Christ’s return impossible to predict
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Editor,
Lots of people were disappointed that the world didn’t end a couple of Saturdays ago. After embracing the doctrine of their pastor, personally carrying banners of impending judgment, getting their family affairs in order and warning all the rest of us to get ready, nothing happened. What a colossal disappointment for those people who were really anticipating the fulfillment of a Biblical truth.
Jesus did teach that this world as we know it will come to an end — that there will be a final judgment (Matthew 24 and Revelation 20). He also said, “No one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows.” (Matthew 24:36, NLT) In the light of what Jesus said, it is foolish and dangerous for anyone to predict the day and hour of the end of the world or the time of the second coming of our Savior. At various times in history, for whatever reason, misguided teachers of falsehood have led many astray; the general public laughs that people could be so gullible.
What’s the real danger in all of this? It’s a skeptical and unbelieving public attitude toward Biblical truth, like people who often heard the shepherd boy cry, “Wolf, wolf,” when there was no wolf; then they never believed him when the wolf really came.
We should all be students of scripture; thankfully, there are those in our community who faithfully and truthfully present Biblical truth.
Harvey A. Town
Polson
