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the light of Bible prophecy
Where is Great Britain heading?
The answer to this question is towards a revival of Christianity with
parliament dominated by true Christians, the Prime Minister a born again
believer and a mighty army of missionaries being raised up across this
land, moving into mainland Europe and reaching to the ends of the earth if
you accept the message of the book Great Britain has fallen by Wale
Babatunde. Or towards an Islamic state if you accept the messages recently
given by Rev David Pawson.
Almost as long as I can remember in my Christian life I have heard preachers
saying that there is going to be a great revival in Britain. Often the verse
from 2 Chronicles 7.14 is quoted, If my people who are called by name will
humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,
then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their
land. There have been conferences, times of prayer and fasting, prophecies
given of how God is going to turn this land around and restore biblical
Christianity. But in reality things go from bad to worse and the influence
of biblical Christianity hardly reaches the church any more, let alone the nation.
So are we ripe for Islamic takeover as David Pawson believes? Will the
Muslims, who believe in their message and who are being given more and more
space to deliver this message in the media, defeat the lukewarm Christians
who are afraid to speak out in favour of Jesus Christ? Will they turn
Britain into an Islamic state? I respect David Pawson and have personally
benefited from his teaching but I have to say that on this issue I disagree
with him. I also disagree about the great revival coming out of Britain.
If we want to know where Britain is heading the best place to look is not in
Christian books or messages, but the Bible. In Jeremiah 30, in the context
of a message about Israel and the end times, the Lord says, Though I make a
full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet will I not make a
full end of you. In Revelation 13.7 concerning the rule of the beast or
Antichrist in the last days of this age we read: And authority was given
him over every tribe, tongue and nation.
The clear implication of these verses is that God is going to make an end of
all nations, including Britain, and that at the end of this age, all nations
will be subject to the Antichrist. I do not say this lightly, because I love
this country and am grateful to God that I was born here. I look back on our
history with gratitude for the many good things that have come out of this
land (not all good of course, since every nation has its good and bad
points). I feel a deep sense of connection to this land and its people. I
have travelled in many other countries, but still think there is nothing to
compare with the beauty and richness of scenery to be found in these islands.
But despite all this I have to acknowledge that this country is in a state
of collapse, which ties up exactly with the prophecies of the Bible. While I
share David Pawson’s concern about the rise of Islam, I am more concerned
about the people who have already taken over this country than the ones
who might.
For the past 30 years that I have been a Christian I have noted a process
taking place which has accelerated rapidly in the past 5 years of New Labour
government. It is the takeover of our institutions by the liberal / left
humanist way of thinking which I used to espouse myself before I became a
Christian. What are the characteristics of this way of thinking, which I
will call New Humanism?
All religions are equally true and equally untrue. There is no absolute
right and wrong. People who claim there is one way of salvation through
Jesus are narrow minded and a barrier to human progress and understanding.
If it feels right do it. No one has the right to claim that any lifestyle is
morally wrong. The two-parent family is one of many ways of bringing up
children, no more or less valid than single parent families, unmarried and
homosexual couples.
Criminal and anti-social behaviour should be understood, not punished.
Britain’s past history is dominated by hypocrisy, pride, racism and
discrimination against women, homosexuals and minority groups. It is to be
derided at every opportunity so that young people will be more easily
moulded into accepting the new multi-faith, multi-racial one world political
system. Everything about our colonial past was bad (some of it was, but not
everything!).Values of integrity, commitment, self control, politeness and
consideration for others are old fashioned. In their place there is a
culture of rudeness and self assertion at the expense of others. The
philosophy of me first is to be indoctrinated into children who should not
be disciplined by their parents as this inhibits their emotional development.
New Humanism has already taken over much of our society. Back in the 1970s
when I was working as a school teacher at a London comprehensive I saw it
taking over the way Religious Education, History and English were taught and
affecting the approach to discipline. Now we find that it dominates most of
the education system, the entertainment industry, especially TV, the social
services and increasingly the police and justice departments. We now have
police chiefs saying that young criminals should be dealt with by being told
to apologise to their victims and pushing for the legalisation of cannabis.
Judges show more sympathy for criminals than their victims. Teachers are
afraid and unable to discipline unruly pupils. Express a different view on a
BBC chat show and you are likely to be held up to ridicule and contempt.
All of the mainstream political parties now adopt New Humanism in some form
or other. It is the backbone of New Labour. Charles Kennedy’s claim that the
Liberal Party will become the opposition party is a joke since the Liberals
generally want to move faster than New Labour in the direction of New
Humanism, dismantling Britain and re-creating it as an offshore island of
Europe. The battle within the Tory Party is the result of the botched
attempt of Iain Duncan Smith to appease the Tory modernizers who want to
re-invent themselves as a third touchy-feely nice party which wont offend
their BBC inquisitors by standing up for the values which once made Britain
great. The House of Lords has been re-organised to give it a New Humanist
majority. The tragedy is that there is no real opposition and we live
basically in a one party state.
All of the historic institutions which might in the past have resisted the
progress of New Humanism are crumbling and in disarray. The monarchy
stumbles from crisis to crisis. Prince Charles in particular has adopted the
multi-faith religious agenda, meaning that if he becomes King he will not
have the mind to stand up for Christianity even if he is the nominal head of
the Anglican Church. If you analyse the thinking of most of the Bishops of
the Church of England, it lines up with New Humanism much more than with
Christianity.
In the face of this onslaught against it much of the Evangelical world has
actually capitulated and gone along with the New Humanist project by
refusing to criticise it or really face up to what is happening. Some of the
pronouncements of Evangelical organisations are actually propagating New
Humanism rather than Christianity. Instead of a call to turn back to the
teaching of the Bible, the Evangelical and Charismatic churches offer
endless promises that things are going to get better (when in fact anyone
with any sense can see they are getting worse).
