Our Christian revival will be incremental, not revolutionary
by Julian Mann, The Conservative Woman:
“Jerusalem staggers, Judah is falling; their words and deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence. The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster on themselves” (Isaiah 3v8-9 – NIV).
First a point needs to be made about responsibly interpreting Old Testament prophecy. In the run-up to the English Civil War, too many Christian preachers would have drawn a direct line from Judah in the mid-8th Century BC to England in the mid-17th Century AD. That interpretative approach was irresponsible and fuelled violence.
The Judah in which Isaiah prophesied was a unique theocracy subject by divine edict to the Old Testament Law of Moses. That was not true of 17th Century England and it is manifestly not true of Britain in 2016.
But though the political and social differences between Judah then and Britain now are more significant than their similarities, the features of their respective national declines do bear a resemblance. Judah when Isaiah preached was on the brink of political and social collapse, the underlying spiritual and moral cause of which was the widespread refusal by individuals to embrace the rightful authority of the Lord God Almighty over them.
The same grim prospect would appear to be in view for 21st Century Britain for the same reason.
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