14-07-2018
Two
great prophetic fulfillments:
Matthew
23:37-39 New King James Version (NKJV)
Jesus Laments over Jerusalem
37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and
stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children
together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not
willing! 38 See! Your house is left to you desolate; 39 for I say to you, you
shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the
Lord!’ ”
The
destruction of Jerusalem happened in 70A.D.
Jesus
knew 40 years after His crucifixion and His resurrection that Jerusalem and the
temple would be destroyed.
Jesus'
prophecies are amazingly accurate.
He
also prophesied about the scattering of the Jewish people... until our time.
2,000
years later, the people of Israel have been restored to their land. There is
now a Messianic remnant rising up in the land.
We
are the witnesses of this great event.
There
will be a Messianic Jerusalem by the time Jesus returns.
Romans
11:26 New King James Version (NKJV)
26 And so all Israel will be saved,[a] as it is written:
“The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
Israel
is a key.
Israel
is God's end time clock.
Israel
is one hand of the clock.
The
other hand is the hand of the nations.
There
is still a lot of work to be done.
Matthew
24:6-8 New King James Version (NKJV)
6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are
not troubled; for all[a] these things must come to pass, but the end is not
yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And
there will be famines, pestilences,[b] and earthquakes in various places. 8 All
these are the beginning of sorrows.
Don't
focus on the next crisis.
Look
beyond them.
The
kingdom of God is coming to earth with power.
Matthew
24:14 New King James Version (NKJV)
14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world
as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
It
is a nation transforming truth that goes out to to roots of culture that bring
transformation and change.
Spirit
empowered witnesses that take to the roots of culture.
This
must take place before His return.
And
then the end will come.
The
kingdom of God has to be witnessed in all nations.
Thank
God for our older brother Israel.
We
learned so much about them in them.
The
gospel of the Kingdom began in Israel.
Paul's
2nd Missionary Journey:
Acts
16:6-10 New King James Version (NKJV)
The Macedonian Call
6 Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia,
they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in [a]Asia. 7 After
they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the [b]Spirit did
not permit them. 8 So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. 9 And a vision
appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him,
saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” 10 Now after he had seen the
vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had
called us to preach the gospel to them.
Israel
is West Asia.
In
his vision, Paul, the Asian apostle, saw an European man.
In
Paul's lifetime, the gospel of the Kingdom saturated the Greek speaking world.
The
first New Testaments were written in the Greek language.
The
expansion of the gospel was west.
Romans
15:24 New King James Version (NKJV)
24 whenever I journey to Spain, [a]I shall come to you. For I hope
to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I
may enjoy your company for a while.
"All
roads lead to Rome."
Eventually
the Romans were conquered by the barbarians (the British, French, Austrians,
Spanish).
The
gospel of the Kingdom came to the pagan tribal Europe and changed everything it
touched. It took a long time. It took centuries.
In
the end, a Christian culture and a Christian civilisation began to emerge.
It
went to the roots of their culture.
They
took a foreigner from the Middle East and made Him their own. They made Him
European!
After
a while, God showed up in Europe.
How
blessed is the people who God is the Lord.
Their
nations began to rise up in power and abilities, for better or for worse.
The
secret of European greatness in its day is in Acts where they took the gospel
west.
Eventually
Europe became too civilised and they went west.
1620
- Pilgrims sail to America.
102
Christian pilgrims and settlers landed in Massachusetts. After that tens of
thousands followed them.
They
began to build Bible colleges. The first three were Harvard, Princeton and
Yale.
After
a while God showed up in North America.
God
gave a land that was rich in resources. He gave them science and technology and
inventiveness.
The
secret to America's success is in Acts 16 to take the values and cultures of
the gospel west.
What's
happening in America today? Spiritual crisis. They have taken prayers out of
schools and taken the bibles out of the courtrooms.
The
gospel of the Kingdom is still going west.
In
our lifetime, the gospel of the Kingdom is hitting East Asia like a tidal wave.
"Christ
has risen" over China. (Post magazine)
"Jesus
of Nazareth now has more followers on the mainland." (South China Morning
Post)
10/40
Window of least evangelised nations.
We
are the generation that is looking at the end.
We
are at the edge of the wave.
We
are the fathers and mothers seeing that turn, take place in real time.
You
are at the beginning of the greatest change in your region.
Catch
the wave of God's purposes.
God
is moving with great power in your generation and in your time.
In
the church building is where you are equipped to serve.
Send
your young people out where their gift and calling is found in society.
God
is going to show up in South East Asia.
God
is going to make you the head and not the tail.
We
are looking at the finish line.
Israel
is the finish line.
Keep
one eye on Israel and one eye on the nations.
Believe
God for the impossible.
We
want to see God's kingdom come and His will be done on earth as it is in
heaven.
According
to the Book of Revelation, this is the Kingdom that will rule over all
kingdoms.
This
power is in the wave.
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