Was Jesus born on 25th December? (CW103)

   World War 3 is at Hand

While we wait for Iran's  annihilation and its regime change to start World War 3, let's check our own Christian faith, doctrine and knowledge of Him and His words.

Could Jesus be born in Winter in Bethlehem?

Luke 2:10-11  Then the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord.

   Bethlehem enjoys the Mediterranean climate of the hot and dry summers and the mild and wet winters. Snow is a rarity. Winter enjoys an average temperature of 5°C - 12°C (just like springtime in Europe).  

   In winter, good and caring shepherds will take their flocks out in the night to feed on the dewy fresh grass, this was the time when suddenly the angels announced the birth of the Saviour Jesus.

    Since Christianity was illegal, there was no public celebration of Christmas for almost 300 years until the reign of Constantine, the first Christian emperor.

Humility in Jesus' Birth

Luke 2:7  And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

1. Born in the animal shed

    God ensured that all the hotels were full so that Jesus was to be born in an animal shed like any animal. Jesus was born as the Lamb of God.

John 1:29  The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

2. Covered in swaddling cloths – all newly born lambs meant for sacrifices were wrapped with swaddling cloths to prevent them from blemishes. Jesus was born to be sacrificed for man's sins.

1 John 2:2  And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

3. Laid in the manger – the manger was used for holding the feed and possibly water for feeding the sheep and also other livestock.

    Our Lord Jesus was prepared as food for His sheep. Jesus is the bread of life and the living water and His words is our spiritual food. We only need to believe, read, understand and keep His words.

John 6:48  "I am the bread of life."

Good Shepherds celebrated Jesus' Birth with the angelic hosts.

Luke 2:13-14  And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: "Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!"

Word Made Flesh

Luke 22:19  And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, " This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me."

    When Christians partake of the bread (His body or Word) during the Holy Communion,  our Lord Jesus reminded us to remember that He was the Word made flesh at His birth (Christmas).

    Thank God that not only Christians but the whole world accepts Christmas as the Christian festival in remembrance of the birth of Jesus.

   But unfortunately, unlearned and misled Christians think that winters in Bethlehem are very cold and blanketed with snow (shown on Christmas cards). Having been deceived, they refuse to celebrate Christmas thereby rejecting Jesus the Messiah as the Word made flesh.

    God has provided the whole month of December (Christmas-tide) the opportunity for us to evangelise non Christians.

John 1:14  And the Word became 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.

Why was Christmas held on December 25?

    Our early fathers - the Councils of bishops, who were imprisoned and tortured for their faith in Jesus, formulated the Nicene Creed in 325AD and later canonised the 27 New Testament books of the Holy bible.

    At their advice, Emperor Constantine adopted December 25 as the day to celebrate the birth of Jesus so that Christians throughout the whole world can celebrate Christmas together in unity and in harmony.

War in Ukraine (CW102)

   World War 3 is at Hand (Update)

US Ballistic Missiles struck deep inside Russia soil

   Ukraine's military used American-made ballistic missiles this week to strike into Russia for the first time, according to senior U.S. and Ukrainian officials. US President Biden on November 18 had given permission to do so in a major shift of American policy.

Will Putin keep his earlier warnings to NATO that Russian nuclear missiles will nuke their cities if any of their arsenals are used to attack Russian soil?

Formation of USSR

   The Soviet Union had its roots in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government. Founded in 1922 as a confederation of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Transcaucasia (comprised of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia), the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) eventually grew to 15 republics—and a world-wide superpower with 130 ethnic groups

Breakup of USSR

1991 AD -  Economic weakness, political stubbornness, and the growth of nationalism were the causes for the disintegration of the Soviet Union into 15 Republics.

Ukraine SSR

December 1, 1991  Ukraine the second-largest country in Europe by land-mass and a sizable population of ethnic Russians became a sovereign state.

April 3, 2008  Russia objected to Ukrainian NATO Membership.

Start of Ukraine War

2014 AD   Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied and annexed Crimea from Ukraine and supported pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbas war.

Russia Invasion of Ukraine

   In 2021, President Zelensky cracked down on pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarchs, including Viktor Medvedchuk, a close friend of Putin. Subsequently, Putin deploys increasing numbers of troops near the Ukrainian border and publishes an article claiming that Russians and Ukrainians are "one people."  

   One of Putin's demands was that Ukraine never be admitted to NATO – a request rejected by the Biden administration resulting in Russia launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24. 2022.

2024  Since 2022, NATO led by US had already poured hundreds of billion to support Ukraine. At the latest NATO summit, it will send more financial support, fighter jets, missiles, drones and arsenals along with experts to train the Ukrainians.  At the same time, US will station ICBM missiles in Germany to deter (or attack) Russia.  Russia rebuked NATO's decisions.

