FINAL NOTICE
I borrowed the title from the late New Zealand evangelist Barry Smith who got the inspiration from his electricity bill. Just shows things were bad long ago. Thanks to Pastor Wayne Edwards from Heritage Baptist Church, Perry, Georgia, USA for sounding the alarm about this insiduous false doctrine that is strangling much of the Church worldwide. Pastor Wayne introduces the Watchmen’s Report next, then follows the lead article. To access the full report click on the long link at the end. Happy weekend reading.
Gibber! Gibber!
Chugley
THE WATCHMEN’S REPORT
News Stories that Connect with Biblical Prophecy
By Wayne J. Edwards, October 15, 2025
My Fellow Watchmen,
As the headline of our first article boldly proclaims, “God is using Israel to try to get the world’s attention. Yet, even many Christians are not listening. “Sadly, that includes many of today’s pastors who will not take the time to study the Word of God regarding what is happening in Israel and what it means prophetically. The urgency of this situation cannot be overstated.
Of course, we all rejoice that the hostages have been released, and the potential of peace is being discussed, not only between Israel and Hamas, but throughout the Middle East. But what does this mean prophetically? Every time the Arabs talk of peace, the following sentence is that the land of Israel must be divided into two states, which would violate God’s covenant with Abraham. In other words, what man calls diplomacy, God sees as defiance, and the Scriptures are clear regarding the potentially dire consequences of such disobedience.
In my younger days as an associate pastor and then as a Pastor, I had no concept of the importance of the Nation of Israel to what is happening today. Dr. Ed Vallowe, an evangelist, and his wife were considering joining the Church, and over a delicious meal at their home, he asked me about my position on Israel, the Rapture, and the millennial reign of Christ. While I had taken the Daniel-Revelation course at Columbia Bible College and certainly believed in the Rapture of the Church and the return of Jesus Christ, I could not answer his specific questions. However, over the next year, at a weekly luncheon at Chick-fil-A, Dr. Vallowe tutored me on biblical prophecy and then treated my wife and me to our first trip to Israel.
Beloved, the Church must rise at this hour, which means the pastors who are not trained and equipped in biblical prophecy must take the time to do so. How can a pastor preach the whole counsel of the word of God without a complete understanding of how the events in the Middle East fit into the final events of this age? By being equipped in biblical prophecy, pastors can feel empowered to guide their congregations through these significant times, and their flock will not be looking for answers from the multitude of false teachers.
Please forward these few articles to those you think might be interested.
Pastor Wayne
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THE WATCHMEN’S REPORT
News Stories that Connect with Biblical Prophecy
By Wayne J. Edwards, October 15, 2025
GOD IS USING ISRAEL
TO TRY TO GET THE ATTENTION OF THE WORLD
YET EVEN MANY CHRISTIANS ARE NOT LISTENING
ROBERT GOTTSELIG, OCTOBER 11, 2025
I am amazed by how many Christians seem unsure of where they should stand on the topic of Israel. Others openly oppose it altogether. And yet, the God we serve—the God of Israel—is using the Jewish State to try to get the attention of the world.
That is what we read in Ezekiel 36:19-24, when God speaks about the Jewish people living in disobedience:
- “So, I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the countries; I judged them according to their ways and their deeds. When they came to the nations, wherever they went, they profaned My holy name—when they said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, and yet they have gone out of His land.’ But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations wherever they went. ‘Therefore, say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord God: ‘I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name’s sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went. And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord,’ says the Lord God, ‘when I am hallowed in you before their eyes. For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land.”
The nations should recognize and know the Lord because of the miraculous things that He is doing today concerning Israel. Unfortunately, they don’t! They have not read nor believed in God’s word. But for Bible-believing Christians to follow in the world’s ways is unimaginable! It’s hard to fathom that they could be so ignorant of what God is doing.
The sad reality is that more and more Christians are embracing replacement theology, which teaches that either the church has replaced Israel or it is the “real and true Israel.” Many even believe that modern-day Israel is just a result of political operatives after World War II, and therefore, it has no business being discussed at the pulpit.
None of those Christian leaders and churches that embrace replacement theology would disagree that God literally scattered the Jewish people to the four corners of the earth as a result of their disobedience. They take no issue with that. However, when it comes to Israel’s regathering, somehow, they shift gears. They go to great lengths to try to prove that God doesn’t really mean what He says. I say, if the political is biblical, we’d better start talking about it from our pulpits. The truth is that God says what He means and means what He says.
Consider these verses.
- In Genesis 15:18, we read, “On the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: ‘To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates’”
- In Genesis 17:7-8, God says, “I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
- Psalm 105:8-11 powerfully states, “He remembers His covenant forever, The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations, The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac, And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant, Saying, ‘To you I will give the land of Canaan As the allotment of your inheritance.’”
- When God made this covenant with Abraham some 4,000 years ago, Abraham was in a deep sleep, and God swore it by Himself: “For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself” (Hebrews 6:13). Thus, as we read in Ezekiel 36, it is God’s name that is at stake because of the promises that He has made.
