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Telling the Lord the time to work!
The text that I wish to bring to your attention is one that indicates that God works to a timetable.
Nothing proves this better than these verses.
“But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons,” Galatians 4:4-5.
In like fashion, we are told that that the Lord, “Hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation,” Acts 17:26.
God having timetable, which He most certainly will keep to, is a source of encouragement for us to live holy lives as Paul taught. “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not,” Galatians 6:9.
Above all, do we not long for that time, unknown in its preciseness to us but absolutely certain nevertheless! “Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead,” Acts 17:31. We are to, “Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh,” Matthew 25:13.
There have been many great days in the calendar of God’s mercy. Few greater than that of 31st October 1517! According to Philip Melanchthon, 31 October 1517 was the day Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses on the door of the All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg, Electorate of Saxony, in the Holy Roman Empire.
Have we not much to rejoice in and be thankful for on this the 507th anniversary of that glorious day!
I trust you benefit from this study.
Sincerely in Christ’s name,
Ivan Foster
“It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law,” Psalm 119:126.
The above verse is part of the scheduled Bible reading (McCheyne’s Bible Reading Calendar) for 30th October. The time to tell the Lord to work has arrived when there has been a making ‘void’, or ‘disannulling or causing to cease’ God’s Law.
It has been that time in the British Isles for a long time now!
In very recent days, that ‘Arch-apostate’, Justin Welby, the leader of the Church of England, that religious organisation of which British monarchs have long held an honorary ‘headship’, and which has given a lead to the rebellion against God and His Word for a very long time now, has descended to depths he had not heretofore gone! Click to read more…
Posted on 2024-10-31 a 6:00 am
A warning to godly leaders
Kilskeery Christian school is on holidays this week so there is no Assembly study for me to send out.
However, I have obtained a wonderful recording from 2007 of a sermon preached by my good friend and brother, John Pittman Hey from the USA.
Read sermon notes here
Mr. Hey is a graduate of Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, and earned his Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Chicago. He preaches every Lord’s Day at Grace Bible Church, a small congregation in Greenwood, Mississippi.
A long-time reader of the Burning Bush, he has taken an interest in the troubles in Ulster, and prayed for courage to obey the Lord’s voice in these matters.
He has been a great help to me in maintaining the witness of the Burning Bush website, being an expert in such matters and it is to him I owe the professional appearance of the website.
He gives a lot of time freely to updating my articles and for this I sincerely thank him.
His message, though from some seventeen years ago, is very much up to date and instructive. I know that you will enjoy and benefit from listening to it.
Sincerely in Christ’s name,
Ivan Foster
Posted on 2024-10-29 a 8:04 pm
The gullibility found amongst God's people
“Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints,” Jude 1:3.
This is a verse with which I have beeb acquainted from my earliest days as a Christian. It was frequently quoted and expounded from the pulpit of Ravenhill Free Presbyterian Church but the minister, Ian R K Paisley.
I have often employed it to expose the dangers facing the people of God from the agents of the devil who creep in to the assembly of the saints surreptitiously in order to destroy the gospel and wreck the work of God.
In recent days I have seen that there is another implication set forth by these words and it is that the people to whom Jude was writing were in need of being warned for they obviously were unaware of the dangers these ‘creepers’ presented! It was not just the wickedness of the creepers that concerned Jude, but the naivety of the saints!
I suppose we can all recall responding to the revelation of a deception wrought upon someone who believed a fraudster with the words, ‘How did they not see that it was a deception?’
We likely have reacted to some newspaper story of how a swindler had obtained from some person a large sum of money by using deceitful words that ought to have been obvious to the one deceived! That has happened and will continue to happen despite the warnings issued and the reports of others being duped!
Why is that so?
Christians, for it is them we want to think of in particular, are likened unto sheep and rightly so for they are easily deceived and led astray. They are in constant need of guidance and guarding.
“But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock,” Psalm 78:52.
