2025
HARASSED AND HELPLESS
David Hathaway
I’m an evangelist at heart. I study the Scriptures to see and understand what Jesus did.
In Matthew 9:27, two blind men call out, ‘Jesus, Son of David, help us!” Blind! They wanted to see! Jesus asks them, “Do you believe I am able to do this? Do you believe I am able to heal you?” – “Yes!” Jesus then touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith it will be done to you.” And their sight was restored.
The news spread all over. They brought a man to Jesus who couldn’t talk, demon possessed. When Jesus drove the demon out and the man began to speak, the people were amazed –they’d never seen anything like this before! But the religious Pharisees accused Jesus, saying He, Jesus, was possessed by the devil himself, casting out demons by the power of the prince of demons…
But Jesus continued through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues. It was His custom to worship in the synagogue, and this was an opportunity for Him to expound prophecy – of which He is the fulfilment. He had not yet called and empowered the Twelve.
He was on His own, healing every disease and sickness, teaching, and preaching the Gospel, the ‘good news of the Kingdom’ – HIS Coming Kingdom, the Kingdom of God.
At that time there were serious political issues. Israel was living under military occupation; the Romans had driven out the Greeks before them – in fulfilment of the prophecy of Daniel 2, the statue which is an image of succeeding World Empires beginning with Babylon, the Head of Gold, overthrown by the Medo-Persians, then the Greeks, and now the fourth and last Empire, the Roman Empire, is in place. Jerusalem was full of Roman soldiers.
This was a very difficult time of religious and political upheaval. The political Sadducees and religious Pharisees had to collaborate with the Romans if they wanted to protect themselves, their positions and their interests. Jesus stood apart from those issues. He’s speaking about His Father’s business, God’s Kingdom. He came as an ambassador of this Kingdom, a messenger sent by God to bring the good news of the literal fulfilment of prophecy and to demonstrate it. That’s why He’s preaching the Kingdom and healing the sick.
Jesus is concerned about the people, He didn’t come to condemn them. Matthew 9:36, ‘When He saw the crowds, He had compassion on them because they were harassed and helpless.’ He found the common, the ordinary people in the towns and villages were in great difficulty. HARASSED AND HELPLESS. This is like politics today and the situation of ordinary men and women who are not happy with government and circumstances; no one knows what to do. Jesus calls the people of His day ‘sheep without a shepherd’. He’s not referring here to the religious flock, to the believers, but to the ordinary, secular people of His day –THEY needed a shepherd! Jesus turns to His disciples and says, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.”
Jesus saw that there was a tremendous
need amongst the people for leaders and helpers who are not political, and are not just ‘religious, but who come with a real message of comfort and deliverance. Jesus is concerned, the workers are few. He says, v38, “Call on the Lord of the Harvest to send out workers into the harvest field.”
I am absolutely convinced that today THIS is the major challenge! We must go out into the harvest field! There’s a big harvest! The first impact of the coming of the Holy Spirit in the Book of Acts was to bring in a harvest. Three thousand souls that first Day of Pentecost! Pentecost is a celebration of harvest, the first fruits of the wheat harvest. The whole book of Acts is the story of that first harvest.
If you look at the Old Testament prophecy in Joel 2:23-24 – the first and the last rain – it’s about a harvest, so great that the barn will be full of wheat and the vats overflow with wine and oil! That was the ‘FIRST fruits’. I believe we’re living in the days of the LAST rain NOW! Jesus referred to His time on earth as a ‘time of harvest’. How much more are we in a time of harvest now!
The whole message, throughout the ministry of Jesus and the lives of the first Apostles, was the Coming Kingdom. And I sense from Scripture, there MUST be a GREAT harvest BEFORE Jesus comes back! He gave the illustration of the Wedding Feast, where the invited guests don’t come. Jesus said, “Go out into the highways and byways and compel them to come in, that My House may be full!” Right from the beginning, it’s a matter of bringing people into God’s Kingdom!
It’s so important that we evangelise. So often churches become more of a social centre, rather than preaching the true Gospel of the Kingdom and healing the sick. Healing the sick was so important to Jesus’ ministry: the people followed Him, not just because of His nice preaching, but because of the miracles they saw, which confirm the truth of the message! In the case of the healing of
the paralysed man at the beginning of Matthew 9 shows this. Jesus looked at the man and says FIRST, “Your sin is forgiven.” Then He adds, “So that you may KNOW that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sin, the evidence is this: Get up and walk!” And the man did!
