November 2014

Jerusalem in the news – Now and in the Future

By Rev Ivan Foster.

The first part of this message was preached in Bangor Free Presbyterian Church, Lord’s Day, 23rd November, in the evening meeting.

The Christian is blessed with a wonderful knowledge of the future, both that which is related to this earth and its affairs and that which is related to eternity.

We are required by the Author of this knowledge – the Lord Jesus Christ – to share it. That is why we preach the gospel and engage in many forms of missionary enterprises. In like fashion we should also engage in the propagation of prophetic truth.

Confusion

The devil desires to confound, corrupt and distort both aspects of God’s truth. He is the author of the many “alternative gospels” offered to men today. He is also the author of the confusion that surrounds prophecy.

Such is the confusion he has sown that many believers, including ministers, believe that it is a futile and foolish thing to study what the Bible has to say about prophecy. What folly!! Read more

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Here we go again!! Another attack on God’s word.

An American television channel which is also networked in the United Kingdom, H2, has announced that it will soon be showing a series of anti-Bible programmes in which “experts” will purport to “prove” that the Bible is full of contradictions, historical inaccuracies, frauds and many other forms of “mistakes’!

Central to the philosophy of the programme makers will be a rejection of the virgin birth of Christ and, of course, the inspiration and inerrancy of the Word of God.

The advert for the programme is vexing and disconcerting enough, so it can be imagined just what the series of programmes will do!

Remember the roaring of Goliath? “And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. . . . . And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. . . . . And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together. . . . .” 1 Samuel 17:4, 8, 10.

He was big He was impressive and the army of Israel were intimidated by his size and his boastful arrogance. But not so David, and the rest is history!

Let every child of God bear in mind some simple facts regarding the Bible and the history of its enemies. Read the rest of the article

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A vindication of sorts – 27 years on!!!

The following article on the Enniskillen bombing by the IRA 27 years ago appeared in this week’s “Impartial Reporter”, the local newspaper for the Fermanagh, South Tyrone area.

I have highlighted a very significant section in the middle of the article.

I too remember the Enniskillen bombing very vividly because of those I knew who were murdered and maimed in that wicked, cowardly act by the IRA, the lies and deception of church and state and also because it happened on my 44th birthday!

The significance of the highlighted section is that it goes a little way to vindicating me and the allegations I made, following the bombing, about the ‘powers that be’ seeking to placate Irish Nationalism and the Roman Catholic Church and hide from the public the involvement of elements within the Roman Catholic church in Enniskillen in the steps taken to set up the bomb in one of their properties.

I was most surprised to read in Mr McDaniel’s comments a reference to a statement I issued to his newspaper at the time, for it is not the norm for newspaper editors to acknowledge they might have got it wrong – especially after 27 years.

For that I thank him.

In answer to the question he poses in the title of his article: Yes, we will get answers. When? In that day when “every one of us shall give account of himself to God,” Romans 14:12.

You can read the account I gave of the “Poppy Day Massacre” at the time, using the link below. I have highlighted in it the letter, referred to by Mr McDaniels, that I sent to “The Impartial Reporter” but which he chose not to publish. Read more

The Poppy Day massacre

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Update from Pilgrims Covenant Church

Below is a link to the latest report from a brother in Christ, Pastor Ralph Ovadal of Pilgrims Covenant Church, Monroe, Wisconsin, USA, with whom we have had fellowship both in his church and by participating on occasions in his broadcasts.

It is clear that he and his people have a deep desire to share the gospel and also to earnestly contend for the faith against the ever deepening, ever widening departure from the simple path of obedience to God’s Word especially manifested today in the antics of new evangelicalism and the bewildering meanders of the modernising movements flooding Christendom.

I would request prayer for him and his people as they continue to serve the Lord.
Should anyone wish to support this outreach, you may do so by writing to:
Pilgrims Covenant Church
P.O. Box 314
Monroe,
WI 53566,
USA.

– Ivan Foster, November 5, 2014

Read Pastor Ovadal’s report

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“Replacement Theology”: Does God Mean What He Says?

By Stephen A Toms, Secretary: Sovereign Grace Advent Testimony
Printed copies of this article may be purchased online here

It appears that the philosophy of ‘Replacement Theology’ is becoming more commonly believed amongst professing Christians and, consequently, we consider it right to say something about the issue.

Replacement Theology is the strange notion that the Church (made up of Jews and Gentiles) has replaced national Israel, so that the covenant promises made by God to His ancient people are not really meant for them at all, but were intended for others. Hence, the word ‘replacement.’ In a peculiar way and with great inconsistency, it is thought that the Church replaces the nation in order to receive the promised blessings, but the curses are left for the Jewish people. Read more

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The Glory Days of Ian Paisley

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children, Hosea 4:6.

I thought of Ian Paisley or ‘Doc’ as many of us affectionately called him who knew him in the 60s and 70s, when I recently read the words of the above verse during the course of my daily Bible reading, as I followed R. Murray McCheyne’s Bible reading calendar. Read more

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