Being sheep and gullible, God’s people have often been brought into captivity. “But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD’S flock is carried away captive,” Jeremiah 13:17. Click to read more…
Posted on 2024-10-28 a 6:00 am
Shame on the Royal British Legion
A Christian can no longer wear a Poppy with pride.
It no longer is a symbol of the courage of those who fought and died for the wellbeing of the nation.
Rather it has been identified with the perversion of Sodom after being usurped by perverts.
There will be a price to pay for such God-dishonouring folly!
Rev Ivan Foster
Posted on 2024-10-26 a 10:01 pm
DUP-SF talks took place long before 2007 deal, despite years of denials
DUP-SF talks took place long before 2007 deal, despite years of denials
Today’s ‘Belfast Newsletter’ provides yet further evidence of the spirit of deception that has long been at work within the ranks of the DUP.
What a contrast these revelations show existed between those engaged in this chicanery and the holy standards the Lord requires of leaders!
“Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:,” Exodus 18:21.
Today’s DUP members must recognise that the present political foundation and course of their party is one comprised of liars and deceit and CANNOT therefore succeed.
It will be brought down by the God of Truth.
No person who professes to love and obey the One Who called Himself, “the way, the truth, and the life,” (John 14:6) and of Whom it is said: “The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth,” John 1:14, can continue in membership of the DUP without forfeiting the blessing of God!
All these revelations must be seen as the Lord informing His people of the wickedness that has been wrought in the past and which many professing Christians were eager deny, cover up and conceal and the Lord is thereby requiring His people to act and to “come out from among them” (2 Corinthians 6:17) and be separated from such ungodliness.
Sincerely in Christ’s name,
Ivan Foster
Posted on 2024-10-26 a 9:56 pm
Noah's Ark
The discovery of a boat-shaped mound close to the border between Turkey and Iran has prompted theories that ‘Noah’s Ark’ may be buried beneath.
Archaeology breakthrough as Noah’s Ark’s final location may have just been discovered
A group of archaeologists and scientists called the Mount Ararat and Noah’s Ark Research Team carried out research on the Durupinar formation, which is located two miles from the border in eastern Turkey.
The geological formation in the Doğubayazıt district of Ağrı has been a source of intrigue since its gaining wider public attention in the 1950s.
Marine materials were also discovered in the soil, suggesting that it had once been submerged in deep water, and also encouraging the idea that it could be the famous vessel described in Genesis. Click to read more…
Posted on 2024-10-25 a 6:20 pm
The lies and deception of the past - they haven't gone away y'know
With lurid headlines, the “Belfast Telegraph’ joyfully exposed the chicanery of the DUP when it entered talks with Sinn Fein/IRA, all the while strenuously denying that such were taking place. Amongst those who made the deceitful and wicked denials were those within the ranks of the DUP who professed faith in Christ!
This but made their betrayal immeasurably worse and undoubtedly offended the Lord and made certain their downfall as a result of this deviousness.
If they are capable of it, the DUP ought to be ashamed of their past. This revelation offers an explanation of the DUP’s increasing decline and helplessness in the face of Sinn Féin’s rise!
It also maps out their future continued demise, if there is no acknowledgment of the evil course they embarked upon in order to obtain the trivial and fragile trappings of power!
It should be noted that the man who now makes public the DUP’s double-dealing and treacherous betrayal of their supporters and voters, was a renowned ‘traitor’, who was already guilty of his abandoning historic Methodism for the evil modernistic and Bible-denials of ‘Ecumenism’ with its openly acknowledged programme of the reunion of Protestantism with Roman Catholicism. He is laughably described in the article as a man with ‘unimpeachable integrity’!
What a term to use of a man who broke his ministerial oath and turned his back on the stance of John Wesley!
The ‘Belfast Telegraph’ is an expert in ‘white-washing’!!
Dear Christian this is the explanation for our present perilous spiritual and political circumstances. It is as Daniel said in his prayer of confession of the sins of his nation, which I have just finished reading!
