This is the first time in years I have not posted on Wednesday. Sorry, I am on another continent on the other side of the world, preaching the personal return of Jesus Christ. In terms of pure significance, The Second Coming, as it is often called, easily trumps my blog.
As I preach through First and Second Thessalonians, the significance of the event once again is striking to me. At the risk of trivializing it, His return is the world cup, the super bowl, and championship of the Christian faith.
I have also found that here, as well as in the United States, the bad habit continues of Christians predicting the day and the hour of His coming.
This has led to plenty of humiliations, as each foretelling fell through and proved nonsensical. The Lord himself said, “concerning the day and hour, no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only” (Matt. 24:36). Given the number of predictions issued amongst religious folk, there are apparently many who think they possess more insight than the angels and the Son of God.
I suppose our bedeviling speculative nature always wants to peer into things that don’t belong to us.
Of course the Bible provides a basic orientation to the times and seasons of his coming. We’d like to know more, so we can make sure to have it queued up in our planners, to be preached up and prayed up and ready on that day.
Alas, without more specific info, we will have to settle for being ready everyday.
