This is timely – following on from dear Veronika’s plea for the church to get her head and therefore identity, out of Delilah’s lap before she finds herself shaved and led into captivity.
Timely in your reference to Magna Carta as in the North at Durham Cathedral there has been a very good highlighting of Magna Carta for much of the year, as they celebrate the 800th anniversary of its definitive version, willingly signed by John’s son Henry III on turning 18 and therefore assuming the governance that for the previous 9 years had been in the hands of his guardians. The document was never changed after this version became law and it was added to the statute book in 1297.
In the chapter house the Cathedral have set up 5 large prayer stations with the following topics all taken from Magna Carta –
Accountability of Leaders;
Equal Access to Justice;
Equality before the Law;
Defence of the Vulnerable;
Sanctity of Life… I suggest these are all highly relevant today.
The then Archbishop Stephen Langton played a key role in stewarding this and helping to uphold it. Would to God the C of E could see its opportunity. Durham is a vacancy in See after Bishop Paul retired earlier this year.
There will have been a considerable number of people who have had access to this exhibition
Am tempted to email Danny Kruger and suggest Reform take up the cry of Magna Carta. It was document born in political crisis.
Shalom, love and prayer
Elaine
I respond, ‘LOL Elaine, The video was recommended on our men’s Bible breakfast group as we’d chatted about church staying out of politics, with which I disagree! SO thinking of posting it I got nudged to refer to Magna Carta and you bring the Lord’s confirming it. Don’t you just love His God-incidents.’
I’ve been considering Britain’s seriously fallen state and the apparent abdication of church leaders to take a stand over applying Christian principles on behalf of our nation – but some even denigrated those who took part in the momentous march in London on 13th September calling to ‘Unite the Kingdom’!
BACK TO BASICS
So, what does Jesus say about nations, or people groups, and His Father’s Kingdom and how to govern them?
BibleGateway has 365 references (a daily dose!) in the New King James Version of the Bible, of which 155 are in the New Testament and I’m particularly interested in Jesus instructing His first disciples to use this model prayer (Matthew 6.9-13) and its later application:
“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Yourname. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earthas it is in heaven. Give us this day ourdaily bread. Andforgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.”
After His Resurrection and prior to His Ascension to heaven they were instructed as follows (Matthew 28:18-20):
“All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Thus, the Great Commission entails telling not-yet believers in all people groups about Jesus, baptising them into Father’s Kingdom and teaching them its values and to apply them as the ideal way to live together in harmony: that is, how to govern themselves by Godly political principles!
PARLIAMENTARY ADDRESS
I recall that when covering the 808th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta one of the postings refers to the Biblical foundation to governing of our nation having been laid by King Alfred the Great.
Now at last, this weekend saw GAFCON’s announcement severing communion with heretical Canterbury: a cutting off, separation and coming out of false teaching.
‘The Gafcon movement of orthodox Anglicans is forging its own path away from the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury with the launch of the Global Anglican Communion.
It will be distinct from the worldwide Anglican Communion that is under the spiritual leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury and which recognises other Institutes of Communion like the Lambeth Conference, the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), and the Primates’ Meeting of senior archbishops.
Unveiling its plans on Thursday, Gafcon said its intention was to “reorder” the Anglican Communion with only the Bible as its foundation. It will not recognise the Archbishop of Canterbury or other Institutes of Communion.
“We cannot continue to have communion with those who advocate the revisionist agenda, which has abandoned the inerrant word of God as the final authority and overturned Resolution I.10, of the 1998 Lambeth Conference,” said the Most Rev Dr Laurent Mbanda, Chairman of the Gafcon Primates’ Council, and Primate of Rwanda.
“Therefore, Gafcon has re-ordered the Anglican Communion by restoring its original structure as a fellowship of autonomous provinces bound together by the Formularies of the Reformation, as reflected at the first Lambeth Conference in 1867, and we are now the Global Anglican Communion...’ (continue emphases mine).
Their Communique begins (underscoring added, emboldening by Gafcon,):
‘To our dear Anglican brothers and sisters in Christ. Grace and peace to you in the name of our risen Lord Jesus Christ, on the Commemoration of the martyrdom of Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley.
The first Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) gathered in 2008 in Jerusalem to prayerfully respond to the abandonment of the Scriptures by some of the most senior leaders of the Anglican Communion, and to seek their repentance.
In the absence of such repentance, we have been prayerfully advancing towards a future for faithful Anglicans, where the Bible is restored to the heart of the Communion.
Today, that future has arrived.
Our Gafcon Primates gathered this hour to fulfil our mandate to reform the Anglican Communion, as expressed in the Jerusalem Statement of 2008….’ (continue reading)
One of my Canadian friends emailed me yesterday about a prophetic insight of which I was aware on Andrew Whalen’s Facebook, viz: (LOL here’s my ’22’ again!)
“I don’t want to overshare everything that I ‘hear’ or get from the Lord.. and so I don’t want to fatigue people with that.. or make it seem like I know it all — I certainly do not!!
But the following is something that came strongly today, and although controversial in the church world, I believe the Lord is looking to address this more than ever now! (Especially in light of the rapture predictions that just keep popping up over and over and steal our energy, focus, and mission— roll the eyes)
I’m going to share what I ‘received’ and some of my thoughts.. weigh it for sure, and its ok if not all agree,— but at least we can start having some conversations.
Today I was driving and I heard:
“The ‘end times’ is a phrase that was hijacked by the enemy, who through nefarious channels of infiltration, charged and infused the phrase with lies, gnostic fallacy, distorted paradigms, injected meanings and understandings that intentionally frames our reality towards an agenda directed by darkness. — Now whenever the church uses the phrase ‘end times’ they enter into the power of that ritual.
Its ultimate effect is the negation of the original charter of the Ekklesia, To posses the gates of our enemies.”
My additional thoughts are as follows:
There needs to be a recovery of what the full counsel of God is through scripture on the actual meaning of End -Times’ / the Last days, but to do so means we also have to understand there was indeed intentional occult programming around it- and we must dissect the Holy from the profane!
I believe the consequences of entering the ‘end times ritual’, keeps us focused on escape instead of expansion. We surrender our inheritance of the earth to the devil. We give our keys away that were given to re-establish edenic ‘authority’.
