Which nation has yet to have the Gospel preached within?

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mikekle said:
So, who was the antichrist then?

If none of these things apply to modern times, its an awful large coincidence how closely modern events mirror past events when it comes to signs/warnings, etc.
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The Antichrist is not in the Olivet Discourse or in any of the Gospels. The Antichrist isn’t even mentioned in the Book of Revelation. The Antichrist is mentioned three times, only in John’s two letters. John tells us who the Antichrist is in his two letters.

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People have been doing these things since Adam and Eve. Politicians have been lying, wars have been happening, earthquakes have been taking place. Nothing is new.

-Tim-
 
Good question. It seems that all nations have heard the gospel. However, in the Greek language, which the New Testament was written, and Hebrew spoken by Jesus, and the Aramaic of the ancient Old Testament texts, the word “nation” can be interchanged with “people”. I hope this sheds some light into the situation, because although all man made national boundaries have people in it that have heard of Jesus and been preached the gospel, all people have not yet heard the gospel.

This is not to say all people will have the gospel “preached” to them as we think of it, by the recitation of the bible. Sadly, many people who never make it out of the womb, as well as those with debilitating handicaps, may not be “preached” to in their earthly lives. Yet, we must not take literally that Jesus meant each and every person must be “preached” to, rather, there is mystery to what is recorded. Remember, Jesus preached the gospel to those in hell when he descended there.

A few more notes: very likely Jesus meant something different than what most believe. What that is may become clear in time, but to try to predict the time of the end (the season, for none but God the Father know the day and hour) may be futile. However, I wouldn’t be shocked if we witness the “end” in our lifetimes. Perhaps the “end” is already in motion. ( I parenthesize end because the end of the age is really the beginning of a new one, but I am beginning to digress, and perhaps this is a topic for another thread).

If you made it to the end of this lengthy response, one more word of advice, try not to focus too much on the end times, but enjoy your days under the sun. Advice I should take myself.
 
Estel said:
Good question. It seems that all nations have heard the gospel. However, in the Greek language, which the New Testament was written, and Hebrew spoken by Jesus, and the Aramaic of the ancient Old Testament texts, the word “nation” can be interchanged with “people”. I hope this sheds some light into the situation, because although all man made national boundaries have people in it that have heard of Jesus and been preached the gospel, all people have not yet heard the gospel.

This is not to say all people will have the gospel “preached” to them as we think of it, by the recitation of the bible. Sadly, many people who never make it out of the womb, as well as those with debilitating handicaps, may not be “preached” to in their earthly lives. Yet, we must not take literally that Jesus meant each and every person must be “preached” to, rather, there is mystery to what is recorded. Remember, Jesus preached the gospel to those in hell when he descended there.

A few more notes: very likely Jesus meant something different than what most believe. What that is may become clear in time, but to try to predict the time of the end (the season, for none but God the Father know the day and hour) may be futile. However, I wouldn’t be shocked if we witness the “end” in our lifetimes. Perhaps the “end” is already in motion. ( I parenthesize end because the end of the age is really the beginning of a new one, but I am beginning to digress, and perhaps this is a topic for another thread).

If you made it to the end of this lengthy response, one more word of advice, try not to focus too much on the end times, but enjoy your days under the sun. Advice I should take myself.
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If it is required that EVERY person must hear the gospel instead of every nation, that would mean, the second coming will never happen…think about it, theres always new babies being born into the world, so even in the unlikely event where everyone hears the gospel one day by chance, that would change once a single baby was born anywhere in the world.
 
Bill_Martin said:
There are some very isolated people out there. The people on Sentinel Island haven’t even discovered fire yet. Every outsider who has tried to visit them has been driven off immediately or killed. A National Geographic film crew went there and the director took an arrow to the thigh.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese_people

neatorama.com/2013/07/08/The-Forbidden-Island/
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Actually, the article seems to note that the Sentinelese do know of fire: “Fires are maintained as embers inside dwellings, possibly assisted by resin torches.” It’s only they don’t know how to produce it on their own yet.

Their skin is ash-black and their faces moon-shaped with negroid features.
They can husk coconuts with their teeth, and use fire, which they hide and guard jealously because they do not know how to make it. With long bows and arrows tipped with iron salvaged from shipwrecks, they are superb marksmen. Farming is unknown to them. They survive on fish and turtles, and hunt wild pig and the huge monitor lizards that abound on their island, an area of a mere 30 square miles.
Sentinelese songs contain just two notes, and they can only count up to two, above which they call everything else many. Their only form of art is body painting, which consists of wavy smears of white or ochre.
More than 100 of the Sentinelese live in palm-built lean-tos around the island, yet they have no community structure, no chiefs and no witchdoctors. Their way of life is comparable to that of humans 15,000 years ago; it is possible that they have not evolved any further because they simply have not been required to do so.

quora.com/What-do-we-know-about-the-people-on-North-Sentinel-Island
 
Bill_Martin said:
There are some very isolated people out there. The people on Sentinel Island haven’t even discovered fire yet. Every outsider who has tried to visit them has been driven off immediately or killed. A National Geographic film crew went there and the director took an arrow to the thigh.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese_people

neatorama.com/2013/07/08/The-Forbidden-Island/
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How do we know that they haven’t discovered fire, if people can’t visit them?
It is quite interesting that they aren’t as developed as “cavemen” wonder if they have figured out the wheel yet. They learned about arrows. Pretty neat.
 