Note   In 1990 NATO had only 16 members. Today it has expanded to 32 members with the increase mainly from the former USSR.

What will be the outcome of the present War in Ukraine?

Mat 24:6a  And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled

   Our Lord prophesied that there will be wars (and rumours of wars), that may lead to great destruction and possibly the annihilation of all mankind.

   However, He comforted us not to fear nor worry (not troubled) even if they developed into World War 3. (see that you are not troubled)

Note  This Ukraine war is frightening for it can be extensive and deadly for both sides (NATO and Russia) are extremely strong and also armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons.

Mat 24:6b  for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

   Our Lord also prophesied that these fearful and frightening wars will escalate to become the destructive and horrific nuclear World War 3 _(must come to pass)_ that it is like the end of the world.

    He also comforted us that the destructive World War 3 will not lead to the end of the World (the end is not yet).

Thank God that our Lord  Jesus will always protect and  nourish His faithful servants.

This Ukraine War will end up to be part of World War 3

https://youtu.be/oYiT_H13Vio?si=yegFu6d3iPJMwNh3

Did Israel attack the Iranian Nuclear Facility? (CW101)

  World War 3 is at Hand (Update)

The Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali is constantly warning Israel and its US allies that if they attack any of its nuclear facilities, he will send his full arsenal to wipe out Israel and all US military presence in the Middle East

Present Situation in the middle East

1. US has military bases in almost all the Arab nations in the middle East

2. US recently deploys aircraft Carrier fleets and the UK deploys warships to patrol the Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf and Red Sea.

   At this moment, the West is constantly striking the Iranian bases in both Syria and Iraq.  

   Iran is surrounded by US military bases, UK warships and the invincible US Carrier fleets and its annihilation looks certain.

Earlier Iranian Aerial Attacks of Israel

1st. Iranian Aerial Attack

   On April 13, Iran unleashed a barrage of missiles and drones on Saturday night and early on Sunday, targeting Israel in retaliation for April 1's suspected Israeli strike on its consulate in Damascus, which killed 13 people.

   Iran's massive aerial attack marks the first direct strike by Iran on Israeli territory from Iranian soil. Iran called the attack 'Operation True Promise'.

   The Israeli military also said the vast majority of the projectiles were intercepted outside the country's borders with help from the warships of the US, the United Kingdom and France. Jordan also shot down some of the missiles aimed at Israel as they were flying through Jordanian airspace.

   US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Sunday that the US also intercepted "dozens" of missiles and drones launched at Israel from Iraq, Syria and Yemen.

1st Israeli Retaliation

   On 19 April 2024 the Israeli Air Force launched airstrikes targeting an air defense facility within Iran. The limited airstrikes targeted an air defense radar site at an airbase near Isfahan, in central Iran.

2nd Israeli Attack

   On October 1, Iran launched about 180 ballistic missiles at Israel, which it said was in response to the deaths of Haniyeh, Nasrallah and Nilforoushan.

   

2nd Israeli Retaliation

  Israel launched direct strikes against Iran on October 26 . in a high-stakes retaliation to Tehran's ballistic missile barrage earlier this month.

From the attached news, Israel's prime minister said that it had hit part of Iran's nuclear programme during last month's strikes, carried out in response to a missile attack.

  One former Israeli official said the strike destroyed "sophisticated equipment used to design the plastic explosives that surround uranium in a nuclear device and are needed to detonate it", according to the report.

Benjamin Netanyahu told Israel's parliament that "a nuclear Iran poses a massive threat to our existence..."

Coming 3rd Iranian Attack ?

   Will this Israeli attack of the Iranian nuclear facility provoke Iran to use all its arsenals to attack Israel and all US bases in the middle East as Iran constantly reiterates?

    If so, then Israel and the West will neutralise all the Iranian arsenals. Then conquer and ransack Iran and change its regime to start World War 3..

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0l1ep34pro

Ready for World War 3! (CW100)

   World War 3 is at Hand

While we wait for the fall of Iran and the change in regime to start World War 3, let's check our own Christian faith, doctrine and knowledge of Him and His words.

End is at Hand

1 Pet 4:7-8  But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers. And above all things have fervent love for one another, for "love will cover a multitude of sins."

    In the last days when we come before God in prayer we must be:-

1. Be Serious for it is a matter of life and salvation or death and damnation.

   From the Apostles Creed, have you believed:-

i) the Trinity or Triune Godhead.

1 John 5:7  For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.   (KJV)

   God is one. He reveals Himself to men as 3 persons in the Triune Godhead - the Father, the Word (Son) and the Holy Ghost (Holy Spirit) so that we can learn from Him to be a loving father, an obedient son and a helper to others

John 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

ii) the Gospel of Christ

Luke 24:46-47  Then He (Jesus) said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem."

