Elijah: A Man Who Could Make It Rain

April 2, 2025

Scripture: James 5:16-18

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours. Elijah was a man who could make it rain. The Holy Spirit, through this text, is trying to tell us that, if he can do it, we can do it. We can make it rain. But what does that mean?

Elie: Un Homme Qui Pouvait Faire Pleuvoir

Élie était un homme de la même nature que nous: il pria avec instance pour qu'il ne plût point, et il ne tomba point de pluie sur la terre pendant trois ans et six mois. (Jacques 5 :17?18)

Élie était un homme de la même nature que nous. Élie était un homme qui pouvait faire pleuvoir. Dans ce texte, le Saint?Esprit essaie de nous dire que si il peut le faire, nous pouvons le faire également. Nous pouvons faire pleuvoir. Qu’est?ce que cela signifie?

La Pluie est un Type du Déversement du Saint-Esprit

Dans la typologie biblique, une variété de liquides représentent le Saint?Esprit sous différents aspects :

Le vin nouveau est un liquide qui représente le Saint?Esprit dans l’aspect de l’adoration. Un autre liquide est I’huiIe , qui nous parle de l’onction du Saint?Esprit. Mais I’eau vive , dans l’Écriture, est toujours le déversement du Saint?Esprit. La pluie, déverséedevient de l’eau vive.

Jésus l’a expliqué dans ces termes : Jean 7 :38?39« 38 Celui qui croit en moi, des fleuves d'eau vive couleront de son sein, comme dit l'Écriture. 39 Il dit cela de l'Esprit que devaient recevoir ceux qui croiraient en lui; car l'Esprit n'était pas encore, parce que Jésus n'avait pas encore étéglorifié. » Jésus dit clairement que l’eau vive est le déversementduSaint?Esprit.Ésaïe 44 :3 « 3 Car je répandrai des eaux sur le sol altéré, Et des ruisseaux sur la terre desséchée; Je répandrai mon esprit sur ta race, Et ma bénédiction sur tes rejetons. »

Encore une fois, il est écrit que Dieu déversera l’eau ? la pluie ? sur le sol asséché. Et Il dit que cela signifie qu’Il répandra Son Esprit. La pluie est un type.

De La Pluie Sur Une Ville Et Aucune Sur Une Autre

Amos 4 :7 « 7 Et moi, je vous ai refusé la pluie, Lorsqu'il y avait encore trois mois jusqu'à la moisson; J'ai fait pleuvoir sur une ville, Et je n'ai pas fait pleuvoir sur une autre ville; Un champ a reçu la pluie, Et un autre qui ne l'a pas reçue s'est desséché. »

Pourquoi donc, par exemple, qu’un évangéliste tel que Reinhard Bonnke peut prêcher en Afrique et voir des milliers et des milliers de gens sauvés à une seule réunion mais s’il se rend en Allemagne, en Angleterre ou en Australie, il ne se passe pas grand chose. La réponse se trouve dans Amos 4 :7 Dieu envoie la pluie dans une ville et pas dans l’autre. Cette dernière n’a aucune moisson.

Il se passe une œuvre souveraine de grâce lorsqu’Il déverse Son Esprit. Il pleut au Brésil, en Korée, en Indonésie, aux Philippines et beaucoup en Afrique. Mais dans les pays occidentaux Protestants qui ont la Bible depuis cinq cents ans, il y a maintenant une sécheresse. Dieu tourne Sa grâce des pays riches vers les pays pauvres.

La Chrétienté Protestante, blanche, est en déclin moralement, financièrement, théologiquement, spirituellement et numériquement.

