JUNE 2021    4 42 14    Unbridled                                                      JoyTest imony  uuu FULL STORY ON -03    CHRISTIAN DOCTOR IN INDIA SUSPENDED AFTER    PRAYING FOR COVID-19 PATIENTS                                                                   part of the Madhya Pradesh State’s “Kill                                                                                                  Corona” Program is facing criminal     TOP NEWS uuuu                                               India – A Christian              charges after offering prayers of healing                                                                 doctor in India has              to her patients affected by the virus.  NEW JESUS FILM TOLD THROUGH THE                                been suspended                   After a local man took offense to Dr.  LENS OF MARY MAGDALENE                                         from working with                Tiwari’s actions, a criminal case was filed,  REACHES HUNDREDS OF                                            COVID-19                         and police officials confiscated her mobile  THOUSANDS GLOBALLY                                             patients due to                  phone and Christian pamphlets. In a short                                                                 allegations of                   video, currently making rounds on social                                                                 attempted forced                 media, Dr. Tiwari defended her actions,                                                                 conversion. Dr.                  saying, “What is wrong in telling them that                                                                 Sandhya Tiwari                   God heals? I did not tell anybody to convert                                                                 who was hired as                 or forced anybody to pray to Jesus, I am                                                        uuu FULL STORY ON - 05                                                                                                    uuu          FULL STORY ON - 08    The new animated film told through the              ISAAC HERZOG WAS ELECTED THE NEW  perspective of Mary Magdalene is reaching  hundreds of thousands worldwide.“Chosen             PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL a last-ditch agreement on a new coalition  Witness” was released in April by Jesus Film  Project, an evangelical outreach created                                                        government.  by Campus Crusade for Christ that has  produced content in over 1,800                                                                  MPs voted for the former leader of the  languages.Executive Producer Elizabeth  Schenkel says the new video tells the story                                                     Labour Party and chairman of the Jewish  of Jesus’ ministry, betrayal, death and  resurrection “through the eyes of Mary                                                          Agency as the new president, making  Magdalene.” “It is significant that this  woman was the first of Jesus’ followers to                                                      Herzog, 60, the eleventh president of the  encounter Jesus after he rose from the dead,”                                                                                                  state.                                   FULL STORY ON -08                                                                                                  The son of former president Chaim Herzog,                                                                                                    replaces Reuven Rivlin in what is a largely                                                        Isaac Herzog has been elected as the new    honorary function.                                                      President of Israel, as opponents of Prime  He was elected with 87 votes against 26                                                      Minister Benjamin Netanyahu try to reach    for his opponent Miriam Peretz.                                                                                                                         FULL STORY ON - 10
2Editorial    CARING FOR THE BROKEN!                                                                                     Rev. Manuel Joseph Th.M.                                                                                            Sub-editor, End-Time News          IN THIS PANDEMIC SEASON, EVERY      PEOPLE. WE MUST TELL THEM:             HE SAW MARY'S TEARS, \"HE WAS DEEPLY                                            1. THE LORD IS CLOSE TO THE BROKEN-    MOVED IN HIS SPIRIT AND GREATLY  CHRISTIAN MUST HAVE WILLINGNESS AND       HEARTED AND SAVES THOSE WHO ARE        TROUBLED\" (JOHN 11:33). WHEN HE AP-  RESOURCES TO CARE FOR THE PEOPLE          CRUSHED IN SPIRIT. -PSALM 34:18        PROACHED LAZARUS'S TOMB, HE WEPT  WITH A BROKEN HEART. IN THE MONTHS        IN THIS VERSE DAVID WRITES HOW GOD     (JOHN 11:35) AND WAS \"DEEPLY MOVED  PASSED BY, SO MANY PEOPLE PASSED AWAY     UNDERSTANDS OUR FEELINGS AND HELPS US  AGAIN\" (JOHN 11:38). JESUS EXPERIENCED  (EVEN BEFORE THEIR AGE), SO MANY HAVE     BEAR THE BURDEN OF SORROW. IN CON-     ALL OF THIS, THOUGH HE KNEW ALL ALONG  BECOME ORPHANS AND MANY LOST THEIR        TRAST TO OTHER, OR THE UNFEELING UNI-  HE WOULD RAISE HIS FRIEND FROM DEATH  ONLY JOBS. THE CONSEQUENCES ARE INNU-     VERSE OF ATHEISM, THE BIBLICAL GOD     (JOHN 11:11).  MERABLE. MANY HAVE BECOME UPSET           DEEPLY CARES FOR OUR PAIN. WHEN JESUS  HEBREWS 4:15 ASSURES US THAT JESUS, OUR  ABOUT THEIR LIFE EVEN! AS A CHRISTIAN IT  KNEW HIS FRIEND LAZARUS HAD DIED, HE   GREAT HIGH PRIEST, SYMPATHIZES WITH  IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO CARE FOR SUCH    WENT TO THE HOME OF LAZARUS'S GRIEV-   OUR WEAKNESSES. THAT INCLUDES BOTH                                            ING SISTERS AND COMFORTED THEM. WHEN   THE MEANING OF HUMAN SUFFERING AND                                                                                   THE STRUGGLE AGAINST SIN. HE WAS                                                                                   TEMPTED LIKE ANY OTHER MAN BUT RE-                                                                                           uuu FULL STORY ON - 04                                              EDITORIAL BOARD                                              MANAGER                                ADVISORY BOARD       CHIEF EDITOR                              Bovas Sreekaryam                      Pastor Shibu Thomas USA                                                                                    Pastor Asokan Eranakulam  Baiju Yacob Edavila USA                    CO-ORDINATORS                                                                                          M.Jacob Trivandrum      SUB EDITORS                             John Francis (Dallas)                                                       Br.Syam                                       USA        Manuel Joseph                                                                            PO.box 125          Daniel Jacob                                Sis.Saritha                    Wheat land,6920.S. manin st                                                        Sis.Simi                                 Oklahoma         EDITORS                                                                            box zip code-73097                                                 Sis.Lesley Yacob                          PH-(405) 745-786(H)      Pastor A Anilkumar                                                           Mob-001(405)778-4341(Whats app)     Rev. Joseph Chacko                         REPORTERS               Sis.Sherly                     Miniesh Kumar(Baharin)                                                  Pastor Stephen                                              Disclaimer       The views expressed in this online newspaper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of  HSM End Time News. The online newspaper will not bear any responsibility whatsoever for them. The images used in the  newspaper have been downloaded from the Internet and we acknowledge that the copyright of those images remain      with the original owners. HSM End Time News does not claim any copyright for them and does not intend to use them                                                                         for commercial purposes.
