Today is the commemoration of Johannes von Staupitz, Luther's Father Confessor.
Today's readings are Psalm 143, Jeremiah 20:1-18, and Matthew 24:29-51.
We are truly approaching the end times in our readings today! Let us be fairly warned and be on guard, lest the Son of Man come and find us inattentive. We do not want to be among those taken, as the people in Noah's day were taken away while only Noah and his family were left. God is coming in judgment in the end of days. We who are waiting for his coming, trusting in faith that he lives and reigns to eternity and that he will come to usher in his kingdom - we will be left, busily about the work God has given us, while those who are not waiting in faith will be taken in the terrible judgment of God.
Does the terminology I used seem backwards? Many people in our country in recent decades have made much of the idea that some will be taken and others left behind, but they have turned the concept on its head compared to what God has given us in Scripture. In the Bible, those who are taken are taken away to destruction while those left behind are the people who are protected, who are children of God's promise. May we have faith to be left behind.
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