L’Église grandit dans les pays Catholiques romains, les pays de race noire, olivâtre et de race jaune. L’Église Anglicane a décliné massivement en Angleterre, pourtant la plupart des évêques anglicans Africains sont évangéliques (Desmond Tutu est une exception). Les anglicans Africains sont terriblement persécutés par les Musulmans au Nigéria. Au sein de l’Asie, cette Église est très vivante. Mais l’Église d’Angleterre est morte. L’ancien feu qui un jour brûlait dans le Réveil Sunshine en Australie, le Réveil de Azusa Street en Californie et les réveils Sunderland en Angleterre avec Smith Wigglesworth ? est ce qui se passe maintenant dans des endroits tels que l’Équateur, le Chili, les Philippines, l’Indonésie et le Kenya. Dieu envoie la pluie dans une ville alors qu’une autre vit la sécheresse. Aujourd’hui, nous avons des gens qui enseignent des formules pour la croissance de l’Église. C’est tout à fait ridicule. Cela ne fonctionne pas. Il manque un ingrédient ? la grâce souveraine de Dieu; le déversement de Son Esprit.

Sa Parole ne retourne pas sans avoir fait Son effet. Certains seront sauvés, un ici et l’autre là. Mais, si vous parlez d’une grande moisson, pas de pluie signifie pas de grain! Mais Élie était un homme qui pouvait faire tomber la pluie. Et il était un homme de la même nature que nous. En d’autres mots, s’il pouvait le faire, nous le pouvons également.

Par Amour Pour Les Pères Et Par Amour Pour Son Nom

Je suis convaincu que Dieu désire donner une autre opportunité de se repentir aux démocraties occidentales Protestantes avant la venue de Jésus. Non par amour pour nous mais par amour pour Son Nom. Non parce que nous le méritons ? nos églises sont, pour la plupart, rétrogrades; mais par amour pour nos pères.

Tel qu’il est écrit dans Romains 11, Dieu veut donner aux Juifs une autre opportunité à la fin du monde, avant le retour de Jésus. Pourquoi? Parce que Lorsqu’Il regarde Israël, Il ne voit pas seulement son péché et le rejet de son Messie. Lorsque Dieu regarde Israël, Il voit encore Jérémie en prison; Il voit encore Ésaïe être scié en deux par le roi Manassé. Il voit Zacharie se faire martyriser dans le Temple. Il voit Jean le Baptiste se faire trancher la tête. Et Il dit « par amour pour leurs pères, Je veux donner une autre chance à cette nation. »

Il en est de même pour la Grande Bretagne. Lorsque Dieu la regarde, Il ne la voit pas seulement telle qu’elle est aujourd’hui ? une nation soit?disant Chrétienne, où des dieux Hindous sont adorés dans la cathédrale de Canterbury pendant que des évêques renient la résurrection et la virginité de Marie à la naissance de Jésus.

Lorsque Dieu regarde la Grande Bretagne aujourd’hui, Il la voit entièrement ? passée, présente et future. Il voit encore John Bunyan enchaîné au mur de la prison de Bedford County pendant douze ans

et écrire Le Voyage Du Pèlerin ; Il voit encore John Wesley se faire lapider par des groupes qui ont été attisés par l’Église d’Angleterre parce qu’il prêche l’Évangile ; Il voit encore Tynedale attaché à un poteau et se faire brûler vivant par l’église de Rome afin que nous ayons la Bible en Anglais ; Il voit encore Charles Haddon Spurgeon ; Il voit encore Ridley et Latimer et Hooper, des martyrs d’Angleterre. Et Dieu dit « par amour pour leurs pères, et par amour pour Mon nom, Je veux donner une autre opportunité à cette nation. »

Il en est de même pour les États?Unis. Il voit encore Jonathan Edwards et D L Moody et Harry Ironsides. Il voit les Chrétiens fidèles. Il ne voit pas seulement ce qui se passe aujourd’hui avec les Prédicateurs de la Prospérité ? les adorateurs de Mammon et les hérétiques.

Dieu veut donner à ces nations Protestantes Occidentales une autre chance de se repentir. Mais pour qu’elles aient cette opportunité, il doit pleuvoir.

