Sometime in 2004 I was praying and meditating on the Word, especially the passage in Ezekiel 33:1-6
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, "Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them: 'When I bring a sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from their territory and make him their watchman, when he sees the sword coming upon the land, if he blows the trumpet and warns the people, then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But he who takes warning will save his life. But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood i will require at the watchman's hand.
The Lord spoke to me and told me that "the trumpet is ancient technology". I immediately saw that when God has a message of warning to give, we must use the appropriate technology to warn the entire city. In the days of Jesus, he said to his disciples, "Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, PREACH ON THE HOUSETOPS." (Matthew 10:27). In the notes of my Bible it tells me that that was the way then of making a public announcement. In both Old and New Testaments we are instructed to go public with the message of God, using the technology which will make our voice heard and make it seem believable to the people.
In our day this is undoubtably TELEVISION. The LORD made it very clear to me that we must use television or people will perish without being warned, and in a very real sense, WE ARE RESPONSIBLE. We could have used television, we could have blown the trumpet, but we did not. So people perished without hearing, while we were inviting people to our church buildings and to our pot-luck suppers. I am for evangelism by all means, and I applaud the relative few who seek to obey Jesus Christ in any way by preaching the gospel, but we MUST wake up to the fact that we have given the devil the lion's share of influence in society simply by handing the media, the arts and to a lesser extent the education system into his hands, by default as it were.
Once I received this revelation I knew I had to spend what I had been able to accumulate on securing a 24 hour television channel overseas. This has been done, and tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of
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One of the major points in
One of the major points in the tv channel network we established here is that we major on local languages. The lack of local language content is a serious defect for any television network claiming to be reaching the population of various countries in any meaningful way. Potentially reaching the English speaking people of a nation is NOT the same as actually reaching the people of the country, even potentially.
As for Air Force One - the presidential plane, Jesus won't need it to return. Acts 1:11 teaches that he will return just as he came, in the clouds - and no airplane was needed!
Every thing good, available
Every thing good, available and useful in our century we have to use to do the Work of our Lord is good. In my country Ivory cost, we hava only national Tv but our administration allows churches to speak about the lord. But the soul the inner part of the country don't take benefice of it because of the lack of interpretation in local langages. I want to ask a question do you think that the triumphal entring of the Lord in jerusalem on the horse will in our days in a Air force one? Your site is a blessing for me. God bless you more.
brotherly djetuan adu bertin
Please read my comment
Please read my comment posted on the topic, " Why the media is so important to us ".
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