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As stated before, I plan to mount recordings of sermons I have preached in the past. These sermons are based upon the Word of God and therefore are ever relevant since the blessed book of God is always and ever right up to date.

Peter said: “ I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance,” 2 Peter 3:1.

I would hope that what was said in weakness in years past, by one who can say like Amos of old, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son,” 7:14, will be listened to with profit, especially by those who we’re not yet born when the controversy of 2007 and ‘power-sharing with Sinn Fein/IRA’ brought such confusion into the Free Presbyterian Church.

I hope then to periodically mount again, in many instances, the ‘blowing of an alarm’.

Here then is one of those sermons

Sincerely in Christ’s name,

Ivan Foster

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A sermon preached in Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church on August 2nd, 1998, by the minister, Rev Ivan Foster.

There is only one book to which we may turn as we search for an explanation for the working of God’s providence in these evil days. That book is, of course, the BIBLE.

This blessed book shows how that God, amidst what we see as confusion and chaos, is accomplishing His grand purpose amongst men. In the Bible God explains that purpose to His people. “He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel,” Psalm 103:7.

God’s people have recourse to a book wherein is stored the wisdom of eternity. When events around us puzzle and perplex, then turn to the Bible. That is what David did. “Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors. . . . I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts,” Psalm 119:24, 99-100. The Saviour’s words in Matthew 24:15 underscore our need of consulting God’s Word as the map of the ages, wherein God’s people will find their path clearly laid down. In the day of Antichrist’s manifestation, the directions given by the Saviour will benefit only those who study His words. “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains,” Matthew 24:15-16. Peter too tells us of the benefits of God’s Word in a day of darkness. “We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts,” 2 Peter 1:19. (more…)

BBC headline :

Tuam: Ireland’s secret burial sham

It was a story of institutional inhumanity – which, at first, many found unbelievable.

Hundreds of babies and children, buried in an unmarked mass grave, at the site of an institution for unmarried mothers near the west coast of Ireland.

St Mary’s Home operated in Tuam, County Galway, from 1925 until 1961.“In the early decades of the Irish state, founded in 1922, the Catholic Church held an immensely powerful position – and that meant those who fell outside the demanded norms of the Church, and society, faced huge social stigma.”

This article makes sad reading indeed!

But it is not the first exposure of the cruelty, abuse and total antichristianity of the institutions of the ‘Roman Catholic Church’, not only in Ireland but WORLDWIDE! (more…)

In our first two studies we sought to set forth some important, though basic, prophetic truths that are found on the very surface of these two chapters. I would like now to begin to look at some of the specific details, given us in these same chapters, of the character of the regime of these four kingdoms, especially the fourth and final kingdom.

1. We should note that the divine depiction of the kingdoms is that of each one being more wicked than the one before! There is progression but it is downward. The creatures symbolising the four kings/kingdoms are increasingly fierce and cruel. We move from a ‘lion’ to a ‘bear’ with prey in its mouth and which is engaged in the ‘devouring of much flesh’. We then move to a ‘leopard’, a strikingly beautiful and sleek creature, but a cruel ambush predator. It is followed finally by an indescribable creature which was “dreadful‭‭ and terrible‭, and strong‭ exceedingly‭; and it had great‭ iron‭ teeth‭: it devoured‭‭ and brake in pieces‭‭, and stamped‭‭ the residue‭ with the feet‭ of it‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬,” Daniel 7:7.

The Descent

The descent into depraved cruelty is also demonstrated in the early depictions of these four kingdoms, recording in chapter 2.

There we are told of a decline from ‘fine gold’, to ‘silver’, to ‘brass’, to ‘iron’ and finally to ‘clay’! The ‘value’ of these kingdoms, as pictured by these metals and clay, is subject to ‘deflation’! Just as a nation that possesses gold is benefitted by what that precious metal can buy and likewise, a nation with no gold but ‘silver’, will not enjoy benefits to the same degree as the nation possessing gold.

These kingdoms slip from a substantial measure of benefits enjoyed by the inhabitants, to a lower and lower level of enjoyment of life’s comforts. The gold evolves to silver, to brass and finally to iron and clay.

Further Described

The kingdom is further described for us in the answer given to Daniel by the angel.

“‭Thus‭ he said‭‭, The fourth‭ beast‭ shall be‭‭ the fourth‭ kingdom‭ upon earth‭, which shall be diverse‭‭ from‭ all‭ kingdoms‭, and shall devour‭‭ the whole‭ earth‭, and shall tread it down‭‭, and break it in pieces‭‭,‭”‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ Daniel 7:23. Its diversity from the other kingdoms is repeated, for the same thing is said earlier in verse 7.

‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭The word ‘diverse’ does not tell us that it was ‘different’ in character from the other three kingdoms, but rather that was ‘transformed’, it had changed (as the Hebrew equivalent of the Aramaic here translated as ‘diverse’, shows us in the other places it appears) into a more devilish system ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬of evil! (more…)