Children of The Light#12 JAPAN (31st May 2015)

Dear...

'The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.  All this is from God, Who through Christ reconciled us to Himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;......entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.'
          2 Corinthians 5:17-19

As I penned this, an earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck off the Izu Islands, Japan today.
And just yesterday, a 8.5 magnitude earthquake shook most of Japan, much as its epicenter was about a 1000 kilometers away.

 http://world.time.com/2013/03/10/two-years-after-fukushima-japan-worries-about-the-next-big-quake/

Japan being in the seismically most volatile region is no stranger to regular tremors and the inevitable major earthquake. This morning I was reminded of one infamous gentleman, whose exploits then was considered earth shattering, when he brought down the pedigreed British Investment House, Baring Brothers, through unauthorized trades.

Nick Lesson, the man in question was already on the wrong path, but the Kobe earthquake of 1995 not just lured him into magnifying his follies, but exposed his shenanigans.
In a moment of sinfulness, the thought did strike me. Should the long overdue mother of all earthquakes hit Tokyo, how can one profit from it?
Was it to short or long the Nikkei Index? And can one double that potential return by shorting or going long the Japan Govt Bond futures? And maybe triple my returns by taking a directional position on the Japanese Yen?

'Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake He made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.'
       2 Corinthians 5:20-21

I am a diplomat for the Kingdom of God. All of us who believe and call ourselves Christians are, for we are all part of the Great Commission. It is just a question of where and who God places you with.

Japan is where God has placed me these past two years. My first foray into Japan for the ministry God put me in was in May 2013, a month before Abenomics. A time where one could clearly feel and see the palpable sense of despair amongst the Japanese who felt hapless and were as a country about to keel over.  Abenomics was a desperate and necessary toss of the proverbial straw for a drowning man.

Japan needs a miracle. Question is, are the Japanese, or rather, the powers to be in government seeking the largesse of the Prince of the Air, the devil himself? A reversion of the old ways, that led to World War 2, when the cruel ambitions of the proponents of the Meiji Restoration brought much grief to the world.

God has not just shown me these past two years,  but by His grace, many like minded men and women of faith that He is bringing about a new stirring in Japan. A land that has been a very hard ground for the past few hundred years since the intense persecution of Christians who flowered for a very short but fruitful period in the 16th Century.
It is an exciting time of witnessing as well as witnessing for our Lord in this revival of seeds of faith long laid to rest in the tundra of suppression.

 http://j-friendshiphouse.com/the-team/
(see the work God has done through us these past two years)

But time is short, and the harvest field is plentiful, for no matter the plans of the devil, God will bring about a significant rise in the faithful, a tenfold increase from the present 1% of the population. And from Japan, He will move on to China and to the great dark lands of Central Asia.

What has it got to do with you? I have come to learn that what inspires me as my calling, need not necessary be the same for another. For just as God gives each of us different gifts, He leads us on different paths, but with the same focus, to guide the sheep to Christ our Chief Shepherd.
Do take time to rest in our Lord. Seek Him with your all. Learn to love others more than ourselves.
And the Holy Spirit will show you the route God wants you to take.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/mt-fuji-may-erupt-by-2015-says-ryuku-university-professor ( Mt Fuji rumbling)

Time is not just running out for Japan but for many globally. The End of Times are clearly intensifying.
Wickedness has gone mainstream, while Godly values are increasingly being pushed by the wayside if not persecuted.
It is increasingly hip to be gay, but not acceptable to be joyful. And the great delusion just got a helping hand with the legalization of marijuana.

When Japan shakes, there will be a tsunami, not just of the watery form, but of economic and geo political consequences. A world that now lives out the principle of instant gratification and unfettered borrowing from the future to fund the present, a philosophy, whose proponent, the late monetarist, John Maynard Keynes was an active and avowed worshiper of hedonism. We are as a world sitting precariously at the perch of greed and excessive leverage, that all it takes is one big shake to bring us crashing down to terra firma.

A humbled and contrite heart is what God looks for. For He wants to save us from ourselves.
Would you prefer, by your own free will,  to anchor yourself on the solid rock of Christ our Lord, or be brought crashing down involuntarily?
There is work to be done. God is patient, but for our sake, He will not wait in perpetuity.

God Blesses

Eng Hieang
31 May 2015