Month: January 2026

GOD WATCHES OVER THE NATIONS! 

January 28, 2026

God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration

GOD WATCHES OVER THE NATIONS! 

If only the “great men and kings of the earth”, the so-called “shakers and movers”, architects and shapers of the destiny of the global world order, would find precious, dwindling time to search and understand God’s Word and examine their own hearts, lives, and true ambitions! 

For proper context, plead for the Holy Spirit, then read Dan. 4: 1-12 first on your Bibles, KJV or RSV preferred. 

Now follows verses 13-17 (emphasis mine): 

    “I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a WATCHER AND HOLY ONE came down from heaven; and He cried aloud, and said thus, HEW DOWN the tree and, and CUT OFF his branches, SHAKE OFF his leaves, and SCATTER his fruit: let the BEASTS get away from under it, and the FOWLS from its branches;

     “Nevertheless LEAVE THE STUMP of his roots in the earth, even with a BAND OF IRON AND BRASS, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and LET HIS PORTION BE WITH the BEASTS in the grass of the earth;

    “LET HIS HEART BE CHANGED FROM MAN’S, AND LET A BEAST’S HEART BE GIVEN UNTO HIM, AND LET SEVEN TIMES PASS OVER HIM. 

    “This matter is BY THE DECREE OF THE WATCHERS, and THE DEMAND BY THE WORD OF THE HOLY ONES: TO THE INTENT THAT THE LIVING MAY KNOW THAT THE MOST HIGH RULETH IN THE KINGDOM OF MEN, AND GIVETH IT TO WHOMSOEVER HE WILL[s], and SETTETH UP OVER IT THE BASEST OF MEN” (end of Scripture text). 

Now this magnification from inspired pen of God’s messenger:

    PK 536-7: “The history of nations speaks to us today. To EVERY NATION and every individual GOD HAS ASSIGNED A PLACE IN HIS GREAT PLAN. Today men and NATIONS ARE BEING TESTED BY THE PLUMMET in the hand of Him who makes no mistake. ALL ARE BY THEIR OWN CHOICES [individuals and nations] DECIDING THEIR DESTINY, and God is OVERRIDING ALL for the accomplishment of HIS PURPOSES. 

    “The prophecies which the Great I AM has given in His Word, uniting link after link in the chain of events, from eternity in the past to the eternity in the future, TELL US WHERE WE ARE TODAY IN THE PROCESSION OF THE AGES, and what may be expected in the time to come! 

    “All that prophecy has foretold as coming to pass, UNTIL THE PRESENT TIME, has been traced in the pages of HISTORY, and we may be assured that all which is yet to come will be FULFILLED IN ITS ORDER.” – E. G. White, Prophets & Kings, Pacific Press Publishing, 1943, p. 536. 

This is an urgent Present, testing Truth of the end-time Gospel Christ’s kingdom of righteousness for both individuals and nations who profess Christianity! 

To be continued next MWM, God willing. Bless all, NMF.

MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:

January 28, 2026

God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration

GOD WATCHES OVER THE NATIONS! 

If only the “great men and kings of the earth”, the so-called “shakers and movers”, architects and shapers of the destiny of the global world order, would find precious, dwindling time to search and understand God’s Word and examine their own hearts, lives, and true ambitions! 

For proper context, plead for the Holy Spirit, then read Dan. 4: 1-12 first on your Bibles, KJV or RSV preferred. 

Now follows verses 13-17 (emphasis mine): 

    “I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a WATCHER AND HOLY ONE came down from heaven; and He cried aloud, and said thus, HEW DOWN the tree and, and CUT OFF his branches, SHAKE OFF his leaves, and SCATTER his fruit: let the BEASTS get away from under it, and the FOWLS from its branches;

     “Nevertheless LEAVE THE STUMP of his roots in the earth, even with a BAND OF IRON AND BRASS, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and LET HIS PORTION BE WITH the BEASTS in the grass of the earth;

    “LET HIS HEART BE CHANGED FROM MAN’S, AND LET A BEAST’S HEART BE GIVEN UNTO HIM, AND LET SEVEN TIMES PASS OVER HIM. 

