By Robert Anthony March 26th 2024  It seems clear enough throughout scripture that God chose Israel, He chose Israel to be His out from all the nations.  But what is less clear is why He chose them and for what purpose?  Not that it is easy for man to understand the ways of God or even our right to know why God does what He does, but certainly God has a purpose in the things He does and the way He does them…?   Looking throughout the history of God’s chosen people, especially throughout the early centuries, we see a warring and controversial people.  From their very inception, adversary nations and men have been trying to subjugate them and even wipe them out entirely.  The moment they started becoming a nation, Egypt realized that they would soon become stronger than they and moved to crush them into submission.  For some 400-years God’s people remained slaves to Egypt!  Until the time came for God to deliver them.   Understanding God’s plan has always been something of a mystery, something the must be revealed, as if to say that God Himself must chose to bring us in on His (secret) plans.  At what point did God reveal to Israel the “why” in His choosing of them?  For this great reveal we turn of course to scripture and to the history of the Hebrews, who became Israelites and Jews.   First, look at what God said to Abraham, “The nations will be blessed by you” (Genesis 18:18, 22:18, 26:4, etc.) – “In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.”  Well, How?  How will God’s chosen bless the nations of the earth?  And has God performed this yet?   The years immediately following the covenant God made with Abraham, God was already fulfilling this word, “blessing the nations”, How?  Abraham went to war!    To understand why this was a blessing to the earth in its entirety it would help for my reader to read everything I have written about Transhumanism in the Bible, even through the time of Abraham.  In short, Abraham battled the giants, those mutated men of broken and defiled genetic structure, always at war with God and man.  Abraham battled against false god worship, idolatry, the iniquity of the nations (around him) and even Nimrod!  (Click here to read my three part series about “The Giants”, Transhumanism in the Bible and the beginning of our history.) Therefore, immediately following God’s covenant-promise that Abraham and his seed would bless the nations, Abraham was already blessing the nations, even before his seed was born!  It’s actually quite the story, behind the story.   And Israel went on to battle in this same manner after their forefather Abraham.  The iniquity and wickedness of the ancient world cannot be overstated!  Although we do not have a perfect understanding of these things we can see much of the picture throughout scripture.  We know all throughout the lands of Canaan there were giants , men of broken and defiled genetic structure  who always hated God !  We know all throughout the ancient world they worshipped false-gods who exacted a terrible price upon their followers, even asking for their children in ritual sacrifice!  The horrors of the false religion throughout the ancient world was an abomination to God but also to man – there was never going to come any blessing to the world through the adherence of this madness!  (I encourage my reader to study the cruelty and insanity that was the purveying, pagan, idolatrous religion throughout the ancient world and continues to lurk throughout our modern society even today.)  It is clear, for one, that Abraham and his generations were chosen to bring a true worship of God to the earth!  It is clear that immediately upon choosing them, God was working thru them the abolition of false religion and replacing it with His righteousness upon the earth!   Remember, God promised Abraham a nation also.  Abraham was promised not only a people but also a land!  With the covenant promise from God came also the promise of their own nation and land!   Many times throughout scripture it is prophesied that righteousness would go forth from Israel and Jerusalem!  That God would create a sort of center in Israel, a hub for His righteousness to extend out to the nations!  There is much alluding to this throughout the law and the prophets.  Even Solomon’s dedication of the temple included this, “Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house; then hear thou from the heavens, even  from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth  thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.” (2 Chron. 6:32,33)     Throughout the whole of the history of Israel it has been known that they would be a blessing to all the nations!   But Israel had a hard time upholding their end of the bargain.  A countless, many times throughout their history the scripture records them, “Going whoring after other gods” and leaving the God of their father, the only Living God, to worship these same pagan, false-gods. At times Israel even would sacrifice their children to them, they did so even during the time of Solomon, just after he built and dedicated that temple to the Lord!?  God had chosen them to bring righteousness and truth and to bless the nations but Israel would hardly remain with Him throughout their history.  And it was all recorded throughout scripture.   So how would God’s plan be fulfilled now, with this people, who hardly ever obey Him?   But this is a judgmental and condemning way to look at Israel.  Even the question I pose is filled with judgment and condemning, with little mercy or understanding do I almost rebuke God’s people without telling the whole of the story.  Because being chosen by the hand of God is not a thing to be taken lightly or without consequence, as if it were a small or insignificant act when God selected this people out from among the rest.  I will explain.   In a way, being chosen by God, a person or people is also being chosen to suffer and at times suffer much worse than any other people on earth!  On the one hand, we want to rebuke and chastise Israel, criticizing them for their inability to remain loyal and faithful to their God, who chose them.  But let’s look at the entirety of the story before we do jump to harsh judgment or criticism.  The children of Abraham and the people of Israel suffered greatly being chosen by God, it’s as if this Word, once it shows up in our lives, puts us into a crucible and into the fire, to be burned up and refined by the hand of God and the power of His love.    For the whole of the history of Israel and later the Jews, there is great suffering, tragedy, loss and refinement.  But truly with anyone who signs up for the things of God, to walk with Him, to become a part of His kingdom and story of salvation… Everyone who comes to walk with God is choosing a life filled with pressure, loss and suffering.   The nations did not receive the word of God and His law, but Moses gave it to God’s Chosen people.  The nations did not receive the ordinances for the tabernacle and the atonement with the ark of His Covenant.  The nations were not invited into this way and truth, to walk in holiness, set apart with their God, at least not at first.  God Chose Israel.   But what was He working thru His holy people?  How many nations were they in fact “blessing” or saving throughout antiquity?  These are complex thoughts that are not easily answered.  But we have to keep in mind two things to judge the matter more accurately: One, God gives all men (and nations) the freedom to choose for themselves (truth or destruction); Two, The Holy Spirit was not yet given to men and so iniquity was prevalent throughout the whole of the ancient world.    What God was doing through Israel and His Covenant with them would not be fully revealed until the prophets.  David in many ways began something in Israel and many others followed after him.  While David was fully king of Israel, he was also known to prophesy!  And the Lord God gave David much insight into the gift that God would bring forth (for all the nations) thru His Israel!  God showed King David much of a coming King/Messiah, even who would come out of His own seed (2 Samuel 7)!  And following after David: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, etc. all received glimpses of the promise who would come out of Israel, The Messiah, the One from God who would come to save, not only Israel, but the world!    Of everything God chose Israel for, the greatest blessing to the nations would come from God’s own Son being born of a virgin (Isaiah 7) of the children of Israel, sent to man to redeem the earth!  Some 300-400+ prophesies of Messiah’s coming were fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth’s life, ministry, death and resurrection!   God fulfilled His word to Abraham and Israel, “Out of their seed” truly all the nations have been blessed!  But is the covenant over and done with Israel?  God forbid.   Salvation came thru Israel.  That is the first fulfillment of Israel and the Jews blessing all the nations of the earth! Messiah came, born of the generations of Abraham, Isaac, Israel and David!  God fulfilled His Word to Israel and to the world!  God’s gift of salvation has come.  But is it now over for the Jews?Has God fulfilled His purpose and is now thru with them?Have the followers of Messiah, Jesus, become the new Keepers of the Covenant, replacing Israel and the Jews? Continue to Part Two...   There is much more in this mystery that is unfolding…

by Robert Anthony March 26th 2024   Books have been written about Israel’s blessing to the nations.  Have you ever considered how everywhere the Israeli/Jewish people went, that nation/people flourished!  For the WHOLE OF HISTORY!  It’s a wild wild story – but God has upheld His end of the bargain, to the fullest extent!   Egypt, Canaan/Israel, Nineveh/Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, the European kingdoms, the New World! The America’s, the United States!  Everywhere the Jews have gone, those kingdoms and empires flourished.  I am not a studied about the Jews arrival to Asia, but certainly the same theme would certainly remain.Egypt was not an Empire ruling the world until the Israelites showed up.  We can discuss the fullness of the miracle God did thru Joseph to make Egypt to rule the world for a time.  Then Israel ruled for a short time.  Especially under David and Solomon!  The Assyrian Empire rule was short lived, but they were not a world power until after they destroyed (the ten tribes of) Israel to the north and brought back the captives.  Babylon ruled the whole world, but not until they destroyed Jerusalem and brought back the Jewish captives.  The story continues similarly throughout the Greco-Roman world reign, and then throughout the history of European world rule.  It is well known now that Christopher Columbus had Jewish blood, if not was a practicing Jew in secret!  His voyages were funded by a Jewish banker!  And a countless many Jews got on boats and fled from Europe to the New World, escaping the Spanish Inquisition!  Not long after the Jews fled Europe, the power of the world shifted to the Americas!  It’s quite the story!   But let’s focus more specifically on Revival and its relationship with the land of Israel itself:   I would like to insist that whenever the Jews are home, whenever Israel returns to their land and occupies, THE WHOLE WORLD IS BLESSED!  Let’s investigate.   A long and wonderful study is to read all throughout the scripture about how Israel was warned what would happen Should They Do Evil in their Land  and How God Would Scatter Them to The Nations !  But then, if they would repent and return to follow the Lord their God and His Command, God would restore them… TO THEIR LAND!  Very Very important to understand this theme throughout the whole of scripture!  Moses in the Torah was very clear about this, so was David, Solomon prayed this way as he dedicated the temple, all the prophets prophesied this way!  It is constant throughout the whole of Scripture:The world will be blessed by Israel – but especially WHEN THEY INHABIT THEIR LAND!  I would insist, throughout world history, every time God scattered Israel to the nations and they were removed from their land a darkness fell upon the earth!  For instance, The Dark Ages, the period of time wherein a great evil and darkness permeated the whole of Europe and what we know of world history, happened during a time when practically NO ISRAELITES or JEWS Lived in Israel whatsoever.  Volumes of books could be written on this subject.   There is a very very amazing story of how God’s Revivals broke out in Europe and the America’s and the whole world paralleled together with the Jews returning to Israel!   The earliest conversations among the Jews of returning to Israel to reclaim their nation began around the 1600’s.  The centuries of Christian revivals started (again) about the 1600’s!   Christianity had been almost completely taken over by the Roman Catholic Church.  Most any other group holding to the things of God and His Christ, outside of the Catholic Church were warred against, dismantled and even destroyed throughout nearly a thousand years of European history!  The Inquisition was probably the most dramatic example of this…   But something started to happen around the 1600’s!  A revival started, back to the things of God that would continue until today!  I want to insist that the Jews returning to their homeland is the event that sparked God’s Spirit to pour out upon Christianity in such a way!  God promised to bless the whole world thru the Jews, but more specifically thru the Jews while IN THEIR LAND and Worshipping their God!   The 1600’s began many academics and thought-leaders throughout Jewry to promote a return to the land of their fathers, the Land Promised to them by God.   By the 1700’s these thoughts started to prevail throughout the whole of Europe even as more prominent Jews started to promote the return!   But in the 1800’s the Jews started to come together to actually begin the process of reclaiming their land!  The actual numbers vary about how many Jews actually returned to the Promised Lands of God those years but even conservative estimates put that number well above 50,000!  And look what happened as 50,000+ Jews returned to their land after being gone for more than a thousand years!  Revival broke out all throughout Europe, England and the Americas!!!  This is such an amazing story!!   The Revivals back to the simplicity of the gospel (and away from the Catholic Church) began in the late 1500’s and early 1600’s but so much moreso throughout the 1700’s and 1800’s!  The dates are very revealing!  