LET THE FLOOD BEGIN

     As I stated in an earlier post, I have spent the summer months being refreshed and inspired by God's great beauty and talks with him. He has revealed in his divine wisdom to me, whose understanding is so wanting, what I have suspected for some time that he is up to something. Oh yes, God is always "up to something" but this time he is really up to something. He is always exciting and loving, but always up to something, my brothers and sisters.

I and the world have watched as Islam spread its violence combined with its signature forced conversions across the Middle East and the world to build a new Caliphate and control the world.  I have overheard Christians here and there say Christianity is dying or losing to Islam. But knowing that God doesn't lose, my thoughts have always been, "what is God up to by allowing such events?"

I was curious to understand why God would let Muslims spread in such strength and vehemence throughout his world; killing his children and defaming his name and that of his son, Jesus Christ.  This is what I have come to understand with such clarity that he is allowing Islam to show its true face, that of violence and forced conversions. Did not Jesus tell us that the only way to the Father is through the Son, and yet they reject his son? Bringing into the light the true face of Islam, our Father knows that it will bring his sheep toward our Lord Jesus Christ, his son, and in turn, to him.  The truth shall set us free.

My brothers and sisters in Christ, our God is bringing Muslims in incomprehensible numbers to Christian borders to escape the Muslim-on-Muslim violence. For the past few years, I have been reading articles written by Christian missionaries in the Middle East that state, "the church isn't ready for the massive numbers of converts that God is to going to send from a Muslim community fleeing from the violence of the Muslim world."  My fellow Christians, "The Flood" is upon us and we are not prepared. I'm hearing and easily imagining that this could be the largest conversion to Christianity in the history of the world; according to records, the last ten years have seen the greatest number of conversions to Christianity worldwide in history, and we ain't seen nothing yet.  We need to open our minds and prayers to this very fact. God is driving his flock toward us to shepherd them to his son, Jesus Christ. Drop the fear of Muslims entering our lands. We are commanded to look at this as the greatest opportunity ever given by God to Christians to be a loving and giving example of Jesus Christ and aid Muslims which act will be a glory to our Father and bring unfathomable numbers into his arms.

This may be the greatest opportunity in history.  Let us not hate but love. Let us not turn away but welcome and give comfort to those Muslims. When people come to our Lord, they are usually at their lowest ebb in life and ready to surrender. If we turn a fearful and rejecting eye to "The Flood", the fleeing Muslims may turn to the only other option...militant Islam and its violence and terror.

Let us act toward Muslims with nothing but love, compassion, empathy, and forgiveness just as our Lord Jesus commands. Muslims populate the poorest regions in the world.  God has showered worldly wealth upon his Christian children just so that they will be prepared when he sends "The Flood."  Remember my brothers and sisters in Christ, all we have is given by God and therefore, his to give as pleases Him.  Let us give in a way that pleases him. Also, let us use Love as our weapon of choice for it pleases our loving Father. Only love can destroy hate.  Let "The Flood" begin, and pray that we will not miss this, the greatest opportunity ever given by God to add to his flock.  They are massing on the borders of Christian Macedonia by the hundreds of thousands, they are coming by sea in dilapidated boats these children that calls to him.  All glory to God, our Father, we shall meet this head on with love, comfort, and no forced conversions or senseless violence for our God is a loving and compassionate God.

There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.      Galatians 3:28 NIV