Charismatic False Teaching - Valse Charismatiese Leerstellings.

April 1, 2025

Valse Charismatiese Leerstellings.®

Joseph Chambers / Charismatic False Teaching

“ En Hy antwoord: Pas op dat julle nie mislei word nie; want baie sal onder my Naam kom en sê: Dit is ek! en: Die tyd is naby! Gaan dan nie agter hulle aan nie”. (Luk 21:8)

Niks het meer skade aan die Pinkster en Charismatiese bewegings aangerig soos die valse leerstelling oor die werke van die Heilige Gees nie en die gevolg daarvan is dat daar baie min oorgebly het van die vroeë Pinkster bewegings wat nog vasgehou het aan Waarheid.

Daar is baie ‘n groot verskil tussen die Charisma gawes wat ons vandag in die Charismatiese bewegings sien en dit wat in die Woord van die Here opgeteken is.

Kom ons kyk na sommige van die verskille:
Fortuin vertelling; waarsêery wat genoem word “Persoonlike Profesieë”
Die gebedstaal misleiding.
Bonatuurlike gebede: Towerspreuke wat gesien word as gebed.
Charismatiese aanbiddings.
Die Charismatiese gees.
Satan is ‘n Besetter
Die Charismatiese gees

Persoonlike profesie.

Hierdie vals idee van persoonlike profesie wat niks anders as fortuin vertellery, of waarsêery is nie wat in die laaste twee dekades deur die misleide Charismatiese wêreld gepromoveer word en dit het vandag ‘n groot probleem vir baie kerke geword. Mense soos Paul Crouch en Pat Robertson en baie van hulle meelopers het vir hulle fortuine bymekaar gemaak deur die gees van waarsêery en so het hulle groot TV netwerke opgebou wat mense nog verder in die verderf inlei. Hulle gebruik die Bybelse Fondasie as ‘n vlaggie oor hierdie misleiding, en die gees van waarsêery word valslik genoem die Gawe van Kennis en van Profesie, dit is egter net so vals as Lucifer self!

Die gelowige word gelei deur die Heilige Skrifte en die inwonende Heilige Gees, en nie deur ‘n eensydige profesie nie. Vandag word daar duisende sogenaamde ‘profesieë’ kunstig ontwerp en duisende manne en vroue jaag agter hierdie reënboog aan omdat hulle in hulle ore gestreel wil wees deur hierdie valse profesieë. Baie mense se lewens word vandag ingerig volgens hierdie waarsêery en dit is waarom hulle na hierdie profete stroom.

Maar die Woord van die Here sê vir ons baie eenvoudig: “En ons het die profetiese woord wat baie vas is, waarop julle tog moet ag gee soos op 'n lamp wat in 'n donker plek skyn, totdat die dag aanbreek en die môrester opgaan in julle harte; terwyl julle veral dít moet weet, dat geen profesie van die Skrif 'n

saak van eie uitlegging is nie; want geen profesie is ooit deur die wil van 'n mens voortgebring nie, maar, deur die Heilige Gees gedrywe, het die heilige mense van God gespreek” (2Pet.1:19?21)

Geen Skrif of profesie of uitleg is ‘n eensydige verklaring nie. Ons moet altyd geestelike dinge (woorde) met geestelike (woorde) vergelyk. Petrus die apostel wat saam was met die Verheerliking van Christus op die berg het gepraat van die Getuienis wat ons Hemelse Vader vir Sy Seun Jesus Christus gegee het, en ook sê Petrus: “En ons het die profetiese woord wat baie vas is” wat hy verklaar die Woord van God, en dat geen profesie van die Skrifte deur die mens se wil gebring kan word nie. Met ander woorde, Profesie is ‘n Gawe soos al die ander Gawes wat bedoel is vir die hele gemeente, die Gawe van Profesie is DEUR ‘n persoon en nie VIR ‘n persoon nie. Dit mag nie deur mense gebruik word om mense se persoonlike lewens te manipuleer en te beheer nie. 'n Persoon ontvang die Woord van die Here en pas dit wat betrekking op homself het op homself toe. Geen mens moet probeer om ‘n ander se lewe te regeer nie. Mense wat met persoonlike profesie besig is skep die idee by mense dat hulle sekere uitverkore goddelike kennis van God ontvang het, m.a.w. hulle skep die idee dat hulle met die Heilige Gees wandel! By die fortuin vertellers is dit presies dieselfde. Fortuin vertellers skep die idee by mense dat hulle sekere persoonlike kennis oor hulle lewens besit.

Vandag is daar ’n menigte misleiers wat misbruik maak van pragtige mense en hulle verlei met hulle gebabbel deur die gees van waarsêery.

Moet asseblief nie u ore uitleen vir hierdie valsheid nie want elke Wedergebore siel het die Inwonende Heilige Gees binne in hom of haar vir Krag en Leiding. Ons het nie hierdie valsheid nodig nie. Die Heilige Gees neem die Woord van die Here en maak dit van toepassing op die lewe van die siel wat dit ontvang, en om enigsins na die gebabbel van hierdie waarsêers te luister is ‘n sekere weg na afval. Hierdie fortuin vertellers se redes gaan gewoonlik net oor goeie werke en dade, leë beloftes en seëninge wat ‘n valse gerusstelling by mense aanwakker, terwyl die Woord van die Here gaan oor lering, teregwysing, belydenis en bekering, en dit is net diegene wat eerlik en getrou is aan die Here wat hierdie dinge elke dag op hulle lewens van toepassing kan maak. Die gees van waarsêery daarenteen het ‘n emosionele uitwerking op die lewens van mense wat hulle in ‘n onnatuurlike staat van gebondenheid bring. Ons Hemelse Vader is geen aannemer van persoon nie, by Hom is almal dieselfde, Hy ken almal se name en Hy het ook die hare op elkeen se hoof getel, en om enigsins daaraan te dink dat jy iemand soos ‘n waarsêer of ‘n guru in jou lewe nodig het om jou lewe te reel en te rig as jy by die kruispaaie in die lewe kom, is niks anders as om die Geloof in die Here jou God te verloën nie.

Daar is baie mense wat vandag van plek tot plek gaan om te hoor of iemand nie dalk vir hulle ‘n woord van kennis het nie, hierdie misleide mense soek nie die Waarheid nie, hulle soek na hulleself. Wat hulle egter moet soek, is die Woord van God, want by Hom is daar rus en vrede. Onthou, wanneer u die Woord van die Here oopmaak dan praat God met u, en wanneer u hierdie Bybel toemaak, dan maak u die Stem van die Here stil.

Die Gawes van die Heilige Gees is aan die Gemeente gegee, en die doel van die Gawes van die Heilige Gees is om by ons ‘n drang van verlange aan te vuur om die Krag van God te ontvang en om Sy Wil te doen. Die Heilige Gees werk nooit buite die riglyne van die Woord van God nie?? “En neem aan die helm

van verlossing en die swaard van die Gees??dit is die woord van God???(Ef.6:17). Die Here het nie 'n ander Swaard, of nog ‘n Swaard nie, en om nou te beweer dat hierdie eksotiese strelende gebabbel die Woord van die Here is, is 'n totale misleiding.

Die Gawes van die Heilige Gees is vir die Liggaam van Christus, vir die gemeente, en Hy is nie daar vir ‘n persoon om beheer oor ander mense se lewens uit te oefen nie. Ja, daar kan soveel as net twee of drie bymekaar wees om die Woord van die Here te ontvang, maar nooit is die Gawe ‘n persoonlike Gawe nie, maar dit is altyd deur ‘n persoon vir die gemeente. Die Gawes van die Heilige Gees sal die Waarheid Verlig, Hy sal altyd onder alle omstandighede die Here Jesus Christus Verheerlik. (Die Woord het Vlees geword) Die Heilige Gees sal op ‘n bonatuurlike wyse die Woord van die Here aan die gemeente openbaar, Hy is ‘n Woord van Kennis. Die persoonlike toepassing van ‘n boodskap is 'n persoonlike verantwoordelikheid.

Die Here sê kom nou, (op hierdie oomblik) dat ons die saak uitmaak. (Jes. 1:18a)

Moet nie toelaat dat u deur valse leerstellings mislei word nie, maar weet dit dat die Wil van God ook vir u is. Die Ware Gawe van onderskeiding, of ‘n Woord van Kennis maak ‘n absolute skeiding tussen dit wat waaragtig en opreg en dit wat vals is.

In ‘n Gees vervulde gemeente sal die pastoor of die leier weet van enige probleme in sy gemeente en ook wat hulle nodig het sodra dit begin ontwikkel. Die Woord van die Here sê ons moet mekaar se laste dra, en ons liefde vir mekaar sal hierdie dinge openbaar. Die Heilige Gees sal ons volgens die riglyne van die Woord dra, deur of teregwysing, onderwysing, lering, belydenis en bekering??dit is die Werk van die Heilige Gees, en onthou, die Skrifte is die Vlees van die Here Jesus, Hy alleen word verheerlik.

