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\u201cIs the End Near?\u201d \u2013 Daniel 12:1-3<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Introduction: unfamiliar Bible parts<\/h4>\n

Out of the two Testaments in the Bible, I believe that a majority of you would say you are more familiar with the New Testament \u2013 the story of Jesus \u2013 than you are with the Old Testament. Out of the various parts of the lesser-known Old Testament, there are some parts \u2013 some people, some events \u2013 that are more well known\u2026 like Abraham and his journey to a new and promised land, and Moses and the crossing of the Red Sea, and David and the killing of Goliath. And while some of the history is more familiar to us, the lesser-known parts of the Old Testament include the content of the prophet books. Some of those prophet books are not as well known \u2013 like Daniel, the source of our Old Testament reading today. Even Daniel has well-known parts, and not well-known parts. For instance, we may be familiar with the account of Daniel being rescued from the lions\u2019 den and the three guys being rescued from the fiery furnace. But not so familiar is the account of people being rescued from the times of tribulation and trouble that will come at the end of the age. Yes, there is some of that end-times stuff in the book of Daniel. In fact, after the lions\u2019 den episode, the last half of Daniel is filled with visions, and interpretations, and predictions using language and symbols that are similar to those that we read about in the book of Revelation. It\u2019s called apocalyptic literature\u2026 things that are hidden by numbers, and animals, and colours, and symbols\u2026 only to be revealed at the end of all things.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what we\u2019re going to look at today \u2013 just those first three verses of the last chapter of Daniel\u2019s writing\u2026 and also the connecting themes from Mark 13. The sub-heading for Daniel 12 in my Bible simply identifies it as \u201cThe Time of the End.\u201d And that leads to the sermon title for today: \u201cIs the End Near?\u201d<\/p>\n

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1. It looks\/feels like it<\/h4>\n

I think a lot of people who are familiar with Biblical teachings about the end of the world and the return of Christ would say that it sure looks like the end is near, it sure feels like the end is near. We heard what Jesus said in our Gospel reading from Mark 13 \u2013 wars and rumors of wars\u2026 check; nation rising up against nation\u2026 check; earthquakes\u2026 check (thankfully not here!); famines\u2026 check. And He added, \u201cThese are but the beginning of the birth pains.\u201d<\/p>\n

The beginning of the birth pains? Yes, we have seen the continuation of the birth pains recently, haven\u2019t we? All the fires of the summer, the heat waves, climate crises, the pandemic, economic collapse, earthquakes, volcanos, tornadoes in Vancouver\u2026 is the end near? It feels like it.<\/p>\n

And what did we hear from Daniel 12? \u201cAt that time \u2013 that is\u2026 the time of the end \u2013 At that time\u2026 there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been seen since there was a nation till that time.\u201d Even Daniel \u2013 over 500 years before Jesus was born \u2013 was anticipating and writing about the last days. People throughout the centuries since Jesus have considered that they might be living in the last days.<\/p>\n

500 years ago, Martin Luther had the sense that he was living in the last days. Luther saw\u00a0 that there was distress among the nations in his own day. Whenever a war occurs in any\u00a0time in history the tendency is to consider that\u00a0the present war is the worst of all, and the preceding ones were very mild in comparison. So\u00a0it was with Luther, who said, \u201cWars at the\u00a0present time are of such a character as to make\u00a0former wars appear as a mere child\u2019s play.\u201d As another sign he mentions storms as they\u00a0were never reported before. \u201cThere are such\u00a0storms and tempests and waters rolling as have\u00a0never before been seen or heard.\u201d Well, he didn\u2019t see our wars and storms!<\/p>\n

There are all kinds of cartoons featuring prophetic characters with a sign reading: \u201cThe End is Near.\u201d I like the one that features the prophet looking at his watch and counting down, \u201c10, 9, 8, 7\u2026\u201d Then I saw a recent one with a man wearing a covid mask walking past that prophet. He glances at the prophet\u2019s sign, and says, \u201cI wish.\u201d That\u2019s the attitude of everyone in our world these days, isn\u2019t it? I wish the end of covid was near!!<\/p>\n

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2. What we don’t know about the end<\/h4>\n

