Prophetic Vision, Spring 2018 #87

David Hathaway No 87 Spring 2018

I like a challenge! However high you have climbed in your spiritual life, there is always another peak beyond.

I challenge you – climb those mountains, keep going!

There is always something bigger, higher, greater in front of you! Go for it!

David Hathaway – to the Businessmen’s Fellowship in Britain (BMF & FGB) In the Bible, we find that Mordecai challenged Esther to go to the King to beg for mercy to stop the destruction and slaughter planned for the Jewish people. But Esther knew, even though she was Queen, anyone who went into the King’s presence without an invitation would be put to death – unless he extended his sceptre to spare that person’s life... She did not want to go!

Unless a miracle happened, if she went before the King, she would die! Esther 4:11-13.

Mordecai sent her a message, “Don’t think that because you are in the King’s house that you alone of all the Jews will escape! If you remain silent at this time, there will be deliverance for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish! Who knows if you are come to the kingdom for such a time as this?!” Esther faced a tremendous challenge. She went.

I know in my heart, that I have come to the Kingdom for such a time as this. I also believe YOU have come to the Kingdom for such a time as this. We have to forget the past, the mistakes and the successes, because what is about to happen is far more important and more powerful, more glorious than anything that has happened in the past.

The challenge to Esther was, IF you don’t speak, IF you don’t go to the King, deliverance will come – but from another direction. But if that deliverance is to come through you – YOU HAVE TO ACT! The challenge to us as Christians, as the Church, is – IF we do not speak, IF we do not ACT in our own nation, a counterfeit ‘deliverance’ will come – and the enemy will take control!

God has called you and me to save our nation, this generation, from the destruction and the wrath which will come.

In the Day of Prayer I held for Britain on September 8th 2017, there was a discordant note. A respected spiritual leader had made it known that he strongly believes God has told him NOT to pray any more for this nation. People were confused, and hoping to bring some clarity, I allowed him to join us. I know better than he what destruction awaits this nation, it’s in my film, The Rape of Europe. The danger is there.

But whatever prophets may say, God has NOT yet forsaken this nation. You and I CAN stop the destruction! But, IF we don’t pray, IF we don’t speak, IF we don’t act, the destruction WILL come. There are forces and there are powers which are trying to destroy what remains of our Christian heritage. That’s my concern.

Why did I call a Day of Prayer in Ukraine in

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2016 & 2017? Because I saw that nobody could bring peace to that nation. In East Ukraine where I held some of my most powerful evangelistic campaigns after the fall of communism, people are being killed and murdered. People I know, pastors, one pastor’s two sons – have been deliberately singled out, shot and killed. The politicians, the diplomats, the military can’t and don’t solve it. That’s why I called those national days of prayer in Ukraine! We’re not called to an easy life, there’s a battle and a war going on – physically and spiritually – we’re called to a fight! There is no peace till Christ comes back. Are we just going to stand by and do nothing? Or are we going to take the challenge head-on?!!

dren by Katharine of Aragon, found out from the Bible that his marriage to her was unscriptural – he shouldn’t have married his brother’s wife! At that time the Bible was commonly in Latin, often even the priest hadn’t and couldn’t read it; in any case the Latin text was so corrupted over the centuries that the Truth of the Word of God was unrecognisable. We may criticise Henry VIII today, but he had a copy of the Bible – in English, translated from the original Greek – put into every church in the land! Christians have no other authority than the Word of God! When we put it into practice – the whole world changes! Until Britain turns back to the Truth of the Word of God, there is no hope for this nation.

I have given my life for the Russian-speaking peoples, first under communism, and still today. But I am seeing the reward of my sacrifice: only 25 years after the fall of communism, the President of Ukraine issued a statement, broadcast on TV on the opening day of my National Day of Prayer this last year, 2017: “The people of Ukraine have chosen the Church and God – now the Government must do the same, we must respect the choice of the people!”

And the Government has declared 2018 as the ‘Year of the Word of God’! What a transformation of a nation! There is a process of healing going on in Ukraine which is unique.

I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit just before my 14th birthday. As a boy I had hungered for it, fasted and prayed for three months, I had emptied myself. I was desperate. So when it came, that baptism was a baptism of Fire and Power! The next day in my church, they had all heard, and they were all looking to see. I felt absolutely flat, dead, no moving of the Spirit – nothing at all! But I learnt one of the biggest lessons of my life. Had I received such a powerful baptism the day before? Yes. Do I expect that same level of emotion to remain with me? No. But my reaction must be, I must now step out in faith. You need the faith to put the gifts of the Holy Spirit into action; we must take the gifts of the Holy Spirit by faith – because God always does what He says! I have always coveted the gift of faith because, when you have that real faith, all the other gifts can come into operation!

Britain is, was, a so-called Christian nation, but I’m in despair. One reason Theresa May is so attacked is because she is a Christian.

That’s why the media attack the DUP, the Government’s coalition partner – because they are Christian. When they found out that the leader of the Liberal Democrats was an evangelical Christian, they asked him about same-sex marriage and about abortion. He spoke the Truth – and he lost his job as leader, he had to stand down!

Britain has turned its back on God! I grew up in revival in Britain. My father was converted in the Great Welsh Revival. I was dedicated to the Lord by one of the greatest healing evangelists Britain has ever known, George Jeffreys. I remember the churches before the War – filled with thousands of people. When our King called those War Days of Prayer for Britain, thousands queued up outside the churches across the nation – they couldn’t all get in!

