"His dominion shall be ... to the ends of the earth" (Zechariah 9:10).
God's
purpose was moving on. He had begun with Israel. Their deliverance from
bondage in Egypt was a mighty demonstration of His saving power. This
was only the beginning. God was moving on to Jesus - "the Saviour of the
world" (John 4:42). In Jesus Christ, crucified for us, God was reaching out, in love, to "the whole world" (1 John 2:2).
The Gospel is not only for the Jews: "It is it is the power of God to
salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the
Greek" (Romans 1:16).
Jesus is calling us, His redeemed people - empowered by the Holy Spirit
- to take His message of salvation to the ends of the earth: "You shall
receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be
witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the
end of the earth" (Acts 1:8).
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