World's End

   A feature at the end of The Atlantic magazine is called, “The Big Question”.

   In this month’s issue the question is, “How and when will the world end?”

   Notable authors, scientists, and personalities offer various bleak scenarios for the world’s demise.

   We answer that question each week with the words “I believe in Jesus Christ...and he will come to judge the living and the dead.” (Apostles Creed) or “He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.”  (Nicene Creed)

   We believe that history has meaning, that it is headed toward a planned end.  God’s already-but-not-quite-yet kingdom has already broken into history and “will have no end”.

   This was at the core of Jesus’ preaching, and offers a word of hope to us and to our times.