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We
are presently standing on
the threshold of a New
Day, the End- Times;
when the Church of the
living God, the bride of
Christ will soon be
translated!
The
rapture, the second coming
of Jesus Christ is
near. But even
sooner, the Church will go
through a 'Baptism
of suffering'! A
BAPTISM such as we have
never believed possible in
North America and the Free
World!
WHEN
JESUS CHRIST RAPTURES THE
CHURCH
We
will then, take our place
with those who have fought
the battle and won, who
have been diligent to the
very end and made it
through victoriously;
triumphing over evil,
unrighteousness and
wickedness!
We
will come out of the
"furnace of
affliction" with not
even the smell of smoke on
our persons, the ropes of
bondage burned off and a
testimony so powerful for
our Lord God, that
no one will be able to
repudiate!
We
will then be a part of
that glorious church
without spot and wrinkle
that will be presented to
our Heavenly Bridegroom by
the Blessed Holy Spirit,
at the Marriage Supper of
the Lamb after Jesus
Christ has returned with
His church.
The
Bible says, "Let
us be glad and rejoice,
and give honour to Him:
for the marriage of the
Lamb is come, and His wife
hath made herself ready".
(Rev. 19:7)
In
other words, the bride was
not ready until a certain
point in time, when she
decided to prepare for the
marriage
ceremony!
THE
LAODECIAN CHURCH IS NOT
READY!
Jesus
warned concerning the
Seventh and Final Church
Age. The word, Laodecian,
means "The people
rule or power to the
people".
U.S.
President George W. Bush
is pressing for freedom
and democracy everywhere,
even in the Arab world
that has been dominates by
war lords, dictators and
cruel religious imams and
Muslim mullahs that have
ruled their people like
tyrants for
millennia!
How
indicative of the age in
which we live! The
Democratic process means
"government; by the
people, of the people, and
for the people". Even
the Communists and
Socialistic regimes
espouse the doctrine of
the proletariat, the
Peoples' Republic, etc.
In
the Church, we also see
people ruling: popes,
cardinals, and
archbishops, ruling
without the power of the
Holy Spirit!
The
Holy Spirit is missing in
many Protestant churches
as well, where they
are totally devoid
of God's blessings as the
people rule - voting,
electing, hiring and
firing pastors and other
church leaders in the
democratic process!
WE
ARE LIVING IN THE END
TIMES!
We
are definitely living in
the end times, facing
terrorism, suicide
bombers, turmoil, wars,
genocide, earthquakes,
famines and distress
of nations with perplexity
- meaning "no way
out."
We
believe, according to the
Holy Scriptures, that the
"handwriting is on
the wall" and our
Lord Jesus Christ will
soon return!
Jesus warned the final
Church Age with these
words, "And
unto the angel of the
church of the Laodiceans
write; These things saith
the Amen, the faithful and
true witness, the
beginning of the creation
of God;
"I
know thy works, that thou
art neither cold nor hot:
I would thou wert cold or
hot. So then because thou
art lukewarm, and neither
cold nor hot, I will spew
thee out of my
mouth.
"Because
thou sayest, I am rich,
and increased with goods,
and have need of nothing;
and knowest not that thou
art wretched, and
miserable, and poor, and
blind, and naked".
(Revelation 3:14-17)
He
invites:"I
counsel thee to buy of me
gold tried in the fire,
that thou mayest be rich;
and white raiment, that
thou mayest be clothed,
and that the shame of thy
nakedness do not appear;
and anoint thine eyes with
eyesalve, that thou mayest
see."
GOD
SPOKE TO ME ~ WARN MY
PEOPLE THE END TIMES ARE
NEAR - TO PREPARE FOR
A TIME OF TROUBLE
About
a year ago, the Lord God
spoke to my heart, "Warn
My people to prepare for a
time of trouble."
I
began to preach powerful
messages on sin,
repentance, forgiveness
and salvation. I preached
about heaven, hell, coming
judgments. preparedness
and how to live a
balanced Christian
life!.
God
gave me a
powerful sermon called 'Victory
in Adversity'. In
that message, I
divulge the 3 times
God gave me messages
for Canada and just
recently, the fourth, with
the warning of 'End
Times ~ Coming Troubles'.
The
first time God spoke to me
with a message for our
nation was in July 1967.
I shared it by printed
page in "The Cry
of His Coming",
and also over our national
radio broadcast. The
sermon was called, 'A
SALUTE TO CANADA'.
We
were celebrating our 100th
birthday, and God showed
me Canada as a great
nation with His rich
blessings upon us. We were
a nation of freedom,
opportunity and plenty,
but that if we did not
repent of our sins and
humble ourselves before
God, we would lose our
greatness, and much of
God's
favour!
