The fact that Moses was Jewish, a Levite, and a prince in Egypt counted nothing as qualification for being the deliverer of a nation. However impressive things were humanly, he had to be emptied of them in order to be qualified. It is a remarkable paradox, that in order to be sent of God, we have to be emptied first of our qualification."

"There is a special promise made for the meek that is not given to any other, “The meek shall inherit the earth.” Indeed, the Lord’s own death on the Cross as well as His whole earthly life is a statement of that meekness and humility. Just His coming in the form of man is a humiliation for God. He was confined in a body, limited to a finite form, and fixed in very narrow place within Israel, from Galilee to Jerusalem, for His thirty-three years. His whole life had to be expressed and developed within the confines of one small geographic piece of His own creation. In only three-and-a-half years, and by His own example, He had to express and set forth a mode of being that would be given to mankind as a basis for all the days that are left for the human race."
Art Katz

"Avenge me of mine adversary!" That means that the people of God will be pressed into recognizing that they are not up against some human situation, and therefore their cry will be in relation to this ultimate issue, being avenged of the adversary - pressed into crying.

When you get back of things to the adversary and bring that adversary up before the Throne of God and the Church cries, "Avenge me of mine adversary", you have touched the realm of spiritual effectiveness, you have got behind things. My longing, my craving, is to find the Lord's people seeing this and acting accordingly.

"Therefore, we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal" (2 Cor. 4:16-18).

There is a danger that we will dismiss this as a kind of biblical rhetoric, as a kind of fanciful manner of speaking peculiar to Paul, and nod with a kind of acquiescence that it has a sweet sound to it, but completely lose what is being said.

The foundation of the apostolic mind-set is a true apprehension of the things that are eternal, not in anticipation of a future enjoyment, but of a present appropriation, and that is what makes the church peculiar. We have no idea how important the subject of eternity is. To lose the meaning of this word is to lose everything. It is to condemn the church to being mundane and ordinary, institutional and mechanical, a weariness of the flesh, instead of a joy and a power. In other words, the absence of eternity in the consciousness of the church disfigures and nullifies it as being church. We are going to have to contend for this word because the world is not hospitable to it. Paul not only found this eternal dimension, but he dwelt in it, and yet that did not condemn him to irrelevancy. On the contrary, it made him all the more relevant, and so will it make us also.

Four breakout Christian apologists, no strangers to “fringe” topics, take a radical look at Cosmology based on new discoveries in physics and unconventional insights into the Bible. "From the unbridled quest to exploit quantum science to engaging supernatural entities ... a mind-blowing exposé of the Cosmos." Paul McGuire, The Paul McGuire Report

"No man can give a definitive and comprehensive summation of the whole genius of the word apostolic, but let this be a broad guideline and statement, so that it might enter our contemplation and change our conduct."

Teaching: A Moral Vocation
"I am happy to have this opportunity to share with you and I appreciate the fact that this is on your own time and that you would rather be home because I myself was a teacher for seven years, a history teacher in California. I was a Marxist radical for four years in the school system with the mindset that we need a revolution. I took a year’s absence and when I came back to teaching, I was a Christian. I lost all my friends and became more radical than I had ever been as a Marxist, and this affected all that generation of students."

S. Douglas Woodward tackles the turbulent and tense relationship between Russia and the US as the backdrop to Ezekiel’s famed prophecy—the “Battle of Gog and Magog.” The author argues the specter of nuclear war looms as prelude to the prophesied war when Gog gathers his great army to attack Israel. Woodward builds upon scores of timely articles composed by respected journalists and research papers written by geopolitical experts who study the Middle East, compiling their findings and documenting why a great war may explode in the days just ahead as a result of Islamic terror, Russian militarism, and failed U.S. policies toward Iran, Iraq, Israel, and most recently the fight against ISIS in Syria. Woodward challenges popular prophetic teachings arguing the next war in the Middle East is not the “Psalm 83 War,” why Russia and not Turkey will be Ezekiel’s Gog, why advances in Russian weaponry threaten the security of the United States, and how U.S. policy is at fault for today’s instability in Syria and Iraq.

