Phew! This is the few threads that I read entirely.
I realize that people are not looking where they ought to. People seemed to be trapped in their own bubbles and completely ignoring how God has historically designated players and assigned them functions and permitted inroads to be made historically speaking.
I don't recall God speaking through the lips of the Old Testament writers about today's players.
Let me present to you Isaiah a Jew who like his Old Testament Jewish fellows would loath the Assyrians, because when crunch time came God sent in the Assyrians as the stick from Heaven to disperse and to assimilate the House of Israel and later he would send them to the House of Juda to teach them who's boss (God).
Why would Isaiah a Jew even mention the Assyrians as God's Handy Work?
Without reading, scripture history should suffice.
So why was Jonah a Jew reluctant to warn the Assyrians of Nineveh so that they would NOT be destroyed?
Jonah knew what Isaiah knew and what the entire Old Testament peoples knew of the history that God ordained. God used a player and assigned that player a function and he promised and declared through Isaiah a Jew the same player God will use in the New Covenant Age.
I have now opened a dispute between all of denominational and congregational Christianity with God.
How will you ALL deal with this dispute?
God through Isaiah said...
Isaiah 19:23-25
23In that day there will be a
highway from Egypt to Assyria.
The Assyrians will go to Egypt, and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and
Assyrians will worship together.
24In that day Israel will join a three-party alliance with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing upon the earth. 25The LORD of Hosts will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt My people,
Assyria My handiwork, and Israel My inheritance.”
1st Century context. It historically happened through God's Handy Work.
It was not Rome, all other nations were originally called not God's people back then until the New Covenant where they became a new player called Egypt because they were once pagans (idolaters).
However, the Jews of the 1st Century worked alongside the Assyrians using the same Syriac trade language, spread Christianity far and wide along the silk road, originating from Edessa.
You can not have The Highway of God without God's ordained Handy Work.
The historical fact remains you need to be joined to God's handy work to fill that emptiness that only now Christianity has come to realize,
by asking themselves What is missing?
Jesus said the Men of Nineveh The Assyrians will come to condemn this New Covenant generation just as they did the Old Covenant generation.
Can you handle the Truth?
If you want to reopen the Highway as it was before Rome gatecrashed it under their Emperor, then you need to do it through his handy work because historically speaking there is no other way.
I wrote a thread about the origins of Orthodox Christianity to speak to your hearts what we all need to do.
This is the link below...
https://www.christianforums.com/thr...-its-routes-from-nineveh-iraq-edessa.8077594/
Watch a short Youtube video below and understand that the biggest Church and her coverage was the Assyrian Church of the East. Today it is the smallest which goes to show the wisdom of God and how he rolls when he will use her once again in the grand finale.
If you come God will rebuild the Highway in a bigger and better way unimaginable to show his glorious Hand in who he declared to be his handy work player through the Old and the New Covenants.
Did you hear in the documentary above at 3:12, that the Chinese were claiming, as written on the Stele Stone,
"That there was a Church in every single county of China, 3000 Churches stretched across China".
The Hand of God, the Apostolic Hand........aaaaaaaaa........where did I hear the Holy Spirit mention that before?
3,000 Converts Baptized In One Day!
"Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls." —Acts 2:41
Oh........Apostle Peter.
coincidence.........
N0! Believe that this is the Hand of God.