Bible Based Ministries

We praise the Lord, our great Provider, for the way He provided for all your recent specific needs. May it please Him to continue to do so and to bless your ministry to the souls of many people…
I am really looking forward to the Revelation sermons. The tapes you mentioned in your newsletter have been a tremendous blessing to me and have helped to clear many misunderstandings…

South Africa

I just wanted to tell you what a blessing your book on Christmas and Easter was to me and my husband. We also read a variety of other tracts written by you (one by John Bunyan) and they were wonderful as well. We plan on ordering many more… It is a blessing that people such as yourselves are out there providing such wonderful Biblical teaching that can easily be passed on to others. I have done so myself. My husband and I don’t feel so “alone” in the world knowing there are other believers such as yourselves contending for the faith.

United States

I have just finished reading Bible Based Ministries magazine No. 104 and I am very thankful for it. When I was saved I was given a Scofield Bible and I sat under a dispensationalist ministry for many years, struggling to understand it. God, by His grace gave me the courage to say that I didn’t believe it and to “come out from among them”. Shaun Willcock explains very clearly how it all came about.
Looking on the website at the catalogue I feel I would like a copy of everything!

Australia

Many thanks for all the research into this man [C.S. Lewis] and his books…. it seems imperative that all Christians should know the facts and I am so glad that there is a place to go for concise info. on him and his works. To have been saved doing this ourselves and to have been saved committing errors in our family life through this is really just what we needed.

England

So blessed to discover your website today. Great truth resides there. May God keep you true and strong in fervor.
I am particularly interested in how I may obtain a copy of your article from “Drawing Aside the Purple Curtain”: The Chronicles of Narnia: Occult Fantasy of a Closet Roman Catholic…. I have one or two other excellent expose’s on C.S. Lewis in my possession, pulled from other sources, but would very much welcome the addition of your article to share with others. It is so well written, and thorough.

United States

We just watched “Faith Like Potatoes” tonight after having it recommended by people in our Baptist church where I have recently become pastor. Then we found your review on the Web, and you expressed our sentiments exactly! Thank you for your faithfulness to the truth and call for discernment.

South Africa

I just read today about a mega church here that boasted of 800 people getting “saved” recently at one of their services. They didn’t even have them go through the usual antics of raising their hands or coming forward. Instead, they had them come forward to sign a Da Vinci painting of the Last Supper! It’s just getting more bizarre.
[We] are seeing more and more how knowing the truth about the doctrines of Grace enables you to see more and more truth on different topics. It really is amazing how this crucial doctrine is such a foundation for everything in God’s Word. It’s so exciting! We just started your series on the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit and just finished up the one on daily private prayer. The Lord was dealing with us on this. Although we spend much time in His Word etc., we weren’t setting aside time in private prayer consistently like we should. Your preaching on the subject was used by the Holy Spirit to convict and educate us. Praise His name!

United States

I want to tell you what a wonderful blessing your newsletter which arrived yesterday is to us. The minute I read your definition of the “Historicist” system of biblical prophetic interpretation I knew that it was the truth we had been looking for down through the years. Being involved… in Pentecostalism, we of course were brainwashed by the “Futurist” version of things but as the year went by it seemed to leave a lot to be desired and if was of course very obvious that the “Praeterist” teaching was a non runner….
—– has not read your newsletter yet but I will be very surprised if he does not agree with what you are saying and will be thanking God for you and your writing just as I have been since it first dropped in the door.
…. we will be sending for your tapes on the book of Daniel and on the Covenants and are looking forward very much to listening to them and I believe learning a lot from them. We have taken in so much wrong teaching in this regard down through the years that it will be of great blessing to get things sorted out once and for all with God’s help…
By the way, back to the “Futurist” system: some years back we got a copy of a book on the life of Scofield. Was he some operator and how anyone could accept anything of what he said as being from God in view of the way he was living is beyond me, but then the trouble is that most of them hold him in such high esteem that they would not think of investigating him on the grounds I presume of “touch not the Lord’s anointed”. Again but for the grace of God.

