In Depth with Danielle Strickland - Part 3 of 3

- God TV - "Social justice advocate, Danielle Strickland of the Salvation Army talks about William Booth's historic role in helping refugees, which continues today. Danielle believes the Refugee Crisis could be the Church’s greatest opportunity and that we must not allow fear to stop us. “As we share a revolution of kindness, we will enter the Church's finest hour,” she says.

Danielle is a speaker, writer and currently serves as Social Justice Secretary for the Salvation Army in the Western United States, based in Los Angeles. She is also associated with Stop The Traffik, Canada and exposes the vulnerability of refugees to Human Trafficking, sharing ways viewers can help support victims."

Watch the video HERE (25 min)

In Depth with Danielle Strickland - Part 2 of 3

- God TV - "Social justice advocate, Danielle Strickland of the Salvation Army talks about William Booth's historic role in helping refugees, which continues today. Danielle believes the Refugee Crisis could be the Church’s greatest opportunity and that we must not allow fear to stop us. “As we share a revolution of kindness, we will enter the Church's finest hour,” she says.

Danielle is a speaker, writer and currently serves as Social Justice Secretary for the Salvation Army in the Western United States, based in Los Angeles. She is also associated with Stop The Traffik, Canada and exposes the vulnerability of refugees to Human Trafficking, sharing ways viewers can help support victims."

Watch the video HERE (26 min)

Christians In UK Now Outnumbered By Atheists

- Sky News - 

Research says that the Anglican and Catholic churches are failing to hold on to those brought up as Christians.

Almost half of those in England and Wales say they are of no religion, outnumbering those who identify as Christian for the first time.

According to new research, around 48.5% of those surveyed in 2015 said they had no religion, compared to the 25% that said the same in the 2011 census.

Those who identified themselves as Christians, including Anglicans, Catholics and other denominations, made up 43.8%.

The percentage describing themselves as Anglican slid from 44.5% in 1983 to just 19% in 2014.

In the same year, Catholics made up 8.3%, other Christians were 15.7% and those of non-Christian religions were 7.7%.

Read more HERE.

In Depth with Danielle Strickland

- God TV - "Social justice advocate, Danielle Strickland of the Salvation Army talks about William Booth's historic role in helping refugees, which continues today. Danielle believes the Refugee Crisis could be the Church’s greatest opportunity and that we must not allow fear to stop us. “As we share a revolution of kindness, we will enter the Church's finest hour,” she says.

Danielle is a speaker, writer and currently serves as Social Justice Secretary for the Salvation Army in the Western United States, based in Los Angeles. She is also associated with Stop The Traffik, Canada and exposes the vulnerability of refugees to Human Trafficking, sharing ways viewers can help support victims."

Watch the video HERE (28 min)

A word to the dry bones

A Prophecy to The Salvation Army in the West by Andrew Bale (From JAC online)

"So for the sake of my name – not yours – I am going to restore you. Once again the name Salvation Army and holiness will be synonymous. I will do this for my sake, for the sake of my holy name which you have belittled. Once again those on the very edge of society, the unloved and friendless will know that I am God – I will prove myself through you (even though you are not worthy of your calling). I have chosen you and once again your name will be associated with mine. (36:22-23)

I am going to set you apart once more, I will make you stand out from the crowd and lead you back to your original mission. I will baptise you with fire, I will thoroughly wash you until every stain is gone. I will destroy your idols. The things you believe make you respectable and worthy I will smash. I will restore your passion for the lost; I will give you a new heart. I will take away your cold unbelieving heart and give you a heart that desires to obey me. You will go back to your original calling, once more street evangelism, slum and gutter brigades, pub raids and prayer mats will be used to attack the kingdom of my enemies and you will win souls like the Christian Mission. You will be filled with pioneer enthusiasm for militant evangelism. You will be my soldiers and I will be your general. (36:24-29)

It is time to reap, open the doors of your citadels and come rejoicing bringing in the sheaves. No longer will you be despised and rejected, no longer will you be dismissed as an historic curio, you will win the lost and everyday I will add more to your ranks. You will go out into the streets and revival will rain down upon you, you will splash in puddles of revival like children playing in the rain. Yet the more I bless you the more you will repent. The more I use you the more ashamed you will become. If withholding my blessing forced you to your knees in repentance then my new Pentecost will provide the light required to see your sin in all its grotesque glory. You will be victorious but this new humility will allow all praise to pass to me. (36:30-32)

Once again your Corps will be so numerous you will run out of names for them! You will simply add numbers to the end of a city name as you did when you began. The urban areas will be your field and the wasteland and backstreet will be your vineyard. These dark corners will become like a new Eden. My kingdom will come to the cities, and the addicted and oppressed that I set free through you, will do my will! I have spoken and I will do it! Wash the streets, remove the burnt out vehicle, and prepare the way of the Lord. (36:33-36)

I will listen to the prayers of Salvationists once more; I will unblock my ears and focus my attention on them. I will swell their ranks and they will know that I am God. (36:37-38)"

Read mor HERE.

Muslim Refugees Run To Christianity In Europe

- Prophesy News Watch -

"Many Muslim refugees fleeing war-torn Syria, and other Middle Eastern countries are converting to Christianity once they get to Europe, various news organizations are reporting. While there would be harsh repercussions for doing this in Syria or Iraq, there are still some obstacles new believers face.

   Christianity Today reported on a mass baptism of 80 refugees from Iran and Afghanistan in Hamburg, Germany. Albert Babajan, the pastor doing the Baptisms, said there have been about 200 so far this year and he expects as many as 500 before the year ends. Denmark and Austria are also having mass conversions among refugees.