So now in Matthew 10:1, Jesus calls His twelve disciples to Him AND GAVE THEM AUTHORITY TO CAST OUT EVIL SPIRITS AND TO HEAL EVERY DISEASE AND SICKNESS. Yes, the Twelve included Judas ‘who betrayed Him’ – yes, Jesus KNEW from the beginning Judas would betray Him. But without the betrayal, there would have been no crucifixion. Jesus KNEW He would have to give His Life for you and me, and that somebody had to betray Him… So in Matthew 10:5, Jesus commissions the Twelve and sends them out, including Judas, with these instructions, “Don’t go the Gentiles, don’t go to the Samaritans, go the lost sheep of Israel.” The first commission was to Israel. Israel was their first mission field, although we know Jesus healed Gentiles and commended the faith of a Roman centurion. It was only in Acts 9 and 10 that the Holy Spirit tells Peter to take the Gospel to non-Jews, and later this became Paul’s whole ministry. But the message was first to the House of Israel, the invited guests, most of whom, by the way, did not choose to come.
We have a challenge today in the Church. The message of the Gospel is not preached today as it should be within the Church. Often the Gospel being preached is purely ‘social’, and outreach is humanitarian, something man can do and has value for this life only.
There are churches where they would never dream of preaching the Gospel and healing the sick as Jesus did. But look at the commission Jesus gives to the Twelve, “Go to the lost sheep of Israel and preach this message, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is near.’” If Jesus was telling His Disciples 2000 years ago to preach the nearness of the Coming Kingdom, how much more should we preach the Coming Kingdom now?!
If you look at Bible prophecy, it’s obvious to me that we’re getting very close to the end of this age, there’s not much more that still has to be fulfilled! We’re seeing wars and rumours of wars. In my entire lifetime there hasn’t been a real period of peace; there’s always been some war, some conflict, some upheaval. There’s an increasing frequency of storms and earthquakes. The urgency is for us to get back to doing what Jesus said do! Preach the Kingdom! Call people to repent – and demonstrate the good news with miracles of healing. Jesus healed the sick in order to show who He was. It’s the same today. The evidence is in the miracles of healing.
People come to hear me because they see the Power of God at work. This has been the testimony of my 75 years of ministry. Miracles happen instantly. That’s what builds faith! And I’m always hearing days afterwards of people who were healed who didn’t realise the miracle had happened until they got home!
When I was in Azerbaijan in January this year, on the Saturday when I was preaching the Gospel in this Moslem country, I don’t know why, but I told the story of a miracle that had happened more than 30 years ago. Communism was collapsing and I was in a stadium in newly liberated Romania. Afterwards, the pastor told me about an old lady who was blind and who was healed in
my meeting. She had come from a nearby village – everybody knew she was blind so they didn’t believe her when she said Jesus had opened her eyes and she could see. They laughed at her, and, as a challenge, they gave her a needle and some fine red thread (apparently red is very hard to see) and told her to put the thread through the tiny eye of this needle. She did it! Then they had to believe the miracle!
I told this story on the Saturday in Azerbaijan. On the Sunday, a man came up to give his testimony. He’d been blind in one eye. After the meeting last night, he simply went home to bed. But in the middle of the night, he woke up thinking about this blind woman in Romania. He got a needle and thread and did exactly what that woman had done all those years ago! He could now see with his blind eye! And he came back to tell us what Jesus had done!
It is the miracles that prove who Jesus is! There are so many religions in the world, some of them are growing faster than Christianity. But there is no other religion, no other Gospel about a God who loves us so much, that He sent His Son to die for us – and works miracles today to prove it.
Jesus called His Disciples saying, “The harvest is plentiful, the workers are few –go out, preach the Kingdom, tell them the Kingdom of God is near – heal the sick and raise the dead!” We need to get back to the simplicity of this Gospel!
This is the challenge to us. This is the commission. This is the message we are called by God to give to a people who are harassed and helpless today! God bless you.
At the beginning of Matthew 9, Jesus crosses over the Sea of Galilee, and enters His own town Nazareth. Nazareth had a bad reputation. Remember, Philip, who came from nearby Bethsaida, as did Andrew and Peter, when he found his friend Nathanael, told him, “We’ve found the one Moses wrote about, about whom the prophets also wrote – Jesus of Nazareth, son of Joseph!” But Nathaneal’s sarcastic reply was, “Can anything good come from there?!” So, to be called Jesus of Nazareth was not complimentary! Of course, the name ‘Jesus or Yeshua’ was very common in Israel, so to be called Jesus of Nazareth, son of Joseph, identified who He was and where He came from. But Nazareth itself seems to have been known for being a hot bed of troublemakers. People from there were definitely regarded as tending to be rebellious!
Anyway, arriving in Nazareth, some men brought Jesus a paralysed man on a bed and put him down in front of Him. When Jesus saw their faith – notice, it was not the faith of the paralysed man that He saw, but when Jesus saw the faith of the men who brought him – He said to the paralysed man, “Take heart, rejoice, cheer up – your sin is forgiven.” Jesus does not heal the man as they expected, but He dealt with the most important thing FIRST. Because the most important thing is the sin question.
I know I often tell this story, and I know that you know it well too. But I want to tell it from a slightly different angle.
