CONFESSION & ADMISSION BY CAUCASIAN SAINTS
Dear Heavenly Father, As we read thy word in Romans 11 and Genesis 9:27 we look at the apostate state of Japheth’s children in Christendom of the West, and we, like you O Lord, are grieved. Surely the time draws nigh when the descendants of Japheth will be broken off and the children of Shem will be grafted back into their olive tree.
Thy promise through Noah of enlargement to the Caucasian children of Japheth of Europe was combined with the nexus of us dwelling in the tents of Shem.
We acknowledge O Lord the enlargement of European nations since the dawn of the Reformation that began to end the Roman stranglehold of darkness. You have been merciful in keeping your promise enlarging advances in education, science, industry, medicine, wealth and capital gain beyond imagination. But we (Japheth) have forgotten both Israel (Shem) and faith by grace and its prior need of awakening shared by the Reformation and created our own witty inventions of religious substitutes of sacrament, affirmation, and philosophical optimism, spurning our plight under original sin’s blight.
We have become a wilful, violent people whose eyes are haughty with lofty eyelids and stiff necks. We have clung to the Tree of Knowledge instead of the Tree of Life and are blind to our wicked ways, while we hypocritically assert superiority over both Shem and Ham. Our only puritanical streak remaining is our puritanical hypocrisy. Our confrontational judgmental ways provokes the very violence we want to avoid. Surely the “days of Noah,and their violent imaginations are with us once again, even the vile wickedness of Sodom, and Gomorrah which you once destroyed.
Now O Lord we confess that we have for the most part turned our back on the tent of Shem in arrogance and political folly. Furthermore, we have scorned the faith of the Reformers and invented our own freewill faith rejecting the necessity of the spirit of prayer and prevenient grace that awakens the lost to hear the good news. Though Israel has known your ‘breach of promise’ and we Gentiles were grafted in to the Vine, the time draws nigh when you will break off our branches and restore Israel to yourself.
