Rapture Alert! Prophet Daniel Whyte III Says “Not Today or Tomorrow,” and Explains Why
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Prophet Daniel Whyte III has declared that the Rapture will not take place today, September 23rd, or tomorrow, September 24th, 2025. This statement comes in direct response to a prediction made by false prophet Joshua Mhlakela, a South African pastor who claimed the event would occur on these dates. The author also points out that Mhlakela’s depiction of the Rapture is “unbiblical,” as the Bible states the event will occur “in the twinkling of an eye.”
Daniel Whyte III also rebukes the beautiful and talented twins, Innocent and Millicent, for disobeying the Bible by using clickbait and inviting a man on their show without due diligence. By bringing on a man off the street with no Christian credentials—a man who told lies—they have caused thousands to mock the church, the Bible, and themselves.
Now, all three of you will go down in history as part of the long line of foolish false prophets and prophetesses, and these two dates will live in infamy.
Furthermore, most of the church is not ready for the Rapture because it is the Judas-Jezebel-Laodicean church that Jesus spewed out of His mouth; it is only ready for the lake of fire. That includes the three of you.
Whyte tells the beautiful twins, “Go and sin no more.” Do not do this again.
“Prophet Daniel Whyte III says the Rapture will not take place today, September 23rd or tomorrow, September 24th, 2025, simply because this false prophet Joshua Mhlakela predicted that the Rapture would take place on these dates.(By the way, this is a rather long and unbiblical rapture that false prophet Joshua Mhlakela depicts here when the Bible says the Rapture will take place in the “twinkling of an eye”) However, happy Rosh Hashanah, everybody! Here is what Daniel Whyte III wrote to his children and others on his daily email and text he sends out to his children and other brothers and sisters in Christ who stand with him in the ministry:”
In an email and text message sent to his children and fellow members of his ministry, Whyte III wrote:
HAPPY ROSH HASHANAH!
Dear Danyelle, Danyel-Ezekiel, Daniqua, Danae, Danita, Daniel, and Daniella (Danni):
HAPPY ROSH HASHANAH! Children, as you may know, South African pastor Joshua Mhlakela has predicted that today, Tuesday, September 23rd, the Rapture of the church will take place. Well, I am telling you, because he has predicted the Rapture is going to take place today, it will not take place today as no man knows the hour; however, make sure you are rapture-ready.
As you children know, we have seen false prophets and kooks with their false predictions come and go over my 45 years of preaching. You might remember Harold Camping, whose radio station we used to listen to at nights and who predicted back in the early 2000s that the Rapture was supposed to take place on May 21, 2011. It did not happen, and three weeks later he had a stroke and his false prophet-predicting days were over.
However, HAPPY ROSH HASHANAH! Today is the real new year, so celebrate with some apples and honey, apple cake, and some kosher food. Lord willing, I will be preaching my annual Rosh Hashanah service later today. Get ready! Get ready! Get ready! Most of all, “Pray without ceasing.” Ask God to forgive you of your sins and to help you to repent of your sins. God loves you. Jesus Christ loves you. I love you, and I am praying for you always. Please pray for me always.
Love, Papa
Recent days have once again seen a flurry of speculations regarding the return of Christ in what is commonly referred to as the “rapture” or the parousia. A message has been rapidly spreading through social media suggesting the rapture is to take place this September, during the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah, also known as the Feast of Trumpets.
South African Pastor Joshua Mhlakela publicly described a divine vision apparently given to him in which he heard Jesus speak directly stating his return to earth would take place on the 23rd and 24th of September. According to Mhlakela, it takes place over two days because the Feast of Trumpets itself takes place over two days.
Ken Young
Personally, I believe Christ will come again as Scripture states (Acts 1:11), but I have deep concerns with us collectively as Christians refusing to learn from our own storied past. My angst centers around the unnecessary loss of credibility of the Christian witness when such things are embraced and promoted, only to later be adjusted, altered or just entirely swept neatly under the proverbial carpet.