In my ministry I think I’ve seen more miracles than any living man – I cannot put a number on it – but when I preach on the mission field God has given me, I can see a third or even a half of the people miraculously healed. Several times it has been recorded that ALL the sick who came to me for prayer
were healed. It’s been a significant and integral part of my ministry. BUT, I always want to preach the Gospel of Jesus FIRST, and call the people to repent FIRST. This is what’s happening here with Jesus. He’s not dealing with the sickness, He’s dealing with the man’s sin FIRST. No, He’s not saying this man’s sickness is caused by his sin. Yes, people often link sickness with sin. It can be true, but not necessarily. In fact, when I had lung cancer in 2002, I was staying in my German office and I received a phone call from one of my German friends. He said, “David, God has told me to tell you, the reason you have lung cancer is because you have sinned and you’re out of His Will.” I was not! And the amazing thing is, that very same night, God worked an outstanding miracle and brought the cancer out of my mouth! They had to burn the bed! I’ve had cancer twice: throat cancer when I was 32 years old, and lung cancer when I was 70. Both were healed without any medication in a most unusual way. The throat cancer was cut out ‘with a knife’ and the doctors saw the scar where the Lord had cut it out Himself! Both cancers were used by God as a turning point in my life when I put my life and ministry into His Hands in an extreme act of faith!
But here, in this story of the paralysed man, Jesus is dealing with the sin question. FIRST. Let’s face it, if the man dies without confessing his sin and without seeking salvation, he does NOT go to Heaven. But if he finds Christ and receives salvation through Him, even if he dies from his sickness, He goes to Heaven! This is the Power of the Gospel!
So the first thing Jesus says to the dying man is not, “Get up and walk,” but, “Your sin is forgiven!”
When He said this, the scribes – the religious lawyers – said, “This fellow, this Je-
sus, this Nazarene, is blaspheming. He has no power to forgive sin!” Knowing their thoughts, Jesus says, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? Which is easier?
To say to a dying man, your sin is forgiven, or to say, get up and walk?”
When I preach on this story in evangelism, I also ask this question, which IS the easiest? The answer is very simple. ONLY GOD can do either! It takes a miracle in both cases! ONLY God can forgive sin, ONLY God can heal. And so Jesus says to the scribes, “So that you may know that the Son of Man” – this so-called ‘fellow from Nazareth’ – “has authority on earth to forgive sins” – He says to the paralysed man – “Get up, take up your mat and go home!” And we all know, he got up and went home!
So here Jesus is demonstrating two things: firstly, He’s demonstrating prophetically that this common Nazarene whom you are rejecting, actually IS the Son of God and He will eventually pay the price of sin on the cross; and secondly, He’s demonstrating that, as the Son of God, He has AUTHORITY ON EARTH! All my life I have recognised that God, through Jesus and the Holy Spirit. HAS POWER ON EARTH! NOT JUST IN HEAVEN! That’s why He could say to the man, “Get up” and the man got up, healed. And the crowds saw this as the demonstration of the Authority and Power God has ON EARTH, and they gave God the Glory!
Most of you reading this ARE believers, you ARE born again. But it’s my experience that I see more miracles with unbelievers, sinners, than with believers. But you see, it’s the simplicity of the faith that you have. This miracle in Matthew 9 started with the fact that Jesus ‘saw their faith’. We see this so many times in the four Gospels, and particularly in this chapter. We see a dead girl raised from the dead after a woman, who had been bleeding for 12 years, touched His
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garment and was healed. Her faith was so strong, she didn’t need Him to respond, just reaching out and secretly touching His coat would bring the miracle! She believed her touch, not His, would heal her. This was an incredible demonstration of faith.
Both times with my cancers, I prayed for 3 months before I got my miracle, but I didn’t give up. I had simple faith, reaching out to Jesus, KNOWING THE MIRACLE WILL HAPPEN. It’s a question of what is your faith? Some Christians who come to me for healing have been prayed for so many times before without result. But you see, I’m not a ‘healer’. In every meeting when I pray for the sick, I always emphasise, I am NOT A HEALER! Jesus is! I can’t heal anybody, but I have the faith to know that HE, Jesus, can!
Last year I had to deal with some lawyers in the Baltic States. One of them, from Estonia, was questioning me about myself and what I do. When she realised I had held a major crusade in Tallinn, she did some research on the internet and found the footage of those meetings when we had packed the largest auditorium, the Saku Arena. “Oh,” she said, “so you’re a healer?!” I had to say NO, I’m not, and I don’t want anybody to look on me as a healer, God is the Healer.
Your faith HAS to be that God will work the miracle.
What am I saying? Jesus Himself linked salvation and healing when He asked, “Which is easier, to say your sin is forgiven, or to say, get up and walk?!” ONLY God can forgive sin, only God can heal. But salvation is a miracle MORE IMPORTANT than the healing.
