Battle: The police officers clash with rioters in Nanterre, north-west of Paris. They fired rubber bullets and tear gas at youths protesting outside their secondary schools (image copyright 42 pix photography)

Street Violence and general social unrest is an established tool to break down democratic government and establish a Marxist or Fascist dictatorship. It was the tool used by Lenin and others to establish Russian communism, and by Hitler to bring into being National Socialism and the Third Reich. Even before the cutbacks were announced on October 20^th., some union leaders were threatening to go on the streets with a violent upheaval, as has happened across France. The UK Coalition is vulnerable, and persistent lawlessness could bring about its collapse.

Chaos: Rubbish mounts up in the streets of Marseille

High school students damage a car during a demonstration in Lyon, France

Police detain students during a demonstration in Lyon. There is growing public anger across France against raising the retirement age to 62

WHY PRAY

Because we are to behave as the offspring of God himself, and should care for our community and country. Jesus said: If you do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye, for sinners also do even the same… But love your enemies and do good….for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful (from Luke 6:33-36)

The United Nations is considering implementing an ‘expert’ Rapporteur report on educational rights which urges that all countries should be forced to teach children as young as five of their right to have ‘pleasurable sexual experiences,’ including homosexuality and diverse gender identities. It directly attacks religious and cultural teaching including abstinence, condemning parents wanting to shield their children of creating a barrier to their ‘rights’!

The menace of such a report being adopted is that many countries, particularly in the developing world, have legal codes that include international law and treaties, as well as their interpretation. Behind this report by Vernor Munoz is an international campaigning sexual rights group, which is trying to use the UN to force their agenda on all governments.

It is the role of parents to direct the education of their children, and the United Nations has no right to take that responsibility away. It is a gross abuse of the system. Engage with your UN Ambassador through this website link, which gives further details including the US address and phone number: http://www.un.org/en/members/index.shtml

Without truth might is right, it is the foundation of democracy asserts Dr. Carver Yu, of the China Graduate School of Theology in Hong Kong. He warned that a new wave of militant secularism known as Pluralism  is sweeping the world. Dr Yu asserts it is more than a movement, but rather a religion which is intolerant of any criticism vigorously attacking Christianity. Grounded in the opinion there are no absolutes, therefore truth has no lasting value and is merely relative. Parents are condemned for raising children with any conviction of truth.  Watch this 15 min. strategic address on the conference website: http://conversation.lausanne.org/en/conversations/detail/11377

The T8 and T9 bacteria attacks on the bone has increased. This can be life threatening.

Please pray that God do something specific about it to kill the bacterias!

In Jesus’ name I pray!

http://rivercrisis.com/urgent-crisis-prayer-request-for-joanna-…gee-on-march-of-repentance-website/

I was told by Suzanne on the 17th of July to pray for her. I did a numerous times. On the 19th, the Holy Spirit revealed to me in my dream that in Jesus’ name, she was healed and asked me to talk about it… but waking up I was not sure – “What if I got it wrong!”

Today, I just got the news that she is in the process of recovery! Halleluya!

This has taught me one thing – “Trust in the Lord!” I should have actually. It is so shame on me that I even doubted it as My Father has delivered me times and times again…

Through Him, ALL THINGS are POSSIBLE! I am so blessed to have my Father calling me as His child!!

FIND OUT CANDIDATES ETHICAL PRINCIPLES BEFORE VOTING

It is a  moral duty to not only vote, but to vote wisely. There will be between 30 -50% of new MPs in the next Parliament, and depending on their ethical stance the new Parliament will either accelerate the UK’s slide into anarchy and oblivion, or start the climb back into integrity. Some areas also are electing local councillors. So, before you vote, irrespective of personal party affiliations, find out the ethical stance of mainstream candidates ethical stances, and let their replies guide you at the polling booth

TWELVE QUESTIONS TO ASK MAINSTREAM CANDIDATES

Abortion: Do innocent unborn children have a right to be put to death?

Assisted Death: Should the terminally ill or the elderly be assisted to end their lives?

Civil Partnerships: Should marriage be confined to heterosexual couples?

Freedom of Expression: Do Christians have the right to publicly express opinions?

Home Education: Should parents have the right to teach their children at home?

MP’s Moral Conduct: Do you believe MPs moral lives are a private matter?

Opening Hours: Will steps be taken to reduce alcohol access, thus limiting drunkenness?