When Sept. 25 arrives, will a public apology be forthcoming accompanied with genuine repentance from Mhlakela for falsely speaking for Christ? Based on past experiences, I’m not going to hold my breath.
“I cannot help but ponder how believers themselves may be culpable for a lot of the scoffing of the world.”
Throughout the centuries, we have witnessed many attempts to interpret not only Scripture, but all manner of current events through skewed epistemological lenses. At times this can be beneficial so long as one has good hermeneutical discipline while also being prayerfully cautious of being overly dogmatic in the connection of current events to the biblical text.
When I read the Apostle Peter’s caution that “scoffers will come in the last days, … saying, ‘Where is the promise of his coming?’” (2 Peter 3:3-4), I cannot help but ponder how believers themselves may be culpable for a lot of the scoffing of the world.
Consider some of the scoff-worthy events of recent decades.
Scoff-worthy events
Chuck Smith (Photo: Calvary Chapel)
Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel in California had his congregants convinced they would not be returning home after a New Year’s watch-night service in 1981. He had presented numerous sermons and wrote multiple books regarding his prediction, but when the midnight cheering and celebrations began to fade, and the realization sunk in that they would all have to face the year 1982 still earthbound, many were left disillusioned and confused.
Pastor Mike Winger, himself a Calvary Chapel pastor, recently acknowledged this head-on and confronted Calvary Chapel for essentially ignoring Smith’s failed predictions. “We’ve got to learn from it,” Winger stated in 2021. “We have been reckless with prophecy; we inherited this recklessness from Pastor Chuck.”
Many may recall Pentecostal televangelist Pat Robertson running for presidential office in 1988. Fewer may recall how Robertson, host of the 700 Club, made a bold prediction himself of the Lord’s return and subsequent rapture of the church which was to transpire sometime in 1984.
In December of the same year, at a seminar in Dallas, Robertson boldly declared God had told him, “I have called you to usher in the coming of my Son.” Again, no retraction, no apology, no repentance was forthcoming in 1985.
Once more, the credibility of Christians is called into question and the scoffers do their thing.
A stack of Hal Lindsey books for sale online.
Well-known apocalyptic writer Hal Lindsey reasoned in The Late Great Planet Earth, through allegedly discovered secrets from Matthew 24:32-33, that Christ would come sometime in 1988. Cue the scoffers.
Harold Camping predicted the end of the world would come precisely on May 21, 2011. Come October, he and his wife retreated to a nearby motel confessing, “We humbly acknowledge we were wrong about the timing.” Damage to credibility was unnecessarily done.
Shortly after, a novel fascination with “blood moons” ignited evangelical imaginations. A blood moon simply describes the dramatic appearance of the moon during a total lunar eclipse. In his 2013 book Four Blood Moons: Something Is About to Change, John Hagee predicted that after the fourth consecutive blood moon, sometimes referred to as a “tetrad,” in 2015, the prophetic events of Revelation would be initiated.
These are just a minute handful of examples.
Insufficient pushback
It’s not that there has been no pushback to such speculation, but there ought to be a lot more. We need to do a better job teaching our brothers and sisters to be biblically skeptical of such things. We must do so for the sake of the gospel.
“We need to do a better job teaching our brothers and sisters to be biblically skeptical of such things.”
Responding to Hagee’s blood moon speculations at the time, Sam Storms of Bridgeway Church in Oklahoma City publicly cautioned: “We need to stop giving in to some of these sensationalist speculations. Maybe some Christians are more gullible. One has to twist the data to make it appear as if these are the fulfilment of some biblical prophecy.”
Indeed, NASA confirms a tetrad of blood moons is not uncommon, with eight more expected before 2100.
However, this did not stop Hagee’s book from reaching No. 10 on The New York Times bestseller list. Indeed, it appears the apocalypse sells.
