Where does the"burden" for the lost fit into all of this,if we are in fact to have such a burden,or perhaps this burden like others is just another creation of modern Christianity to weight us down and preoccupy us with everything but our own salvation which we are told to work out with "fear and trembling".we are told to proclaim the truth and the seed falls on good and bad ground,there are those who will tell you that you are also responsable for the ground,good or bad that it falls on.
You know, the answer to who ultimately that burden for the lost falls upon is covered in God's Word.
If everyone today was given 'eyes to see, and ears to hear', wouldn't God's Kingdom have already come to fully manifest upon this earth? Yet the battle is still raging, and if you'll notice today, Christ's enemies have gained a foothold upon this earth and are getting ready to try and throw us servants of Christ off it.
Christ's enemies could not have any... success IF all that believe on Him were given "eyes to see, and ears to hear", meaning given to understand the mysteries of God's Kingdom of why the battle is still going on today, and what people are behind it on earth. If they had, then not one believer on Christ would be confused by Satan's false prophets. In other words, everyone could then easily recognize Christ's true enemies on earth that hide and work in secret against us. It would then be fairly easy for us to put the false prophets down and in a corner for everyone to recognize. It would even turn many unbelievers today who haven't decided to our Lord Jesus Christ.
So why... are the false prophets, i.e., enemies of Christ still allowed today by Him?
Firstly, to test God's people with, to see who we will listen to. Though none of us in Christ Jesus are perfect, we suffer with those in the world that are persecuted by Christ's enemies, even those who have yet to believe on Him. So surely we see the spiritual war going on. But why is it still going on?
Every man in his own order, is what Paul said (1 Cor.15). Some of us are 'sealed' in prep for the coming of false messiah, and will never bow to that false one. Others must be tried with that event to become 'sealed' in Christ Jesus. And still other believers will fall away to wrongly bow to that coming false messiah, to become the five foolish virgins. The five foolish virgins subject to that coming temptation are concluded in blindness for this world. They don't know who they're listening to with following the traditions of men, not being given eyes to see and ears to hear. Yet Christ is not... going to lose them, not if they repent and recognize that future mistake of bowing to the false messiah (2 Thess.2).
Dan 11:31-35
31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
(KJV)
I wish every believer on Christ Jesus was able to understand this matter, but I know not all do, nor will for this world.