I
quoted the Scripture
"Righteousness
exalteth a nation but sin
is a reproach to any
people."
(Proverbs 14:34)
Our
magazine, with the
Centennial Year Message 'A
Salute to Canada' was
sent to all elected
officials across Canada;
civic officials (large
cities), provincial
and national
officials in the
governments of our nation.
I
received many kind letters
from government officials
thanking me for the
message. One person who
responded very warmly and
enthusiastically was the Justice
Minister of Canada, Pierre
Elliott Trudeau.
The
years passed and the young
Justice Minister became
our 15th. Prime
Minister. Pierre
Trudeau seemed to be
leading the nation in a
dangerous leftward trend.
Some of his policies that
caused deep concern were:
1) abolition of capital
punishment. 2) broadening
of the Divorce Laws. 3)
legalizing homosexuality,
lesbianism, &
beastiality. 4) legalizing
abortion (not on demand).
5) seeking to legalize
marijuana.
When
he called an
election, God spoke
to my innermost being that
I must bring another
message to our nation. I
was inspired to call it: 'MY
MESSAGE TO PRIME MINISTER
TRUDEAU'.
I
sent it out in booklet
form by the tens of
thousands of people across
Canada and other
countries. A copy of the
booklet as well as a
cassette of my message was
sent to the mayor of every
large town or city in
Canada, the MLAs in each
province, every Member of
Parliament and all heads
of major nations across
the world, both free and
Communist.
A
copy of the message was
also sent to the Billy
Graham, Oral Roberts, the
Queen of England, the Pope
of Rome and the Archbishop
of Canterbury. I received
many complimentary and
kind letters from leaders
across the world.
Only
one person however,
refused the cassette and
booklet. Prime Minister
Edward Heath of Great
Britain, returned both
with a covering letter
stating that he could not
accept them.
I
was stunned that such a
reaction should come from
a Conservative Prime
Minister of so-called
Protestant
England!
I
conferred with my wife
Donna and our office
manager, Margaret Graham.
Sister Graham asked if I
wanted to give her a
letter to the Prime
Minister of England! I
said, "NO, I will
wait for a more opportune
time"!
We
didn't have to wait long.
Within a few months,
Edward Heath called a snap
election to increase his
seats in the British
Parliament to gain a
majority. Everyone seemed
to think that he would
win, but I KNEW
DIFFERENTLY!
I
summoned Sister Graham
into my office for a
letter to Edward Heath.
Here is the substance of
that letter (which I still
have on
file).
"When
you refused and returned
the cassette and booklet
of the Gospel Message,
"My Message To Prime
Minister Trudeau,"
you did not reject my
words or my letter, Mr.
Prime Minister, you
rejected the Word of God,
the Message of Jesus
Christ and God's Warning
to the Nations.
"IF
YOU WILL REPENT OF YOUR
SINS, GOD WILL FORGIVE
YOU. However, if you do
not repent and register
this action in a letter to
me, I know that you will
be the recipient of God's
judgment for your
actions.
Furthermore,
I prophesy that you will
not gain a majority in the
forthcoming election, but
you will in fact lose the
election and go into
oblivion politically. Your
days of political power
are numbered, Mr. Prime
Minister.
God's
Servant,
Max Solbrekken
THOUSANDS
HEARD ME MAKE THE PUBLIC
STATEMENT!
I
began to make known what
God had shown me. In our
crusades and privately as
well, I shared the
tremendous revelation of
God's displeasure with
those who had rejected the
message I had delivered as
His servant, to Government
officials across the
world.
I
declared
publicly to thousands of
people that God had
revealed to me that
because the Prime Minister
of Great Britain had
rejected this message, God
had rejected him from
being Prime
Minister.
I
stated that if Mr. Edward
Heath did not lose that
Election, they would never
hear me preach
again!
THAT
IS HOW CERTAIN I WAS OF MY
ABILITY TO HEAR GOD'S
VOICE. Jesus said,
"My sheep hear my
voice, and I know them,
and they follow me."
(John 10:27)
As
the election drew near and
more and more people were
reasonably sure that PM
Edward Heath would gain
the majority he was
seeking. During my crusade
in Trinidad, West Indies
we heard the news.
Rev.
Dennis White, who
later became the Superintendent
of the Pentecostal
Assemblies of the West
Indies, was
chauffeuring me around the
Island. I had just spoken
at the West Indies
School of Theology,
where he was president. I
saw a small corner store
and said, "Dennis,
I wish to purchase a
paper; I want to see how
badly Mr. Heath has
lost"!
