Dear Fellow Believers,

This was the last hour of the last night of Grace Cafe. As I said last week, I decided to go out with a bang, and so we did teachings on the Antichrist and the four beasts of Daniel chapter 7, the fourth beast of which is the Christian religion. And this, mind you, on Christian radio.

One of the remarkable things about this broadcast, which played live over Cleveland, Ohio airwaves twenty-five years ago on July 30, 1999, is that my description of the Antichrist and the political situation bringing him to power fits Donald Trump and his current political mandate to a T. It is remarkable. As I said back then, "Christianity taking the reins of government is a harbinger of the Beast of Revelation." And this: "Christianity will put Antichrist in power."

The U.S. was tied to Israel then, and it is more so now.

Rodney Paris does a remarkable job graphically illustrating the rise and spread (and geographical locations) of Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity. Never has this rarely-understood truth from Daniel chapter 7 been made more clear than in this video.

Thanks to the saints of that day for financing our five weeks on the air, and to the saints of today for helping us bring this remarkable testimony of timeless truth to a new generation.

I vividly remember the 90-minute drive home from Cleveland to Greenwich, Oh on this last night of Grace Cafe. For an hour and a half, the sky was rent with lightning strikes. Over and over and over again. Lightning, but no thunder. There was never more than two seconds between lightning strikes. And it never stopped all the way home. I have never seen anything like it before or since. As soon as we arrived home, around 11 p.m., I received a call from Ted McDivitt, one of our fellow broadcasters, who said, "Did you see that?"

I am not one to look for or expect physical manifestations of God during this era of faith, but I truly believe that this was a celestial display from the Father of Lights, sealing our five-weeks of work in Cleveland, the messages of which are still alive, thanks to Rodney Paris. As Scripture attests—

"So shall My word be that shall go forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me empty, But rather it does what I desire, And prospers in that for which I sent it" (Isaiah 55:11).

God's Word went forth mightily from a Cleveland, Ohio radio station in the summer of 1999, and it shall not return to Him empty. For even today, it prospers in that for which He sent it.

Praise be to God.

Your brother in the faith,

—Martin