Today the churches are empty! It’s a challenge! Last year we celebrated the Reformation, the return to the Authority of the Word of God 500 years ago. Britain made the first ‘Brexit’ from Europe back then! A recent secular TV programme showed that Henry VIII, who had no chil-

Most Christians want power from God – but I want power WITH God! Jacob is the only man in the Bible of whom God said, “As a prince, you have power WITH God and men!” Genesis 32:28 KJV. If you want power with men, you have to have power with God first; we have a responsibility towards God – and to men! And if we would follow Jesus, there is no turning back! As the hymn says, the cross before me, the world behind me – we can’t turn back! How can you live without the Power of God?!! Life is a challenge to test the reality of our faith in God! We CAN’T go back on the call of God on our lives. I couldn’t go back to living an ordinary life!

We HAVE to put HIS POWER into ACTION! The challenge is this, we have to beat strategy with strategy. I’m a chess player! You have to know and foresee the devil’s strategy – and you have to beat him with God’s strategy. Balaam, hired to curse the people of Israel, said, “God is not a man that

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He can lie, nor the son of man that He should change His mind, what He says, He does – whom God has blessed, no man can curse!” I have no fear of the devil and his curse, because I know, and my experience with God is, that when He speaks to me or shows something to me, He always does what He says. There is no curse in hell or on earth that can touch me, because God has blessed me.

So often when I am praying over issues and looking for the answer, I say to the Lord, “Show it to me in writing.” And He does!

That’s what happened in 1964 when I had throat cancer. I had already seen so many miracles in my ministry, even reported in the local press! I could not allow an operation because the eyes of my church were on me! It became such a strong challenge: do I really believe what I preach? The doctors confirmed I had cancer, but I took no treatment. For three months I prayed, then went back to the hospital, convinced I was healed. But the cancer had grown so big, they mocked my faith, gave me three days and on Monday I was to come back, they were going to operate and take away my voice! I changed my praying and I challenged God, “If You want me to stay in my church, don’t heal me – I’ll tell the doctors You couldn’t do it. But if You want me to leave my church and go to Russia and Israel” – I had begun my overland tours to Israel through the Iron Curtain countries – “I need a miracle, heal me! But show it to me in writing!” I wanted a YES or

NO. Starting in Romans 8, when I read the verse, ‘When we know not what to pray for as we ought, the Spirit makes intercession for us...ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD!’ – I jumped up, I knew it was YES! Next day the surgeons had their knives sharpened to operate on this Christian! They put the instruments down – three times – roughly – to take a look, pulled them out and said, “Who did it? Tell us the name of the doctor!

Your cancer has been cut out with a knife – we can see the scar!” I said, “Jesus! The God you don’t believe in, He did it!”

From the very beginning this has been my relationship with God: when I asked for the answer, He gave it me in writing, and when I knew the answer, He fulfilled it!

I produced my film, The Rape of Europe, nearly 20 years ago. It is the clear exposition from Scripture why we have to leave Europe, it deals with the spiritual problem our government is having now in negotiating Brexit. It also deals with the issue of extreme Islam. But the EU has adopted as one of its two key symbols, the Tower of Babel – rebellion against God – we show it to you in the film! The head of the Pentecostal Union in Ukraine, who lived through the persecution of communism against Christians, is a chief negotiator on behalf of the Churches dealing with the EU. He told me, “The EU is a hundred times worse than communism!” He knows! It is far more demonic, far more controlling than anything you can imagine. God clearly

revealed this to me all those years ago!

When God shows me something, I KNOW He is going to do it! I was in a communist prison for bringing Bibles into the East. Some few years after my release from prison, in those darkest days of communism, God showed me that He would break open the Iron Curtain by the Fire of the Holy Spirit – despite everything we could see! I was interviewed on BBC and ITV: How could I say such things? What was the force behind it? But I knew there was a great deal of prayer, a strong Christian move behind this! By faith I held those prophetic East-West Conferences in West Germany 1988-1992 – hundreds and later thousands came by a miracle through the Iron Curtain! In 1989, just after the second conference, the Iron Curtain began to break! We all remember the night when the Wall came down in Berlin! And Russia came free just 24 hours after the ending of the third prophetic conference in 1991, just as God had shown me in a dream and which I prophesied publicly on the closing day.

Today our churches are divided on every Biblical issue, divided on the Truth of God’s Word. Yet history shows that no other nation – except Israel – has been so used of God as Great Britain. When Britain was at her greatest, she had the largest world empire in history – we took the Gospel to every corner of the world! Going back further, when the Roman Empire collapsed in Britain, Britain did not become uncivilised as some say. Celtic Britain took the Gospel to the whole of heathen Europe! Today we must bring the Gospel back to the godless heathen nation we live in! There is judgement on the Church that accepts sin as the norm. Every one of us, believer and unbeliever, must appear before the Judgement Seat of Christ.

Original sin is not a fable about eating an apple! Before Adam and Eve, Satan was cast out of Heaven because of rebellion against God... It is Satan who said to Eve, “Has God said?” Questioning God. I would not like to be one of those leaders in the Church questioning God. Today the whole world is taken up with rebellion, the whole spiritual battle in Britain is over rebellion: we don’t believe God! When the Church questions, “Has God said?” – what good is the Church? But we can bring our nation back to Christ. Even if we have to move hell out of the way, we can, because nothing can stop the Power of God!

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David Hathaway – to the Businessmen’s Fellowship in Britain (BMF & FGB)

God can use any one of us. Apostle Paul, writing to the Corinthians said, “I’m coming to you shortly, and will know, not the speech of the puffed up, but the power. For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in POWER!” – 1 Corinthians 4:19-20. This is a challenge to us all. We don’t all have to be preachers, because the Kingdom of God is not just in the word we speak, it’s in the POWER and the DEMONSTRATION. Not long preaching, not long prayers – but the demonstration of the Word of God! God needs simple people who can DEMONSTRATE the Truth of His POWER. I want to encourage you because God WANTS to use you. People are not convinced by an argument. The man with a testimony has more power and authority than a man with an argument! I am moved, I am thrilled by your testimonies. The same Spirit that’s in me is in you! The simplicity of your testimony is the demonstration of God! Even Jesus admitted that the people didn’t follow Him for His sermons, but for the miracles – for the multiplication of the food on this occasion!