Within less than a decade of the First Zionist Congress, arguably the first act of re-establishing a government for Israel, some of the greatest Christian revivals in the history of the world started in Wales, in California, in Hungary, in Australia, all throughout Europe! Millions converted to Christianity the immediate years following the first Jews returning to their land! The first Aliyah, as it is commonly referred to, was between the years 1881 and 1903.  There were nearly no Jews living in Israel when these first pioneers returned to their land, mostly from Eastern Europe and Yemen.  Immediately thereafter, what was God’s response?  To reign down His Spirit all throughout the world!  But even moreso!  Follow this theme into the 1900’s…The Jews continue returning to their land and gospel of their Messiah spreads the globe!  Missionaries cover the nations!  And Christianity spreads the globe!  But then look what happens following WW2.  Even more revealing: Israel becomes a nation!  And the biggest Christian revivals in American history begin!  The 40’s, 50’s and 60’s were full of tent revivals, crusades, and the whole of America becoming Christian!  As much as America had settlers come from Europe, puritans and pilgrims seeking the freedom to worship their God apart from the dominance of the Catholic Church, that was still the minority coming to America.  I would present to you all that America was truly brought to Christianity the years following WW2, that is to say, the years following the re-creation of the Nation of Israel!   But it doesn’t end there!  Many historians would argue the greatest revival in American history actually started with the hippies in California!  The late 60’s God starts to pour out His Spirit on the hippies outside of San Francisco, California and this great outpouring of the Spirit of God spreads the nation and then the whole world!  And what Major event happened in Israel just before this revival?  1967.  Jerusalem, the capital city of Israel for about 3,000 years was restored to the people of God!    Every single time the Jews take back their land, every single time they inhabit what was given to them by God, the Spirit of God is poured out upon the earth!    Israel is fighting for its God-given land right now.  If they take it back, Revival will spread the nations!  If they regain control of Gaza and the West Bank, the Spirit of God will pour out all throughout the nations of the earth!   But the warning I would give Israel.  The warning to us all, should Israel remain with their God, they will remain in the land.  If Israel departs again from their God… should Israel reject the things of God for: wealth, politics, what is convenient, etc. God will again remove them from the land He gave to them, and God will pull back His Spirit and a great darkness will return to the earth.  As dark and difficult as it is in our nation.  As difficult as it is throughout the western nations as our nations continue to reject their God it can get much worse.  But it seems to me that God is preparing something great for us, for those who love Him. It seems to me a Great Revival is coming to the world!  Not merely to the west, but to the nations of the earth who would receive their God, His Son and Holy Spirit!  Israel, take what is yours, do not be afraid or dismayed.  Your God is with you!  Take what He has given you and run to your Father and God, He will uphold you, He will defend you but even moreso, He will reveal Himself to you ANEW!  He lives!  Your God lives!  The same God who et Moses atop the mountain, the same God who has revealed Himself to so many of your fathers and kings and prophets, He Lives!  Return to Him in prayer, fasting and supplication.  He will open your eyes and your will see Him, like you’ve never seen Him before!Be confident.  Be assured.  Your God fights for you.   He has a miraculous and blessed ending in store for you!   Turn off your ears to hearing all the bad news and lies published all around youEven by the church and other Jews and Israelites in your midst.YOUR GOD REIGNS!  He loves His people.And He is returning for you!!   The most glorious ending imaginable is in store for those who are His! “Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you perish from the way… from the LAND!” Psalm 2:12   God has your best interests in heart. He wants to bless you.  Trust Him. And Obey.  Run to your God and Father And find your comfort and peace in His Presence. The best is yet to come, Israel The best if yet to come for you and all the nations of the world!   In His Messiah I do write unto you and to whoever has an ear to hear… His reward is with Him and His work is before Him… The King is coming… Amen.

The Fundamentals of Revival Series Part One: "If Only We Would Do It Like Jesus..." by Robert Anthony April 17th 2024 I’ve really been into this “personal revival” message lately.  Before trying to change world, maybe I should change myself some, invite the Lord in, even to His fullness.  It’s been a long journey to say the least.  Trying to forget some of the failures and even the victories of the past and press into what the Lord has for us now!  But it’s hard to do.  Very easy to drag the past around with me. Unfortunately.   Jesus really didn’t do much the way we do it.  He was so perfect.  Flawless.  In every way.  I get so grumpy, I lose heart too easily, I get distracted with issues of the heart: remembering some past hurt, bitterness, despair.  “But for the Joy set before Him”, Jesus endured the cross!  He never lost heart, even in His moments of trial He would turn to His Father and be strengthened. He is truly our champion!   I don’t want to be overly critical of our religion because I found the Lord within the walls of the established church.  I don’t want to be overly critical of what men have built because some of it was laid upon the foundation of the kingdom of God.  But there are times to call what is black, darkness and what is not working, broken.  Simply put, there will be no religion in heaven.  In eternity, we will all be one big and loving family and nothing will divide us.   So much of what we have built over the past centuries has little to nothing to do with the word of God.  Even still, many other things we build are actually working in opposition to His word!  “But if it keeps the pews full” we might say to ourselves, in compromise.  Jesus was and is the fulfillment of the word of God.  Every single thing He did and said was perfect, He was perfectly equipped to minister to us.  We should reread His story and teachings with these things in mind.   Jesus lived among the people.  I never hid Himself away in buildings, secret places or lofty positions wherein only a select few could venture.  He did not hide behind titles, pulpits, formality or decorum.  He was 100% invested, His love on display, vulnerable among the people, ready and willing to serve and show the world God's commitment and unending devotion to us!  He was beautiful.  A shining, radiant beacon of God’s glory!  I think our own brokenness is like a veil, obscuring Him from us – making it difficult to truly see the Son of God.   He was and is so wonderful.  When He would do a miracle or a wonder of God, usually He would tell the people to be quiet about it.  Matthew 8, “And Jesus said to him, “See that you tell no one; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.” Here Jesus is again with His disciples, Matthew 16, “Then He commanded [them] that they should tell no one that He was Jesus the Christ [Messiah].” After they saw Him upon the mountain, Mark 9, ”He commanded [His Disciples] that they should tell no one the things they had seen, till the Son of Man had risen from the dead.” Luke 8, after He healed the little girl, “And her parents were astonished, but [Jesus commanded] them to tell no one what had happened.”   If we performed such wonders of God, I'm sure most of us would run out and get film crews, documentary producers, YouTube channels, radio shows and websites to show the world what power we have and just how remarkable we are!  But Jesus didn’t do it they way we do.  He was intimate, modest, understated, meek... If only we could be people like Jesus!  Try and imagine a world like that - it would be heaven on earth!   So, I am rather focused on a personal revival at the moment.  Jesus began His entire ministry after a time of prayer, fasting and one might say personal revival ... alone in the desert, battling the devil.  He would not try and minister without the power of His Father: the One we call, Holy Spirit.  And after His time of trial and testing, Jesus came out of the wilderness, was baptized, received the Holy Spirit (John saw Him descending like a dove upon the Lord) and His miraculous, ministry began!  The power of God was on display – but also the majesty and beauty of His love, grace and perfection!   If only we could do it like Jesus.  Well, technically we can.  If only we would  do it like Jesus, I should say.  How dramatically our Christianity would change!?  How much salvation would come to our city, nation and people!?  We would come to walk with our God, hand in hand, never turning, never retreating, always hidden in His presence and full of His Spirit!  It’s the same thing God did with all of His disciples. He taught them to live with Him, never departing, never leaving His presence.   Reread the book of Acts.  Peter, James, John, etc. they had almost no power until Pentecost came.  Then they received the power from on high!  They received the spirit and grace and anointing to bring God’s kingdom to the earth!  They followed in lock-step with what their Lord and Teacher had shown over the three or so years when they lived with Him.  And then those twelve men turned the whole world upside down for God!  If only we (Christians) would live as our Messiah, Jesus lived.  We just might just be amazed at what God does thru us!   “But as the blind leads the blind eventually everyone falls into a ditch,” (Matthew 15) My personal revival is beginning with my return to the True Shepherd and King of my Faith .  I fear that I might have accidentally started to look to men, hoping for some salvation to come out of them...  I might have been confused and taken my eyes off of the Lord?  I fear I have been deceived and started to look at the wind and the waves, letting the loud noises of the storm overcome me and perhaps I have been sinking ..? But we have all like sheep gone astray.   “Revive me, Lord.  Take away all these distractions, all these things that war against my spirit and quench Your Holy Spirit remove them from my life.  Baptize me again in Your Power, in Your Hope, in Your Love, in the Strength of Your Spirit, Baptize me anew.  I have been weary for a long season now.  I need your anointing to flood over me again.  I need Your Spirit to wash me and to fill my cup.  I cannot do this without You.  Fill me up, Adonai, help me, my Savior!  Fill me to overflowing.”   Brothers and sister, Some of us need to repent and cease from our sins.  Some of us need to seek Him out and come to know Him as if for the first time.  Some of us will need some time away, in the wilderness, alone with our God.  Some of us need to cast our cares upon the Lord and trust Him with the things going on around us.  Some of us need to be discipled and taught in the ways of the kingdom of God.  Some of us need to lose our religion and start anew with Jesus, who is the True Shepherd of our Faith!  So, by faith, let us live a new life today with our God and Father for “Today is the day of [our] salvation!”   Eternity lies before us.  And “His reward is with Him…”  There has never been a better time to surrender to the goodness of our God   I hope and pray this encourages you saints.   It encouraged me   Greatest love and affection to those who are called by His name. (This is a wonderful worship song)

by Robert Anthony April 26th 2024 The Fundamentals for Revival Series  Part Two: The Return of the Brotherhood I     I grew up in Church.  I have heard hundreds if not thousands of sermons.  I think something happened to us, as Christians.  I think Christianity was hijacked a long long time ago.  If we, as Christians, were to forget everything we have been taught (and mostly we have been taught thru religion), reread the New Testament and then obey it – our Christianity would look unbelievable different!    I realize I sound so radical writing these things.  I don’t mean to be so radical but if the Christianity around us is content to worship God however they see fit but without concern for how God actually wants to be worshiped; and if I am one of the few who are actually interested in what God says, wanting to adhere to His Word – then yes, I would seem quite radical to many.    I might write about it later?  I don’t know if it will help us to try and figure this out but somewhere along the way, we got off track and built this religion.  I would have to define religion as “Man’s way of approaching God, as opposed to how we actually enter into relationship with Him.”  Simply put, religion is man-made .  I have so much to say on the subject actually and maybe I will in the next articles...  This could easily be a book I write.   So, forgetting for a moment all the religious tradition and dogma that permeates our understanding of the things of God – let’s return to the Bible, anew.    Losing our  religion, and returning to the story of God, who sent His Son to us, Jesus Christ, our Messiah, what do we actually see?  Jesus came to us humbly, without pomp and circumstance, without the nations bowing down before Him, without armies surrounding and protecting the coming of the Son of God… Jesus came, born in what we would call a barn .   The Son of God remained rather modest and discreet among us.  Even though He would perform miracles, miracles that have never been recorded in the whole of human history, the Son of God remained rather contrite and understated.  He was entirely meek all throughout His ministry and life, having absolute power from God and yet choosing to remain somewhat obscure, withdrawn and one might even say, in hiding…   Look at what His brothers and sisters said to Him on occasion, “Depart [from here], and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest. For there is  no man that  doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If [you can] do these things, shew thyself to the world.” (John 7:3-5) And then the scripture records, “For neither did his [family] believe in him.” The Son of God chose all throughout His life and ministry to remain as if hidden, withholding of Himself but revealing Himself to whomever He chose.   This is a very important point to consider: God’s own Son was extremely purposeful, choosing who to hide Himself from and who to reveal Himself to.  Here is another story I enjoy: Jesus had just finished rebuking the religious leaders and they were so angry with Him, as they often would be, they “rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.” (Luke 4:29) The religious leaders and religious zealots were out of their minds angry, ready to throw the Son of God off a cliff and murder Him!  