In ‘n gemeente sal daar ‘n senior pastoor en ook ondergeskiktes wees om sy laste ligter te maak, maar almal moet hulle persoonlik onderwerp aan die Wil van God omdat die Here Jesus die Hoof van die Gemeente is, en ook omdat die Gawes van die Heilige Gees en die Liggaam van Christus onafskeidbaar is, die Gemeente s 'n Eenheid in die Gees. Hallulujah!! Wat ‘n heerlike plek van gemeenskap vir die kinders en dissipels van God. Prys U Heilige Naam!

Die Gebedstaal misleiding

Een van die sleutel misleidings van die Charismatiese Golf (New Wave) is iets wat hulle ‘n Gebedstaal noem, maar soos wat dit is met enige misleiding, is dit ‘n Bybelse Waarheid in om in die Gees te kan bid. (Daar is altyd regte kaas in 'n muisval)

Paulus skrywe in sy Brief aan die Korinte: “Want as ek in 'n taal bid, dan bid my gees, maar my verstand is onvrugbaar. Hoe staan die saak dan? Ek sal met die gees bid, maar ek sal ook met die verstand bid. Ek sal met die gees psalmsing, maar ek sal ook met die verstand psalmsing”. (1Kor.14:14?15) Judas praat ook van hierdie Waarheid: “Maar julle, geliefdes, moet julleself opbou in jul allerheiligste geloof en in die Heilige Gees bid.” (Jud.1:20)

Ons moet ook kyk na wat Paulus aan die kerk van Rome gesê het. Hierdie is ‘n kragtige boodskap wat vir ons die Krag van die Heilige Gees in ‘n gelowige uitbeeld. “En net so kom ook die Gees ons swakhede te

hulp, want ons weet nie reg wat ons moet bid nie, maar die Gees self tree vir ons in met onuitspreeklike sugtinge. En Hy wat die harte deursoek, weet wat die bedoeling van die Gees is, omdat Hy ooreenkomstig die wil van God vir die heiliges intree. (Rom.8:26?27)

Ons moet verstaan dat daar ‘n groot waarheid is om in die Heilige Gees te kan bid. Die verskil tussen die Charismatiese misleiding en dit wat die Woord van die Here leer kan egter baie maklik uitgewys word. In die Woord van die Here is die Heilige Gees absoluut Verhewe en Heilig wanneer Hy die Woord van die Here aan ‘n Heilige Gees vervulde gelowige gee. Die mens kan onder geen omstandighede deur sy of haar eie wil, deur die Heilige Gees bid nie!

In die Charismatiese wêreld word die Heiligheid van die Heilige Gees omseil en die hele idee word niks anders as ‘n sielskrag gebabbel nie. Net die wete dat iemand ter eniger tyd kan kies om in die Gees te bid is totaal ondenkbaar en dit is vals. God laat Hom nie manipuleer nie, en so sien ons dat hierdie mense wil voorgee dat hulle die Heilige Gees te eniger tyd kan gebied tot hulle voordeel, hulle speel God. Dit is vals en ondenkbaar maar dit is wat mense vandag wil voorgee! Die mens wat homself wil verhef bo die Godheid! Alle werke en manifestasies in die bediening van die Heilige Gees is absoluut Heilig en die Wil van God, en nie deur die wil van ‘n mens nie. “??want geen profesie is ooit deur die wil van 'n mens voortgebring nie, maar, deur die Heilige Gees gedrywe, het die heilige mense van God gespreek”. (2Pet.1:21) “En toe die dag van die pinksterfees aangebreek het, was hulle almal eendragtig bymekaar. En daar kom skielik uit die hemel 'n geluid soos van 'n geweldige rukwind, en dit het die hele huis gevul waar hulle gesit het. Toe is deur hulle tonge gesien soos van vuur, wat hulleself verdeel en op elkeen van hulle gaan sit. En hulle is almal vervul met die Heilige Gees en het begin spreek in ander tale, soos die Gees aan hulle gegee het om uit te spreek”. (Hand.2:1?4)

Hier sien ons dat elke stukkie getuienis van die uitstorting van die Heilige Gees absoluut net deur die Wil van God, en deur die Heilige Gees plaasgevind het. Die manne en vroue wat hier saam op die Koms van die Heilige Gees gewag het was net die werktuie waardeur God deur die Krag van die Heilige Gees, Jesus Christus aan die ongereddes geopenbaar het. Alle Geestelike Gawes is Gawes van die Heilige Gees en nie gawes van die heiliges nie. Hierdie is Geestelike Gawes soos wat die woord dit vir ons uitspel, en nie vleeslike gawes nie.

Ons is natuurlike skepsels totdat ons volgens die Wil van God deur die Heilige Gees gesalf word. Ons geestelike lewe na ons wedergebore word geskik deur die Geestelike Werke en Gawes van die Gees van God en nie volgens ons wil nie, maar volgens die Wil van God. Om in ander tale te praat is maar een van die Gawes.

Wanneer u hoor dat mense hulle Gebedstaal gebruik dan moet u weet dit is vals en kragteloos, en dit is niks anders as ‘n gebabbel nie, en al resultate wat deur dit verkry kan word is ‘n geestelike hoogmoed by die gebruikers daarvan en dit is geestelike misleiding.

Valse geestelike ondervindings ontwikkel ‘n valse godsdienstige gees in almal wat verbonde is aan 'n persoon, plek of kerk waar dit verkondig word. Hoe dieper ‘n persoon betrokke raak in hierdie soort mistieke manifestasies, hoe meer raak hy of sy gebonde aan allerhande soorte vreemde openbarings.

Een van die vroeë misleidings was juis die vreemde gebedstaal, manifestasie en die resultaat daarvan is geeste van slange, geestelike dronkenskap, vervalste leerstellings en ‘n beweging wat gedryf word deur die wilde wêreld van duiwels. Die Woord van die Here leer: “En net so kom ook die Gees ons swakhede te hulp, want ons weet nie reg wat ons moet bid nie, maar die Gees self tree vir ons in met onuitspreeklike sugtinge. En Hy wat die harte deursoek, weet wat die bedoeling van die Gees is, omdat Hy ooreenkomstig die wil van God vir die heiliges intree.” (Rom.8:26?27)

Die Werke van die Heilige Gees is wanneer Hy ons gees en lippe gebruik om woorde tot ons Hemelse Vader te spreek. Om nou enigsins te dink dat hierdie Krag deur die vlees gemanipuleer kan word is totaal ondenkbaar en absoluut teenstrydig met die instellings van God. Dit kan of die werk van die Heilige Gees, of dit kan deur sielskrag wees wat ook die werke van die bose kan wees, dieselfde as die gebabbel van ‘n toordokter. Om in die wee van die Here Jesus te wandel moet ons alle leerstelling wat nie volgens die Woord van die Here is nie verwerp.

Bonatuurlike gebede (Tower spreuke wat gesien word as gebede)

Hierdie nuwe benadering tot gebed in die moderne kerke is niks anders as tower spreuke en Vodo kuns grepe nie. Bonatuurlike kragte is beskikbaar vir enige persoon wat sy siel wil verkoop aan hierdie misleidings wat in die Adams natuur werk. Ons is almal geestelike skepsels en daar is kragte in ons wat ons kan gebruik om ons oortegee aan die Wil van God of om ons onderdanig te maak aan die magte van die Bose.

“Wees nugter en waaksaam, want julle teëstander, die duiwel, loop rond soos 'n brullende leeu, en soek wie hy kan verslind”. (1Pet.5:8)

Terwyl God Homself manifesteer in ons menslike gees, manifesteer Satan en sy demone hulleself in die siel van die mens. Satan hou daarvan om mense se sielskrag te gebruik om sodoende die Here Jesus se Liggaam, die kerk, te mislei. Die meerderheid van Christene verstaan nie hierdie aanval tegniek van Satan nie en daarom het hulle baie min of geen verdediging daarteen. Die moderne Charismatiese gebed styl wat geopenbaar word in bewegings soos die Toronto en Pensacola tipe Charismatiese kerke, is niks anders as ‘n bonatuurlike misleiding nie. Die vraag is, bestaan daar sulke magte? Ja, absoluut! Kry hulle resultate? Ja, absoluut! maar wat se soort resultate? Die bonatuurlike resultate wat hulle verkry is nie die bekering en wedergeboorte ondervinding tot Die Here Jesus Christus nie, nee, dit is ‘n bonatuurlike verandering tot ‘n valse Jesus wat homself vermom as ons Here Jesus Christus. (Hy sal kom soos die Engel van die Lig)

Hierdie groepe is uiters militant, en enige iemand wat hulle teëstaan word met vloeke en oordele verdoem. Dit is die eerste teken dat hulle benadering tot gebed vals is. Gebed riglyne in enige van ons gebed benaderings is volgens die Woord van God en ‘n totale onderwerping aan die Wil van God.