God wants to use YOU, where you are, in the simplicity of whatever you do. I learnt it the same way you can.

After I was baptised in the Holy Spirit, we went out on the streets. We just told them what Jesus had done in our lives – people WANT to meet Jesus!

He’s the only one of any importance!

Let’s talk about Him! When I was 18, I would go to Speakers Corner in Hyde Park with other young students from the Bible College – I used to enjoy it!

No political correctness in those days!

And people came to Christ! Every time! The first time I preached the Gospel in Russia, it was still under communism, no preparation had been made – but we took the summer theatre in the park, and they hooked us up to the propaganda loudspeaker system! The whole town heard! The first to be healed were five blind peo-

ple, one after the other! The DEMONSTRATION! It WORKS! God WANTS to use you! All those years ago when I had the throat cancer, God said to me, “Shut up, stop talking, go out and PROVE that it works!” You are baptised in the same Holy Spirit as me – it’s not you, it’s not me, there’s no difference, it’s the Holy Spirit! When Jesus came to earth, He left all His Heavenly Authority, lived like you and me – and the Power ONLY came when He was baptised in the Holy Spirit! Jesus said, “When the Holy Spirit is come, YOU will preach the Gospel, heal the sick!” There is only ONE Holy Spirit! The SAME Holy Spirit Jesus was baptised with! It’s not you healing the sick it’s Him – I want Jesus to get the glory, not me! It’s the Holy Spirit in YOU! If you believe – you HAVE the gift of faith! I ask for a fresh baptism of faith every day. Yesterday’s faith isn’t good enough for today. I need new faith every morning! I’m weak, “Holy Spirit, I’m willing, but I’m just an ordinary person – I need You to work through me!”

How much of the Holy Spirit do we have?!! When I was still 13 years old, just before my 14th birthday, seeking the baptism in the Holy Spirit, the Lord spoke to me and said, “How much Holy Spirit do you want?” I said, “I want to be filled!” He said, “You have to empty yourself first!” Yes, even a 13year old boy has his own desires, he should have – but I had to EMPTY EVERYTHING OUT so there was more room for the Holy Spirit.

There comes a time in all of our lives when we must EMPTY ourselves. We must get back on our knees and say, “Lord, I have the Holy Spirit, but I don’t have enough. Help me to empty myself!” It’s so easy to get a glass of water, but how full is it? One of the misunderstandings about the baptism of the Holy Spirit is simply this: how much room do we leave, how much is still self, and how much of us becomes

Holy Spirit? I still have to say, “Lord, I’m going to have to clear some of the rubbish out of my life!” Rubbish accumulates! If you live in a house for more than two years, you know what I mean! There can be an accumulation of stuff in our lives which hinders God’s work. We need to spend time with God – because He NEEDS you, He WANTS to use you! He wants to ‘resurrect’ you! Revive you!

Today it can be so difficult to find a church where they really preach the Truth of the Word of God. But YOU are called to be salt and light in the world.

The salt is the purifier, the preservative.

The light is a candle in the darkness.

You may feel your light is very dim; in the bright daylight, your little flame won’t shine. But in utter darkness, what a change! The darker the area, the more important your light is! Your eye has millions of light receptors – this is what it takes to give your eye the power to see! If we, as Believers, can draw together a million little light receptors, little lights shining together in the darkness – look what a brilliance will come – a lot of little lights in dark places! What a challenge!

Don’t concentrate on preaching, I’m not much of a preacher – concentrate on your gifts and your testimony!

I am a witness, I have a testimony, my Jesus is alive and He’s got POWER! I can show you! The world wants to know this Jesus! I’m excited by ‘Healing on the Street’, by ‘Street Pastors’! Let’s tell the people on the street about Jesus, He’s our best friend! There’s so much we can do, we can all do it!

It takes only one spark – your spark – to light the Fire!

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rmation with the Churches – 31 October

Russian Government celebrates the Refo

2017 worldwide was the year of great anniversaries: 50 years since the reunification of Jerusalem following the Six Day War; 100 years since the British Government issued the Balfour Declaration in favour of establishing a Jewish Homeland in ‘Palestine’; 100 years since the liberation of Jerusalem from Moslem rule, when British General Allenby

...On October 30th, in a public ceremony in front of Russian Church leaders, in front of the whole nation, President Putin laid flowers at the ‘Wall of Sorrow’ – the country’s first national memorial built for and dedicated to the victims of Soviet-era government repression – and not just political victims, but the martyrs who suffered and died for their Christian faith. Cynics have reason to be contemptuous of this gesture. Nonetheless, publicly, Putin declared that the years of suffering at the hands of the Soviet state must never be forgotten: “This horrific act must not be stricken from the national memory – let alone justified in any way – by any so-called ‘higher good of the people’. We and our successors must remember the tragedy of the repression and its causes. But this does not mean one must call for revenge. Nobody should push society to cross the dangerous line of confrontation.”

And next day, October 31st, over 200 Church and civic leaders came together with ministers from the Russian government, to celebrate Luther’s Reformation in Europe – which was the return to the foundation of the Truth of the Word of God – and to acknowledge the strong con-

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dismounted from his horse to go through the gates on foot – in honour of Messiah who is still to come; 500 years since the Reformation and the return to the Truth of the Word of God in Europe.

