Reversing the Curse of Babel

An Amazing Fact: The sevenmost-spoken languages in the world are English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi,Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, and French. Mandarin has the most native speakers,while English dominates international business and the internet. Spanish spanscontinents due to colonization, but French remains influential in diplomacy andculture.

 

Jingwas curious. As the young Chinese woman browsed her social media app, a link toa mysterious website grabbed her attention. The truth she heard next transformedher life—but it might never have had it not been translated into her nativetongue first!

 

Morethan eight billion people live on Earth. Most estimates say around 75percent of them don’t understand English. That’s about six billion souls! IfBible truth were given in just one language, then people like Jing might neverhear God’s last-day message.

 

Yes,it would be easier if everyone spoke the same language. But the Bible says thatin the beginning, “The whole earth had one language and one speech” (Genesis11:1). When people disobeyed God and built that infamous tower, the Lordconfused their language as a way to stop their rebellion.

 

However,when the disciples obeyed God on the Day of Pentecost in Acts 2, the curseof Babel was reversed! The Holy Spirit was poured out—and the message oftruth was heard in many languages.

 

Whenyour gifts translate the teachings of the Bible into multiple languages, youcooperate with the Holy Spirit to bring the good news of Jesus’ soon coming tountold millions. That’s why I’m excited about a new plan at Amazing Facts totranslate our most popular programs into the top-spoken languages of the world.

 

And you can join us in this bold initiative, which is designed to reach most of theworld’s population that doesn’t know English, like Jing, lost hearts searchingfor something better to give them a hope-filled future.

 

“Amazing and MagicalStories”

Asa young adult, Jing liked reading strange articles on social media. One day,searching for more odd news, she typed in “amazing and magical stories.” As shescrolled through the articles, she noticed a website called “qimiaozhenxiang,”the Amazing Facts Chinese website.

 

Mostof what Jing had heard about God came from what others told her, such as, “Ifyou don’t believe in Jesus, you will be eaten by worms eternally.” Her heartraced with anxiety when she heard such things.

 

Satanhas led most of the world astray from knowing the truth about God, death, andhell. That’s why the Lord asks us to share Bible truth with the world. Manyfalse religions give a distorted picture of God. But you can show others—intheir own language—that God loves them and wants to save them!

 

Finding Real Peace

WhenJing opened our website, the first video she watched was The Final Events ofBible Prophecy translated into Mandarin. As she listened to what the Biblereally teaches about death, she felt peace.

 

Theprogram drew her to study more materials on our website. She was relieved to learnthat when people die, they sleep in the grave until the resurrection. She alsodiscovered that there is a hell and Satan will be destroyed, but that unrepentantsinners will not burn for eternity.

 

TheAmazing Facts resources you helped translate inspired Jing to begin reading herBible. When she heard me quote Scripture passages, she wrote them down andlooked them up.

 

Whata beautiful story of how God used you and your gifts to translate truth,transforming the life of this yearning woman! Today, Jing says, “Each day, Ipray for God to guide me on the path of life.”

 

AmazingFacts is devoted to carrying God’s last-day message of hope to “everynation, tribe, tongue, and people” (Revelation 14:6). Right now, theworldwide scope of proclaiming the end-time gospel in every language isessential. Babylon is offering its wine of false doctrines to every nation.

 

Likewhat happened on Pentecost, we need to pray for the outpouring of the Spirit sothat essential truth will be easily available and understood all around the worldbefore Jesus comes. Jesus said, “These signs will follow those who believe:In My name they will … speak with new tongues” (Mark 16:17). We believe Heis now making available new technology that makes it possible to translateAmazing Facts truth-filled programs into other languages more quickly andeconomically.

 

Amazing NewTechnology

You can help translate the most popular and convictingAmazing Facts programs—including the sermons, documentaries, and evangelisticseries on our English websites and YouTube channels that are impacting the mostpeople—into the most spoken languages of the world: Mandarin, Spanish, Hindi, Russian,Arabic, Portuguese, and French. As the Lord blesses and fundsbecome available, we plan to add even more languages, like Tagalog, Bengali,and Romanian.

 

Whilenot perfect, translation technology using AI is improving by leaps and bounds. AIcan now capture the tone of my voice, mimic the movement of my lips, andanalyze the emphasis in my speech to make presentations more effective in adifferent language. Of course, until the technology is perfected, we will needa team to carefully review each program to ensure quality and accuracy. But thisnew AI translation is much faster and more economical than yesterday’s methodof creating voice-overs and subtitles.

 

Friend,God has used you to bring peace to troubled hearts worldwide. But millions—no,billions—still do not know the peace Christ offers. In these last days, as Godpours out His Spirit, you can help reverse the curse of Babel by translatingtruth into one of the languages spoken by 75 percent of the world andcomforting many in Jesus’ name.

 

Somefriends of the ministry love this project and people so much that they haveagreed to match up to $300,000 in funds received in response to this effort—doublingthe number of people you can share truth with in their native language. Willyou join me today as a co-laborer in proclaiming the three angels’ messages topeople like Jing, telling the good news in a language they can understand? Yourloving gift will help people be transformed by hearing truth on our programsthat, we pray, will go viral!

 

Jingshares, “Even though there is a lot of suffering in the world that could shakemy faith, I pray each day and no longer am afraid.” Will you bring peace tomore hearts like hers by translating truth that will reach the world for Christ?

 

Toevery language, tongue, and people,

 

PastorDoug Batchelor

President,Amazing Facts International