Russell Moore of Christianity Today laments: “When these prophecies were not fulfilled, these teachers never retreated in shame. They waited to claim a new word of God and sold more products, whether books or emergency preparation kits for the Y2K global shutdown and the resulting dark age the Bible clearly told us would happen.”
What’s the harm?
There is truly something that drives our end-times curiosity; many are quick to leave behind the old disproven speculations as yesterday’s news and jump to the newest, more promising, ideas. There have been suspicions of bar code scanners, Visa cards, microchips, tattoos, vaccines as being viable contenders for the “mark of the beast” mentioned in Revelation 19:20.
There have been endless speculations as to who the actual Antichrist will be. Joe Carter of The Gospel Coalition lists the historic top seven contenders: The pope (any of them), Nicolae Jetty Carpathia (the fictional character in the Left Behind series), Nero, Hitler, a tie between Henry Kissinger and Mikhail Gorbachev, Napoleon, and every American president since Washington.
I haven’t even touched on the many times we have endured natural disasters, global conflicts, pandemics and other world events.
What’s the harm? While it may be tantalizing to some to speculate endlessly, it continues to erode and chip away at the credibility of believers everywhere. This stuff can become the theological equivalent of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. “They got this, this and this wrong. Why should I believe them when they speak about other things?”
“This stuff can become the theological equivalent of The Boy Who Cried Wolf.”
When it comes to eternal matters like salvation, many will tune out, just hearing more evangelical white noise.
Until he comes
What is a viable alternative? Stay on mission; make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:19-20). Focus on the revelation God already has given us in the Bible, and leave the speculation of the unknown alone, no matter how alluring it may be.
Many of us evangelicals consider Christ’s return as “imminent.” However, believers always have believed it to be imminent. The writer of Hebrews clearly stated that God “has in these last days spoken unto us by his Son.” He fully believed Christians were living in the “last days” even then. In other words, Christians always have lived in the last days.
This should be the message of believers today: Christ could come imminently, not because of the newest crack-pot speculating on the back of another catastrophic or seemingly unique event. Not because someone finally unlocked the hidden prophecies or codes long overlooked in the Bible, for Christians understand no one has been told, not even Jesus, when the Father will decide it’s time (See Mark 13:32).
Christ could come at any time, but not because someone has revealed what the latest mark of the beast is, or who the real Antichrist is.
It is imperative to realize our responsibility is to be about the work of God as God gently reminds us, “The secret things belong to the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong to us” (Deuteronomy 29:29).
We must be far more discerning, being cognizant of our reputation with those outside the walls of the church.
Should the message of Christ be ridiculed, may it not be because of our endless speculations that are later found blatantly false or, at best, misleading. Nor may it be because the church is largely silent in the face of said speculations.
The world doesn’t need any more ammunition handed to them as they fire cynical-laced shots at believers. If the gospel message must be mocked, may it not be because of the foolishness of believers themselves, but because of the foolishness of the preaching of the cross (1 Corinthians 1:18).
Let us humbly seek to be credible witnesses of the glorious gospel of Christ, uncompromisingly focused on the mission left to us, the church. Leave the things intentionally not revealed in the hands of God.
Ken Young has served as pastor at International Baptist Church, Auckland, New Zealand, since 1993. He, his wife, Jennifer, and four children all live in the Auckland area. He earned a Ph.D. in Bible and theology from Louisiana Baptist Theological Seminary, where he studied the epistemological trends of evangelicals in recent decades. (Through the baptistnews.com)
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Judgment Day preacher Harold Camping dies, aged 92
Harold Camping prepares for the recording of his show Open Forum in Oakland, California. Photograph: Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP
Harold Camping, the American preacher who used his evangelical radio ministry and thousands of billboards to broadcast that the end of the world was nigh and then gave up public prophecy when his date-specific doomsdays failed to come to pass, has died aged 92.
