Bible Doctrine

Over six years ago I viewed an internet sermon given by a preacher of a huge megachurch in Florida. His sermon was entitled, “The Valley of Dry Bones” and was his exposition and explanation of the 37th chapter of Ezekiel. He called this passage a parable. He is not alone in that appraisal. I have heard many preachers and Bible teachers refer to that passage as a parable. It is NOT a parable at all, but a prophecy, a prophecy yet to be fulfilled. It is a blow-by-blow account and description of how God is someday going to resurrect ALL the dead Israelites of ages past and return them to their ancient homeland in the land of Israel. This prophecy was NOT fulfilled in 1948 when Israel became a sovereign nation and some FEW Jews returned to the land of Israel. If these deluded preachers would only let God say what He says, they wouldn’t be so susceptible to Satan’s blinding power.

God says in the passage (Ezekiel 37:1-14) “Thus says the Lord God, Behold, O my people, I WILL OPEN YOUR GRAVES, AND CAUSE YOU TO COME UP OUT OF YOUR GRAVES, and bring you into the land of Israel” – yes, FROM THEIR GRAVES! (See Ezekiel 37:12). This passage is NOT speaking of living Jews returning to Israel from various countries around the globe following the close of the Second World War. It is speaking of ALL the dead descendants of Abraham being brought back to physical life and returned to their ancient homeland.

The millions of Jews incinerated in the ovens of Dachau and Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Belsen will be resurrected to mortal temporary physical existence along with all the other dead Israelites of centuries past and returned to Israel. There they will live and prosper and be properly instructed in the truths of God and granted lengthy lifespans that will give them time to hear, accept and walk in God’s statutes and judgments. See Zechariah chapters 10, 12 and 13 and Isaiah chapter 65.

In Isaiah 65:20 God reveals to us that after Jesus Christ returns to earth and sets up His kingdom if some human dies at the age of a hundred it will be as though they died in their childhood! Human life will once again be expanded to the ages of early man – hundreds and hundreds of years! After that the Gentile dead of ages past will be resurrected from China, and Japan, and Babylon, and every other nation. They, too will be granted long lives. Then they, too, will be given their FIRST opportunity to be granted God’s Holy Spirit, forgiven all their past sins – including the sin of idolatry – and redeemed to enjoy immortality and eternal life with those of us already redeemed and possessing God’s Spirit! See Zechariah 2:10-13 and Habakkuk 2:14. To say God is fair is a gross understatement. God is most worthy of our daily adoration and worship.

Notice carefully the detailed information God gives the reader in Ezekiel 37. Ezekiel says, “The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, and caused me to pass by them round about, and, behold, there were very many in the open valley, and, lo, they were very dry (signifying these are the skeletal remains of people who have been dead a very long, long time). And he said unto me, ‘Son of man, can these bones live?’ (God is asking his prophet if he thinks God has the power to resurrect and return to life great numbers of folks who have been dead for many centuries). And I answered, ‘O Lord God, you know.'” (Verses 1 through 4, Ezekiel 37). Ezekiel as much as says, “O Lord, you are the Almighty God. Nothing is too hard for you!”

“Again he said unto me, ‘Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O you dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God unto these bones, behold I will cause breath to enter into you, AND YOU SHALL LIVE!” (Ezekiel 37:4-5).

God now describes a resurrection to mortal, physical existence – not the type of resurrection spoken of by Paul in I Corinthians 15:35-44, which will be a resurrection to immortality and a spirit body. Notice, “And I will lay sinews (muscle) upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know (then – at that time) that I am the Lord (not Baal, not Dagon, not Molech)” (verse 6).

Now notice, God is having his prophet Ezekiel do the actual resurrecting of these long dead Israelites: “So I prophesied as I was commanded, and as I prophesied there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above, but there was no breath in them.” (verses 7 and 8). Ezekiel watches as these bones come together, forming complete skeletons and then complete corpses. But still they remain without life – just dead bodies lying all over the valley, hundreds, thousands, even hundreds of thousands of them.

“Then said he (God) unto me, ‘Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.” (verse 9). “So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army” (verse 10). Not just thousands, but hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions. But, take note, God has used this human servant to perform the resurrecting of these long dead Israelites just as He used Elijah and Elisha and Paul and Peter to raise the dead. The overcoming, faithful servants of the Lord of all ages will also be used in a similar fashion. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also (raising the dead, giving sight to the blind, etc.), and greater works than these shall he do…” (See John 14:12). Jesus only raised three: Jairus’ daughter, the son of the widow of Nain and Lazarus. God’s immortal redeemed once human servants will be utilized by Him to raise BILLIONS!

God clearly declares the “valley of dry bones” account is NOT a parable, flatly stating, “Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel!” (Ezekiel 37:12). Not one single solitary Jew, or Israelite, was resurrected from the dead and returned to Israel in 1948 – not a one!

“And ye shall know that I am the Lord when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, and shall put my Spirit in you, and you shall live (eternally), and I shall place you in your own land. Then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, says the Lord” (Ezekiel 37:13-14). God help you to understand.

Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),

Donald Wiley

Yes, Jesus did tell Philip, “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father,” but don’t leap to a false conclusion here. (See John 14:9). Jesus was not telling Philip that He and the Father were one and the same being, but only that He so perfectly reflected the Father’s character, mind and personality that to see and know Jesus was if you had actually met and been with the Father. In Hebrews 1:3 we learn that Jesus bore the express image of the Father’s person. We are also told in that same verse that after ascending back to heaven Jesus “sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.” Since that moment in time Jesus has served as God the Father’s high priest between God and men.

And when Jesus said, “I and the Father are one,” He was not saying they were one and the same being. He was merely saying that they were one in purpose and plan, that they were in total unity in all matters. The very context in which He makes that statement shows that is what He actually meant. (See John 10:27-30). It is in that very same context Jesus says, “My Father…is greater than all,” including Himself!

