We are fortunate enough to have the DVDs for the third season of the wildly popular and excellent PBS drama of Downtown Abby. We now have to be careful when we are talking to our friends who are watching it each Sunday evening on PBS. We know how it ends and we don’t want to spoil it for them. While walking my dog this evening in the almost zero degree night I was thinking how very opposite this is from knowing what Jesus says about the end of the world as we know it. We should tell it to everyone. Jesus tells us to tell.
Jesus said, “Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.” Matthew 24
Paul adds his input in I Thessalonians 4. “For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.”
Sometimes in our eagerness and zeal we add a lot of details from our imaginations and give the impression we know more than we really do. The centuries have not been very kind in bearing out our man-made details. To be safe I have learned to stick to the basics. Jesus wins.
Written by Roger Bothwell on January 24, 2013
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