Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
Some teachings of the Bible are so simple and clear that they are beyond theologians' "interpretation." They are rock-bottom truths that even an innocent child can see, for example: God is love.
* He so loves that He has given and He gives His only Son to save us from an eternal hell; He teaches us to love others with the same love wherewith He loves us; a clear and powerful proclamation of that love is what Jesus means by "this gospel of the kingdom" (Matt. 24:14);
* It will be proclaimed so clearly that it is yet to "lighten the earth with glory" (Rev. 18:1-4);
* God has true people who as yet don't understand the message, "other sheep not of this fold," for whom He is also their "Good Shepherd" as He is ours (John 10:11-16);
* These people are in "Babylon," that is, scattered in the confusion of conflicting religions around the world (Rev. 14:8; 18:3);
* They will hear His voice in the proclamation of that final Good News message (John 10:4);
* The love of Christ will bind them all in "one body" of believers (Eph. 4:4-7) who will have come "out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb" (Rev. 7:1-4, 14);
* God so loves these people that He wants to "abide" with them forever, hence the resurrection and translation at the second coming of Jesus.
Muslims as yet don't understand this, but there are some among them who will perk up when they hear it and will "come out of Babylon" when the message is proclaimed clearly. They will leave the legalism of Islam and will embrace "the truth of the gospel," "as the truth is in Jesus" (Gal. 2:5, 14; Eph. 4:21; a child can see that we must understand "this gospel" first!).
Take care of your health; live until Jesus comes; there is great history before us!
Copyright © 2009 by Robert J. Wieland.
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