​Week 3, Day 3

​Week 3, Day 3
January 19, 2022
Scripture: Mark 13
 
 
Mark 13 stands as one of the more confusing chapters in the Bible. We get that this is likely Jesus predicting that the temple will be destroyed. That happens, and the prophecy is fulfilled in the year AD 70. 
 
This generation would have seen all of this unfold, and this was at least a partial fulfillment of what Jesus was explaining to his disciples. But from there, we run into problems. There’s no simple solution to all the questions from this chapter. Verse 26 and 27 seem to point to a greater fulfillment of the Son of Man coming in the clouds. And then later he says, “Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.”
 
Then Jesus himself says that only the Father knows when this will take place. Not even the Son knows.
 
So, there is some level of relief on our part that we don’t need to know all of the answers. But there is something clear from the text: “Be alert and on guard!” 
 
Jesus calls his disciples to be alert and ready for the day to come in which the Son of Man will come and set the world to rights.
 
We could spend countless hours studying and making sense of Mark 13, and still probably get it mostly wrong. I don’t want to discourage the study of Eschatology and the end times. But the ambiguous nature of things in this text, is for a purpose. It’s a call to alertness and readiness. 
 
Jesus is coming, we don’t know when. Are you ready? Are you looking forward to his return?
 
He is coming soon!
 
Jordan