Mission Paradigms in the Pax Americana (Pan American Missionaries‪)‬

The apostle Paul tells us that Christ died for the ungodly "at the right time" (Rom 5:6). Quoting an early Christian hymn, Paul reminds us, "For 'there is one God; there is also one mediator between God and humankind, Christ Jesus, himself human, who gave himself a ransom for all'--this was attested at the right time" (1 Tim 2:5-6). Following Pompey's arrival in Palestine in 63 B.C.E., Roman law, culture, and military might ruled from Gaul to the sands of the province of Arabia, called Arabia Felix, and the Persian Empire. It was the right time. It was the time of Pax Romana.