It is the case that God is calling out professionals from the bustling offices of secular business and into the task of extending His Majesty's Service, lowly in the eyes of society but splendidly glorious in the light of eternity. Not everyone is called, as some have to witness in the challenging environment of the marketplace.
One such man called is a former Singaporean business executive now living in Perth, Australia. Lai Meng Wan was born again into the Kingdom of God in 1986 in mid-life and began serving in different capacities in the church in Singapore. Then he did a stint of seminary studies before exiting his directorship of a US logistics company for the higher one of devoting himself to the full-time study of the Word in 1997.
I came across his book "Israel" a few months ago in the printing office of Wilson Ng, boss of Akitiara Printing (Wilson does a lot of printing of books for Christian writers from all over the world). Since I was doing research at that time on End Times materials, Wilson allowed me to read the book. The writing is solidly PreMillennial and Pre-Tribulational in its eschatology, and I was keen to find out how a Postmodern Singaporean convert to the faith picked up this "Dispensational" viewpoint amidst all the eschatological confusion proferred by the Reformed theologians.
The author has been spending the last decade of his mature years researching the subject, by the look of the References page of the book, and has even studied such stalwarts as Sir Robert Anderson (author of "The Coming Prince"), vintage expositors of Prophetic Studies which are Biblical and a gold-mine of expository truth. Meng Wan is on the right track in this book, which explores the history, the destiny and the coming future of the nation of Israel - in the light of Scripture. He is bold enough to explore his own new insights on the Biblical texts relating to the subject.
"Israel A Light unto the Nations" is highly recommended for all those wanting to understand better what all the fuss is about in the Middle East. Dr. Kameel Majdali wrote the Foreword of the book.
So please kindly summarise how to ensure that we are counted worthy to be received into God's Kingdom by the Rapture.
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