3DEVOTION    Those are the kinds of verses your friends are most likely to quote in a well-meaning but                                    futile attempt to cheer you up.    MARCIA FORD             He will yet fill your mouth with      Unbridled  laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.  Job 8:21                                              Joy  HAVE you ever felt as if someone passed        seems to think you should. Instead, hewants  you by when handingout the gift of joy?        to place within you the kind of joy that cir-    • I have told you this so that my joy  Sometimes you're simply mired in a joyless     cumstances can ever touch, the kind that         may be in you and that yourjoy may be com-  disposition. You slog through days or weeks    flows from an intimate relationship with.        plete. John 15:11)  when you just can'tseem to surface from a  serious funk. You know the Bible tells                  But you have to open your heart to      As you read, your words will become a  youtobe joyful, but when you're down in        him and believe he will refill the joy of your   prayer to God.Once you've broken the bar-  the dumps, verses such asPhilippians 4:4       salvation (Ps. 51:12), just as David asked       rier that keeps you from experiencing genu-  (NKJV)-\"Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I    himTake a step of faith by reading out loud      ine joy, your capacity for delight will begin  will say,rejoice!\" fall on your deaf ears.     the Scripture verses thatpromise joy, like       to expand-andyou'll start to wonder how                                                 these:                                           you can possibly contain it all. You           Those are the kinds of verses your                                                     can't,which is exactly what God intended.  friends are most likely to quote in a well-    • You have made known to me the path             You'll find yourself giving awaythe excess,  meaning but futile attempt to cheer you up.    of life; you will fill mewith joy in your pres-  and the overflow will prove irresistible to  It’s all well and good for others to tell you  ence, with eternal pleasures at your right-      those aroundyou. Not bad for someone who  to rejoice, but just once, wouldn't it be      hand. (Psalm 16:11)                              just yesterday, it seems, couldn’t  great if someone would tell you how?                                                            even\"Rejoice!\"                                                 • The precepts of the Lord are right,           Fortunately, God not only wants you   giving joy to the heart. Thecommands of the      Lord, I ask for the grace to trust you to re-  to rejoice in him, but he also promises to     LORD are radiant, giving light to the            store to me the kind of joyno one can take  enable you to rejoice in him. Jesus-who,       eyes.(Psalm 19:8)                                away and no circumstance can touch. I  by the way, cannot be separated from joy-                                                       thank youJoy the unbridled, overflowing joy  said God will give you the kind of joy that    • When anxiety was great within me,              that comes from knowing you.  no one can ever take away from you (John       your consolation broughtjoy to my soul.  16:22). And just look at the way God makes     (Psalm 94:19)  that promise throughout the Bible. Some  verses use such vivid imagery that it's clear  • Those who sow in tears will reap with  he's talking about a wild and holy and un-     songs of joy. (Psalm 126:5)  bridled joy: you'll dance your way out of  sorrow and sadness (Jer. 31:13) as the  mountains and hills break into song, to  hand-clapping beat of the trees strutting  their stuff in the fields. 55:12). If nothing  else, it would be worth climbing out of the  just to catch a glimpse of that picture.             God knows when and why you're  feeling low, and he doesn't want to com-  pound your misery with guilty feelings be-  cause you can’t keep up the way everyone
4DEVOTION    uuu FULL STORY ON - 02                                                           What is in swearing?  MAINED SINLESS. KNOWING THAT HE UN-  DERSTANDS AND CARES, WE CAN \"DRAW          Saju John Mathew                              will not hold him guiltless who takes his  NEAR TO THE THRONE OF GRACE, THAT WE                                                     name in vain (Ex 20:7- RSV).  MAY RECEIVE MERCY AND FIND GRACE TO  HELP IN TIME OF NEED\" (HEBREWS 4:16).                                                    Why is God so wrathful when somebody  2. HE HEALS THE BROKENHEARTED AND  BINDS UP THEIR WOUNDS. -PSALM 147:3                                                      breaks this particular law? May  GOD CARES FOR EACH ONE OF US, AND          Tom was badly in need of a thousand bucks be it is because this is something directly  KNOWS THE UNIQUE WAYS OUR HEARTS           and requested his church  HAVE BEEN WOUNDED BY A PAINFUL EXPE-                                                     against God himself. Look at the  RIENCE. JUST AS A PHYSICIAN TREATS EACH    friend Johnny to spare the money f he  PATIENT DIFFERENTLY ACCORDING TO                                                         other laws... Remember the Sabbath day,  THEIR NEEDS, GOD WILL HELP YOU HEAL        could. Johnny didn’t have the  FROM YOUR HEARTBREAK IN EXACTLY THE                                                      honor your parents, shall not  WAY YOU NEED.GOD NOT ONLY CARES FOR        money, so, together they went to Jacob, kill, shall not commit adultery, shall not  COMMUNITIES, BUT ALSO FOR INDIVIDU-        another member of their church.  ALS. THOSE WHO HURT – THE BROKEN-                                                        steal, shall not bear false witness,  HEARTED AND THE WOUNDED – ARE SPE-         Jacob offered the money, but insisted on  CIAL OBJECTS OF HIS CARE. CHARLES  SPURGEON SAID, “HEARTS ARE BROKEN          getting it back the next day.  THROUGH DISAPPOINTMENT. HEARTS ARE  BROKEN THROUGH BEREAVEMENT. HEARTS         Tom said, yes! “I swear, my friend, in  ARE BROKEN IN TEN THOUSAND WAYS, FOR  THIS IS A HEART-BREAKING WORLD; AND        the name of our God... that if there  CHRIST IS GOOD AT HEALING ALL MANNER  OF HEARTBREAKS”                            is a morrow, I will return the money!”  THE LORD IS ALWAYS HEALING AND BIND-  ING: THIS IS NO NEW WORK TO HIM, HE HAS    Johnny was a bit upset to hear  DONE IT OF OLD; AND IT IS NOT A THING OF  THE PAST OF WHICH HE IS NOW WEARY, FOR     Tom swearing. “Hey Tom, you return  HE IS STILL HEALING AND STILL BINDING, AS  THE ORIGINAL HATH IT. COME, BROKEN         the money tomorrow, but don’t  HEARTS, COME TO THE PHYSICIAN WHO  NEVER FAILS TO HEAL: UNCOVER YOUR          swear in the name of God...” Johnny  WOUNDS TO HIM WHO SO TENDERLY BINDS  THEM UP!                                   said, “For the Bible prohibits       You are cordially invited               swearing. It says, “Thou shalt not take      to send submissions to                                             the name of the LORD thy God in       The End Time News       magazine, including                   vain” Ex 20:7                                 shall not covet... God is not directly       articles, short stories,              Normally we mention the third                 involved in any of these laws. Even in     poems, cartoons, etc. If                commandment of the Decalogue only in          the case of the first two laws, where                                             relation with swearing. So we attribute       serving other gods and making of         you would like to                   lesser importance to it than the              molten images are forbidden, God’s name    contribute, please contact               first and the second commandments. The        is not directly defamed, even     us at our email address :               Decalogue, or Ten Words (Deut                 though it is a grave rejection of the