Wanneer ons tot God nader in gebed het ons nie nodig om ons weg tot Hom oop te forseer nie omdat ons geloof in ‘n Alleen Heilige God is. Ons het ook nie nodig om te probeer om ons eie gebede te beantwoord nie omdat ons op Hom alleen vertrou.

Die god van die bonatuurlike gebed is glad en geheel nie God Almagtig nie, hierdie is ‘n god met doelwitte van versoekings en misleidings.

Hierdie sielskragte gebruik bonatuurlike kragte om hulle eie antwoorde te bewerkstellig. Hulle verkry resultate ja, maar soos wat dit in alle bonatuurlike wêrelde is, is hulle antwoorde altyd so dubbelsinnig dat dit altyd terug verwys word na die persoon self, jy moet op jouself vertrou! Judas beskryf hierdie dinge in sy Brief soos volg: “Wee hulle, want hulle het die weg van Kain bewandel en om loon hulleself in die verleiding van Bíleam gestort en in die verset van Korag omgekom. Hulle is skandvlekke in julle liefde maaltye, wat sonder vrees saam fees hou en hulleself voer, waterlose wolke deur winde rond gedrywe, bome in die nasomer, wat sonder vrugte is, twee maal gestorwe, ontworteld; woeste golwe van die see wat hulle eie skandes laat opskuim, dwaalsterre vir wie die donkerheid van die duisternis vir ewig bewaar word.” (Judas 11?13) Bonatuurlike gebede soos in die Toronto en Pensacola bewegings word gebruik om diegene wat hulle teëstaan aan te val en te veroordeel deur bonatuurlike kragte, en so word baie mense deur vrees geforseer om by hierdie bewegings aan te sluit.

Baie mense het al getuig van hierdie vreemde onderdrukkende bose kragte wat hulle ondervind het wanneer hulle hierdie leerstellings teëgestaan het. Die apostel Paulus was bewus van hierdie magte en hy het hulle direk teëgestaan. In Efesiërs skrywe Paulus: “Trek die volle wapenrusting van God aan, sodat julle staande kan bly teen die liste van die duiwel. Want ons worstelstryd is nie teen vlees en bloed nie, maar teen die owerhede, teen die magte, teen die wêreldheersers van die duisternis van hierdie eeu, teen die bose geeste in die lug”. (Ef.6:11?12)

Let op, Paulus noem hierdie magte “Bose geeste” Die woord wat hier vir gees gebruik word, het ‘n ander betekenis as die positiewe idee van geeste. Hier beteken dit iets soos ‘n man wat regeer deur sy sondige natuur, in ‘n geestelike status.

Die woord bose beteken iemand wat sy uiterste bose magte gebruik om ander se lewens te vernietig of aan te tas. Hier het ons dan ‘n duidelike beeld van die bonatuurlike magte wat uitgestuur word om mense teen hulle wil aan te val en seer te maak. Dit is niks anders as om ‘n tower spreuk oor iemand se lewe uit te spreek nie, wat ook dieselfde is as om Vodo magte te gebruik. Die enigste manier om hierdie bose magte te weerstaan is om ons geloof in die Hande van die Here Jesus Christus te plaas, want net deur Sy Bloed is daar vir ons verlossing. Satan kan hierdie Bloedgrens nie oorsteek nie. Satan kan vurige pyle van vrees en twyfel en verdrukking op u afstuur, maar as u agter die Skild van die Here Jesus skuil sal hierdie pyle kragteloos wees. Moet hulle nie terug antwoord of terug baklei nie, maar gaan aan en sing lofprysing liedere en wag op die Here, Hy sal die stryd vir u stry. Onthou die staf van Moses het baie vinnig die staf van die towenaars in Egipte verslind. Dit het nog nooit verander nie en ons Hemelse Vader hou nog steeds wag oor die wat aan Hom behoort.

Charismatiese aanbidding.

Om met die Heilige Gees vervul te word is ‘n baie bekende term wat in die Nuwe Testament gebruik word, veral in die Boek Handelinge. Op Pinkster dag is almal wat op die Here gewag het vervul met die Heilige Gees, en Petrus het later op hierdie dag gesê: “?? en julle sal die gawe van die Heilige Gees

ontvang. Want die belofte kom julle toe en julle kinders en almal wat daar ver is, die wat die Here onse God na Hom sal roep”. (Hand.2:38?39)

Die duiwel het hierdie wonderlike gebeurtenis vervals en deur dit het baie pragtige mense vandag die manifestasie van die Heilige Gees begin verwerp. Maar let maar op dat met elke herlewing wat in die kerk geskiedenis plaasgevind het kan hierdie Wonderlike Werke van die Heilige Gees waargeneem word. Die van ons huidige Charismatiese en Pinkster herlewings lê baie klem op die vervulling van die Heilige Gees, maar die ondervindings wat hulle promoveer gaan meer oor dinge soos dronk in die gees en baie ander fanatiese optredes as wat dit gaan oor die Persoon van die Heilige Gees! Baie Pinkster en ander kerke is besig om die Bybelse Riglyne te verruil hierdie vervalsings.

Bose besetting teenoor Godelike heersing

Satan wil mense se lewens in ‘n totale gebondenheid oorheers sodat hy hulle wil kan beheer.

Die Heilige Gees kom na ons toe om die Goddelike Heersing van die Here Jesus in ons lewens te openbaar. Satan wil die mens se emosies beheer en sal ook die vlees vertroetel met hoendervleis en wilde onbeheerbare plesier. Die Heilige Gees is ‘n Kuiergas in ons huise, Hy dwing Homself nie op ons af nie en Hy sal ons altyd in alle eerlikheid en opregtheid deur die Waarheid inspireer tot Lofprysing en Aanbidding van ons Hemelse Vader. Hy Verheerlik Homself nie, maar Hy sal altyd die Here Jesus deur die Skrifte verheerlik. Ons Hemelse Vader wil ons Salf en inspireer tot Redding, terwyl Satan almal wil oorheers in gebondenheid.

Satan is ‘n Besetter.

As ‘n persoon duiwelbesete raak en onder beheer kom van iets wat onnatuurlike manifestasies veroorsaak dan is daar iets drasties verkeerd. Satan bied die mensdom nagemaakte vervalsings aan om hulle weg te hou van die Heilige Werke van God. Enige gees wat u dinge laat doen buite die riglyne van die Woord van die Here moet verwerp word. So is daar byvoorbeeld op geen plek in die Bybel vir ons opgeteken dat mense in die Nuwe Testamentiese Kerk soos dronkaards opgetree het nie.

Hulle wil dit beweer uit die Boek van Handelinge, maar u moet oplet dat diegene wat op hierdie groot dag deur die Heilige Gees gedoop is, baie meer intelligenter opgetree as die omstanders, en nie minder intelligenter nie. Onthou dat die Jode totaal verbaas was omdat die Gees vervulde Galasiërs die Groot Dade van God aan hulle verkondig het in tale wat hulle nooit geleer het nie. Die Heilige Gees sal die Here Jesus Christus te alle tye Verheerlik en nie mense nie. “En die geeste van die profete is aan die profete onderworpe”(1Kor.14:32)

Op Pinkster dag het 120 dissipels in ander tale begin praat soos wat hulle dit deur die Heilige Gees ontvang het. As die Heilige Gees ‘n Geëerde Genooide Gas in ons huise is, dan doen ons wat Hy verlang elke keer as Hy ons aanraak. Ons word belet om ordeloos en onbeheers op te tree. Hy beveel die kerk in 1Kor14:40: “Laat alles welvoeglik en ordelik toegaan.”

Bybels gerigte Pinkster is ‘n baie Kragvolle Gesalfde ordelike bediening wat siele vir die Koninkryk van Jesus kan wen, maar hierdie Charismatiese opvoerings wat ons vandag sien is niks ander as ‘n Nuwe Wêreld Orde wat onder die gesag van Satan staan.

Die Charismatiese gees.

Vandag het ‘n totale nuwe metodiese manier van godsdiens die kerke wêreld oorgeneem wat wil voorkom asof dit waar en opreg is en dit mag ook voorkom asof die gemeentelede dit eerlik en opreg bedoel, maar iets baie belangrik is weg.

Die mensheid is ‘n skeppings wonder in ‘n drie eenheid wat bestaan uit liggaam siel en gees. Die gees in hierdie drie eenheid samestelling is die Lewe van God, en dit is die enigste Goue Draad waardeur ons, ons Hemelse Vader kan Loof en Prys. In ‘n ongeredde persoon, ‘n persoon wat nog nie wedergebore is nie, is hierdie Lewens Weg van God dood en kan 'n persoon net herlewe as hy / sy Krag van die Gees van God ontvang wat by wedergeboorte plaasvind. Die siel van die mens is ook instaat tot ‘n sekere godsdienstige aanbidding, maar dit is ‘n valse weergawe omdat dit afkomstig is van ons gevalle natuur wat ook genoem word die Adam natuur. In hierdie realm van ons lewens kan die okkulte sy aktiwiteite laat lewe soos wat ons dit kan vind in die lewe van hekse en waarsêers en ook in die lewens van persone wat betrokke is met bose geeste. Alle valse godsdienste word bedryf deur die sielskrag realm van die mens. Die offers van ‘n sielskrag godsdiens is totaal onaanvaarbaar vir die Here en Hy sal hierdie offers net so verwerp soos die van Kain.?? “En Abel het ook van die eersgeborenes van sy kleinvee gebring, naamlik van hulle vet. En die HERE het Abel en sy offer genadig aangesien, maar Kain en sy offer nie aangesien nie. Toe word Kain baie kwaad, en hy het sy hoof laat hang”.(Gen.4:4?5) Hierdie valse godsdiens het vandag se Charismatiese kerke wêreld totaal oorgeneem en dit word by die dag ook meer en meer aanvaarbaar in die ander hoofstroom kerke, dit is die godsdiens van die tyd.