One of the dangers of the Last Days are the presumptuous apostles who throw their weight around and who seem to have a measure of authority and knowledge that seems to impress the undiscerning. There is, fortunately, one measure of authenticity that cannot be feigned or emulated, namely, true meekness. Meekness is not something that one learns at school, but something attained under the hand of God in union with Him who is meekness, to men who have been called up to ascend ‘the Mount.’ It can only be given out of a man’s proximity with God, who Himself is meek and lowly of heart. Meekness or humility cannot be obtained in any other way.
Art Katz

Brief Messages at Sundry Times

Table of Contents
The People that do Exploits
The Three-fold Law of the Cross
1. Life through Death
2. Liberty through Surrender
3. Enlargement through Loss
Set “For a Sign”
The World Vision
Prayer:
....The only compulsion we would know is, Woe is me if I preach not the gospel. Lay upon us all the passion of the Kingdom... We would stand in Thy presence to minister life to others, to stand against the devil's work, to hold the curse of God over these works of his, to command hands off the children of God. We would stand for the Body of Christ that she be all out of this prison, all chains fallen off. And we would claim perfect protection....

Originally published by Witness and Testimony Publishers in 1927

MOST AMERICANS ARE UNAWARE THAT LIFE AS THEY KNOW IT IS ABOUT TO CHANGE—FOREVER. Europe and the U.S. have imposed economic sanctions on Russia in response to the invasion of Russian military forces into eastern Ukraine and Crimea. The Ukraine is immersed in a civil war between pro– and anti-Russian factions. Heading into its second year, the U.S. and Russia are entangled in a dangerous war of words escalating to include deployment of further American military forces in Eastern Europe. What’s more concerning: Russia has dedicated 2,000 tactical “nukes” to this arena and announced the deployment of 40 new strategic ballistic missiles capable of striking America’s homeland. Russia sees itself under attack from the U.S. on all fronts—and running out of time. Will this apprehension trigger nuclear war in Europe? Will it cause Russia to launch nuclear missiles targeting the United States? Could this happen within just a few short years? Or sooner?

We have many men today who are glib and who know how to play on words, and have made careers out of having an ability to speak. If you are attractive, have a gift of gab, and a certain kind of administrative ability and a certain winsomeness with men, then you can go far in the religious world today. True preaching, however, cannot come from this world. Preaching is altogether a divine and supernatural phenomenon. It is the word of life. It quickens the dead. The hearing of it constitutes an "event." It sets in motion things that have a myriad of consequences. It has a power and a life unto itself. It is a word that is sent.

The topic of eschatology, or the study of last things, is as confusing as it is enthralling. Books devoted to the study of Bible prophecy often don't take into consideration that there are multiple points of view and the right one is far from obvious. In S. Douglas Woodward's first book, Are We Living in the Last Days? What Christians Believe about the Apocalypse, he identifies the primary points of debate between Christians in the 21st century. He covers the three predominant views of Protestants on each topic and encourages the reader to "think for themselves" to decide what they believe about prophecy. Over the past five years, Woodward has earned a reputation for tackling tough issues with a thoroughness to detail and pertinent documentation to convince the dubious.

It is an ultimate, classic and eternal confrontation and collision, and therefore every element in this text and everything that the Spirit of God is expressing through Paul to men is not only powerfully pertinent in that express moment, but it continues to reverberate throughout all time and history and even to this hour. It actually might be said that it is more pungent and more significant now at the conclusion of time and history, than it was two thousand years ago when Paul spoke it. The elements are the same. Nothing has changed.

As a nation, we have steadily progressed through this darkened passageway since World War II, in part due to the presence and influence of hundreds of Nazis who were invited into America after the war. Woodward asks, “Has America become the equivalent evil empire of the twenty-first century?”

Apostolic Conversion
Pretext or Reality?

This is the verbatim transcript of a message given in 1993 to an American congregation of a spiritually impressive kind. That is to say, that it had all the appearances of a committed body, serious in the Lord, and whose lively worship seemed to testify of its abounding health. Nevertheless, after two nights of meetings, I felt, as the speaker, an increasing sense of despair that not much had been transacted and that if the Lord did not radically intervene there would be little point in continuing.

This message was given on the third night, having spent the day in fasting and earnest intercessory prayer. With hardly a single exception, the entire congregation went down on their faces at its conclusion in a depth of groaning and intensive seeking of the Lord.

This compelling sequel to Power Quest Book One: America's Obsession with the Paranormal, reveals the hidden history of Nazi infestation of American institutions after World War II. Beginning with the 1952 flying saucer flap over the nation’s capital and concluding with the CIA's clandestine mind control agenda of the 50s-70s, the reader is confronted with highly charged and seldom known facts.

