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IMPORTANT ARTICLES THAT WILL TELL YOU A LOT ABOUT ANTIPAS & THE "END OF DAYS"

AMERICA: BABYLON
THE GREAT

Chapter XII of the New Antipas Papers: "The Beast of Revelation 17"

The American Empire: the Corporate / Pentagon / CIA / Missionary Archipelago

Inside the American New World Order System

A Dreadful Nation; an Overflowing Scourge

We Have Met the Enemy and He Is US

America vs. Europe

Base World: America's System of World-Wide Military Bases

Christians in Africa: AWAKE!

THE KINGDOM OF
GOD IS AT HAND
[The "Gospel of the Kingdom"]

The Kingdom of God Is at Hand

The Good News of the Coming Kingdom

The Principles of the Kingdom

The American New World Order System Must Give Way to the Kingdom of Heaven

MISCONCEPTIONS CONCERNING THE RAPTURE

Chapter VII of the New Antipas Papers: "The Great Escape - Misconceptions Concerning the Rapture"

Chapter VIII of the New Antipas Papers: "Tribulation and Judgment"

THE SUPERNATURAL & THE PARANORMAL

As the Days of Noah Were, So Shall Also the Coming of the Son of Man Be

The Supernatural, America's Intelligence Agencies, the Republican Elites, Drugs and Pedophilia

Witchcraft and the Paranormal

Part 5 of Chapter IX of the New Antipas Papers: "The Second Half of the Tribulation"

THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE CHURCH

Chapter VI of the New Antipas Papers: "The Distinction between Israel and the church"

Israel: In that Day There Shall Stand up a Root of Jesse

APOSTASY: CHRISTIANS - PROSTITUTING THEMSELVES OUT TO THE WORLD FOR MONEY

Chapter XIV of the New Antipas Papers, "The Great Falling Away"

Apostasy: Christianity in the Service of a Religious-Political-Corporate-Terrorist State

The Rich Have Seized Control of the Church

Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth

A Luciferic Christianity

The God-Men of the American New World Order System

Today's Church: Making Zombies out of Christians

CONSPIRACIES AND THE CIA

MK-Ultra and the Search for the Manchurian Candidate

The Men Who Gathered Themselves together at Clint Murchisan's Dallas Home

Conspiracy Theories

Drugs, Epidemics, Viruses and AIDS

The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse

Now Is the Time to Do Something: It May Be too Late Tomorrow

Liberation Theology, the Vatican, and the CIA: Ghosts and Phantoms

The Death of Gary Webb

Remembering Dachau while Pondering the Fate of the CIA's Prisoners around the World

ANTI-SEMITISM

Anti-Semitism and the Economic Crisis: The Two Go Hand-in-Hand

What's really behind the Phenomenon of Anti-Semitism

The Origins Of The Illuminist Myth

Pat Robertson, Illuminism, And The New World Order

RADICAL ISLAM: A CREATION OF THE CIA

Chapter XV of the New Antipas Papers, "The Gog / Magog War"

Radical Islam

Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin

Iran Is Breaking the Seals

And So It Begins

THE HOMELESS, THE UNEMPLOYED & THE ECONOMIC CRISIS

The Marxist Paradigm

Capitalism and Christianity

Capitalists of Chaos: Speculating on Food While the World Starves

The Crash of Today's Real Estate Market

The United States: Replicating the Economy of the Old South

The Crisis of the American Economy and the Rise of Christian Fundamentalism

Divergence of the Rich from the Poor

The Elites Want High Unemployment

Dealing with the Human Trash of America's New World Order System

POLICE-STATE

The Utility of Police Brutality in the Elite's War against the Poor

The Watchers Are Watching You

The Birth of a Christian Police-State

Welcome to the New National Security State

The Development of a New National Security Apparatus in the United States and What It Will Mean to You

None are More Hopelessly Enslaved than Those Who Falsely Believe They Are Free

CHRISTIANS: PERSECUTING GAYS AND LESBIANS THE WAY HITLER PERSECUTED THE JEWS

The Creation of an "Enemy Absolute" - Beginning with the Gay and Lesbian Community

Proposition 8: How Will the Church Respond to Its So-Called Defeat

The Christian Right: Creating a New and Ominous Strategy against the Left

Beware - All Those Who Don't Fit into America's Euro-Centric, Christian Culture: the Brownshirts Are Coming for You