He replied, "Are
you kidding, why would you
make such a
statement"?
The
headlines screamed: "POLITICAL
UPSET. IT'S A CLIFF
HANGER; IT'S A TIE."
I said "Dennis,
tomorrow, we will read,
"Edward Heath loses
the Election"!
It happened exactly as
I had stated! The date was
February 28, 1974.
Anyone who cares to check
the record will find that
after losing that
election, Mr. Edward Heath
became a non-entity in the
political world and went
into obscurity!
THE
SERMON GOD GAVE ME ~ WHAT
WAS IN THE MESSAGE?
Although
it was called, 'My
Message to Prime Minister
Trudeau', it was
directed at all government
leaders instructing them
to repent of their sins
and let God rule in their
lives and in their
decisions as leaders.
I
wrote of King
Nebuchadnezzar, who
became proud of his
accomplishments and said, "Is
not this Great Babylon,
that I have built for the
house of the Kingdom, by
the might of my power, and
for the honor of my
majesty". (Daniel
4:30
God
judged him and he lost his
mind! For seven
years, the great king
wandered about like an
animal and ate grass as an
oxen until he acknowledged
God.
In
the message, I told of KING
HEROD, who made an
oration. They said,
"It is the voice of a
god and not of a
man". The
Scripture says, "He
gave not God the glory and
God smote him until he
died eaten of worms"!
(Acts 12:23)
When
Prophet Samuel entered
Bethlehem, THE CITY
ELDERS trembled in
fear of God: "And
the elders of the town
trembled at his coming,
and said, Comest thou
peaceably?" (Sam.
16:4)
Oh,
how government officials
need to tremble before the
servants of God again, in
order to bring back
righteousness and sanity
to the nations.
St.
Paul spoke to KING
AGRIPPA and challenged
him with the glorious
Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Scripture says that
Agrippa cried out, "...Almost
thou persuadest me to be a
Christian". (Acts
26:28)
Again,
when Paul spoke to GOVERNOR
FELIX, he trembled
because Paul spoke of "Righteousness,
temperance and judgment to
come"! (Acts
24:25)
The
Bible says, "Righteousness
exalteth a nation and sin
is a reproach to any
people".
(Proverbs 14:24) Again,
God's Word declares, "When
the righteous are in
authority, the people
rejoice: but when the
wicked beareth rule, the
people mourn". (Proverbs
29:2) "Blessed
is the nation whose God is
the Lord".
(Psalms 33:12)
CANADA
TURN AROUND!
It
happened in the spring of 1978,
in Kelowna, British
Columbia. I was awakened
at 8:00 AM, the morning
after a powerful meeting.
The voice of God had been
speaking to my heart while
I was sleeping. The
message of God was already
in my mind, totally
comprehendible and ready
to deliver.
I
awakened with the words, "Canada
Turn Around, Canada Turn
Around, CANADA COME BACK
TO GOD," whirling
around in my Spirit. So
powerful was this
impression that I leaped
out of bed, grabbed my
Bible and note paper, and
wrote down the message
which I knew God wanted me
to deliver across the
nation and around the
world.
Canada
turn around, come back to
your senses! Come back to
God and righteousness,
decency and
reality!
I
began to preach sermons,
declare and dispense this
message of end times, God,
Rapture, Holy Spirit and
repentance across the
nation; in crusades, by
printed material, on
television and radio. I
must confess that the
impact of that crusade was
stunted somewhat by two
things.
I
was unable to get Canadian
people to understand the
importance of this message
enough to support it
financially. Also, due to
three hastily called
elections, I was unable to
have some of the National
and Provincial government
leaders appear with me on
the television program, as
they had originally
intimated they would do!
WHAT
WAS THAT MESSAGE?
It
was a warning from God's
Word for everyone to
repent of their sins and
begin to live Godly lives
in the light of the
Scriptures and to begin to
seek God with great
intensity, honesty,
sincerity and urgency.
Everyone
should know that we are
living in the closing days
of time and of God's grace
upon the earth. And that
our Blessed Lord Jesus
Christ is coming again
real soon!
The
Bible says, "If
My people, which are
called by My name, shall
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."
(2 Chron.
7:14)
God
spells out directions for
a Holy Spirit,
Heaven sent revival! Here
is the recipe: If God's
people will do four
things, God promises
to hear our prayers and
bring healing to our
Land.
What
are these four things? Are
they pinnacles of
spiritual growth, never to
be reached? No, God would
not ask us to do what we
could not attain in the
natural. He is not
unreasonable.
