First was Brown University.....then Australia....and then the apparent homicides of a Hollywood icon and his wife? I was reading the last news story and saw a comment that former television news journalist Katie Couric made on social media.... "My God....another horrific story....the world is feeling very dark right now."
The end of the 60s....a period of 20 months from April of 1968 to December of 1969....gave us one horrific story after another....beginning with Martin Luther King....and then RFK....the Democrat convention in Chicago....Chappaquiddick and Manson and the Altamont music festival....and there were other terrible memories from that period....as there were other cycles of horror throughout our history....Fort Sumpter beginning one....and the Gilded Age and the Roaring Twenties....where our turmoil began within....and these last ten years are only the latest....but they are the worst....because not only is wanton violence everywhere....but we no longer have any checks and balances....as law....has been politicized....as has the gospel of Jesus Christ....and we have no leaders left....willing to stand up....no leaders of stature in government....or shepherds in the church....willing to warn the sheep.
There definitely should not be a week go by....and probably not even a few days....(in my case there is not a day that goes by)....without the Christian referring to at least the Olivet Discourse....(Matthew 24 & 25....and Mark 13....and Luke 21)....for Jesus gave us this in all three synoptic gospels as a very clear warning....so that we might not be taken by surprise on what is about to take place. The following words were first posted in November of 2014....just before this terrible decade of darkness began:
In amongst an entire chapter of information concerning the tribulation period....Jesus gave us this particular revelation of the Second Coming....in verse 37 of that 24th chapter of Mathew...."But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark."
If you read the Genesis account in chapter six you will find that what Jesus was referring to wasn't quite as simple as just getting married but rather that men "....took wives for themselves of all whom they chose." In the next verse we see God's response in "And the Lord said, 'My Spirit shall not strive with man forever...'." A few verses later we read "for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth." And once again a few verses later "....the earth is filled with violence."
"But as were the days of Noah"....are we as in the days of Noah? It must be possible to know of such a situation or Jesus would not have given us the clue. One last verse....in speaking of the people of Noah's day....Jesus then said...."(they) did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
"Now when these things begin to happen....look up and lift up your heads....because your redemption draws near." Luke 21:28 NKJV