When we enter the ‘end times ritual’, we abdicate our responsibility to overcome evil with good. It minimizes the Abrahamic covenant to an etherial world only realized after we leave the Earth. It disengages the Lord’s call to make disciples of nations.
It makes futile the call to be salt and light for the purpose of societal transformation. It allows evil to increase because that is the frame of expectation. Escape to heaven becomes our constant obsession, instead of the explicit aim of the Lord’s prayer to advance heaven on Earth. Etc. Etc.
Controversial? Certainly! – But some worthwhile food for thought.”
Canadian Paul Morris writes about Andrew’s preceding points: “I am quite familiar with Andrew Whalen and his ministry. He shared this word recently and stated it should be taken to the HS and weighed – which is what Paul was told to write to the Thessalonians “prove all things hold fast to that which is good”.
It’s been almost 10 yr since HS started revamping my “theology” that had been ingrained from years of being taught in churches of various evangelical denominations. I have listened as to this topic, to some ministers who’ve also had their view on this changed, such as Rebz Marcelo, Johnny Enlow, Diana Larkin, and others.
HS has been asking them to do what He had me do in teaching others, and sharing with others, which is to challenge errant theologies, in order to wake the believers to the commission they’re called to – which is to arise and do the works Jesus did while incarnate, through the power of the HS – as the verse says “for this the Son of God was manifested, to destroy the works of the devil”. He said before ascending that all authority in heaven and earth was given Him, then He bequeathed it to us His believers, telling us to go into all the world , preach the gospel, cleanse the lepers, heal the sick, raise the dead and cast out demons, freely we’ve received freely give.
We’re told that the same Spirit that empowered His earthly ministry, and raised Him from the dead dwells in us to empower us to do what He commanded. For 200 years since Darby then Scofield promoted the theory of “rapture” as He told Andrew in this word, the enemy has largely side-lined and negated the ekklesia from the mission they’re called to do.”
Briefing 23 cites 2Thessalonians 2.3 and 1Timothy 4.1 on the prophesied falling away from faith and foundational Christian tenets, and reports on heretical teaching within the Anglican communion and the new Archbishop of Canterbury’s very dubious stance.
Now, we consider the apostasy within the Roman Catholic church as reported by the former Papal Legate to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, whom the late Argentinian pope excommunicated for strongly denouncing his heresy.
This blog and The Gateway Pundit have frequently featured his excellent articles, as here and here respectively; and here’s the latter’s latest on the new American pope.
‘Jorge Bergoglio’s monomaniacal obsession with indiscriminate immigration and miscegenation finds a zealous proponent in Robert Prevost.
The handover did not represent any radical change, either doctrinally or morally, or politically or socially. The conciliar-synodal Church is and remains the “Ancilla Novi Ordinis”, the courtesan of the globalist elite.
We know well that the migratory phenomenon is not spontaneous: it is not caused by famine, war, or religious persecution.
Instead, it was desired and planned as a means of destabilizing Western nations, and illegal immigration is used as an instrument of social subversion. This is stated in a United Nations document of March 21, 2000, entitled “Replacement Migration.” (continue reading his stern rebukes)
In TGP’s coverage we find superb White House Press Secretary, a Christian, rebuking this pope:
Moreover, a couple of days later on 11th October the Archbishop summarises in his ‘X files’ (!) seven decades of what he ardently regards is heresy within the Roman Church:
He writes,
‘Sixty-three years ago, on this day, the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council was solemnly opened, the first “council” of the church that takes its name from it – the “conciliar church” in fact.
– It was a “council” because it sought to “reconcile” God and the world, Christ and Belial, truth and falsehood, good and evil.
– It was “ecumenical” because it sought to legitimize interreligious dialogue, which the Roman Catholic Church had solemnly condemned.
– It called itself “second” to make people believe that it was in continuity with the perennial Catholic Magisterium, so that it could adulterate it by usurping the Authority of the Church and of the Roman Pontiff.
– It laid the pseudo-doctrinal foundations of today’s “synodal church,” which aims to subvert the hierarchical constitution of the Church and the Papacy.
Those who consciously adhere to this “council” are responsible for the demolition of the Catholic Church and ratify the conciliar and synodal coup with their complicity.’
This is ‘by-the-by’ for those adhering to the New Testament concept of the priesthood of all believers under the oversight of Biblically qualified leadership.
About 1975 years ago in writing to the early church in Thessalonica, Apostle Paul draws his letter to a close by referring to ‘the Day of the Lord’ and in a follow-up he goes into further detail about Jesus’ expected return.
The second chapter of his second letter refers to a particularly startling indicator of the wider Church’s failure in the faith and implicit lack of holiness and obedience to Jesus, as expanded upon in the Amplified Bible, wherein the third verse reads:
‘Let no one deceive or beguile you in any way, for that day will not come except the [a]apostasy comes first [unless the predicted great [b]falling away of those who have professed to be Christians has come], and the man of lawlessness (sin) is revealed, who is the son of doom (of perdition),…’ [Note a,b – A possible rendering of the Greek ‘apostasia’ is “departure [of the church”].
Paul returns to that perplexing topic about 10-15 years later and prophesies in his first letter to Timothy (chapter 4)
‘But the [Holy] Spirit distinctly and expressly declares that in latter times some will turn away from the faith, giving attention to deluding and seducing spirits and doctrines that demons teach, 2 Through the hypocrisy and pretensions of liars whose consciences are seared (cauterized)…’
Other than citing holy writ and the essential principles of spiritual headship and thus accountability, especially vital in deliverance ministry, this blog has covered this matter from a newsworthy angle under #Apostasy tag. So the following items are offered for my readers’ consideration:
‘Perhaps, one of the most significant things (upon reflection, and not surprisingly) coming out of this announcement, in terms of how different Christians, especially those in leadership positions, reacted, is that in the main those in the negative camp seemed to be in agreement with many of the views that I have long been posting on my Facebook page and blogs concerning some of the important, significant things happening in the UK and beyond, and those, in the main, in the positive camp taking an opposite view. It confirmed to me that not only is the nation divided but so is the church.’