Camping, a retired civil engineer who built a worldwide following for the nonprofit ministry he founded in Oakland, California in 1958, died at his home on Sunday, said Nina Romero, marketing manager for Family Radio Network. She said Camping had been in hospital after a fall.
Camping’s most widely spread prediction was that the Rapture would happen on 21 May 2011. His independent Christian media empire spent millions of dollars – some of it from donations made by followers who quit their jobs and sold all their possessions – to spread the word on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 trucks plastered with the Judgment Day message.
A billboard proclaiming Saturday 21 May 2011 as Judgement Day. Photograph: Chris Pietsch/AP
When the Judgment Day he foresaw did not materialise, the preacher revised his prophecy, saying he had been off by five months.
Camping, who suffered a stroke three weeks after the May prediction failed, said the light dawned on him that instead of the biblical Rapture in which the faithful would be swept up to the heavens, the date had instead been a “spiritual” Judgment Day, which placed the entire world under Christ’s judgment.
But after the cataclysmic event did not occur in October either, Camping acknowledged his apocalyptic prophecy had been wrong and posted a letter on his ministry’s site telling his followers he had no evidence the world would end anytime soon and that he was not interested in considering future dates.
“We realise that many people are hoping they will know the date of Christ’s return,” Camping wrote in March 2012. “We humbly acknowledge we were wrong about the timing.”
Camping graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1942, and started a construction business shortly after the end of the second world war, according to his website.
For decades, he and his family attended the Christian Reformed Church, where he served as an elder and Bible teacher, but he left the church in 1988 when he felt it no longer faithfully represented biblical teachings, associates said.
He formed his Family Stations ministry in 1958 and eventually sold his business to become the group’s president and general manager as a full-time volunteer.
In 1961, he began hosting the Open Forum programme, which was broadcast in 30 languages online and on a network of more than 140 domestic and international radio stations owned by Family Stations.
Each week night, Camping would transmit his own biblical interpretations in a quivery monotone, clutching a worn bible as he took listeners’ calls.
He first predicted that the world would end on 6 September 1994 and when it did not he said it was off because of a mathematical error. Followers later said he was referring to the end of “the church age”, a time when human beings in Christian churches could be saved.
After his billboards warning of pending doom popped up across the country in 2010 and 2011, Christian leaders from across the spectrum widely dismissed his prophecies while atheists poked fun at his prediction. Some also criticised Camping’s use of millions of dollars in followers’ donations to advertise Judgment Day.
Camping offered a measured apology, adding that he felt so terrible when his prophecy did not come true he left home and took refuge in a motel with his wife.
Camping wrote about 30 books and booklets over the years. Family Radio Network said in its statement that he was survived by his wife of 71 years.
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DANIEL WHYTE III, PRESIDENT OF GOSPEL LIGHT EVANGELISTIC SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL AND FOUNDER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF BLACK CHRISTIAN NEWS
Daniel Whyte III was honored by being named one of the 17 most notable alumni in the history of the 134-year-old Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas, and one of the 69 most notable alumni in the history of the 53-year-old Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Daniel Whyte III holds the following degrees from these universities:
- Doctor of Ministry (D.Min., in progress) – Liberty University John W. Rawlings School of Divinity, Lynchburg, VA
- Master of Theology (Th.M.) – Liberty University John W. Rawlings School of Divinity, Lynchburg, VA
- Master of Divinity (M.Div.) – Liberty University John W. Rawlings School of Divinity, Lynchburg, VA
- Bachelor of Arts in Religion (B.A.) – Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, Texas
- Bachelor of Theological Studies – Bethany Divinity College and Seminary, Dothan, Alabama (Honors: Summa Cum Laude)
Daniel Whyte III was also honored to sit with presidents and world leaders by being invited by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association to attend the homegoing of Dr. Billy Graham.
He is the Essence national best-selling author of Letters to Young Black Men and the Amazon best-selling author of Letters to Young Black Women (African-American category). He has authored over 100 books.
