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Moriel Japan March 19, 2013

Dear believers in grace,

Opposition When We Take a Stand

There’s a Bible school here that has a 3 week course for people from various countries.  This year Champ decided to attend.  After deciding, one of his friends from Bangkok offered him a job with a good salary, but he had to start right away.  Champ had been looking for a job and this would have been a good one, but he turned it down because of his commitment to go to the Bible school.  His friend called a couple times more and it was a big temptation for Champ but he stuck with his decision to go to the Bible school.  Now he has been really blessed in attending this school and was also a blessing to others. Continue reading →

Urgent Prayer Request – Moriel Japan Updated 3/17

Japan Update – March 17, 2011

Firstly. Praise the Lord. The pastor, Tokio Tanaka, whose town was destroyed by the tsunami, was found today by his son in a refugee camp and is now on his way back to Sendai. He will still need our continued prayer as I imagine he has lost everything. But he is alive.
Secondly, everyone is worried about this nuclear risk. Please pray that they can get this under control. No doubt you all have more information than us about this. That is why it is scary. The Japanese are gazing at all the foreigners fleeing Tokyo and some are wondering why.
Our Calvary Chapel friends from Tokyo are preparing to minister in the most badly affected regions as soon as they are able. They also report that people around them are still closed to the gospel.
We are getting some good signs of response among those who attended our recent Moriel seminars last month. Unbelievers have been reading the bible, listening to our online MP3s and asking questions. Please pray that they will come to church while this window of mercy is open to them.
The situation in Tokyo is getting worse each day and many refugee camps are still without supplies. On top of that it has become winter again with snow and cold wind everywhere.
This is a foretaste of what is coming. There is no question about that.
We intend to continue with our focus on evangelism and have some tracts printed regarding prophecy and the return of Christ. The window of time when people’s hearts are open will not be long. The fields are white (and the sky is glowing red).

Urgent Prayer Request / Japan Update

As a matter of ongoing urgency we request prayer for the pastor of our contact church in the area of highest tsunami impact, his family and his congregation. The Moriel Japan branch has not been able to make any contact with him and we do not know if he is among the survivors. Akito and all other Moriel associates have been located alive.

Below is the e mail from our branch office in Osaka.

Pastor Tokio Tanaka

We have found that our subscriber to Moriel Japan, Pastor Tokio Tanaka, lives and has his Methodist church by a river side right on the coast of Sendai. From the map it appears to be right on the water’s edge. After seeing the footage of that area it seems there is little hope but reports say that although the water level in his area is still waist deep people around there have survived. Let’s hold up his congregation in prayer.

His phone is out of course and I am hoping for a reply from his ‘BlessJerusalem’ e-mail address. It may be a long time coming.

Please pray with us for Pastor Tanaka and his church.

Praise Jesus – Akito has been found a few hours ago !

We finally managed to get some communication at the Moriel branches in The UK & USA with the Moriel office in Osaka, Japan despite most of the phone system and cell phone system being knocked out. While damage is not serious in Osaka however, Daisuke & Geoff from the Japan branch of Moriel  inform us that there a number of Moriel associates in the Miyage and Aomori areas (near the off shore epicenter)  whose whereabouts and circumstances we are unable to establish. There are also a number of other believers connected with Moriel in Tokyo and there are Moriel subscribers at the Tokyo Calvary Chapel. There are also a number of ‘Arielniks’, associated with Arnold Fruchtenbaum’s ministry in the same area. Jacob Prasch has also been connected with and spoken at the fellowship in Sendai that is interested in Israel & prophecy. This city of Sendai has been hit very badly but there is no communication. Continue reading →

Dangers of the Fourth Dimension

The Serpent and the Dragon: The Story of Two Koreas

Revelation 12 gives a great insight into how Satan tries to destroy God’s people. In Revelation 12 we see Satan’s attack on the woman (physical Israel), and then his attack on the descendants of the woman (spiritual Israel).

And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. (Rev. 12:9)

The serpent is Satan the deceiver. The serpent deceived the woman in the garden of Eden. As Adam is a type of Christ (called the last Adam) Eve is a type of the church. The attack against the woman came not by persecution but by subtle deception, by putting truth next to error. The dragon rages against the woman. This is clearly persecution. The devil has these two modes of attack: persecution and deception. What makes Satan’s attack in the Last Days so terrible is that both the serpent and the dragon are cast down to the earth. This attack is a danger to those who dwell upon the earth: worldly people. Continue reading →