‘Obviously, not being an Anglican and coming from a very Low Church camp, I am not going to agree with all that Father Calvin said, but I agree with much of it. While I agree that leadership in churches, especially when it comes to exercising authority over men, should be male, the only priesthood I recognize is that of all believers.
Not mentioned but something what really sealed it for me, in coming to a view, was reading a post by one of my detracting Facebook friends including a video clip of Sarah Mullally’s telling us back in the days of the Covid scamdemic that it was our Christian duty to take the jab (see here). Another powerful video highlighting the concerns of those who think a wrong choice was made with this appointment making several damming indictments, including her pro-choice stance on the matter of abortion and her supporting or allowing LBGTQ+ ideology to prevail, including the brainwashing of our children over transgenderism (see here).’
GOD-INCIDENCE
Whilst writing I’m called to join my wife watching the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem’s celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles with David Parsons speaking on the Lord’s calling all nations towards Jerusalem and thereby encouraging the Jews to look forward to their Messiah Jesus’s return. This was broadcast yesterday morning
The main scriptures David cites are Zechariah but I note his emphasis upon the ‘NOW’ of prophecies and that this was only hours before the most welcome announcement of a cease-fire in Gaza.
SO Isaiah 66’s reference to the ‘last days’ and Jerusalem are most apposite:
Here’s an excellent past and current historical summary of the Trump Administration, thus making a most suitable Part 12 to this series. According to Bible Study,
‘The number 12 is one of the foundations of Scripture. The meaning of 12 is that it symbolizes God’s power and authority, as well as serving as a perfect governmental foundation. It can also symbolize completeness or the nation of Israel as a whole.’
Dr. Antonio Graceffo, PhD, China MBA, economist and national security analyst with a focus on China and Russia, as well as graduate of American Military University writes.
‘The Trump administration is arguably the most openly Christian and pro-religious administration since the era of the founding fathers. While past presidents such as Jimmy Carter openly spoke of their faith and Ronald Reagan called for prayer in schools, no modern administration has gone as far in defending and advancing religious liberty.
Trump has restored protections for Christians, especially Catholics who faced persecution under the Biden administration. He has also enacted policies that strengthen the Christian values on which the nation was founded. Furthermore, his administration includes an unprecedented number of openly practicing Christians at the highest levels of government, making faith a defining feature of national leadership.
Among the many steps taken to protect Christians, and specifically Catholics who were persecuted under President Biden, Trump has enacted sweeping measures to restore religious liberty. He created the first-ever White House Faith Office in the West Wing, appointed faith liaisons across federal agencies, and established a Religious Liberty Commission...continue reading here.
IS DONALD TRUMP’s HEART FOR THE KINGDOM? – THE SERIES:
WOW! I had in mind to post about weekend news fulfilling prophecies BUT first saw this soon after Veronika West posted it on Ignite Ireland Ministry Facebook > am amazed!!
I comment therein about her closing words relating to one of the earliest open visions I’d had,
“WOW, “Stones of My choosing” – wotta wonderful reminder of what I saw about 30 years ago in house group of each person as jewelled stones set within the Lord’s throne!”
To which Veronika responds, “YES!!! I shared an emphasis on that very aspect of the word. “THE STONES OF MY CHOOSING”…the Living Stones are Rising and will be used to bring forth a Mighty Dismantling to every demonic stronghold.” (RB: see PS below and next post)
Also, I mention it happened in the Pangbourne group of Tilehurst Free Church (Baptist), which she attended after I’d moved away to marry Nina 23 years ago last week and as prophecy team leader to pastor Yinka Oyekan, who renamed TFC ‘The Gate’.
‘This Open Vision came on Friday 26th September 2025.
The Birthing of a New Acts Church Era is Upon You!
Okay… so I was out driving and going about my day, when The Holy Spirit suddenly spoke and I heard Him say, “Daughter watch — for the Birthing of a New Acts Church Era is upon you!”
As soon as I heard those Words, suddenly I was taken into an Open Vision, wherein I saw a powerful mighty Rushing Wind of the Spirit begin to come forth from the deeper realms of Glory — a mighty Rushing Wind, filled with Tongues of Fire.
As I looked within the mighty Rushing Winds filled with Tongues of Fire, suddenly I saw piercing eyes within the mighty Rushing Winds.
Then I heard these Words saying, ”Tongues of Fire shall speak forth My Power, and the Eyes of My Seven Spirits shall bring forth greater Vision, Revelation and a great unveiling of the hidden Mysteries and Secrets of My Glory. For even now, the Winds of My Spirit are stirring in the unseen realms! I AM brooding over The Nations, for the birthing of a New Acts Church Era is at hand! That which was hidden, shall now be revealed, and that which was delayed, shall now be accelerated! I AM the same God of The Upper Room — and once again My People shall gather, not in the power of the flesh, but in Unity, Purity and the Power of My Spirit. Watch! For The Winds and The Fires shall move together! The Seven Eyes of My Spirit shall search the earth to and fro, and I shall ignite a company who will not fear The Flames, nor shrink back from the storms. I AM releasing Tongues of Fire upon the lips of My Prophets, Prophetic Intercessors, and My Faithful Watchmen! They shall declare mysteries, and release Decrees that shatter the powers of darkness. Their Words will carry My Breath — and their Sight will pierce the veils that have covered Nations. The Church that I AM birthing in this hour shall be a Church of Acts — a Mighty Radical Remnant of Action — a Remnant of Demonstrative Power — a Remnant of Unshakable Courage and Devotion! Many will look and say, ‘This is not the Church we have known,’ for I AM tearing down the scaffolding of man’s agendas and empire building with the Stones of My choosing! Prepare! Prepare! For My Winds and My Fires will not be contained in your structures, nor limited by your man-made traditions. Those who yield shall carry the weight of My Glory, and those who resist shall be bypassed as I move swiftly,”says the Spirit of God.
Blessings to you all.
~ by Veronika West
PS. (30 Sept) The above was prepped during the morning and I don’t mention drawing Veronika’s attention to another prophetic point over 30 years ago…BUT LO & BEHOLD, later in the afternoon I find the Lord has wonderfully expanded upon its coming to pass; as in the next post! (click link to read).
“From this time many of His disciples turned back and no longer followed Him” (John 6:66 – significant chapter and verse number; co-incidence or God-incidence?)
