For the first time in the history of mankind, the world's richest nations sat down with emerging yet economically important nations around the same table to find a way forward to solve the world financial problem. The G20 nations met on the 14th & 15th November in the Summit on Financial Markets and The World Economy to work out what British Prime Minister Gordon Brown termed a "Route Map" to economic recovery. The G20 group of countries consists of 19 leading industrialised and developing countries, as well as the European Union. This will be the final act of world leadership of President George Bush [see pic. 1] before the transfer of power to Senator Barack Obama on the 20th Jan. 2009.Key issues agreed by world leaders at this summit included, among others:
1) reform of international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
2) an agreement by the end of 2008, leading to a successful global free-trade deal
3) asking finance ministers to draw-up a list of financial institutions whose collapse would endanger the global economic system
4) strengthening countries' financial regulatory regimes
This is the first of a series of global co-operation and regulatory events that will unfold in the End-Time.
On the same day (14th Nov.), Prince Charles turned 60 [see pic. 2]. . He was also born in the same year as the rebirth of the Nation of Israel and yours truly. The difference is that he was born a prince and I was born a pauper (but I am now a prince of the Heavenly King :o)). I believe he will play a very significant role in the End-Time drama!I have been preaching from the Book of [1 Peter], preparing our people to be strong and ready to face the End-Time challenges. In this depressing time, it is important to hold our heads high, looking to God instead of hanging our heads low. Indeed, "I lift up my eyes to the hills.....My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth. He will not let your foot slip-- he who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD watches over you-- the LORD is your shade at your right hand; the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. The LORD will keep you from all harm-- he will watch over your life; the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore." [Ps 121:1-8 NIV]
As Joshua was coming to the end of his life, he encouraged the Israelites to hold fast to God. "I am old and well advanced in years. You yourselves have seen everything the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake; it was the LORD your God who fought for you.......The LORD your God himself will drive them out.......before you, and you will take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you. 'Be very strong; be careful to obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, without turning aside to the right or to the left. Do not associate.......do not invoke the names of their gods or swear by them. You must not serve them or bow down to them. But you are to hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have until now." [Josh 23:1-8 NIV] I would encourage you to do the same, although I am by no means coming to the end of my earthly life yet :o).
We are living in exciting times. God is trying to get our attention. "...... a loud voice in heaven say: "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ. For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down. They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death. Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short." [Rev 12:10-12 NIV] We may not hear a loud voice in heaven, you can be sure that the devil is very angry and is playing out its last days on earth.
"My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding, and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding........then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. He holds victory in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless, for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones." [Prov 2:1-15 NIV]
Amen & amen!
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