RACISM

The Bell Curve: Racism & Right-Wing Christianity

Measuring the Depravity of the Elites: Pacifying the Poor through Drug Addiction

The Hamitic Hypothesis

Dogs on a Leash

AMERICAN-TRAINED DEATH SQUADS

The Horror of John Dimitri Negroponte

Death Squads: Bringing in the Kingdom of God through Terror, Torture and Death

Evangelicals and the Death Squads: Oh What a Tangled Web We Are Weaving

A CRUSADER ARMY BENT ON CONQUERING THE WORLD FOR "CHRIST AND THE CHURCH"

Part 3 of Chapter XIII of the New Antipas Papers, "America Is No Longer Just a Nation, It Is Now a Religion"

The Generals' Revolt against the Obama Presidency

The Power of Self-Sacrifice: Taking up Your Cross and Following Him

The Evil in Our Midst

A Woman Riding a Horse Going Forth Conquering and to Conquer.

Articles that unite the PROPHETIC SCRIPTURES with the events of the day.

In almost every major article on this website, and throughout the pages of the NEW ANTIPAS PAPERS, we have emphasized the entwined destines of Israel and the church – a fact that will become exceedingly important for you to understand as the PROPHETIC CLOCK winds down. ...

Reports emanating from the offices of both Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) - and, interestingly, in accounts circulating in the Kremlin as well as military circles in China and Iran - assert that on 27 October, 2012, Rear Admiral Charles M. Gaouette was ordered off his ship while at sea and relieved of command of the USS John C. Stennis Battle Group because the Secretary of Defense – Leon Panetta - had found him "unfit for command."

It is not without reason that in a recent article, "Prophecy Comes Full Circle," we emphasized the importance of what happened on 19 March, 2003 when "Babylon on the Hudson" (America) seized control of the precincts of ancient Babylon ("Babylon on the Euphrates") and in doing so united in itself the dreadful prophecies of the Old Testament with the equally dreadful prophecies of the New Testament.

The BANNER ARTICLE SECTION reinforces the MAIN ARTICLE SECTION with articles from other sources - mainly secular ones.

I want to take this opportunity to apologize for "disappearing" over the past several weeks and months: I have been extremely ill, and so much so that I have hardly been able to get out of bed. The only thing that has been able to sustain me in all of this is the patience and kindness of my beloved wife, Lucy, as well as Jack, my son.

Seventy years ago, people around the world failed to take Hitler seriously when he talked of exterminating the Jewish race. They couldn't believe he was serious.

Many are making the same mistake today when so-called Christians such as Dr. Paul Cameron and Lou Engle speak of exterminating homosexuals.

In various places and in diverse ways the Scriptures warn about the dangers that will encompass the saints of God at the end of the age – and so much so that the "very elect" shall be "DECEIVED." (Mat. 24:24)

There are, of course, many who believe that it is not possible for the "elect" to be deceived – and they point to the parenthetical statement in Matt. 24:24, "if it were possible" – a statement that does not appear in the original Greek as connoted by the italics in the old KJV.

A sea-change in the nation's politics has taken place with grave implications for America's wealthy elites: Obama has constructed what appears to be a PERMANENT, left-wing, majority coalition of the "down-and-outers" of American society that the elites may find impossible to dislocate for years and years to come. New York Times columnist Thomas B. Edsall writes:

"The slow implosion of the Republican Party — along with the growing strength of a new Democratic coalition dominated by low-to-middle-income voters — threatens the power of the corporate establishment ..."

Guy Millière, a professor at the University of Paris (the Sorbonne), writes:

"On April 19, 2011, the Corfu synagogue, in Greece, was burned. How many Jews live in Corfu today? One hundred and fifty. How many Jews live in Greece? Eight thousand, or about 0.8% of the population. For some, it seems these figures are still far too high. Two other synagogues were burned in Greece during the past year. Anti-Semitic graffiti on the walls are spreading all over the country."

On the morning of November 9 (at 9:58 AM), a gun fight erupted near the White House. The next day, CBS News reported the incident under the title "Attempted Robbery Leads to Shots Fired Near White House." The extremely brief report read as follows:

"WASHINGTON (CBS-DC) – An attempted robbery near DuPont Circle Friday morning led to shots being fired near the White House, and now police are hunting four suspects. D.C. police say they are looking for four armed males driving a silver or white Lincoln ... Gun shots were fired, but no one was struck. It is unclear who fired the shots ..."

Daniel G. Dupont who edits Inside Defense, an online news service, from Washington, D.C., reports:

"Last November 4, the Naval Studies Board of the National Research Council issued a report calling on the U.S. to increase its research into 'calmatives' that could be used to control and sedate unruly or hostile groups of people."

