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Christian Biblical Church of God
Post Office Box 1442
Hollister, California 95024-1442
(831)-637-1875
Fred R. Coulter, Minister
February 9, 2005
Dear Brethren,
Many momentous things are happening on the world stage to
fulfill prophecies in preparation for the return of Jesus
Christ. After successful elections in Afghanistan and
Palestine, coupled with the historical election last week in
Iraq, the Arab World has been changed forever. It must be
changed in order to bring the region into the coming New World
Order.
When I was in Monrovia, California on November 13, 2004, a
man made the statement, “At this time I can see no indication
that ‘the king of the south’ is ready to come on the scene.”
I told him that he was right, but the wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq were undoubtedly major steps in setting the stage for the
coming king of the south.
Bible prophecies show there must be a king of the south as
well as a king of the north, as the prophet Daniel clearly tells
us: “And at the time of the end shall the king of the south
push at him: and the king of the north shall come against
him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with
many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall
overflow and pass over” (Dan 11:40, KJV).
King of the North:
In past years the focus of prophetic interpretation was mainly
on Europe and the Israeli/Palestinian problems. Little
attention was paid to the rest of the Middle East. As
prophetic events unfold, it is clear that the expansion of the
European Union to twenty-five nations is setting the stage for
the coming king of the north. During the next two years those
nations will ratify a new EU constitution. Afterwards,
united Europe will begin to act as a single, sovereign nation
and will eventually surpass the USA in power and world
authority. Out of this expanded and fully empowered EU,
the anti-Christ will arise. There is little doubt that the
EU will be in close alliance with the UN. Furthermore, the
man who will be the final beast will probably be head of the UN.
He will be the one who will proclaim himself to be God—the false
savior who will be ordained by the false prophet (Rev. 13).
As Satan’s personally chosen man, he will arise out of the
religious political system called the “mystery of lawlessness,”
as the apostle Paul foretold: “Do not let anyone deceive you by
any means because that day will not come unless the
apostasy shall come first, and the man of sin shall be revealed—the
son of perdition, the one who opposes and exalts himself above
all that is called God, or that is an object of worship; so that
he comes into the temple of God and sits down as God,
proclaiming that he himself is God [the abomination of
desolation Matt. 24:15]. Do you not remember that when I was
still with you, I told you these things? And now you
understand what is holding him back in order for him to
be revealed in his own set time.
“For the mystery of lawlessness is already working; only
there is one Who is restraining at the present time
until it arises out of the
midst. And then the lawless one will be revealed (whom
the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth, and will
destroy with the brightness of His coming); even the one
whose coming is according to the inner working of Satan,
with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all
deceivableness of unrighteousness in those who are perishing
because they did not receive the love of the truth, so that they
might be saved.
“And for this cause, God will send upon them a powerful
deception that will cause them to believe the lie, so
that all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but who
took pleasure in unrighteousness” (II Thes. 2:1-12). This
man will be the king of the north, who makes war against the
king of the south. He will also go into Jerusalem and sit
in the coming temple of God (Rev. 11:1-2) and be worshiped as
“God,” and the people of the world will also worship Satan the
devil himself (Rev. 13:2-8).
The King of the South:
The war against terrorism, which was begun in Afghanistan after
9/11, was the beginning of a series of events that will finally
culminate in the rise of the king of the south. The war in
Iraq was the next in this series. The third phase will
bring democracy to the other Arab nations and a peace accord
between Palestinians and Jews.
The fourth phase will be economic expansion and development.
An economic union, ultimately consisting of the twenty-two Arab
nations that comprise the Arab League, has been in the works for
some time. Great strides have been taken toward this end
with Jordan and ten other Arab nations first implementing
it in 1988. The basis for an Arab Free Trade Zone is to be
in place in 2008 and will lead to an Arab Union patterned after
the European Union.