Premièrement, nous devons réaliser que nous vivons une sécheresse. Et, jusqu’à ce qu’elle soit terminée, tous les programmes au monde n’apporteront pas la repentance et le réveil dans l’Église. La pluie est nécessaire. Pas de pluie, pas de grain. Pas de pluie, pas de moisson. Élie était un homme de la même nature que nous qui pouvait faire pleuvoir. De nos jours, Dieu recherche des hommes et des femmes, tels que nous, qui peuvent faire pleuvoir.

« 1 Élie, le Thischbite, l'un des habitants de Galaad, dit à Achab: L'Éternel est vivant, le Dieu d'Israël, dont je suis le serviteur! il n'y aura ces années?ci ni rosée ni pluie, sinon à ma parole. 2Et la parole de l'Éternel fut adressée à Élie, en ces mots: 3Pars d'ici, dirige?toi vers l'orient, et cache?toi près du torrent de Kerith, qui est en face du Jourdain. 4Tu boiras de l'eau du torrent, et j'ai ordonné aux corbeaux de te nourrir là.

5 Il partit et fit selon la parole de l'Éternel, et il alla s'établir près du torrent de Kerith, qui est en face du Jourdain. 6Les corbeaux lui apportaient du pain et de la viande le matin, et du pain et de la viande le soir, et il buvait de l'eau du torrent. 7Mais au bout d'un certain temps le torrent fut à sec, car il n'était point tombé de pluie dans le pays. 8Alors la parole de l'Éternel lui fut adressée en ces mots: 9Lève?toi, va à Sarepta, qui appartient à Sidon, et demeure là. Voici, j'y ai ordonné à une femme veuve de te nourrir. 10Il se leva, et il alla à Sarepta. Comme il arrivait à l'entrée de la ville, voici, il y avait là une femme veuve qui ramassait du bois. Il l'appela, et dit: Va me chercher, je te prie, un peu d'eau dans un vase, afin que je boive.

11 Et elle alla en chercher. Il l'appela de nouveau, et dit: Apporte?moi, je te prie, un morceau de pain dans ta main. 12Et elle répondit: L'Éternel, ton Dieu, est vivant! je n'ai rien de cuit, je n'ai qu'une poignée de farine dans un pot et un peu d'huile dans une cruche. Et voici, je ramasse deux morceaux de bois, puis je rentrerai et je préparerai cela pour moi et pour mon fils; nous mangerons, après quoi nous mourrons.

13 Élie lui dit: Ne crains point, rentre, fais comme tu as dit. Seulement, prépare?moi d'abord avec cela un petit gâteau, et tu me l'apporteras; tu en feras ensuite pour toi et pour ton fils. 14Car ainsi parle l'Éternel, le Dieu d'Israël: La farine qui est dans le pot ne manquera point et l'huile qui est dans la cruche ne diminuera point, jusqu'au jour où l'Éternel fera tomber de la pluie sur la face du sol .

15 Elle alla, et elle fit selon la parole d'Élie. Et pendant longtemps elle eut de quoi manger, elle et sa famille, aussi bien qu'Élie. 16La farine qui était dans le pot ne manqua point, et l'huile qui était dans la cruche ne diminua point, selon la parole que l'Éternel avait prononcée par Élie. 17Après ces choses, le fils de la femme, maîtresse de la maison, devint malade, et sa maladie fut si violente qu'il ne resta plus en lui de respiration. 18Cette femme dit alors à Élie: Qu'y a?t?il entre moi et toi, homme de Dieu? Es?tu venu chez moi pour rappeler le souvenir de mon iniquité, et pour faire mourir mon fils?

