Matthew 24:14 "And this Gospel of the Kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come."
5 years until California... Probably more like 4 years and a couple of months now... I'm not sure how I arrived at that sort of number, but it just ... seemed right in my spirit when it stuck with me half a year or so ago. So, the entire plan seems to follow this track.. Since it is all about sending to the nations.. the first part would be getting out there.
The house is secondary at first.. I'm almost certain it will, in finality, be either near the Santa Barbara or the Ojai area... for the meantime, we may end up staying somewhere closer to the city.
The inner city gym/after-school program would be the first to take shape (from an organization standpoint)... then as it became popular, there would be two... three... four.. or however many there needed to be to meet need and start a multiplicating effect across the city (nation?)... Some students would graduate and leave, some would come back as teachers... but more importantly, some would be saved to Jesus at an early age and want to spend themselves among the peoples of the world. This is where the next part comes into focus.
The missions training school, something that could take place part-time in the gym/outreach/after-school program area, would be built next. The website is already these days taking shape.. albeit a very anonymolous shape at the moment... But at this point, there would be an actual facility. It would be primarily a secondary education sort of place with it's own teaching areas, publishing departments and auditoriums and command centers.. but it would also have a primary education facility. We plan on making very quick use of programs such as Rosetta Stone language learning software... Why?
Well... let's say a 7 year old.. street kid.. gets saved... I don't know the ins and outs of paperwork and red tape at the moment, but let's say he decides, he wants to be a missionary.. and wants to go to Djibouti, Africa to reach the unreached tribal groups living in that nation (we're going to be focusing on unreached people groups). We would, after slicing through the red tape with some sort of fashion, bring him out to the secondary facility and renew his primary education with an added bonus. He would begin learning all he can about the tribal people (as specifically as possible) that he can, their language (as early as possible), their customs, their history.. as if it were his own. His twelfth grade project would be to finish the translated Bible (that he'd started in 9th grade) into that tribes language and have it ready for print as he and his team prepare to leave for that nation to be planted among those people as witnesses for Christ.
(this is all ... just theorizing right now, but I promise you, it is very real theorizing.. and something exactly like this will happen.)
As we begin sending missionaries throughout the world, our house will come into shape. It won't be a house specifically designed for my wife, our children and myself to "get away from it all" but as a place where missionaries, tired and worn from their hard labor, may come and rest and be taken care of while they recuperate... we'll have as many as 3 different groups of missionaries staying on our property every week, and these groups will have nothing required of them except that they allow themselves to be served and refreshed. Well, one thing will be required.. they will each teach an hour long class for a week at the university (a class set aside simply for these missionaries to come and bring teaching and news about the world the students themselves are about to embark on) ... there are other things, but this is starting to get long.
So.. the school is going along swimmingly, people are being sent to the nations and the unreached are becoming reached.. so.... here's where the vision about unreached peoples ties in.. The Joshua Project lists the total unreached people groups at around 6,918... in the vision the witnessing body of Christ was down to 3 total remaining in the world!! and Matthew 24:14 plainly states that when the Gospel of the Kingdom is preached to all these nations.. the end will come.. not that we're predicting dates.. because....
At this point, ... at the point the last of those 3 groups is reached.. our entire mission organization pulls roots and drops itself into the middle of Israel. Because in Matthew 10:23... Jesus, speaking to his disciples said, "When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes." I also think it is remarkable that the last, smallest thing God said to me out of all these visions, (the one I misunderstood) also comes to fruit here.. In ministry to the lost beloved of Israel... I am with her in the end.. as a brother.
At this moment, we will begin preaching the Gospel in every town in Israel where we can go... leaving when persecuted or when a church is planted... until the Son of Man appears... and we rise to meet Him!
I think Jesus could not tell his disciples when He would return because it depended on us. If Jesus had known and had told us when he was going to return, we'd look around and say, "Oh.. he's not going to be here for 3 or 4 more years, let's sleep a bit." But what if we look at it from this perspective.... His returning... (from Christ's own words...) His returning depends on US. Depends on us getting the Gospel message to every nation, tribe and tongue.
We truly have a remarkable and wonderful responsibility... Praise You Jesus for giving us Your Holy Spirit so we could have the fortitude to work alongside You... We have the opportunity to speed the end! (which is the name of the website by the way..) It was the last thing God gave me when I was in the car on the way to Tulsa... and it broke me.. "Speed The End"........ we have an enormous responsibility. God wants us to be co-laborers with Him. Let's do it.
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