Where Faith Meets Trials

If you’ve paid attention to local media and are reading this, obviously, the Rapture didn’t happen. As I began hearing some guy (whose name I don’t even know) started saying the end was a week ago, I began to think, “Hasn’t this guy read Jesus’ words that say no man will ever know the day and time that the Kingdom would come”. Clearly not or he was ignoring those words. But I’m not going to sit here and air my thoughts about the guy and his poor hermeneutics.

Here’s what I’m writing about: the end.

Now before you start thinking I’m going to predict the end, I’m not. I have no idea when it’s all going down. But what fascinated me, is that in the midst of all this talk of the end and the Rapture, in the book of Luke, I came across Jesus talking about this same topic.

In Luke 21:5-36, Jesus begins describing various kinds of signs that point to the Kingdom coming. I first read these verses a few days ago and thought, “Okay, cool! Some kind of indicators to look for”. But what really hit me was that, a couple of the indicators had already happened. Verse 11 talks about great earthquakes. Verse 8 talks about people predicting the end of time and/or claiming to be Jesus. Verse 9-10 mention wars, kingdoms against kingdoms.

And I thought, “Is the end coming”. I mean, I always knew Jesus is coming back but after reading these verses, it sounds like it’s getting closer. Now, could this be random coincidences? Sure. But I also think we should continue looking for these indicators. To be honest, it wouldn’t surprise me if the end is that close. Am I about to start spouting off random days? Not at all.

I will say though, that at the end of it all, we have to stand face to face before God. My question is: are you ready?

Something to think about.

(I didn’t post the entire group of verses because I wanted to keep this short. I would encourage you to go read the verses for yourself and determine if it looks like the Kingdom is coming relatively soon or not.)