Paul preaching in Lystra marks the arrival of the gospel in pagan territory. Here are people steeped in the pagan religions and marked by instability. They are very much like the UK today where witchcraft and the New Age are popular with many, including the young. These nations were not hitherto the beneficiaries of divine revelation. Without revelation man worships false gods including himself with the help of false prophets and false priests. This is the religion that came after the Fall and after the scattering of the nations after Babel. The Lord however was working through elect people like Abraham and then through the elect nation of Israel. Although there were exceptions among the Gentile nations, there was mostly antagonism towards the people of God. Today the nations still need our prayers that God would not suffer them to go their own way.
Now God is speaking to all the nations. He has a plan for each of them and a time set for them. He raises up people to pray for them and then raises up people who will go to them. Furthermore He equips people to translate the Bible for them and then anoints preachers and people with His Holy Spirit. The time will come before the Lord's return when God will again suffer the nations to be deceived.
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