Sermon for the Last Sunday of the Church Year
Thinking about the End of the World is not just a Christian thing. All sorts of people postulate an end all the time. They set forth their own prophecies, and because it is scientific or not put in religious language we don’t think to compare it to what God says in scripture.
In the Cold War, the popular description of the end was a huge nuclear war between the US and the USSR that would wipe out the civilized world. People described all sorts of scenarios, movies and books were written. Today it’s global warming or climate change. See how people talk about it – this is going to come, it’s going to destroy the world as we know it – there are signs now we need to heed – it’s up to us to change it for the future, buy electric cars or something
It's really a parallel to how God sets the end – there are warnings that we need to heed, the world is completely going to change at the coming of Christ, be destroyed and remade. But unlike man-made end scenarios, the End of the World which is described in scripture is beyond our control. It is even beyond our prediction. We can’t even say, oh it seems to be coming at this approximate time. No, the End is something which Jesus tells us just to “be ready” at all times, because we never know the day nor the hour.
