“Search me, O God, and know my heart . . . And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting” (Psalm 139:23a-24).

“In the twentieth century, for the first time, there was in the world a universal religion – the Christian religion. . . . In country after country . . . it took root, not as a foreign import, but as the Church of the countries in which it dwells,” this author powerfully proclaims. Though the term is not used, this was the period when “World Christianity” fully came into being as the major development in Christian history and, perhaps, of all human history.

“But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases” (Psalm 115:3). 

“Moses and Aaron were among His priests, and Samuel was among those who called upon His name; they called upon the LORD, and He answered them . . . You answered them, O LORD our God; You were to them God-Who-Forgives, though You took vengeance on their deeds" (NKJV; “Yet you punished their wrongdoings” ESV; Psalm 99:6, 8). 

“A desire fulfilled is a tree of life” (Proverbs 13:12).

In these chapters, we note the pattern of progression, “conquest,” and then retrogression, as formerly “Christian” nations and peoples were conquered from without or fatally compromised from within.