The Ministry of Reconciliation (hell, church, Moses, praying)

[ahigherway]

"And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's."

There have traditionally been two groups: "sinners" and "saints." The first are lost, unable to understand the things of God (although they are told to "choose Jesus") and destined to hell.
The second group are the saved ones: the ones who know God, who speak to the "sinners" in God's stead, the ones who represent God as a "light shining in the darkness."

But there is a third group, albeit very small, and not part of any apparent denomination or church group: the mediators.

Between God and man, there has always been a need for a mediator.
Moses was a mediator, willing to suffer for the sins of the people (Ex. 32.32):
Jesus was a mediator, bringing in the New Covenant between God and mankind, which had been lost;
the church, in the example of Stephen (but there are others also), who pray the Father that He "lay not the people's sins to their charge" but that they be forgiven.

Stephen was the first of the Church to fully walk in the steps of Jesus Christ, even unto death, praying the Father that his malefactors be forgiven. Do you think they were forgiven? (I have no doubt!)

So are we willing to intercede for our lost brethren, those who have not yet received the gift of faith? Do you desire for others to be saved and forgiven? Do you pray that the Father forgive those who, through ignorance of the Truth (just as we all have been ignorant in the past), commit acts which the Father will reject?

Are you of the third party, the mediators, interceding for those who haven't yet tasted of the heavenly gift?

Blessings,
brian