    Have you believed the Gospel that :-

a) Jesus was the Christ or the Word (God) made flesh

b) Jesus died on the cross pouring out His blood for the cleansing of your sins

c) Jesus was buried but on the third day He rose from the dead and

d) He gives the Holy Spirit of redemption to dwell within all those who believe the Gospel thereby making them to become born again Christians.

   

If you have not believed the above i) Trinity and ii) Gospel, then you may not be born again nor saved. Repent and confess your belief of the true Gospel (Apostles' Creed) to the Lord.

iii) Jesus' Words

John 8:31-32  Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

    If you keep the words of Jesus, you are Jesus' disciples, who are free of wickedness, covetousness and abominable practices, but:-

a) If you keep denominational doctrines, you are its disciples and not Jesus' disciples

b) If you keep the Law of Moses, you are Moses' disciples (or Jews)

c) If you keep the abominable law of the land (e.g sodomy), which contradicts Jesus' words, then you are a heathen (an apostate).

2. Be Watchful of Jesus' prophecies of end-time, world events, fulfillments of each prophecy, what God expects of us and prevalent heresies.

i) Reject all heresies which contradict the words of Jesus

ii) Do not lay up treasures on earth especially in the last days.

iii) Do not blaspheme the Holy Spirit by believing those so-called Holy Spirit movements, activities, manifestations and prophecies which contradict the words of Jesus and the truth in the Epistles of the Apostles.

1 John 4:1  Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

3. fervent love for one another

1 John 3:17-18  But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

   In these last days, many missions and charitable organisations are facing financial difficulties.

  We thank God that He has given this last opportunity for brethren to lay treasures in heaven by giving to the poor and needy instead of heaping up treasures on earth.

   When brethren express their true love by genuinely helping needy brethren, God will also forgive them of their many sins.

love will cover a multitude of sins

The West has Fallen (CW99)

  World War 3 is at Hand

Thank God that He is faithful to His words and is full of mercy

Can the newly elected President Trump prevent the annihilation of US in World War 3?

Yes if only Trump can get US to immediately fast and repent of their sins and abominable practices

1. Return the US back to Theocracy -  to the days before 1962, when President Kennedy threw God out of US.

2. Repent of the abominable human rights -  made homosexually illegal again.

3. See list below for US to repent

Babylon is Fallen

Rev 18:2  And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!

    Babylon the mighty US will fall in WW3 for it is a :-

Dwelling Place of Demons

    US was a Christian nation filled with God's love but it has degraded into a place of demons, where Satanic worship, occultic and demonic practices filled with hatred, jealousy and accusations are legalized. The spiritual malady inflicting the US now is similar to the abominable demonic worships performed by the Israelites, before they were annihilated by the Babylonians.

Prison of Every Foul Spirit

     Homosexuality, incest, same sex marriage, bestiality and foul addictions will destroy the human race, which is created in the image of God, by changing their descendants into sodomites as in the days of Lot. Complete destruction of the West is at hand.

    These foul and perverted acts, backed by debased human rights lobbyists are leading families and procreation to destruction.

Cage of Unclean and Hated Bird

     Sinful, heretic and wicked  just as in the days of Noah - filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful;

    Many depraved and covetous Christian leaders in the US have defiled His church and subject misled Christians into bondages with their worldly wisdom, destructive doctrines and heresies.

Rev 18:3  For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury."

    Since 1962, as the Christian nations became richer and more powerful, they became god and threw God out by separating the church (word of God) from the state. (Prayer in US public schools was made illegal in 1962) They are now no longer Christian nations but Western nations or West.

   Instead of helping the poor third world nations, which have become poorer and poorer since 1997 so that they can see the light and salt of Christians, the West (especially US) became the 'Dictator' of the world and demanded every nation to obey its abominable policies under the cover of human rights in UN.

Rev 18:4-5  And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

    We must not share in the abominations of the West. We have no choice but to be ready to be persecuted and jailed for holding on to our faith, just like those in the seven churches in Rev 2-3.

Judgment of God

Rev 18:6-7  Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her. In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, 'I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.'

    The mighty West will be annihilated for promoting the abominable homosexuality and its numerous wickedness.

The Antichrist and the numerous antichrists (CW98)

   World War 3 is at Hand

While we wait for Iran's  annihilation and its regime change, let's check our own Christian faith, doctrine and knowledge of Him and His words.

1Jn 2:18-19  Little children, it is the last hour; and as you were given word that the Antichrist would come, so when (now) a number of antichrists have come to you; and by this we are certain that it is the last hour. They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us. (BBE)

1. The Antichrist will appear only in the last days as the incarnate of Satan. He is also known as the End-time Antichrist, the man of sin who will sit in the temple of God proclaiming himself God.

   Before the End-time Antichrist (the Devil's incarnate) appears, many antichrists will fill the churches with their heresies, lies, deceptions and abominable sins, behaviours and practices (e.g sodomy, covetousness).