Oh and 100 years since the Russian Revolution... How was Russia going to celebrate? We were there in Russia...

tribution the evangelical movement has made in Russian society up to, and including, today.

The celebration was held in the famous ‘Pashkov’s House’ – a grand classical building on a hill overlooking the walls of the Kremlin. One hundred years ago, aristocrat Vasily Pashkov was greatly influential in introducing the evangelical message to the upper classes of Russian society – at the same time as the Great Welsh Revival, and the Pentecostal Outpouring in Azusa Street in America and in Monkwearmouth in Great Britain. But after the 1917 Revolution in Russia, Pashkov was exiled for his faith. October 31st 2017 was the first time Christians of evangelical faith have been back in this state-owned property!

The Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration opened with congratulations from Mr Putin to the Evangelical Protestant Churches and in particular to the Head of the Lutheran Church in Russia. This was followed by greetings from: the representatives of the Minister of Culture, the Minister of Education, the Moscow City Administration, the Civic Chamber (Advisory Board to the President), the Russian Orthodox, the

Armenian Apostolic Church; the German Ambassador; the Pope’s Nuncio; leaders of the Seventh Day Adventists, the Baptists, Pentecostals and Evangelical Christians.

As someone who has given his life for Russia, David Hathaway was one of the few invited foreign guests. For him, what he was seeing was the evidence, the fruit of more than 50 years of ministry in Russia and the former communist countries of East Europe – where atheism once reigned supreme. The 30th and 31st were days spent in interesting discussions. One of the Church leaders recalled, “We worked hard when the freedom came. It was not easy. Repressive laws were passed against us to limit the activities of the evangelical churches, but we got on with our work – and suddenly we have realised – THE CHURCH IS STRONG!” Both Orthodox and Evangelical leaders are now saying, “The politicians don’t know where to go...but the Church HAS A VISION!” David concurred, “You were persecuted through all the years, and I was persecuted. And like you, I have a BIG vision for your future.”

During our days in Moscow, we had much talk about the spiritual changes that are taking place in the Russianspeaking countries, and those unfortunately taking place in Europe. The Deputy Head of the Foreign Relations Department of the Orthodox Church in Russia, Hieromonk Stefan, said, “The first foreign embassy in Russia was British, and the first foreign church was British. This is remembered in the hearts of the Christians in Russia and is above politics. David, your life is an example and testimony that, despite politics,

the Lord works His miracles. We, in the Foreign Department of the Orthodox Church, develop relations with Churches overseas that protect traditional Christian moral values. I would like to believe that the Church in Britain will resist the pressure that is coming from secular society, and will be strong enough to preserve adherence to Biblical moral values without which faith and civilised society are not possible. Look at the tragedy that happened both politically and spiritually in Russia, the condition she was in when the freedom came in the 1990s, and look now – a reformation has taken place!” It’s true! Stefan continued, “In 2017 we are remembering 100 years of revolution and atheism which began the systematic mass persecution of every Christian denomination in Russia. Today the Church is called, not to reform religion according to human society, but to reform ourselves – according to the true working of the Word of God in the hearts of men. Those who have had a true encounter with God, these have made humanity more humane.”

tion of Luther’s Reformation. In his private conversation with David he said, “The Russian Federation regard the Protestant Evangelical movement as integral to the cultural, scientific and economic well-being of our country.

Russian Christians have a part to play, not just in Russia, but in Europe today.

Despite communism, our Christian heritage, both Orthodox and Protestant, was preserved, even though for more than 70 years the values of a secular society were imposed on our people with the force of a ‘pseudo-religion’.

But we have realised that the only solid foundation for society and its institutions is found in pure faith, in historic Christian culture. Your so-called ‘secular’ society in the West is not secular, it’s a pseudo-liberal-religion.

Today’s global society wants an amoral, immoral globalism – but our response has to be rooted in historical Christianity.”

David’s last meeting on the 30th was with social scientist, Josef Diskin, member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation Advisory Board to the President. His responsibility is for ‘integration and harmonisation of religions and ethnicities’ – and it was he who was a key player behind the government’s involvement in the celebra-

David replied, “Christian faith in Russia has come through persecution – and persecution has purified it. It’s the exact opposite in the West.” The Deputy Head of the Pentecostal Union who organised the celebration of the Reformation on the 31st said, “When the freedom finally came in the 1990s, the Church was crushed.

We could see no evidence of the revival we were looking for. We could see that the Church in the West was rich in finance and theology – but anyway we just got on with our job...

Hudson Taylor, British missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission, whilst on furlough in Britain in 1889 was preaching when he stopped for some time and was silent.

When he resumed speaking he told of a vision he had just seen of a great national spiritual awakening in Russia (by ‘Russia’ we in the West understand ALL the Russian-speaking Slavic peoples) that will touch Europe before Christ’s return. All over Russia, Christians know and believe this prophecy:

“I saw in this vision a great war that encompasses the world. I saw this war recess and then start again, actually being two wars. [Fulfilled.] After this I saw much unrest and revolts that will affect many nations. [Fulfilled.] I saw in some places spiritual awakenings.

[Fulfilled.] In Russia [understand, ALL the Russian-speaking Slavic peoples] I saw there will come a general allencompassing, national spiritual awakening, so great that there could never be another like it. From Russia, I saw the awakening spread to many

Suddenly we found out, 8 percent of the population in Russia is now seriously churched, but only 2 to 3 percent in Europe. Eight percent has a significant impact on a nation. But theology in Europe in the last 15 years has lost and discredited everything that for centuries, they have stood for.” As Josef Diskin continued the conversation with David, he suddenly proposed, “David, let us bring together the groups in Russia and those in Europe who are concerned about the crisis of faith in Europe, and let’s discuss what the destiny of Europe is without a deep moral foundation in faith. Let’s do it...!”