Republic of Ireland

In our own country we have seen over the years how the Presbyterian Church has gone down the road of Ecumenism with Rome and is now in a much weakened state. My family, after God’s leading, left the Presbyterian Church over 5 years ago and joined —– Free Presbyterian Church. In our time here we have had the privilege of hearing you speak on the problems and battles you yourself have and are experiencing in South Africa. I have read your book, “Holy War” Against South Africa, and can clearly remember you saying that night that our own little country was going the same way as South Africa and that soon we would have terrorists in government. Unfortunately, unless God intervenes, this now looks like a real possibility.

Northern Ireland

Your article on Sodomy and the Roman Catholic Church has been sent out to all members of —— in our last mailing – along with all your website/address details…
These contacts are so valuable in this day and age when we can feel somewhat isolated – and is an encouragement to our members to read/hear of likeminded people elsewhere as, I trust, it is an encouragement to you.

England

Thank you so much for that article (Rocky Balboa: a “Christian Boxer”?). I had barely heard about this movie until today and had no idea what was going on surrounding its release (as far as “church” involvement goes). It is absolutely sad, shocking, and utterly disgraceful how low the professing “Christian churches” have sunk!… The “churches” today are so far removed (practically light-years, it seems) from the New Testament standard in conduct and doctrine they are hardly recognizable.

United States

Thanks Shaun – good reminder [the pamphlet The Great Whore of Revelation] in a day of spiritual amnesia…

South Africa

I just wanted to say that I thank God for your ministry. You are truly a light in the darkness. God bless you.

United States

Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia occult? Wow! Give me a break! I personally attribute you and yours to unclean, evil spirits. You have lucifer living inside you.

United States

“Judge not and you shall not be judged. Condemn not and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you shall be forgiven.” Luke 6:37.
[Regarding] the movie Faith Like Potatoes and your comments in the review Faith Like Potatoes, or Biblical Faith? I simply wish to comment as follows, you obviously have not viewed the movie as all your comments are based on the critique of an unnamed reviewer. Surely you are aware of the danger of using second hand information when judging the work of God in our world. Jesus’ own journey to the cross for you and I is filled with hearsay and half truths from those wishing to condemn Him. Perhaps you do not agree with the teachings of Angus Buchan, but if you truly wish to question the results of his ministry you should take the time to watch the movie and even more, take the time to listen to his teachings…. I certainly will be praying for you to see past your obvious bias into the heart of a man who truly acknowledges Jesus as his Lord and Saviour. The church is faced with division from all sides and if you and I call ourselves Christian we need to stand united against this powerful ploy of Satan to undermine the church. May God bless you and give you a fresh unbiased insight into His work in our country.

A Methodist pastor in South Africa

(In the covering letter which went out with the revised edition of the article entitled Faith Like Potatoes, or Biblical Faith? the following was stated: “I did not see the movie. I have read the book on which the movie was based. There is no need to see it. One does not need to visit a nightclub, or for that matter a false church, to know what goes on there, if one has read what others, who have been there, have revealed about it. This I have done. The movie has been extensively reviewed in newspapers and magazines.”
The implied message of this letter is that, if we see the movie and listen to his teachings, we surely cannot fail to be impressed with both, and embrace them wholeheartedly. It seems inconceivable to this man, and to others, that anyone could possibly remain opposed to the movie or the doctrine of the main character if one does so.
The verse he quotes at the beginning is so typical of men in his position: they love to point to that verse and say piously, “Judge not!” Yet he and others like him cannot see that the Lord commands proper judgment (e.g. Jn. 7:24; 1 Cor. 6:1-5). We judge all the time, and so we must; but not with rash or hypocritical judgment, which is what is being condemned in Lk. 6. This man is a Methodist minister; serving a denomination which belongs to the diabolical South African Council of Churches, itself connected to the World Council of Churches; has supported terrorism and the Marxist revolution against South Africa; promoted the satanic doctrine of “liberation theology”; appointed women to the “ministry”; and a whole host of other things. But he is in a froth over our exposure of this movie! This dear man should be far more concerned over the state of his denomination, and of his own soul, than our judgment of this movie. If he and his fellow-“ministers” would but exercise biblical judgment, the Lord opening their eyes, they would depart from the Methodist institution and others like it. He is concerned over the “division” within what he terms “the church”; but the Lord Jesus said, “Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division” (Lk. 12:51). There is an eternal division between the saved and the lost, the sheep and the goats. – Shaun Willcock).

