D Day June 6, 1944

Early on the morning of June  6, 1944 the largest amphibious invasion of all time began on the beaches of Normandy, France. 24,000 airborne troups parachuted from the skies while from over 5,000 ships and landing craft below over 160,000 men stormed the beaches hoping against hope that not only would they SURVIVE but that they might TAKE the beach, even though it meant just having a TOE HOLD on a continent completely under the power of a satanically inspired regime, The Third Reich.

 The men knew that the cost would be incredible, but they also knew THE TIME HAD COME to bring the Third Reich DOWN!

 The cost in lives and finances was enormous, but the sheer determination of the soldiers facing almost certain death carried the day.

 That is what earned those people the honor of being called "THE GREATEST GENERATION".

 It is now 67 years later, some of those men and women are still alive, but more than that The Deliverance of a continent held in the most horrific bondage was begun and would be accomplished in full almost a full year later as the tyrant's power was completely broken.

 It is a piece of history that fewer and fewer men and women even consider these days as it is a subject for their HISTORY books and NOT their EXPERIENCE.

 Many of the old timers in our midst remember the fear, the effort, the sacrifices that it took to win this victory!  But to the young it is many times a matter of "WELL THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW"

 Can I tell you , it wasn't really Hitler that was being fought but the SPIRITUAL POWERS that hold sway here in Europe that time and again down through history have manifested themselves in a barbarism and severity seldom parallelled elsewhere in the earth.

 THOSE POWERS ARE STILL HERE in Europe, and as many Bible Students of Prophecy feel, ARE JUST REGROUPING to rise up YET AGAIN in one FINAL display of destruction often called the Great Tribulation.

 It is THAT SAME SPIRITUAL EVIL UNMATCHED IN THE EARTH that missionaries to Europe are confronting and taking dominion over IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST! Except instead of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS TRYING TO ESTABLISH A FOOTHOLD, A BASE OF OPERATIONS ON NORMANDY BEACH, imagine just ONE soldier on the beach here, facing down BATTALLIONS of the  enemy intent on destroying them, Another ONE WAAAAAAAAAY over there  on another beach, and maybe two or three more, under unrelenting fire, bombardment, and pure hellish assault, all the while PLEADING for some support from those back at home! And feeling that few very few indeed even care.

 You see in  WORLD WAR TWO * THAT*  was what won the war ending Hitlers bloodthirsty reign. NOT JUST the soldiers on the front, BUT the MILLIONS of men and women boys and girls BACK HOME who SACRIFICED and WORKED UNRELENTINGLY TO ASSURE those front line soldiers of victory!

 THAT is what missionaries need today, a FRESH VISION OF THE BATTLE BEING RAGED, RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW. Because Brethren THERE IS A WAR GOING ON!

 Thank God back at home there are so many ways to relax and unwind, but please please , don't forget about the men and women UP AT THE FRONT oftentimes pinned down in foxholes DESPERATELY pleading "HELP US"!  I personally thank God for the family of Brother and Sister Brian Shell who are willing to leave the comfort of America the home that they own, their friends and family and leave it all and come join us up at the front. I am praying that there still are men and women of God who have not lost the purpose in the the Gospel of GOING INTO ALL THE WORLD PREACHING THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE. Please pray with us that Pastors here in America will be sensitive to the call from abroad HELP US.