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 A series of articles by Brian Papworth,
our PWMI Representative in New Zealand.

While the world news has been focusing its attention on things like the Rugby World Cup, the death of Pavarotti and other matters the situation in the Middle East continues to escalate. The animosity between Hamas, Fattah and Israel does not lessen, and the threats from Syria and Iran continue.

 A series of articles by Brian Papworth,
our PWMI Representative in New Zealand.

"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition." [2 Thess 2:3KJV]. The falling away words which are indicated differently in some translation's, is the Greek word "apostasia" meaning: Defection from the truth, falling away, or forsake. We are told that this will be one of the signs immediately preceding the Rapture of the Church and the revealing of the Antichrist.

 A series of articles by Brian Papworth,
our PWMI Representative in New Zealand.

When you read an interesting book, do you find yourself looking at the last page to find out how the story is going to end? With prophecy in the Bible, we tend, in our efforts to spread the Gospel and the way of Salvation to be preoccupied with the disasters and judgements that are to come on the people of this world, and their need of redemption. However there is a much brighter side. What do the last two chapters in the Bible and associated Scriptures tell us about the future?

As we start reading Chapter 21 of Revelation, the battle is over, Satan, the Antichrist, the False Prophet and their team are destroyed in the lake of fire. God reigns in love and mercy. The old earth and the heavens have been destroyed with a fervent heat [2 Peter 3: 10-12]. Revelation Chapter 21 opens with these words; "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away" John then goes on to describe the new Jerusalem coming down in all its glory down from heaven. John Chapter 14 and verses 1 to 4, tells us that Jesus will prepare a place for us. In Corinthians, Paul writes; ; "no eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived, what God has prepared for those who love Him" [1 Cor 2:9]. In Revelation 21 we are given a glimpse, in words that we will understand but probably don't fully reveal where we will live for eternity and what it will be like.