When Jesus told the sick man, “Get up and walk” He did not simply demonstrate His Power to heal, but through the
healing He was demonstrating His Power to forgive sin, and that ONLY through Him can forgiveness of sin and salvation come! The Bible is clear, there is no other name under Heaven by which we may be saved, except through the Name of Jesus.
The purpose of this miracle was to demonstrate that Jesus had come to bring salvation! From sin! So many people followed Him because of the miracles, not for salvation from sin. But when the people saw the man get up and walk, then they gave Glory to God. The reason Jesus came was not just to heal our earthly bodies – yes, He did that – but He came to show that he had power to break the curse and the power of sin in our lives, to set us free from the devil’s control.
When I heal the sick, I’m demonstrating Jesus has Power and Authority on earth to heal AND to forgive sin. ‘Forgiveness of sin’ cannot be seen; but healing can be seen. How could Jesus demonstrate the reality of the forgiveness of sin, so that it could be seen in a practical way? By healing that sick man. Before sin came there was no sickness, no death. God did not create men and women to sin and to die but to rule the world with Him. Adam and Eve only died because they both sinned. The first man, I’m sorry to say, was complicit with Eve when the devil questioned, “Did God say…?” –and they both ate the apple of disobedience.
The fact is, this fundamental sin still exists and rules the world today. The real question is, “Has God really said that this or that is sin?” First doubt. Then disobedience. One of the biggest problems we have with Christians, is doubt and disobedience to God and His Word. They question God’s Power, they question His Authority. And some don’t so much question God’s Word, as think that legis-
lation against sin is the answer. But as the Jews found, you cannot bring a people to obedience through imposing laws which they still fail to keep. As Paul wrote in Galatians 3:1-2, “Who has bewitched you? Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith?”
When I’m praying for miracles, what I am trying to demonstrate is this: God has Power and Authority on earth! Power to deal with the sin Satan brought into the world and its consequences. Yes, we HAVE to live by the Authority of God’s Word. When God called Israel out to be His Chosen people, they carried with them everywhere the Ten Commandments. There is no question. But within the Church, people are questioning, CAN God heal the sick, CAN He do this, CAN He do that, they even question the 10 commandments!
The reason I see so many miracles is because I KNOW God HAS the Power. I demonstrate that Power when I pray, when I speak with God’s Authority.
I want Christians in the Church to come back to recognising the Power that God has. I want the Church to come back to the simplicity of faith that those men had when they brought the paralysed man to Jesus, and Jesus saw their faith!
For me, the greatest gift of the Holy Spirit is a supernatural faith IN JESUS, IN THE POWER OF GOD – TO FORGIVE SIN and to give us authority over ALL THE POWER OF THE DEVIL – here ON EARTH.
I haven’t got time to die. I want to continue on in my ministry because I want to demonstrate WHO JESUS IS. I want to demonstrate the Power of God in our world TODAY. I want to show – THIS IS GOD! And I want YOU to see answers to your prayers. God bless you.
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This year David celebrates 75 years in ministry. His is a remarkable journey of faith, miracles, and nations changed by the simple preaching of the Gospel of Jesus – by the power of the Holy Spirit.
From his birth connected to the great Welsh Revival, and his early beginnings as a pastor in Dorking Surrey aged 18, to the challenges of smuggling Bibles into communist Eastern Europe, through to the present day, holding Days of Prayer in war-torn Ukraine, David has been instrumental in calling down the Power of God in nations suffering under godlessness. In the former European parts of
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the USSR, the Evil Empire, he's seen hope rise from chaos and despair, and in Central Asia, also formerly part of that evil Empire, the light of the Gospel breaking through the darkness.
To mark these 75 years in ministry, David has finally ‘put pen to paper’ and written his life story, but not just to recall the past. His job is not yet finished –and nor is yours! This book is a challenge to go out and evangelise whatever the cost, to pass on the baton and inspire faith, to ignite a passion for the Gospel in every corner of the world. This IS the Great Commission, and the best is yet to come!
In David’s own words:
‘I grew up with George Jeffreys and was dedicated by him as a baby. I knew the miracles in his and in Smith Wigglesworth’s lives. But all my life, I have believed there is MORE Power available from God than anything yet seen on earth. I sense there is an even GREATER Power available – which Joel calls the Latter Rain. But this would be GREATER than the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at the beginning of the 20th Century, which everyone assumed WAS the Latter Rain.
‘All my life I have wanted to see how far God could/would reveal His Power – if I stepped out in faith. This book is the evidence that God HAS more miraculous Power available than any living person including Moses, Elijah, David and the Old Testament prophets has YET seen. Even the Apostles and first disciples in the New Testament only tapped the surface.
‘It’s like a sailor setting out into a vast ocean in a tiny boat – the vastness of God’s Power is unbelievable, greater than anyone can imagine. Why has no one ever realised that, with the Holy Spirit, God’s Power is an unexplored ocean? I’m a sailor, and I want the Holy Spirit to fill the sails of my tiny boat and take me into a spiritual world as yet unknown and unexplored! Like Christopher Columbus, I want to go where no one has ever gone before.