On February 27, 1933 the Berlin Reichstag, the seat of Germany's parliament, was set on fire. The Nazi leaders accused the German Communist Party (KPD) of having committed arson. For the Nazis, who had been in power less than a month, the Reichstag fire was the excuse for a hitherto unparalleled persecution of Communist and Social Democratic workers, intellectuals and party leaders – and it led to the imposition of the so-called "Enabling Laws" (Ermächtigungsgesetz) which created the Hitler dictatorship.

In an article that appeared in the New York Times on October 22, 2012, Roger Cohen, a "progressive" Jew whose writings are anathema to conservative Jews living in Israel as well as Christian evangelicals in this country, did more than most have been able to do to bring some semblance of understanding to Obama's policies in the Middle East. He wrote:

"Perhaps the most radical change in U.S. foreign policy under President Obama has occurred here in Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood, long shunned as a collection of dangerous Islamist extremists, is now the de facto object of American support."

The American government is a government constructed on lies - AND NOTHING SPEAKS MORE TO THIS FACT THAN THE WAY THE GOVERNMENT IS LYING ABOUT THE ECONOMY – and in the process giving credence to the belief of many Christians that they will be able to "ride out" the economic storm that has descended on the world (or at least ignore it for the time-being) - a storm that well-known Canadian economist Michel Chossudovsky says is,

"... FAR MORE SERIOUS THAN THE GREAT DEPRESSION."

This is a very short account regarding the resignation of General David Petraeus as CIA Chief written in preparation for a soon-to-be-released second article giving details to the abbreviated narrative presented here.

In an article dated September 25, 2012, Joshua Holland warned that if Romney lost the election, leaders of the Religious Right were prepared to claim that the election had been stolen. Holland went on to warn that it is –

"... an exceptionally dangerous game that the right-wing media ... [is planning on] playing ... There's a very real danger that this spin ... could create a post-election environment so toxic that it would yield an outburst of politically motivated violence."

I am reminded of the story of Moishe the Beadle as told by Elie Wiesel in his book, Night. Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania (now a part of Romania, then a part of Hungary), Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man.

Though little noticed by the "wise men" of this world, something very horrific happened on 19 March, 2003 – something much more frightening than the mere invasion of one country by another: PROPHECY CAME FULL CIRCLE CONCERNING BABYLON THE GREAT - the ENEMY OF GOD, THE SEAT OF SATAN; on that date "Babylon on the Hudson" (America) seized control of the precincts of ancient Babylon ("Babylon on the Euphrates") and in doing so united in itself the dreadful prophecies of the Old Testament with the equally dreadful prophecies of the New Testament

Anti-American demonstrations sparked by a low-budget film called "The Innocence of Muslims." have spread to nearly 30 countries across the Middle East and beyond, with violent and sometimes deadly protests that have convulsed the birthplaces of the Arab Spring revolutions. The protests in Libya led to the death of the American ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, as well as three others, including two Marines.

As we stand on the edge of what the prophet Joel calls the "VALLEY OF DECISION" – what we know today as the Tribulation Period - and survey the fallen state of today's church (cf. Luke 18:8, Hebrews 6:6, 2 Peter 3:17) we begin to understand just how clouded its mindset is, and how little the Written Word of God plays in that mindset.

For the past two decades (Yes! – it's been that long) we have diligently endeavored to paint for you an accurate picture of the "end of days," and we have done so relying ONLY on the Written Word of God and not on the extra-biblical mutterings and inane babbling of supposed modern-day prophets who claim to have a direct channel to God; charlatans and false prophets who appear and disappear like dead leaves blown in the wind.

One of the great criticisms leveled against Antipas is that we have a very checkered history insofar as any of the solutions we have advocated as a way of motivating people to prepare themselves for the "end of days;" specifically,

I never quit being dumbfounded and shocked by those Christians who - while understanding the nature and character of the American New World Order System, and who appreciate the HORROR of the alliance the church (so-called) has made with that system - underestimate the personal danger they are in, and I speak here not so much concerning physical danger, but the danger that in time they will be spiritually compromised.

Most members of America's RELIGIOUS RIGHT have come to believe that Christian Civilization is being menaced EXTERNALLY by-

• RADICAL ISLAMISTS
• SECULAR-HUMANISM
• RADICAL FEMINISTS
• GAYS and LESBIANS

An extraordinary convergence of religious communities is occurring – a convergence that involves the evangelical Christian community and the Mormon Church; it is a convergence that has made possible evangelical support for the nomination of Mitt Romney for President on the Republican Party ticket – something that most would have thought impossible not more than twenty years ago...

