Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with Christ,
Greetings from Charlotte, NC! As most of you long-time co-workers know, our entire Western society is changing rapidly. Most people “feel” it. But they don’t know why. And they don’t even begin to realize how far these changes will go—and who is ultimately behind them.
Wow! Are we actually entering the “transgender” age? Notice this very recent news release from Yahoo News New Zealand: “Australia brought in new passport rules Thursday allowing citizens to nominate their official gender as male, female or indeterminate, without having to undergo surgery as proof of a sex change… For those who nominate the indeterminate option, ‘x’ will appear in the gender category in their passport. Senator Louise Pratt, Australia's first parliamentarian with a transgendered partner—born female but now a man—said the change was a huge step forward” (September 15, 2011).
A “huge step forward”? Or a “huge leap over the cliff” by a confused, God-rejecting society just before the Eternal God sends Christ back as King of kings to straighten out this mess!
Next, read this striking news from the respected Telegraph newspaper in Britain: “Praying in the streets of Paris is against the law starting Friday, after the interior minister warned that police will use force if Muslims, and those of any other faith, disobey the new rule to keep the French capital’s public spaces secular” (The Telegraph, September 15, 2011). Keep the French public space secular? Or is the message also, “God, get out of our lives! Get out of our nation!”?
Now, from Ireland, notice how things are rapidly changing over there: “News of Roman Catholic abuse of children causes rage. Even as it remains preoccupied with its struggling economy, Ireland is in the midst of a profound transformation, as rapid as it is revolutionary: It is recalibrating its relationship to the Roman Catholic Church, an institution that has permeated almost every aspect of life here for generations…. But the awe, respect and fear the Vatican once commanded have given way to something new—rage, disgust and defiance—after a long series of horrific revelations about decades of abuse of children entrusted to the church’s care by a reverential populace” (“Ireland changing view of church,” The Charlotte Observer, September 18, 2011).
As more news of this “priestly pedophilia” comes to light—along with other similar revelations—millions are beginning to realize the true identity of the “great harlot” of Revelation 17! If more people actually studied their Bibles, they would understand the implications of the Apostle Paul’s warning in 1 Timothy 4:1-3: “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry…”
How many untold thousands of priests and nuns down through the centuries have tossed and turned through the night in emotional agony and frustration because “their” church directed them to forsake the normal married lives which God’s word recommends, “It is not good that man should be alone” (Genesis 2:18).
How long until all men and women and all churches “wake up” and begin to take the Bible seriously? Most of you co-workers know the real answer! Truly, that time will not come until the true Christ of the Bible returns and the prophesied New Covenant comes fully into effect—first with Israel and then with all human beings on this earth: “But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more” (Jeremiah 31:33-34).
Somewhere on this earth, Almighty God has a Work which properly explains that New Covenant and that entire way of life! Somehow, God has brought you dear co-workers into understanding of where that Work is today! Yet, most humans are absolutely blinded from understanding God’s Truth and God’s word. As God’s word warns, “Beware therefore, lest what has been spoken in the prophets come upon you: ‘Behold, you despisers, marvel and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will by no means believe, though one were to declare it to you’” (Acts 13:40-41).
Through your prayers and your faithful tithes and offerings, God is using you as well as our loyal team here in Charlotte to do an increasingly powerful “Work” which is beginning to reach all nations with the full Truth of God’s Plan and His great purpose in our lives. We are even now making the God of the Bible far more “real” to hundreds of thousands of people who watch our Tomorrow’s World program, who read the powerful and insightful articles in the Tomorrow’s World magazine, and who learned to read and even to study the truths thoroughly explained in our booklets and in the wonderful, in-depth Tomorrow’s World Bible Study Course.
May God Almighty abundantly bless you as you continue to respond and grow closer to Jesus Christ and God our Father. We have been mightily proclaiming the soon coming of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God—His world-ruling government—which will come right here on earth. Time is short. The stage is being set right now, as never before, for the economic downfall of the biblical Israelite countries, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, among others. As I write this letter, the leaders of the nearly 4 million Palestinian people are pushing for statehood recognition by the United Nations. This will have a major impact on upcoming prophetic events in years ahead, leading to world upheaval and a major threat to the Jewish state of Israel. This will affect all of us—you and me!
In the meantime, we are doing all we can to proclaim God’s mighty end-time gospel message to the world. Just in the past several weeks, we have been able to add more TV stations in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and South Africa. TV time is expensive! But God is blessing this Work, making the resources He provides stretch more and more. Just last week we received our two-millionth response, from countries around the world, to our Tomorrow’s World TV coverage since the telecast began 12 years ago!
Our presence on the worldwide Internet continues to grow and grow. Our website, www.TomorrowsWorld.org, and our Tomorrow’s World magazine have reached millions of people in virtually all countries on earth except two. These are: North Korea with 24 million inhabitants absolutely suppressed by their government, and the little city-state called the Republic of San Marino in northern Italy with about 30,000 citizens. (Thousands in the nation of Italy have responded to our website, but no one in San Marino… yet!) Jesus Christ said: “And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.” We are fulfilling this scripture, and we need your help and your fervent prayers, more than ever to keep expanding and growing the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Dear co-workers, you and I are all part of this. We are the spiritual “pioneers” who have been given the magnificent privilege of understanding God’s Truth even in this confused and deceived age. When the many millions affected by this Work come up in the resurrection from the dead (John 5:25-29), they will no doubt look around among the true saints of God to find “who it was” who helped them gain true spiritual knowledge in the previous age. If we ourselves do our part, they will then truly have us to thank!
God is good. He is now calling many of you—ahead of the vast majority who have ever lived—to real understanding and to repentance so that you and I and all true Christians who are now part of Jesus’ “little flock,” may be in the first resurrection, the “better resurrection” as the Apostle Paul describes it in Hebrews 11:35. May God give each of us the faith and the courage to come out of this deceived world and earnestly prepare—and help others prepare—for the awesome reward Christ will give each of us at His Second Coming.
With Christian love,
Roderick C. Meredith