End Days? No One Seems to Care...

Are we living in the end days? The question has come up many times throughout the course of human history, as God's people everywhere await the second coming of Messiah. The state of the World currently makes me feel that the end is near, the most recent indicator being the escalating war between Israel and Hamas. I have many strong feelings about that but I will save it for another post. Getting back to the point, I just don't think anyone I'm close to fully grasps this, with the exception of a select few of my friends and family members. To be honest, I only recently have been coming to terms with this. This is the most significant realization a person can make, which is why I had it on my heart to write this blog.

The culture we live in portrays those who speak of the End Times as radical nut cases who one should be wary of. I find this hypocritical to a nauseating degree. The same culture that casts out prophets lives by the cliche code of "living life to the fullest" and "live like each day was your last" or "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die"...you get the point. It's a terrible way of thinking, because if you're dead, doing something that brings pleasure to the physical self immediately before you go is pointless. Why? Because youre DEAD, that's why. Dead people don't have memories, they don't breath a sigh of relief and say, "boy, I'm sure glad I had that last night of revelry as a note to go out on". There are two options, 1 is that you are no more, 2 is that the soul lives on.

Every conversation I have, if it goes on long enough, ends at religion. This should be a clear sign that all that truly matters in life goes back to what you believe will happen after it concludes. Keeping a perspective that we are only on this earth for a blink of eternity changes everything. It makes the rest of life's decisions trivial. But getting swept up into the grind is easy, and even some people who know truth abandon it to chase fleeting goals. The foolishness of such a decision is incomprehensible, and I fear that many will know of this sooner than later if the growing turmoil in the middle east is an indicator.

Eventually, there is only one decision in this life that matters, and still no one seems to care...