In the January/February issue of Foreign Affairs, the Chief
Executive Officer of the Arab Bank, Abdel Hamid A. M. Shoman,
writes concerning the coming Arab Economic Union in an article
titled, A Banker’s View: Charting a New Economic Course for
the Arab World:
“The Arab world has long wrestled with its politics—both
its own and those imposed upon it. I believe the
time has come to adjust the focus. More than ever
before, the future of the region will be decisively
influenced by economic developments. Indeed, only
by building a strong and integrated regional economic
base can we hope to address our long-standing political
issues.
“And there is no time to lose. The Arab world
stands at a crossroads. Arab countries now have
among the highest birth rates in the world. In
Saudi Arabia, 50 percent of the population is less than
16 years old. The extraordinary wealth of the
oil-producing states is juxtaposed against a vital need
for development elsewhere in the region. At the
same time, low-cost telecommunications technology is
having a significant cultural impact. Everyone now
has access to Al-Jazeera, not to mention BBC, HBO and
MTV.
“The mission is clear. We must create jobs.
We must educate our growing numbers of children.
We must foster economic opportunity and growth.
Above all, we must build hope.
“It can be done.
Imagine an integrated and harmonized region stretching
from
Morocco’s shores on the Atlantic to Oman’s beaches on
the Gulf.
A trading bloc composed of 22 nations and 220 million
people. A region ripe for foreign investment
and world trade, and fully prepared to join the world
community as a unified economic entity
… Banks can play an important role in helping make this
vision a reality.” (Foreign Affairs, p. 60a).
Toward the end of his article, Shoman writes of coming “new
regional currencies” that would make this plan a reality:
“The Gulf Cooperative Council (CGC), which consists of
Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait and Oman,
is currently studying the possibility of adopting a
single regional currency … Regional currencies would
help foster unity and facilitate the free flow of goods,
capital and people. By lowering the costs and
increasing the efficiencies of cross-border trade, such
currencies would play a vital role in building and
enhancing the coherency of the region as a fully
functional global player and trade bloc … We
recognize better than most that these are challenging
goals. But impossible? We at Arab Bank do
not believe so … And we are committing our support to
private-sector development in the region.
“In 2005, Arab Bank will mark its 75th
anniversary, making us by far the oldest bank in the
Arab world. We also have the largest branch
network in the region, hence the name “Arab Bank” truly
applies. Over the history of the bank, governments
have come and gone, borders have been drawn and redrawn,
and wars won and lost. Indeed, the bank has
survived and prospered against all odds … Given the
volatility of the region, Arab Bank had always
maintained unusually large liquid reserves, as measured
by Western standards. The practice has saved the
day for both the bank and its depositors on more than a
few occasions. To this day, Arab Bank remains the
region’s ‘flight to safety’ institution when trouble
flares.
“We look forward to our next 75 years and the
opportunity to serve as a bridge to economic development
by helping to finance trade flows, facilitating
investments and serving as a reliable partner for those
who believe, as we do, in the promise and prospects for
the Arab region in the 21st
century” (p. 60d).
Brethren, as I pointed out in a recent sermon on the fourteen
prophetic events that must happen before the return of Jesus
Christ, a “king of the south” must come on the scene.
Moreover, the Arab nations must be brought into the New World
Order. That is what the recent wars in the Middle East are
all about. Revelation 13:1 shows that this final world
system arises “out of the sea,” which means that the people will
be given a voice in its development – hence the push for
democracy worldwide. We find added details in Revelation
17: “And one of the seven angels who had the seven vials came
and spoke with me, saying to me, ‘Come here; I will show you the
judgment of the great whore who sits upon many waters; with whom
the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and those
who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her
fornication’ … Then he said to me, ‘The waters that you saw,
where the whore sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and
languages’ ” (verses 1-2, 15).
