Sword & Trowel 2019: Issue 1 ARABIC TRANSLATIONS welcomed and have led to vigorous T
en books have now been trans- lated into Arabic in Lebanon, most
recently Do We Have a Policy? by Dr Masters and The Charismatic Illusion by Dr Masters and Dr John Whitcomb. Lebanon is the only Arabic-speaking country in which it is permitted to print Christian literature and distribute it beyond its borders. Each time a new title is printed, hundreds of copies are sent to churches in Lebanon and also to widespread contacts in Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq, and Arabic-speaking churches in the Gulf, USA and France. Books are also distributed at
conferences and book fairs each year, with increasing interest. Some titles have already been reprinted. The books have been widely
venture. His planning is exemplary. He is boastful; horrendously proud. Now he has conceived an audacious plan to take the greatest treasure imaginable from a notable gallery. He plans with consummate care and skill, selects his team and proceeds to the crime. He gloats even before it is underway, being so confi dent of another triumph.
What he does not know is that somehow, perhaps by an informer, the police have intelligence of exactly what is planned, and in due course they take up position, armed po- lice lying in wait around the crime location with video cameras roll- ing. Every step, every action will be caught and recorded, and when the police move in, all the proof they
require will be there.
The moment comes when, in pos- session of his prize, his team begin to leave the crime scene. Then offi cers pounce, and all are arrested. What a shock to the previously untouched and seemingly invulnerable lord of theft.
But this exactly corresponds to how it will be in real life, at the end of the age. This present age, with all its pride and hostility towards Christ, is all on fi lm, as it were, only God does not need a host of video cameras. Sometimes in history God protects society, unworthy as it may be, and gives reformation or a revival age that brings salvation to vast numbers and also social benefi ts to society at large. At other times he takes off his
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discussion in the Arabic Christian world, which is becoming fast ensnared in charismaticism. A profound impact for good is being
achieved and we pray that this oppor- tunity will remain open. [Copies of all ten titles are available in the UK through Tabernacle Bookshop.]
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