God is hastening the return of Christ. He is doing that by
making the proclamation of the gospel to people that
hitherto have been locked up in regions that were
considered closed to the Gospel. How is God doing this? He is
doing this by allowing cataclysms all over the world that are
causing massive movement of people from those spots to
other parts of the world. Few years ago, movement of
refugees from some parts of the Middle East to Europe
became a global problem. Migration of people (for whatever
reasons) has become a present day phenomenon that we
cannot avoid talking about. Even in missions missiologists
have come out with a new buzz word: "Diaspora missiology".
This is a new way of thinking. Unreached people can be
reached not only in their home lands but also everywhere
else because many of the unreached people are already
Diaspora people.
Here in Nigeria, people are also moving massively from
the Northwest, North central and Northeast to the South in
large numbers. Most of these people are not migrating as
refugees, though some are. The majority are moving
because of normal human migrations. This movement of
northern people to the South did not start today; it has been
there for ages. Maybe we are just awakening to this reality or
it is that the momentum has greatly increased in recent time.