The
Bible says, "Come
now, and let us reason
together, saith the Lord:
though your sins be as
scarlet, they shall be as
white as snow; though they
be red like crimson, they
shall be as wool".
(Isaiah 1:18)
WE
CAN DO THESE FOUR THINGS:
-
Humble
Ourselves
-
Pray
-
Seek
God's Face
-
Turn
from our wicked ways
The
Bible says, "God
resisteth the proud and
giveth grace to the
humble".
We
must look to God for help
- not to ourselves,
government officials,
business leaders,
educators or others. Jesus
said, "Seek ye first
the Kingdom of God and all
these things shall be
added unto you".
(Matt. 6:33)
We
can and must HUMBLE
ourselves and get rid of
all filthy, sinful pride
as we reach out to love
everyone regardless of
skin color, racial
background, educational or
social standing or
financial worth.
And
the scriptural way to
humble ourselves is to
fast. We must realize that
we cannot save ourselves
or heal the hearts of
people in our strength.
God is our source. He is
the Saviour &
Deliverer!
Let
us begin to PRAY to
God on a regular basis as
we praise Him for His love
and grace. God wants
us to make our petitions
known to Him first before
we ask our fellowmen for
help.
King
Asa was diseased in
his feet and went to the
physicians for help
instead of praying to the
Lord. The Bible says, "Asa
sought the help of the
physicians and died".
(2 Chronicles
16:12)
It
is not wrong to seek help
of physicians so long as
you have sought God first
and have laid out your
petition to Him first.
It
is God who rules in the
lives of men. Let us not
forget that. That is why
St. Paul stated, "Pray
without ceasing". (1
Thessalonians
5:17) What did
he mean? Stay in an
attitude of prayer. Keep
your lines of
communication open between
God and yourself!
ONLY
GOD CAN HEAL OUR LAND!
We
can and must pray and go
even further. Let us SEEK
GOD with all our
hearts. In order to seek
God, we must walk close
enough to Him to see His
face and feel His power.
To
seek God means to desire
His presence. To want to
be near Him and share all
our intimate and urgent
needs with Him. And to
spend time praising and
thanking Him for all His
goodness to us!
By
God's grace, let us all TURN
AWAY from the lusts of
the flesh and the sins of
the spirit and conduct
ourselves as true
followers of Christ in all
humility and
righteousness.
We
have His promise that when
we, the Church, have done
these things, then God
will hear our prayers and
answer in great
demonstration of Holy
Ghost power.
The
Bible says, "Let
the wicked forsake his
way, and the
unrighteousness man his
thoughts: and let him
return unto the Lord, and
He will have mercy upon
him; and to our God, for
He will abundantly pardon".
(Isaiah 55:7)
"Be
ye not unequally yoked
together with unbelievers:
for what fellowship hath
righteousness with
unrighteousness? and what
communion hath light with
darkness?" (2
Cor. 6:14)
"Having
a form of godliness, but
denying the power thereof:
from such turn away."
(2 Timothy 3:5)
TURN
YOUR FACE TO THE WALL
When
King Hezekiah
became ill, the prophet
came to him with a
message, "...Thus
saith the Lord, Set thine
house in order; for thou
shalt die, and not
live". (2 Kings
20:1) The Scriptures tell
us that King Hezekiah
turned his face to the
wall and "wept
sore" (v.3) as he
repented and asked for
mercy. God heard his
prayer and gave him an
additional fifteen years
of life.
Whatever
problem you may have, God
is greater than all the
power of the devil and
sin. He is greater than
sickness, disease, fear
and poverty! Praise God
forever!
The
solution comes when we
turn our faces to the wall
and ask Jesus to
intervene! His Word
states, "And call
upon Me in the day of
trouble: I will deliver
thee, and thou shalt
glorify Me". (Ps.
50:15)
It
is time to surrender to
the Lord's Word and will. "...turn
yourselves from your
idols; and turn away your
faces from all your
abominations."
(Ezek. 14:6) "...and
how ye turned to God from
idols to serve the living
and True God." (1
Thess 1:9)
The
Bible says, "Let
the wicked forsake his
way, and the unrighteous
man his thoughts: and let
him return (TURN) unto the
Lord, and he will have
mercy upon him; and to our
God, for he will
abundantly pardon".
(Isa. 55:7)
SHOWDOWN
AT SUNSET
God's
people had corrupted
themselves with idol
worship, from the greatest
to the least. Only ELIJAH
and a faithful silent
group of 7,000 who had not
bowed their knees to Baal.