He is also the founder, president, and editor-in-chief of the 20-year-old BlackChristianNews.com (BCNN1.com), which has impacted every denomination in the evangelical and Christian world and has influenced presidents, the U.S. government, governments around the world, and the public square. BlackChristianNews.com has been named the #1 Black Christian website and blog in the world for four years running by the independent Feedspot and is on the list of the top 60 Christian news sites in the world—red, yellow, black, or white.
He has preached the Gospel and the Word of God in person across America and in over 24 countries to thousands of people. He has preached the Gospel and the Word of God to millions of people around the world with the help of the internet, preaching live and on-demand multiple times a day for over eight years, to this very day. His mottoes are “Crying in the Wilderness,” “Exiled on the Isle of Patmos,” and “Preaching the Gospel by any means necessary,” all for the glory of God and Jesus Christ.
Daniel Whyte III is the president of the over-40-year-old Gospel Light Evangelistic Society International and the over-37-year-old Gospel Light House of Prayer International. He is known worldwide as the prophet who predicted the Coronavirus Plague over 10 years before it hit in recorded preaching and writing. God also led him to guide thousands through the Coronavirus Plague that killed over 20 million people because of the sins in the Judas-Laodicean church.
Daniel Whyte III’s greatest blessing in this life is his “quiver full” of 10 children—Daniella (Danni), Daniel IV, Danita Evangeline, Danae Mary-Louise, Daniqua Grace, Danyel Ezekiel, Danyelle Elizabeth Breedlove, Danielle Tekeela, Duran-Daniel, and the first Daniel IV (deceased and in heaven with the Lord)—along with grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Daniel Whyte III has been unblissfully but sexually satisfyingly married to his first and only wife, Meriqua Whyte of Christiana, Jamaica, for over 37 years since December 19, 1987. Jesus Christ said: “And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.” Even though many evangelicals, charismatics, and Protestants try to act as if these words of Jesus Christ are not a reality in our modern Christianity—primarily because of the Satanic-driven prosperity gospel and an over-positive philosophy, which is a lie not based in reality or biblical truth—the words of Jesus Christ are true for every person who preaches the Gospel. The outcomes of the Gospel are a changed life and opposition from family, lukewarm Christians, Laodicean-Judas pastors and churches, the world, and the devil. This is a reality in our present evil world.
While Daniel Whyte III thoroughly enjoys his married life because he did not allow his wife to have her way at any point and was and is solidly and biblically the head of his household throughout the marriage—often quoting Joshua, “As for me and my house, we’re going to serve the Lord” “up in here!”—and because his wife never failed in the very important area of sex, which he got married for in the first place to avoid sinning against God, he has especially enjoyed the privilege and joy of raising his children in the Lord virtually by himself. He served the Lord with them every day of their lives, from the time they were born until they graduated from college, became adults, and moved on.
However, his wife, Meriqua Whyte—motivated by Satan, with a Pharaoh-style pride mixed with the well-known female Jamaican-style pride, stubbornness, rebelliousness, and witchcraft—has been his greatest Judas enemy in the world and has been what Paul spoke of: a “messenger of Satan” and a “thorn in the flesh.” Amazingly, and by the grace of God, that Satanic evil opposition has spurred Daniel Whyte III on to preach the Gospel probably more times than any man on record. God has honored him because he did not “hearken to the voice of his wife.” Whyte tells other Christian men to only hearken to the voice of God and Jesus Christ—not to their wives, as so many thousands of church men have been taught by pastors and other older men throughout the years. Remember, we are in this worldwide, multi-generational mess because Adam hearkened to the voice of his wife and not to the voice of God.