(Letter One)
I was wondering if Mr. Willcock would be able to answer some questions, on the record. I am curious about how Bible Based Ministries operates and the inspiration for Mr. Willcock’s preachings. I have read many of his online lectures and know many people that do, especially ex-pats from Zimbabwe/Rhodesia. I am a freelance journalist and photographer looking to gain greater insight into your work here and abroad.
(Letter Two)
I have approached a number of magazines about running a profile on you and your work here. It seems that they are not interested, though I do appreciate your willingness to speak with me. I would like to know though, on a personal level, are you aware that your preachings are hurting our tourism industry in your region? The same industry is the most likely to alleviate the poverty that is the cause of most of the trouble…

South Africa

In reply:
I am not surprised that various magazines are not interested in a work such as this. When it comes to Christian matters, the vast majority are only interested in the “megachurch” preachers of the Pentecostal/Charismatic persuasion, with their claims of “healing” and “miracles”, and are not interested in what the Bible really teaches. Alternatively, they are interested in the “political priests” from the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Methodist or similar institutions, who preach “liberation theology” instead of a spiritual message of salvation from sin by faith in Jesus Christ. These are the things which are attractive to the world.
As for my preaching and articles hurting the SA tourism industry, I think that is giving too much credit to this comparatively small ministry!… But even if it really was the case… I cannot on that account fail to tell the truth about the situation in South Africa. The world has been misled and blinded to the reality that is the “New South Africa”, and the truth needs to be told. This is a deeply-troubled country, one of the most violent on earth, crime is out of control, the government is failing in its duty of protecting both citizens and visitors, there is a low-level genocide of the white farmers, women are not safe anywhere, children are not safe anywhere, and the country is rapidly following the rest of Africa into Socialist chaos. People in the rest of the world are constantly being told that SA is a “miracle”, a paradise on earth, a free and democratic country. These are lies that need to be exposed. The tourists can come for a few weeks or so, stay in luxury hotels, see the tourist highlights, and then return home; but those who live in SA have to face the stark reality of life here, day by day and year by year. The truth must be told.
I myself encourage visitors to come to SA, provided they take very careful precautions, and that they come with their eyes wide open. It is one thing to come and appreciate the immense beauty of this country, its different cultures and its history; but it is quite another thing to come thinking that all is well here, that SA is a country making progress, or that its government is a “government of and for the people”, with their best interests at heart. Foreign visitors should not be blind to the shocking problems that are rife in SA, and which are not the so-called “legacy of apartheid” as we are constantly being told, but rather the results of an ideology that has brought ruin to most of Africa and to vast sections of the entire world. It is a good thing when foreign tourists visit our shores; but we cannot sugar-coat the situation here, just for them. Far better that they know the truth.

Shaun Willcock

I just have a simple question: The South African government’s economic policy is generally regarded as one of the most forwardly thinking capitalist policies in the world at the moment. How do you qualify your statement that the South African government is communist? This is a straightforward academic question with reference to economic governance.

Email origin uncertain – possibly South Africa

In reply:
You said that the SA government’s economic policy “is generally regarded as one of the most forwardly thinking capitalist policies in the world at the moment.” However, that would depend on who regards it as such. Generally regarded as such by whom? Economists would differ greatly on this.
But be that as it may, the South African government, like various other Communist governments around the world in recent times, has accepted that the old-style Communist economic policies simply do not work, and has accordingly modified its economic policies to reflect this to some extent. There are Communist governments which continue to follow the old-style policies, such as Zimbabwe and Cuba and North Korea, and there are others which have ealized that in the modern world that old approach is simply not good enough. This does not mean they have creased to be Communist, it simply means that in economic matters, they have seen the necessity of adopting a Capitalistic approach to some extent.
Communism is far, far more than an economic model.

Shaun Willcock