We are not simply to go through the historical course of indemnity. We have to make the four thousand years of vertical history of restoration from Adam to Jesus reemerge and horizontally restore them through indemnity. Further, we have to horizontally restore today what is left from the two thousand year indemnity course after Jesus. That is what was left undone during the time when the Christian Church was teaching the gospel to many peoples and nations. In what kind of environment can restoration through indemnity occur? It can occur only where God-and-Satan are confronting each other. That is why whether you look at Cain and Abel's time, Noah's time, Abraham's time, MosesO time, or Jesus time there is always a God and Satan confrontation centering on individuals, families or peoples. An offering for an offering, a person for a person, a family for a family, etc: Placing a central figure who bore a certain mission and carried certain conditions, God and Satan have been confronting and finding whether they were to win or to be defeated. If we view the expanded history of restoration, from the Old Testament Age to the New Completed Testament Age, we see that it is symbolic. From period of indemnity to period of indemnity, indemnity was possible through establishing certain conditions. However, in the final days, because we are in the substantial indemnity period, indemnity must come on a one on one basis, a nation if it's a nation, a people if it's a people. To do this is God's historical hope. Without determining victory against Satan at these levels, nation against nation, people against people, it will never completely be established in front of God.
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