I would like to challenge you to take the time to read this little pamphlet.   Our country and our world seem to be on the brink of big trouble with wars, pandemics, huge debts, chaos and death everywhere. I have lived in Prince Albert since 1976 and when I came, I can assure you it was a much better place to live than it is today.  Crime, drugs, prostitution, gangs, and homelessness plague our city; many other cities are in a similar state.  I have a message to share why I think we are in this mess today and what we can do about it. There is one book that will give us some help and help us to wake up to what we need to do if we will only read and listen. This book was used regularly by our grandfathers and grandmothers and by our great grandfathers and great grandmothers. Not that many years ago there were some very important and different priorities in life that we are no longer observing. I promise you we can change the way things are but it involves you and our grandfathers’ book called the Bible and getting back to it.  Today, we are deceived into thinking we are getting smarter when we are actually making some very foolish and stupid mistakes that are making things worse and worse.  We need to make some important corrections to our way of life, then we will start getting help from God himself to correct things. If we do not it will get worse and worse!   However, it starts with you!  You need to face some facts and then do something about it. You are probably part of the problem like I was but you can become part of the solution.   

Matthew 27:60: And [Joseph of Arimathaea] laid it [the body of Christ] in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. 
Matthew 27:66: So they [religious leaders] went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch [soldiers to guard it]. 
Matthew 28:1:  In the end of the Sabbath [Saturday}, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week [Sunday], came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre [grave tomb]. 
Matthew 28:2:  And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. [God caused the earthquake to happen and sent the angel as a witness.]
Matthew 28:3:  His [the angel’s] countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: 
Matthew 28:4:  And for fear of him the keepers [soldiers] did shake and became as dead men. 
Matthew 28:5:  And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that you seek Jesus, which was crucified. 
Matthew 28:6:  He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. [The angel was sent to show the women the empty tomb.]

There is a new global buzz going on in follow-up to the Covid crisis and it is trying to normalize Digital ID systems in countries around the world.  How are they going to do this? The answer is little by little.  First they have to get the population to accept it as the new way of life.  It actually started back with the credit card and from the credit card to the chip in the credit card now we have the latest of the digital world we are all getting accustomed to the QR code.   It works so well and is so convenient the next step will be to use the digital ID QR system to track everything about you.  In fact everything about you will be stored in the digital code in your body.  It is happening at a rapid rate  around the world.  It will be peddled and sold to the population that this is going to be for convenience, security coded access for everything.  Our government had put out in the Saskatchewan Government tender page in February and March Saskatchewan Government Tenders a proposal for partnership Digital ID Request for Proposal (RFP). 

The hope of the believer is based in one person and in great fact about that person.  That person—Jesus Christ—did everything he said he was going to do and one of those things was to be resurrected from the dead.  There are hundreds of religions in the world with different icons of people that those religions represent but none of those leaders claim to have been raised from the dead.  The amazing thing about the resurrection of Christ is that his resurrection becomes our resurrection once we accept him as our Saviour and Lord.  His resurrection becomes the hope of the believer. A believer will actually experience the resurrection to a degree here and now in the new life that Christ gives at conversion.  Of course, the total resurrection package will be experienced in the future when he raises everyone from the dead. As well, the believers still living at this time will experience a resurrection. 

I see a very stark comparison to what the Bible says will be happening to Israel in the tribulation period and to what is happening to the Ukraine at this present time.  The first clue that I had about the Russia- Ukraine war was all the media turned their cameras and attention to the pending conflict before it even erupted.  I am so suspicious of what the media focus on and wonder what is their agenda now?  I am convinced that the USA provoked this war to start.  I am not going to get into why, and I may be wrong.  However, there seems to be too much evidence that something very sinister is going on.  Recently President Biden went to Poland. He made his Warsaw speech, visited some refugees, and did some strong talk against President Putin.  It turns out to be all talk.  They are going to play this war as long as they can.  It will drain Russian resources and eventually drain Russia financially and that is the real goal.    The unfortunate part of this is that there are many innocent soldiers and citizens in Russia and Ukraine whom are going to suffer greatly for all of this which could have been avoided.  The difference between the two forces is that the Ukrainian military are fighting a cause because of love for country.  The Russians are fighting because of a dictator they cannot understand and fighting a war they do not understand.  In fact, most of the soldiers don’t even know why they are there.  The Ukraine is defending their country because they love it deeply. Russia is invading them and is the enemy now.  It is hard to win against a people who are fighting because they love their country.  If the Ukrainian forces had air support and missile defence systems, the Russian forces would be deterred greatly.  However, they probably are not going to get air support nor missile defence systems like the Patriot missile defence system that they have been promised until it is politically beneficial.  To date none of which has shown up for the Ukraine war cause and is there greatest need.   Any systems available are all being deployed in the surrounding NATO countries.  The war rages on and NATO nations have supplied ground military support like Stinger and Javelin ground missile systems.  These weapons are effective in short range against  tank and limited aircraft attacks. They are launched from the ground and off the shoulder of soldiers. They are effective and Ukrainian soldiers are doing an amazing job with these limited weapons.  However, if they do not have more support, I fear it will be a very brutal end for the Ukrainian forces eventually.  There is no way they can prevail against such overwhelming air power and missile strikes without some air support.  Meanwhile missiles and bombs continue to rain down on them and their cities and the world watches on and wonders what is coming next.  Well, soon the cameras will turn to another part of the world… probably Israel and Iran as the USA makes a renewed nuclear arms deal with Iran that Israel cannot allow.  It is clear once they have nuclear weapons in Iran they plan to destroy Israel.  I think Russia will aggressively support Iran through this and eventually support the attack on Israel. There will also very likely be a camera swing when China invades Taiwan.  It is not a matter of if they do, but it is when. The world is a powder keg of nations going to war, and the fuse has already been lit.  There is no turning back now.  There will never be normal again as we knew it.  We are in the final days as the Bible prophesied over the last several thousand years that these days would come, and Israel will be in the middle of these conflicts until the end.  Jesus Christ will intervene in the eleventh hour to deliver Israel from complete and total destruction.  Iran says they will destroy Israel, but the Bible says it will be the other way around. The Ukraine probably will not have anyone come to intervene.  However, there are thousands of born again Christians in the Ukraine who are saved and not afraid to die.  I know one church that started a Bible College in the Ukraine in the 1970’s. To date they have graduated over 4000 students.  There are many more schools and colleges doing the same in that country.  Dying is never something anyone wants to do, but if you possess eternal life it is a great hope when facing death.  People with eternal life die well.