In Jesus’ high priestly prayer recorded in the 17th chapter of John, Jesus prays that believers “may be one, as we are.” (See John 17:11). Therefore, if Jesus saying “I and the Father are one” meant that He and the Father were one and the same being, then He was praying that believers become one and the same being – no longer individuals. He was merely praying that believers be unified in their beliefs, doctrines and goals, all “speaking the same thing, and that there be no divisions (differing denominations) among you” (See I Corinthians 1:10). Paul would be appalled at the scores of denominations now in Christianity. (Satan is far better at his job than many remotely suspect).

Following His resurrection, Jesus appears to Mary at the garden tomb. Notice what He says to her: “Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my Father, but go unto my brethren, and say unto them, ‘I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, AND TO MY GOD, and your God.” (See John 20:17). Some might argue, “Well, that was true while Jesus was still on earth and in the flesh, but it is no longer true.” Read on, friend.

Jesus has been back in heaven at the Father’s side for sixty years when He speaks these words to the church at Philadelphia: “Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of MY GOD, and he shall go no more out, and I will write upon him the name of MY GOD, and the name of the city of MY GOD, which is new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from MY GOD, and I will write upon him my new name.” (See Revelation 3:12).

In writing to the Corinthian assembly, the apostle Paul makes a statement that to many modern day believers might sound absurd, even blasphemous. This is what he wrote: “For though there be (many) that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, as there be gods many, and lords many, but to us (Christians) THERE IS BUT ONE GOD, THE FATHER, of whom are all things, and we in Him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him. Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge…” (See I Corinthians 8:5-7).

Even today, in the 21st Century, there is not the knowledge among many professing Christians, that there is but one supreme being,, and that is God the Father. Even Jesus conceded, “the Father is greater than I.” (See John 14:29).

The term “Godhead” is found only three times in the scriptures, and it is only the apostle Paul who uses that term. In Acts 17:29 he tells a crowd in Athens, Greece assembled on Mar’s Hill, “Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.” Now notice that he is speaking of God the Father with that statement as he speaks of our being His offspring, not His brethren!

The next time Paul uses the term “Godhead” is in Romans 1:20, “For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.” Here Paul explains that the Jews were without excuse for rejecting the invisible Supreme Being for a golden calf and later other deities as this invisible God had made the sun they were later driven to worship. (See Ezekiel 8:15-16).

The third and final time we find the term “Godhead” in the scriptures is in Colossians 2:9. Starting with verse 8, we read: “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” All the fullness of God the Father was revealed in and through the life and character of Jesus Christ. Many have been mistaught that the term “Godhead” refers to the trinity – God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit, when the term always means the Father alone.

In Ephesians 4:4-6, we read these words: “There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling, one Lord (Jesus Christ), one faith, one baptism, ONE GOD AND FATHER OF ALL WHO IS ABOVE ALL (including the Son), and through all, and in you all.”

Peter writes, “Jesus Christ..is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto Him (by none other than God the Father, the Head of all, the Most High!)” (See I Peter 3:21-22).

Hebrews Chapter One contains more theology than about any other single chapter in the Bible. In the second verse of that chapter we are told that God the Father appointed His Son, Jesus Christ “heir of all things” and that it was by and through Jesus Christ “He made the worlds.” And, in verse 3, we are told that “when He had by Himself purged our sins, (Jesus) sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.”

When Jesus Christ, who knew no sin, became sin for us He was, at that moment cursed by God. Fellowship with the Father was then severed and He by Himself purged our sins. For fellowship with the Father to be re-established Jesus Christ had to first die thereby paying the penalty for our sins. And, since He was the Creator of all life, His one life sufficed to pay the sin debt of all humanity! Three full days and nights after exhaling His last agonized breath on Calvary, God the Father raised Jesus Christ from the dead. The sin debt of mankind had been paid in full. Fellowship between the Father and Jesus Christ was firmly re-established never to be broken again. (Yes, THAT is what Jesus Christ did for YOU! Think about it).

“Unto which of the angels said He (God the Father) at any time, ‘You are my Son. This day have I begotten Thee.’ And again, “I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to me a Son?'” (Hebrews 1:5). Now the implication of the opening words of that verse clearly indicate that Jesus Christ never was an angel. So what was He prior to becoming the Son of God?

Note well the wondrous revelation given in that one short verse of inspired scripture. In saying, “I WILL BE to Him a Father,” it is quite evident that there was a period in time when these two spirit beings did not enjoy such a relationship! There was a time in eternity past that God had no son! That does not mean the Son did not exist in eternity past. But it does mean that in former ages Jesus Christ was not enjoying such a relationship with the Most High, the one and only Supreme Being. (Ever keep in mind that Jesus Himself said that the Father was greater than the Son and over and over again refers to Him as “my GOD!”) And in saying, “This day have I begotten Thee,” the only true God (Paul’s language, remember?) declares that there was a definite moment, or day, when He begat Jesus Christ and that it was from that moment forward Jesus Christ became the Son of God.

Now if any of the above seems like blasphemy to you, then you need to read the scriptures a bit more closely and believe the Bible rather than the traditions of erring men. Jesus Christ can and will reveal to you who the Father is and who the Son is IF you allow Him to speak to you through the scriptures. You might have to let go of a preconceived idea here and there, though, in order for Him to do so.

When God the Father brought His FIRST begotten Son into the world He decreed, “Let all the angels of God worship Him.” (See Hebrews 1:6). In that verse we learn two great truths: 1) Jesus is only the FIRST begotten Son of God. There will obviously be more to follow, and 2) The angels of God evidently had not accorded this first begotten Son worship previously or why else would God find it necessary to decree that they do so now. Notice, it does not say God decreed that they should worship the first begotten Son still, which would imply the angels might have thought Jesus’ reduction to the human level meant they were no longer to worship Him though they previously had been doing so.

