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Jesaja beskryf ons tyd in Jesaja 1:4-7: “Wee die sondige nasie, die volk swaar van skuld, die geslag van kwaaddoeners, die kinders wat verderflik handel! Hulle het die HERE verlaat, die Heilige van Israel verag, hulle het agtertoe weggedraai. Waar wil julle nog geslaan word, dat julle voortgaan met af te wyk? Die hele hoof is siek, en die hele hart is krank. Van die voetsool af tot die hoof toe is daar geen heel plek aan nie, maar wonde en kwesplekke en vars houe! Hulle is nie uitgedruk of verbind of met olie versag nie. Julle land is ‘n wildernis, julle stede is met vuur verbrand, vreemdes verteer julle landerye in jul teenwoordigheid, en dit is ‘n wildernis soos by ‘n omkering deur vreemdes.”
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Some of you reading this may be asking already, "What's your point? You are certainly not going to suggest we Christians today are enslaved and cowardly! Certainly you aren't going to overlook all the great conventions, seminars, crusades, marches! What of all the special ministries against abortion, pornography? What of the mega-churches, where thousands now gather in great praise and worship meetings? Isn't this revival? Isn't God with His church?" Others may be asking, "Look at all the busy Christians — jail workers, street workers. Look at all the drug rehabilitation programs, all the many spiritual retreats. And what about all the mass literature invasions, Christian radio and television? Isn't this revival?"
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