Jude 2

I don't know about you, or if I'm anywhere close to right, but I wonder if there is a love wave headed toward the Muslim African and the Arab nations from the West over the protests throughout that region.

Events in Libya, including the as-I-type-this use of military force by Libya's government on protesters there, behind the Egyptian revolution/coup/protests, are bathed in western media glee.

I don't paint in strokes too broad for the point. Christians in Egypt, for example, express cautious optimism and they know something about suffering. I don't know what to think at this point. I am suspicious, though, because anything that the media culture embraces is largely anti-Christian.

Not wanting to get into debates over Israel's, middle-east end time events, I will give a few thoughts.

First, I am not completely surprised by the media's response of glee. I thdo not think that it is because of the peoples new found (freedom ??)of voice. But rather a twisted sense of jubulation over the defeat of several dictators that have been largely backed by the US. So they the liberal media see it as a defeat for the American Policy.

I understand the concern of the Christians in these areas. While they have suffered greatly, their has been a measure of at least knowing what to expect. Should the muslim brotherhood gain more power and if these nations could come together under that banner, I fear and I believe the christians in these countries also fear that the level of persecution would hit a grand scale. I know that their prayers are that they will see a greater freedom.

The church in the west stands at a crossroad....just as we did in Japan, Russian, how will we respond? Will we stick our heads in the sand, take a lazi affair attitude, or respond with an outpouring of care not just in words but in deed.

Yeah, I'm not interested in an end-times debate on that, either!!

What can believers in America do? Pray, yes. How can we marry that with other action to help persecuted believers in those nations?