Baie van hierdie kerke het normaalweg twee dienste, een kontemporêre diens, met ander woorde ‘n diens vir die nuwerwetse denkes, en dan ‘n tradisionele diens, met ander woorde ‘n diens vir die ouer garde. Gewoonlik is daar geen beperking op die soort musiek, kleredrag en verhoog style nie, alles is vry?

? kom net soos wat jy wil. Dit is niks anders as om die natuurlike mens vry te stel om God / god te nader in ‘n sielskrag atmosfeer soos wat hy of sy wil. Met ander woorde, ek kan ook doen en sê wat ek wil, daar kan chaos en totale wanorde heers en dit sal ook aanvaarbaar wees. As ‘n kerk hierdie rigting begin inslaan dan word Bybelse Waarhede en standaarde ‘n groot probleem, en die basiese ding wat gaan gebeur is dat hulle die riglyne van die Woord eenkant toe sal begin skuif en dan sal u hoor soos wat hulle dan sê:??God is besig om nuwe dinge te doen! In sommige kerke wat nog ‘n sekere mate van ‘n Teologiese orde wil behou, sal daar ‘n uitgangspunt wees van: “Die doel heilig die middele??ons het nou eindelik weer die X generasie terug in ons kerk.” Hierdie tipe godsdiens verskil van tradisie tot tradisie en die Charismatiese bewegings is maar een soort.

Kom ons kyk eers na die opregte Pinkster aanbidding.

Die spreek in tale in ‘n klasieke Pinkster gemeente is ‘n pragtige gesig, en geen persoon kan ter eniger tyd woorde deur die Gees spreek nie want so ‘n persoon moet absoluut heilig en nederig voor God deur Geloof, opregtheid en getrouheid wandel.

Gelowiges wat deur die Gees van God wandel kan net Woorde van God spreek as die Gees van God dit toelaat. (Hand.2:1?4) Om ordeloos te kere te gaan is totaal onaanvaarbaar. Skriftuurlike Boodskappe deur die Heilige Gees moet Skriftuurlik verklaar word, en die orde van hierdie dinge is vir ons deur die

Heilige Gees deur Paulus opgeteken in 1Korinte 14. Wanneer die gemeente in Gees en Waarheid met hande omhoog ordelik die Here loof en prys sal dit nie wees soos heidene en guru aanbidders wat in waansin te kere gaan nie. God sal nooit ons verstand omseil nie! Mense wat in ‘n verrukking van die Gees van God gekom het, het wonderbare dinge van God gehoor en gesien en tot eer en verheerliking van God Almagtig getuig, dinge wat tot stigting van die Gemeente van die Seun van God sal wees.

Die Charismatiese beweging is totaal verskillend. Die aanbidders kom voor asof hulle totaal onder ‘n beswyming verval het, hulle slinger verstandeloos rond met oë wat omdop terwyl hulle deurmekaar babbel met gesig uitdrukkings wat wil voorkom asof hulle in 'n totale ekstase verkeer. Hulle spring en rol rond, doen mat diens, gil en skree soos mense in ‘n gestig. Baie van hulle kom in ‘n staat van rukkings en stuiptrekkings met skuim om hulle monde wat vir ure kan aangaan. Net so met die onbeheerste gelag waar sommiges hulleself benat! Een van die karaktertrekke van hierdie manifestasie is dat mense so swaar word dat hulle nie kan opstaan nie, en somtyds kan twee of drie persone hulle nie eens optel nie. Sommiges manifesteer die geboorte proses. Dit is sekerlik moontlik vir ‘n opregte gelowiges om in die sielskrag realm mislei te word maar die Here verwag van ons om al die geeste op die proef te stel en as hulle tot die waarheid kom moet hulle uit hierdie bewegings padgee en hulle sondes bely tot vergifnis. Verskillende vlakke van hierdie soort aanbidding kan van tradisie tot tradisie verskil, maar almal van hulle word gedryf deur een of ander Oosterse mistieke gees, en nooit maar nooit is dit die Werke van die Heilige Gees nie. Die Heilige Gees verlaat nooit die riglyne van die Woord van God nie, en as die Heilige Gees die Groot Dade van God laat manifesteer sal dit absoluut volgens die riglyne van die Bybel wees. Die Here Jesus sê baie duidelik ons moet Hom in Gees en Waarheid aanbid. “Die vrou sê vir Hom: Here, ek sien dat U 'n profeet is. Ons vaders het op hierdie berg aanbid, en julle sê dat die plek waar ons behoort te aanbid, in Jerusalem is. Jesus sê vir haar: Vrou, glo My, daar kom 'n uur wanneer julle nie op hierdie berg en ook nie in Jerusalem die Vader sal aanbid nie. Julle aanbid wat julle nie weet nie; ons aanbid wat ons weet, want die saligheid is uit die Jode. Maar daar kom 'n uur, en dit is nou, wanneer die ware aanbidders die Vader in gees en waarheid sal aanbid; want die Vader soek ook mense wat Hom só aanbid. God is Gees; en die wat Hom aanbid, moet in gees en waarheid aanbid”. (Joh.4:19?24)

Hierdie twee elemente is absoluut wanneer ons voor God verskyn. Sielskrag aanbidding deur ongeredde mense sal verwerp word net soos met die offer van Kain. Wêreldse onrein offers kan nie voor God gebring word nie, en net so kan die mens wat die Bybelse Waarheid verruil het vir ‘n pot lensie sop nie voor die Aller Heiligste verskyn nie. Toneelspelers en akteurs kan geen mens in die realm van die Heilige Gees in lei nie, dit is absoluut die Wil van God.

God het alreeds die meerderheid van hierdie sielskrag aanbidders verwerp, maar nog steeds ontvang en seën Hy die nederige siel wat aan die Voete van sy Messias kom sit en tot Hom kom met ‘n eerlike en ‘n opregte hart van ootmoediging. Dit is aan hierdie siel wat onse Here Sy Heilige Gees skenk tot vernuwing, want: “Die Gees self getuig saam met ons gees dat ons kinders van God is”. (Rom.8:16) Deur hierdie groot Genade kan ons tot God nader.

“Laat ons dan met vrymoedigheid na die troon van die genade gaan, sodat ons barmhartigheid kan verkry en genade vind om op die regte tyd gehelp te word”. (Hebr.4:16)

Daar is ‘n weg wat vir die mens reg lyk, maar dit is die wee van die dood. †††

B.C. / Moriel / Brother Joseph Chambers / Charismatic False Teachings / 02/2000

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Staying the course amidst isolation

By David Passmore • May 30, 2026

Staying The Course Amidst Isolation Rubin Rothler LLB, LLM Living in Israel one gets the feeling that the metaphorical walls are closing in. Israel's reputation is being tarnished all over social media and the mainstream media, and this is reflected in massive public disdain towards this country. We are constantly told that there is near consensus amongst academics and commentators that a genocide was committed in Gaza. The very legitimacy of the state is brought into question. The majority of Americans are now hostile towards Israel. There is real fear that the next U.S. administration will turn against Israel. Even if this were to happen passively, by the U.S. refraining from exercising its veto power towards Security Council Resolutions condemning Israeli actions this could be catastrophic. Internally it is a fractured society leaning increasingly right wing which further alienates Israel from world opinion. An example in point is how Ben Gvir mocked the most recent participants of a global aid flotilla to Gaza. Such conduct further agitates outrage at Israel. The left-wing media presents the ruins of Gaza as a mortal wound in Israel's side. When the world observes this level of carnage no degree of public relations can ameliorate the sense of indignation towards Israel. We can liken the situation of Israel to that of a depressed person. All he sees is hopelessness and gloom. But this isn't the first time that the Jewish nation has been faced with such darkness. Things change and we don't know how the geo-political map will reconfigure in the future. We need to ride out this storm and keep going. On a historical note, the situation is reminiscent of what our ancestors faced when we returned from the Babylonian exile to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. Nehemiah was faced with constant lies and conspiracies designed to entrap him by hostile actors: Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite and Geshem the Arab. They employed deception, slander and ridicule in order to maintain their political eminence. There was also a certain sense of abandonment amongst the Jews in Israel then as in our own day. We read in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah about the anguish of the leadership in Israel concerning the lack of assistance from the Babylonian diaspora towards the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem and the Temple. Only 20% of the exiles returned to the land. It was largely the poor who returned. Most of the affluent, established Jews remained in Exile. This is a continuing theme in Jewish history. It is also important to observe that from its very beginnings there were bible believing Christians who spearheaded the return of the Jews to their land. The idea of organizing a return of the Jews to Israel began as a Protestant Restorationist objective that can be traced to 17th century Puritan England. The protagonists of the Cromwellian Republic viewed themselves as the new Israel fighting the Papist forces of Satan. Alongside this, interest grew in the notion that biblical prophecies pertaining to the return of the Jews to Israel were a necessary precursor for the return of Christ. The growth of the British Empire in the 19th century lent political clout to Christian Restorationism with specific missions to the Jews established. Although there had been a longing to return to Israel as written in the thrice daily Amidah prayer, Jewish Zionism arose in the midst of mid nineteenth century nationalism and was further fermented by European antisemitism. It was an altogether secular enterprise. Although Israel's situation appears rather stark, we can draw strength from the Providence afforded to our ancestors in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah when they too were faced with defamation. This is also an opportunity to grow closer to our natural allies in the evangelical world who from the beginning of Zionism were steadfast supporters of the project to establish a Jewish homeland in Israel. (Author is an Israeli American lawyer academically qualified in British and in U.S.A. law, and a graduate of the School of Oriental & African Studies, London. He is a Jewish believer in Jesus and is currently based in Israel).