But Jesus, “passing through the midst of them went his way…” What did He do?  Or how?  How did He do that!?  How do you simply “pass throughout” “the midst” of an angry crowd ready to murder you and leave!?  Did He make Himself disappear?  What on earth did He do to peacefully leave them!!?  It’s a truly remarkable story. But even moreso remarkable, to me, is the way Jesus chose to deal with that crowd.  If I was God’s Own Son, imputed with the powers of creation, having absolute authority over it, even able to bend and break it’s natural laws, like walking on water or calming a storm with my words, I might choose another way of dealing with evil and wicked, religious zealots.  In another story, another one of my favorites, John 18, Jesus sends the band of soldiers coming to arrest Him, probably around 600 strong, tall men, to the ground! At His word!  They asked, “Where is Jesus of Nazareth” and Jesus responded, “I am He”.  And “as soon then as He had said unto them, I am He , they went backward, and fell to the ground.”   So in one occasion Jesus shows us He is more than able to destroy, even at merely His word but in another occasion we see Him being ever so merciful and patient with the people, instead of destroying them, simply “passing thru the midst”.  The Son of God had all power and authority throughout His days on the earth and yet He chose over and again to love us, to extend mercy and compassion, even towards His enemies!     So what was the Son of God’s purpose on the earth?  He clearly wasn’t showing off.  He was very purposeful in everything He did.  I think this is one of the keys to unlock the whole story and not just Jesus’ story but to unlock the whole story of God!  The Son of God came to save us, without a doubt and He chose to do so by pouring Himself into twelve men, twelve men who became His best friends .   I think we miss this because of our form of religion.  I think our religion obfuscates and veils actually who God is.  I think looking thru the lens of religion we see a very different version of Jesus and His kingdom.  I believe once we remove these dirty and curved glasses, we will be able to see Him as He truly as, even as if for the first time ever!   Jesus ministered to the masses but only at times .  The way I see the story, and I think this is Biblical, the Son of God chose for Himself twelve friends, twelve friends who also chose to befriend the Son of God, leaving all that they knew for Him, and they, together, grew in closeness, intimacy and friendship.  In the same way we will share everything with our best friends, Jesus withheld nothing from those twelve friends of His.   Reread the New Testament, I believe this is the truth of the story and purpose of God’s Son and His time with us.  He would minister to many people all throughout scripture but then He would always retreat and find time to be alone with His buddies, His bro’s. He had three closest friends out of the group, I love the story wherein He took them atop a mountain and the Bible describes, He transfigured in front of them, shining like the sun and becoming something altogether different than a man.  The Son of God literally revealed everything of Himself to His best friends.   He wasn’t interested in fame, actually.  He wasn’t interested in being known .  He was actually entirely content to hide Himself and often.  This is a truth all throughout scripture.  How many times did He heal someone and say, “Tell no one.”  His mother wanted Him to help out at the wedding (when they ran out of wine) and He rebuked her, telling her, “Woman, my time has not yet come.”  (But Mary assured the attendants at the wedding that Jesus would listen to his Mom and do her this small favor for her friends.)   How much of the power of God in Jesus’ life wasn’t even recorded!?  John ends his gospel in such a way, “And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.”  What we do know, and clearly, is that Jesus had absolute authority over His creation (which He made) and yet constantly withheld of His power, even unto death!  What an amazing and beautiful story is the true story of God!   Then, even at the end, He didn’t even pray for the world, He wasn’t focused or concerned about the masses but He went into the garden and wept, praying for His very best friends. John 17, “I pray for [my best friends]: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are yours.”  Such a wonderful and beautiful and intimate and amazing story of God!  He is so much better than we are, so much more loving and genuine and caring and intimate and perfect – and we are all so messed up.  But it’s Ok.  He knows.   I love the story of God.  I love talking about it, writing about it, singing about it, etc. – I love everything about God and His Son, Jesus.  I hope this has blessed you all...      God chose to treat us like friends, like His own family, like brothers  – and yet we are ruled by men and rule over men? Even in His name…?  Jesus was abundantly clear on this point, “Be Brothers and Friends” – listen to what He commanded them – “But Jesus called them unto him , and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.” (Matthew 20:25-28)   I would paraphrase this scripture like so, “The world and the powers of the world function thru dominance and hierarchy but with you, who are my Apostles and Disciples, let it not be so.  If you want to be great in my kingdom, become the true servant of men.  Whosoever would be the greatest among you, would be the best minister, the one to serve them the best!  Even as I came to you humbly, broken, contrite and meek, often withholding myself and my power, so you give your lives for them, even as I have.”  I think that’s a pretty good paraphrase.   We were never supposed to dominate or crush the world into submission, but to love them.  We weren’t supposed to create this religion but to become very close friends, the family of God on the earth .  But somehow, we become this religious version of Christianity.  We should repent, change our ways, learn to be brothers and sisters, and become again the family of God.  I have so much to say on the subject.He sent them out by twos!  Reread the scriptures.  There wasn’t a man ruling them all.  There was something like a body or family of believers.  Throughout the scriptures we are taught that there are all kinds of parts of the body, many different roles and participants and gifts in the family: apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers; other gifts like, tongues, miracles, healing, faith, prophecy, governments, etc.  There were bishops, deacons and elders appointed among them.  Christianity, what was given to us originally, is a teamsport .   In many ways we really need to scrap everything we are doing and start all over again, like hitting the reset button on a computer. We need to start a fresh, asking God, “How do we live as your children on the earth?  We really don’t know how to do it…”.   And in doing this, a countless many leaders and elders and rulers and old men and women will oppose us.  Jesus said, “Drink New Wine!”  But answered Him, “The old is better.”   There is something broken about us that doesn’t like to change, we are often rebellious and want to do things our own way.  We like to stick to what we know often because we are afraid, afraid of the unknown.  But this is not what it is to be children of the Living God.  I have so much more to say about this.  I pray that many hear me.  If we return to Him and chose to live out our days walking with Him, loving who He loves, being the family of God…. We will see the victory!  Even with our own eyes!   More to come.       (Great song - on Topic)

by Robert Anthony April 30th 2024 The Fundamentals for Revival Series Part Three “The Return of the Brotherhood II”   I was thinking this morning about all the brothers that have come in and out of my life (and I have had some really awesome brothers!).  Considering I have preached in some 40 US States and 15+ nations, considering how many ministries, nonprofits and churches I have been a part of, the fact that I traveled almost full time for 8+ years… I met a lot of (Christian) brothers.   I want to testify that I have seen the position(s) get in the way over and over - well, money and position, I should say.   We tend to look at the world and blame, everyone.  We blame the politicians, we blame the rich, we blame the atheists, the nonbelievers, the satanists, the pagans, the muslim’s, the jews, etc..  I remember when Obama was President and the body of Christ was so upset!  So many were preaching he would be the antichrist .  But we have the power, brothers.  WE  have the power.   You see, the Spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives in us!  I don’t know that that same Spirit lived in Obama.  Judging by his actions, its hard to believe he was being ruled by the Spirit of God while destroying so many of the foundations of God.  But he never had the power.  Never.  But we have the power.   We blame people who are powerless to change anything (for the good)?  What kind of sense does that make.  We look at the most worldly, fleshly and rejected by God and waste our time and energy judging them!?  If the same power that raised Christ from the dead lives in us, then we have the power to make changes – and therefore the fault lies almost squarely on us.  Sorry if that seems harsh, but we  are in fact the Living Breathing, Body of Christ left on the earth. Now, I don’t want any of you to feel judged or condemned.  I’m merely reminding us all, all my brothers, of the actual power we have.  But the devil is a chief strategist.  He really is.  He gets us all fighting among ourselves, competing, envying one another (like Cain envied Abel, until finally he put righteous Abel to death), and worse.  His strategy has been rather simple since the beginning – get the armies of God on the earth in confusion, full of offense, separated one from the another and they will be powerless.  And it has been working.  It has often worked since the very beginning.   The fact is, we never had a chance against him, not without the presence of God ruling in our lives.  We have always needed these fruits of God reigning in us, in our Churches, in our families: love, and joy, and peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness and self-control.  But we, like sheep, all go astray.  All of us: apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, bishops, elders and deacons… All of us, like sheep, go astray.   How are you, men, going to go to war without a band of brothers?  How are you going to stand against this evil, which has veiled the masses, even large numbers among our fellow saints, which has penetrated nearly every power-center of our world today, and fight alone?   But if we would all go to war?  Everything would change.   Something quite dramatic changes in men when they are at war.  We don’t have time for petty differences, we don’t have time to argue endless debates and waste time in meaningless squabble.  Go To War!  Suddenly when our lives are on the line, we will quickly figure out how to get along, how be brothers.  Ever hear, “There are no atheists in a foxhole”?   It was a surprising bonus, how much easier i found it to remain in the presence of God as a missionary.  I didn't expect this as another reward of serving Him.  Sleeping in the mid-huts in Africa, on endless flights over never-ending oceans filled with turbulence, bad weather and rough landings, stuck on trains with my pregnant wife in the middle of ex-Soviet Russia while she’s having terrible morning sickness, rarely having much more than enough money for the day in my pocket, in the midst of the battle it was much easier to remain in His presence.    But it’s unbelievably hard to do it alone.  When I left the country I practically begged three of my closest brothers: “Come with me!”  The first said, “I have debts to pay off,” the second said, “I just started a business and I need to attend to it,” and third said, “I just got engaged and need to start a family…”. I’m pretty sure there is a parable somewhere in the scripture that sounds this way… Hahaha.  But I praise God, I was never too much alone, I had true brothers everywhere I went.   In America we are in the belly of the beast.  In as much as Rome was very much the beasts headquarters, we have a unique position to be able to hold back the darkness from spreading the world (and overtaking it) from within the USA.  But it will take an army.  The days of celebrity-superstar, lone-preacher are over.  That’s old-fashioned now.  Anyone interested in what God is doing upon the earth now will come to the conclusion, Our Father is restoring the brotherhood .   “One will put a thousand to flight but TWO will send the legions fleeing”!  Here’s another one, “And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”  Jesus said, “Two or more of you gathered together…” and I will be in Your midst.  He said, “Two or three of you agree on anything in my name, and it shall be done for you.”  John 17 He prayed, That we would be One and Agree .   We can not live the reality of this Christian life having another man to rule over us.  It’s simply not possible.  We can not be ruled and free at the same time.  We can not rule them and free them together at the same time.  We must choose, brothers, do we want to rule them or to set them free?  Jesus set them free .  Who are we to subjugate them to ourselves?   There exists a place for (servant) authority in this brotherhood.  It’s not complicated or challenging.  Both things function together, in the kingdom of God – and God remains The Lord, The Shepherd, The King over all.  How did we miss this?  “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” And then we try to exalt men and put them over other men?  Brothers, it should not be so.  Let the Spirit have rule over them – we should serve them and love them…   Jesus is returning for the body but He is returning also for a brotherhood.  I can preach on this for hours because it’s everywhere throughout the scriptures.  In Revelation, 5 churches get rebuked, 2 churches do not.  Of the two churches who do not get a rebuke, one of them is more or less neutral, not incredibly edified but not rebuked either - but one church clearly stands out among the rest: The Church of Philadelphia .  “Philo” translated means, “ Brotherly Love ”. As they say, THAT WILL PREACH !   Jesus is returning for the Church of Brotherly Love .   I hope this truth changes us all.   I hope it penetrates our hearts.   The world is lost, dying, alone and afraid They need to see the Light of Christ shining thru us   And “They will all know we are Messiah’s, by our love, One for another…”   Amen.

