Gospel News — Sep-Dec 2013

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Pleght Anker Christadelphian Church and Youth Centre bus that transported the Berbician members to Mocha Arcadia.

Mocha Sisters the hosts of the seminar.

God Speaks To The Nations

Gospel Publicity League

The prophets of Israel explained the relationship of the nations in regard to their attitude toward Israel. God promised Abram in Genesis ch 12, speaking of Israel, "I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curseth thee; and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed". Whereas the world sees Israel as a threat to world peace, God declares Abram and Israel as the medium of bringing peace to all nations Jeremiah ch 30 verses 22-24 states "that in

the latter days ye will consider it". Prior to this the "fury of the Lord will fall on the head of the wicked". In verse 18 is the promise of God to bring Israel back into the land, and his judgments will be upon the nations who are His & Israel's enemies The book of Revelation ch 16 :16 informs the readers where the final end time judgments upon the nations will take place, where many nations of the earth are gathered for the great day of God Almighty. It is a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon, and this NT message has its roots in the OT Prophets who spoke about it in detail.

Consider Zechariah 14:2. "I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle", and in Ezekiel ch 12:9 God says "in that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem to battle", and in Zechariah 14:3 God declares He will fight against all those nations. In v.12 Zechariah describes His judgments upon Israel's enemies, judgments horrible to behold. The end result of all this is that those who are left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem, shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

God Speaks To People

The Bible message is for all people of all nations. The instructions given to the 12 apostles was "to go into the all world and preach, he that believes (the gospel) and is baptised shall be saved and he that believeth not shall be condemned". 2000 years later nothing has changed and still the opportunity is open to as many who will hearken, even in these last days. So what does the Bible tell us about "the gospel of Jesus Christ". From a personal viewpoint we repeat the words of Peter on the day of Pentecost, 50 days after Christ was taken into heaven, `repent and be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins'. Paul the apostle states that God is calling out from the gentiles ( nations) "a people for his name".. The instruction to preach Jesus Christ and him crucified to all, both Jew and Greek, turned the world upside down. To the Jews it was a