School Assemblies: Do you agree they should have a predominately Christian content?

Sex Education: Should this be restrained, particularly with the vulnerable young?

Sharia Law: Should Muslim Sharia law be introducted alongside British law?

Sunday Shop Opening: Should Sunday be treated the same as any other day in law?

Televison/Digital Media: Are current levels of violence, sex and obscenities acceptable?

HOW TO FIND CANDIDATE ADDRESSES

1 Phone your Local Authority and ask for the electoral office, who.will give details

2 Look on the Local Authority website

3 Look up the Electoral Commission website:  www.electoralcommission.org.uk

4.      Check publicity literature you receive

NOW VOTE ACCORDINGLY!

By Beth Hale Daily Mail February 22nd. 2010

When Inspector Roger Bartlett realised his patch had one of the poorest crime detection rates in the area, he decided he needed help. So he asked churchgoers to pool their efforts in calling for back-up – from God. Three years after encouraging Christians from local churches to say prayers to help policemen, detection rates have soared, road accidents have fallen and Mr Bartlett is convinced it is evidence of divine intervention.

The policeman asked churchgoers to pool their efforts in calling on a higher power The clear-up rate for crimes in his force area of Barnstaple was 26 per cent, one of the lowest in the Devon and Cornwall area. But since he asked for the prayers things have changed. Every quarter, the number of crimes solved has risen, so that at its current figure – more than 40 per cent – it is one of the highest in the country.

Mr Bartlett, 49, who is part of the leadership of the Christian Policing Team in his area, also asked worshippers to pray for a reduction in the number of serious or fatal road accidents – and they fell from 97 in 2007/8 to 32 in 2008/9.

He also works with Street Pastors. These are Christian volunteers who help with vulnerable or drunken people and diffuse trouble in town centres at night. Last night the policeman said he was convinced that faith and prayer has had a positive impact on policing in Barnstaple.
He said he has seen his prayers answered ‘on a number of occasions’. There was the ‘unprecedented’ Halloween night when police did not have to attend a single incident of disorder. Then there was the ‘prolific burglar’ who was apprehended within three days of the group praying that he would be caught, he said.

Mr Bartlett said ‘the most significant answer to prayer’ he had experienced relates to a fall in the number of serious road accidents in North Devon. He added: ‘Not only was there a 67 per cent reduction on the previous year, and a far greater fall than any other area of the force, it was also more than 50 per cent lower than the next lowest annual figure locally.’

Assistant Chief Constable Paul Netherton of Devon and Cornwall Police said: ‘Whether you believe in the power of prayer or not, the fundamental issue is that there are people out there caring about society.’

Written by Dr. Clifford Denton and Paul Slennett, Earthquake in the City was first published in 1997, and focuses around a prophesy given to Paul Slennett in 1989. It was reprinted in 2008 unchanged apart from a new preface, and demonstrated the accuracy of the prophesy in predicting the current nationwide and catastrophic collapses in the City and wider, and its impact nationwide. It has been distributed quite widely, in particular to those in government in various roles and has therefore been a reminder to them of God’s sovereignty in the affairs of nations. Its warnings about the European Community are becoming true, although the interpretation that there may be a physical earthquake in the future does not appear to be supported within the original prophetic text. However, there is a critical weakness in the book’s failure to understand what the Holy Spirit was saying within the prophesy about the role of the Church in bringing about national repentance.

The authors do write about the Welsh Revival influencing secular local communities (p178), but this suggests the only way of bringing about change nationally is a Welsh Revival equivalent across the nation, which reflects a common evangelical belief that if you have enough Holy Spirit filled Christians everything will change. My contention is that this interpretation of the prophesy is wrong. As it says in para.2 ‘My children, repent now before it is too late…but awake my children, and be my watchmen, and speak with a prophetic voice of the judgement that is about to come upon the nations’, . The Church is ‘unrighteous’ in failing to be a watchman, and not speaking with a prophetic voice. In other words the Lord was saying in 1989 that the Church has failed to be salt and light and must change. But what should it be doing?

