Advent is the season of Hope…
As I read the gospel passage for the day, I really have a hard time seeing or hearing the hope. I see the desolating sacrilege standing in the holy place and think it is time to flee. Let’s hope that it is not winter (uh oh!) and that it is not the Sabbath (we’re good on this one), so we can try to get away… However will we be able to get away?
As the gospel says “Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.” So be careful to not be caught with the corpses, so the vultures get you. But who will be able to escape, to get away from the destruction and desolateness of that day?
“Immediately after the suffering of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.” When all of this happens the sun will not shine and there will be no light as the moon is no longer reflecting, and the stars have fallen from heaven, the night sky is a black sheet, and all of the heavens are shaken up…
But yet there is hope!!!
“And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” His elect, His people, He will call by the trumpet of the angels from the ends of heaven and earth together. That is the hope that we are the elect, and will be called at the trumpet blast to join our savior and to overcome the darkness and evil that will be surrounding us.
Gracious Saving Lord, help us to remember that we are your children, and even in the darkest hour, you are with us. Amen.
aSacredRebel 