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Part I Old Testament Foundation of the Back To Back to Jerusalem Chinese Revival And The Final Mission Field Introduction The Back to Jerusalem vision is not complicated to understand. It is a simple vision of the Chinese underground House Church to complete the Great Commission and see the return of Jesus Christ. That is it. However, what is happening with this simple vision is changing the world of missions forever. Currently, the Back to Jerusalem vision of the underground church of China is responsible for more missionaries deployed to unreached areas than all of the other nations in the world combined and those numbers are only growing. Just to be clear, by 'missionaries' I mean Chinese missionaries. Not the traditional missionary from the Christian nations of America, Canada, or western Europe that the world has seen for the last three hundred years, but a new breed of missionaries that are being sent out from churches suffering extreme persecution in Communist China. At first glance, Chinese missionaries might seem completely different from those from the west, but they are not. They are not super Christians. They are Christians just like you and me. They have doubts, fears, failures, and sins, but after more than twenty years working and serving together with the Chinese believers in the underground house church, I have discovered something extremely unique about their mission focus - something that we can all learn from. I have obsessively studied the Back to Jerusalem vision to see what makes it different than any other vision that we have seen in the last hundred years. I have spent thousands of hours with hundreds of Chinese pastors to find out where the vision comes from, what the Biblical roots are, and what are the practical ways that it can be applied to missions today. I share all of that in this book. Most importantly, I have learned the secret to why the Back to Jerusalem vision is important for seeing the return of Jesus Christ as it relates to the Temple of Jerusalem. The Chinese church has invested everything into the Back to Jerusalem vision. They are currently investing their most valuable non-renewable asset – their youth. China is giving their first fruits, and with a one-child policy – their only fruits to see the completion of the Great Commission. Their investments are showing positive returns. What is happening is remarkable! The Chinese underground church is currently focused on the largest missionary movement in the world and they are doing it without hosting mission conferences, posting on social media, doing TV specials, or running email campaigns. Most of the top leaders in China do not even use email or carry a mobile phone! It might seem absolutely absurd to even insinuate that it could be possible to organize the world's largest mission movement in the 21st century without running everything from a computer – but trust me – it is not only possible, it is happening. Take one of my good friends Pastor Enoch for example (not his real name). Together with four other leaders, he runs an underground house church of more than four million believers. Pastor Enoch is completely off of the grid. He doesn't have email, a website, Facebook or Twitter account, private office, or secretary and yet he disciples hundreds of leaders every day, hosts daily illegal church services with thousands of believers all over China every week, and sends out an average of 10 new missionaries per month to the most unreached areas of the world. Pastor Enoch lives a very low tech, labor intensive lifestyle that involves going to people's homes and fellowshipping face-to-face. Pastor Enoch does not own a car, doesn't own a home, doesn't have a passport, and never leaves for holiday. You will not find Pastor Enoch doing live- stream seminars from his laptop during a world pandemic. He adheres to a very simple methodology that is repeated throughout the house church and is based on a very simple theology. More importantly, all of those that he has discipled learn to do it the same way. I am not saying that Christians need to throw away their phones, social media accounts, cars, houses, or on-line discipleship programs to complete the Great Commission, but there is something we can all learn from Back to Jerusalem pastors like Enoch who has stripped down ministry and missions to the first principles of the very basic fundamentals. The Back to Jerusalem vision is carried out by pastors like Pastor Enoch who do not busy themselves with all of the low yielding tasks found in western ministry, but focus on people. To understand the Back to Jerusalem vision and those that are living it, it is important to go to the roots of ministry. At first glance, the vision of Back to Jerusalem seems uncontroversially biblical, simple to understand, and exciting, but the the experience of those that truly embrace it find themselves facing unexplainable hardship and opposition. Oddly, the hardship and opposition tends to come from other Christians. This special vision of the Chinese house church has been