by Robert Anthony May 20th 2024 ( In Ukrainian Below - Нижче українською ) The Ukrainian Constitution is a surprisingly amazing document, giving tremendous power into the hands of the Ukrainian people – they formed a true democracy in 1991.  What is commonly known about Ukraine are it’s scandal’s, political corruption and tumultuous beginnings but there is a rich under-belly of democracy and freedom that permeates throughout its, especially modern, history.  More about the Ukrainian constitution in a moment.   It is not a secret that Russia has been waging a kind of unconventional war with the west over control of Ukraine.  Many Russian people are not satisfied with the demise of the Soviet Union and the loss of such power throughout the world.  So, in spring 2014 Russia turned this political war into a conventional war, taking Crimea by force.    It’s difficult for us in the west to understand a people who desire war and conquest.  Perhaps because we have been on the winning side of history for so long?  But many among the Russian (and Chinese) people have a deep-rooted patriotism but also a jealousy  towards the west so much so that they are willing to go to war, to take for themselves by force a better life.   We, in the west, cannot understand the poverty throughout places in Russia (and China).  Western poverty looks nothing like it does in many nations throughout the world.  When Russia offers their new recruits $2,000 USD a month  with a $50-70,000 bonus to their families if they die that is like winning the lottery for many of those living in abject poverty throughout Russia’s interior, who often make less than $200 USD a month! ( Russia is now paying Cubans to come and fight in their invasion .)   Russia (and China) will have its army funded and fully staffed for years to come, even without a draft.  Originally Putin had tried to draft himself an army (about 6 months after the war began) but hundreds of thousands fled Russia.  He quickly shifted his strategy to raising the minimum wage for a soldier and has had this policy for a year and half now.  The sad reality for Russians is that the majority of them will die before even collecting their second paycheck!    The truly amazing Ukrainian constitution allows for religious/moral exemption from any compulsory military service.  When the war began in Ukraine a draft immediately ensued and by and large, those protections in its constitution were upheld.  And it’s vital to understand, the democratically elected leaders of Ukraine shut their borders down on the very first day  at the start of the war!  All Military aged males (18-60) were prohibited from leaving the country without certain permissions.  So many were trying to flee the country, especially in those earlier days of the war that it would take three, four and five days to cross Ukrainian borders!  ( It’s hard to imagine exactly what it’s like to watch upwards of 5 million Ukrainians fleeing their nation! ) (Ukrainian refugees walk alongside vehicles queuing to cross the border - walking in Ukraine to Moldova on February 26, 2022) Within three months of the start of the war, policy changed dramatically and the Ukrainian government stopped upholding these protections.  And worse yet, Ukrainian war officials started grabbing men off of the streets and throwing them into recruitment centers  (Called TRCs or Territorial Recruitment Centers) and often tossing these civilians to the front lines!  Ukraine’s borders have since remained shut to any and all civilian men trying to leave the worn-torn homeland.   And none of this is news to the funding partners of Ukraine’s war.  The EU, the UK, our own USA, everyone is fully aware of this simple fact: Ukraine will run out of troops well before Russia will. All of these draconian measures forcing Ukrainians to war will not change the simple fact that if the west wants to keep Ukraine out of Russia’s hands, the west will eventually have to provide boots on the ground, in a real hot-war against the old Russian Bear .    I can’t help but wonder if Putin would have invaded Ukraine if there was a different leader in the White House, or at 10 Downing Street, or among the EU Parliament?  How intimidating would it have been for Putin (and Xi, and Putin’s other partners) to invade Ukraine knowing that a united western force lay in wait for them!?  Putin took Crimea while the left was in power, 2014.  He waited and watched the 2016 election and then was rather subdued during the Trump Administration.  Seems rather easy to forecast what Russia and her partners will do following the 2024 election.   ---------------------------------------   More than 1,000,000 souls have perished to date from this new round of Russian aggression.  Contrary to many policies, continually throwing money at this nightmare in Ukraine will never win the war - the souls of men will absolutely be required.  Certainly, we  do not want a world war unfolding in Europe and the Middle East (and then in Taiwan?) but we  did not decide to invade a sovereign nation. (And we  did not encourage Hamas to slaughter some 2,700 Israeli’s, mostly civilians on Oct. 2023.)   The numbers are staggering in Russia!  Something like 80% of the nation supports Putin and his war effort (at least publicly these are the numbers being reported).  Many of the Russian people are still bitter having lost so much of their old Soviet Empire, many are envious and willing to fight and take back those nations by force insomuch that they might have a better (even more western) life.  And much of the Chinese people’s sentiment is similar to that of Russia’s.     Have we, in the west, finally past the point of no return?  Is this the three or four front world-war scenario unfolding that we have been fearing for the past 60+ years?  The months ahead and the impending election will reveal much.   For the time being, is it in Ukraine’s national interests to keep the borders closed to civilian male migration and forcing conscripts into their standing army ?  Perhaps the pressure coming down on President Zelensky convinces him and his administration so but in truth he is ensuring that Europe will remain on the sidelines.  As the President of a nation, is his commitment to lands, businesses, money and positions of power or to a people ?  I would argue his commitment is first to a people, all other structures in the nation be damned.  Without a people, united and alive, there is no nation but only an empty shell that was once a thriving society. (Ukrainian refugees line up to receive residence permits - Prague, Czech Republic, March 2, 2022) “Let the proverbial chips fall where they may, Ukraine.”  You can do no wrong in keeping yourself committed to your people!  Nations rise and fall throughout the whole of history but will your leadership be remembered as a group of tyrants who allowed the Russian bear  to slowly grind and devour your families into oblivion - or will you be remembered as the true friends and leaders of Ukrainian who put the innocent first, above pieces of land and title – ensuring Ukraine lives on in its people, for generations to come!? Will Europe come to Ukraine’s aid in her hour of need, even sending in troops?  History is being written each day.  For certain imprisoning your men, their families and civilian population is not helping to convince Europe of the desperation of the hour.  Now reports are emerging of men trying to escape the Ukrainian draft being shot at their own borders !  And these tyrannical policies reek untold havoc on morale and actually work against the cause that is saving Ukraine!  ( This is the new law just passed making it even harder for men to leave the country .) (From CDM.press Ukrainian man shot trying to cross border) None of us in the west want to see Ukraine lost to Russian ambition and greed.  Europe must not stand by idly watching Russia take by force whatsoever her heart desires, many other adversary nations are watching.  Our western competitors have declared economic war, a propaganda war, sowing social unrest - stoking division among our nations, toying with our elections, etc. but now they seem to be surrendering to the eventuality of a hot-war, World War III-scenario.  How the west responds in the few months ahead, rallying behind its allies and partners: Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, etc. will either give permission to the enemies of peace and freedom to expand their campaign or retreat, unwilling to pay the cost of standing against a united allied force.   I pray President Zelensky, his administration and military turns and decides to weigh their decisions based on eternity, looking to their policies lack of legacy, remembering that these are short-lived, shifting allegiances who are negotiating to keep the innocent people of Ukraine at war but their own nations at a distance.  It seems to me these Ukrainian leaders are ensuring the ruthless howbeit slow-moving demise of their country as they continue to kowtow these powerful and wealthy European elite.  Praying these leading Ukraine relent from this myopic and unpatriotic strategy in which they have thrust upon their people.   (Ukrainian children hold placards during a protest outside the Russian embassy - Bucharest on October 14, 2023) Fight for the families of Ukraine!  Have faith!   Goodness and even miracles can happen when we choose to do what is right in the sight of God and man!  Take heart!  There is a God in heaven who will fight for you, Ukraine… But we all must surrender to His much higher  ways. Praying for the war to end in Ukraine now, For the Russians to return to their homeland And for peace to be restored. Як Україна зможе вижити в цій ситуації?! Автор: Роберт Ентоні Конституція України є надзвичайним документом, що дає величезну владу в руки українського народу – вони створили справжню демократію в 1991 році. Що зазвичай відомо про Україну, то це її скандали, політичну корупцію та бурхливий початок. Але є багате підґрунтя для демократії та свободи, що пронизує всю її, особливо сучасну, історію. Більше про українську Конституцію за мить. Не секрет, що Росія веде свого роду неконвенційну війну із Заходом за контроль над Україною. Багато росіян невдоволені розпадом Радянського Союзу та втратою величезного впливу у всьому світу. Тож навесні 2014 року Росія перетворила цю політичну війну на реальну, захопивши Крим силою. Нам на Заході важко зрозуміти людей, які прагнуть війни та завоювань. Можливо, тому, що ми так довго були на стороні переможців історії? Але багато серед російського (та китайського) народу мають глибоко вкорінений патріотизм, а також заздрість до Заходу, настільки сильну, що вони готові йти воювати, щоб силою здобути для себе краще життя. Ми, на Заході, не можемо зрозуміти бідність у таких місцях, як у Росія (і Китай). Західна бідність виглядає зовсім не так, як у інших країнах світу. Коли Росія пропонує своїм новобранцям 2 000 доларів США на місяць  із бонусом у 50-70 000 доларів їхнім родинам у разі смерті, це як виграти в лотерею для багатьох із тих, хто живе в жахливій бідності у глибинних районах Росії, де часто заробляють менше 200 доларів США на місяць! (Зараз Росія платить кубинцям, щоб ті воювали на їх війні) Росія (і Китай) буде мати свою армію профінансовану та повністю укомплектовану на багато років вперед, навіть без призову. Спочатку Путін намагався мобілізувати собі армію (приблизно через 6 місяців після початку війни), але сотні тисяч чоловіків втекли з Росії. Він швидко змінив свою стратегію і підвищив платню для солдатів і вже півтора року дотримується цієї політики. Сумна реальність для росіян полягає в тому, що більшість із них загине, перш ніж навіть отримає другу зарплату! Дійсно дивовижна Конституція України дозволяє звільнення від будь-якої обов'язкової військової служби за релігійними та світоглядними підставами. Коли війна почалася в Україні, одразу було оголошено мобілізацію, і ці конституційні права, переважно, були дотримані. Важливо зрозуміти, що демократично обрані лідери України закрили кордони в перший же день початку війни! Усім чоловікам призовного віку (18-60 років) було заборонено залишати країну без спеціальних дозволів. Дуже багато людей намагалися втекти з країни, особливо в перші дні війни, так що для перетину українських кордонів потрібно було три, чотири і навіть п'ять днів! (Важко уявити, як це – бачити, як понад 5 мільйонів українців тікають зі своєї країни!) (Українські біженці йдуть поруч із чергами автомобілів, що перетинають кордон України з Молдовою 26 лютого 2022 року) Приблизно через три місяці після початку війни політика змінилася кардинально, і український уряд припинив дотримуватися конституційних прав українців. Більше того, українські військові працівники почали хапати чоловіків з вулиць та доставляти їх до призовних центрів (так званих ТЦК або Територіальні Центри Комплектування), часто відправляючи цих цивільних прямо на передову! Українські кордони з того часу залишаються закритими для всіх цивільних чоловіків, які намагаються залишити розорену війною батьківщину. І все це не новина для партнерів, що фінансують війну в Україні. ЄС, Великобританія і наші власні США – всі вони повністю усвідомлюють наступний простий факт: в Україні військо закінчиться набагато раніше, ніж у Росії. Всі ці драконівські заходи, що змушують українців йти на війну, не змінять простого факту, що якщо Захід хоче утримати Україну від рук Росії, то зрештою доведеться надіслати власні сухопутні війська на справжню гарячу війну проти старого російського ведмедя. Не можу собі уявити, чи наважився б Путін вдертися в Україну, якби в Білому домі, на Даунінг-стріт, 10 або в Європарламенті був інший лідер? Як би налякало Путіна (і Сі, та інших партнерів Путіна) від вторгнення в Україну, знання того, що об'єднані сили Заходу готові дати відсіч!? Путін захопив Крим у 2014 році, коли при владі були ліві. Він чекав і спостерігав за виборами 2016 року, а потім був досить стриманим під час адміністрації Трампа. Здається, досить легко передбачити, що Росія та її партнери зроблять після виборів 2024 