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The new Irish Presbyterian moderator - a shallow evangelical in step with ecumenical 'apostasy' !!
“That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us,” Isaiah 30:9-11.
The new moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Dr Trevor Gribben, was reported on 9th June in the ‘Belfast Newsletter, as taking as his theme, “inspiration from the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah.”
He says of Jeremiah that he “gave a message of hope to God’s people, Israel – despite the fact that they have been taken captive to the “strange” land of Babylon.”
He noted the “prophet Jeremiah told Israel in exile” — he then quoted from what I presume was a perverted translation of the Scriptures: “For I know the plans I have for you . . . plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”
The proper translation of the portion he refers is found thus in the Authorised Version of the Holy Scriptures: “For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart,” Jeremiah 29:10-13.
I have labelled Dr Gribben as a ‘shallow evangelical’ and that for a number of good reasons.
First of all, like those before him who feel it necessary to conform to those who wish to ‘modernise’ the message of God, irrespective of the integrity of the translation, he adopts one of the modern versions, which as the Trinitarian Bible Society has repeatedly shown, do not compare with the Authorised Version for accuracy of translation from the Hebrew and Greek of the originals or for beauty and elegance of style of the English language at its purest.
Furthermore, he says, “the prophet Jeremiah told Israel in exile”. In this he shows his shallow knowledge of Holy Scripture. Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-06-14 a 6:00 am
The underlying cause of the Ballymena rioting revealed in the Bible!
“For the mystery of iniquity (lawlessness) doth already work,” 2 Thessalonians 2:7.
The uncharacteristic scenes in Ballymena are a stark indication that society in Northern Ireland is most certainly not what it was in the not too distant past.
Many politicians in Stormont have been giving their usual utterly inept counsel as to the cause and the cure for such behaviour. The nationalist and republican members there have churned out the usual ‘anti-unionist’ responses, straight out of the well worn ‘glossary of sectarianism’ we have heard quoted since time immemorial!
It is to the Word of God that we MUST turn for an explanation of the events. Yes, it is right to refer to the impact of illegal immigration but that does not fully explain the totally wrong scenes witnessed in Ballymena.
The modern view of morality as witnessed in the lives of the ‘famous’ in the world of entertainment, those who change ‘partners as causally as one might change their socks, is also to be seen as a contributor to the rioting since the wickedness of men guilty of the indecent assault on a 14-year old girl, whoever they were, feature as a chief cause of the rioting.
AMUSEMENT
It is worthy of noting that the word ‘amusement’ means ‘a diverting away of the attention’. That is what the activities of the world of television, films and games have done — diverted our attention away from the eternal realities of God’s Word to the adopting of the lifestyle of the fables and fancies conjured up by man’s depraved nature!
The understanding of the moral law of God and the Bible’s teaching on modesty and decorum has evaporated from our society over the past generations due mainly to such influences! Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-06-12 a 6:00 am
The hatred of Israel mounts
A recent BBC headline, based upon the words of its International editor, Jeremy Bowen, reads as follows:—
‘ISRAEL IS ACCUSED OF THE GRAVEST WAR CRIMES – HOW GOVERNMENTS RESPOND COULD HAUNT THEM FOR YEARS TO COME’
He claims that the ‘rules of war’, set down by the ‘Geneva Conventions’ are being broken by Israel in its war against the terrorist group, Hamas.
He writes, ‘Israel wanted us to see what Hamas had done. The conclusion has to be that it does not want foreign reporters to see what it is doing in Gaza.’
Furthermore, he writes, ‘Boaz Bismuth, a parliamentarian from Netanyahu’s Likud party, repeated his leader’s positions: that there is no famine in Gaza, that Israel respects the laws of war and that unwarranted criticism of its conduct by countries including the UK, France and Canada incites antisemitic attacks on Jews, including murder. . . Rival politicians inside Israel accuse Netanyahu of presiding over war crimes and turning Israel into a pariah state.’
I believe that there is little doubt that the ‘haunting’ the journalist refers to is that which he feels will follow a failure to act against Israel!
Accusations
There can be no doubt that nations are getting ready to follow through on their accusations of ‘war crimes’ against Israel and there are members of the press urging them on.
Little do such journalists realise that such comments and observations are but the beginnings of that which long ago was foretold in God’s precious and infallible Word!
END OF THIS AGE
At the end of this age, Israel will become the target of bitter hatred by many nations and its annihilation will be sought by them. I have said in earlier articles that undoubtedly Israel’s defiant and uncompromising response to the ongoing attacks by Palestinian terrorists has aggravated those nations that know little of what she has suffered and, in truth, care little about that suffering!