“O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. . . . Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem. As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth,” Daniel 9:8, 11-13.
I do not expect any repentance or confession of wrong-doing by the DUP leadership. Pride and political ambition hinder politicians doing that! Click to read more…
Posted on 2024-10-24 a 6:07 pm
Hillsborough Free Presbyterian Church marks the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of its first church building
Hillsborough congregation, under the leadership of its minister, Rev Ian Kenny, organised special gospel meetings to mark the occasion and nothing could be more appropriate since the whole purpose of the existence of the Free Presbyterian witness is to preach and defend the message of Christ.
I was invited to take part in the marking of the anniversary by preaching last night (Wednesday, 23rd October). My invitation resulted from my links with the congregation from its earliest day and particularly because of a mission I conducted back in October 1978.
Read sermon notes here
I cannot really describe the precious thoughts that arose in my heart and mind as I took part in the prayer meeting before the service and heard men pray and speak in thanksgiving of having attended the mission and the prayer meetings that took place each evening back 46 years earlier.
A video was shown during the service of one of those saved in the mission and who became a beloved elder in the congregation, Mr Harold McKibben. It was most moving to hear him tell of how he got saved and how, shortly afterwards, he led his young son to the Saviour. That son made himself known to after the service! He is actively involved in the witness of the congregation.
After the meeting, as I stood at the door and bade farewell to the folk who attended the service, it was indescribably blessed to have some tell me how they had been saved in the mission or how a father or loved now in glory was saved as a result of the mission.
I said in my first remarks that the anniversary service was to a degree what heaven would like be for believers. There will be infinitely more perfect remembering and praising of God for His kindness and mercy and love.
I trust this recording will prove a blessing as you listen.
Rev Ivan Foster
24th October, 2024
Posted on 2024-10-24 a 5:22 pm
“The coming of the Lord draweth nigh”
“The coming of the Lord draweth nigh”, James 5:8
(Extracts from the Editor’s book, ‘The Shadow of the Antichrist’ – Part 1)
This is a time when natural phenomena are manifested all around, with ‘disasters’ of every form hitting nations and causing death and destruction at levels that are most uncommon.
These events have aroused a world-wide campaign, led by the likes of David Attenborough, based upon the premise that mankind’s actions in more recent times have so damaged the earth’s environment as to bring about its utter demise!
There is no doubt that man is the author of his own destruction but it is not so much his selfish and greedy abuse of earth’s natural resources that is bringing disaster upon this world but rather his defiance of the moral standards that God has instituted for mankind and epitomised in the Ten Commandments. That is the reason behind what are the mere ‘firstfruits’ of a coming judgment!
Mr Attenborough, far from being the ‘saviour’ he would have people think of him as, is one of the leading proponents of what is bringing this world into collision with its Creator. He is an atheistic evolutionist, whose view dismisses the existence of a Creator and replaces Him with the absolutely ludicrous notions of invented by his fellow-evolutionists. Their notions are not only ludicrous but forever changing with disagreements aplenty within their ranks!
The rejection of the Bible’s revelation of God and the origin of all things, always a factor in human thinking since the fall of Adam, but which in these lasts days is becoming the dominant view of humanity, is the source of the lawlessness and moral mayhem we see daily reported on the various news outlets.
That in turn, will bring God’s final judgment upon mankind. The Bible’s warnings of this are despised and mocked but the reality of it is manifested before our eyes! The ‘perilous times’ prophesied in Holy Scripture (2 Tim 3:1) are breaking forth all around!
The Lord has clearly revealed events that will take place as a display of Heaven’s displeasure at the moral direction humanity is taking. There are many place where these signs are warned of, none more so than the last book of the Bible, the Book of the Revelation.
The opening words of that book are significant.
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass,” Revelation 1:1.
The meaning of the words may be expressed in this fashion: “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must come to pass in a short time.”