The
prophet Elijah was grieved
in his heart and brought
down God's judgment upon
that wicked nation in the
form of a drought. After 3
1/2 years, ELIJAH showed
himself and commanded all
the false prophets to
gather on Mount Carmel for
a showdown.
This
was his challenge, "...How
long halt ye between two
opinions? if the Lord be
God, follow him: but if
Baal, then follow
him".
God's
Word says, "My
people have committed two
evils, They have forsaken
Me, the fountain of living
waters, and hewed them out
cisterns, broken cisterns,
that can hold no
water". (Jer.
2:13)
God
- in His great wisdom and
compassion - marveled at
the foolishness of His
people. It's almost
ludicrous that a man who
knew God would forsake
Him, turn away from the
true God and be deceived
by the devil into
worshipping dead idols.
This was the case with
Solomon when he became
old! (1 Kings 11:1-10)
How
anyone could leave the
Church, the Gospel and the
goodness of God, with it's
fountain of living water
and be turned to dumb
idols, sinful practices,
lustful pleasures, greed
and the doctrine of works,
I WILL NEVER KNOW! For
these are no more than
broken cisterns that can
hold no water, NO
PEACE, NO JOY, NO
FORGIVENESS, NO HEALING
AND NO PROMISE OF ETERNAL
LIFE!
The
Bible says, "...In
Thy presence is fullness
of joy; at Thy right hand
there are pleasures for
evermore". (Ps.
16:11)
The
answers to man's
perplexing questions and
the riddles of life, are
found only through Jesus
Christ our Lord and in His
Divinely Inspired and
Sacred Word, The
Bible. On Christ
the solid rock I stand,
all other ground is
sinking sand."
A
TIME OF TROUBLE
We
are living in the End
Times and the
'Coming of the Lord' is
near. A large
segment of the Christian
community, however,
seems to be living under
an illusion that the
rapture of the church will
take place before anyone
tastes even a little bit
of difficulty and
tribulation!
Let
me be absolutely clear,
that is a fallacy and an
unscriptural teaching! The
Bible states; "Yea,
and all that will live
live godly in Christ Jesus
shall suffer persecution.
But evil men and seducers
shall wax worse and worse,
deceiving, and being
deceived." (2
Tim.3: 12, 13). We are not
immune from persecution!
Again, the Holy Scripture
states: "For
unto us is GIVEN in the
behalf of Christ, not only
to believe on Him, but
also to suffer for His
sake."
(Phil.1: 29).
At
the onset however, let me
clarify that I believe in
a pre-tribulation rapture
and that the Church of
Jesus Christ WILL NOT go
through the Great
Tribulation,
written of in the Book of
Revelation. In fact,
there are three
Tribulation Periods
spoken of in the Bible.
THE
FIRST TRIBULATION
- The first tribulation
began on the day of
Pentecost and the devil
and his ilk has been
persecuting the Church
ever since. The
first tribulation period
will conclude when the
last sinner is saved by
the precious blood of
Jesus Christ, and Jesus
Christ returns in the
first stage of His coming.
THE
SECOND TRIBULATION -
The second tribulation is
that period of seven years
known as "Jacob's
Troubles" or
"Daniel's 70th
Week" and the second
tribulation is also known
as the "Great
Tribulation".
The
second tribulation will
begin the moment Christ's
bride is taken away from
this earth and will
conclude just before the
beginning of "The
Millennial Reign of
Christ". This
will be a time when God
out pours His wrath on the
Ant-Christ and a wicked
world.
THE
THIRD TRIBULATION
- The third tribulation
begins when the feet of
Jesus Christ stand on the
Mount of Olives in the
second stage of His
return. (Zechariah
14:4).
The
resurrected glorified Son
of God and Saviour will
then mount a white horse
(Revelation 19:11) and
ride out to the Valley of
Jehosophat, to conquer the
Anti-Christ. This I
refer to as The
Anti-Christ's Tribulation.
Jesus
Christ will destroy the
Anti-Christ with the
breath his mouth. And
the Millennial Reign of
Christ our Lord will begin
upon this earth!
Oh,
WHAT A WONDERFUL SAVIOUR
IS JESUS OUR LORD!
What
a heritage we have! What a
marvellous Gospel we have
been given to share
and give to others, and
demonstrate as Christ's
labourers and
representatives!
How
honoured I am, to be able
to dispense, spread and
deal out to the
spiritually hungry masses,
the GOOD NEWS of God's
great salvation as found
only in Jesus Christ our
Lord Who gave Himself as a
ransom for our sins and
rose again for our
justification! (Rom.4:
25).
Peace
be unto you, my friend, in
the name of God the
father, Son and Holy
Ghost. Amen.
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