Saturday, April 1, 2023

 

Saturday, April 1, 2023


Psalm 74

Exodus 10:21-11:10

Luke 21:29-22:6


“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.”


Jesus was in His final days, preparing Himself for His final festival with His disciples, before His battle with evil and death on the cross. Of all the topics to go over with them, of all the lessons He was to give that would be His final teaching, He chose to teach about the end times.


There was, of course, the prophetic warning about how His death would mean the end of the sacrificial cult and the temple in Jerusalem. When He would breathe His last on the cross, the curtain in the temple would split in two. There would be no need for any more animal sacrifice. And judgement would come upon those who wouldn’t trust in His blood; the Roman empire was to be used as the instrument of destruction of the temple.


All these full stops: no more temple, no more animal sacrifices, no more division between Jews and everyone else. There seems to be no end to full stops in our daily lives, too: no more living in this house, no more working this job, no more speaking with this friend.


The thread that holds everything together; the constant heartbeat of life that beats across time and space, is the Word of God: the Lord Jesus and His revelation in scripture. This universe will, one day, be rolled up like a scroll, and the eternal souls of every human being that ever was will be face to face with the Lord God Almighty. But He never changes, and His loving kindness endures forever.


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