Our man in Japan

Out of Zion shall go forth the law .. Isaiah 2:3 In as much as a nation follows God's Holy laws, that nation shall be blessed. Brexit for me was never solely about Brussels. It's no use being ruled from London if MPs there make bad, godless laws. So what matters most in Belfast in 2023 going forward is whether Christians, Catholic AND Protestant, are free to live as servants of Jesus without interference from London, Dublin, Brussels, or each other.  Blessed are the peacemakers. 

Why should you be striken again? Isaiah 1:5 Toothache, again.  

They went in & did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. Luke 24:3 Various people try to dismiss Christianity, but no one has ever found the body of Jesus. Except those who have seen Him alive after He was unjustly killed by the Romans.  

Let us pursue the things which make for peace .. Romans 14:19

There shall be a sowing of peace... Zechariah 8:12 Buddhists & Christians agree you reap what you sow. Why then are Western leaders like Biden, Boris & Kishida sowing for war instead of peace? Is Kishida solely into Shinto war gods? Has the Buddhist message completely passed him by? Certainly he's no Christian. Things would probably be better if he was, but then both Biden & Boris are nominally Catholic. Neither though seem to understand what Jesus said about living & dying by the sword. Rishi the Hindu also seems to let the Ukrainian tail wag the dog. 

Judgement on..all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him. Jude 1:15 Saw an interview yesterday where some fool of a Scottish journo was giving a female Christian political figure a hard time for not supporting gay "marriage". Good luck with that bro. Why should we support gay "marriage" when the Almighty does not?!! The Ukrainians voted for gay marriage- how is that working out for them? You need to rethink your position before it is too late!!

The Lord will be zealous for His land.. Joel 2:18 One thing both Putin and Z seem to forget is that the land they are fighting over belongs to God. All land belongs to the God described by the Bible, because He created it, & allows it to exist. 

Ungodly men who turn the grace of God into lewdness & deny the only Lord God & our Lord Jesus Christ.  Jude 1:4 I see Welby, who recently approved same sex blessings, has been removed from leadership of global Anglicans by bishops from the global South. Good for them! There is still hope for Anglicans! Of course he disputes their right to do this, but he can't lead when they won't follow. Anglicans in Japan however, or at least their offical reps, seem to be sticking with Welby for now? Why, guys? 

He who does good is of God, he who does evil has not seen God.. 3 John 1:11 An Irish bishop in a Hispanic part of LA has been murdered. May the blood of the martyrs be the seed of the Church. 

Hardness of heart.. Mark 16:14 A "Dr" Alemi, probably Iranian, but The Guardian won't say, pretended to be a psychiatrist without proper qualifications in the NHS for 20 years, earning vast amounts of money. Do I need to emphasize how vunerable the people were that she exploited?  Meanwhile kids seeking asylum in the UK are stolen by Albanian gangs & forced to sell drugs. Fagin's gang is alive & well in 2023, only worse.   Meanwhile the "gold standard" of medical research has found 😷 masks make very little difference v COVID, but don't expect rules to relax before May. 

The earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness. 1 Corinthians 10:26 Saw a pair of collared doves, many crows, a coot, 4 mallards, many sparrows, and a mandarin this morning. 

Many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh.. 2 John 1:7   Scotland could do a lot worse than Kate Forbes. 

The whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.. 1 John 5:19 If you don't believe in the devil, why is the world 🌎🌍 so messed up? Greed, you say. Yep. But greed is merely one of the 7 deadly sins, & the devil brought sin into the world.

Depart in peace.. Luke 2:29 The mainstream media in Japan & the West seem more interested in profiting from images of the war in Ukraine than truly pushing for peace. I saw a Ukrainian peace activist online yesterday speaking in English about how hard it was for him to get the British Labour Party to listen to him, on a tiny channel on YouTube devoted to Stopping the War. Why are the BBC & NHK & CNN not interested in his views? 

By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us.. 1 John 3:16 Jesus, the greatest lover ever. 

Sin is lawlessness.. 1 John 3:4 A country is in big trouble when what is immoral is legal and what is moral is illegal. 

A young man clothed in a long white robe.. Mark 16:5 Tell me you're an angel 😇 without telling me you're an 😇 angel. 

These also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the truth. But they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all..  2 Tim 3:8-9 Not a good week for the UK. A lesbian wins a by election for the Labour Party in West Lancs. Meanwhile the Church of England, my former church, chooses against all Scripture & tradition to allow blessings for same sex "marriage". This is basically the end of the Anglican church. I plan on leaving & so are many others. We just want leaders who follow the Bible.

The world is passing away .. 1 John 2:17 I believe that the kids who died in that earthquake in Turkey are truly blessed. Inflation in Turkey right now is over 50%.  

[Christ] Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not ours only, but also for the whole world .. 1 John 2:2 Propitiation is not a word that gets used much in modern English, but like a lot of Latinate words, it is very specific, & that's why it is used here. Oxford defines it as "the action of propitiating or appeasing a god ..". In Latin "propitius" means favourable or gracious. The modern world struggles to believe in God at all, much less that He needs to be appeased. Holiness is a alien concept to many people, let alone practiced. To put it in Japanese terms: just washing at a Shinto shrine is not enough. To get back to today's verse, here is the simplified Good News version : "Christ himself is the means by which our sins are forgiven, & not our sins only, but the sins of everyone.."

Which untaught & unstable people twist to their own destruction.. 2 Peter 3:16 If a member of the Anglican clergy is unhappy about following Jesus & calling God "Our Father" they don't deserve to be clergy.

Pray that your flight may not be in winter.. Mark 13:18 My daughter is off to 🌍 Europe..

Turning the cities of Sodom & Gomorrah into ashes .. 2 Peter 2:6 Why would Japan, already demographically challenged, legalize gay marriage? There is no future in following the West's self-destructive perversity. 

Worse and worse .. 2 Tim 3:13 Kishida is now sacking people for expressing their honest opinion, yet somehow still claims he is fighting for "freedom" in Ukraine. Not freedom of speech or freedom of expression, nor freedom of thought, clearly. 

Shun profane & idle babblings.. 2 Tim 2:16 The end of ☃️❄️ winter is decided by God, not any Japanese/Chinese tradition. 

An upright & holy man.. Mark 6:20 I'm a long long way from sainthood. Today Japanese Catholics remember Blessed Justo Takayama Ukon, who is a lot closer. 'Blessed' means he is already on his way. Despite being a landowner & samurai, he gave up everything and was more or less forced out of the country for being a Catholic. He died in Manila in Feb 1615. 

Heavy laden.. Matthew 11:28 A parent shouldn't have to sue her child's school 🏫🎒 in order to get an opt out from Sodomite brainwashing, but that is where we are at in North London. That unreasonable head, who showed no sign of any much touted tolerance, needs to be sacked yesterday. 

Speaking evil of you.. 1 Peter 4:4 I'm tired of being called transphobic. A trans women in Brooklyn just stabbed his father to death, stabbing his sister 3 times also.  In Scotland a rapist started pretending to be a woman (legally under Scotland's new pro trans laws) to get into a woman's jail. These are the evil people, not people who stick up for real women's rights to their own private spaces, or people who reserve the right to call things as they are. Two teachers in Britain & Ireland have been sacked for refusing to call a he a she, or vice versa. Crazy.