eternal                                             4:13) was given directly to all Israel by an  truth about God! However,    [email protected]         audible and terrible voice, the               here, the defiler takes up the name of the                                             voice of Yahweh, sounding like a trumpet      Lord directly. It is something                                             over the multitude (Ex 19:16;                 like a culprit tarnishing the name of the                                             20:18). The Israelites trembled before the    magistrate himself. A severe                                             voice of the Lord and they                    penalty is pronounced for those who break                                             begged that God would speak no more           this law. God himself will be                                             directly, but through Moses. The              the avenger for the defilers. So, the LORD                                             rest of the Law was then given through        will not hold him guiltless who                                             Moses, but the heart of the Law               takes his name in vain.                                             had already been given in the Decalogue.                                               All the other laws were a Godly               The Jewish Rabbis strictly warned the                                             explanation of the Decalogue. So, it is       people of Israel not to break an                                             necessary to see the Decalogue as             oath if they made a swearing in the name                                             a single unit. All commands have equal        of the Lord. False swearing is                                             importance. Nevertheless, the                 condemned in Lev 19:12 as a profanation                                             consequence of breaking this law is given     of the name of Yahweh. The                                             more emphasis than the others.                word prohibits all employment of the name                                             “You shall not take the name of the LORD      of God in ‘vain’.                                             your God in vain; for the LORD                                                                                                               FULL STORY ON - 10
5Fullstory    FULL STORY ON - 07                           Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of        white or black. Simply let your ‘Yes’ be                                               your fathers has sent me to you,’              ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No’;  Why is God Yahweh called “I am who I         and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then      anything beyond this comes from the evil  am?” It is because He cannot be              what shall I tell them?” (Ex                   one.” Matt 5:33-37.  compared with some body, or something        3:13)                                          The word ‘take’ does not mean just “to  else. When Moses was                         God looked at Moses... He had pity on him!     utter” here. A different meaning is  commissioned by God to reach his people      “That means you want to                        attached to these words by Hengstenberg,  with the message of                          compare me with somebody, Moses? That          who explains them thus:  redemption, to tell them that the “God of    is impossible! If you want to                  ‘Thou shalt not attribute (carry)  their fathers” has sent him to be            compare, you can do it only with me... I am    nothingness to the name of Yahweh thy  an agent of the mighty redemption work,      who I am!” God said. God is                    God. Yahweh, the I AM, who had revealed  he was somewhat skeptic. How                 always “I AM”. His being is described          Himself as such to Israel, must  would the Israelites respond to the phrase   always in present tense... All the             not be confounded with nothingness.’ The  the “God of their fathers”?                  ages were and will be present tense to         commandment, in his view, is  They were in captivity for more than four    Him!                                           directed against hypocrisy in general, of  centuries. There is no reason to             God had made known the glory of His            which the essence is falsehood.  believe that the Israelites as a whole were  nature in His name. God said to                When a hypocrite uses the name of the  zealous in their faith.                      Moses; “This is what you are to say to the     Lord to show his false piety, he is  (Remember, the fourth or fifth generation    Israelites: `I AM has sent me                  putting God to ‘nothingness,’ where no real  Pentecostals who have all the                to you. (Ex 3:14) The name, the great I AM,    piety exists! He is a  opportunities for living the faith of their  was not to be abused by His                    pretender. He is not real. He is using the  forefathers failed in their race).                                                          name of the Lord ‘in vain’.  How then, can we expect this of Jacob’s      people. When we use it in ‘vain’, that is,     The hypocrite makes a profession of God’s  sons, who had never been                     using it without much reverence                name, but doesn’t live up to  serious about handing their religion and     and fear; you break the commandment of         that profession. Those that name the name  faith over to the fifteenth or               the Lord!                                      of God, hail the name of Jesus  sixteenth generation? May be a minority      The Jewish people took the law literally.      and say big “praise the Lord”, but do not  was holding the faith close to               They feared to “take the name of               depart from iniquity, as that  their heart, but the majority was ignorant   the Lord” lightly. However, at a later stage,  name binds them to do, name it in vain.  about the faith of their fathers.            the Rabbis limited the                         What they say with their mouth  I am sure many of the Israelites were idol   application of the law only to the use of      doesn’t mean anything to them. Their  worshippers, who worshipped                  the name “Yahweh”. Hence, they                 worship is worthless. Jesus is  the bull god of Egypt. That must be the      not only tolerated, but also sanctioned the    scolding them for their vain talking. “You  reason Aaron could easily make a             practice of swearing in                        hypocrites! Isaiah was right  “golden calf” when the mischievous           common conversation as quite harmless,         when he prophesied about you: “`these  Israelites wanted a god to walk before       provided the reference to God                  people honor me with their lips,  them. Remember what Joshua said to the       was not directly expressed. So, instead of     but their hearts are far from me. They  people of Israel when they                   taking the name Yahweh, they                   worship me in vain; their teachings  were about to settle in Canaan: “Now fear    used other words like heaven, glory and the    are but rules taught by men.’” (Matt. 15:7-  the LORD and serve him with                  like. Remember, the prodigal                   9) So the third commandment  all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your   son comes back to his father, saying that      asks you to mean what you speak!  forefathers worshiped beyond                 he has sinned against ‘heaven,’                When we pray, more often than not, we  the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD   not ‘God’! (Also remember our phrases like     pray without even thinking what  (Josh 24:14).                                “good heavens!” and “O’ my                     we pray. We just ‘heap up empty words’ as  If Moses goes to the Israelites in the name  goodness!”). Jesus, however, was not for a     the gentiles do (Matthew 6.7).  of the “God of their fathers,”               compromise. He said, “Again,                   The words we utter do not come to our  they would ask: “God of our fathers? Who     you have heard that it was said to the         mind, or in our heart. We utter  is he? What is he like? Is he                people long ago, ‘Do not break                 many words which are meaningless to us.  like the sun god? Moon god? Or, like the     your oath, but keep the oaths you have         It doesn’t arouse our  bull god that we worship in                  made to the Lord.’ But I tell you,             emotions. We call Jesus ‘Lord’ ‘Lord’, but  Egypt?” Then it would be the responsibility  do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it  we do not know what the word  of Moses to explain the “God                 is God’s throne; or by the  of their fathers”. So Moses asked God:       earth, for it is his footstool; or by          ‘Lord’ means! Lord is somebody who rules  please Lord, I know you are the              Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great     over! Even though we call  God of my fathers. But when I go to the      King. And do not swear by your head, for       Jesus Lord, we seldom obey Him. If you call  Israelites who are ignorant about            you cannot make even one hair                  him Lord, you are His slave.  their ancestor’s God, how can I reveal you  to them? “Suppose I go to the                                                                                                 FULL STORY ON - 07
6Meditation      Pastor Shibu Thomas             Oklahoma, USA      This is what the Lord says: “Let not the wise boast of  their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the            rich boast of their riches (Jeremiah 9: 23).    Some depend upon the horses and others                  NEVER BOAST OF  depend on chariots. But we trust in the       WISDOM, STRENGTH AND RICHES  Lord our God, Jehovah. All what I have  today gifts from the Lord and this thought  keeps us grateful to Him. It is the Lord who  helps us triumph in everything that we go  through. The blessings we have such as  intelligence, strength, riches, goodwill,  fame, healing and so on must be resources  that brings glory to the Lord. The wise  should never boast in their wisdom, but    Presence of God is far                        they ought to boast in God, the source of     given us everything for our faith and life.     greater than any                           all wisdom. A rich person should never        All the goodness and the blessings that                                                boast in his riches, but rather he or she     we have received from God must be used  greatness this would                          should boast in God who blesses His           for His glory and honor. Be an instrument   offers. When you go                          people with all sorts of riches. “Unless the  that attracts many to Christ. You had  ahead believing it, the                       Lord builds the house,the builders labor      better realize that lowliness in the  Lord Himself will open                        in vain.Unless the Lord watches over the      presence of God is far greater than any   before you doors of                          city,the guards stand watch in vain”          greatness this would offers. When you go    opportunities and                           (Psalm 127: 1).”No king is saved by the       ahead believing it, the Lord Himself will                                                size of his army;no warrior escapes by his    open before you doors of opportunities          success                               great strength.A horse is a vain hope for     and success.                                                deliverance;despite all its great strength    Prayer:Lord, give me understanding that                                                it cannot save” (Psalm 33: 16-17).            I may boast in you than anything in the                                                Dear child of God, if we have to boast in     world.                                                anything under the Sun, it is in our Lord                                                who saved us, adopted us and who has
7FULL STORY    uuu FULL STORY ON - 05                     Israelites? He gives the reason: “When you    So, when you call Jesus ‘Lord’, ‘Lord’                                                                                           without “settling the matter” with  Then how can you disobey him. So, if a     spread out your hands in                      Him, you are taking the name of the Lord in                                                                                           vain. If you take the name of  disobeying man takes the name              prayer... Your hands are full of blood”       the Lord in vain, your worship is in vain,                                                                                           your prayers are in vain and  of the Lord, even in his prayers, he is    (Isaiah 1:15).                                even your fasting is in vain!                                                                                           So, when some one pretends to be  profaning the name of the Lord!            When you stretch your hands towards           spiritual, where in reality he is worldly,                                                                                           he is taking the name of the Lord in vain.  Many people think they can manipulate God heavens, it should be clean; or,               Even without uttering, you can                                             you are taking the name of the Lord in vain.  profane the name of the Lord! Your life may  through their oblations. That                                                            be a profanation to the name  is an Eastern thinking, not a Biblical one. Your prayers would be                        of the Lord, if you are living it in an                                             unheard! Isaiah again tells about the         unworthy manner. We are supposed  Religious observances are                                                                to live a life that is worthy of our calling.                                             people who thought they could                 Paul is pleading with us to “live a  worthless, if we fail to observe the                                                     life worthy of the calling you have                                             manipulate God through fasting: ‘Why have     received. Be completely humble and  commandments of the Lord. A sinful                                                       gentle; be patient, bearing with one  man cannot manipulate God, even with long we fasted,’ they say, ‘and                     another in love. Make every effort to                                             you have not seen it? Why have we             keep the unity of the Spirit through the  fasting and prayers.                                                                     bond of peace.” Eph 4:1-3. When  The Israelites always came to the temple of humbled ourselves, and you have not          we fail to live a life that is “worthy of the                                             noticed?’ “Yet on the day of your fasting,    call” that we received, either by  God with many sacrifices.                                                                rebellion or by carelessness, we are                                             you do as you please and exploit              profaning the name of the Lord!  However, God was displeased with their                                                   Do not be deceived, thinking that the third                                             all your workers. Your fasting ends in        command speaks only on  offerings: “The multitude of your                                                        uttering the name of the Lord in swearing.  