At the celebration of the Reformation next day, talking about this plan, Josef said to David, eyes alight with hope, “Deep in my heart...I believe...we SHALL overcome!”

God will not ignore the blood of the Russian martyrs.

European countries. Then I saw an allout awakening, followed by the second coming of Christ.”

Until now, this great national spiritual awakening in Russia that will touch Europe has looked all but impossible.

Today you can see with your own eyes, it IS possible... Russia could bring a reformation, a revival of faith to Europe!

THE RUSSIAN-SPEAKING PEOPLE HAVE A POWERFUL MISSION TO FULFIL!

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Ukraine, Christmas 2017 For 2 years, 2016 & 2017, David has held a National Day of Prayer in Kiev for Ukraine. Only because of the war in East Ukraine, every Church Denomination has set aside their differences and, in the crisis, come together on the Authority

The reason David visited the war zone in East Ukraine this Christmas, and last Christmas, is because, as he said to the soldiers, “It’s easy to call people in Kiev to pray that the war will stop, but I have come to be with you, to pray with you. This war is not from God. God is Healing, Love, Power and Blessing.”

And so, on the last weekend of the year before Christmas, David joined with local Christians in their regular task of taking aid through the military checkpoints into the ‘grey zone’ – former Ukraine territory – now neither part of Ukraine nor Russia; land that is neither at war not at peace, where after dark the shelling begins and soldiers and civilians alike die violently every day; land where ‘so much blood has been shed, it will take a long time to dry on the streets of the ruined towns and cities’; land where the lives of the living have been torn apart, some fleeing to Russia, some deep inside Ukraine; and some have chosen to stay in misery, because they either lack the will or do not know where to go. They live in misery, not just because of bullets and shells, not just because of roofless buildings with blown-out windows, but because their industries are paralysed – materials on one side of the border, factories to process them, on another side – power supplies cut, no work, no pay.

Our vehicles jumped over potholed roads, then slithered wildly through muddy fields, following tank tracks up into the forest on the top of a hill – panoramic views east and west, north and south – and here, a small intelligence unit dug in. The sweet smell of pine trees and log fires,

of the Word of God and in the Name of Jesus to pray for peace, acknowledging that, ‘If we had been right with God, there would be no war on our territory.’

the silent dogs trained not to bark, the mud, the underground bunkers, camouflaged guns and tanks, the tents and camp beds – and the ‘Sanctuary’, a wood shelter reminiscent of our Church nativity plays, covered in plastic against rain and snow, where the music group sang Christian songs and David preached Christ! They were not going home for Christmas. People died on the frontline that night. And two days later the snow came.

David said, “The message of Christmas is that God so loved you and me, He sent His Only Son to deliver us from sickness, poverty, pain. He allowed His Own Son to be born in a shelter with the animals, like you have here. He lived with men like you. Forty years ago, a Ukrainian KGB Officer arrested me for preaching the Gospel and bringing Bibles, two tonnes at a time! I spent one year in a communist prison with men like you – because God wanted me to see what life is like for you. My work is not as dangerous as yours, but it is dangerous. I’m here today because I learned to love YOU in that prison.

God so loved you and me, He sent His Own Son to pay the price for our sin - God is a God of love, not a God of war and misery. I don’t know your past, but I know your future – if you will let God change your life... The last enemy in this life is death. Jesus defeated death to demonstrate that if we give our lives to Him, we will have the same resurrection life He has!” In the penetrating cold evening air, the men took off their hats as David prayed for them, for their fami-

lies back home, and for peace.

Afterwards we gave out generators, axes and saws to cut logs for firewood, food – and Bibles – everything they had asked for. And then we ate their hearty food with them – which tasted quite strongly of tank fumes...

We know, they gave us a ride near the front line on one of their tanks, a bit old and smoking, it was an old Russian T65!

It was now dark. From there we drove with the church members back to Slovyansk, a city now liberated, but which for six months suffered the full horrors of unregulated war. David visited the National Guard, the peacekeeping force in a city where passions still run high. Billeted in a bleak building which had been a regional civil aviation institute, David again preached Christ and aid was distributed. Then we enjoyed an evening meal with the extended family of the pastor and with elders of the church.

Two of the pastor’s sons and two of the elders had been brutally murdered during the occupation – they didn’t talk about this till quietly the next day. Widows had been in the room with us that night.

Next morning, Sunday, David preached to an absolutely full church, and afterwards aid was distributed to those who were on the needy register. And after that, we were driven one hour to a bombedout ghost town, Kurdiumovka, in the ‘grey zone’ where the guns still fire, and where people still live and who came to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Then it was a dash back to catch the evening train to Kiev.

Thank you for supporting the preaching of the Gospel in East Ukraine, and for supporting the distribution of Bibles and vital supplies, both to displaced persons

who have fled the conflict and to those who still live in fear and poverty on the frontline.

December 2017 In December David spent a glorious week in Lagos, Nigeria at the 20th annual Holy Ghost Congress of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. The invitation from Pastor Adeboye, the General Overseer, was arranged by John Watson of Vinesong – a great partner with David in the revival in East Europe that took place in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Of Vinesong David says, “I shall never forget the dramatic and exciting evangelism we held in Yambol, Bulgaria, before communism finally fell there. It was August 1990. The music group Vinesong and I arrived the day before the opening. What could we do?

