Good Monday morning...

 

… and most of you know that I believe we have been living in the “end times” since Jesus ascended to heaven in about 30 A.D.  So, when considering “doomsday” hyperbole I usually am dismissive.  However, when considering the state of our world today compared with the checklist Jesus offered His inquiring disciples (as reported in Matthew 24), I agree with Dr. James Emery White who quotes from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:

Hard-won global understandings are collapsing, accelerating a winner-takes-all great power competition and undermining the international cooperation critical to reducing the risks of nuclear war, climate change, the misuse of biotechnology, the potential threat of artificial intelligence, and other apocalyptic dangers.
 
Far too many leaders have grown complacent and indifferent, in many cases adopting rhetoric and policies that accelerate rather than mitigate these existential risks. Because of this failure of leadership, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board today sets the Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to catastrophe. (Jan. 27, 2026)

This annual prediction of where the doomsday clock stands, something the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board has done since 1947, puts a grim outlook and a fair warning from a scientific perspective that checks all the boxes of Jesus’ signs of the end he gave his disciples and we read in Matthew 24.

So, my friends, stand firm in the faith that Jesus’ finished work on the cross is for the salvation of everyone who believes.  No matter where we are on the clock, God’s private calendar is to be trusted, and we are to be faithful.  I am often discouraged by the apparent exodus of my children’s generation from the church; however, I am not discouraged by the hope that the Lord is still at work in the young adults who began their journeys in life believing the Bible teachings they learned in the church.

Scientists have issued a warning that, under current conditions and volatile autocratic leadership especially in the U.S., Russia, and China, we are on the brink of nuclear catastrophe.  I pray we are smart enough to stand up and reject the counter-Christian headings of the world led by liars and the father of liars, the devil.

For His glory,

Pastor Mike