A NATION DIVIDED
As a nation, we have turned our back on the Lord God Almighty and forsaken Him: the dire consequences of our actions are upon us.
A clear and distressing separation is taking place in our nation. The divides of the past: class distinctions, haves and have nots, north and south, etc., are fading into insignificance when compared with the growing chasm that exists between left-wing and right-wing opinions.
Jesus said: “Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand” (Matthew 12:25). Our country has all the hallmarks of a deeply divided nation on the brink of civil war.
THE CHURCH DIVIDED
Many “Christians” are no longer following the Word of God and have aligned themselves with causes that they have neither researched nor understood.
They continue to espouse their belief in God, but have lost sight of Jesus.
Others believe the church has replaced Israel in God’s favour and the Jews are, therefore, no longer significant in God’s redemptive plan for mankind.
To my mind, the whole of scripture relates to the significance of the descendants of Abraham and his offspring through Isaac (if not, how can the 144,000 Jews sealed by God in Revelation 7, and seen standing with Jesus on Mt Zion in Revelation 14, be explained?).
Are we standing with Jesus as the world turns against Him and His brethren, God’s chosen people Israel? Or are we taking the much easier position of siding with the world? The latter option is pragmatic, comfortable, and may well, in the short term, shield people from hatred and abuse.
I tell you the truth: Satan is desperately endeavouring to thwart God’s plans for mankind, because he believes that if he succeeds, he will prove God wrong and save himself from eternal damnation in the lake of burning sulphur (Revelation 20:10). If we take the easy option for short term gain, we too will be on course for eternal damnation.
FAITH
We are now being tested on whether the life of Jesus in us is the dominating influence in our being, or whether self-interest takes pride of place. Are we loyal and fully committed to honouring Jesus in all that we do and say?
In 2 Corinthians 11:16-33 Paul gives a comprehensive description of the abuse, persecution, pain and suffering that may ensue, for those who fully commit to following Jesus. Life for devoted Christians is already appallingly difficult in many parts of the world, and it is going to get much harder here.
It is prophesied that a time of great tribulation is coming. How will we react when facing the possibility of unmitigated suffering, even unto death? Jesus says we should never be afraid, but rather we should rest in perfect confidence in Him. I find that a huge challenge; panic is often my first reaction to a crisis. I reason that God must be asleep in the boat and that He cannot have recognised that we are about to be engulfed by the storm (Matthew 8:24,25).
Nevertheless, I know that Jesus expects His followers to be the steadfast and reliable ones in any calamity. It is essential to keep our focus on Jesus in every circumstance, and to remember that it is our place in eternity that is at stake. Sudden unexpected disasters always reveal on what or on whom we rely. Now more than ever, it is essential that we train our minds so that when catastrophe strikes, we immediately turn to Jesus for help.
CONCLUSION
A time of great tribulation draws near – the signs of division in the church, in our nation and in the world are very evident. We are on the brink of a massive upheaval. Even so, we are to look beyond the imminent chaos and turmoil to the glorious return of our saviour Jesus Christ, King of kings and Lord of lords.
What is a truly amazing (supernatural) is that, in Bible prophecy, God has told us exactly what to expect. The events we are witnessing are no surprise to Him!
In what little time we have, it is imperative that we worship God, study the Word and seek to be blameless in His sight. Pray for wisdom and discernment, and to be a tower of strength and encouragement to others.
Jesus will return: Victory is assured: Hallelujah!
Christopher Wickland posted on his Facebook today:
I believe we are at a precipice — a Rubicon moment. I say this to the church leaders of the United Kingdom: you need to understand what is going on right now. It’s finally reaching boiling point and something’s got to give. The gospel is the only thing that will save this nation from its own demise, but that will mean church leaders must stand up and say things that are not popular. They will have to do things that many will misunderstand. It means being politically incorrect. It means risking persecution, marginalisation, cancellation — whatever comes. At this hour God is looking for mighty men and women of valour who will lay down their lives for the cause of Christ.
God is calling church leaders to be brave now. But there is also a warning: if you do not rise up at this hour, I fear for you, for the congregations, and for the churches under your charge. If you will not stand when it really matters, then what are you ever going to stand for and defend? If you cannot defend a nation, if you will not speak up against injustice and unrighteousness, if you cannot stand and prophesy to a world and a nation that calls evil good and good evil — then when will you stand? If you are fearful now, what hope is there that you will stand against a religion or a system that seeks to destroy you?
I wonder how much it will take to make you stand. The reality is this: if church leaders do not stand at this moment, then they are not fit for purpose. I believe God will raise up new leaders — a new generation who will take on this mantle and carry this wineskin. This is a new revival, unlike anything before. It requires a strong political aspect.
The church has disengaged from politics for too long. In that void, those of evil and deceived disposition have injected their influence into our political system. If we are to turn this nation around for good, the church must be involved. The church must understand what this hour requires, get ready, and raise brave men and women who will stand and fight — for this is a fight for the soul of a nation. There are no more excuses. Either you get involved, or you hand in your P45; if you refuse to fight, I believe God will raise others who will.
I was amazed to see early this morning that this short video’s text refers to Matthew 13 parable that kick-started my writing and later going public with this blog: BACKGROUND:
This blog’s first item The Endgame Is Now In Play is a copy my email of 28 February 2009 and which I introduce as follows:
‘A strong disagreement between two international leaders about the relevance of a scripture to accountability of a controversial evangelist – both of whom Nina and I knew personally through our prayer ministry training and through the Lord enabling her to walk again (see From ‘Disabled’ to Enabled) – led to an awesome personal revelation that prompted me months later to start emailing some friends and church leaders on End-times.
PS: Hence, I began watching events for ‘signs’ and eight years later was to get an inkling that evil tares are now ripening and asked the Lord about exposing them. His answer kick-started several hundred posts (see Prophecies-Fulfilled hub’s Exposure of Corruption). Also, in view of anti-Christian events I included some relevant news and one prediction eventually coming to a head in 2024-5, (see Huge God-incidences: part 1 – ‘RT’ and News Takes My Writing Full Circle).’
The email itself opens with and emphasis now added in view of today’s video:
‘Dear Friends – further to Rev’d William Smith’s recent request re Christian Freedom, may I offer some observations upon our times and, in another message, suggest a way forward?