    “This matter is BY THE DECREE OF THE WATCHERS, and THE DEMAND BY THE WORD OF THE HOLY ONES: TO THE INTENT THAT THE LIVING MAY KNOW THAT THE MOST HIGH RULETH IN THE KINGDOM OF MEN, AND GIVETH IT TO WHOMSOEVER HE WILL[s], and SETTETH UP OVER IT THE BASEST OF MEN” (end of Scripture text). 

Now this magnification from inspired pen of God’s messenger:

    PK 536-7: “The history of nations speaks to us today. To EVERY NATION and every individual GOD HAS ASSIGNED A PLACE IN HIS GREAT PLAN. Today men and NATIONS ARE BEING TESTED BY THE PLUMMET in the hand of Him who makes no mistake. ALL ARE BY THEIR OWN CHOICES [individuals and nations] DECIDING THEIR DESTINY, and God is OVERRIDING ALL for the accomplishment of HIS PURPOSES. 

    “The prophecies which the Great I AM has given in His Word, uniting link after link in the chain of events, from eternity in the past to the eternity in the future, TELL US WHERE WE ARE TODAY IN THE PROCESSION OF THE AGES, and what may be expected in the time to come! 

    “All that prophecy has foretold as coming to pass, UNTIL THE PRESENT TIME, has been traced in the pages of HISTORY, and we may be assured that all which is yet to come will be FULFILLED IN ITS ORDER.” – E. G. White, Prophets & Kings, Pacific Press Publishing, 1943, p. 536. 

This is an urgent Present, testing Truth of the end-time Gospel Christ’s kingdom of righteousness for both individuals and nations who profess Christianity! 

To be continued next MWM, God willing. Bless all, NMF.

MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:

January 21, 2026

God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration

GOD INCREASES AND DESTROYS NATIONS 

    “He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: He enlargeth the nations, and straighteneth them again.” Job 12: 23, KJV. 

Read Habakkuk 1: 5-17 within this topic’s context and thought.    

Now follows this elucidation of Daniel chapter two by E. G. White in her book, Prophets & Kings, pp. 499, 500. All  emphasis and bracketed words provided. 

Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the whole composite metallic image of a man represents the most powerful kingdoms, empires, and nations of earth starting with ancient Babylon. Daniel interprets Nebuchadnezzar’s dream for him, declaring: 

     “In the days of these kings [kingdoms] shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, WHICH SHALL NEVER BE DESTROYED: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall BREAK INTO PIECES AND CONSUME ALL THESE KINGDOMS, and it shall stand forever. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the STONE was cut out of the mountain WITHOUT HANDS, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold [the metallic symbols of the world’s empires], the great GOD hath made it known to the king, WHAT SHALL COME TO PASS hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.’ 

     “The king was convinced of the truth of the interpretation, and IN HUMILITY AND AWE [‘fear’] he ‘fell upon his face and worshipped’, saying, ‘Of a truth it is, that YOUR GOD IS A GOD OF GODS, and a LORD OF KINGS, and a REVEALER OF SECRETS, seeing thou [Daniel] couldest reveal this secret.’ 

    “Nebuchadnezzar revoked the decree for the destruction of the wisemen [of Babylon]. Their lives were SPARED because of Daniel’s connection with the Revealer of secrets. . . .

    “In the annals of human history, THE GROWTH OF NATIONS, the rise and fall of empires, appear AS IF dependent on the will and prowess of MAN; the shaping of events SEEMS , to a great degree, to be determined by his power, ambition, or caprice. But in the Word of God the curtain is drawn aside, and we behold, ABOVE, BEHIND, AND THROUGH ALL THE PLAY AND COUNTER PLAY of human interest and power and passions, the AGENCIES OF THE ALL-MERCIFUL ONE, silently, patiently working out the counsels of HIS OWN WILL. 

     “In words of matchless beauty and tenderness, the apostle Paul sets before the sages of Athens the DIVINE PURPOSE in the creation and distribution of RACES AND NATIONS. ‘God that hath made the world and all things therein,’ declared the apostle, hath made ONE BLOOD ALL NATIONS OF MEN FOR TO DWELL UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH, and hath determined THE TIMES BEFORE APPOINTED, and the BOUNDS [boundaries] of their habitation; THAT THEY SHOULD SEEK THE LORD, IF HAPLY they might feel after Him, AND FIND HIM.’ (Acts 17: 24-27, KJV).” End quote. 