LAWLESS
Today is a day in which governments pour sympathy on the lawless to the detriment of the lawful. The ongoing controversy here surrounding the IRA and its murderous republicanism and the sympathies shown to it and its supporters and the financial pampering of the illegal immigrants flooding ashore in England and the government’s impotency to act against the scourge, are prime examples of this. Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-06-11 a 6:00 am
A memorial to Mrs Ann Foster
(27th October 1946 — 8th June 2024)
“The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance,” Psalm 112:6.
On the 8th June, one year ago, Ann, my beloved wife of 56 years and 3 months, went to be with the Lord after some 8 days in the South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) in Enniskillen. All told, I had known her from September 1964 until her passing to glory, a blessed period of nearly 60 years.
For a number of those days in hospital, at the beginning of her stay and then the final two days, she was in a semi-conscious state but there was a precious spell when she was very alert and was able to converse with her family.
The SWAH is a modern hospital with each patient occupying a private room. This suited our family visitation very well and we appreciated the courtesy and kindness of the nursing staff.
It was at 4.08 am on Saturday 8th June that Ann went to heaven and into the presence of the Lord she loved and served since a child of just under 5 years of age. It was the Lord’s honour and glory she lived to uphold and advance.
As a wonderful providence, my son-in-law, Rev Brian McClung, Lois’s husband, came upon this small report in the May/June 1951 edition of ‘Watching & Waiting’, the magazine of the Sovereign Grace Advent Testimony a few days ago.
In this video Ann tells of her conversion, some four months before her fifth birthday. This would have been about the month of June 1951. That which particularly troubled her were thoughts of the Lord coming again and her being lost and separated for all eternity from the members of the family who were saved.
Special Meetings
The above report tells of special meetings in the Gospel Tabernacle, Ballymena, where the Beattie family attended. The meetings were all about the second coming of Christ. They were held on 14th – 23rd April, just a few weeks before Ann was saved. The preacher was Pastor W J Rowlands, author of a wonderfully helpful book, ‘Our Lord Cometh’.
As I read the report I realised why it was Ann was awakened and concerned about her soul by thoughts of her being unready when the Lord returned! She would undoubtedly have been brought to at least some of these meetings and, bright child that she was, she would have understood the messages and was troubled about her soul’s salvation. This gave rise to her seeking the Lord for salvation under the guidance of her father.
Memorial
As a memorial of her passing, the family wish to share a video of her speaking to the family on the occasion of her 70th birthday, at a family gathering on 22nd October 2016, a few days before her actual birthday on 27th October. She spoke on the subject of her godly father, Mr Charles Beattie. He died when she was only 16 years old so none of her family ever knew him. My oldest daughter, Lois, had requested that her mother speak of him.
That is what the video is all about, and it gives an insight into the influence that her father had upon her.
Ann knew and loved her Bible. She read it constantly, intelligently, submissively and prayerfully. There is a wonderful example of her knowledge of the Scriptures given without any pretension, when she uses the fourth commandment with its reference to the six days of creation and the one day of observing the Sabbath, to show that the ‘days’ of creation could not have been ‘long periods of time’ otherwise our Sabbath would have to be considered in like manner, which of course, it never was. It was from sunset to sunset, a 24 hour period.
As I write these few words of introduction to Ann’s video testimony, my heart is moved and stirred with a strange mixture of emotions — a sense of loss and loneliness for the dear one who shared so much of my life, with a sense of thankfulness for the mercy the Lord showed to me in giving this wonderful person to me as my wife and life partner, to a sweet sense of happiness that, in the province of God, I will one day be reunited with her in the blessed presence of the Saviour we both loved and sought to serve together.
Our family circulates this video to set forth the grace of God in the life of a daughter, a wife, a mother and a school teacher who walked with God. We do so to honour Him alone.
Please feel free to share it with others.
Sincerely in Christ’s name,
Ivan Foster and the wider family
8th June 2025
Posted on 2025-06-07 a 6:00 am
Government by drugs
Further evidence of the growing obsession with drugs!
Young people ditching alcohol for party drugs as new data reveals record high ketamine and MDMA useage
I have often quoted Revelation 18:23, which refers to the end-time city of Babylon and its dominating of the territory of the ten kingdoms, the latter-day empire of the Antichrist. The territory of the ten kingdoms will be basically that occupied by the Roman Empire of old.
The verse states: “And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.”
This is a declaration of the doom of the revived Babylon, the seat of Antichrist’s power. It is to be noted that its “merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.”
The word ’sorceries’ is a translation of the Greek word, ‘pharmakeia’. It literally means ‘the use of or the administering of drugs.’ It is translated in Galatians 5:20 by the English word ‘witchcraft’.
Thus the influence of Babylon over all subservient to its dominion, is to be carried out by satanic powers employed by those under the influence of drugs!
The following reported appeared at the end of last week on the news site of – USA Today.
