Amos chapter 3 couldn’t be clearer:

When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble?
When disaster comes to a city, has not the Lord caused it?
Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan
to his servants the prophets (6 -7)

Humbly waiting on the Lord

On June 12th 2012, for the first time in Parliamentary history, Christian leaders and Parliamentarians met in St Mary’s Undercroft, the 14th century chapel in the Palace of Westminster for an hour of silence before the Lord.

Though some felt that little was achieved, I and other convenors of the event believed that we were responding to a call to silence in the hope of hearing collectively from the Lord. Afterwards, one older MP said it was the most significant of all his days in Parliament and that “we should talk less and listen more.”

Though some felt that little was achieved, I and other convenors of the event believed that we were responding to a call to silence in the hope of hearing collectively from the Lord.

Current Issachar Ministries advisor Sarah Winbow collated the more than sixty responses from attendees, reporting what they believed they had heard by the spirit in the silence. Ten years on parts of that summary make sobering reading:

• God’s appointed time to judge the nations of the world is very nearly upon us. Our nation, and its church have turned away from God and His standards and as a result are beginning to see and feel the resulting judgement.
• The shaking of every part of man’s world-wide economic, social, political and religious systems has begun. It will be a time of great humbling, purification and refining in every aspect of society. It will go on until every man-made structure crumbles; only what is built on the foundations God requires: righteousness, truth and justice will be permitted to remain. These will become the foundational building blocks for the reformation of our government, church and everything that flows from these to affect and influence the people of our nation.
• God may yet act out of mercy, love and grace to avert the very worst of the judgement that we have brought upon ourselves. But this ‘season of grace’ is almost over.
• Through the shaking the church will return to its original commission: to GO into the world, make disciples and teach them to be obedient to Christ.
• As the darkness encroaches and deepens the favour, light and glory of God will rise and be seen on those who are wholeheartedly serving ONLY God and His purposes. These are those who have renounced the world and its system and are willing to walk counter to the prevailing culture as humble, meek, laid-down servants of the King of kings. They are secure in Him and through faith have come to know God not only as salvation but also as refuge, fortress, shield and provision. Through these unknown saints the message of the Kingdom will be carried into the streets and the longed-for revival will be seen and experienced as the nation itself cries out to God. But this revival will come at great cost: in the nation, in the church and to the individual. The blood of the martyrs will again be seen in the streets.
• When the judgement has run its course. God has promised to restore us. But this restoration must follow and stick rigidly to God’s revealed strategies and guidelines.

Times of enormous change

On January 28th 2014, I was filmed saying these prophetic words: “There’s a phrase I use called the tyranny of the familiar. It describes that state of mind in which people dismiss the possibility that something bad will happen, simply because it has never happened before. Very soon life is going to change for everyone, there’s a gathering storm. Some can see it and others are not looking up. They are simply unaware that the financial, social and political life of Britain is about to change”.

One thing I am sure of – that this is the time of enormous change I was allowed to foresee and much more difficult days are still to come.

I did not know that the catalyst for such enormous change would be government responses to a respiratory disease, nor that several more years would elapse before the changes began. One thing I am sure of - that this is the time of enormous change I was allowed to foresee and much more difficult days are still to come.

The Covid Crisis which began in March 2020 was intensified by the use of behavioural science, which involved the use of psychological techniques to manipulate using fear and anxiety. Dissenting voices were silenced or de-platformed.

As former Supreme Court Judge Lord Sumption warned two years ago, fear has been “skilfully and deliberately” used by government to ensure compliance.

The refusal to even consider the use of re-purposed existing drugs which were clearly working elsewhere in the world to reduce hospitalisations and deaths, and the unprecedented coercion to accept experimental jabs with no long-term safety data struck me as fundamentally wrong from the beginning. I re-read the Nuremberg code, section 45E of the 1984 Public Health Act and the 2005 UNESCO declaration of human rights. Widely accepted international laws and conventions were totally clear. Any form of coercion to accept an experimental medical intervention, particularly without full and informed consent, was expressly forbidden.

