How has every culture in the world been prepared for God’s message?
A long time ago an Ethiopian government official went in search of the true God. He went to Jerusalem. When he was leaving Jerusalem he was reading the fifty third chapter of Isaiah. Then a Jewish man came along and asked what he was reading. The Ethiopian eunuch showed him what he was reading and told him that he could not understand what it meant. This Jewish man, whose name was Philip, explained to the Ethiopian what Isaiah meant and told him about Jesus and the things which he did for mankind. The Ethiopian asked Jesus into his heart and asked Philip to baptize him. When the Ethiopian went back to his country he told many people and the Gospel spread quickly in Ethiopia.
In the 1920’s a missionary was rather surprised at how well a Bantu tribe in the Central African Republic welcomed the message of the Gospel. He was later told by the Bantu leaders that they had already been waiting for the missionary and his message. They said the Creator, Koro had sent word to their forefathers long ago that He had already sent his son into the world to accomplish something wonderful for all mankind. However, their forefathers later turned away from the truth of Koro’s son and, in time, forgot what it was that He had accomplish for all mankind.
“Since the time of “the forgetting,” successive generations of our people have longed to discover the truth about Koro’s Son. But all we could learn was that messengers would eventually come to restore that forgotten knowledge to us.”
The Gospel is also explained in the Chinese characters. The ideograph for righteousness has two parts: the upper symbol meaning “lamb,” and the lower symbol, meaning “I”. The message, then, is that “I, under the Lamb, am righteous.”
The ideograph for tree is a cross with the symbol for man superimposed on it.
The great Incan Emperor, Pachacuti, was a sun god worshiper for a while until he really started to watch the sun. He noticed that the sun always followed a set path, preformed certain definite tasks and kept set hours, as did a common laborer. With lost interest in the sun Pachacuti started to study the Incan traditions and histories. He read about Adam and Noah and others and at last discovered the Lord, whom his Incan ancestors had called “Viracocha,” and began to worship Him as the Creator of all things.
Also there is the creation itself to look at. If one was to really consider the creation, he would eventually be pointed to God. The stars also point to God. When one considers how massive space is, one can not help but to know that someone Great and Mighty made it all.
All things declare God’s Glory; all things point to Him.
“The heavens declare the Glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork.” Psalm 19:1
by: your one and only; SWEETPEA
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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