If Christians have a responsibility to speak out, then we have to follow scripture principles. Focusing on the culture is insufficient, one has to challenge the lawmakers to use their authority. Romans 13:1 points out that ‘The powers that be are ordained (appointed) by God’. In other words, Governments as God’s agents have the responsibility to put in place and sustain moral parameters to restrain outward sin by the populace. This of course is because of the nature of fallen man to drift into increasing wickedness unless there are enforceable restraints of law. An unsaved person cannot ‘repent’ in a godly way, but can alter his behaviour under duress traceable ultimately to enforceable law. A nation therefore cannot come to true repentance, but can change. True repentance is surely only possible by the grace of God when there is a response to an awareness of personal sinfulness and a revelation of Christ as Saviour.

One of the sadist statements made by humanists is to deny that human beings incline toward lawlessness. It is extraordinary when one considers recent history, and indeed current events, when human behaviour becomes so obnoxious as to provide no alternative explanation for its cause. The terror and purges of the communist movement where literally millions upon millions have died within countries that have embraced its philosophy has baffled historians and political scientists. Pol Pot murdered 31% of the entire population of Cambodia in the late seventies, and currently in North Korea killing still goes on, with compulsory worship of its leaders.  Germany was a civilised society, but within a few years embraced teachings that led millions of Jews into the gas chambers, also putting to death through the concentration camp system its own citizens who dared to criticise the new morality of fascism.

The teachings of the Bible challenge the humanist position that there is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ behaviour, and man is just another animal along a continuous pathway of evolution. In such a culture if necessary he is disposable, and justifies euthanasia expressed in abortion,  and the so-called mercy killing of the very sick and elderly.  The abandonment of any controls to suppress pornography, the belittling of sexual ethics, including the nurture of homosexual lifestyles and destruction of traditional marriage also emerges from the secularist opinion that man has absolute control over his destiny.

It is extraordinary how the fallacies of evolution on which secularism is based are held with religious fervour by otherwise intelligent academics and other intellectuals. For example, the system of dating rocks along a geological timescale is closely linked to fossil records that are placed within an evolutionary timetable. The geological age has to conform to the fossils theory and not the other way round!  All this is  evidence is that man is in natural rebellion against the laws of God.

The Power of Law

Within the Western World one may look at any of the arts and recognise a deterioration away from loveliness and order towards ugliness and disorder . This is not confined to love purity and family life but within business and even political life. When the principle of absolutes of right and wrong are allowed to be filtered away at the level of government, the rest of the country will progress in the same direction. How does this work? Imagine a government decreeing that making profits without reference to social considerations is the national priority. It then signals this policy through direct or indirect legislation, and the principle is interpreted in turn by the courts.  Because there is no natural innate goodness among business executives to hold a social conscience such a legal framework will rapidly encourage ruthlessness. Profit will come first, whatever the consequences to others. Some would suggest the UK and international banking system is within this category.

There are checks and balances imposed by governments to restrain some manifestations of lawlessness, such as criminalising predators of children through internet chat rooms, and holding images of children on the computer. Yet simultaneously pornography is permitted in its grossest form within all the media, including television, even though the routes of sexual abuse can be often traced to such material. Because there are no legal constraints in place explicit and grotesque violence with video games shared by groups of children over the internet create normality for such behaviour in real life, and are then associated with violence and murders committed by young teenagers. The hunger by young people for increasingly evil game activity reflects this fallen nature. Relaxation of gaming laws and extending the opening hours of public houses has rapidly brought about changes of behaviour destructive to individuals, families and communities.

The power to strengthen or weaken ethical standards therefore ultimately lies with government through the imposition of law and policy disseminated through the cascade of civil servants down to the local geographical and individual level. If the law assumes man is basically good and does not contain restrictions, then a whole population can exploit the legal weaknesses and move further down the corruption and lawlessness pathway.

Natural Rejection

There is a passage in the letter of Paul to the Galatians that highlights this natural principle of stubborn rejection of God-based morality. It is called ‘the flesh’ or ‘godless human nature’, and illustrates the natural inclination of the heart unless it is held back by social custom reinforced by law. The passage lists immorality, impurity, indecency, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, divisions, party spirit, envy drunkenness, carousing and so on (verses 20,21 Amplified Bible). Another passage in the letter of Paul to the Romans clearly states that each person alive has no excuse for rejecting the evidence of God, because ‘The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen…so that they are without excuse’ (Chapter 1,verse 20).

