Rochelle Laura, Anonymous, Illustrator
King David and World Evangelism Southern Style King David was provoked by Satan to number Israel, “And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.” (2 Sam 24) Previously, “Samuel delivered an oration to the people of Israel that fairly sizzled with contempt for the idea of monarchy.” God needed to move swiftly and with reprehensibility. “The rule of kings…was strictly for the goyim.” This was the wrath of God and the judgment of numbering was either three days of plague but David would again not learn his lesson and grieve God as he became King. Israel was supposed to be a theocracy, not a monarchy.” This temptation was idolatrous: Deut 17:14 When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled it, and you say, "Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us," Deut 17:15 you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers; 1 Sam 8:20Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles. This King was warned against as on who would mercilessly take the sons and daughters for war, slavery etc. So, does modern Missions/Evangelism have a blind side? In this essay the lives of Christian leaders will be evaluated along the lines of biblical Evangelism in America.
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