![]() The light provides stable, reliable signals from 0 to 10,000 rpm so that you can be sure of your tune all the way through red-line. I write every day at THE SEEDBED DAILY TEXT.This MSD Timing Light is perfect for working in a garage, outside in the sun, or anywhere else you need to check your timing. Join the Daily Text Fasting Challenge here. Whenever you sign up, it will begin the following Tuesday. Subscribe to receive the Daily Text email. So how about you, is it enough to have a grasp of the sequence of things without knowing the timing? What is it about us that needs to know everything before it happens? Because the future is settled, train us to focus on the here and now-for the sake of that future. Thank you even more that you have already begun making all things new. Lord Jesus, thank you for preparing us for the end of all things broken and the final consummation of the Kingdom of God. Spirit of the Living God, fall afresh on me. ![]() I want to close by saying this, “This is my best wisdom on the text and while I stand by it without adding any disclaimers I will offer this-I may be wrong.” THE PRAYER In the end, the beauty of the falling sky will be the coming of Jesus on the descending clouds. When the sky does fall, it will not be something someone has to announce. We only need to be ready and to help as many people as we possibly can to be ready with us. But the truth is-the sky will one day fall. “The sky is falling!” That’s the essence of apocalyptic anxiety. And when the sun and the moon go dark and stars start falling from the skies-then we can start looking to the clouds and getting ready for the great celebration of the wedding of the Lamb. Meanwhile, we can stand firm in our faith filled with the hope of the gospel and bank on the certainty of his return. It will stir up all sorts of unnecessary apocalyptic anxiety. People will insist on reading these signs as direct proof of the impending return of Jesus. We will see many versions of false prophets and would be messianic leaders. Until that time we will see all sorts of tribulation and trials. ![]() In the scheme and sequence of things, while we can’t know the timing, we can know that when the things listed below begin to happen, his return is immanent.Ģ6 “At that time people will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. When he will return is an unknowable reality. That Jesus Christ will return to the Earth is an irrefutable fact of our faith. The location of the presence of the Lord in the world would be in the Body of Christ, with Jesus as its head. The destruction of the Temple would signify in a final way that the presence of the Lord had left the building. The best I can understand, he did not intend to connect his return to that event. In Mark 13, when Jesus speaks about the coming tribulation and impending disaster, he is prophesying concerning the destruction of the Temple which would happen some forty years later. Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” Mark 13:32įollowing his resurrection and just prior to his ascension he put it this way: With respect to timelines, Jesus made it abundantly clear: Do you see the difference? When leaders take the sequence Jesus offers and turn it into an actual timeline we get into trouble. Here’s where all the apocalyptic confusion comes into play. What’s important to note here is that Jesus is giving us a sequence of events but no timeline. Those are definitely some twenty-five dollar words, and probably not suitable for casual conversation-but we need them for the sake of our conversation. You may remember from yesterday we articulated the difference between apocalyptic anxiety and eschatological hope. 27 And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens. ![]() 23 So be on your guard I have told you everything ahead of time.Ģ4 “But in those days, following that distress,Ģ6 “At that time people will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. 22 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 21 At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it. But for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them. 20 “If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. ![]()
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