Advent 2 December 5, 2021 The Sunday of Jesus Coming Again
Advent 2
Luke 21:25-36
December 5, 2021
“Hope”
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Signs in the sun and moon and stars. Distress of nations in perplexity. Roaring of sea and waves. People fainting with fear and with foreboding. Powers of the heavens shaken.
What do you think when the Bible speaks like that? Like Jesus in our Gospel reading today? How do you tend to react to those parts of the Bible that describe these various end signs? Sadly, many of us Christians shy away from those parts of the Bible. Perhaps we’re even scared of them. We avoid them. Books like Ezekiel and Daniel, for instance. And especially a book like Revelation. That book we tend to avoid as a matter of course.
But there’s nothing spoken anywhere in the Bible that you need to be scared of. Not if you believe in Christ. Yes, there are some scary prophecies given in God’s Word. They’re meant to be scary to those who don’t believe in Christ. They’re meant to turn them to repentance and faith. But to those who believe in Jesus they all give hope. We hope ultimately for an end to the evil of this world and the perfection of the new world.
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