Signs of the Times - Tony Pearce

By David Passmore • May 25, 2026

Signs of the Times Tony Pearce ‍ ‍ Left, right or center – is our democracy in danger “Things fall apart, the center does not hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” W.B Yeats ‘The Second Coming. ’ ‍ ‍ Labour’s losses in the council elections and the battle for succession to their unpopular leader Kier Starmer have raised the possibility that we may soon have our seventh Prime Minister in ten years. Local elections saw Reform and the Greens make sweeping gains, leading Green Party leader, Zack Polanski to say that we are seeing ‘the end of the old two party system’. Maybe we are. In which case what comes next? Will we head to the far left, the far right or will the center hold on to power? Or will it end with ungovernable chaos as unqualified people take control of local and national government? Behind all this there are fundamental questions, ‘What is government for? Who does it represent and where is it going?’ ‍ ‍‍ ‍ According to the Bible (Romans 13) the purpose of government is to promote good and restrain evil. The government has the right to raise taxes for the common good of society and people should pay them. In 1 Timothy 2 Paul encourages us to pray for the government that ‘we may live a godly and peaceable life’. In other words, pray that the government will create an orderly and peaceful society and not interfere with our right to set up communities that teach and preach the Word of God. The situation becomes more difficult when we see government promoting things which are harmful and restraining things which are good and clamping down on freedom of speech with a threat to our ability to live a ‘godly and peaceable life’ ‍ Since becoming a Christian in my early twenties, I have wrestled with the question of how our faith applies to contemporary political issues. I started this quest on the left politically after leaving university and working as an English teacher with sympathies for Marxism. I then became a born again Christian in 1970, and joined my late wife Nikki in evangelizing the radical left, by handing out leaflets at their marches and demonstrations in London and attending their meetings to discuss matters of faith and politics with them. ‍ ‍‍ ‍ We had some good discussions with people and hope we made some consider the Christian alternative. However as we looked at Marxism from a Christian point of view and its practice in Communist countries, we understood that behind this ideology there is a strong anti-christian spirit. It denies the existence of God and promotes the idea of human perfectibility by our own effort. This is exemplified in the words of the Internationale, the socialist battle hymn, ‘No saviour from on high delivers, no faith have we in prince or peer, our own right hand the chains will shiver, chains of hatred, greed and fear.’ This Antichrist spirit led to the persecution of Christians in the Communist countries of eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and China. Far from creating the socialist paradise on earth that Lenin wrote about in ‘Socialism and Religion’, it created a society ruled by hatred, greed and fear, controlled by secret police, prison camps and responsible for the death of millions. ‍ ‍ In western society we have witnessed the growth of ‘cultural Marxism’ a movement aimed at infiltrating and changing society from within, rather than fomenting the workers’ revolution. Labour’s Fabian Society, with its (now discarded) logo of the wolf in sheep’s clothing, has been engaged in this process since the beginning of the 20th century. Social change really took off with the permissive society in the 1960s, which succeeded in changing traditional values, especially in the area of sex and the family. It replaced biblical values with a new ‘morality’ that is fundamentally anti Christian. These ideas have permeated large swathes of our society including the education system, the judiciary, the Civil Service, much of the media, mainstream political parties (including even the Conservative ‘wets’ and parts of the established church). ‍ ‍ Melanie Phillips describes the results of this in her book, ‘The Builder’s Stone.’ ‘Having decided that the West was rotten to the core, western elites set out to create a new culture that would usher in the brotherhood of man and eradicate hatred, prejudice, and war. Their Brave New World junked biblical religion with all its constraints on behaviour and revolved instead around self gratification. Everybody had the right to live as they wanted; nobody could say that their way of life was better or worse than anyone else’s; no one had the right to say that their culture was better than any other culture. That was ‘racism.’ At the heart of all this was the doctrine that there was no such thing as objective truth. Everything was relative; everything was a matter of opinion. Because there was no truth feelings became more important than facts. So the West abandoned the codes of morality, conscience, truth and lies, personal responsibility, and duty to others in favour of a culture of the self. In the process it junked its inherited traditions and biblical codes on which western culture was based.’ ‍ Britain changed from being a society that respected values based on the 10 Commandments and the teaching of Jesus Christ to one that discarded them for relative values. Ideas of ‘diversity, inclusion and equity’ became the norm, together with and a form of ‘tolerance’, that is really very intolerant if you oppose it. This ‘tolerance’ means accepting the virtues of multiculturalism and humanism and believing that all gods are equally valid or true (or none are). We must also accept that all lifestyles and family arrangements including homosexual and transsexual ones are just as valid as traditional two parent heterosexual families, with a father and mother committed to each other in lifelong matrimony looking after their own children. ‍ As society accepts this radical change in how we view culture, morality and religion, we are told not to criticize other cultures and world views or imply that they are anything less than equal to the culture, morality and faith derived from the Bible. ‍ All this has not improved society. Instead we have a collapse of values with no central idea to hold it together, just a group of competing ‘communities’ which are often only united in opposition to the traditional values and culture of Great Britain. A good example of this is the ‘red – green alliance’ of radical leftists and Islamists who come together to denounce Israel and campaign to ‘globalise the Intifada’. In practice this means a world wide war against Israel and Judaeo-Christian society and a desire to replace it with their version of either Islamism or Communism. However if one of them were to come to power, you can be sure that the Islamist’s would get rid of the leftists or vice versa. In fact that happened in Iran’s 1979 revolution, when Islamist supporters of Khomeini and Communists came together to get rid of the Shah. Then the Islamists seized power, turned on the Communists and wiped them out. ‍ Alisteir Heath wrote in the Daily Telegraph: ‘Ruined by decades of political vandalism, the Britain we knew and loved, a land of stability, pragmatism, and ancient freedoms, is no more. Today’s UK is uglier, impoverished, volatile and disorderly. We’ve lost our level-headedness. Anger and frustration have become our defining emotions. Our institutions have wasted away, and we have been taught to despise our history. The decline of family, community and faith have led to alienation, dependence on welfare and the rise of novel ideologies, mostly secular but also sectarian, turbocharged by social media. While the state becomes unnervingly authoritarian, the air reeks of insurrection and every variety of extremism. The British public’s sense of betrayal is as well-founded as it is dangerous. The machinery of state is incompetent and self-serving, a vehicle for social engineering in the global interest.’ ‍ ‍ ‍ Criticism of this process now risks being classed as ‘hate crime’ with a growing authoritarian society monitoring social media posts and public teaching of alternative ideas in ways which risk shutting down free speech in our society. A Christian teacher Enoch Burke is currently in prison in Dublin after he was suspended from his job and jailed after refusing to accept and teach transgenderism in the school. ‍ ‍ ‍ Nick Timothy, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, got into trouble when he questioned mass Muslim prayer in Trafalgar Square. He wrote: ‘Mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination. The adhan – which declares there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger – is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination. The domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook.” He is right in this. Allah hu Akhbar actually means Allah is greater, greater than your God, Muhammad is greater than Jesus and the Koran is greater than the Bible. ‍ ‍ ‍ Tim Dieppe of Christian Concern for our Nation wrote: “The fact that we have mass Islamic prayer in Trafalgar Square at all is indicative of the massive culture change that we have seen in the last few decades. A culture change that was not voted for or ever agreed to by the British people. And, a culture change that can hardly be described as having been entirely beneficial to our culture as a whole. I only need to mention grooming gangs involving mostly Pakistani Muslim men , sharia courts, honour crimes, terror attacks, the assassination of an MP, an attempt to blockade Parliament, mass antisemitic marches through London, a convicted terrorist standing for local elections, sectarianism, and many other examples to make the point. Earlier this month, the Government gave Muslims special protection with the adoption of an official definition of anti-Muslim hostility .” ‍ ‍ ‍ You are not really supposed to question this in public life today. A message circulating on social media is an apt commentary on all this. ‘First they overlook evil, then they permit evil, then they legalise evil, then they promote evil, then celebrate evil, then persecute those who call it evil.’ Soviet dissident Solzhenitsyn wrote: ‘A Communist system can be recognised by how it spares criminals and criminalises its opponents.’ ‍ ‍ ‍ The root cause of all this is the rejection of God and biblical values. The 18th-century French philosopher Joseph de Maistre coined the phrase "people get the government they deserve." David Pawson followed up on this idea, arguing that in democratic societies like ours, the moral and spiritual condition of a nation's citizens is directly reflected in the leaders they elect. If the general public abandons moral truths, they will inevitably vote for governments that reflect those same compromises. David Pawson taught that God may use governmental leadership to judge or bless a nation, depending on the people's obedience. He noted that Hebrew prophets saw wicked rulers as a form of divine judgement on a society that has strayed from God's laws. Therefore a nation's ultimate hope rests on repentance rather than just political change. His conclusion is that Christians should actively stand for moral truth in society. He believed that the church is meant to influence culture upward, and that a decline in national morality inevitably leads to deteriorating governance. ‍ ‍ ‍ Sadly much of the church today has become the ‘salt that has lost its savour’ through compromise with antichristian forces in society and government. It may be too late to save our country and western democracy as social and economic pressures create a collapse of democracy and push us either towards anarchy or dictatorship. ‍ ‍ ‍ Yeats’ poem quoted at the beginning of this article ends with the enigmatic line ‘Some rough beast slouches towards Bethlehem to be born.’ Most likely he is referring to the coming anti-Messiah who is labelled the Beast in the book of Revelation. Many believe his is now waiting in the wings to replace the true Messiah (born in Bethlehem) and bring in the dictatorship prophesied in Revelation 13. The Bible indicates that the Beast or Antichrist will have power for a moment, but it will be short lived and doomed to destruction at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ to the earth. Then the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdom of our God and of His Messiah and He shall reign forever and ever (Revelation 11.15) and the ‘government shall be on His shoulder’ (Isaiah 9.6). ‍ ‍ ‍ Maranatha come Lord Jesus. ‍ ‍ ‍ Water, water nowhere and not a drop to drink. (Apologies to the Ancient Mariner) ‍ ‍‍ ‍ While nations worry about supply of oil and gas as a result of the war in the Gulf and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a much more vital commodity for human survival is water. And it is in short supply in a growing number of nations. ‍ ‍ As of 2026, over 25 countries face extremely high water stress, with the most severe crises located in the Middle East and North Africa. This region is home to the world's most water-stressed nations, including Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Yemen, and Libya. India and Pakistan face critical water scarcity due to overexploitation of aquifers and population density. Much of Africa , Somalia and Ethiopia in particular are facing severe shortages due to drought and climate change. Mexico and parts of the United States (particularly Texas and the west coast) are experiencing significant water shortages and declining groundwater levels. ‍ ‍ ‍ Iran is facing a severe, multi-year water crisis as of May 2026, with major cities like Tehran, Mashhad, and Karaj approaching the point where taps could run dry due to depleted reservoirs. Groundwater is depleted across most of the country, and nineteen provinces are experiencing severe drought. The crisis is driven by a combination of climate change and decades of poor water management, including excessive dam construction and inefficient, water-intensive agriculture. China is facing a severe, multi-faceted water crisis defined by extreme scarcity in the north, widespread pollution, and mismanagement, threatening its food supply and economic growth. ‍ ‍ ‍ Several countries are significantly affected by upstream dam construction that reduces downstream water flow, causing, environmental, and diplomatic crises. These countries include Iraq, heavily impacted by dams built on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers by Turkey and Iran, leading to reduced water for agriculture, destruction of forests, and increased sandstorms. Egypt and Sudanface significant water security risks due to the Ethiopian Grand Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile. Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laosare affected of dams built by China on the upper Mekong River ‍ ‍ One country which bucks this trend is Israel. Israel manages its water resources by transforming a chronic shortage into a surplus through large-scale desalination, extensive wastewater recycling, and a centralised national water carrier system. The agriculture sector has shifted away from freshwater, using treated effluent instead. Advanced drip irrigation technologies are widely used to minimise waste. Israel has exported its water technologies to countries around the world, particularly Africa where it has given advice on how to use limited water resources to great effect. ‍ ‍ ‍ Without water no society on earth can survive. Bible prophecies indicate that water shortage and pollution will be a global problem in the last days. Most obviously no water equals no food, so famine is an inevitable result of water shortages. Jesus warned of this as a sign of the last days in Matthew 24.7. Revelation 8.10-11 speaks of something called ‘Wormwood’ falling on rivers and springs of water causing it to become bitter and many to die from drinking it. ‍ ‍ Prophecy speaks of the two great rivers of the ancient world, the Nile and the Euphrates, being affected by a crisis causing the Euphrates to dry up (Revelation 16.12) and the Nile to become contaminated and its waters turn foul (Isaiah 19.5-11). Isaiah 24 speaks of a curse devouring the earth in the last days causing the earth to be ‘defiled (or polluted) under its inhabitants.’ ‍ ‍ ‍ According to the New Scientist, there are massive amounts of water hidden deep beneath the Earth's surface. Scientists have found evidence of a reservoir of water three times the volume of all surface oceans combined, located roughly 250–400 miles underground within the mantle. ‍ ‍ ‍ It may be that the Lord will release this water to replenish and clean up the earth in the Millennial kingdom when ‘waters shall burst forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert. The parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water.’ Isaiah 35. Zechariah 14.8-9 says, ‘In that day it shall be that living waters shall flow from Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and half of them toward the western sea; In both summer and winter it shall occur. And the Lord shall be King over all the earth.’ Zechariah 14.8-9. See also Ezekiel 47. ‍ Rethinking Russia ‍ Things are not going well for Vladimir Putin in his ‘special military operation’. Four years after invading Ukraine in February 2022, Russia is not making advances and actually losing ground. Russia is losing as many as 25,000- 35,000 casualties a month and over 1.2 million have been killed and wounded since the war began. Ukrainian skills in drone warfare have destroyed large quantities of Russian equipment, tanks, armoured personnel carriers, artillery and rocket systems, helicopters, and naval vessels. ‍ ‍ Russia is spending an estimated 40% of the entire federal budget on the war effort. As a result of this and western sanctions, Russia is increasingly unable to fix chronic infrastructure problems at home. During the bitter Russian winter thousands of people were left without heat, light, or even water. All forms of transport, trains, trucks and planes, are facing logistical problems, making it difficult to transport goods and people across the vast Russian regions. Russia is on the way to an infrastructure collapse that will likely take decades to recover. ‍ ‍ Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov warned the State Duma that Russia's faltering economy risks stoking a 1917-style revolution. He demanded urgent financial and economic measures by autumn to avert a potential economic collapse. This raises the danger of the Russian Federation fracturing. The Caucuses are restive, the far east is looking to China and Siberia is facing an acute problem as a result of melting permafrost, causing buildings, bridges and pipelines to collapse. ‍ ‍ In the present circumstances it is hard to see how Russia could lead the Gog and Magog invasion of Israel (Ezekiel 38-39). Some have said that it is more likely that Turkey is the lead power in the War of Gog and Magog. They say that Meshech and Tubal are not Moscow and Tobolsk, but regions of modern Turkey. Erdogan’s Turkey is backed by an Islamist world view hostile to Israel, seeking the recovery of its Ottoman Empire. He has his eyes on taking control of Jerusalem. Turkey is possession of a large land army already stationed in the region, some of it occupying part of Syria. ‍ ‍ The alternative is that the War of Gog and Magog is some way off, possibly part of Armageddon, giving time for Russia to recover from its present distress. We wait and see, but meanwhile spare a thought and a prayer for the people of Ukraine and Russia, suffering as a result of Putin’s futile war, oppressed by his corrupt dictatorship and facing an economic and social collapse caused by his failed policies. ‍ ‍

