HE COMETH WITH CLOUDS!

   The whole world is being governed by a band of psychopaths. 
   These are the leaders of governments and the leaders of religions, working together, though they APPEAR TO BE separate and independent institutions.
   Satan is the god of evil, and the leaders of the world are Satan's servants, workers of evil.
   For if you look across the world, what do we see? 
   Evil is sweeping across ever nation with an unquenched thirst for the fire of evil.  The flames are burning every nation under the sun.  One by one, nations have become victims to the god of evil.
   We know they are evil because they have no love for people.  They want people to die and not to live.  They do not believe that people should be free:  free to live, free to govern themselves, nor should people be free to worship.
   The world's leaders want to contain and control people, to draw all people under their authority so that we will be slaves to their evil doctrine.  They want us to be slaves, working for them without compensation, and to serve as soldiers in their military campaigns to conquer the whole world.  If we kneel to them and to their policies, they will let us live; but if we refuse their authority, they will work us until we die, or they will kill us and our families.
   As we look across the world, we see freedom vanishing.  We see people struggling and suffering to live for another day.  We see families in torment as children are ripped from their parents' arms to become sex slaves to sinful men.  We see people dying slow and painful deaths because of disease and sickness, starvation, and drug addictions---while the world's leaders live rich and lavish lifestyles.
   In Jerusalem two thousand years ago, Jesus of Nazareth was killed by a band of psychopaths---the leaders of government and the leaders of religion---working together though they APPEARED TO BE separate and independent institutions. 
   As it was in those days, so it is today.  That same secret agenda that they had for Christ is the same secret agenda they have for us.  They appear to be our friends, that we should trust them, and that we should believe that they know best what is best for us.  But they are deceivers, and they are lying to our faces, every one of them.  They are adorned in fancy suits and priestly garments, which is the perfect mask, or disguise, for Satan's servants. 
   Jesus warned us that this day would come, and that day is here now.  For the future that Jesus told us about is here now---in front of our eyes and in broad daylight.
   Nations will not arise to save nations from other nations, for all nations will come together as a global union and make war against innocent and unarmed people.  This is our future. 
   But the end is not yet!  When Christ appears, even the leaders of the world shall fear and tremble.
      Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him:  and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.  Even so, Amen.  (Revelation 7: 1)

CHRISTIANS UNITED

    The United States is the last outpost of liberty on the face of the earth.  If this nation falls, freedom will fall worldwide.
    As Christians United, we have the power to do something about the flow of evil across our nation and all over the world.  We also have the power to do nothing. 
    When God's people unite in prayer, something mysterious will begin to happen.  But if we do not desire God's help, God will leave us alone.
     It is time for God's people to climb up in the lighthouse, for this is our watch.
     It is time for God's people to kneel together in prayer for our country, for all countries, for our children and grandchildren around the world.
     Will you join with me as Christians United and pray the prayer that Jesus taught us to say?


           Our Father which art in heaven,
               Hallowed be thy name.
           Thy kingdom come.
           Thy will be done in earth,
              as it is in heaven.
           Give us this day our daily bread.
           And forgive us our debts,
               as we forgive our debtors.
           And lead us not
               into temptation,
               but deliver us from evil.
           For thine is the kingdom,
               and the power,
               and the glory,
               for ever.
            Amen.

WOMEN FOR CHRIST

    When you study the women of the New Testament, you will meet some of the bravest and boldest women in human history, and you will learn that their faith in God was unchanging.
   The mother of Jesus believed that her son could turn water into wine at a wedding supper, and Jesus did.
   One woman believed that Jesus would heal her sickness, even if she merely touched the hem of His garment, and Jesus did.
   Another woman met Jesus at a well in Samaria, then ran to town to tell everybody about this man named Jesus.
   Two women of Bethany believed that Jesus could raise their brother from death, and Jesus did.
   A woman anointed the head of Jesus before His crucifixion.
   Many women gathered when Jesus was on the cross, and there they watched and wept as Jesus died.
   The first witness for the resurrection of Christ was a woman.
   It was also women who ran to tell the disciples that Jesus was alive.
   Claudia Procula, the wife of Pontius Pilate, became a disciple of Christ.
   On the day of Pentecost, many women were also there with the disciples in the upper room.
   The apostle Paul salutes many women in his writings of the New Testament and he records their names:  Phebe, Priscilla, Junia, Tabitha, Euodia, Syntyche, and others.
   Philip the evangelist had four daughters who were prophetesses. 
   Women for Christ were not popular.  They were supposed to kneel to Caesar, but they did not.
   Women for Christ suffered for their faith.  They were killed and wounded, then left to die on the side of the road.  They were buried in unmarked graves.  History has mostly forgotten them.
   But God remembers them!---and writes their stories in His Book that we may learn from them.
      Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain:  but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.  (Proverbs 31: 30)

