The Old Paths

The pages of history tell the story of the Israelite nations – Great Britain and the Commonwealth, America and Canada - not only bringing freedom to the world and being used of God to deliver other nations from oppression and tyranny, but also being divinely assisted and defended by God in this purpose.

Many of us today no longer recognise that the freedoms and rights that are enjoyed in the Western nations stem from their Christian past. Our laws were based on biblical principles... read about the fascinating Christian history of various nations.

We disagree with those groups that say only Israelites may be saved, and can give many examples to substantiate our position.

We thought we were being so wonderfully progressive by spurning assimilation. The result? People who respect nothing.

In 1606, the Portuguese Captain Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, standing in Tahiti, spoke of the destiny of Australia almost a hundred years before it was discovered by Captain Cook. Here, in part, is the text of the prophecy...

The 12th to 15th Centuries: This was the time of the Kathars and Waldensians. The latter were founded by Pierre Valdo (1140-1217 A.D.), a man from Lyon who converted to true Christianity in 1176 A.D and who took his teaching directly and exclusively from the Bible. 

In 1759, British troops defeated French troops in the battle for control of New France. British North America became the Dominion of Canada on July 1st, 1867, with four provinces joining to form the new union. Over the years, the country grew to include ten provinces and three territories. Canada remains part of the British Commonwealth of nations, and as such is a fulfillment of prophecy. The founders of this country built Canada on the Word of God, as can be seen in many examples. Canada was once a very godly country, but has unfortunately lost more and more of its Christian heritage in recent years.

Denmark is the smallest of the three Scandinavian kingdoms, and is located on numerous islands and the mainland peninsula of Jutland. Though Denmark is small, it is one of the very oldest continually existing national states, tracing its kings and queens back to before the 9th century. The name “Denmark” is called “Danmark” in the Danish tongue, and means “the border district of the Danes". It was used from sometime earlier than the 10th century by the dominating tribe of the Danes. Denmark has been strongly influenced by Martin Luther and remains Lutheran until today.

France received its Christianity directly from Jerusalem in the first century BC. After Christ’s death, Christians were persecuted in Jerusalem and in all cities of Palestine. Joseph of Arimathea, Lazarus (resurrected by Jesus), Mary Magdalene, and several other followers of Jesus were all exiled from Israel, and set afloat by their persecutors in an oar-less boat without sail. The boat miraculously reached an area near Marseilles (called today “Les Saintes Maries de la Mer” or “The Holy Mary(s) from the Sea), where Philip had already settled down and begun to preach the Word.

Germany has quite an unsettled history. It is a country much influenced by God, as can be seen with reformers like Martin Luther, but was sadly also very much used by the Enemy. Today in Germany, Bible-based, Pentecostal and other non-mainstream churches are in the clear minority and are still regarded with great suspicion and hostility. Many Bible-based churches are labelled as “sects” and “cults”.

Hungary flourished as a Roman Catholic state, tightly connected with other Catholic neighbouring states such as the Hapsburgs in Austria. Under John Hus (1369-1415), who was one of John Wycliffe’s followers, the ideas that people should be permitted to read the Bible in their own language, and that they should oppose the tyranny of the Roman Catholic church which threatened anyone possessing a non-Latin Bible with execution was strongly promoted. Because his teaching also spread to the neighbouring countries, many Hungarians became his followers. This unfortunately did not last forever.

 Rome's Christian history goes back to the apostle Paul, who lived in Rome for a couple of years. In the year 64 AD, the young church in Rome experienced its first of several severe persecution through the neurotic emperor Nero. In spite of Christianity being recognized as the state religion under Constantine the Great in 313 AD persecution arose with the rise of papal power during the following centuries, and Christians suffered persecution throughout the whole country. Many thousands of so-called “heretics” lost their lives in their battle for freedom from the Roman Catholic Church. Hundreds of thousands died as martyrs, suffering indescribable tortures.

Like almost all other European nations, the Netherlands was also under Roman Catholic rule for centuries, before the Reformation began to dawn on the country in the late Middle Ages. The events in Germany of 1517 (Luther’s publishing of his 95 theses), were known throughout the whole of Europe, and were certainly not lost on the Netherlanders. Printing presses (to which the Dutch lay claim as the inventors, though most of the world credits Gutenberg) produced copies of Luther's pamphlets, and in 1522 the New Testament was published in the Dutch language. In 1527 the whole Bible was printed in Dutch and in the 1530's Calvin's writings began to appear. The Dutch gladly received the Reformation, and many were converted to the evangelical faith.