Mar 1989 - Editorial

How often the natural man in us wishes that God would see things as we do! It all seems so obvious. "Oh that Ishmael might live before thee'!" (Gen. 17:18). The words of Abraham as he reflected on God's promise of a son through whom all the divine purposes would flow. But God's sights are higher by far than ours, and His vision unclouded. Isaac must be born, at God's time, and God's scheme of things unfold. Then - Moriah - the subject of our main series article this month. "Take now thy son, thine only son..." We follow the Calvary road in marvellous typology.

We look at the same spot today and see - the Dome of the Rock, a most sacred Muslim shrine. We observe, as expounded in FOCUS, the resurgent power of Jewish orthodoxy in our day with its focus sharply on the holy city. And at the same time hear the Palestinian people declare themselves a separate state, if only in words, with their capital also Jerusalem. So the wheel of scriptural history comes full circle and Ishmael and Isaac confront each other still. However difficult to measure in length, the shadow of coming events is unmistakable.

"And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come. And he that heareth, let him say, Come. And he that is athirst let him come: he that will, let him take the water of life freely". (Rev. 22:17)

unknown | Mar 1989
Editorial