19 Il lui répondit: Donne?moi ton fils. Et il le prit du sein de la femme, le monta dans la chambre haute où il demeurait, et le coucha sur son lit. 20Puis il invoqua l'Éternel, et dit: Éternel, mon Dieu, est?ce que tu affligerais, au point de faire mourir son fils, même cette veuve chez qui j'ai été reçu comme un hôte? 21Et il s'étendit trois fois sur l'enfant, invoqua l'Éternel, et dit: Éternel, mon Dieu, je t'en prie, que l'âme de cet enfant revienne au dedans de lui! 22L'Éternel écouta la voix d'Élie, et l'âme de l'enfant revint au dedans de lui, et il fut rendu à la vie. 23Élie prit l'enfant, le descendit de la chambre haute dans la maison, et le donna à sa mère. Et Élie dit: Vois, ton fils est vivant. 24Et la femme dit à Élie: Je reconnais maintenant que tu es un homme de Dieu, et que la parole de l'Éternel dans ta bouche est vérité.

1 Rois 18:1 1 Bien des jours s'écoulèrent, et la parole de l'Éternel fut ainsi adressée à Élie, dans la troisième année: Va, présente?toi devant Achab, et je ferai tomber de la pluie sur la face du sol. 2Et Élie alla, pour se présenter devant Achab. La famine était grande à Samarie. " 1 Rois 18:17 17 A peine Achab aperçut?il Élie qu'il lui dit: Est?ce toi, qui jettes le trouble en Israël?

40 Saisissez les prophètes de Baal, leur dit Élie; qu'aucun d'eux n'échappe! Et ils les saisirent. Élie les fit descendre au torrent de Kison, où il les égorgea. 41Et Élie dit à Achab: Monte, mange et bois; car il se fait un bruit qui annonce la pluie. 42Achab monta pour manger et pour boire. Mais Élie monta au sommet du Carmel; et, se penchant contre terre, il mit son visage entre ses genoux, 43et dit à son serviteur: Monte, regarde du côté de la mer. Le serviteur monta, il regarda, et dit: Il n'y a rien. Élie dit sept fois: Retourne. 44A la septième fois, il dit: Voici un petit nuage qui s'élève de la mer, et qui est comme la paume de la main d'un homme. Élie dit: Monte, et dis à Achab: Attelle et descends, afin que la pluie ne t'arrête pas.

45En peu d'instants, le ciel s'obscurcit par les nuages, le vent s'établit, et il y eut une forte pluie. Achab monta sur son char, et partit pour Jizreel. 46Et la main de l'Éternel fut sur Élie, qui se ceignit les reins et courut devant Achab jusqu’à l’entrée de Jizreel. (1 Rois 18 :40?46)

Et il plut et il plut et il plut encore.

Un Peu d’Information

Les trois ans et demi de sécheresse sont un type des trois ans et demi don’t il est question dans Daniel et Apocalypse, lorsque l’Esprit ne sera pas déversé à la fin du monde. C’est un type de ce qui arrive eschatologiquement, lorsque l’esprit d’Élie revient en opération d’une certaine façon, tel que prédit par le prophète Malachie.

Similairement, la manière qu’Élie a secouru la femme et son fils (des Gentils) nous enseigne sur comment Dieu utilisera l’esprit d’Élie, d’une manière ou d’une autre, pour prendre soin de l’Église des Gentils à la fin du monde.

Élie, Élisée et Jean Le Baptiste avaient tous le même esprit. L’Éternel a dit à Moïse « je prendrai de l'esprit qui est sur toi, et je le mettrai sur eux, » les anciens. (Nombres 11 :17)

Lorsque des événements se déroulent dans une même contrée géographique, cela signifie habituellement qu’il existe une connexion spirituelle et théologique entre eux. Le ministère d’Élie s’est terminé sur la plaine de Jéricho, où Élisée a reçu son autorité, et le ministère de Jean Le Baptiste a eu lieu au même endroit. La mauvaise femme, Jézabel, est un type de la Jézabel dans le livre de l’Apocalypse ? l’esprit de la fausse religion ? qui a tourné le roi, la puissance politique, en quelque chose qu’elle pouvait manipuler. En faveur d’Achab, elle a obtenu la vigne de Nabot, qu’Il convoitait. Dans les Écritures, la vigne représente Israël et, par extension, l’Église. Cette méchante femme a essayé d’obtenir la vigne pour le roi. Ceci l’a plongée en conflit avec Élie et elle a persuadé le roi d’essayer de le détruire. Nous voyons un autre portrait de cette situation dans l’histoire d’Hérodias (Matthieu 14:3?12) ? la mauvaise femme a tourné le roi contre Élie (Jean Le Baptiste).

