The Future Foretold/The Good News Goes Global
From The Endtime
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"And this Gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come" (Matthew 24:14).
Unlike the rise in wars, famine, plagues, earthquakes, etc., Jesus said that this particular sign—the Gospel being preached in all the world—was not merely something to indicate "the beginning of sorrows," but was a specific sign that would indicate when the actual end of the age—beginning with Christ's Second Coming—would be upon the world.
According to The Almanac of the Christian World,[1] Christians and Christian churches now exist in every country of the world. Missiologists estimate that between 75 and 85 percent of the world's population have heard the Gospel at least once.[1] Over 50 million Bibles are distributed every year, as well as nearly 80 million New Testaments. Four billion Gospel tracts are also printed each year.
According to the United Bible Societies, the entire Bible or parts thereof are now available to about 98 percent of the world's population, having been translated partially or entirely into some 2,303 different languages.
Other Christian books are also proliferating, Books primarily about Jesus in today's libraries number 175,000 different titles in 500 languages, increasing by 4 newly published every day.[1] The Gospel is also preached in 38,000 Christian magazines and on 4,050 radio and television stations.[1] Ninety-nine percent of the world's population have the Gospel available to them via Christian radio stations.[1]
And then there is the Jesus Film:
Forget Titanic. Forget Star Wars and Gone with the Wind. They are small fry compared to the Jesus Film, which has been watched by more than two billion people. At first sight, Jesus, or the Jesus Film as it has come to be known, is an unlikely candidate for the title of most watched—and most translated—film.
Shot on location in the Holy Land, and with a white British Jesus, it is instead a straight-faced retelling of Luke's gospel. It was made in 1979. Filmed in Israel, mostly with Yemenite Jews in the cast. ... [It has been] translated into more than 760 languages and dialects, among them Uyghur, Jorai, Karakalpak, Hakka, Mongo-Nkudu and Nosu Yi.[1]Never in the course of history has the Gospel been preached in all the world to all nations as it is right now.—If not directly by missionaries, it is certainly being preached by the modern mediums of radio, television, telecommunications, and the Internet. This is a conclusive prophecy by Jesus that shows that you and I are now living in the time of the end!
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