When It All Comes To An End

This journey as we know it will someday come to an end. Most agree on that. We may not agree on how it all started--creation or evolution or a mixture of both. So it is with the ending. Everyone seems to have a theory as to the how and the when of earth's demise. Will it be caused by global warming? Is the year 2012 the last calendar we will need?

It's a topic that seems to arise more and more often these days. Not surprising since the Y2K thing and 9/11. Also it is a fact that every day that passes brings us one day closer to the end.

There are a lot of opinions out there. People are making money selling books and booking speeches. So what's a person to believe? We live in an age of information, but with no guarantees as to how accurate that information is. Blogging itself proves that it doesn't take much to write something and put it out there for others to read.

Logic tells us to pick a source that has a good track record. Find a theory that has a good, reliable history of predicting the future and seeing it come to pass exactly as predicted. I have found a book that hasn't been wrong yet. Honestly. How can it do this? Because the author is the source of the prophecy. He is not merely predicting these events, He is promising them. He has predicted the rise and fall of empires over the ages and was right 100% of the time. He can predict it because He promised it would happen. And He always does what He promises.

In the Old Testament, Daniel studied the scriptures to see what God said about the future (Daniel 9:1-2). He knew what God had spoken through His prophet Jeremiah. He prayed, seeking understanding, and was prepared for what came next because he knew what God had promised.

We can do the same thing today. By studying the written word of God, by conversing with the living God, we can be prepared for what is to come. So what does the Bible tell us about the end times? We need to look at the big picture not just isolated writings in order to better understand.
The book of Revelation in the New Testament is the largest body of writings describing what is to come, but it is not the only end times scriptures. End times events are also foretold in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Joel, Micah, Zechariah, Matthew, and Luke.

We can know for sure that it will happen "...and then the end will come" Matthew 24:14b. We can't know for sure when it will happen. "No one knows about the day or hour...Therefore, keep watch, because you do not know on what day your LORD will come." Matthew 24:36a, 42.

The exact time of His return will be a surprise; but He has told us what to watch for so that we will know when His return is imminent.