The Faithful Christian a blog of The Lighthouse Ministries

  This is the first in a series of posts that deal with America in the end times. There are a great many misconceptions about America in the last days and I will touch on these in later posts as I attempt to help people prepare for the hell that will come upon this nation and the whole world in these last days.  “America is dying! The country’s wound is incurable. It is now in the final throes of a terminal disease. The great empire is crumbling!” David Wilkerson     Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken anymore? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Yo

    The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah.   It came to pass in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the citadel, that Hanani one of my brethren came with men from Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who had survived the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.   And they said to me, the survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire. So it was, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.   Nehemiah 1:1-4      Let me begin by giving you a brief background on the rebuilding process after the Israelite captives were allowed to return to Israel.   I believe that history is important and vital to our learning process.   As the old saying goes, “those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” In the yea

  Enter by the narrow gate; for wide   is   the gate and broad   is   the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.   Because narrow   is   the gate and   difficult   is   the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. Mathew 7:13-14 I can remember as a younger Christian and a young preacher; I use to think that the church needed to keep up with the culture and make itself more relevant for the times.  I had all these big ideas and even bigger visions that we should come up with new ways of presenting the Gospel and new and inventive ways to attract teens and young adults. I said that preachers needed to lighten up on the preaching and preach more encouraging messages and lay off all the hellfire and brimstone stuff.  Society is changing, people are changing, and the church needs to keep up with the culture. That was my thinking when I first started preaching 20 years ago.  Well, guess what, the church has latched onto that kind of thinking.  We ha

And He said to them,  “Take heed and beware of   covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses. Luke 12:15 Heaven is not parceled off into lots and estates. The angels own nothing and yet they possess all things and are eternally rich. And so with the true saint that trusts God and loves and obeys and is thankful. The stars in their courses fight for him. He is now in harmony with the elemental and heavenly forces and the eternal laws of the universe of God, and all things work together for his good. Not a hair of his head falls without God’s notice. Not a desire rises in his heart but God’s great heart throbs responsive to fulfil it, for does not the Psalmist say, “He will fulfil the desires of them that fear Him”? Not simply the fervent prayer, but the timid, secret desire that has not been voiced in prayer, shall be fulfilled. And how dare God do that? Because a holy fear will not allow a desire that is not in harmony with God’s character

Following his calling and commission by God, the first few chapters of Jeremiah's public ministry is a long, prophetic sermon that is a rebuke against Judah's willful apostasy and is a denunciation of the gross infidelity of the people.. and their apostate priests, corrupt rulers and lying prophets. The glory of Israel's past had become eclipsed by their deliberate wantonness, and Jeremiah cried out for the nation to repent. He warned of approaching judgement from the north if his words remained unheeded. Even the threat of Jerusalem's fall did not to bring Israel to their senses and failed to turn their hearts back to the Lord. Jeremiah mourned that he was unable to find one righteous person in their midst.   It is as if Judah's cup of moral infamy had been filled to the very brim. And so Jeremiah continued to speak of the impending doom of the nation and predicted the fall of the city of Jerusalem, whilst warning the people of approaching oppression, violence and