Before they were married, Daniel Whyte III told his wife Meriqua Whyte that they would not do family life as her parents did, because their married life was hellacious and ended in divorce, as did some of her other family members, including the aunt she was living with. He also told his wife they would not do family life as his parents did, because it was also hellacious and out of order since his mother was the head of the household, not his father. But thanks be to God, they never got a divorce. Whyte told his wife before they got married that they were going to do it God’s way according to Ephesians chapters 5 and 6, or no way at all. And then he asked his wife, “Are you willing to do marriage God’s way according to Ephesians chapters 5 and 6?” And she said yes. Whyte told her before they got married that if she did not live up to her end of the deal, all bets were off.
Because Daniel Whyte III’s wife, Meriqua Whyte, was so proud, unsubmissive, stubborn, and rebellious after they got married, God led him to read Ephesians chapters 5 and 6 every day in their family devotions throughout their marriage. In the first year of their marriage, Daniel Whyte III also gave his wife a list of verses for women from the Word of God for her to read, which she still reads to this day. He also bought her many books to read to help her be the wife God wanted her to be.
Whyte realized early in the marriage that his wife was not a born-again, saved person even though she lied and said she was before they got married. After over 37 years of marriage, she is still not saved, never bearing any fruit of a saved person, to the point of not even wanting to tell her children, “I love you” and not wanting to hug them when they were little children, even after her husband told her to do so. She also hated the daily family devotions that her husband led and tried to hinder them. She also demonically hated and tried to hinder every Gospel preaching service to this very day.
However, only by the grace of God, they are still married, and despite the devil constantly working through his wife to try to hinder him from preaching the Word of God, he is still preaching the Gospel and the Word of God live and on-demand. His ministry reaches over 148,800 people per month with over 21,000 unique views per month, reaching 149 countries, preaching the Gospel and the Word of God in 2 to 3 services a day, 7 days a week. Glory be to God!
Mrs. Meriqua Whyte’s Apology to her Husband and Their 7 Children for not Being a Biblical Wife or Mother
Mrs. Meriqua Whyte, the Wife of Daniel Whyte III, Gave him the Best Father’s Day Gift Ever About 10 Years Ago When She Unexpectedly and Voluntarily Apologized for the First Time to Him and Their 7 Children for Not Being the Wife, Mother, and Christian Example of the Woman She Should Have Been Over the Past 37 Years of Marriage
Here is what Mrs. Meriqua Whyte wrote ten years ago after verbally apologizing to the entire family on Father’s Day, right before church service:
Over thirty years of marriage. Over thirty years of ups and downs. Over thirty years of trying to make our problems a personal thing between my husband and me. Thankfully, he did not allow me to do that and kept telling me it was between God and me—over thirty years of acting on my feelings and not on what the Bible says. Over thirty years of refusing to obey God’s simple command to a wife—to be obedient to your husband in all things. Over thirty years of disobedience, rebelliousness, stubbornness, lying, and dishonesty, all rooted in pride. Over thirty years of simply not choosing to mature as a Christian.
God has been dealing with me for over thirty years now about changing my attitude and behavior as a wife, which has manifested itself in disobedience, rebelliousness, stubbornness, lying, dishonesty, having an ungodly attitude and spirit, and simply not being the wife, mother, or example of a Christian woman that I should have been throughout the years. (By the way, for those of you who may be thinking that my disobedience, rebelliousness, stubbornness, lying, and dishonesty have resulted in adultery, I will say here that I have never committed any adultery or had sex with another man besides my husband, Daniel Whyte III, since I was born.)
God kept telling me I needed to stop my rebellious and stubborn behavior, apologize to my husband and children, and get my heart right with him, my husband, and my children. He sent others my way to tell me how to behave:
- My husband, but I didn’t want to hear it from him
- Other Christian women speakers
- Other preachers
- Books and other materials, but I would not take heed
I knew what to do, but I chose not to do it. The devil had me thinking and believing—as he is having a lot of wives and mothers think and believe—that your relationship with your husband and how you respond to him, whether positive or negative, will not affect your relationship with your children or your relationship with God. I say without hesitation that this is one of the devil’s lies, and sad to say, many wives and mothers are falling for this lie.
