged the removable of the moratorium on gas fracking in the Northern Territory  – an epitome of greedy short sightedness and unconcern for the irreparable damage  to the environment which it will deliver.

Four years ago I wrote this about fracking :-

FRACKING – A GOOD IDEA?

Fracking is being promoted as the new saviour of the US economy and also in Britain and here in Australia. It can provide cheap and plentiful energy right on our doorstep. In the US, which is leading the search for shale gas, the price has now dropped to 1/3rd of the price in Britain, enabling industry to produce cheaper products and bring jobs back that had been lost offshore.

Fracking is new technology which makes it possible to collect gas previously locked away in shale rocks, by pumping into them a mixture of water and chemicals at very high pressure, fracturing the shale and releasing the natural gas they hold. Huge reserves of this new energy are thus available in our nations, but putting aside this further use of carbon fuels, is it a good idea?

In a program on SBS Sunday night, entitled  ‘Fracking: the New Energy Rush’, Professor Iain Stewart found a disturbing lack of transparency about the dangers of fracking to the populations living near to the gas wells throughout the US.

While it was apparent that many people with private water wells and bores now found their water fizzy with methane gas which had come from the fractured rocks, it was not clear how that gas had reached the surface. Was the water 17 times higher in gas content than normal because of leaking pipes, faulty well construction or just plain bad practice?

Many people he visited, no longer drank from their wells, had resorted to buying bottled water, and even animals would not drink the water, though he found no evidence of the chemicals used reaching the surface.

He did find people who were sick, who believed it was caused by the gas companies fracking nearby, though many who had been compensated by the gas companies were not allowed to talk about it, as part of their compensation agreement. Apparently the chemicals used are so secret that only the doctors of those who are ill, are allowed to know what they are, and then only under strict confidentiality.

That in itself is deeply worrying, for why the secrecy, unless they are harmful, but the big problem is, what lies ahead, twenty or thirty years down the road when the gas is gone, but the chemicals remain, and the already leaking pipes corrode and allow them to reach the surface, or even the deep aquifers which provide drinking water for nearby populations.

We have no right to thoughtlessly pollute the future, in our greed for quick financial gain. There is an old saying “Live your life as if you would die tomorrow. Farm your land as if you would live forever”! That coincides with the probable origin of the thought, which we find in Genesis 2:15, ‘The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it……’”   NIV.

This time the humungous quantities of water, chemicals and acid that will be pumped into the ground of the Northern Territory  will result in thousands of wells and holding dams for the polluted waste water which includes carcinogens, neurotoxins and reproductive toxins.

The pristine waterways and aquifers  will be polluted by monsoonal floods, common so far North in Australia, in ways which cannot be put right by man – ever! Four years ago I warned that God will not ignore such wilful damage.

Since then, the curses God promised in the Bible for the disobedient have begun to fall upon us, including terrorism and the growing threat from the North. It will get worse, and result in our land being taken from us, until our population is decimated. We will have deserved it because we have ignored God’s words and rejected His commands. Only those who actually change their ways and begin to obey His commands will survive to see Christ’s return and the world restored to Eden-like conditions.

 

 

Which Day is the Sabbath in Australia?

 

 …Or for that matter, any nation East of Jerusalem, such as Kenya, Iraq, India, China, Japan and Australia. There has been a suggestion that the International Date Line is just a man made concept in conflict with the Bible, and that in God’s coming Kingdom, Jerusalem will be the new International Date Line – the Sabbath then starting at Jerusalem and traveling West around the world with the sun.

 Some proponents of this concept have already begun to keep the Sabbath one day later here in Australia – on Sunday. However, it is important that we should consider what effect this concept would have in practicality. 

 The main problem is that if Jerusalem became the new Date Line, which would extend to the North and the South, the half of Jerusalem to the East of that line would be one day behind the half to the West, and one could walk back and forth in and out of the Sabbath day, for example. That is the reason why the present International Date Line is over the Pacific Ocean, almost empty of land and opposite Greenwich in the UK, on the other side of the world– to avoid such problems.

 Next, we should look at the reason why such a concept should arise, and we find it in Isaiah 2:3, last part, ‘For out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.’  Everything regarding the world’s governance will then emanate from Jerusalem, for Jesus Christ will rule the world from there, as King of Kings, Revelation 19:16, ‘On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.’ 

 But there is another scripture we should take into account, Genesis 1:5,‘And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.’ God’s days start and end at sunset, unlike secular days which start and end at midnight. God’s day starts with sunset followed by dusk or twilight, and then darkness before the daylight part of the day arrives.