The Bible clearly bears out this rendition of the words by repeatedly indicating that the end of the age will reach a swift climax in a brief period of three and a half years of unparalleled defiance of God and rebellion against Him and His people. That period is underscored by being referred to under three different definitions of the length of it.
- A thousand two hundred and threescore days, Revelation 11:3, 12:6.
- A time, and times, and half a time. Revelation 12:14.
- Forty and two months. Revelation 11:2, 13:5.
The Lord has underscored the duration of the ‘tribulation’ of the final days of this age by defining it in three different ways so that there can be no misunderstanding of what it is He is saying! Or perhaps I should say, that there can be no EXCUSE for anyone misunderstanding the duration of time stated!
That time of atheistic defiance of God and all that is of Him, the hatred of every mention of Him and any acknowledging of His existence, no matter how mixed with falsehood that acknowledgement may be, is drawing near. We can see its approach daily reported in the news with legislation in this country obliquely designed to hinder any acknowledgement of Him. A recent headline in our local press stated: DUP MP says the UK ‘losing its freedom of religion and expression’ after man ordered to pay over £9,000 for praying near an abortion clinic.
There is none who can really disagree with that assessment, even though the incident referred to was not in keeping with Scriptural behaviour. Protesting against abortion by the unscriptural practice of praying for the dead, is near enough a witness to the existence of God for the government to ban it!
In the light of this approach of the end of this age and the signs which the Lord will send upon this earth to indicate that approach, I wish to publish in a series of articles, part of my expositional commentary on the ‘Book of the Revelation’ which I entitled: ‘The Shadow of the Antichrist’.
Here is the first extract from the chapter entitled, ‘The Opening of the Seals’. I have mounted the book in PDF form on ‘The Burning Bush’ website. — ‘The Shadow of the Antichrist’.
THE OPENING OF THE SEALS.
Chapter 6.
The explanation of the significance of the sealed book was seen in our consideration of Jeremiah, chapter 32. The Church of Christ is a purchased Church. Its members are a redeemed people awaiting the day of their entering into the full experience of their redemption.
That day will dawn with the return of Christ to this earth in glory.
For that day we watch. The phrase Come and see is repeated by one of the four living creatures or angelic beings, as the seals are opened, verses 1, 3, 5, 7. It is God’s will that we know something of the events that will take place before the coming of the Son of Man.
The believer should observe the times and seasons in order to mark the approach of that day. When the signs, that the Saviour has told us will herald His return, begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh, Luke 21:28.
The Holy Ghost’s work is to seal us in Christ and our partaking of His grace is the earnest, or the down-payment, of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, Ephesians 1:14. Click to read more…
Posted on 2024-10-21 a 6:00 am
An urgent matter for prayer
Here is a matter for earnest prayer, remembering the Word of God:—
“The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will,” Proverbs 21:1.
Sincerely in Christ’s name,
Ivan Foster
Benn meets Free Presbyterian Church on school fees
The NIO said Hilary Benn had given serious consideration to the points raised
Robbie Meredith
BBC News NI education correpondent
Representatives from the Free Presbyterian Church have met Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn over Labour’s plans to tax school fees.
Independent Christian schools in Northern Ireland are among those set to be affected by the VAT changes.
VAT at the standard rate of 20% will be added to private school fees from 1 January 2025.
In Northern Ireland, grammar school preps and Christian and other independent schools charge fees.
Many have expressed concerns that they will have to charge parents more if the change comes into effect.
Benn met members of the Education Board of the Free Presbyterian Church at Brownlow House in Lurgan, County Armagh. Click to read more…
Posted on 2024-10-18 a 7:36 pm
The unchanging folly taught to the Roman Catholic people!
‘A beautiful day to have saint’s relics in our parish’
The BBC Northern Ireland news site has been carrying the story of the touring of the bones of a Roman Catholic ‘saint’, French farm girl, Bernadette Soubirous. She claimed back in 1858 that she had seen the ‘Immaculate Conception’. This happened between 11 February and 16 July 1858, and Bernadette claim that the young lady who appeared to her identified herself as ‘the Immaculate Conception’.