Nothing? No! Without permission, we decided to hold an open-air service in the big square in front of the Communist Party Headquarters in Yambol! This city of 100,000 had never witnessed such scenes before! As darkness fell the beautiful worship music drew the crowds. But when Vinesong sang in Bulgarian, ‘I bow the knee to Jesus’ – the whole crowd, 10,000 strong, knelt in prayer with their hands raised in worship and acceptance of Christ! Even the communist police on duty took off their hats, and the Communist Party Flag, which until then had been fluttering bravely in the breeze, hung down limp as if it too was bowing before the Name of Jesus! What a tremendous start it was to the conference and evangelism which followed in the massive football stadium!”

In recent years John had told us so much about the Worldwide Redeemed Christian Church of God with its headquarters in Lagos – it seemed almost too good to be true... If like us, you have heard of the incredible corruption in Nigeria, what were we going to find?!

Poverty and lack met us at the airport. Even as we drove into the RCCG Camp ground just off the freeway, this was no luxury resort. It had been a long and tiring journey to get from our office in the UK to here, and literally only 5 minutes to get changed and be ready to climb onto the buses taking the guests to the evening venue. What did we find? Just as we had been told, we found a great multitude without num-

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ber, the auditorium so vast, 1 km wide and 2 km long, their voices raised in praise as the ‘sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings’, singing ‘Hallelujah, for the Lord God Almighty reigns’! Just as in Revelation 19:6! Services were held all day, but the evening started with the Pastors praying from 6:00pm, then the main service starting at 7:00pm until 2:30am! And on the last day – 3.30am!

Established in Nigeria in 1952, the Worldwide Headquarters moved to Lagos in 1983 with the acquisition of an extensive plot of thick jungle and swamp, infested with disease-ridden mosquitoes and deadly pythons.

Today there is a whole city of God, individually owned homes and a guest complex, schools, a university and Bible College, a hospital (during the 6 days of the Great Congress 40 babies were born!) – everything that is needed for life! And in addition, two vast arenas to accommodate the millions of believers who flock to the Congress from all Nigeria, from all Africa, from all over the world! On the last two great nights of the Congress, the services were conducted simultaneously in both venues which together total 11 square kilometres, with seats!!! It felt as if we had stepped out of our European reality into a poster of the giant crowds that we have seen in magazines, coming together in Africa, to worship the God of the Bible! But it’s absolutely real!

How amazing it was to find millions gathered together – with a vibrant faith received from their forefathers, who before them received the simple Gospel from the mouths of British missionaries – who taught God as Creator of all things, the rebellion of man

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against God, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God, who has bought with His Blood the forgiveness of sin, grace to live a holy life now, to live in Christ’s Kingdom on earth now, until He comes to rule and reign in Glory, here! This is the 100 percent fruit of the seed sowed by the white missionaries 100 years ago.

David was himself received with honour because of his proven ministry in the former communist countries and in Israel since 1961. On Wednesday and Thursday afternoon David was invited to address ministers and leaders – thousands – packed into the prayer hall, up in the balcony – and all responded with their whole heart to

David’s life testimony and teaching on the Power of God. On the Thursday night, the Holy Ghost Congress of the Redeemed Christian Church of God was held simultaneously in their new auditorium, an unbelievable 3-km x 3-km, covering a 9-kilometre square plot, plus the overflow in the smaller auditorium 2-km square! David was invited to greet the millions of worshippers with a powerful message of encouragement. They received David and his message into their hearts, but it is we who have come away encouraged! What God is doing for the Church and through the Church in Nigeria is unbelievable, truly a New Testament Church!

You can read about the RCCG in Wikipedia, you can visit their website, you can research their teaching materials. But what we saw and heard are clear, the foundations of this Church are based

on the ‘old fashioned’ Biblical values.

And then ask, why are modern British, European churches failing, is it because their teachings have gone away from the simplicity of the teachings of the truth and authority of the Word of God? At Manchester airport, waiting to board our flight to Nigeria on our way out, we got into a conversation with a Government Inspector of British Schools Overseas – with the responsibility to grant, renew or withdraw accreditation. A very able, talented, kind woman of a reasonable liberal persuasion – that is, let each school allow the cultural values of the families they serve; if Jewish, then Jewish, if Christian, then Christian… But now she is compelled to enforce ‘British values of tolerance and respect’ – not the old ones we once knew, but the new ones which have emerged with frightening rapidity and force in the last few years; where children are taught they are not born either girl or boy, and it is an offence for a teacher to call them either girl or boy. This Schools Inspector said, “This is not tolerance or respect.

This is abuse of young minds, mind control coming from a tiny minority who do not respect or allow the wishes of the majority or the wishes of the family. I myself would not want to have a child today.”

What a contrast with the glory we saw in the Redeemed Christian Church of God!

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Prime Minister Netanyahu – replies to Prime Minister May at the Balfour Declaration Centenary Event, London, 2 November 2017

Our gracious hosts, Lord Rothschild, Lord Balfour – unbelievable to have these two names associated here – Prime Minister May, thank you for that extraordinary speech, you said exactly what Martin Luther King said about anti-Semitism masquerading as antiZionism, but you said it so clearly, so powerfully, and your denunciation of anti-Semitism rings so true, thank you on behalf of Israel and the Jewish people – Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, a worthy successor of Lord Balfour – there are so many friends here from Israel, from Britain, from the United States – Ambassadors and Ministers and former Prime Ministers, and former Secretary of State, friends, clergy, rabbis and Archbishops: This is a momentous occasion. It marks a pivotal event in Jewish history, in British history, in world history. The history of modern Zionism is intertwined with the history of Britain, the actions and words of Britain. But for me, this is a deeply moving personal moment. In the beginning of World War I, one of the Zionist leaders, Vladimir Jabotinsky, approached the British Government and asked to form a Jewish fighting force within the British Army. After some consideration the British Government agreed. They gave them the task of being the Zion Mule Corps which operated first in Gallipoli.

