Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with Christ,
Greetings from Charlotte, NC! Prophetic events seem to be speeding up! Just within the next two years, quite a number of shocking events will probably coalesce to give all thinking men and women a powerful jolt. For they will begin to realize that this time, “it really is different.” For our world will never be the same again.
Even as I write, America has assembled the most formidable armada in the history of naval warfare just off the Iranian coast. Two battle fleets were just joined by the USS Eisenhower Battle Group. The USS Stennis will soon join them. These four nuclear aircraft carrier battle groups are supported by massive numbers of land-based airplanes, France’s leading battle fleet, and a host of British mine sweepers.
From all indications, a big war is soon to get underway in the Middle East! For Iran continues to rapidly develop the capacity to produce nuclear weapons. Iran is the sworn enemy of Israel and of the United States. The Iranians continue to hold anti-American rallies in their major cities, burn American flags, curse our leaders and prepare for war. Obviously, military action may soon get underway. For Iran has repeatedly threatened to annihilate Israel and to close the Strait of Hormuz if we retaliate.
So—even if America wishes to do nothing—the state of Israel will be forced to protect itself from being annihilated! And in what looks very much like a “final warning,” the Israeli Ambassador to the United States wrote these words in a recent Wall Street Journal column: “Iran now has amassed roughly 225 pounds of 20% uranium and 11,000 pounds of 3.5%, sufficient for almost five nuclear bombs…. A combination of truly crippling sanctions and a credible military threat—a threat that the ayatollahs still do not believe today—may yet convince Iran to relinquish its nuclear dreams. But time is dwindling and, with each passing day, the lives of eight million Israelis grow increasingly imperiled. The window that opened 20 years ago is now almost shut” (August 7, 2012).
Meanwhile, what many have called the worst drought since the “Dust Bowl” years of the 1930s continues to devastate vast portions of America’s Midwest and Southwest. Reuters news service recently reported: “Drought is covering 97% of the high plains and 86% of the entire Midwest in the U.S. Conditions in the Midwest, which produces roughly three-quarters of the corn and soybean crops in the world’s largest producer and exporter, worsened despite the first measurable rainfall in a month in some areas” (July 26, 2012). “Surging animal feed prices [mainly corn]—the biggest input costs for livestock producers—also led some farmers to cull their herds in the main cattle producing region of the Plains” (ibid.). “Cattlemen are selling animals they can’t graze or afford to buy feed for… The number of cattle in the U.S. has been dropping for years. The Agriculture Department says the nation’s cattle inventory is the smallest since the agency began a July count in 1973” (Associated Press, July 24, 2012).
Thousands of years ago, God warned of the sobering consequences of rejecting Him and His commandments. “I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its produce…” (Leviticus 26:19-20). “Therefore the land will mourn; and everyone who dwells there will waste away with the beasts of the field…” (Hosea 4:3). God wants to bless those He created in His image, but disobedience forces Him to remove His blessings and protection (verses 1-7). God does control the weather and yearns for His people to return to Him so that He can once again bless them with “rain in due season” (Leviticus 26:1-4, KJV). For more information on extreme weather conditions, review our insightful booklet, Who Controls the Weather?
Will the United States, Canada, Britain and Australia truly repent and turn to the God of the Bible before more devastating droughts, floods, earthquakes and other natural catastrophes strike? Will we repent of what God Almighty calls the “vile passions” of homosexuality, when “men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting” (Romans 1:26-28)?
Dear brethren and friends, when even the religious and political leaders of our peoples increasingly sanction these vile, reprehensible practices, how long until Almighty God says “Enough”? God is the One who “sets up kings” and who takes them down. When it is necessary to fulfill His purpose, the Creator God can and does intervene in the affairs of men and nations. The coming Middle East War will undoubtedly speed up the coming of the final Arab Confederacy which will produce the “King of the South” (Daniel 11:40). Likewise, as this Arab power gains strength, this will provoke the coming “Beast Power” with ten “kings” in Europe who will “give” their power to one supreme geopolitical leader (Revelation 17:9-13).
The increasing loss of power and prestige of the American and British-descended nations will pave the way for this coming Super Leader to arise in Europe. America’s own severe financial difficulties plus the coming horrific drought and famine, along with alternating floods and hurricanes and massive disease epidemics, will severely weaken our peoples and make it much easier for the coming Beast Power to conquer us and our allies (Jeremiah 30:4-7). God Almighty commands His true servants: “Cry aloud, spare not; lift up your voice like a trumpet; tell My people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins” (Isaiah 58:1).
Last month—in his fine co-worker letter—Mr. Richard Ames thoroughly covered almost every facet of our media efforts around the world. I won’t try to repeat all those details here, but I would like to give you an update on a couple of even more recent developments which are certainly significant and exciting. This Work continues to greatly expand our social media reach and efforts. For example, our recent Facebook campaigns are reaching nearly a half of a million new people each week and our Twitter followers have risen from about 1,000 as of January to more than 18,000 at this time. Additionally, Tomorrow’s World Web site traffic continues to increase and is currently averaging a 39 percent increase over 2011 in unique visitors! Additionally, we are reaching more and more people over the Internet with our powerful booklets and telecasts. As an example, last month nearly 24,000 people visited “The Ten Commandments” booklet page at the Tomorrow’s World Web site. Additionally, we are engaged in many Internet campaigns to preach the Gospel and to support “local” church areas which are also producing very exciting results.
Also, earlier this month we began airing the Tomorrow’s World telecast Saturdays at 10:30PM ET on The Church Channel, which reaches 60 million households in the United States and another 120 million around the world! Already, we are receiving hundreds of responses each week from this new station. So with your prayers and your support, our Media outreach will soon be reaching millions more people who desperately need Christ’s message!
All of us in this Work of the living God are part of a “team” which the Creator is using to warn the British-descended and American peoples, especially, of the coming Great Tribulation. In Ezekiel 33:1-7, the Eternal tells those of us who understand that we are to be a “watchman” when we see the sword of God’s wrath coming upon the land. We are to warn our peoples of what is ahead so they can understand and repent. God warns us, “But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand” (v. 6). May God help all of you to understand! Time is short. We are certainly approaching the “final hour” before the traumatic end-time events fully get underway. May God help all of you dear brethren and co-workers to genuinely study your Bibles to gain more understanding of the events that are now beginning. May God open your minds to realize the awesome opportunity each one of us has to become full sons of God if we give our lives to God now. As the Apostle Paul was inspired to write, “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us” (Romans 8:18).
Over and over in the Bible, God tells His people what to do at such a time as this: “Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:12-13).
Brethren, let each one of us go “all out” to help warn our friends and neighbors nearby—and all those around the world who will listen. Jesus Christ said, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together” (John 4:34-36).
We must fully realize that the great God Himself has promised a great reward for those who give their lives to Him and serve their fellow man in the way we are trying to do through this Work. The “wages” which God will give you for being part of His team are to become glorified Spirit Beings in the very Family of God, forever. May our God inspire each of us to zealously do our part today in helping to proclaim God’s message to this very deceived world. This is our life. This is our opportunity and our calling. Let us show the God who made us that we deeply desire to do His Work and to be part of His everlasting Kingdom.
With Christian love,
Roderick C. Meredith