SPIRITUAL DRUNKS

   The events we are watching around us in the world today is a prelude for the return of Christ.  That's it.  That's everything.  That's what it is all about.  Nations are against nations, kingdoms are against kingdoms, and people are against people.
   The antichrist movement is not something new.  It has been in the world ever since Christ arose from death.  Had Christ remained dead, the world would have never heard about Him.  But because Christ arose from death His name is the most recognized name in the history of the world.  Even today, the name of Jesus gets attention. 
   Ever since Christ arose from death, government and religion have been SECRETLY working together.  While these appear to be separate and independent institutions, they are not:  for they are two branches from the same tree of evil.  Each desires to control and dominate people.  Government wants people to believe in government and religion wants people to believe in religion.
   For this reason, the separation of state and religion is impossible:  for people of religion want to change civil law to be compatible with religious law while people of government want to change religious law to be compatible with civil law so that the two will become one.  This desire of both institutions creates contention among people because people want it both ways.  For this reason, laws of both houses keep changing for neither will never be content with the other until the two become one. 
   Therefore, the events we are watching around the world today is a spiritual drunk:  for people are intoxicated with religion and they are intoxicated with government.  They are reeling to and fro, staggering through life, and living in a state of confusion.  As a result, the whole world is mad.  The whole world has gone crazy.  People have lost their minds and they are as insane people.  If people do not get their own way, or, if people disagree with them. they go into a fit of rage, foam at the mouth, raise the sword and commit murder. 
   Where is Christ in this world of chaos, in this world of spiritual drunks?
   Christ is not there.  He is risen.  The Lord is not walking among mad and insane people.
   Thus the evidence of Christ's resurrection is believed among people.  For people of government do not blame their civil laws for their drunkenness:  they blame Christ!  And people of religion do not blame their religious laws for their drunkenness:  they blame Christ!
   To people of government and religion, Christ is the bad boy.  He is the reason for their problems.
To them, Christ is the evil one.  To them, Christ is therefore preventing them from having their own way, from living their own lives without interference. 
   Because the whole world blames Jesus for everything that is wrong, people of the world know that Christ is alive!  For would people blame a dead man for being against them for two thousand years?
   In conclusion, it should be clear to see and understand that people are intoxicated with religion and they are intoxicated with government. 
  Until Christ returns, people will continue to live as spiritual drunks unless they turn to Him for their salvation:  for Christ is still the light of the world.  And Christ is still the love they need.
        For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.  (John 3: 16-17)
  

A THIEF IN THE NIGHT

         The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:  I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.  (John 10: 10)
   Governments worldwide operate as a thief in the night.
   One by one, nations fall down.  People lose their freedom and they have no other choice but to follow the leaders.
   One by one, the leaders of nations steal from people, kill people, and destroy the evidence of human civilization.  They destroy books and buildings, ancient texts, and precious works of art.
   The goal of worldwide governments is to create a New World Order:  out with the old and in with the new:  a new way of walking, a new way of talking, and a new way of believing.
   The leaders of governments want us to believe that they will take care of us.  That we should trust in them.  That we should believe and follow them.  Even to believe that they will feed us, care for us, and be a mother unto us.
   They lie.  They lie to our faces.  They are deceivers and hypocrites, and the truth is not in them.
         Beloved, let us love one another:  for God is love; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.  He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.  (1st John 4: 7-8)
   Knowing this, then we should also know and believe that the leaders of governments have no love for people because they have not the love of God abiding in their hearts.  If they did, they would stop stealing from us, killing us, and destroying us.  Instead, the stealing and killing and destruction continues throughout all nations under heaven.
   The leaders of the world are, indeed, thieves in the night.  They like the darkness instead of the light.  They meet behind doors and in secret meetings because they do not want us to know the plans they have for us.  Darkness is their natural habitat, for they are like their father, the devil, who is the Prince of Darkness and the Prince of Thieves.  It is to him they kneel in their secret places of worship out of the light.
   As it is written, He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.
   Know, too, that these thieves in the night are not done yet, for their desire is the conquer the whole world, to bring every nation under the authority of a supreme commander,
         whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon,
         but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. (Revelation 9: 11) 
   We also know him by the name Antichrist. 
         Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ?  He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.  (1st John 2: 22)
   Therefore we should be able to understand that the leaders of the world are thieves in the night because they are antichrist, for they are against Christ and not for Christ.  And they have not the love of God abiding in their hearts. 
   For if they did, they would not be thieves in the night.


