“One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.”
(Ecc. 1:4)
While the earth stays the same, generations come and go; some for the better some for the worse. When it is the latter, invariably we hear, “We’re in the end times.” But ours is not the first generation that because their culture was changing for the worse, declared civilization was coming to an end — like the book title says, “The Last Days Are Upon Us ... Again.” Many prophetic books ought to be placed in the fiction section.
Read the history of earlier ages. They also thought the end of the world was coming because of the depraved conditions encompassing them. As another has written, “Has it not been common throughout time for people to applaud the past and lament the present? The Prisse Papyrus is purported to be the oldest writing in existence... It begins with these words, ‘Alas, times are not what they used to be.’”
Most certainly our generation could be the last as the clock nears the midnight hour. True, someday will be the Last Day, but no one knows when, as the Bible refers to it, “That Day” will come. C.S. Lewis says it best, I think: “Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.” And until then let us emulate David, “For David...served his own generation by the will of God,” Acts 13:36.
“Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.”
(Psa. 71:18)
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