Unemployment and under-employment has insidiously spread to 17% of the U.S. work force. What makes this particularly disturbing is that this rate of unemployment may be something that is PERMANENT.

West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2, defines
"ENTRAPMENT" as -

"... the act of law enforcement officers or government agents to induce or encourage a person to commit a crime ..."

WSW reports:

"The results of last weekend's elections in Greece [Sunday, May 5^th] sent a message that has been heard around the world: Working people want an end to the austerity agenda that has plunged Greece's economy into a depression and slashed living standards everywhere ... [a depression brought on NOT by the so-called profligacy of the Greek people, as the American and European financial elites want people to believe, but by the greed and avarice of Wall Street]."

As we suggested in our last main article, "Beware the Prophetic Daydreams of False Prophets & Empty-Headed Dreamers," there exists today a very stark dichotomy between the Bible's description of the antiChrist at "end of the age" and the portrait of the antiChrist that the leaders of today's church are presenting to their congregations; indeed, the dichotomy is so stark and so vast that it cannot help but elicit the thought in the thinking of any fair-minded individual, WHOSE PURPOSES ARE BEING SERVED BY THIS DECEIT?

Many of you have written to us wondering why we have not as yet "gotten on the road." Well, I can tell you, it has not been for lack of trying. When we traded our car for our motor home, we knew that it would take a lot of work (and money) to get a twenty-year old motor home "road-ready" - but we simply had no idea of the difficulty we were facing.

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WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?

Very obviously, Christians are facing a time of crisis, one which all Christians - if they really are Christians - have long expected, and one which shouldn't come as a surprise - CHURCH APOSTASY: the refusal of the church to see itself any longer as a "citizen" of a heavenly kingdom having nothing to do with this world ["My kingdom is not of this world ... my kingdom ... (comes) not from hence." (John 18:36)] to seeing itself, rather, as a "citizen" or "friend" of this present evil world and all that such a thing portends - from the church's involvement in the world's political affairs to its involvement in death squad activity in the name of God in South and Central America, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, etc. ["...Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God" ( James 4:4)]. But, again, why should we as Christians be surprised by all this? - isn't this what the Bible said would happen? - "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (i.e., the day of the rapture and the resurrection) shall not come, except there come a falling away (i.e., apostasy) first ..." (2 Thess. 2:3)

WHAT THEN SHOULD WE DO?

What then should we do with regard to this crisis? Menachem Begin, the former Prime Minister of Israel, faced a similar crisis in his life and in the life of the Jewish People in the early 1940s. The crisis he faced had to do with whether or not he should wait for the end of World War II and the plodding negotiations of Jewish "mainline moderates" such as Dr. Chaim Weizmann and the World Zionist Organization to press the British Mandate Authority to facilitate Jewish immigration to Palestine (all this in addition to having to rely on the maddening timidity of the mainline Jewish defense organization - the Haganah - to secure their safety in Palestine), OR whether he should join up with the radicals, Vladimir Jabotinsky, and the Irgun Zvai Leumi - and hang the "niceties of diplomacy."

He finally chose Jabotinsky and the Irgun! - and he never looked back. Years later, in remarking on the single-mindedness of the organization he finally joined - i.e., the Irgun - he said: "In times like those, there is no greater force than people who (1) have the ability to see beyond the concerns of daily life, despite the sometimes very pressing nature of those concerns, (2) who possess the capacity for self-sacrifice, and (3) who are willing to get involved!" Begin believed that the rest didn't matter! And so it is with us today, the rest doesn't matter! - one's natural talent, one's standing within the church, one's ability to speak, one's wealth, one's education, one's personality, the number of mistakes one has made in his or her life, one's age, one's sex, etc. - all of that is inconsequential in comparison.

A CALL TO ACTION

This website and the New Antipas Papers are first and foremost a call to action; a call to the kind of people who joined themselves to Vladimir Jabotinsky and the Irgun; to the kind of people who possess vision and the capacity for self-sacrifice. It's a call for them to get involved! And to do it NOW! - before it's too late. To wait is to make prophecy of no effect - after all, prophecy is meaningless to those who refuse to do anything about it.