року. На сьогодні від нової хвилі російської агресії загинуло понад 1 000 000 людей по обидві сторони. Всупереч думці багатьох політиків, тільки вливання грошей у це жахіття в Україні ніколи не виграє війну. Абсолютно однозначно потрібні люди. Звичайно, ми не хочемо, щоби світова війна розгорнулася в Європі та на Близькому Сході (а потім у Тайвані?). Але не ми вирішували вторгнутися в суверенну державу. (І не ми заохочували ХАМАС до різанини приблизно 2 700 ізраїльтян, переважно цивільних, у жовтні 2023 року.) Цифри в Росії вражають! Близько 80% населення підтримує Путіна та його військові зусилля (принаймні публічно повідомляються такі дані). Багато росіян досі гірко переживають втрату значної частини своєї старої Радянської імперії, багато хто заздрить і готовий битися, щоби силою повернути ці країни, аби жити краще (мати більш західне) життя. І багато китайців теж мають подібні до росіян настрої. Чи ми на Заході нарешті перейшли точку неповернення? Чи це розгортається світовий воєнний сценарій на три або чотири фронти, якого ми всі боялися останні 60+ років? Наступні місяці та майбутні вибори багато чого розкриють. На даний момент, чи відповідає національним інтересам України тримати кордони закритими для цивільних чоловіків і змушувати призовників вступати до регулярної армії? Можливо, на президента Зеленського чиниться тиск. Хтось переконує його та його адміністрацію в цьому. Але насправді такими діями він гарантує те, що Європа залишатиметься осторонь. Як президент українського народу, його відповідальність лежить перед народом, чи перед землями, бізнесами, грошами та посадами? Я б стверджував, що його відповідальність насамперед лежить перед народом, а всі інші сторони не повинні братися до уваги. Без єдиного живого народу, немає нації. Не хотілося б, щоби залишилася порожня оболонка, яка колись була процвітаючим українським суспільством. (Українські біженці вишикувалися для отримання дозволів на проживання – Прага, Чехія, 2 березня 2022 року) “Нехай все іде своїм ходом, Україно.” Ти не помилишся, якщо залишишся вірним своєму народу! Нації піднімаються і падають протягом всієї історії. Але чи запам’ятається твоє керівництво як  група тиранів, які дозволили російському ведмедю повільно знищувати ваші сім'ї, чи вони, як справжні друзі та лідери України, ставлять невинних людей вище за землю і титули – забезпечуючи те, що Україна буде жити в її народі протягом поколінь!? Чи прийде Європа на допомогу Україні в годину потреби, навіть надіславши свої війська? Історія пишеться щодня. Безумовно, ув’язнення ваших чоловіків, їхніх сімей та цивільного населення не допомагає переконати Європу в невідкладності ситуації. Тепер з’являються повідомлення про те, що чоловіків, які намагаються втекти від українського призову, розстрілюють на власних кордонах!  І ці тиранічні політики завдають невимовної шкоди моральному духу та фактично діють проти справи порятунку України! (Щойно прийнятий новий закон ще більше ускладнює життя чоловікам та виїзд з країни.) (Згідно CDM.press , цього українського чоловіка застрелили при спробі перетнути кордон) Ніхто з нас на Заході не хоче бачити, як Україна стане здобиччю російських амбіцій і жадібності. Європа не повинна байдуже спостерігати, як Росія силою захоплює все, що їй заманеться. Багато інших ворожих нам країн спостерігають за цим. Наші противники оголосили економічну війну, пропагандистську війну, сіють соціальні заворушення – розпалюють розбрат серед наших народів, втручаються у наші вибори, тощо. Але тепер вони, здається, схиляються до неминучості гарячої війни, сценарію Третьої світової війни. Те, як Захід відповість у найближчі місяці, об'єднавшись зі своїми союзниками та партнерами: Україною, Ізраїлем, Тайванем, тощо - або дасть дозвіл ворогам миру і свободи розширити свою кампанію, або змусить їх відступити,  оскільки вони не забажають заплатити високу ціну протистояння об’єднаній союзницькій силі. Я молюся, щоби президент Зеленський, його адміністрація та військові змінили свої рішення, орієнтуючись на довгострокові цілі, а не на короткочасні плани своєї політики. Пам’ятайте, що ці короткочасні, мінливі союзи із західними політиками ведуть до того, що вони змушують невинних людей України воювати, а свої країни тримають осторонь. Мені здається, що українські лідери на даний час забезпечують безжалісну, хоча й повільну, загибель своєї країни, продовжуючи підкорятися цим могутнім і заможним європейським елітам. Молюся, щоб керівники України відмовилися від цієї короткозорої та непатріотичної стратегії, яку вони нав’язали своєму народу. (Українські діти тримають плакати під час протесту біля російського посольства – Бухарест, 14 жовтня 2023 року) Боріться за свої родини, українці! Вірте! Чудеса можуть статися, коли ми обираємо робити те, що правильно в очах Бога і людей! Будьте мужніми! Є Бог на небі, який буде боротися за вас, Україно… Але ми всі повинні підкоритися Його вищим цілям. Молимося за негайне припинення війни в Україні. Щоб росіяни повернулися на свою батьківщину. І щоб мир був відновлений.

By Robert Anthony May 25th 2024 (L. Glotzle depiction of Melchizedek blessing Abram, who would become Abraham, father of many nations.) The Fundamentals for Revival Series Part Four “A New Covenant includes a New Priesthood”   In this Article* you will Read: Let us open ourselves up to receiving something New of God! The Mediator of the New Covenant from God (with man) was of a New Priesthood and fulfilled the old covenant, to perfection. What do we actually know about this New Priesthood? The scripture declares it is the order of Melchizedek.  But we love our traditions so much!  I am worried that we allow our traditions more prominence than the actual Word of God. In Closing: What is in fact the fullness  pertaining to the Church for which Jesus is returning? *Suggested Reading: most (if not all) of the book of Hebrews, Psalm 110, Genesis 14 and Jeremiah 31:31-36       1.   Many of us around the Church and preaching for years, many of us who went to Bible Colleges and seminaries, many of us raised in organized religion have heard of the things pertaining to the gospel of Christ and perhaps thousands of times but how much do we really know of the holy and eternal  things of God?   Whether or not we admit it to ourselves, we are like children looking into eternity, something that we simply cannot comprehend with our natural minds and trying to make sense of it all – and then often trying to teach it.  Some of us, more convinced than others, declare to the congregation, “We See!”  But the trouble is, all of our forefathers, of whose foundation we are all now building upon, agreed quite to the contrary, saying, “We see in a mirror only dimly and we only know in part, only then we will see fully even as we are fully known.” (I Corinthians 13:12)   What we have we hold to by faith.  And Jesus teaches us to live humbly, and of this matter He rebuked the religious leaders of His day, saying, “For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.” (John 9:39)  It would be better that we would remain humble, teachable, like children, understanding that in all our years seeking Him, even into our eighties or nineties, we will still be merely as children to the Living God, peering into eternity as if almost blind.   Our God is a mystery and yet we know Him!  He is past finding out and yet He is our Father.  We seek Him and we find Him and yet we will still be discovering Him well into eternity.  Throughout our walk with God, we are peeking into eternity and trying to grasp something literally out-of-this-world!  Wisdom would perhaps tell us, let us minister the holy things of God with a modicum of reverence, Godly fear and humility – and allow God to lift us up and to give us the eyes to see. Amen?   2.   In all our preaching, church services and studies, what has actually been revealed to us about this mysterious figure, Melchizedek ?  Hebrews actually has more to say of him/Him than anywhere else in the Word of God.  But there is a very revealing passage of scripture in Psalm 110:4, “The LORD-Jehovah hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art  a priest for-ever after the order of Melchizedek.”  And then Hebrews recites this prophecy over and again, 6 times the author of Hebrews refers to Jesus being of the order of Melchizedek  (and not of the order of Aaron, of the Levites)!   One would think we would have entire courses in Bible college and throughout Christendom unraveling this mystery and yet, this foundational truth almost never even discussed.   Jesus was not a Levite but according to Moses’ first covenant, the covenant given to the Israelites and Jews, a High Priest had to be a Levite.  Hebrews  does a wonderful job explaining how Jesus could make intercession for the whole world (who would believe on Him) and yet be of Judah, not Levi .   Hebrews also explains a new covenant comes with new laws!  “For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.” (Hebrews 7:12)  This story is getting deeper and deeper the more we read!  A New Covenant, A New Priesthood and now New Laws!?  What an amazing mystery!   Let’s begin more or less at the beginning, where this all this newness began, Jeremiah 31:31-34:   “Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that  I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be  the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.  And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”   And it has been written,   “Behold I make all things new!” (Rev. 21:5 and 2 Cor. 5:17)   3.   But what really do we know of this new covenant, priesthood and new set of laws?  What we tend to preach all throughout the churches very well pertains to the forgiveness of sins, the sprinkling of blood, the exaltation of Messiah who is the Son of God and some of the prophecy of the end of the age.  But whereas the old covenant was to be administered around a tabernacle, a holy place, a land and a people, we lose sight of the administration of this New Covenant - I fear we, as the Church, hardly understand the distinction in two covenants at all.    We know well that the old covenant gave power over to the priests to make intercession for the people, to offer sacrifices for the remission of sins and to pay gifts unto God upon an altar.  We know well the old covenant ways of seeking out a man to be our mediator, raising him up, giving him titles and honor and looking to that flesh and blood for our way to God.  And yet the whole of the old covenant way of abiding with God was all but fulfilled and is about to be done away with.  Return to Hebrews, chapter 6, verse 1:   “Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God…”   Did we just read to “leave the principles of the doctrine of Christ!?  The author of Hebrews is encouraging us on to perfection, to not remain as babes forever drinking milk, but to mature, to stop sinning, to come up higher  and sit at the feet of our Messiah and learn of His ways!  To be brought before the very presence of God and come to know Him, individually, uniquely.   But just as the people would not go up the mountain with Moses to meet God, today’s church is too often content to find for themselves another man (pastor/priest) to make the attempt in him to live their faith.  Brothers and sisters, this must not be so.  We may not have complete understanding of this new priesthood and covenant but what we should be able to see clearly throughout the gospel of the kingdom is that thru Messiah, God is now our Father – and we were restored to be with Him, uniquely .   Melchizedek was clearly king and priest (we learn throughout scripture).  The Son of God we know now was King of all creation, the heavens and earth, but we also know that He is our High Priest - making intercession for us before the throne of God.  We of His Church are now of that order of Melchizedek thru Christ Jesus our Lord.  Scripture is unbelievably clear on this subject.  Jesus teaches us clearly, “No man might come to the Father but thru me.”  But that also means to us, WE CAN GO DIRECTLY TO THE FATHER!   This concept of being able to go directly to God was not introduced in the Old Covenant.  Of the things we don’t see clearly about this New Covenant, certainly we should be able to see this: in Christ Jesus, God is now our Father .   4.   There is plenty throughout the New Testament of scripture pertaining to this new priesthood, although it is not referred to as a priesthood because in Christ we are ALL PRIESTS AND KINGS!  We have to lose a lot of tradition to get this truth into the deep places of our soul.  We do not need another man to come before the throne of God, the Son of God already made the way.   Paul, one of Messiah’s apostles, writes plenty pertaining to the administration of the Church.  Most all of his letters, as given by the Holy Spirit, are explaining the day-to-day function of the Church.  But Paul focused his writings exhorting the flesh and blood leaders as opposed to function, as if to say, how  the church might function.  In fact, we have very little about how the church should function outside from the stories in Acts.    Throughout the whole of scripture there is very little about how to have something called a “Church Service” or “Have Church”.  Those commandments regarding function are simply not in the entirely of scripture.  Let me explain:   In Acts we learn that they gathered “Daily” and met “House to house” and “Breaking Bread” they ate together and gathered daily in prayer, “with gladness and unity (singleness) of heart” (Acts 2:40-47).  Even as the church spread the nations, we learn that they were having meetings in their houses. In Romans 16:5, 1 Cor. 16:19, Colossians 4:5 and Philemon 1:2, Paul asks at least five times throughout his letters to the churches, “Greet the churches meeting in your houses!”    But again, throughout the whole of the New Testament we simply do not find anywhere it lays out to us a method of “Church Service” but almost to the contrary we are taught often commandments of how we engage when gathered together.  