The Lord Jesus Christ said: “I will build my Church, and the gates of hades (hell) will not overcome her.” (Matthew 16:18)  

As I read again the two previous ‘Links’ I have concluded, that I have embarked on a most important subject, to which, I hope, the Holy Spirit will lead some people to read these links, and that He will change their whole idea of who Christ is, and who/what is a Christian. I have briefly explained what the world thinks as to what and who is a Christian is warp! Some think that a Christian is just another religious deluded human being, one of that ignorant lot! Yet, of late, we are waking up to the reality of how, powerful are religious convictions, in spite of all that this erudite lot have sown in the mind of men!  

I am one of those that believes that the next world war will not be of an atomic kind, but a religious one, which will set the world on fire, for the antichrist who will be Satan incarnate, after enforcing a world-wide religion, will turn his hatred on Israel and try hard to eliminate them once and for all. But God has His plan, and He will send Jesus back to earth, to utterly destroy Him and his armies, and set up His Kingdom! thus save the raiment of the Israelites. The time will have come for their eye to open as to Jesus really is and will be converted to Him, and welcome Him as their Messiah and King. Jesus Christ, is appointed by God His Father, to save Israel and the world from a total destruction, and from Jerusalem, He will reign over all nations, for a thousand years, as prophesied in the Bible. After that happy millennium! will come the day of judgement of all unbelievers; finally, God will create a new heaven and a new earth! I cannot now enlarge on it, as I have already deviated too much from the subject at hand. But I must conclude this paragraph and declare that the times of the end of civilisation are at hand!

We know what people think of the Christians, but the questions still remain: ‘Who is a Christian?’ Having ministered the gospel and pastored few churches both in the UK and abroad, I have been surprised as to what nominal Christians think of themselves, according to some, mostly the self-righteous ones, there really are not many real and good Christians left! Most critics esteem that only a few have reached an acceptable level of excellency and are worthy to bear that special name! ‘Christian.’ Since the days that the Emperor Constantine, supposedly, converted to Christianity with the rest of the Roman empire, the Church, so called, has become, in the minds of many, just another political institution, which in many ways it is, ready to serve the various states in which it functions, and brainwash the people to be good citizens, pay their taxes, and submit themselves to higher powers! One can be, and ought to be without being a Christian!

But Jesus Christ, since His ascension, has been building HIS Church, and to that end He sent the Holy Spirit, who gives life to the elect, He alone knows who belongs to His true Church, of which, no one can touch the weakest saint, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it, nor any of His sheep! God calls to Christ those He chose before time began. Go deals with them separately, and personally He does call each one separately mainly from among what is classified as the common people! 

There is the Church of Rome, (Catholic), which for centuries ruled people with an iron fist, mostly in the European countries, which it inherited when fell the Roman Empire. Its power and importance became such that it lost its true character and with it, it lost its true mission. As Rome was too remote from the Eastern part of the so-called Church, it split, and the seat of the New Church, in the east, was in Byzantium, called later Constantinople, now Istanbul. The Byzantine Church was the mother of all the Orthodox Churches, starting in Greece right up to Russia. As the supposed Christianity spread from Rome into the rest of Western Europe, it planted its roots very deeply in the life of the people. Eventually, vast Cathedrals were built and remain, to this day, a testimony to a very carnal, political, and purely human institution. 

After many centuries of its idolatrous work, and the misery it imposed, mainly by force, God sent ‘The Reform’ which started in the fifteenth century by one of its own priests, called Martin Luther! Today, many nominal Christians believe that it was a great mistake, but in reality, it was willed of God and it gave birth to Protestantism. Martin Luther, with the help of others, only wanted to bring the Church of Rome back to the Gospel so that it would rid itself from all the dogmas and the authority of one man, the Pope, but the main body did not like it, therefore a great persecution arose throughout Europe, during which thousands of protestants were martyred, simply for believing the Gospel and be free to believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour; the church of Rome has bloody hands to this day, God will never forget the crimes of its evil passion; all will reveal on judgment day Lord all the true Christians that they martyred, simply for wanting to be free to believe in the gospel!