The term, ‘the Immaculate Conception’ is explained as meaning: ‘The Immaculate Conception is the belief that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception. It is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church.’
I find it strange that what the young French girl claimed she saw was not ‘the Virgin Mary’ but ‘the Immaculate Conception’, which is the title of a doctrine of Rome and not a person!
Of course ‘logic’ has no place in this or any of the other notions that Rome puts forth as a ‘doctrine’ to be believed!
What is a truth, however, is that Mary never claimed for herself that she was free from sin. Rather she praised the Lord as the One Who was her ‘Saviour’.
“And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour,” Luke 1:46-47.
If she was not a sinner she had no need of a ‘Saviour’ and would not have then referred to the Lord as such! Click to read more…
Posted on 2024-10-17 a 6:00 am
RSE review condemned
This article from today’s ‘Belfast Newsletter’ has just been sent to me by a watchful friend and I am passing it on.
I believe that it highlights the devious workings of those determined to introduce the morally polluting corruptions of the sex education reforms, proposed in the ‘Relationship and Sex Education’ scheme, into the classrooms of the state schools here in Northern Ireland.
The nature of the ‘online survey’ of parents, launched by the Stormont Education Committee, is so designed as to make it nigh on impossible to reject this scheme. The state school hierarchy are determined to impose this evil teaching upon children.
Christians must take note of this and recognise the danger facing their offspring in the state school and take the ONLY effective step to safeguard their children — that of sending them to a Bible-based school!
Sincerely in Christ’s name,
Ivan Foster
Posted on 2024-10-16 a 11:07 pm
The duty of pastors, past, present and future!
“And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean,” Ezekiel 44:23.
I have been reading my way through the book of Ezekiel of late as I follow ‘Robert Murray McCheyne’s Bible Reading Calendar’, a very useful guide to systematically reading one’s Bible.
Since chapter 40, I have been reading about the future temple that will occupy its place in Jerusalem in the days of the Saviour’s Millennial Reign (Revelation 20:4-6).
The details of the temple structure given to us are really beyond our comprehension today but one day, as will be the case in many matters, we will with ease fully understand the significance of the details given. However, we may observe now that the details of the temple suggest that which creation generally declares, “the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard,” Psalm 19:1-3, so it will be with the details of the temple. That spoken of by Ezekiel will reveal features of the ‘great and glorious Architect’ of the splendid edifice.
SERVANTS
The ministering of God’s servants within the temple are also detailed for us in these chapters. The text I wish to draw attention to encapsulates the essence of their service.
I. THE PRIEST WAS EVER TEACHING GOD’S PEOPLE
What a wealth of knowledge concerning the truth of God is to be found in a consideration of the details of the garments the priest wore, the sacrifices he offered and his general conduct in the tabernacle and later in the temple?
1. The holy garments that the priest was required to wear sets forth the state we must be in as we come before the Lord. As the Old Testament saints were told: “Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God,” Leviticus 20:7, even so are we in the New Testament era required to observe just such a command. “But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy,” 1 Peter 1:15-16. Holiness of thought, word and deed is likened onto a garment to be donned. Click to read more…
Posted on 2024-10-14 a 6:00 am
The churches’ “hypocrisy and half-heartedness” exposed!
“Church claims pupils called ‘bullies’ over homosexuality views”, so ran a headline of a BBC online news report here in Northern Ireland. It was a report on a meeting between representatives of the ‘Transferor Representatives’ Council (TRC)’ and MLAs on Stormont’s Education Committee. The chair of the education committee is Alliance MLA, Nick Mathison.
In the ‘Belfast Newsletter’, the report on the same matter was headlined: “Presbyterian and Methodist churches defend sex education (RSE) in Northern Ireland controlled schools to Sinn Fein and Alliance Party MLAs”.