Last year, I encountered two conflicting claims about Jesus’ explanation of the parable on the end-time harvest of wheat and tares (Matt13:36). So I went to check scripture but upon opening my Bible a deep excitement exploded within as I hear, “This is ALL about to be fulfilled”– WOW!!
Hence, my previous remarks about a sifting of the Church – in preparation for a rapid ‘sHifting’? Jesus urged His disciples to look out for and observe signs of the times. Regarding their questions about His return at the end of this Age, the earliest Gospel account has Jesus stressing 7 times, “Watch…be alert…on your guard“.
JUNE 2025
Play Tomi’s very brief video via this link:
Here’s the full video streamed 7 June 20035
The above extract begins at 5 minutes but it’s here with the preceding and proceeding parts of the auto-generated transcript:
“The Lord says I am
calling for a new prophetic maturity in
America. And the Lord says the prophetic
maturity I’m calling for in the American
church is a maturity that will bring
together when the enemy is trying to
drive apart. For this will be the day,
says the Lord, of the sons versus the
orphans. And the Lord says the orphans
are are are in the house and they’ve
been there all along. But the Lord says
they cannot celebrate when they see the
young prodigals coming home. For the
spirit of God says, for the young
prodigals, I throw the party. I cut the
fattening cow. I I put the best robe and
I put the the sonship ring on their
finger. And the Lord says, “Watch as the
orphans respond to how I treat my sons
and daughters in this hour. For the Lord
says, when I’m blessing my sons with
revival, the orphans want to sit outside
and say, “Why didn’t you cut the fat cow
for me? I’ve been serving you this whole
year, and I’ve been giving my life to
you.” And the Lord says, “You will
watch, says the Lord, as a spirit of
murder comes upon the church, and it is
declared a new civil war.” And the Lord
says, “It’s not a civil war for
sorrow.” The Lord says, “It’s a civil
[6:39] war for righteous division.For the Lord
says, I must now separate the chaff from
the wheat. I must now separate the sons
from the orphans. I must now separate
those that have an inheritance from
those that have an entitlement
mentality. For the Lord says, as I sweep
up the house, the Lord says, I am
calling for a provocation of uncommon
unity. And you might say, well, what
does a spirit of murder look like? A
spirit of murder doesn’t look like
people killing people.No, a spirit of
murder looks like brother rising against
brother, sister rising against sister. A
spirit of murder looks like a spirit of
assassination. It doesn’t look like the
one who drives the nails. It looks like
the one who drives the narrative. That’s
what a spirit of murder looks like. It’s
not the one with the gun. It’s the one
with the gossip. Hallelujah. And the
Lord says, “In this hour, I am dealing,
says the spirit of God, with the spirit
of
slander disguising itself, disguising
murder behind slander.” And the Lord
says, “I will call slander slaughter. I
will call narrative nails, says the
Lord. And I will call explanations
execution, says the Lord. For the spirit
of God says, just like the Pharisees and
Sadducees, none of them drove the nail,
but they all drove the narrative, says
the Lord. None of them drove the
revenge, but they all drove the
receipts. And the spirit of God says,
you will watch as in this hour I deal
with that even as the nation is going.”
The ‘murder’ reference reminds me of the Urgent Warning to the Church an anonymous prophetic pastor brought about hatred and judging President Trump.
WAKE UP – A WAKE UP WARNING CALL AND AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE CHURCH
“Before you set about trying to get the Church right with Me – get yourself right with Me.” says the Lord.
These words hit me like a brick as I was browsing Facebook one day.
“Mote and plank! Cast the plank out of your own eye before you try to point out the mote in another’s eye!”
He continued. “My Word speaks about a spotless Bride, and so she shall be, but to be part of a spotless Bride, you must be personally ‘spotless’ or how can I use you to clean up the Bride?”
“This really is one of the last calls to personal holiness!”, says the Lord, “For in the coming months I will be ‘cleaning house’ in My Church.
I will be ‘cleaning house’ among those I have appointed and anointed and many will lose their influence and some their platform because they have abused the anointing and have turned aside from the path upon which I set them!”
“Why ‘one of the last calls’?
Because I am raising a new Holy Remnant Army among My people, and these shall be anointed to carry the Church through the End-time. If My people will align themselves with Me and with the path upon which I have set them, then I shall add to their anointing, confirmed with signs and wonders following, and the world will recognise them as Mine.”
“However”, says the Lord, “There will be two counter-measures the enemy, Satan, has set up ready to combat My people. First, he will counterfeit everything My people do, and you must discern the difference. Second, he will attack, harass, persecute, and try to bring down My anointed in any way he can, and you must stand in the face of this. Only by keeping themselves pure and unto Me shall My people stand and remain standing” says the Lord of Hosts.
This is a ‘wake up’ warning to a still complacent church.
Having said all that, I want to encourage a few people today. The news is hardly uplifting is it? Lies, more lies, deceit, wars, rumours of wars, threats, atrocities – the more you look, the darker everything seems. Financial chaos, civil unrest, racial and other hatred. In fact, hatred it seems is pretty high on the devil’s agenda right now.
People of God – don’t let all of this scare you. Don’t let it worry you, nor deceive you. I have news for you – great news – God is still on His throne, He is still in control, and everything is right in line with Biblical prophecy about the end times.
As in many places in His Word, so the Lord says again today, “Be strong and very courageous. Do not fear, for I, the Lord, am with you. I have my strong right hand on everything and My promises to you are still ‘Yes and Amen!’
All these things are happening to fulfil every prophecy in My Word. The time is fast approaching when I will reveal myself to the world in power and might, and those whose names are not written in the Lamb’s Book of Life will quake and tremble. I say again unto you, GO therefore, preach the Gospel, heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons, and baptise the repentant sinners.
My Kingdom is coming, My will shall be done on earth as it is in heaven, and at the Name of Jesus every knee shall bow. Prepare – for the Kingdom of God is at hand. Jesus is coming very soon – much sooner than people think. Tell them. Tell them today. Delay no longer. I am the Lord. This is My Word to My people.”
The LORD is showing me that Britain has sunk to a new low, even given our history.
