World war loomed. Appeasers were in control of the British government, and Winston Churchill was in the political wilderness.

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain decided to directly negotiate with the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Anthony Eden, the foreign secretary, had done all he could to prevent this shameful effort and was shoved aside. On hearing this news, Eden resigned from the government.

It was Feb. 20, 1938. Churchill was devastated. In The Gathering Storm, he recalled his thoughts: “From midnight till dawn I lay in my bed consumed by emotions of sorrow and fear. There seemed one strong young figure standing up against long, dismal, drawling tides of drift and surrender, of wrong measurements and feeble impulses. … Now he was gone. I watched the daylight slowly creep in through the windows, and saw before me in mental gaze the vision of Death.”

For a decade, Churchill had been warning the British people about Adolf Hitler furiously preparing for World War ii. Virtually no one else saw the danger. Churchill saw “in mental gaze the vision of Death.” He feared that the British Empire would sink into an inescapable abyss—and he had no power to stop it. He said a “new dark age” was coming. What he foresaw were the horrors of World War ii.

Do you realize that today, we face problems far worse than Churchill did? An age even darker than World War ii is approaching—far worse than most people realize. Our world is bristling with nuclear weaponry!

What was barely in the experimental phase in 1938 has been thoroughly developed, advanced, expanded, perfected and proliferated. It is estimated there are more than 12,000 nuclear warheads worldwide. Nine nations have their own nuclear arsenals, and six more nations host foreign nuclear weapons—meaning 15 nations have these weapons.

Our world is asleep to this danger. But the Bible is clear: These weapons are going to be used! We need a clear vision of the horrors about to fill this world. And what we need even more is a clear vision of God’s hope to get us through it.

A Promise of Protection

God promises to protect His very elect. That is a wonderful promise and a spectacular hope.

“And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent” (Revelation 12:14). This woman is a symbol of God’s Church. This is about God’s Church being taken to a place of safety for 3½ years as the world experiences this new dark age.

Jesus Christ Himself said this in Matthew 24: “But pray ye that your flight [to that place of safety] be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved …” (verses 20-22). He was prophesying about this new dark age—with nations using those nuclear bombs! How else would it be possible for human life to be entirely snuffed out?

But Christ continued, “… but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect” (verses 22-24). Only God’s very elect will not be caught up in it, because they, unlike the rest of the world, cannot be deceived. That is a marvelous statement—and a tremendous blessing for God’s very elect! They cannot be deceived.

What about you?

Historical Vision

John Lukacs wrote a biography titled Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian. What did he mean by calling Churchill a “visionary”?

He quoted the Oxford English Dictionary defining vision as “something which is apparently seen otherwise than by ordinary sight.” And Churchill did have foresight far beyond the ordinary.

Lukacs quotes John Colville relaying something Churchill said in 1953, even before Stalin’s death: “‘(Churchill) said that if I lived my normal span I should assuredly see Eastern Europe free of communism.’ Counting Colville’s expectable threescore and ten, that would have been the 1980s—which was exactly what happened.” The Berlin Wall fell in 1989. Churchill had an accurate vision 40 years into the future!

“Bismarck was reputed to have said that a statesman can look forward five years, at best,” Lukacs continued. “It is given to few statesmen in history to suggest the unexpected, decades ahead, so accurately and clearly. Yet such were the visionary powers of Winston Churchill.”

Lukacs quoted Robert Rhodes James as saying, “Foresight in politics is rare and it is usually a matter of fortune rather than genius.” “Perhaps,” Lukacs wrote, “but at any rate, Churchill’s foresights were historical, rather than political.” He really knew history, and it helped him to see far into the future. That is the way history is: It teaches so many lessons, and it shows you how to face the future! Yet people ignore it today. Many of the universities don’t even teach history, to their own shame.

A historic vision is something we can learn. But it is not a vision that can save us.

Human vision cannot save us from the coming great trouble. God says the human heart is “deceitful above all things and desperately wicked” (Jeremiah 17:9). You cannot look to a human being.

But there is another vision that will save us—and that is God’s vision. Human vision is nothing compared to God’s vision.

God’s Vision

“Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Proverbs 29:18). That is the truth! Where vision is absent, you end up with hopelessness, corruption, trouble—and death!

Our number one challenge facing mankind today is human survival! Will we survive—or will we destroy every person on Earth?

Jesus Christ said we would all perish if He didn’t stop it—and He will stop it, in spite of us! But before He intervenes, He will allow humanity to nearly destroy itself entirely.

God has an eternal vision that will save us from that calamity. God’s vision will save us, and it will solve all these horrifying problems we face if we will just repent toward God.

It will also give us joy and happiness. Most people lack the joy they should have in their lives because they lack this vision.

We don’t have real life today, the way God sees it. That is reality: We are mortal humans, living only a short while before we die. But God is offering us eternal glory, to live forever! That is real life!

This vision must be real to us. If you have this eternal vision of God, you have hope! And we need hope in this dark, dark world. We need light—and God’s vision is filled with real light for us to see. We should all have genuine hope—if we do not, then we do not know God like we should. And generally speaking, people today do not know Him.

We have access to God’s vision! He has this beautiful eternal vision in His mind and is putting in our minds if we will allow it and as we grow in His thinking. He is a great builder, and He builds His vision into the very elect. That is why they cannot be deceived!

God’s Watchman

Winston Churchill warned his nation about Adolf Hitler and the horrors that were approaching. His watchman work was prophesied in Ezekiel 33:1-6 (as I explain in my booklet Winston S. Churchill: The Watchman). These verses talk about a watchman chosen by the people (verse 2). This can be a great help for their country. I believe this applies specifically to Churchill. He was a great watchman here in this end time, and nobody else really even comes close.

But in the verses that follow, God speaks of a different watchman—one whom He chose Himself. The implication is that we have entered a time when a humanly chosen watchman is not sufficient. We need something more!

The watchman whom God appoints has vision beyond mere historic vision: “So you, O son of man, I have set you a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me” (verse 7). This watchman is delivering not a human message, but God’s!

That is what we must have today: a watchman who will tell you what God’s vision is and show you how to build it in your life!

A strong Germany has now risen in Europe. Only God’s watchman today warns of Germany fulfilling all these prophecies and plunging our world into a nuclear dark age. Also, only God’s watchman instills God’s vision in those willing to accept it.

“And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them” (verse 33). Soon people will know that a prophet was here. This man is not only a watchman but also a prophet of God!

You can prove who this man is today. Request our free booklets The Last Hour, The United States and Britain in Prophecy and Ezekiel—The End-Time Prophet to prove this for yourself.