St. Matthew, Chapter 24, verse: 32; Learn this Parable.

 Our paragraph topic is: (Jerusalem's impending destruction) Part 1. 

Here we are in 2025 reading about a man, a being, who walked the earth some two thousand years before our time.  This was no ordinary man, compared to all the other men, as we come to know and have heard about him in our lifetime.  This man was our creator, the one who is, who was, and who will always be.  He is our savior who gave us new life from death by sacrificing himself on a cross for our sins.  This man, our God, who loves us, wants to teach us how to walk a path free of pain and suffering.

Evil awaits us, out there, along the path of life.  It waits on the byways and the sidelanes of life.  It wants to distract us from the path of life, draw us in, turn us aside and keep us in its snare for eternity.  Evil is not good for us.  It will harm us in the long run.  It will eat away at the love and the goodness that is within us.  We must learn the tricks and trials of evil and stay on the path of life that our creator has given us, otherwise we loose life and obtain death.

Our teacher is Christ.  He came that we may have life.  He lived amoung us that we might know the truth of who we are.  He gave his life that we may no longer suffer death.  He conquered it and now we have the opportunity to live a new life with him.  He tells us: "Now from the fig tree learn this parable."  He prepares to teach us how to stay away from the traps of evil.  He does not give us a straight away answer, but speaks to us in a story, a parable, that we each can make sense of  in our own way.  This way we can all learn from it.  

He knows that some will learn now.  Some will learn later, some will take time for the meaning to come.  In time, though, has planted the seed and the meaning will come.  His words require thought.  They require comtemplation, to savor the understanding and full meaning.  Learn this parable.  Apply it to your life.  Make sense of it and it will make sense of you.  The spirit is in it and the meaning of Christ is in it and he will be in you. 

Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself.  Do not study it in parts reading one passage and then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ .   The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.

St. Matthew, Chapter 24, verse: 31c; The Ends of the Heavens.

Our paragraph topic is:(Darkening of sun and moon) Part 13. 

We come to the end of this paragraph, The Darkening of the sun and the moon.  This would be a terrible time in the history of man.  Never before has man been without the shinning of the sun or the glow of the nightlit moon.  We have come out of the dark ages and brought forth light to our cities and towns, given ourselves music and sound over the airwaves, transmitted pictures thousands of miles that all can see and view motion pictures for their entertainment.  Man has indeed come a long way from ages past.

But what of the future will we experience?  What lies ahead for mankind?  Do we have eternity to ecplore and progress?  Can we as a race continue to survive into the unknown future or are we doomed to extinction?  The dinasaurs are no more.  They lived and are no more.  We have definite proof of their existance.  Will mankind no longer exist?  

Who are we?  What are we?  Why are we here?  How did we come to be here?  Chiikdren ask these questions as they try to make sense of the world around them.  Our explanation comes from what we believe, what we have faith in, what is given us through the works of our ancestors.  The Bible tells us that one day there will be a reckoning, a judgment day of all things.  Christ says the Son of Man will come upon the clouds of heaven and he will gather his elect from one end of heaven to the other. 

When will this happen?  We don't know.  Will this happen?  That is to be determined.  The dinasaurs are extinct.  They were determined.  Will we also be determined in the future?  Will we be gathered up from the ends of the heavens, taken up into another place to live another life?  Who are we?  What are we?  Why are we here?  What do you believe???

Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself.  Do not study it in parts reading one passage and then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ .   The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.

St. Matthew, Chapter 24, verse: 31b; The Elect.

 Our Paragraph topic is:(Darkening of sun and moon)Part 12. 

The darkness comes upon the earth and the light and the warmth that we take for granted is no longer.  The sun refuses to shine, the moon glows no more at night and the twinkle of the stars are gone forever.  We are in the darkness that Christ told us about.  These are the days after the tribulation.  

The powers in heaven and on earth will be shaken to the core and they will not know what to do.  Panic will ensue.  All the nations and the tribes will mourn for their plight, for no one will know what will happen.  It is written for us to know.  It is told for us to witness for ourselves.  Those who believe may find solice in the knowledge that they have been given some witness as to the truth of what is coming. 

And he said: "And they will gather his elect from the four winds."   His angels will come to collect those who have been called, "the elect."  The world is round but the winds blow in every direction.  They circle the globe as it is their own.  And the angels fly with the wind.  God knows his children.  He knows those who love him, those who he first loved from the beginning of time who keep his words. 

Peace and love and justice.  Humility and care for thy neighbor, for we are all brothers and sisters, children of our creator.  Let us all call out his name on that last day that we might be saved and caught up in the wind into his kingdom.  For God is a loving God, a forgiving God, a merciful God, a God of our hearts.  He will save us.  He will love us.  He will forgive us of our sins and cleans us that we may know everlasting life and not death.

Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself.  Do not study it in parts reading one passage and then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ .   The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.