Monday; March 9
It seems like every time we have a dust-up in the Middle East, there is a cry that the end is near. I have been around, watching the world for several decades and can’t tell you how many times someone, somewhere has predicted the beginning of the end of times. Now, before I go on, please understand that I believe that this world is headed for eventual and eternal destruction – I am just not sure that it will be as obvious as a Middle Eastern skirmish. At the beginning of the Christian era, believers were cautioned, “Now as to the times and the epochs, brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you. For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. While they are saying, ‘Peace and safety!’ then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.” (I Thessalonians 5:1-3). As I read this, the ...