Trumps visit with Xi

By David Passmore • May 25, 2026

Trump's Visit with Xi Rubin Rothler LLB, LLM The tempest path of Sino-U.S. tensions came to a head during Trump's first term in office with the outbreak of Covid. Many commentators believed that the deterioration in relations was in terminal decline and that a major confrontation in the straits of Taiwan was fast looming. Trump held China responsible for the spread of Covid, insisting that he would pursue reparations. The election of Biden halted this commitment. Biden sought a non-confrontational policy towards Beijing. In the aftermath of the disastrous premature withdrawal from Afghanistan handing that country over to the Taliban and the Russian invasion of Ukraine under his watch, Biden became too preoccupied to assertively engage with China. Chinese State media portrayed Trump's visit as being rather unremarkable in the context of other foreign dignitaries lining up to meet Xi, pointing out that just a week later Putin would arrive in Beijing. China manifests that it is winning the trade war that Trump began in 2018, beating America at its own game of capitalism. They frame the U.S. as being in a position of weakness because China is able to source whatever products they buy from the U.S. elsewhere like oil from Canada, and soybeans from Brazil. The oil, soybeans and 200 Boeing's Xi agreed to purchase from Trump were presented as a mere gesture to placate Trump as China has already bought 350 Air Buses in the last year. China would have the world believe that it is only semi-conductors where America has the edge. Here China hints that it is not likely to buy H200 Invidia Chips because it would mean that China will always lag behind the U.S. in building their AI tech. China's major contention and concern is that the U.S. may impose export controls to contain China. China's strategy instead is to invest massively on indigenous innovation. China wants to become an innovation powerhouse that will export its own Chips to the Global South. China is fast catching up with America's lead in AI with the launch of Deep Seek and they claim similar progress with Chip making. China is now ostensibly only eight months behind the U.S. on Large Language Models. Running contrary to this narrative Trump insists that China is desperate to trade with America. China's economy has now peaked. Emblematic of this stagnating growth is rising youth unemployment. China is no longer America's biggest trading partner. Trump has shifted manufacturing back to the U.S. and Trump believes that China can't revive its economy without America. Lined up to meet Xi with Trump were the heads of some of America's biggest Tech Corporations. Corporations like nvidia seek a relaxing of export controls for Chips as they want short term profits, ignoring the risk that China will reverse engineer this technology. More broadly, China and the U.S. are playing a geopolitical chess game spanning the globe. Trump outmaneuvered China in Latin America with the removal of Maduro from power in Venezuela. China is exploiting its influence on Iran in order to get Trump to refrain from taking more active steps towards the defense of Taiwan. Indeed, Trump didn't say anything about Taiwan during his visit. Trump's instincts are of a transactional approach towards alliances, where he is only willing to underwrite defense assistance if allies pay up as an insurer would. It is also important to note that saber rattling the Taiwan card also serves the CCP agenda to distract internal dissent concerning the state of the Chinese economy. Most imminently Trump needs China to pressure Iran to open the Straits of Hormuz and get oil prices down before the midterm elections. China has largely insulated itself from the Gulf energy impact due to stockpiles. Trump would also like China to stop providing Iran with GPS for its missiles. Other Chinese weapons systems and technology sold to Iran have failed to perform well against U.S. and Israeli military hardware. Matters boil down to a leverage between whatever Trump can do on Taiwan, China can do on the strait of Hormouz with Iran. Human Rights concerns, espionage and the alarming rate of Chinese acquisition of U.S. land have been placed on the back burner for the time being. (Author is an Israeli American lawyer academically qualified in British and in U.S.A. law, and a graduate of the School of Oriental & African Studies, London. He is a Jewish believer in Jesus and is currently based in Israel).

Prayer request for Phil Malone

By David Passmore • May 17, 2026

Moriel & Jacob Prasch request prayer for Phil Malone and family “Please keep me and my family in prayer. My mum passed away on 13th May at the age of 93. It's a time of mourning, but may it be a time for the Gospel of Christ to be preached to my unbelieving family, especially my brother.”

Please Pray for Joanne Rizzetto, Pastor Dave Rizzetto's wife

By Mea Fredrickson • May 13, 2026

Moriel & Jacob Prasch request prayer for Sister Joanne Rizzetto, wife of Pastor Dave Rizzetto of Church of The Open Door in New York City. Joanne has developed painful complications and adverse side effects from medications following knee surgery. May The Lord intervene for healing and give guidance to her physicians. Lord, we humbly ask you to intervene in the life of our dear sister. We know you can do all things and that you hear our prayers and consider your servants. Please put a stop to the adverse reaction. Restrain and reverse its effects and restore our sister so that she can continue to serve you in the ministry that you have called them to. We do glorify Your Name. We don't ask as those who treat you as our debtor, but as those who have tasted your goodness and found such mercy and compassion at your feet. Grace and peace and mercy be with Joanne and Pastor Dave.

Will Lebanon miss its golden opportunity?

By David Passmore • May 5, 2026

Will Lebanon miss its golden opportunity? Rubin Rothler LLB, LLM Converging new facts on the ground have transformed the political landscape in Lebanon. With Assad removed from power in Syria, a vital lifeline of arms supplies for Hezbollah originating in Iran has diminished. Hezbollah suffered considerable losses in its last round of fighting with Israel. The decapitation of its leadership with the targeted pager attack inflicted a severe blow. Hezbollah's new leader Naim Qassem is a weak substitute for the charismatic Nasrallah who was assassinated by Israel in 2024. Hezbollah in its frail state foolishly fell into line with Iran's instruction to join the fighting against Israel following the recent American-Israeli war with Iran. This was contrary to the wishes of the Lebanese government which was fearful of the inevitable destruction that would be wreaked by the Israeli response. The differing attitudes to Israel amongst Lebanon's population is reflective of its ethnic composition. The predominant groups in order of plurality are Christians, Shia Muslims and Sunni Muslims with a smaller minority of Druze. The major concern of most Christians in Lebanon is the dire state of their economy. They have no appetite to further their plight by invoking Israel's rage. During the colonial inter war period the French envisaged the demarcation between Lebanon and Syria as carving out enclaves for Christian and Druze control. Within Lebanon there would be a shared government that by convention would have the Executive power split between a Christian President, a Sunni Prime Minister and Shia Speaker of Parliament. The Christians in southern Lebanon (particularly Maronite Catholics) saw themselves as being anthropologically descendants of ancient Phoenicians as opposed to an Arab identity where the Arab Christians were largely Eastern Orthodox. The schism between the Maronites and the Arab Eastern Orthodox dates back to the time of the Crusades. The Maronites were culturally French, speaking French as their main language and held precedence in much of the Lebanese economy. The first threat to Lebanese stability and cohesion was settled by the U.S. Eisenhower administration in 1958 which landed Marines in an amphibious operation. A repeated attempt at this by the Reagan administration in 1983 ended in a military disaster for the U.S. due to suicide bombings by Iranian controlled terrorists. Israeli efforts to bring in stability during the Lebanese Civil War in conjunction with its Lebanese Christian allies led by Major Saad Haddad likewise came to calamity when the Sabra and Shatila revenge attacks took place following the assassination of Lebanese leader Bashir Gemayel. The ''Good Fence'' policy of an Israeli friendly free Lebanon zone in Southern Lebanon eventually ended badly following Menachem Begin's second incursion into Lebanon called ''Shalom HaGalil'' aimed at stopping the PLO rocket attacks on Israeli border communities like Metulla, Kiryat Shmona, Naharya, Rosh Hanikra, Tzfat and Carmiel. The proxy Israeli occupation from the Israeli border to the Litani river became an imbroglio that many in Israel viewed as Israel's Vietnam with widespread domestic protest and a collapse of morale within the IDF. Eventually Israel absorbed Christian war refugees from Lebanon, while the Vatican and most of the Christian world turned their backs on the Lebanese Christians. Lebanon was then saddled with two states within a state. The first was in the aftermath of Black September in 1970 when King Hussein of Jordan defended his Hashemite throne and government from Yasser Arafat's attempt to take over Jordan due to Jordan having a 70% Palestinian Arab demographic majority. The Jordanian legion drove tens of thousands of its pro Arafat Jordanian citizens into Lebanon, creating a population base for the first state within a state under Arafat. However the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and other factions had their niche interests. Courtesy of the Israeli Air Force Arafat relocated what he saw as his government in exile to Tunisia. This was a missed opportunity by the Lebanese government to assert its autonomy and full territorial control by making a Camp David type peace with Israel inclusive of economic and mutual security provisions. Instead an Iranian backed Syrian intervention replaced Arafat's state within a state with a new one that morphed into Hezbollah. The fall of the Assad regime and the Israeli counter-offensive against Hezbollah re-presents Lebanon with the opportunity that it once lost. The predominantly Christian controlled Lebanese military could and should operationally coordinate with the IDF, to obliterate and remove Hezbollah as the Israelis relieved Lebanon of Arafat's state within a state. Such a rapprochement would likely have strong American and possibly French and British support, allowing Lebanon to be at a non-combative peace with Israel along the lines of Egypt and Jordan, and now some of the Emirates. The natural comradery of the Lebanese Druze community with the Israeli Druze and the pro-Israeli Druze of Syria would additionally re-enforce a regional harmony, as would the Maronite Christian community in Israel with their co-coreligionists in Lebanon. (Author is an Israeli American lawyer academically qualified in British and in U.S.A. law, and a graduate of the School of Oriental & African Studies, London. He is a Jewish believer in Jesus and is currently based in Israel).

