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The Christian Herald No 30 “This Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all nations, and then the end will come.” Alpha and Omega Christian Foundation, P.O. Box 123, Berowra Heights, NSW, 2082, Australia, Telephone: 041 6295 270; Email: [email protected]; www.thechristianherald.info Newsletter 28 (08/14) Friends And Leaders Around the World, Greetings For The Last Time The time has come for us to say our good byes while we can. The world is in meltdown and no one can tell how long it has until it slides into the abyss altogether. What we can tell you though is that there is no turning back – the time of God’s reckoning is at hand. This is the last Newsletter we are sending out to you and the world. It has served its purpose and is no longer needed to remind people that a new edition of The Christian Herald has been placed online. More than 20 000 people, from 171 nations, are now frequenting our web site without any notice, and that is more than we could reach through our Newsletters. We express our gratitude to you all for making this work a resounding success. We do not know how many had a direct hand in it, but that does not matter because it is with you that we began this work and from you that it spread out to the whole world. When we began this work two and a half decades ago, some people thought we were mad, self- aggrandizing, wasting our time and money, and deluding ourselves to think that world leaders would pay much attention to a few stapled copies that we called The Christian Herald. We counted on people not to judge a book by its cover, and we have been proven right. While we could not compete with the glossy publications of our competitors, we had something that no one else had: the truth of God and the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. Heaven emboldened us to take that Gospel to the world and we gladly obliged. We are exceedingly happy to announce that the Gospel of the Kingdom of God has been preached in all the world as a witness to all nations, just as Jesus Christ said that it would happen at this particular time in world history. What does this mean for the world? Let us look at Jesus’ words in their context. Mat 24:11 Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. Mat 24:12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. Mat 24:13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be Mat 24:14 preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come. The Cristian Herald No 30 Page 1 Many Churches and preachers claim that they had preached the Gospel of the Kingdom in all the world long ago, but the fact that the end has not come exposes them as false. They had preached gospels to the world indeed, but not the true Gospel, otherwise there would have been no need for a work like this, which preaches a Gospel that has not been seen and heard in the world since the early Churches of God. When we began this work, we could never have imagined that it would be one of merely witnessing the Gospel, and not one of converting people as well. Jesus Christ knew the nature of this world better than we did, and that is manifested by the fact that two and half decades later we are still witnessing that Gospel and not converting anyone. Our competitors gloat about this; they should be crying. They love false gospels, and do not want to hear that there is such a thing as a genuine Gospel of Jesus Christ. The time is at hand for every nation to face the Judgment of God Almighty. They will be judged by the standards that we have espoused in the pages of The Christian Heralds. This is why it is so important that people, especially the leaders, familiarize themselves with the contents of The Christian Heralds. We urge you all to download our magazines while they are still freely available on our web site. Your people will need them, and you will be held responsible for denying them this opportunity. The restored Gospel of Jesus Christ cannot be found anywhere else, and we are experiencing increasing difficulties keeping this work alive. As a last service to our readers we offer them a window into how their nations performed in our monthly statistics. Here are our top 25 best performing nations for the month of June 2014. Bear in mind that this is not a social media outlet. Countries Hits 1. United States 22,133 2. France 2792 3. China 1559 4. Canada 1340 5. Russia 891 6. Ukraine 846 7. Saudi Arabia 495 8. Romania 494 9. Germany 492 10. Poland 452 11. Finland 345 12. Great Britain 286 13. South Africa 281 14. European Country [The Vatican] 270 15. Czech Republic 254 16. Australia 229 17. Brazil 207 18. Thailand 179 19. Sweden 152 20. Indonesia 142 21. Israel 136 22. Estonia 132 23. Colombia 127 24. Mauritius 120 25. Philippines 106 On the whole, with only minor variations, this table has remained constant for more than a year now. The Cristian Herald No 30 Page 2 France, the intellectual power house of Europe, is honorably sitting in second place, behind only America which has led the way from the beginning. Britain, which ought to be up there with France, and ahead of it given its language, lags behind many smaller non-English speaking nations. They should never forget that their country is an island and there is a heavy price for those who turn away from God. Rev 16:17 Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, "It is done!" Rev 16:18 And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth. Rev 16:19 Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath. Rev 16:20 Then every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. Saudi Arabia, the bastion of Islamism, has more faith in God and in our Gospel than the British. The so-called PIGS nations stand as follows: Spain 28 hits, Italy 11, Portugal 4, and Greece 3. Finland has 345 hits, while Norway has just one. They should grant themselves a Nobel Prize for being the laggards of Europe. Estonia has 132 hits, while Latvia 26 and Lithuania 6. We criticised Romania in the past for lagging behind its neighbors. Well, things have changed. In June, Romania had 494 hits, Hungary 36, Bulgaria 35, and Serbia 44. Pity, that the country still has a government unworthy of its people. They should pray that God does not apply the biblical principle of people paying for the sins of their leaders, for if He does none of them will survive the Great Tribulation. Now, as a last reminder, The Christian Herald No 29 is online at our usual web site: www.thechristianherald.info. Shortly afterwards, The Christian Herald No 30 will be online too. Beyond that, only God Almighty knows how many more editions we will be able to publish. We still have much to say, but time is not on our side. We conclude with the following fitting biblical injunction: Mat 11:17 “We played the flute for you, and you did not dance.” Now you will dance even though no one plays the flute. In the service of Jesus Christ, Grigore Sbarcea Coordinator A.O.C.F. Good bye friends! The Cristian Herald No 30 Page 3 “Be Happy – Don’t Worry About The World” We put this title in inverted commas because it is not ours; it is a paraphrase of a popular song with the social media generation. The title reflects the attitude of today’s commentariat too: no matter how bad things may be, they always get better in the end and there is always a tomorrow. Well, there may not be a tomorrow, because we are living in extraordinary times. Imagine what would happen if a journalist started disseminating the view that this world is on its last legs. He would be hounded out of office and persecuted for spreading panic among the population, and the media that published his views would most likely be heavily fined if not completely shut down. The question is why are they not doing this to us? We have been preaching for more than two decades that the world is heading towards a catastrophic end, yet we are still moving around unencumbered. The answer is simple: no one believes us. A lot of people are curious about our work; they come to us from all over the world, download our materials in large volumes, but beyond that no one wants to get involved. It is just as well that we have been allowed to do our work in peace, because the times in which we live demand that the long lost Gospel of Jesus Christ needed to be restored and preached to the world “as a witness to all the nations”, after which, as Jesus Christ said, the end will come.