Foresight
When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, "It's going to rain," and it does. And when the south wind blows you say, "It's going to be hot," and it is. Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. How is that you don't know how to interpret this present time? ~Luke 12:54-56
One of the tasks facing those of us who seek to carry out the mission of Christ in our generation is to discern the "winds" that are shaping our culture and seek to understand the nature of the changes that will be brought about by those winds in the days to come.
Some men and women speak about the social and spiritual landscape of the future and are spiritually gifted by God to do so with remarkable clarity. Some men and women speak about the social and spiritual landscape of the future and are little more than nutjobs who get it wrong every time.
On the sidebar of this blog I've begun a category called "Foresight" under which I'll post links to sites that are devoted to discerning todays winds of change and how they will shape tomorrow. I will try my best to sort out the obvious nutjobs and post only Biblically credible sites. But I want to use this particular post as a disclaimer to say that not all of the material found in those links represent the opinions of this blogger.
"These are the numbers of the men armed for battle who came to David at Hebron to turn Saul's kingdom over to him as the Lord had said...men of Issachar, who understood the times, and knew what Israel should do."
~1 Chronicles 12:23,32
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