Pastor John Angliss

By David Passmore • May 5, 2026

PASTOR JOHN ANGLISS It is with profound sadness that we learned of the temporary separation from our friend and brother Pastor John Angliss. We look forward to being reunited with John in the millennial reign of Christ and indeed in God's Eternal Kingdom. Jacob Prasch visited John a few weeks ago in the UK while John was in hospice care having been diagnosed preterminal in his illness. While medically correct, it was of course a misdiagnosis. John is now cancer free and is alive and well in the presence of Jesus awaiting us in glory while his mortal body is being renewed for resurrection and immortality. In the meanwhile, during this temporary season of bereavement we do request prayer for his beloved wife Mary and for his congregation, The Ark Fellowship in England near Reading, England. Because he has recently arrived in the USA and is scheduled to address the Moriel Canada branch conference in Winnipeg, Jacob Prasch will regrettably not be able to attend the memorial service in Britain. Our condolences however are very much with Mary and our brethren in the UK who like us knew and loved Pastor Angliss. John was one of a minority of faithful voices who upheld a traditional biblically based Pentecostalism in the era of counterfeit revivals and apostasy that overtook most of British Pentecostalism. John was a faithful friend of Israel & The Jews standing on the prophetic purposes of God for Israel and the salvation of the Jews. John was a loyal friend to Moriel and Jacob Prasch and a colleague of David Pawson and Derek Prince, both of whom likewise stood by God's promises to Israel. John was also a founding leader of CMFI - the Christian Ministerial Fellowship International, former pastor of Three Mile Cross fellowship , and former board member of Focus On Israel (a Pentecostal Ministry to the Jews). While this separation is temporary, John's eternal gain will be our temporary loss. O GRAVE - WHERE IS THEY VICTORY, O DEATH WHERE IS THY STING ? Hosea 13:14 / 1 Corinthians 15: 55-57

We made it this far: Israel at 78

By David Passmore • April 28, 2026

We made it this far: Israel at 78 Rubin Rothler LLB, LLM Since the last anniversary milestone of Israel at 75, we have been embroiled in relentless wars. Citizens had little respite to enjoy this year's festivities, coming on the heels of a lull in fighting on the Iranian and Lebanese fronts. We are constantly waiting for a breakthrough on the horizon that will normalize our relations with our neighbors and secure our position on the world stage. It is acutely exhausting to be the focus of the world's attention. But also there is a sense of inevitability accompanying the Zionist project. Specifically that Israel is destined to be central in the wider region and global affairs. Why is this? Is it due to it being a western transplant? Being geographically positioned on the crossroads of three continents? Religious believers would point to prophetic fulfillment. It is short sighted to only look at how our problems are rooted in today’s' reality. Greater forces are at work that will dictate the direction that Israel is heading. The Jewish diaspora will likely find itself in a growing precarious position that will lead to increasing Aliyah (immigration to Israel) and will perhaps ferment the emergence of a second Jewish commonwealth that will not need to heed international pressure in the same way that todays' polity finds itself doing. In this light it is interesting to ponder how our posterity would view our predicament and gains. And I frame matters in these terms with intentionality. We are enmeshed in a seemingly intractable conflict with the Palestinians, and yet Israel has made great gains particularly in the technological fields. There is a current of thinking that perceives Israel's way out of its quagmire is by making itself indispensable to technological advancements. We don't know how tomorrows' world will be shaped by the rapidly advancing AI revolution but so far Israel has proven to be uniquely adaptable and innovative to technological change. This has proved to be a boon to Israel's economy, as have offshore natural gas discoveries being developed in concert with Greece, Greek Cypriot and American energy interests that are geographically and strategically removed from any Straits of Hormuz shipping impediments that strangle the Persian Gulf deposits shared by Qatar and Iran. On another note we should contextualize the situation. How different are Israel's challenges from other nations? Is Israel any less stable than other countries (particularly in the region)? Israel doesn't find itself uniquely challenged to define its identity (most European countries do also, particularly in light of immigration). Nor does the government experience any more volatility than other comparable democracies. Israel's real problems lay in the nature of how its Jewish citizens desire to govern themselves. It is arguable whether the judicial reform protests that occupied public discourse in pre-October 7th Israel would have led to serious civil strife. But it is without doubt that this impasse was allayed by the external attack. The underlying tensions remain unresolved and there are many ways that they could play out. It has been framed as a battle for Israel's soul. Israel's enemies predict that Zionism is imploding and that the State won't survive another 5-10 years. Supporting this claim, they point to Israel's increasing alienation and growing pariah status on the international stage. Our Prime Minister has been indicted for war crimes at the International Criminal Court. Even public opinion in our staunchest ally the U.S. has turned sharply against Israel. With 80% of the Democratic Party being anti-Israel in a growing climate of anti-semitism we have even witnessed the shift of Alan Dershowitz to the Republican Party which must be seen as emblematic of a trend. There is apprehension in Israel of a post-Trump America dominated by the Democrats. However, these seeming incontrovertible facts may be offset by other measures of fortitude. This may be partially countered by the high investment by Silicon Valley in the Israeli Hi-tech sector, making Israel an asset for purposes of Research and Development in America's AI race against China. New opportunities for economic relations have also been opened with Arab nations through the Abraham Accords and with the powerhouse India. Furthermore, it is difficult to imagine a world in which Israel's technological prowess will not carry the sway of western decision makers in the long run. Israel's 78th anniversary is a moment to take pause and not catastrophize what the future may behold. The entire world is currently in a state of transformation and Israel is not an outlier in this context. (Author is an Israeli American lawyer academically qualified in British and in U.S.A. law, and a graduate of the School of Oriental & African Studies, London. He is a Jewish believer in Jesus and is currently based in Israel).

Council attempts to shut down and censor local church’s evangelism efforts.

By David Passmore • April 23, 2026

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A critical juncture in NATO's future

By David Passmore • April 14, 2026

A critical juncture in NATO'S future Rubin Rothler LLB, LLM NATO was originally established in 1949 to keep the Russian hordes at bay from toppling those European countries not forked over to the Soviet sphere of influence at the Potsdam conference. Europe lay in ruins. Britain had passed on the torch of global hegemony to the U.S. by tacitly acquiescing to the decolonization of its Empire when Churchill and Roosevelt agreed terms of the Atlantic Charter for the post-war new world order in 1941. So from its start NATO was very much an American driven endeavor. American money with the Marshall plan was propping up western European economies and its military might was forming the bulk of their defensive capabilities. The lopsided nature of this dynamic has informed how tensions have persisted and recently erupted in the Alliance. During the Cold War the U.S. felt obligated to shoulder the costs of underwriting Europe's security in light of the broader interests to keep the Soviet's in check. Following the fall of the Iron Curtain European complacency became a sticking point with the 'peace dividend' further exploiting American largesse. European NATO allies spent ever smaller percentages of their GDP on defense expenditure at U.S. expense. Now in a multi-polar world U.S. and European perceived threats are less aligned. This was first tested in the aftermath of September 11th when for the first time NATO elected to trigger its article 5 collective defense protocol. And since then the U.S. has sought to continue to expand the traditional theatre of operations beyond Europe's borders. No longer is Russia perceived by America as being a proximate existential threat to its interests, but rather containing Chinese expansion in the Pacific arena. Parallel to NATO a discrete 'five eyes' intelligence sharing alliance comprising the Anglo-sphere (the U.S., U.K., Canada and New Zealand) emerged. This stands at the center of the U.S. – U.K. 'special relationship'. A relevant question would be can this signals intelligence (NSA-GCHQ) partnership persist should the U.S. withdraw from NATO? Conventional thinking would have led one to believe that with Brexit the U.K. would naturally pivot towards closer U.S. relations but under Starmer the U.K. is distancing itself. European powers misrepresent the present conflict as an aggressive, rather than defensive U.S. adventure while they themselves are more likely to be at risk. In this the Starmer government resembles the Labor party led committee for nuclear disarmament in the 1980's. It opposed the Thatcher supported deployment of U.S. cruise missiles in response to the Soviet SS20's pointed at Britain's cities. The British left branded their response to Soviet strategic escalation to U.S. aggression. This time however there is for the moment no Thatcher to bring common sense into an equation dominated by emotionally driven ideologies in the face of an aggressor with definite aims. In terms of the Russian-Ukraine conflict we are reverting to the old question dating back to the Napoleonic war era: to what extent is London happy with the European nations fighting it out alone for dominance of the continent. Britain was never willing to accept a single power in control. Many variables will dictate what kind of world emerges from the current conflicts in Ukraine and Iran. How will power be extracted from potential gains? What will be the strategic impact of this? What is sure, in the age of Trump this pattern of reliance on U.S. muscle is becoming quickly exhausted. Dating back to the Roman Empire, a factor in the decline of major powers has always been astronomical military spending, a budgetary demand that the U.S. under Trump is no longer willing to shoulder alone. (Author is an Israeli American lawyer academically qualified in British and in U.S.A. law, and a graduate of the School of Oriental & African Studies, London. He is a Jewish believer in Jesus and is currently based in Israel).