‘Now, aged 93, I have not reached the limits of God’s Power HERE, ON EARTH! But the faith driving me is not in my head, it’s in my heart. Now I want to share this passion with you.’
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God is a Righteous Judge and a Saviour – His Name is Jesus Ukraine March 2025
Having just returned from Ukraine after 3 days of travel, I can now tell you that we stayed in Slovyans’k which was taken and devastated by Russian troops back in 2014 before being re-taken by Ukraine, but is still under fire, all these 11 years later. So we witnessed first-hand what the Russians did – and do. On arrival we went to the frontline to evangelise, comfort and help people still living in their shattered homes who have had little food, and no water or electric power since the invasion in 2022. Supported by a worship group and military chaplains, I preached JESUS, then gave them food and comfort.
We were taken to our accommodation in Sviatohirs’k for the four nights we would be there. We were told it was safer than in Slovyans’k, as we were further away from the frontline. It was absolutely dark on arrival, only in the light of the next morning did we discover the full destruction all around us – ours was the only house still standing and partly repaired! This place had been occupied and destroyed at the beginning of the 2022 invasion.
Every day we were meeting and witnessing to military commanders and people living in the ruins of their homes in the grey zone close to the frontline. We took food and brought them Jesus. All, including the military, were desperate for the comfort of our Gospel. Although under martial law no more than a small group of military commanders is allowed to gather in one place, more than 40 met me under cover and I spoke to them for more than 40 minutes. They were the commanders of the 26th Artillery Brigade
of Ukraine, responsible for the defence of this whole section of the frontline!
On the Sunday, I spoke in the evangelical Pentecostal church. Under martial law it is not allowed for more than 10 people to meet together, but the pastor holds his Sunday services anyway, and they all know me in Ukraine! More than 500 packed the church building for a full 3-hour service. I preached the Gospel: many unsaved repented; I prayed for the sick and many were healed.
After the service I asked to be taken as close as possible to the frontline. After all, I came here to fight a spiritual battle and command Satan and his army to leave Ukraine. It is God who has declared war on the devil, and I will not let Satan destroy the work of God in Ukraine. I prayed the covering of the Blood of Jesus over the land, declared the defeat of the invading Russian army, and placed Putin into the hands of Satan, whom he serves.
As an official military chaplain in Ukraine myself, I went to the front with local military chaplains. They gave me a bulletproof vest and helmet to protect me from the drones overhead and, yes, we could hear the sound of the guns nearby and the air raid warnings. They asked me if I had any fear – I said I fear no man, war or Putin, my only fear is to disobey God!
I then went back to the Church for the evening service which was a powerful prayer meeting with the church again almost full. As I waited to lead prayer, the Lord suddenly laid on my heart from 2 Kings 6, where the city of Dothan was
surrounded by the Syrian Army: Elisha’s servant saw the Syrian army and was in fear, but Elisha prayed God would ‘open his eyes’, and his servant saw all the army of the Lord with horses and chariots, far greater than the Syrian Army! Elisha then prayed for God to blind the eyes of the Syrian Army, and Elisha tricked them and led them away. I then challenged the Ukrainians to call on God to ‘blind the eyes of the Russian army’, by cutting connection with their drones in the sky which are their ‘eyes’ to kill Ukrainians. Within an hour, on a Ukrainian newsfeed, it was reported that from 19.35, no Russian drone had been seen in the air. It was temporary, but we must continue to pray that God will confuse Russian communication and intelligence systems that enable it to kill. After all, Trump temporarily withdrew the vital intelligence of the Five Eyes from Ukraine…
My interpreter Vitaliy has two sons in the army. The Senior Pastor has lost three of his sons in the war, one by shellfire, but two who were taken by the Russians and, because they were evangelical pastors, brutally and horrifyingly tortured before being murdered. I visited their graves with one of their surviving brothers.
As the evening service ended the pastor thanked me from the platform, saying, “David you are the first from outside Ukraine to come here during these last 3 years of war. Everyone thinks it’s too dangerous, but you not only came, you asked to be taken closer to the actual fighting on the frontline! Thank you – but come back soon!”
This was my first visit to Azerbaijan which, like Georgia and Armenia, is a part of South Caucasus – all are former member countries of the old USSR where Christians were persecuted for their faith.
Permission to hold an evangelistic event here in the capital Baku is a breakthrough in a country where 80% of the population are ‘born Moslem’. Our invitation came from a young thriving church, 6 years old –Azerbaijani converts on fire for the Gospel! Most came to Christ through a powerful encounter with Him, with miracles of healing to confirm the calling. In six years, this church and especially their pastor, have lived through extreme persecution, and only through this has acceptance and respect come from the government. Right now, the government officially protects the rights of Islam, Judaism and Christianity. As Pastor Emil told me, “It's a very special time for our country, we expect a miracle, we must go through
the open door!”