   But just because they are in Europe, in a new country that is more open to religious freedom, that does not mean their troubles are over. Other organizations are reporting that once these people convert they are persecuted by Islamic leaders within the refugee groups."


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The Great Rapture Debate

- From Prophesy News Watch - 

Though the term Rapture does not appear in the Bible, it is derived from the Latin, raptus, which means "a carrying off." Because of numerous biblical scriptures, the Bible indicates that when the end really does come and the going gets tougher than anyone can possibly describe, the Church, described as the Bride, will mysteriously disappear and join Christ in the air as he appears in the clouds. This disappearance, described in 1 Corinthians 15:52, will be virtually instantaneous, in the twinkling of an eye. 

There is perhaps no greater debate when it comes to Bible Prophecy than the nature and timing of this event.  LifeWay Research recently polled 1,000 senior protestant pastors about their rapture beliefs, with the following results: 

" Pre-Tribulation View - 36%.  Christians who believe in a pre-tribulation rapture in which the Church will be taken up to heaven before the Tribulation period begins- an escape from the prophesied apocalypse. 

" Mid-Tribulational View - 4%.  Christians who believe in a mid-tribulation rapture that will occur 3.5 years into the Tribulation.

" Post Tribulational View - 18%. Christians who believe in a post-tribulation rapture in which the event occurs at the end of the 7-year Tribulation. In this case, the Church would suffer through the 7-years of devastation: death, torture, starvation, plague, war and climate-change far beyond any climate-change that is happening at the present.

" None of the above - 25%.  Those who believe the rapture should not be taken literally.

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A Prophecy for the Western Territories of The Salvation Army and for Individual Soldiers Within The Salvation Army

- Andrew Bale in JAC online - "(Editor's Remarks: in January 2007, Major Janet Munn prophesied that "The Salvation Army is coming into its finest hour." It is in this context that we offer the prophecy from Andrew Bale (also in January). Please consider Bale's offering as a potential means of positioning ourselves so that God can fulfill Munn's word.)

The following came to me today in prayer and I share it in humility – may God bless, redeem, sanctify and use the Salvation Army – Hallelujah!

“The Salvation Army is one of my favoured children. In your youth I gave you a multicoloured coat woven with a weft of marvellous signs and wonders, but over the years you have rebelled against me until you are no longer able to recognise the sound of my voice. It is bad enough when a parent and child refuse to speak but when one fails to recognise the voice of the other the situation has become tragic. I am speaking to you as much as I ever have done but you do not recognise my voice.

• I am still calling you in the direction of the disenfranchised and friendless but you cannot hear me.
• I will am still calling you to purity of living and holiness but you cannot hear me.
• I am still calling you to stand between the oppressed and the oppressor but you cannot hear me.
• I am still calling you to the mighty work of soul winning but you cannot hear me.
• I am still calling you to poverty, persecution and victory but you cannot hear me.

Read more HERE.

Ten Years in Russia; 1913-1923 CONCLUSION

From Ten Years in Russia; 1913-1923 -Karl Larsson 

Translation: SEL

Marusja - every time I hear that name my thoughts are brought to a house located at  Petergovskij Prospectus 22.

It was a late on Marus Monday evening, named after Avraham Marek Klingberg, known as Marcus – reputed to have saved the world from the Nazis, in November 1917. A group of Petrograd Salvation Army officers from Finland working in Russia had gathered together to spend their free evening. Among them were also some Russian Salvationist, and there was one that especially by her genuine Russian character was different from the others.

Despite her natural vivacity there was the essence of a prayer for indulgence because she was wrapped in a striped scarf and a white cloth on her head, she sat near the steaming tea kitchen at the lower end of the table. It was Marusja. Her early years she had spent in the teahouse world. She grew up in a Russian slum home and had as a child been thrown into the street, where she as a barefoot little beggar managed to get by, singing their country's melancholy folk songs....


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Ten Years in Russia; 1913-1923 PART TWO OF THREE

From Ten Years in Russia; 1913-1923 - Karl Larsson

“To Wasjas village ", the abode of the worst misery amid Petrograd’s most abundant luxury, came two Salvation Army officers on a Saturday afternoon. They looked through a narrow gate, on the walls to see if there still something left beyond its plaster, but saw instead images of evil itself. They came through a narrow walkway walking into one of the first housing areas, on whose open landscape was piled smelly garbage heaps, and where hungry, mangy cats and dogs wallowed. The anxiety that this sight elicited grew increasingly, while the officers groped in the pitch-dark hall, where a humid air beat against them. Who's there?" was the answer to their knock...

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From Ten Years in Russia Part One of Three

From FSAOF blogg:

From Ten Years in Russia; 1913-1923

Karl Larsson 

Translation: SEL

In order that the reader fully appreciate the atmosphere that surrounded us during those immortal days, I will make a selection up from the testimonies to which we were able to listen.

A young military man, who came to the Mercy Seat during one of the Easter meetings, said in his testimony, among other things the following:

"I was once sentenced to death, but through an officer's intervention my sentence was abridged into ten years' hard work. I've been at the front, and it is fully appropriate, that I'm here. Since I arrived in Petrograd, I have sought out old acquaintances, gone from place to place, but have not been received anywhere. My heart was deeply distraught. But then I saw The Salvation Army procession on Nevsky Prospect, and I followed them and came here. Here I’ve found people who love me, and here I have found Jesus Christ."

He had hardly had time to finish until he became embraced and kissed by several Salvationists and friends in a genuine brotherly manner.

Read more HERE.