Iquitos

We just returned from 3 days in Iquitos, a city in the Peruvian jungle along the Amazon River. It was an incredible time. We visited several jungle churches, native communities, and tribes. Dozens of people received Christ at each stop. We also saw and held a 12-foot anaconda, and ate burgers and nuggets made from crocodile meat.

Two of the jungle tribes that we visited were the Boras and the Yaguas. They were dressed in their native attire when we met them, and they were excited to hear the gospel message from us. As we visited with them and ministered to them, I thought of the verse in Revelation 7:9, which says, "After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language ...."

Sometimes we think that everyone in heaven is going to be and look just like us, however we look. But when we meet the Boras and the Yaguas, and when we reflect on Revelation 7:9, it reminds us how heaven will be a patchwork of people from different races, colors, social classes, ethnicities, languages, cultures, nations, and tribes ... and it's exciting to think that some of them will be our newly-saved friends among the Boras and the Yaguas.