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This two-volume paperback bundle of The Glorious Few (2023) and God Closed Church (2024) provides a ‘manifesto of preparation’ for radical Christian discipleship in light of the specific issue of the church closures of March 2020.
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“ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 4TH, 2020, BEFORE ANY SIGN OF COVID-19 OR ANY REMOTE POSSIBILITY OF A GLOBAL LOCKDOWN, THE HOLY SPIRIT LED ME TO PUBLICLY CALL THE CHURCHES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM TO CLOSE…”
Now five years later, with the threat of world wars looming and with Israel’s vulnerability on show in the geo-political world, the Body of Christ remain comatose amidst the ramping chaos. It is at this juncture in world and Church history that Nick Franks answers the question,
“Is there really a biblical precedent for God closing the churches?”
Beginning with an exposé of the quintessential Bible verse weaponised to condemn those whose consciences do not permit them to linger within unfaithful churches, and ending with a summons to legitimately radical home congregations as our remedy, God Closed Church is a hand-grenade of a book unpinned and thrown liberally into the apostate landscape of the Christian world.
Consider the missed warning of lockdown. Order your copies of God Closed Church here.
In a world teetering on the brink of chaos, Nick Franks provocatively challenges the complacency of the Church. He unveils biblical justifications for closing churches, urging the faithful to escape unfaithful congregations. “God Closed Church” is a radical manifesto that confronts the slow decay of Christian commitment and calls for a daring reinstatement of true fellowship.
The forthcoming book, ‘God Closed Church’, chronicles the pivotal moment in modern world and Church history when Yahweh closed His Church. The first five chapters were written in Scotland, UK; the final sixth chapter is written on an Island off the coast of Vancouver, Canada.
As I was beginning to write the penultimate chapter in my new book this week, I felt rather out of my depth. I know that cessationism is not the ‘slight’ that it is often treated as being by those who don’t find solid biblical teaching in charismatic circles, (hence their arriving at the doors of the cessationists out of a sense of necessity), and I desperately wanted to get it right.
Having been reading the first half of Romans 8 in the same moment, I prayed silently in my heart and asked the Spirit of Christ (8:9) to help me, not just merely ‘to be right’ but rather to get this important communication to the beloved bride of Christ right.
Please watch this video, below, and take note of what happened by way of 1 Corinthians 12:8.
MARANATHA?
What happens when an old Christian (deceived by the whoredom of the Church) is resisted by a new Christian (who is weeping over the state of the Church)?
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Some Christians struggle with a settled sense of assurance more than others, though we all struggle with this in some ways. It is the fruit of a genuinely redeemed person to be in awe not in presumption. I trust that this brief video overview of J. C. Ryle’s superb chapter on the subject will bring you a deep sense of comfort and point you to the unchanging Word of God.
It is violence for a gracious soul to be out of his stalk and root; union here is life and happiness; therefore the Church’s last prayer in canonic Scripture is for union, (Rev., xxii, 20.) “Amen: Even so, come, Lord Jesus.” It shall not be well till the Father, and Christ the prime heir, and all the weeping children, be under one roof in the palace royal.
It is a sort of mystical lameness, that the head wanteth an arm or a finger; and it is a violent and forced condition, for arm and finger to be separated from the head. The saints are little pieces of mystical Christ, sick of love for union.
The wife of youth, that wants her husband some years, and expects he shall return to her from over-sea lands, is often on the shore; every ship coming near shore is her new joy; her heart loves the wind that shall bring him home. She asks at every passenger news: ” Oh! saw ye my husband? What is he doing? When shall he come? Is he shipped for a return?” Every ship that carrieth not her husband, is the breaking of her heart.
What desires hath the Spirit and Bride to hear, when the husband Christ shall say to the mighty angels, “Make you ready for the journey; let us go down and divide the skies, and bow the heaven: I will gather my prisoners of hope unto me; I can want my Rachel and her weeping children no longer. Behold, I come quickly to judge the nations.” The bride, the Lamb’s wife, blesseth the feet of the messengers that preach such tidings,
“Rejoice, O Zion, put on thy beautiful garments; thy King is coming.” Yea, she loveth that quarter of the sky, that being rent asunder and cloven, shall yield to her Husband, when he shall put through his glorious hand, and shall come riding on the rainbow and clouds to receive her to himself.
— Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661)
When you think of this quartet of chaos here, who would you honestly rather be listening to…the likes of JC Ryle, Thomas Goodwin & Martyn Lloyd-Jones, or…Emma Stark and co.? Were men like Martyn-Lloyd Jones responsible for the transgender disaster of today, as Stark and her fawning friends assert? Was Martyn Lloyd-Jones deceived? Emma Stark, are we deceived? Really?
‘Is it not extraordinary that throughout all those centuries people missed it? At last they discovered it last century; it had never been known before. Suddenly the simple solution has been found.’
All the cults say exactly that, and I argue that, in and of itself, it is sufficient to prove that this teaching is wrong. All the Patristic Fathers, all the Protestant Reformers, all the mighty men of God, who knew God in such an intimate manner, and who did such exploits for him, and whom he used so mightily—we are asked to believe that they all had missed the crucial teaching, they all had gone the wrong way, they had misunderstood the Scriptures. Surely that, in and of itself, is enough to make us reject this teaching. An arrogance attaches to it which in itself proclaims that it is not true exposition of Scripture.
Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Ephesians, vol.8, pp 46-47)
Following this video last week, please let me steer you in the direction of two pieces of helpful content:
firebrandnotes.com