  

OUT OF THE TOMB

   Until the minds of people are educated in the knowledge of God, they will not see, neither will they understand, the times of the seasons.
   For even people against Christ know that the Lord is alive because people have never engaged in warfare against a dead man before.  Have they?
   Not only do these people against Christ know that the Lord is alive, but they also know that Christ will be returning. 
   How do they know these things? 
   Because the devil told them.  And they believe in the words of the devil because they are servants of Satan.  It is his voice they hear and not the voice of Christ. 
   These people against Christ are the disciples of Satan.  They gather in darkness.  They meet behind closed doors and conduct secret meetings.  They are the leaders of governments and they are also the leaders of religions.  They live in a worldwide web of deception, dressed in fancy suits and priestly garments. 
   Ever since the first century, the leaders of the people against Christ have been operating covertly while remaining virtually invisible. 
   They control governments:  but we trust the leaders of governments, right?
   They control religions:  but we trust the leaders of religions, right?
   They control the world's money:  but we trust the leaders of banks, right?
   The leaders of the people against Christ are like Judas Iscariot:  they have sold their souls to the devil for a pocketful of money.  They live rich and lavish lifestyles while people all over the world suffer for lack of food, shelter, and clothing, sickness and disease. 
   The leaders of the people against Christ treat people as their slaves. 
   In looking to the future, the leaders of the people against Christ are preparing their own messiah to arise in Jerusalem and to rule the world with an iron fist.  This messiah they are preparing is Antichrist.  He is against Christ and he wants the whole world to be against Christ.
   My friends, come out of the tomb, stand up with Christ, and live again.  This is what resurrection is all about:  A new life.  A new beginning.  And walk in the light of Christ and not in darkness.  Knowing, too, that Christ will fight our battles for us. 
      This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.  If we say we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.  (1st John 1: 6-7)
  

I, THE LORD

   God is not difficult to know, but rather easy to understand.
   God does not burden our shoulders with hard labor, nor place a yoke across our necks.
   With God, we are not slaves.  We are free to believe, and we are also free to leave.
   God's ways are simple ways, not complex problems.
   God does not desire to punish us, but rather to free us from the prison of sin.
   God is merciful, and He desires to shower us with love, mercy, and grace.
   God wants to cradle us in His arms and to carry us across the rivers of life and through the raging storms. 
   God is God, and God is not clothed in religion.  When people are able to separate God from religion, then and only then will people begin a journey in knowing God.  For God is not contained, and neither is He controlled, by the men of religion:  in fancy suits and priestly garments.
   As Christians, Christ does not desire that we be performers, or stars of the show:  to dazzle crowds, to raise the roof, or to bring the house down.
   For if all people see is me, they will not see Christ; and if all they hear is me, they will not hear Christ.
   If people praise me, they will not praise Him. 
   If I desire the praises and the offerings, then I am the show:  all about me and not about Him. 
   In truth, it is Christ who died for people, and not me.  But more than this, it is Christ who is alive for people, and not me.
   Everything that we see in this world today is a preparation for the return of the Great King, Christ the Lord. 
   Who am I, then, in this sea of constant change?  I am no more than a grain of sand shifting from shore to shore.  But in Christ, I am all that He is. 
   When people come to know Christ, they will shed their skin from the cloak of religion.
  

   Written by Dan Schutte in 1981, this song is in more than 20 languages.