1 Corinthians 12-14 are fundamental chapters teaching us what to do as we gather, not necessarily as a format but as how the church should esteem one another and exhort each other in Christ.  I will write about this more later.   Foundationally, we have to reintroduce into the body of Christ that every one of comes before Him uniquely, that there is an order to the function of the family and a way in which we are to behave ourselves as the body of Christ, left to lighten the earth.   In Melchizedek now we are all Kings… and Priests!     5.   I don’t think it is clear to us how the entirety of the New Testament is actually our blueprint from God, given to reveal and explain to us what is this New Covenant!  (Remember, the Word New Testament literally translates, New Covenant .)   And to understand the fullness of this New Covenant is to come to know its administrator, its minister .   Who was and is the minister or mediator  of this New Covenant?  We have called upon Him, Jesus !  And He saved us.  Amen!  But then He left… remember?  So who remains the minister of this covenant now?   Jesus quite literally told them/us, “I am leaving you.”  In fact several times He told them so…   But He promised not to leave them/us comfortless .  He told us He was sending us the Promise of His Father , from heaven!  (This is all from John 14-16)  And this same Spirit, the Holy Spirit from God, would lead us into all truth, comfort us, help us find our way and reveal to us things from the future!  Now again, fundamentally, there was simply no church until the Holy Spirit  was given in that upper room.   The whole of the ministry of that first church was administered entirely by God’s Holy Ghost .  They would (daily) follow the leading of God as revealed by His Holy Spirit and they would not move until they were filled with His holy presence.  Reread the book of Acts with these things in mind.  The first Church was wholly devoted to following God by obedience to the Word of God and surrender to His Holy Spirit.  This is the New Covenant we were given by God and Acts explains it, chapter 2, verses 16-21:   “But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”   Melchizedek was a foreshadowing of things to come in Christ.  He quite literally did communion with Abraham, blessing him with the breaking of bread and wine!  And it was AFTER the blessing of Melchizedek that Abram’s name was changed to Abraham!  The “Ham” in “Abra ham ” being added signified “The Breath of God” or the “Spirit of God” being imparted to Abram – another foreshadowing of things to come in Christ!   But men will create their own religion when they do not want to surrender to the ways of God.  Even more concerning, is that if men do not want God’s way, then aren’t they in essence making themselves out to be their own god… yet again??  This was also the sin of Cain when he offered to God a sacrifice that was unacceptable unto heaven.     The truth is we are incapable of ministering to the God of eternity.  We are far too broken, fleshly, limited and powerless to minister before Gods’ throne… that is another reason why our Father sent to us His Spirit.  “It is not by (our) might nor by (our) power by His Spirit says the Lord.”  His Spirit will even make our offering, sacrifice and worship pleasing before the Father… Amen??If we are to come into the fullness of the things of God in Christ Jesus, if the bride is going to make herself ready, all these things will come by the power of God, and thru His Holy Spirit.  (And His Holy Spirit manifested His Word, and these two agree, perfectly.)  We know that Jesus is at the right hand of God, they watched Him depart into heaven.  But now, Jesus is continuing His ministry to us thru His Holy Spirit, the same Spirit who will finish the work that He started.   It could be therefore summarized that the whole of the New Covenant was laid upon Christ Jesus, God’s only Son, who made intercession before the throne of God and so the Father gave to us His Own Spirit, the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead.  And His Spirit now ministers to us, bringing all things to the glorious New Beginning that will be revealed come His day… Amen!!?Still plenty to pray about hidden in the mystery of this Melchizedek.  But I hope this inspires you all further into the mystery of God!    To know Him And to be known by Him…   Greatest love Because we are now His! - Robert   (This is a great 10 min. mini sermon that compliments this article.)

By Robert Anthony June 9th 2024 I am so impressed with this New Tucker Carlson, unshackled by the constraints of his past life!! Very wonderful interview. So much of what he is doing is inspiring! Must Watch!!

By Robert Anthony June 15th 2024   This Father’s Day I want to encourage Godly Manhood!   In fact I have been encouraging God-made manhood for many years now.  I have to report honestly that this has been the most controversial part of my preaching for something like 20 years.  You would think those who run the churches would welcome a man who is speaking the word of God, admonishing the men further into the things of God, but no… this ministry has been not only unappreciated but warred against I would estimate 9 times out of 10 throughout the churches.    Why would any church-leader have trouble with the men having authority, with the men being powerful, with the men being full of God’s fiery love and therefore… ALIVE!!?  What could possibly be the reason church leaders would strive against such a thing? Men, God created you to rule .  Technically the women were created to rule also but for this time men have been given the charge to lead, to lead the families, to lead the churches… Men were commanded all throughout the New Testament to lead (and not just the pastors or clergy).  And it all began, in the beginning.   Adam was given authority over all God’s earth and then He was alone with God for a time.  Later, God gave Him a helpmate/help-meet, Eve (and Adam named her, “the mother of all living”).  Even how God made Eve is allegorical of a woman’s authority and power, coming out of the man.  God took Adam’s rib and fashioned the woman.  It’s all right there in the beginning with that first family.  Adam’s authority coming from God and then the woman’s authority coming from God/Adam together.  Even the curse explains this in further detail, Genesis 3:16, “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be  to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. ”  But again, in eternity everyone will be made new, we will all be “sons of God” – priests and kings unto Christ.  In eternity there will be no more male and female but only the “sons of God”. Warring against our design and the spirit within us (make or female) is to war against God. (Maybe, consider this for a moment.)  For a man to refuse to lead His family (especially to God) is a man refusing His God-given responsibility.  For a woman to refuse to follow her husband (especially to God) is for a woman to refuse her God-given role.  So, simply put, our families are broken because we don’t believe and then follow the word of God. Here is a longer article I have written on the subject that goes into all of this much deeper:   Brothers, that thing inside of us that wants to protect and cover and lead our wives and children is God-given.  Now obviously we need to become good-leaders, obviously there is a way to do this in love and all the things of love and there is a way to do this totally wrong.  And there are many who like to point out our shortcomings. Over the years I have heard many even from the pulpits pointing out our struggles to love them perfectly, making mention of how we have failed them throughout our past.  But it’s hard to lead.  Especially at first.  Many of us were never shown (from our dads, mentors, etc.) good and Godly leadership in the home.  For many of us we are literally completely unaware of how to do this (But the Holy Spirit will help us). Let us not be too hard on ourselves as we fail… and we ALL Fail sometimes. The early years of my marriage I was very harsh with my precious wife.  I had a rather short fuse and would not allow her much room to emote or complain, I was impatient and easily agitated but I have changed, by the power of God, Praise Him!  I am not that man anymore.  But it’s still hard.  Our marriages are under constant assault from the enemy.  He has had this plan all along, destroy the families and he will destroy the world.    Look at what Ephesians said, Chapter 5, Paul literally writes to us about HOW we are to love our wives.  We all know to love them, but How !?  Paul explains it in detail, verses 25-28, “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it; that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”   I hope you see Paul’s message clearly.  What I just read told me to keep my wife holy, to keep her blameless and faultless before God’s throne… Paul said basically nothing about affection or romance or buying her things, but he absolutely told the men, “Keep your women holy!”   Not in Bible College, not in church, not in any marriage class did I ever hear such a thing.  The very simple teaching we have from the word of God is… “Keep your women blameless, set apart and holy.”  And this is what it is to love them!  Amen? It’s really true!  Bring sin and iniquity into the house, men and you will destroy your family quickly.  Bring various sins and lusts of the flesh and lusts of the world and the pride of life into your home… and watch everything fall apart.  Allow your wife to rule the family!?  Watch everything unravel, watch your children depart from the things of God as your generations become an easy target for the enemy as you refuse your God-given role to lead.  We were made to cover them, brothers.  We were made to have authority and protection over our children and to teach them, to lead them in this Godly way.   Many of our children have departed the things of God simply because the fathers would not take their place and lead them.  And to lead is a part of what it is for a man to love.  How do you have authority over your garden?  Well, if I stomp my garden, if I refuse to water it and allow the weeds to grow up and choke it out, it will die.  But if I, with great care and diligence, tend to my garden, watch over it, one might even say, love my garden… my garden will flourish!  This is allegorical of what it is to use our God-given authority… to rule them, to have authority over them is fundamentally, to love them .   If our hearts have grown hard, repent .  If we have ruined many relationships because of the hardness of our hearts, cry out to our God and He will heal us!  Listen to what He promised us thru the prophets, “I will take out your stony heart and I will give you a heart of flesh and blood” a heart that can break, heart that feels, a new heart, a good heart !   One time in prayer God said, “Robert, I can do many things but I can’t force a man to have a good heart.”  Quite profound!  God will not force anyone to be good.  If a man is content to destroy, to hate, to live in anger and vengeance, if I man loves evil and hates what is good, then his heart will grow hard like a flint stone and God will not force anyone to change.  Everyone has been given the power and authority to choose.  All of us. And God will not trample that freedom.   The Good News is, God wants to work with our hearts, He wants to work with our souls and make us good again, even like children, innocent and pure, trusting, trustworthy, hopeful and full of joy!  We can return.  Jesus told us, “Truly I say unto you, Except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”  So we must allow the goodness of God in.  We must allow God to change us, even at the depths of our very being… and we must lead our families!   But where will we lead them?  With hardened or broken hearts, with iniquity and sin, with all the unforgiveness and bitterness - Where we will lead those who are most precious to us!!?  We must become something new if we are going to lead those we love the most into the blessing! Most men on their death beds are filled with regret and shame.  And why?  Because they can see their life so clearly laying there, about to pass into eternity – and suddenly they can take an accurate account of themselves and their choices.  All these rich and powerful men say similar things, they call them deathbed confessions and these always have to do with the family.  If only I had loved them better … they all come to the same conclusion - they should have loved their families better. But brothers, let’s not wait until we are on our deathbeds to repent and change!  Let’s become something New and Wonderful and Worthy, and Powerful in God’s love, TODAY!!  Let this be our Father’s Day gift – that we are going to learn to walk with God like never before, that we are going to love our families like never before, that we are going to remove sin and godlessness from our homes today and we are going to lead our families with our whole hearts into God’s love and perfection!  This most certainly is the greatest blessing - to lead our families in holiness and to come and walk with God!   And we can not do it alone.  We will need our God and Father but we will also need our brothers.  We were never supposed to try and do this alone.  God is our Father.  And He gave us brothers.  I hope this encourages you men.  Time is short.  You can see it all over the world: as we just lived thru Covid, as something like WW3 seems to be starting, as there is economic turmoil, political turmoil, weather turmoil, it’s all happening just as the Lord said it would.  There has never been a better time to love these who are most precious to us!! We can do it, Men!  We are not alone! God will lead us throw this mess We don’t have to live afraid. Our Father is All-Powerful. Let’s come to Him anew And let Him teach us anew to lead them… Amen!!? And then… GOD'S VERY BEST WILL FINALLY COME!!I love you brothers. Happy Father’s Day. Robert. (A Great Fathers Day Praise Song!)