sacrifices— what are they to me?” says the quarreling and strife, and in striking        It is calling Him Lord, Lord,                                             each other with wicked fists. You cannot      when your heart is empty. When a believer  LORD. “I have more than                                                                  finds no yes in his yes, he is  enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fast as you do today and expect               profaning the name of the Lord. It is also                                             your voice to be heard on high. (Isaiah       offering oblations without  fat of fattened animals; I have                                                          purity in life! If you do that, your sacrifice  no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs 58:3-5).                                     would be like Cain’s sacrifice!                                             So God asks Israel to “wash and make          God hates pretenders. When you act  and goats. When you come to                                                              religious where in reality your piety                                             yourselves clean. Take your evil              is void, you put God’s name in nothingness.  appear before me, who has asked this of                                                  Remember, our God is a                                             deeds out of my sight! Stop doing wrong,      zealous God. “You shall not take the name  you, this trampling of my                                                                of the LORD your God in vain;  courts? Stop bringing meaningless offerings! learn to do right! Seek justice,            for the LORD will not hold him guiltless                                             encourage the oppressed. Defend the           who takes his name in vain.  Your incense is detestable                                             cause of the fatherless, plead the  to me....(Isaiah 1. 11-13)                                             case of the widow. (Isaiah 1:16, 17). He  God says He cannot bear their evil                                             also asks people to go to Him  assemblies. “They have become a  burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. for ‘reasoning!’ The verse can be better                                             translated like this- “Come now,  When you spread out your                                             let us settle the matter,” says the LORD.  hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from                                             “Though your sins are like  you; even if you offer many                                             scarlet, they shall be white as snow;  prayers, I will not listen.” He said.                                             though they are red as crimson, they  Why was God reluctant to receive the                                             shall be like wool” v. 18.  sacrifices and offerings of the    Property for IMMEDIATE sale                 at Kozhuvalloor, Chengannur!     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8News    AMAZON’S TOP-SELLING CHRISTIAN ROMANCE FILM    ‘THE FARMER AND THE BELLE’ ANNOUNCES SEQUEL    Orlando — Actress Jenn Gotzon and her           As 2020 saw the end of many marriages          The terms for love come from the Old  actor-producer husband, Jim E. Chandler,        among nonbelievers and Christians alike,       Testament Scriptures and are primarily  announced that their Christian rom-com          Gotzon said it’s important for couples to      used in the Hebrew language. Each word  “The Farmer and The Belle” will have a          have three loves for each other when in a      expressed different types of love.  second installment following its success on     relationship.”When we first started dating,    “When you have all three of those loves  Amazon.                                         this pastor, Pastor David, explained you       burning together under God’s flame, that’s  “The Farmer and The Belle: Saving               have three loves from the Bible. Raya,         the composition of what makes true love  Santaland” was released on DVD in               Ahava and Dod. Raya is friendship. Ahava       within a marriage,” Gotzon concluded in her  November 2020 and spent six weeks on            is that forever loyalty, and Dod is the        interview with CP. “So that’s what we have  Amazon under “Best Sellers in Romance”          passion which is ‘ooh la la,’” she explained.  to strive for in a marriage.”  for new releases. The faith-based film  stayed in the top 10 for six weeks. Part one    FAKE BLASPHEMY CASE: PAK CHRISTIAN  featured Gotzon , Chandler (“Drop Dead          COUPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH RELEASED  Diva”), John Schneider (“The Dukes of           AFTER 7 YEARS  Hazzard”) and others.  The husband-wife duo first announced the        ShaguftaKausar and her husband Shafqat         very happy that we were able to get the  sequel of their hit movie while on a panel      Emmanuel were convicted in 2014 for            release of this couple who are some of the  for marketing and distribution at the           insulting the Prophet Muhammad.                most helpless people in our society,”  International Christian Film and Music  Festival (ICFF) last month. Later, they         But on Thursday, the couple’s lawyer                        MrMalook told the AFP news  shared a few more details regarding the         SaifulMalook said the Lahore High Court                     agency.He said he expected  film.                                           had acquitted them.                                         the pair to be freed next week  “After being, by God’s grace, a bestseller      A prosecution lawyer told the Reuters news                  after the court orders are  in romance on Amazon for six weeks, we          agency that the latest ruling would be                      published.  saw the ministry hit, so we’re going to do      challenged.                                                 Human rights groups have  a sequel, the ‘Farmer and the Belle 2,’”        Blasphemy is punishable by death in                         welcomed the ruling.”Today’s  Gotzon told during a red carpet interview.      Pakistan, and though no-one has ever                        decision puts an end to the  Chandler noted that the film is already in      been executed for it, dozens have been                      seven-year long ordeal of a  development.                                    killed by mobs after being accused.”I am                    couple who should not have  Part one of “The Farmer and The Belle”                                                                      been convicted nor faced a  was inspired by a true story that illustrates                                                  death sentence in the first place,” Amnesty  the beauty of embracing one’s identity in                                                      International’s South Asia Deputy Director  God and how that leads to the true pathway                                                     DinushikaDissanayake said in a  to love. The sequel will venture into how to                                                   statement.  have a fruitful marriage.                                                                      What were the couple accused of?  “It’s about having a fulfilling marriage based                                                 The married couple were convicted in 2014  on psychological and biblical values,”                                                         of sending blasphemous text messages  Gotzon told.                                                                                   insulting the Prophet Muhammad to a local  The Christian romance film is targeting                                                        imam from a phone number registered in  women ages 34 to 54 and up. According                                                          MsKausar’s name. FULL STORY ON - 09  to prlog.org, the second installment follows  “newlyweds, fashion model Belle (Gotzon)  and the small-town farmer (Chandler) from  the first movie.” “The Farmer and the Belle”  will be a Christmas movie that will “take  place on a snowy ski mountain and a  southern farm where the two discover that  sometimes it takes a cow, a pig and a  farmer’s daughter to find love and respect  in marriage.”  The end credits will feature a surprise  visitor, the Chandlers’ newborn son, baby  James.
