Luke 21:29–33

We were born for a time such as this. We need to reach as many as we can with the Good News of salvation in Christ Jesus. What a blessing to know that we are safe and secure in Him. And God wants no one to perish. No.not.one.

“The rain surrounded the cabin... with a whole world of meaning, of secrecy, or rumor. Think of it: all that speech pouring down, selling nothing, judging nobody, drenching the thick mulch of dead leaves, soaking the trees, filling the gullies and crannies of the wood with water, washing out the places where men have stripped the hillside... Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants, the rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen.” Thomas Merton

Luke 21:29–33

29 Then He spoke to them a parable: “Look at the fig tree, and all the trees. 30 When they are already budding, you see and know for yourselves that summer is now near. 31 So you also, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near. 32 Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all things take place. 33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away. The New King James Version

Jesus delivers a parable about a fig tree, encouraging His disciples to discern the signs of the times. He is referring to the events Jesus describes the final signs before His second coming. The culmination of apocalyptic events is the arrival of the Son of Man—Jesus—in power and glory and the full establishment of God’s reign. Faithlife Study Bible

The tender buds that appear every spring on trees show that summer is approaching; the appearance of the signs Jesus describes will warn of the coming of the end times.The cosmic signs and earthly chaos are indications that the decisive and consummate rule of God is approaching. NKJV Study Bible

Christ tells his disciples to observe the signs of the times, which they might judge by. He charges them to look upon the ruin of the Jewish nation as near. Yet this race and family of Abraham shall not be rooted out; it shall survive as a nation, and be found as prophesied, when the Son of man shall be revealed. He cautions them against being secure and sensual. This command is given to all Christ’s disciples, Take heed to yourselves, that ye be not overpowered by temptations, nor betrayed by your own corruptions. We cannot be safe, if we are carnally secure. Our danger is, lest the day of death and of judgment should come upon us when we are not prepared. Lest, when we are called to meet our Lord, that be the furthest from our thoughts, which ought to be nearest our hearts. For so it will come upon the most of men, who dwell upon the earth, and mind earthly things only, and have no converse with heaven. It will be a terror and a destruction to them. Matthew Henry Commentary

Isaiah 40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.”

Isaiah 51:6 | Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath. For the heavens will vanish away like smoke, the earth will grow old like a garment, and those who dwell in it will die in like manner; but My salvation will be forever, and My righteousness will not be abolished.

1 Peter 1:25 But the word of the LORD endures forever.”Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.

2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.