By Robert Anthony June 22nd 2024 (A depiction of Elijah being taken to heaven, escaping death altogether, Elisha is watching) The Fundamentals of Revival Series Part Five: "The spirit of Elijah has Always been a Harbinger for the End" Malachi 4:5,6 “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”   Harbinger: “a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; a herald.  anything that foreshadows a future event; an omen; a sign.”     Elijah (and his spirit) has been a harbinger  for the end several times in history already.   The first time Elijah and his spirit came to the earth it was about 870 BC.  In his time The Promised Land had already split into two nations, Israel to the north and Judah to the south, Elijah ministered to Israel in the north.  Israel’s sins were terrible, especially during Elijah’s time when Jezebel was ruling Israel with her husband Ahab.  It was a very wicked and sinful time for the kingdom of Israel, perhaps it’s darkest time ever. (For those of you that don’t know the story of Elijah, his story begins in I Kings 17, I encourage you all to read it even before reading this article.)   Elijah became a harbinger for the end of the northern kingdom of Israel.  He prophesied and warned them what would become of their nation and people should they refuse to repent and change from worshiping idols, and worse.  Elijah was entirely a harbinger unto Israel, warning them of certain destruction should they not relent.  In 722 BC the Assyrian army came for a final conclusive battle against Israel and entirely wiped them out!  Some estimate as many as 30-50 Million Israeli’s were killed during that time.  The remaining Israelites, the few left that they did not kill, were brought back to Nineveh, the Assyrian Capital, as their slaves.  And many of you Bible scholars are aware that John the Baptist, according to Jesus and His angel, came in the spirit and power of Elijah!  Therefore, John the Baptist could be considered Elijah number two, correct?  And if John the Baptist was in fact Elijah number two?  Was John the Baptist a harbinger for a final judgment of God towards Israel??    John was born sometime around 3 BC.  His message was simple, “Repent and turn from your wicked ways, and God will heal your land.” He said it over and again but also prophesied of the coming of the Son of God.  “Whose sandals,” he said, “I am not worthy to unloose.”  The gospels together all tell a wonderful and detailed story of John the Baptist, Jesus even exalted him above all the Old Testament prophets when he said, “Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist…”. John’s importance is often overshadowed by Jesus, the Messiah, and His ministry and for obvious reasons.  But the importance of this prophet must not be overlooked.   Did they repent from the preaching of Elijah?  No.  Perhaps a small group of them did and maybe a larger portion for a short season but in the end, the people of Israel continued to sin.  So, the Lord God allowed an enemy to come and destroy their land.  And John the Baptist was also a harbinger, preaching repentance and warning of “The Wrath to Come”.  And yet was there a revival?  Was there true repentance among the Jews for the saving of a nation and its people?  Clearly not.  They crucified the Son of God, which was a witness against them.   And John’s unheeded warnings came to pass, just as did Elijah’s.  In 70 AD the Roman army came, quite upset with the Jews and almost entirely destroyed Jerusalem.  Just as Jesus said of their temple, “Not one stone was left upon another… for all shall be throne down.”  The Romans literally tore that temple apart stone by stone and brick by brick!  Thus, the fulfillment of John’s ministry was revealed when that generation of Jews refused to repent, killed the Son of God and receive their just reward for that terrible transgression against God and His Son.   But in context, Malachi was not exactly prophesying about John the Baptist.  In context (read it again above), Malachi is clearly referring to the end of days, the time before God comes to judge the entirety of the earth, those who are in it and everything built upon it.  Therefore, Elijah must come a third time , or the spirit of Elijah must come a third time.  And he will be heralding as another harbinger, the time of the end.  He will be the key harbinger, again, making the way for the Son of God’s triumphant return!  Just as John the Baptist came, “To prepare the way of the Lord”, Elijah, and/or his spirit, will return to the earth, to prepare the Lord’s way once more.     Well, has Elijah returned to us?  Let us investigate.  Elijah’s ministry was about what, according to Malachi and then the angel Gabriel?  “He would turn the hearts of the children to their fathers and the hearts of the fathers to their children…” But at first glance, this prophecy may seem almost insignificant.  Of all the things this mighty man could do before God why, turning the hearts of the children to their fathers and vice versa?    When a society breaks down and falls apart doesn’t it all start at home?  The degradation of the family is certainly the necessary beginning for the demise of a society.  In fact, it could be said, as the family goes, so goes the nation!  But the opposite is also true, a thriving nation must also be filled with thriving families.  A thriving church… must also be filled with thriving families.  A thriving organization must be full of thriving individuals, and so on.    It can therefore be surmised, once the families fall into sin, corruption, hopelessness, lovelessness, etc. they die.  And the death of God’s created families will always come before the collapse and death of a nation.   It's not hard to see what is happening around us.  The families have been under attack for nearly a century.  What started slowly absolutely picked up pace after WW2.  Women started to leave their homes for work, children started being raised by government schools and divorce rates started to skyrocket.  The 1950’s and 60’s all throughout the world were a time of tremendous and unparalleled economic success, growth and opportunity ruled the day but they were also the years the families began to fall apart.  The 70’s, 80’s and 90’s saw unparalleled rates of divorce -rates perhaps never before seen on the earth !       But there seems to be a growing trend right now to save the marriages.  Younger generations are hesitant to get married but once they do, they are staying married better when compared with the generation before them.  Surprising, right?  I can’t help but wonder what changed?      It’s a time of extremely polar opposites that we are living in, on the one hand there is this horrible movement to destroy the traditional family altogether: radical abortion laws being passed at throughout the leftist states, the activist-LGBTQ movement, the things pertaining to genetic engineering and DNA manipulation, the government schools undermining the family unit with many of their agenda’s, etc. but there is also something quite different and astounding happening in the hearts and minds of these younger generations, driving divorce rates down!?   There is a new generation of young people who, although they might reject religion, want to remain married!   Perhaps this is some proof that the spirit of Elijah is among us!?   Malachi tells us Elijah will come before the great and dreadful day of the Lord!  And he will, do what exactly?  Another way of saying, “turn the hearts of the fathers and children and the hearts of the children to their fathers” is to say, “Elijah will restore the broken families!!”  Elijah, and/or the spirit of Elijah and his last days ministry, according to scripture, will bring about the restoration of the broken families and simultaneously preparing the way of the Lord.  And just as the first Elijah was a harbinger for the impending destruction of Israel, just as the second (spirit of) Elijah was a harbinger for the impending destruction of Jerusalem and its temple, the third Elijah will herald the end of the age – the coming of Messiah to the earth to rule and reign!   With very little effort we can see the whole prophesy playing out before our very eyes.  The spirit of Elijah is among us, telling the men to repent, telling the fathers to go after their children and win their generations!  The spirit of Elijah is among us, telling the children to repent and humble themselves, to return to the God of their fathers and become new.  The spirit of Elijah is telling the men to repent, hurry up and become good husbands and leaders of your families!  For soon and very soon you will stand before the Lord of glory, and what will you say to Him?!  The spirit of Elijah is upon the earth, telling the wives, “Submit to your husbands, as unto the Lord” and in so doing you please your Father in heaven.  The spirit of Elijah is here to restore all things and make ready a people to present to the Lord…But the remaining question is, Who among us will listen?   If we, fathers, cannot win our  families unto righteousness, the Bible says, we are unworthy of being in any leadership role within the Church.  The spirit of Elijah is here telling the fathers, it is your responsibility to lead the church and to encourage your brothers onward to their Father.  Should the spirit of Elijah succeed in restoring the families, the Church will suddenly come alive!  Should we, each, individually, turn our hearts towards our fathers, and turn our hearts towards our children – the God might see us from heaven and push back this destined end of this world, even for another generation!  We absolutely have a role to play in the history that is being written right now.   Again, if we cannot honor our parents, if we cannot raise our children in the way of the Lord, if we cannot obey the word of God, especially as it pertains to the families, how could we ever expect that God might stave off the end and give us more time?  Our churches, our government, our society is broken because we left the way of God and brought this rebellion and iniquity into our own homes .  Had we kept our homes holy, had we kept our families rooted in the word of God, had we stayed faithful to this New Covenant – we would have seen the salvation of the Lord, even with our own eyes!  But recent generations have refused.   But this  generation must return to the foundations of truth, to the foundations of the gospel, to the fundamentals of the things which God has given to us.  The Word, who was revealed in Christ Jesus, is the rock - and a wise man builds his house upon the rock.  The foolish man builds his house upon the sand.  Every household, every family that is built upon the rock will last, even thru the storms, even thru the tests of time.    Our Father has only good plans for us, brothers and sisters, but who will listen?  Do the churches even want His Word anymore being proclaimed among the gathering?  And what of His Spirit?  Is the Spirit of God even welcomed anymore among our fellowships?  We should repent for these things Church, especially the leadership.  We must turn back to the foundations , return to the beginnings of our faith, then God will restore our families and the Church will come to thrive anew!  But without this sure foundation, all hope is lost, there is no lasting structure we can build that will remain.  There is nothing else for us to unite around, no other vision, no other hope.   I pray this message penetrates our hearts, especially the hearts of the men.  What will we say to God brothers?  If we did not love our families?  If we brought a myriad of sins and iniquities into our own homes, if we warred against the God of heaven and refused His love and truth?  If we refused to lead our families in the way that they should go, unto God?  Come that day, what will we say?  But I’m writing to encourage us all now, so that we might be able to say to Him, “I loved that woman you gave me with all my heart for all the days of my life, I raised my children in the way that they should walk with You, I told everyone who wanted to hear about the gospel and the salvation of God and I never denied Your name.”    And if we can live unto Him these humble foundations, Certainly God can bring us life and life more abundantly, An abundant life wherein we are worthy of being called the children of God !   It is never too late to repent, men. There is always hope with our Father. He never ever, ever  gives up on us.   We might give up on ourselves, But our Father will never stop pursuing us He’ll never give up trying to win us back, So that we might be restored to Him, forever!   Return to Him, brothers and sisters He will restore everything He has such great plans for our lives! We cannot even imagine the things that our Father is capable of doing for His own children.   I hope this encourages you all…If we can win our families Perhaps we can win a generation!?   If we can win a generation Perhaps God see our good works from heaven And give us more time to preach His holy salvation! And WIN SOULS!!   (“He who wins souls is wise…”)   Amen?   And it all begins at home.   "If You haven’t sent him yet Send the spirit of Elijah to us Father! Restore our broken homes. Revive our families…"   "Amen." I love you brothers and sisters. With all my heart.   Yours in Christ,   Robert Anthony.     (A Great Song to go along with the Article. Don Potter! "If the People" 2 Chron. 7:14 - Great Song!)

