At one time, we were told that in order to finance the ‘permissive society’ we had to curtail spending on such things as defence.

When the Bible states that a man cannot serve two masters (i.e. God and Mammon), this is so correct.

Our society today is built around the altar of greed. It is one of the watchwords of our political classes of all persuasions.

No wonder we are in an unprecedented (this word was vastly overused during the so-called COVID pandemic), and disastrous situation. Indeed, the Lords of Lies are in almost total control.

Moffatt states in Ephesians 4: that we must give up living like pagans (Ephesus was a pagan city complete with the Temple of Diana), and surely that is what we are doing today.

This is tremendous news. It is a divine settlement occasioned for the righteous to enjoy. A security way beyond all earthly promise. We are to proceed with undiluted faith, (faith is not believing something unlikely, but having complete trust in Almighty God).

This planned exercise is all part of the delusion that the Lord God said he would send upon the Earth just prior to the return in glory of His Son Jesus Christ to restore His Creation and vanquish evil.

The above comments are in no way to suggest that Russia is perfect, but it is unfortunately true that personal freedoms are more attacked in modern Britain and America than they are in Russia.

In 1937, a Royal Commission was appointed to determine the legal ownership and residential rights over what the Bible called the Promised Land.

There is a saying that sums up so much of what is happening today, “if you cannot convince ‘em, confuse ’em”.