Sparkling Wisdom!  9    FULL STORY ON - 08                              Sparkling Wisdom!  But her brother told the BBC last year that  the couple were innocent, and he doubted            v.“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good,  they were literate enough even to have  written the abusive messages.                            but that God will make us good because He loves us.”C.S. Lewis  MsKausar worked as a caretaker in a  Christian school, whilst her husband is             v. “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found  partially paralysed.  Human rights groups say blasphemy                        wanting. It has been found difficult; and left  allegations are frequently used to settle                untried.”G.K. Chesterton  personal scores or target religious  minorities                                          v. “We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is  The couple’s lawyer told the BBC last year  that in their trial they suggested a Christian           never alone.”Martin Luther  neighbour they had argued with might have  purchased a SIM card in                             v. “God never hurries. There are no deadlines against  ShaguftaKausar’s name and sent the  messages in order to frame them.                         which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our  In April, the European Parliament passed                 spirits and relax our nerves.”A.W. Tozer  a motion condemning Pakistan for failing  to protect religious minorities, focusing on        v. “The glory of Christianity is to conquer by  the case of MsKausar and Mr Emmanuel.  Blasphemy convictions are often eventually               forgiveness.”William Blake  overturned on appeal in Pakistan. Last  year, Asia Bibi left the country after more         v. “Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they  than a decade in prison, having been  acquitted by the Supreme Court. The                      would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in  verdict led to violent protests by hardline              constant trouble.”William Barclay  religious groups.                                                      v. “We may speak about a place where there are no tears,    You are cordially invited to     send submissions to The                               no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the    End Time News magazine,                                benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing      including articles, short                            God.”Max Lucado     stories, poems, cartoons,      etc. If you would like to                       v. “You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed    contribute, please contact     us at our email address :                             your glorying in yourself.”Charles H. Spurgeon     [email protected]                   v. “The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to                                                             deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not                                                           compromising the righteousness of God.”John Piper                                                        v. “I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon                                                             for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into                                                           it.”Elisabeth Elliot                                                                                  Abigail Thyvilayil John
10News    FULL STORY ON - 01                                NIGERIAN BISHOPS’ COUNCIL SUBMITS    The election comes amid political turmoil in      MEMORANDUM TO REMOVE REFERENCES  the country, with opposition politicians  facing a midnight deadline to put forward         TO SHARIA LAW IN CONSTITUTION  their proposal for a coalition government,  which would oust longtime Prime Minister                                                                                disadvantage in any place with  Netanyahu.                                                                                                              a Muslim majority.  Netanyahu, facing trial for corruption, has                                                                             “Complaints abound about the  been at the helm of Israeli politics for 12                                                                             lack of adequate compliance  years, but his grip on power has loosened in                                                                            with the provisions of the 1999  the face of four inconclusive general                                                                                   Constitution of the Federal  elections in the space of two years.                                                                                    Republic of Nigeria against the  Herzog, who hails from a prominent Israeli                                                                              establishment of any state  family, ran unsuccessfully against Netanyahu                                                                            religion, respect for the freedom  in the 2013 parliamentary elections.                                                                                    of religion, including the right to  His father, Chaim Herzog, was Israel’s  ambassador to the United Nations before           The Catholic Bishops Conference of             freely change one’s religion, and equality  being elected president.                          Nigeria (CBCN) has asked the National          of all religions before the law. In particular,  His uncle, Abba Eban, was Israel’s first          Assembly to remove from the 1999               there have been complaints about the  foreign minister and ambassador to the            Constitution all references to Sharia          special bias, recognition and prominence  United Nations and United States. His             Islamic Law.                                   accorded to Islam in the Constitution of this  grandfather was the country’s first chief         This is just as the bishops urged the          nation, Nigeria.  rabbi.                                            lawmakers to project the secularity of         “The framers of the 1999 Constitution  Herzog has served as head of the Jewish           Nigeria pursuant to Sections 10 and 38 of      created Sharia Courts for Muslims. This  Agency, a nonprofit that works closely with       the Constitution as no other religion is       explains why a Christian cannot be  the government to promote immigration to          recognised by the supreme law of the           appointed as Khadi under the laws of the  Israel, for the past three years since resigning  country except Islam.                          states or Grand Kadi of the Sharia Court  from parliament.                                  In memorandum presented to the Senate          of Appeal.  Given his deep ties to the political              Committee on Constitution Review               “Thus, we conclude that while Muslims  establishment, he was seen as the favourite       (SCCR) noted that there must be an end         exclusively have a court that regulates their  to win the presidency.                            