“But unto the Son He (the Father) says, ‘Thy throne, O GOD, is for ever and ever. A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom.'” (Hebrews 1:8). Yes, Jesus IS GOD, but He is not the Supreme Being. “You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity, therefore God, EVEN THY GOD, has anointed you with the oil of gladness ABOVE YOUR FELLOWS.” (Hebrews 1:9).

Yes, the Father is and always will be greater than the Son. Like you and I, Jesus has a God He worships and obeys. Do not confuse Jesus Christ with God the Father. They are not co-equal. Never forget that long after returning to the Father’s side in heaven Jesus again and again refers to His Father as “MY GOD.” (See Revelation 3:12 once again).

There are two divine beings in heaven, one sitting at the right hand of the other. Jesus made this fact crystal clear during His earthly sojourn when He told the Jews, “It is also written in your law that the testimony of two men is true (or to be accepted as such). I am one that bears witness of myself, and the Father that sent me bears witness of me” (See John 8:17-18). One plus one equals two in any language on earth or in heaven. Notice also that Jesus says the Father SENT Him, showing that it is the Father who rules supreme over all and that there are indeed two divine beings.

Jesus said, “I do nothing of myself, but as my Father has taught me, I speak these things. And He that sent me is with me. The Father has not left me alone, for I do always those things that please Him.” (See John 8:28-29). The knowledge of the Father is greater than that of the Son, as the Father teaches the Son! Over and over again Jesus said, “I am not come (to earth) of myself…..He has sent me” (See John 7:28-29).

But just who are just who are these “fellows” of Jesus Christ from whom He was selected and anointed by God to “make the worlds” and then to sacrifice Himself to redeem lost humanity. You might have never once contemplated what you are now reading, so keep an open mind and trust the scriptures. They ARE inspired and trustworthy.

In the ninth verse of Hebrews 1 we learn that the “God” of Jesus Christ anointed Jesus above His “fellows” or companions, using Him to lay the foundation of the earth and fill the heavens with stars and planets (verse 10), and declaring that they would eventually grow old and perish, yet He would never change and His years would never fail. (See verses 11 and 12, Hebrews 1).

The 13th verse of Hebrews 1, echos again the truth first revealed in verse 5 of that same chapter, that Jesus fellows or companions were not angels, for “to which of the angels said He (God the Father) at any time, ‘Sit on my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.’ Are they not all ministering spirits (only), sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?” (verse 14).

In the fifth verse of chapter 2 in Hebrews it is affirmed once more that Jesus was never an angel prior to His becoming the Son of God as the Father has not put the world to come in subjection to any angel! It is incredible that millions miss this truth that is reiterated again and again in just these two chapters of scripture, for many believe that prior to becoming the Son of God Jesus was an archangel, some think Michael the archangel.

In Hebrews 2:7-8 we are told that God has put ALL things under the subjection of His redeemed children but that such power and rule is still yet future and will not be realized until the redeemed of the Lord have been born again by a resurrection from the dead, thus becoming immortal spirit beings like their Father and Elder Brother Jesus Christ. (Remember, Jesus told Nicodemus “that which is born of the Spirit IS SPIRIT!” See John 3:6). Then we, too, shall be used of God to call forth the dead of ages past.

In taking on human form, Jesus was temporarily made lower than the angels “for the suffering of death,” but has now been elevated to the highest position under the Father, to the very right hand of God, “and to the Son He says, ‘ thy throne O GOD, is for ever and ever.'” (See verse 8, Hebrews 1 once again with Hebrews 2:9).

God is now “bringing many sons unto glory” by perfecting our characters while we, too, live many decades in human flesh with all its pulls and temptations. This process is called “sanctification,” and begins at the moment of our conversion, lasting until the moment of our death. (See Hebrews 2:10-11).

Once again, in the 16th verse of Hebrews 2, we are told that Jesus “took not on Him the nature of angels.” Jesus was never an angel. How many times and in how many ways must God declare this to be true before those who believe Jesus was once an angel rethink themselves and agree that He was not???

But then what was He before coming to earth and taking on “the seed of Abraham” or before becoming human for thirty-three years? We get our first hint of that in the next verse of Hebrews 2, the 17th verse, when we learn that one other reason Jesus Christ was incarnated as a human being was so “that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.”  To be continued……..

Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),

Donald Wiley

There is a Bible passage many use to “prove” one’s soul survives death and immediately transmigrates to either heaven or hell – the parable of “the rich man and Lazarus.” And, of course, many would stop me right there and say, “It ain’t no parable!” I am going to allow God Himself to reveal the meaning of the 16th chapter of Luke to our minds and thinking.

Do you know how a concert pianist drastically reduces the chance that he, or she, will make a mistake during a performance of some difficult composition by Mozart, or Beethoven, or Handel? He practices. Again, and again, and again he goes over the piece, laboring hour after hour to memorize and then to strike the proper notes in the proper sequence with the proper force, holding each and every note for the exact time assigned them by the composer. That’s how he becomes proficient and amazes his audience as he plays so beautifully a most difficult composition. And how does one become proficient in the understanding of the Word of God? He studies that Word hour after hour, laboring day in and day out, reading and re-reading each line, each passage, each chapter, each book of the Bible. He cross checks his references and various passages, comparing what each and every Bible writer had to say on a given subject, even looking at the original Greek and Hebrew words in an exhaustive concordance like Strong’s, or Thayer’s, or Vine’s. And he LIVES by what he finds therein. He allows the scriptures to CORRECT his own life, his actions, his words, his thoughts, even his attitude and aspirations. He questions! He reasons!

In Isaiah 1:18, God implores: “Come now, and let us reason together.” God is immensely reasonable. He is fair. He is just. We need to keep this ever in mind when pondering some doctrine or teaching that tends to show God in a different light.