The ‘Transferor Representatives’ Council’ (TRC) represents the three largest Protestant denominations, which handed some 500 schools into state care from the 1920s-50s, thus creating the controlled sector.
Dr Andrew Brown and Dr Rebecca Stevenson represented the Presbyterian Church in Ireland and Dr Anita Gracie the Methodist Church in Ireland.
The BBC news report served to highlight the depths of the acceptance of the corruptions of false doctrine within ecumenical denominations here, while the ‘Belfast Newsletter’ emphasised, ‘Sinn Fein and Alliance MLAs have pressed Protestant church representatives to justify why a Christian perspective should be valid in sex education in controlled schools.’
Both Sinn Fein and Alliance parties would be most happy to see every last remnant of Bible truth removed from state school classrooms.
Stormont’s Education Committee
The representatives from the TRC were there at Stormont to give evidence about Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) before Stormont’s Education Committee.
If the Government has its way, it will soon be compulsory for all post-primary schools in Northern Ireland to teach pupils about access to abortion and prevention of early pregnancy. Such is the result of former Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris laying regulations on RSE in Parliament in 2023. Click to read more…
Posted on 2024-10-11 a 6:00 am
‘Belfast Telegraph’ again gives a platform to a pathetic attempt to deny the clear teaching of the Bible.
Under the headline: ‘Why I’m glad my Christian beliefs shifted before my wonderful granda passed away’ a journalist, Gareth Hanna, who makes no secret of his rejection of the Bible, rejoices in his casting away of the truth of the word of God. An alternative title for the article seems to be ‘Traditional Christian beliefs are throwing grieving families into needless despair’.
I think he has been told to change the title so that the blasphemous point he is trying to make is even more clear to ‘BT’ readers!
Although I have already sent out an article today, I must answer this wicked man’s deceptions!
Gareth Hanna is one whose writings I have challenged before and contradicted from the Word of God. It is to the shame of the ‘Belfast Telegraph’ that they have given space yet again to such blasphemies but I suppose, having embraced that position decades ago, that newspaper is unlikely to change.
As for the writer, Gareth Hanna, as a Christian one must sense with sorrow, something of the horror that the Bible reveals awaits someone of his opinion!
Hanna’s article ends with this self-evidently stupidly defiant statement:
I say, ‘self-evidently stupidly defiant statement’, for the simple reason that while he employs the word ‘unsaved’, the opposite of the word that is used of God to describe those who have been redeemed by the blood of Christ’s sacrifice at Calvary and who are thus assured of heaven’s peace and joy for all eternity, he then deliberately misleads his readers by stating that those who come under this term, ‘unsaved’ are not to be considered eternally lost! To be concerned about being ‘unsaved’ is needless. Hanna says! He would have his readers blindly follow his reasoning and reject the plain Word of God! Click to read more…
Posted on 2024-10-09 a 5:05 pm
Michelle O’Neill, Conor Murphy and the web of lies surrounding Michael McMonagle, self-confessed sex offender!
Stormont is the capital of lies and prevarication in Northern Ireland, the very seat of betrayal!
The whole regime, sited in a building that was once the political ‘Zion’ of Ulster Protestants, is now structured on lies and it pursues a perverse and fraudulent agenda which but faintly masks the true agenda of its Irish Republican majority — a united Ireland under a popish dominated Dublin!
There are few who occupy its seats who have not been caught out in deceit and falsehood in recent times.
There was a time when a person in public office who lied would immediately have resigned in shame. But with a record of public support for and glorying in terror, murder, thieving and treachery, it is not surprising that Sinn Fein does not step up and acknowledge their duplicity with regards the case of Michael McMonagle, a Sinn Fein employee, indeed a Sinn Fein press officer.
Michael McMonagle was arrested by police investigating sexual offences while working as a Sinn Féin press officer and the party was informed in August 2021.
We are told in the press that two other Sinn Fein employees, former press office colleagues, provided McMonagle with references before he was hired as an events and communication manager with the British Heart Foundation in September 2022.
