In the previous article we looked at the Biblical phrase “the ends of the earth.” We saw this encompasses all the island nations from Japan through to New Zealand, in fact all the countries on the immediate western side of the international dateline. We also saw that New Zealand is the “End of the Earth” or the “Uttermost part of the Earth”. However the Bible doesn’t just mention where these nations are, it commands them to do certain things: Isaiah 45:22 “Look to Me, and be

The Ends of the Earth There is a phrase which appears many times in the Bible and it has a quaint ring to it; “the ends of the earth.” The question is what and where are they? – especially given the earth is round! Does the Bible give any indication about where these mysterious ends are? In fact God defines where the ends of the earth are in His challenge to Job: Job 38:12-13 “Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place , that i

On the morning of Sunday 12 September 2010 God showed me a vision of a greenstone mere. He asked me what it was and I said it was a mere. “Keep going,” He said. I said it was a treasure. “Keep going,” He said. I said it was also a weapon. “Good,” He said. God told me the mere was a picture of Māori, that Māori were His treasure, a people He held in His hand like a mere. And they were not just a treasure but also a mighty weapon in the hand of God. God said His treasure had be

Te ingoa o to ratou Atua, ko Tama i Rorokutia, he Atua pai, otira, ka ngaro ano te tangata. The name of their new God will be ‘The Son Who was Killed,’ a good God, however the people will still be oppressed… – East Coast patriarch Arama Toiroa, 1766, prophesying a new religion three years before Captain Cook arrived. Christianity came to Aotearoa at the invitation of Māori. In 1811, Chief Ruatara invited Samuel Marsden to come to Aotearoa and preach the Gospel. The year the G