The End Of The World.

I love books. Dean Koontz isn't one of my favorite authors, but he writes extremely well and his books always take you where your imagination didn't go before. I just finished Koontz's "The Taking." This was the first book of his to have religious overtones. It is about what seems like the end of the world where only children and those who protected them survive.

One interesting part of the book describes how everyone is riveted to the TV news because of the global scope of horrors occurring on earth. But then the TV screens of the world began showing the atrocities of mankind. The screen fills with "a chilling montage of humanity in its most debased and savage condition." From murder to pornography. All that diminishes our humanity is shown.

Interesting.

I never listen to end of the world predictions from anyone. It doesn't matter if they have every verse from Revelations to back them up. Because there is one truth to Christ that no other religion can claim.

He was the only one predicted.

Yet even with all the prophecy of Christ's coming thousands of years before he did, man still got it wrong when he did come. They believed he would be a King. They imagined him in rich flowing robes and leading people as a great leader of man. They thought he would create a kingdom on this earth.

But God had different plans.

Christ came as a humble servant. He wanted no crown. He came to save us, to love us, to help us understand who God really was. The only kingdom he wanted to create was the kingdom of God in our hearts.

Christ said the son of man would come again, but doesn't the end of the world occur for each of us when we die? My point is that just as God had different ideas of how the Messiah came the first time, wouldn't God have different ideas of how He comes again?

The idea of TV showing the atrocities of mankind struck me. What if God used movies and TV's as warnings? Or what if the things we see in movies and TV's warn ourselves?

Just a thought that floated into my head. I thought I might share it.