Thursday
Read Mark 13:1-8
13 As Jesus was leaving the Temple, one of his
disciples said, “Look, Teacher! What wonderful stones and buildings!”
2 Jesus answered, “You see these
great buildings? Not a single stone here will be left in its place; every one
of them will be thrown down.”
(Matt 24:3–14; Luke 21:7–19)
3 Jesus was sitting on the Mount of
Olives, across from the Temple, when Peter, James, John, and Andrew came to him
in private. 4“Tell us when this will be,” they said, “and tell us
what will happen to show that the time has come for all these things to take
place.”
5 Jesus said to them, “Be on guard,
and don’t let anyone deceive you. 6Many men, claiming to speak for
me, will come and say, ‘I am he!’ and they will deceive many people. 7And
don’t be troubled when you hear the noise of battles close by and news of
battles far away. Such things must happen, but they do not mean that the end
has come. 8Countries will fight each other; kingdoms will attack one
another. There will be earthquakes everywhere, and there will be famines. These
things are like the first pains of childbirth.
Think
The people who first read Mark's gospel probably read it after the
destruction of the Jerusalem temple in 70AD.
The fall of the temple would have seemed like the end of the world...
Life would get complicated. Jesus
reminds the disciples to be careful that no one leads them astray.
Pray
Lord, when life gets complicated I often wonder away from you. Help me to draw closer to you when it looks
like the world is falling apart.
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