Stay with it to the end. You're placed there as sentinels to truth.
Tribulation, natural disaster, and chaos come to us in an instant. Jesus prophesied that the magnificent temple eventually be destroyed by the Romans Empire. He also said that false prophets would confuse people everywhere in the time of the tribulation to come. Disaster may overtake people unrecognizably. Because of the pandemic caused by a microscopic virus not even visible, normal daily lives have stopped with fear of death all over the world for the past three years.
The signs of the end of the age are always repeated in history. They may appear in the form of disaster, political issues, religious conflicts, inter-ethnic wars, environmental pollution, or economic inequality. People always confront the situations and struggle for survival to overcome. After one disaster passes away, another conflict begins. What do these situations mean to me and how should I take? Do I have to live in the world that is swept away by this chaos?
"-- to confess that Jesus is our only hope".
The Scripture is warning to us that these hard times have been in the past, are in present time, and will be repeated in the future. What we need is to keep our own place in life and endure it to the end. To keep and endure in that daily life, which is always a series of chaos, is to confess that Jesus is our only hope. We should be satisfied with the repeated daily life. We should stand in that place of life as sentinels to truth. Just as the watchman waits for the morning, we live in hope of the day of the Lord, Jesus.
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