Section 2. God's Will for Asia

1. Jesus Christ came to Accomplish The Unification of Cultures

Originally, Jesus Christ lived in what are the present Arab nations which are in the Middle East; specifically, in the area of Israel where the twelve branches of Jacob's family lived.

Today, the Arab nations exist where the chosen country, which was a well-trained God-centered country of faith, had waited for the Messiah. The Messiah was born in Israel, a country under Roman conquest. If he had risen to some position threatening independence from Rome, Israel could have become an obstacle to Rome. If so, she would have been persecuted by Rome.

Then, the more the Israelite people had been persecuted, the more they would have begun to serve Jesus Christ as the Messiah. If this had happened, the branches of the twelve families who descended from Jacob and lived in the area of today's Arab nations, would have completely unified because they were under Roman oppression. It would have been God's will, which was complete unification. Because Rome was the enemy, and because it was God's will to unite the Israelites and the surrounding nations to stand up against Rome, Jesus Christ who came down as the Messiah would have stood in opposition to Rome by making a unified Arab bloc.

If this had taken place, what would have happened? Because the ancient Roman empire was the superpower the whole world was afraid of it. Because the Roman empire had invaded and was affecting Asian countries, all of the oriental countries including, India with its ancient culture, thought that Rome was up to no good. If Jesus Christ had tried to oppose Rome, the powerful countries of the Far East, which were China and India, would have been the countries that supported Jesus Christ. If so, the Christian Church would have not gone to the West; instead it would have centered on East Asia and Jesus Christ.

The reverse way of the Fall is the way of restoration and the way of restoration is the way of recreation. Human beings were divided in mind and body because of the Fall Then we were divided between the West and the East, heaven and earth, and then broken up into nations. So we can conclude that if we make an internal culture we can then bind together the external culture. We can say that if we make a central religion then we can bind together external religions.

Because God has to prepare for the binding together centering on East Asia, God sent Confucius to the Chinese empire and created a religious foundation and sent Buddha to India and built the way of Buddhism, and sent to the West Socrates, who was a philosopher and prepared the foundation of thought. Because Rome was the problem, if the oriental Empires and Arab region had united, mind and body, internal culture and external culture would have been bound together.

Therefore, if the primary religion centering on Christianity and messianic thought, which represented the internal aspect of God, had absorbed the oriental religions representing the external aspect of God, a realm of unified culture and from that the unification of the world would have been made. This is the historical view in GodO providence.

For this reason God prepared everything so that it could be like that. So God put Israel under the strongest Roman empire. God, binding together everything, had some strategy to set up in history a higher main thought centering on the powerful Messianic thought .