Way back in the 1830’s, the French statesman, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, “Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power.

I have been studying prophecy for nearly thirty years and it never ceases to amaze me how everything is there for our revelation. We may not be able to look forward with certainty, but we certainly can look backward.

Professor Odlum said of the Law, “they [God’s Laws] have been part of the foundation of the Israel nations and at the very worst, our nations acknowledged the God of Israel, and His Law, to be just and right.”

While listening to a visiting pastor from Idaho discussing the first few chapters of the Gospel of John, I was inspired to re-study the entire Book. It was like a new adventure, as one revelation after another flooded my mind. It astonishes how we can read a passage or passages over and over again, then all of the sudden; God enlightens us to new thoughts.

What is in store for the Israel nations. And the World. Will this be a year of plenty or a year of chastisement? 20 + 20 equals 40 – 40 means trials, probation and testing. Looking at the what has happened so far in January, we might have not made probation and this year we might be tested quite severely.

Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery, once said, “let us remember when all these things are said and done the one great fact, the greatest fact, remains supreme and unassailable. It is this. There are in this world things that are true and things that are false; there are ways that are right and ways that are wrong, men good and bad. And on the one side or the other we must take our stand.

The Apostle Paul describes the time of the end very concisely in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3. “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as…