Another lie of the devil that Christian wives are falling for is that you can still have a strong relationship with God without being submissive to your husband. Lie! Lie! Lie! There is no truth to this. I know because I have experienced this and am still experiencing this as I am going through this breaking process, which is not happening overnight.
Even throughout my years of rebelliousness, stubbornness, and pride, I still kept praying the prayer I used to pray daily before I got married: “Lord, make me be exactly what You want me to be. Lord, break, make, and mold me into what you want me to be.” Well, God took that prayer seriously, and once you accept Him, He will begin the breaking process. It’s up to us how long that breaking process will take. For me, sad to say, it has taken over 30 years, and the breaking is not complete. In what way is God breaking me down right now? Well, our children have grown up. The three oldest have gone through and are still going through college, have gotten their degrees, and some are working on their second, third, and fourth degrees, launching their careers and moving out. God slapped me into reality and truly intensified the breaking process. My husband told me before our first child was born and repeatedly while the children were young that my job was to love our children and make positive memories with them and that if I did that, I would have a wonderful relationship with them as adults in the time to come. Well, I disobeyed God and my husband, who did not let up on his duties. And he has a wonderful relationship with our children, even the girls, and I don’t. However, God led me to finally break the day before Father’s Day, and while I was helping my husband get dressed to preach, I asked him if I could apologize to him and the entire family. That’s the first time I ever did that on my own. Throughout the years, he has always told me that I needed to get my heart right with God, him, and my children; otherwise, I would never have the joy and peace of the Lord in my life. However, I kept on lying and denying that I was the problem.
Here is what I said to my husband and children on Saturday afternoon, June 17, 2017, the day before Father’s Day. My husband told the entire family that this was the best Father’s Day gift I have ever given to him:
“Daddy, children, I apologize for not being the wife, mother, and example of a Christian woman I should have been throughout the years. I have shown nothing but pride, disobedience, rebelliousness, stubbornness, and a bad attitude and spirit toward God and my husband in front of you. My disobedience and rebelliousness have caused much unnecessary unrest and upheaval in the family. As my husband told me, things could have gone much better if I had obeyed God’s word from the beginning. Please accept my apology, and I am asking you to forgive me.”
The diminishing of peace and joy in my life throughout the years I brought on myself. Not having a proper relationship with God, my husband, and my children, I brought on myself—all because I chose the disobedient route. My number one desire is to live a life of peace—peace with God, my husband, and my children. I have learned that peace will not come as long as I live in disobedience, rebelliousness, stubbornness, and pride.
I will end this with two notes: (1) Happy Father’s Day to my husband: you have been a great husband and father. (2) Happy Children’s Day to my children: You all have been great children. I have no complaints whatsoever against my husband and, of course, children; you have never been at fault. My bad behavior is all on me, and I’m sorry I put you through this. May God bless your lives, and I love you.
Ephesians 5:22 – 6:20 (KJV)
Below is the passage in the Bible that Daniel Whyte III read in their family devotions every day for decades. It covers the biblical duties of the husband, the wife, and the children, and includes how to fight against the devil who is seeking to destroy the family.
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
6 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
7 With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
9 And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
The Gospel in a Nutshell
If you were to die today, where would you go: Heaven or Hell? If you’re not sure, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”
Jesus Christ said the most important words ever spoken in the history of the world when He said, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)
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The Most Important Question in the World: Have You Been Twice Born?
This is the “Chief of sinners,” Daniel Whyte III, president of Gospel Light Society International, with the Gospel Light Minute X Podcast #447, titled, “The Big Question.” I’m here to remind you of what the Bible says: that “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” like you and me.
“Have You Been Born Again?”