It then became the Jewish Brigade which sowed the seeds of the Israeli Defence Forces. The Commander of that Force was Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Patterson, a British Officer.

Patterson had never met Jews, he was sceptical what he would get. But in Gallipoli and beyond – from Gallipoli to the Galilee – he was amazed. Amazed by the sacrifice, the courage, the camaraderie of his soldiers whom he became deeply affectionate for and prized all his life.

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Some twenty years later, Patterson met my father in the United States during World War II and he joined him in advocating for a Jewish State. The partnership and the friendship they forged was so deep that my parents decided to call their first new-born, my older brother, Johnathan in honour of John Henry Patterson, John for him, Nathan for my grandfather. John Henry Patterson was the godfather of my brother who was later to fall at Entebbe. I grew up with a silver cup with a dedication: ‘To my godson Johnathan from your godfather, John Henry Patterson’. Think about that. The first Jewish fighting force in 2000 years, and the Commander, British Commander, is the godfather of one of the future Commanders in the Israeli Air Force and the Israeli Defence Force – the Commander who helped rescue Palestine from 400 years of Turkish oppression was the godfather of the Israeli Commander leader who rescued Jews from the heart of Africa!

Patterson was to die in the United States, and two years ago, fulfilling his last wish, his last will and testament, I brought his remains to Israel and buried him, just as he requested, next to his beloved Jewish fighters in Israel.

So Britain is intertwined with the birth of Zionism, but for me this connection is deeply, deeply personal.

But that connection has its roots right here in London. In this city in 1900 Theodore Herzl, our modern Moses, the founder of modern Zionism, addressed the 4th Zionist Congress that he convened here. He said this: “England, free and mighty England, whose vision embraces the Seven Seas, will understand us and our aspirations. It is here that the Zionist movement I am sure will soar to further and

greater heights.” Herzl’s confidence was well founded. At the time religious sympathy for Zionism was evident everywhere – you could hear it, you could read it actually, in the novels of Walter Scott and George Elliot; you could hear it in the speeches of Lord Ashley, and Benjamin Disraeli and Lord Shaftesbury in the 1830s; you can see it in the expeditions of the Palestine Exploration Fund which Queen Victoria established to rediscover and map the land of the Bible.

Alongside America, it was here in Britain where Christian Zionism preceded modern Jewish Zionism and kindled its fire. This is why Herzl, in whom that fire burned brightest, believed that Britain would be the place where his sacred mission to establish a Jewish State would be propelled forward. And just as he predicted, 17 years later, on November 2nd 1917, with the help of a genius diplomat, Chaim Weizman, and his friend, Lord Rothschild, and others, Britain recognised the right of the Jewish people to a National Home in our historic homeland. And while there were later – I’m a diplomat, I have the Foreign Secretary Boris here, I’ll be careful – painful retreats on the path to national rebirth, we always remember proud British Zionists like Lord Balfour, Lloyd George and Winston Churchill who entered a pantheon reserved for the greatest friends of the Jewish people in our long history. And we remember those perhaps lesser known men who played a great role in our national revival and who forged pivotal friendships with their Jewish counterparts: Mark Sykes with Aaron Aaronsohn; Colonel Richard Meinerthagen, Allenby’s Intelligence Officer, later falsely accused of being of Jewish descent (actually he was of Danish origin) – Colonel Richard Meinerthagen with the new espi-

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onage network that Aaronsohn founded that provided invaluable intelligence for the British Army in the Palestine campaign – and John Henry Patterson with Jabotinsky…

So exactly a century later here in London I am privileged to speak as the Prime Minister of the State Herzl foresaw that these men fought to create. Without decades of immigration and hard work, without the courage and sacrifice that was needed to defend our lives and our liberty, the State of Israel would not have come into being. But it was the Balfour Declaration that galvanised international support for Zionism as never before and paved the path for Zionism’s entry on the world stage.

Now a once stateless and powerless people has found its rightful place among the nations.

Prime Minister May, the Balfour Declaration put Britain on the right side of history. In marking that Declaration today, you are keeping Britain on the right side of history. On behalf of the Government of Israel and the people of Israel, I thank you.

Ladies and Gentlemen, while we mark with pride the Balfour Declaration today, Palestinian leaders call it a tragedy. But the real tragedy of the Balfour Declaration is that it took three decades to fulfil its promise – too late for one third of the Jewish people who perished in the Holocaust. Had Israel been established in 1928, or 1938, and not in 1948, millions could have been saved. Some people mistakenly believed that there is an Israel BECAUSE of the Holocaust. In fact, it’s only because there was NO Israel that the Holocaust could occur, because there was no sovereign Jewish power to protect the Jewish people or to provide refuge for the six million murdered by the Nazis.

And the other true tragedy of the Balfour Declaration is that the Palestinians rejected it. They still do.

They said so this morning. Incredibly the Palestinians speak of suing the British Government for the Balfour Declaration. Any lawyers in this room?

This is a sure win for Britain. It’s time for the Palestinians to end their quest to eliminate Israel. It’s time for them, not just to accept a Jewish National Home, it’s time for them to accept finally a Jewish State, a Nation State for the Jewish people, because if they do, the conflict will be over in a minute.

But there is good news. Alongside Egypt and Jordan with whom we have already made peace, others in the Arab world ARE moving forward.