 We must consider both these verses in our conclusion, and there are many examples in the Bible of men who had to put them into practice. Take Daniel the prophet for example. He was taken into captivity by the Babylonians and carried away to Babylon, well to the East of Jerusalem. As he travelled East from Jerusalem he would have noted each day as it passed and so knew exactly which day was the Sabbath when he arrived in Babylon. He used Jerusalem as the determination of the Sabbath day and took into account the time which passed in travel to the East, to find the true Sabbath at his destination.

 And that is exactly what we must do today in order to follow Isaiah 2:3, as we will see! 

1    First, let us accept the fact that the Sabbath is determined by the    Sabbath at Jerusalem. 

2   Jerusalem, in God’s eyes is the centre of the world, Ezekiel 5:5, “Thus says the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

3    Jerusalem will then replace Greenwich as the starting point for time – ‘Jerusalem Mean Time’. Time will then be determined in degrees East and West from Jerusalem, both, 180 degrees, placing the new Date Line exactly opposite Jerusalem on the other side of the world, as occurs today with Greenwich Mean Time; still in the Pacific Ocean but a little further East. Thus Time, and the Sabbath, also goes forth from Jerusalem, determined by the distance East or West from Jerusalem and the beginning of God’s day at sunset.

 4  ‘On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it East to the Dead Sea and half of it West to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in winter.’ Zechariah 14:8NIV.  Just as God’s Holy Spirit and His Way and His Laws will emanate from Jerusalem to the East and to the West, so does the beginning of His Sabbath Day, though centred on Jerusalem.

5  If we turn this principle into practicality today, we find for example, that, based on Greenwich Mean Time, the Sabbath starts 6 hours earlier in Perth, Australia than it does in Jerusalem. The result is that Perth actually now shares 18 hours of the same Sabbath day with Jerusalem, as time flows out of Jerusalem in all directions in God’s eyes, for He does not dwell on the Earth, as we do.

 6    However, if God’s Sabbath were to move only West, instead of flowing out from Jerusalem in all directions, Isaiah 2:5, (Brown Driver Briggs compares it to water) and Zechariah 14:8, we are still left with the problem we mentioned at the beginning, about stepping from one day to the next over the Dateline, and then we in Perth, Australia,would only share 6 hours of a common Sabbath with Jerusalem, most of it falling on a Sunday. 

  So, we are left with a choice and we must decide which seems to be the most biblical, sensible and practical choice. Those who chose a Dateline at Jerusalem must explain how that difficult problem would be overcome. I would love to hear their solution, for an International Dateline has to occur somewhere!

Free Speech and the Homosexual Agenda

The hoo-ha over Israel Folau’s response to an instagram question in which he was asked what he thought was “God’s plan for gay people”, to which he replied “Hell…..unless they repent of their sins and turn to God”,  highlights the current state of political correctness regarding gender in our society.

The response of corporation’s sponsorship of Rugby Australia was typical. Alan Joyce, the gay pride CEO of Qantas, was obviously angry if the comments of the company are anything to go by, and the overall impression is that Rugby Australia had better keep its players opinions quiet if they want to keep their sponsorship.

Despite that, there were surprisingly more defenders of Folau’s right to express his beliefs than the PC brigade expected; even a former human rights commissioner, the ‘progressive’ Sydney Morning Herald, and publicity agents, joined in on his behalf, though The Australian newspaper quoted an Anglican priest expressing his personal view that being gay is not incompatible with being Christian.

Actually, that statement is only partially true. One can be a non practicing homosexual, having recognised it is sin and repented as Folau suggested, and be a Christian, but to be an active practicing homosexual , and proud of your sin, will lead you to Hell.

But neither was Folau wholly correct. There are several different words in the Bible which are translated Hell and do not equate with the common belief in a place where the guilty are tortured with fire for eternity.

The one word which is used to convey death by fire applies to those sinners who defiantly refuse to repent, who the Bible tells us will be thrown into the Lake of Fire – there to be burned up and turned into ashes, rather than suffering eternally.

Despite all this hoo-ha, it remains a right and a responsibility of Christians to witness to the truth  of the Bible’s statements about sin, the breaking of God’s laws, in the hope that some will repent. The great danger of political correctness is that this right is under threat from those pushing the homosexual agenda, and they will not be satisfied until any criticism of them is silenced and made illegal.

So would end Free Speech.

Romans 1:24, 6:23. ‘So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies…….For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.’  NLT.