The article was headlined:
Musk leaves D.C. with black eye: 5 takeaways from Oval Office sendoff with Trump
It contained this statement: “The Oval Office meeting came the same day the New York Times reported that Musk allegedly frequently used drugs such as ketamine, (regularly used in veterinary medicine – Editor) ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms while campaigning with Trump in 2024. The paper said it was unclear whether Musk used drugs while working for Trump in the Department of Government Efficiency.
Musk, the CEO of carmaker Tesla and rocket company SpaceX, and owner of social-media platform X, acknowledged in March 2024 that he used prescription ketamine to combat bouts of depression. He worried corporate executives by smoking marijuana during a podcast in 2018.
The New York Times story built on a Wall Street Journal story in January 2024 that alleged Musk used drugs such as LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and mushrooms. The campaign featured some erratic behavior, such as Musk jumping on stage behind Trump during an October rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Musk didn’t respond to reporters’ questions related to his drug use, but he has previously acknowledged using ‘small amount’ of ketamine ‘once every other week’ and marijuana ‘almost never.’ The New York Times reported that his ketamine use was often enough to affect his bladder.” Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-06-04 a 6:00 am
Letter to the 'Belfast Newsletter'
Here is a letter I submitted to the ‘Belfast Newsletter’ today.
Dear Editor,
In response to the letter by Peter McEvoy,
‘Remember after the Gerry Adams verdict, the Irish did not start this fight’,
it has to be said that Mr McEvoy writes as one who has imbibed and believes the false notions of Irish history taught in Roman Catholic schools.
While there is much that is mere fancy amongst the historical documents of Ireland, there are two that Protestant and Roman Catholic historians accept.
They are the ‘Confession of Patrick’ and his ‘Letter’.
From Patrick’s ‘Confession’ we learn that Patrick was not in Ireland to carry out the will of the Pope. Were he sent there by Pope Celestine, as Rome would claim, then that is one matter that Patrick would mention when giving an account of how he came to Ireland.
Patrick makes no mention whatever of the Pope or of Rome or of being sent by Celestine. His call to Ireland was a simple call sent of God. His language is as straightforward on this matter as that which you would hear today in a fundamentalist gospel meeting.
The message of Patrick is as far removed from the message of Roman Catholicism as heaven is from hell!
The granting of Ireland to the English king, Henry II, by Pope Adrian IV in 1155 is a great embarrassment to Roman Catholic historians. They have even attempted to claim that the Bull was a forgery and the Pope never issued such a degree.
The purpose of the invasion was to crush the remnant that clung to Patrick’s teaching and that defied Rome’s attempts to include Ireland under its ecclesiastical control.
Pope Adrian’s Bull was issued in 1155 but it did not suit Henry to invade Ireland until 1171. He landed at Waterford and met with little or no resistance and so Ireland passed into the hands of England.
Today, the Irish Republic would consider itself free from the invader of 1171. It is not so. The invader of Patrick’s Ireland is still entrenched in the land. That invader is Roman Catholicism. At its feet alone we may lay the blame for the ongoing controversy and the sorrows stemming from it.
How ironic that those who consider themselves, ‘Irish Patriots’, are in fact the upholders of the real ‘invader and depriver’ of the ancient gospel freedoms of the people of this island!
What little there remains of true gospel religion in Ireland is the remnant of the faith that Patrick, under God, introduced some fifteen centuries ago.
Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
Kilskeery, Co. Tyrone.
2nd June 2025
Posted on 2025-06-02 a 1:46 pm
The French have ‘Educated Ejits’ as well as the Irish!!
A national newspaper had this headline on Thursday 29 May, 2025.
Is THIS how the world will end? Scientists warn Earth could be flung out of orbit by a passing star – leaving humans to freeze to death
That is a conclusion born of a ‘super-charged deluded imagination’!
I have no doubt that they have no scientific basis for this ‘loony notion’!
The article informs us that: ‘For decades, scientists have pondered how the Earth could end.”
Scientists have not been alone in puzzling about the destiny of the earth. Unbelieving rejectors of the Word of God have been engaged in that folly since the ‘fall of Adam into sin’!
The article tells us who are the author’s of this ‘daftness’!
“In a new study, researchers from the Planetary Science Institute and the University of Bordeaux predict that Earth could be flung out of orbit by a passing star.
And without our Sun there to keep us warm, this would leave any inhabitants – including humans – to freeze to death.
Thankfully, the chances of this happening are very low.
Over the next five billion years, the chance of Earth being flung out of orbit by a passing star is around one in 500, according to the team.”
EARTH KNOCKED OFF COURSE!!!
God’s Purpose
God’s purpose for the earth will have been gloriously completed long before that date!!
We do have God’s Word on how things will be at the end of this present age and His future plans for the earth. There is no need for pondering and puzzling!
I. WE WILL START BY NOTING THAT THE LORD SAYS THAT HE CREATED THE EARTH!
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,” Genesis 1:1.
These are the first words of the Bible, God’s revelation of His mind and will to mankind! Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-06-02 a 6:00 am