- Here are a few more verses.
- Jeremiah 23:7-8 states, “‘Therefore, behold, the days are coming,’ says the Lord, ‘that they shall no longer say, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ but, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the north country and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ And they shall dwell in their own land.’”
- Jeremiah 31:8-10 reads, “Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the ends of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, The woman with child and the one who labors with child, together; A great throng shall return there. They shall come with weeping, and with supplications I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; For I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn. ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him as a shepherd does his flock.’”
Here is one more verse that should silence all of the naysayers:
“Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, who disturbs the sea, And its waves roar (The Lord of hosts is His name): ‘If those ordinances depart From before Me, says the Lord, then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before Me forever’”
In other words, as long as the sun, moon, and stars are shining in the sky and the function of this world is intact, Israel is going to remain before God forever as a nation. Period. God has done something truly extraordinary right before our very eyes. Can’t you see it? Israel stands today as a living modern-day miracle. Never before in all human history has there been a people scattered across the nations, exiled from their ancestral homeland for 2,000 years, only to return, rebuild their desolate cities, restore the land, and cause the desert itself to bloom once again. God is calling for the world’s attention. To the Christians who still deny what He has done, I ask you: what more will it take for God to capture your attention?
DON’T BEAT YOUR SWORDS INTO PLOUGHSHARES JUST YET
NOTHING IS MORE-SURE THAN THE JIHAD AGAINST ISRAEL WILL CONTINUE
ROBERT SPENCER, OCTOBER 15, 2025
Monday was a festive day, with the whole world seemingly celebrating the dawn of peace in the Middle East and hailing President Trump for bringing it about. The president himself, while speaking about the release of the hostages in his speech to the Knesset, promised a bright new world unencumbered by past hatred and animosities: “After two harrowing years in darkness and captivity, 20 courageous hostages are returning to the glorious embrace of their families. Twenty-eight more precious loved ones are coming home at last to rest in this sacred soil for all of time. And after so many years of unceasing war and endless danger, today the skies are calm, the guns are silent, the sirens are still, and the sun rises on a Holy Land that is finally at peace.”
Trump proclaimed not just the end of the present war between Israel and Hamas, but of an entire era of war: “This is not only the end of a war. This is the end of an age of terror and death, the beginning of the age of faith and hope and of God.”
He said that the cessation of hostilities heralded “a very exciting time for Israel and for the entire Middle East,” and added that “the forces of chaos, terror and ruin that have plagued the region for decades now stand weakened, isolated, and totally defeated.” Swept up in the excitement of the occasion, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana said: “You, President Trump, are a colossus who will be enshrined in the pantheon of history. Thousands of years from now the Jewish people will remember you. We are a nation that remembers.”
It is likely that President Trump will indeed be remembered thousands of years from now, for he is a transformative figure who has reshaped national and international politics. Whether he will be remembered, however, as the man who brought about “the end of an age of terror and death” and “the beginning of the age of faith and hope and of God,” however, is another question altogether. During his Knesset speech, Trump touted his ability to make deals, and he has certainly demonstrated that ability in bringing about the current ceasefire. But the best dealmaker in world history would not be able to make a deal that would end the Islamic jihad imperative.
Imagine some bizarro alternative where some future president of the United States was pro-murder, pro-theft, and pro-adultery, and desired accordingly to stamp out the Ten Commandments. Even if this rogue president were able to find Jewish and Christian leaders who would sign his agreement banning the Ten Commandments, other Jewish and Christian believers would continue to hold them and act upon them.
The requirement to wage jihad against unbelievers and bring them under the hegemony of Islamic law, which ensures that Islam will dominate and not be dominated, has just that status among Muslims: it comes from the supreme being.
It is neither to be questioned nor negotiated away. Those who grant this point but insist that jihad is primarily, if not solely, the spiritual struggle within the soul of the believer to conform his life to the will of Allah are credulously accepting the apologetic half-truths and distortions that Islamic spokesmen have propagated in the West in order to foster complacency and cast resistance to jihad as “bigotry” and “Islamophobia.”
The reality is that jihad in the Qur’an is clearly martial, with repeated exhortations to kill those who do not believe (2:191; 4:89; 4:91; 9:5; 47:4) and the stipulation that the Muslim warrior must give a fifth of his war booty to the messenger of Allah (8:41). In an interior spiritual struggle, there are no spoils of war.
This imperative will remain, no matter what Hamas has agreed to with President Trump. The bellicosity coming out of Gaza as they celebrate what they claim is a victory over the last few days is clear enough evidence of that. Even if Hamas ceases to exist as an organized group, another jihad group, or a multiplicity of them, will take its place.
This is not to say that Trump should not have acted to rescue the hostages, although the price — the freeing of 250 jihad terrorists, many of whom will certainly go back to work — was extremely high. Maybe the relief of their families after two years of heartache, and of the hostages themselves after two years of torment, is worth any price. But amid the euphoria, let’s not get carried away. The jihad is not over. This is no time to deceive ourselves into thinking that it is, and let our guard down accordingly