Table of Contents
Apostolic and Prophetic Foundations
An Apostolic Manifesto
Prophetic Reflections
Prophetic Reflections for the Last Days
What ought we to be about in God in the Last Days?
True and False Prophets

What if the Antichrist were an American leader? What if he were alive today and living in the USA? What if he were only a few years away from revealing himself to the world? Instead of being omitted from Bible prophecy as many of the major eschatology scholars have taught, what if America were at the very center of Bible prophecy? What if the USA, rather than Europe, Rome, or Babylon, was the power base of Satan’s conspiracy against the Kingdom of God?

A Compilation of 12 Messages
Table of Contents
1: A Message for the Earnest Seeker
2: An Addendum On Righteousness
3: At the Age of Twelve
4: Born from Above
5: Holiness – The High Calling of God in Christ Jesus
6: On Adolescence
7: One Thing You Lack
8: Righteousness in the Old Testament
9: Some Thoughts on Romans 10
10: Some Thoughts on the Nature of Sin
11: The Lord’s Coming in the Clouds
12: Virtue, Power and Healing

Woodward argues that America stands destined for disaster. The essays cover a broad spectrum of seldom known facts of our national story that tell the unvarnished history of the past two hundred years right up to the present day.

The Melchizedek Priesthood
An edited transcript
"I want to begin to look at the expression of the priesthood in the future. There is clearly an Ezekiel temple. In Ezekiel 40 and from there on, it talks about the configuration of such a temple, its lineaments and its proportions. It is given in such remarkable detail that it is hard to imagine it being just an allegory. Surely it must be something actual and that will exist in the redeemed Israel. Some believers have a difficulty with that because it talks about the restoration of sacrifices performed by priests.

"Just as the history of sacrifice prepared Israel for the Lamb that would come without spot or blemish, and whose blood would be shed as a once-and-for-all, it is quite possible that a sacrificial ministry would be resumed in the millennial Israel, not to replace that sacrifice of the Lamb, but to be a memorial and reminder, to bring us back to a deepened appreciation of what has been given. It cannot be a substitute, and will detract nothing from the efficacy of the Lamb’s sacrifice, but rather enhance it."
Art Katz

In 1991, the Cold War ended. Yet today’s news is filled with stories of Russian military moves, battles and territorial annexations. A new Cold War has begun. In August 2008, Russia invaded Georgia and annexed Abkhazia and South Ossetia. In March 2014, Russia invaded and annexed Crimea. The Russian military, once considered backward and demoralized, now deploys the world’s most advanced weapons: the Armata Tank, the SS-27 Road Mobile ICBM, and the S-500 ABM. These are weapons with war-winning potential. “The New Tactics of Global War” explains what happened at the end of the Cold War and why Russia remains the number one threat to the United States. Americans never fully understood the old Soviet Union and they are far from understanding today’s Russia. The moves and counter-moves of the present crisis stem from a long-running deception game – the only game Russia’s security structures know how to play. The authors investigate this game, allowing the reader to understand the “mind of the enemy.”

That is the genius of David, of what is Davidic, and why he is beloved of the Father. The depth of this Psalm, the cry of it, that such a man – the sweet singer of Israel who faced Goliath single-handedly with a sling and stones, the one who brought the Ark of God to Jerusalem with sacrifice, worship and dancing – should fall shamefully into adultery and murder. He was the greatest of Israel’s kings, and the one whose name the Father is not ashamed to ascribe even to Jesus as the ‘greater David’. It is staggering to contemplate that this man should fall into the most horrible conjunction of sins, the one hand-in-hand with the other – this giant, this holy man, this lover of God, who stood for the honor of God, who would not allow that the armies of God be defamed and mocked by a pagan, a Philistine.

It is time to wake up! And if that means a rude awakening, so be it. It's time for us to get off the fence and decide if we are going to take the Word of God seriously. The warnings to the church of this generation are clearly proclaimed in this series of two messages. Expect to not only have your toes stepped on, but expect some deep and potentially painful spiritual surgery as the Word, the "sharp two-edged sword", cuts away at the soulish cancer that is leading the church into apostasy and the coming judgment and purging. 

"I was having an interesting conversation with my brother Mark before we came tonight. It’s something that traveling evangelists don’t confess to each other, but its explains why their sleep is so frequently disrupted. All the more as their message is earnest and touches heaven.