Dans la Bible, les mauvaises femmes représentent toutes d’une certaine façon le caractère de la mauvaise femme dans le livre de l’Apocalypse, où nous voyons que le conflit avec Élie se déroulera encore dans les derniers jours.

Pourquoi La Pluie a-t-elle Cessé?

La première leçon à tirer de cette étude sur comment Dieu prend un homme tel qu’Élie et fait de lui quelqu’un qui peut faire pleuvoir est de savoir pourquoi la pluie a cessé. La pluie a cessé à cause du péché du peuple de Dieu. Le Saint?Esprit n’est pas déversé sur le monde Protestant occidental à cause de son péché, qui est identique à celui d’Israël aux jours d’Élie.

L’avortement rejoue le sacrifice des enfants aux démons que nous voyons au sein d’Israël et de Juda dans l’Ancien Testament. L’adoration d’autres dieux ? les prêtres de Baal n’étaient pas des étrangers, ils étaient des Juifs. Il en est de même aujourd’hui. Parmi le monde Protestant occidental se trouve une augmentation fulgurante de l’adoration de dieux étrangers ? l’Islam, le Nouvel Âge, l’Hindouisme. Le Nouvel Âge s’infiltre dans plusieurs des églises Évangéliques et Pentecôtistes. Les gens mêlent la Chrétienté avec le paganisme ? ce qui a été le cas du Catholicisme romain et c’est ce qui se passe aujourd’hui dans plusieurs églises Pentecôtistes.

Le Matérialisme ? l’Église est tiède, matérialiste, remplie de doctrines insensées. Elle a une version de la “foi” qui n’est pas biblique ? l’adoration de Mammon se fait sous le couvert d’une mascarade Chrétienne; la convoitise est déguisée en Chrétienté.

C’est pourquoi la pluie a cessé. La responsabilité du déclin de la civilisation occidentale nous revient premièrement, et non à la société. C’était le péché du peuple de Dieu qui a fait cesser la pluie. La prolifération des problèmes de notre société ? drogue, avortement, divorce, violence, crime ? toutes ces choses témoignent du manquement de l’Église.

Le peuple de Dieu a fait des compromis et éventuellement Israël s’est retrouvé avec les prêtres de Baal. C’est ce qui s’est passé au temps d’Élie et c’est ce qui se passe de nos jours. Il ne pleut pas dans nos pays à cause du péché du peuple de Dieu.

Kerith

Dieu a premièrement dit à Élie de se rendre au torrent de Kerith, qui est à l’est du Jourdain (1 Rois 17:3 ),

et qu’à cet endroit des corbeaux le nourriraient.

Kérith était de l’autre côté du Jourdain. Lorsque Dieu a dit à Élie de laisser sa contrée pour s’y rendre, Il lui a dit de laisser son identité nationale, culturelle et son confort derrière lui. De plus, il serait nourri par des corbeaux. Les corbeaux n’étaient pas de la nourriture kosher (pure) ? ils étaient un type d’oiseau

« impur ». Dieu allait pourvoir à ses besoins de façon inattendue.

La sécheresse est si critique dans le monde Occidental aujourd’hui, que ceux qui pourraient faire pleuvoir devront vouloir se rendre à Kérith.

