Monday, November 24, 2014

The End of All Things

It seems odd that Peter would write, “But the end of all things is at hand:be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer” (1 Peter 4:7) and yet here we are walking on earth over 2,000 years later.  It seems odd to us because we are looking at it with the understanding that he was speaking of the Lord’s return.  We are unable or unwilling to read it historically.


It was very shortly after this that the world they had known fell apart.  Christians were increasingly killed for their beliefs.  People had to flee their family homes.  The Jewish world of quietly living under the Roman Empire was coming to an end.  Quite literally, “the end of all things” for them did come in their lifetime.