I was reading some stuff that I accessed from Jon Amos' weblog the other day talking about how the centers for the faith are shifting from west to south and east, and I thought about this phenomenon. There are not yet any places that I am aware of where the gospel has taken deep root in a country, then been uprooted through apostasy, which has ever returned to the faith. Think about the area around the Med. sea, then northward into Europe and Russia, and now the west seems to be in serious decline. But "ever" is a long time...perhaps one should say, "yet."

The promise of God is that the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. It appears to me that the waters that sprang up in Palestine are working their way around the globe, but they are only ankle-deep yet. Sort of sloshing along. Maybe they will circle the world seven times till finally unbelief comes crashing down. Maybe we still are in the early church. That's what I think.