Into
this world approximately 2020 years ago was born a Savior unto those
of faith named Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus was born in a manger in
the little town of Bethlehem in fulfillment of nearly two thousand
years of prophecy. The Lord brought good news to humanity. Jesus
Christ is the Son of God.
In
the world today there are more than a billion souls professing faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. Even so the world
is challenging with pressing demographics and classical competition
for scarcity of finite resources. The greater challenge is even more
fundamental though; human nature and the fallen state of mankind.
Mankind
exists or coheres within a physical field in the Universe with
thermodynamics that require constant fueling. Personal survival and
comfort reinforce a will to power drive that generates conflict. The
Lord professed that humanity basically be untroubled about all that.
For God provides, clothes the sparrow and numbers the hair of
everyone's head. Overcoming human nature's corruption with faith in
the Lord and the grace to accomplish that the Lord provides allows
the Holy Spirit to work with more cooperation of that were possible,
through one's own life to solve the world's social troubles.
Even
so Christians themselves may worry about the end times of the
troubling world. For at least a couple of centuries some Christian
theologians have misinterpreted John's Book of the Revelation and
given the bulk of its first century prophecy fulfillments a future
date. Setting back correct Bible prophetic interpretation 2000 years
they see a looming apocalypse as ever immanent. In error they believe
that Armageddon will precede the second coming of Christ. Muslims
believe a similar, comparable wrong interpretation of the Revelation
that was synthesized by Muhammad the Erroneous Prophet.
In
fact when the end times seem near, it probably means that the end of
the age of the gentiles isn't. Jesus Christ will return in a time
when there is a majority of Christians in the world, not when they
are few and challenged by a majority of infidels as in the first
century. While it is entirely possible that the worldly policies of
mass migration relocating problems instead of fixing them,
over-consuming natural resources and failing to use intelligence in
environmental economic design to overcome economic injustice and
environmental decay exacerbated by war and the immorality of atheism
will lead to global population crashes and apocalyptic events as the
bubonic plagues of the 13th
century destroyed 2/3rds of Europe's population, that is probably an
indication that the end is far away, for the Lord will return when
there is a Christian majority and a fairly prosperous world.
The
good news to consider is that the world's population may evolve a
Christian majority and good environmental economic business ethics
during the next century or two and make the world a place appropriate
for the third coming of Christ, for Jesus was here in Earth in the
flesh the second time following his resurrection.
For
further reading on post-millennialism I suggest Kenneth Gentry's 'He
Shall Have Dominion'.
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