To be continued next MWM, God willing. Bless all, NMF.

MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:

January 14, 2026

God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration

GOD’S PURPOSE IN NATIONS (Part 2)

ALL NATIONS ARE OF ONE BLOOD.  In apostle Paul’s public address as he stood in the midst of Areopagus (Mars’s Hill) before the Athenian Jews, the pagan philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics, he declared: 

     “Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD, whom therefore YE IGNORANTLY WORSHIP, Him I declare unto you. 

    “God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with [human] hands. Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though He needeth anything, seeing He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; 

    “And hath MADE OF ONE BLOOD ALL NATIONS of men

for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before, and THE BOUNDS OF THEIR HABITATION; 

    “That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after Him, and find Him, though He be not far from every one of us.

    “For IN HIM WE LIVE, AND MOVE, AND HAVE OUR BEING; as certain as also of your own poet have said, For we are also His offspring.

    “Forasmuch then as WE ARE THE OFFSPRING OF GOD, we ought not to think that the GODHEAD is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.” (Acts 17: 22-29, KJV. 

Indeed, it is God alone (the one God of the Godhead, made up of the three Persons of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) who “made all nations of one blood,”—is the One who establishes the boundaries of all nations, according to His will and purpose, not the “great men and kings of the earth” who, in their foolish pride, forget that they are but fallen, sinful, finite, mortals whose bodies simply “return to the dust of the earth” at death! Note this:

    “Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee: WHEN THE MOST HIGH DIVIDED TO THE NATIONS THEIR INHERITANCE, when he separated the sons of Adam, HE SET THE BOUNDS OF THE PEOPLE, according to the number of the children of Israel” (Deut. 32: 7, 8). 

To be continued next MWM, God willing. Bless all, NMF.

MID-WEEK MSNNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:

January 7, 2026

God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration

GOD’S PURPOSE IN NATIONS

We begin first with a couple of key texts for this topic following the rule of first-mention in the Bible (all emphasis and bracketed words provided): 

AFTER THE FLOOD: 

     “These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their NATIONS. These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their NATIONS: and by these were THE NATIONS DIVIDED IN THE EARTH AFTER THE FLOOD.” Gen. 10: 31, 32, KJV. 

THREE MONTHS AFTER ISRAEL’S EXODUS FROM EGYPT: 

     “In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilder eras of Sinai. . . And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou SAY TO THE HOUSE OF JACOB, and tell the children of Israel; ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians. . . . Now therefore, IF ye will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above  all people; for all the earth is Mine: and ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and an HOLY NATION. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.” Exo. 19: 1, 3, 5, 6; cf. Lev. 20: 23- 26; Deut. 14: 2; 1 Pet. 2: 9. 

    “Blessed be the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom He hath chosen for His own inheritance.” Ps. 33: 12. 

     “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.” Prov. 14: 34. 

Now, a spiritually-profound quote from the inspired pen: 

    “In the annals of human history the GROWTH OF NATIONS, the rise and fall of empires, appear as dependent upon the will and prowess of man. The shaping of events seems, to a great degree, to be determined by his power, ambition, or CAPRICE. 

    “But in the Word of God the curtain is drawn aside, and we behold, behind, above, and through all the play and counter-play of human interests and powers and passions, the agencies of the all-merciful One, silently, patiently working out the counsels of His own will. The Bible reveals the true philosophy of history [in and

of the rise and fall of the nations and empires of man].” -Ellen G. White, Education, p. 173. 

    If only the “great and mighty men” and “kings and princes of the earth” who constantly plot and scheme to effect “regime changes”, “nation building,” and “controlling economic and strategic hemispheres” of this fallen world, would humbly consult the Word of God, how different the world history, current developments, and prophesied future events would have been! 

But rest assured, faithful followers of Christ, God’s will and purpose for nations will be soon fulfilled in the triumphant and glorious emergence of the final antitypical “chosen generation, royal priesthood, HOLY NATION, and peculiar people.” 

You, of course, can and should be part of it, if and when you simply trust and willingly obey God’s perfect plan of redemption of the true gospel! 

To be continued next MWM, God willing. Bless all, NMF.