Who are the brethren who come to the nations with the gospel message?

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To all believers of the Last Judgment, according to D A Hubbard's

quote in the Elwell Evangelical Dictionary:

 

" Judgment at history's end is the climax of a process by which God

holds nations and persons accountable to him as Creator and Lord.

The OT centers ultimate judgment in the day of Yahweh (or the day),

when the Lord rids his world of every evil: haughtiness (Isa. 2:12-

17), idolatry (Isa. 2:18-20), compromise with paganism (Zeph. 1:8),

violence, fraud (Zeph. 1:9), complacency (Zeph. 1:12), and all that

brands people as sinners (Isa. 13:9). Both the nations (Amos 1:2;

Joel 3:2) and Israel (Amos 9:1-4; Mal. 3:2-5) are targets of

judgment, which the OT sees as purification of God's people and

world so that his creative and covenantal purposes are fulfilled:

" The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters

cover the sea " (Isa. 11:9).

 

The intertestamental period focuses on the punishment, usually by

disaster, of God's enemies, human and supernatural (Eth. Enoch 10:6;

105:3-4). Where such judgment did not take place in history, where

the wicked flourished and the righteous suffered (cf. Pss. 37; 73),

divine justice was questioned. The problem was solved with the view

that judgment was not limited to history but could occur after death

(Ps. Sol. 3:1ff.; Eth. Enoch) when God or the Son of man would

execute judgment in the last day (II Esd. 7; Eth. Enoch).

 

The NT builds on OT and intertestamental teaching, expanding it in

light of Christ's incarnation. In the Synoptics, Jesus announces

himself as the eschatological judge (Mark 15:62) and calls attention

to the day of judgment (Matt. 10:15; 11:22, 24; 12:36, 41-42;

23:33), describing it as a final separation of the evildoers from

the righteous (Matt. 13:41-43, 47-50). Jesus' parables indicate that

his purpose is not to frame an eschatological timetable but so to

teach the fact of judgment that his hearers face their present

decisions for or against the kingdom with utter seriousness. In the

longest judgment parable Jesus' point is that the ultimate outcome

will be determined by whether the nations receive or reject his

" brethren " who come to them with the gospel message (Matt. 25:31-

46). "

 

 

So who are the brethren of Lord Jesus who have come to the nations

with the gospel message? Maybe i should rephrase it: So who are

these brethren of Lord Jesus who still have to go to the nations

with the gospel message?

 

So what are the brethren of the valiant and infinitely mighty Lord

Jesus waiting for? Why are they still silent when He single-handedly

proclaimed the Truth and fearlessly faced the wrath of a nation? Why

this utter lack of urgency even as the Comforter Shri Mataji Nirmala

Devi prepares to leave Earth?

 

The answer, my fellow SYs, is blowing in the wind,

 

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