Our three evangelistic meetings were held in a packed Cultural Centre –filled to overflowing on the 3rd night! Before communism came at the start of the 20th Century, banning all forms of religion, this building had been a Lutheran Missionary Church. The sense of God’s energy, the dynamic Power of the Holy Spirit, was palpable throughout all three meetings – it was a breakthrough! The worship, David’s preaching and the miracles of healing were broadcast live online.
The Spirit of God is moving in Power! As well as the unbelievers who packed the meetings, pastors and leaders from all Azerbaijan, and also from Georgia and Central Asia, attended. We all sense a powerful revival is breaking out in the whole of this vast and neglected region and, together, we are uniting our efforts and acting fast –whilst the door is open. The day after we left Baku, the Minister of Religious
Affairs sent us a message to take a 5000-seat stadium in September for 3 days of evangelism!
The Gospel was first brought to present day Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia by Bartholomew, one of the 12 Disciples, in the very early years after Christ’s Ascension into Heaven, after the first outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost. His preaching brought Jesus to these pagan fire-worshipping peoples. He was flayed alive and beheaded by the Zoroastrians in 69/71 AD, after the local king, Polymius, converted; Bartholemew's body was buried here in Baku, Azerbaijan. Subsequently in the 7th Century, Azerbaijan was converted to Islam at the point of the sword.
Although the notion of being ‘born a Moslem’ remains, under the current leadership, Azerbaijan is now regarded as the most secular Moslem country in the world.
The time to evangelise is now.
I am 93 years old. All my life I have been in a spiritual fight. Against the devil, Satan, Lucifer, the fallen angel, as he is described in these different ways in the Bible. Firstly, my fight has been on a personal level, later, on a world stage – facing communism and other evil forces. We all live in a spiritual battle and all must fight, not against each other, but against spiritual powers and principalities, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 6:12.
The message of Jesus is peace on earth, but as we have seen dramatically from history and even as I write this, peace comes at a price. I learned very early in my life that unless we resist the devil, he will walk all over us. Our God is a God of war, look at the Old Testament and the nation of Israel. But as I have declared so many times, in six thousand years God has never been defeated, and I will not let Him be defeated now! All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. We have to be pro-active in order to share in God’s Victory.
It was travelling through Europe that I began to notice that the EU was employing certain Biblical symbols to indicate its corporate identity, symbols which can be seen in and understood through the Bible and prophecy: the Tower of Babel, from Genesis 11, destroyed by God as a symbol of rebellion; the Woman riding on, and raped by, the Beast – prophecy from Revelation 17:1-14; world empires, opposed to God and His Christ, as shown to Nebuchadnezzar in a dream and interpreted by the prophet Daniel in Daniel 2, ending in the feet of the image, which, identified by its own use of symbols, is clearly the European Union. All will be destroyed by Christ’s Coming – when He will establish a Kingdom that can never be destroyed but will stand forever. I first began writing about these things in my magazine in summer 1998.
And, in summer 2001, with my newly founded TV production company, we filmed the new European Parliament Building in Strasbourg, France, opened just one year before and modelled, at great expense, on the famous painting by Dutch artist Pieter Brueghel, ‘The
Tower of Babel’. Next, we filmed inside the Pergamon Museum in Berlin where, since 1902, they have the original Pergamon Altar, the Seat of Satan of Revelation 2:12-13, and since 1913, also the original gateway leading to the Tower of Babel. Both items were brought at great expense from the Middle East by the Kaiser of the newly unified Germany, before the outbreak of WWI. And lastly, outside the European Council Building in Brussels we filmed a massive iron sculpture of a woman recklessly riding a horned beast. All these images representing rebellion against God, to be destroyed at the return of Christ!
I have proved that the beast that rapes Europe, according to Revelation 17, is Islam. See my film on YouTube, ‘The Rape of Europe’ which we released in 2002. Or read my book, ‘Babylon in Europe’ published in 2006 and available on Amazon Kindle. We were the first to produce a film on the EU as revealed in Bible prophecy through its own choice of symbols, and the role of Islam in this. My film had a big impact during the Brexit campaign for the UK to leave the EU, even in the British Parliament. Many others produced their own videos during this period, all based on what I had uncovered back in 2001.
I have noticed, and it’s been more than a little disturbing, that some of my Russian friends – and others – gladly justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, threatening all Europe, based on my film!!! Let me remind everyone that before I produced the film, I had a direct encounter with the ruling spirit controlling Russia! FIRST. That was in 1993. The spirit that was in Genghis Khan (who quickly overran most major East European cities and reached the gates of Vienna), was in Ivan the Terrible, in Peter the Great, in Lenin, Stalin and now is in Putin. It is a spirit of European conquest, and this spirit is demonic!
Be aware that, whilst the EU was formed out of a vision of Europe united from the Atlantic to the Urals, in Russia the vision was the reverse: from the Ural Mountains to the Atlantic.
