De la tiranía de la Esperanza

Throughout the biblical history of Israel God used international forces to push the Jewish people towards righteousness and blessing. God’s covenant with the Jews was for blessing through obedience and, a través de ellos, blessing for all nations on earth. But when God’s chosen people strayed far from their promised commitment and threatened their own destruction, Dios usó a otras naciones para traer corrección del curso.

¿Cómo Dios llamar la atención A LA NACIÓN PARA SÍ MISMO.

Ya en Abraham y Isaac, Dios usó a Abimelec rey de los filisteos, para que la corrección de los patriarcas de la mentira. (Gen.20, 26) Cuando el plan de Dios para Israel fue casi frustrado por hijos duras y erupción genocidio de los de Siquem Jacob (Gen.34) It is Egypt that God used as a place of refuge and then correction for this infant nation. And as the great Israel of Soloman’s time begins a steep moral decline, God raised up the Assyrians to bring pressure to bear. As that decline continued God brought heavier judgment on Israel through invasion and finally exile to Babylon. Entonces, it was the Babylonians who rebuilt and reestablished the Jews in their homeland in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah. From the broadest perspective it seems that God has always used the unrighteous nations to judge the unrighteous in order to draw our attention back to Himself.

Las personas que tienen algo por qué vivir, NO TIRE LIGERAMENTE.

I have just returned from six weeks in the Middle East and Asia where I have had much time to ponder the ways of God in current events. I was in Egypt on 9/11/2001. As I returned last month, lejos de crear más miedo y la timidez de los cristianos en Egipto, radical Islam and the threat of terrorism is creating greater boldness among the believers and greater tolerance for Christians among the Muslim officials. In Egypt, Bangladesh, Dubai y Kuala Lumpur parecía tan claro para mí que la presión del capitalismo y el desarrollo económico se trata de un golpe mortal al fundamentalismo islámico, marginalizing the extremist by increasing the quality of life. People who have something to live for, incluso si se trata de bendiciones materiales, do not throw it away lightly. Por supuesto, como el desarrollo económico va en contra el extremismo, it also creates a spiritual void. Pero, que podría ser parte de la estrategia de Dios para el Oriente Medio? Could a crushing blow to Islam through capitalism create the environment for sweeping evangelism? If so the Christians in Egypt and Malaysia are more prepared than ever. Egypt was a stronghold of the earliest church. Who is to say that we will not see that again?

CHINA: Creando un ambiente propicio para GREAT REVIVAL.

Considere el siglo pasado en China! After nearly 2000 años de la tiranía dinástica es comunismo que derribó las murallas del imperio cerrado, creating an atmosphere condusive to great revival. There are now millions of Chinese believers. Y, Ahora que el desarrollo económico está desmantelando sistemáticamente el control del comunismo, this mammoth Church is preparing to influence the world beginning with India and the Middle East. Was communism the political pressure God used to bring China to Himself? Could capitalism be God’s tool to diffuse Islam and bring a great freedom for His Spirit to reach these lost and barricaded nations?

CONSIDERE Corea - NORTE Y SUR!

Seúl está informado de que 40 a 50% Cristiano. Some feel the huge, affluent and educated church of Korea may be in danger of becoming self-absorbed and fat. Sin embargo, North Korea is looming on the horizon. It cannot be long before the political tyranny there fails completely. Has God prepared a body of believers in the south for the challenge of reaching the lost in the north? And is the challenge of reaching North Korea the very thing that the church in South Korea needs to stay vital and Christ centered?

Llamar o recibir llamadas!

En el esquema de las cosas de Dios podía ser justo Cuba el reto necesario para afilar una iglesia auto-indulgente en América? The church in Florida alone could take on the challenge of flooding, evangelización y el desarrollo de Cuba, cambiar el destino de una nación.

Y ¿qué pasa con Europa? As “Christian Europe” becomes an archaic phrase used mostly by humanist politicians to defend values for Europe that God could never tolerate, lo que Dios podría estar preparándose para presionarnos volver a centrarse en lo. Limita con los musulmanes del Norte de África al sur, the Middle East to the southwest and Russia to the northwest it does not take a very active imagination to see the pressure God could bring to bear. It is “reach” or “be reached!"

Esta perspectiva nos debe dar esperanza! God is not thwarted in the cacophony of global issues before us today. Quite the opposite, He is alive and well and doing what He has been doing in all of human history. He is using the unrighteous to bring pressure on the unrighteous. He is seeking to reach and teach the nations and there is no power great enough to stop Him. Quite the opposite, Él usa la más improbable, si no dispuestos de poderes, con el fin de cumplir su voluntad.

ENSEÑAR A EE.UU. PARA ORAR.

En segundo lugar, esta perspectiva nos debe mostrar cómo orar! Let us pray that the systems of men that control the peoples of the world be crushed by any means God deems necessary. Let us pray that the chaos that results not be wasted but the void filled with the life-giving message of Christ. Let us pray that a bound church be liberated through any means necessary and become again the bride worthy of the groom. Pray that even now Christian business people, Cristianos en el gobierno y la ley, Cristianos en la educación y la atención sanitaria, Cristianos en la terapia familiar y el desarrollo, evangelist and church planters in South Korea begin to prepare for a free North Korea. Pray that the economic development in the Middle East continue to keep ahead of the influence of terrorism. Pray that a vibrant wave of evangelism from Malaysia, China and Korea flow over the Middle East. Pray that by any and all means, Europa se volvió a sus raíces cristianas, que es los cristianos en Europa.

Tuyo por todo lo que es su,
Landa