August 2003

Dear Friends,

A couple of months ago in this magazine, we observed the Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation and we included her 1953 message of hope and joy. There was another message that year, from a great wartime leader and the new president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower. In his inaugural address, he not only looked at the future potential of his nation but at the great challenges facing them. He said, “the forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history.” He went on to say that the time had been reached “when man’s power to achieve good or to inflict evil surpasses the highest hopes and the sharpest fears of all ages.”

Then, he went on to impart sage advice and called upon Americans to, among other things, renew their faith in their country and in the watchfulness of a Divine Providence.

Much good has been achieved over the half-century since President Eisenhower’s words but sadly it seems that evil has surpassed even the sharpest fears. And worst of all, the majority of Israelites have fallen into Satan’s trap and ignored the watchfulness of the Divine Providence. And it has evolved to the point where, as the prophet Isaiah said, “evil has been called good and good evil.” Even though more and more Israelites around the world are being awakened to their identity, it is a sad fact that most, including most Christians, have been deluded about the real course of world events.

When David wrote, “the borrower is servant to the lender,” I doubt even he could have foreseen the bondage upon true Israel today. In just a half century, we have gone from incredible wealth to staggering debt, and all sectors of the economy, government, corporations and individuals, have fallen prey. And those who have stripped us of our wealth are changing the very make-up of our nations and leading us away from our loving Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

I don’t know what it is, but something is in the wind. I like to think that Babylon is beginning to fall apart, that the day of reckoning for those who have sided with Satan against true Israel is not far off. It’s true that stock markets are again on the advance, yet with interest rates dropping as they have, it reminds me of the nineties Japanese economic disaster when low interest rates were unsuccessfully employed to rescue an ailing economy. Perhaps the western economy has caught the Japanese disease and is not recovering as we have been led to believe. Maybe the perception of recovery is just a product of money creation and the selling of our nations to foreign interests. Whatever, the underpinnings of our economy, once so durable, are like toothpicks today. The excesses of the past fifty years may be coming home to roost.

Yet, who can fathom what has happened to us spiritually, mainly as a result of the evil practices promoted through television, music, Hollywood, magazines and as of late, through the Internet. When we were closer to obeying God’s Commandments and secure in the knowledge that God the Son is the way to everlasting life, great blessings were bestowed upon us. As we have moved away and turned our back on Christ, and let evil do its work, we have been reaping the curses. Can we turn back? Not likely! After all, our people are too well indoctrinated. Only Jesus Christ can rescue us now. Perhaps this is why I have such a nagging feeling that something magnificent is on the horizon. You know, friends, our God is both merciful and vengeful. Israel is the apple of His eye and He will surely lead His people back to their rightful place. Yet, He said, “vengeance is mine” and indeed it will be when He returns to deal with the tares that have been spread amongst the people and have done such harm to our nations.
May God bless true Israel.

Yours in Christ,

Jim Read, President
 

About Our President -
Jim Read was a longtime banker, retiring in 1985. He became aware of the Israel Truth in the seventies and became a member of the Association. When the Association fell on hard times by the mid-eighties and was in danger of folding, as had many other sister organizations over the years, Mr. Read became President and engineered the financial campaign to keep it going. He remains President today and has presided over a period when the Association’s magazine, “Thy Kingdom Come,” has played an important role in furthering the Israel Truth around the world. He sees this website as being the next natural step in helping spread the Gospel of the Kingdom in these last precarious days before the return of Christ.
   
   
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