Let me ask you something, would someone who had just been run over by a Sherman tank ask for a band-aid or that a bit of iodine be applied to his broken body? How about a drowning man, would he ask for the cork from a champagne bottle be thrown to him in order to keep him from sinking below the water? Would he ask that a toothpick be thrown to him in order to keep himself afloat? Ridiculous questions, aren’t they? Someone run over by a Sherman tank, if able to speak at all, would cry out for morphine, a surgeon, immediate transport to a well-equipped emergency room. And a drowning man would cry out for a life preserver, a rope, a lifeguard, etc.

In the 16th chapter of Luke’s gospel account, Jesus Christ tells of a rich man who, in hell, cries out, “Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame” (verse 24).

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Now stop and THINK for a moment: Of the three situations just described, which is the most desperate: 1) the man run over by the Sherman tank, 2) the drowning man, or 3) the rich man tormented in the flames of hell? Well, I think anyone with a functioning brain would immediately reply without any hesitation whatsoever, “Why it would be the rich man who was being tormented in the flames of hell!”

A question: Don’t you think Jesus Christ was an intelligent person, a very reasonable person, someone possessing great, eternal wisdom? Did He really expect the Pharisees to whom He was speaking to believe that a man being tormented in burning, searing flames would ask merely for a drop of water to be placed on his tongue??? Wouldn’t that be akin to the man crushed by the many ton giant tank asking merely for a band-aid or a bit of iodine? Wouldn’t it be similar to the drowning man only asking that a tiny cork or a toothpick be thrown to him in order to save him from drowning? Indeed it would. All three accounts are absolutely ludicrous, absurd, ridiculous – yes, even laughable. And Jesus knew He was making a ludicrous statement and painting a ridiculous picture. That was His intention. He wanted them to see how ridiculous and absurd was their concept of hell and the afterlife!

The 16th chapter of Luke, especially verses 19 through 31, is one of the most grossly misunderstood passages in the entire Bible. Many ministers, entire denominations, have built their entire concept of hell and the fate of the lost around this one passage of scripture while ignoring countless other passages of Holy Writ that deal with the subject in far greater depth and clarity.

There is much foundational knowledge that must be received into one’s thinking processes before he or she can even hope to understand what Jesus was trying to convey by the words recorded in Luke 16. I will now share with you some of what MUST be understood and realized before one can hope to understand the 16th chapter of Luke.

First of all, one must realize just WHO Jesus Christ was speaking to when He said what is recorded in verses 19 through 31 of Luke 16. Beginning with verse 1 of that passage, we read: “And He said also unto His disciples…” And then from verse 1 through 13 Jesus is clearly talking to His disciples. But then, beginning with verse 14, we read, “And the Pharisees also, WHO WERE COVETOUS, heard all these things, and they derided (mocked) Him. And He said UNTO THEM….”

Now notice, Jesus Christ is no longer talking to His disciples, men and women eager to learn, those who believed in Him, believed what He said. Now He is addressing Himself to murderous, Christ-rejecting Pharisees, who are ridiculing and scoffing at Him, men with closed minds who really do not want to hear the truth, men who even then are plotting to kill Him.

And now, before going any further, we need to understand, to know just how God, how Jesus Christ answers such people. In short, at this point we need a deeper understanding of the scriptures in order to comprehend the rest of the passage.

In Mark 4, beginning with verses 1 and 2, we read: “And He (Jesus) began again to teach by the seaside, and there was gathered unto Him a great multitude, so that He entered into a ship, and sat in the sea, and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. And He taught them many things BY PARABLES, and said unto them in His doctrine……” And then, in verses 33 and 34 of that same chapter in Mark, we read: “And with many such parables spoke He the word unto them, as they were able to hear it. BUT WITHOUT A PARABLE SPOKE HE NOT UNTO THEM. And when they were alone, He expounded all things to His disciples.”

Notice, the Bible says that THE ONLY WAY Jesus Christ spoke to the multitudes – to those who were not His disciples – was in parables. And this would most certainly include the Christ-rejecting Pharisees. (See Luke 15:1-3 where it specifically says He was speaking to Pharisees “and He spoke this PARABLE unto them). Is He addressing His disciples in Luke 16, beginning with verse 15? NO! He is addressing Himself to narrow-minded, truth-rejecting, murderous Pharisees. So what method is He then using in the following verses when He speaks of a man called Lazarus and a rich man? That’s right – A PARABLE. It matters not that Christ assigns a name to the beggar. It’s still a parable. He could have given him a street address, and it would not have changed the fact that He was relating a parable to these hardened Pharisees. We must put scripture with scripture. We MUST allow the scriptures to speak.

Some argue that the account of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke Chapter 16 can’t be a parable because Jesus says, “There was a CERTAIN rich man….” But read the 6th verse of Luke 13: “He (Jesus) spoke also THIS PARABLE, a certain man had a fig tree…” We had better forget clever human arguments and allow the Word of God to clarify these matters for us.

There is something else we need to understand before looking any further into this parable of the rich man and Lazarus. We need to consider something revealed to us by God through the writings of the prophets. Remember, the entire Word of God is actually a single unit. God speaks to us through ALL of the sacred word – not just the last one-fourth, that part commonly called the New Testament. And, speaking of the Hebrew prophets – the writers of the Old Testament – Peter writes: “the Spirit of Christ…was in them” (See I Peter 1:10-11). Jesus has ever been the Logos, the Word, the Spokesman for the God Family. It was Jesus Christ who inspired Daniel, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and all the other prophets to write what they did. With this in mind, look at the 14th chapter of Ezekiel, beginning with verse 1.

Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me (to Ezekiel), and sat before me, and the Word of the Lord (through Jesus Christ) came unto me, saying, ‘Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them (verses 1-3).'” God (Jesus Christ) asks His prophet, Ezekiel, “Should I answer such truth rejecting men?” (Now remember the Pharisees much later in time would approach Jesus Christ in Judea while He walked among them in the flesh with a similar attitude). And what does the Lord say to His prophet Ezekiel: “Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, every man of the house of Israel that sets up his idols in his heart and puts the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face (Pharisees fit this description), and comes to the prophet, I the Lord will answer him that comes according to the multitude of his idols…I, the Lord, will answer him by myself, and I will set my face against that man…and if the prophet be deceived when he has spoken a thing, I, THE LORD HAVE DECEIVED THAT PROPHET!” (See Ezekiel 14, verses 4,7,8 and 9).

Isaiah calls this God’s “strange work…His strange act” (See Isaiah 28:21). It is strange indeed that the God of truth would deceive men, yet read it with your own eyes: “I THE LORD HAVE DECEIVED THAT PROPHET!” (See Ezekiel 14:9).

This phenomenon is also spoken of in the New Testament. Look at 2 Thessalonians 2:11, “And for this cause GOD SHALL SEND THEM STRONG DELUSION, THAT THEY SHOULD BELIEVE A LIE.” And verse 10 in that passage tells us why God does this: “Because they received not the love of the truth!”

Sounds like heresy, doesn’t it: God will deceive people! God, not Satan, will cause some men sometimes to believe A LIE!

When we don’t know the Word of God as we should, we can be shocked by some of the truths contained therein. I learned a long time ago that the average preacher really doesn’t know the Bible all that well. He knows his particular denomination’s beliefs. But he really doesn’t know the Word of God intimately well. Much of what he believes might be true, and might actually be what the Bible teaches on that particular subject, BUT MUCH OF WHAT HE BELIEVES AND URGES OTHERS TO BELIEVE IS WRONG – UTTER ERROR! This is especially true regarding the subject of hell and the fate of the unsaved.

The Pharisees were teachers, what the Bible calls “prophets.” And whenever these pompous, self-righteous spreaders of error and heresy approached Jesus Christ he answered them according to their idols of self and riches. (Remember, Luke 16:14 says they were covetous). He could be both sarcastic and ludicrous in how He answered them. HE DECEIVED THEM, GIVING THEM STRONG DELUSION! That’s what YOUR Bible clearly teaches. It might not coincide with what you would wish to believe, but it is the truth.

In Isaiah 66:4, God says, “I also will choose THEIR DELUSIONS, and will bring their fears upon them, because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear, but they did evil before mine eyes (God sees it all), and chose that in which I delighted not.”  God can get offended, folks – real bad. He can get greatly offended when a puny, short-lived, rebellious son of Adam refuses to listen to His spokesmen or those anointed to teach in the body of Christ. We tread on very shaky ground when we turn a deaf ear to a “Thus saith the Lord….”

The Pharisees were not answering Jesus’ call to them to “Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden…” When He spoke, they refused to hear – even worse, they mocked and insulted Him! So what was His reaction? “I will choose their delusions…” Remember HE CHANGES NOT. So that day when those sneering Pharisees approached Christ, hoping to trap Him in His words, you might say He was laying for them. He had a ludicrous picture to paint for them, and I would love to have seen the looks on their faces when He got through painting that incredible and unthinkable picture for them in the parable of a certain rich man and a poor beggar.

There is a note that Jesus Christ sounds again and again in the 16th chapter of Luke’s gospel account that contains the real point that Jesus was trying to drive home to these Pharisees all along. That note is sounded in verses 16, 29 and 31: “The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God is preached and every man presses into it (wants a part of it).” (verse 16).

What He was saying was, “I have given you an abundance of divine truth IN WRITING prior to John the Baptist appearing on the scene. Only then, with that superb foundation, has John and myself begun to preach the kingdom of God.”

“Abraham (in this parable) says unto him (the rich man in hell), ‘They (your brothers and everyone else) have Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them'” (verse 29).

Again, Jesus sounds the warning: “You have the writings of Moses (the first five books of the Bible) and the prophets (again an abundance of divinely revealed truth). You had better read and believe what has already been revealed therein as it contains foundational truth to guide you and keep you from embracing great error.”

And then one last time in verse 31, Jesus cautions: “If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead” (verse 31). If someone rejects the truth of God given through Moses’ writings and the prophets writings, they wouldn’t even believe their own grandmother if she came back from the dead and said, “I was totally unconscious, dear. I knew nothing in death. It was as though I was in a profound sleep.”

Had these Pharisees known the Hebrew scriptures as they should have, they would not have embraced the errors they held regarding the state of the dead and their concept of hell. (The Pharisees believed one went to a burning hell or a glorious afterlife with Abraham immediately upon their death).

To the Pharisees, Christ said they were guilty of making the Word of God of no effect due to their inherited and then passed on erroneous traditions. (See Mark 7:13). They ignored what Moses and the prophets had written on the subject of death and the punishment of the wicked. It was Moses who wrote, “Thou shalt return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return” (See Genesis 3:19).

Why did the Pharisees ignore Psalm 115:17, “The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence”? Why did they ignore Psalm 6:5, “For in death there is no remembrance of thee. In the grave who shall give thee thanks?” Why did they ignore Psalm 78:39, “For He (God) remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away and comes not again (apart from a future resurrection)?” Why did they ignore Psalm 146:3-4, “Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goes forth. He returns to his earth. In that very day his thoughts perish?” Why did they ignore Psalm 37:20, “But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs; they shall consume, into smoke shall they consume away?”

When Jesus Christ told these Pharisees, “The law and the prophets were until John” He was saying, “For thousands of years God’s truth has been available to you,” and when He went on to say, “since that time the kingdom of God is preached,” He was saying, “God’s Word is now being expounded to you by John the Baptist and myself. Why do you not believe us?”