Britain is now lower than when William the Conqueror seized power in 1066. She is lower than at any time in history — even lower than the Roman invasion in 52BC!
“It’s time to scourge Britain!”says The LORD.
“Just as Jesus whipped the ‘thieves’ in the temple; just as the Roman soldiers scourged Him after His ‘trial’ before Pilate; so Britain needs to be scourged now!
The corruption has gone to far!
The deceit has gone too far!
Therefore, it is time to expose and scourge Britain of her corrupt masters and replace them with My choice of people.
It’s time to clean the rat-infested ship of those who do nothing but kill, steal, and destroy — like their master!
The liars in both pulpit and parliament shall be exposed and fall.
The double-minded and deceitful speakers shall be exposed and fall.
The money-makers and money-worshippers shall be exposed and fall.
The cheats and fraudsters shall be exposed and fall.
Those who are involved in hurting children shall be exposed and fall.
Watch, as I bring their house down.
Watch as I make Britain the place I purposed her to be.
Watch, as I bring Britain back as a place fit for My habitation — a place where once she sent missionaries all round the world, where I have had to send missionaries from the places she first evangelised with the Gospel!
Watch, as I restore My Church to BE MY Church once again!
The whip of scourging is a painful thing to bear,” says God, “and I shall not spare those who need to feel My Scourging!
Repent NOW, Britain, or suffer the consequences of My wrath!
This scourging shall not affect those who remain in Me as I shall remain in them.
This scourging is for The Church as well as the rulers and people who say evil is good and good is evil.
Those who practice deceit shall all be exposed and brought to justice — My justice first, then legal, constitutional justice.
The exposures shall be shocking – much worse than many people will believe, but such exposure is necessary to clean the ship!”
“Justice, My justice, shall be served,” says The LORD, “and My Church shall be clean once again!
Britain shall be clean again!”
~ Chris G. Bennett
Chris Bennett came to salvation in 1962 but didn’t begin ministry until 2007 — a late-comer! Now mandated by The LORD to prophesy and open old wells of revival in the U.K., but especially in Wales. He has also operated Healing Rooms, and worked with deliverance teams, all with his wife, Linda. Happily now doing whatever The LORD asks of them! Founder, with wife Linda, of their ministry The Upper Room Encounter.
PS
Peter Russell-Yarde comments on another Fbk post apply so well here too:
“The church has failed big time because it has totally abandoned the truth of scripture, which is why God commissioned me to highlight the truth of scripture through my books, to explain the spiritual messages of God as offered in the scriptures. The king when Prince of Wales did not do the right thing and stand by his wife Diana and carefully guide her as to her role as his wife without changing her love for people. Camilla as a married woman, should have left Charles alone once they had both got married but was the third person in their marriage. To be made Queen is an insult to the nation and the church. With a spiritually discredited monarchy seeking after worshipping gods and breaking the rules of marriage laid down by God, and a corrupt and totally incompetent civil service along with a useless government, only God can save this nation. Fortunately, like Israel, we have a remnant that has the potential through prayer to save this nation from total disaster! God bless the UK and the future King William and save us from total disaster.”
As the first of a few postings about the UK, please weigh and pray about the following, published by His Kingdom Prophecy, with the Lord and scripture. NB. This week’s third reference to a ‘reckoning’!!!
So yesterday (23 July), I was suddenly caught up in a powerful Vision wherein I saw the Nation of The United Kingdom like a large and massive rock.
Then suddenly I saw the Right Hand of God come down upon that large rock — that was The Four Nations of The United Kingdom — and I watched as the Hand of God lifted and overturned the rock.
As the rock was completely overturned, I suddenly saw bugs and worms and every type of creeping and crawling creature suddenly scattering in all directions….
… and I heard these Words, ”Watch, as My Righteous Right Hand comes down upon the foundations of these four Nations, to shake, shift, and to scatter!
Watch, as My Governing Hand moves to upturn and overturn a Nation once built on The Rock — for I tell you a Nation that represented strength, courage and resilience, will be humbled and brought down low.
I say Watch! — as My Hand of Justice moves to expose and uncover every hidden and corrupt work of evil and wickedness, for what has been concealed for decades will be brought into The Light!
Watch! — as I shake, shake and shift the foundations of these four Nations, and watch as My Whirlwind comes to scatter!
For I shall clean house and expose the rot and decay in the root system of this Nation.
Yes! I say, from The Church House — The Church of England — to The Royal House — and to the Houses of Parliament — and to The House of Lords — all houses shall be shaken!
All shall be shifted — and the evil corruption in the highest Courts in the Land shall be fully exposed, for I tell you the day of reckoning is now coming to this Nation.
The day to mourn and lament shall come upon this Nation for a time and a season; an Appointed Time of Great Tribulation that shall bring forth a spiritual awakening that shall cause a Prodigal Nation to come back to its senses.
Watch and Pray — for the upturning and overturning of The Rock shall become a powerful catalyst for great Change, Transformation and Reform in the days ahead!”
Blessings to you all.
~ by Veronika West
PERSONAL FOOTNOTE:
I’m reminded of October 2004 when I saw a large open vision about 10 feet in front of me as worship began on the first night of a conference in St Albans 21 years ago, as recounted herein. Extract:
‘Before me I ‘saw’ a map of Britain surrounded by the sea, as though painted on rotten sacking – like old, wet coal-sacks I saw in my youth. It seemed the Lord was saying the fabric of our nation’s so rotten He could tear it apart so easily!
This ‘map’ then began to rip apart in the middle, from about the line of Hadrian’s Wall down along the line of the Pennine chain to the Midlands, and I sensed the Lord say, “I’m going to put the backbone back in Britain”.
GET READY! A LONG-READ BUT MOST POWERFUL END-TIMES MESSAGE…
This time last week I was in awe of how I’d ‘God-incidentally’ come across attorney Sidney Powell’s words “Democrats are a broken party…they have spent four years building a sandcastle of lies about Joe Biden and the tide is rolling in.”; echoing the prophetic vision of Veronika West in May 2021 (see Richard’s Watch Goes Full Circle: 9). Then on Saturday, explosive news emerged fulfilling that and exposures prophecy!
Little did I expect to get any more God-incidences, jigsaw pieces, global prophecy signals, or whatever we’d like to call such ‘coincidences’. Yet what follows is, in effect, the 10th posting of the full-circle, wheels-within-wheels series!
