One of the reasons to read systematically is that you end up in parts of scripture you don’t particularly like. I don’t like end times teaching. Part of this is emotional: There was a fashion for this when I was a youth and it made us ineffective. We prayed for revival and we asked that Christ come now, but we did not do our duty. We let the entryists in, believing we were being equal, and we voted a war against poverty that rewarded those choices that make people poor.
Now I am blogging on this, because it seems that the times are getting ripe, and that the church is now so marginalized to be non-existent. The regulations we have around safe buildings mean that congregations are now dismantling the buildings made by our ancestors. And the new people in my nation do not acknowledge Christ, or Yahweh.
They pray to strange gods, and we are told that this is equal
28“From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near. 29So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that he is near, at the very gates. 30Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place. 31Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
32“But about that day or hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 33Beware, keep alert; for you do not know when the time will come. 34It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his slaves in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to be on the watch. 35Therefore, keep awake — for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or at dawn,36or else he may find you asleep when he comes suddenly. 37And what I say to you I say to all: Keep awake.”
When fruit is ripe, one a pick it, preserve it, freeze it, use it, and one rejoices. But when things are over ripe, they fail. This happens in all times, and at any time.
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One can expect the progressives to die on the vine, because they toil not, nor do they spin. Signals of virtue are things that only the rich can afford: my nation is not that rich, nor am I.
If one looks at Christ, none of us are that rich. Before the glory of God, we are poor, filthy, unclean, and in great need. Our spirituality is akin to a silage pit [1]. It is only in Christ that we are made clean.
Our duty in this time is to remain awake and keep on saying the truth. Christ may come. But things may be far worse when he does: we do not know the time or day.
We know but that today we must do our duty.
- Silage is fermented grass, fed to cows. It stinks: its smell, along with cow poo, permeates dairy country.
Any time I pay attention to the ripeness of the times, I end up marveling at God’s ability to keep that fruit on the tree. It’s like one of those checkers things, where at the end, you knock one piece over and they all fall down. I can’t believe He can fit another piece on the board. Or another swirl into the pattern.