You want me to what?

Pyromaniacs, the blog is in the long list at the right, has a great "what if" post about Moses and his dealings with God prior to confronting Pharaoh. Here's a sample:

Suppose I imagined that God commonly gave extra-Biblical revelation today. I so many kinds of don't—but suppose I did. And suppose God said, "I want you to go tell this guy the Gospel, because I have hardened his heart so that, not only will he not repent and believe, but he'll become infuriated and want to kill you and torment the people you care most about. I'm going to use this situation to do all sorts of wonderful things."

The whole prophetic revelation thing aside—what would I think? "Okay now, wait—'because'? You want me to talk to this guy, knowing that he won't believe? In fact, You're going to make sure that He won't believe? But for us who believe in Your sovereignty, the whole premise of evangelism is that we don't know who is and isn't elect, so it's our place to sow in hope, and leave the results to You. But here You're telling me, right off the bat, that it's going to be a bust? And that's why You want me to go in?"

Good thing all our "televangelists" and "soul winning" preachers weren't Moses, I'm not sure they would have followed orders. From what I hear and see of these guys and gals, if they can't count some pretty big numbers (either dollars or souls) they aren't very happy.