The message that the world as we know it will come to an end sounds alien in our ears. How the world was is how it ever shall be seems more realistic to our way of thinking.
If creation is a contentious topic in our scientific worldview, how much more is ?eschatology?? Of course both are closely related. If we have little room in our thought that God started, ordered and sustains this world, then we will have less that he will finish things. However, if we fully acknowledge God as the author and creator of this physical world, then it is logical and consistent that God is the finisher and perfector of this world.
Jesus describes the end as his own return to this world. It is surprising, sudden and yet we are to see signs of the end. Fear and foreboding are described as well as signs in the skies above. Whether we are the generation that witness this event, we certainly live in ?interesting times? and so we will do well to recall Jesus? words to us - ?stand up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.?
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