2. The antichrists - (they went out from us but they were not of us) are fallen Christians. They are today's false prophets, covetous church leaders and rich televangelists, whose heresies and abominable practices though destructive yet pleasing to the ears of depraved and carnal Christians.

1 John 2:22  Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.

   The antichrists deny the Triune Godhead of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. They also deny that Jesus Christ was the Word (God the Son) made flesh. They preached the heresy that Jesus was created by God the Father.

2 John 1:7  For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

Lies of antichrists

Mat 10:33  But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.

1. Deny the Trinity

2. Deny the Divinity of Jesus

With Jesus reduced to a creation, these antichrists replace Jesus commands and words by keeping the Mosaic Law meant only for the rebellious Israelites.

3. Deny the Word was made Flesh

Luke 22:19  And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, " This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me."

   Whenever a Christian partakes of the bread (His body or the Word), he must remember and celebrate the Word was made flesh at the birth of Jesus (Christmas).

4. Deny the Death of Jesus on the Cross

I Cor 11:25  In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me."

   At the last supper just before His crucifixion, Jesus made the New covenant in His blood. He told them to drink from the cup the wine, which symbolised His blood. We are reminded to believe that Jesus, who was the Word made flesh, poured out His blood on the cross for the propitiation of man's sins.

5. Deny the resurrection of Jesus

6. Deny Jesus' coming for His saints (Rapture)

I Cor 11:26  For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till He comes.

Sadly to say that churches in many denominations today have fallen from His grace (salvation lost) for they have been deceived by Satan and the antichrists to deny Jesus Christ the Son of God.

Fallen Covetous Christian Leaders

2 Pet 2:1-3  But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.

Earliest Christianity 6 - Heresies and Lies (CW97)

   World War 3 is at Hand

Persecution of Christians

    Jesus' disciples were persecuted initially by the Jewish leadership and then by the Romans until Emperor Constantine, the first Christian Roman Emperor.

    During the Apostolic age, the church flourished with sound doctrine taught by Jesus's disciples. They protected His truth by rejecting heresies of those new rich Pharisees converts.

Acts 15:5  But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses."

Heresies in Churches

Acts 20:29-30  For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.    

   After the Apostolic Age, Satanic false Apostles (untransformed rich and powerful Pharisees and Scribes) in the leadership of churches defiled His church.

   By the 2nd and 3rd Century A.D, the church faced many heresies including; Docetism, Adoptionism, Arianism and Gnosticism.

1. Docetism - one of the earliest Christian sectarian doctrines, affirming that Christ did not have a real or natural body during his life on earth but only an apparent or phantom one.

2. Adoptionism - an early Christian non-trinitarian theological doctrine, which holds that Jesus was adopted as the Son of God at his baptism, his resurrection, or his ascension.

3. Arianism - an early branch of Christianity that held that Jesus Christ was not one with God the Father, but instead just created by God and a holy man.

4. Gnosticism - Gnostic doctrine taught that the world was created and ruled by a lesser divinity, the 'Demiurge', and that Christ was an emissary of the remote supreme divine being, esoteric knowledge (gnosis) of whom enabled the redemption of the human spirit.

Note - all the above heresies denied the divinity of Jesus and the Triune Godhead, resulting in Jesus' words being treated as inferior to the Law of Moses.

John 1:17  For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

   Misled Christians tried to be Moses disciples. Without the truth of Jesus they are blind and once again under the bondages and curses of the Law. Worst of all they have fallen from the grace of Jesus and have lost their salvation.

   They also looked to Jewish historians (e.g Josephus), who had the spirit of the antichrist, for a better understanding of early Christianity instead of Scriptures.

Mat 5:11-12  "Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you."

    As Jesus' apostles and disciples were recording the teachings of Jesus, these false Apostles and historians produced false and heretic records, books and epistles to discredit (say all kinds of evil against you falsely) our Lord Jesus, His faithful Apostles and later Emperor Constantine.

    By the fourth Century A.D, there were about 50 false Gospels (Gospels of Thomas, Marcion, Mary Magdalene, Barnabas, etc.)  and hundreds of false Epistles.

Canonised Books

   After Emperor Constantine was miraculously saved, he legalized Christianity in 313 A.D. He invited 1,800 persecuted bishops to form the Council of bishops. The council produced the Apostle Creed in 325 A.D and canonised 27 books of the New Testament to nullify those demonic books and destructive heresies.

   After his death in 337AD, Emperor Theodosius 1 in 380 A.D, made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. Misled Christians believe the lies of the Jewish and non-Christian historians but are blind to the fruit and light (righteous works) of Emperor Constantine - God's faithful servant.

   Thank God that Emperor Constantine is highly rewarded for the persecutions and falsehoods from the historians and misled Christians.