The question is not, “Have you joined a church?” or “Are you trying to do your best?” or “Do you have religion?” but, “Are you twice-born?” Jesus Christ said in John 3:3, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
We enter the physical world by birth. Spiritual life, likewise, is entered with a birth. We become members of a human family by birth; we become members of the family of God by birth, by being “born again.” There is no other way to get into the human family except by birth, and there is no other way to get into God’s family except by the new birth. Neither education, nor cultivation, nor reformation, nor “turning over a new leaf,” will accomplish this. What is needed is not a new “leaf” but a new “life”! “Ye must be born again” (John 3:7).
A New Nature Needed
By physical birth, we become partakers of human nature; by being born again, we become “partakers of the divine nature.” A Christian is the product of a divine “begetting.” The second birth is not an improvement of the old nature; it is the imparting of an entirely new nature. The old nature is hopelessly corrupt and incapable of ever being made fit for His presence. The new birth requires a creative act of the Holy Spirit. “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.”
Not “Trying” But “Trusting”
“Trying to follow Christ” is not Christianity. Christianity is not imitation of Christ; it is the indwelling of Christ. Christianity is not trying to do anything. It is trusting Christ, who has done it all! He has “finished the work,” and there is nothing left to do but simply to receive and trust Him. He shed His precious blood on the cross, and the work is all done once and forever! Cease trying and begin trusting! Believers will progressively become more and more like Christ, but by His power, not their own.
What Must I Do To Be Saved?
Simply “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.” The Bible says in 1 John 5:1, “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.” The Bible states in John 1:12-13, “As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
You are born again, you become a Christian by trusting a Person—receiving a Person. The very moment you do this, the Lord Jesus Christ comes in and life begins!
What Is Meant By “Believe”?
To “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ” means more than simply believing the historic facts concerning Him. Intellectual belief about Christ is not sufficient. The belief that brings salvation must be “with the heart,” that is, with the whole being. This belief also includes repentance: “Repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.” The Bible states in Acts 17:30, “God… now commandeth all men everywhere to repent.”
The faith which saves, then, includes the necessity to repent and to receive Christ as Savior and Lord, to rest upon Him alone for salvation. It means to trust Him so utterly and completely that, if He should fail, there would be no hope at all!
May I Know That I Am Born Again?
This is an important question. We know that we are born again by the testimony of God’s Word. God says in John 5:24, “He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” Have you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ as explained by God’s Word? If so, then you are saved, you are “born again,” you have “passed from death unto life.” God says so! Take God at His Word, and go on your way rejoicing!
One Final Word
You may “belong to a church,” you may be “trying to do the best you can,” you may be “striving to live right.” Your outward life may be the model of moral correctness, and you may be looked up to, honored, revered, and respected. Yet, if you have not been “born again,” you are just as lost as if you had never heard of Christ. Yes, you may teach in the Sunday school, read the Bible, sing, shout, “feel happy,” and all the rest—but if you have never been “born again,” you are still in your sins and a stranger to the Lord Jesus Christ.
If you want to be saved from the wrath to come and from an eternity in Hell, and if you believe that Jesus Christ suffered, bled, and died on the cross for your sins, was buried, and rose again from the dead, and you are willing to trust Jesus Christ with all of your heart so you can go to Heaven, please pray with me what is called the sinner’s prayer:
Holy Father God, I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I admit that I have sinned against You and that I have broken Your Ten Commandments. I have lied before. I have stolen things before. I have lusted after people and things before. I have dishonored and disobeyed my parents. I have taken Your holy Name in vain. For Jesus Christ’s sake, please have mercy and grace upon my soul and forgive me of all of my sins, my failures, and my faults. As I now believe in Your Holy Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe that He suffered, bled, and died on the cross for my sins, was buried, and rose again. Lord Jesus, please come into my heart and save my soul and change my life. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit and help me to repent of my sins past. Help me to turn from my old, evil life and follow You in the new life. For it is in Your Name I pray. Amen.