Let\u2019s consider what we know about the end times and what we don\u2019t know, and let\u2019s start with what we don\u2019t know. What we don\u2019t know is when the end will come. Some modern-era prophets (or false prophets) have used some of the material in the last half of Daniel to predict when the end would come. They used some of the numbers there to figure out when they imagined the end would come. They ignored the fact that those numbers symbolized things and times and events that weren\u2019t easily discovered. That\u2019s why it is called apocalyptic, or hidden, literature. Twice in Daniel 12, it simply says \u201cat that time,\u201d with no specific reference \u2013 just at that undisclosed time, sometime in the unknown future. That\u2019s what we don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

We didn\u2019t read this far in Mark 13 today (we will actually hear it next Sunday), but at the end of the chapter, while Jesus is still answering His disciples\u2019 question about the end and the signs of the end, He says very plainly that no one knows the day or the hour of His return.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know exactly what that coming will be like. There are differing teachings and interpretations out there among Christians \u2013 like the rapture, and the millennial views. We believe that Paul makes it clear when he is talking about the resurrection of Jesus, and the resurrection of the dead, and the return of Jesus in 1 Corinthians 15. He says it will be \u201cin a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.\u201d There is no 3-minute warning, no 3-month warning, no 3-year warning that Jesus is coming back. The wars, and earthquakes, and famines \u2013 they are all our call to be ready and prepared.<\/p>\n

Luther was so impressed by the precariousness of the times in 1528 that he expected the\u00a0end to come before he had time to finish the\u00a0translation of the Old Testament. For this reason he proposed to translate first of all the book\u00a0of Daniel, which was to be brought as soon as\u00a0possible to \u201cthe poor Christians\u201d of these\u00a0\u201clast times\u201d before everything perished. The\u00a0imminence of the end was indeed uppermost\u00a0in his mind: \u201cThings are going toward their\u00a0end.\u201d And he added, \u201cI hope the last day will\u00a0not be long delayed, not over a hundred\u00a0years.\u201d As to the time of the end, Luther, following the plain teaching of Jesus, rejected\u00a0the thought that it was possible for man to\u00a0know the year. This view he expressed very\u00a0forcibly in his commentary on chapters 11 and\u00a012 of the book of Daniel.<\/p>\n

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3. What we do know about the end<\/h4>\n

But there definitely are some things that we know about the end. Daniel tells us some of those things, and Jesus tells us others. We have already talked about the signs during the time of trouble. Daniel 12 tells us that \u201cat that time\u201d some will awake or arise to everlasting life and others to shame and everlasting contempt\u2026 in other words, heaven and hell.<\/p>\n

Five years ago, that\u2019s what I asked my curling friend, Curt, over lunch one day. \u201cDo you believe in heaven?\u201d \u201cOr hell,\u201d he replied. I said, \u201cYeah\u2026 but heaven?\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s something that, in general, people just don\u2019t believe any more. They don\u2019t believe in heaven or hell, so there\u2019s no reason to believe in God, there\u2019s no reason to live for God, there\u2019s no reason to obey God, there\u2019s no reason to honour God or His name. The sad thing is that Christians don\u2019t seem to believe in hell anymore either, or don\u2019t seem to give evidence of it. If we truly believed that a friend or family member or co-worker was going to shame and everlasting contempt, we would be much more passionate about telling them who to connect with so that they will wake to everlasting life.<\/p>\n

In that lunch conversation, five years ago, because an imaginary prophet was holding that \u201cThe End is Near\u201d sign over his head, over his life, I went on to tell Curt what Jesus did so that when he died he would awake to everlasting life. In the course of the next couple of months, he came to believe in Christ, and I believe he is now in heaven.<\/p>\n

You see, that\u2019s another thing that we know about the end. Daniel says that those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake. \u201cSleep\u201d and \u201cdust of the earth\u201d are kind and soft ways of speaking about death. When Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden, that was one of the curses that God issued: \u201cDust you are and to dust you shall return.\u201d<\/p>\n

One Sunday a young boy sat in the pew at church and he heard the pastor talk about the Adam and Eve story, and the curse, \u201cDust you are and to dust you shall return.\u201d A certain impression was made in the young lad\u2019s mind. A couple of days later, his mom heard a scream from the boy\u2019s bedroom. She ran up the stairs and he met her in the hallway. \u201cMom,\u201d he said, \u201cDo you remember that the pastor said we are dust and to dust we will return? I just looked under my bed and someone is either coming or going!\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniel is saying that God will recreate people who have died out of the dust that they now are. WOW! Isn\u2019t that a great and reassuring thing!! Out of the dust God will raise the dead. That is a concept that is not unfamiliar. Out of the areas that were hit by forest fires this past summer will come new growth and life in the years to come. Out of the dust of death God brings forth new life, and we live in that new life from everlasting to everlasting. One of the songs on the Christian radio station that I have appreciated recently is a song called, \u201cAll Things New.\u201d One of the lyrics of the song says, \u201cFrom the ashes, from the dust, I will rise up, rise up. Out of darkness into the light I will rise up, rise up. You make all things new.\u201d That\u2019s what Daniel is saying \u2013 God will raise His people, His faithful people, out of the dust of the earth to new and everlasting life. That\u2019s what we know about the end.<\/p>\n

