WORLD AFFAIRS
DISASTERS: in recent times a few very serious disasters struck large parts of our country and other areas in Southern Africa. At first it was severe drought, then it was devastating veld fires, and now it is the greatest floods in a hundred years. The flooding in Mozambique has even drawn in other countries to come to their assistance. Pests and diseases like cholera and dysentery have already appeared and others are on their way.
The news media, climatologists and meteorologists report similar disasters in other parts of the world. Their conclusion is that something very exceptional is happening in nature. It is the same also with earthquakes and the eruption of volcanoes. It is as if there is a disturbance in nature and in the crust of the earth beginning to take place. And because man hardly recognises the divine authority of Almighty God, he is looking for all kinds of scientific explanations. In most countries of the world, the God of the Bible is not acknowledged anymore. In the Western countries where the living God is still mentioned in their constitutions, the authorities pay Him only lip service. In our own country where the supreme authority of God was recognised in the constitution of the previous dispensation, under the new government God is completely left out and we have become a secular state.
The Bible very definitely mentions these natural phenomena, the earthquakes, the waves roaring, of the powers of heaven being shaken, of pestilence, of wars and rumours of war and of nation against nation just before the Second Coming of Christ. To me it is a clear warning and a confirmation that we are now living in this very time. Our Lord Jesus Christ warned us that at the time of His return it would again be as it was in the days of Noah. The people were so wicked and busy with material things such as buying and selling, planting and building, marrying and giving out in marriage and a licentious and immoral way of life, that they refused to believe Noah. Is it not again the same today? The disasters may come, two devastating wars in the previous century, pestilence, diseases, depressions, but the people just carry on.
I mentioned in previous editions of World Affairs no matter how many tons of news print and news commentaries and hours of reviews might go out over the news channels, it is all to no avail because they do not touch the heart of the problem. They all leave out the God of the Bible, the creator of the heavens and the earth. God has set out His Plan of the Ages in great detail in His Word, and He is busy carrying it out; He is acting according to it in strict order in nature, in the economy and in the lives of people and nations.
A great and catastrophic revolution is at the very door. The kingdoms of this world are on the verge of being violently overturned. Exactly like in the days of Noah. The people refused to believe him because they were actually in revolt against God. The result was that they all died and only Noah and his immediate family went over into the New World which was completely different to the old.
Their learned men and opinion makers would not believe him and were thus completely incompetent to warn the people and change their manner of thinking.
They could not interpret the signs of the times. Today it is exactly the same, as Jesus warned us it would be. We sit with our dailies, Sunday papers, radio news and news commentaries, our television, internet, and what more is still about to be added? But the disasters and natural phenomena, the millions being murdered, robbed, raped, life getting harder instead of easier in spite of many modern conveniences, it just goes on and on. And still we cannot read the signs of the times, because we do not believe the Word of God, exactly the same as in Noah’s day.
TRUTH: The old question of Pilate namely, “What is truth?” still stands today. Neither will it be answered until we acknowledge what Jesus said, namely “Thy word is truth”. All that is without this foundation is a lie, and an illusion. In our country we have the so-called Truth and Reconciliation Commission that still is not finalised. It failed to produce the truth or any reconciliation. All it amounted to was a witch hunt to humiliate the Afrikaaner. The leaders who had to carry out their policy, did not have the true knowledge or the courage to stand out for the Truth. It remains a fact, in spite of all the shouting about a so-called racism, that there are different races on earth, each with his own characteristics and life style. For just as long as there is no Central Government, absolutely just and honest, maintaining just and fair authority, there will be clashes.
There is only one absolutely fair and just authority that will bring peace and justice to all, and that is the authority of God through His Son Jesus the Christ who will come and sit on the throne of His forefather David and reign over a literal restored twelve tribes of Israel according to the law of God over all the peoples of the earth. This government will follow on the greatest conflict of all time when the slain of the LORD will lie from one end of the earth even to the other. It will be so severe that according to the prophets very few people will be left. The prophet Isaiah says:
“The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: For the LORD, hath spoken this word. The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.”
Jesus Himself said, “And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh (no living creature therefore) be saved!”
These facts, a description of the things that await us, is truth; all the things with which we are bombarded almost hourly, are lies. All mention of a so-called Africa Renaissance, of a New World Order, that are promised to bring peace, are lies. Our world economy is a soap bubble that can be pricked any moment and all trade will come to an immediate standstill with all its horrific consequences as you can well imagine. It is accurately foretold in the Book of Revelation.
COMING THINGS cast their shadow before them, the old saying goes. The distaste of the recent past and the stirring in the economic world are all signs of the catastrophic change that is coming upon the earth. A merciful God who takes no delight in the death of a sinner, but would have us come to repentance and come into the “ark”, had these warnings recorded for us by His prophets in His Word, the same as He used Noah to warn his generation for 120 years.
But there is still another very important sign. The great stirring caused by the rise of a Jorg Halder in Austria is such an indication. For he is not the only one, all over Western Europe there are similar awakenings of a strong nationalism, in France, Great Britain, Germany and so on. The great protest is against the foreign elements that are flooding their countries and endanger their own people. But the forces that are out to adulterate the white nations to make it easier for the New World Order in which racial differences will be wiped out, to be established, cry “racism, Nazism”. A brainwashed and deceived world think these are two swear words and is being stirred up and mobilised by the mass media to protest in great mass meetings. In actual fact the masses do not really know what it is all about. But never mind, let the mass instigators rave as they will, their day is near when a just God will settle with them.
We do not know our history and even less our origin and who we really are. Neither know we where we are going, it is as the prophet says: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” History is not a random succession of events – History is actually “His Story”, God’s account of the regulation and guidance of the destiny of nations, as it was also stated in our previous constitution. When Jesus comes to take over the reins of this world and lead it back out of the ruins of the soon coming judgement and restore it to its perfect state as foretold in the Grand Old Book, the Bible, He will do it with authority and majesty. This implies that according to all the prophets, He will find a remnant of a pure Israel People who will have undergone a new birth in the crucible of divine judgment. This inherent protest against mongrelisation and adulteration which is beginning to manifest itself all over the Western world, is a sign that that remnant will not disappear, but will be there when Jesus comes. But because they have been deceived by their pastors and political (mis)leaders, they do not know why they are in revolt, and sometimes act in the wrong way. But God is able to bring them to a mighty awakening at the right time. That is the next great event, expect it, look out for it, prepare yourself for it.
