"Yes, all kings shall fall down before Him; all nations shall serve Him." (Psalm 72:11)
If we do not get our text out of the Sunday School class, out of the Bible Study class, out of the closed sessions of Sunday morning services, the modern church will have no more relevance to the global struggle than "Bachelorette."
I have no doubt that if the people pictured above would read my writings, they would attempt this. The following is from an online article:
"Over the last 1400 years, 270 million non-believers were murdered by Muslim jihadists. Islam destroyed the Christian Middle East and Christian North Africa (To this day, Christians are almost non existent). It is estimated that upwards of 60 million Christians were slaughtered during this conquest. Also, half the Hindu civilization was annihilated and 80 million Hindus murdered. Islamic jihad also destroyed over 10 million Buddhists."
This is "the real world" in which you and I live. This is Islam since its founding 1500 years ago. Against some of the contemporary "experts," I say that Islam is not the problem. Islam was a late comer in human history and simply gave a religious "flavor" to the age-old Arab war of hatred against Jews, Western Civilization, and all who will not submit and surrender to the attempt to establish an "Arab World Empire." In the last generation, the Arab Islamism has renewed, and is daily strengthening, its resolve to annihilate world Jewry, defeat the West, and triumph over all world religions. What its Islamic bedfellow failed to do when stopped at the gates of Vienna, it is right now renewing that effort. Also, what is and has been latent in the Germanic People Group, is beginning to emerge once again. I have a warning: Those who think "never again" is a magic formula for victory, yet do nothing to fight the evil, will once again find themselves on "boxcars."
Our text today reveals that there are no multiple rulers in God's economy. Nowhere in the Bible does the Holy Spirit endorse the reign of multiple kings, religions, political systems. The Bible declares, "Yes, all kings..,all nations shall serve Him," our King, Jesus Christ. There is no shared hegemony. The American Constitution does not rule, the world of political and religious correctness does not rule, egalitarianism does not rule. Only King Jesus and His "God-Breathed" Word rules. While Matthew 28 has been used to promote church evangelism, it is also a declaration of war. "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." The intent is clear-- to see, "every creature...saved and come to the knowledge of the truth," in Jesus Christ, and yes, to bring all humanity under the reign of Jesus Christ. While, "the weapons of our warfare are not carnal," we do have weapons, "truth,..righteousness,..the gospel of peace,..the shield of faith,..the helmet of salvation,..the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God,..all prayer and supplication in the Spirit...with all perseverance.... Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth."
Don't allow yourself today to be boxed into a religious blind. The Reign of God is overcoming men and nations.
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
does his successive journeys run;
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore,
Till moons shall wax and wane no more.
Behold the islands with their kings,
And Europe her best tribute brings;
From north to south the princes meet,
To pay their homage at His feet.
There Persia, glorious to behold,
There India shines in eastern gold;
And barb'rous nations at His word
Submit, and bow, and own their Lord. (Isaac Watts)
Father, in Jesus' Name, "Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven." Amen.
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Read Full Article from which the above photo came: www.apf327.blogspot.com
Today's Unreached People Group: www.apfunreachedpeoples.blogspot.com
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
"Looking unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2