By Robert Anthony May 13th 2024   (Originally Posted at WND.com - https://www.wnd.com/2024/05/will-american-jews-stay-blue-november/ ) Writing some notes for this article, I was shocked to learn how far back the Jews have had left leaning politics!  I have long known that the majority of the Jews vote blue/left throughout Jewish history in America but I was shocked to learn how large a majority!  In 2018 midterms it was nearly 80% of the Jews voting Blue ! ( Here is the Wikipedia article on the subject. ).  But I was almost more shocked to learn that the Jews have been voting left-progressive, even since the mid-19th century! ( Here is that article about their political history. )   After spending several hours throughout the day getting up to speed on this, I am getting more and more aware of a surprising fact, the Jews with only 2% of the US population largely helped to create the Democrat Party as we know it today !  The facts surrounding Jewish politics are quite surprising to me.    Perhaps I viewed the Jews as more politically-right because I was never into politics and often viewed the Jewish people as religious and conservative but no, that is not the case in America.  I lived in Israel for 6 months and traveled much of my time in country.  I found the Israeli’s to be a rather conservative people, more or less, and would guess Israel to have a majority conservative population but that too has not been the case, not until recently anyways.  Israel, as a nation, has recently and dramatically shifted into a conservative nation and now with Hamas, Hezbollah and enemies attacking them daily, even moreso. ( Here is an interesting article on the subject. ) I can’t help but ponder what will become of the Jewry in America coming into the 2024 election.  The bastion of progressive-liberalism in America has obviously been our world-famous universities, and for quite some time now.  More than Wall Street, Big Media, Big Pharma or even Big Tech., the stronghold for the progressive movement has remained America’s institutions of higher education for really two generations now, almost three.  So to Jewish-America I would ask, What are you going to do now?  Now that you see these institutions turn against you , even as a people, with such extreme bigotry, angst and intolerance – the very institutions once pining for tolerance – what will become of your politics?   Another quite interestingly policy issue among the left leaning Jews to me is, Abortion . Now, the Bible is entirely Pro-Life, so how the Jews could champion a political party so nonchalant and even cavalier about taking an unborn life is difficult for me to understand.  The Bible warns over and again about homosexuality, it teaches in detail about marriage (being between a man and woman) and has many other laws pertaining to sex and how to remedy illicit-sexual activity throughout Judaism and within Israel.  One would think the Jews would abstain from supporting the whole of the LGBTQ movement but instead they are some of its greatest champions!?  They have a long and famous history of being gifted bankers, businessmen, entrepreneurs, inventors, etc. one would think their fiscal policy would be quite conservative but throughout US history it is quite the contrary.  Nearly every modern liberal policy seems to be a violation of what the Jews hold dear, and yet the Jews still vote overwhelmingly, Blue ?   But now the Jews have come to a cross-road.  For one, classic liberalism is all but dead at this point.  Sure, RFK Jr. and a few relics throughout the Democrat Party are trying to bring about a classical-liberal revival but the purveying crowd against them has grown far too loud.  So the Jews are left with the new Woke-Progressive Democrat Party that is looking more and more Socialist-Marxist and anti-Israel by the day… or they can totally abandon ship.   I think to myself, “What must be going thru Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Michael Bloomberg, Tony Blinken, Janet Yellen, Merrick Garland, Josh Shapiro (PA), Jared Polis (CO), Josh Green (HI), JB Pritzker (IL) and so many other high-ranking Democrat-Jewish minds watching this country turning increasingly antisemitic, and practically overnight!?”  Has it not been more than 80 years since antisemitism has been found among their ranks?  Do they not take great pride in being the party of inclusion and equity ?  And yet suddenly Israel, as a nation and a people, is being cancelled .   I suppose it would be possible for the Jewish Democrats to abandon Israel in her hour of need so as to avoid a civil war within their own party but how many of these same Jews have family who have immigrated to Israel and perhaps living in country for generations now?  How many of these high-profile Jews in Hollywood, Wall Street and DC have intimate ties with Israeli businesses, years long relationships in country, perhaps even owning property there and then of course, agreeing quite frequently as they make a toast at Hanukah or Passover, “Next Year in Jerusalem!”  The intimate ties among even the reformed Jews in America with Israel cannot be overstated, let alone the deep-seated and unbreakable loyalty of the Orthodox-community throughout the US and their undying devotion to the Jewish state.  Is it even possible for the Jews in America to unravel themselves from Israel?  The university protestors seem to understand this glaring reality better than anyone, and you can hear it in their chanting.   This election cycle is shaping up to be without a doubt one for the history books!  It will be quite shocking to me if even close to a majority of Jews vote Biden this coming November, but then again, thus far Biden and his administration have been more or less supportive to the Jewish state throughout this regional war - but as the war goes more to Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran what will the Biden Admin do then?  The proverbial and Biblical writing is on the wall , the Democrat party is almost thru its metamorphosis and what is quickly emerging does not have a place for any Israel-loving Jews.  So will American Jewry abandon Israel altogether to keep pace with their party or will they bring a new, maybe more moderate and centrist, voice into the GOP?  History is being written even as we consider these things.

By Robert Anthony and David Silver Jun 27th 2024 We very well may be watching the formal beginning of WW3 starting.  I'm not trying to sound alarmist or fantastical but these are the facts: Israel just moved thousands of troops to their northern border, there are unconfirmed reports of Iran sending thousands of troops to Lebanon to support Hezbollah, there are videos emerging of at least hundreds of military vehicles and equipment (tanks, troops carriers, etc.) all headed to Israel's northern border.   We brought David Silver on to our show, All Politics is Local, to discuss what is unfolding this week.  If there was ever a time to be praying for Israel it is now. David's Comment:  Facing a Major War With Hezbollah   Since the Hamas massacre and the outbreak of war on October 7, life on Mt. Carmel has been very different and challenging for Josie and myself, as it has for everyone in Israel. The city of Haifa, which sits on Mt. Carmel, has not suffered any damage from rockets so far, but we have lived with the prospect of that changing at any time. We have heard many explosions which were rockets and drones being intercepted in the air, some distant and a few much closer, judging by the sound level. The number of rockets, mortars, anti-tank shells and drones that have been launched against Israel since the war began is now over 20,000, the majority in the north. About 80,000 residents of the north have been evacuated, living in hotels for months now, and an increasing number of their homes have been severely damaged. Many businesses have had to close down and the economy in the north is ruined. For 8 months now, we have monitored and shared the news about the war with Hamas in Gaza, the soldiers operating in Judea and Samaria (West Bank), and the thousands of rockets that have been fired by Hezbollah and others terror groups from Lebanon and Syria. From the beginning we have prayed, and asked you to pray that a full scale war would not break out in the north with Hezbollah, as they have far more rockets which are much more sophisticated and powerful than the ones Hamas have, capable of reaching most of the country. Haifa, which has been spared so far, will become a primary target, as Haifa has the largest naval base and port in Israel, the only oil refinery in Israel, many fuel and chemical storage tanks, many factories that make advanced missiles and other military equipment, and a large power station, all of which the enemy knows the precise location of. Hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah have steadily intensified over the last few weeks to the point that a full scale war could be initiated by either side at any time. Media is reporting verbal threats that the leaders of both sides are declaring against each other. Last week Hezbollah released video footage of all of the strategic sites that I mentioned in the previous paragraph - as a further threat against Haifa. They are also threatening Ben Gurion Airport, the Dimona nuclear facility and Ashdod port. The leaders of Iran have already declared that if Israel launches a full scale operation in the north, they will be involved. Life in the north and the rest of Israel could change very quickly and very dramatically at any time. We are being warned to prepare supplies of food, water and medical items. Underground car parks are being prepared as emergency medical centers and safety shelters for residents, if war with Hezbollah breaks out and the north is hit by thousands of missiles. As well as causing a very high number of deaths and injuries to the residents, a massive missile attack on Haifa and the nearby towns has the potential to damage to homes, stores, businesses, fuel stations and public services like electricity, gas and water supplies. Many more soldiers may be injured and killed as they do their best to protect the country and attack the enemy. In addition to all of the above, is the deep concern and heartfelt pain most Israelis feel for everyone who has lost loved ones or friends, for the seriously wounded soldiers and of course the remaining 120 hostages.The overall scenario for the days and weeks ahead is not good without supernatural intervention. The future of Israel and her people is in the hands of GOD, and in great need of His mercy. Your prayer support for us in the north and for all of Israel is imperative at this time, and greatly appreciated. Here David Silver Reports on Headline Israeli news . (Subscribe to our Rumble Channels - https://rumble.com/user/AllPoliticsisLocal )