Prophecy is nothing more than a roadsign telling us of the danger that's ahead and warning us to take corrective action BEFORE we get to the danger. If we do nothing until we finally get there, it will be too late. Thus, if the only reaction this website and the NEW ANTIPAS PAPERS can elicit in you is "Wow! - what a wonderful website and what a wonderful book" - then we have utterly failed in what we set out to do, and you have missed the point of this website and the book altogether. Knowledge which does not produce action is worthless!

It is to those persons who possess the willingness to get involved that we now turn and to whom we now direct the following remarks: first, there are many things that will hinder you from getting involved - and sadly, your greatest hindrance will probably be those dear Christian brothers and sisters who claim to see what you see, but who caution "moderation." Those who do, however, are usually people who have a stake in the status quo; in other words, there's a reason behind their so-called "moderation" - they probably have a lot more to lose than you do. The fact of the matter is, not many rich, not many successful, not many "high church officials" will abandon "moderation" - they have too much to lose. This is why Jesus said, "... It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a [sewing] needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God" (Matt. 19:24), and why Paul said, "For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called ..." (1 Cor. 1:26)

SPIRITUAL COWARDS

Mostly, those who call for "moderation" are people who - while they might see objectively what you're talking about and who might even find it stimulating to sit in the safety of their living rooms for hours on end discussing this or that "end-times scenario" - will go ballistic if you actually suggest doing something about it; for instance, demonstrating against those churches that support the American New World Order System. [Please see that portion of our website, "Taking the Gospel of the Kingdom to the Poor."]

That's when the "moderates" panic! That's when people get labeled a "Jim Jones," a "Branch Davidian," a reckless and irresponsible radical, an "Unloving Person."

But look beyond the labels and you might see something else at work here! - a selfish effort by the "moderates" to shame you into silence and inaction. Why? - because if such thinking were to really catch on, they will be shown to be what they really are - spiritual cowards who have too much at stake in this world and in the status quo of today's church to get involved - whether it be pastors who have their reputations and pay checks to guard, ministry leaders who depend on "compromised" sources of income, wives who have their "nests" to protect from the "irresponsibility" of a husband who has hit the "nut circuit," Christian business people and professionals who have their "reputations" to protect, etc. - and in order to hide that fact, they are willing to stop at nothing to put the "radicals" to an open shame.

"Moderates" are the people who are given to writing time-consuming memoranda, holding "bigwig" conferences, "reasoning" with the opposition, discussing things endlessly, and not for the purpose of finding out the truth, but of "buying time" and "confusing the issue" - "Did so and so really say such and such? - I don't care whether a thousand witnesses heard him - let's find out what really happened." The object here, of course, is not to get to the bottom of what happened - after all, if a thousand witnesses won't suffice, nothing will. The real object is to get everything so tied up in red tape that by the time it's "sorted out," everyone is gone.

TO THE "MODERATES," WE
WOULD SIMPLY SAY THIS ...

To the "moderates," we would simply say this: What does one do with people who purposefully are leading the church into apostasy and into an alliance with Christians who believe that they can become equal with Christ in the Godhead (such as Bennie Hinn, James Robison, etc.)? - Reason with them? What's there to reason about? These people know what they're doing! - and you are not the first to question them on these matters. They've heard all the arguments before. [Please see our articles, "Luciferic Christianity" and "The God-Men of the American New World Order System."]

What value is there in meeting with such people? What does one say to a Paul Crouch, for example, when he says that those who are standing against the church's alliance with the kind of leaders who involve themselves in the great wickedness of "Luciferic Christianity?" should be shot? Discuss with him the kind of gun that is best for such a purpose? Negotiate with him over the ammunition that should be used?

What utter nonsense!" - after all, what's at stake here is the church's soul! There is nothing to negotiate about! And if those you love in the church refuse to go along, and you think to stay for their sake, be assured, you'll accomplish nothing - you're "going" will accomplish more than your "staying" ever could by showing them by deeds rather than words how serious matters really are. Remember, what's at stake here is eternity! - your eternity!

AN UNFORTUNATE REALITY

At the heart of the confusion that exists today within Christendom is the presence on this earth at this time in history of an entity - the American New World Order System - that falsely claims to represent Christ on earth. [Please see our article, "The Rich Have Seized Control of the Church."]

It is exactly the presence of this entity that is the cause of such confusion among the unsaved poor today - precisely those to whom Jesus came to save. It is no accident that Jesus said:

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised ..."

Naturally enough - and notwithstanding this verse and countless others like it - the claim of most American evangelical leaders that the American New World Order System represents Christ's kingdom on earth can only be a source of great confusion to the poor of the earth; a "turn-off" to the destitute of this world who see the American New World Order System and the church that justifies it as frauds.