On Sunday evening my phone was charging whilst we watched a tv film and when I unplugged and booted up the phone this popped onto the screen (captured today):
Just a very quick scan-read amazed me at Henry’s CONFIRMATION from the Lord, not only on a specific point but also on others regarding End-times, so I commented as in ascending order shown below – moreover I could add my first writing on the Endgame wheat and tares: Continue reading →
Now for that latest piece in God’s Invisible Jigsaw from Dr Jurgen Buhler, President International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem:
A special call to 100 days of prayer and fasting to heal the rift between the Church and the Jewish people By Dr. Jürgen Bühler, ICEJ President
‘This year many churches around the world are commemorating 1700 years since the landmark Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. According to Church historian Philip Schaff, Nicaea was – next to the Apostolic council in Jerusalem in Acts chapter 15 – “the most important and the most illustrious of all the councils of Christendom.” (1)
Nicaea was only the second global council since the days of the original Apostles. In Acts 15, we read about the very first church council discussing how to deal with the new phenomena of Gentiles joining a predominantly Jewish church. In that Jerusalem gathering, the early Apostles had opened wide the door for Gentile believers to join the Church.
Nicaea impacted the Church in a similarly powerful way. But unlike the Jerusalem council, at Nicaea the doors of the Church began to be firmly close on the Jewish people. The umbilical cord was cut between the Church and Israel, even though it was the nation and people who had birthed the Church. It also opened the door for growing anti-Jewish tendencies among Gentile Christians in the following centuries.
To be clear, this development was neither planned nor intended when the council was first called. Yet what made Nicaea end with a very different result from its inception was not inspired by spiritual leaders as in Acts 15, but by the Roman emperor himself.
Emperor Constantine, who reigned from 306 to 337 AD, was a new convert to Christianity. This brought a tremendous sense of relief for the early Church, which had just survived one of the worst waves of persecution a few years earlier under Emperor Diocletian. Constantine not only eased the fears of the Church but decided to make his newly-found faith the most official religion of the Roman Empire….’
‘Pope Leo XIV has told the world’s Jewish communities he wants to strengthen the Roman Catholic Church’s dialog with them, in a message coming after a souring of relations between the Vatican and Israel over the war in Gaza.
The first U.S.-born pope sent a letter to Rabbi Noam Marans, the Director of Inter-religious Affairs of the American Jewish Committee, who posted the letter on the social platform X late on Monday.
“Trusting in the assistance of the almighty, I pledge to continue and strengthen the Church’s dialog and cooperation with the Jewish people in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council’s declaration Nostra Aetate,” Leo said in the letter.
Nostra Aetate was a landmark document in the 1962-1965 Council that repudiated the concept of collective Jewish guilt for the death of Jesus and urged dialog with non-Christian religions.
The brief document revolutionized Catholic relations with Jews after centuries of persecution and mistrust. Dialog that ensued over the following two decades made it possible for Pope John II to become the first pontiff to visit a synagogue, giving a speech in Rome’s main temple in 1986, where he called Jews “our beloved elder brothers”.
We seem to have arrived at a veritable watershed upon the 1700th anniversary of the agreed core beliefs of Christian doctrine and published in the Nicene Creed.
WWW, wheels-within-wheels, continue to roll as dear Neil’s revisiting ‘RT’ and strong stand against anti-Semitism takes this blog full circle back to its beginning fourteen years ago in November when my emailing him and other friends on End-times went public. That month I’d already written about a broadcast theological debate and my very first item, after launching with a Welcome to the wider public, continued with a follow-up, viz
As ever, ‘God-incidental’ timing is intriguing because Neil wrote his latest as a result of a “curious series of events happened over the weekend” (Psalm Sunday) exposing the need for a proper grasp of scripture’s relevance to our times, and he wishes to share:
“Saturday morning I attended a Men’s Breakfast…I went with no intention or expectation of speaking….
There was a guest speaker from America who I did not know, and have never heard. He started by saying that he had decided the best format for the meeting would be if we attenders where to ask any question we liked, and he would answer. There was a long silence; so, to break the ice, I asked “Do you think Gaza could be under the judgement of God?” there was another silence, then he said: “I don’t know about Gaza, but I think America is under judgement”. I said: “I asked the question because the people of Gaza have been cursing Israel for at least 20 years, and probably 77. In the Bible God says that if you curse my people Israel you will be cursed: there must be an outcome”. He said: “it depends on who you think “Israel” is. It is not the land, it is the people of God who are now “Israel” and there is only one “people of God”. My comment: “that sounds like replacement theology”. He then said something about different dispensations and “grafted-in Theology”, at which point the host stepped in and said we needed to move on to other questions.”
The next day Neil was interrupted during conversation by someone saying she’d heard he’d been “controversial” at the breakfast – but the speaker was entitled to a different point of view. “I tried to explain that replacement theology is not just “a different point of view”. However, I could see I wasn’t going to get anywhere… I don’t know why what happened, happened, but I am convinced it was God engineered.”
The sadness is that very few people understood, or cared about, what had taken place. The woman’s belief that it was a fluffy little difference of opinion between two equally valid points, seems to be the consensus view.”
Such a clueless position, instead of taking a stand against hatred, it implicitly supports….
BBC and ANTI-SEMITISM
As a consequence of writing about ‘RT’ in November 2011 I noticed and posted many times in the blog’s first year on the BBC’s deeply biased reporting against Israel – hence the need for a BBC tag!
AND IT JUST SO HAPPENS that since Neil’s ‘God engineered’ encounters, relevant news emerged on Tuesday regarding a vastly overpaid sports ex-commentator:
Now, let’s get back to what holy scripture says, for this passage in Ephesians 2 featured the next day at a local house group:
Brought Near by His Blood
11 Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands— 12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Christ Our Peace
14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, 15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, 16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. 17 And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. 18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. (Ephesians 2 NKJV BibleGateway)
This points to God’s ultimate goal of all people, Jews and non-Jews, becoming united believers in Jesus Christ through His awesome grace. This is extensively explained in the books written to the Hebrews and the church in Rome.