Parfois, cela impliquera le fait que des églises délaissent leur dénominations traditionnelles qui sont entrées dans le compromis. Parfois, cela impliquera le fait que des Chrétiens abandonnent leurs églises qui sont entrées dans le compromis ou qui se sont enlisées dans l’erreur et qui refusent de se repentir. Et cela impliquera sûrement de faire confiance à Dieu pour qu’Il rencontre leurs besoins de façon et dans des endroits inattendus, même au moyen de choses que nous pourrions considérer presque impures, comme les corbeaux. Élie devait être prêt à mettre Dieu premier et sa contrée en deuxième. De nos jours, nous voyons souvent les gens garder leur contrée en première place ? leur culture, leur identité, leur dénomination et leur dévouement à leur dénomination ? au?dessus de l’obéissance à la Parole de Dieu.

Mais ceux qui feront pleuvoir sont ceux qui n’ont pas peur de se rendre à Kérith et de faire confiance à Dieu.

Sarepta

Il fait plus noir avant la levée du jour. Les choses empireront avant de s’améliorer. Le torrent de Kérith s’assèchera éventuellement.

Au verset 9, nous voyons qu’Élie doit se rendre à Sarepta. En Hébreu, Sarepta signifie brûler ou purifier par le feu. Pour que Dieu puisse utiliser quelqu’un de notre nature et le tourner en quelqu’un qui puisse faire pleuvoir, Il doit le purifier par le feu.

Il y aura une période très difficile ? non seulement une mise à l’épreuve, ou une sécheresse ou même une persecution ? mais tous ces éléments ensemble. Ce sera au point où ceux que vous essaierez d’aider penseront que vous les avez trahis, tel que la veuve de Sarepta.

Mais qu’importe à quel point il fera sombre, le degré de sécheresse, je peux vous promettre deux choses: il y aura de la farine dans l’assiette et de l’huile dans le contenant pour ceux qui sont prêts à être purifiés. Les choses empireront avant qu’il y ait une percée. Vous aurez la Parole de Dieu et l’onction de l’Esprit, qu’importe ce qui arrivera. Vous aurez votre grain et votre huile pendant que les autres meurent de famine.

Les Vieilles Outres Mourront

« 18 Cette femme dit alors à Élie: Qu'y a?t?il entre moi et toi, homme de Dieu? Es?tu venu chez moi pour rappeler le souvenir de mon iniquité, et pour faire mourir mon fils? » (1 Rois 17 :18)

Son fils est mort. Et elle a blame Élie. Les gens que vous essayez d’aider verront les difficultés et vous blâmeront. Les choses vont si mal depuis si longtemps que celles que nous aimons le plus devront mourir avant d’être ressuscitées.

Une grande partie de l’Église en occident devra mourir avant de pouvoir être ressuscitée. Le vin nouveau ne peut être versé dans de vieilles outres. C’était l’un des problèmes du Mouvement Charismatique ? ils ont tenté d’emmagasiner le vin nouveau dans de vieilles outres. Pour renouveler une église, vous devez remplacer l’outre. Les choses que nous avons aimées le plus doivent mourir avant d’être ressuscitées.

Les Faiseurs de Troubles d’Israël

« Est?ce toi, qui jettes le trouble en Israël? »(1 Rois 18:17) Est?ce toi qui jettes le trouble dans l’Église? Est?ce toi qui jettes le trouble chez l’Union des Baptistes ? Est?ce toi qui jettes le trouble au sein de l’Assemblée de Dieu ?

Vous qui tenez ferme contre l’oécuménisme, le RoyaumeMaintenant, le mouvement Foi et Prospérité et celui du Confessez et Réclamez.

Vous qui tenez ferme contre les faux miracles et les fausses guérisons.

Vous qui tenez ferme contre les ministres qui s’enrichissent aux depends des autres en les exploitant au moyen de leurs mensonges.

Vous qui troublez Israël !

C’est ce qu’ils ont dit à Élie, et si vous désirez faire pleuvoir, c’est ce qu’ils vous diront également.

Le Conflit

Ensuite, ils se rendent au Mont Carmel. Ici, le confit est avec Jézabel ? l’esprit de la fausse religion, avec le Catholicisme romain, l’oécuménisme, la Franc Maçonnerie, I’Islam, l’homosexualité, l’avortement et le Nouvel Âge. Il y aura un conflit et ceux qui gagneront dans ce conflit seront ceux qui auront été purifiés à Sarepta.