The poor cannot be blamed for seeing the Christianity of today being preached by America's evangelical leaders as a rich, white man's religion having NOTHING to do with them. What do the poor of the world want to do with a religion that justifies the very system - i.e., the American New World Order System - that oppresses and brutalizes them? [We urge you to read our article, "A Woman Riding A Beast Going Forth Conquering and to Conquer" for insight as to how this partnership between the rich of the world and Christianity works.]

GOD'S ANSWER TO THIS DECEPTION

The "Gospel of the Kingdom" is God's answer to this deception. It has been calculated to rip away the mask of piety that the religious FRAUDS who wickedly justify this system hide behind - for example, Christian leaders such as the late D. James Kennedy, Charles Stanley, C. Peter Wagner and John Hagee - while at the same time revealing the evil, avaricious "money-grubbing" that's really at the heart of the American Empire, and that animates ALL those associated with it. [Please see "The Superman Theology of the International Christian Embassy's Feast of Tabernacles" for a discussion of the theology and eschatology that animates people such as John Hagee.]

Once these frauds - and the system they excuse - are exposed for what they actually are, then the poor can see Christianity for what it really is: God's way of salvation for them, and see Christ for whom He really was (is) - a POOR carpenter who said of Himself:

"... Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." (Luke 9:58) -

A Man who rather than placating the rich (as the leaders of today's church so shamefully do), said of them,

"... Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.

"And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a [sewing] needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." (Matt. 19:23-24) [Please see our article, "The Rich Have Seized Control of the Church."]

It is precisely about the "Gospel of the Kingdom" that Jesus said:

"This GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." (Matt. 24:14) [We urge you to see our articles, "The Kingdom of God Is at Hand," "The Good News of the Coming Kingdom," "The Principles of the Kingdom" and "The American new World Order System Must Give Way to the Kingdom of Heaven."]

The "end," thus, is tied to the preaching of the "Gospel of the Kingdom" to all nations.

And He went on in the very same discourse to say:

"Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

"Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods." (Matt. 24:46-47)

Of course, the work will be dangerous! - there is no doubt about that. Jesus said:

"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

"But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues [in today's parlance, 'church meeting halls'];

"And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles [i.e., unbelievers]." (Matthew 10:16-18)

Pretty frightening - especially for the poor and inarticulate; but Jesus said:

"... when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.

"For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you." (Matthew 10:19-20)

YOUR PREACHING WILL
ACCOMPLISH TWO THINGS

Jesus said:

"What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops." (Matthew 10:27)

You are not called to be subtle about the "Gospel of the Kingdom." Your preaching will accomplish two things:

• It will draw some to you - those whose hearts God has prepared for such a day, and you will be surprised to find out who these people are.

• It will drive others away from you, and so much so that the Bible says, "And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake ..." (Matthew 10:21-22)

Your job is to take the first group and become a shepherd to them. Begin meeting with them, and let your meetings be seen of all men. Jesus said:

"Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

"Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 5:14-16)

Insofar as the second group is concerned, Jesus said:

"When they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come." (Matthew 10:23)

And He went on to say:

"The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.

"It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?" (Matthew 10:16-25)

Finally, Jesus said to His disciples to whom He had committed the "Gospel of the Kingdom:"

"TAKE NO THOUGHT FOR YOUR LIFE, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

"Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

"Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

"And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

"And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

"Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

"Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

"(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER KNOWETH THAT YE HAVE NEED OF ALL THESE THINGS." (Matthew 6:25-32)

And so I now earnestly pray for you, just as Paul prayed so many years ago, that -

"... the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto YOU the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

"The eyes of YOUR understanding being enlightened; that YE may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his INHERITANCE IN THE SAINTS,

"And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to US-WARD who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

"Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

"Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

"AND HATH PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIS FEET, AND GAVE HIM TO BE THE HEAD OVER ALL THINGS TO THE CHURCH,

"Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all." (Ephesians 3:10, 17-23)

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WANT TO FELLOWSHIP ON HOW TO GO ON IN THESE DANGEROUS AND TROUBLED TIMES, WE URGE YOU TO CONTACT FRED PALMQUIST; HE IS A CO-FOUNDER WITH ME OF ANTIPAS MINISTRIES. YOU MAY EMAIL HIM AT: fredpalmquist@sbcglobal.net OR PHONE HIM AT 916-730-7099 OR 916-455-1719.

God bless you all,

S.R. Shearer
Antipas Ministries.