The Gospel is not "hidden" in English, but manifestly there. By which language has the Reformation prevailed? And which Bible has been sailed and beamed throughout the world? Which nations have been the greatest missionaries?
Just as a seed grows up to harvest, and just as a great building is put up stone upon stone, so we see that things are tending toward a monumental universal English Gospel witness.
God has caused the true Bible to be manifest fully in English, that it be taken by those English-speaking Christians who are advanced in doctrine and knowledge, to use the English language, from the basis of their English-speaking nations, to communicate by an English-saturated medium to an English-speaking world... how could one deny that the Scripture by this way being fulfilled to overflowing, be the Gospel preached into all the world, to every man, among all nations, etc., but that it would obviously be because the English is sufficient alone. Why? Because the Holy Ghost has chosen it and raised it up and is furthering the cause of it, as we may see by signs this very day.
Isaiah 28:11 says, "For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people." Those who are predestined to preach to the Jews are those who speak another language: not Hebrew, because it must be one other, and not Greek, because the conversion of the Jews was not accomplished in the New Testament times. Therefore, (and it is clear) that it falls to those who would preach to the Jews before the coming of Christ. And who? Plainly, the highest and true form of Christianity is very strongly connected and evident with those who use the King James Bible. Yes, Bible prophecy shows that it is we who preach to the Jews.
What is the Gospel? I have been writing about it all along. God has manifested himself to us, seemingly foolish people from the end of the earth, that we, as lovers and doers of the law of God, attain wisdom and possess the blessing, bring others into the truth. It is Christ in us that it may be (by our witness) Christ in them (Jews and multitudes of other sinners).
Let the missionaries rejoice and be glad. The same God who has provided them with an accurate faithful translation of the Holy Scripture (the KJB) is also turning the people to the English tongue! "that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent." (Zeph. 3:9b).
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