Any form of coercion to accept an experimental medical intervention, particularly without full and informed consent, was expressly forbidden.

Silenced, vilified and ostracised

A year has gone by since then and after a very successful attempt to silence all dissenting voices, to de-platform and to discredit all those professionals who warned that these products, particularly those using Messenger RNA, were neither safe nor effective, the cracks in the narrative are now beginning to appear for all to see. Our own ONS (Office for National Statistics) has reported significant increases in working age mortality rates compared to the five-year average. This is a trend that is not restricted to Britain:

Earlier this month saw the release the film, ‘Safe and Effective: A Second Opinion’. The documentary was removed from YouTube earlier this week, under the pretext of alleged “medical misinformation”. At that time it had accumulated over 990,000 views and 7,000 comments.

It was produced by retired former senior ITV executive Mark Sharman, disgusted by the lack of rigorous traditional journalism that has typified the output of our mainstream media for over two years. The film evidences some of the things I and many others were specifically warning about in the autumn of 2021.

No scientific basis

Many of those who rolled up their sleeves did so often in spite of their gut instinct because they wanted to ‘do the right thing,’ ‘take one for the team’ take a holiday overseas or visit their relatives. Those who refused the jabs were vilified and ostracised, with some losing their jobs and their friends and made outcasts by their own families. Divisions over Covid were as evident in much of the Church as in the world.

Those who refused the jabs were vilified and ostracised, with some losing their jobs and their friends and made outcasts by their own families.

Recently, a Pfizer director has revealed during questioning in the European Parliament that they did not have any data on whether their vaccine had any effect on the transmission of the virus before the vaccine rollout. This means that the measures and coercion related to the lockdowns, vaccine passports ‘no jab, no job’ etc. had no scientific basis.

If this is the point where all this madness ends, I suppose I could be forgiven for saying silent. Other crises have swiftly followed, each with the potential for coercive measures to return. War between Russia and the Ukraine, the striking increase in illegal immigration across the Channel, the catastrophic economic, educational and health consequences of unnecessary lockdowns, to which we can now add runaway inflation, political turmoil and it does appear our nation is spinning out of control.

Preparing for the future

The loss of our beloved late Queen Elizabeth II marked the beginning of a new phase of our history. I, like many others, felt that with her passing, some form of restraint against the force of evil in our nation had been removed.

I, like many others, felt that with the Queen's passing, some form of restraint against the force of evil in our nation had been removed.

Are we ready and prepared for what may come next? War, further lockdowns, cashless society, discrimination, persecution? We all know the answer to those questions. What then can we do?

The Coronation of our new King Charles III will take place in May 2023. As a boy I often sang Bridge’s famous hymn about another coronation – that of our Lord Jesus.

Crown Him with many crowns
The Lamb upon the throne
Hark How the heav'nly anthems drowns
All music but its own!
Awake, my soul And sing
Of Him Who died for thee
And hail Him as thy matchless King
Through all eternity

United in Christ

What we face is too big for any of us to fight. We are in no spiritual condition to prevail against this onslaught on our families, our way of life, our faith and our freedoms. But we do know the One who shall prevail. We must crown Him in our lives, and prepare a welcome for Him in our worship, our prayers, in every aspect of our lives.

We need Him, to be the answer in every situation, to lead us by His Spirit to be overcomers, the lights in our communities who will lead many to faith in the most desperate of times and circumstances. If we can agree on that, then what divided us on Brexit, Covid, and current events will soon fade into memory.

We need Him, to be the answer in every situation, to lead us by His Spirit to be overcomers, the lights in our communities who will lead many to faith in the most desperate of times and circumstances.

Romans 8 provides both the question and the answer in our present seemingly hopeless plight:

What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. (Romans 8: 31, 35-37)