It can therefore hardly be a surprise for whole countries to descend into brutality, immorality,  confusion and suffering if its leadership is determined to follow systems of control that widen the parameters of right and wrong so that human nature can take advantage. In the past, western civilisation has been defined as such not just by freedom of speech and democratic process, but through a network of disciplines that subtly but firmly restrain outward behaviour across society. In the background has been common law and ongoing legislation that curbs evildoing and encourages what is good, with biblical ethical principles embedded as the touchstone.

Another element in national decline is little taken notice of but also is important to record, which is the existence of a fallen angel called Satan, whom Jesus Christ described as the prince, or ruler of this world (John 12:31). Adam, the first human, linked with Satan in rebellion against God and as a consequence the principle of natural lawlessness passed to his offspring, as already described. ‘Good luck’ circumstances that accelerate a downward cultural change are evidence of occultist supernatural interventions, and the extraordinary manner in which relatively peaceful and disciplined countries can rapidly become despotic and totalitarian is not through some computerised process, but has much to do with the manoeuvrings of Satan.

Where Does the Church Fit

The question therefore has to be asked as to the role of the Christian Church within a decaying culture, and the answer in some ways is surprising if a biblical stance is taken. Without doubt it cannot divorce itself from the country and community in which it is situated, because its true members have a unique and potentially powerful set of tools to address moral corruption in whatever form it takes. Firstly, every true Believer will have received a new inbuilt and miraculous change of heart, with not only total and absolute forgiveness for the outworking of his rebellious nature, but the ability to walk in uprightness before God overcoming the natural downward pull of the fleshly nature.  In other words the capacity to do good within a broken society.

Uprightness comes from within, rather than being imposed from without.  This was brought about through Jesus Christ, one of the Godhead actually becoming a sacrifice for the sins of rebellious human beings.. Then after crucifixion Jesus was raised from the dead, and now lives as an intercessor between God the Father and the forgiven person (Romans 8:27). The sinful fruit of their former nature have as it were been dropped to the bottom of the ocean! This remarkable intervention means that anyone who believes that Jesus as God took this action, has a sincere burdened heart to want to turn away from the lawlessness within, and turn back to God’s ways will become this new creation. And will be able to make a real difference in society.

Christians are told by Jesus to be salt and light (Matthew 14:1-16), and in the context of another command are to love their neighbour as themselves (22:39), which may be summed up in one word: involvement.  Because Satan generates destruction in any way possible, particularly as he is described as ‘the father of lies’ (John 8:44), the faith filled Christian will now have a cleansing impact in the workplace or in any other way there is engagement with a broken world.

It is a sad fact that despite the immense public proclamation through the Festival of Light in the early seventies, the downward drift of morality and ethics has continued, and the question has to be asked that if Christians are in a unique position to influence these affairs what can they do in the present situation. The answer has to be twofold: firstly, intelligent prayer particularly for the secular authorities, and secondly engagement.

Firstly consider prayer. It is interesting that the injunction to pray is actually linked to frustrating endeavours by those who by nature reject social and moral structures in seeking to silence the Church testimony. This is particularly important in praying for public sector leaders, who do have a unique authority to restrain or encourage lawlessness. According to 1Timothy 2:1-3 petitions, prayers, intercessions and thanksgiving for those in positions of responsibility potentially will restrict interference in church activities, including secular attempts to change doctrines highlighting right and wrong and brining personal conviction. The Christian Church within the UK generally neither prays for or informs public sector leadership, and it is therefore no surprise that it is now under severe pressure from the authorities. The demand is for it to amend its so-called out-dated beliefs through the legally enforced infiltration of people totally opposed to what it has stood for over the centuries.

The second way of involvement is actual engagement with the political processes that are going on all the time. It has to be remembered that those in public office have an enabling ministering authority given them by God (Romans 13:1-4), and there is surely a Christian duty to teach politicians and civil servants biblical principles applicable in all their areas of influence, including management of industry and commerce. But this must be carried out in a culturally relevant manner.

There is little point in complaining about ministers or members of parliament for failing to act honourably in different scenarios if their background has no biblical Christian input.  The time when a high proportion of children at least went to Sunday School is long passed, and the alternative source of knowledge in school assemblies has also faded into insignificance.

Is it therefore surprising that unregenerate but sincere politicians explore the apparent attractiveness say of communism, and consider with some tweaking how it would form a reasonable structure of governance for the future? Will the Church now take notice and no longer be silent?

Anthony Busk,

Chairman March of Repentance