The Scourge Of Racism
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The Lord’s cause to restore men through Jesus, Son Of Man is from eternity (1 Peter 1:20) and was announced in Eden for all to hear (Genesis 3:15)! From that garden announcement the sovereign God has moved in His timing and in accord with His plan to bring His cause to restore willing men from among every ethnicity, race, tribe and language spread across the earth to fulfillment beginning with Israel, His chosen people (Isaiah 49:5-6; Matthew 4:18-22; Acts 1:1-8, 9:10-16, 17:22-31). The absolute fruitfulness of the Lord’s work from the first century until now is known only to Him, but even early on the apostle Paul spoke of it (Colossians 1:3-6).
In learning about church history, I have consistently come across how advantageous the Roman Empire--the general peace it brought and its paved roads at the right moment--was for the arrival of Christ, His life, death by crucifixion, burial, resurrection and the eventual spread of the Gospel about Him through His apostles to all the world it dominated. This was, of course, a matter of divine foreknowledge, will and strategic plan that in those early years the Gospel should go forth in peace to all the lands the Jews of the pre-Christ, punitive dispersions resided among the Gentiles that they might hear it and believe if they would (Romans 9-11:10).
Many Gentiles into Rome itself also heard and believed the Gospel during that first century, though the men Christ sent to preach it throughout the empire were often violently set upon by Jew, Greek and the Roman politico-military establishment as He foretold (Matthew 10:16-26; John 15:18-16:4; Acts 13-14; Romans 1:1-17, 15:17-24). God graciously gave Israel in its land and dispersed a generation to hear and respond to the Gospel. After this period in AD 70, His foretold wrath led again to the nation’s destruction and this time their global dispersion (Deuteronomy 28:58-68; Isaiah 28:9-19; Jeremiah 25:1-11; Daniel 9:20-26; Hosea 5:8-15; Matthew 23:37-39; Luke 20:9-19, 21:20-24).
Although the Lord has continued preaching the Gospel to His scattered people with the foretold limited results and in recent times after over 1,900 years restored them to the land in ongoing prophetic fulfillment, during that same period He turned His two-fold attention to us Gentiles (Acts 13:42-49). As with the Jews, the Lord first graciously sent forth men preaching the Gospel to all four points of the compass among the Gentiles beyond the Roman Empire. Many disciples were made and churches established as the Lord moved to fulfill His cause to restore men to the ends of the earth. Meanwhile, the Lord was also fulfilling a second foretold objective among the Gentiles.
As He had announced through His prophets, the Lord has also been moving through the earth meting out long delayed judgment on the Gentile nations for their wickedness sometimes prior to as a softening up, but mostly after they had heard the Gospel (Jeremiah 25:12-28). Indeed, the Lord of hosts says to the Gentile nations, ‘“For behold, I begin to bring calamity on the city which is called by My name, and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished, for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth,’” (Jeremiah 25:29, NKJV). Thus, even Rome was felled by its gross immorality and European tribes known then as “barbarians” in the 5th century AD.
After this, as with the demise of Jerusalem as the vibrant birthplace of Christianity, so, every city of the former empire such as Antioch, Corinth and Ephesus where it had thrived for a time faded, was later destroyed or overrun by Islam. Greatly diminished in influence after four heady post-apostolic centuries, Christianity in variant forms as “orthodox” religion was and has remained dominant in the Greek East as it spread North into Asia and in the Middle East, North and East Africa. It was the influence of Christianity as a settled religion worked like yeast in Western Civilization as dough and overseen by Roman Catholicism in the West, however, that led to the Gospel being preached to the farthest reaches of the planet.
For the next thousand years Roman Catholicism’s preservation and teaching of Western Civilization (Greco-Roman thought and ideas with Christian morality etc.) brought the tribes of western Europe out of their barbarism to more refined tastes, renaissance, enlightenment and the ambitious quest to be enriched by and take possession of the whole earth! By the time German priest, Martin Luther, had launched his attempt to reform the Catholic Church in 1517, many previously unknown lands had already been reached and in divine providence, the Gospel proclaimed to the inhabitants. Among the lands and upon shores the sea brought Europeans and Catholic missionaries was West Africa from whence came my black forefathers as slaves.
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