March 10, 2014
Timing is Everything
Tinkering with time has been going on for years,
but interestingly it wasn’t until the Uniform Time Act of 1966 that everyone in
the US got on the same schedule. Even though Daylight Savings Time is on my
calendar and happens twice a year, I’m just never quite ready for it. We know
the time has already been set for the Lord’s return, but even Jesus does not
know the day or the hour of His will return. I’m thinking a good time for the
Lord’s return would be on one of the days when we change our clocks. I can just
imagine people trying to figure out if they were “left behind” or if they
simply forgot to set their clocks to spring forward, or fall back. “Now,
brothers, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, for
you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the
night.” (1 Thess. 5:1-2 NIV)
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Gail;
-----I love the way people fool themselves with terms: “daylight savings time”, like somehow we can put a few rays of light in a bottle for later. Maybe it’s closer to true that we might be saving an hour of morning daylight to spend in the evening. But then the deceitfulness of people becomes even more apparent, because truthfully, it is about spending that morning hour in the evening such that by the stroke of midnight nothing at all has really been saved. Rather, it has been spent. So we should more honestly call it “daylight spending time”. Or more true to its intent - making available an extra hour of light for having fun after work - it should simply be called “playtime”. But no, we brew up the term appealing to the sensibilities of wisdom - “savings” - to apply to the true intent of availing an extra hour for foolish carousing. (Actually I’m tongue in cheek here; I enjoy the extra hour of light after work as much as I enjoy griping about the its idea.)
-----I’m glad the Lord is not similarly sloppy about His terms. “’And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves, men fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. Now when these things begin to take place, look up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.’ And he told them a parable: ‘Look at the fig tree, and all the trees; as soon as they come out in leaf, you see for yourselves and know that the summer is already near.’” (Luke 21:25-30) He is actually being quite precise and truthful about His return.
-----He doesn’t just pop out of a cloud one normal morning of usual mundanity. Many scriptures indicate the conditions and attitudes of men in those days of which one will be His coming. They not only inform us that those will be stress filled, turbulent days, but they tell us who will be brewing the stress when He comes: Gog, Meshech, Tubal, Persia, Cush, Put, Gomer, and Beth-Togarmah. Many people refuse to recognize who these troubling folks are. But Josephus places them quite certainly, as do many other early historians. Nor do folks take note of the same intentions trumpeted by the peoples of these places today as were foretold in God’s Holy Word: “They lay crafty plans against Thy people; they consult together against Thy protected ones. They say, ‘Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!’ Yea, they conspire with one accord; against Thee they make a covenant…” (Psalms 83:3-5)
-----Our current events are popping full of all the other trappings and trimmings the Bible describes about those final days of evil’s courses. As surely as we know figs are near when we see the trees budding, we know His return is near when we see the prophesied circumstances happening, even the signs in the sky, the solar eclipse in a couple weeks on the Jewish new year, the four total lunar eclipses to follow on Passovers and Tabernacles. We shall not know the day and the hour. But all those few weeks and months and even years before it we can and should full well know by just accepting what God’s Word says as being God’s truth, then simply looking at what's happening.
-----I see blossoms. And why should they be so interesting? “This will be a time for you to bear testimony.” (Luke 23:13) The more it becomes clear, the more we should gather resolve, the more we should testify to what shortly must come in an hour of a day we won‘t know. More others might go with us.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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