KendraDZ1902 said:
How do we know that they haven’t discovered fire, if people can’t visit them?
It is quite interesting that they aren’t as developed as “cavemen” wonder if they have figured out the wheel yet. They learned about arrows. Pretty neat.
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IIRC they have looked at the island with thermal cameras from aircraft and have never detected fire, outside of whatever fires occur naturally and are cultivated by the people.
 
patrick457 said:
Actually, the article seems to note that the Sentinelese do know of fire: “Fires are maintained as embers inside dwellings, possibly assisted by resin torches.” It’s only they don’t know how to produce it on their own yet.

Their skin is ash-black and their faces moon-shaped with negroid features.
They can husk coconuts with their teeth, and use fire, which they hide and guard jealously because they do not know how to make it. With long bows and arrows tipped with iron salvaged from shipwrecks, they are superb marksmen. Farming is unknown to them. They survive on fish and turtles, and hunt wild pig and the huge monitor lizards that abound on their island, an area of a mere 30 square miles.
Sentinelese songs contain just two notes, and they can only count up to two, above which they call everything else many. Their only form of art is body painting, which consists of wavy smears of white or ochre.
More than 100 of the Sentinelese live in palm-built lean-tos around the island, yet they have no community structure, no chiefs and no witchdoctors. Their way of life is comparable to that of humans 15,000 years ago; it is possible that they have not evolved any further because they simply have not been required to do so.

quora.com/What-do-we-know-about-the-people-on-North-Sentinel-Island
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So, how do they know all this stuff about these people if no one has ever been able to get close?

Plus, we still dont know if they have ever heard the gospel, maybe they have their own apparitions?
 
mikekle said:
So, how do they know all this stuff about these people if no one has ever been able to get close?

Plus, we still dont know if they have ever heard the gospel, maybe they have their own apparitions?
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Some of it is based off of imaging from afar. The structure of their huts and the approximate population can be estimated this way, as is their use of steel scavenged from shipwrecks. Some other stuff, such as their diet, can be guessed based on their habitat. Of course, they are obviously good archers, as a lot of outsiders have discovered.

Most of it though is probably conjecture based on what we know of nearby tribes who have been contacted. However, since even those tribes don’t kow the Sentinelese, I’m skeptical of anyone who gives a detailed description of their social structures.
 
marymary1975 said:
There are many countries in the world that have areas so remote that the civilized world hardly has any contact with them. This is particularly true in both Africa and Latin America. Brazil, Ecuador and Peru have indigenous people that there they have barely any contact with civilization. There are many groups in Africa in a similar situation. Add to that populations that live in extremely remote areas. While the Gospel may have reached to the civilized part of the country and a good portion of it, there may be areas where it has not reach yet.
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Please give a reference for these statements.
 
marymary1975 said:
There are many countries in the world that have areas so remote that the civilized world hardly has any contact with them. This is particularly true in both Africa and Latin America. Brazil, Ecuador and Peru have indigenous people that there they have barely any contact with civilization. There are many groups in Africa in a similar situation. Add to that populations that live in extremely remote areas. While the Gospel may have reached to the civilized part of the country and a good portion of it, there may be areas where it has not reach yet.
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Please give a reference(s) to support these assertions.
I lived in East Africa for three years and these assertions do not have the ring of truth to me.
 
We’re so used to interpreting the word “world” as our Earth, but certainly in the context of the Bible the term is typically synonymous with “universe”. With the trillions of planets in the universe, it’s conceivable that some (perhaps many) contain intelligent beings such as us (also made in God’s image). Therefore, it’s possible that the mission of spreading the gospel has really only begun.
 
I wish we could all leave interpretation of individual verses apart from the rest of the Bible to the Evangelicals.

We can discuss whether there are people today who have not heard the Gospel but Jesus was clearly not talking about the entire planet if he was talking about something that was to happen within one generation.

Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away till all these things take place. (Matthew 24:34)

Jesus’ discourse takes up two whole chapters and has to be read as a whole - that is the Catholic way to read scripture.

-Tim-
 
I have always taken this verse and others like it as a personal challenge: ‘When was the last time that I preached the Gospel to someone else?’ I know that I have failed personally to preach the Gospel, in both words and actions, to every single person I have encountered. Sometimes even when I have been directly questioned about it!

I am willing to wager that most of us have not accomplished this perfectly…and yet this is our calling from Jesus is it not? That WE, who Know The Way, Show the Way and Go The Way, share the Good News with others…all the time; to everyone. We can all probably name multiple people within our own circles to whom we haven’t personally offered the Gospel in a loving, caring and respectful manner. Before we get all caught up in remote islands or pockets of people we personally have almost zero chance of ever encountering, we might serve Christ well by changing the hearts and minds of those closer to home?

Peace in Christ
 
mikekle said:
I was reading some verses and took notice of this one…

Mt 24:14
And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the world as a witness to all nations, and then the end will come.

Does anyone know which nations have never had the Gospel preached in them?

Seems like most of them have by now.
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