It was the Romans, the ‘legs of iron’ prophesied in Daniel 2, in existence
when Christ lived on this earth, who first attempted to unite and rule Europe by conquest – but ultimately failed. Rome was defeated in 476 AD by the Germanic tribes, their king, Odoacer, becoming the first German ruler of Rome, albeit a collapsed Roman Empire. In 800 AD, Pope Leo III created a ‘Holy Roman Empire’, crowning Charlemagne ‘Holy Roman Emperor’, the first in a line of Frankish and German Emperors, anointed by the Popes of Rome to rule Europe. This Holy Roman Empire lasted for ten centuries. The last in this line was Napoleon who, during his coronation in 1804, snatched the crown from the Pope, publicly rejecting the authority of the Church over him. Napoleon got as far as Moscow in his conquest of Europe – and failed. Then in the 20th Century, Hitler rose up and became Führer of a German ‘Reich’, a messianic kingdom to rule, not just Europe, but the world for the Biblical One Thousand Years. Thank God he failed.
Now if you look at Putin’s concept of history, the Holy Roman Empire in Europe – that is the two legs of iron in Daniel 2, being both Rome (the ‘first’ Rome) and Constantinople (the ‘second’ Rome which fell to the Ottoman Turkish Empire in 1453) – somehow lost legitimacy and the spiritual inheritance passed to Moscow, the ‘third’ Rome… This is a theological, political and military concept invented in the 15th and 16th Centuries by Ivan the Terrible when he declared his princedom of Moscovy now to be the new ‘Czardom’ of Russia – the rule of a ‘Roman’ Caesar or Czar, with imperialist intentions of conquest. The idea of a ‘Holy Russia’ was born, with a subsumed Ukraine and Belarus as an integral part.
For Putin, Moscow is THE successor of ancient Rome, with his ‘Russkiy Mir’ –‘Russian World’ or ‘Russian Peace’ as it can also be translated – mimicking the ‘Pax Romana’, ‘Roman Peace’ –that lasted for two hundred years from 27 BC to 180 AD, a so-called ‘golden age’ of enforced and sustained Roman imperialism. Here are the seeds of today’s conflict. The concept of ‘Russian World’ is essential to Russia’s neo-imperialism, with President Putin, in 2007, setting up the government funded Russkiy Mir Foundation.
David Hathaway
This is what I forecast in 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down and freedom began to come to the communist countries. I said, “Another Curtain will fall across Europe, a worse spirit than before – brought by economic collapse, military force, and by spiritual force.”
Like it or not, just as Daniel had to face up to ruling spirits over the nation in his day, we also are facing powers and principalities – in the full knowledge that the kingdoms of this world do not yet belong to our Christ.
The whole question of the EU is still today hotly debated within the European Union, in Britain and worldwide. One strong argument for its formation after WWII was to prevent war ever happening in Europe again. But as foretold in Daniel 2, the EU today is not united but politically fractured, exactly as Daniel prophesied. So where are we now in 2025? With Ukraine, illegally invaded by Putin’s Russia and a vicious war waged daily against the whole nation since February 2022. With the Baltic States, under threat. What next…?
I must remind you, God had a Vision when He created the world, and the Bible says that when God spoke, the
Vision came to life! And it was good. A world with no sin, suffering, hunger, disease, pain or death. God in Heaven had a glorious Vision of a beautiful, perfect world, where man lived in communion with God and in harmony with mankind. When God created the earth, it was to fulfil this Vision. When He looked at the nations of Europe –Russia – the Middle East – Asia – Africa – America – He saw a glorious creation, filled with His Glory and Power!
Then the devil came to ruin God’s dream. He brought disobedience, fear, sin and death. All the things that distress and disturb our world come from Satan when he sowed that first seed of doubt, “Did God say?” This is what much of the Church is saying today about sin, questioning what God clearly states in His Word – exactly as Adam and Eve did!
But before the foundation of the world, God knew what would happen. He had another Vision, ready, in anticipation of Satan’s act of rebellion! That He would send His Son into the world, so that Jesus, by His Power and Authority, by His Death and Resurrection, would break the power of Satan, set men free. God has a Vision of men and women saved from sin, delivered from sickness, filled with the Holy Ghost
– waiting for the final redemption, when Christ will restore the earth to its first Glory! For this reason, the Bible, speaking of Jesus, refers to Him as ‘the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world’. The way of redemption was prepared BEFORE sin came!
If you could catch the Glory and the Power of this Vision that God has within His Heart today, it would change your life, your church, your nation. For forty years I have been seeking, with the anointing of the Holy Spirit, to relate what the Bible says in prophecy to current world events. The Word of God is not just old history, nor predictions to be fulfilled in the future over a period of hundreds of years. The Word of God relates directly to the very present time in which we live. If you believe, as I do, that we are literally in the ‘last days’ –then we are living in the fulfilment of those age-old prophecies. This means that the ‘seer’, or modern prophet, ‘sees’ and understands that world events are unfolding exactly ‘as it was spoken by the prophets...’ Just as it was with Jesus, where Scripture says, ‘in order to fulfil the words of the prophet, Jesus did...’, so we too must act.
BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER
Katie Morris
I’ve been trying to frame some questions, to get some answer from God and from Scripture about what is going on in our increasingly dystopian and unjust world. What does HE think about it all? This morning as I surfaced from sleep, it was as though my questions were being formed for me, and an answer given which applies both to individuals and to nations.
These are the questions: What was it that made one brother, Cain, kill the other, Abel? Is this what made Russia invade and kill his ‘brother’ –Ukraine – from 2014 until now as I write –and is this why we have this cycle of predatory world empires that is the history of our world?
This is the answer: Obviously, to Bible-believing Christians, sin is the answer. Abel was obedient to God’s instruction to bring a lamb as a sin offering. Cain was not. Was such an instruction ever given? Yes, along with many scholars, I believe the Lord Himself gave this instruction, by example, when He covered the sin of Adam and Eve with a lambskin, Genesis 3:21, symbolic of Christ Himself, the Lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world.
I know all that. But what I began to see as I was waking up was something less obvious. Because what also marked the difference between the brothers was character. This is important because ‘character’ not only affects personal life but affects everything from family to the life of whole nations.
By character Abel was a shepherd. In earliest times there were no fields with hedges where you could safely leave the
sheep to get by on their own. A shepherd had to care for the life of his flock even at risk of his own, protecting them from wild beasts (as David did from the lion and the bear), leading them to the best places to drink and to graze. Cain, by character, was an acquisitor of lands, possessions and properties – as we shall see. Knowing Cain had murdered Abel, when the Lord asked him where is your brother – Cain replied in effect – “I’ve no idea, why should I care about him? I’m not his keeper.”
For a man who loved his possessions above all things, to be condemned to be a ‘restless wanderer on the earth’ was a terrible punishment! So the first thing he did was build himself a ‘power base’, a city, and named it after his son! Did he care about the people of the city and their welfare? Did Hitler and his clique care about the elderly, the handicapped, the mentally ill, the Jews? Did they care about the civilians dead in annexations and wars started by him? Why be a ‘keeper’ of the weak? Why care, when you can heap up possessions for yourself and increase in power to terrify? Why not invade Ukraine if you are Putin, take lands and crush peoples? Why not take the spoils of military or economic war?
Cain was only the beginning of such men. Many ‘heroes and men of renown’ like him began to appear on the earth, aspiring rulers of men but hard of heart. When God saw how great this wickedness had become, His heart was filled with pain; and when He saw the whole earth was filled with violence, He sent a flood to put a stop to it.
Yet after the flood, more ‘mighty men’
appeared, the foremost of whom was Nimrod, described in Genesis 10 as a ‘mighty man’, a builder of many cities, including Babel with its famous tower reaching to the skies, even to ‘heaven’ –just to make a ‘name’ for himself! When God saw that nothing would now be impossible for Nimrod and his strong men –his ‘siloviki’ and oligarchs as you might call them today – He brought division among them, scattered them and stopped the building of the tower…
Throughout human history, this has been our problem. Countless strong men have arisen – in rebellion against the Lord God –as conquerors of peoples and nations and have gained a name in history for it: Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, Putin – and many more, cast in the same mould as Cain, Nimrod and Nebuchadnezzar. ALL take after ‘their father the devil’, murderers and liars, destroying the souls of those they lord it over. Jesus said, when the devil lies, he speaks from his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. Character matters. Lies matter. The accusation of ‘fake’ has so been used and abused, many can no longer discern between the truth and a lie.
To paraphrase what Paul said of the end times in 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12, “The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders to deceive those who are perishing – because all will be condemned who do not love the truth but instead delight in wickedness.” You can speak and believe Biblical Truth – yet still in your heart be deceived by the devil’s crafty lies. He tried this on, even with Jesus: If You will bow down and worship me, I will give You all the power and glory of these kingdoms, because I can give it to anyone I want…
When Eve gave birth to Cain, she said, “Behold, I have given birth to a man!” No other baby in the Hebrew Old Testament is referred to as a ‘man’ at birth. Eve surely believed God’s promise in Genesis 3:15, but, I think, must have believed Cain was the promised seed, God’s appointed MAN to defeat Satan – Satan who had entrapped her and made her sin! But the scales must have fallen from her eyes the day Cain murdered Abel. He was no Messiah!
There are two things I admire Adam and Eve for: One, they made sure all succeeding generations would remember their sin and understand, we all are born with their same sin-character. Two, they made sure we would remember God’ promise to send a MAN, born of a woman, who would defeat sin. Surely, Adam and Eve died in faith, looking forward to our true Messiah.
God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. This is the God we have.
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