rejected, ridiculed, and scoffed at by western mission 'experts' around the world. Why? Why would other Christians attack their fellow brothers and sisters in China? For the first time in this book, I tell the story of why. In the early days, the attacks simply did not make any sense to me, but now I understand. I remember when Paul Hattaway’s book Back to Jerusalem came out in 2005. It was the first time that many Christians ever heard the idea of Chinese Christians having a vision called Back to Jerusalem to send Chinese missionaries to unreached nations. The idea of Chinese Christians sending out missionaries seemed so absurd in 2005. Of course it seemed clear that China was a missionary receiving nation – not a missionary sending nation. I remember talking with Paul about all of the disbelief and skepticism regarding his book and the idea of Back to Jerusalem, not from the Chinese but from the mission experts in the west. So many western mission experts said the Chinese church was not ready for such a task and that they would need many years to build up and prepare. Suddenly, after the idea began to spread around the world, attacks started to come from everywhere. We were getting hate mail and angry phone calls. Churches were cancelling Back to Jerusalem fund-raising meetings. Bible school deans were warning their students to avoid Back to Jerusalem events. Critics said that the Chinese believers were not prepared, educated, structured or trained. Some of the attacks were more personal – falsely attacking my team and those that I work with for lying, embezzling money, tricking Chinese believers, and hijacking the vision of the Great Commission for the Chinese church. In 2005, when we traveled around the world sharing about the Back to Jerusalem vision, we spoke in faith, believing that God had given us the vision for end-time missions. Today however, it is no longer a vision – IT IS REALITY! In only only a few years, the church in China went from having no missionaries outside of China to sending more missionaries to the 10/40 Window than the rest of the world combined! In this book I investigate the biblical prophesies of end times, not just as a mission movement springing forth from Chinese underground house church revival, but as an eschatological event in history that is rooted in the Old Testament, reiterated by Jesus in the New Testament, proved by the directional path of Christian history, and even shadowed in the natural elements that God created. The Back to Jerusalem vision is based on the idea that the completion of the Great Commission is inevitable and the return of Christ is unstoppable. Contrary to common belief, Back to Jerusalem is a vision that believes that persecution and resistance to the Gospel message is carefully calculated and crafted into God’s end-time plans, even if He is not the author of the persecution. By learning about Back to Jerusalem you will discover that things that have taken the Christian world by surprise and seemed disastrous to the church were not born out of haphazard riots, tyrannical upsets, or unplanned events. God anticipated the chess moves of the enemy thousands of years ago and set history on its rightful path. The ideological, political, or economical state of the world cannot stop the promised return of Jesus Christ, delay the Armageddon, or postpone Judgement Day. World events only support the time line that Jesus foretold. In this book, I follow the intricate dialectics of prophecy and history with the notion that prophecy proceeds from God’s Word, God’s words have the power to create, and with the power to create, history is formed. History is recorded prophecy; therefore, the Back to Jerusalem movement of the underground house church is not merely a spontaneous revival, but is the manifestation of God’s words spoken through His prophets thousands of years ago and the culmination of historical events that act as building blocks to bring completion to prophecy. Today’s Back to Jerusalem movement was birthed in textual, verbal, and spiritual manifestos of the Jewish people and has been present since the beginning of God’s redemptive plan for man, though it has been referred to by many different names. The current Christian revival in China is the biggest in history, and the mission vision of Back to Jerusalem is the largest in history. What does that mean for the end times and the Second Coming? I will present evidence for Back to Jerusalem as it pertains to end-time prophecy in four parts: Part 1: Old Testament Foundation of the Back to Jerusalem Vision Part 2: New Testament Foundation of the Back to Jerusalem Vision Part 3: China's History and End-Time Prophesy Part 4: China’s Vision of Back to Jerusalem and Eschatological Prophetic Writings Part I Old Testament Foundation of the Back to Jerusalem Vision Chapter 1 Introduction to End-Time Prophesy Relating to China An eschatological study of mission efforts like Back to Jerusalem is nothing new, but an ethnocentric evaluation of end-time prophecy in the twenty-first century is.
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