With 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall you could imagine that things will not always get apocalyptically worse, but get better too. I'm not someone who longs for or indeed believes in armageddon. I don't think that is a very faithful stance. Faith believes in transformation of the world God created and, as if we need reminding, that's this one by the word of God's own people through love and grace and forgiveness. That doesn't stop at some point in history.
When these words were originally written it was a call for the Marcan church and the believers of that time to hang on in there even as they saw the temple destroyed and all the violence of the Jewish uprising. These things happen. All these things come and go. But look beyond that. That's is where God's future is found.
Armageddon? That would be the disaster that would happen if faithful believers gave up on working to transform the future under God's call and let God's good dream of tomorrow crumple on the short term goal of personal salvation. If Berlin Walls can come down then just imagine what else can be transformed.
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