Matthew 24:32–35
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that prides itself on being unable to read. I do not mean simple literacy, though that is certainly in a sorry state. I mean the ability to read the world, to understand signs, to connect cause and effect. Our secularist soothsayers stare blankly at the chaos they have cultivated, the moral ruin, the societal breakdown, and like men who have chopped off the branch they are sitting on, they profess to be baffled by the sudden nearness of the ground. They could tell if a storm was coming by looking at the clouds, but they could not see the storm of God's judgment gathering right over their heads. They were expert meteorologists and amateur theologians, and it was a fatal combination. The modern church, particularly the evangelical wing, has often fallen into a similar trap, but with a different twist.