And who are the people who will be delivered, who will be raised up? Those whose names are found written in the book! What book? Revelation \u2013 another book of the Bible with apocalyptic images and numbers and colours and symbols \u2013 makes it clear that that book is the book of life, the book that contains the names of all those who have received Christ and God\u2019s gracious gifts of salvation. So that\u2019s another thing we know about the end\u2026 we know who will be in heaven at the end – all those with a saving faith relationship with Jesus. \u00a0In Mark 13, Jesus said that we need to be prepared, to stay awake, to stay ready for Christ\u2019s return. We need to be on guard for the end, but we don\u2019t need to be afraid of it \u2013 through faith in Jesus, the end times are the glorious beginning times for us whose names are written in His book.<\/p>\n

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4. We have something to do while we wait<\/h4>\n

The last thing to wrap up today is to say that we have something to do while we wait for that last day to come. For that we turn back again to Jesus\u2019 words in Mark 13. The last sentence in our Gospel reading featured these words of Jesus: \u201cThe one who endures to the end will be saved.\u201d That\u2019s what we can do \u2013 endure, but more accurately pray for God\u2019s strength to endure through whatever trials and troubles and storms the end times may bring so that we have the confidence that when that last day comes, or when our last day comes WE WILL BE SAVED by God\u2019s grace in Jesus. So we endure in faith and in hope and in certainty because\u2026<\/p>\n

Well, let me tell you where my thoughts went on Thursday. It was Remembrance Day and I was thinking about everyone in our time zone observing the two minutes of silence at the same time. I don\u2019t know who figured out the time of day across the world or how all our clocks and phones and computers are all so synchronized, so that we all observe our two minutes of silence at precisely the same time. But somebody did, and now I don\u2019t even have to think about it. Oh, and somebody figured out how to generate electricity from the earth, so I just have to flick a switch and I\u2019ve got light or music or dinner or TV. And somebody else figured out the internal combustion motor, so I just have to turn the key or push a button and my car starts. There are lots of things that we don\u2019t have to really know about or figure out or do on our own because somebody else figured it out and now we just appreciate the fruit of their knowledge and efforts and imagination and expertise.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the way it is with salvation. Somebody else did it \u2013 Jesus! He did it all. You don\u2019t have to figure out how to make your sinful lives right with God. Jesus did it for you. He died on the cross. He forgave your sins. He established peace between you and God. He made you God\u2019s holy and precious child. He secured your salvation. He guaranteed heaven. All you do is appreciate the fruits of Jesus\u2019 saving work, and endure in faith and in hope and in certainty.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if you paid attention to Jesus\u2019 little sentence in verse 10. He says, \u201cThe Gospel must first be preached to all nations!!\u201d That is perhaps a hint that the end is not here yet. I think there are some nations, some people groups in our world where the Gospel has not yet been preached. So, we have a sense that the end is still in the future. But it also gives us something to do to hasten that last day. We are called \u2013 even as the perils of the end times approach – to proclaim the Good News about Jesus to those nations and those people who haven\u2019t heard about the Saviour. And in that witnessing of Jesus, we need not be anxious for the Holy Spirit will speak through us.<\/p>\n

One day Luther saw his children standing\u00a0around a table, and he noticed how their eyes\u00a0glistened as they looked longingly on a dish of\u00a0peaches. \u201cThis,\u201d he mused, \u201cis a pattern of\u00a0those who rejoice in the hope.\u00a0Oh, if only we would behold the last day with\u00a0the same happy and fond expectation.\u201d Let\u2019s pray\u2026<\/p>\n

O Lord of truth and love, let us have no illusions about the world in which we live, for it is desperately wicked and unalterably opposed to the Gospel.\u00a0 Since it is doomed to final destruction, help us to testify against all sin, and proclaim Your blessed Gospel as the only hope of the world.\u00a0 We pray that we will faithfully endure to the end, saved by Your grace.\u00a0 Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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