Beaucoup de ce qui se passe dans “l’adoration charismatique” de nos jours ? avec son bruit, son excitation ? ressemble davantage aux prêtres de Baal sur le Mont Carmel qu’à Élie. Notez que les prêtres de Baal croyaient vraiment qu’ils remporteraient la victoire, ils croyaient recevoir une réponse.

Nos frères aujourd’hui enlisés dans l’oécuménisme, la théologie du Royaume Maintenant, celle de la Restauration ? toutes des doctrines non?bibliques, fausses et dangeureuses, toutes associées à l’excitation au moyen de prophéties qui ne s’accomplissent pas ? croient vraiment toutes ces choses. Mais le conflit viendra et les gens verront qui sont les vrais prophètes.

Le Nuage de Pluie

Il commence petit. A prime abord, il ne semble pas qu’il arrivera quoi que ce soit. Où est?il ?

Avec les prêtres de Baal, il s’agissait d’éclats de vantardise, d’arrogance, d’encouragement et d’excitation. Mais Dieu ne travaille pas de la sorte. Il commence petit. Comme une petite main qui sort de l’océan. Cela commence toujours petit. Mais cela devient plus gros et bientôt le ciel se remplit de nuages de pluie. L’éclair frappe et l’Esprit de Dieu tombe. Et il pleut, il pleut et il pleut encore.

C’est De Ma Faute

Il n’existe aucune manière facile de stopper le déclin de la Chrétienté dans le monde Occidental. Il est allé trop loin pendant trop longtemps. Nous avons été vendus par nos dirigeants. Tous les programmes et le tralala au monde ne pourront produire une moisson d’âmes. La pluie est nécessaire. Mais elle a cessé.

Pourquoi? En partie à cause du péché dans la société mais plus particulièrement à cause du péché de l’Église. A moins que l’Église ne se repente, il n’y aura pas de repentance dans le monde.

Pourquoi la pluie a?t?elle cessé? Ce n’est pas premièrement la faute des pornographes ou des pimps ou des prostituées ou des drogués ou des homosexuels ou de ceux qui pratiquent l’avortement. C’est premièrement de ma faute, parce que je connais la vérité et que j’ai le message qui peut faire la différence. C’est de notre faute, parce que l’Église en Occident est Laodicée (Apocalypse 3:17). Parce que nous mettons notre confiance en cette vie et en ce monde plus que nous faisons confiance à Jésus. Il ne pleut pas à cause de mon péché et de votre péché.

Ceux qui font pleuvoir

Ceux qui feront pleuvoir sont ceux qui n’ont pas peur d’aller à Kerith ? des gens qui ne sont pas liés par la tradition ou les institutions. Ils n’essaieront pas de mettre du vin nouveau dans de vieilles outres. Ils feront ce que Dieu leur demande et s’attendront à ce qu’Il pourvoit pour eux de manière inattendue.

Ces gens n’auront pas peur d’être purifés, ils iront à Sarepta, ils seront prêts à voir mourir les choses qu’ils aiment, sachant qu’elles seront ressuscitées dans la pureté. Ce sera difficile. Mais qu’importe le degree de difficulté, je vous promets qu’il y aura de l’huile dans le contenant et de la farine dans l’assiette.

Et ces gens qui seront purifies iront au mont Carmel et se tiendront devant Jézabel ? devant la fausse religion, la Franc Maçonnerie, l’homosexualité, le Catholicisme et l’Islam. Ils se tiendront debout devant les prophètes de Baal ? ceux qui osent s’appeler des ministres de l’Évangile mais qui le compromettent par de faux enseignements.

Il y aura un conflit. Et les faiseurs de trouble d’Israël gagneront.



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).
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. ‍ ‍
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).
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.”
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.
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).
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
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).
By David Passmore April 23, 2026
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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).