Does God really love Zimbabwe?

When a robber wants to rob a bank and the bank has armed security guards and there are cameras, how does he go about it? He takes a hostage, he holds a gun to their head and no matter how many guards there are pointing their guns at the thief, he knows they will not do anything as they are too afraid to harm the hostage.

Satan was holding man hostage and God could not do anything in case He killed man so God had to send Someone, who could take the place of the hostage. That person was Jesus. Glory to God!

If you carefully consider what God did, you will see that it was logical. God spoke creation and Adam into existence and then when Adam and Eve sinned, He had to give the authority of the earth to Satan.

It says in John 4: 24 that God is a Spirit and therefore He could not interfere and just send Jesus to the earth. Mankind had to speak Jesus onto this earth because if God just sent Him, then He would be overriding the authority he had given to man. So through man He began to speak the Word, people began to prophesy and it took 4000 years for all the prophecies to be spoken.

Can you imagine being one of the prophets of old and you receive a thought that says, He would be born of a virgin. Isaiah must have had tremendous faith to prophecy that word in Isaiah 7:14.

There are many prophesies given regarding Jesus coming to the earth. Man had to speak Jesus into existence. There was no way around this. Psalms 115 : 15 -16 says, the heaven is the Lords but the earth was given to the children of men.

We see Gods love for us that even though man was slow in prophesying, God was patient and He bided His time until it was fulfilled. Satan must have thought he had God against the ropes and there was nothing He could about it. To be continued in Sundays edition.