From the time of the Roman Empire onward, the Lord has used the historical situation to match His move on earth. God prepared the environment for Christ’s accomplishments and the spread of the gospel during the time of the Roman Empire; He raised up Martin Luther and others to recover aspects of the truth and spread the Word through the printing of the Bible five hundred years ago; and He moved in believers to recover the experience of Christ as life and to recover the oneness of the Body of Christ.
The move of the Lord’s recovery of the truth flowed from Europe to China to Taiwan and, eventually, to the US in the middle of the last century. Based on the foundation in East Asia, it was from the US, with the subsequent development and spread of the church life and the continued release of the ministry of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee in English, that the Lord’s recovery of the truth, the church life, and the gospel eventually spread to every other part of the earth—to South America, to Australasia, to Africa, and back to Europe. The Lord strategically used Europe for His first coming, for the spread of the gospel, and for the beginning of the recovery of the truth and is now preparing Europe for His return.