Eschatology

Tonight we read Luke 17:20-37, and it's companion passages, Matt. 24:3-31, and Mark 13:3-27 about Jesus' second coming. We concluded that some of the verses were fulfilled in 70 A.D. but very clearly, some of the events could not have happened during Rome's destruction of Jerusalem. Daniel is a good book to read to enlighten these events too. In any case, Jesus is coming back, there will be no more pain and no more tears, only contentment in Christ. And I say "Come quickly, Lord Jesus!"

Our second night without Dad we read Romans 6. Rom. 6:16 "Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?"

Josh pointed out that it is very interesting that being a Christian is a also a form of slavery, just to a different master, with a different end result. While slavery to sin leads to death, slavery to Christ leads to eternal life. Both are lives of perseverance and difficulty. There is no escape from the fact that our earthly lives cannot be carefree without responsibility. People who drift from Christ end up paying the piper.