avisionconcerningaustralia

By John Edwards

When I first visited Parramatta NSW and observed all the historical buildings and monuments, I noticed I was having some difficulty truly celebrating our past.

I commented to my brother, "It seems that we Australians, unlike Americans, have a wounded social conscience."

It's almost like we have questioned, Do we really have the right to celebrate our history, and the way our nation came to be founded?

I desperately needed to find an answer to that question, so I set myself to fast certain days and seek God.

One afternoon I knelt down to pray when suddenly I began to see a vision.

In the vision, it was as if I was taken back to the period before the European colonization of the continent of Australia - more than 200 years ago.

I was standing on the beach on the east coast of Australia, looking out to sea.

As I looked over the sea toward the horizon, I was surprised to begin to see bright beams of light radiating from over the horizon of the sea, which arrested my attention.

I wondered what the source of this bright light could ever be.

It's like I was standing in the place of how an Aboriginal Australian would be feeling more than 200 years ago, if he'd wandered towards the beach one day only to then find himself in this situation.

The light became brighter and brighter.

It became obvious that whatever was the source of this beautiful light, it was coming closer and closer towards us and would soon appear over the horizon.

I felt full of anticipation.

Then over the horizon appeared the most glorious city. This was the source of the light.

The city kept moving towards us, and finally it came and rested on the land.

The city was so large that it occupied the entire continent of Australia, with only centimetres of land to spare outside its walls.

As I observed the buildings inside the walls of the city, I noticed they had windows - some of them were white and some black. But it didn't matter that some of them were black - it wasn't bad, just different.

That's what God was up to at that moment in our history. God was up to something good.

It was His plan that the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ - the glorious Gospel - should come and shine in this land; that all men who subsequently live in this country may live together in His city and Kingdom.

God has been good to Australia - God has been good to all men!