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.
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