Is the End Near?

Topics: Current Events·Second Coming

1) This editorial cartoon by Jeff Stahler of The Columbus Dispatch seems to perfectly catch the current national mood. I cannot remember a time when I have encountered as much genuine anxiety in so many places among so many people. Truly we live in unsettling times.

2) Writing in Mere Comments, Lars Walker wonders if corruption inside the church is a sign of the approach Apocalypse. He notes that on matters of specific eschatology, he is more or less agnostic on the details, leaning to an amillennial approach. After quoting a few verses from 2 Timothy 4, he comes to this conclusion:

But (as far as I’m aware) there has never been a time in history when we’ve seen great segments of the institutional church openly turning their backs on the Scripture, the creeds, the teachings of the Fathers—the faith once delivered to the saints.

This is a new thing.

Is it a sign of the approaching apocalypse?

I would never insist on it.

But I (personally) suspect it. 

The article is brief so if you read it, read the comments as well. From where I sit, it seems to me that the lines of history are rapidly converging toward the climactic events described in the Bible for the Last Days. If this is true, then we shouldn’t panic or give away to despair. But let us keep our lamps lit (see Matthew 25:1-13) so that, like the wise virgins, we will not be caught by surprise but will be ready to meet the Lord when he returns.

And maybe you should dust off your Bible and read Daniel and Revelation again. 

Visitor Comments:

July 25, 2010, 12:51 PM bjs70206 says:
	A friend just gave me the book “Can America Survive?” by John Haggee. I don’t know if I can finish it. It is very disturbing. It’s not the coming of the Lord that scares me. It’s what life is going to be like until we get to that moment that scares me. I agree - let us keep our lamps lit. Let us pray for our country and for the lost.
July 26, 2010, 6:08 AM sojourner says:
	I Timothy 4: 1-3 “in the latter times some will fall away from the faith, paying attentiont to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons...." II Thessalonians 2:3 “Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,...”