Isaiah 61:1-3
“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,..to comfort all who mourn,...to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of His splendor.”
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The dragon persecutes the house churches because he is terrified of the end-times gospel they preach. This message liberates the people from bondage to their control and so it has to be denounced as “anti-revolutionary” superstition.
- Christians are consistently forbidden the right to do any public evangelism of any kind. Private worship is reluctantly permitted but gospel preaching is banned.
- Directives to the state-controlled churches warn pastors not to preach the message of Revelation.
- Pastors in congregations of the “Three Self Patriotic movement” skip liturgical readings about the second coming of Christ such as Hebrews 9:28 and Revelation 19 and 22:20-21.
- Sunday school teachers are not allowed to discuss the “Day of the Lord” predicted in both the Old and New Testaments.
- The Olivet Discourse, recorded in three of the four Gospels, is a forbidden text regarding the end times. (Matt. 24-25, Mark 13:1-17, and Luke 21:5-36).
- Many Chinese hymns of advent, missions, judgment, and the millennial reign of Christ are no longer sung in registered Chinese churches. Such music isn’t politically correct.
- Even when a Chinese pastor preaches on the Christian’s armor in Ephesians 6, he has to make sure that there are no police spies in the audience. If there are, he must carefully avoid the section on the helmet of salvation. Why? Because the Christian’s helmet – the “hope of our salvation” – is nothing less than the soon coming of Christ.
Nothing so upsets the dragon as the mention of Christ’s return, and nothing so comforts the Chinese church and missions. To us it is a day of light and rejoicing, to him a day of darkness and judgment.
