Human Missionary Efforts are Failing

According to the report, the average ministry cost in US dollars for each convert’s baptism ranges from $1,400 per conversion in Mozambique to $61,000 in Asia, $145,000 in Latin America, $993,000 in Europe, and $1.5 million in the United States.

Since four billion people remain un-Christian, and therefore headed for eternal misery according to traditional teachings, God would need to provide hundreds of trillions of dollars if he wanted to reach all the people living today.

Fortunately God has a much better plan than this “missionary work.” The humbling experiences depicted symbolically as “fire” in 2 Peter 3 and Zephaniah 3:8 will prepare people to receive instruction. And as Jeremiah predicts, “it will no longer be necessary to say, ‘know the LORD,’ because they will all know him, from the least to the greatest.”

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Law and Health

The Mosaic Law prescribed covered sewerage in Deuteronomy 23:12,13. It was not until the industrial revolution that the world resumed the practice, and with it came an increase in life expectancy (from forty to now over seventy years).

Eating fat was forbidden in Leviticus 3:17. Modern medicine now tells us that eating fat contributes to both coronary disease and cancer.

The Law declared people who contacted dead bodies to be unhealthy, and also prescribed a soap-and-water cleansing (Numbers 19:2-22). When in 1847 Ignaz Semmelweis required hand-washing for medical personnel before each patient visit in the maternity ward, the one-in-six woman mortality rate plunged; nevertheless, he was ridiculed and lost his job (and the mortality rate soared again). Thirty years later the bacteriological basis became known, and antiseptic procedures were then required in all hospitals.

The Law of Moses was a radical departure from the medical practices of Egypt (Papyrus Elbers). The agnostic is left to ponder whether Moses was the greatest research M.D. in history, or whether the Designer and Creator gave him the information. Modern medical science is learning—just 3,500 years late!

—None of These Diseases, S.I. McMillen, M.D.

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Whatsoever a Man Soweth…

I dreamed I died last night, and an angel ushered me to a symbolic heaven. As we were walking amid the trees down a beautiful boulevard, we passed a striking chateau with elegantly-crafted wood carvings all around. On the right came a mansion shining with gold and silver trim. And on the left

we passed a spectacular palace studded with diamonds, rubies, and emeralds. Then the angel turned us down a side street to a little tumble-down shack and said, “This is your new place.”

I protested, “With so many beautiful estates, all I get is this?” He replied, “I am sorry, but we did the best we could with the materials you sent up!”

I awoke. I am distracted no longer.

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And Finally...

"If ye know these things, blessed are ye IF ye do them."
John 13:17, Revised Version