Unearned Luck

Photo by Hanna Morris on Unsplash But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places and calling to their playmates, “ We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.”  For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, “He has a demon”;  the Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, “Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!” Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds. -Matthew 11:16-19 If you knew for certain, that in five years the anti-Christ will appear on the world stage to inaugurate 42 months of the most horrific, terrifying, and unyielding persecution of Christians in history, a persecution whose heinous excesses cannot be imagined. After these 42 months, you will witness the Second Coming of Christ and the Final Judgement. How would you spend those first five years? Looking towards a future of hardship, most people choose to spend their ti...

And the angel said to them, "...And this will be a sign for you; you will find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger."    -St. Luke 2:10, 12 And Jesus answered them, "...[T]hey will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory; and he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from one end of heaven to the other."    -St. Matthew 24:4, 30-31 Jesus said to him, "...But I tell you, hereafter you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven."    -St. Matthew 26:64 And Jesus said, "I am, and you will see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven."    -St. Mark 14:62 "The Father judges no one, but has given all judgement to the Son, that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father."    -St. John 5:22-23 "For...the Fat...