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It has been a while since I gave you a health update. I continue to improve my walking skills after beginning to walk again last March. I have regained half the weight that I lost the previous year. My strength is slowly returning, but it is taking longer than I had hoped. I am starting to feel my age.

When I was young, I actually looked forward to getting older, because I wanted the benefit of experience and learning. Now that I am getting there, I feel some of the downsides to reaching this goal. I have to rest more, which means I have less time to write or edit. Even so, experience has let me work more efficiently. There are still many more books of the Bible that I have not yet put into commentaries.

I still hope to put together a Study Bible with marginal notes as my final project. Bullinger’s Companion Bible is still the best that I have seen, but it is more than 100 years old, even predating the Scofield Reference Bible. Yet both of them contain the Dispensationalist errors that constructed Old Covenant Christianity on a whole new level and are now bearing bitter fruit in Israel/Palestine. I marvel at their ability to ignore Galatians 4:22-31 and the book of Hebrews.

The marginal references in most Bibles are nearly useless and so nothing to promote any real understanding of the word.

Pakistan Progress Report

More and more books are being translated into Urdu for our Pakistani audience. Our only problem is that as more books become available to them, the more demand it creates. Because of popular demand, Pastor Fiaz has now begun translating my daily blogs into Urdu. We are having a great impact on the churches and seminaries in Pakistan. Many have incorporated our books into their curriculums.

On July 15 Fiaz conducted a seminar on the Book of Jonah to about 50 students and faculty. He reported this to me:

“There were over fifty students from various programs present in the class. I conducted two sessions, each lasting one hour. During both sessions, I shared your newly translated book with the students. The students, as well as all the faculty members, were deeply impressed after learning about the concepts presented in our newly translated book.

“By the grace of the Lord, just like our previous books this book too will prove to be immensely helpful for the Church in Pakistan.”

The book of Jonah, of course, builds upon the law of leprosy (Leviticus 14) and the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16), and presents the prophecy of the Restoration of All Things.

On August 8, Fiaz wrote to tell me:

“Today I was invited in Faith Theological Seminary. There I taught students and also distributed our new translated book Jonah. They are already using our some books as a curriculum.”

Fiaz has held many seminars to teach on a variety of our books. Having translated them all himself (and proofed by his teen-age daughter, Jennifer), Fiaz knows the material very well. I am very grateful for his dedication and hard work.

The September FFI (Lamentations, part 3) was sent to the printshop yesterday. Paper copies should be sent out in about a week.

Jubilee Conference

The Jubilee conference (Oct 3-5) is coming up soon as well. We are still disrupted by David’s passing last May, but we trust that God will work it all out. I don’t recall when the deadline is for making hotel reservations at the DoubleTree/Park Place in Minneapolis. Perhaps there is no deadline except for cancellations. For information, click on the link below. See the left side at the top of the blog section.

https://godskingdom.org/blog/

War and Peace

In a day when good means evil, black means white, and peace means war, we are witnessing the confusion of the climax of the age. We will have peace as soon as we win the war, they say. Hence, there is no path to peace that is known to world leaders. Neither do they know the mind of God. Nonetheless, their policies are proving to be self-destructive. Humpty-Dumpty is again having a great fall, and no one seems to know how to put him back together again.

The Babylonians are trying desperately to find a way to preserve their wealth into the age to come without losing it all. Their system is falling apart, and they are afraid. Many Christians have a false sense of security by believing they will escape tribulation in a “rapture.” I don’t know which is worse—fear or a false sense of security.

Those who are of the house of faith know at least the basics of the divine plan, and they realize that the divine judgment is not directed at them but at the Babylonian system. God has put a seal on the foreheads of the overcomers to protect them in the midst of trouble (Ezekiel 9:4). They are sealed with His name (signature) in their foreheads (Revelation 22:4). We need not be afraid, because God is working through His judgments to set us free.

God used Persia (Iran) to overthrow Babylon in Daniel 5, even though King Cyrus of Persia did not know God (Isaiah 45:1, 5). The same pattern is repeating today. Do not look to Christian politicians to set us free from captivity to Mystery Babylon or from the bondwoman of Jerusalem (Galatians 4:25). God is using non-believers once again.

The Pentecostal Church world was given its opportunity for 40 Jubilee cycles, but it failed. Too many church people claimed Hagar as their mother, proclaiming themselves as children of the flesh. The earthly Jerusalem must be cast out in order to secure the dominion of the heavenly Jerusalem (Galatians 4:30).

Now authority has been transferred to the overcomers who live according to the feast of Tabernacles. I expect to see significant events by the time of the Jubilee conference in October, as this is the end of the 70^th Jubilee since the Jordan crossing under Joshua.