Other prophecies reveal that the whole world will be involved in
this satanic end time New World Order as depicted in Revelation
13 and 17. The prophet Jeremiah names all the nations that
will drink of this cup of fornication: “To wit, Jerusalem, and
the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes
thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing,
and a curse; as it is this day; Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his
servants, and his princes, and all his people; and all the
mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the
kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah,
and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod, Edom, and Moab, and the
children of Ammon, and all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings
of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost
corners, and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the
mingled people that dwell in the desert, and all the kings of
Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the
Medes, and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with
another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the
face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach [the coming
beast himself] shall drink after them. Therefore thou shalt say
unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
drink ye, and be drunken [Rev. 17:1-2], and spue, and fall,
and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among
you. And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine
hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the
LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink” (Jer. 25:18-28, KJV).
The cup that the nations of the world are to drink and become
drunken from is the same cup that is in the hands of the great
whore in Revelation 17. Thus all nations become drunk on
the wine of Babylon the Great—the coming political, religious
and economic New World Order. The NWO will be man’s
greatest achievement under Satan. The number three is a
number of completion, and six is the number of man.
The best of man’s government, religion and economics = 666.
(Rev. 13:18). It will come to pass, “For God has put into
their hearts to do His will, and to act with one accord, and to
give their kingdom to the beast until the words of God have been
fulfilled” (Rev. 17:17).
Right now, we are seeing the pieces being fitted together one by
one. The Kingdom of the North, a United Europe, is nearing
completion. The Kingdom of the South is beginning to be
developed, and its development will likely be quite rapid.
Yet, we must not forget about the rest of the world. Remember
that the kings of the north and east—Russia, China, Japan, India
and Southeast Asia—will be uniting at the same time as the
Middle East. All of these world events fit into the plan of God
and must take place in order to fulfill the prophecies of the
Bible as Jesus said, “The heaven and the earth shall pass away,
but My Words shall never pass away. But concerning that day,
and the hour, no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but
My Father only” (Matt. 24:35-36).
Everything will be done according to God the Father’s time
schedule. We do not know how much time is left until the
return of Jesus Christ. Will it be ten years, fifteen
years? We don’t know. However, as we watch these
events unfold, God will give us the understanding that we need,
when we need it. Daniel recorded God’s promise to those
who would live in the time of the end: “And he said, Go thy
way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the
time of the end. Many shall be purified, and made white,
and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the
wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand” (Dan.
12:9-10). The wise are those who love God, the true and
faithful saints.
In order to remain faithful, we must always be zealous:
praying, studying, and living God’s way of life. Jesus
gave this admonition: “Take heed, be watching and praying.
For you do not know when the time is
coming. It is like a man journeying
to a far country, leaving his house and giving authority to his
servants, and to each one his work, and commanding the
doorkeeper to watch. Be watching, therefore, for you do
not know when the master of the house is coming: at evening, or
at midnight, or at the cock’s crowing, or
in the morning; lest he come suddenly and find you
sleeping. And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch!”
(Mark 13:33-37.)
The apostle Paul also gave this prophetic warning: “Now
consider this, knowing the time, that it is already
the hour that we should be roused out of sleep;
because our salvation is nearer now than when we first
believed. The night is almost over, and the day is drawing near;
therefore, let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the
armor of light. Let us walk decently, as in the day: not
in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and
sensuality, not in strife and emulation. But let us
put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and not make any allowance for the
flesh to fulfill its lusts” (Rom 13:11-14).
This past year has been a banner year in every way. We have sent
out more literature and books than ever before: The New
Testament- 10,000 printed; 6,000 distributed. Day
Jesus Died- 16,000 printed; nearly 10,000 distributed. In
addition, we distributed over 3,500 Harmony of the Gospels.
We truly thank God the Father and Jesus Christ for their
blessings that make it possible to serve the brethren and to
preach the Gospel to the world through our Websites, literature
and books. The books and literature that we have sent out is
having an effect. We continue to have a record number of
visitors coming to the Website, and they are staying longer to
download information and sermons.
Once again thank you for your love, prayers and continued
support. May God bless you with His love, grace and
understanding so that you may grow in godly character.
With love in Christ Jesus,
Fred R. Coulter
FRC
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