A couple of historical points to add to Neil Mackereth’s Replacement Theology Revisited that I’d like to add are on the heritage of Jesus’ family and His warning prophecy of ‘the Abomination of Desolation’ in Jerusalem:
‘When he made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire in the early 4th Century, Constantine discouraged all contact with Jews and the Church severed itself from its Jewish roots – from even the descendants of Jesus’ kith and kin, known as Desposyni. In doing so, the Church lost a fuller and deeper understanding of the Old Testament.’
Now let’s expand upon this matter with the help of priest and professor Malachi Martin, whom I seem to recall served as Librarian in the Vatican Library, in his seminal The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church published 1981 (page 34, emphases added):
‘..For Donatus preached the old Jewish idea of a temporal kingdom, just as the Ayatollah proclaims in behalf of Islam. The Roman popes, no matter how subordinate they became to political power, no matter how greatly corrupted by it, always saw their spiritual power as distinct from the political and never wholly identified the two. This was the narrow but all-important hair-difference between Donatus and the bishop of Rome.
4. The Blood Relatives of Jesus
‘In defeating Donatus, Silvester rejected only one extreme that could have spelled early death for Christianity. There was another that in its own attractive way could have been just as lethal. This was the policy of the Jewish Christians, who occupied the oldest Christian churches in the Middle East and whose leaders were always from the family of Jesus himself. Like all Christians, including the Donatists, they expected an imminent return of Jesus. Unlike the Donatists, and now the Romans, they shunned all worldly power and revolution, and were for the most part dirt-farmers and petty merchants, hugging close to their obscurity even though their first bishop was James, first cousin of Jesus.
Yet the issue that arose between Silvester and the Jewish Christians was nothing less than the whole nature of the church. A meeting between Silvester and the Jewish Christian leaders took place in the year 318. The emperor provided sea transport for eight rough-and-ready men as far as Ostia, the port of Rome. From there they rode on donkeys into the imperial city and up to the Lateran Palace, where Pope Silvester now lived in grandeur. In their rough woolen clothes and leather boots and hats, and with their earthy smell, they contrasted sharply with Silvester’s retinue of smartly clad and pomaded bishops and officials. They refused to sit. Silvester spoke with them in Greek-he could not understand their Aramaic; they had little or no Latin. The vital interview was not, so far as we know, recorded, but the issues were very well known, and it is probable that Joses, the oldest of the Christian Jews, spoke on behalf of the desposyni and the rest.
That most hallowed name, desposyni, had been respected by all believers in the first century and a half of Christian history. The word literally meant, in Greek, “belonging to the Lord.” It was reserved uniquely for Jesus’ blood relatives. Every part of the ancient Jewish Christian church had always been governed by a desposynos, and each of them carried one of the names traditional in Jesus’ family – Zachary, Joseph, John, James, Joses, Simeon, Matthias, and so on. But no one was ever called Jesus. Neither Silvester nor any of the thirty-two popes before him, nor those succeeding him, ever emphasized that there were at least three well-known and authentic lines of legitimate blood descendants from Jesus’ own family. One from Joachim and Anna, Jesus’ maternal grandparents. One from Elizabeth, first cousin of Jesus’ mother, Mary, and Elizabeth’s husband, Zachary. And one from Cleophas and his wife, who also was a first cousin of Mary.
Jews, and that included Jewish Christians, had been forbidden to enter Jerusalem under pain of instant death. That ban had not yet been lifted, at the time of Silvester’s meeting with the Jewish Christians. Silvester knew their history well. Jewish Christians had composed the only church ever in Jerusalem until the year 135. They left it only once in 102 years following Jesus’ death, just before the city’s capture by the Emperor Titus. Led by their bishop, Simeon, son of Cleophas, who was Jesus’ uncle by marriage, they had fled to Perea (in modern Jordan). In A.D. 72 they had returned to Jerusalem and had remained there until Hadrian’s ban. After that, Jewish Christian churches were set up all over Palestine, Syria, and Mesopotamia, but they were always hated by the local synagogues as apostates of Judaism, and always in quarrel with Greek Christians who refused to be circumcised and observe the Torah-things the Jewish Christians insisted on.
They therefore asked Silvester to revoke his confirmation of Greek Christian bishops in Jerusalem, in Antioch, in Ephesus, in Alexandria, and to name instead desposynos bishops.
In addition, they asked that the Christian practice of sending cash contributions to the desposynos church in Jerusalem as the mother church of Christianity, which had been suspended since the time of Hadrian, be resumed.
Silvester curtly and decisively dismissed the claims of the Jewish Christians. He told them the mother church was now in Rome, with the bones of the Apostle Peter, and he insisted that they accept Greek bishops to lead them.
It was the last known discussion between the Jewish Christians of the old mother church and the non-Jewish Christians of the new mother church. By his adaptation, Silvester, backed by Constantine, had decided that the message of Jesus was to be couched in Western terms by Western minds on an imperial model.
The Jewish Christians had no place in such a church structure. They managed to survive until the first decades of the fifth century. Then, one by one, they disappear. A few individuals reconcile themselves with the Roman Church always as individuals, never communities or whole Jewish Christian churches.’
I am disturbed and distressed by the parlous state of the World and our Nation. With few exceptions, our churches have developed a wishy washy, sit on the fence, don’t rock the boat, non-confrontational form of Complacent Theology.
Where is the conviction, robustness and power of Almighty God? I have a zeal for The Word of God, and truth, which is at odds with the smug wokeness of our time.
I want to focus on Replacement Theology (RT) (also known as Supersessionism), and its manifestation, antisemitism. I have written several papers on this subject and only return to it because it is getting much worse, as a result of the 7th October 2023 atrocities. The “Palestinian Movement” have invented a false narrative that has been taken up by the BBC and other mainstream media platforms, and that narrative has become self-affirming (“it must be right; they are saying it as well”).
He writes,
SELAH!
BACKGROUND:
‘..For Donatus preached the old Jewish idea of a temporal kingdom, just as the Ayatollah proclaims in behalf of Islam. The Roman popes, no matter how subordinate they became to political power, no matter how greatly corrupted by it, always saw their spiritual power as distinct from the political and never wholly identified the two. This was the narrow but all-important hair-difference between Donatus and the bishop of Rome.
Richard's Watch 