to the established status that Islam enjoys    affairs and to which they can exclusively  The president, while largely a ceremonial         in the constitution before Nigeria can have    be appointed as judges, the same cannot  head of state, is tasked with picking a           lasting peace and unity.                       be said for the Christians, or people of  political party leader to form governing          The memorandum, which was signed by            other religions. This shows a  coalitions after parliamentary elections.         the CBCN President, Archbishop                 constitutionally backed gap of inequality  They also have the power to grant pardons         Augustine Akubeze, and the Secretary of        and under-representation in the Nigerian  — creating a potentially sensitive situation      CBCN, Bishop Camillus Umoh, said the           judiciary  as Netanyahu stands trial for a series of         1999 constitution was an imposition of the     “The establishment of Sharia Courts of  corruption charges.                               military, adding that it has put Christians    Appeal in our Constitution is therefore                                                    and adherents of other religions at a          inconsistent with Sections 10 and 38 of the                                                    disadvantage in any place with a Muslim        1999 Constitution. It amounts to the                                                    majority.                                      adoption of a state religion which Section                                                    “Regarding the 1999 Constitution of the        10 of the 1999 Constitution forbids and                                                    Federal Republic of Nigeria, we state in       prohibits.                                                    the first place that there was no time         “It translates to the adoption of Islam as a                                                    Nigerians convened as individual               state religion. Of course, the enforcement                                                    stakeholders or as represented citizens to     of Sharia Laws with public funds amounts                                                    decide on or give it to them as a binding      to those states adopting Islam as a religion.                                                    law or constitution. The 1999 Constitution     We submit that adopting sharia law(s) as                                                    of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a        a state law (s) amounts to adopting the                                                    product of and an imposition of the military.  religion founding those laws as the state                                                    “Bearing this in mind, therefore, the          religion; and this violates Section 10 of the                                                    particular aspect we want to address for       1999 Constitution.                                                    this review of the 1999 Constitution has to    “To ensure peace and unity of the nation,                                                    do with the place Islam as a religion has      there must be an end to the practically                                                    assumed in our constitution vis-à-vis our      established status that Islam enjoys in our                                                    national life, to the extent that the 1999     Constitution. We note in this regard that                                                    Constitution has put Christians and            while Islam is mentioned very many times                                                    adherents of other religions at a                                                                                                                                     FULL STORY ON - 11
11News    FULL STORY ON - 10                             PULITZER PRIZE FOR THE SEVENTEEN-YEAR-    in the Constitution, there is not a single     OLD WHO FILMED THE MURDER OF GEORGE  mention of Christianity or any other religion  in the Constitution. This should be            FLOYD  redressed.  “For the sustenance unity and fairness in                                                      murdered by police. Floyd  this country, the Senate has to take                                                           was caught after police  seriously this stand of the Catholic Bishops                                                   received a tip that he was  Conference of Nigeria in response to its                                                       buying smokes with  call for memoranda on the review of the                                                        counterfeit cash. According  1999 Constitution; and has to see this                                                         to reports, Derek Chauvin, a  Constitution review exercise as an                                                             police officer, held his knee  opportunity to give a sincere listening ear                                                    on Floyd’s neck and back for  to Nigerians to whom the 1999                                                                  more than nine minutes,  Constitution of the Federal Republic of  Nigeria (as amended) later referred to as      Darnella Frazier was 17 years old when          resulting in his death. Despite Floyd’s  ‘The 1999 Constitution’ remains an             she observed something that would               repeated claims that he couldn’t breathe,  imposition.                                    change her life forever on the evening of       he didn’t pay attention. Floyd had not  “Consequently, we, the Catholic Bishops        May 25 in Minneapolis, US. A black man          reacted aggressively to the police action,  of Nigeria, speaking in the name of the        called George Floyd was slain by cops           indicating that there was no justification for  Catholic community in Nigeria, hereby          three storefronts away from her. She            the police abuse. The cops were charged  submits that Nigerians do not have one law     captured the footage of Floyd’s murder,         with a number of offences. As per reports,  as one people in one nation.                   which became crucial evidence in                Chauvin was convicted guilty of murder in  “To correct this, all references to Sharia     revealing America’s ugly face to the rest       the third degree and manslaughter in the  and any other discriminatory or divisive       of the world – a society that professes to      second degree.  law(s) should be expunged from the 1999        be a land of freedom and equality yet           Frazer, on the other hand, was extremely  Constitution of the Federal Republic of        stinks of endemic institutionalized racism.     disturbed by the incident, and she  Nigeria (as amended),” the Memorandum                                                          expressed sadness throughout her  reads.                                                  The Pulitzer Prizes’ official Twitter  testimony that she was unable to save                                                 account announced Frazer’s 2021 Pulitzer        Floyd. Floyd’s assassination sparked     Submissions Invited                         Prize Special Citation award on Friday,         nationwide protests, resulting in a slew of                                                 June 11. The Pulitzer Board announced in        policy changes at the federal level.         www.theendtimenews.com                  a statement that Frazer was honoured for        According to a report, Joe Biden, who                                                 recording Floyd’s murder. According to          became president of the United States in                                                 Floyd’s relatives, Frazier’s footage was        January 2021, said that the protests forced                                                 vital in the police officers’ trial and         America to confront racism.                                                 