However, Christianity in Korea, basically started the same way. Though the Catholics had sent missionaries some centuries before, there was no real gospel witness to Korea, until a missionary went in the 19th century armed with a box of Bibles. As he landed on the shore with his Bibles, he was immediately attacked and killed and his Bibles scattered in the sea. However local fishermen caught pages of his Bibles in their nets, and stuck the waterlogged pages on their walls as a decoration. Soon those who could read the Korean script were convicted by the words they read, and when future missionaries turned up and explained these words from the Bible, the fishermen were converted.

What is now the terrible dictatorship of North Korea was actually the centre of Christianity in Korea, and before this, Korea was invaded by and a province of Japan for many years, and Christianity was persecuted savagely by them as well.

The previous king, Henry IV, a hundred years earlier, had been a nominal Reformed Protestant, but had converted to Roman Catholicism when he inherited the throne. However, he never forgot the Protestants, and issued the Edict of Nantes, to tolerate and give them freedom of worship.

This was continued under his son, Louis XIII, somewhat reluctantly, but his grandson, Louis XIV, a dissolute King and an avowed Roman Catholic determined to revoke this Edict which he did. The Reformed Protestants or Huguenots, the most productive people in the French economy, were harassed, brutalised, persecuted, and finally forcibly expelled from France.

This was an absolute disaster, and the monarchy began a terrible decline until the secular communistic revolutionaries who were atheistic dethroned and executed Louis XVI, his wife, (“let the people eat cake”,), Marie Antoinette, and his young son, the Crown Prince or Dauphin.

Thankfully, when Hitler betrayed Chamberlain, and went on to invade Poland, we had a good strong Prime Minister in waiting, Winston Churchill, who replaced the disgraced Neville Chamberlain, and who had a policy of total opposition to the Nazi regime, and went on to win the war and defeat Hitler and Nazi Germany, even at one point when we were on our own in Europe.

However, BDW, to go from there to denying any biblical promises of the literal land of Israel to the literal Jews is very different.

I would like to remind you that 1). There are an increasing number Messianic Jews that do know the Lord Jesus Christ as their Messiah.

2). There is no such thing as a national Palestine, nor ever was, or a mythical Arab Palestinian people.

3). Judea and Samaria are the heartland of Israel, not a mythical “West Bank”.

4). God has promised in His Word that He will restore the literal land to the literal people, and in the Old Testament, Israel, Zion, Judah and Jerusalem means literally, Israel, Zion, Judah and Jerusalem, not some allegorical meaning, like the church. Sadly many Protestant Evangelicals are continuing the error of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church.

1). Churches must start declining official charity status or receiving any government money or tax exemption, because it will come with strings attached.

2). They must ascertain the spiritual and moral state of potential members when they apply for membership, and all members must agree to the statement of faith and doctrine of the church.

3). All office holders of the church, not only pastors, elders deacons, and evangelists, but also Sunday school teachers, youth workers, women’s group leaders, even ushers and anyone else involved in an official ministry of the church must be thoroughly examined and approved before they take office, and held accountable.

4). Church discipline must be applied lovingly, firmly, rigorously and there should be clear biblical counselling and restoration available when people get right with the Lord and repent.

Some people are shut in, they are confined by a medical condition to bed, or have to stay housebound.

Some people have no private transport, they live in a remote area, and there is no public transport available, and the nearest truly evangelical church is miles away.

Other people have been converted while in prison, a mental hospital, or in the armed forces, and there is no truly evangelical provision available for them.

Worse, in some ways than these possibilities, is where there is absolutely no truly evangelical church in a whole area, and the only churches available are either apostate, liberal or very seriously compromised.

This whole transgender thing is basically the rebellion of an unregenerate man or woman saying like the clay to the potter (as described in the prophecy of Jeremiah), “I don’t like the way you made me, so I am going to change it,” as if they possibly could.

God had a perfect plan for us as the man or the woman He wanted us to be. Those who go down the transgender route end up with frustration, depression, illness both physical and mental, sterility of course, and in many cases tragically suicide or early death. The whole thing is a demonic deception.

A couple of thoughts that occur to me. Why aren’t the feminists up in arms about this? Biological men invading their space, their women’s refuges, women’s prisons, their daughters being forced to shower and change in the presence of biological boys and men, biological men competing in girls athletic competitions.

The Guardian, and its Sunday counterpart, the Observer, is the leading liberal newspaper in Britain.

An anonymous education whistleblower has complained that in schools, autistic children are being told they “are trapped in the wrong body”, and automatically given puberty blockers, sometimes even over their parents heads. In one school alone apparently 13 children are receiving “gender reassignment” treatment!!

In Philippians 4:8, it tells us, “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”

This is an excellent rule which should govern all our watching, listening,reading, etc., and may indeed keep us out of trouble.

Also things like Harry Potter, films, tv, the Internet, rock music and popular entertainment are leading people on to the occult and New Age.

Apparently, the state approved Bulgarian Orthodox Church, and the Turkish Muslim minority will not be subject to the same laws.

Indian Hindu Nationalists of the BNP Government from the neighbouring state of India, having persecuted the Christians there, have decided to export their revolution to Nepal.