Remember, Jesus Christ had already told these Pharisees and their predecessors about the state of the dead and the punishment of the wicked both through the prophets and His own ministry. They had rejected the truth of God for fables. Jesus now remained true to His own word and long established character. He now deceived them, deluded them – as He WARNED He would do!

Why didn’t the Pharisees believe what God had said through the prophet Malachi: “And you shall tread down the wicked FOR THEY SHALL BE ASHES UNDER THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET IN THE DAY THAT I SHALL DO THIS, says the Lord of hosts” – again showing that the punishment of the wicked IS FUTURE and that they are burned to ash, not tormented forever in everlasting fire! (See Malachi 4:1-3).

To another Pharisee, Nicodemus, Jesus had flatly declared: “NO MAN has ascended up to heaven” (See John 3:13). That would include Abraham and Lazarus. Since they refused to accept the truth, Jesus presented them with a delusion in the form of a parable about the fictitious characters of the rich man and a beggar named Lazarus. Now I know that must sound like blasphemy to some, but not to those who really know and believe the Word of God.

I quote from I Kings 22, verses 19 through 23: “And he (Micaiah, God’s prophet) said, “Hear thou therefore the word of the Lord. I saw the Lord sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right hand and on His left. And the Lord said, ‘Who shall persuade (King) Ahab that he may go up (to battle) and fall (that is, be killed) at Ramoth-Gilead (as Ahab’s death had already been prophesied)? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, ‘I will persuade him.’ And the Lord said unto him, ‘Wherewith?’ And he (this spirit) said, ‘I will go forth, and I will be A LYING SPIRIT in the mouth of all his (false) prophets.’ And He (God) said, ‘Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also (or, that will work). GO FORTH, AND DO SO.’ Now therefore, behold, THE LORD HAS PUT A LYING SPIRIT IN THE MOUTH OF ALL THESE THY PROPHETS, and the Lord has spoken evil concerning thee.”

King Ahab refused to listen to the truth spoken to him by God through God’s true prophet Micaiah. So what did God do? HE SENT A LYING SPIRIT to prompt Ahab’s own corrupt prophets to speak falsehoods to the king. That is what YOUR Bible says.

When God speaks we had better listen! If we prefer lies rather than the truth we are treading on extremely dangerous ground. We are in that forbidden zone where God may send us strong delusion to where we then believe a lie rather than the truth. That is how great is God’s estimation of the truth. Jesus said, “I AM THE TRUTH!” Reject the truth and believe a lie and God says, “Be DAMNED!”

But doesn’t the Bible say, “It is IMPOSSIBLE for God to lie?” Yes, several times over. But read each and every account where you find those words, “God cannot lie,” and you will find that in each and every instance the context clearly shows that WHEN GOD MAKES A PROMISE, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO LIE!

“For when God MADE A PROMISE to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, saying, ‘Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.’ And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise, for men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute. Thus God, determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO LIE, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.” (The two immutable things being 1) God’s promise, and 2) God’s oath. See Hebrews 6:13-18).

“Paul, a bondservant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect and the acknowledgment of the truth, which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life which GOD WHO CANNOT LIE, PROMISED before time began.” Note again, God cannot lie when He makes a promise.

“God is not a man that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He not said (made a promise) and will He not do (what He has promised)? Or has He not spoken (making a promise), and will He not make it good (deliver on that promise)?” (Numbers 23:19)

“And also the Strength of Israel WILL NOT LIE nor relent. For He is not a man that He should relent” (I Samuel 15:29). God had promised King Saul that if he turned aside from God he would be cast away and the throne of Israel given to another. God delivered on His promise to Saul, for it is impossible for God to lie when He makes a promise.

None of the above texts nullifies or negates the truth and solemn warnings given by God in Ezekiel 14:1-11 and 2 Thessalonians 2:10-11.

Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),

Donald Wiley

In Romans chapters 9 through 11 Paul makes it abundantly clear that eternal life will not be offered to the Jews until AFTER Christ returns to this earth and sets up His kingdom.  After their rejection of Jesus Christ two thousand years ago only a comparatively small number, a “remnant” had the offer of salvation extended to them.  One can live a long life and never once encounter a converted Jew.  I am 82 years old and I have never met a converted Jew.  That is how rare they are.

But through the prophesies of Zechariah and the apostle Paul’s letter to the Roman believers, God assures us that when Jesus Christ returns “there shall be a fountain (of Christ’s shed blood) opened to the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness” (See Zechariah 13:1).  “And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications, and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one is in bitterness for his firstborn” (Zechariah 12:10).  “And many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people (then truly converted, truly saved), and I will dwell in the midst of thee…” (See Zechariah 3:11).

In a sense this truly is a “second chance doctrine,” for the blinded and confused nations of the world are not having their first offer to join the company of the redeemed en masse, but only a relative few in nations such as China, North Korea, etc. have any true knowledge of Jesus Christ and His earthly mission. The Jews, once cut off due to their rejection of their Messiah, will yet once again have the offer of salvation and eternal life offered to them!  “And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall set his hand again THE SECOND TIME to recover the remnant of his people” (See Isaiah 11:11).

Many fail to see these great truths in the scriptures because they have been duped into believing salvation is offered to no one else after Jesus Christ returns when, in fact, that is when salvation will be offered to the most of humanity.  At the present time God is dealing primarily only with His elect sons and daughters.  God help us to understand!

Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),

Donald Wiley

In the 11th chapter of Hebrews, the writer makes mention of Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham and Sarah, and then states very plainly that “These ALL died in faith (yes, including Enoch) NOT HAVING RECEIVED THE PROMISES…” Chief and foremost among those promises was the promise of eternal life. (See verse 13, Hebrews 11). The writer concludes this chapter by repeating, “And these ALL (again including Enoch), having obtained a good report through faith, received NOT the promise (of eternal life), God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect (by being changed from mortal to immortal)” (Hebrews 11:39-40). And this would most certainly include the thief on the cross, to whom Jesus made the promise, “Thou shalt be with me in paradise!” (See Luke 23:39-43). (Many Bible students overlook the fact that the original New Testament manuscripts had no punctuation. Punctuation was not added to the scriptures until centuries later. Where one places the comma in Luke 23, verse 43, makes all the difference in the world as to what Jesus told that dying thief. He either told him that he would join Jesus in paradise that very same day, or Jesus was telling him “on this day, the day of my death, wherein it would appear I can not fulfill any promise I might make to you, still, I say to you that you shall be with me in paradise!”

“Jesus said unto her (to Martha, sister of the dead Lazarus), ‘I am the resurrection, and the life. He that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live (live again at some future point via a resurrection from the dead). And whosoever (then) lives (having been resurrected), and believes in me shall never die…” (See John 11:25-26).

Jesus told Peter, “I go to prepare a place for you (in heaven). And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself that where I am there you may be also” (See John 14:2-3). Notice, WHEN does Jesus say we will join Him? When He returns, NOT at the moment we die!

When John writes, “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life” he is not saying that eternal life has already begun in the believer and that the believer will never die. He is merely saying that since God cannot lie. His promises are as good as gold. I have eternal life right now only in the sense that God’s promises are sure to be fulfilled. It is similar to a mother asking her son to take out the trash as he sits and watches television. He replies, “Done!” He does not mean he has already done so. He means his mother is to consider it done as his word to her is as good as gold and he will get up from his seat in a bit and take out the trash.

Text after Bible text plainly shows that our eternal life actually begins only after we have been resurrected from the dead, yet many will ignore dozens of plain clear scriptures that prove this to be true and home in on a text that seemingly says our eternal life actually begins the moment we enter into a valid relationship with Jesus Christ. This is true ONLY in the sense that God cannot lie and His promise is as good as gold!Scripture declares again and again that we “shall inherit everlasting life” (See Matt. 19:29). One’s inheritance denotes something one enjoys IN THE FUTURE, not now. Jesus said we will enter into eternal life WHEN HE RETURNS. (See Matt. 25:31-46).

Peter said to Christ, “We (we disciples) have left all, and have followed you. And Jesus answered and said, ‘Truly I say unto you, there is no man that has left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my sake and the gospel’s, but he shall receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands with persecutions, AND IN THE WORLD TO COME ETERNAL LIFE” (See Mark 10:28-30).

Think on these things and I trust the Lord will give you understanding.

Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),

Donald Wiley

That’s what they told Him, you know. “If you had been here, He wouldn’t have died,” said Martha. Jesus looked full into Martha’s face and said, “I am the resurrection and the life!” Mary, Lazarus’ other sister spoke the same words to Jesus: “Had you been here my brother would not have died.” Jesus then said, “Where have you laid him?” They led Him to Lazarus’ grave. It was a cave and a large stone covered the entrance. Jesus said, “Take the stone out of the way,” to which Martha replied, “Lord, he is stinking by now. He has been dead for four days already.” Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I say to you, if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?” They then took the stone away. Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. And I know that you hear me always, but because of the people standing by, I said it that they might believe that you have sent me.” When He thus had spoken, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”

At that moment in time, yes, quicker than an angel could think, the heart of Lazarus contracted and then relaxed. Suddenly the putrefied blood in Lazarus’ arteries, veins and capillaries was reconstituted into the totally healthy pure blood of life and began to flow throughout what only moments before was truly a dead corpse. Lazarus’ lungs became a bellows once more as the air in the tomb began to be drawn inside his nostrils. Only moments later his eyelids fluttered momentarily and then opened as his eyes turned toward the stream of sunlight that illuminated Lazarus’ tomb. This cave, this grave truly was only a bedchamber for this sleeping saint, and ringing in his ears now was the voice of his beloved Friend Jesus, “Lazarus, come forth.” (See Isaiah 57:1-2 and John 11:1-46).

Someday Jesus is going to stand on the void of space above this earth and again cry out, “Redeemed of God, come forth!” All around this planet everyone whose name is found written in the book of life, who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awaken to everlasting life. “They that be wise (and were obedient servants of the Lord) shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever” (See Daniel 12:1-3 with I Corinthians 15:35-44).

“Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead……? And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain, you are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished…. (For the sole purpose of a resurrection is to bring the dead back to life!) For as in Adam ALL die (yes, even Enoch and Elijah), even so in Christ shall ALL be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits, afterward they that are Christ’s AT HIS COMING (not AT THE MOMENT THEY DIE, but made alive by being resurrected from death AT CHRIST’S RETURN !).” (See I Corinthians 15:12, 17-18, 22-23).

You might notice that I placed a comma between “Christ” and “the firstfruits.” Paul is not referring to Christ as the firstfruits. He is speaking of those John speaks of in Revelation 14:1-4: “These are they which were not defiled with women (the harlot or her daughters), for they are virgins (pure from any taint of sin or doctrinal error). These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes. These were redeemed from among men (mankind as a whole, not just Jews or fleshly Israelites) BEING THE FIRSTFRUITS unto God and to the Lamb” (See Revelation 14:4). It is this firstfruits company of believers to which Paul refers in Philippians 3:7-15 when he said he wished to attain to that resurrection of the dead – the resurrection of the spiritually perfected. (See verses 11-14, Philippians 3). The Greek word translated as “resurrection” (exanastasis) in Philippians 3:11 is found only in that one verse, and means an “out resurrection” – a resurrection of the perfected redeemed who precede the rest of the redeemed in being brought back to life! These are the saints who return with Christ. (See Jude 14). The average Christian will not find themselves standing beside Moses, Abraham or King David as they are resurrected from the dead. They will find all such already with the Lord in the air. May God grant you understanding is my prayer.

Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),

Donald Wiley

Millions of believers have been deceived into accepting false doctrine as spiritual truth! Such persons are not evil. They are not wicked children of the evil one. They are simply deceived. Being deceived is not a sin! Having your eyes opened to the truth and then rejecting it, that is a sin. In the 11th chapter of Romans, Paul addresses himself to the Gentile converts at Rome and cautions them: “Boast not against the (cut off) branches (the Christ-rejecting Jews), but if you (you Gentile believers) boast, (know this) you do not bear the root (Abraham), but the root bears you. You will say then, ‘the branches were broken off that I might be grafted in’. Well, because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not highminded (arrogant, conceited), but fear (fear what?), for if God spared not the natural branches (the Jews) TAKE HEED LEST HE ALSO SPARE NOT YOU. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God. On them which fell, severity (was displayed by God), but toward you goodness (to-wit, mercy is given) IF YOU CONTINUE IN HIS GOODNESS, OTHERWISE YOU ALSO SHALL BE CUT OFF” (verses 18 through 22, Romans 11). This passage is just too clear in what is being said.  It is almost impossible to mistake what Paul is saying in this passage. Would Paul give the Gentile believers in Rome an idle, or false, warning? Would he caution them they could be in jeopardy of being cut off from God and the great and ancient family of God if such an event cannot possibly occur?

In this passage Paul is merely elaborating on and agreeing with Jesus’ own teaching given in John, Chapter 15: “I am the vine and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch IN ME that bears not fruit (failing to produce a godly character in their lives) He takes away, and every branch that bears fruit, He purges it that it may bring forth more fruit.” (verses 1 and 2). But there are many who do violence to this passage insisting it proves God takes the life of an unproductive and/or sinful Christian, taking them away to heaven early so they won’t be an embarrassment to Him and his Son any longer. What a doctrine of demons that is. The very worst of heaven has to be light years better than the best earth has to offer. So, in essence, in taking away a sinful believer from earth, God is thereby rewarding sinfulness in a most remarkable way! Such diabolic teaching has opened the floodgates of sin among God’s people. Why strive to root any and all in out of one’s life? The most it can cost you, they say, is a loss of a few rewards, and, if such sins are continued in and not abandoned, they can even get you into heaven a lot sooner!! If Satan didn’t come up with that teaching then it had to be one of his cleverest and most capable demons.

Satan enters into various assemblies and wrecks and ruins them with his warped, sin-spawning doctrines. God help you to understand is my prayer.

Christ’s Servant (Galatians 1:10-12)

Donald Wiley

The author of this article is Dr.Emanuel Tanya, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist. A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates.

When he was asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism. ‘Very few people were true Nazis,’ he said, ‘but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care.

I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.’

We are told again and again by ‘experts’ and ‘talking heads’ that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire

continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers. The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the ‘silent majority,’ is cowed and extraneous.

Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.

China’s huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people..

The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.

And who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were ‘peace loving’?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:

Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don’t speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis,Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.

Now Islamic prayers have been introduced into Toronto and other public schools in Ontario, and, yes, in Ottawa, too while the Lord’s Prayer was removed (due to being so offensive?) The Islamic way may be peaceful for the time being in our country until the fanatics move in.

In Australia, and indeed in many countries around the world, many of the most commonly consumed food items have the halal emblem on them. Just look at the back of some of the most popular chocolate bars, and at other food items in your local supermarket. Food on aircraft have the halal emblem, just to appease the privileged minority who are now rapidly expanding within the nation’s shores.

In the U.K, the Muslim communities refuse to integrate and there are now dozens of “no-go” zones within major cities across the country that the police force dare not intrude upon. Sharia law prevails there, because the Muslim community in those areas refuse to acknowledge British law.

As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts – the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

Wake up, America, your way of life is fast diminishing and will all too soon be gone forever!

Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),

Donald Wiley

They’re everywhere.  They’re everywhere.  New York City has 175 mosques!  Chicago has 90 mosques!  Philadelphia has 63 mosques!  Detroit has 62 mosques!  And the state of Kentucky has nearly forty mosques.  There are mosques in such communities as Cave City, Kentucky; Prestonsburg, Kentucky: Owensboro, Kentucky; Danville, Kentucky; Somerset, Kentucky; Bowling Green, Kentucky and Elizabethtown, Kentucky.  Even the tiny state of Rhode Island has 7 mosques.  And sparsely populated Montana has 2 mosques.  Alaska also has two. (Note: Figures cited are from a February 2015 census).

I wonder if anyone in Germany became alarmed when Nazi recruitment and training centers began opening up in small German towns and villages?  Did they just glance at them and think, “Hmmmm, that wasn’t there before”?  Do you suppose the German populace had any inkling of what those centers portended?  From the time the first such recruitment center appeared until the day Adolf Hitler shot himself but twelve years had passed!  Think of that.  In the space of twelve short years the Nazi menace grew from a small group of rabble rousers to a political/military machine that engulfed the world in war, costing the lives of many millions.  Twelve years!

Prophecy MUST be fulfilled.  Islam will NOT be stopped.  Daniel, Revelation and the Olivet prophecy of Jesus Christ will unfold more and more rapidly with each passing day.  The Bible will be banned in more and more countries.  Surprise yourself: “google” how many countries right now today ban the Bible.  Yes, surprise yourself.  There are going to be a lot more surprises around the corner.  Terrifying surprises.  Multitudes will wish they had been born and lived their lives in a different generation, place and time.  Our only safety and security is in total, abject surrender to the LORDship of Jesus Christ, the One Islam and the Koran insists is not the Son of God.  They, too, are in for a great big surprise.  Brethren, I hope none of you are surprised as well.

Christ’s Aged Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),

Donald Wiley