conviction stated reports.                                                 Floyd, a 47-year-old black man from                    www.theendtimenews.com                                                 Minneapolis, United States, was shot and                                                                                                   You are cordially invited                                                                                                 to send submissions to                                                                                                     The End Time News                                                                                                   magazine, including                                                                                                  articles, short stories,                                                                                                 poems, cartoons, etc. If                                                                                                       you would like to                                                                                                    contribute, please                                                                                                 contact us at our email                                                                                                            address :                                                                                                   [email protected]
12News    ‘FRESH WAVE OF VIOLENCE’ IN MOZAMBIQUE DRIVEN BY RADICAL  JIHADIST EXTREMISTS; CHILDREN BEHEADED    Conditions in Cabo Delgado,                     Boko Haram, al Qaeda,” Lamb                                        Lamb agrees that the  northern Mozambique, have                       explained. “It’s just organizing together in                       situation requires the  “seriously deteriorated”                        order to expand their territories throughout                       international community’s  over the past year, affecting                   the African continent, and their goal is really                    attention and said the Islamic  children                                        to eradicate Christianity from this territory                      State is struggling to gain a  “disproportionately” as                         and, unfortunately, in some ways, it’s                             hold of the entire region in  nearly 3,000 people have                        working,” she continued. “Even specifically                        what she believes is “the  been killed and over 800,000                    from this northern part of Mozambique, an                          greatest wave of Islamic  displaced since the violent                     estimated 800,000 people have fled the                             violence” in the modern era.  insurgency that began in                        region, and those who remain, including  October 2017, according to                      women, children, families, are facing                              “It should be a matter of grave  a report.Violent attacks by                     starvation even if they’re spared from …                           concern for the international  Islamic rebels in the Cabo                      violence.” Lamb said Christians in                                 community because it is an  Delgado province have led                       Mozambique are especially targeted with                            indication that there is an                                                  violence and believes the government              emerging caliphate throughout the sub-  to the deaths of more than 2,838 people,        contributes to this.                              Saharan African region,” she said. “So what  including over 1,400 civilians, though the                                                        we saw in the devastation … that’s all  actual number is expected to be                 “There is a great deal of instability, and there  caliphate activity.”  higher. A report released this month by Save    can even be some anti-Christian antipathy  the Children, Plan International and World      at the government level,” Lamb said. “So as       “And what’s so concerning is these groups  Vision showed how the extent of the conflict    far as the government of Mozambique, in           are organizing together to create what’s  in Cabo Delgado has worsened in the last 12     some ways, it’s not helping because there         essentially a new Islamic State throughout  months and how children are suffering           are some of those antipathies even at the         the entire region,” Lamb continued. “So that  disproportionately. The last 12 months of       highest level, so when it’s pervasive at the      is deeply concerning, not just from a religious  Mozambique’s Islamic insurgency has             lower level, it’s combining into a perfect        freedom standpoint, but also from a  escalated due to increased armed conflict on    storm.”                                           democracy standpoint. Also from just the  villages and district capital towns, leading                                                      overall human rights condition of we have  to casualties and “grave violations” against    The report also offers recommendations and        this one group of incredibly violent extremists  children. Amy Lamb, director of                 said the U.N. and international community         who are saying … ‘we’re going to take over.”  communications for Open Doors, told The         “must, without delay,” support the                It should be a matter of concern for the  Christian Post that the “fresh wave of          establishment of peace and address                international community because this is  violence” in Mozambique has had a               underlying causes of the conflict.                probably the greatest wave of Islamic  “devastating” toll.                                                                               violence that the modern era has seen.”                                                  In March, the U.S. Army Green Berets  Lamb said that for the first time, Mozambique   were deployed to Mozambique to train              Lamb called on the American Church to pray  was added to the World Watch List as being      Mozambican marines to counter the violent         for Christians in Mozambique and for those  among the most persecuted countries             insurgency that has led to children as young      who have been displaced.  “because of the fresh wave of violence          as 12 years old being beheaded.  coming into Mozambique primarily driven by                                                        “Pray for God’s intervention in the violent  radical jihadist extremists.” A March attack                                                      attacks, and as rapidly as we have seen this  on Palma, a town in the northeast of                                                              wave of violence rise, that we would see it  Mozambique, led to an estimated 67,848                                                            decline just as fast,” Lamb added.  displaced people as of June 4. Many children  affected by this attack were orphaned or were                                                        www.theendtimenews.com  separated from their parents as they fled. The  southeastern African country is home to  about 17 million Christians, which is over 50%  of the population. Lamb said it’s also home  to one of the fastest-growing evangelical  populations in the world. “Because of [the  rise in Christianity], we’re seeing jihadist  groups including those who are affiliated  with the Islamic state, with al Shabab, with
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