As the promised revival fails to materialise some people become
disillusioned and give up. Others carry on believing it, but end up living
in a kind of fantasy world, making claims, which turn out to be fraudulent
and increase the general mood of scepticism in the country. For example the
much-heralded video Transformations makes great claims of the changes that
have been made in various cities as a result of spiritual warfare.
Investigation of the facts on the ground shows that these changes exist in
the imagination of the film maker rather than in the cities themselves. At
the height of the so-called revival in Pensacola great claims were being
made that crime had diminished in the city. Local police chiefs denied this.
So what about the claim that Islam will take over? In some ways there is a
good case to be made for this. Islam is the most radical reaction to New
Humanism you could find. It could provide the opposition which wishy washy
Christianity lacks. It is uncompromising in its assertion that Allah is to
be obeyed and willing to enforce its law by severe punishments of those it
considers to be wrong doers. Since it considers the entire New Humanist
project with its touchy-feely acceptance of sexual permissiveness and
homosexuality to be totally wrong, the acceptance of Sharia (Islamic) Law in
Britain, as applied in strict Islamic countries, would result in most of the
population being flogged, having their hands cut off or executed.
For this reason and the fact that most people now have a fear of Islam
because of terrorism, I regard an Islamic takeover of Great Britain as an
extremely remote possibility. Islamic rule would mean closing down the pubs,
making women cover their faces and bodies in public (can you imagine what
The Sun would say?), banning homosexuals and an end to Eastenders and
everything like it! Nevertheless it is alarming that many people are now
turning to Islam and that the media, which constantly ridicules
Christianity, treats Islam with respect and deference.
As stated earlier I believe we should be much more concerned about the
forces which have already taken over Britain than those which might. The
purpose of this takeover is the disintegration of Britain as a unified
nation state with a historic identity and with institutions to defend that
identity. As Britain disintegrates the next phase is to integrate it into
the Euro region as the first stage of the establishment of a one world
government based on antichristian values. Already we have seen the first
stage of the break up of the United Kingdom with the establishment of
regional assemblies in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The next stage
will be the establishment of regional assemblies in England, which will take
power away from Westminster downwards to the assemblies and upwards to the
European government. (For more information on the significance of
regionalisation within the EU send for our article Euro Bound from Light
for the Last Days !).
In my view the most likely route, which we are facing in the path towards
dictatorship (antichrist), comes not from Islam but from the existing
powers that be using the Islamic threat (amongst other things) to crack
down on personal freedom and control the population. Already we are seeing
the government bringing in measures to spy on peoples emails, telephone
conversations and increase surveillance in public places in order to prevent terrorism.
Added to this there is a religious dimension in which the political and
religious establishment is making it more and more difficult to say that
Jesus is the one way to God (and therefore all other religions are not
leading to God) or that marriage is the only legitimate sexual relationship
allowable to God (and therefore all sex outside of marriage and
homosexuality is wrong). Already in Sweden there is a move afoot to make it
a criminal offence to say homosexual practice is immoral. British Law Lord
Scott of Froscote has raised the possibility that distributing the Bible
could become illegal under a proposed EU anti-racism law.
In my view this actually fits in very well with the antichrist scenario in
Revelation. The government restricts freedom and comes down on biblical
Christianity in the name of peace and security with the backing of the
apostate church linked in with multi-faith, multi-cultural political
correctness. Initially this is popular and makes people think they are being
protected from dangerous fundamentalists but in time it becomes apparent
that this is a new form of tyranny.
Just as Hitler rose to power with the help of corrupt churches, so the
coming antichrist system (the beast) uses counterfeit religion (the whore)
to gain power (Revelation 17). But Hitler’s real agenda was to smash
Christianity and replace it with his own form of occult based paganism. It
is interesting that in Revelation 17 the beast ultimately turns on the whore
and smashes her. In the end the kind of religious system, which the
prophetic scriptures point to, is a form of Satanism personified by worship
of the beast. New Humanism lacks the basic ingredients to satisfy peoples
spiritual need. If people reject the true Messiah Jesus, they will look for
another to fill their need. I doubt that Islam can fill this need for all
but a tiny minority of people in Britain or any other western country. But
an occult based political and religious superstar, offering peace and
safety and a solution to the problems now plaguing society certainly could.
Harry Potter rather than Jesus or Mohammed is the dominant influence on
the thinking of young people today. This is preparing people to accept the
coming Antichrist.
Britain, along with the rest of the western world, is heading rapidly in
this direction. The only hope in this bleak reality is the return of the
Lord Jesus, the true Messiah who will sort out the mess, which the nations
have made of the world God gave us to look after. I have every hope that
many individuals from Britain and all nations will be saved in these last
days by turning to Jesus and accepting the salvation he is offering now. But
I have no hope at all that the trends away from God on the level of society
as a whole will be reversed and Christian values will dominate society this
side of the second coming. To say otherwise in my judgement is to give
people false hopes, which will ultimately lead to their disillusion.
Better to believe Jesus who told his followers that they are always going to
be a minority amongst and unbelieving majority (Matthew 7.13), and that the
unbelieving majority are quite likely to be members of your own family and
as a result they may reject you (Matthew 10.35-6). In fact in Matthew 24.9
he says You will be hated of all nations because of me. If you have this
as your understanding of your new life in Messiah you will not be
disappointed or disillusioned if you find yourself in a society dominated by
antichristian forces and that your parents, husband, wife, children give you
grief because of your faith. You will not be surprised if people are against
you because you believe in Jesus. In fact you will be happy when people like you.
