Doubtless, the headline I have headed this article with will be deemed ‘racist’!
This what the ‘liberals’ and the ‘wokists’ have brought our nation to! Nothing of the truth concerning developments in the nation can be addressed as it truly is. Instead, we are threatened and coerced into a frame of mind akin to that denounced by the Lord long ago.
Immigrants arriving, photo by Mostafa Meraji on Unsplash
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah 5:20.
Good has become evil and evil good in the religious, social and political branches of our national affairs. Further more, we are not only expected to go along with this new definition of acceptable ethics, but we have to be prepared to support such out of the public purse, our purse!
State benefits support to a shocking degree the consequences of the immorality of a sizeable sections of society. The perverting of the ‘social conscience’ by the godless mandarins, who dictate the direction of the nation from behind the scenes, have brought about multitudes who, without shame, live well on the fruits of their immorality!
Yes, there is a need to support those who find themselves in difficult circumstances. That is a teaching of the Bible. But it is also taught in the Holy Scriptures that immorality, laziness and deceitfulness is not to be rewarded!
“For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread,” 2 Thessalonians 3:10-12. (more…)
The Birth And Early History Of The Free Presbyterian Church
This video was made in 1987 by ‘Let The Bible Speak’ and its narrator is the late Dr Alan Cairns, the founder of LTBS.
It contains interviews with devoted servants of God who have gone to glory, including some of those from the earliest days of the Free Presbyterian Church.
I commend it to the readers of the Burning Bush because I believe it presents one of the best accounts of our early history and has about it a strong ambiance and ‘flavour’ of true Free Presbyterianism, which our younger generation need to know and embrace!
Mrs E A Foster BA
On a personal level, it contains an interview with Ann, my dear wife who went into the presence of the Saviour some 2 years ago, interviewed outside the school she pioneered.
I also caught a glimpse of some of my own children, now parents and grand parents, playing outside Kilskeery Independent Christian school on that day.
I trust it will prompt you all to pray:
“Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved,” Psalm 80:19.
The Prophet Isaiah, by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino (1591-1666); Oil on canvas
“In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden,” Isaiah 14:28.
Today (15th May, 2026) I read this chapter 14 of Isaiah’s prophecy, rejoicing at how wonderfully the Lord shares His purpose with regards Israel and the whole world, with His people in a day of Judah’s sin and rebellion in high places.
The word “burden” is simply a reference to the Word of God which lay heavy upon the heart of the prophet. There are few sermons today that are preached from a ‘burdened’ heart!
The Internet and not the Bible
Sadly, all too often the source of sermons in today’s pulpits, even those which pass as evangelical and fundamentalist, is something ‘filched’ from the internet and which, no matter how sound in doctrine it may be, becomes just a meaningless, frivolous recitation of powerless words, for they are NOT given of the Holy Ghost!
In this case, Isaiah was a “burdened” man! It is little wonder the servant of the Lord was distressed in his soul! We are told that this message was preached “in the year that king Ahaz died.”
King Ahaz was a most wicked king. The Lord summed up his life in these words.
“Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father. But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel. And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree,” 2 Kings 16:2-4.
Despite having witnessed the overthrow of the ten northern tribes, the kingdom of Israel, Ahaz “walked in the way of the kings of Israel.” That is how blind, stubborn and stupidly wicked men can be!
We are told in 2 Kings 17, “In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him. Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents. And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison. Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,” Verses 1-6.
A Witness That Did Not Deter
Ahaz witnessed the consequences of Hoshea’s rebellion against the Lord. The ten tribes of Israel were taken into captivity by the king of Assyria but he learned nothing from it! Judah would have seen the sad procession of enslaved captives passing her ‘door’ as it were, on their way into Assyrian bondage.
Present Generation
In the lifetime of the present generation there has been abundant evidence of the price paid by the ecumenical churches for their rebellion against the Lord. They are riddled with the ‘leprosy’ of liberalism and the soul-damning doctrines of this Gospel-denying age!
Have we not also witnessed here in Northern Ireland the downfall of the Democratic Unionist Party, once the ‘behemoth’ of Unionism, following its shameful and reprehensible decision to cast overboard all it professed to stand for and hold dear for the ‘mess of pottage’ of entering government as the partner of Sinn Fein/IRA?
From this act of betrayal, hailed by ecumenists and republicans alike, it has descended into embracing lesbianism, sodomy and being guilty of many deceitful betrayals of all that our fathers were prepared to die in order to maintain!
Across The Water
The same picture of the terrible harvest of trampling underfoot the Laws of God has been witnessed across the Irish Sea in mainland Britain. Who can aptly describe the chaos and confusion, the downright absurdity, of British politics at this present time?
These things are but the inevitable harvest of defiance and contempt for God and His Word. We are warned of such an outcome of defiance of God in Galatians 6:7-8.
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.”
Here in Ulster there is the same blind folly to be seen amongst Christians who choose to ignore the clear warning signs all around — and that includes Free Presbyterian ministers! (more…)