"They (evangelists) are roasted in the night hours. Sexual provocation, the enemy playing on any slight wisp of vulnerability, this stubborn thing that will not let go, this thing that polite Christianity will not discuss, this thing that we cover up and look the other way and will not bring to the light, for which reason we suffer terrible harassment, was the subject of our conversation."

This is not your run-of-the-mill rock-you-to-sleep bible lesson - but a terrific revelation and explanation of what is coming and how to prepare for it. The "Day of Visitation" is like a two-edged sword: for some, a great and long awaited blessing and vindication; for others, a potentially fatal and tragic judgment resulting in eternal loss of the inheritance and blessing God intended all of us to receive.

That something being absolutely essential to God's full satisfaction, the dominant note of the Prophet was one of dissatisfaction. And, there being the additional factor that, for obvious reasons, the people were not disposed to go the costly way of God's full purpose, the Prophet was usually an unpopular person.

But his unpopularity was no proof of his being wrong or unnecessary, for every Prophet was eventually vindicated, though with very great suffering and shame to the people.

This topic is both difficult and complex in every way. It is difficult because it is unfamiliar to us and complex because it is strenuously opposed by the same powers of darkness.

It is extraordinary how naïve, ignorant and indifferent the church is toward the powers of darkness, despite the fact that this theme is absolutely foundational to the whole calling of the church! It is a perspective that pertains to the whole of reality and of what God is about. The church has characteristically majored in the minors and has ignored this major theme. All of our activity, therefore, is condemned to a certain kind of futility and fruitlessness. We dissipate our energy away and walk on a horizontal level and in an earthly way. Paul reminds us that we wrestle not against flesh and blood:
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Eph. 6:12).

This struggle or wrestling is something that is to be entered into by the corporate activity of believers together in Christ. It is ‘our struggle.’ Who are these principalities and powers and the world forces of this darkness in the heavenly places? There is a whole realm of mystery here. The heavenlies that are referred to are not the ones that describe God’s dwelling place. There is a certain order of beings in the very atmosphere who brood over the earth, namely, the rulers or powers of the air. They are the rulers of this present world darkness. They preside in a kind of layer over the earth, and yet influence the conduct of men and the things that take place in the earth.

Art Katz

If someone had asked me in my adolescence in Brooklyn, New York, as a troubled and perplexed kid trying to make sense out of a bewildering universe, "What is your true vocation? What is it to which you think you are called?" I knew, even in my atheistic ignorance, that the real answer, if I had the courage to speak it, was, "Priest." Now I can understand better what my heart already knew about the centrality of priesthood. It is something that needs to be intuited and apprehended.

“How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!” (Jer. 50:23) The “Hammer of the Whole Earth,” the “Hindermost of Nations,” the “Mighty Babylon” will be destroyed in the end times (Jeremiah 50:12-13, 23, 27). Is that the future that awaits America? Have the decisions made by our government and financial leaders established a devastating destiny for America? Has the deteriorating morality of the nation sealed our fate? Will we decay from within or be destroyed from without? There are many modern-day prophetic voices such as Jonathan Cahn, the late Dumitru Duduman, and the late David Wilkinson, that proclaim our fate is sealed... America lies at the edge of oblivion. Soon we will be a desert and a wasteland. In this book, S. Douglas Woodward, a leading authority on the intersection of Bible prophecy and geopolitics, confirms the validity of the predictions. He speaks to why America is at the precipice, now ready to collapse, and will soon fulfill many Old Testament prophecies concerning the Daughter of Babylon. “For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her” (Jer. 50:9)

"I have therefore entitled this message, Preachers of Righteousness. The thing that makes any preacher righteous is that he is not speaking his own word. The word is not his own; it is God’s, and that alone is what makes the word righteous, that the speaker refuses to speak out of his own capability and savvy. It is a phenomenon that has been so little addressed by the church. There is hardly any understanding of the dynamic of the divine things between God and man involved in true proclamation."

Just how important is belief in the return of Jesus Christ to the Christian faith? Does Bible Prophecy have any relevance to the way Christians live their lives in the twenty-first century? What did Jesus mean by the coming of the Kingdom of God? Are there authentic heavenly signs of the apocalypse that can tell us when the end of the age is?

S. Douglas Woodward, best-selling author of seven books on eschatology, theology, and the religious history of America brings his acute analytical skill and decades of biblical study to the hot topic of the ‘blood moon’ prophecies. His effort brings a mature, seasoned perspective to this subject and as such, delivers an enduring classic on eschatology destined to be a cherished inspirational resource and vital prophetic reference for many years to come.