Michelle O’Neill says she knew nothing about the references.
Michelle O’Neill has also said at the time, the party “took decisive action” and, in line with their policies, immediately suspended McMonagle as a party member and as press officer.
From then on, the First Minister says, she had “no further contact with him”.
McMonagle accompanies the family of Dáithí Mac Gabhann at a British Heart Foundation event in Stormont in February 2023 which was also attended by the First Minister. Click to read more…
Posted on 2024-10-09 a 4:45 pm
The arrogance of Iran's 'Supreme Leader' considered in the light of God's holy and infallible Word!!
A recent newspaper headline stated:
Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei holds a rifle by his side for sermon as he rants that Israel ‘will not last long’ and hails October 7 massacre
There are few false religions that are more bombastic and arrogant in their blasphemies than Islam.
Just this morning, I read in my Bible one of God’s many pronouncements concerning Israel: “Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore,” Ezekiel 37:26-28.
Despite Islam’s professed regard for the Bible, the Muslim unhesitatingly blasphemies against God’s Word and would seek to trample its truth underfoot!
This outrageous rant by the Iranian leader is in direct conflict with that which the Lord solemnly repeats on many occasions throughout the ages.
Here are just some of God’s declarations regarding His purpose for the people and the land of Israel.
1. GOD’S PROMISE TO ABRAHAM, SOME 4000 YEARS AGO.
“And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him,” Genesis 12:7. Click to read more…
Posted on 2024-10-05 a 6:00 am
“The UK is entering its first atheist age”
(Queen’s University Belfast-Report)
The ‘Belfast Newsletter’ carries an article headed:
“UK has more atheists than people who believe in God, says new report from Queen’s University Belfast”
This is the fruit of the falsehoods of ecumenism, liberal theology and the spread of such by the infiltration of Christian churches and organisations by the devil and his agents, particularly over the last 100+ years.
“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it,” John 8:44.
“And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season,” Revelation 20:1-3.
It is also the outworking of the events that God, in His Word, has foretold would happen!
“For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved,” Matthew 24:5-13. Click to read more…
Posted on 2024-10-03 a 6:00 am
A glimpse into the future of Jerusalem
«A Psalm of Asaph.»
“O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake. Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed. Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die; And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations,” Psalm 79:1-13.
Once again Israel and Jerusalem are in the news and those who love God’s ancient nation, with dread see a terrible day approaching. That Israel can take care of itself as did David when faced by Goliath, has been demonstrated on many occasions, yet an alliance of enemies is being forged at this present time and it speaks of a day of cruel persecution for Israel in the near future.
Iran, Iraq and Syria are currently active against Israel through their ‘surrogate’ terrorist organisations, Hezbollah, the terrorist arm of Iran, being presently the most active. They occupy large areas in Lebanon, Israel’s northern neighbour and are thus well situated to bombard Israel by artillery and rockets. It has a sizeable body of armed guerrillas under its command. It was announced to the world on Saturday, September 28th, that Israel had killed its infamous leader, by an air strike on his headquarters in Beirut. The BBC headline ran as follows: Hezbollah confirms death of leader Hassan Nasrallah after Israeli strikes on Beirut. Nasrallah, who had not been seen in public for years because of fears of being assassinated by Israel, was considered by many as one of the most influential figures in the Middle East.
Terrorism tends to elevate those guilty of it as it did Gerry Adams, a former barman, whose links with the murderous IRA promoted him to the status of that of a ‘statesman’, at least in the eyes of some ‘eejits’, such as former USA President, Bill Clinton, an openly acknowledged moral deviant!
The Psalm 79 describes scenes that some believe are of Jerusalem in the days of Jeremiah, following its overthrow and devastation by the Babylonians. Others see it as a report of a later overthrowing of the city by Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who ruled the Seleucid Empire from 175 BC until his death in 164 BC. Click to read more…
Posted on 2024-10-01 a 6:00 am