They recognise that Israel is not their enemy, but their indispensable ally in fighting militant Islam. They view Israel as their partner for ensuring a peace and a future and security and prosperity. It is time the Palestinians will embrace this approach too. And if they do, they will find in Israel, and in me, an enthusiastic partner for building a peaceful and prosperous future for both our peoples – it’s within our reach, I think it is getting closer. Now you doubt it, don’t really believe what I say, but you don’t know everything that I know – and I’m not going to reveal it now! Many others around the world already recognise the benefits of peace and security and prosperity by co-operating with Israel, that they seek to benefit from our intelligence prowess in fighting terrorism and our innovative technology in building their economies. People are always amazed at that but you would think that it would be obvious that if we liberated our economy – which we did – this is what happens! We untethered the genius and enterprise of our people to become a rising power on the world stage.

Three years after Israel’s Independence, Winston Church wrote to Israel’s President, Chaim Weizman (one of the architects of the Balfour Declaration), and said this: “The wonderful exertions which Israel is making in these times of difficulty, are cheering to an old Zionist like myself.” I’m sure that this old giant Zionist Churchill would be even prouder today of Israel’s incredible successes. It’s a shining beacon of freedom, democracy and progress in a troubled region. And we might with this beacon help dispel the sea of troubles.

Prime Minister May, I thank you again for standing for the historical truth and for your unequivocal denunciation of anti-Semitism. I thank Britain for the foresighted Declaration of Lord Balfour. I thank Britain for liberating the Holy Land from 400 years of Ottoman domination. And I thank Britain for valiantly standing alone against the Nazi tyranny. For all this the Jewish people and the Jewish State will be forever grateful. Thank you!

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Katie Morris I want to share a thought that has been in my heart and mind for almost two years now - that God has a way for me – but a way that is not my way. A better way than mine. But to do it hurts. Because it means – dying to myself. I don’t always like it. Yet it’s not really so hard – I KNOW what God wants, and so do you! We CAN do it!

Every year the Vietnamese Refugees living in Europe come together for a Summer Camp in Germany, and every year David is invited as their key speaker.

Sitting round the dinner table last summer, the leading pastor told some stories – to shock us!

First Pastor Dinh Le told us the story of a master violinist who performed the most beautiful piece of music to a rapturous audience. But when the applause died down, he did the most extraordinary thing – he threw his violin on the ground and jumped on it until it was utterly broken. How could the violinist do such a dreadful thing to such a wonderful instrument?!! To the shocked audience he said, “I want you to know, it is not the instrument that made this beautiful music – this was just any old instrument – it’s value lies only in the musician who plays the music!”

Then Dinh Le told about another violinist who played to the rapturous applause of his audience. And then he played another piece. This time the people sat like stone. No one clapped at the end.

The violinist said, “You all liked my first piece of music, none of you liked my second piece. Now I will tell you why I played it. Sitting among you is my teacher. He did not like the music that pleased you. He was pleased only with my second piece – the one you did not like. It was he who taught me how to play that piece!”

The question is – who is playing the instrument of your life, and what sound does your life really make? Even if you are of little value, when God plays on the instrument of your life, your music is perfect. But the big question – if the music of your life pleases men, does it please God?

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Then Dinh Le pointed to a man at the table, a man who came to Europe as an atheist, on a communist scholarship – who had a profound conversion – and who is now an evangelist, living in communist Vietnam, preaching Christ under persecution – victoriously. Dinh Le said, “I told him, before you go, make your funeral – then nothing will hurt you!”

Other European guests around the table sat up in shock. Uh?!! What does he mean? Make your own funeral? How awful!

But this is what Jesus taught – you MUST die to self. It’s the first step to life! We were all born into this world of sin. Jesus died to save us, to rescue us – from evil – in order to bring us into the wonderful Kingdom of God where no sin is! But for us to live in the blessing of the Kingdom of God, we have to die to the old life NOW, we have to reject its control over our hearts, minds and actions. Paul taught this – we are buried in Christ in baptism unto death, so that we may live a new life! Romans 6:4. But we HAVE to make it a reality! Paul said we have AN OBLIGATION, A DUTY – NOT to live by the sinful nature we had – or we will die! But if by the Spirit, we put to death the misdeeds of the body, we will live – as the sons and daughters of God! Romans 8:12-14.

Jesus said, “If anyone would come after Me, he MUST deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for Me and for the Gospel will save it.” Jesus is not talking about martyrs who literally die for the sake of the Gospel, but about you and me who must die every day to sin.

“What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet lose his soul? Or what can a man gain in exchange for his soul? If anyone is ashamed of Me and My Words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His Father’s Glory!” Mark 8:34-38; Luke 9:2326; Matthew 10:38-39; 16:24.

“Only when we put ourselves on the altar of sacrifice, like Solomon in 2 Chronicles 6:12-13, only then will God meet with us and hear our desperate prayer. Where else can we pray, where else can we go, except on the very altar of sacrifice before His Throne? In my own self I am not worthy to come into His Presence. O God, teach me how to walk into the Fire! O God, bring me to repentance.” This is what David Hathaway says.

Many are not attracted to read the Book of Revelation which was given to John to pass on to us... But it comes with a powerful promise, Revelation 1:3, “BLESSED is he that reads and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep the things which are written there...”

If we can understand nothing else in Revelation, we CAN understand what the Spirit said to the seven churches!

Read Revelation Chapters 2 and 3.

Open your ears! Let’s not argue who the churches are or what they represent – the Spirit is speaking direct to you and me! Christ is commanding ALL of us to examine ourselves – check and see what needs to be put right – in your own life! Not someone else’s! But don’t be afraid or discouraged. And don’t try to put things right by false humility, by punishing yourself, by despair – just open your ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to you – then DO what He says! It’s not about punishment – it’s about our very simple obedience to God’s Voice. When we actually DO what He says – and Christ gave His own life so that we CAN – this leads us into abundant, eternal life!

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